"Ayue, how come you are so great!" Yu Wenran exclaimed when he heard it was Buddha Jumps Over the Wall, although he always knew that Gu Yanyue was an excellent cook.
But what he didn't know was that Gu Yanyue could even make Buddha Jumps Over the Wall. "You made Buddha Jumps Over the Wall just like that?"
The Buddha Jumps Over the Wall made by Gu Yanyue smelled faintly fragrant, and was even more fragrant than the one made by the imperial chef in the palace before.
The greedy Yu Wenran was eager to sit down and eat the bowl of Buddha Jumps Over the Wall right now.
"I saw that Queen Mother would eat up every drop of Buddha Jumps Over the Wall whenever it was served at a banquet before, so I guessed that Queen Mother must like it." Gu Yanyue frowned and asked, "But is Buddha Jumps Over the Wall difficult to make?"
Yuwen Ran: ...
As expected, the world of chefs is something that a young chef like him, who has just started, can never understand.
"Are all these ready?" Yu Wenran watched the palace maid turn off the fire, carefully picked up the Buddha Jumps Over the Wall stewed by Gu Yanyue, and put it aside to warm.
Seeing Gu Yanyue nodded, Yuwen Ran continued, "In that case, let's hurry to the banquet. Otherwise, if we're late, the Queen Mother will make a fuss about it."
As he spoke, Eunuch Zheng walked in from the doorway. He happened to run into Gu Yanyue and Yuwen Ran coming out of the kitchen, so he went over to greet them and said, "The Empress and the Emperor have given this old servant a hard time finding you!"
The moment Yuwen Ran came out of the kitchen and saw Eunuch Zheng coming in, he asked, "What's wrong? Did something happen?"
When Eunuch Zheng met Yuwen Ran and Gu Yanyue, he bowed before saying, "Your Majesty, the person you just sent to monitor the situation at Cixi Palace has returned. He said that the Empress Dowager is planning to ride in a sedan chair from Cixi Palace to the main hall."
When Gu Yanyue heard that the Queen Mother was ready to leave, she picked up her dress and turned back into the kitchen, asking the palace maids to quickly pack the food she had just prepared into food boxes and follow them to the banquet so that they could present it to the Queen Mother at the banquet later.
In previous years, Gu Yanyue always asked her maids to prepare birthday gifts, but this year, she did it herself.
It is one thing to shut up those gossipers, but it is another to defeat Liu Yanyan.
Long before the Empress Dowager's birthday banquet, the Empress Dowager asked Yuwen Ran to lift Liu Yanyan's house arrest.
He said that Liu Yanyan must accompany him to his birthday party, otherwise he would not attend and would only let Gu Yanyue and Yu Wenran go.
It makes no sense for the protagonist not to appear at this birthday banquet. Seeing that the empress dowager looked like she was going to do it if he didn't agree, Yuwen Ran had no choice but to let Liu Yanyan come out of Yanxi Palace and attend the empress dowager's birthday banquet together.
If Liu Yanyan doesn't take advantage of this birthday banquet to please the Queen Mother, then Gu Yanyue would not be called Gu.
As the Empress Dowager, she couldn't be suppressed by a small concubine. That's why she planned to personally cook a birthday banquet for the Empress Dowager.
By the time the palace maids put all the dishes made by Gu Yanyue into plates, a lot of time had passed.
When Gu Yanyue and Yu Wenran took a shortcut through the corridor under the guidance of Eunuch Zheng, they found that there was no one around.
When Gu Yanyue and Yuwen Ran arrived, the Queen Mother seemed to have been sitting and waiting for a long time. Because Yuwen Ran had not arrived yet, the birthday banquet had not started yet.
Yuwen Ran and Gu Yanyue had just walked up the stairs when they heard the Queen Mother snort coldly, "As expected of an emperor, you're so arrogant that you even made me wait for you to start the feast on my birthday."
The Queen Mother spoke very quietly, and only Yuwen Ran and Gu Yanyue who were passing by heard it.
Yuwen Ran and Gu Yanyue stopped in front of the Queen Mother and apologized to her first. "The Queen and I were just preparing a birthday gift for you, Mother, and we didn't pay attention to the time. That's why we were late. The Queen Mother, as the protagonist of today, is waiting for us here. The Queen and I are really unfilial."
"It's alright, there's nothing wrong with waiting." The Queen Mother saw Yuwen Ran coming in and asking for forgiveness. Although she was unhappy, she had to put on a magnanimous face and said, "Besides, you and the Queen were late because you were preparing a birthday gift for Aijuan. How could I possibly blame you?"
Although she said this on the surface, the empress dowager was actually still somewhat unhappy in her heart.
Yu Wenran and Gu Yanyue had just decided what to give me, and probably just picked something to give me as a gift just to please me.
When you receive something later, you must not show any dissatisfaction, as this will make you seem to care about these trivial matters.
As soon as the Queen Mother finished speaking, Liu Yanyan took over, "Since Your Majesty mentioned the matter of gifts, I will take this opportunity to give the gift I prepared to Your Majesty."
As she spoke, Liu Yanyan asked Xiao Kui to present the things she had prepared for the empress dowager. When Xiao Kui brought the things up on a tray, it was covered with a layer of red cloth, so it was impossible to see what was inside.
Only when she reached the Empress Dowager did Liu Yanyan stand up, remove the red cloth covering her, then kneel straight down and say a few auspicious words to the Empress Dowager, "I wish you a happy sixtieth birthday. In the eighth month of autumn, the osmanthus tree blooms high in the sky, and a sixty-year-old is as healthy as a tall pine tree. I wish you a long life!"
The Queen Mother was delighted by Liu Yanyan's blessings. From the moment Liu Yanyan opened her mouth, her smile never faded.
Seeing that the Queen Mother was in a good mood, Liu Yanyan took the tray from Xiao Kui and presented the gift to the Queen Mother herself.
Liu Yanyan also put a lot of effort into choosing a gift. She gave the Queen Mother a set of jewelry made of imperial green jadeite.
Imperial green is extremely rare and usually only appears on jadeite. Even the Empress Dowager only had a bracelet made of imperial green.
Liu Yanyan spent a lot of money to buy a whole set of imperial green jewelry, which really shows that she is very rich.
It is said that using imperial green to make objects such as Pixiu can bring good luck and ward off evil.
So Liu Yanyan not only made a set of jewelry for the empress dowager, but also made a Pixiu for her to ward off evil spirits.
The more the empress dowager looked at the jewelry Liu Yanyan gave her, the happier she was, and the happier she became with Liu Yanyan as a person.
When Liu Yanyan was called up by the Queen Mother, she looked in that direction with a smug look, as if she had already won everything.
Gu Yanyue turned her head away and ignored Liu Yanyan's almost provocative action. In her eyes, such an action was really too childish.
It's not just a temporary win. I haven't even given my gift yet, but I'm already happy.
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