The Little Husband of a Foolish General [Farming]

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Blurb

As soon as Lin Jin transmigrated, he discovered he'd become a young man who, unable to bear marrying a fool, had hanged himself on his wedding day.

The fool's family was so poor they had barely anything in their house. They struggled to get by on a few small plots of farmland, and had a younger brother and sister to raise. They were so poor they couldn't even afford vegetables...

The villagers also blamed him for the original owner's suicide, and were always gossiping:

"That Jin fellow really doesn't know any better. How could he do something so shameful as hanging himself after getting married?"

"He must have looked down on his husband for being both foolish and poor."

"He's pitiful, too. His husband's family barely has any land. He'll go hungry now that he's married!"

With such a difficult start, how could he turn things around?

Lin Jin: Who says you have to go hungry just because you don't have much land?

It's hard to get rich by digging in the dirt, so put your skills to work and get busy making money.

Tofu, dried tofu, tofu skin: these little soybeans bring in quick money.

Grow shiitake mushrooms, pick wood ear mushrooms, and soon your barbecue shop will be famous for miles.

Sizzling plates and spicy hot pot: the Lin family's snacks never get old.

The poor are ignored in a bustling city, while the rich find distant relatives in the mountains.

Once he made money and built a name for himself, the village gossip vanished. The doors that had once been closed to him were suddenly besieged by visitors, all claiming they'd been fools to mistake a God of Wealth for a scoundrel.

It wasn't that the villagers had changed their ways. They simply hoped he could help them prosper, too. They'd treated him coldly before, but at least they knew how to admit their mistakes.

His foolish husband also turned out to be blessed by misfortune. After saving an important man, he somehow regained his senses. That man even rewarded him with a general's title and sent him off to lead an army into battle.

The foolish husband went to the frontier and didn't return for years. There was no word from him, either.

Plenty of people envied Lin Jin's skills and talent. When they heard about this, they all came to persuade him to remarry:

"Your husband hasn't sent word in years. Maybe he died out there. You're still young, so why not find another family..."

"You've already raised his younger brother and sister to adulthood. Even if you remarry, he can't accuse you of doing anything wrong!"

Worse still, troublemakers kept showing up to harass him. Some even brought a sedan chair right to his door, intending to force him into marriage.

"Lin family's young master, the sedan chair is ready. Whether you want to marry or not, you're marrying today!"

Lin Jin was doing the books at his shop. Before he could even react, he heard the beat of hooves outside. A tall, imposing general whipped the thugs blocking the doorway aside and roared, "Who dares force my husband to marry them?"

Pairing: A fair, beautiful transmigrated young man who is good at business, paired with a tall, mighty native general who starts out foolish and later becomes shrewd.

Reading notes:

1. A traditional farming story about a young man, with a slow and steady pace.

2. There may be children later on.

3. They are each other's only one, and their love grows over time.

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Blurb

Qin An, praised by his modern-day friends as a "little whiz in the kitchen," transmigrated by accident into the body of a young man in an unfamiliar ancient world.

The original owner had been orphaned as a child and was timid by nature. He struggled to make ends meet, running a tofu shop with his elderly, chronically ill grandmother.

But he was constantly bullied by his greedy uncle and aunt, as well as grasping members of his clan.

Qin An wasn't afraid of them. They'd bullied the original owner because he was weak and timid, with no one to look after him. But who said he couldn't get some help of his own?

"Shut the door, and sic Xiao Hei on them!"

Tofu pudding, soy milk, and tofu custard, served in the northern and southern styles.

Dried tofu, tofu sticks, fried tofu puffs, soybean cakes, and fermented tofu, all selling like crazy.

It's only a little tofu shop, but it earns enough to support a family without worry.

He waited at home day after day, but his amnesiac husband, Xiao Hei, whom he'd found on the back mountain and who'd gone to the capital to take the military exam, still hadn't returned to their hometown.

News came from the palace: the tyrant of Great Qi had been sharpening a knife every time he returned to the inner palace these past few days.

The whole court was on edge, and rumors spread that His Majesty planned to use his freshly sharpened blade to cut down the court.

When Emperor Qi Jing, who had once used the secret identity Xiao Hei, heard the news, he was baffled.

It was all a misunderstanding. He was sharpening his knife only to slice tofu for his husband...

Also known as The Tofu Beauty and His Handsome Husband and What? His Husband Is...?

Theme: Family harmony matters most