Chapter 152 Wontons
Qi Yu had just finished the cup of tea she poured, and hurriedly put it down, saying obediently: "Madam, please give me your orders, I will do whatever I want."
Feng Qingsui chuckled: "Don't rush to agree, just listen to me."
Qi Yu listened carefully.
Then he smiled and said, "Such a small matter will not have any impact on me, madam, don't worry."
Feng Qingsui then handed the matter over to him.
"It's getting late. I should go home."
She stood up and said goodbye.
Qi Yu nodded: "Okay, I have to go back to Sifang Pavilion too."
One of them got on the donkey cart, and the other walked into the night, and they each left.
It was late at night and he was feeling sleepy. Feng Qingsui got off the donkey cart and walked quickly towards Polangxuan with Wuhua, intending to rest early.
Unexpectedly, I met someone in the corridor.
"Second Master?"
She was stunned.
"You're still awake?"
Ji Changqing glanced at her quietly.
She ran to Qingquan Town, was "abducted" to Baihua Tower, and had a night meeting with Prince Beituo. How could he sleep?
When she wakes up, she might already be on her way to Beituo.
"I was about to go to bed, but I felt a little hungry, so I got up and made some wontons. Do you want some?"
Wuhua's eyes lit up: "I have a share too?"
Ji Changqing said calmly, "It's a bit too much."
Feng Qingsui had dinner early and was a little hungry, so he followed him to the kitchen.
Baifu was watching the fire in the kitchen. Seeing Feng Qingsui and Wuhua come in, he said with a smile, "Madam, please wait a moment. The wontons are already in the pot and will be ready soon."
Feng Qingsui sat down at the long table in the middle of the kitchen.
There were two large chopping boards on the table, piled high with wontons. She took a quick look and saw about a hundred of them.
I couldn't help but wonder: "Second Master, did you pack so much?"
Baifu: Haha, can it be less? After listening to Yan Chi's report, the master went into the kitchen to knead the dough. I don't know what got him into it, but the dough kept kneading and more and more, and he rolled out hundreds of wonton wrappers.
I thought he would never be able to finish making wontons, but he chopped the stuffing and continued to chop the stuffing until all the wonton wrappers were gone.
Everyone in the house had a midnight snack, and there were still about one or two hundred left.
However, the wontons that others ate were cooked by the cook. The bone soup that the master had cooked remained untouched. He waited until the eldest lady's donkey cart returned home before he let him put the wontons into the bone soup.
He opened his mouth, intending to tell the eldest lady something, but his master glanced at him and he immediately fell silent.
Well, leave it to me to tell.
However, Ji Changqing said nothing, only said lightly: "It's too much flour."
Feng Qingsui: (｀ω′)
It turns out that Chef Ji also has trouble mastering the ratio of water and powder.
She glanced at Ji Changqing's slender fingers and said with a smile, "Thank you for your hard work, Second Master. I'll prepare some medicine to fumigate your wrist later."
Ji Changqing: "It's just a few wontons, it won't be tiring. You should rest early."
Feng Qingsui inexplicably felt that his tone was a bit cold.
After thinking about it, I realized that maybe I was tired and didn’t have the energy to talk.
I don't care.
When Baifu brought the wontons over, she picked up the spoon and started eating.
Ji Changqing frowned.
"It's still hot, eat it later."
Feng Qingsui said nonchalantly, "I'll just blow it."
How can I wait for such delicious wontons?
She couldn't wait to put a wonton in her mouth, and it was indeed delicious.
I didn't care about the heat anymore and started eating one after another.
And then it really burned the tip of my tongue.
Ji Changqing: “…”
He reluctantly asked Baifu to get the ice jelly hanging in the well.
"I wanted to wait until you finished eating the wontons before giving them to you."
Feng Qingsui: ╰(*°▽°*)╯
There is even ice jelly!
Chef Ji is really addicted to cooking.
She happily ate a bowl of ice jelly and then continued to eat wontons.
After eating, he thanked Ji Changqing contentedly, then stood up to say goodbye and prepared to return to the courtyard.
Ji Changqing raised his head and looked at her steadily: "Don't you have anything to say to me?"
Feng Qingsui was bewildered: "What does Second Master mean?"
Even though Ji Changqing had a thousand words in his heart, seeing her confused expression, he could only say one sentence: "We are all family, so you don't have to be polite to me when you encounter trouble."
Feng Qingsui suddenly understood.
Ji Changqing is... thinking that she would rather ask outsiders for help than ask him for help when she has problems, and that she doesn't treat him as a family member. Is he feeling disappointed?
What a worrying person.
"When have I ever been polite to the Second Master?"
She laughed loudly.
"I can handle this matter on my own, that's why I didn't mention it to Second Master. I only just found out today that Ayu is the Ninth Prince of Beituo. The assassination at Baihua Tower really gave me a fright."
It turned out that the matter of Baihua Tower was not something she and Qi Yu had discussed.
Ji Changqing felt relieved.
Then he frowned.
"A gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall. It is too risky for you to put yourself in danger. You should value your life."
Feng Qingsui nodded: "Thank you for your concern, Second Master. I will be extra careful in the future."
Ji Changqing was still worried.
"I have all kinds of people on hand. If you need anyone, just tell me."
Feng Qingsui said hello.
Ji Changqing then waved his hand and said, "Go back and rest."
"Second Master, you should rest early as you have to attend the morning court tomorrow."
Feng Qingsui smiled.
Ji Changqing nodded slightly.
The highlight of tomorrow's morning court session will definitely be the assassination attempt on the Second Prince of Beituo. He will naturally conserve his energy so that—
Teach the third prince a lesson.
In order to respond to the questions about the assassination, the third prince discussed with his staff in the palace for most of the night.
After finally lying down, he was so worried that he couldn't sleep because he remembered that Qi Yu refused to change his choice of relatives. He didn't know how to explain it to his sister.
The next day he went to court with dark circles under his eyes.
My mind was already in a mess, and then Ji Changqing got angry.
"Our Daxi nation has been established for three hundred years, educating the four corners of the world with rites and music. Foreign envoys who come to pay homage all admire the splendor of our attire, etiquette and music, and the greatness of our benevolence, righteousness, virtue and culture, and are all respected as a nation superior in etiquette."
"His Highness the Third Prince actually invited a foreign envoy to a brothel!"
"If word of this spreads to other kingdoms, the King of Beituo will laugh at our prince as a pimp, the Emperor of Cai will regard our Great Xi as a nation of prostitutes, and the Emperor of Xirong will mock us, saying, 'The so-called etiquette of the Great Xi is nothing more than the etiquette of a whore.'"
"Our Great Xi's three hundred years of majesty has vanished from this moment on."
"Your Highness has humiliated the nation to such an extent. If you still have any shame, you should hang yourself on the steps of the Imperial Ancestral Temple and confess your sins to our ancestors!"
He nearly fainted.
He knew that Feng had escaped, and Ji Changqing would definitely attack him after learning about Feng's experience. He never expected that he would actually let him die!
That’s too cruel!
"Master Ji must have misunderstood."
He forced himself to cheer up.
"The Second Prince of Beituo and his brother, the Ninth Prince, went to the brothel without permission. My officials were forced to follow them in order to record their words and actions. I did not assign my officials to lead them to visit prostitutes."
Ji Changqing sneered, "The Tianzi room in Baihua Tower was reserved by the Marquis of Wu'an. Your subordinates, Your Highness the Third Prince, borrowed it from the Marquis of Wu'an. How dare you say it wasn't assigned by you?"
He had already found a reason with his staff.
"I'm worried that something bad might happen to the Second Prince of Beituo, so I'm borrowing the private room. It's a helpless move."
"If that's the case, why didn't you send guards to protect the Second Prince of Beituo? It's unlikely that something would have happened to the Second Prince of Beituo sooner or later, but it happened when he was accompanying him to Baihua Tower. How can you guarantee, Your Highness, that your officers weren't involved in the assassination? How can you guarantee that your officers weren't spies? How can you guarantee that you knew nothing about the assassination?"
He was furious: "Why don't you just say that it was me who hired someone to assassinate the Second Prince of Beituo?"
Ji Zhangqing raised his eyebrows: "Third Prince, do you admit it?"
Admit it!
He was so angry that his lungs exploded.
Ji Changqing, this guy, even wanted to put the blame of the assassination on him. It's really unreasonable.
He even suspected that he had hired those assassins to rescue Feng!
"Xiang Ji is here to spread rumors and slander me."
He gritted his teeth.
"I was assigned by my father to entertain the envoys from Northern Expedition, with the sole purpose of fostering an alliance between the two countries. I would never assassinate an envoy and disrupt diplomatic relations."
Ji Zhangqing said indifferently, "The Second Prince of Beituo insisted on marrying the Sixth Princess for his father. It's natural for the Third Prince to find someone to assassinate him in his eagerness to protect his sister."
After saying this, he bowed to the emperor and said, "Your Majesty, I implore Your Majesty to thoroughly investigate the case of the Third Prince leading the Second Prince of Beituo to a brothel and causing his death, in order to uphold the law and maintain order in the court."
He knelt down quickly and said, "Father, I am wronged! What Prime Minister Ji said is completely false and absurd—"
"Permitted."
The emperor interrupted him.
"From now on, the Third Prince will confine himself to reflect on his mistakes until the Investigation Department has resolved the case."
"Father, your son——"
"Commander Lin, send the Third Prince back to his palace."
The commander of the Imperial Guards walked up to him and extended his right hand: "Third Prince, please."
Half a day later, the Sixth Princess, who learned that her royal brother was in solitary confinement, scattered broken porcelain all over the floor.
“How could this happen!”
She was furious.
Feng was fine, but the second prince of Beituo and her royal brother became a living dead and were put in solitary confinement respectively.
What went wrong?
She summoned Wu Si Niang.
"Did your eldest brother really kidnap Feng and take her to Baihua Tower? Could it be that he kidnapped the wrong person and took the assassin disguised as Feng?"
Wu Siniang was stunned.
She probably hadn't thought about this.
However, her eldest brother has always been unreliable, so it is possible that he kidnapped the wrong person.
Thinking of the assassination attempt on the Second Prince of Beituo in Baihua Tower, her face turned pale.
No way.
Could it be that her eldest brother sent the assassin over?
Being involved in the murder of a foreign envoy, is there any chance for them to survive in the Wu'an Marquis Mansion?
The Sixth Princess looked at her coldly: "Go back and tell your eldest brother to keep his mouth shut and never disclose the kidnapping of Feng to the Pursuit Department, otherwise..."
Wu Si Niang nodded repeatedly.
"Don't worry, Princess. We brothers and sisters will keep our mouths shut."
When she returned home from leaving the palace, she sent someone to the outer courtyard to look for her elder brother. Unexpectedly, the servant replied, "The prince is not in the house."
"Go find it quickly!"
She roared.
If the pursuit department finds the person first, their Wu'an Marquis Mansion will be finished.
The servant took the order and immediately asked the servant to go out and look for the person.
After searching for a long time, I couldn't find anyone.
Wu Si Niang was extremely anxious: "He's nowhere to be found in the places I usually go to. Where on earth did he go?"
In a brothel in West City, Wu Yaoming sneezed.
"Is the prince catching a cold?"
A chubby young man with an ordinary appearance asked beside him.
Wu Yaoming shook his head: "No."
He glanced at the sumo match in the center of the arena with little interest, and asked the slightly plump young man beside him, "How did you know I was attracted to the Sixth Princess?"
The slightly plump young man smiled innocently, "I met the Sixth Princess last year during the Dragon Boat Festival while watching the dragon boat race. When I saw the Crown Prince just now, I felt that he and the Sixth Princess were meant to be a couple."
Wu Yaoming was overjoyed: "Are you saying we look like a couple?"
The slightly plump young man nodded.
Wu Yaoming's double chin made him laugh out loud: "You still have good taste."
After laughing, he sighed.
"It's a pity... The Sixth Princess looks down on me."
The slightly plump young man smiled and said, "Your Highness is wrong. The Sixth Princess is probably eager to marry the Crown Prince right now."
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