Chapter 1377: Chapter 992: Poison Doctor Unrivaled 53 (Finale)
The arrival of her monthly period indicates that the young wife has finally grown up. This is a signal, and logically it should be a greatly joyous occasion.
"Have you held your coming-of-age ceremony?"
In the Four Continents, girls have their coming-of-age ceremony at sixteen. He knew the little girl was already past fifteen but forgot to ask about this ceremony.
Jiang Xue knows that ancient people valued the coming-of-age ceremony, as it marks a girl’s transition into adulthood, but she is a modern person and hasn’t considered it.
Moreover, she hadn’t celebrated her birthday since crossing over, nor did she know when she was born. Dong Yao mentioned it in passing earlier, but she had forgotten, and she wasn’t planning to do anything about it now.
"I haven’t done it, and it doesn’t mean much to me whether I do or not. Mainly because I’ve never noted my own birthday, and now our family is scattered in different places. I’ve married you and become a woman, holding a coming-of-age ceremony doesn’t feel right, does it?"
"Your Father Emperor, your brother, have they never asked you? When you were on Xiran Island, what about your grandparents? That’s unexpected."
As expected, when this was mentioned, everyone instinctively responded like this, but Jiang Xue seemed indifferent.
"That’s because I told my brother that my grandparents held it for me and told my grandparents that my brother held it for me. I don’t want to bother others, so there’s no need for you to dwell on this. Maybe you all value it, but for me, growing up in that environment, it’s not important."
"Silly girl, I’m just worried about you. Although you’re right, it’s meaningless to hold it after marriage, the coming-of-age ceremony is significant to you,"
Jiang Xue quickly said, "Stop, I won’t do it. Let’s just pretend it’s done. If you treat me well in the future, that’s better than any blessing."
Shui Yixuan watched the young wife who’s so optimistic, and could only sigh. Jiang Xue felt that reaching this point in her life already counted as a significant success. She didn’t care about superficial complex rituals, only about substantial matters.
Shui Yixuan probably felt sorry that Jiang Xue’s childhood wasn’t happy, bearing so much she shouldn’t have at a young age, already planning to protect her with his life for the rest of his days.
The glass making craft has been passed down for more than four thousand years. Although Jiang Xue understood the principles of glass, the industrial development differed in each era, so studying and creating it wasn’t simple.
Later glass is divided into many types, but in the initial research stage, there’s no need for categorization. At first, people always thought glass was green; when they first produced it, it was indeed green. Others didn’t know, but she knew that glass was green because the raw material contained small amounts of iron.
Through different chemical reactions and optical changes, it took Jiang Xue half a year to lead the Shui Clan in developing transparent glass.
This type of glass uses quartz sand, soda ash, feldspar, and limestone as raw materials. After mixing, high temperature melting, homogenization, shaping, and annealing, it is obtained.
Having made glass, coupled with the process of creating colored glaze, the combination not only reduced costs but increased glass’s utility, including mirrors, windows in daily life, and this technique will change the Holy Dynasty’s pattern, initiating a new industrial journey.
Naturally, the subsequent commercial value is immeasurable.
In addition, regarding gunpowder, to reduce its usage and prevent it from being used in warfare, she and Shui Yixuan controlled the use of this material.
Within just a year, Jiang Xue secured a thirty percent profit share in the glass industry, because she was competitive and didn’t like mixing her affairs, so Shui Yixuan catered to her interests, directly giving her a profit share.
With an annual income of tens of thousands of taels, she expanded her cosmetics market, using money to generate more money. Without manpower, she borrowed the strength of the Shui Clan, and gradually established her own independent brand—Hanjiang Snow.
Yes, it’s a cosmetics brand named after her and her brother, with the Shui Clan’s backing. Within a year, it swept across the continent, earning a fortune.
At seventeen years old, she possessed assets worth millions. She used this money to build a road from Liuyang to the Holy Dynasty, and every year she used the taxes collected from the people to open girls’ schools and support lonely elderly over sixty years old. Earning that much money was ultimately for doing meaningful things.
She and Shui Yixuan lived apart all year, each busy with their own affairs, gathering very few times a year. It wasn’t until she was twenty years old that she gave birth to a son for the Shui Clan.
The old man drank the great-grandson’s full moon wine before passing with a smile, buried in Wind Valley alongside Mei Hongxin, completing a full life. Jiang Xue admired such love, returning to Wind Valley annually to pay her respects when she had the time.
Meanwhile, Xi Yue also gave birth to a pair of twin siblings for her. At eighteen, she returned to Xiran Island to attend the children’s full moon ceremony.
She didn’t know if Xi Yue remembered the original events, but the happiness between the eyebrows couldn’t be hidden.
When the child was half a year old, Murong Yi passed away. The next month, the Holy Dynasty Emperor passed away, causing a change in the whole continent’s pattern.
Prince Liang ascended the throne, and the name of Lanyue Country was changed to Xuanyuan Country, officially making Lanshu Yue history.
Her and her brother’s status also declined, following the sensitive associations with Murong Yi and Lanyue Country.
She was fine, since she had married, but her brother was different. Prince Liang always had apprehensions about him, so he paid close attention.
Yet, her brother was clever, marrying an excellent young lady from Xiran Island as a wife, which outsiders viewed as common folk. He also kept a stand-in in his own small patch of land regularly, easing the New Emperor’s apprehensions while allowing him to pursue what he truly wished to do, completing a fulfilled life.
Shui Yixuan adored her greatly. That kind of adoration wasn’t superficial, but a love deep in the bone. When a man is willing to put aside his pride and time to cherish a woman like this, Jiang Xue knew that it was worth it.
She wasn’t one to flaunt their love or express everything openly, so her life descriptions of him were overly simple, but that didn’t hinder her happiness.
Together, Jiang Xue and Shui Yixuan had three sons and two daughters, retiring at forty, then traveling the world like Grandma and Grandpa did, and by chance discovered the legendary Donglin Continent, beginning the exploration and discovery of their latter years.
They traveled across the world, spreading merit, using their limited lifespan to create one legendary tale after another.
[Unrivaled Holy Water] became the highest praise future generations had for the second generation of Shui Clan couple.
Of course, this kind of ending had completely diverged from the original story.
