The Empress Wants To Be Deposed!

Chapter 3 Part 1: Don't Challenge My Self-Control

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The noodles are very easy to make so it only took a short time for Gu Yu and Bai Lu to return.

After bringing the food box to the table, Gu Yu took the food from the box with both hands and then put it in front of Song Jinning.

Not only the noodles, but also shredded chicken with cold sauce, roasted duck with soy sauce, and sour pickles were placed in front of her. The sight can really make one’s eyes move. 

Song Jinning was really hungry, so she immediately took the chopsticks that Gu Yu handed over, and lowered her head to eat.

This soup is indeed the one made by Zhao Mama. The soup is very flavorful, and the aroma is very rich.

There was also a fried egg on top.

Song Jinning likes to eat well done fried eggs, and Zhao Mama knows her preferences well, so the fried eggs were golden on both sides, and a crunch can be heard with each bite.

Gu Yu and Bai Lu looked at this scene nonchalantly. Although the two of them are high ranking servants, they are not the masters after all. So like every other person, they only eat when necessary.

But the reason they did not get hungry is because when they went to the side kitchen, they also asked Zhao Mama for a plate of pastries.

While Zhao Mama cooked, the two of them ate the pastries. They were not hungry and therefore could watch Song Jinning eat calmly. 

But Li Chengxuan is different!

Today he is also like Song Jinning. Although he had breakfast, due to the numerous things he had to do today, he didn’t eat lunch or dinner. So now, looking at Song Jinning, he also became hungry 

It's just that his will is stronger. He is unwilling to lose face in front of people, so even if he felt really hungry, and even if Song Jinning offered him a bowl of noodles, he still refused.

It's really tough. Not only can he hear the sound in his belly, but...

Li Chengxuan abruptly got up from the edge of the bed, and walked outside the hall with a calm face.

Gu Yu was shocked.

Watching him walk out of the palace gate, she asked Song Jinning quietly: “Mistress, His Majesty is gone. What do we do?"

Song Jinning thought, isn't it a good thing that he is gone?

“Don’t mind it.” Song Jinning picked up the chopsticks and said. "Go and make the bed."

Not only did she wake up very early today, but she was also tired all day, so she naturally wants to sleep early.

Gu Yu: ...

The groom left on the wedding night, and the bride is not sad, but rather happy to see him leave.

Mistress, are you really stupid?

However, Gu Yu had to obey so she turned around to fix the bed. 

On the other hand, Li Chengxuan strode out of the hall, and Zhou Jing, who was standing at the corridor, immediately greeted him and called out, "Your Majesty?"

Zhou Jing doesn’t understand why his master will come out now. And the look on his face is not good...

 Li Chengxuan did not stop, his handsome face was calm, and he continued walking forward.

 Zhou Jing had to trot all the way but still barely managed to keep up with Li Chengxuan.

 Seeing that Li Chengxuan had reached the gate, Zhou Jing became nervous.

 Even if he will be punished, he still has to remind Li Chengxuan.

"Your Majesty, today is your wedding night. If you leave behind the Empress, and it reaches the ears of the Empress Dowager, I'm afraid..."

Zhou Jing didn’t even finish what he was saying, but Li Chengxuan is wise. He already knew what Zhou Jing was talking about.

Li Chengxuan stopped when he heard these words, and his face became gloomy. 

Zhou Jing watched, his body stiff and his eyes fearful.

Anyway, as long as he can't see the anger on the Emperor’s face, then he can pretend that he doesn't know that the Emperor is angry.

After a moment of silence, he suddenly heard Li Chengxuan's voice.

"Is there anything to eat?"

Zhou Jing was taken aback for a moment, and then he reacted.

"Yes, yes!" It turns out the reason why his master came out just now is because he is hungry.

But didn't the two servants of the empress enter the hall a food box? The empress dared to eat alone without the emperor?

The empress is really as bold and arrogant as the rumors, and doesn't even put the emperor in her eyes.

Zhou Jing was slanderous in his heart, but he called two small eunuchs over and instructed them to go to the imperial kitchen to fetch food immediately.

Song Jinning’s kitchen is in her own Weiyang Palace, and the Imperial Kitchen for the Emperor is quite far away, so even though the two eunuchs walked fast, it still took about a quarter of an hour to come back.

And after returning, the two eunuchs immediately knelt in front of Li Chengxuan.

"Your Majesty, when these slaves went to the imperial kitchen, the stove was already out and we were told it will take time to start one again. Fortunately, there were still two plates of pastries, and your majesty is worried about waiting, so these slaves took these two plates of pastries first in order to satisfy Your Majesty’s hunger.”

Because it is the day of the Emperor’s wedding, the imperial kitchen was very busy. After the wedding banquet finally ended, the cooks were relieved. Seeing that the night was getting dark, they thought that Li Chengxuan would want to enjoy his time with the empress, so they put out the stove and went back to rest, leaving only two cooks on duty. But who knew that in the middle of the night the emperor was actually hungry and wanted to eat food. 

The two eunuchs did not expect that it would turn out like this, and they were fearful.

Li Chengxuan was indeed very angry.

People who are hungry, their tempers are never good. What's more, Li Chengxuan is the emperor above all. Even if he can't be angry at some ministers, he has every right to be angry with servants in the palace.

"It takes so much time to cook noodles, what does zhen [1] want you to do?”

Footnote:

1) 朕 (zhèn): Royal ‘We’. Illeism used by the emperor to refer to himself

TN: Shouldn't SJN and LCX eat at their banquet? That's a question that's been running through my head lol.