{"id":4081,"date":"2021-12-21T09:38:29","date_gmt":"2021-12-21T08:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ontimestory.eu\/?p=4081"},"modified":"2022-05-28T11:17:16","modified_gmt":"2022-05-28T09:17:16","slug":"tofuh-chapter-144-2-wen-yingniang-is-getting-married","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ontimestory.eu\/index.php\/2021\/12\/21\/tofuh-chapter-144-2-wen-yingniang-is-getting-married\/","title":{"rendered":"TOFUH &#8211; Chapter 144.2 \u2013 Wen Yingniang is getting married"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Liao Qinghe was also stupid; such a golden Bodhisattva was even thrown out of his house!<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Wen family immediately became incomparably beautiful while the Liao family was quite the opposite.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Father Liao, who secretly pawned some calligraphy and paintings in exchange for a few hundred silver, was finally able to support his family and also had some money to buy betrothal gifts.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, the betrothal gifts of his family were compared to that of the Wen family.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cA poisonous woman! What a poisonous woman she is!\u201d Father Liao couldn\u2019t help but curse. That Wen Yingniang was so rich, but she hid it and didn\u2019t reveal it before. She absolutely had an impure mind.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cShe is really a sl*t that has no sense of shame.\u201d Mother Liao also could not help but say. A woman who was divorced, but did not find a monastery to seclude herself, fasting and reciting Buddhist texts, and instead went so far as to find a new husband with such great fanfare. She simply didn\u2019t know what else she could say about it!<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cSuch a woman, what kind of good man can she find? I think she can only find a man with low status,\u201d Father Liao said again.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Father and Mother Liao were constantly criticizing Wen Yingniang, hating her very much, but Liao Qinghe was in a trance.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He thought that Wen Yingniang would be very sad to know that he was going to get married again and would come to find him, but it turned out that Wen Yingniang didn\u2019t come to him at all and was even going to get married herself.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Why was she getting married? How could she be so ruthless? Or . . . had she actually want to get rid of him a long time ago?<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Liao Qinghe could not accept the situation. He felt that Wen Yingniang was too indifferent and heartless.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It pained him when he thought that Wen Yingniang wanted to be with someone else.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Liao family were all talking about Wen Yingniang, but Lu Lian, who hugged her belly, regretted it very much.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lu Luan was not born into a good family, and it was an unexpected joy for her to catch Liao Qinghe, so she was reluctant to let him go.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The tigress-like lady made her afraid, afraid that she would kill her after learning of her existence.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even so, she exhausted all her means and used every one of them to seduce Liao Qinghe.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When Liao Qinghe wrote down his divorce decree, God only knew how happy she was. But in a twinkling of an eye, the situation took a turn for the worse.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If she had known that all the money of the Liao family belonged to Wen Yingniang, she would not have tried to seduce Liao Qinghe in the first place.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Liao family was depressed when a servant came over. \u201cMaster and Madam, the stores outside are not willing to take payment on credit.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Liao family wanted to have a wedding, so they naturally had to buy a lot of things. They asked their subordinates to go; they had always done so.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, this time, all those stores refused to give them credit. Those who sold chickens, ducks, and fishes all said that they should give a deposit before they would be willing to prepare the goods, and then they would have to wait for the wedding day before they sent them.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This happened because there were rumors outside that the Liao family was penniless and anxious to get married. They are waiting for the new bride\u2019s dowry to supplement their family.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, the dowry was a woman\u2019s private money. Before, Wen Yingniang had money and was willing to supplement their family, but this time, the woman engaged to Liao Qinghe came from a very ordinary family.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If that woman kept her dowry and was unwilling to support the Liao family, what would they do? Where would they be able to collect money?<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThey . . . They . . .\u201d Father Liao was furious; those people really looked down on others! Would their Liao family lack such a little sum of money?<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cMaster, what should we do now?\u201d the subordinate who went out to buy the goods asked again.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Father Liao thought about it and finally had to come up with calligraphy and a painting to pawn again.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The subordinate took the calligraphy and painting and reminded him again, \u201cMaster, in a few days, it\u2019s time for the monthly payment . . .\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Father Liao\u2019s face changed slightly as he said, \u201cI know!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There were so many servants in the Liao family; once the monthly payments were given, one of two hundred silvers would be gone again . . .<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Before, Father Liao spent thousands of silver on antiques without second thought, but at the moment, he couldn\u2019t give up a few hundred of silver.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Liao Qinghe did not pay attention to this as he went out of the door in a trance.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Just as he took a few steps, a powder-coated maid suddenly bumped into his arms . . .<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Liao family was surprised to hear that Wen Yingniang was going to get married, but so were Jiang Zhen and Zhao Jinge.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After coming back from Hexi Village, Wen Yingniang moved out of the Zhao\u2019s family mansion. Wen Ming had brought many people to Fucheng. With those people protecting her, Wen Yingniang didn\u2019t have to worry about being in danger at all.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWen Yingniang is going to get married?\u201d Zhao Jinge was not someone who easily got acquainted with other people. After Wen Yingniang moved away, he never went to look for her again, so he was surprised to hear about this so suddenly.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cShe is going to marry Wen Ming,\u201d Jiang Zhen said. He knew a little more about this than Zhao Jinge. After all, in the past few days, he did meet with Wen Ming.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wen Ming was really not a simple person.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Xinyuan Garden that others thought was bought by Wen Yingniang was, in fact, bought by him.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After he bought the Xinyuan Garden, he loaded a ship with overseas treasures and took some of them to visit some influential people in Fucheng.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even the magistrate of Fucheng, who did not want to see Jiang Zhen and Zheng Yi at the beginning, met with Wen Ming.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After running around like that, the direction of the wind in Fucheng changed again.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He also made a big show of preparing the bride price and dowry.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When he said that Wen Ming liked Wen Yingniang, he exposed his fox tail.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was said that Wen Yingniang also thought that Wen Ming agreed to this marriage to let her relieve her anger.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When Jiang Zhen was thinking about Wen Ming\u2019s situation, someone came to report that Wen Ming came to visit him.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jiang Zhen went out at once.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After greeting him, Jiang Zhen asked, \u201cWhy is Steward Wen here?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cMaster Jiang, I have already told the boss about the ships you want to buy, and he will come to Fucheng soon. There also happened to be some new ships, so you can take a look at them then,\u201d Wen Ming said.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Wen family unexpectedly brought ships to Fucheng?\u00a0 Jiang Zhen was delighted and said at once, \u201cAs long as the ships are good, I will take them all.\u201d The smaller ships would be used by the Jinzhen Escort Agency while the big ships would be used on sea ventures in the future, so he didn\u2019t think about it much.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After talking with Jiang Zhen, Wen Ming already knew what kind of ships he wanted. He was sure that the ships brought by the Wen family would be to Jiang Zhen\u2019s liking.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cMaster Jiang, I have one more thing to ask of you.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWhat is it?\u201d Jiang Zhen asked curiously.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI want to buy some Qingfeng wine for the wedding,\u201d Wen Ming said.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Qingfeng wine for the wedding? This was really a big deal!<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One should know that although there had been some Qingfeng wine circulating in the market during this period of time, the price of a bottle was definitely something that could scare off many people.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cOf course, if Master Jiang could sell it cheaper, that would be great.\u201d Wen Ming added, \u201cI have a batch of wine from overseas in my hand. Its quality is very good, so it can supply Qingfeng House.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cGood.\u201d Jiang Zhen directly agreed and then asked, \u201cSteward Wen, have you thought about the future?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wen Ming froze.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAfter you got married with Wen Yingniang, are you still going to be in steward of the Wen family?\u201d Jiang Zhen looked at Wen Ming. \u201cDon\u2019t you want to take a fleet of ships out on your own and make a go out of it? How about we cooperate?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wen Ming\u2019s heart stirred.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He was not without ambition and had thought about setting up his own business, but he thought it would be pointless.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Wen family treated him well enough and his family was loyal to that family. He was all alone, so earning more money was useless, but this time . . .<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wen Ming thought about it, but in the end, he still shook his head. \u201cMaster Jiang, I have no such intention.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Although the marriage of the Liao family had already been decided, nothing happened for a while. They wanted to marry their daughter to Liao Qinghe, but her family was unwilling to hastily marry her off.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They have to buy a dowry and prepare for the wedding, so it would take some time.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even if the Liao family wedding was not organized yet, Wen Yingniang\u2019s wedding had been prepared in a very short period of time.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Wen family also came to Fucheng.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When Wen Ming came over, he came with only one big ship, which was not very remarkable. But when the Wen family came over, they came with a huge fleet of ships.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Previously, Jiang Zhen and Zheng Yi had hired sea-going ships, but those ships, no matter if it was matter of quantity or quality, were not comparable to those of the Wen family.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At one point in time, the docks of Fucheng were filled with Wen family ships.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The people of Fucheng were once again shocked.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This time, the Wen family came over with Wen Yingniang\u2019s parents and elder brother.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Wen family brought the ships he wanted, so on that day, Jiang Zhen took Zhao Jinge to the docks to see the ships.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jiang Zhen had been in contact with many ships and he already knew how to check if the ship was good or not. The ships of the Wen family were undoubtedly good ships.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jiang Zhen did not hesitate to buy all the ships and even ordered some more.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He decided to exchange all the money he had in his hand for ships.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Wen family learned from the letter sent by Wen Ming that Jiang Zhen wanted to buy ships, but they didn\u2019t expect that Jiang Zhen would buy so many.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wen Yingniang\u2019s eldest brother, the young master of the Wen family, said at that moment, \u201cIt\u2019s not easy to build a ship. Some ships even take years to build. Since I don\u2019t have extra ships for the time being, you\u2019ll have to wait.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No problem.\u201d Jiang Zhen nodded in <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">agreement. He was not in a hurry, so they could take whatever time was needed.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wen Yingniang\u2019s marriage was conducted with great dignity.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Although it was accepting a husband into their family, the wedding was actually done in the usual manner. There was the procession that had Wen Ming traveling through the city before arriving at Xinyuan to marry Wen Yingniang.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since the Wen family came here, all the rich people in Fucheng came to the wedding. There were also a lot of officials who came.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In many cases, government and business were inseparable.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Zheng Yi also came to attend the wedding and sat together with Jiang Zhen.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He was obviously in a very good mood, and when he saw Jiang Zhen, he immediately said, \u201cJiang Zhen, the Changhe Salt Farm is ready.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Zheng Yi was very busy these days preparing for the new salt farm, and since Zhao Mingzhu\u2019s birthday banquet, he did not go out. Now the new salt farm was finally ready. \u201cAlso, the seaside land you wanted, I have found it for you. The place is definitely big enough.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While the people of Fucheng were watching the Liao family\u2019s hustle and bustle secretly, a lot of things actually happened.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many officials were removed from their offices and many salt merchants were raided, and many, many people died in Wexing Prefecture and Wu Zhongfu during this period of time.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, these things were all kept a secret by the big families, so ordinary people didn\u2019t know about it at all.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fortunately, the dust had already settled.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jiang Zhen\u2019s heart beat faster and the ambition in his eyes could no longer be concealed.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>Edited by: Faro<\/p>\r\n<p>Proofreader: Antiope1<\/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>Liao Qinghe was also stupid; such a golden Bodhisattva was even thrown out of his house! The Wen family immediately became incomparably beautiful while the Liao family was quite the opposite. Father Liao, who secretly pawned some calligraphy and paintings in exchange for a few hundred silver, was finally able to support his family and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tofuh","entry","has-media"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ontimestory.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/14193s.jpg?fit=200%2C280&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ontimestory.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ontimestory.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ontimestory.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ontimestory.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ontimestory.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4081"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ontimestory.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4547,"href":"https:\/\/ontimestory.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4081\/revisions\/4547"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ontimestory.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ontimestory.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ontimestory.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ontimestory.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}