[{"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-128":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},540282,791,"Chapter 128 - 93: The Three Women at Home, None Were Left Out","marrying-a-white-snake-wife-is-super-cool-chapter-128",128,"\u003Cp>These things can haul cargo!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These days, if you want to haul cargo, you need an ox or a horse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Failing that, you’d have to push a wheelbarrow yourself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But that’s a huge pain, and you can’t even haul that much in one go.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But a tricycle is a different story. Hauling three or four hundred pounds in a single trip? A piece of cake.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a tricycle, you can haul goods and make money.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s worth borrowing money just to get one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the shops in the city? They need these even more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, ox carts can’t maneuver well in the city, so you have to go to the drop-off point and pick up your own merchandise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All those back-and-forth trips are such a waste of time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a tricycle, you could just make one trip and be done with it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In a world that relies solely on ox and horse carts for transport, it would be no exaggeration to call bicycles and tricycles era-defining inventions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These two items were being sold as his star products.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Yuan could guarantee they wouldn’t lose money; they would be a massive, runaway hit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for just how well they would sell, that was a question for when sales actually began.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The secret-sauce technology for both vehicles was in the tires.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On Earth, tires are made of rubber.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And rubber is made from petroleum.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, you could also use natural rubber instead of creating it from petroleum.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The only issue is that the cost is a bit high.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the rubber on Lu Yuan’s tires was neither natural rubber nor the synthetic kind made from petroleum.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was made from Spirit Stones!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To be precise, it was Spirit Stone Residue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This Spirit Stone Residue isn’t valuable. For example, after a Spirit Stone Lamp has been depleted, it’s useless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that point, the stone is completely spent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Similarly, a Spirit Stone that has been burning all night in a Spirit Stone Furnace is also useless once it no longer gives off heat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This stuff is basically no different from ordinary rocks or dirt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Lu Yuan had alchemy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had created it by refining this Spirit Stone Residue, along with a few other special ingredients, at a very specific temperature.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You could say this was Lu Yuan’s proprietary formula, which also saved him the trouble of worrying about theft.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, the people of this era might have limited knowledge, but they weren’t idiots.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Otherwise, no sooner would Lu Yuan have released his products than a powerful family from another city, someone like the Zhao Family...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...would have bought one, taken it apart, and copied it. The bicycle itself had no real technical complexity; they would have replicated it in no time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But thanks to this little bit of secret-sauce technology, only Lu Yuan could rake in the profits, which was a deeply satisfying feeling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With that, Lu Yuan gave a wave of his hand and announced:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Post the recruitment notices this afternoon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The pay is three maces of silver a month. Lunch is provided—steamed buns made from mixed flour, with some oil in the food.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Lodging is also provided, six people to a room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Preference will be given to applicants with no criminal record.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The old steward immediately nodded in agreement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With that, there was nothing else to discuss, so Lu Yuan got up, ready to head home for a game of mahjong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But after taking just two steps, he suddenly slapped his forehead and exclaimed:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Crap, I forgot the most important thing.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hm?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The old steward froze for a moment, then looked at Lu Yuan in confusion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Wasn’t that everything?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Yuan waved his hand and said:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Bring me a brush and paper. I forgot to create the trademark.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The old steward looked at Lu Yuan, his face a mask of confusion:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What’s a ’trademark’?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Yuan explained with an amused smile:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It’s like a ’time-honored brand’.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You know that shop in the east of the city that sells the crab roe pastries Aunt Zhao loves? That’s a fifty-year-old brand, isn’t it?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As soon as he put it that way, the old steward understood. That was indeed true.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The old steward immediately went to prepare a brush and paper.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Yuan stood before the table, brush in hand, and thought for a moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finally, he put brush to paper.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’A brand name doesn’t actually need that much thought.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’The important thing is just to have one. It doesn’t have to be mind-blowingly cool or anything.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Back on Earth, you had names that told you exactly what they were for the moment you heard them, like Taobao.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Then you had others that were just named after the founding couple, like JD.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’As long as it rolls off the tongue, it’s fine.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the end, after a moment of thought, Lu Yuan wrote two large words on the paper: \"Qiao Yan.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he wasn’t finished. He drew a large circle, enclosing the words \"Qiao Yan.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, in the upper-right corner of the large circle, he wrote the word \"Qin.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’It actually has a certain aesthetic to it,’ he thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At any rate, Lu Yuan was pleased with it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, he was a civil engineering guy, not a graphic designer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There we go~\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’The three women in my life, and not one of them left out!’\u003C\u002Fp>",895,"2026-05-30T14:11:52.988Z","2026-06-01T04:31:25.829Z",1,"novelbin.me","d9824957b92ffe6585718591509155220dc43d4955e888e39d1f74df422ad06f","marrying-a-white-snake-wife-is-super-cool-chapter-175","marrying-a-white-snake-wife-is-super-cool-chapter-174",258,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fmarrying-a-white-snake-wife-is-super-cool-cover.jpg"]