Chapter 1 Never Be a Concubine
Song Yuntang, who didn't know whether he was dead or not, took a deep breath and opened his eyes.
Before I recovered from the feeling of suffocation, a woman's voice floated in from the window.
"Sister-in-law, the young master of the Huang family is so fond of our Tang'er that he wants her to be his concubine. This is a blessing that ordinary people can't even ask for. You can't soften your heart just because she's making a fuss."
"The Huang family is a well-known wealthy family in our area. When Tang'er gets married and is served by maids and servants, she will become the master." She patted the back of the woman's hand and said in a good tone for Song Yuntang, "If it weren't for me, her aunt, who loves Tang'er, this marriage would definitely not fall into her hands."
Zhao Qiao'e sighed in worry, "It's not that I'm soft-hearted, my second sister-in-law has seen it too. That girl is trying to kill herself for this marriage. What if someone dies?"
Even though the relationship is not deep, after all, he is my own child.
Ma Zhaolan raised his eyebrows, his face full of disapproval.
"In the past, there were many commotions when families married off their daughters, but didn't they all live happily afterwards?"
Her eyes were full of shrewdness and calculation. "Just trust me. The betrothal gift is twelve taels of silver! The harvest is bad this year, and you still have to consider your family's livelihood, right? Besides, doesn't she always want to go back to the good life she had before? What a great opportunity! When she becomes Mr. Huang's woman, she might figure it out."
If she wasn't going to get eight taels of silver after the marriage, she wouldn't bother to waste time talking to Zhao.
He has no backbone at all, a typical fence-sitter!
Inside the house, Song Yuntang frowned after recovering from his surprise.
Such an outrageous thing as time travel happened to her?
In her previous life, she came from a medical family. Her father was a professor at a medical school and her mother was a Chinese medicine practitioner. She was influenced by her father since she was a child. She had memorized the Compendium of Materia Medica by heart at the age of nine, and at the age of ten, she followed her mother to see patients whenever she had time.
When she was twelve years old, her father and her mother went up the mountain to look for a special medicinal herb, and both fell off a cliff and died.
After she got over the pain of her parents' death, she continued to study medicine.
She graduated early from a medical university with a bachelor's, master's and doctoral degree at the age of 22. Because of her outstanding medical skills, she was specially hired by an authoritative hospital as a chief Chinese medicine physician. She had just adapted to the work and was about to have her first blind date that she was looking forward to, when she actually traveled through time!
Before she went there, her colleague showed her a photo of a sunny boy about 1.80 meters tall.
Unexpectedly, on the way to the blind date, the car suddenly veered, broke the guardrail and fell off the bridge...
Shaking his still dizzy head, Song Yuntang sorted out the unfamiliar memories in his mind.
The original owner was named Lin Yuntang, a fake daughter who was swapped out by Mr. Lin’s family in town.
Sixteen years ago, Zhao Qiao'e worked as an embroiderer in the tailor shop of Mr. Lin. She fell while working and gave birth half a month early, on the same day as Mrs. Lin. Song Yuntang and Mr. Lin's biological daughter, Lin Zhaozhao, was swapped because of Mr. Lin's concubine's revenge.
Three years ago, the truth was revealed and Lin Yuntang was sent back to the Song family and changed her surname to Song. Lin Zhaozhao was naturally taken back to the Lin Mansion.
In the eyes of the two families, Lin Zhaozhao, who grew up in a farming family, is well-behaved, considerate, approachable, hardworking and thrifty, while Song Yuntang is arrogant, cold to others, afraid of heavy tasks, and occasionally a little unreasonable.
Perhaps the only thing that can compare to Lin Zhaozhao is the face on her neck.
The young master Huang that Ma mentioned who wanted to bring her into the mansion as a concubine was Huang Heyu, the only son of a landlord in the neighboring village. He ran into Song Yuntang a few days ago and was stunned by her beauty. After returning home, he couldn't stop thinking about her and finally found Song Yuntang's second aunt Ma Zhaolan to act as a middleman.
Zhao Qiao'e was a person who was easily influenced. In addition, the harvest this year was poor, and Song Yuntang always found ways to get close to the Lin family. She thought that she was looking forward to the good days in the past, so after discussing it with the head of the family, she quickly agreed to the marriage.
But Song Yuntang had lived in the Lin Mansion for thirteen years and had seen too many of the overt and covert methods used by Mr. Lin's concubines. He despised concubines and naturally did not want to be someone's concubine.
It was just because she had been educated in the principle of "parents' orders and matchmaker's words" and had never clearly expressed her own thoughts.
In addition to the fact that he had been living a miserable life in the past few years, he couldn't get over it and hanged himself on the beam.
Fortunately, Zhao Qiao'e discovered it early and she was still alive when she was rescued.
Song Yuntang thought about her situation in her mind. Being a concubine was absolutely impossible.
Running away is also not an option here.
By then, her parents at home would not know whether she was alive or dead, and would certainly stop paying taxes for her. If she did not pay taxes for a year, her household registration would be cancelled. Having no household registration would be equivalent to being a pariah, which would make her even more passive.
Unless she cut off ties with her family, moved her household registration and set up her own household, it was not easy to do so. Moreover, although this family favored Lin Zhaozhao, they did not seem to be particularly bad to Song Yuntang, their biological daughter, except for this marriage.
But at the moment, we can no longer ask Ma to continue to sweeten Zhao Qiao'e.
Song Yuntang got up from the bed, picked up the broom by the door, went out and started beating Ma Zhaolan on the head.
"You asked me to be your concubine and you kept saying it was for my own good. If you think being a concubine is good, why don't you send your Song Zhimei over!"
Ma Zhaolan was so frightened that he held his head and ran while screaming.
"What are you doing, you little bitch? I'm your aunt!"
Song Yuntang slammed the broom to the ground and looked at Ma Zhaolan who had been driven out of the yard by her.
"If you want to be my elder, you must first behave like an elder. I was too polite to you in the past, which made you think I was easy to bully. If I hear you ask me to be your concubine again, I will beat you up every time I see you!"
Ma Zhaolan did not expect Song Yuntang to suddenly go crazy. After all, she had always acted like a young lady of the Lin family and had always been disdainful of arguing with them.
I was a little scared when I heard her cold voice unexpectedly.
"It's useless to hit me. Who told you to attract men with your seductive face? Since Mr. Huang has set his eyes on you, he won't let you go even without me."
"Why don't you leave!"
Song Yuntang pretended to rush forward again. Seeing this, Ma Zhaolan turned around and ran. She ran so fast that she could no longer be seen, but she could still hear the ugly words she was swearing at.
The neighbors who had been sticking their heads out to point at Song Yuntang all retracted their heads when they saw Ma running away.
Zhao Qiao'e looked at Song Yuntang with surprise and inquiry in her eyes.
"Tang'er, you shouldn't be like this. She is your aunt after all. It's inevitable that the villagers will hear about what happened today. It will be bad for your reputation."
Song Yuntang then turned around and looked at her coldly.
"In your eyes, haven't I always been inferior to Lin Zhaozhao? Why do you still care about these illusory things?"
She threw the broom to the ground with a flat voice.
"I'll say this one last time. If you force me to be your concubine again, I will invite the head of the village and my relatives to come and sever ties with your family. I was innocent in the mistake sixteen years ago, and it was not me who squeezed out your Lin Zhaozhao. After severing ties with you, I will stay far away and promise not to appear in front of you again."
Looking at her expression which was as cold as ever, Zhao Qiao'e suddenly realized that her daughter was still the same daughter and had not changed.
"Why are you bringing up Zhao Zhao again?" She sighed, "I thought you were dreaming about a good life all day long and would be willing to marry Mr. Huang."
"You are overthinking it. Even if I marry a mountain man and starve, I will never be Huang Heyu's concubine!"
After Song Yuntang made his position clear, he remained cold.
"You don't need to play the emotional card with me. I know I will never be valued in this family, and I won't mind you openly or secretly caring about whether Lin Zhaozhao is doing well or not. If possible, I hope we can part ways in peace."
After saying that, he went back to his room.
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The heroine lived in the Song family in the early stage, but moved out of disappointment and lived alone in the later stage.
No one is perfect, including the heroine.
It's not a brother-worshiping demon, nor is it just giving everything to the family. Don't worry, just take your time~
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