The Legend of the Concubine in the Harem

Although she became Zheng Xiucai's mistress, the original body, who was only in her teens, still did not realize what this meant to her.

She only knew that people in her family said that Zheng Xiucai was not too old, was very good to his wife, and was a good man who was hard to understand. What's more important was that he was well-educated and had been seen by the county magistrate himself!

The original body has now become his concubine, and when Zheng Xiucai passes the exam in the future, she can become an official's wife!

The original body was confused when her family combed her hair. After experiencing the pain that frightened her, she could only ask in a tearful voice: "What is an official's wife? Is it better than being the daughter of my father and mother, and the sister of my brothers?"

The original body had no chance to understand whether the official’s wife was good or not.

She only knew that from that day on, there would be a man in her house from time to time who would cause her pain.

But the good times did not last long - or in Gu Jiayin's view, this was a relief for the original person - Zheng Xiucai's wife finally discovered that he had secretly kept a little girl as a mistress, and resolutely divorced him.

Zheng Xiucai failed the imperial examination that year and returned home in disgrace. Soon after, he took the original body from Gu's house to his home. To others, he called her his wife, but to others, he said that he was threatened by her brothers with their elderly parents and had to accept her, a woman with evil schemes but no knowledge. He was forced and unwilling to do so.

Every time he had sex with this girl who was ten years younger than him, he was forced. How pitiful he was, having to endure the nausea of ​​touching the body of a younger and more lively girl than himself.

How pitiful he was, being forced to serve this girl for more than a year and even succeeding in making her pregnant with his child.

How pitiful he was... He was powerless to stop his blood from coming out of the belly of such a despicable woman, and it was a girl! He didn't need a daughter who looked like her mother. His life was miserable enough. Could he let a child who looked like her mother continue to ruin his extremely miserable life?

While enjoying the beauty of his original body, Zheng Xiucai continued to take the imperial examination with the money given to his "brother-in-law" by the Gu family, and at the same time reluctantly helped the Gu brothers to get in touch with prominent families in the county... Finally, he passed the exam, and after that, he left the county without looking back. Even his equally pitiful old parents, who were powerless to resist the threats of a group of thugs, evacuated from home quickly, decisively and silently.

It was not until the Gu family finally discovered that their big fat sheep had escaped and the younger sister who had been deliberately raised to be obedient knew nothing about it that they realized they had been deceived.

That's it.

The original person took her daughter back to her parents' home.

In my memory, the little girl who was once innocent, ignorant of the world but very fond of laughing has become silent.

Of course.

If a person lives with abuse, ridicule, accusations and belittlement from the so-called "husband's family" every day after leaving her natal home, and every time she tries to ask for help from her closest relatives, she is met with exhortations such as "it's for your own good", "you should be grateful", "we have raised you for so long, you should at least take into account the difficulties at home"...who can't help but get used to silence?

She raised her daughter in silence.

I looked at my brother in silence as he looked at one man after another.

In silence...I received a letter from Zheng sent from somewhere else - he still had no children, and their daughter was considered his only daughter for a long time.

The letter said that Zheng had already married a wife, the daughter of a prominent family in the local area where he was an official. Unlike his original wife, she was a real lady from a noble family and a virtuous woman who was more worthy of him than his ex-wife and his original wife.

There is no way he will go back to chew on this grass in his lifetime, but his daughter is still his daughter. For the sake of blood, he will let someone take his daughter away. He doesn't want a good girl to grow up in a den of thieves and be infected with her mother's bad habits.

Got this letter.

The brothers finally stopped trying to find her another husband who could benefit the family. They were happy to use their original daughter to continue blackmailing Zheng.

The original body, who had been silent for many years, finally stopped being silent. She went crazy at home, committed suicide, mutilated herself, and even tried to die with her daughter.

But she was too powerless and was easily subdued by the elders who always "had it for her own good".

But even so, she never gave up the idea of ​​committing suicide.

This idea was more determined than any other thought in her short first half of life. Perhaps it was this determination that frightened the elders who were afraid of losing the property - after all, they had not yet made enough benefits from her - or perhaps it was the letter sent by Zheng Mouxin saying that his wife, who was truly worthy of him, was finally pregnant.

The Gu brothers had no more money to exploit, and they thought that keeping the girl would appease their sister, so that they would have two women they could sell benefits to in the future... After discussing it, they decided to keep their sister's daughter.

"Look how good your brothers are to you. No other family is like this. You keep a daughter born out of wedlock at home. You don't know what the neighbors will say about our family."

For the first time in his life, the original body learned to sneer: "No matter how much you talk about it, it's just a crow landing on a black pig. No matter how black or smelly it is, how much can it change?"

The choked brother walked away with his eyes wide open.

The original body, through repeated struggles, learned without any instruction how to flatter different men in order to ensure the value of her own existence, so as to prevent her in-laws from selling her to someone else so easily again, and to keep the right to raise her daughter herself.

gradually.

She finally became the kind of scheming, dissolute and romantic woman that others described her as.

I saw that the family’s reputation in the county was getting worse and worse.

The Gu brothers finally decided to move their family to the state capital, where they also made some connections.

But the original body was not very willing to go. He was unfamiliar with the place and who knew what he would encounter there. How could he continue to fight against his relatives who treated him as a commodity?

But if I stay with my daughter...it may not be a good choice.

The original body hesitated and wavered, but finally decided to go together.

However, what she could not have imagined was that on the way to the provincial capital, when they met Yan Zhuang, a famous "upright gentleman" in Lingzhou, by a river, without any warning, her brothers once again used the same trick, pushing her into the water and luring Yan Zhuang to rescue her.

In fact, the original body later learned to swim, but before being pushed into the water, she was hit on the back of the head and was rescued while she was drowsy.

With the lesson from Zheng, this time the Gu brothers insisted that Yan Zhuang marry the original woman.

And Yan Zhuang...perhaps he was too much of a gentleman, he actually agreed to marry the original body.

After learning that he had a nephew, the Gu family even wanted to squeeze in the original owner's teenage daughter as well, so that their own people could completely occupy the position in the Yan family's inner courtyard.

But they didn't expect that while they were negotiating terms with Yan Zhuang, the original body died quietly after being hit on the back of the head and drowning. The only one who discovered that her mother had passed away, and the daughter, who had witnessed her mother's difficulties since childhood and learned that she was about to be "married", also chose to commit suicide.

When Gu Jiayin and Gu Han traveled through time, what they had to face was such a mess.