Chapter 673 After my husband passed the imperial examination, I became his second wife (1)
"Miss, there is a scholar ahead whose purse was snatched away by a few beggars. He is so pitiful. He doesn't look well off. He must have no money for accommodation and food after his money was taken away..." The maid's crisp voice rang in her ears. Lin Shichu opened her beautiful eyes, and saw her maid Qingyu lifting the curtain of the carriage to look outside.
She lifted the curtain wide, as if she wanted to let the original owner see it too - she did it on purpose, because the scholar outside bribed her to say these words in front of the original owner so that the original owner would notice the down-and-out scholar.
"Put down the curtain!" Lin Shichu said coldly.
"What? Miss, don't you want to take a look outside? Now that the madam is not here, you can take a look secretly!" Qingyu thought that Lin Shichu was afraid of being blamed by his mother, so she advised him so self-righteously.
Lin Shichu gave her a cold look and said, "I told you to put down the curtain, but you didn't even listen to me?"
Qingyu was startled. She had never seen Lin Shichu look so bad to her. The original owner was always gentle and kind. She treated the maids around her like sisters and was reluctant to say a harsh word. Didn't this make these maids forget their status and position and become arrogant? Now they can sell her out for money.
The original owner's personality was too gentle, Qingyu didn't mind her uncharacteristic behavior, just froze for a moment and continued her "mission". She said with a smile: "Oh, Miss, don't be angry! I know you are the most soft-hearted. The scholar's money was robbed, so pitiful, Miss, do you want to help him? It would be good to make a good relationship with him. Maybe he will pass the imperial examination and become an official in the future?"
Relying on the original owner's innocence and her trust in her trusted maid, Qingyu almost openly asked Lin Shichu to sponsor the scholar.
That scholar was Fang Yu'an, a poor scholar who was trying hard to get close to the original owner, the daughter of a wealthy man.
In the original fate, Fang Yu'an did get to know the original owner in this premeditated calculation. The original owner listened to Qingyu's words, got off the carriage and kindly "lent" money to Fang Yu'an.
The original owner had not thought much about Fang Yu'an at first, after all, they were just a chance acquaintance. But Fang Yu'an had already set his eyes on this big fish, so how could he not take the next step?
So, with the help of the treacherous maid Qingyu, the original owner "accidentally met" Fang Yu'an many times. Every time, Fang Yu'an tried his best to show his grace and talent, and acted like he was secretly in love with the original owner. Qingyu also often hinted that Fang Yu'an was a talented young man with a bright future, and a rare candidate for a husband. So the original owner, who had reached the right age to marry, naturally fell in love with Fang Yu'an.
When the time came, Qingyu began to act in front of the original owner's mother in both explicit and implicit ways as if "the young lady has a lover", which led the original owner's mother to investigate, and the investigation led to Fang Yu'an.
Fang Yu'an was indeed handsome and had passed the imperial examination to become a scholar. It was said that he was very talented and it was only a matter of time before he passed the imperial examination. He disguised himself so well that although he had no family background and was very poor, he was graceful and kind, and it was easy for him to win the favor of others.
The original owner's mother found out that Fang Yu'an seemed to like her daughter, so wouldn't that be a win-win situation? Besides, Fang Yu'an's parents had passed away, and there were no relatives at home, while her family only had a daughter who was raised as a treasure. If she married Fang Yu'an, she wouldn't have to suffer from her mother-in-law, which was great.
So the original owner's mother hinted to Fang Yu'an, and Fang Yu'an immediately agreed to marry into the Lin family with great joy, becoming Lin Shichu's fiancé and waiting to get married after passing the imperial examination.
As the future son-in-law of the Lin family, Fang Yu'an finally doesn't have to worry about money anymore. He can prepare for the imperial examination without any worries.
He did have some talent. After three years of hard study, he passed the imperial examination and became a juren. Then he continued his efforts and became a jinshi, full of energy and ambition.
If he had married the original owner as promised, it would have been a good story, but unfortunately, he was favored by the emperor, who arranged a marriage between him and the sixth princess.
Fang Yu'an was so shocked that he quickly declined, saying that he already had a fiancée in his hometown and could not break the contract and marry the princess.
But how could one refuse a marriage arranged by the emperor? However, the Lin family did support Fang Yu'an's education and had done him a favor, so the emperor waved his hand and said that he could marry him and his fiancée together, but the princess was the principal wife, so his fiancée had to be a concubine.
Fang Yu'an "could not refuse" and had to agree.
Who wouldn't praise him for being so loyal to his fiancée? He didn't abandon his fiancée after he became successful, but instead made her equal to the princess out of "deep love and loyalty".
But could he really not refuse? If he was very determined, would the emperor really force him to marry his daughter? The emperor's daughter had no problem finding a husband. In the final analysis, Fang Yu'an was just worried that refusing the marriage would affect his future, so he compromised after only a slight suggestion.
And if he really couldn't refuse to be a consort, couldn't he break off the engagement with Lin Shichu? Although breaking off the engagement would damage Lin Shichu's reputation and make her marriage difficult, as long as one or two years passed, everyone would slowly forget about it. With the Lin family's wealth, it would not be difficult for the original owner to find a man of equal status in her hometown to marry.
But for the sake of his own reputation, or perhaps because he couldn't bear to give up the Lin family's huge fortune, Fang Yu'an had to marry the original owner as his co-wife. This seemed fair and he was being very kind to the original owner.
But the original owner was just the daughter of a wealthy man, with only money in her family, while the Sixth Princess was a golden branch and jade leaf, whose status and position could suppress the original owner. Could the original owner really have a good life as a co-wife?
Would the Sixth Princess be willing to share her husband with others? Of course not, so the original owner became Fang Yu'an's second wife for only one year before she died of "frail health".
When the original owner died, his parents also died of grief, so the huge property of the Lin family rightfully fell into Fang Yu'an's hands.
This was the beginning of the original owner's tragedy, so it was impossible for Lin Shichu to repeat the same mistake. Therefore, after hearing Qingyu's words, she said to Qingyu with a fake smile: "Since you care about him so much and believe that he has a bright future, then go down and help him."
Didn't Qingyu, the maidservant, follow the original owner in her previous life and marry Fang Yu'an, and eventually become a concubine? Because of her low status, the Sixth Princess didn't take her seriously at all, but she actually gave birth to a son safely and died peacefully. It really makes people feel unfair for the original owner.
"Miss, are you kidding? How can I have the money to help him? I just think that you just came back from worshiping Buddha in the Dasheng Temple. Doing some good deeds can better show your compassion." Qingyu spoke eloquently.
Lin Shichu smiled, Qingyu was really trying hard to get him involved with Fang Yu'an, but he just didn't want to do as she wished.
(End of this chapter)
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