nucmednet Chapter 244 Cake Incident
Chapter 244 Cake Incident
Royal Garden.
Huang Ye took two small cakes out of her purse and placed them in her palm. She squatted on the ground and looked at the princess. "These are small cakes baked in Madam Huang's small kitchen. Princess, try them and see if you like them."
The eldest princess picked up a small cake with her skinny little hand and put it in her mouth: "Mmm... delicious, I want to eat more." After saying that, without waiting for Huang Ye to answer, she put another small cake in her mouth.
"Eat slowly and don't choke." Huang Ye quickly took her little hand away from her mouth. This child is so active in eating, how could she be so thin?
"Empress Huang, I want to eat more." The eldest princess looked at Huang Ye's purse longingly. The snacks in Empress Huang's purse were delicious.
"Eat slowly. How about we watch the lanterns while eating?" Huang Ye tried to divert her attention. It was not good for children to eat too much at once. Eating while watching the lanterns could help digest the food.
"Okay." The eldest princess agreed obediently. Huang Ye handed her a small cake and couldn't help wanting to touch her head. Unfortunately, the eldest princess had a few small hairpins and pearl flowers on her head, which tightly pinched her scalp. Huang Ye felt bad for her when he saw it.
"Why does a little girl have so many things on her head?" Huang Ye muttered in a low voice, not daring to let the maids who were taking care of the eldest princess hear.
"Empress Huang, I've finished eating again." The eldest princess ate four small cakes in one breath, still looking at Huang Ye longingly. The cake was so delicious. It would be great if she could eat it every day.
"Children can't eat too much at one time, otherwise they will have indigestion." Huang Ye squatted down and reasoned with her: "I'll give you another one. We won't eat it after you finish it. We can eat it later when you're hungry, okay?"
"Okay, I'll listen to Lady Huang." The eldest princess was an obedient child, which made Huang Ye couldn't help but touch her little face: "You are too thin. You need to eat more in the future to gain weight. Children look better when they are fat, and their bodies are healthier."
"But the food served here is not tasty." The eldest princess lowered her head in shame. She didn't like the food, but the palace maids who served her thought it was delicious. Maybe it was because her mother said that she was too picky about food.
"Even if you don't like it, you have to force yourself to eat one more bite. Children who are not picky eaters can be healthy. Only when they are healthy can they go out and play. Are you willing to stay in the house every winter?" Huang Ye is very good at coaxing children.
"Then I'll listen to Lady Huang." The eldest princess made up her mind that she must eat well in the future. As long as she was healthy, she could come out to play with Lady Huang.
Huang Ye liked this kind of obedient child the most, so the two of them happily held hands and went to see the lanterns.
As for the emperor, he met many people along the way. Some of them were met by chance, but people like Xu Rou seemed a little deliberate. The Imperial Garden is so big, if you don't want to meet them, you can just avoid them from a distance. Xu Rou was thick-skinned, and didn't care that the emperor and empress had gloomy faces, pretending to meet them by chance, and quickly came over to pay her respects.
The Emperor was too lazy to pay attention to her and walked forward on his own. However, the Queen nodded to her and motioned her to follow behind. There were also Prince Qing and Princess Qing behind them. Letting this idiot accompany them could also give her the opportunity to talk more with the Emperor and clear up the misunderstanding in the Qianqing Palace just now. Anyway, no matter what others thought, she was the Queen. If she said it was a misunderstanding, it was a misunderstanding. Princess Su was causing trouble on her own and it was none of her business.
Who is Xu Rou? She came here for the Emperor. Would she just stay behind to accompany Prince Qing and his wife? She couldn't. So she quickened her pace and followed the Emperor and Empress, leaving Princess Qing and the others far behind. This made the Empress, who was preparing to improve her relationship with the Emperor, very angry.
The emperor strode forward. The empress alone was annoying enough, and now there was Concubine Xu. He just wanted to get rid of these two people. He had to go find his eldest princess. Seeing the child might make him feel better.
The Queen and Xu Rou were jogging behind to catch up. Not long after they walked, they saw Hongdou holding the eldest princess, who was holding her rabbit lantern in her hand. Huang Ye followed them, saying something and feeding the eldest princess something.
"Concubine Huang, what are you doing? What are you feeding the princess?" The queen's voice sounded sharply, startling Huang Ye.
The queen hurried over, snatched the princess from Hongdou's arms, and yelled at the people who were kneeling on the ground, "Are you all dead? Don't you know that the princess is weak and can't eat anything? If something happens to the princess today, how many heads do you have to chop off?"
"Please spare our lives, Queen." Several palace maids who followed were terrified. They just felt that they had never seen the eldest princess so happy, talk so much, or eat so much, and they forgot their duties for a moment.
"Is it so serious? Don't scare the child." The emperor looked at the queen with dissatisfaction. Didn't he see that the child was so scared that he was about to cry? This queen was becoming more and more outrageous.
"This is my child. I don't want anything to happen to her." The Queen retorted, "It's Huangpin who knows that the princess is weak, but you still feed her food casually. What is your intention?"
"The eldest princess said she was hungry, and I happened to have brought some food, so I gave it to her." Huang Ye then remembered her aunt's previous instructions and her aunt's attempt to stop her. She knew she was in trouble, and answered embarrassedly.
"Everyone in the palace knows that the eldest princess cannot eat cold food, yet you specially feed her cold snacks, Concubine Huang, you are so brave." Xu Rou jumped out impatiently. The emperor loves the eldest princess very much, and he must punish Concubine Huang for her ill-intentions today.
"Empress Huang said that this cake tastes better when it's cold." The eldest princess said loudly with tears in her eyes. Children are very sensitive. She has already sensed that her mother and this woman were not kind to Empress Huang, so she loudly defended Huang Ye.
"Concubine Huang, this is how you deceived the princess. Where is your conscience? Has it been eaten by a dog?" Before the Queen could say anything, Xu Rou continued to put the blame on Huang Ye. She didn't believe that Huang Ye could still escape after all this.
"What cake? Bring it out so I can see." The emperor sensitively felt that this must be another kind of food he had never eaten before. There was nothing bad about the food made by Ning Yuxuan. Didn't you see that Ting'er, such a picky eater, eats it so happily?
Huang Ye reluctantly took out her purse and took out the small cakes wrapped in oil paper. There were four of them. She handed them to the emperor and said, "Here, this is the cake. It's made of eggs and flour."