Chapter 51 What's so difficult about making money?
The next day.
Xiao Qingyuan sobered up.
He got up with a splitting headache, looked around and found himself in the study, but he had no recollection of how he got there.
"Sir, you're awake. Do you have a headache?"
Seeing him get up, Mo Ji quickly brought over a bowl and said, "This is a hangover soup that I got from the Crown Princess. Please have a bowl, and your headache will go away."
Xiao Qingyuan frowned: "Why did you go to her to get the hangover soup? You should go there less often in the future, or Yanluo will be jealous. I don't want to drink this hangover soup, so you can take it away."
Mo Ji knelt down with a thud: "My lord, I'm not speaking up for the Crown Princess, but she's really a good person. You treated her like that, and when I told her you were drunk, she immediately had someone prepare a hangover soup without saying a word!"
"If it weren't for the Crown Princess giving you the hangover soup, I don't know how uncomfortable you would have been last night, and you certainly wouldn't have woken up so quickly today."
“Master, you were so drunk last night that you were completely unconscious. Miss Chu didn’t care about you at all. She didn’t even bother to prepare a hangover soup, let alone help you up. She wouldn’t even let you rest in the inner room and insisted that I bring you to the study.”
Xiao Qingyuan's face instantly turned cold: "Mo Ji, even you've started talking badly about Yan Luo behind her back? Who taught you this? Who instructed you? My mother? Or Shen Wantang?"
Mo Ji froze: "No, sir, I was just telling the truth."
"I will only allow you to disobey me this once. If there is a next time, don't blame me for disregarding our years of master-servant relationship!"
Xiao Qingyuan suppressed his anger: "I'm so drunk I'm unconscious, you can serve me, why should Yan Luo serve me? She miscarried less than a month ago, her body is weak, she should be resting properly, how can she do the work of serving others?"
"You want her to prepare hangover soup? Where is she supposed to find that? The kitchen staff don't even listen to me anymore, do you think they'll listen to her? If she goes to the kitchen, they'll make things difficult for her!"
"And what's wrong with her letting me sleep in the study? She can't stand the smell of alcohol and is a very light sleeper, so it's perfectly reasonable for her not to let me sleep in the inner room!"
"Besides, I shouldn't have slept with her in the first place. She is the most pure and innocent woman. I haven't given her a proper title yet. How can I arbitrarily ruin her purity?"
After hearing his words, Mo Ji lowered his head.
That's it, the young master is completely beyond saving.
He felt that using the words "pure and innocent" to describe Chu Yanluo was an insult to those words.
But he dared not speak recklessly, lest he really be kicked out by the prince.
He took out a money pouch from his pocket and handed it to Xiao Qingyuan: "Young Master, this is what Second Young Master Gu left for you last night. Before he left, he said that if you need money next time, just tell him and you don't need to invite him to dinner."
Xiao Qingyuan took the bag, opened it, glanced at it, and then tossed it to Mo Ji: "He really helped me out of a pinch. Keep track of the bill, and when I have the money, I'll pay him back double."
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Xiao Qingyuan ignored the servant and stood up. After washing up and changing into clean clothes, he went to see Chu Yanluo.
Upon entering the inner room and seeing Chu Yanluo lying on the bed, he was stunned for a moment.
Her face, which had been somewhat pale a few days ago, became moist and rosy, and even her lips became full and bright red, as if she had taken some kind of magic pill and suddenly became healthy.
"Yanluo, you look so radiant today... how come you look so good?"
"Your complexion? Is it alright?"
Chu Yanluo touched her cheek: "Perhaps it's because the food was plentiful last night and I enjoyed it to the fullest!"
Xiao Qingyuan immediately felt guilty: "It's all my fault. I didn't prepare enough food for you the other day, so I didn't nourish your body properly."
Chu Yanluo was thoroughly satisfied after being tossed and turned by Yuan Zheng last night, so she became much more agreeable today: "Your Highness, there's no need to blame yourself. Yanluo eats whatever she wants. But Your Highness, you seemed quite drunk last night. Are you feeling better today?"
Xiao Qingyuan was deeply moved to see how understanding and caring she was: "I'm fine. I can hold my liquor well, so you don't need to worry."
Just then, a maid came in: "Young Master, this is what Mo Ji handed in. He said it's a silver note from Young Master Yuan for you."
Xiao Qingyuan took it and saw that the silver notes inside were twice as thick as those given by Gu Qianhan. He laughed and said, "Yanluo, look, these are silver notes Yuan Zheng gave me. It should be 20,000 taels. Now I can buy you whatever you want to eat. Yuan Zheng truly deserves to be my best brother. He's the most loyal!"
Chu Yanluo lay lazily on the bed, not even glancing at the bag of silver notes: "Your Highness knows me. I'm not interested in these things. I was just moved by Your Highness's sincerity. I feel that you are different from other men in this world. You are the most special and the one who can move my heart the most. That's why I followed you. I don't care what I eat. I'm not picky."
“However, since I am eating and staying here with the young master, and the young master has no money to use, I cannot eat and stay for free. I will pay the young master.”
Upon hearing this, Xiao Qingyuan's expression immediately turned ugly: "Yanluo, what are you saying? What do you mean by eating and living for free? What do you mean by paying me money? Do we need to be so calculating between us? I don't need you to pay me money. I can support you indefinitely. As long as you are willing to be with me, I am willing to give anything."
Chu Yanluo finally sat up and said arrogantly, "I don't need the young master to support me. I have plenty of ways to earn money. I didn't use them before because I wasn't interested in gold and silver. Now that the young master is in such a difficult situation, and you still have to swallow your pride and borrow money from others to cover your daily expenses, how can I still live here with a clear conscience?"
Xiao Qingyuan felt both guilty and remorseful: "It was really wrong of me to make you worry about these material things. It's all my fault. But don't overthink it. Yuan Zheng and Gu Qianhan are my brothers. It's no big deal to lend them some money in an emergency. They won't laugh at me, and I have nothing to be ashamed of. Anyway, they know that my father and mother are suppressing me."
Chu Yanlu snorted coldly: "I'm not talking about Young Master Yuan or Young Master Gu, I'm talking about Shen Wantang! It's fine if you borrow money from your brother, but I can't tolerate you borrowing money from Shen Wantang last time! Let me tell you, Shen Wantang has money, and so do I! Her money comes from the Prince's Mansion, but mine is all earned by myself!"
Xiao Qingyuan looked shocked: "You really know how to make money?"
"Of course! Making money is easy. I just didn't bother to make it before. Those things reek of money, who cares about them!"
Chu Yanluo took out a five-hundred-tael silver note from under her pillow and handed it to Xiao Qingyuan: "Take this and return it to Shen Wantang! Don't let it happen again. If you need money, just tell me. Don't go to her!"
This silver note was given to her by Yuan Zheng before he left last night after he had enjoyed himself in bed with all sorts of creative ways.
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