Chapter 51: Get lost! Chatting is not cheating (1 / 2)
The Crown Prince paced over, patted the Minister of Justice on the shoulder, and said, “My condolences?”
After all, he’d heard that the Minister’s wife had married beneath her station. She was strong-willed, not one to be bullied, and doted on by her family. The Minister of Justice had no choice but to swallow this bitter pill.
Tsk, tsk. No wonder Xu Yanmiao was so impressed—these monks really knew how to pick their clients.
[And there’s more! The wife didn’t just go herself; she even recommended it to her closest friends, who then recommended it to their friends, and so on.]
[I’m dying! So that’s how the temple’s reputation spread by word of mouth!]
Only a few could still laugh at this point—mostly Xu Yanmiao. Several ministers, however, began to recall that their wives were friends with the Minister’s wife—or friends of her friends—or friends of her friend’s friends…
Xu Yanmiao continued flipping through gossip, then suddenly had an epiphany.
[“Yulong Temple… Hahaha, I get it now. Yulong! Hahaha! What a ‘Yulong’ Temple indeed!”]
“Pfft—cough, cough, cough—”