Gasp! She's a Time Traveler Using Modern Tech to Improve Ancient Life-Chapter 246 - 245: Hard Candy Traded for Golden Cod Fish Roe
The afternoon labor class is a fixed routine, as Lin Wanwan doesn’t want Lin Family Manor to become parasitic aristocrats, so they cannot detach from the working people.
The school recently raised five little lambs that need the duty students to gather grass for, and Kang Beier Duck also needs to be taken to the seaside to feed.
Aside from the duty students, other children need to clean the village roads, feed the old ox bought with money from the clan’s donkey, remove weeds and water the clan’s fields, pick up seafood by the seaside, and search for wild fruits in the mountains. There’s all kinds of work every day.
In the evening, Lin Wanwan was in the main hall teaching young Qingyu to recognize characters when suddenly there was a commotion outside, instantly capturing Qingyu’s attention.
"Mom, why is it so lively outside? Can I go take a look?" Young Qingyu asked, tilting his head up.
Lin Wanwan looked up at Hua Nong: "Go ask Sun Chuyao to find out what’s happening outside."
"Sure!"
Soon, Sun Chuyao, who went to join the bustle, brought back the news: "Madam, it’s the response from the woman’s family whom Lin Meng Xing checked last time, and they agreed to the marriage proposal. It’s arranged to go make the betrothal in three days, so everyone went to his house to join the excitement."
This month, after planting cotton comes sweet potatoes, then there’s rice and corn to be sown, and Lin Family Manor’s fields don’t have enough people, yet they also need to fish, truly too busy to think straight.
To find time for a proposal amidst such busyness shows how eager Lin Family Manor is to wed. A warm home with wife and children—the lifelong pursuit of commoners.
Take Lin Meng Xing, for example. He’s already twenty-three this year and still single.
In the early Great Tang, the law stipulated that men could marry at twenty and women at fifteen. After the An Lushan Rebellion, it lowered to fifteen for men and thirteen for women for population reasons.
This legal marriage age only restricted town residents, while in the countryside, no matter the dynasty, men and women married at fifteen or sixteen.
Yet here’s Lin Meng Xing, still single at twenty-three, showing just how poor his family’s condition must be.
His father Lin Guotai is Lin Mengbo’s elder uncle, his wife is Madam Yin, and they have two sons and one daughter. The eldest son is Lin Meng Xing, the younger is eighteen-year-old Lin Mengzhou, and their twenty-year-old daughter is Lin Juhua who was married off.
The daughter’s marriage dowry back then was used for Lin Guotai’s severe illness, thus the sons’ marriages became tricky.
This time, as they originally lived behind Lin Wanwan’s house, demolition came, not only gaining wider brick houses by population allocation but also extra "demolition compensation."
Now with house and food, if not marrying now, when? Why not arrange immediately for proposals and marriage!
"Great! Finally, there’s a joy of welcoming a bride in the clan; the clan leader uncle must be happy." Lin Wanwan said with a smile.
Indeed, upon hearing this matter, the Lin clan leader was very happy! The clan welcomes a new bride, and the singles decrease, indicating prosperous days for all.
Currently, there’s quite a crowd of eligible unmarried men in the clan, all awaiting their parents to find them brides.
Lin Wanwan was quite pleased too, although unable to offer much help amidst other busyness, but considering them the first household hosting a wedding since she joined the clan, she decided to buy more wedding candy to show support for the groom.
Three days later, when going out for betrothal, Lin Wanwan indeed sent a package of unwrapped Alpenliebe hard candy to Lin Meng Xing’s home.
Lin Wanwan bought it at twenty yuan per kilo, not costly, but opening the wrappers herself was tiring. Giving it to Lin Meng Xing’s family in Great Tang led them to be so grateful they almost kneeled in thanks.
Later, they returned a Golden Cod Fish Roe originally meant for the bride’s family to Lin Wanwan (now replaced with Lin Wanwan’s candy).
Golden Cod Fish Roe, the Yellow Lip Fish Roe, the Hermes of fish roe, the Rolls-Royce among fish roe, king of fish roe, known in modern times as "worth more than gold"—actually, it’s already more expensive than gold, thousands per gram!
It has special liver and kidney nourishing effects, excellent for stopping bleeding, being highly effective for postpartum hemorrhage in mothers; thus, it’s commonly dried by fishing families to save for the son’s marriage.
Nowadays, it’s openly unavailable for sale since the Yellow Lip Fish has become a national first-class protected animal.
Currently, this fish roe is historical stock, only found in the collection world, with its collectible value surpassing its nourishing value (meaning even money can’t buy it).
Looking at the over a kilogram Golden Cod Fish Roe sent by Lin Meng Xing’s family, while they spoke of only having this, unable to offer better gratitude to Lin Wanwan, and hoped she wouldn’t mind, etc.
Lin Wanwan looked up to the sky, sigh, what a sin, exchanging twenty-one kilos of hard candy for a prized Golden Cod Fish Roe, she refused to accept it.
Such a Golden Cod Fish Roe, estimated in the modern collection market, worth nearly two million! Lin Wanwan had sold other fish roes before (also gifted by clansmen), so she knew.
Temporal profiteering’s difference, really made herself hesitant.
Until finding out Lin Meng Xing’s family prepared more than one Golden Cod Fish Roe, Lin Wanwan accepted their goodwill and decided besides candy, on their wedding day, to gift them a custom-made multi-layer modern whipped cream cake as repayment (pretending she made it herself).
That night around nine, Lin Wanwan returned to the modern era, around one in the morning modern time, so she set an alarm clock in her bedroom and took a nap.
At seven in the morning, the alarm rang, Lin Wanwan stretched her hand out from under the covers to silence it, called toward the smart video speaker: "Xiaodu, open the curtains."
"Got it, master, curtains are opening."
Linking curtains, air conditioning, TV, and various electronic devices with the smart speaker was the only modification Lin Wanwan made to the villa, suiting her quite well.
The curtains slowly opened, as gentle morning sun poured in, Lin Wanwan gradually woke, got up to wash in the ensuite bathroom.
Then downstairs she found Hua Nong wrapped dumplings iced in the refrigerator and cooked breakfast for herself.
The dining table at home was crafted by Lin’s grandfather when he hired the village carpenter back then, a genuine traditional Eight Immortals table.
Since grandfather’s passing, Lin Wanwan hadn’t sat here to eat for a long time.
Finished eating and tidying up, at seven thirty, Lin Wanwan set out for her delivery, which was the driving license freshly issued by the motor vehicle office.
Lin Wanwan admired the license in her hands thoroughly, then put on a mask and headed out to buy a car!
Recently, the International Exhibition Center was hosting a spring car show, which Lin Wanwan had just checked online and could go to choose carefully.
From Lin Wanwan’s neighborhood to the International Exhibition Center, it takes about half an hour by taxi, reaching there precisely at eight, opening time for the exhibition, not wasting any time.
These days Lin Wanwan didn’t bother with the troublesome Hai City house matters, as she had handed it all over to lawyer Tan for full management. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝙬𝙚𝓫𝒏𝓸𝓿𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝙤𝓶
The Gong family tried reaching out to negotiate, but she wasn’t interested in engaging.
