After having sex with a fake eunuch, I became the queen

More than 20 years ago, with Xiao Qian's mediation, Ji Mingyue, the adopted daughter, was to be canonized as a princess when she turned 16. In order to pave the way, Xiao Qian frequently let her appear in public one year before the canonization. In the past, if there were any major banquets in the capital's most powerful families, they would send an invitation to the queen as a courtesy. After being invited, Xiao Qian would usually not attend in person, but would only send someone to pass on a message or give a gift.

This year, she specially appointed her adopted daughter Ji Mingyue to attend these occasions on her behalf.

One day, the mother of Zuo Gongqing celebrated her 70th birthday, and Ji Mingyue attended on behalf of the queen. Zuo Gongqing was the father of the later Zuo Xiang Wang Qi and Zhu Guo General Wang Zhifei.

Although she was just a young girl, as the representative of the Queen, Ji Mingyue was naturally a guest of honor wherever she went, and was greeted with smiles and flattery. However, she knew in her heart that those people's friendliness was not out of their own will, but mostly out of respect for the Queen. Therefore, whenever she attended such an occasion, she was unwilling to delay for too long. Basically, she said what she should say, gave the gifts she should give, and left after completing her mission.

However, at the birthday banquet of the old lady of the palace, this "representative" was not like usual. After congratulating the old lady with gifts, he did not return home as usual, but stayed at the banquet to eat and drink. He even drank a few more cups, and felt dizzy. He could not take the carriage back to the palace, so he had to take a walk in the garden of the official residence to sober up. Everyone present guessed that it was probably because the sweet-scented osmanthus wine at the birthday banquet was too delicious.

In the back kitchen of the noble mansion, a young woman in gorgeous clothes tiptoed in from the back door. After entering, she first looked around, and seeing that there was no one else, she quickly rushed to a stove full of bottles and jars, and searched quickly. While searching, she looked around vigilantly. Her sneaky behavior was very much like a thief who sneaked into the back kitchen to steal things.

This "thief" was none other than Ji Mingyue, who had drunk too much and needed to take a walk in the West Garden to sober up. It turned out that she was not really drunk, and saying she wanted to take a walk to sober up was just a cover, and she actually had another purpose.

At the birthday banquet, what attracted Ji Mingyue to stay was not the sweet-scented osmanthus wine, but a dish - Yunchuan hot and sour chicken. This dish of hot and sour chicken was cooked very authentically, with the unique sour and spicy taste of authentic Yunchuan cuisine, and she had a special liking for this taste since she was a child.

Ji Mingyue was adopted into the palace by Queen Xiao at the age of four. She fell seriously ill when she was five and almost died. In order to save her life, the imperial physician gave her adult doses of herbal medicine. Although the disease was cured, it greatly damaged her appetite.

Without an appetite, one will naturally become thinner and less energetic. A chubby kid who used to be lively and energetic becomes as thin as a wilted eggplant.

Yu Niang, the nanny in charge of Ji Mingyue's daily life, saw it and was worried. She asked the imperial physician to prescribe many appetite stimulants, but to no avail.

Yu Niang was from Yunchuan Prefecture, and Yunchuan cuisine was famous for its hot and sour flavor. The hot and sour sauce made by the locals was a great accompaniment to rice. So Yu Niang asked the Queen to buy some Yunchuan peppercorns and carefully brewed a can of Yunchuan hot and sour sauce suitable for children as a supplement to Ji Mingyue's appetite.

Unexpectedly, the hot and sour sauce was so effective, much more effective than appetite stimulants. Since adding the hot and sour sauce to the meals, Ji Mingyue's appetite increased day by day, and he became plumper day by day.

Later, Yunchuan hot and sour sauce became a regular side dish on Ji Mingyue's dinner table, and she could no longer live without that spicy and sour taste.

However, the good times did not last long. At the beginning of last year, Yu Niang was expelled from the palace by the Queen. Since then, Ji Mingyue has never eaten Yunchuan hot and sour sauce again.

Yu Niang was expelled from the palace. The ostensible reason was that she was careless and always made mistakes. But anyone with a discerning eye knew that the real reason was that the queen wanted to get rid of all the people close to Ji Mingyue before the princess was canonized.

Ji Mingyue naturally understood her mother Xiao Qian's intentions, so she never dared to show her longing for Yu Niang in front of her. She didn't even dare to mention that she wanted to eat Yunchuan sauce, for fear of accidentally touching her nerves and implicating Yu Niang.

After more than a year, Ji Mingyue tasted the long-lost hot and sour taste at the birthday banquet of the Gongqing Mansion, which was similar to the hot and sour sauce prepared by Yu Niang herself. With such a dish that suits her appetite, she naturally couldn't bear to leave the table early. During the meal, she kept thinking that the kitchen of the Gongqing Mansion must have Yunchuan hot and sour sauce for cooking hot and sour chicken, so how could she take some back to satisfy her craving?
In fact, wanting to order some sauce from the kitchen is not a big deal. You can just ask the minister directly. Maybe he will even send you a carriage.

But Ji Mingyue couldn't do this, because if this matter was done openly, it would sooner or later reach her mother's ears, and there was no guarantee that it would not bring about consequences that she did not want to see.

Finally, Ji Mingyue decided to give up the "open asking" and use the "secret taking" method instead - pretending to be drunk and staying to walk in the back garden to sober up, his real intention was to go to the back kitchen to get a bottle of hot and sour sauce. The garden of the noble mansion was modeled after the Suzhou garden. Ji Mingyue had been to several similar mansions, and the layout was similar. The back door and back window of the kitchen mostly faced the West Garden. So as long as he went to the West Garden, he would have a chance to enter the back kitchen.

Because he had ulterior motives, he specifically told the ministers that he wanted to have some quiet time in the West Garden and did not want to be disturbed by anyone else.

When the officials heard this, they immediately issued an order: No one was allowed to enter the West Garden while Miss Mingyue was walking. Because the kitchen was in a corner of the West Garden, the noise of people working there was very noisy, so they also issued another order to urgently clear out the people working in the kitchen. It turned out that the princess-to-be wanted to steal something from someone else's yard, so she first found a way to get the owner to drive everyone out of the yard to facilitate her theft.

After Ji Mingyue entered the West Garden with her maid Zi Yu, they headed straight to the southwest. Along the way, they did not see a single person. The kitchen was, as expected, in the southwest corner. Looking through the window, it was empty. Their luck was good as the back door of the kitchen was not locked and they could enter directly. They had originally planned to climb in through the window, but it seemed that this was not necessary.

Afterwards, the master and servant divided the work, one stood guard outside, and the other went in to steal the sauce. The reason why Ji Mingyue went in personally to steal was because she was worried that Zi Yu would take the wrong sauce bottle. After all, she was not as familiar with the taste of Yunchuan sauce as herself.

The kitchen of the official residence was square, spacious and bright. There were several stoves in the house, which could accommodate seven or eight cooks working at the same time. There were two large water tanks on the side of one wall, and many storage cabinets hung high and low on the surrounding walls. Pots, pans, bottles and jars were piled up everywhere in the house, which was a bit messy. It was obvious that the people who were working in the kitchen suddenly received an order to evacuate, leaving behind such a "battlefield" that had not been cleaned up.

Although there was no one else in the kitchen, Ji Mingyue, who was born into a noble family, had never done such sneaky things. When he thought of himself as a "thief", he started to act like a thief, and his every move showed his guilty conscience.

The management of the kitchen was fairly standardized. Whether it was the seasoning bottles or the sauce jars, there were labels on the outer walls with the names of the contents written on them. Ji Mingyue thought he could find it quickly, but after searching through the pile of bottles and jars on the counter for a long time, he did not find the Yunchuan hot and sour sauce he had been craving for.

So, he anxiously went to several cupboards to look for it. When he was opening and closing the cupboard doors, he suddenly heard a voice from inside the house: "You little girl! You are here to steal again! I was having a sweet dream and you woke me up!"

It was a strong masculine voice.

Ji Mingyue was frightened by the sudden sound and quickly turned her head to look in the direction where the sound came from. After a long time, she found the source of the sound - there was a small stove near the west window in the kitchen, and there was a person lying next to the stove, or to be exact, a person was sleeping.

Because the distance was a bit far, I couldn't see the details clearly. I could only vaguely identify that the man was wearing brick brown clothes, which blended in with the stove wall of almost the same color. No wonder when I entered the kitchen just now, I checked everywhere but didn't notice that there was a person lying on the floor.

Ji Mingyue was naturally very panicked when her theft was discovered. In a hurry, she squatted beside the cupboard like a cat. When her eyes swept across the cupboard wall and saw a gap that could accommodate a person, she somehow crawled in - she didn't have much experience as a thief, but she had seen mice stealing oil in the kitchen. After being frightened, the mice ran around looking for holes to hide in, so she learned to do the same.

But as soon as he got into the "hole", he regretted it: if he hid here, he would be caught sooner or later, so he should find a chance to escape.

So she stuck her head out, wanting to check the "enemy situation" outside to see if it would be convenient for her to escape.

However, what she saw was that the person who was lying on the ground had sat up. He was stretching and looking towards her. It was obvious that he had discovered her hiding place.

Ji Mingyue was so scared that she quickly retracted her head.

"Yun girl, why are you hiding? It's not the first time I've caught you running to the kitchen to eat secretly. What's the matter? Today is your grandmother's birthday, and your aunt won't let you sit at the table or eat?" The man spoke to Ji Mingyue again, his voice slightly drunk.

Although Ji Mingyue only took a brief glance and could not see his appearance clearly due to the distance, she had recognized his identity based on the sound of his voice - Wang Zhifei, the young master of a noble family.

Wang Zhifei is about the same age as himself. Among the many children of aristocratic families, he is the one who particularly likes to show off. He can be seen in many occasions, including in competitions of tossing pots, boxing, riding and archery, and even in competitions of chess and writing.

That's why she knew him. But it's true that this person does have some talent in both civil and military affairs. In various competitions, even if he can't take the first place, he can always be among the best.
(First release in Jinjiang)
(End of this chapter)