Chapter 451 Lady Lotus
As the two highest-status people in this banquet, these people dared to come forward and speak only after the Queen and Concubine Ji took the initiative to greet them. Otherwise, except for the Crown Princess, the rest of the people were not qualified to take the initiative to talk to them.
In particular, Concubine Ji's cold face kept people away from her. Even if others didn't dare to look in her direction, let alone getting close to her, this made it easier for Xiaoxiao to fish in the whole process, eating and drinking in a daze.
Not to mention, the Queen's meal tasted good, with a hint of familiarity in it, and Xiaoxiao was quite satisfied.
But there is no free lunch in the world. When she saw the servants hurriedly came to the queen to report that something had happened in the kitchen, and the cook in charge had injured her hand, Xiaoxiao knew that most of the time this matter would be related to her.
Sure enough, the next moment she saw several servants running over in a panic, dragging someone with them: "Madam, how can this be so good? Madam Furong is injured, but the dishes at today's banquet have not been served yet."
"I haven't done the errands I asked you to do well, so I have to be severely punished!"
Xiaoxiao and Madam Furong, who was surrounded by palace people and had their wrists wrapped in a white cloth, and the blood was still leaking from the cloth, looked at each other, and both of them fell into silence.
The queen said distressedly: "What should I do? I heard that you are good at your craftsmanship, so I specially invited you here. Now that the banquet has not ended, and His Majesty has not arrived yet, should I be allowed to announce that the banquet is over? In this way, I will lose my face. But where else to put it?”
The nanny beside her immediately said: "What a coincidence, I heard that the princess's cooking skills are worse than those of others. Compared with the former Gu Yuchu, why not let the princess do a favor?"
The queen looked embarrassed: "Isn't this not good?"
Mammy immediately said: "How could it be possible? The princess seems to be a kind and unassuming person at first glance. She is just helping out by the way. She can not only show her talents in front of everyone, but also solve the urgent needs of the queen. Why not? Why not?"
Xiaoxiao felt that they might have thought themselves fools, and they were quite foolish. Although she really wanted to see the empress and the others being embarrassed when no one picked up their acting, but looking at the amount of bleeding on Furong's wrist, if they didn't deal with it, I'm afraid her hand would be damaged. It's useless.
Just when the nanny was still racking her brains to persuade, everyone was surprised to find that Xiaoxiao had already stood up and started rolling up her sleeves: "Okay."
"Then let Madam Furong lead the way and tell me about the dishes."
The queen was surprised that she was so straightforward, but after thinking about it, she felt that this peasant girl was really short-sighted and regarded cooking as a "talent", so she waved her hand to make arrangements.
"Maybe I saw other people who were proficient in music, chess, calligraphy and painting, and I became anxious."
The Queen said to Concubine Ji: "I don't even think about it, who is a decent woman from a wealthy family who can cook by herself?"
She's so smoky, isn't she trying to turn into a yellow-faced woman?
Concubine Ji nodded in agreement and did not remind the queen that the daughter of the Xiao family had just been recruited as a direct disciple by Grand Master Gu not long ago because of her talent.
She turned her head and glanced at Xiaoxiao's desk just now, her expression unchanged, but her heart was helpless: This child is a bit picky about food.
Xiaoxiao's steps were very fast, and before the palace people found a chance to urge her, she followed the silent Madam Furong to the kitchen.
Seeing the cooperation of the two of them, the palace people felt that their task was completed and they all breathed a sigh of relief. However, the Queen had said that if they failed to do this job, everyone would have to be punished.
So Xiaoxiao and Madam Furong said they wanted to discuss the recipes first so that no one could follow them. The palace people didn’t think much about it - the imperial chefs in the palace were like this too. of.
Pouting their lips, the palace people guarded the door, but they didn't know what was going on inside. Madam Furong, who had a serious face just now and didn't like to talk to others, was very flattering now and was admitting her mistake.
"Little Master... I know I was wrong. I shouldn't have come to this Laoshizi Palace..."
Xiaoxiao put his hand into his sleeve and groped at the same time, "You said it as if you can refuse."
No matter how famous Mrs. Shen's elegant residence is, no matter how hard it is to find, and no matter how difficult it is to find Madam Furong, it is only relative to ordinary people. The queen spoke, and if she dares to refuse, the entire elegant residence will suffer. , even the Shen family and the Li family.
Xiaoxiao doesn't understand this, so she certainly can't blame Furong.
Furong was stunned for a moment, and then she saw Xiaoxiao carefully holding up her hand and untying the strips of cloth wrapped around Furong's wound layer by layer.
Her movements were very gentle, for fear of hurting her. When she peeled off the last layer, she blew air into the wound as if coaxing a child. Furong blinked and just sat there obediently, watching Xiaoxiao perform magic tricks. He took out a bottle of medicine from his pocket.
"What hurt you?"
When talking about this, Furong couldn't help but get angry: "Chop knife."
"This is too fake. I was chopping vegetables on the chopping board, and someone suddenly bumped into me. And she bumped into something wrong, and she hit my arm instead."
"Thanks to my quick reaction, otherwise with my knife skills, it's not impossible that my hand would be broken!"
Xiaoxiao found the knife she was talking about. This thing was well maintained and not rusty. As long as Furong's luck was not so bad, there was a high probability that there would be no danger of tetanus. Xiaoxiao cleaned the wound for her, and then Apply the wound medicine produced by Space on her.
After applying the medicine, Xiaoxiao looked up and found that Furong's eyes were a little red: "Did it hurt you?"
Furong shook her head: "Master, you are so kind."
In the past, she always felt that her master was young and she felt awkward when he was respectful, so she liked to get by by calling him "little master" or "little master". But today, she really felt the care and love from Xiaoxiao.
It's really strange. Although he is younger than her, why do he really feel that she is an elder relative.
Thinking of this, Furong stretched out her hand to compare the heights of the two of them, and felt even more depressed - how could they have grown so much taller!
Xiaoxiao didn't notice her little move, because at the moment she was full of dissatisfaction with the Queen's party.
In order to cause trouble for her, this group of people really did everything they could.
Innocent people are hurt when they say they are hurt.
She never feels that cooking is a shameful thing. Being able to cook delicious meals and share them with her loved ones is the happiest thing for her. She doesn't care whether others understand her or not.
Seeing Xiaoxiao starting to roll up her sleeves, Furong felt surprised: "Master, are you really planning to take action?"
Xiaoxiao happily looked at these high-end ingredients in the kitchen, which represented a lot of money: "Yes, otherwise, would I have to let you go into battle with an injury?"
Furong tilted her head: "Even I can see that they are doing this just to cause trouble for you, Master. You are so smart, there is no way you can't detect it."
For example, all the people who used to be the helpers in the kitchen are now gone as if they had made an appointment.
How complicated the dishes at the Queen's banquet are, it's really easy to understand with a little thought. Just relying on the two of them, no, to be precise, she can only be regarded as a useless person now, so the rest of the dishes require a master. People finish?
Is this the method the queen and others have thought up to make things difficult?