Ning Wanyin picked up the spoon and was about to drink the porridge when her nostrils twitched slightly.
She has always been very careful about her diet, and because she has some knowledge of medicine, it is not common for her to fall ill.
There is a very faint strange fragrance in the porridge.
The scent was so faint that she could hardly identify it at first.
And as time goes by, the fragrance becomes weaker and weaker...
This shows that the source of the strange fragrance is not in the porridge.
It must have been contaminated when it was brought over.
Lingxue Pavilion was filled with palace servants. Ning Wanyin did not act rashly. She just looked like she was reminiscing and said:
"Ever since His Majesty gifted me a small kitchen, I have never made soup for His Majesty myself because I am not good at cooking. When I saw the honey bean porridge today, I suddenly remembered the honey bean and red date soup I loved to drink when I was a child. It is one of the few sweet soups I can make myself."
"Lianrui, follow me to the kitchen. I want to make sweet soup for His Majesty. To make this soup, you need to pick a batch of round and plump honey beans and soak them for most of the day. Soak them before paying your respects. This way, you can make soup in the evening."
Ning Wanyin stood up and Lianrui followed her in a daze.
Xiao Guizi, who was serving beside him, reminded him, "Master, we have to pay respects to the Queen Mother today. You can make the sweet soup another day, so as not to be late and get punished by the Queen Mother."
"Don't worry, it's still early and we won't be late. What's more, since it's for His Majesty, I'm sure the Queen Mother won't hold it against me." Ning Wanyin's words had hidden meaning.
Xiao Guizi was also an old man in the palace, and she understood it instantly.
If the Empress Dowager finds an excuse to keep the master as she did to Concubine Song, the master can refuse by saying that she is making sweet soup for the Emperor.
If the empress dowager broke off relations and punished the master, then the master could send soup to see the emperor at night and win some sympathy from the emperor.
The master deliberately chose the day of paying respects to cook the soup, how smart!
She is worthy of being the most favored concubine among the rookies.
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