20demayo Chapter 917 The Right and Wrong in the Palace
Chapter 917 The Right and Wrong in the Palace
Lian Ye had breakfast delivered. When the exquisite meal was served to Fang Changzai, Fang Changzai suddenly held his forehead and acted as if he was in great pain.
Lian Ye asked with concern, "What's wrong, young master?"
Fang Changzai smiled gently, "I just feel a little dizzy. Maybe I caught a cold last night! I don't have much of an appetite."
Lian Ye said, "My lady is not feeling well. I will ask the imperial physician to come to her. Your health is most precious now. You must not catch a cold."
Fang Changzai didn't want to eat outside food in the first place, and she was also afraid that someone was plotting against her to get pregnant. After so many years in the palace, she finally waited for the emperor to favor her. She really wanted to have a child of her own, as only with a child would she have hope.
She was wondering why the emperor suddenly remembered her, who was of the lowest rank. Could it be that she had the courage to fall in front of the emperor that day, so the emperor remembered her.
She blushed and was extremely shy. "I'm not that delicate. Thank you, Lady Lianye. There's no need to trouble the imperial physician."
Lian Ye didn't say much, and asked the palace maid to take away the breakfast in front of Fang Changzai. "Since the young lady is not feeling well, I will replace it with some light and delicious millet porridge for the young lady."
Fang Changzai paused and said quickly, "Thank you, Lady Lianye."
Her humble behavior was seen as full of arrogance by other concubines, who thought she was just pretending to be so because the emperor had chosen her.
Someone murmured, "You've only served the Emperor for one night, why are you pretending to be weak?"
"That's right, she thinks she can compare with the Queen!"
"Humph, doesn't she even consider her own weight?"
Fang Changzai's family was not powerful to begin with, and she was the least respected among the concubines.
At this moment, she couldn't help feeling uncomfortable listening to everyone's whispers. She lowered her head slightly, bit her lips and remained silent.
Jiang Fenghua was talking to Gao Qingtong and heard the concubines talking to each other.
Jiang Fenghua sat upright, with a fierce look in her eyes. Everyone looked at the queen's expression and shut up instantly.
Gao Qingtong quickly tried to smooth things over, "I don't normally get to taste Lian Ye's cooking, but today I'm doing it thanks to the Empress."
Jiang Fenghua said, "Whatever the Imperial Concubine wants to eat, just ask Lian Ye to make it and send it over."
"I can just deal with it casually. How can I trouble Miss Lianye to work so hard?" Gao Qingtong said this to Fang Changzai. The queen's personal maid served her personally, so why was she being so pretentious? Did she really think that she would not know her own weight after being called by the emperor?
If they are not honest, the concubines who got into trouble before them will serve as a lesson for them.
Lian Ye said, "It's not hard for me to serve the Imperial Concubine. If the Imperial Concubine wants to taste my cooking skills, please send someone to let me know and I will come right away."
Gao Qingtong was so happy that he couldn't stop smiling. "If the Queen is willing to let him go, Lian Ye can come to my palace!"
Lian Ye knew that Concubine Gao was joking, so she picked up a piece of exquisite dessert for Concubine Gao. The dessert was made of flower petals and gave off a light fragrance. There was not much of it, and she only ate one piece in the morning because it was reasonably matched with other delicacies.
Jiang Fenghua eats very little at every meal, eats small meals frequently, and has a balanced diet, all thanks to Lian Ye's careful care. Her curvy figure, long legs and slim waist are also thanks to Lian Ye.
She smiled and said, "I am indeed reluctant to let Lian Ye go, but for Lian Ye's happiness I have no choice but to do so. Soon, I will be unable to eat the delicious food made by Lian Ye, just like Qing Tong."
Gao Qingtong asked doubtfully, "Has the wedding date for Lian Ye and Master Lin been set?"
Lian Ye was now very calm when she heard others talk about her and Lin Feng. After all, she was almost a conspicuous person in the palace. The main reason was that Lin Feng was very high-profile every time he came to see her, and she often went to bring him food.
The emperor doesn't care about them, let alone others.
Jiang Fenghua said, "I've asked the Imperial Astronomical Observatory to choose a date."
She owed Lian Ye too much in her previous life, and she hopes Lian Ye can be happy in this life.
At this moment, there was a crisp "clang" sound. Everyone looked in the direction of the sound and saw that the millet porridge in front of Fang Changzai had spilled all over the ground for some reason. The porridge was still steaming on the ground, and some of it spilled on her body as well, making her clothes dirty.
Fang Changzai was startled and quickly apologized, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to, it's just too hot..."
The maidservant who was serving Fang Changzai quickly covered Fang Changzai's hand and said in a sly tone, "Sending such hot rice porridge to the young lady, the young lady didn't pay attention and got burned."
This means that the palace maids in Kunning Palace deliberately made things difficult for Fang Changzai and deliberately gave her very hot rice porridge.
Jiang Fenghua frowned and said to the palace maid who brought the porridge, "Why are you so careless? Why don't you check if Fang Changzai is burned?"
The palace maid Chunfang quickly said, "Yes."
Chunfang glanced at the maidservant who was serving Fang Changzai, bit her lip and apologized quickly, "I will wipe it clean for the young lady."
Fang Changzai's maid said, "It's a good thing they didn't spill such hot porridge directly on the back of my lady's hand, otherwise she would have been burned."
Chunfang said, "I was just putting the porridge on the table. How could I possibly have burned the back of your hand?"
The maid Cui He explained, "I only hypothesized, I didn't say Sister Chunfang intended to burn the young lady's hand."
"Your assumption is completely unfounded. Why do you say that?" Chunfang continued, "I clearly just put the porridge on the table. I didn't mean to spill it on Fang Changzai, but it ended up getting knocked over. I really don't know why. After all, I didn't see whether Fang Changzai knocked it over intentionally or accidentally."
Cui He said, "How could my young master deliberately spill the porridge and burn herself? Why don't other young masters have such hot porridge for breakfast? Why does my young master's breakfast have to be so scalding hot?"
Cui He's eyes were red. "Didn't my young lady serve the Emperor last night? Why is Sister Chunfang so displeased that she deliberately served such hot porridge to her?"
This seemed to imply that the Queen deliberately had people targeting Fang Changzai.
Chunfang was speechless when she heard this. "I... I don't dislike Miss Fang at all."
Jiang Fenghua saw through Chunfang's thoughts at a glance. Fang Changzai was outplayed by Xie Shang last night, and Lianye was not convinced, so she asked Chunfang to serve a bowl of very hot porridge, but who knew that the porridge was suddenly spilled.
The porridge did not directly burn her exposed skin, but it just spilled over and soiled her clothes.
Before she could speak to stop the two maids' quarrel, Fang Changzai suddenly stood up and slapped Cuihe in the face. "How dare you be so rude in front of the Empress! Chunfang was holding the porridge firmly on the table. I accidentally knocked it over."
Fang Changzai said sternly, "Hurry up and apologize to Miss Chunfang."
Cui He covered her face and felt wronged. Tears welled up in her eyes and she pursed her lips and said, "I'm sorry, Sister Chunfang. It's all my fault for not seeing clearly. I was wrong to blame you."
Fang Chang bowed respectfully to Jiang Fenghua again and said, "It's all my fault for being careless. Cuihe didn't see it clearly. Please forgive me, Your Majesty."
She just didn't want to eat breakfast and didn't want to make a big deal out of it, but she didn't expect Cuihe to be so stupid as to bring up last night's sleeping arrangement.