Chapter 21: No Money for Food, True Lord
"This is not divination at all, this is a means of business operation. This is a shameful cheating behavior!"
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Mona was so angry that she trembled and almost had the urge to pick up the wine jug and wave it at Gu Sanqiu's face.
"This is divination. It's just a possibility, but I chose another way to achieve the result I want."
Gu Sanqiu said with a smile: "Perhaps, you can say this is a kind of commercial divination secret method?"
"There's no such thing as divination!"
"Yes, I created it."
Gu Sanqiu said something in a matter-of-fact tone that made Mona's blood pressure rise to the maximum.
"Incredible, is this the incense burner of this generation of the Gu family?"
"Yes, this is the modern incense burner. You don't think that our Gu family is all weird and old-fashioned, do you?"
Gu Sanqiu smiled, took out another wine glass and placed it in front of Mona.
"I'll buy you a drink."
"I don't drink. Drinking will affect my control over my destiny."
"This is not wine, it's a drink."
Gu Sanqiu shook it and said, "Do you understand what a double-gull kettle is? I can drink alcohol or beverages if I want."
Mona hesitated for a moment: "Well, I hope you won't joke with me about such a small matter."
The wine jug was tilted, and the black juice made a "hissing" sound as it poured into the cup.
Mona's expression froze. Just when she was about to ask the other party what he gave her to drink, a fragrant sweet smell entered her nostrils.
"What a sweet taste, how much sugar did you put in this ."
Mona raised the cup and sniffed it, then said in shock: "This much sugar is enough to support a normal person's daily consumption."
"This is not a drink, this is a precious energy supplement!"
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"…I don't have the heart to tell you the truth, but I still want to say that this is just an ordinary drink."
I always feel like I have gotten a glimpse of how miserable Mona's daily life is.
The reputation of the man who has no money to eat is well -deserved.
If this wine flask was not a normal item he bought in Liyue Harbor, Gu Sanqiu would have suspected that he had encountered some classic plot in urban novels, where he could get a great bargain by buying anything at random, such as something that would turn into fine wine after pouring water into it.
But the contents inside are definitely not ordinary drinks.
Item: Coca Cola
Source: A creature in a secret place whose bones and muscles are made of cola and whose flesh and blood are made of wine.
Note: The more ferocious the creature, the mellower the taste of the cola wine brewed in its body. It can be drunk separately by using a double-gallon pot. Of course, there are also people who like the unique taste of cola wine.
"Um, could you please give me more of this energy supplement? It's really important to me."
Mona was a little embarrassed: "Although I know that it is a bit too much to ask you to give me such a precious thing on our first meeting, but I still..."
"Okay, that's enough."
Gu Sanqiu interrupted the other person and took out a full bottle of Coke from his arms and handed it to him.
"This contains a pure drink, which is what you call an energy supplement. I'll give it to you without any additional conditions."
If things continue like this, Gu Sanqiu is afraid that he might suddenly come up with something weird like "using black stockings to pay off debts".
He didn't want to be included in Yan Fei's textbook on "Liyue's Special Cases in the Past Ten Years".
"Is this really for me? Thank you so much!"
Mona took the Coke pot happily, and then gently drew a spell with her right hand.
"Well, there is nothing inside. The Fengxiang people are really all upright gentlemen."
"Why are you so skilled? Hey, don't tell me that someone has used this method to do something bad to you before..."
Gu Sanqiu's face twitched. He originally thought that Zhenjun was just joking about not having money to eat, and not many outsiders knew this key information.
Now it seems... Could it be that someone has already figured out how to win over, or even abduct, this astrologer?
But kidnapping is kidnapping, and if Mona wants to deal with them, they'd better be prepared to face the punishment of an excellent astrologer.
"No, no, no, this is not a question of proficiency or not. These are abilities that an outstanding young girl should possess."
When talking about this topic, Mona looked at Gu Sanqiu with a rather complacent look, which roughly meant something like "I have walked more roads than you have tasted salt."
"Including the fact that it's easy to go hungry when you're out on the road?"
You are right, this is no longer a question of whether you can have enough food to eat, but whether you can have food to eat.
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"Am I so obvious?"
“It’s not a question of whether it’s obvious or not.”
Gu Sanqiu was considering his wording. Although he was a cosmic alloy-level straight man, he still had the emotional intelligence to save face for the opposite sex he met for the first time.
"It's that this message is written clearly on your face."
Well, wording failed.
"Hmm, so that's how it is."
Mona drew circles with her fingers in frustration: "I don't want to use divination to make money for myself, so most of the time my wallet is empty and I don't have any extra income."
Is this the “girl who has been wandering the world for years”? Gu Sanqiu took a sip of wine silently.
If this were an achievement item in a game, it would definitely be a weird type, designed specifically to mess with the player's mentality.
"By the way, you should be quite strong, right? Why don't you go to the Adventurer's Association and sign up for a job?"
"Even if there is no mercenary group to fight monsters, those tasks of collecting and finding lost items should be very easy for you."
"I know you don't intend to make money from divination, but to do these simple tasks, it is enough to rely on your powerful intuition as an astrologer."
"No... Whenever I go to the Adventurer's Guild, there are so many people who want to ask me for divination. In the end, I might not even get any quests and be harassed by a bunch of bored guys."
Mona gritted her teeth and said, "And those extremely outrageous young masters in Liyue specifically hired people to wait for me in various places, just to treat me to a meal?"
"You must be joking. I am the great astrologer Astrologius Mona Megistus. Don't I know what they are planning?"
Gu Sanqiu choked, then looked at Mona speechlessly.
"Since you know what they want to do, why don't you just go and have a good meal, then find a chance to counter them and run away?"
"No, an astrologer has self-respect. I will not do such a dirty thing just to satisfy my appetite!"
"So how on earth can you say such positive things when you are hungry..."
Gu Sanqiu shook his head: "Then let me ask you a question that does not involve divination."
"You wanted to ask me about the stone at the beginning. Was it your personal desire to know, or was there someone behind it?"
"Just because I want to know, because fate has shown fluctuations in that object."
Mona said, "I have seen too many stable and solid destinies. Being able to observe those erratic and even bizarre destinies will help improve my abilities."
"I see."
Gu Sanqiu was very satisfied with this answer. At least this answer was in line with Mona's character and it was not the kind of reason that sounded like nonsense.
So he threw out a silver note.
"Here is 10,000 Mora. It's for your living expenses. Consider it as payment for answering your questions."
[Gu Sanqiu] rewarded [Mona] with 10,000 Mora.
"One, one, one, ten thousand?!"
