Ch 118: Touching Her Majesty’s Hand
Making food for Jiang Li is really not easy.
As Your Majesty the Emperor, she has eaten more delicacies than others have seen food.
The last time he made fried chicken legs, Jiang Li only praised them without eating them.
What should I make this time?
It seems I need to think outside the box.
“Your Majesty, this meal is made with a secret technique. I need your help with some of the work. Come on.”
Lin Che didn’t stand on ceremony and directly greeted Jiang Li.
The first step is psychological warfare and a sense of participation.
Lin Che now treats Jiang Li like a child who doesn’t eat at home, where the parents work hard to make a meal and call the child to eat, almost begging them to eat.
But if it’s a poor child, as soon as they get home from school they have to make a fire to cook, pick vegetables, wash vegetables, serve dishes, and do everything; eating their own meal is natural.
Now, Lin Che wants Jiang Li to participate.
The high and mighty Your Majesty, has never cooked before, right?
Even if the delicacies are only seven points delicious, adding your own hard work makes them nine points delicious.
“Do you need me to help?” Jiang Li furrowed her brows slightly, then shook her head: “I can’t.”
“If you can’t, learn. I’ll teach you—as the saying goes, governing a country is like cooking. There’s a lot of wisdom in it. Come on, sometimes you also need to share joy with the people.”
“One excuse after another. You’re quite good at talking.”
Jiang Li isn’t someone who has never cooked before; when she was in the army, she helped make fires.
Of course, at that time she ended up covered in soot.
“What do you need me to do?”
“Come with me to the kitchen, I’m going to make you a hot pot, grilled meat, and some ice cream.”
The hot pot and grilled meat are to ensure Jiang Li can eat her fill.
As for the ice cream…
This is Lin Che’s second step, that is, appealing to a young woman’s curiosity.
Jiang Li is only in her early twenties; which young woman wouldn’t want to try ice cream?
It just so happens that Lin Che really knows how to make it.
And with Jiang Li here, freezing it can be solved simply by using her cultivation technique.
“Don’t just stand there, first take out this meat and wash it, then slice it thinly. Uh, like this…”
“This… this is too oily, is there any other work?”
“Then wash the vegetables. After washing the vegetables, slice the meat… roll up your sleeves, don’t get them dirty.”
Jiang Li listened to Lin Che’s rambling, and for a moment felt indescribable emotions.
It seems that only in front of Lin Che can she be an ordinary person.
No one fawns over her.
This feeling is so rare.
For others, it’s simply inconceivable, but for Jiang Li, who has been served and revered since birth, she feels: this is amazing.
So this is what it’s like to be an ordinary person.
I can still share joy with the people.
Although Jiang Li verbally refused, her body was honest and she really obediently went to wash the vegetables.
The Shadow Guard outside the kitchen were dumbfounded when they saw this scene.
Now all the officials are spreading the rumor that Champion Marquis Lin Che has blocked a blade for Your Majesty, more than once.
As Shadow Guard, protecting Your Majesty all day, they certainly don’t believe it. If it really happened, they would definitely know.
But now, seeing Your Majesty actually cooking with the Champion Marquis, and, the Champion Marquis is in charge…
They are starting to doubt their jobs.
Your Majesty’s treatment of Champion Marquis is unprecedented, don’t offend this Champion Marquis in the future.
In the kitchen…
Jiang Li had already set out several bowls, and, satisfied, neatly arranged the freshly cut meat, and spoke with great satisfaction:
“This isn’t that difficult. And, I know about this hot pot. I’ve eaten it a few times in Jiangnan. The taste is… passable. Barely.”
Lin Che seemed to have expected this, such delicacies are not that complex, it is normal for Jiang Li to have eaten it before.
“Oh, Your Majesty’s knowledge is extensive. The ingredients for this hot pot are similar. The most important thing is the dipping sauce. I’m making many kinds of seasonings, I’ll make you five different dipping sauces. There’s sure to be one that suits you.”
After hearing this, Jiang Li seemed to be slightly proud, and her gaze turned to the work in Lin Che’s hands.
“What are you making?”
“Ice cream. This is a unique one made for Your Majesty, you can eat it after the hot pot. By the way, I also need Your Majesty’s cultivation technique, the ability to cool things, I don’t know how to do that yet.”
Jiang Li rarely showed a look of disgust: “Strange and weird.”
That expression actually had a flirtatious feeling.
Lin Che’s heart pounded: the chance has come.
“Oh, clumsy. You’re not cutting it like that, let me show you.”
Lin Che acted casually; seeing Jiang Li cutting meat, he simply reached out and took the cleaver.
In this grab, he directly touched Jiang Li’s smooth little hand.
“Ah… you, you are presumptuous!”
Jiang Li’s face flushed red, and she shyly withdrew her hand.
Lin Che was startled, feigning fear: “Your Majesty, forgive me—it was my fault. It’s all this meal’s fault.”
After Jiang Li withdrew her hand, seeing Lin Che like that, she also seemed to think that Lin Che didn’t do it on purpose.
She had agreed to make this meal together.
What’s more, Lin Che is leaving tonight, should she really blame him?
“You do it.”
“Okay, I’ll do it. You don’t need to move.”
Lin Che immediately continued to busy himself.
Oh, I touched it too quickly just now, only felt it was very smooth, I don’t know if it was oil.
But now I can touch her hand, next time I can touch other parts.
Finally, after much busyness, the meal was completed.
“Come, come, let’s eat!”
“Your Majesty, please try Your Humble Servant’s culinary skill!”
