Farmer Lady of Fortune, Imperial Concubine, Don't Be Too Sweet

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Plan One – Failed

Author: 橙子澄澄

Source: Instadoses

In a dark alley diagonally opposite the Wanjin Restaurant, two figures stood against the wall, staring at each other.

After leaving the restaurant, Liu Yusheng didn't go home immediately and headed to the dim sum shop to buy some jujube flower cakes that her grandmother loved, as well as mung bean cakes that her mother and aunt liked. She also bought a few pairs of thick boots for each member of the family and fried peanuts to go with the three old men's drinks. She then went to the cloth store and weighed twenty pounds of new cotton and piled them all up into the wagon, and finally set off for home.

"Where's yours after all that shopping? Didn't you buy some for yourself?" Qian Wanjin asked.

"I don't need to buy anything for myself. Grandma and my parents as well as aunt will prepare them for me." Liu Yusheng smiled. "If I buy some for myself, they won't have the chance to perform."

She almost never bought her own stuff and was spoilt in this manner.

In the dark alley, when the two figures saw the carriage heading out of the town entrance, they dashed and quietly followed.

In the end, they even overtook the carriage and caught up to the front, choosing to hide behind a boulder.

"Da Hong (Big Red), take a quick look. How do I look in this outfit? Aren't I pretty enough? Pathetic enough?" The man pulled on his costume, insisting on fixing the tattered outfit to the most ragged, realistic, and pitiful state.

"Are you sure you want to do this?" The woman's voice was cold and emotionless.

"What else can we do? We've been watching them for over half a month. We've just picked up a chance today. It's now or never. I don't want to sleep on the street every day anymore!"

In order to play the role of a vagrant to the end, they easily reached Cangwu town, ate and slept on the streets every day. They had money but they didn't even dare to stay in an inn, for fear that one day someone would recognize them and expose their identity.

The deal was to be homeless down-and-out vagrants, so that someday, while following their new master down the street, no one would point at them and say, "Oh, I've seen you before! It's at the town inn, and you even slept in the first-class room!"

Haha, that would be embarrassing.

Their master said from the start that their target would take them in if they looked pathetic. He was now making himself more miserable than a beggar, and then planned on fainting in the middle of the cold, bitter winter – the kind that would die if he wasn't saved. If the target was really as soft-hearted and kind-hearted as the master said, she would definitely save him. By then, the snake would creep up the stick, and the rest of the story would be a piece of cake.

The sound of horseshoes drew closer.

"They're almost here. Go ahead and try it." The woman, then coldly gave the man a kick from behind, and kicked him right down the road. "Also, I told you never to call me Da Hong – Xiao Lan, Lan."

"…" Damn woman, what a backstabber. Just come out and say it! The man wanted to turn back and curse, but the carriage was already in sight. He quickly closed his eyes and tilted his head to play dead.

As for the woman, she disappeared behind the rocks and hid in a more secluded place.

"Young Master, Miss Liu, there's someone who has fainted on the side of the road ahead. Should we stop and take a look?" Da Huang was driving, and was the first to see the person lying motionless on the side of the road.