276 A Slip of the Tongue (1)
Picking up the steaming steamed bun, Jiang Beiran opened his mouth and took a bite. The taste was indeed not bad.
Seeing Jiang Beiran start eating, the other girls at the table also picked up their buns and stuffed them into their mouths.
“The food here is indeed not bad.” Jiang Beiran picked up a sweet potato and peeled it as he spoke to Liu Ya.
“Thank you for your praise, Your Majesty. It’s our fortune that Your Majesty likes to eat it.””
At this moment, an auntie walked towards the pavilion with a plate. Liu Ya took a look and quickly introduced,”Your Majesty, this cooking cake is Aunt Gong’s specialty. The cooking cake she makes is soft, sticky, and sweet.”
Jiang Beiran looked at the auntie and said,””Oh? So delicious? Then I have to have a good taste.”
This was the first time Aunt Gong had seen the Emperor so close. Now that she heard the Emperor talking to her, her hands were trembling from nervousness. Seeing this, Liu Ya hurriedly walked over and took the plate from her hand and placed it on the table.
Glancing at a pancake with sesame seeds sprinkled on the surface, Jiang Beiran picked up a piece and stuffed it into his mouth to take a bite. He felt that it was unbelievably fragrant and could indeed be called a rare delicacy.
“It’s delicious. It’s indeed delicious.” Jiang Beiran nodded and turned to Auntie Gong.””Aunty, your craftsmanship is good.”
Aunt Gong was extremely excited when she heard that. She bowed repeatedly and said,”To hear that even the emperor likes to eat this old woman’s cooking, this old woman is truly blessed by several lifetimes of cultivation.”
Seeing that even Mister Lian was praising it, Kong Qianqian, who had just stuffed a piece of sweet potato into her mouth, hurriedly reached out and took a quick biscuit from the plate. She swallowed the sweet potato in her mouth in two or three bites and took a bite of the biscuit with great anticipation.
“Delicious! This is the second best cooking pancake I’ve ever eaten in my life!”Kong Qianqian’s eyes lit up as she shouted.
Muyao, who had also tasted the pancake, asked curiously,””What about the most delicious cooking pancake?”
“It’s the one that Teacher gave me when I was in prison.”
As soon as Kong Qianqian finished speaking, she was stunned. Her entire body could not stop trembling because she realized that the Emperor’s terrifying gaze had already swept over.
“Prison?” ” Which prison?” Muyao was taken aback.”
Kong Qianqian was about to explain that she was wrong and that she was not in prison, but the words that reached her mouth became,””It’s Lan…”
Realizing that something was wrong with her, Kong Qianqian hurriedly raised her hands to cover her mouth. Facing the Emperor’s terrifying gaze, Kong Qianqian shook her head like a rattle-drum.
“The Emperor, I’m going to go.”
“Alright, shut up and eat.”
“Yes.”
Jiang Beiran felt a little strange when he saw Kong Qianqian’s expression as if she was going to stuff her mouth with the pancake.
It had been more than half a year since the incident in Lanzhou, and judging from Muyao’s behavior, Kong Qianqian had indeed kept her secret.
Hence, when Kong Qianqian had said the word ” prison ” earlier, Jiang Beiran had thought that she had let it slip.
However, when she realized her mistake, she still almost said the word ” Lanzhou “. This made Jiang Beiran certain that she must have been hit by his [Spirit of Words], which was why she could only tell the truth.
‘Strange, when did this girl fall for it? Moreover, I clearly couldn’t control her to tell the truth before…’
As he thought back to the conversation earlier, Jiang Beiran’s mind was locked on the sentence ‘Sir hates people who don’t tell the truth.'”Go.
It was very likely that this sentence carried the power of the [Spirit of Words] that made Kong Qianqian involuntarily start to speak the truth.
‘Yan Ling actually activated it accidentally…’
Jiang Beiran had originally thought that [Spirit of Speech] could only be activated when one was focused. However, it seemed like that was not the case. It was possible that a single sentence from him would trigger the power of the Spirit of Speech.
‘Is it because I’m not familiar enough? Or could it be…Did I accidentally trigger some special vocabulary just now?’
While Jiang Beiran was having a brainstorm, Muyao’s brain was having a huge shock!
When she first heard Kong Qianqian talking about the prison, she was still in a daze. However, when she saw Kong Qianqian’s abnormal behavior, she suddenly understood!
Other than the time when they were bound to Lan Zhou, when had Kong Qianqian ever been imprisoned?
‘Jiang Beiran gave her pancakes when she was in jail!?He was also in Lanzhou at that time! Was he also involved in this matter?
Countless question marks swirled in Muyao’s mind, sometimes forming the word ” stupid “, sometimes forming the word ” egg.”
This news was too sudden for her, causing a series of questions to line up to look for her.
“Qianqian, what happened?”Muyao grabbed Kong Qianqian and asked.
“Wuwuwu!” Kong Qianqian covered her mouth and shook her head. She did not dare to speak at all because she did not know what she would say if she opened her mouth.
Deng Xianghan looked at Muyao strangely, not understanding why she was so agitated.
“Tell me quickly! Tell me quickly!” Muyao yelled as she tugged at Kong Qianqian’s hand.
“Enough! What a disgrace.” Jiang Beiran shouted as he looked at Kong Qianqian, who was on the verge of collapsing.
Seeing the emperor’s anger, Muyao immediately withdrew her hand, but she was determined to get to the bottom of it.
Because she already had a very bold guess!
Seeing her senior sister sit down again, Kong Qianqian heaved a sigh of relief. She carefully looked at the emperor’s eyes. Seeing that he didn’t seem to blame her that much, she quietly reached out her hand and grabbed a biscuit.