"On your wedding night, what kind of bride stays to tidy up? Go and rest in your room with Dazhu."
Da Niu thought to herself, "This is how all the brides in the surrounding villages are prepared. The house must be kept spotless before the new bride can go to sleep."
She wanted to say something more, but Wan Shu didn't give her a chance at all. She then pulled the other children into the bridal chamber.
Zhou was astonished.
"The new bride has only been in the house for one day, little sister, you're being too good to Da Niu."
Wan Shu smiled and said, "Now that she's married into my family, she's like half a daughter to me. If I don't treat her well, who will?"
Liu Shi rarely agreed with Wan Shu's point of view today: "That's right. Marrying a wife is like buying a servant. Once you bring her home, you must treat her well. If anyone marries my daughter and dares not treat her well, I will go and beat them up!"
Liu's bold words drew laughter from the crowd.
Unlike the harmonious Liang family, the Zhong family mansion in Sishui County was shrouded in gloom.
"Ever since I met Wan Shu, I have treated her with courtesy, thinking that I could build a good relationship with her. I never expected that she would be such a heartless person!"
Zhong Pan'er gritted her teeth: "Our Zhong family is willing to give her ten thousand taels of silver as a condition for obtaining the soap formula, but she still refuses to agree. Isn't she clearly making things difficult for our Zhong family?!"
Just as Zhong Pan'er had predicted.
Once the soap went on sale, it immediately took over the market that should have belonged to the bath beans. Now, the bath beans in their store are basically unsellable.
They also failed to figure out how to make the soap they ordered from Wan Shu, even after studying it.
"If it were only sold in Sishui County, that would be fine, but Wan Shu is a restless person. He started building a factory in the village, clearly intending to compete with our Zhong family for the entire Dashengchao bath bean market!"
"And bath soap is far inferior to regular soap. Once Wan Shu's factory is built, our Zhong family will be severely weakened!"
Su Fan held Zhong Pan'er's hand and comforted her, "Pan'er, don't worry. We just need to find a way to get her factory built."
His eyes darted around: "Building a factory doesn't necessarily require the county magistrate's approval, so why don't we..."
Zhong Pan'er said angrily, "Do you think I didn't think of starting from this point? The trustworthy magistrate is the prefect's man, and Wan Shu is favored by the prefect. How can the magistrate listen to us!"
Su Fan patted her shoulder, still calm and composed: "Even if the magistrate doesn't listen to us, would he dare to disobey King Wen?"
"I heard that King Wen will come to our Sishui County tomorrow. On the surface, he is here to reward Wan Shu for the plague, but I heard that King Wen is actually here to win over Meng Zhenshou, the head of the Meng family."
"I heard that Wan Shu caused Headmaster Meng to lose face in front of the Prefect in the city. He has always wanted revenge on Wan Shu. If he knew that Wan Shu wanted to build a factory, wouldn't that be..."
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