[{"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-162":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},540256,791,"Chapter 162 - 108: Shocking!! Madam Zhao and the Nephew Were Heard Making Such Sounds at Night!","marrying-a-white-snake-wife-is-super-cool-chapter-162",162,"\u003Cp>With that, he turned, mounted his horse, and rode off toward the Government Office.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Gaoxu then turned to Lu Yuan, who stood behind him with a strange expression, and grinned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Let’s keep things separate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Brother Lu, you have a way of dealing with the Liu Family, but I’m afraid that will take some time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But this matter is urgent. We can’t wait. No matter what, we have to get the officials out here to protect the Zhao Family’s estate first.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Don’t worry. Whatever happens, you and I are in this together.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If you need any help, Brother Lu, just say the word. If I can help, I absolutely will!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Yuan blinked as he listened to Gu Gaoxu.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Heh... this kid.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’He’s actually quite the stand-up guy!’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’If I didn’t know what this kid was going to pull later, I’d actually want to be his friend.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he didn’t say anything more for now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Yuan led Gu Gaoxu into the carriage, and they headed straight for the factory outside the city.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The carriage entered the factory, which was now brightly lit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After they disembarked, Gu Gaoxu looked around curiously, taking everything in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was Gu Gaoxu’s first time inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had tried to get in before, but the Zhao Family Travelers guarding the factory wouldn’t let him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Peering through the windows, he saw a series of brightly lit workshops.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Gaoxu was stunned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’This is the first time I’ve ever seen a large workshop operating like this.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To Gu Gaoxu, everything was a novelty.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While Gu Gaoxu was looking around, Lu Yuan grabbed someone, asked which workshop Song Meiqin was in, and then headed straight there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Gaoxu had a million questions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, seeing how rushed Lu Yuan was, he knew it wasn’t the time to talk.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He just trailed along behind Lu Yuan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon, Lu Yuan reached the third workshop building.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A small workshop had been sectioned off inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As soon as he entered, Lu Yuan saw a large group of people gathered around a lathe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Song Meiqin was there, too.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One look at Song Meiqin told Lu Yuan she hadn’t slept all night, and his heart ached for her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He walked up behind Song Meiqin, no longer caring about her title of Director.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He pulled Song Meiqin into his arms.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Song Meiqin was startled and began to struggle, but as soon as she turned and saw it was Lu Yuan, her body went limp.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How’s it going? Is it finished?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Yuan asked, holding Song Meiqin as he gazed at the large lathe before them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Song Meiqin nodded repeatedly, her voice soft.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It’s finished. We just ran a test, and there were no problems. Now we’re on to the final assembly.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing this, Lu Yuan nodded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Come on, let’s go to your office.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With that, Lu Yuan left in a hurry, his arm still around Song Meiqin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This display caused many people in the workshop to stare.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To the factory workers, Director Song was practically a goddess.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing the goddess of their dreams in another man’s arms left many of them feeling rather disgruntled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it also made them size up Lu Yuan with even greater curiosity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’So this is the Zhao Family’s young nephew, huh?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When they all arrived at Song Meiqin’s office, Lu Yuan immediately sat down and picked up a charcoal pencil and some paper.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Song Meiqin found Gu Gaoxu, who had been following them, a bit strange.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’She’d never seen this man before.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Song Meiqin didn’t ask any questions. Instead, she hurried to pour tea for her man and the stranger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After accepting the teacup, Gu Gaoxu bowed slightly with great courtesy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"A pleasure to meet you, sister-in-law.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His words made Song Meiqin blush.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’We’re not even married yet~’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She simply nodded, but hearing him call her ’sister-in-law’ gave her a favorable impression of the stranger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, Song Meiqin placed the tea on the desk in front of Lu Yuan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not daring to disturb Lu Yuan, she just watched curiously from the side.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While drawing, Lu Yuan said:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Aunt Song, go tell the deliverymen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When they’re making deliveries to the major cities, tell them that no matter what they hear on the road or see with their own eyes...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...if it’s an interesting or recent event, they can report it back to us.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If we use their story, they’ll get a thirty Wen submission fee.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Huh?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’What on earth is this?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Both Song Meiqin and Gu Gaoxu, who was standing to the side, were completely baffled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They had no idea what Lu Yuan was talking about.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, they both knew Lu Yuan was planning to deal with the Liu Family.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’But this??’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’How is this supposed to work?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With puzzled expressions, they both looked down at the paper Lu Yuan was drawing on with his charcoal pencil.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn’t a design for a lathe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instead, he was drawing straight lines, sectioning it off into block after block.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After he finished the front, he immediately started drawing on the back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When he was finally done drawing...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, at the very top center of the front page, Lu Yuan picked up a writing brush and wrote two large words.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shenling Daily\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Song Meiqin and Gu Gaoxu, of course, couldn’t understand it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>any well-hung Earthling would know exactly what Lu Yuan was up to.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After writing the words *Shenling Daily*...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Yuan turned the large sheet of paper over, and in the bottom-right corner, began to write: A, B, C, D.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’English?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’No, no, no.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’The correct pronunciation was *a*, *bo*, *ci*, *de*.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The literacy rate during the Ming Dynasty was among the highest of all the great dynasties.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Basically, one in every three or four people was literate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Otherwise, why would three of the Four Great Classical Novels have been written during the Ming Dynasty?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, that was only from the Yongle period onward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Right now, it was only a little over a decade into the Empire’s founding.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This period was the transition from the end of the Yuan to the beginning of the Ming.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The great chaos that had engulfed the world had only just been quelled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In this era, there still weren’t many literate people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were mostly city dwellers. In the surrounding villages...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...a village of several hundred people would be considered impressive if it had three to five literate individuals.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, he had to use pinyin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Yuan’s newspaper wouldn’t just be for the city; it had to be distributed in the countryside as well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’So how could he popularize pinyin?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Could he just write out *a, bo, ci, de* and call it a day?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’People can’t even read basic characters, how would they learn this?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Aunt Song, go talk to the factory workers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tell them that if they have children between the ages of five and ten, they can send them to our factory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Our factory will provide free room and board, and we’ll even teach them how to read.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Yuan said quickly, his head bowed as he continued writing the alphabet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, Lu Yuan’s plan wasn’t to teach the children first and then have them teach the adults.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His goal was to teach them songs!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or to be more precise, catchy rhymes!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was just like that ’crave sour for a son, crave spicy for a daughter’ saying that his own wife believed without a doubt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or like what was said last night—that Aunt Zhao’s big rear meant she could bear sons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These were all just catchy rhymes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This kind of thing spreads incredibly fast!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As long as what you’re saying is catchy, its spread can only be described as explosive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Things like this have appeared many times throughout history.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For example, \"The Blue Sky is dead, the Yellow Sky shall rise.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or \"Great Chu will rise, Chen Sheng will be king.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or \"Liu Bang slays the white serpent.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All of these random things were spread through the mouths of children.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wouldn’t take long. In just three to five days, it would be known all around Taiping City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In half a month, it could cover half the province.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Yuan’s successive moves were completely overwhelming Song Meiqin and Gu Gaoxu.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Gaoxu wanted to ask, but seeing how busy Lu Yuan was, he felt it wasn’t the right time to interrupt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for Song Meiqin, though her mind was filled with question marks as she watched Lu Yuan...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...she felt an inexplicable sense of calm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her man’s plans, one following the other, each link connected to the next...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...were incredibly reassuring.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Song Meiqin truly loved this feeling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The feeling that when trouble strikes, her man is there to protect her, to stand in front of her and shield her from the storm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a completely different feeling from the one she got from her younger brother.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Right now, Lu Yuan was both mysterious and focused.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It made Song Meiqin adore him completely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Song Meiqin didn’t ask any more questions. She nodded quickly and went out to make the arrangements.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After Lu Yuan finished writing out the pinyin alphabet...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He looked at the empty newspaper layout.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’He pondered for a moment.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Everything’s ready. All I need now is some eye-catching content.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’So, what kind of content is the most captivating?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Since ancient times, it’s always been gossip.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s the most fascinating stuff, the kind of thing people love to discuss.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Take the various unofficial histories, for example.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They’re essentially just gossip.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sometimes, these unofficial histories are more appealing than the official records, more likely to get people talking and paying attention.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For the first edition of his newspaper...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Yuan pondered for a moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, he put brush to paper.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the most prominent section in the middle—the so-called headline!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Yuan used his brush to write out a massive headline.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>SHOCKING!! The Sounds Coming from Madam Zhao and Her Nephew’s Room at Night!!\u003C\u002Fp>",1653,"2026-05-30T14:11:52.988Z","2026-06-01T04:31:25.829Z",1,"novelbin.me","208a60f2a7a299ea4908788c14323da5927564e441693c99d5e591b47f36c8f3","marrying-a-white-snake-wife-is-super-cool-chapter-115","marrying-a-white-snake-wife-is-super-cool-chapter-161",258,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fmarrying-a-white-snake-wife-is-super-cool-cover.jpg"]