OFFERING CONCUBINES
EPISODE 9 NOBLE FIRST IMPRESSION
Xiao Yi pressed his suddenly dizzy head, his eyes looking at the ginkgo nuts that Chu Cu had brought inside the porcelain bowl.
His mind was filled with many question marks, why did his majesty want to make him do all this.
"Mrs why?" Chu Cu asked with a worried face.
"Don't call me madam!" Xiao Yi replied with an increasingly sour face.
"Miss, Chu Cu is required to call so here, later if heard of others, Chu Cu will be punished" Chu Cu quibbled.
"Suell up." Xiao Yi stuffed the Snow Mushroom that had been cut into small pieces with the shelled fruit so that it revealed the chewy clear fruit flesh and fresh red dates into the pot.
"Get some water" Xiao Yi asked Chu Cu, immediately Chu Cu took a mouthful of clean water.
"Let me, "Xiao Yi took it and put it in the pot, then asked to add it to the middle of the pot.
A servant helped lift him up on the stove.
Xiao Yi sat on a wooden chair while watching the fire furnace. No matter how long the water vapor is like a cloud that evaporates from between the lid of a wooden pot.
"Diminish the fire" he ordered as he raised his sleeve to the forehead. Sweat as big as corn.
Then get up from his seat and open a little lid of the wooden pot so as not to be too tight. There was a sound coming from inside.
Some servants just stood looking not far from where Xiao Yi was, ready to help if this noble new concubine needed anything.
But this new concubine was truly a unique girl in their opinion, she was so stubborn as to do all the heavy work herself that no other noble lady would touch.
"Chu Cu, get yin xing"
Chu Cu thrusting obediently to his master, Xiao Yi stuffed them with yin Xing seeds or so-called brownish-white ginkgo nuts while starting to stir them slowly.
After 10 minutes later, all the ingredients inside looked soft and soft in a very pretty color. Xiao Yi put in some rock sugar seeds, and stirred them for a while making sure the sugar had melted and mixed well.
Lastly Xiao Yi stuffed a small bowl of goji berry with a sheen-red color into his soup pot.
Eunuch Chen arrived just as the pot of soup had been lifted.
Xiao Yi deftly scooped the soup into a ceramic bushel covered in silver, which was carried by Eunuch Chen.
"Antar immediately to his majesty" Xiao Yi ordered, with a relieved face for having completed his task on time.
The day had begun to darken, shrouding the roof of the palace kitchen, the day turned cold immediately.
"But the mistress of the concubine was also ordered by His Majesty to deliver this soup to Rongyu" Eunuch Chen asserted in a low voice.
"You don't see, my clothes are so dirty like this, how I'm going to face the king with such a delicate appearance" Xiao Yi said.
"I sent Her Majesty to make sure the mistress of the concubine has completed the cuisine that her majesty requested, as well as to pick up the mistress to accompany her noble dinner at the Rongyu palace"
Xiao Yi was really annoyed in his heart, his highness Yan Yue was indeed anxious to make him troubled.
"But the soup will be cold if it's not delivered soon!"
"And His Majesty has advised that Lady Consort Yi should immediately get ready, after her soup is ready and depart with me"
It seemed that eunuch Chen was also unwilling to refute the king's orders, as the eunuch just stood up and did not immediately leave.
Xiao Yi walked over without speaking again past eunuch Chen who was holding a soup bushel while looking down. Towards the Xingwu guesthouse. He followed Chu Cu from behind in haste and Eunuch Chen as well as a few servants.
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Xiao Yi wore a light brown dress patterned with lotus flowers blooming maroon.
His hair was partially in a neat loop back in a gold flower ornament clip to his right left, the rest was left unraveled.
Xiao Yi though with simple makeup looked fresh and stunning.His beauty reflected from the light of the lights on the outskirts of Shenhua park. Eunuch Chen guided the way, as Xiao Yi did not yet know the location of the King's private residence Rongyu Palace within this large and spacious Weiyan palace.
Xiao Yi's steps followed the eunuch's steps.
"I will call a palanquin for the madam" eunuch Chen had already offered to prepare a stretcher for Xiao Yi. But Xiao Yi firmly refused.
"I'll just walk" Xiao Yi replied firmly, he would buy some time to get to His Majesty's residence, so that the soup was cold and Xiao Yi could give an excuse, since the king wanted him to come to Rongyu's palace after cooking, the soup became cold as he got ready and walked towards the king's residence.
After passing through Shenhua Park which looks so beautiful between the night down and the bright lights scattered on the edge of the park, the ends of the bridge and the gazebo building in the middle of the park.
They arrived at the King's residence Rongyu Palace, the building was grandly adjoined by a building like a library and another large building which was a Guanli hall where royal congregations or meetings between kings and ministers and important nobles usually took place almost every day.
Guards outside the door of the palace Rongyu folded from the big gate in front of the palace.
The door opened, the room of Rongyu's palace was very spacious. There are some velvet seating and tables of mahogany carved with flowers and clouds and dragons.
The ornaments in it are dominated by gold and beautiful paintings on some parts of the wall.
At the very end of the room a large bed with beautiful curtains as ivory from silk.
The room was four or maybe five times larger than the Xingwu guesthouse that Xiao Yi was living in.
There were dozens of oil lamps in every corner of the room, so the room became brightly lit.
On a table engraved with some candles from a brass container, sitting so majestically His Majesty the king of Yan Yue, his handsome face shone among the candlelight.
He was wearing a pure white robe of fine silk.
In front of him were some dinner dishes, on top of silver utensils.
The king's food place is all made of silver, if there is a porcelain plate then there will be a spoon of silver.
Everything ensured that no food containing poison was served to the king.
Xiao Yi saluted the king, greeted the nod of His Majesty Yan Yue's head and invited Xiao Yi to sit down before him.
His Majesty Yan Yue's face looked flat, with black gleaming eyes.
Eunuch Chen coded Chu Cu to pour soup from a bushel into a bowl.
After Eunuch Chen tasted all the food and was sure nothing was dangerous, he immediately retreated followed by Chu Cu towards the corner of the room.
"You can get out"
The Order of His Majesty Yan Yue.
Eunuch Chen and Chu Cu bowed respectfully and immediately came out. The door was closed by Eunuch Chen.
"Why so long?" asked His Highness Yan Yue, looking displeased.
"Ampuni noble servant, I must make sure the glorious snow mushroom soup is truly who" Xiao Yi replied.
"I've been waiting for you since, "
"Puni servant, Your Majesty"
"Do you know, I could have punished you for making me wait and starve?"
"Puni the servant of His Majesty..."
"Are you not tired of always asking for mercy when you talk?"
"Puni the servant of His Majesty..."
His majesty Yan Yue only snorted while shaking her head, this concubine is indeed strange or is she really stupid?
"You cooked it yourself?" His Eminence Yan Yue glanced at the soup bowl in the middle of the table.
A pleasantry of course, because while Xiao Yi was busy cooking, Eunuch Chen had sent a subordinate eunuch to monitor the palace kitchen during Xiao Yi's time there.
The eunuch messenger made sure that Consort Yi did it herself until the food was ready.
He was satisfied with the test he had made to this curious concubine.
Consort Yi was indeed different from any other concubine she had ever seen, she was honest and did not fear anything. This concubine was also very innocent and did not really mind her class because she willingly made herself do the work of a servant.
Concubine Yi also seemed to be quite clever and what intrigued the king the most, to such an extent that trying to find an excuse to invite him to his palace was that this concubine was not interested in him at all. Even if he looked at it, he seemed to be trying to avoid it in various ways.
Just this time His Highness Yan Yue met, a woman who did not want him.
This beautiful girl who was sent to be the sacrificial concubine for him was completely different, from the first impression Her Majesty had seen her.
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