Chapter 87: Shouldnt You Ask For My Opinion First? (1/2)

Bai Lianyun sat back down, but Xi Qiulin’s facial expression wasn’t good at all. He’ll let the fact that Baili Yu didn’t show enough respect for him go, but an insignificant daughter of the Prime Minister also dared to shout and roar in front of him without any trace of etiquette? And she even said that she wanted to discipline someone that belonged to Resplendent Imperial Uncle? How exactly does the Prime Minister teach his children?

As he thought about this, he looked towards the Prime Minister da ren on his right with some complaints. After giving a cold humph, he said in a displeased tone, “Do you all even wish for this competition to continue!? After zhen finally managed to head out, was it just for the sake of watching all of you voice complaints?”

The dragon countenance was so enraged that everyone hastily knelt down, panic-stricken. The Prime Minister was so terrified his face paled. With a ‘putong’ he knelt down in front of Xi Qiulin and said, “Your Majesty, please forgive me. It’s all this old subject’s uselessness for not teaching his daughter well, causing Your Majesty’s mood to be disrupted. Your Majesty, please declare a punishment!”

“Yes, there should be a punishment!” Xi Qiulin stood up. However, without paying attention to the Prime Minister kneeling on the ground, he walked towards Tang Doudou.

Da fudge? What was he about to do now?

It is said that the emperor was a very frightening lifeform ah. Accompanying one’s sovereign is said to be like accompanying a tiger. One little slip-up could make you lose your head!

“Answer zhen, what’s your name?” Xi Qiulin walked till he was about five steps away from Tang Doudou and stopped to size Tang Doudou up before asking her a question.

This time, Tang Doudou didn’t dare to speak any more nonsense. She fell to a kneel with a ‘putong’ and timidly replied, “Re-replying Your Majesty, this servant, this servant’s surname is Tang, name is Doudou… Tang Doudou’s tang, red beans and green beans’ dou…”

“Tang Doudou?” Xi Qiulin repeated it once before sizing her up again. She was rather clever, just a little timid. As for her status…

“Where does your family live? Are your parents still living?”

Once he asked this, Tang Doudou was stunned again.

Jesus ah. This doesn’t feel like a registered residence check anymore. It actually seems like an arranged marriage interview!

F*ck! Did they misunderstand something?

“What? It’s hard to say?” Xi Qiulin asked.

There was a limit to an emperor’s patience, so Tang Doudou hastily replied, “This servant has no father or mother and is an orphan. Right now, this servant stays in Plum Garden.”

She actually wasn’t too timid. When Xi Qiulin saw that Tang Doudou started speaking nimbly, he nodded in his heart. As long as Imperial Uncle likes her, nothing else really matters. Earlier, he had already discovered that Imperial Uncle was restless in his seat. He never expected Imperial Uncle would be impatient to the point that he seized the girl the moment she stepped up to present her dish and questioned her nonstop. It would be strange if this didn’t end up scaring the girl away.

Looks like he must step out for Imperial Uncle after all. The competition was a small matter, Imperial Uncle’s big matter of a lifetime was much more important.

Bai Lianhua’s family background and accomplishments weren’t bad, so she can be the main consort. Since Imperial Uncle likes this Tang Doudou and she’s lovable and adorable enough, she can just be a concubine attendant. This way, the whole set’s complete. That’s not bad!

After thinking all this through, Xi Qiulin’s expression relaxed a little. He lifted his hand towards Tang Doudou. “You may rise!”

“All of you, don’t kneel anymore, rise!”

After he finished speaking, he went back to his seat. “Prime Minister, disperse this audience. I think this competition should just be the Heng Xuan Chamber of Commerce’s win!”

The championship is decided just like this? Isn’t that too careless!?

However, this person was the emperor, so who would dare to stand up and try to refute?

Tang Doudou was pretty discontent with this as well. She wanted to obtain it with her own power. Winning like this wasn’t satisfying at all, alright?

She then glanced at Baili Yu. From the start, this guy had sat there silently and acted as a backdrop. Even now that the flames had almost spread to his own house, he still didn’t send any signals. Tang Doudou was seriously at a loss.

Just as she was about to shift her line of sight, she saw Baili Yu nod towards her out of the corners of her eyes.

Hell, I freaking pei! What could he possibly mean by nodding now?

However, she soon realized what it meant and gulped. Freaking damned fox, you better not be trolling me!

She closed her eyes and toughened her heart, then opened her mouth to cry, “Your Majesty! You must not ah! Your Majesty!”

“Your Majesty! Please reconsider!”

Unexpectedly, when she cried out, another voice had appeared at the same time. Tang Doudou looked over, surprised, and discovered that it had actually been San Yu.

On second thought, this was quite reasonable. From the looks of San Yu, she seemed to be a girl that was quite arrogant. Having such accomplished culinary skills, how could she be willing to lose before she even competed?

She actually had the same kind of thoughts as Tang Doudou, which was why that incident of them crying out at the same time occurred.

How could Xi Qiulin not be aware of how these two people felt? However, he didn’t want to waste time here anymore. He came to watch this competition purely for the sake of using up some time. However, there was a more important affair now, so naturally he would choose to attend to the more important affair.

Not to mention, he, the grand majestic Emperor had made a decision. Even the Prime Minister and his Imperial Uncles didn’t dare to harbor objections. Are these two yatous planning to revolt?

“You two have objections towards zhen’s decision?”

Da fudge? Tang Doudou inwardly rolled her eyes in a huge circle. Is this a freaking muddle-headed rulerT/N?

“Your Majesty is clear-sighted and wise. This servant dares not have an objection to Your Majesty’s decision. However, this decision is indeed way too unfair towards this servant and Lady San Yu!” Tang Doudou gritted her teeth and snatched the chance to speak before San Yu could after seeing the trace of fierce resolution and melancholy on San Yu’s face.

Even though she didn’t want to be kindhearted like Mary Sue, but for some unknown reason, when she saw San Yu’s expression, her heart quivered like it had been stabbed. She felt that San Yu must have gone through quite a lot in the past and this culinary competition may mean more than just an ordinary competition to her.

Tang Doudou didn’t know where this intuition came from. In any case, by the time all these thoughts occurred to her, she had already acted.

She was lifting her nose and giving him an attitude right after he acted a little amiable towards her?

Xi Qiulin’s facial color darkened and he didn’t reply to Tang Doudou.