Quick Transmigration: When Can I Just Lay Down and Wait to Die?

Chapter 153 The Concubine of the Lin Family in Dream of the Red Chamber

Despite their reluctance, the day of Lin Daiyu's wedding arrived. Lin Ruhai and Jia Min saw Lin Daiyu off, and although they would both be in the capital afterward, seeing each other would not be so easy.

When Daiyu got into the bridal sedan chair, the boys from Lin Junyu and Lin Jinyu's families cried and screamed, which made the others feel a little better.

For the next two days, Jia Min was restless. If you ask Liu Yuxi, it's because Jia Min was lucky in this life. Her family protected her when she was young, and her husband protected her after she got married. Plus, she was a concubine who didn't cause trouble and even helped others. Although she went through what happened with Wang Shi, she still retained the personality she had when she was a girl.

After Daiyu returned home three days later and Jia Min confirmed that she was indeed living happily in her husband's family, she felt relieved and turned her attention to Congyu.

Although Congyu recovered, his body was still weaker than that of ordinary people, and his progress in the examinations could not keep up with his two older brothers. His knowledge was not a problem, but he could not withstand the environment and intensity of the imperial examinations.

Although Jia Min felt a pang of sadness, she knew that the most important thing was for her son to live a healthy life. If her son couldn't make it, she could take the exams again. If that didn't work, she could raise her grandchildren. As long as the family line could continue, there was hope.

However, Congyu's marriage is more complicated than his two elder brothers'. By the time he is ready to be betrothed, he will probably only be able to pass the imperial examination at the lowest level (xiucai). If they wait until he passes the provincial examination (juren), the child might be too old by then. However, Jia Min dares not tell Congyu these concerns, for fear that the child will overthink things. For now, they can only take it one step at a time.

The boys in the Lin family lived in the front yard from the age of 6 before they got married. After they got married, they had their own separate yard in the back yard. Although Congyu also went to the back yard to pay his respects every day, he still had to study, so his time for paying his respects was not long.

After finishing her household affairs each day, Jia Min would busy herself with her own things when she had something to do, and when she had nothing to do, she would go to Liu Yuxi's courtyard and play with their grandchildren.

Liu Yuxi and her daughters-in-law were even more idle than Jia Min, since Jia Min managed the entire Lin family, while they only needed to busy themselves with their own dowries. Naturally, they spent their days gathering in Liu Yuxi's courtyard to play with the children.

They also had to pay their respects to Jia Min every morning. Jia Min didn't set any rules for them. If Jia Min wasn't busy on a particular day, they would all stay in the main courtyard. However, most of the time, they would return to Liu Yuxi's courtyard after paying their respects.

The longer the two daughters-in-law stayed in the Lin family, the more respect they showed to Liu Yuxi. They had never seen any other family's concubines live as comfortably as Liu Yuxi!

Although she was nominally a concubine, in reality she was only slightly lower in status than the principal wife. When something really happened in the household, Jia Min would sometimes have to ask her aunt for advice.

What's most impressive is that the concubine didn't rely on her father-in-law, but on her own power within the household. Normally, the father-in-law rarely went to the concubine's courtyard, but when there was something to discuss, he would call the concubine to the main courtyard to discuss it.

Both sons were raised by Liu Yuxi and cherished their mother. Moreover, the fact that both daughters-in-law became pregnant so quickly after entering the family was also due to the method of calculating auspicious dates that Liu Yuxi had given them. Therefore, the two sisters-in-law never dared to treat Liu Yuxi the same way they used to treat their concubines in their own households.

When they had free time, the mother-in-law and daughters-in-law would get together to discuss what kind of business to make money from the dowry shop. The mother-in-law would usually give suggestions, but these businesses later turned out to be very profitable.

Not only did their dowries not decrease, but even Liu Qingyu, who married in a few years later, has seen her assets double. Not to mention that Lin Junyu and Lin Jinyu both have their own private property, and their mother-in-law also has her own businesses.

Therefore, neither she nor her sister-in-law coveted the Lin family's ancestral property. When the family divided the property, they would take whatever amount they could get. With the support of their mother-in-law, and having been raised as legitimate wives in their own families, they were naturally not so short-sighted.

When Congyu passed the county-level imperial examination, Lin Junyu also passed the metropolitan-level imperial examination. Although his ranking was not as good as his father's, he was still among the top in the second class. Moreover, he was among the top in the first class during the imperial examination. He first served in the Hanlin Academy, and after three years, he would probably be assigned a specific position depending on the situation.

Three years later, Lin Jinyu also passed the imperial examination, making the Lin family a family with three Jinshi (successful candidates in the highest imperial examinations). In the capital, the Lin family was once the most prominent family.

Congyu's marriage was arranged at the end of the year before last. The brothers sometimes went out to socialize together, and his colleagues and former classmates all knew that Congyu was well-educated, but his physical condition was a bit poor.

Congyu's wife is Zheng Xueting, the younger sister of one of Jinyu's classmates. That classmate's father is the fourth-rank Vice Minister of the Court of State Affairs, and both he and his sister are legitimate children.

Although her future daughter-in-law's father held a lower official rank than Lin Ruhai, Jia Min was still very satisfied. She had met the girl at a banquet before and found her to be a very kind person.

Under Liu Yuxi's influence, the Lin family children are all cheerful and easygoing. If they were to marry someone who is too steady and rule-abiding, it wouldn't necessarily mean they couldn't live together, but their relationship would certainly be difficult to predict. It would be better to find someone with a compatible personality.

The wedding date was set relatively close, since it was still uncertain whether Lin Junyu would stay in the capital or be sent to a local area, and Congyu was already 19 this year, while Zheng Xueting was 16. After discussing it, the two sides decided to set the wedding date a month after the results of the imperial examinations were announced.

The Lin family is experiencing a series of happy events. Daiyu now has a son and a daughter. Although the Prince's Mansion is a bit more complicated than the Lin Mansion, under Liu Yuxi's subtle influence over the years, Lin Daiyu has not developed a romantic mindset.

In ancient times, as the principal wife, as long as she didn't lose her mind, had a powerful family, a generous dowry, and a son, how could her life not be smooth? However, Liu Yuxi had previously told her to have a child every three years, and the more sons the better. She could decide for herself how long to have children.

Lin Daiyu was intelligent from the start, and since she had a smooth life after entering the family, it would only get smoother from there. So Jia Min and the Lin family didn't have to worry about her life.

After Congyu's wedding was over, when it was just the two of them, Jia Min and Zheng Xueting, Jia Min told them that they weren't in a hurry to have children. They should wait until she was a little older before trying to have children. She told the young couple not to worry about having children. Since the Lin family's children all came late, she wouldn't put anyone in Congyu's room. She just wanted the young couple to get along well with Congyu first.

They were also worried that Zheng Xueting might inadvertently offend Liu Yuxi. Although Liu Yuxi hadn't harmed anyone in recent years, Lin Ruhai and Jia Min had remarked in casual conversation that fortunately, Liu Yuxi was upright. If Liu Yuxi had ill intentions and wanted to harm the entire household, he probably could have done it.

Although it was just casual conversation between husband and wife, she trusted Lin Ruhai's judgment. She was also glad that Lin Ruhai's concubine was Liu Yuxi; otherwise, she didn't know if she would have had her own children in this lifetime. How good the Lin family is now, with all their descendants being successful.

She didn't want to grow old and have a conflict with Liu Yuxi because of her daughter-in-law, so she specifically reminded Zheng Xueting that they were different from other families and that she should respect Liu Yuxi. Just because her husband was raised by Liu Yuxi since childhood, she should treat Liu Yuxi with the same respect as she would.

Zheng Xueting didn't know why her mother-in-law valued a concubine so much, but for the sake of her two brothers-in-law and father-in-law, she wouldn't offend Liu Yuxi for no reason. As for her doubts, she would naturally find the answers after staying in the Lin family for a while.