Tao Gong Wang

In the late years of the Daqian era, tyrants roamed freely, war erupted endlessly, and the people could not sustain their lives. 
After transmigration, Chen Jie finds himself as a drunken gambler with a pair of unfortunate sisters at home.

The elder one, Su Yunjin, is his wife, and he also has a five-year-old sister-in-law, Su Yunrui. 
Their family is so poor they can barely make ends meet. 
Then suddenly, his beautiful wife comes smiling, bringing him a bowl of hot porridge. 
"Husband, I was wrong yesterday. Please have some porridge while it's hot."
Seeing the bruises on his wife's face, Chen Jie feels something is amiss.

Ding~
[Daily Information has been updated]
[1. Yesterday, you gambled away the last three acres of good land, beat Su Yunjin while drunk, and planned to sell the five-year-old Su Yunrui, to recover your losses.]
[2. The Su sisters rely on each other. Su Yunrui is Su Yunjin's only hope.]
[3. Su Yunjin, having lost hope, traded her mother's hairpin three days ago for a pack of arsenic.]

...Arsenic!
Staring at the hot porridge brought to his lips, Chen Jie looks up at his wife, seeing the faint bruise on her face and her eyes shifting away, avoiding his gaze.

"Honey!"
"Yes?"
"You didn't really drugged me, did you?"

Honey, you didn't really drugged me, did you?

Xiantao Village, bordering the Mianshui.


Mianshui is an ancient river, a tributary of the Yangtze River, also known as the Han River during the Qin and Han dynasties.


The Mianshui River stretches downwards, penetrating several nearby prefectures, among which is Mianshui County.


And by the time it flows to Xiantao Town, it becomes a case of three peaches surrounding one water.


Upper Peach, Zhongtao, and Xiantao, where the three peaches meet, there is a river bend, an important site for the entire Xiantao Town's spring ploughing, summer sowing, and irrigation.


In the past, villages often fought over this irrigation water.


Moreover, due to this river channel, getting from Zhongtao to Upper Peach required a long detour, until the locals later pooled funds to build a small stone bridge. It wasn't big, but it indeed saved people a long walk.


And the folks even named this small stone bridge: Kangle Bridge.


Chapter 45: Killing Ma Liu