The Spoiled Little Hoodlum

After transmigrating to ancient times, I found my family fallen on hard times and became a commoner with a home but no land. On my very first day, a woman betrothed to me since birth showed up at my door seeking refuge. It turned out her father had been a fourth-rank court official, but he was implicated in a major case, branded a traitor, and had his family executed. Only daughters who were already married could escape punishment. The protagonist, Qian Xiaohao, gets a wife for free, then starts acting up and “squandering” the family fortune! Just one minute after the wedding ceremony, he turns around and pawns his wife! Tofu can make money, so he promptly gives away the recipe! He becomes a tiger-slaying hero and earns a reward of five hundred taels, then turns around and turns it into salt-alkali land, losing another hundred taels! Fortunately, he has a doctorate in chemistry. He extracts alkali from the saline soil, and from then on, steamed buns are no longer sour. He catches fish and lets them stink before selling them! He lets tofu go moldy before selling it! He even cooks lobster until it stinks before selling it! Farming requires a shed, so he builds one. He slashes his perfectly good piglets and lambs first, pours muddy water into fragrant lard, prunes the fruit trees, peels the fruit before selling it, grinds shiitake mushrooms into powder, builds houses underground, and boils the liquor before brewing it. His ways of squandering money are endless, yet he somehow gets richer and richer.