Princess Nanping pulled Li Qingluo to sit by the fire. "Ignore her. I didn't want her to come at all, but she's my cousin. If she just goes and acts coquettishly in front of my father, it's like the girls in our princess's mansion are all hers."
Princess Nanping pouted, still having the mentality of a child.
Li Qingluo patted her head and reached out to take the plate of snacks he had prepared for Princess Nanping from Que'er.
"Would you like to try it?"
Nanping picked it up and stuffed it into her mouth. The personal nanny beside her was shocked. She had no time to stop her and say to test it for poison first. Her young master swallowed it whole!
After all, these things are for the entrance, and they are not even careful with their young master!
If something bad happens, won’t the *** make them lose their heads?
The maids looked nervous, but Nanping said, "This is so delicious! Sister Luo'er, what did you use to make it? It's so smooth, sweet but not greasy, and melts in your mouth. It's even better than the cakes made in our princess's mansion. I want some more!"
Seeing that she liked it, Li Qingluo smiled.
“It’s made with taro.”
Que'er added, "Your Highness, this is something our girl made for you early in the morning. She told you to try it and then sell it in her restaurant."
Princess Nanping was very excited: "Restaurant? Sister Luo'er, are you going to open a restaurant?"
Li Qingluo: "The opening is set for the 25th at the Zhenxiu Tangguo Restaurant on Chengxi Street. If the princess doesn't mind, why not come and enjoy the restaurant that day? I'll treat you to some hotpot and more cakes."
Li Qingluo's voice was neither loud nor soft, just enough for the women present to hear.
Nanping happily agreed and ate two more pieces.
A cold sneer rang out from the side, dampening the mood. "How shameless! With something like that happening at home, you still have the nerve to continue hanging around in public. Furthermore, a lady of such stature would actually degenerate into a businessman. She's truly from the bottom of her heart. Don't you even know how to write the word 'shameful'?"
Li Qingluo knew without looking up that it was Pan Li's voice.
Someone immediately followed her and said, "Yes, if I were her, I would have been hanged to death at home. How dare she come out like this?"
"Her family's scandals have spread like wildfire throughout Jinling City. Who wouldn't know about them? The reputation of the women in the general's mansion has long been rotten."
"I heard that the Zhongyi Marquis' Mansion no longer mentions the marriage between the two families."
"Who would dare to marry their daughter?"
"What a shame! She's even making such a fuss about the restaurant's business. What decent girl would do something like that?"
Li Qingluo: "Is your mother really not doing business anymore? Is she no longer a respectable woman?"
The ladies in the inner houses of wealthy families all own several dozen or even dozens of shops.
Some are just rented out, but don’t most families have any business?
This is tacit understanding.
But if I bring it up and talk about it, it would be embarrassing?
Li Qingluo continued to warm herself by the fire, saying calmly, "You've gotten away with it now. How is it that the person who used to be as close to Liu Qingzhu as a sister isn't you anymore?"
"If we're talking about hanging, I think it would be more appropriate for you to go first."
"After all, you and her are much closer than the other girls in our general's mansion. Isn't this something known to everyone in Jinling City?"
"Don't tell me, you really don't know anything about the ugly things she did?"
Pan Li and the others immediately looked unhappy. When they thought about what Liu Qingzhu had done and who she had done it to, they immediately felt extremely ashamed and angry.
"How do we know what she does?"
"We don't live with her all the time!"
Li Qingluo: "Then what does her scandal have to do with me?"
"Liu Qingzhu and I were born by mistake. She has enjoyed all the glory in my family for so many years. How can I be implicated in the scandals she committed?"
"As for the reputation of the other daughters of our General's Mansion, since she is not a daughter of our Li family, there is naturally no question of her being implicated!"
Pan Li angrily said, "Stop quibbling! This is a matter of upbringing in the General's Mansion..."
Li Qingluo: "What can I say?"
She turned to look at Pan Li, her eyes cold and sharp. "Since I returned home, I have been personally raised by my grandmother, who had been in seclusion for many years and had just returned home. It has only been half a year, so my reputation is really irrelevant."
"But anyone with eyes that can tell right from wrong can't blame my grandmother!"
"As for the rest, how do you know it's others who don't want the marriage, not my family?"
"Besides, I just make some money with my own ability. After all, I'm not like you guys who have been living in luxury since childhood and have gold, silver and other things at your fingertips. I came from a poor family and have never seen money before. So I have a narrow vision and don't know what it means to be embarrassed."
Li Qingluo responded to every word without any politeness, which made Pan Li and others' eyes and noses almost crooked with anger.
"you--!"
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