Chapter 197: Get It For Me (3) (2/2)
He watched as she took her first bite, and her reaction was near instantaneous: her wide, watery, almond-shaped eyes closed in enjoyment, forming two mini-crescents as she savoured her snack. In the next second, the round, fancy pastry had already disappeared into her stomach.
Eunuch Sun unconsciously gulped a mouthful of saliva. In his heart, he was trying to match that pastry with the confections he had seen in the palace. However, even after going down the long list of confections that the palace served, he still couldn’t recall if he had seen anything like what Honoured Lady Jinyi had just taken out to eat.
The pastry in her hands looked really, really tasty. There was some sort of stuffing inside the crisp pastry skin, too; it looked like… egg yolk? Could egg yolks be used to make confections? Then was it sweet or salty?
Eunuch Sun knew he couldn’t continue this line of thought. Otherwise, he would surely be unable to resist the urge, and would snatch that little purse of snacks right out of Honoured Lady Jinyi’s hands.
Eunuch Sun’s head lowered even further. He didn’t want to continue watching Chu Lian’s blissful expression as she ate those snacks. Sob sob sob. No wonder the Honoured Lady hadn’t wanted him to fetch refreshments and tea. She had brought her own!
Blinded by the delicious food, Eunuch Sun forgot that it wasn’t normal for noble ladies to bring their own snacks when entering the palace. This wasn’t a trip to the wilderness, after all! It was clear that Honoured Lady Jinyi was a strange exception to the rule.
Chu Lian took out a thin strip of air-dried beef jerky and stuffed it into her mouth. This was a new flavour of beef jerky she had made. It was spicy and helped increase her appetite. She wondered if that fellow He Changdi could eat spicy food.
Not too far away, the Chengping Emperor stood at the corner of a corridor. Next to him was his personal senior eunuch, Eunuch Wei.
From this angle, the Chengping Emperor could see Chu Lian enjoying some sort of snack sitting in the pavilion a distance away. Sunlight happened to be streaming down upon her, lighting up her tiny face and completely exposing her extremely blissful expression to the Emperor’s gaze.
The Emperor couldn’t help but wonder, ‘What is that girl eating? Is it really that tasty?’
Thus, in the next moment, Eunuch Wei heard the Emperor order, “Go and retrieve that girl’s purse for me.”
Eunuch Wei’s eye twitched. For a second, he thought he was hallucinating, and it was purely his imagination that the great and wise Emperor had said such an odd thing. Had the Emperor, their high and mighty ruler, really just ordered him to snatch some snacks from an Honoured Lady…?