Chapter 44: The Powerful Photographer and the Weak Substitute Daughter 6

Housekeeper Liu: "Miss Lin has finished cooking these three dishes at twilight hour. After the dishes were served, she went back to her room with Guard Yun."

"Yun Yi, let her come over."

Yun Yi was good at running fast, so he took the order and went out.

Not long after, Lin Muqing came back following behind.

When Xi Chenmu saw her, he found that compared with her timid appearance in the afternoon, she had become much calmer and gentler, and had put away all her anxieties.

"You cook well. From now on, you will prepare three meals a day for me according to the chef's salary."

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" She was obviously happy that she had managed to stay. Even though her expression was suppressed, her starry eyes were bright and inexplicably attractive.

Lin Muqing prepared these three dishes by combining some modern methods with Xiaoyu's method from the previous world, taking the essence and removing the dross, so the resulting dishes are different from the ones here.

Has a unique taste.

This is the first step.

Xi Chenmu dismissed everyone and sat alone at the table, slowly finishing his meal without touching the other dishes.

…

Three days later.

A group of ministers visited Prince Mu's mansion and asked Xi Chenmu to temporarily rule the country in the study. The crown prince was in a coma, the country could not be without a ruler for a day, and there was also a little prince who had just learned to read. Prince Mu was the only member of the royal family with royal blood who was suitable to rule the country.

Xi Chenmu agreed reluctantly.

Lin Muqing only knew these things vaguely when she heard the chefs chatting in the kitchen.

Seven days after Xi Chenmu entered the palace, he became the regent.

Lin Muqing had even fewer opportunities to come into contact with Xi Chenmu, and cooked in the kitchen every day.

She prepares different dishes for three meals a day. In addition to the Jiangnan flavors, she also makes pastries with unique flavors.

For a whole month, the dishes were all different. Although Xi Chenmu didn't say outright that he was satisfied, he would finish them every time.

She never hides from people when she cooks in the kitchen. When the chefs ask her how to cook, she tells them her cooking methods without reservation.

This ensured that the chefs would not resent her arrival for interfering with their chance to cook.

There are still many people in the palace who need to eat, and all the food is prepared by these chefs. The palace is rich and has been supporting them. They are respectful to the prince from the bottom of their hearts and get along well with Lin Muqing in the kitchen. As long as she cooks more good dishes and lets the prince eat and drink well and stay in good health, they will have stable jobs.

One of the chefs was a master of herbal medicine, so Lin Muqing followed suit and learned from him. After learning, he added some of his own methods, and the originally bitter taste of the herbal medicine became delicious.

Xi Chenmu liked her cooking skills more and more.

Lin Muqing thought Xi Chenmu would be cautious about revealing his taste, but he didn't seem to be bothered by this at all and almost finished his meal every time.

They didn't communicate, but every day Yun Yi would tell the prince what dishes he wanted to eat that day, and she would make them.

She also bought recipes from the subsidy group. In order to establish herself as a cook, she spent three hours in her room at night studying cooking and became more and more proficient at it.

In this way, I spent a month peacefully.

*

Late at night, the moon was round and bright, shining on Prince Mu's palace.

When the sword-carrying guards of the palace were changing shifts, a restrained man in black sneaked in with his back bent.

The study was brightly lit.

Xi Chenmu, dressed in dark blue, with a beautiful face, sat at the head of the study, with a green jade belt tied around his waist. He had an elegant posture, holding a scroll in his hand, looking calm and imposing.

"Your Majesty, there is a letter from Yun Zhen."

The study door opened, Yun Yi lowered his head, and walked forward with the letter in his hands.

Xi Chenmu stamped the book, raised his eyes, took the letter from Yun Yi, opened it directly and read it word by word.

His mansion in Jicheng was attacked by the general's men, and Luoyang was in Jicheng when he traded the detoxification pill with him.

Now the prince urgently needs the detoxification pill, and except for finding Luoyang, he is the only one who has it.

The people in the general's mansion would rather kill than let a wrongdoer go, but they don't have the courage to visit his palace, or they may have already sent someone.

"The Queen is determined to get the antidote pill, and has even set her sights on me."

He chuckled, mockingly.

I then drafted and rewrote a reply letter.

"Let Yun Zhen carry out what is written in this letter."

Yun Yi: "Yes, Prince."

"Let Yunqin search the mansion. The prince is critically ill. Since General Qin didn't find him in Jicheng, my mansion will be the next target..."

The current situation in the court is that everyone is waiting. Either the crown prince dies, or...

He slowly rubbed the thick black ink and made a seal.

Then just wait patiently.

Yun Yi took the reply letter and turned to leave the study.

However, in less than half an hour.

Yun Yi came back again, running in, with an extremely serious expression. He looked up and looked at Xi Chenmu respectfully, "Prince, you are so good at predicting things. Yun Qin and his men were in the West Garden and happened to find a secret guard, but this secret guard was very good at Qinggong and escaped after being injured."

"Yun Qin's sword is poisoned, he won't be able to get far."

The man's tone was inexplicably angry. "Didn't you meet me in Xiyuan?"

Yun Yi: “Yes.”

Xi Chenmu's eyes suddenly froze while he was reading, and he slammed the table and stood up.

Turn a corner at Xiyuan and walk along a long corridor, and you will come out to the Plum Blossom Garden.

And because it's just a garden, there are the fewest guards there.

"Yes." After Yun Yi finished speaking, he saw the prince holding the magical sword Kirin Sword and striding out of the study. His clothes fluttered as he walked away in a hurry.

He quickly chased after him, "Prince, where are you going!"

The only response he got was a figure leaping onto the rooftop.

Although Yun Yi's mind was confused, he figured out one thing: that place seemed to be Miss Lin's residence.

…

There is an inconspicuous little room on one side of the plum garden.

The palace was very quiet at night, and Lin Muqing usually went to bed at nine o'clock.

Life without entertainment would be boring.

But this night.

Outside she heard the sound of swords clashing, and through the window she saw a group of guards holding torches, walking back and forth in the garden.

Combined with the scene, it's very much like the search for an assassin...

She didn't open the window and continued reading, but not long after, a muffled groan suddenly came from the room.

Her room was not big to begin with, but it had a shower screen, and the sound seemed to come from behind the screen.

It seems that he really is an assassin, and he is so unlucky to find her here!

Fortunately, she was prepared.

Lin Muqing sat at the head of the bed, reached out to an exquisitely woven long-handled fan placed beside the pillow, and then fanned slowly while approaching the door, but was about to open it.

"Don't move." A fierce male voice sounded in my ears.

Lin Muqing's footsteps froze instantly.

Her neck was strangled by an arm wrapped in a black sleeve, and the force was so strong that it was difficult for her to breathe.

The girl was shaking with panic. The man in black thought she was scared and warned her in a low voice.

"Be quiet, or you'll die!"

Outside the door.

The guards with swords were holding torches, standing thirty meters away. Through the thin window paper, they seemed to see a figure standing by the door. Judging from her height, it should be Miss Lin.

But the shadow quickly retreated.

The guard with a sword gave a look and one of the guards left.

Indoors.

Lin Muqing still held the fan tightly in her hand and nodded fearfully. The man in black dragged her body backwards and she smelled the smell of blood becoming stronger.

The two of them retreated to the center of the room. The back of her clothes was a little cold and soaked with blood, proving that she was injured in the abdomen.

And he only used brute force to hold it, proving there was no weapon.

The voices of the guards outside could be heard.

"Miss Lin, are you okay?"

The man in black was distracted by the noise outside and didn't pay attention when he retreated, bumping into a chair. Lin Muqing's expression didn't change, and he was even trembling with fear, but he found the moment when the man in black let his guard down and hit him hard with his elbow, hitting the wound of the man in black.