Chapter 47 Chapter 47 Does he still want to save his face? ...
When the emperor saw that she still had the strength to sit up, he raised his eyebrows in surprise, looked at her deeply, and without saying a word, turned around and began to tidy up his court clothes that were unconsciously messed up by Li Shuyao.
After a while, he heard no other movement behind him, so he turned around and looked back with some curiosity.
The pretty little palace maid on the couch still looked a little dazed. After sitting up, she first tidied up her hair at the temples, and her slender fingers like scallions gently stroked her lips that were kissed until they were slightly red and swollen. I don’t know if she remembered something, and a light blush quickly appeared on her delicate cheeks.
There was a spring in her apricot blossom eyes, looking charming and graceful. She hooked her fingertips and rubbed her lips lightly and heavily several times. It seemed that the pain brought her back to her senses. Soon she wrinkled her delicate and lively little face again, and crawled under the couch with a bit of depression.
She bent down, picked up her shoes from the ground and put them on, then she stood on the pedals, jumped lightly a few times, and began to adjust her Qipao by bending her fingers.
The emperor slowly withdrew his affectionate gaze.
She lowered her eyes and stood for a while, waiting until the little palace maid had tidied everything. Then she walked to the door with her long legs and told Liang Jiugong to bring in today's breakfast.
Liang Jiugong outside the door could probably guess what happened in the East Warm Pavilion.
After coming in, the degree of his waist bending was more exaggerated than usual, almost to a 60-degree angle. He held a whisk tightly in his arms, and his footsteps became much lighter.
Even the young eunuchs and palace maids behind him followed suit.
Like a dozen or so little mice tiptoeing, they brought in the breakfast, then tiptoed out without looking back, as if they had made some important decision, or as if there were some ferocious beasts or ghosts chasing them. After going out, they closed the door of the east warm room with a light "bang".
Li Shuyao held onto the door frame and carefully hid herself behind the screen, leaving only half of her face exposed. She watched the movements outside with her eyes.
After seeing all the palace people retreat, she hesitated for two seconds and slowly walked out from behind the landscape screen.
He put on a serious look, with his hands hanging naturally at his sides, and stood respectfully and humbly beside the man in bright yellow court robes.
She first carefully glanced at today's breakfast with the corner of her eye, then quickly retracted her gaze, looking at her nose, and then her mouth, while silently reciting the rules that the maids had taught her before.
It is said that before eating, the emperor would drink two sips of water, then a bowl of hot soup, and then...
As Li Shuyao thought about it, she turned around and poured a glass of warm water from the small table next to her. She stretched out her hand and was about to hand it to the man.
Someone grabbed my lower back again.
Li Shuyao:?
We're about to eat, why are you still kissing?
But this time she was mistaken.
The emperor just didn't want her to stand around and wander around like a little bee.
——Besides, she loves eating so much, can she really bear to just watch quietly from the side?
The emperor didn't want his eastern warm room to be flooded by the tide.
So he grabbed her waist and pulled her towards him. At the same time, he reached out and took the water cup from her hand, and put it to her lips, coaxing her softly, "You drink first."
Upon hearing this, Li Shuyao lowered her head in a daze and obediently took two sips of the warm water in the cup.
After drinking, she licked her lips and said to the man: "Your Majesty, I have finished drinking."
The emperor nodded nonchalantly, released his grip on her waist, and said to her, "Go find a chair and sit down next to me."
Li Shuyao said "Oh" and walked towards the chair not far away.
Without noticing, when she turned around, the man with deep eyes quickly turned the water cup in his hand, accurately covered the place where Li Shuyao had just touched with his lips, tilted his head back, and drank the warm water in the cup clean.
But it seems that is not enough.
So he got up and poured another glass of warm water.
After drinking, he put the cup away and turned around and walked back.
Li Shuyao quickly brought back a stool, sat down, and immediately turned her bright eyes to the delicious food on the table.
After watching it, I felt a little disappointed.
——It was indeed exquisite, and it smelled really good. She had never even heard of some of the ingredients in the white porcelain plate.
Logically speaking, it should be a feast, but... the quantity is too small.
Is it really enough for the two of them?
Li Shuyao always felt that she could finish all the more than ten delicacies on the table by herself.
Li Shuyao puffed up her cheeks, mentally reminding herself that the person next to her was the emperor, the most prestigious person in the entire Forbidden City, and even in the entire world...
Therefore, it is imperative that he eat his fill first. Only when he is full will he have the strength to deal with state affairs and protect the people of the world.
And she was just a little palace maid... er, a little official's daughter. She was just going to go hungry for a meal temporarily, it was not a big problem.
...It's okay!
Thinking of this, she slowly withdrew her affectionate gaze that kept moving back and forth on the porcelain plate, stood up, scooped a bowl of hot soup from a large bowl in the middle of the table, and placed it solemnly in front of the emperor.
Then he handed the chopsticks to him and took a pair of serving chopsticks and held them in his hand.
At the same time, she picked up an empty plate and looked at the man eagerly. That little expression seemed to say that she was ready. Just tell her what you want to eat and she will serve it to him!
After all, you should act like a bedchamber attendant when you sleep with someone, and the same goes for serving breakfast.
The emperor was a little confused by her gaze.
He had originally thought that, given her greedy nature, she would quickly forget about him once she got the chopsticks, her eyes fixed on the dazzling array of delicious food. She would eat mouthful after mouthful until her cheeks were bulging and even her belly was...
Cough cough.
He was actually waiting to see what was going on, but unexpectedly, the maid didn't pick up her chopsticks right away. Instead, she served him a bowl of hot soup...
To be honest, the emperor was even a little flattered.
I even had a slight suspicion in my heart that the little palace maid in front of me had suddenly become a different person.
Is there any time when she can be so well-behaved?
But if you think about it carefully, although the little palace maid is usually a little reckless, has a dull mind, and is not very flexible in her hands and feet, she is quite strict in observing the rules. Basically, she will never squat when she can kneel down.
When you are in doubt, just give in.
Anyway, she has shown enough humility, so others won't blame her for anything.
...It's quite clever.
"emperor?"
Li Shuyao sat aside, holding chopsticks in one hand and a tray in the other. She waited for a while, but received no instructions from the person next to her, so she tilted her head curiously and looked at him with a puzzled look.
The emperor suddenly came to his senses, bent a finger and tapped the edge of the table, and asked her softly, "What are you doing?"
Li Shuyao looked at him, then at the sparse food on the table. After a while, she hesitantly began to explain, "Your Majesty, when I came here, several maids explained to me some of the rules of serving food..."
She paused for a moment and continued, "Mammy said that I should stand on the emperor's right hand side to serve him, but because you just asked me to sit down, I..."
She kept calling him "slave" which sounded unreasonably harsh.
The emperor knocked on the table twice with an impatient expression. Seeing that the little palace maid had fallen silent, he realized that he had scared her.
He quickly softened his expression, reached out and took the silver chopsticks from her hand, replaced them with a pair of ivory jade chopsticks, and without further ado, thrust them into her hand. He nodded gently and said, "I don't need you to serve me. Just concentrate on eating."
Li Shuyao: "..."
She glanced at the table with a timid expression, thinking to herself that this was all there was, and it wasn't enough for her to concentrate on.
One plate is only three or four mouthfuls long, and eating it feels like an assembly line operation. How can you concentrate?
But... since the emperor didn't want her to serve him, Li Shuyao naturally wouldn't ask for trouble by sitting aside and watching, so she put the empty plate in her hand back.
He stood up, took an empty bowl, and poured himself a bowl of hot soup.
——If she doesn’t eat enough, it’s okay for her to drink more soup or water, right?
Thinking of this, he puffed up his cheeks and carefully blew on the hot soup in the bowl to cool it down.
She no longer looked at the delicious food on the table, but concentrated on holding the bowl of soup in her hand. After drinking it, she stood up and served herself another bowl.
The emperor, who had been secretly observing her movements, said at this time:?
Did the imperial kitchen use any rare and precious ingredients to cook the soup today?
So delicious?
He put down his chopsticks half-believingly, lifted the bowl of soup in front of him, which was no longer emitting heat, to his mouth, pursed his lips and tasted it.
Fresh and fragrant...
And then, nothing happened. It seemed to taste the same as before, nothing more than that.
So, why did she drink so happily?
While the emperor was wondering, he saw that the little palace maid had finished the second bowl of soup in her hand, stood up with a happy expression, and served herself another bowl.
The emperor immediately fell silent.
I felt that I couldn't let her drink like this anymore.
Otherwise, it would be spread out one day that a palace maid served the emperor breakfast on her first day in bed and only gave her three bowls of hot soup without a single mouthful of rice or a single piece of meat.
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Does he still want to save his face?
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