Gasp! She's a Time Traveler Using Modern Tech to Improve Ancient Life-Chapter 573 - 571: Breakfast Together

The next day, warm sunlight filtered through the curtains into the room, waking Lin Wanwan.

This rented small courtyard didn’t have curtains to block the light, so once the sun was up, the room was very bright, reminding Lin Wanwan’s biological clock.

But she didn’t want to get up yet, leaning against the headboard, she took out her phone to check today’s news.

Checking the hot searches daily had become a habit for Lin Wanwan in modern times. In the vast Huaxia, you could really find all kinds of birds. Sometimes the things in the news were more bizarre than novels because news didn’t need logic.

As she was browsing, a trending topic caught Lin Wanwan’s eye, #Decode an Oracle Bone Script and Get 100,000#!

Ah! If she had traveled to the Shang Dynasty, she would definitely exploit all the oracle bone scripts!

If only the Space-Time Gate could upgrade to visit other dynasties or years, she also wanted to meet Li Bai and Bai Juyi!

She needed to work harder to transport rare plants and animals over, to fuel the Space-Time Gate!

However, even now if she went to the Zhen Guan Period of the Tang Dynasty, perhaps she could ask those great figures!

At least the Tang Dynasty is fourteen hundred years closer to the Shang than the present!

While being in Chang’an, full of great figures and geniuses, Lin Wanwan decided to seize the opportunity to ask, as there’s money to be made, why not pick it up, plus she could gain a reputation as an ancient literature expert in modern times.

Ah! Last year she met the big scholar Cao Xian in philology but didn’t properly seek his advice, he might have researched those oracle bone scripts!

A missed opportunity!

Lin Wanwan suddenly felt a heartache, not plucking the wool felt worse than losing money, since she was clearly just a step away from the small fortune.

Making legitimate money in the modern world was too hard, all opportunities to get rich quick are written in the laws.

In the Great Tang, due to the backward communications and the general lack of knowledge among the common people, Lin Wanwan found it easy to deal in goods, but modern times were different.

In the era of big data, people are as transparent as glass, reselling antique treasures and wood or stone carries certain risks.

She had dabbled a bit in betting on wood and made a minor name for herself in the industry, but then she noticed she was being watched and quickly got out.

Now most of the Yellow Flower Pear Wood and Golden Phoebe from the Tang Dynasty were still piled up in her warehouse at Lin Family Manor.

Having treasures but unable to cash them out, Lin Wanwan felt as troubled as Zhao Dehan, who lived thriftily despite holding high office.

He had walls of cash he could only seal inside the walls, while she had rooms full of gold and jade artifacts and precious woods that could only be stored in the Great Tang’s warehouses.

〒_〒 The speed of cashing out in the Yongtang shops was far behind Lin Wanwan’s desire to get rich. 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝚠𝕖𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝕖𝚕.𝚌𝗼𝗺

Perhaps, she could follow Lu Shouyue’s venture capital? It seemed Wang Bocheng invested alongside Lu Shouyue.

Forget it, forget it, better not.

Lin Wanwan lay in bed lost in thought for a while, when suddenly her stomach grumbled.

She paused to recall the state of her refrigerator, it seemed not even tomatoes were left, only eggs and noodles.

Lin Wanwan didn’t like simple egg noodles, and mainly, she was too lazy to get up and cook.

So Lin Wanwan opened the delivery app to find nearby breakfast deliveries.

Various kinds of porridge, she didn’t like.

Spicy soup, she didn’t like.

Steamed rice cakes, she didn’t like.

Beef pancakes and twisted cruller tea, she dared not eat.

As she was scrolling, the phone rang, and she checked the caller, it was Lu Shouyue.

"Hello, Teacher Lu, up so early?"

From the other end came Lu Shouyue’s low and gentle voice, "Wanwan, are you awake? I’ve prepared breakfast, let’s eat together."

Though he asked a question, there was no inquiry in his tone.

Lin Wanwan quickly washed up, went to open the door with a fresh face, and saw not only Lu Shouyue waiting but two chefs pushing food carts, wearing hats with the Time Hotel logo.

Alright, indeed very capitalist.

In terms of "eating," Lu Shouyue had always been particular; if in Yongcheng, generally every meal he’d go find Jie Yuting. Hiring a local chef when out of town wasn’t surprising.

However, seeing the Time Hotel chefs also puzzled the still sleepy Lin Wanwan, "Teacher Lu, is there a Time Hotel in the Ancient City too? Then why did you still—"

The rest of the words were swallowed back by Lin Wanwan as she realized the reason, why rent next door, need that even be asked?

Why bring it up and make everyone awkward!

Lu Shouyue smiled and said, "Wanwan, here’s the freshest bluefin tuna flown in, just off the auction, I remember you like this stuff."

"Oh, yes, I do." Lin Wanwan hurriedly stepped aside to let them in, "Teacher Lu, you prepared so much for just one breakfast?"

Lu Shouyue laughed, "As the saying goes, ’Breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dine like a pauper.’ The plan of a day lies in the morning; breakfast can’t be neglected."

Lin Wanwan giggled, "Only capitalists can afford this, working folks don’t have time for all this, a few more minutes of sleep is more important than breakfast."

Lu Shouyue leisurely said, "True, for those who must sleep in till seven, breakfast is indeed hard."

Lin Wanwan: "..."

Suspicious you’re implying something about me, and I have evidence!

When staying at Lu Shouyue’s place in Hai City for half a month, she basically got up at seven every day.

Heaven knows, this was already an early time she picked because she was embarrassed to be too lazy while staying at someone else’s place, and yet she still got called a late riser!

Lin Wanwan recalled Xiao Chong, who practiced martial arts before dawn, thinking secretly: see, the scariest thing is someone smarter than you working even harder.

"Wanwan, here are soup dumplings and pan-fried dumplings, the fillings are fresh from South American ranches, very green, would you like some? Also, this beef pancake is nice, a specialty breakfast of the Ancient City, choose what you like."

Lin Wanwan stood by Lu Shouyue watching the chefs laying out the table for her to choose ingredients.

Besides the beef and tuna, there was a tray of many side dishes, like radish, tomato, fungus, truffles, conch meat, and more.

"Then I’ll take the beef pancake!" Lin Wanwan eventually chose the local specialty food, much more assured of the beef Lu Shouyue brought than a delivery store’s beef.

"Then pair it with twisted cruller tea." Lu Shouyue suggested to her.

"Alright, alright!"

"Two beef pancakes, two twisted cruller teas, and two plates of tuna sashimi for us."

From just now until now, the two chefs, always quietly, worked swiftly, one making beef pancakes, the other slicing tuna and boxing it, quickly serving Lin Wanwan and Lu Shouyue, who sat in a row.

As Lin Wanwan eyed the tuna first served, her attention was drawn to the plates and bowls with the supreme logo.

Seemed familiar, she took out her phone to check the news she saw earlier, immediately gasping, indeed! The capitalist world is too corrupt!

Lu Shouyue had already picked up his chopsticks to dip the thin-as-silk tuna slice in wasabi soy sauce, eating, and seeing Lin Wanwan like this, asked curiously, "What’s wrong?"

Lin Wanwan showed a wry smile, shaking her head, "Nothing, nothing."

Thought she was rich enough! Comparing to truly wealthy people, she might barely be above moderately well-off?

Put a brand on it and dare hike the price by a hundred times, and someone actually buys it, truly fools with too much money! Why is he so easy to fool yet so wealthy?

No, people aren’t fools, if they didn’t spend like this, they’d need several lifetimes to spend all their money, no? The greatest sorrow in life is the coffin lid opening with money left unspent.

Just like the extravagance Tang aristocrats indulged in was beyond the common people’s imagination.

Better not to bother, just peacefully enjoy breakfast.