[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-marrying-a-white-snake-wife-is-super-cool":3,"chapter-marrying-a-white-snake-wife-is-super-cool-marrying-a-white-snake-wife-is-super-cool-chapter-127":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Marrying a White Snake Wife is Super Cool",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},540280,791,"Chapter 127 - 93: The Three Women at Home, No One Left Behind","marrying-a-white-snake-wife-is-super-cool-chapter-127",127,"\u003Cp>It wasn’t as much trouble to set up as this factory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Listening to the old steward, Lu Yuan nodded and said,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’ve really troubled you lately. You’re running back and forth between home and the factory; you must be exhausted.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the old steward just shook his head and said,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"As long as the Zhao Family does well, a little exhaustion is worth it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Young Master, I’m sure these things you’ve made will sell very well.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The old steward was usually a very reserved man.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He rarely spoke.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or rather, he rarely said anything unnecessary.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even with Aunt Zhao, he was the same. He’d only answer what you asked and wouldn’t say a word more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For him to suddenly say all this today, he must have been bursting with it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, regarding the things Lu Yuan was making, only Lu Yuan and the old steward knew everything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The three large workshops were producing a total of three products.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One was a hand-cranked washing machine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a large, square sheet-metal box containing a few labor-saving gear mechanisms.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The rest was just like a washing machine from Earth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A drum with several rows of holes, covered by another layer of sheet metal on the outside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To wash clothes, you just turned the crank—a few turns to the left, a few turns to the right.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To spin-dry, you removed the outer layer of sheet metal and cranked it hard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a bit tiring on the arms, granted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’But it’s better than soaking your hands in ice-cold water during the dead of winter, right?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, Lu Yuan couldn’t say for sure if this product would be a huge seller.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, country folk definitely wouldn’t use it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For one, people in the countryside had no money. For another, women in the countryside weren’t valued.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Spend three maces of silver on such a contraption just so a country woman’s hands don’t freeze in winter?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Not worth it.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the wealthy families in the city wouldn’t need it either.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They had servants.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This gadget was for the city dwellers who had a little extra cash and doted on their wives.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Washing clothes in the city was especially troublesome.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unlike in the villages and towns, where you could just find a river and do your laundry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the city, you had to fetch water from the wells in the market square.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a real hassle going back and forth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, it was hard to say if it would make big money. He’d just try it out first. If it sold well, he’d continue; if not, he’d drop it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could always convert the workshop to make something else.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, Lu Yuan had plenty of ideas from *Craftsmanship*.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, even with *Craftsmanship*, Lu Yuan hadn’t planned on a single product becoming a massive hit right from the start.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could afford some trial and error, but he couldn’t keep making mistakes and trying indefinitely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’After all, converting a workshop costs money, doesn’t it?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A single workshop would have several hundred people, and every day they opened their eyes, it would cost silver.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, Lu Yuan had also prepared two products that he felt could be huge money-makers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These ones even involved some \"technology and hardcore stuff.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And these two products could be considered the same type.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Vehicles!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bicycles and tricycles!!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Anyone with a brain could already understand the value of these things in an ancient era.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just like the old steward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Otherwise, the old steward, who was usually as quiet as a clam, wouldn’t have suddenly piped up like that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In ancient times, people generally had only two modes of transportation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One was the ox-cart, and the other was their own two feet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Horse-drawn carriages weren’t something the average person could afford.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Especially now, with the Court at war with the Northern region, even the horses kept by common households had been requisitioned for the front lines.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Generally, it was just ox-carts or walking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And you could only really see ox-carts around now, in the autumn and winter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once spring planting began, the oxen had to go work in the fields.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that time, you wouldn’t be able to find an ox to spare.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But what about with a bicycle?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You could cover a hundred *li* a day. Maybe not effortlessly, but as long as you didn’t hit a big uphill climb, you’d barely break a sweat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Yuan remembered when he was a kid, he and a few friends from his village would ride their bikes into the city to have fun.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn’t over a hundred *li*, but a round trip of forty kilometers, which was about eighty *li*.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They’d go in the morning and come back at night. He was fifteen or sixteen at the time and didn’t feel tired at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On big hills, they’d just stand up on the pedals.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for whether the terrain here was suitable, that was no concern at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Let’s put it this way: the village roads in the 1980s weren’t much better than the ones in ancient times.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Forget the villages; even many provincial roads back then were just dirt tracks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In fact, even in modern rural areas, places in the Southwest and Northern regions still have nothing but dirt roads.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Basically, a bicycle would have no problem on the country roads here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As long as it didn’t rain heavily for too long and turn the ground to mud.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Otherwise, the village paths and field tracks were packed down hard from foot traffic, so riding a bike on them was no problem at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’If you really do run into a situation like that...’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’...just don’t go out. Who doesn’t know to run home when it’s pouring rain? Are you an idiot?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Of course, even if there’s an emergency and you absolutely have to go out...’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’...if you hit a rough patch, you can just get off and push for a bit.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Yuan felt there was no way the bicycles wouldn’t sell well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Human civilization progresses step by step.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Most modern things are simply better than what came before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bicycles haven’t even been phased out on Earth yet, so they would be even more useful here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And besides the bicycle, there was the tricycle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The cargo-carrying kind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the most important product of all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Something like a bicycle would mostly be bought by city dwellers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A wealthy person in the countryside might grit their teeth and buy one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This thing was a luxury item.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Yuan’s pricing was set at three taels of silver, which was about a year’s wages for a person in the city.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if the average person wanted one, they could only watch others ride with envy while they continued to walk.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the tricycle was different.\u003C\u002Fp>",1136,"2026-05-30T14:11:52.988Z","2026-06-01T04:31:25.829Z",1,"novelbin.me","977b81ddcf6da0f4108f2032422477762ebcaa17c404de53e7912085fa7d7f33","marrying-a-white-snake-wife-is-super-cool-chapter-174","marrying-a-white-snake-wife-is-super-cool-chapter-126",258,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fmarrying-a-white-snake-wife-is-super-cool-cover.jpg"]