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Chapter 1086: Chapter 1086: The Enemy is Making a Move_1 Chapter 1086: Chapter 1086: The Enemy is Making a Move_1 Yuexian Palace.

Yao Xian drank her medicine, then ate dinner.

Having been reprimanded today and feeling unwell in her stomach, she would normally have no appetite according to her usual temperament.

However, she hadn’t eaten anything at noon, and now her stomach was growling with hunger. The palace maid had fetched her meal from the Imperial Kitchen, and she sat down at the table, intending to eat a few bites.

Seeing shrimp dumplings, she picked one up and took a bite. Hmm, it was delicious.

After eating two shrimp dumplings, she scooped up a bowl of Rib Soup.

As the soup touched her lips, she spat it all out in an instant.

“Your Highness, what’s wrong?!” The palace maid standing by hastily asked.

“This soup tastes awful,” as if she had eaten coptis!

She frowned and wiped the corner of her mouth with a handkerchief, asking, “Did Xiaomai make this soup?”

“No, Qiao Xiaomai only made two stir-fries and one soup today, all of which were sent to Da’an Palace,” the palace maid replied.

Yao Xian nodded, and was just about to pick up her chopsticks to continue with the shrimp dumplings, when a thought struck her, and she stopped abruptly.

In the past, it was only when eating Xiaomai’s cooking that she felt like she was chewing on coptis.

Now she felt the same when eating dishes made by others.

Could it be that the problem indeed lay with her?

That she had indeed been poisoned?

Considering this possibility, she immediately looked at the shrimp dumplings on the table, which still tasted delicious to her. Could it be that poison had been mixed into these shrimp dumplings as well?

Qiao Xiaomai and Tong Sanlang were already in charge of the Imperial Kitchen, so how could poisonous items still appear on her dining table?

Useless!

“Go and call for Emperor Yong’an, I have something to tell him,” she ordered.

Are these two fools of any use at all?!

Emperor Yong’an was also having dinner, and like Yao Xian, even though the food wasn’t made by Xiaomai, some tastes were good while others were bitter as coptis.

This confirmed that the problem was indeed with him and that the dishes contained poison, with some dishes tainted and others clean.

What was the meaning of this?

With some dishes tasty and others bitter, such a glaring problem was immediately apparent upon tasting.

Exposing such a major flaw, they acted so fearlessly.

Was the enemy about to make a move?

Thinking of this possibility, he immediately stood up and hurriedly went to Da’an Palace.

In Da’an Palace, Yang Wenxiao was eating the two dishes and one soup made by Xiaomai. He had the cooks from the small kitchen reheat the meat dishes from noon and serve them again.

Eating leftovers was a first for Yang Wenxiao since he had seized power.

The dish was small and the flavor rich. He couldn’t bring himself to either give away or discard the almost untouched feast laid out on the table.

Recalling the hardships of war, he had ordered the leftovers to be placed on the table.

Xiaomai and Tong Sanlang also took their seats at the table, and while the three were eating, Emperor Yong’an came in a rush and shared the abnormalities he had discovered with Yang Wenxiao, “What does it mean to make the dishes half-delicious and half-bitter?”

Xiaomai blinked and said, “Is it to let you taste only the poisoned dishes?”

After some thought, Tong Sanlang spoke up, “If the dishes made are bitter, the people from the Imperial Kitchen will definitely be punished. We can find out who made each dish by calling them in for questioning. Whoever made the tasty dishes, that person is the culprit.”

There were six head chefs in the Imperial Kitchen, and each made several dishes every meal; the one whose dishes were delicious was most likely the perpetrator.

“Not necessarily,” said Yang Wenxiao, putting down his chopsticks with a grave expression.

“This hasn’t happened before, which means all the dishes were previously poisoned. Now some are and some aren’t. Taking such a huge risk to do this might indicate the poison has accumulated sufficiently, and the enemy is ready to act.”

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