{"id":2629,"date":"2021-01-05T08:27:39","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T07:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ontimestory.eu\/?p=2629"},"modified":"2021-01-05T08:27:39","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T07:27:39","slug":"tofuh-chapter-97-1-getting-ready-to-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ontimestory.eu\/index.php\/2021\/01\/05\/tofuh-chapter-97-1-getting-ready-to-leave\/","title":{"rendered":"TOFUH &#8211; Chapter 97.1 &#8211; Getting Ready To Leave"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After Jiang Zhen and Zhao Jinge went home, they couldn\u2019t play cards immediately. They were stopped by Feng Jingyuan and Feng Chenglin, who were at the door of their house.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In fact, Feng Jingyuan wanted for a long time to find Jiang Zhen and apologize to him, but he could not find him anywhere.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He went to the dock to inquire about Jiang Zhen and learned that Jiang Zhen and Zheng Yi came together from the south of the Yangtze River and he lived in the Zheng family house for a while. After teaching his son a lesson, he began to look for Jiang Zhen, but only found Jiang Zhen\u2019s house that day. He immediately brought his son to come with him. After knocking on the door, he was told that Jiang Zhen was not at home, so he waited near the door.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jiang Zhen made a fool of Feng Chenglin twice in a row, so he didn\u2019t want to come here. But after being forced by his father, he still came and he even had to squeeze a smile on his fat face.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The father and son were both a bit fat, so two chubby people were standing at the entrance of Jiang Zhen\u2019s house were like two door guard gods with the same smile on their face.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cMaster Jiang, I am sorry. I am really sorry. My son was too reckless before and spoke disrespectfully to Master Jiang several times . . . Master Jiang, I\u2019ve brought him here to make amends,\u201d Feng Jingyuan said with a smile and pointed to the things held by two servants beside him. \u201cA small gesture of my respect.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jiang Zhen had to go to the Zheng family banquet in order not to let the Feng family trouble him. But he didn\u2019t expect that, because of this, the Feng family would come to apologize to him and send him gifts.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cMaster Jiang, this time, it\u2019s all my son\u2019s fault, so please be generous . . . ,\u201d Feng Jingyuan said again, his posture very low.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He came to apologize, so naturally, he should show sincerity. And . . . after his apology was done, he became acquainted with Jiang Zhen. He might even be able to get a bit of news about the Zheng family from Jiang Zhen . . .<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At first, Feng Jingyuan also thought that this Jiang Zhen wanted to marry Shen Anxin, so he could take over the Shen family property. However, after seeing that Jiang Zhen was valued by Zheng Yi and he had not much contact with Shen Anxin, he realized he was wrong.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since that was the case . . .\u00a0 if he had good talk with Jiang Zhen, the two sides might even be able to establish a relationship.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI see,\u201d Jiang Zhen said. \u201cI won\u2019t bother to care about that.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Feng Jingyuan was overjoyed. \u201cMaster Jiang, I set up a banquet at the Heavenly Fragrance House\u2014\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI\u2019ll take this gift, and I won\u2019t bother you or your son as long as he doesn\u2019t mess with me in the future!\u201d Jiang Zhen interrupted the other party\u2019s words.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since the gifts were already delivered to his door, Jiang Zhen certainly won\u2019t refuse to accept them. But for a banquet and such, let\u2019s forget about it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cSomebody, move the stuff in,\u201d Jiang Zhen shouted towards his own house and said loudly, \u201cHe Chunsheng, come and see the guests off.\u201d There weren\u2019t many smart people under his hand, so He Chunsheng was considered ranked pretty high among them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Feng Jingyuan was still thinking about pulling strings with Jiang Zhen. But who would have thought that Jiang Zhen would be so sharp and didn\u2019t even let him say a word? He was stunned for a moment.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the same time, the door of the mansion that he had knocked on for a long time without reaction opened. Dozens of strong men came rushing out of the house.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Feng Jinyuan\u2019s heart jumped, and he subconsciously took a step back. Feng Chenglin even hid behind his father.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So many people came out of the mansion all at once! <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This Jiang Zhen has called so many people out, is he going to beat them?<\/span><\/i><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cBoss, you\u2019re back!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cBoss, what should we move?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cBoss . . .\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. . .<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Those people gathered around Jiang Zhen and talked nonstop.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cJust those things.\u201d Jiang Zhen pointed to the things that the two servants of the Feng family were holding.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As soon as he finished speaking, someone snatched the things from the Feng servants\u2019 hands.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meanwhile, He Chunsheng also came out. With a glance, he saw Feng Jinyuan and Feng Chenglin; he naturally knew who Jiang Zhen wanted him to see off.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He Chunsheng was indeed quite smart and relatively clever, but he had never served as a servant before. He had no idea how the servants of other families would send their guests off. He was even training before, so his clothes were unbuttoned.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He Chunsheng, whose clothes were unkempt revealing a lean body full of muscles, arrived in front of Feng Jinyuan and his son, saying, \u201cMaster Feng, Young Master Feng, I\u2019m here to see you off!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Feng Jingyuan: \u201c. . .\u201d This person looked . . . like he was going to beat them up if they didn\u2019t want to leave!<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In business, who didn\u2019t slander a person behind their back but still put on a smiling face in front of that person? What the hell was wrong with these people?<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Feng Jingyuan still wanted to talk with Jiang Zhen; however, Jiang Zhen was surrounded by a group of men and had already gone inside. But the voices of his men was still drifting out.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cBoss, this is all there was. No need to have two people carry it . . .\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cBoss, who are those two? Why did they come to give gifts?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThey waited for a while.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. . .<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIrrelevant people,\u201d Jiang Zhen said.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Feng Jingyuan could only take Feng Chenglin to leave in the end. After a few steps, he grabbed his son\u2019s hand and twisted the flesh on it. \u201cYou loser!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Feng Chenglin was in great pain, but he did not dare to utter a word. Instead, he asked worriedly, \u201c Dad, what does Jiang Zhen mean by that?\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cHe wants to keep well water out of the river.\u201d Feng Jingyuan said, \u201cIf you hadn\u2019t provoked him before, he probably wouldn\u2019t even bother to pay attention to you!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Feng Chenglin was also feeling regretful at that moment. What was he doing provoking Jiang Zhen?\u00a0 In the end, he didn\u2019t gain anything good from it . . .\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAlthough he doesn\u2019t care, the Zheng family must have had a bad impression of our Wanlong Merchant Firm.\u201d Feng Jingyuan frowned, he had wanted Jiang Zhen to put in a good word for him, but it seemed . . .<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Feng Jingyuan left with Feng Chenglin feeling depressed, but Jiang Zhen checked the gift he received.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There were many kinds of gifts, all of which were valuable, including ginseng, deer antler, and other rare medicinal materials that Jiang Zhen did not know. There were also several kinds of jewelry and ten gold ingots.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This apology gift could be considered very heavy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Looking at these gifts, Jiang Zhen was inevitably moved. He had already sold all the goods he had on hand, so he had more than hundred thousand taels of silver in his hand.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He was going to use this silver to buy goods to sell in the south of the Yangtze River. But he never thought about what kinds of goods he should take to the south of the Yangtze River. However, now that he saw these things, he had an idea. He could buy some of these furs he thought about before, as well as some herbs, spices, and jewelry. Although these things were expensive and one hundred thousand taels of silver might not be able to buy much. These goods could be sold at great price in the south of the Yangtze River.\u00a0 They could definitely make a lot of money when they were resold.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After Jiang Zhen thought about what to buy, he went to the treasury of the mansion and calculated his own property. After thinking about it, he simply called all his subordinates and gave them their silver rewards.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Previously, when he fought in that pirate\u2019s nest, Jiang Zhen gave fifty taels of silver to each person who went with him. However, those who were injured couldn\u2019t go with him, so he supplemented them with a bit of the silver Zheng Yi had given to the injured, except there were people who had silver in their hands, so this time, Jiang Zhen give them their wages and a part of the reward.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cTomorrow, you can go shopping in the capital and buy something to bring home, but there is one thing you must pay attention to. You must not make trouble for me,\u201d Jiang Zhen said.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jiang Zhen\u2019s subordinates all responded, even Liu Heitou, who had been dissatisfied with Jiang Zhen before becoming very obedient.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the beginning, he was displeased with Jiang Zhen and didn\u2019t miss any chance to provoke him. But as Jiang Zhen became more and more powerful and the gap between them widened, he stopped looking for trouble with Jiang Zhen. He even quickly adapted to the identity of Jiang Zhen\u2019s subordinate and worked just as diligently as the others.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When Liu Heitou used to be a thug in Qiaotou village, he lived a good life and had a lot of money. But in the end, he was just an ordinary person who had never even left the countryside, but now? He came to the capital and even fought pirates on the way! He felt that his life had become meaningful.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After being robbed and beaten by Jiang Zhen, Liu Heitiu resigned himself to his fate. But after three months he was actually becoming more and more satisfied with his current life and was planning to make a career under Jiang Zhen.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In fact, Jiang Zhen didn\u2019t like Liu Heitou, but this person was now very obedient, so he naturally didn\u2019t want to lecture him.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This time, Jiang Zhen gave each of these people about 50 taels of silver, some of them received more, some less. But this silver was enough for these people to buy a lot of things in the capital and bring them back.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After being so busy and eating dinner it already became completely dark.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No matter whether it was Zhao Jinge or Jiang Zhen, they had been reading and practicing calligraphy every day all this time.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jiang Zhen was now able to read books with traditional characters; however, he still often made mistakes when writing it. As for Zhao Jinge, he already learned hundreds of characters. At this moment, although it was dark, Jiang Zhen still took out the books and taught Zhao Jinge a few characters and then they practiced together.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Zhao Jinge looked at Jiang Zhen and was slightly disappointed. Jiang Zhen seemed to have forgotten what he had said before . . . However, although he was slightly disappointed, Zhao Jinge quickly practiced seriously.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>Edited by: Faro<\/p>\r\n<p>Proofreader:\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Support translation:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/bePatron?u=25191841\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"217\" height=\"51\" class=\"wp-image-338 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ontimestory.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/become_a_patron_button.png?resize=217%2C51\" alt=\"\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 217px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 217\/51;\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ko-fi.com\/lajnaa\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ontimestory.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/kofi3-3.png?resize=185%2C47\" alt=\"This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is kofi3-3.png\" width=\"185\" height=\"47\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 185px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 185\/47;\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\r\n\r\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\r\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Jiang Zhen and Zhao Jinge went home, they couldn\u2019t play cards immediately. They were stopped by Feng Jingyuan and Feng Chenglin, who were at the door of their house. In fact, Feng Jingyuan wanted for a long time to find Jiang Zhen and apologize to him, but he could not find him anywhere. 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