The book begins with the waste of all the members

"My lady, the food you requested is here."

Yinlan brought a bowl of rice soup with a few vegetable leaves floating in it and mixed with a little minced meat. Wei Yu scooped it up a few times and found that there were only a few grains of rice in it, and there really couldn't be any more.

"Has our palace become so poor?" Wei Yu said with emotion.

"No, no, we still have some meat and fruits in our ice cellar, but it's late at night now, so eating this minced meat, vegetable and rice soup won't cause indigestion."

These are the original words of Xiaoshengzi.

Okay, Wei Yu drank the rice soup in one gulp.

This heroic way of drinking porridge really shocked Yinlan, and her expression looked as if she was shocked.

Wei Yu imitated the ladies in TV dramas, picked up the handkerchief at hand and wiped her mouth gently.

"My queen, please don't be so depressed." Yin Lan held Wei Yu's hand tightly. "You still have a future. As long as the Wei family is still there, you can still make a comeback. You must not give up on yourself."

It's not impossible to give up on herself. Wei Yu really wants to give up on herself, but she can't. She is afraid that Yin Lan will think she is possessed by evil spirits.

"I'm not giving up on myself. I just think it through. Even if I don't become the queen, we still have other things to do."

What a great person Tan Ruju is! Wei Yu feels that he has successfully shown off.

Seeing her like this, Yinlan became even more worried.

Empress Wei attaches great importance to her status and power as queen, so Her Majesty must be holding on.

"Your Highness? Please don't be like this... I will go and beg the Empress Dowager immediately. If that doesn't work, I will go and beg the Emperor and the Concubine Chen."

Wei Yu sighed. Why is this child so stubborn? It’s so frustrating.

"Yinlan, can I ask you a question?"

"You ask, Madam."

"Have you ever been in love?"

"what?"

"Do you know what it means to love deeply and hate deeply?"

Yinlan nodded, not quite understanding.

Wei Yu continued to deceive, "How much I loved you before, how disappointed I am now."

She stood up with her back to Yinlan and her head tilted at a 45-degree angle.

"I just want to live for myself now, man, just let him go with the wind."

Yin Lan didn't care about etiquette. She pushed Wei Yu onto the bed and said anxiously, "Your Majesty must have had an evil spirit enter your body. I'll go get the imperial physician. I won't let anything happen to you. Your Majesty, please hold on."

Wei Yuerkang's hand, "......"

This time, she really asked the imperial physician to come back.

What about the promised confinement?

The imperial physician quickly gave her an answer, "The emperor only said that people from Chengming Palace were not allowed to leave, but he didn't say that people from outside were not allowed to come in. Besides, I am the imperial physician. If anyone in the palace is unwell, I should do my best to heal them."

This imperial physician looked quite old, but his thinking was not as rigid as that of the ancients.

"This humble official is twenty-one years old."

Wei Yu yelled, "Can you read minds? A psychologist?"

"I cannot read minds, but your Majesty's thoughts are written on your face. To be honest, I have recently been studying the subtle expressions of different people and their different mentalities, and I have made considerable progress."

Haha, he’s also a psychologist who studies micro-expressions, that’s pretty impressive.

"It's okay, it's okay. Your Majesty, you are too kind." The imperial physician scratched his head embarrassedly.

"Huh?" She didn't believe it. Is it so magical?

Wei Yu changed his mind and became dramatic.

He just went crazy on the spot, crying, laughing, getting angry, dancing, and when he got excited he acted out an epileptic seizure. Yinlan was so scared that she almost died on the spot.

Yinlan immediately took out the talisman paper from her arms, lit it and threw it into the teacup, then took the teacup and put it into Wei Yu's mouth.

"Wait, wait, I was just pretending, ah, help..."

The imperial physician was quite steady. He grabbed Wei Yu's hand and began to take his pulse.

The moment he felt the pulse he knew he had been tricked.

Because he was missing a hand, Wei Yu was given a mouthful of talisman water.

"Your Majesty, you have such great acting skills that you even fooled me." He suddenly realized something and said excitedly, "Thank you for your guidance, Your Majesty. I understand now."

"Huh? What did I teach you? What did you realize?" Wei Yu said she had no idea.

When Yinlan asked the imperial physician to send her out, she couldn't help but ask him, "What did the Empress tell you just now? Is it true that the Empress is not possessed by evil spirits?"

The imperial physician said mysteriously, "The Empress is perfectly fine. She's much more lucid than you and I. She was trying to tell me that expressions can be acted out, and to stop being superficial."

Yinlan looked up at the sky, lost in confusion.

Something feels wrong.

The next day, when Wei Yu woke up, it was already noon. He had been working overtime and was severely sleep-deprived. He hadn't had such a good sleep in a long time.

"My Lady, you are finally awake. I will help you wash up."

"Let me do it myself. You don't have to call me a slave all the time. I'm not the queen anymore." Wei Yu took the basin from her hand.

Yinlan thought she had done something wrong and immediately knelt down to admit her mistake.

"What's wrong with you?" Wei Yu pulled the man up. It was really embarrassing to live like this every day.

"Your Highness, I don't know what I have done wrong. Please don't drive me away. I promised Madam that I would serve you well in the palace."

After saying that, he wanted to kneel down again, but was stopped by Wei Yu.

She sighed, "Yinlan, let me ask you a question."

"Never loved." Yinlan answered quickly.

Wei Yu: “…”

"No, have you ever heard of what equality means for all?" Wei Yu said seriously.

Yinlan shook her head.

Wei Yu added: "We are all commoners now, and we are equal now."

"My Lady, I will always be your servant. Even if you are no longer my Lady, you are still my Lady."

Wei Yu forgot that in ancient times, most domestic slaves were indentured to sell themselves. So, they really were not equal.

Forget it, Wei Yu secretly decided that he must restore Yin Lan’s freedom if he had the chance.

This novel is also very magical. Other superiors usually only need to give a glance and the people below will do things.

In the original novel, Queen Wei was an exception. She never asked others to do harm, but always faced it head-on and did it herself, so Yinlan became the cleanest person in the whole novel.

What he usually did most was to plead and defend Empress Wei in various ways.

"Forget it. If you want to serve me, go ahead and serve me. But don't call me 'Niang Niang'. If someone hears you, you'll be beheaded. Just call me by my name."

"I dare not." She wanted to kneel again, but was stopped by Wei Yu with a glare.

Yinlan said hesitantly, "Then I'll just call you Miss."

Wei Yu compromised, "Miss, you can be a lady, but from now on, you can't kneel down at every turn. Do you understand? We don't have this rule of kneeling down at every turn in the Wei Mansion. Also,"

Wei Yu poked Yin Lan's forehead and said, "You are not allowed to call yourself a slave from now on. Just use me or Yin Lan."

Yinlan covered her mouth with her hands, her expression very touched, "Miss, Miss treats Yinlan so well."

Wei Yu was helpless. There was really no way to shake Yin Lan’s deep-rooted class ideology all at once.

After washing up, Wei Yu came to the side hall where they were going to have dinner. The food was ready. There were six dishes and one soup, and the combination of the dishes was amazing.

Stir-fried green peppers with vegetables, stir-fried shrimps with pork slices, scrambled eggs with winter melon, tomato, black fungus, pumpkin, carrot and cabbage soup, and three other dishes whose raw materials she couldn't even tell.

"This?" Wei Yu looked at the dishes and was speechless.

Yinlan was also very embarrassed. She didn't know that Xiaoshengzi's cooking skills were so amazing.

Wei Yu picked up a piece of egg. She felt that among all the dishes, this one was the most edible for humans.

She overestimated the creativity of the little rope. She tasted a sweet potato flavor in the egg.

Wei Yu swallowed the egg and put down his chopsticks gracefully. "Where is the kitchenette?"

"Ah? Mother...Miss, Xiaoshengzi is still young. If you give him some time, he will definitely do better." The good-natured Yinlan began to plead.

"I'm not asking for blame. I can't just throw these vegetables away if they can't be eaten. I'll go process them."

Yinlan was shocked again. Processing? Could it be that her daughter could cook? How could she not know?

She took Wei Yu to the small kitchen.

Xiao Shengzi was also preparing to eat lunch at this time, but his lunch was very different from Wei Yu's. It was just a bowl of porridge and two steamed buns.

Wei Yu smelled it and found it a bit sour.

Myocardial infarction. How can a child who looks only thirteen or fourteen years old eat these things?

"How do you eat these?"

Little Rope looked at Yinlan helplessly, "My slave loves to eat these."

Wei Yu took a deep breath and calmly poured the steamed buns and porridge into the kitchen waste bin.

"Go and bring my lunch over."

Yinlan and Xiaoshengzi immediately went to the side hall to bring the dishes over. On the way, Xiaoshengzi asked timidly, "Sister Yinlan, does the queen not like the food I cooked and is angry?"

Yinlan shook her head. She didn't know either. Ever since Wei Yu was deposed, his personality changed drastically. She couldn't tell whether Wei Yu was angry now.

They walked to the door of the small kitchen and smelled of delicious food.

The two of them walked quickly into the small kitchen.

The aroma comes from the casserole.

"It smells so good." Little Rope swallowed.

"The dishes are placed next to each other. Do we have noodles?" Wei Yu asked.

"Yes, yes." Xiao Shengzi took out the noodles he had just prepared for dinner.

Wei Yu was quite surprised to see the noodles. Each noodle was of very uniform thickness and very chewy. "Did you make these yourself?"

"Hui Niang, yes."

"Very good." Wei Yu praised casually, and the little rope was as happy as a 300-pound fat man.

Wei Yu put the noodles into the boiling water and said, "Watch the noodles. When they are cooked, take them out and rinse them with cold water."

"Yes, sir." Little Rope said enthusiastically.

She poured all the vegetables into the casserole, and put the noodles in last when they were ready, and then the casserole spicy hot pot was ready.

"Xiaoshengzi, bring the casserole to the dining table. Yinlan, add two more sets of tableware."

"it is good."

Wei Yu returned to the dining table. Yunlan and Xiaoshengzi were standing respectfully beside the table, their mouths watering.

"Sit down, why are you standing? Let's eat together."

Yinlan: "Yinlan doesn't dare."

Little Rope: "I dare not."

"Just sit down when I told you to. Don't you even listen to me?" Wei Yu pretended to be serious and slammed his chopsticks on the table.

"This is against the rules."

"Hmm?" Wei Yu gave them a look that said, "Chengming Palace, what I say is the rule."

Seeing that Wei Yu was angry, the two men immediately sat down and acted well.

"I am no longer the queen. You are the only ones who keep me company in Chengming Palace. I don't want to treat you as servants. If you like being servants so much, you should find another way out. You must obey my rules in my territory."

"Yes." They both answered at the same time.

"Eat."

Only after seeing Wei Yu pick up his chopsticks did they dare to eat. At first they were still very reserved, but later because the casserole spicy hot pot was so delicious, they no longer cared about being reserved.

During the meal, Wei Yu also asked how Xiaoshengzi got its name.

It turns out that the name Xiaoshengzi was given by Queen Wei.

He had just entered the palace when he was assigned to work in Chengming Palace. When he was paying a visit to Queen Wei, Queen Wei was untying the hemp rope given by the emperor. She was impatient and wanted to give a name to the new palace maid, so she casually gave him the name of a small rope.

Wei Yu was glad that he didn't call him "Xiao Mazi".

"Ahem...don't call me Xiaosheng anymore. Call me Yinsheng, Yin as in Yinlan, and Sheng as in endless life."

Wei Yu poked the noodles in the bowl and felt a little happy. Silver produces silver, maybe he could produce a lot of silver.

The ultimate goal of office workers is indeed closely related to money.

Yinsheng had a dazed look on his face, and it was only when Yinlan patted him that he came back to his senses.

Wei Yu saw that Yinsheng was about to kowtow to express his gratitude, so he stopped him immediately, "Don't kneel to me anymore, I'm really afraid of shortening my life."

"Pooh, pooh, pooh," Yinlan bowed to the sky, "Miss, may you live a long and healthy life."