Chapter 88: Personally Cooking
“Princess, Divine Physician Liu has arrived.”
Just as Li Xuanyue was pondering in her heart the reasons behind Hua Shan’s actions, Yinxin suddenly entered from outside the hall, interrupting her train of thought.
Liu Wuya walked in breezily, dressed in green robes.
A wine gourd hung at his waist.
When he first came to the Phoenix Clan, he looked like a transcendental immortal with Daoist bones.
But now, he looked like an old urchin.
There was even a bit of unruliness about him.
“Girl!”
As soon as Liu Wuya entered the hall, without even bowing, he called out to Li Xuanyue, who was seated above.
Seeing this, Li Xuanyue signaled Yinxin to usher the maids out of the hall before she stood up and walked toward Liu Wuya.
“Divine Physician Liu.”
Li Xuanyue raised her hand respectfully to greet him.
Unexpectedly, Liu Wuya didn’t buy it at all.
“Enough, you girl, stop standing on ceremony and putting on airs in front of this old man.”
He said grumpily, “Let me ask you, you tricked this old man into coming to the Phoenix Clan—was it just to have me take care of your consorts?”
Li Xuanyue was stunned by Liu Wuya’s question.
“Why does the Divine Physician say that?”
When did she admit that she wanted him to take care of her consorts?
“Hmph, don’t deny it!”
Seeing her bewildered expression, Liu Wuya sneered. “I’ve been in your Phoenix Clan for some time now, haven’t I?”
“Look at the people around you—if it’s not this one getting into trouble, it’s that one.”
“I am a Divine Physician, not some common underling,” Liu Wuya emphasized. “You have me treat this one one moment, and that one the next. Do you take this Divine Physician for a cabbage or radish that anyone can command and anyone can see?”
“I don’t care, you have to compensate me!”
Liu Wuya had said so much in one breath, but only this last sentence hit the main point.
Li Xuanyue had been worried he was planning to quit.
She was just preparing to say some nice words to persuade him, but hearing this, she secretly relaxed.
“What compensation does the Divine Physician want?” Li Xuanyue asked tentatively.
As long as it wasn’t too excessive and she could satisfy it, she would.
Liu Wuya was a talent, after all, and had helped her greatly in the Phoenix Clan.
If she let him leave just like that, she would truly be reluctant.
Liu Wuya rolled his cloudy eyes and thought for a moment. “How about you make a Beggar’s Chicken for this old man?”
“Beggar’s Chicken?”
Li Xuanyue was dumbfounded.
She was quite good at eating chicken.
But as for actually doing it… she had never done it.
Not to mention Beggar’s Chicken, she had never even touched anything in the kitchen.
After all, as the Princess of the Phoenix Clan, she had always been served by others; when had she ever served anyone else?
Seeing her look of difficulty, Liu Wuya became unhappy. “What? Asking you to personally cook a Beggar’s Chicken for this old man makes you feel aggrieved?”
“Or is the Princess too noble and pampered to enter the kitchen?”
Liu Wuya was, after all, a noble person himself.
If he could come to the Phoenix Clan personally to detoxify Li Xuanyue, what reason did she have to keep putting on the airs of a Princess?
“Divine Physician Liu worries too much.”
Li Xuanyue smiled faintly. “It’s just that this junior has never entered a kitchen. If you don’t mind, this junior is willing to go to the kitchen personally to give it a try.”
It was just a Beggar’s Chicken, wasn’t it?
Even if she couldn’t do it, couldn’t she learn?
Her attitude of being willing to condescend and try personally satisfied Divine Physician Liu greatly.
“Good, then this Divine Physician will wait for you in the Peach Garden!”
Yinxin looked at the back of the happily departing Liu Wuya and looked at Li Xuanyue with concern.
“Princess, are you really going to go to the kitchen to make Beggar’s Chicken for Divine Physician Liu?”
Leaving aside Li Xuanyue’s status.
With her fingers that had never touched spring water*, could she really make the Beggar’s Chicken Liu Wuya spoke of?
(TN: “Fingers that never touched spring water” is an idiom for someone who has never done manual labor/housework.)
“Why don’t you let this servant help you?”
As a maid, she was naturally much more familiar with these things than Li Xuanyue.
Surely, she wouldn’t mess it up.
“Forget it!”
Li Xuanyue shook her head and refused. “Divine Physician Liu only has this one hobby. If This Princess doesn’t satisfy him, who knows how he’ll fuss at me later.”
She sighed helplessly.
“Just consider it something I’m doing for fun since I’m idle.”
It just so happened she also wanted to see if she had any talent in the culinary arts.
Maybe she would have luck in this area in the future?
“Then should I notify the several Consorts?”
Yinxin could tell that the Princess’s five consorts now liked to be alone with the Princess.
It was just that they hadn’t found the opportunity.
Today was a good time.
They could come together to taste the Princess’s cooking.
Li Xuanyue’s gaze fixed on Yinxin’s face for a few seconds.
“Since when have you been so concerned about This Princess’s consorts?”
She couldn’t help but tease, “Could it be that in private, you accepted benefits from them, which is why you are speaking up for them in front of This Princess now?”
Being stared at suddenly by Li Xuanyue, Yinxin thought she would be scolded.
But hearing these teasing words, she knew she had overthought it.
She couldn’t help but lower her head shyly.
“No such thing!”
She said coquettishly, “This servant is doing this out of concern for you, Princess.”
“That Snake Clan’s Second Prince has been pregnant for so long, yet there is still no news from the consorts by the Princess’s side.”
“This servant worries that if this continues, the clan elders will stand up and gossip about the Princess.”
Yinxin knew very well how big of a fuss had been made previously about Li Xuanyue’s difficulty with conceiving heirs.
She was afraid that if the Snake Clan’s Second Prince really gave birth to a child, Li Xuanyue’s position in the Phoenix Clan would become dangerous.
“What is there to fear?”
Li Xuanyue didn’t put these matters in her eyes at all.
“No matter how much they fuss, how far can it go?”
“This Princess knows the situation regarding heirs, so you don’t need to worry.”
Yinxin lowered her eyes. “Then does the servant still need to go invite the five Consorts?”
She asked hesitantly.
Li Xuanyue had said so much, but seeing that Yinxin still hadn’t dispelled the thought of letting her spend time with the consorts, she simply said casually:
“Do as you see fit.”
Reasonably speaking, she didn’t want to invite them.
But Yinxin had already put it this way; if she didn’t invite them, it would make her, the Princess, seem petty.
Fine, just consider it giving them a chance to share in the light, for Divine Physician Liu’s sake.
Seeing that Li Xuanyue had handed the decision-making power to her, Yinxin was so happy she almost didn’t know where to put her hands.
Soon, the news that Li Xuanyue was personally cooking Beggar’s Chicken reached the ears of the five consorts.
When they learned that Li Xuanyue had invited them to the Peach Garden to taste it together, they all revealed expressions of astonishment.
They had heard of Li Xuanyue’s fierceness, irritability, and viciousness, but they truly didn’t know the news that she could cook!
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