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

Chapter 150 The Concubine of the Lin Family in Dream of the Red Chamber

Ultimately, it was Liu Yuxi who softened when she saw the two-year-old child. It seems that Liu Yuxi can never harden her heart when it comes to children. If she can't see them, so be it. But if she can see them and has the ability to help, she just wants the child to have a better life!

This damned saintly heart!

However, Liu Yuxi would never reveal that he knew medicine; he usually just let Daiyu take Congyu to play in the old lady's courtyard.

Based on the medications that matched Congyu's body, if Western medicine that was colorless and odorless could be used, it would be mixed with various vitamins in the snacks. If Chinese medicine was needed, it would be used in medicinal cuisine as much as possible. In order to ensure that the medicinal cuisine appeared in a reasonable way, Liu Yuxi communicated with the prefectural physician in front of everyone quite a bit.

In just one year, Congyu has visibly stood up and is no longer the child who could die at any moment. Looking at her son now, Jia Min is truly grateful to Liu Yuxi from the bottom of her heart. Liu Yuxi never usually gets close to Lin Ruhai. As a woman herself, she can tell that Liu Yuxi does not like Lin Ruhai.

Under Liu Yuxi's tutelage, Lin Junyu and Lin Jinyu were very respectful to their stepmother and took good care of their two younger siblings. Therefore, she urged Lin Ruhai to elevate Liu Yuxi to the rank of concubine.

As a woman born into a family, she could at most become a concubine. However, since Liu Yuxi treated Jia Min's two children well, she was naturally willing to give Liu Yuxi face.

Did Liu Yuxi care about being a concubine? Actually, she didn't really care. After becoming a concubine, her only thought was to cancel her indenture. She didn't care about anything else. If her son was capable in the future, he would ask for an official title for her.

If her son is incompetent, then she will beg Lin Ruhai and Jia Min to let her live with her son after he separates from the family, considering how well-behaved she has been all these years. That's what she wants.

That year, Lin Junyu passed the imperial examination and became a Juren (a successful candidate in the provincial-level imperial examinations), but her ranking was not very high. Lin Jinyu also passed the Xiucai (a successful candidate in the county-level imperial examinations). The family held a lively banquet, the main purpose of which was to find a suitable wife for Lin Junyu.

Lin Congyu is still young, and Jia Min now understands that the more successful Lin Junyu becomes, the better she will treat her two children, so naturally she won't find a bad daughter for Lin Junyu.

Finally, the woman chosen for Lin Junyu was Wang Jiawan, a concubine from the family of Lin Ruhai's superior, the Left Vice Censor-in-Chief of the Third Rank Censorate. Her aunt was a maid who accompanied the mistress of the house during her dowry. She died in childbirth and grew up by the mistress's side. Although she was not registered under the mistress's name, she received the same education as her elder sister.

Because of her status as an illegitimate child, she was in a difficult position when it came to marriage. However, her mistress was genuinely kind to her. During the general election, she was eliminated from the race and did not intend to send her to another family as a concubine to benefit her own family. Instead, she was determined to make her someone's legal wife.

However, due to her high social status, she was not considered suitable by those of high social standing, nor by the legitimate sons of those of lower social standing or by those from humble backgrounds who were pursuing official careers. As time went on, the girl was already seventeen years old and still had not found a good match.

It just so happens that Lin Junyu passed the imperial examination this year. The two are about the same age, and the Lin family has a good family tradition. Anyone with eyes can see that Lin Ruhai and Lin Junyu have a promising future.

Isn't that a coincidence? After the two families made the agreement, Jia Min started going through the formalities with the Wang family, and the wedding date was set for next spring.

The Lin family hadn't held a wedding for over twenty years, so Lin Junyu's wedding was a very lively affair. Jia Min wasn't stingy with the betrothal gifts either. The Lin family had few masters, and their wealth accumulated over several generations was quite considerable.

Fifty thousand taels of silver were taken from the public funds to prepare betrothal gifts for Lin Junyu. Some unsuitable items were also taken from the storeroom, and a total of thirty-six loads of betrothal gifts were prepared.

This immediately spread Jia Min's good reputation throughout the capital. The Lin family's wives and concubines were harmonious, and the head mistress's reputation for being virtuous and generous was known to everyone.

Seeing this situation, many families who doted on their daughters began to have designs on Lin Jinyu. After all, Lin Jinyu was only three years younger than her brother, and considering that she had passed the imperial examination at the same age as her brother, she was sure to excel in the imperial examinations as well. They decided to settle down now and get married in a few years.

Many other families also had designs on Lin Daiyu. At the recent Lin family banquets, the matriarchs of each family had met Lin Daiyu and had all witnessed her intelligence and beauty.

However, Jia Min was still unwilling to settle Lin Daiyu's marriage so early. She wanted to observe her situation further and find her a husband similar to Lin Ruhai, which would be ideal. But nowadays, men like her father were truly rare.

Seeing that Old Madam Lin's health was already very poor, Liu Yuxi and Jia Min discussed it and decided to arrange a fiancée for Lin Jinyu as well. The fiancée was Liu Qingyu, the second daughter of the family of the fourth-rank Vice Minister of the Court of State Affairs.

This marriage was truly arranged by someone who chose Lin Jinyu. If it weren't for the fact that they genuinely loved their daughter, admired the Lin family's traditions, and that Lin Jinyu was even more handsome than her brother, there would have been no way they would have betrothed their second legitimate daughter to a son born out of wedlock.

Since getting engaged, Lin Jinyu has visibly studied even harder. In his words to Liu Yuxi, "I have to prove with my abilities that my future father-in-law has good taste, being able to arrange such an excellent person as me for my daughter so early!"

Liu Yuxi knew that he was under pressure, but boys need some pressure, that's a good thing. Seeing his younger brother working hard, Lin Junyu dared not indulge in his younger brother's gentle ways anymore, afraid that he would be surpassed by his younger brother in the future. As the older brother, he didn't care about his reputation!

As a daughter-in-law, she naturally had to observe the rules in front of her mother-in-law, Jia Min. However, Jia Min only set rules for Wang Jiawan for a few days. Apart from paying her respects, she could arrange her own time.

After staying at the Lin family residence for a while, Wang Jiawan realized that her husband's mother was quite special in the Lin family. Although she was a concubine, the attitude towards her from the old lady to the madam was not that of a concubine. Moreover, her husband also valued Aunt Liu very much, and as a smart woman, she naturally treated Liu Yuxi as a proper mother-in-law and was very filial to her.

By the end of the year, when Wang Jiawan was four months pregnant, Old Mrs. Lin still hadn't seen the fourth generation of the Lin family. But she had lived for nearly twenty years longer and saw that Lin Junyu's generation already had four siblings, so the next generation would naturally have even more children.

She was already content. They say old people are shrewd, and she knew in her heart that Liu Yuxi must have something to do with her living so long. But she wouldn't point it out. Over the years, she had also figured out that Liu Yuxi was the type of person who would respond to gentleness but not force.

If you are in a weaker position, she will be unable to resist taking care of you, but if you go against her, she is not an easy person to deal with.

In order to ensure that Liu Yuxi would continue to help Jia Min and Lin Ruhai after she passed away, the old lady gave a portion of her private savings to Lin Ruhai as a keepsake, and divided the rest equally into four parts, which were given to her four grandchildren.

I don't know what she said to Lin Ruhai and Jia Min beforehand, but when it came time to divide the things, neither of them showed the slightest sign of reluctance.

The old lady also secretly gave Liu Yuxi 20,000 taels of silver notes, saying it was for her to rely on in the future. People, even mortal enemies, will develop feelings for each other after spending a long time together. Liu Yuxi was still very sad when the old lady passed away.