Chapter 141 - The Competition
Ni Qing, Mo Feng and Xiao Nie is arriving in the capital city. The bustling city has change so much after a long time. Mo Feng is taking her to his mansion in the capital. After all, the Mo Mansion is quite extravagance as Mo family famous as the doctor family in the capital. It's just Mo Feng not interesting to carry on with family business by himself. Someone is doing the management for Mo Feng and send the business report regularly while he can still indulge into his interest.
Xiao Nie is jumping out the carriage as soon as the horse stop moving. Mo Feng is helping her to come down from the carriage as if she is porcelain doll in his hand. Ni Qing wants to protest to her master, but her main brain wants to find and see her husband who dare to marry other women as soon as he lost her.
Apparently, in the capital, Xiao Nie is rushing to take the report to Mr Zhou on behalf of her madame as usual when he reports that the emperor takes care of all her business. Xiao Nie is smiling and walk away with the message to make their arrival as secret to anyone. Mr Zhou also let her know that the emperor has been searching Madame Ni in every corner and nook of the country.
Xiao Nie is smiling to hear about the effort of the emperor to find her madame. he will not find them on top of secluded mountain near the border of the Dayu Kingdom. If she did not think about her madame life in almost on the border of the life and death. She will not happy or support Master Mo to take her madame away.
However, she witnesses herself about Master Mo feeling and attentiveness toward her madame. he carries her through the forest and give her the medication. It is actually moving Xiao Nie heart toward master Mo. He might not as strong and submissive toward her madame, but Master Mo drown her madame with his affection behind of their bickering every time. No one can withstand their bickering in the house nor the carriage.
On the way back from the tea house, Xiao Nie is looking at the announcement about the palace cooking position for half day. They will test it to join the cook team for the emperor. Xiao Nie is in the rush to find her lady and talk about the position.
Ni Qing is enjoying her afternoon tea with some healthy snack prepares by Mo Feng. She is reading some new book in his mansion library. As the Mo family head, Mo Feng become quite busy as soon as he set his food inside his mansion. However, he keeps remembering about her medication and mealtime. He will personally bring everything to her and make it for her.
Xiao Nie arrives to find her madame in the courtyard reading some book with some tea in front of her. she is looking as much as Goddess inside the expensive and rare painting. Her exquisite beauty stole every male servant inside the Mo Mansion.
Xiao Nie is standing in front of her and report all the stuff to her madame. the only things, they did not know about Ni Qing position as the empress of the country. She also reported about all the business under the management of the emperor. apparently, her husband is still managing all her business despite all his busy schedule to manage the country.
No Qing is getting excites to hear about the competition to get the spot into the emperor cooking team. Ni Qing told her loyal maid to bring her pouch and goes to apply for it. she got the idea to enter the palace as kitchen maid. Xiao Nie wants to cry to hear her madame crazy idea.
Xiao Nie is rushing to apply as her madame wishes in the city hall. Many people is queueing to get their spot in the competition. It is rumour among the candidate that the person who is going to judge the food. the main judge is the emperor itself and he is famous as the most wanted bachelor in the country.
Ni Qing is so happy to see her back with her number to enter the cooking competition. She is getting ecstatic to cook something bad to the emperor. she wants to pay for his action to marry two other princesses to replace her. she will make sure to punish him so severely.
"What time is the competition tomorrow?" Ni Qing is asking toward her maid.
"you have to be in the palace at seven AM, madame… the competition will take place until after lunch time… However, your opponent is all the aristocrat lady who want to eat the emperor alive…" Xiao Nie is informing to her madame. it was true the way their looks to each other as if they want to kill and stab each of them.
"done deal… do not worry about me… or do you want to see Zhang also?" Ni Qing is trying to tease her loyal maid. She finds about her feeling toward Zhang through her body language. It is so obvious that her feeling toward her husband's private security officer open in the air.
"Madame…." Xiao Nie is telling her madame with blushed on her cheek.
"Let's go to the kitchen. I just see some Osmanthus flower on the garden… we need to practice make some of new dishes…" Ni Qing is standing up and asks her loyal maid to show direction of the kitchen after harvesting some of the Osmanthus cake. She will make them in the big batch and send it to tea house together with the caramel candy.
Ni Qing is making quite a lot of candy and Osmanthus cake. At least, she will be getting profit from the selling of the food on her tea house. If Jin Yu find out about the caramel candy then he must be finding out about her then he will rush to meet her and chain her into his hand. She can't imagine to be chain on the emperor hand and follow him everywhere he goes.
She is asking Xiao Nie to dropping the cake and caramel candy to the tea house. Their sales have been declined when Ni Qing sick and disappear. They try to replicate the recipe from Ni Qing, but it does not successful. This batch of Ni Qing candy can boost their sales and return the regular customer from all over the city to the tea house. Many teas house also tries to replicate their food recipe and service. However, their business still thriving through the thin and thick.
The time is coming for the cooking competition in the palace. There is many contestants who is joining for the competition. Most of the contestant is beautiful girl all over the capital city. It seems they are planning to seduce the emperor instead of working in the kitchen. They are even bringing their maid to help them to cook in kitchen.
The competition is all about beauty but not cooking. There is only few of people in the contestant that actually can cook the food. it is a bit understatement for Ni Qing who actually loves to cook.
Ni Qing is ging into the final three and their task to prepare Lunch for the emperor. Ni Qing smiles cunningly to know her husband favourite food. she is making caramel Osmanthus cake with some simple noodle soup as they eat on the street vendor.
She is finishing the cooking test on the first place after got taste by the head cook in the palace. They are all in unison and fighting to taste the food cook by Ni Qing. The heavenly taste of her cooking makes all the judges to fight for the food.
Ni Qing and Xiao Nie are smiling to see them eating and fighting for her dishes. She is asking to xiao Nie to get her more ingredient in the storage so she can cook more food for the judges and the emperor. she is happy when people appreciate her food.
In the emperor palace, Xi Kai is reporting to the emperor about the finding of two bodies man and woman on the bottom of the cliff just outside of the capital. As the condition is really bad, they can't identify their facial recognition. They are using almost identical to their outfit and their body building make them as noble consort Qing and Mo Feng. However, they still can't find the third body for Xiao Nie. They are still in search on the bottom of the cliff to find the body.
Jin Yu falls back to his chair after he hear about the news from his security people. In his mind, he can't believe that his love leaves him early enough from this world. this is the thousand time, she has left him alone without any message behind. There must be something behind of her disappearance and he can not figure it out yet.