LOT – Chapter 204 The Grand Tutor Delivers Vegetables

The Grand Tutor stared at the mud-covered monkey in front of him—so caked with dirt it hardly resembled a human—and truly did not know what to say.

The most important thing was that there was an entire group of mud monkeys behind her, all similarly unrecognizable. These must also be the children of some important families… right?

How on earth did they end up like this with Lin Mo?!

“Little Lord Lin, what happened to you all? Why are you walking back on your own? Didn’t you have a carriage?”

Lin Mo answered brightly, “Our carriage ran away. The coachman went after it—he should be able to get it back.”

The Grand Tutor: …Your carriage ran off and you’re this happy?

Lin Mo glanced at his large carriage, and suddenly inspiration struck.

“Grand Tutor, you’re heading back to the capital, right? Could you help us take these lotus roots back with you?”

People definitely couldn’t get on—there were twenty-odd of them—but lotus roots could be loaded.

The others all looked at the Grand Tutor with sparkling eyes. Faced with a crowd of filthy mud monkeys, he found the words of refusal stuck in his throat.

Half a stick of incense later, the Grand Tutor looked numbly at the huge and small sacks now stuffed into his carriage.

He was squeezed out to sit on the outside with the coachman—there wasn’t even a place to put a foot inside.

Because they didn’t want the lotus roots to get mixed up, Lin Mo even borrowed brush and ink from the Grand Tutor so everyone could write their name on their own sack, along with which residence it should be delivered to.

The Grand Tutor’s attendant sat to the coachman’s left, the Grand Tutor sat on the right, and the three of them looked extremely awkward—especially the coachman.

“Why did I agree to this…? There’s still such a long way to go. Why did I bring this suffering on myself…”

The Grand Tutor deeply regretted it. Those sacks had made his entire carriage reek. Now it smelled of swampy mud—a foul, pungent odor.

Lin Mo and the others, once their hands were freed, were immediately overjoyed.

The whole group turned into wild monkeys freshly released from the mountains, running around the road in utter chaos.

Maybe being covered in mud had freed their suppressed natures. Maybe because their faces were hidden and no one could recognize them, they were going completely feral—playing wildly, running wildly.

Whenever they met anyone along the way, they enthusiastically greeted them, even strangers.

Lin Mo shook her head at the sight.【See? Isn’t this great? Why suppress themselves so much? Doesn’t that feel awful?】

Bai Xiao: 【Of course it feels awful, but not everyone is like you. Your parents and brothers and sisters treat you well, your family imposes no strict rules. But some of them aren’t so lucky. Some families have hundreds of rules—rules for eating, dressing, living, walking—everything must follow protocol.】

Lin Mo sucked in a sharp breath. 【Rules for eating, dressing, living, and walking? What kind of life is that? Even the palace doesn’t have that many rules.】

Bai Xiao: 【Who knows? The palace does have many rules, but most are just decorative now. After all, with so few people in the harem, who are the rules for?】

(Xuande Emperor: I feel like you’re subtly insulting me.)

The young masters and ladies traveling with them also felt uncomfortable hearing this. Some of their parents were open-minded, but some really did impose countless rules.

Some couldn’t even go out and play without begging the family many times. Little Lord Lin truly was enviable.

When the Grand Tutor arrived in the capital, he began delivering lotus roots to each household.

The first stop was the Lin family.

Seeing two huge sacks of lotus roots being carried down by his men, the Lin family members were stunned.

What were these enormous sacks? Why were they covered in mud? And why was the Grand Tutor delivering them?

The Grand Tutor explained, “These are the lotus roots Little Lord Lin and Young Master Bai dug up. Their carriage ran off, so they couldn’t return. I happened to run into them on the road, so I brought their things back. You should send someone to pick them up quickly.”

The Lin family: ???

Weren’t they going to pick lotus flowers? How did it turn into digging lotus roots?!

Seeing their confused expressions, the Grand Tutor wiped his sweat. “I won’t stay. There are still several families left—I’ll go ahead.”

Lin Shangshu had wanted to invite the Grand Tutor in to ask what exactly had happened, but the moment the Grand Tutor sat beside the coachman, the coachman drove off at once.

Lin Shangshu: …

Why does it feel like the Grand Tutor has changed? Why does he seem to have gained the same aura as that little rascal in their family?

The Grand Tutor repeated the same explanation at every house.

Everyone looked confused at first, but once they heard Lin Mo had been present, the whole thing seemed perfectly reasonable.

Lotus roots? Dug personally by their own children? commendable!

Also, they hadn’t caused Little Lord Lin to eat their family’s melon—commendable again!

These days, people loved eating others’ melons but feared their own being eaten.

Some families sent people to pick them up, but they underestimated the group’s speed.

They were running and playing and thus arrived sooner than expected.

The city guards saw the large troop of mud monkeys and were utterly bewildered.

“You lot—where are you coming from? Do you have entry permits? Without permits you cannot enter the capital.”