Rumor Has It That I'm Pregnant with His Highness' Child

282 Stinky Tofu

The iron pot was heated up, and the soup in the oil paper gradually boiled, constantly gurgling.

Meng Xizhou could not help but lean closer and smell it. His eyes immediately lit up.

“It smells so good!”

Seeing this, the others also went to the pot and inhaled hard. They could indeed smell a rich fragrance.

Someone couldn’t resist the urge to tear open the oil paper and see what was inside.

He was stopped by Yu Niaoniao.

“Don’t move. It’s not time yet.”

The sealed space inside the oil paper could allow the soup to seep into the fish, making the fish and side dishes more delicious.

If the oil paper was opened early, the taste would be lost.

The Eagle Guards could only sit obediently at the table and wait.

Yu Niaoniao took out the paper bag containing durian candy and said with a smile.

“Do you guys want some candy first?”

The Eagle Guards surged over and reached for the candy.

Only Xiao Juan was still sitting at the table.

He stared at everything in front of him. The suffocating smell of durian surrounded him again. He had nowhere to hide even if he wanted to. He was desperate.

The only thing that made him glad was that Yu Niaoniao had finally given out all her durian candy.

Congratulations to him. She no longer had durian candy!

Xiao Juan held his breath and told himself that he would be fine after a while.

In the future, there would be no anti-human fruit like durian in his life.

When Yu Niaoniao said that it was done, the kitchen helpers went forward to help remove the oil paper. A hot steam rose from it, followed by the fragrance of grilled fish.

Looking at the grilled fish that had absorbed the soup, the Eagle Guards could not help but pick up their bowls and chopsticks and eat.

Yu Niaoniao picked up a piece of fish and placed it in Xiao Juan’s bowl.

“Your stomach isn’t good. I deliberately didn’t put chili or peppercorns in this one. Try it and see how it tastes.”

Xiao Juan tasted the fish carefully. The meat was fresh and fragrant.

He praised her sincerely. “It’s delicious.”

Yu Niaoniao immediately smiled.

“The side dishes are delicious too. Try them.”

“Okay.”

The grilled fish for lunch today made everyone want more.

Pan Dafu was convinced. “As expected of a teacher. You actually thought of using this method to grill fish. It’s really amazing! I’ve learned something today!”

Yu Niaoniao laughed. “I didn’t create this method. I just learned it from others. If you want to cook grilled fish in the future, you can use this method. The process is simple and the taste is delicious.”

Pan Dafu nodded vigorously. “Yes, yes. Thank you for your guidance, Teacher!”

Seeing that Yu Niaoniao was about to leave, he hurriedly stopped her.

“Teacher, please wait.”

Yu Niaoniao asked, “Is there anything else?”

Pan Dafu pulled her to the storeroom next door. He looked around to make sure there was no one else around before speaking softly.

“Teacher, have you been well recently? Did Duke Lang bully you?”

Yu Niaoniao did not understand. “I’m quite good. Duke Lang is also very good to me and has never bullied me. Why are you asking?”

Pan Dafu said, “You don’t know yet, do you? Recently, rumors about you and Duke Lang have been circulating everywhere in the city.”

Yu Niaoniao had been staying in Langjun Imperial Palace recently and did not know anything about the outside world.

She asked curiously, “What did they say about us?”

Pan Dafu said, “They said that your parents didn’t love you since you were young and that you were thrown to the countryside to fend for yourself. When you grew up and returned to the Imperial Capital, you were unfortunately fancied by a bully. In order to get you, that bully didn’t hesitate to seize you by force and force you to give yourself to him. He even let the entire city know about you and him and used this to ruin your reputation, causing you to have no choice but to marry him…”

Yu Niaoniao hurriedly interrupted him.

“Wait, the bully you’re talking about can’t be Duke Lang, right?”

Pan Dafu hurriedly said, “Keep your voice down. There are Eagle Guards everywhere in the Justice Department. Don’t let them hear you.”

Yu Niaoniao was both amused and miffed. “It’s all nonsense. Duke Lang is a very good person. He never forced me.”

Pan Dafu was skeptical. “Really?”

Yu Niaoniao promised solemnly.

“I swear on my character that it’s definitely true!”

Pan Dafu was relieved. “That’s good.”

When he heard those rumors, he was very worried for Yu Niaoniao, afraid that she would be bullied by Duke Lang. Fortunately, the rumors were fake.

Yu Niaoniao asked, “Where did you hear these rumors?”

Pan Dafu scratched his head and said embarrassedly.

“My wife overheard it from the storyteller when she went out to buy New Year’s goods. She knew that I admired you and told me about it when she returned.”

...

Yu Niaoniao’s eyes widened. “Storyteller?! Could it be that what happened between Duke Lang and me has become a legendary story?”

Pan Dafu smiled awkwardly. “Your stories are too strange. They’re very popular after being adapted into legends. I heard that there are many teahouses in the city now with storytellers telling your stories.”

“Aren’t they afraid that I will sue for infringement on my rights?!”

Pan Dafu was puzzled. “Infringement?”

Yu Niaoniao slapped her forehead. She had forgotten that there was no copyright in this day and age.

She changed her expression. “I mean, aren’t they afraid the Eagle Guards will come knocking?”

Pan Dafu said, “They didn’t use your names. The protagonists of the stories were given other names. Even if the Eagle Guards went to them, they couldn’t do anything to them.”

Yu Niaoniao laughed in anger.

“They’re quite smart. They actually know how to use aliases. Tell me, what aliases did they give Duke Lang and me?”

Pan Dafu hesitated for a moment before saying, “The male lead’s name is Overlord Xiao, and the female lead’s name is Yu Gonggong.”

Yu Niaoniao said, “I can still understand Overlord Xiao. What the hell is Yu Gonggong? When did I become a eunuch?”

...

“Ahem, in regard to “Gong”, this does not refer to eunuch but the bow in the story of the Overlord Bending the Bow.”

Yu Niaoniao was speechless.

It had to be said that the naming standards of this batch of onlookers were really impressive!

Pan Dafu comforted her. “Don’t be angry. Those people are just gossiping. After a while, everyone will forget about these things.”

Yu Niaoniao was tired. “I hope so.”

She also liked to gossip, but she did not expect to become someone else’s fodder one day.

This was probably the cyclical nature of the Heavenly Dao.

Yu Niaoniao went to take a beautiful afternoon nap. After waking up, she threw those rumors to the back of her mind.

Anyway, she didn’t go out recently. No matter what people said about her, she wouldn’t understand.

As long as she could not hear it, she could pretend that nothing had happened.

After work, Yu Niaoniao and Xiao Juan returned to Langjun Imperial Palace.

Chun Feng and Ye Yu waited on Yu Niaoniao to change her clothes and told her that the things she needed were ready.

Yu Niaoniao was very excited.

She ran to the kitchen and removed the lid. She looked at the stinky tofu soaking in the wooden bucket and a satisfied smile appeared on her face.

Yesterday, when she was eating durian, she was thinking about stinky tofu and snail noodles.

Snail rice noodles needed snails. It was winter now, so they couldn’t get snails.

In this case, she could only fry stinky tofu to satisfy her cravings.