Chapter 28 (2/2)

He left a letter to the widow, and the next morning, he went back to the palace. In the letter, he said that he went out to travel the lands for a while and would return after that.

Yingda sent the letter to the courtyard. Chu Yue had intended to go over to make food the next day, so she opened the door and saw the letter early in the morning.

When she read the contents, her expression turned dark.

Was the monk throwing a tantrum at her now? He was telling her not to go over?

‘Fine, if you don’t want me to go, I won’t! I don’t care about you!’

Once Hupo got up, Chu Yue said, “Hupo, it’s boring staying at the mountain all the time. Let’s go out and take a stroll.” .

What should she do when she was angry with her boyfriend?

The worst plan would be to stew in her room. A slightly better plan would be to turn that anger into a ravenous appetite and start binge eating. An even better plan would be to go out and buy stuff, and the best plan would be to go with the even better plan, but also add fooling around to it.

Prince Qin did not give her a lot of money. It was only fifty taels of silver. But if she added the silver she had been earning, it would be enough for her to have fun.

Hupo wanted to stop her. “Milady, it’s snowing and very cold outside. Besides, we don’t have a carriage.”

“It’s nothing major. We can just hire a carriage,” Chu Yue said.

She was worried about letting Hupo hire a carriage on her own, so she went down the mountain together with her. The master-servant duo walked for a long time before they arrived at the nearest town.

They did indeed have carriages.

“Where is the closest city?” Chu Yue asked directly.

“That would be Xiang City. You’ll reach it in half a day,” the carriage driver said. “Xiang City will be celebrating its ice sculpture festival tomorrow. It’s the liveliest day in Xiang City.”

“Let’s go there.” So Chu Yue brought Hupo to that place.

Just as the carriage driver said, they reached Xiang City in just half a day. Chu Yue led Hupo to the largest restaurant, and they rented a room there.

Even though it was a little expensive, it was safe and had great reputation.

“It’s cold. Why did you come here, Milady?” Hupo brought hot water for her mistress.

Chu Yue washed her face and thought in her heart that she was there to seek entertainment and be happy. But right then, she was not in the mood to go out. She had been sitting in a carriage for most of the day, and her butt was about to become numb.

“Clean up a little. Then, we’ll go out and have steamboat for dinner,” Chu Yue said.

Steamboat and hot pots provided the same type of food through different methods. It was absolutely great to eat them during this season.

The ingredients in the mountain were limited. They did not have mutton or anything of that degree. She could only get some pork ribs or make some dried meat and sausages.

Hupo went out with her mistress, but she was not quite used to ordering things to eat in public. “Milady, should we ask them to bring the food into our room?”

“We’re going to be staying here for a few days. I don’t want our room to smell like steamboat,” Chu Yue said.

“Then, we can ask for a private room,” Hupo said.

Chu Yue just let her do whatever she wanted. But the private rooms in the hotel were not really isolated private rooms. The staff just used two screens to separate an area from others.

When an employee brought them to a private room, the other rooms around them were already filled, and they were all full of men.

Hupo felt extremely uneasy.

But Chu Yue did not mind. “Why are you worried? We have screens separating us.”

Then, she said to the employee, “Give us a steamboat and two plates of yearling mutton.”

The employer took note of her orders and made some recommendations. “My dear customer, would you like peach blossom wine? It won’t make you drunk, and it tastes like dessert. Many of our female customers like it.”