"Do you know why I became a cook?"
"Why?"
"Because the first book I ever knew was a cookbook. And the amazing thing is, this cookbook is nowhere to be found except in my exclusive copy. Without this cookbook, a country girl like me would never have been able to make it all the way to the imperial palace and become a royal cook."
"What dishes are recorded in this recipe book?"
“A lot of the weird dishes are desserts, so I can honestly say no one can make better desserts than I do.”
Liu Qinglan said "Oh" in understanding. She remembered that Peach Blossom Demon loved eating desserts the most.
Tao Xi said as she washed the corn in her hand. "You've been out for so long now, the little queen should be awake by now, right?"
Liu Qinglan glanced at the sun; it was indeed well past noon. Ever since the three cubs had developed their own minds and the mental abilities of seven or eight-year-olds, Liu Qinglan had focused on taking care of her eldest daughter, who was still biting her fingers and drooling.
"Then when you cook the sweet corn, be sure to notify me as soon as possible." The Willow Fairy looked at the still raw corn reluctantly and returned to the front hall.
As the weather got cooler, the little queen fell asleep in the cradle indoors. The three kittens lay beside her, looking at their sister's sleeping face with relish and gently pushing the cradle with their little tails.
The three little tails huddled together, pushing each other, and it almost turned into a tail war.
Liu Qinglan tiptoed over and watched the three kittens nodding their heads, drowsy. She reached out and simultaneously grabbed her daughters' tails, bunching them up like a bouquet. "They're all asleep, why are these little tails still moving?"
"Hehe." Xiaobai opened his cat eyes and found that he was just pretending to sleep.
The two next to them also opened their eyes instantly, moved their little paws, and climbed onto their mother, "We want to sleep here."
Liu Qinglan was very pleased and reached out to stroke the fur one by one, "Do you like the smell of mother?"
Luoluo moved her furry head and snuggled deep into her arms. "It's because mother smells like a mother."
Mother refers to Xie Xuanzhao.
Chu Er also nodded in agreement, "Mother, why do you always smell like a mother?"
The Willow Fairy who madly rubbed his wife's spiritual energy day and night: ...
"Then why don't you just nestle in your mother's arms?" Liu Qinglan pulled their tails angrily.
Who raised you by licking your fur?
"No, mother is so busy, we can't disturb her. Mother, since you are so free, of course I have to bother you." Xiaobai said as a matter of course.
Liu Qinglan looked at the three self-righteous little cat faces in front of him, and instantly felt extremely guilty, "Okay, okay, you guys go to sleep."
The little queen is still sleeping. She is in the period of growing up, so she sleeps a lot every day.
The bedroom was quiet in the afternoon. Liu Qinglan was coaxing and patting the three little babies on her body, while looking at her eldest daughter in the cradle with joy in her eyes.
Ayin's eyebrows and eyes have grown bigger now, and she looks more and more like her mother. Fortunately, the emperor's mother is also a daughter of the Xie family, and she has the same pair of sparkling phoenix eyes, so people only think that the little empress looks like her grandmother.
Liu Qinglan was thinking about the sweet corn cooking in the pot, and fell asleep while thinking about it.
Xiaobai felt his mother's long and even breathing, and quietly opened one eye. He soon discovered that his two younger sisters were also quietly opening one eye and looking at him.
The three little cats looked at each other tacitly, then retracted their claws, and the plum-shaped cushion gently fell to the ground. The three of them slipped out of the bedroom one after another as if they were familiar with the route.
The direction is: Imperial Kitchen!
The Peach Blossom Demon lay deep in the branches and leaves, looking at the three "little habitual thieves" with amusement, knowing that they were here to steal food again.
This was not the first time they had sneaked away. In view of the previous times when desserts were inexplicably lost, Tao Xi learned to close the doors and windows tightly after Liu Qinglan's repeated requests.
Chu Er looked at the lock hanging brightly in front of the door and sighed in a condescending manner, "Aunt Tao Xi locked the door again. She has learned her lesson now."
Xiaobai took a look, then called his sisters over, and finally stopped under the window.
"We can just climb up to the window one by one and pry the wooden sheath open."
So Xiaobai was at the bottom, Luoluo stepped on her little body, and Chuer used her jumping ability to jump onto Luoluo's body, and her little paws landed on the furry cat's head with a click.
"Ouch." Luoluo failed and fell to the ground with a thud. The three kittens fell to the ground, their snow-white fur covered with dust.
"Come again."
So they tried again, and this time Chu'er finally jumped onto the window successfully, then squatted down and hung his little tail down. Luoluo and Xiaobai also climbed up with the help of his force.
The small wooden window opened, and the aroma of cooked corn filled the air.
"Wow, it's sweet corn today!"
All three little cubs feel like they’ve earned something!
So they successfully sneaked into the kitchen, rolled down from the window, and regardless of being covered in dirt, put their cat paws on the stove.
Luoluo first opened the lid, revealing the plump sweet corn kernels inside.
She tried to lie on the edge of the steamer, and regardless of the scorching heat, she took a bite, bit the bottom of the corn, and quickly picked it out. With a plop, it fell on the tray that Xiaobai had prepared in advance.
He picked up the corns one by one, and Luo Luo looked thoughtfully at the small corn at the bottom immersed in boiling water. "Forget this one, we should have enough."
The three kittens sat around the corn and began to "divide the spoils".
One, two, three, and I am satisfied and my stomach is full.
"I think I can skip dinner, hiccup."
"Me too, hiccup."
"Add me, burp."
At dusk, Liu Qinglan wiped the saliva from the corner of his mouth, woke up, and looked at the empty cradle in front of him with a dazed look.
All four daughters are missing.
Lu Lu said from the side: "My Lady, you are finally awake."
"Where's the little queen?"
"She was taken away to be fed."
"Those three..."
"Oh, he's playing with a ball of yarn outside."
Liu Qinglan woke up in a daze and saw that the three little cubs in the courtyard were happily chasing the ball of yarn. He felt relieved and went around to the back to the imperial kitchen.
By now, my sweet corn should be cooked. I want to eat five in one go today! Hehe~~~
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