The pungent smell of green onions choked Xiao Nianzi's nose and eyes, and he sneezed a few times. Then he turned back with difficulty, looked at Gu Yunxi with red and swollen eyes, and asked, "Oh, my little madam, why do you chop so many green onions?"

"To make shortening green onion pancakes of course!"

Gu Yunxi made a valiant attempt to resist the astringent discomfort in her eyes, and put on a joyful face. She said in a low and muffled voice which sounded extremely cute with the handkerchief covering on her face, "Although the green onion smells so spicy, if it is baked into a pie with duck fat and wheat flour, it will taste crispy, soft and so delicious."

"But... "

Xiao Nianzi looked worried and spoke haltingly.

Ignorance could always be forgiven.

He expected that Gu Yunxi was the new comer and was not familiar with the Master's eating habits.

The Master had strict requirements on diet and daily life. He was such a particular person that he never allowed his clothes to be stained with dust, let alone ate such kind of food with a special smell.

He wouldn't even smell it!

Not only him, but the waiters and maids who served him did not dare to eat such kind of food when they were on duty.

While Gu Yunxi, the little madam with a fierce and charming personality, seemed to be very interested in this kind of food. After cutting the green onion, she began to peel the garlic then.

"Miss Yun, can you make something else?" Xiao Nianzi asked bitterly.

"Something else? What?"

When Gu Yunxi raised her eyelids and asked, she lifted half the veil, put a clove of garlic directly into her mouth, and chewed vigorously.

Garlic tasted particularly tangy, and it made her delicate mouth so hot and sore immediately.

Gu Yunxi endured it again and again, eating one clove after another.

"Oh my god!"

Xiao Nianzi frowned and looked at her with his eyes wide open. He couldn't help grinding his teeth then, and his wrinkled features looked so bad.

That's done it!

The little eunuch cried secretly.

He had expected to go to the Master to claim credit then, but the little madam should have eaten so much garlic!

Her stinky stench might annoy the Master then. Would I be scolded by him as well?

It seemed that I wouldn't get any reward then.

Xiao Nianzi thought with a droopy head.

Gu Yunxi saw the little eunuch's sullen and helpless face with her sharp eyes, and then she gave a cunning and slight smile.

How could she not know that Ming Lan was an authentic drama queen?

She made herself busy in the kitchen at this time, chopping green onions and chewing garlic, just to take on the unpleasant smell of her mouth and body. The smell was a shield to prevent Ming Lan from getting close to her body easily.

Originally, she wanted to protect herself by resisting bathing and changing clothes. After the plan failed, Gu Yunxi had to think about it again and make another plan.

In short, since she was trapped in the Mansion of Ming Lan, the most important thing for her was to keep herself virginal.

After the green onions were chopped, Gu Yunxi sprinkled some salt on the surface of the green onions to suppress the unpleasant smell. Then she washed a few green garlic sprouts and cut them into small pieces for later use.

Then she took out half of the pork liver, a piece of pork loin and some slices of mutton from the bamboo basket.

Gu Yunxi washed the pork liver and pork loin with alkaline water, cut them into triangular slices, and then marinated them with yellow rice wine and salt for a quarter of an hour.

During this time, Gu Yunxi wrapped the chopped green onion into the wheat flour to roll it into a big round cake, brushed it with duck fat and then baked it.

Xiao Nianzi couldn't get his hands in at all, so he rubbed his eyes and nose by the stove while watching Gu Yunxi bustle about dexterously.

Soon, a golden shortening green onion pancake was ready.

Seeing a bunch of bananas on the fruit and vegetable shelf, Gu Yunxi went over and got four of them.

She added a few handfuls of sugar and a bowl of water into the iron pan to boil them.

When the sugar liquid turned into a thick amber color, Gu Yunxi peeled the bananas, inserted bamboo chopsticks from the bottom of them, dipped the bananas into the sugar liquid in the iron pan one by one, and then placed them on the grease-coated round dish.

She turned around with the dish in her hand, and smiled at Xiao Nianzi, "Please save this dessert into the icehouse. After half an hour, it can be taken out and eaten."

Xiao Nianzi's head ached from the stinky smell of garlic from her mouth when she spoke. He took two steps back, but he did not dare to cover his nose with his hands.

Eunuch Nian took the round dish with a bitter and reluctant smile and said to Gu Yunxi with bated breath, "Okay, Madam. Go ahead please. I'll be right back."

After finishing his words, he ran out of the kitchen like a shot and disappeared in a hurry.

In the kitchen, rapeseed oil in the wok was boiling hot. Gu Yunxi mixed the sliced pork loin and liver with liquid egg white and starch, fried them until they were crispy and then took them out.

She then poured the waste oil away in the wok, and added sugar, yellow rice wine and vinegar into it to get boiled juice. Then she put the pork loin and liver slices into the wok and stirred them for a while. Then she thickened them with starchy sauce, added green garlic sprouts and minced garlic into the wok, and then the dish was ready.

Then she cleaned the wok and added oil into it again.

At the moment when the scallion-flavored mutton was born, Xiao Nianzi just turned back. When he saw the two dishes on the wooden table, he was about to cry.

Green onion pancakes, scallion-flavored mutton and stir-fried pork liver and loin were all the taboo dishes in the Mansion!

Before Gu Yunxi put the three dishes into the food box, Xiao Nianzi reached out and stopped her,

"Miss Yun, why don't you go back to your room after eating the food?"

"How does that make sense?"

Gu Yunxi knew what the little eunuch was thinking about, and her sharp eyes showed some ridicule. She raised her eyebrows and smiled coldly, staring at his panic face.

Removing the veil, she put on a puzzled look and said,

"Master Ming is still waiting for me to have lunch in the room. Do you want him to wait all the time? Besides, I am the one who he likes. I don't think it is proper to let me eat in the kitchen."

Xiao Nianzi's eyes turned dull. He lowered his arms weakly, and a cold sweat broke out on his forehead.

"The Master doesn't like these dishes."

He had no choice but to tell the truth.

While Gu Yunxi was calm and composed. She gave a sly and charming smile with slightly-curled lips, saying, "So others cannot eat them just because he doesn't like them? Since he wants to be with me, there is still a long time to go. We have to have three meals together every day, so he has to take care of my taste in food!"

"Eunuch Nian, if the girl you like enjoys the food which you hate, will you compromise for her? "

"I... "

Xiao Nianzi had nothing to say.

Her words made sense. What was more, she looked so beautiful and charming, so no one could refuse her request.

With a wry smile on his thin face, Xiao Nianzi nodded stiffly, "Okay. Okay... Do whatever you want to do. It's getting late, so let me send you back to the room. Don't keep the Master waiting too long."

"OK."

Gu Yunxi stuffed the food box into the little eunuch's hand and then sneered.

When she returned to the room, she saw Ming Lan pacing dully.

It took Gu Yunxi at least half an hour to make the food, which made him too impatient.

When she was still in the yard, a strange suffocating smell had drifted into the room.

Ming Lan's face suddenly changed, and all the hairs on his body stood up.

He never ate food which owned special smell such as green onion, ginger, garlic, fennel and chives, so he was particularly sensitive to pungent smell.

Staring blankly at Gu Yunxi, who swaggered into the room with the smell that made him nauseous, Ming Lan put on a sullen and astonished face.

"Master Ming, what's the matter with you?"

Gu Yunxi sat beside the table. Seeing Ming Lan looking at her as if she was a monster, she couldn't help smiling secretly.

Standing next to her, Xiao Nianzi put the food box on the table with a bitter face. When he was about to slip out the room silently, he was caught by the sharp-eyed Gu Yunxi.

"Come back!" She said loudly.

Xiao Nianzi's foot he had just lifted to step out of the threshold stopped where it was then.

Gu Yunxi looked at his standing on one foot as the cock did coldly, repressing a smile, and asked, "You haven't brought out the dishes in the food box yet. Where are you going when you are waiting for us?"

"..."

Xiao Nianzi looked upset, slowly turned around and walked back.

He could still feel that the Master was looking straight at him with atrocious and murderous eyes even if he didn't raise his head.

Xiao Nianzi tried his best to lower his shocked and humble face, feeling an icy cold air rushing to his back and even the heart.

He felt a sudden quiver, raised his hands tremblingly and then lifted the red lacquered lid of the food box.

At the moment, a more pungent smell came out from the dark and narrow space.

The stench was just like a fierce beast which had been struggling in a cage and dormant for a long time. Once it broke free of the shackles, it scrambled to rush out of the prison. In an instant, the smell permeated the room.

Ming Lan's face turned pale. He covered his mouth and nose with his robe sleeves desperately and withdrew several feet away swiftly.

His eyes widened in surprise, and his bright black pupils suddenly tightened due to the endless panic. He shouted hoarsely at Gu Yunxi then, "You... You... What on earth did you cook?"

Gu Yunxi looked at Xiao Nianzi who was shivering, then turned back to cast her gaze on Ming Lan who looked so frightened, and pretended to be surprised. She raised her eyebrows, and clapped her hands, "Just ordinary home-cooked dishes! Shortening green onion pancakes, stir-fried pork liver and loin and scallion-flavored mutton. By the way, there is also a dessert."

"Master Ming, stop standing there. Come and enjoy the delicious food with me! "

"!"

Ming Lan was speechless for a while. Then his limbs started trembling, and his expression was distorted and terrifying as if he had epilepsy.

The corners of his mouth twitched a few times, and then he said with difficulty, "Gu Yunxi!"

Xiao Nianzi was too fearful to stand still. Gu Yunxi hadn't done anything yet, but he had been so frightened that he knelt on the ground with his heart beating like a drum.

These dishes were taboos for the Master. Even if he did not cook them by himself, he was present when Gu Yunxi was cooking. Since he did not stop her in time, he would be considered guilty as well.

He wouldn't get any rewards certainly and it would be lucky for him not to get the caning or kneel on tiles.

Gu Yunxi curled her lips in disapproval, put the dishes in the food box on the table, and poured two cups of wine then.

Picking up a cup of wine, she got up with a clear smile and said in a soft and gentle tone, "Master Ming, let me toast you with this cup of wine. Come and be with me! You said that I could cook whatever I like just now.

I have made some standing dishes. If you don’t like them, just don't eat them. Come on!"

Ming Lan suddenly felt so helpless, wishing to slap himself.

He was fooled by this cunning lady again!

What kind of evil acts did he commit in his last life on earth? Why should he have met such a scheming girl in this life?

However, he just loved her so much and couldn't let her go. He always tossed and turned for her at night, which was really painful.

He couldn't remember how he walked to the table step by step and sat down then.

When he returned to his senses, his eyes were filled with Gu Yunxi's bright smile.

She was holding the rolled green onion pancake in one hand, with shiny ghee oozing between her fingers.

"It's so fragrant! So soft! So delicious!"

Gu Yunxi bit the pancake and her mouth was full of oil then.

"Hey, Master Ming, don’t just look at me. Have some! The stir-fried pork liver and loin is sweet and sour. It's so appetizing. And the green onion in the mutton is so yummy."

Gu Yunxi was talking nonstop while gnawing on the pancake. She swallowed the scallions in the mutton, and then picked up the garlic sprouts and minced garlic with the chopsticks. The stench from her mouth fell on Ming Lan's face directly.

Minglan looked so dull opposite with pale eyes. He could only eat the cold white rice, dumbstruck.

Suddenly, the rice choked his throat. Ming Lan tried to swallow it and then stood up quickly, followed by Xiao Nianzi.

As if being stimulated by something fierce, they two rushed out of the room in haste.

The air in the yard was so fresh!

They two faced each other, bending over and beating their own chests. After they breathed for a long time greedily, their pale faces gradually returned to normal.

It was so good to be saved!

As soon as they got relaxed, Gu Yunxi's anxious voice sounded in the room like an alarming soul-attracting bell ringing in the middle of the night.

"Eunuch Nian, my dessert is ready. Please go to the icehouse and fetch it for me."