amaotonovel Chapter 279: No match, all plans come to nothing
Chapter 279: No match, all plans come to nothing
After entering the palace, Ji Chuhe bowed to the Third Prince and said, "Third Prince, you and the Crown Prince can go shopping first. I will go and see how the banquet preparations are going."
"Okay, Madam, you're welcome. I'll just stroll around like I'm in my own garden." The Third Prince responded with a smile.
Xiao Yan'an watched Ji Chuhe leave, and only looked away when she disappeared at the end of the corridor.
The Third Prince looked at him with a smile on his face, "Yan An, you are so lucky. My mother keeps praising the Crown Prince's wife."
"Your Highness, I think so too."
"Alas, I don't know what kind of wife I can marry in the future." The third prince sighed.
"Then I wish the Third Prince in advance to find a good partner and live in harmony with his wife."
"Thank you for your good words." The third prince smiled happily.
When Ji Chuhe came to the backyard, Qingluo walked towards her.
"Have you checked everything? Is there anything missing?" Ji Chuhe asked in a deep voice, with an extremely serious expression on his face.
There is no room for error in this matter.
"I checked it out clearly. They only touched the ingredients of the first-grade eight-treasure stew, passed some of them off as good ones, and added one more ingredient to some of them." Qingluo took out a handkerchief with some broken leaves wrapped in it.
Ji Chuhe picked up some of the crumbs and smelled them, "This is not spice."
"Madam, this is a medicinal herb that is very similar to spices. After eating it, you will immediately have abdominal pain and diarrhea, and some people may even vomit. However, it will not cause too much damage to the human body."
Ji Chuhe brushed off the residue on his hands and said calmly, "It's almost time."
"Yes." Qingluo retreated immediately.
When Liao Yunfei returned to the backyard from the front yard, she discovered something strange.
Several carriages from the Duke's Mansion arrived at the Prince's Mansion, and it seemed that they were filled with things.
Wasn’t the gift from the Duke’s Mansion delivered a long time ago?
Why send it again?
The Duke's Mansion is so generous to Ji Chuhe!
"How are the arrangements on Leng Qiu's side going?" Liao Yunfei asked in a deep voice.
"Don't worry, Madam. All the dishes are ready. Once they are served, the guests who eat them will soon have abdominal pain and diarrhea."
"I have been working very hard these days, checking every ingredient in detail and not finding any problems. I also told the Crown Prince's wife in advance that Leng Qiu was Concubine Luo's man, so that she could be on guard. In the end, something like this still happened, and it has nothing to do with me."
"Madam is right." The maid immediately agreed.
Liao Yunfei showed a smug smile.
"Madam, I seem to have discovered something wrong." The maid couldn't help but say as she looked at the table in the distance.
"What's wrong?"
"It seemed like there were no tables here just now! How come there are so many tables now?"
Liao Yunfei also noticed the problem and immediately walked in that direction and stopped a busy servant.
"Why are the tables placed here? Aren't there enough tables in front?" Liao Yunfei asked in a deep voice.
"Madam, it was arranged by Aunt Qingluo."
Qingluo asked him to do it? That was Ji Chuhe's intention.
Liao Yunfei felt a little uneasy.
Ji Chuhe has also been preparing the ingredients these days. She could see that Ji Chuhe was very anxious, but with so many ingredients, who could guess which one had problems?
Therefore, this matter is destined to be impossible to prevent.
However, Ji Chuhe is not a fool and he must have a way to deal with it.
"Madam, maybe there are too many guests, so we need to add some more tables." The maid guessed in a low voice.
"Impossible. There are only a hundred tables prepared. It's easy to add tables, but where are the dishes?" Liao Yunfei immediately rejected this idea.
Things are not that simple.
Even if I estimated the number of people wrong, it wouldn't be that much!
What exactly is Ji Chuhe up to?
"But, apart from this, what other reason could there be for adding so many tables at the last minute? Madam, don't worry. Madam is not a god. How can she calculate so accurately?"
After hearing this, Liao Yunfei secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
"What you said makes sense."
"Yes, it was Madam's fault for adding so many tables at short notice. Madam also reminded Madam to prepare more, but she just wouldn't listen."
Not long after, servants from the mansion led the guests here, and soon the place was full.
"Go find Leng Qiu." Liao Yunfei turned and left.
……
Qingluo has already controlled Leng Qiu.
In addition to Leng Qiu, more than a dozen people were detained.
There were servants, maids, servants, and three cooks invited in from outside.
"Aunt Qingluo, what do you mean? The mansion is so busy. What if you detain us and delay the banquet?" Leng Qiu said with a worried look on his face.
Qingluo raised her foot and kicked Leng Qiu in the chest.
If Leng Qiu's face could not be injured, she would definitely smash Leng Qiu's face!
Leng Qiu was kicked to the ground, unable to get up, with a look of pain on his face.
The people nearby were so frightened that they didn't even dare to breathe.
They knew clearly what they had done.
Liao Yunfei looked around but couldn't find Leng Qiu, and she felt very angry!
"This bitch, where did she die at the critical moment?"
Just then the maid came running over in a hurry.
"Madam, this is bad!"
"What happened? Why are you shouting and yelling?" Liao Yunfei scolded.
"I just found out that there are not just one hundred tables of guests for today's banquet, but one hundred and thirty-six tables!"
"What?" Liao Yunfei was shocked.
Ji Chuhe actually played this trick on her!
"Have you started serving the food yet?"
"It has begun! And not all the dishes are brought out from the kitchen. I see some are sent from the North Courtyard."
North Courtyard! Isn't that where the carriage of the Duke's Mansion is parked?
Therefore, Ji Chuhe publicly set up a banquet with a hundred tables in his house just to confuse them!
They don’t even know what the actual number is!
The Duke's Mansion prepared the same dishes at the same time and delivered them on time!
As soon as the banquet started and the servants brought the dishes to the table, the situation was completely out of their control!
The dishes they prepared would definitely be discovered by Ji Chuhe, and they would never have a chance to be served to the guests again! Ji Chuhe had already prepared a lot of dishes, so there would be no shortage of dishes!
Ji Chuhe actually managed to escape this disaster!
Liao Yunfei felt unwilling.
"Madam, this move is really brilliant! But, I'm afraid we will lose another two or three thousand taels of silver!"
"Losing two or three thousand taels of silver is nothing! It's not her, Ji Chuhe! With the princess and the Duke's Mansion, she can squander even five thousand or ten thousand taels!"
"It's hard for Concubine Luo to plan so much, but in the end, she got nothing. But Ji Chuhe can only swallow this loss in silence. In the future, Concubine Luo's calculations are still to come."
Suddenly, a group of maids and servants ran quickly in one direction, causing a commotion.
"What happened!" Liao Yunfei's face turned cold.