#55 - Chapter 55 Mei Niang
Cheng Feng had already inquired about the tavern's matter and received Wang Tieshan's opinion.
Naturally, Cheng Feng also intended to adopt his master's suggestion.
From Cheng Feng's perspective,
it was just selling some wine.
I provide the finished product, you handle the sales.
We share the profits.
You benefit, I benefit, everyone benefits.
But from Wang Tieshan's higher vantage point,
the sudden appearance of wine, which potentially represented a large amount of profit,
would disrupt the market.
It would cause disputes in the wine business.
This was no longer the rule-of-law society of his previous life after all.
Here, gangs roamed, and unspoken rules were hidden.
Interests had long been divided.
If an outsider without backing wanted to share this piece of the pie,
wouldn't the original tavern business lose customers and the silver that should have gone into their pockets?
Wouldn't it be better to just snatch your wine recipe?
Wouldn't it be better for us to divide the profits?
The limitation of Cheng Feng's thinking lay here.
Cheng Feng wasn't about to do a good deed that turned bad.
After realizing the complexity of the matter,
the possible consequences were not something Cheng Feng's small frame could bear.
Wang Tieshan's words allowed Cheng Feng to see through the rules beneath the surface of this world a little more.
In any industry, power and connections are crucial.
Without backing, it's difficult to gain a foothold in a highly competitive market.
Wang Tieshan had some interest in Cheng Feng's wine,
and for the sake of his closed-door disciple,
he expressed his willingness to provide the necessary support and protection.
The prerequisite was that Shopkeeper Mei had to have a deeper relationship with Cheng Feng.
Otherwise, there was no need to talk about it.
The main business of the Tieshan Martial Arts School wasn't in taverns.
There was no need to come forward for a small business they didn't value.
Otherwise, the reputation of the Tieshan Martial Arts School would be too cheap.
Fortunately, Cheng Feng's focus was on martial arts training.
Earning money was also to better serve his martial strength needs.
After this incident,
Cheng Feng understood his level even more.
He was indeed still a bit naive.
Beneath the calm surface,
no one knew what behemoths were lurking.
Power was too ethereal for Cheng Feng, who came from the countryside.
Only martial arts were the only means to protect himself and his family.
This made Cheng Feng even more eager for the Blood Refinement Realm.
After returning home and eating dinner,
seeing that it was still early,
he took Lian Niang to the No. 2 room for some exercise.
Naturally, he gained Fortune Points +1.
Looking at the sun and calculating the time,
Cheng Feng appeared at the street corner again.
Pedestrians on the roadside were gradually returning home.
But the person Cheng Feng was waiting for hadn't arrived yet.
Cheng Feng wasn't anxious.
With the technique in hand,
even if he suffered a little loss,
he could still earn some silver by selling wine himself, albeit with a little more trouble.
It wouldn't have a big impact on Cheng Feng.
It was almost time.
Seeing that Mei Niang hadn't come yet,
Cheng Feng stopped waiting.
Although he had some expectations,
since the other party was unpunctual first,
Cheng Feng naturally wouldn't continue to wait, needlessly lowering his own status.
Just as Cheng Feng was about to completely disappear into the shadows of the street corner,
a delicate shout came from behind: "Cheng Feng, I'm here, Cheng Feng, Cheng Feng."
Hearing someone calling him,
Cheng Feng looked back.
A beautiful woman with a sweet face, graceful figure, and heavenly beauty ran over while shouting.
The light gauze around her body fluttered in the breeze, like a purple glow drawn across the sky at dusk.
Looking at the beauty running to his side,
Cheng Feng asked in surprise: "You are, Mei Niang?"
Mei Niang was very pleased with Cheng Feng's reaction, her efforts to dress herself up for half a day hadn't been in vain.
She said proudly: "Otherwise? It's just a simple dress-up, surely it's not as unsightly as yesterday, right!"
Looking at this beautiful woman, Cheng Feng's heart did indeed stir.
If he could really take her into his room,
it wouldn't be a bad thing.
Cheng Feng wouldn't coddle women like those simps from his previous life.
Having transmigrated, the hardships he had endured, the risks he had taken, the life he had risked,
as well as what he had seen, heard, and thought around him,
had already brought about earth-shattering changes in Cheng Feng from the inside out.
It allowed Cheng Feng to better integrate into the environment and live well.
With beauty before him, Cheng Feng also praised: "Naturally, it's much better than how you looked yesterday. I really didn't expect that you would be so beautiful when you returned to your original appearance."
Mei Niang was also delighted to hear Cheng Feng's praise.
However, dressing up like this was also for her own purpose: "Then what did your master say?"
Cheng Feng didn't need to deceive this beauty.
He completely explained the course of events and Wang Tieshan's suggestion.
Mei Niang frowned upon hearing this.
She had to marry him first to get the martial arts school's support?
There was nothing to say about the profit sharing.
The martial arts school's master was only agreeing because of Cheng Feng's face.
But she would be a concubine, not even the main wife!
Mei Niang's mind was racing, and the expression on her face changed.
Cheng Feng could understand her feelings.
But this matter could only be handled this way.
Things weren't even settled yet, and he could only help to this extent.
He vaguely remembered some young people from his previous life.
They spent a lot of money for girls they met online.
As a result, the girls found an excuse and broke up.
They were left with nothing and could only learn to grow from their losses.
This was a scam. Young people could only suffer and learn to grow when they were unprepared.
Mei Niang was indeed beautiful.
But wanting to be Cheng Feng's main wife was still a bit lacking.
After becoming Wang Tieshan's closed-door disciple,
his status and position were completely different.
Wang Tieshan himself even had some ideas.
He hadn't had time to tell Cheng Feng yet.
For Cheng Feng, this inner disciple,
the closed-door disciple who was expected to inherit his mantle,
Wang Tieshan only wanted to let Cheng Feng take fewer detours.
In the path of power, wealth, and martial arts,
marriage was also a means to enhance oneself.
Shouldn't he find a good match for his own closed-door disciple?
But now Cheng Feng only wanted to make wine and earn money.
Earning money was good for supporting his family.
Cai'er was already more than four months pregnant.
Cui'er and Xiaohua were only two months pregnant.
In at most five months or a little more, Cheng Feng's first child would be born in the Great Zhou Dynasty.
He couldn't discuss earning money at that time, right?
Cheng Feng liked to be prepared in advance.
That way, he would have plenty of leeway no matter what happened, and he wouldn't have to rush.
The status of a concubine was also an exchange given for the sake of profit.
If it were in his previous life, Cheng Feng would have become the person he hated.
Cheng Feng would definitely sneer at so-called interest-exchanging marriages and say a loser's statement: "Shit, isn't that kind of emotion mixed with interests not love?"
But now, having experienced and grown, Cheng Feng could only say sorry to the young commoner Cheng Feng of the past.
At that time, his status and level were low, and he didn't see things very clearly. He only cared about his own feelings.
Now, looking back, he realized that this was also a kind of experience.
If there was an opportunity to live off a woman, that was also a shortcut.
The interest exchange of rich people would make them live better.
Instead of the random love and sadness in soap operas.
That's all fake TMD.
This was all the beatings of society that told Cheng Feng.
Even now, Cheng Feng's first thought was still to earn money first.
Marrying Mei Niang, this beauty, was just a side effect.
See, learned it?
People of value will have people come to them no matter where they are.
Cheng Feng was just lusting after Mei Niang's body.
This was also the only condition for wanting to accomplish Mei Niang's matter.
It depended on what Mei Niang and Shopkeeper Mei thought.
If they weren't willing,
Cheng Feng wouldn't lose anything.
If they agreed,
then Cheng Feng would not only earn money but also have a beauty in his arms.
Mei Niang wouldn't be affected either, fulfilling the conditions at the time, and also protecting her family.
Everyone would be happy.
Seeing that Mei Niang was still thinking, Cheng Feng wasn't anxious.
"You should go back and think about it carefully first, and it's best to discuss it with your father. I have no problem here."
Mei Niang rolled her eyes in her heart.
"Of course you have no problem. You get both the person and the money. What else do you want?"
But she agreed on the mouth: "That's natural. Then I'll come back and talk to you in a few days. I don't know if your residence is here?"
Cheng Feng nodded: "I do live here."
Mei Niang wanted to go to Cheng Feng's house to take a look: "I wonder if it's convenient to take a look now?"
Cheng Feng had no objection. In this regard, Cheng Feng had always been sincere,
not to mention that Mei Niang might be his first concubine.
Cheng Feng would give Mei Niang full freedom of choice.
In the Great Zhou Dynasty, there were both marriages and divorces.
Cheng Feng asked himself about his ability, he could live well no matter where he went.
Cheng Feng had long passed the age of listening to love.
What you say is not important.
What you do is important.
If Mei Niang treated him well, Cheng Feng would naturally treat her as his wife.
If she was planning to borrow a chicken to lay an egg,
then sorry,
the landlord's family also had no surplus grain.
Before the daggers were drawn,
Mei Niang would still have everything she should have.
Cheng Feng's former friend was a love brain.
As a result, he had all kinds of troubles after marriage.
Cheng Feng didn't have any special hope for this.
But the consciousness of the women of the Great Zhou Dynasty was definitely much better than those green tea girls from his previous life.
This could be considered the result of the social environment.
In an era where you couldn't eat enough or dress warmly,
who would think so much about what you had and didn't have?
What you held in your hands was real.
Cheng Feng didn't realize that he had slowly shed the impetuousness of his previous life.
He had become much more down-to-earth.
Even if he noticed it, Cheng Feng would think it was a good thing.
When you are in a survival crisis,
surviving,
is your only goal.
Beauty, fine wine, delicious food, etc., can all be ignored.
