I became a concubine in the palace and cured my master's hidden disease.

"Mu Xueli has only been married for a few days, who knows if she has the ability to resolve my fate of being a wife-killer?

But my concubine, who was doomed to fail, is still alive and well despite so many assassinations. I guess she must have a long life.

What a coincidence, this time I was able to complete the task entrusted by my father so smoothly, also because of her inspiration. Mother, do you think she is my lucky star? "

Having said this, Zhao Yuan paused, then continued speaking as he looked at his mother's expression which had eased a lot.

"As for the issue of offspring that mother is worried about, isn't there still a short time? It won't be too late to talk about it in three to five years!"

Defei thought about it carefully, and it seemed to be the case. Since the concubine surnamed Lin entered the palace, the two she sent over seemed to have no accidents. It is better not to send the concubine surnamed Lin away easily, in case Mu Xueli is useless...

I can still wait for three to five years. Nodding was also a way of affirming my son's words.

"But mother, why do you suddenly think of asking these questions?"

"Yesterday, Mu Xueli came to pay her respects. And we ended up talking about this. You're really something. You've been back for a few days, why haven't you consummated your marriage with her yet?" Defei didn't want to ask about her son's private affairs, but since things had gotten this far, she just mentioned it.

Zhao Yuan just kept his mouth shut and didn't answer. He couldn't accept Mu Shirley anymore.

Seeing her son's firm attitude, Concubine De had no choice but to stop talking about it. Otherwise, her son might misunderstand that she had other thoughts.

Although she did have some doubts, it was for her son's own good, not to make him have other suspicions.

After leaving the palace, Zhao Yuan went to the prince's residence. He had some things to discuss with him secretly.

If a group of people want to get rid of me, then I must stand on the side of the prince, follow his work, be his right-hand man, help him get the support and recognition of his father, and make you mad.

After discussing the matter, the prince invited Zhao Yuan to have dinner.

"Come on, third brother. You've worked hard this time. I'll toast you a glass." Prince Zhao Yun raised his glass.

"It is my duty as a minister." Zhao Yuan smiled, picked up the wine glass and drank it all.

This is what Prince Zhao Yun likes most about Zhao Yuan: he knows his position very well! He only likes money and is not interested in the position.

"I heard that your new princess went to Madam Defei to cry and complain. Is there something wrong with your health?"

"Good news never travels far, but bad news travels a thousand miles!" Zhao Yuan pursed his lips and played with the wine glass in his hand, answering ambiguously.

"Haha! How can it be considered a shameful thing? In fact, I can understand your worries, princess. I have a son and a daughter now. Why don't you put your concubine in my palace and let your sister-in-law help you look after her!" Zhao Yun tried.

Zhao Yuan's expression suddenly changed: "No need, let His Royal Highness the Crown Prince worry about it."

If I really send my concubine to the Crown Princess, what's the difference between sending it to you?

Those who want to get to the top are all bad-hearted. Even my concubine wants to snatch her from me. I really don't want to help you anymore.

Zhao Yuan returned to Prince Rui drunk.

"Your Highness, which room will you stay in today?" asked Martin, the personal attendant.

"Go to Crescent Moon Courtyard, and then you can go down!"

"Yes!" Martin received a favor from Mu Shirley and originally wanted to take advantage of the prince's drunkenness to send him to the Dream Seeking House, but in the end... he could only choose another opportunity.

Lin Yan lost her sleepiness when she looked at the menu on the table. The reason was simple: the princess asked her not only to pay her respects on time tomorrow, but also to prepare breakfast according to the menu and serve it over.

Lin Yan looked at the menu with worry. She was an expert at tasting food, but cooking... that was dark cuisine. Wasn't Mu Xueli afraid of being poisoned by herself?

"What are you thinking about?" Zhao Yuan's gentle voice sounded behind Lin Yan.

"Ah!" Lin Yan was startled. "The prince is here!" She stood up and saluted, and the menu was clearly displayed in Zhao Yuan's sight.

"Why, do you want to eat these dishes tomorrow?"

"No, the princess asked me to make it and send it up tomorrow!"

"She's asked to cook so many dishes. Isn't she afraid of being poisoned by you?" Zhao Yuan picked up the menu, looked at it and complained.

"Do you think so too?" Lin Yan felt that sometimes she and Zhao Yuan had similar ideas.

"Just a dish of pork ribs stewed with lotus seeds will take you one or two hours to make. If you start now, you won't be able to finish it by tomorrow morning, and you will be wasting my ingredients."

"Sometimes I feel like you understand me quite well!" Lin Yan pouted and replied. "If I were your concubine, wouldn't I have to be tortured by the princess?"

Zhao Yuan was choked by Lin Yan's words and couldn't speak. Indeed, it was difficult for him to interfere in the affairs of the backyard. It was very common for the mistress to ask the concubine to prepare breakfast.

Lin Yan's eyes suddenly shone with gold, and she begged Zhao Yuan, "My Lord, how about we try to change our relationship?"

"Change the relationship, how? Change to what kind of relationship?" Zhao Yuan was a little curious about what weird idea Lin Yan had in mind.

"In fact, I don't mind being your concubine, but I really can't serve the princess well. Judging from the current development trend, this menu is just the beginning, and the days ahead will be even more difficult for me!

Look at my green onion-like hands, white and tender, are they holding a kitchen knife?"

Zhao Yuan shook his head.

"Right? I knew we had a lot in common. Look, the cake shop is doing pretty well, right?"

Zhao Yuan nodded

"I have some other novel ideas that will make you rich. But as your concubine, I will be restricted if I stay in the backyard, especially after the princess comes in. I need her permission to go out!"

Zhao Yuan nodded. "So what do you want to say?"

"Please let me out of the house! Let me be an ordinary farm girl or a market girl, your subordinate, and make money for you!" Lin Yan said tactfully, waiting for Zhao Yuan's judgment.

Zhao Yuan finally understood what Lin Yan meant. His brows knitted into a ball, and he was furious. He grabbed her arm forcefully and said, "After all this talk, you just don't want to be my concubine. Is that what you mean?"

"Your Majesty, you can't understand it this way! There are so many beautiful women in your backyard, one more or one less won't make a difference. It's my honor to be favored by you, and I want you to continue to favor me!

However, women will all grow old and lose their beauty one day, and being a concubine is a job for young people.

I want to tie you down forever. As a subordinate, I won't have to worry about falling out of favor, nor will I have to tremble in fear and tread on thin ice as to how to deal with the princess. "

The menu instantly turned into a pile of crumbs in Zhao Yuan's hands.

"Ayan, remember this, you will never leave the palace in this lifetime. You are my person in life and my ghost in death.

If you want to leave me, just try and stay in the Crescent Moon Courtyard." Zhao Yuan's tone was terribly cold, and he turned and left.

"It's over!" Lin Yan's courage was gone. There was really no hope at all. This bastard, I will be tortured to death by the princess.

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The next morning, in the flower hall of Xunmengyuan

Lin Yan, Miao Yinhua and Xie Liuxu all stood in the yard early in the morning, enjoying the baptism of the cold wind.

"It finally broke out!" Miao Yinhua muttered softly.

"..." After a night of careful consideration, Lin Yan decided to go all out. Since Zhao Yuan would not let her out, she would turn the backyard upside down.

Mu Shirley sat in the room, drinking hot tea in the warmth: "Have the three of them arrived?"

"They've been here for quite a while! Miss, do you want to let them in?"

"That's enough!" Mu Shirley nodded. The main purpose of today was not to punish the three of them to stand in the cold wind, but to find fault with their craftsmanship and put them in solitary confinement one by one. Of course, if they caught a cold, that would be even better.

"The princess has gotten up. You may come in and pay your respects!" Xiang Ling's eyes no longer had the previous kindness. Instead, she looked arrogant as she pulled aside the curtain and gave the order.

Zhao Yuan originally wanted to come over early in the morning to take a look, but thinking of Lin Yan's thoughts, he decided to use Mu Xueli's hands to grind her arrogance. Concubines are your own, and subordinates are always others'. Ah Yan really thought he didn't understand.

After entering the door, the three of them hurriedly stood up and greeted each other.

"Aunt Lin, are the dishes I asked you to prepare yesterday ready? Serve them quickly." Mu Xueli looked at Lin Yan with eyes that were not eyes and nose that were not nose, and was ready to overturn the table.

"It's ready. I'll ask the servants to bring it to you now!" Lin Yan was so confident that Mu Xueli was a little surprised.

Looking at Lin Yan seriously, he gave her a full menu. However, looking at her current state, she didn't look like she was working overtime to cook.

"I want to see what tricks she plays on me." Mu Xueli sat on the chair with an expressionless face, waiting for the maid to serve the food!

Twenty maids came out one after another, bringing twenty plates in an orderly manner.

Mu Xueli didn't expect that Lin Yan would actually bring a large table full of food.

Xie Liuxu and Miao Yinhua had been standing aside, and they also felt very fresh! They had never heard that Lin Yan could cook. If there was one thing Lin Yan was best at, it was to make the prince so angry that he fell backwards without being truly abandoned.

The lids on the plates were removed in an orderly manner.

In an instant, everyone present was dumbfounded and blinked their eyes in disbelief.

"Mom, are these dishes really edible?" Xie Liuxu and Miao Yinhua looked at each other. What was Lin Yan trying to do? The obvious evidence was handed to the princess. Was she trying to stop living?

Mu Xueli was about to lose her temper when the little girl outside the house shouted loudly, "The prince is coming!"

Mu Xueli had no choice but to stand up and greet him. This was the first time the prince had stepped into his courtyard and his room. He really doted on Lin Yan! She hated Lin Yan even more in her heart.

Zhao Yuan's eyes swept over the three concubines, and then he sat down in the main seat. As soon as he sat down, he found that the three concubines seemed to be quite far away from him. He frowned and looked at Lin Yan.

"I heard you cooked today?" He asked knowingly, "What did you cook?"

"Crystal meatballs, pearl soup, scallion pancakes, harmony, rising year after year, jade hydrangea, eight immortals congratulating the new year, white hair reaching eyebrows..."

"Why do I feel that your crystal meatball is a little special?" Zhao Yuan asked, pointing at the crystal meatball with his chopsticks. He always felt that the thing wrapped in the dough seemed not to be meat, but bumpy like a hard object.

"Crystal meatballs, as the name suggests, are meatballs wrapped in crystal!" Lin Yan explained confidently.

Everyone present gasped when they heard the name of this dish, especially Mu Xueli, whose face turned pale with anger.

"You understand it very well!" Zhao Yuan nodded seriously to show his support.

Xie Liuxu and Miao Yinhua now really admire Lin Yan. How did she manage to make the prince's heart so biased?

"What about these dishes? They look special too?" Zhao Yuan asked, pointing at several other special dishes on the table.

“Pearl soup, as the name suggests, is a few pearls soaked in water.

Scallion pancake, a flower and a scallion, the color of the plate is exactly the same as the color of the pancake, and we strive to make the presentation exquisite. "Lin Yan wanted to continue.

"Ahem!" Zhao Yuan interrupted her: "I think I understand!"

A ball of harmony was originally a fried sesame ball. Lin Yan asked the maid to bring an empty plate and put some hot water in it. The moment the lid was opened, a ball of harmony came out.

It’s even better if the plant keeps rising year after year. I just brought a pot of the plant that keeps rising step by step.

Zhao Yuan originally wanted to see how good Lin Yan's cooking skills were, but now he didn't need to see it anymore. It was simply amazing.

Mu Xueli's face turned pale, but she couldn't lose her temper in front of the prince, so she kept it to herself. She wanted to scold people, but she had to consider her manners, and she was so angry that she couldn't get out of her chest.

I finally got reborn and married into the Rui Palace. Is the ending going to be that I will be pissed off to death by this damned Lin Yan? No, I can't let her go so easily.

Zhao Yuan is always not at home, so I can't reach her and torture her to death.