Chapter 210 – The Slave Emperor

Dong Fan tea house is losing some money and getting less customer. It is because their claim to have the same cake as the Peach tea house is fraud.

They are getting the chef from the Peach tea house under Mr Zhou, but none of them can replicate the dessert made by Peach tea house.

If they keep losing the customer then Madame Song can’t find more client to extort the money. They even did not have a single customer in two days of the release of the pastry shop.

Dong Fan is managing to scare the chef with their family, and it did not successful because the cake come from another place.

“I told you so many times, I do not know the recipe when the cake made by a lady from Ni Family,” The chef is kneeling in front of Don Fan and all his underling.

“What are you doing in the shop? You are their chef and you supposedly to cook some food for the guest. Why is it changing when you work for my tea house?” dong fan is getting angry with the chef. He can’t do anything when his family in the hand of this vicious man.

“The quality of the ingredient is so different, and you do not have most of the spices that I request. How can you ask me the same dishes when I only have a rotten stuff to cook?” The chef is telling him the reality. He really can’t create miracle when most of the ingredient make no sense to cook.

“I just start the business, so I have to be really careful with the cost. You have to do as I say or your family wait for you in heaven,” Dong Fan told him and sign his underling to put him back to the kitchen.

He has been kept locked up in the kitchen with tight security and he will be getting the stuff he ordered to the kitchen.

Now, he has to find a window to sneak out and ask help from Mr Zhou for saving his family. He will bet the safety of his family for his loyalty to the tea house.

He also did not know the condition of his family. So far, he only knows about his family that getting kidnap. He never meets with them or know about their condition.

As expected, as soon as the pastry supplied less on the shop. The customer is getting crazy about it. they already queueing in front of the shop early in the morning even the shop not yet open.

‘TODAY PASTRY HAS CLOSED DUE TO THE EVENT ON LIN BANK OPENING. THEY ARE GIVING OUT PEACH PASTRY CAKE ON THEIR HAPPY OCCAISON.’

The pastry cake shop is giving out the big announcement. Many of the customer is rushing to the bank.

They are queueing in front of the bank just for the taste of the pastry from Ni Qing’s hand.

“ANNOUNCEMENT. IF YOU WANT TO HAVE A PIECES OF PASTRY THEN YOU HAVE TO DEPOSIT AND OPEN AN ACCOUNT IN LIN BANK FOR A MINIMUM OF TWO SILVER SYCEE.”

As soon as the announcement has been put up many of the people line up to put in their money into the bank.

Ni Qing is making double the batch for the bank opening so people who already hook up with the taste of her pastry and dessert.

There is even Crown Prince Yin invest his money in the bank for almost a chest of gold ingot in change for the set of the dessert from the bank.

He even book 10 box of safe to get another set of dessert. Lin Yue is on the bank with Zhao Yu to oversee the operation of the bank.

The rumour of the opening is going around in the capital city. The prime minister is sending two box of gold ingots to support the bank and rent five boxes of safes.

His wife is loving the texture of Ni Qing pastry who is out of the world in term of the taste. No one in the continent can beat the hand of the dessert queen.

Ni Qing is in the kitchen and work tirelessly to create the dessert because tomorrow is the last day for the same set of the dessert.

They will do the same way to attract the customer, but this time is the dry food stock next to the bank.

They can’t do the same opening in the same day, but they will need to separate them within the day.

The daily regimes for Jin Yu after he finishes with the court paperwork in the study, he will go to the kitchen and replacing Ni Qing to knead the dough.

Ni Qing will commanding the whole kitchen, and everyone are working in harmony. It is including eunuch Li and Eunuch Wang have to work in the kitchen with their emperor.

They have to make around one thousand pieces of pastry and work in fast speed to be able to keep up with the schedule.

Brother Ah Seh is making progress and take charge with the market vendor, include Tong Po. He is making them to pay the rent and security money.

Ni Qing is sending a set of the old series dessert and the new series of dessert to brother Ah Seh under the name of Long Man.

He is really keen with the person called Long Man who dare to steal his heart. He even wants to convert into having the unspoken relationship with man.

Brother Ah Seh is sending another letter back to his sweetheart for a gratitude of the pastry. He is actually not really like with the pastry, but he is going to eat it.

He is smiling to see the whole set of pastry in front of him. He is eating those while crying to taste the love.

He is going to work hard to help Long Man and the emperor to settle the problem in the capital. As long as his sweetheart is happy. Ah Tio is peeking from the door of his boss study and scared with his boss reaction.

He still can’t get over when his boss tries to kiss him on his lips. He is not wanting to get closer to his boss lately after the kiss.

Ni Qing is getting the letter from brother Ah Seh in the kitchen. She is smiling to read the letter and giggling for the love letter.

Jin Yu is seeing her from the corner of his eyes come closer and snatch the letter from her hand. He is reading the content before he makes the paper crumble and tossed it on the bin.

“That is my letter. Why are you throwing it on the bin?” Ni Qing is complaining with her husband about the letter tossing.

“How dare you to read and happy for the love letter from another man?” Jin Yu is looking at her so sternly.

“He is not sending it to me as a woman but to Long Man. He is falling in love with Long Man and not Ni Qing,” She said it in protest to her husband.

“it still not acceptable. I will not allow anyone to send you a love letter,” Jin Yu still not allowed her to get any love letter from anyone.

“Okay! Can you continue your station and work before we are behind? We are still need more pastry for tomorrow,” Ni Qing is pushing her husband to be back to the kitchen while she is sitting down and cutting some fruit.

“This is the first time for this nation an emperor work as a slave. The only empress who dares to make the emperor to work labour,” Jin Yu is making comment before start again to knead the dough with his hand before measuring it to the same shapes.

The prime minister is coming into the empress palace with consort Liang. They are bringing something for the empress after all the pastry.

The smell of the pastry from the kitchen smacked their face with the delicious smell. It is not easy to be able to get the fresh handmade pastry by Ni Qing.

“Come in. I have packed for madame the pastry and for the pregnant lady. Get the pastry before it goes into the shop tomorrow,” Ni Qing is telling them when telling Xiao Nie to get the two pack container for them.

“Your highness, are you not worry for the court again? You are really changing your occupation from the nation ruler into the kitchen slave,” The prime minister is telling the emperor for the view in front of him.

“I have to act as rumoured.. I am bewitched by the empress, so I have to bother you to stay longer alone in the court,” Jin Yu is telling him without any remorse or regret to leave the court to the prime minister.