Transmigration into a Book: My Lord, Your Wife Has Taken Another Concubine for You

On the day that Aunt Jin and the other two entered the mansion, Aunt Sun cried all night long. Only she knew the sadness and despair in her heart.

During her time in the manor, even though she felt she had suffered countless injustices, she never felt as desperate as she did that night.

The next day, when she went to pay her respects, Aunt Sun cheered herself up. After seeing the elegance of several of Lin Yanran's concubines in the main courtyard, Aunt Sun fell ill upon returning home.

Although Aunt Sun was considered pretty, she was still far less so than Aunt Jin and the other two.

After all, at that time, Chu Mochen only wanted to keep a mistress, as long as she was gentle, considerate and a little bit pretty.

Now that there are younger and prettier women available, Chu Mochen is naturally happy to enter the courtyards of younger and prettier women, after all, he is not a particularly devoted person in essence.

Lin Yanran is quite satisfied with her current life. She wakes up naturally every day, doesn't have to go to pay her respects to Old Madam Hou, and isn't bothered by Chu Mochen.

When she was bored, there were always operas to watch in the mansion; the only thing she was busy with was moving her dowry.

Chu Mochen is now a hot commodity in the mansion, and his four concubines are fighting like madmen.

Every day, as soon as Chu Mochen returned from his shift, several groups of people would bring him soup.

Whenever Chu Mochen entered the backyard, he would always encounter beautiful women reciting poetry, playing the zither, or dancing along the way. Chu Mochen was not angry at all; in fact, he quite enjoyed it.

But as Chu Mochen became increasingly busy outside, and then busy in the backyard at night, even a body of iron couldn't withstand it.

In less than six months, Chu Mochen fell in love with sleeping alone in the front yard.

At first, he simply didn't like going to the rooms of his concubines, but he often came to Lin Yanran's place to relax.

One time, when Chu Mochen was staying at Lin Yanran's place and tried to make advances, he suddenly lost control. From then on, Chu Mochen stopped coming to the main courtyard.

At the moment when Chu Mochen couldn't believe it, Lin Yanran outwardly showed great concern for Chu Mochen's health, but inwardly she was filled with schadenfreude.

Actually, Chu Mochen's condition was also related to the food she ate in the main courtyard. Wen Zhu had put medicine in Chu Mochen's soup.

This medicine is not effective indefinitely; it loses its effect after an hour. The side effect is that the person will feel more energetic the day after taking the medicine.

As for the imperial physician taking the pulse, by the time someone from the manor knocked on the palace gates with a note and invited the physician out, the effects of the medicine had long since worn off, and of course, it would be impossible to find anything.

After Chu Mochen embarrassed himself at Lin Yanran's place, he rested for two days and then went to Aunt Sun's room.

According to reports from his subordinates, Chu Mochen stormed out of Aunt Sun's house in the middle of the night.

Even when Chu Mochen was angry with Lin Yanran, he didn't dare to take it out on her.

But obviously Aunt Sun didn't receive the same treatment. Chu Mochen left in a grand manner that very night, and it's said that Aunt Sun cried alone for the rest of the night.

After that, Chu Mochen did not visit any of his concubines' courtyards for six months, and he rarely even stayed overnight in Lin Yanran's courtyard.

To cover up his incompetence, Chu Mochen devoted all his energy to his external duties.

During the six months that Chu Mochen was recuperating, Lin Yanran had people stop using the hidden contraceptives in the three courtyards of Aunt Jin and the others.

Since Lin Yanran agreed to bring Aunt Jin and the others in, she had no intention of leaving them without support.

Lin Yanran planned for each of them to have one child, regardless of gender. However, she wouldn't let them have more; she couldn't be bothered with too many children.

As for Aunt Sun, Lin Yanran would never allow her to have another child.

After all three newly arrived concubines had children, Lin Yanran, not wanting to deal with Chu Mochen, wanted to find a way to completely disable him.

As for why not now, it's because Chu Mochen still has too few children. If Chu Mochen were to become completely incapacitated now, then Aunt Sun's two children would be of much higher quality.

During Chu Mochen's time for recuperation, the New Year arrived quickly.

On New Year's Eve, Chu Mochen and Lin Yanran were to take their two children to the palace to attend a banquet.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, the entire Marquis's mansion will be busy with ancestral worship, so the reunion dinner will be on the evening of the second day. Today, not only will several concubines be present, but everyone from the second and third branches of the family will also be there.

At the family banquet, Chu Mochen and his second and third brothers drank a bit too much and got drunk.

Lin Yanran used the excuse of feeling unwell to have Chu Mochen sent directly to Aunt Shui's room.

As for why Lin Yanran chose Aunt Shui, it was mainly because Aunt Shui had been the most respectful to her in the past six months, so she was naturally willing to give Aunt Shui priority for this good thing.

That night, Chu Mochen, who had been recuperating for half a year, was indeed able to perform again, and afterwards, Chu Mochen resumed the frequency of his visits to the backyard.

However, compared to the early days when his concubine entered the mansion, Chu Mochen has become much more restrained and health-conscious.

Of course, in the days that followed, the courtyard that Chu Mochen visited most often was Aunt Shui's courtyard.

Two months later, both Aunt Shui and Aunt He became pregnant.

Lin Yanran, of course, wouldn't make things difficult for the two of them. She immediately excused them from their greetings and told them to take good care of themselves.

After all, these concubines are all behaving themselves for now!

As for some petty schemes, as long as they weren't directed at Lin Yanran and her child, she could turn a blind eye.

Upon hearing this news, Aunt Sun smashed things all over the room again, but Lin Yanran didn't tolerate it and made Aunt Sun pay for the damage herself.

As for how angry Aunt Sun would be when she found out about this, that was not within Lin Yanran's consideration.

That very day, Aunt Sun dressed in thin clothes and went to intercept Chu Mochen on his usual route back to the backyard.

I don't know what tricks Aunt Sun used that night, but she did regain favor.

After resting in Aunt Sun's courtyard for about ten days, Chu Mochen fled in panic.

Chu Mochen's problem this time wasn't because of that kind of thing, but because he didn't have any money in his pocket.

Now that he no longer has a private treasury, he has a limited selection of the good things he possesses, and he can't possibly let Aunt Sun off with them all. The only time he might let her off is out of consideration for the two children.

After believing she had won back Chu Mochen's heart, Aunt Sun began to act with renewed confidence.

On the first day of the lunar new year, Aunt Sun started causing trouble again.

"Madam, the Marquis has been staying in my courtyard more often lately, and the Third Young Master sometimes wants a late-night snack but it's inconvenient. I'd like to set up a small kitchen in my courtyard."

After all, we can't let the Marquis and the Third Young Master go hungry!

After saying that, Aunt Sun gave a provocative look to Aunt Shui and Aunt He, who were pregnant.

Aunt Shui and Aunt He were now preoccupied with their own pregnancies and had no intention of paying attention to Aunt Sun's self-righteousness.

Both Aunt Shui and Aunt He thought Aunt Sun was out of her mind. With the Madam's status, unless the Eldest Princess rebelled, no matter how much they tried, they could never surpass the Madam. The dignity of the royal family could not be compromised.

Jin, who was not yet pregnant and had recently been neglected, felt challenged. "Could it be that Sun is just craving some food herself?"

Everyone knows that when the Marquis was alive, the food in the courtyard was all brought from the front yard.

As for the third young master, would Madam really allow the household to mistreat him?