Chapter 14: Unconscious

  Kitchen

  "Old Master, snowflakes have come to visit you."

  "This humble servant (maid) pays respects to Your Highness."

  "Hurry up, hurry up", every time they come, they all kneel down everywhere in the imperial kitchen.

  "I told you, didn't I? Don't kneel next time, all of you stand up,"

  "Thank you, Master."

  "Alright, you all carry on."

  "Yes"

  "Old Master Weng, Flying Snow has come looking for you," I said as I walked up beside Old Master Weng.

  "What can I do for you, Princess? I'll definitely do it." I've come here N times, but these people are still so reserved. It seems my charm is still not enough.

  I want to eat steamed fish.

  "Ah——" A burst of noise.

  "Princess, there's no such thing as boiled fish," said Old Man Weng with great difficulty: "I've lived for so many years and have never heard of a fish called 'boiled fish'."

  "This is how it's done, of course I know there's no such thing as a 'water-boiled fish', but I do know how to make water-boiled fish: "Uncle Wong, can you help me prepare these ingredients? I'll tell you what to do and you just follow along." It's not that I don't want to do it myself, it's just that...I'm the kind of person who only knows how to eat, not cook. Luckily, I know how to make this dish. "First, we need chili peppers, then a fish - not too small, not too big, just like this one. Then two cucumbers..." An hour later, water-boiled fish was officially born."

  "Come on, one bowl per person, try it and see if it's good or not." Good food should be shared with others to enjoy together.

  "Delicious"

  "It's so spicy..."

  "No way..."

  Look, this is the result, some people say it's delicious. As I was eating boiled fish, I suddenly thought of a song that was also called "Boiled Fish", I really miss home, I don't know how my dad and mom are doing? Thinking about it, I actually shed tears.

  "What's wrong, Princess?" Duke Yong asked worriedly as he saw me crying, and then everyone fell silent. "Princess..."

  "It's nothing," I said, but earlier I had unknowingly shed tears. Now that they asked me, I was even more heartbroken and the tears wouldn't stop. "I just miss my parents so much, I don't know what they would be worried about if they couldn't see me... I'm so unfilial, at such a big age, I still let them worry... it's all because of that disappearance..." I cried until I fainted.

  I don't know what I said, maybe it was too sad, and in the end, it was Dongdong and Xiaodezi who had someone send me back with a horse-drawn carriage. After returning, I fell ill and couldn't get up. However, when I went to the imperial kitchen again later, everyone there treated me very well, without any previous restraint, and they were all charmed by my charm. Hehe

  However, this time I fell ill and it caused a sensation throughout the entire imperial city.

  According to Dongdong, after I fainted in the imperial kitchen, everyone there was frightened. Before I arrived at my own palace, all the imperial physicians were already waiting there. Then came the emperor's uncle, the empress and the noble concubine. The physicians were at a loss as to what happened to me, they couldn't figure out why I fainted, no illness or pain, but I just remained unconscious like that for five days. Then it was the emperor's uncle who personally invited the legendary Ci'an Master...

  These were all told by Dongdong and Xiaodezi after the event:

  After I fainted, the Emperor and Empress Dowager all came, and after listening to the imperial physician say that I was not ill or injured, nor poisoned or anything like that, they were relieved, thinking that I was just tired and wanted me to rest. But unexpectedly, I slept for five days straight, and no examination could determine what illness I had. The Emperor himself went to fetch that monk, Cishi.