Shen Xihe felt a lump in his throat when he heard this, but he also felt that what he said seemed to be right. He couldn't get angry for the moment and just stood there helplessly.
Xiao Huayong couldn't see, but he could feel Shen Xi and the stagnant atmosphere around him. He quickly softened his tone: "I... I just want you to treat me better..."
Shen Xihe looked at the depressed Xiao Huayong. She was reflecting on how this man in front of her could always make her look like a heartless and unfeeling man
But he had a bunch of twisted logic: "I was injured so badly, but Youyou was still so cold to me. Youyou used to come and go in the East Palace. If you say that Youyou treated me mercilessly, others would not believe it. Why is it that Youyou is indifferent to my serious injury this time? Others must be doubting whether my injury is real."
Shen Xihe: …
Well, she is shooting herself in the foot, right? In the past, she had been exchanging courtesies with him and going back and forth in the East Palace, which could all become reasons for him to ask for favors from her now. If it wasn't her own wish, Shen Xihe would have suspected that he had been planning this since then!
"What does Your Highness want?" Shen Xihe asked with a warning.
Hearing Shen Xihe's cold tone, Xiao Huayong did not dare to go too far, so he could only test the edge of Shen Xihe's tolerance line: "I want to eat the wontons made by Youyou."
Cooking a meal, right? It was within her acceptable range. Shen Xihe turned around and just raised her feet when she heard someone behind her say, "Yoyo, the dining room of Yong'an Palace is full of people and snakes. Whether Yoyo is attentive or not, others can see it."
Shen Xihe: …
Are you afraid that she will just cook him some noodles to please him
He probably didn't know how meticulous she was about food. When she was out, she could be particular because of the limited conditions. Otherwise, even a bowl of noodles made by her would have to be delicious.
Xiao Huayong did not lie to Shen Xihe. There were indeed many people in the dining room of Yong'an Palace because the empress dowager had not been in the palace for several years. However, she was the empress dowager, His Majesty's biological mother, so no one would plot against her. The empress dowager was also too lazy to clean up the place vigorously. It would be better to let them check and balance each other so that she could have some peace and quiet, lest people would think that she disliked someone and start making trouble.
The food ingredients in the dining room of Yong'an Palace were all ready. After Shen Xihe arrived, he selected the ingredients and asked the eunuchs and palace maids to clean them up. He also asked the eunuch who was in charge of pasta to knead the dough, and he prepared the fillings himself.
She also wanted to eat wontons, so she made twenty-four kinds of wontons, twenty-four kinds of fillings, and twenty-four kinds of wrapping methods.
While wrapping the dumplings, her anger disappeared, thinking that he had put so much thought into it, just to make a bowl of food. She also thought that it was not easy for him as the crown prince, so she made the dumplings with more care and also made a portion for the empress dowager.
The chefs in the palace also knew how to make it, but they were amazed to see that Shen Xihe's technique was so familiar and every one of the dumplings he made was round and lovely.
As there were so many people in Yong'an Palace and the wontons were not cooked before being served to Xiao Huayong, the news that Princess Zhaoning had taken the trouble to make twenty-four-qi wontons for His Royal Highness the Crown Prince spread like wildfire to every corner of the palace.
Emperor Youning had just finished dealing with state affairs and was inquiring about the progress of the matter of Princess Yangling and Xiao Huayong's poisoning. He also heard the news and simply put aside the things he had no clue about for the time being and brought Liu Sanzhi to Yong'an Palace.