Chapter 252: [Emperor’s Story 4] Delivering food

Chapter 252: [Emperor’s Story 4] Delivering food

Since Chu Jiao was related to Zhang Shun, although she was still young, she had become the meal-holding eunuch for the Directorate of Palace Delicacies. Her daily responsibilities included acting as a support for the eunuch in-charge of delivering the meals, sending them to all six concubines. The work wasnt much, in fact, it could even be considered to be as light and breezy.

Additionally, the thing that made her most pleased was todays meal. Usually, after delivering the meals to the emperor and his six concubines, there would always be scraps of leftovers. According to the provisions, these scraps were supposed to be thrown away with the remaining leftovers. However, the eunuchs and the palace maids usually made a meal out of the leftovers, just as long as they were still delicious and edible. And so, the people on duty today stealthily set aside their share. This was also considered an old custom in the palace because everyone was well-aware of it, but no one has ever put a stop to it.

The original owners family previously sold breakfast foods to make a living, making items, such as stuffed buns, steamed buns, dumplings, wontons, and more. The original owner often helped her parents out at their shop, eventually becoming well-versed in the art of dim sum making. Occasionally, when a little glutinous young master expressed his hunger, she would often be able to put her skills on display, and combined with her pleasing nature and sweet mouth, she was able to mingle in the Directorate of Palace Delicacies like a fish back in water.

On a certain day, after dinner had been finished and the servants slyly took the leftovers back to the Directorate of Palace Delicacies, Chu Jiao offered to take responsibility of cleaning up from another little eunuch, and after washing all the dishes mounted in the corner, she obtained a word of thanks from that little eunuch.

She casually ate a little before waiting until the moon rose to its peak and all the other eunuchs had gone to rest before secretly getting up and concealing the paper bag in her hands, taking advantage of the darknesss camouflage to run off to Qiu Xi Palace.

Advertisements

While washing the dishes, she secretly set aside several little steamed buns and one duck confit. Recalling how much the small boy liked the strawberries from before, she also grabbed two soft permissions, which were filtered out due to their unsightly broken skin, and wrapped them all up together.

Ever since that day, Chu Jiao became more proactive about delivering food to the Qiu Xi Palace and visited the Sixth Prince several times in secret, the two gradually becoming closer than before.Fiind updated novels at novelhall.com

She had gotten to know from the boy that he was actually fast approaching twelve but only looked to be about 8 or 9 years old. He was extremely skinny since he was only able to eat cold leftovers due to the delivering eunuchs consuming most of them. Upon hearing this, Chu Jiao angrily rolled up her sleeves, wanting to deal with those snobbish slaves but was immediately pulled back by the boy.

She skillfully took two steps back, carefully holding the paper bag in her hand and threw it to the other side of the wall.

Advertisements

Seeing the bag go over the wall and hearing it land, Chu Jiao covered her mouth with both hands and mimicked the sounds of a bird, Gugu.

This was the secret signal she had agreed on with the little boy, notifying him that his extra meal had arrived.

Chu Jiao crouched at the corner of the wall and patiently waited for a while until her legs had turned numb, but she didnt hear the usually quick response the boy gave after she threw his food over.

She felt a little worried, not knowing whether the child was asleep or had gotten involved in some troubling matters. She had even planned on calling out the childs name, but upon hearing the sound of footsteps approaching, she could only quickly flee.

Upon returning to her room and languidly lying on her bed, before closing her eyes, Chu Jiao fervently wished in her heart that the child was only asleep and that nothing else had happened.

However, the world never usually goes the way we want it to.

TOC for advanced chapter ICD [Completed]LikeLoading...