When the officials saw the young master questioning this, they didn't know how to explain it, so they hurriedly answered in a low voice.
"The master said that the soup in the palace tasted good today, so he asked Li Chunxiang, the chef in the imperial kitchen, to bring some soup for Madam to try."
"Is the soup made by the cook in our house bad?"
Chong Ximo asked in displeasure, obviously he didn't believe that his father would ask Li Chunxiang to go out of the palace to deliver the meal in person for a soup meal. This seemed to be a lot of trouble.
"That's what the master ordered. Madam is still waiting." The official felt that there was something wrong with the young master's tone and hurriedly lowered his head, not daring to say any more nonsense.
Chu Qiao squatted on the side of the pot and stood silently. Judging from Chong Ximo's attitude in asking the question, the cook in Chong's mansion was not too bad. Why did Master Chong have to let her go all the way out of the palace?
Where's the soup? If there is no other purpose, it really doesn't make sense.
Chong Ximo's eyes fell on Chu Qiao, and he suddenly stretched out his hand and whispered to Chu Qiao.
"You go back, I'll bring this soup in."
"No, young master, I want Li Chunxiang to deliver it in person." The official tried to dissuade him.
Chong Ximo frowned and turned to the official family.
"Why does she have to deliver it in person? Isn't it just a can of soup?"
"this……"
The official looked embarrassed and couldn't answer for a while. After hesitating for a long time, he said something as if he suddenly realized something.
"Maybe Madam wants to know how to make this soup and asked Li Chunxiang to explain it to the cook."
No matter how you hear this reason, it sounds like it was thought up on the spur of the moment. Chu Qiao doesn’t want to be here like this. No matter who delivers it, she needs to put down this soup quickly. She needs to seize the time to go back and ask the old imperial chef about the details of Mongolian meals, so she doesn’t want to be here.
It was a waste of time, so he spoke.
"In this case, Chunxiang should send it in person."
"Yes, I'll take you there. I'll be there in a moment. I'll finish talking in a while." The official wiped his sweat and breathed a sigh of relief.
Seeing that Chu Qiao had opened her mouth, Chong Ximo couldn't stop him anymore.
"Go ahead, I'll wait for you outside the door."
Wait, wait for her?
Chu Qiao smiled awkwardly, nodded mechanically, turned around and followed Guan Jia towards the main room.
The main room of the Chong family was very quiet. Although the maids came in and out, no one said a word. Even if they did, it was in a very low voice. Perhaps Mrs. Chong was in poor health and did not like to make noise, so they
That's why you're so careful.
I walked into the main hall and didn't see Master Chong. He probably hasn't come back yet.
As the official entered the main hall, he walked a few halls to the right and stood outside the door of a room.
"Madam, Li Chunxiang, the soup deliverer from the palace, is here."
After the official called, a woman's voice responded from inside.
"Let her come right in."
"Madam, let you go in. Just go in." The official turned around and told Chu Qiao to be careful with what he said, so as not to offend Madam.
"I will."
Chu Qiao felt strange that this was the second time that the official reminded her, as if she must have some conflict with Madam. She was Madam Chong, and she was the chef of the imperial dining room. Two people who couldn't fight each other.
After the soup, no one remembers the other.
The official opened the door, and Chu Qiao walked in with a soup can. Two maids stood outside. Seeing Chu Qiao come in, they lifted the bead curtain, revealing a middle-aged man sitting on a chair.
woman.
Judging from the gorgeous clothes and temperament of this woman, she must be Mrs. Chong, but... this middle-aged woman looked at her with a look that made Chu Qiao feel uncomfortable.
"Are you Li Chunxiang?"
"Exactly, this is the soup that your Excellency asked Chunxiang to bring. Madam, you'd better drink it while it's hot." Chu Qiao picked up the jar in her hand, but she didn't know where to put it.
"Okay, Luliu, take it and put it aside." Mrs. Chong waved her hand, and a maid came up, brought the soup can over, placed it on the table casually, and then stepped aside.
Chu Qiao raised her eyes slightly and looked at the jar. It was really strange. Didn't she want to drink soup? Why didn't she put it aside while it was still hot?
Faintly, Chu Qiao felt that something was wrong. As Chong Ximo asked just now, there was no shortage of cooks in the Chong Mansion who knew how to make soup. Master Chong asked her to send soup this time for another purpose.
"Madam, Chunxiang has brought the soup. There are still things in the palace, so I will go back first."
Chu Qiao stepped back and turned to leave, but Mrs. Ke Chong stopped her.
"What's the rush? There's no reward yet. Luliu, go get the reward money."
"Yes, madam." Luliu turned around and went out.
Chu Qiao was frozen in place, feeling that Lord Chong was just delaying her departure by asking someone to collect some kind of reward. If she really wanted a reward, the reward should have been prepared long ago.
"How dare Chunxiang ask for a reward? Let's leave now." Chu Qiao turned around and walked in a hurry. As soon as she opened the bead curtain with her hand, Mrs. Chong's displeased voice rang out.
"You have the guts to seduce Xi Mo, but don't have the guts to listen to my lesson? If unfortunately, you succeed in setting me up in the future, you still have to face me? Don't forget, I am Xi Mo's mother."
Such a sentence made Chu Qiao feel shocked. She was shocked on the spot. It turned out that the soup delivery was fake, and the warning to her was real. This woman did not look like she was sick. She was many times better than herself.
.
"lady?"
Chu Qiao turned around and looked at Mrs. Chong. This woman never left the door, so how did she know that she had seduced her son? Who told him this?
"I'm calling you here this time because I want to make it clear. Don't think that just because you have a cute face and confuses Xi Mo, you can become the official daughter-in-law of the Chong family. The emperor has already mentioned it, and Xi Mo will definitely represent
The royal family married a Mongolian princess, and if you really fight for it, you will be nothing more than a sleeping girl at best. I will not even give you the title of concubine. If you give birth to a boy and a girl, maybe I
You can still think about it.”
Listening to Mrs. Chong's words, Chu Qiao held a breath in her throat, and her heart became cold. Now the fourth Miss Chu is indeed in a desperate situation, helpless, and even her life is in danger, but she will never do it just to get a piece of cake.
He took a life-saving straw and gave up his own dignity.
"Madam must have listened to someone's rumors to misunderstand Chunxiang so much. Chunxiang did not seduce Master Chongximo, let alone enter the Chongfu as a sleeping girl, let alone a concubine, even a wife, Chunxiang did not want to
Pass."
"Are you still making excuses?"
Mrs. Chong didn't listen to Chu Qiao's explanation at all and seemed very angry.
"If you hadn't done anything, why would Xi Mo come back and say he wanted to marry you?"
"What?" Chu Qiao was shocked and her face changed. Now she understood why Mr. Chong and Mrs. Chong called her over like this. It turned out to be Chong Ximo... How could he?