Chapter 20 - Principles of Making Money (1/2)

“But…..”

Dai Yue puckered her little face in a very aggrieved way. “You like Fifth Prince so much. Now that you’ve been divorced, I know you find it difficult to bear. It’s just that you don’t want the side madam to be able to tell, that’s all.”

Increasingly sensing that this girl was truly worried for her, Luo Qing Luan tenderly patted her shoulder, then grinned. “Dai Yue, look at me, do I look like someone who’s heartbroken and depressed?”

“But My Lady……”

“Stop with the buts!”

Luo Qing Luan pulled Dai Yue towards their room. “Let me tell you. Your mistress, I, will absolutely not like Nangong Chen, that useless man, in the future. In order to celebrate my separation with that waste of a man and my return to unmarried freedom, let’s go, Dai Yue, we’ll go out to play.

After properly putting away the newly written book, Luo Qing Luan brought Dai Yue, changed to men’s clothes as before, and left the mansion.

Leaving the cage-like General’s Mansion, they watched the crowd on main street bustling with activity. Luo Qing Luan was like a small bird taking flight, her mood lifting high up.

Dai Yue was dressed like a book boy*. She combed a knot on top of her head wrapped with a strip of cloth, dressed in coarse dark clothes, beaming with joy like before.

(*TN: In ancient times, wealthy scholars would employ a boy to carry books for them.)

“My Lady, are we also going to eat sweet rice balls and steamed pot-stickers, and steamed dumplings again today?” When she recalled those delicious foods they ate last time, she couldn’t help but salivate.

“You want to eat those things again?” Luo Qing Luan took a glance at the drooling Dai Yue and she couldn’t help but knock on her head. “Be a bit mature, will you? Follow me, has your taste level really not improved at all?”

Dai Yue rubbed her head miserably. “Then My Lad…uh, Young Master, what is a taste, taste level?” These words sounded very strange, so she couldn’t figure it out at all.

How to explain this?

Luo Qing Luan scanned the areas around her and pointed to a very distant place, at an exquisite, magnificient, five storied rosewood structure with eaves which seemed to be flying. “You see that? Wait until I make some money, then we’ll go to there to eat and drink our fill, what do you think?

All of the shops in the surrounding area were only one story high. It’s already not bad if they were two stories high. Once Dai Yue looked there, her eyes lighted up and she nodded repeatedly. “En, very very good. The food there must be very tasty! Young Master, let’s hurry and make some money.”

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Hundred Taste Study’s Boss Li was already waiting for Luo Qing Luan’s arrival early on.