If life continued like this, Song Dachuan's family would slowly get better. Unfortunately, with Hu Zi as their emergency medicine jar, all the money Song Dachuan worked so hard to earn went straight into the pharmacy, and the family could only maintain basic food and clothing, with no spare money at all. If anything unexpected happened, there would be no money for emergencies.
It so happened that there was a boy from Zhangjia Village who was studying in the town. He was in the same school as the young master of the Dong family. He brought back a piece of news to the village, saying that the Dong family was recruiting people and that the contract they signed was a living contract, not a fixed contract. If they wanted to renew the contract after working for the full term, they could do so. If they didn't want to renew the contract, they could go home on their own when the time came.
This made the people with surplus labor in the village very excited. After all, they were just working for the Dong family, not selling themselves, and they could earn a lot of money. The Dong family also had a backer. They were just living in their ancestral home temporarily and would return to Kyoto one day. They might be able to benefit from it, so many people went together to apply.
Her original body is among them, and she also wants to contribute to this family. Moreover, she is afraid that the Song family will target her again. Even if she goes to the Dong family, the Song family will not be able to do anything to her.
The reason why the original body wanted to seize this opportunity was because one day after the beginning of summer, she saw Song Dashan from afar. She was so scared that she turned around and ran to the fields to find her four uncles. The four of them held up carrying poles and scared Song Dashan away.
But the original body felt that her uncle was still determined to sell her. Her father was working in the town and her mother had to take care of the housework and her younger brother. She could escape this time, but she couldn't escape every time. So she plucked up her courage and begged the person who went to apply for the job in Zhangjia Village to take her to the Dong family in the town.
She had not told her parents about this matter in advance, for fear that they would not agree. When she applied for the position of a maid, Song Dachuan and Zhang Huiniang found out. They did not want her to be a maid, but after hearing her reasons, they remained silent.
In the end, Song Dachuan personally sent his eldest daughter to the Dong family and signed a two-year living contract. That year, the original daughter was exactly twelve and a half years old, and Hu Zi was also two years old. Although the original daughter's life in the Dong family was hard during these two years, she managed to get through it. One year, she even rescued the second daughter of the Dong family who fell into the water and received a reward of ten taels of silver.
The original person sent the silver back home without spending a penny, and the family then bought two acres of medium-sized land. With the output from the land, plus the wasteland reclaimed by Song Dachuan, the family's life became a little better.
Just when her contract was about to expire, the second daughter of the Dong family got engaged and was going to get married a year later. She took a fancy to her original body and wanted her to be her dowry maid. This led to the conversation between Song Dachuan and Zhang Huiniang that Lianyi heard after entering this body.
In her previous life, for the sake of money and to completely get rid of the Song family, she told her parents directly after returning home that she wanted to be the maid of Miss Dong Er. In the future, her life would be better and she would be able to help the family. After resting at home for three days, she happily returned to the Dong Mansion.
After a year of training by the people in the Dong Mansion, the original body was pampered and slowly grew up. The girl's figure became slender, graceful, and her appearance became more and more beautiful. What's more, clothes make the man, and the original body was also a beauty when wearing silk and satin.
In this way, the original body followed Miss Dong into the Yao Mansion, her husband's family. After entering the Yao Mansion, she behaved herself and focused on taking good care of her own young lady. She never formed any cliques and was a maid who knew the rules.
A year after Miss Dong entered the mansion, she became pregnant. Because she was pregnant and could not serve her husband, she sent her original body directly to her husband's bed to show her magnanimity and virtue, and to win her husband's heart.
The original body became a concubine without knowing it. When she first learned about this, she wanted to die, but the second young lady of the Dong family held her hand and cried and explained:
“Because you are my personal maid, my husband originally had a crush on you, but I knew you didn’t want to, so I kept stopping you. I even wanted to let you go directly because you signed a living contract, but this is the capital, not our small town. I was afraid that if I let you go, you wouldn’t even be able to leave the gate of the capital.
I had planned long ago that when I returned to Wangshan Town to visit my relatives, I would take you back and send you back to your parents. However, I didn't expect that I was pregnant and couldn't serve my husband, so he found this excuse to take possession of your body first.
I only found out about this this morning when I didn't see you coming to serve me. You want to clear your name, but how can I face people in the future? You grew up with me and we are like a sister, otherwise I would not take you with me when I got married.
I know I have wronged you in this matter, I will double your compensation, I will write a letter and ask my father to hire the best doctor to treat your brother, and also give you 200 taels of silver, please bear with it for my sake!"
The original body, who had been seeking death, hesitated. She could ignore herself, but she could not ignore her brother and parents, especially since she could pay for her brother's medical treatment and use the money to buy land and build a house. Even if she suffered some grievances, it was worth it, because she was just a maid.
In this way, the original body surrendered and eventually became the concubine of Master Yao. Because of her physical condition, she became pregnant soon after.
She and Miss Dong Er were only three months apart. Miss Dong Er gave birth to a daughter, so when she gave birth, Miss Dong Er stayed by her side the whole time.
The original body was lucky and gave birth to a son, but she didn't even have time to see the child after he was born. Miss Dong Er gave the original body a bowl of medicine after she had just given birth, which caused her to die of hemorrhage.
Until her death, her original body remembered the way Miss Dong Er looked at her, as if she was looking at an ant, and after that she knew nothing.
Lianyi sighed in her heart after receiving the memories of her original body. When she received the memories just now, she saw what the old woman in the Dong Mansion taught the original body, as well as her food and daily necessities. She knew that the Dong family was training her to be a concubine.
The purpose was to use her own trusted maid to win over the man's heart when Miss Dong was pregnant or inconvenient to serve her husband, so as not to dilute the husband's love for Miss Dong, especially since her original appearance combined the advantages of both parents, which really caught the eyes of the men in the Yao family.
"Shijiu, what is the original body's wish?"
"The original body's wish was very simple. She didn't want to be a maid in the Dong family anymore. She just wanted to be with her parents and brother, find a man she liked, and live an ordinary life."
"The second young lady of the Dong family has bad intentions. Doesn't the original body intend to take revenge?"
"She didn't intend to take revenge. After all, the Dong family hired a doctor for her brother and gave him money. She felt that it was worth it to exchange her life for these."
"Did the Dong family give it to you?"
"We paid the money, but the doctor we hired was average and not specialized in treating weak diseases, so my original brother barely lived to the age of 20 and died. This was a big blow to Song Dachuan and his wife, especially since Zhang Hui Niang could not have any more children. They had no children at all, so their later years were miserable and they were often mocked by the Song family."
Shijiu tells the truth.
"I know what to do." (End of this chapter)
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