Powerful Minister Buddha-like Sweet Wife

Chapter 1 — Crossing-over

In the early summer, the breeze is gentle, the water is gurgling, and the wicker wraps around the shore.

The rising sun on the east has just emerged among the mountains, and Weijia Village, which is hundreds of miles away from Beijing, is now curled up with smoke. The men who work in the dark glanced at the sky, straightened up and packed their hoes, ready to go home for dinner.

At this moment, living in a house at the village’s rear by the hilltop, the girl lying on the bed in the east wing just opened her eyes.

Perhaps it is because the girl who was lying in bed just woke up, her cheeks flushed slightly. Of course, the most eye-catching thing is her delicate skin and calm and refined temperament, which are different from those of the villagers.

After opening her eyes, Liu Tangxi sat up from the bed.

As she moves, her hair draped behind her falling like a waterfall.

Liu Tangxi raised her head and glanced at the dilapidated beams that had fallen out of nowhere, and sighed deeply.

Nothing has changed. She’s still in this strange dynasty.

Life will go on, and Liu Tangxi intends to integrate into this world from today.

After thinking about it, Liu Tangxi began to dress and get out of bed.

Liu Tangxi has crossed.

This is the fourth day after she has been crossover.

After working for five years and saving a lot of money, I finally got a loan to buy a house, only to live in for one day, and I woke up inexplicably here the next day.

However, although the dynasty was strange, she knew where it was.

Before going to bed, she was reading a book called 《The Emperor’s Favorites Charming Queen》.

The protagonist is a crossover woman who has crossed to the Marquis of Huai En’ Mansion. As a concubine daughter, she has always been abused by her stepmother and sister. Fortunately, the protagonist has the wisdom and strategy to help her father win over his political enemies. In this way, with the support of Marquis of Huai En’, the protagonist gradually gained support at home.

Under the reprimand of her father, her stepmother dared not bully the crossover daughter openly. However, Liu Tangxi, a vicious and brainless legitimate daughter, couldn’t bear this treatment. Liu Tangxi was very angry when she saw that her stepsister, who had been timid in the past, climbed onto her head and not only got the love of her father, but also got entangled with the prince she had always liked.

On the way to offering incense, Liu Tangxi asked the servant girls around her to buy drugs, ready to knock out the protagonist, and then sell it to dental people. However, unexpectedly, the servant girls around her and the slaves at home betrayed her. The protagonist was safe and sound, but she was taken away by dental people far away from the capital. 

(t/n dental people— old’ middleman, in Yuan Dynasty this term used for human trafficking.)

When reading this paragraph in the book, the reader has been clapping and applauding.

It’s a pity that the vicious supporting character in a book is often like cockroaches who can’t be killed.

Even if it was sold to a remote place, the vicious supporting character who possessed the tenacious vitality still survived.

Just as Liu Tangxi was about to be sold to a brothel by dental people, Liu Tangxi found an opportunity to escape and successfully entered the Wei family.

Wei Laosan was seriously ill and was about to die.

Someone told his fortune telling that if he married his youngest son to a daughter-in-law, Wei Laosan would recover from his illness. He even told them the direction where he could marry a suitable daughter-in-law. 

Wei Laosan’s wife, Li, went out from the hospital urgently believing the fortune teller’s words. 

(t/n Li— is Wei Laosan’s wife’s maiden name.)

Coincidentally, under the guidance of the fortune teller, she met Liu Tangxi who was chased on the road. Liu Tangxi pretended and successfully cheated Li’s trust.

The middleman knew Liu Tangxi’s identity was not simple on the way. He regretted taking this job. Now that Liu Tangxi has voluntarily sold into the farmer house, he will sell Liu Tangxi as a favor. Later, he will say to the people who sold her that he sold her to the brothel. Anyway, no one will know since it was far from the capital.

In doing so, he won’t offend either side.

Afterward, Li took Liu Tangxi home.

Since Liu Tangxi wants to return to the capital, she will not willingly marry into the Wei family. However, she is not stupid. She knows that her origin is unknown and is suspected, so she intends to take advantage of the chaos and escape on the day of the marriage.

In the book, she did run and succeeded.

However, now I don’t know what went wrong. Liu Tangxi fainted mysteriously on the night of her marriage and woke up the next day.

Then, the person becomes her.

The moment she opened her eyes, a strange man in coarse clothes, barely able to hide his momentum, stared at her.

Thinking of this, Liu Tangxi raised her eyes to the open space in the house. It was already empty, the tables, chairs and cabinets had been put back, and the bedding was neatly placed at the end of the bed.

Liu Tangxi sighed a long breath again.

I have to say that the author is really good at arranging the plot and creating contradictions.

In the book, the person Liu Tangxi married is not an ordinary person, but a villain.

Wei Laosan had three sons, the first two sons worked honestly but the third son was not so simple.

Wei Hanzhou didn’t begin to study until he was ten years old. At the suggestion of the village head, he took a scholar’s examination and won in a few years and was still in first place. In the near future, he will become the youngest champion of the Dali Dynasty. Then, he will win the favor of the old emperor and become a powerful minister.

And he stood in any prince’s side, against the third princes, that is, the male and female protagonists in the book. — (t/n he does not only work/ support specific princes. Any prince will do as long as it’s against the third prince.)

Of course, this kind of villain who opposes the protagonist will never end well.

The protagonist teamed up to gather all his criminal evidence, raided his home, and wiped out the entire Wei family.

Thinking that the reason why this man would oppose the third prince was due to the Liu Tangxi in the book, the Liu Tangxi who was crossover at this moment couldn’t help but shudder.

Out of the fear of just coming to a strange time and space, Liu Tangxi has been hiding in the room for three days under the name of the newlyweds, and has quietly figured out the temperament of the Wei family in these three days. After cleaning up, Liu Tangxi went out of the house.

Seeing Liu Tangxi coming out of the room, Li smiled and said ：”Old third daughter-in-law is up. Go rinse and get ready to eat.”

(t/n Old third— she called her third son since he already married a wife and became a husband in china culture they will put 老/old before the name, also to show their closeness.) 

Zhou’s hand, who was making a fire in the kitchen, paused for a moment, looked up at her mother-in-law and Liu Tangxi standing in the yard, and muttered to sister-in-law Zhang who cut vegetables ： “Mom is very kind to the third brother’s wife. If I don’t know the truth that she was sold by dental people, I would have thought they were biological mothers and daughters.”

Zhang didn’t say a word, and was still carefully cutting vegetables.

Looking at Zhang’s appearance, Zhou feels sick, breaking the firewood in half and throwing it heavily in the deep inside of the stove.

After a while, Zhang finished cutting the vegetables and glanced at the stove.

“Second sister-in-law, the fire is too big.”

With a cold hum, Zhou reluctantly took out several burning firewood from the inside of the stove and put them in the ash below.

“Aren’t you wasting firewood? Mother will have something to say again when she knows it.” Zhang frowned and said distressedly. 

(t/n something to say— nagged/ criticize.)

Hearing this, Zhou became even more angry.

“Yes yes yes, it’s all my fault. I’m seven months pregnant and have to work in the kitchen. And yet a person with unknown origins who has been bought from nowhere can lie in bed and sleep!”

Zhang saw that the wok was still hot, she did not rush to put oil in, looked at Zhou once and then looked at Li, her mother-in-law in the yard, whispered ：“You keep your voice down, mother will be upset when she hears it. Since the third sister-in-law is here, father ‘s body has improved a bit in the past few days, this is due to the third sister-in-law.”

Zhou’s mouth curled up wanting to say something. However, when she saw her man coming back from the farm, she shut her mouth. Don’t say it’s her mother-in-law, Li. Even his own man praised Liu Tangxi when he saw that her father-in-law was getting better.

Seeing the wok was a bit cooler, Zhang took a small spoonful of oil from the oil jar and poured it into the wok. After putting some green onions, ginger and garlic, she then poured the vegetables into the wok.

Soon, the fragrance came out.

After rinsing her face, Liu Tangxi smelled the smell of the kitchen and walked up.

Seeing that Zhou was making a fire, Liu Tangxi said ：”Second sister-in-law, let me come.”

Zhou is holding back her anger. When Liu Tangxi is wearing new coarse clothes, she couldn’t help but get angry. This Liu Tangxi was bought from outside; it cost twenty taels of silver. The cost to hold a banquet is several taels a few days ago, also her mother-in-law made her two new clothes.

Looking at Liu Tangxi’s tender face and graceful figure, Zhou was even more angry.

Obviously, she is a good person and the other party is a bought-in woman. But it looks like the other party came from a big family, and she is just a fire-burning maid.

(t/n good person— in this terms because she has a much better status since her background/ family is clear.)

“No need, third sister-in-law can have a good rest. You’re just married with a third brother. You’re tired.” Zhou said in a strange way.

The word ‘tired’ is especially heavy.

Hearing this, Liu Tangxi glanced at Zhou’s big belly. Instead of responding to her, she went to her side and said softly ： “Sister-in-law’s belly is heavy, it is better for second sister-in-law to have a rest.”

Zhou wanted to say something more, this time, Zhang said to Zhou ： “Well, second sister-in-law, your belly is heavy, the kitchen is too small, and the smell of oil fumes is strong. Go out and relax. Let the third sister-in-law come.”

Hearing this, Zhou didn’t say anything. After looking at Liu Tangxi, she held the top around the stove to get up. 

Seeing that, Liu Tangxi quickly reached out and helped her.

Zhou didn’t seem to expect that Liu Tangxi would help. She became stiff and wanted to refuse. But when she turned her head and saw Liu Tangxi’s sincere expression, she didn’t say a word, and stood up with Liu Tangxi’s hand. However, when she walked out from the kitchen, her face looked a lot better.

After Zhou went out, Liu Tangxi sat in her seat and started to make a fire.

She grew up in the countryside and left home only after college. So, she is good at cooking with firewood. Although she hasn’t done it for many years, the hands are a bit clumsy, but she quickly gets used to it.

Zhang was slightly surprised when she saw Liu Tangxi’s skillful movement.

Lowering her head down looking at Liu Tangxi’s hand putting firewood inside the stove, she stopped for a moment.

Liu Tangxi’s hands are really delicate. At a glance, she knows that she has not done rough work. Not only that, but it was also very exquisite. It must be well maintained every day.

This should be a person who lived a rich life before. She must have encountered something before she was sold.

But looking at her make a fire, it doesn’t look like she’s never worked at all.

Zhang is a person with few words, but now she couldn’t help asking ： “Where is the third sister-in-law house?” 

(t/n a person with few words— reticent personality.)

Liu Tangxi paused with the firewood in her hand, looked up at Zhang, and covered her forehead in pain, and half-truthfully saying ：”I can’t remember it. I only remember being sold and knocked on the head, and when I woke up I was here.”

Zhang was stunned for a moment.

Although Liu Tangxi has been here for a few days, before marriage, Zhang was busy preparing for Wei Hanzhou marriage and had no time to talk to Liu Tangxi. After Liu Tangxi got married she hardly went out of the room, so it was the first time for the two to speak formally.

She just felt that Liu Tangxi seemed different from the day she first came, but she didn’t expect that she had lost her memory.

Thinking of Liu Tangxi’s sudden fainting on the night of her marriage, Zhang pressed her lips. Look at Liu Tangxi’s delicate face and the eye-catching scars on her forehead, her (Zhang) eyes show sympathy.

“Forget it, it must not be a good thing. Although our family is poor, our parents are kind and good people, and the third brother is a talented person. The future is great, and your good days are yet to come.” Zhang said.

Liu Tangxi nodded and said, “Well, thank you sister-in-law for comforting me, I am also thankful for our father and mother for taking me in, so grateful of… hus… husband.”

Although the word husband is common, Liu Tangxi always feels awkward when she says it.

Zhang smiled and didn’t say anything more about it.

After a while, Zhang opened the lid of the pot, looked at it and said ：”Third sister-in-law, there is no need to add firewood anymore. The dishes are almost ready. Go to the study and tell the third brother to have dinner.”

“……yes.”

On the surface, Liu Tangxi answered lightly, but her heart was a little heavy. Compared with ordering Wei Hanzhou to have dinner, she would rather do odd jobs in the kitchen.

Although her husband was just a scholar at this time, his eyes were fierce and frightening. Every time he looks at her, it makes her feel as if the other party has seen through her whole person.

Putting down the firewood in her hand, Liu Tangxi walked out slowly. As soon as she walked into the yard, she saw Zhou feeding the pigs with a big belly.

For some reason, seeing this scene, Liu Tangxi’s anxiety in her heart has been reduced a lot.

As Zhang said, although this family is poor, everyone is a good person. Even Zhou, who likes to say a few words about her, is not a lazy person.

Liu Tangxi was about to walk over to help, but before moving her steps, she saw that Zhou had finished feeding the pigs.

With some regrets, Liu Tangxi pursed her lips, and walked towards the study room of the powerful minister of the Dali Dynasty in the future.