Gasp! She's a Time Traveler Using Modern Tech to Improve Ancient Life-Chapter 366 - 363: Dismissed from Office

Amidst the bustling day that passed, Lin Wanwan gained a wealth of knowledge, experiencing the rural wedding customs of the Great Tang a thousand years ago. For the wedding guests, the most impressive sight of the day was the three-tier fresh cream cake.

Even though they tried to buy a larger size, the cake was still insufficient to go around.

When a man gets married, the first thing is to hold a clan feast. Each household sends a representative to the feast, with no need for a gift—since they are of the same family, there’s no distinction. Everyone needs to help each other, with each household sending someone to assist with the work.

In Lin Family Manor, it is considered few to have three generations living together; most families have four generations. Since the elders don’t move, the younger ones cannot split the family, so according to household counts, Lin Family Manor has a total of forty-two families. The clan feast has four tables, which were tightly squeezed together.

Besides the Lin Family’s own clansmen, there are also those relatives like aunts from seven generations back. Essentially, any close or distant relatives who still communicate, they all come with gifts, totaling forty or fifty relatives and friends, creating quite a spectacular scene.

Lin Mengxing’s own courtyard couldn’t accommodate so many people, so they ended up borrowing the school’s playground for the feast.

The main dishes at the feast were seafood, with sea cucumbers, crabs, shrimp, mantis shrimp, clams, and starfish being the most abundant. Then there’s sea fish and seaweed, such as seaweed soup, with the least amount of meat—just a pot of lamb chrysanthemum soup, with more chrysanthemum than lamb.

These are typical feast dishes for seaside families, nothing special to talk about. Guests were most impressed by the cream-filled fruit cake.

Such a dense and sweet cake, if they weren’t attending Lin Family Manor’s feast, many of them would never have the fortune to taste it in their lifetime.

Sugar is something only nobility can afford, and like sugar, fruits are beyond the imagination of ordinary farmers.

Although, due to the number of people, everyone could only taste one mouthful of the three-tier cream cake, it was enough to keep them talking for a long time.

In the following days, families who attended the wedding feast couldn’t stop talking about the cake and the exquisite candles beside it.

Two days after the wedding feast, Lin Mengxing’s family sent a pile of seafood they harvested from the sea to Lin Wanwan.

Regarding the cake Wanwan sent at the wedding feast, they didn’t know what to do in return, so they tried their best to express their gratitude with seafood.

They have secretly decided that if they catch money fish next time, they will save it and make fish glue to send to Lin Wanwan.

Lin Wanwan quite enjoys being respected and valued like this. Compared to her contributions, she feels her emotional rewards bring more happiness.

After the bustle in Lin Family Manor quieted down, Lin Wanwan’s modern villa also became lively.

Renovations for the second floor finally got on her schedule. Anyway, all the valuable national treasures are already in her Great Tang room, so there’s nothing too important left in the modern villa.

She hired a well-known renovation company from Hai City, using redwood she transported from the Great Tang warehouse, astonishing the renovation team.

And that was even without using the Yellow Flower Pear Wood and Agarwood. If she brought out these more precious woods, she might become a legend in the renovation world.

Of course, she planned to use the good woods like Yellow Flower Pear Wood.

However, she disdained modern carpenters who use nails and glue willy-nilly, preferring to entrust the furniture-making tasks to the old carpenters of the Great Tang, who have full mortise and tenon skills.

The only downside is that the Space-Time Gate is too narrow, so she can only have the carpenters make the pieces without assembling them, leaving it to her to assemble.

For Le’an Village Lady’s peculiar requests, the carpenters in Xiao Creek Town naturally found it odd, but fortunately, their curiosity wasn’t too strong. Anyway, they were working for money, regardless of the aristocrats’ preferences.

Perhaps this Le’an Village Lady just has a heart for carpentry! Even if she can’t make furniture, assembling pieces is still worthwhile!

Due to the cover of the renovations in Xiao Creek Town, the furniture Lin Wanwan crafted for her modern villa didn’t arouse suspicion from others.

Lin Mansion has dozens of rooms, requiring a large amount of furniture. Making a few more pieces, who would notice? Even someone as keen-eyed as Xiao Chong wouldn’t bother to take interest in such matters.

While Lin Wanwan was busy with her house renovation, news spread quietly among the upper ranks in Mao County about Xiao Chong’s grandfather being dismissed from his position.

Even though it’s a parallel world, history’s progress follows the records in the history books!

In mid-July, Xiao Chong’s grandfather, Xiao Yu, was indeed dismissed from his position by Li Shimin for repeatedly going against the imperial intentions, being driven out of the center of power.

The gentry in Mao County who were waiting to see Xiao Chong become a laughingstock were quite numerous. After all, Xiao Chong disrupted their gains, refusing to collaborate with them to oppress the common folk!

From the moment Xiao Chong decided to be a good official for the people, he was destined not to be welcomed by the local gentry class. One moment he’s building Ta Mountain Dam, another the Moon Lake, driving the local gentry crazy with exploitation!

The usual operation should have been collaborating to oppress the common people, sharing the profits. But Xiao Chong went ahead and treated these distinguished families like rich merchants being fleeced.

If Xiao Chong weren’t a descendant of a distinguished family, and with strong backing, hard tactics, and a cunning mind, he’d have been taken down by now—there were attempts, but they failed, deterring further actions for the time being.

Since they couldn’t take him down, they had to send him away. The gentry secretly decided to go against the grain, investing money and efforts to support Xiao Chong’s career, hoping for him to climb ranks and leave the area soon!

Just as they were poised to start leveraging money and resources upward, news came from Chang’an that Xiao Yu, the leader of Xiao Family’s Qi Liang Room, was dismissed by Li Shimin!

Thus, Xiao Chong’s path for promotion naturally couldn’t be smooth. Holding down the Xiao Family is the best, not letting their descendants rise easily.

Since this eldest son of the Xiao Family chose the path of a County Magistrate, he should stay outside for the full term!

Originally, Xiao Chong was pressured by his year of political achievements and the strong contribution of high-yield grains, which was hard to suppress. Now, it’s easier to keep him in check.

Outside the County Government of Mao County, people said the atmosphere should be gloomy, but only Xiao Chong’s confidants knew that the grandfather’s dismissal didn’t affect him at all; it even helped him subtly.

He originally had to network so he wouldn’t be promoted too early. Ta Mountain Dam was only half finished, so being transferred, wouldn’t he be working in vain? Now, everything is naturally falling into place.