Quick Transmigration: When Can I Just Lay Down and Wait to Die?

The original owner, Liu Yuxi, lived in Fengzhou Prefecture, about 200 li north of the capital. His family was considered small landlords.

There are three estates of about 200 mu each near Fengzhou Prefecture. The reason his family lives in the prefectural city is to make it convenient for the original owner to study.

In the original owner's great-grandfather's generation, the Liu family only had a dozen or so acres of land. However, the Liu family had difficulty producing offspring, with only one son per generation. No one shared the family property, and the descendants were all capable. Gradually, they accumulated three small estates.

The original owner's father, Liu Haiqing, was frail from childhood. For the sake of having offspring, he married Wang, a girl from a tenant farmer's family in his own village, simply because Wang's mother had given birth to six sons and one daughter, all of whom were healthy.

After their birth dates were compared, they received the blessing of "a match made in heaven," and the two got married.

The Wang family was naturally happy to see this happen. Although their daughter marrying into the master's family would not change their status as tenant farmers, they would have a powerful in-law, and sooner or later they would be able to own their own land.

After the two got married, Wang was indeed fertile, and gave birth to the original owner of the body the following year.

I wonder if the Liu family was cursed? Wang suffered a massive hemorrhage during childbirth. Although she survived, her health was ruined. After that, she was just like Liu Haiqing, constantly needing medication. As for having children, that was absolutely impossible for her.

Liu Haiqing and Wang Shi took great care of themselves, fearing that they would pass away before they could raise the original owner to adulthood. After all, the Liu family had no relatives; each generation had only one son, and they didn't know how many generations they would have to go back to find a relative.

If both of them were to pass away, the Liu family's wealth would be divided up by others, so the two of them were extremely concerned about their health.

The original owner was in good health and had some talent for studying after starting his education at the age of six. That's why Liu Haiqing started planning for his eldest son.

The Liu family's estate was not far from the prefectural city. When Liu Haiqing was unwell, he went to the prefectural city to see a doctor. Since his son had some talent for studying, they would definitely do their best to cultivate him. So the family moved to the prefectural city to live.

With the savings accumulated over generations, buying a courtyard house in the prefectural city would be quite easy. Living in the prefectural city would not only offer more and better options for the children's education, but it would also be more convenient for the couple to seek medical treatment.

No one knows how many more years the couple will live, so finding a teacher with good character and connections in the prefectural city would be a guarantee for their son's future.

After making inquiries from various sources, Liu Haiqing took his child to study under Master Zhao Boyuan in the city. Master Zhao was a relative of the Prefect of Fengzhou. Although he was only a Juren (a successful candidate in the provincial civil service examination), it was because he was not interested in an official career and did not participate in the imperial examinations again.

Logically speaking, if a scholar like him wanted to become a teacher, he could have easily gone to teach at the most famous Bailu Academy in the suburbs. However, Master Zhao was unwilling to leave the prefectural city, as he felt that life at the academy was too austere.

With ancestral property and no financial pressure, a degree in the imperial examination system, and a cousin who is a prefect, he is unlikely to be provoked by anyone. Wouldn't it be great for him to stay in the bustling prefectural city?

With nothing else to do, he opened a private school in the city, taking in students to pass the time. After the students passed the imperial examination and became scholars, they would either go to the county school, the prefectural school, or the Bailu Academy to continue their studies.

When Liu Haiqing chose a tutor for his son, he didn't have high requirements for the tutor's scholarship, since anyone who could become a tutor must have achieved some academic success. What he valued was the family background of the tutor, Zhao. Having this teacher-student relationship would at least make others think twice.

The original owner had some talent for studying, but not much. Fortunately, he was quite diligent in his studies. He became an apprentice at the age of 7, started taking the imperial examinations at the age of 13, took the exams for three years, and obtained the title of "Children's Scholar" at the age of 15.

Although his son couldn't compare to those outstanding students, Liu Haiqing was already quite satisfied. Some scholars were already quite old and still couldn't pass the preliminary examination! His son would become a scholar sooner or later, and with some effort, becoming a provincial graduate wasn't entirely out of the question.

The couple was overjoyed when their son passed the imperial examination and celebrated with friends and family. However, their joy turned to sorrow when they both fell ill after the banquet and it took them half a year to recover.

This illness made the couple more concerned about their son's marriage. They knew that if either of them passed away, their son would have to observe a three-year mourning period, and if either of them passed away, he would have to observe a six-year mourning period.

If the son has to observe six years of mourning, what kind of wife can he expect to marry? And there won't be anyone to take care of him then!

It would be better to take advantage of their good health and find a wife for their son as soon as possible. Based on Liu Haiqing's successful experience in finding a wife for Wang, the two of them, after much deliberation, still chose a girl from the village named Li Cuilan for the original owner.

For the same reason, Li Cuilan's mother gave birth to five sons and two daughters, including two sets of twins. Li Cuilan was the youngest in their family, so she was raised with extra care.

She had never worked in the fields or done any housework. With five sisters-in-law to care for her, there was no way she would have a chance to do any chores. As a result, Li Cuilan looked quite fair-skinned and had even learned embroidery from an aunt in the Li family who was an embroiderer.

Although Liu Haiqing and his wife were mainly concerned about their son's offspring, they didn't want to wrong the original owner of the body too much, so after much deliberation, they settled on Li Cuilan.

Since his parents had made the decision, the original owner had no other ideas. He knew that his marriage was different from others and could not be exactly what he wanted. Fortunately, Li Cuilan was quite pretty, and the two got along well after marriage.

After all, the original owner had to go to the private school every day, and after school in the evening, she also had to study. The two of them had little time to spend together and could barely exchange a few words a day.

Li Cuilan was originally married into a higher social class, and she was kind and gentle to the original owner and her parents-in-law. As they were newlyweds, there were naturally no conflicts.

She became pregnant shortly after entering the family. After seeing their daughter-in-law's pregnancy, Liu Haiqing and his wife prayed that she could have twins like their mother-in-law, so as to break the feng shui of the Liu family having only one son per generation.

When Li Cuilan was four months pregnant, looking at her belly, which was twice the size of that of an average pregnant woman, Liu Haiqing and his wife kept chanting Buddhist prayers!

After the doctor confirmed it was twins, the couple was overjoyed and kept praying for their ancestors' blessings. They then went to the ancestral tablets every day to pray for their daughter-in-law's safe delivery.

Before they could see their grandson, the two passed away due to extreme emotional turmoil.

The original owner was having a hard time accepting this. He was initially very happy that his wife was pregnant, since they were going to have an heir.

But having a child without parents, especially the parents who had cherished him since childhood, he couldn't help but wonder if his parents would have passed away so soon if his wife hadn't gotten pregnant.

Since he had such thoughts in his mind, how could his bedmate not sense anything amiss?

Li Cuilan was already quite emotionally sensitive during her pregnancy. Even if the original owner had no thoughts about it, she herself would still think about it in that direction. Now that the original owner showed some signs of being bothered, she felt even more depressed.