The pork butcher is smoother than a pig butcher!

Chapter 407 A Good Man from Kansai Never Worries About a Wife

Who would be so bold as to stick a hoe under the eaves of a house belonging to a demon?
The worst part is that they caught them red-handed!

Although he hadn't yet carried out any concrete actions to undermine his trusted general's family harmony, that didn't stop General Xiong from upholding justice.

Isn't the Qi Family Embroidery Building famous throughout the commercial capital?

Do you want to use money to pave the way in Kansai?
very good!
"We must make the Qi family pay a hefty price! How dare a mere merchant inquire about the garrison's secrets? What else could he be but a spy? He should be punished along with his entire clan, but considering it's his first offense and he hasn't left any criminal record over the years, we've made an exception and allowed him to use his money to ransom her. The head of the family is worth at least 100,000 taels, and the steward is cheaper, but still 80,000 taels! If the Qi family isn't willing to ransom her, then let the rest of her family go to jail with her head of the family."

Enraged, General Xiong slapped his forehead and set this price.

He vented his anger in the front yard, and when he returned to the back yard, he severely criticized his own mother for meddling in his affairs.

This was still unknown to General Xiong; the Qi family had promised Madam Xiong's embroidery workshop 30% of the profits.

Otherwise, the old lady's days of being the center of attention would be greatly diminished.

Old Madam Xiong: "."

I didn't get to eat any mutton, but I got into a lot of trouble!

What's up?
He secretly harbored resentment towards the smooth-talking head of the Qi family.

A thunderbolt struck from the sky.

The Qi family, upon being informed that they would have to pay a large sum of money to ransom their member, burst into tears.

Among them, the eldest daughter of the Qi family, Qi Chunxiang, who is the successor to the head of the Qi family, reacted the most strongly.

"My God! 180,000 taels? They could have just robbed them, but instead they had to use this excuse. Half of our family's savings accumulated over generations is going to be confiscated! How many years of hard work would the embroidery workshop have to earn to reach this amount?"
Because of this incident, our family has not only offended a fifth-rank general, but the commander-in-chief will most likely never give us a friendly look again. We've truly lost both our wife and our army.

To be honest, from the very beginning, our Qi family was in the wrong; we broke off the engagement with the Gan family first. Mother is truly bewitched; not only did she fail to force my younger sister into marriage with the Gan family, but she also tried to scheme against their son-in-law!

Ganluchuan New City has been managed so thoroughly that it's impenetrable. How could Madam Gan be a fool with a poor brain? Where does she get her confidence to scheme against others on their own turf?
Besides, what man striving for an official career would abandon a wife who is a fifth-rank official to take a merchant's concubine and cause trouble for his powerful patron?
You want to bring an embroidery workshop as part of your dowry? Of the three sisters, besides me, who is capable of taking over the Qi family embroidery workshop after Mother's passing? As the heir chosen by the family head seven years ago, I obeyed orders and married a man who moved into my wife's family home. What? Are my husband and I not in charge of the embroidery workshop? Or is our whole family just appendages of my younger sister's dowry? If my younger sister takes our whole family with her when she marries, then pretend I said nothing!

Besides, the Ganluchuan Garrison has such a large weaving workshop! With a piece of Yun brocade worth a thousand gold pieces in front of them, what is a dowry of an embroidery workshop?
If you ask me, since my younger sister is already remarried, she shouldn't be thinking about marrying into a wealthier family. She should just find a widower military man to marry into; the sooner she marries, the sooner our whole family will have peace and quiet!

The son-in-law of the Qi family couldn't wait to applaud his wife.

If he hadn't wanted to have offspring and inherit the double-sided embroidery skills of the Qi family's embroidery workshop, why would he have bothered to become a live-in son-in-law?
Currently, the younger sister's marriage value has been greatly reduced, and the couple will no longer allow outsiders (the future brother-in-law of the second sister) to undermine their vested interests.

It's said that two kinds of people can't sleep in the same bed.

This sentiment was embodied in this couple.

Before Qi Chunxiang's mother was arrested and ransomed, the couple quickly took control of the Qi family embroidery workshop in Hami City.

The Qi family's double-sided embroidery technique is passed down only to daughters, not sons.

The son and daughter-in-law have always followed the lead of their eldest sister and her husband.

In fact, Qi Dongyu, the sister-in-law who had just divorced, was not well-liked by her brother and sister-in-law.

No one would like a sister-in-law who doesn't recognize her current status and is still immersed in the past when matchmakers knocked on her door to propose marriage.

Qi Dongyu, who was being attacked by her family, was so angry that she clutched her chest and kept panting.

"You, you just wait. Once I marry a good man, you'll all be scrambling to curry favor with me, but I won't even acknowledge you."

She was truly heartbroken by her own family.

My father was a live-in son-in-law his whole life, with no status in the family and hardly ever speaking a word. He focused most of his attention on his son. My eldest sister and brother-in-law had long considered the embroidery shop theirs, and they wouldn't let anyone else touch it. The more fiercely the couple argued in their room, the more united they were in front of outsiders.

My second sister married far away and we haven't heard from her since.

Even if they were there, they'd probably just laugh at her.

Her younger brother and sister-in-law are a pair of snobs. If she hadn't married well, neither of them would have given her a second glance.

The only person in the whole family who truly cared for her was her own mother.

But even her own mother prioritized the interests of the Qi family's embroidery workshop.

The reason they schemed against that scholar Zuo was because they wanted his skills.

Whether her life was good or bad after being placed in the Zuo family is irrelevant.

My family is really unreliable.

The only way out is to get married!
After pondering it over and over, Qi Dongyu finally came to this conclusion.

She actually didn't really want to be someone's concubine.

Especially the older generation.

She wasn't exactly a gentle and charming person; she was afraid she wouldn't even know how to be a proper concubine.

She most wanted to marry a young and brave officer, such as a centurion or chiliarch.

When they divorced, she brought all her dowry back with her.

Before coming to Kansai, she sold her dowry and converted it into more than 10,000 taels of silver notes, which she hid on her person. With such a sum of money, she would never have to worry about food and clothing for the rest of her life. As long as her future husband was a little more ambitious, he might be able to make a good future for her.

If the old women of Guanxi knew what Qi Dongyu was thinking, they would definitely give her a piece of their mind.

Not to mention how sought-after officers like centurions and chiliarchs are in the marriage market.

Even squad leaders and platoon leaders were highly sought-after by the women.

Haven't hundreds of thousands of immigrants been arriving in the Kansai region in recent years?
The immigrants weren't as picky as the Qi family.

For a young girl from an ordinary family, Guan Jun, who had no war to fight, received a monthly military salary, and had ten acres of tax-free military land, was undoubtedly the best possible husband.

They don't want any bride price.

If you find someone you like, your daughter can get married within half a month.

After searching the entire Kansai camp, apart from those who were really bad-looking, there were really not many bachelors to be found.

The Qi family still doesn't understand the current state of the marriage market in Kansai.

While dreaming of a good day, he painfully pulled out his life savings of 180,000 taels of silver to redeem the embroidery shop manager and the head of the household.

A seven-day prison sentence.

The Qi family patriarch, who was in his forties, had suffered greatly and looked ten years older.

He had just been brought home when he collapsed.

(End of this chapter)