mtlumby2d Chapter 287 Do You Know? Lin Yitang 1
Chapter 287 Do You Know? Lin Yitang 1
When Ning Miaomiao opened her eyes, her whole body ached. She seemed to be hiding in a pile of straw, next to a thin boy who looked to be about six or seven years old.
A sharp pain shot through her head, and unfamiliar memories flooded Ning Miaomiao's mind. The original owner of this body was named Lin Yitang, and the thin boy was named Lin Jingya.
In this world, the original owner was a lowly concubine's daughter in the Lin family. The Lin family was considered an official family with three sons and two daughters, two legitimate sons and one legitimate daughter, which shows that the eldest daughter-in-law of the Lin family was a formidable woman.
Unexpectedly, Master Lin was caught up in a political upheaval in the imperial court. The men were all sentenced to exile by the government, and the women were all turned into prostitutes or slaves.
The thin boy next to her was her younger brother, who was almost nine years old. The two siblings were usually invisible, and their stepmother in the Lin family didn't like them.
The Lin family's stepmother sent the two of them to live in a courtyard in the suburbs, which is how they escaped the constables who came to raid their home.
It took Ning Miaomiao a while to sort out the memories in her mind. According to the later trajectory, the two siblings escaped from the Lin family, but they no longer had travel permits and could not go to other places. They could only beg for a living. By chance, they were adopted by the Bai family, the richest salt merchant in Yangzhou, and obtained travel permits, becoming ordinary people.
Later, the original owner was married off from the Bai family, and her younger brother passed the imperial examination and became a Juren. However, she encountered the same thing as the Lin family. Her younger brother was framed and exiled to Qiongzhou, where he eventually died far from home.
The Bai family had been kind to her. The eldest daughter of the Bai family died a few years after marrying into the Gu family. Later, after the death of the old master Bai, the eldest son of the Bai family even tried to seize the old master Bai's property.
Unfortunately, the original owner married an ordinary scholar, so she couldn't help Old Master Bai or save her younger brother, and could only watch helplessly.
In addition, that scholar seemed to be an honest man, but who knew that he was after the original owner's dowry. The original owner married into the Bai family, and Old Master Bai gave her a lot of dowry, as well as a childhood sweetheart concubine. The original owner did not live a happy life and died before she was thirty-five years old.
The original owner's wishes were to protect her younger brother, protect Old Master Bai, repay Old Master Bai's kindness, not marry that hypocritical scholar, want power, never want to be manipulated again, and also want peace and prosperity for the country.
Hmm? She could understand the previous points, but national peace and prosperity were difficult to achieve, and besides, that was the emperor's responsibility.
After processing her memories, she became Lin Yitang. Lin Yitang took out some easily digestible food from her spatial storage and shook Lin Jingya. Lin Jingya rubbed his eyes and timidly asked, "Sister?"
Lin Yitang and Lin Jingya emerged from the haystack. Lin Yitang handed the food to Lin Jingya and said gently, "This is the food that my sister found. We'll leave here soon."
The Lin family was caught up in the struggle between the old and new factions, so they became cannon fodder. However, the original owner's father didn't care much about the siblings and only supported the eldest daughter-in-law of the Lin family. Fortunately, the original owner didn't talk about revitalizing the Lin family, but only wanted to have power. But if Lin Jingya becomes a Jinshi and enters the court as an official, he must first overturn the Lin family's case. Otherwise, he will be sowing the seeds of trouble and courting death.
Lin Yitang sighed, "Oh well, let's take it one step at a time. It'll probably be another ten years before Lin Jingya passes the imperial examination."
"Sister, sister?" Lin Yitang was lost in thought for a moment when she heard Lin Jingya's voice.
"Ok?"
"Sister, you eat too." Lin Jingya, a six or seven-year-old child, still had a very innocent personality.
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After several months of travel, Lin Yitang and Lin Jingya arrived in Yangzhou by hunting and begging. They were dressed in tattered clothes.
Lin Yitang knows some martial arts, but now he is small and weak, so he can only travel on the official road. Without a travel permit, he cannot stay in an inn and often has to eat and sleep outdoors.
Following the original owner's memories, she arrived near Yangzhou. The two tidied themselves up and followed some farmers into the city. The beggars in the city were divided into factions, so it was best not to pretend to be a beggar.
Lin Yitang had silver in her spatial storage. She used the silver to find out that the Bai family was currently doing business in Yangzhou. The two siblings arrived at an inn, and the waiter, seeing that they were two small people dressed in tattered and simple clothes, wanted to drive them away.
Lin Yitang looked pitiful and aggrieved, while Lin Jingya sobbed softly. Their antics with the waiter attracted the attention of the innkeeper and other guests.
A kind-looking gentleman stepped forward and stopped the shopkeeper from violently driving him away. Lin Yitang recognized him as Master Bai.
"Master Bai, please wait here. I'll chase these two little beggars away right away," the shopkeeper said obsequiously. The Bai family was wealthy, and they were his big customers.
Master Bai was a salt merchant whose ancestors had accumulated considerable wealth. However, merchants were destined to have a low social status, and Master Bai had no sons, only a fourteen-year-old daughter.
“We’re not beggars, we have money, we need to eat,” Lin Yitang said crisply.
“Since that’s the case, they have money, so the shopkeeper can’t turn them away, right?” Master Bai said gently.
Lin Yitang then took out two old, broken silver coins. Seeing that the two were really rich, the shopkeeper wanted to quickly quell the farce and asked the waiter to arrange for the two to sit in a seat on the edge.
Old Master Bai didn't pay much attention to the two siblings, only having a vague impression of them.
Lin Yitang didn't press her advantage. Since she didn't have a travel permit, she had to sneak into the city behind the adults. She basically couldn't stay in regular inns and could only stay in "black shops" in some poor areas. They were small, and those mixed places were naturally not suitable for them.
She and Lin Jingya waited patiently for the old man to leave. After the old man left, she staged a carefully planned "hero saves the weak" scene, which successfully won the old man's pity. Lin Jingya, being young, took the opportunity to reveal that they had fled from a famine in another place and that their parents had passed away.
Master Bai took the two children back to the Bai family home. The Bai family home was decorated in a luxurious style. The two children washed up with the help of maids and slept peacefully.
"Oh, how pitiful." Madam Bai sighed. She only had one daughter in her life, and Master Bai had taken several concubines, but there had been no news about the inner quarters. Now the master was over forty-five years old.
"Madam, I also have a connection with them. Why don't we adopt them as our godson and goddaughter? That way, after we pass away, Ruonan will have someone to rely on," Master Bai said slowly, stroking his beard.
Madam Bai recently wanted to adopt one or two godsons. Master Bai is getting old and is thinking about retiring in his old age. However, he did not expect to encounter such a coincidence.
“What you say is true, but… we still need to observe it carefully,” Madam Bai nodded and said.
The two men in the Bai family decided that Lin Yitang and Lin Jingya would stay at the Bai residence. Lin Yitang was no ordinary child. After spending half a month with Bai Ruonan, she figured out Bai Ruonan's personality. She was an innocent little girl. The master and madam doted on her, which made her completely naive.
Lin Jingya was given an intelligence-boosting pill by Lin Yitang, and although he is no longer a top genius, he is still a smart child.
Seeing that Lin Jingya had a talent for studying, Master Bai hired a pedantic scholar to tutor Lin Jingya.