Chapter 549: 272 Restoration of Memories (two more updates) _2 Chapter 549: 272 Restoration of Memories (two more updates) _2 Gu Jiao’s expression paused.
So, she didn’t remember her anymore…
Gu Jiao believed that.
Gu Jiao, who was planning to leave the palace, changed her direction and walked forward confidently.
“Where are you going?” Zhuang Yuexi rebuked.
“Renshou Palace.” Gu Jiao raised an eyebrow, saying without turning back.
Zhuang Yuexi stomped her foot in anger, “You!”
Gu Jiao caught up with Empress Dowager Zhuang’s pace. The palace maids were used to observing Empress Dowager’s mood. Since she didn’t order to drive Gu Jiao away, they didn’t dare to speak up.
Arriving at Renshou Palace, Empress Dowager Zhuang stepped in.
Gu Jiao quickly followed her in.
Eunuch Qin clenched his teeth, ‘Why is this girl so persistent?’ he wondered.
Empress Dowager Zhuang finally stopped at a small garden in the front hall, she looked at Gu Jiao expressionlessly and asked, “Why are you always following me?”
Gu Jiao thought_ for a while, “I want to follow you.”
Empress Dowager Zhuang, “…”
She should be very angry, but why did she feel some… slight joy?
Had she been poisoned by this girl? During the year of being under house arrest, just how much ‘soup of confusion’ had this girl instilled into her?
Empress Dowager Zhuang was so embarrassed that she angrily returned to her sleeping palace.
Gu Jiao naturally followed her in. Looking at the glamorous sleeping palace, she asked, “Auntie, this is where you live? Isn’t it very lonely?”
Seemingly luxurious, yet massive and empty, everywhere was cold.
Upon hearing this, Empress Dowager Zhuang’s expression flickered.
Nobody had ever asked her if she was lonely.
The father who sent her to the Imperial Palace didn’t ask. The husband who left her in the Forbidden City didn’t ask. Her clan, who hoped she would climb higher and higher, never asked.
Lost in her thoughts, a pale hand came out, holding a just-opened packet of paper, which contained three pieces of preserved fruit.
This preserved fruit was obviously from folk, the dried fruit of the palace was much more exquisite.
“How dare you! How can you let the Empress Dowager eat this dirty thing from people?” Zhuang Yuexi, holding a mixed fruit plate, walked over. The plate had freshly cut fruits, sprinkled with a few dried palace fruits for decoration, looked much more high-class compared to the preserved fruit from Gu Jiao.
Empress Dowager Zhuang’s gaze fell on the preserved fruit in Gu Jiao’s hand. She swallowed hard and sternly said, “I am not eating it!”
“Oh.” Gu Jiao began to eat it herself.
Empress Dowager Zhuang ate the fruit offered by Zhuang Yuexi, but she was tasteless.
Gu Jiao went to the small kitchen again and made a bowl of Sugar Water Egg for Empress Dowager Zhuang.
Zhuang Yuexi looked at the Sugar Water Egg in the bowl disdainfully, “Is this what you give to the Empress Dowager to eat?”
The imperial meal also included Eggs, but those were Shrimp Egg Custard, Shark’s Fin Egg Custard, Abalone Slip Egg, Osmanthus Goji Berry Pearl Egg Custard… Who would eat this kind of Sugar Water Egg?
Gu Jiao ignored her, walked straight forward, placed a bowl of steaming Sugar Water Egg on the table next to Empress Dowager, and whispered, “I added half a spoon more of brown sugar.”
She even added more sugar!
Empress Dowager Zhuang was resisting from the inside, she was the Empress Dowager of a country, how could she eat such unrefined food?
She turned her face coldly, tears uncontrollably streamed down from the corners of her mouth…
Empress Dowager Zhuang was going to take a nap, Gu Jiao and Zhuang Yuexi were escorted by the palace maids to rest in the next side hall.
Gu Jiao was a bit of a mystery, but as long as Empress Dowager didn’t drive her away, the palace maids didn’t dare to touch her.
“You all may leave, I do not like people around when I’m sleeping.”
The two personal palace maids also withdrew.
Only Empress Dowager Zhuang was left in the vast sleeping palace. She lay on the wide and luxurious Phoenix Bed, half-closing her eyes, her back towards the table.
The window was wide open, breezes coming in waves.’
Gu Jiao had put ginger in the Sugar Water Egg, and the aroma of ginger hitting brown sugar filled the entire sleeping palace.
Empress Dowager Zhuang twisted and turned, finding it hard to sleep.
Finally, she hardened her heart, sat up, and came to sit down by the table, holding a bowl of Sugar Water Egg, and started to eat with a slurping sound!
Suddenly, a small blue figure dropped down from the beam, her head hanging outside the window, and happily called out, “Auntie~”
Empress Dowager Zhuang’s body shook, she almost choked to death!
She got caught eating Sugar Water Egg, did she not?
Gu Jiao hung upside down. As the blood rushed to her head, her cheeks were red and seemed to be quite cute.
Empress Dowager Zhuang glanced at her, and then looked at her again.
Gu Jiao didn’t hang for too long. She pushed the windowsill with her fair hand and jumped into the room from the window.
Empress Dowager Zhuang said, maintaining her composure, “I just didn’t want to waste it.”
Gu Jiao nodded repeatedly, “Yeah, every grain is hard-earned!”
After Empress Dowager Zhuang finished eating, she wiped her mouth and said solemnly, “It’s not that delicious.”