Zhang Meiren looked at the emperor's expression and asked tentatively in a low voice: "Your Majesty, what's wrong with you?"
The emperor calmly picked up the tea on the side and drank it in one gulp, his face becoming more and more ugly.
"What kind of pastry is this?"
Zhang Meiren panicked, stood up and knelt down and said: "To tell you the emperor, this is the best mint cake in Jinzhou."
The emperor took a few more sips of water and glanced at her coldly, "Don't bring such unpalatable things next time. There is no shortage of food like yours in my palace."
Zhang Meiren knelt down and lowered her head, her originally charming face turned pale, and her hands trembled slightly, "Yes, Your Majesty, I will not dare to do it next time." ?.?????.???
The emperor ignored her and immediately summoned the palace maids and eunuchs, asking them to quickly bring up the food prepared in the imperial kitchen.
Xiao Mianmian sat quietly aside, as if watching a play and said nothing.
There was a look of guilt on the emperor's face, "Mianmian, the emperor called you to have breakfast. I didn't expect to encounter such a thing. Tell the emperor what you want to eat. The emperor will ask the people in the imperial kitchen to Do."
Xiao Mianmian smiled and shook her head, saying in a sweet voice that she was not hungry.
The more the emperor saw that Xiao Mianmian was sensible, the more disgusted he became with Zhang Meiren. He waved his hand and said sternly to her: "You have nothing to do here. Take your things and leave quickly."
Zhang Meiren was still kneeling on the ground. After hearing the emperor's words, she quickly stood up and asked the palace maid next to her to quickly put away the food on the table.
Xiao Mianmian lowered her eyebrows at this time and said to the emperor: "Grandpa Huang, when I came in just now, Empress Zhang said that I had never eaten the cakes she brought. I was just about to try them to see why they all had to be taken away. Even Mrs. Zhang is leaving?"
There was a hint of grievance in her words.
The emperor was a genius, so he naturally understood Zhang Meiren's mockery of Xiao Mianmian, and suddenly stopped Zhang Meiren again, "Wait a minute."
Zhang Meiren turned around and saluted the emperor, "Your Majesty."
The emperor pointed to the cakes that were about to be taken away and said coldly: "I heard that Jinzhou's mint cakes are very precious. It would be a pity to take them away like this. It's better for the beauty to eat them all here before leaving."
Beauty Zhang knew that this was the emperor's displeasure with her, so she thought she would just eat a few pastries, and did not refute, but responded obediently: "Yes, Your Majesty."
After she finished speaking, she took out the pastry from the food box and took a bite.
Before she could swallow the mouthful, Zhang Meiren's face turned green.
The originally sweet and delicious mint crisps had a rancid taste, and it was as uncomfortable as chewing rotten meat in your mouth.
She almost felt nauseated and vomited, but she immediately understood why the emperor was so angry just now, and quickly knelt down and said: "Your Majesty, I tasted the cake when I came here. It didn't taste like this. There must have been something wrong on the way here."
"I did not specifically want to offend the emperor."
The emperor had a stern face and didn't want to look at her at all, "Well, get out after eating."
His tone was calm, and he didn't seem to want to blame Zhang Meiren, but the gradually cold eyes had already sentenced her to death.
What the concubines in the palace fear most is falling out of favor.
Zhang Meiren arrived late and didn't know the emperor's true nature. She became even more proud of the favor she received in front of her, and even the crown prince and the emperor's grandson didn't notice.
Before she came, she was still having a dream in early autumn, imagining that she could give birth to a prince and become the queen mother in the future.
However, she didn't know that the emperor's favor passed away faster than the fireworks, and just a piece of broken pastry could make her fall from a high place.
Zhang Meiren shed tears as she ate the smelly pastry in her hand. She felt nauseated after every few bites, but she endured it in order to save her life.
In the end, he turned pale after eating and left with tears on his face.
Xiao Mianmian saw it in her eyes, and turned her head slightly to look at this grandpa Huang who had always been kind to her.
A trace of unprecedented shock flashed across her fair face, as if the emperor's kindness to her now would disappear in the same instant in the future.
At this moment, the young Mianmian gradually understood why her parents were always estranged from this imperial grandfather.
That's why.
Not long after Zhang Meiren left, the maids brought out new dishes.
The emperor smiled and served little Mianmian some vegetables, fearing that she would not have enough.
Xiao Mianmian's complexion turned pale very quickly. She was still a little pale at first, but now she was blushing while eating, and she made the emperor laugh with her "grandfather" sounds.
Although the emperor is cruel, he is still a human being, and he only cares about feelings.
Whether the love between a man and a woman, the love between a father and a son, or the love between a grandfather and a grandson, it is all love.
Even though Xiao Mianmian is just a little kid, she knows this very well.
Before long, Xiao Mianmian's status in the palace gradually became second only to that of the emperor. Whatever she wanted, the emperor would give it to her. There was no more bold concubine like Zhang Meiren in the palace.
On the contrary, there are many people who want to please.
These people came to Du Wanchun to please.
A month ago, they looked down upon this businesswoman who had followed the prince all the way from a small village to the palace. Now they wanted to guard Du Wanchun at the gate of the East Palace every day.
Du Wanchun originally wanted to move around the palace, but later found it too troublesome and decided to take care of Fei Fei and Zhou Zhou in his palace for the time being.
Xiao Mianmian was surrounded by a group of eunuchs and maids, playing around in the palace every day, and his appearance was even bigger than that of his two brothers.
