Cute Wife Gourmet

Chapter 75 Moving reinforcements

It rained at night, and when I woke up the next day, the air was fresh and the breeze was refreshing.

Ye Jiayao put on the new clothes Xia Chunyu bought for her. It was a sky-blue piece of fine Hangzhou silk, and the length was just right. It was much prettier than the silk dress she bought yesterday. But wouldn’t it be too ostentatious to go to the kitchen wearing this?

As soon as I went out, I unexpectedly found Song Qi outside the door.

"Song Qi, why are you here..."

Song Qi smiled and habitually called out: "Sister-in-law..."

Ahem, Ye Jiayao coughed twice in embarrassment: "Song Qi, didn't your prince tell you not to call him that?"

Song Qi smiled slyly: "The prince says one thing and means another. In fact, I don't know how much he likes my sister-in-law."

The corner of Ye Jiayao's mouth twitched. Is that so? I didn't notice it!
"Don't call me that. Now I am Li Yao." Ye Jiayao said.

"Yes, Mr. Li." Song Qiguai called out in a strange tone.

Ye Jiayao glared at him: "What do you want to see me for?"

Song Qi pointed to the room next door and said, "I stayed here last night. The prince asked me to follow you everywhere."

When Ye Jiayao thought of Princess Liuli, she was no longer so arrogant and just followed him!
"I'm going to Heavenly Residence."

Song Qi said: "The carriage has been prepared for you."

The first thing Ye Jiayao did when she arrived at Tianshangju was to extract cream. After a few days, she had extracted a lot of cream, but it was still far from enough.

Deng Haichuan ran in: "This is terrible, I just heard from Ah Xing that a guest has reserved the entire third floor."

Zhong Xiang said calmly, "What's so strange about this? It's not uncommon for the entire restaurant in our Tianshangju to be booked out before. Who knows who is going to host a banquet here."

"No, no, Ah Xing said that the people who came to make reservations didn't order any dishes, and said that the master would order when he came to eat, and they reserved two servings of each iced drink. This shows that not many people came." Deng Haichuan explained.

Zhong Xiang frowned: "This is a bit strange."

Cui Dongpeng smiled and said, "I don't think it's strange. Our ice drinks have been in short supply these days. The customer must be afraid that there will be too many people coming and not enough to eat, so he simply booked the third floor. Rich people don't care about this little money at all."

Ye Jiayao listened with her ears pricked up, feeling very uneasy. Why did she feel that this was directed at her?
Soon, Shopkeeper Li came to the kitchen to find Ye Jiayao: "Some important person may come to the restaurant at noon today, you will cook for yourself then."

"Do you know who this important person is?" Ye Jiayao asked nervously.

Shopkeeper Li shook his head: "How would I know?"

Near noon, a magnificent carriage arrived at Tianshangju.

"Brother Prince, hurry up." The handsome young man urged anxiously.

"Isn't he here?" The prince slowly got off the carriage, fanning himself.

"You're too slow!" the boy pouted in dissatisfaction.

The prince smiled and said, "Are you anxious to drink the iced drink or to settle the score with the boy who offended you?"

This young man was Liuli.

Liuli curled her lips and said, "Both are urgent."

The prince smiled fondly and shook his head: "I really can't do anything about you. You sneaked out of the palace yesterday, and today you pester me to take you out again. If the Queen Mother knew about this, I would be in trouble."

Liuli said coquettishly: "Brother Crown Prince loves Liuli the most, you must help me vent my anger today, otherwise I will have to pester you every day."

The prince was speechless. He looked at the sign of Tianshangju and said to himself with some doubt: "Are the ice drinks here really that delicious?"

Song Qi, who was hiding outside Tianshangju to protect Ye Jiayao, saw the prince and Princess Liuli coming to Tianshangju and thought, is this an abnormal situation? No matter what, let's report it to the prince first.

The guest that everyone had been curious about for the whole morning finally arrived. When Manager Qian saw the young man, he realized that he was the young man who had been making trouble in the restaurant yesterday. Yesterday, he was clamoring to raid the restaurant, but today he brought a young man with extraordinary bearing, accompanied by four guards with swords.

The young man had a smile on his face, but he had an aura that made people feel humble. Was he really just here to eat and drink cold drinks, not to cause trouble?
Liuli grinned at the stunned steward, with a slightly evil smile, as if to say: The young master is back, let's wait and see.

Manager Qian shuddered with fear and cautiously waited on the two masters upstairs with a smile. Xiao Lu followed and poured tea and water.

"What's your best dish?" Liuli asked arrogantly, holding the menu.

Manager Qian said with a smile: "Our signature dishes include abalone slices with oyster sauce, shark's fin with three fresh ingredients, golden squid soup, mandarin duck snowflake rolls...but the new dishes we recently introduced, carp leaping over the dragon gate, grilled mushrooms, drunken shrimps, and yellow thorn fish with lotus fragrance are all very popular."

Liuli said calmly, "I'll give you one portion of everything you just mentioned, and some iced drinks." Manager Qian nodded and said, "Yes, yes, please wait a moment, I'll serve the dishes right away."

"Wait, these dishes need to be prepared by your head chef Li Yao himself." Liuli ordered.

After leaving the private room, Manager Qian touched his forehead, which was covered with sweat, and called Xiao Lu over: "Go and serve the dishes quickly, and tell Li Yao that the young master who was scolded by him yesterday is here again. He has bad intentions, so tell him to be careful."

After hearing what Xiao Lu said, Ye Jiayao felt a chill running down her spine from the soles of her feet to the back of her head. Damn it, that little bitch really came to her door.

Does Song Qi know?
Ye Jiayao pretended to be calm and said, "I understand. You guys serve carefully."

While Zhong Xiang was making ice drinks and the others were preparing ingredients, Ye Jiayao ran outside to look for Song Qi. After turning around twice, she didn't see him. She couldn't help but grind her teeth: Didn't I tell you to follow me closely? Where is he? Could this unreliable guy have slipped away to take some time off? At such a critical moment, it's really life-threatening...

Forget it. Now I can only take it one step at a time. She has to find a way to solve her own problems. Can a stupid donkey protect her for the rest of her life?

Xia Chunyu received a message from the guard saying that Song Qi was waiting for him at the palace gate, so he immediately asked for leave and left the palace.

"What's the situation?" Xia Chunyu asked anxiously.

Song Qi replied, "I saw the Crown Prince and Princess Liuli go to Tianshangju. I don't know if this is considered an abnormal situation, but I came to report it."

Xia Chunyu was horrified. Liuli actually dragged the prince to Tianshangju. Wasn't it just to bring bad luck to Yaoyao? And she acted quite quickly.

"No, you did a good job."

Xia Chunyu thought for a moment and ordered, "Go to the Ministry of War quickly and ask Prince Helian and Prince Jing to go to Tianshangju and tell them that Li Yao is in big trouble and they must go to help him. It's better to call more people."

The prince is present and he cannot handle it alone, so it would be safer to call Helian Xuan along.

"Yes." Song Qi took the order and set off for Prince Helian's Mansion immediately.

Xia Chunyu returned to the palace and made some arrangements.

Helian Jing listened to the ministers discussing Simon's problem with little interest. What about the internal strife in Simon? Two uncles fought each other, and the nephew, the young emperor, went to mediate. As a result, the two uncles attacked the young emperor together. The young emperor asked Huai Song to send more troops for support... Some people said that more troops should be sent, while others said that it was someone else's family affair and they should not interfere. They were arguing endlessly.

He was so bored that he almost fell asleep. His elder brother glared at him and he quickly sat up again, but soon he started to feel sleepy again.

Suddenly he saw Song Qi hiding outside the door and waving at him. Helian Jing pointed at his nose and Song Qi nodded.

Helian Jing glanced at the ministers who were arguing with each other, then quietly stood up and walked out.

"Young Prince, I am here on the orders of the Crown Prince to ask you to go to the Tianshang Bureau as soon as possible. Li Yao is in big trouble. It would be best to ask Prince Helian to go with you, otherwise we won't be able to stop him." Song Qi said.

Helian Jing's heart skipped a beat, and he said angrily, "Whoever dares to cause trouble for Li Yao, I will go and deal with him right now."

Song Qi said weakly: "It's His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and Princess Liuli."

Helian Jing's arrogance immediately shrank into a small flame, and he stuttered: "Your Highness... Your Highness the Lady and Princess Liuli? What... What's going on? How did Li Yao offend them?"

Song Qi didn't know what happened, so he could only say, "It's a long story. Saving lives is like putting out a fire. My prince should hurry up, otherwise Li Yao will be finished. My prince is also ready to rush over."

Helian Jing was indeed frightened when he heard the reputation of the Crown Prince and Princess Liuli, but Dayaoyao's safety was what he cared about most. He gritted his teeth and said, "You go over and watch first, I'll talk to you later."

Helian Jing returned to the meeting room. The ministers were still arguing. Helian Jing stepped forward and said loudly, "What is there to argue about? The little emperor Simon is weak in character. Before his death, the old emperor Simon arranged a marriage with our Huai Song. Wasn't it because he thought that Huai Song would support the little emperor in the future? Those two princes are cruel by nature and have always coveted the rich land of Huai Song. If those two princes usurp the throne, once Simon stabilizes, it will definitely be detrimental to our Huai Song. Is this still someone else's family affair? Sending troops is not only to help the little emperor, but also for the peace of our Huai Song. We must send troops."

Helian Xuan looked at Xiao Jing in surprise. For so many days, he had been listening to the political discussions but never expressed his opinion, always daydreaming. He didn't expect that Xiao Jing had listened to everything and could give such incisive insights.

"Young Prince Jing said it well. You foolish and incompetent people are not as clear-sighted as Young Prince Jing." The pro-war minister echoed loudly.

The peace faction was dissatisfied again and was about to quarrel again. Helian Xuan said slowly: "I will report your opinions to the emperor. The final decision of this matter will be made by the emperor. Let's stop here for today and go home!"

The ministers glared at each other, then left in dissatisfaction.

Helian Xuan then looked at Xiao Jing with approval: "Finally you have made progress. What you said just now was not bad."

Helian Jing was worried about Li Yao, and said anxiously: "Brother, Brother Chunyu just sent someone to tell us that Li Yao is in big trouble, and asked us to go to Tianshangju quickly."

Helian Xuan raised his eyebrows: "Li Yao is in trouble, what does it have to do with me?"

"Brother, how can you say that? He is my benefactor. Even Brother Chunyu has helped him. Can you just sit back and do nothing? The ones who are causing trouble for Li Yao are the Crown Prince and Princess Liuli. What if Brother Chunyu can't stand it and offends the Crown Prince? Wouldn't Brother Chunyu be in trouble too?" Helian Jing said anxiously.

Helian Xuan was silent for a moment. He didn't bother to care about Li Yao, but since Xia Chunyu was involved, he really couldn't just sit back and watch.

(End of this chapter)