A Foodie Transmigrated into the Palace Chapter 264 - 263 Commitment

「Xifu Palace」

After Noble Concubine Shih returned, she threw a terrible tantrum.

At the banquet, it was one thing for the Empress Dowager to laugh and chat with the Emperor.

"Ying Yue, do you think... has the Empress Dowager already chosen someone new?"

"Could it be... that several of my cousins are also going to enter the palace this year?"

Ying Yue shook her head.

"Your Highness, only the Emperor and the Empress know the list of Fine Ladies. Even the Empress Dowager does not handle it. This servant..."

"Even the Empress Dowager does not handle it?" Noble Concubine Shih murmured to herself.

Suddenly, a bright idea flashed through her mind.

"Even the Empress Dowager..."

"No wonder, no wonder the Empress Dowager suddenly became so polite to the Empress. So it turns out..."

"It turns out the reason is here!"

Noble Concubine Shih let out a cold laugh.

"Indeed, the older the ginger, the spicier!"

The Empress Dowager had pampered her for years. Not only had she borne no children, but the Emperor also no longer doted on her.

After Noble Concubine Shih smashed a teacup, she sank heavily onto her seat.

She first burst into loud laughter, then, amidst her laughter, she began to cry.

After crying, she clutched her stomach.

"My child! My child, if only you hadn’t gone! None of these bitches would dare treat me like this!"

If the Little Prince were healthy and well, by now he would be half a year old.

"If the Imperial Son were still here, the Empress would have to yield to me considerably!"

"The Emperor would adore him even more, and I would not have been suppressed to this extent!"

As she spoke, Noble Concubine Shih’s eyes were filled with venom.

"Empress!"

"You and I shall not exist under the same sky!"

Noble Concubine Shih suddenly thought of something and asked, "How is Lady Hu in the Cold Palace? Is she dead?"

Ying Yue didn’t know either and hurriedly said, "Your Highness, please don’t worry; this servant will send someone to find out right away!"

With that, she went out.

A moment later, Ying Yue returned.

"Your Highness, Eunuch Gao has gone to inquire, and we should have an answer soon!"

Noble Concubine Shih snorted.

"If she’s not dead, make sure she never dies. I want to torment her for a lifetime!"

That look in her eyes made Ying Yue glance only once before she hastily lowered her head.

「A quarter of an hour later.」

Gao Changyi entered.

"Noble Consort, Lady Hu in the Cold Palace is still there!"

Noble Concubine Shih’s eyes brightened.

"She’s not dead?"

Lady Hu once acted as the Empress’s lackey, poisoning her, attempting to harm her child, and nearly causing her to miscarry.

"If you yourself won’t enter hell, then let me personally send you there!"

After saying this, she gave her orders.

"Gao Changyi, instruct the Imperial Kitchen to feed her well for a few days. Tell her, ’This is a reward from me!’"

Gao Changyi was somewhat puzzled but still bowed and complied.

"Servant will attend to it at once!"

Noble Concubine Shih waved her hand impatiently.

"Go!"

After giving the command, Noble Concubine Shih finally felt some relief.

She sighed deeply, reminiscing.

"Ever since I became pregnant, the Empress has never left me in peace!"

"First, she had Honored Lady Hu poison me. Then, at the Mid-Autumn banquet, she had someone place moss-covered bricks for me to slip on!"

"Later, when the Imperial Son fell ill, the Empress mocked me in every possible way, and after that, she even tried to poison me!"

Ying Yue kept her head down, not daring to speak.

However, the Noble Consort couldn’t make sense of it. All she could think of was that everyone wanted to harm her!

「The next day, early in the morning.」

The gates of the Cold Palace creaked open.

Dressed in coarse linen, Honored Lady Hu walked out of her room.

A twisted smile was still on her face.

She stood by the door, like a young wife waiting for her husband to return home.

Little Eunuch Xiao Chengzi returned from the Imperial Kitchen with her meal, setting it on the table for her one by one.

"This is a small steamed bun. Noble Lady Song had an extra. Servant begged for it and brought it for you!"

"This is a fried dumpling; it was ruined and couldn’t be served to the masters!"

"And this half bowl of soup is leftover from Xia Jieyu’s quarters!"

When she heard the name Xia Jieyu, a flash of resentment briefly crossed Honored Lady Hu’s eyes.

However...

Looking at the several dishes of food in front of her, Honored Lady Hu smiled with satisfaction.

"Thank you!"

Little Eunuch Xiao Chengzi looked at her with a somewhat strange gaze and said with a greedy smile, "No need to thank me. We’re both stuck here, and it’s not easy for either of us! Since you’re relying on me, how could I let you suffer a loss?"

The expression on Honored Lady Hu’s face stiffened, and she spoke with dissatisfaction, "Don’t keep bringing it up. I’m still an Honored Lady, the Emperor’s person. Do you want to die?"

Little Eunuch Xiao Chengzi gave a dark smile and immediately shut up.

"Fine! I won’t say it. Eat quickly!"

Little Eunuch Xiao Chengzi was a eunuch who had been castrated and entered the palace in his teens. By that time, he already understood what he needed to understand, and whatever needed to develop had likewise fully developed. One cut removed his organs, but his lecherous heart could not be removed.

Of course. After all, no one is born a eunuch. Some eunuchs were not only lecherous; their minds were also twisted and perverted. Little Eunuch Xiao Chengzi belonged to this kind.

As for Honored Lady Hu. Having passed through layers of selection to become one of the Emperor’s women, her face was definitely beautiful enough. Locked in the Cold Palace for so long, her beauty had faded considerably, yet she was still beautiful.

A perverted, lecherous eunuch with a twisted mind, and a beautiful woman with an extreme will to survive—it goes without saying what would happen between them.

Even without that organ, the techniques and variety for toying with women that circulated among eunuchs were in no way inferior to those of normal men. In fact, there were even more.

For instance, eunuchs could not only toy with women. They could also toy with men; pretty, young eunuchs could also be targets.

Honored Lady Hu ate her breakfast contentedly.

Little Eunuch Xiao Chengzi took away the bowls and left.

Leaning on the doorframe, Honored Lady Hu watched his retreating figure, her eyes filled with resentment.