The Foodie Online Chapter 3

"Your Highness, why...why don't you go out and play today?"

The palace maid was grinding the brush for the Tenth Princess, who was sitting at the table fiddling with her brush out of boredom. Seeing the Tenth Princess' increasingly gloomy expression, she asked cautiously.

Her hands were trembling slightly, and it was obvious that she had mustered up the courage to ask this question.

I glanced at the Tenth Princess drawing on the paper. Although the lines were messy and the ink was splattered everywhere, I could vaguely make out that it was probably a man.

Could it be that the Tenth Princess has a lover?

When she thought of this, she suddenly became frightened again, fearing that she would be killed for discovering the princess's secret.

Unexpectedly, the Tenth Princess propped up her head, put down her pen with a snap, and just glanced at her lazily, "I'm not in the mood."

The palace maids were silent.

Seeing that she stopped talking again, Emily sighed, picked up the pen again, and continued to destroy the drawing paper that had already been destroyed by her.

She thought again of the young man in white from yesterday, and looked at the piece of paper, but she couldn't draw any of his spirit.

It would be great if the second emperor were here at this time. He has superb painting skills and his paintings are very lifelike. He would definitely be able to recreate the young man's grace and demeanor.

Putting down the brush, she turned her head to look at the palace maid beside her who was grinding ink silently with her head down, "Xiu Xiu, do you know what is behind the bamboo forest in the backyard of the Imperial Garden?"

Xiuxiu thought about it for a moment and shook her head blankly, "Xiuxiu doesn't know, that place is rarely visited by anyone, it must be... a cold palace or something like that, right?"

Cold palace?

Emily recalled what she saw last night and shook her head.

How could a place like that be the cold palace? Besides, how could a man appear in the cold palace?

Xiuxiu secretly glanced at the Tenth Princess's face and speculated in her mind. She remembered that the Tenth Princess was sent out from there by a palace maid yesterday, and she thought that she might have met someone, so she started to think cleverly again.

"Your Highness, you have met someone."

Emily glanced at her coldly.

Xiuxiu was so scared that she quickly lowered her head, not daring to guess what the princess was thinking anymore.

Emily retracted her gaze, racking her brains to figure it out but still unable to figure it out, so she simply jumped off the chair that was taller than her and said, "Follow me."

Xiuxiu took the waistcoat that was hanging on the side and said, "Your Highness, please wait for me."

They walked all the way to the Imperial Garden, and were about to reach the path through the bamboo forest when Emily paused, looking hesitant.

After a while, she turned around, took the clothes from Xiuxiu's hand, and said to her, "Wait for me here, I will be back in a few hours."

Xiuxiu was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly shook her head, "This... This, absolutely not possible, I am your personal maid, I dare not leave you even a step."

Emily waved her hand and didn't allow her to continue. "Okay, okay, let's do it this way. You take them here and wait for me."

After that, as if he was afraid that she would follow him secretly, he threatened her again, "You are not allowed to follow me, understand? If you dare to disobey my orders, I will chop off your heads and kick them like a ball next time."

Xiuxiu shuddered and responded timidly.

Emily then skipped around the imperial garden with satisfaction. Before entering the bamboo forest, she looked back several times to make sure that no one was following her secretly.

She had a good way to recognize the road, and soon found the small courtyard where Victor lived.

But the closer she got to the yard, the more guilty she felt, until she walked outside the fence, twisted her hands together nervously, and carefully stuck her head out to look into the yard.

After looking for a while, she still didn't see the young man from yesterday, and she couldn't help feeling a little disappointed.

After a while, she heard footsteps and subconsciously squatted down, hiding outside the fence which was slightly shorter than her, and secretly pushed aside the bamboo leaves to look inside.

However, the person who came over was not the young man, but the palace maid who took her out last night.

The palace maid was holding a bamboo basket filled with some fresh vegetable leaves and was feeding the rabbits attentively. A group of little rabbits gathered around her feet, looking honest and cute.

Seeing that it was not that young man, Emily felt much more justified. He stood up, brushed off the dust on his body, put one hand on his lower lip, and coughed lightly.

When Lily looked up, she saw a smart and pretty little girl standing outside the fence with her hands behind her back and her head raised, pretending to look at the sky.

She rubbed her eyes and confirmed several times, until the girl lowered her head and looked at her impatiently. Then she put down the bamboo basket, crawled out and knelt down.

"Greetings to the Tenth Princess."

Emily made a disdainful "tsk" sound.

How could this dog slave be so stupid?

"I ask you, is your master here?"

Lily's heart skipped a beat.

Could it be that her master offended this young lady yesterday, and she remembered it today and came to seek revenge?

Just as she was about to muster up the courage to reply that she was not there, she heard her master's voice coming over, "Lily, do you remember where you put my Book of Songs?"

Lily, ...

Emily walked past Lily and strode towards the inner room. She passed the lobby, walked past the outer room, and went straight to where the sound came from.

As soon as she stepped into the inner room, her eyes met with the young man who was looking up from his desk while rummaging around.

Before he could even open his mouth, Emily spoke first, "I'm here to play with you."

After saying that, she raised her chin proudly, with an expression that said, "This princess has come specially to play with you, why don't you thank me quickly?"

Victor was stunned for a moment, and when he heard her words, he curled his eyes and waved at her, "Since you are here, why don't you help me find some books?"

The pair of slender white hands hooked their fingers at her, as if to hook her soul away. Before Emily could react, her body had already walked to his side involuntarily.

When she came to her senses, she was already holding the Book of Songs that the boy was looking for.

She flipped through the book in her hand.

The inner pages of this book are yellowed, the paper is rough, and the outer pages are torn beyond recognition, but it can be seen that the owner takes good care of it. The outside is spotless and there are no creases on the inner pages.

She handed it to Victor with disdain, "What is this? Why don't you throw it away when it's in this state?"

Victor took it with both hands, wiped the cover with his sleeve, and then put the book back on the bookshelf. "Because I'm poor. If I throw this book away, where can I find another one?"

Emily watched his movements without blinking and said, "I have plenty of them. I'll give you a few if you like."

Victor seemed to be amused by her childishness, and turned his head to the side and curled the corners of his mouth, "Thank you for the reward, Princess."

"

He walked to the desk, tidied up the table that had been messed up by them just now, and stacked some written papers together and put them aside.

Emily picked up the stack of paper and looked at it for a few times. She didn't recognize many of the words and exclaimed, "Your handwriting is so beautiful! It's even more beautiful than my second brother's."

Victor sat on a rattan chair beside the desk and moved a chair to Emily. "Princess, you are too kind. How can I compare to the talented and learned Second Prince?"

Emily didn't care. She lifted her skirt and sat down on the chair. She swung her legs and blinked. "It seems that you know me well. You recognized me at first sight and knew that my second brother is the most talented. Who are you?"

Victor avoided her question and pushed the inkstone to her, handed her the grinding stone, and said, "Since you are here, why don't you help me grind it?"

The tenth princess was immediately furious, "Hey! I'm a princess, and you dare to ask me to grind it for you, you are so brave!"

This person really doesn't take her seriously.

Victor didn't care, shrugged, and waved to Lily who was standing at the door and was struggling whether to come in, "Lily, come here and research for me..."

"I'll grind it." Emily snatched the grinding stone from his hand.

A handsome young man was practicing calligraphy with his sleeves lifted up and a pen in his hand, while a young girl was sitting on the side studying attentively. It should have been an extremely heartwarming scene, but Lily was frightened watching from the side.

After waiting for a long time until her master finished practicing calligraphy, she put the pen back into the pen holder, stood up and dried the words she had just written, and said indifferently to the girl who was looking at her eagerly, "You can go back."

Lily now just wanted to rush to him and shake his shoulders to wake him up, but she didn't dare.

This is the Tenth Princess, the most favored Tenth Princess right now!!!

Emily was not angry at all. Instead, she tilted her head and thought for a moment, then said, "You helped me last night. I can fulfill one of your wishes. What do you want?"

Victor was stunned for a moment, and thought seriously for a while with one hand touching his chin, and said, "How about this, Your Highness the Princess, please treat me to a meal."

Emily showed an expression of disbelief again.

You were given such a good opportunity, but you just wanted to eat???

Why don't you take this opportunity to ask for some reward and stay by my side, but just want to eat? ? ?

But she calmed down, looked around and observed the environment here. She knew that the boy's conditions were not very good. She thought that the boy had probably never eaten anything good, and she felt pity for him.

In order to take into account the boy's dignity, she waved her hand in a self-righteous manner, "What's the big deal? Come back to the palace with me later, and I'll ask the kitchen to make some delicious food."

Lily, who was listening in the corner, was stunned and looked at Victor.

She remembered that her master didn't like to go out and rarely left the bamboo forest, so he would probably refuse.

Victor put his hands together without hesitation and bowed slightly, "Thank you, Princess."

Lily, "???"

Emily couldn't suppress the curled corners of her mouth, and snorted softly, "I tell you, I agreed to this just to repay a favor. I am a princess who knows how to repay a favor."

Victor smiled and said without hesitation, "Your Highness is kind-hearted and truly a model among princesses."

System, [You scheming b!tch! ]

Victor, [What is a scheming b!tch? ]

The little kid had already rolled over in his mind, [I didn't expect you to go through so much trouble just to get a free meal! ! You are worthy of being the host of this system. ]

Although it didn't sound like a good thing, Victor accepted it without hesitation, "Thank you for the compliment."

The system is great.

It seems that if it follows him around for free eating and drinking, the day when it gains followers and gets promoted is just around the corner.