Scheme of the Official Descendant

"Aunt, what's wrong with Mrs. Lin?" Kumquat asked curiously.

Fang's aunt came back to her and said, "nothing, I just think of one thing."

Aunt Fang is a little good. She never loses her temper with the people she serves.

At any time, she is a kind and considerate woman, as gentle as water, so the maids around aunt Fang are very devoted to her.

"Wait for the pen and ink. I have a letter to write." After sitting for a moment, aunt Fang finally got up and went to the study.

Jinju advised: "aunt, it's very late, but you should be careful of your eyes."

Aunt Fang shook her head: "it doesn't matter."

Aunt Fang knows that her younger brother will be promoted soon. She also hopes that Fang yacun can come to Yanbei, so that she can be more stable in the future.

Fang yacun wrote to her about the official affairs. This time, her sister-in-law came to Yanbei to inquire about the residence and preferences of various officials. This time, there are five or six vacancies in the rich counties of Yanbei, but there are not only five or six people competing for these seats. Fang yacun once mentioned in her last letter that a relative in law of the Su family also intends to come to Yanbei.

Aunt Fang is a smart person who knows everything. The second wife, Su, helped Mrs. Lin for no reason. There must be a reason. Now it seems that the most likely reason is that Su wanted to connect his mother's nephew with the third wife of the Lin family.

Aunt Fang is very glad to learn about it now, so that there is room for things to turn around. She needs to tell her brother the intention of the Su family as soon as possible so that he can be prepared earlier.

Things finally developed in the direction of Ren Yao's hope, which was only the beginning. As long as everything had a beginning, everything would be easy to do.

Ren's family decided to leave for Yunyang city on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival. It's a long journey, not too far.

Ren Shijia went back to Yunyang city with Ren's family this time. She happened to have finished her confinement and hid in her mother's house. On the way back, I can catch up with the full moon banquet prepared by the Lin family for brother Cen. So this time Ren will stay in the Lin family for a few more days.

This time, Mrs. Ren stayed at home. Mrs. Ren took her grandchildren to the house. Originally, Mrs. Ren was going to be cold. Mrs. Wu didn't take her and Ren yaoyu. Later, she changed her mind. As for the third wife, Li, Mrs. Ren has always refused to take her out of the house.

"Today, my grandmother said that Aunt Fang and Ren Yaoying would go together." In the evening, when I asked Li to come out, Ren Yaohua said to Ren Yao.

"Because that lady Fang is coming?" Ren Yao raised her eyebrows slightly, not surprisingly.

"Well." Ren Yaohua is in a bad mood and looks cold.

Before parting, Ren Yaoqi heard her forbearance and unwillingness to say: "who is the concubine in the three rooms and who is the decent wife of the main room! Is this what we call the rules of Ren family? That's ridiculous! "

Ren Yaohua did not want to hear the answer from anyone. After that, she walked away with a stiff back. Ren Yaoqi stood in the courtyard and watched her figure gradually disappear in the shadow under the porch. Only the dark red skirt appeared in the light of the lantern in the hands of the maid, and soon disappeared in the corner door in front of her.

The second day is the Dragon Boat Festival, Ren's family is preparing for the trip.

Although Li didn't go, she was busy packing things for Ren Yaoqi and Ren Yaohua.

Li's daughter is fighting against injustice for Li's family, but Li has been used to it for a long time. He doesn't care about his being left at home. Instead, he is in a good mood.

See Ren Yaohua these days have been calm face, a pair of unhappy appearance, as if as long as a little trifle provoked her can explode.

Ren Yaoqi was worried that she would lose control of her temper. On this day, she finally pulled her aside and said with a smile: "third sister, what do you vomit here? It's been a few days and it's time to stop. As long as the mother is happy? "

Ren Yaohua was angry when she heard this: "what, as long as mother is happy! I don't believe she is really happy! I went to ask my grandmother yesterday, and just after I opened my mouth, my grandmother diverted the topic

Although Ren Yaohua's face is very angry, the voice is with grievances.

Ren Yaoqi knew her temper and didn't get angry when she saw her angry at herself. Instead, she said with a smile: "I don't think that mother is forced to smile because Isn't father going this time? "

Ren Yaohua was stunned, and her anger turned into a stupor.

"So I think it's good for my mother not to go this time. You know that father's temperament can make him forget the horizon when he draws a picture to eat. Even if mother went to Yunyang city with us, she would still miss his father." Then Ren Yaoqi winked at Ren Yaohua, with a look of teasing, "third sister, you are so old, you can't leave your mother. Are you ashamed?"

"I, I'm not..." Ren Yaohua subconsciously has to explain. When he sees Ren Yaoqi's bad smile, he responds that he is being teased by his sister.

"You can talk nonsense Ren Yaohua flicked his sleeves and put out the posture of elder sister. After thinking about it, she asked uncertainly, "does father really not go?"Ren Yaoqi nodded: "of course, I asked. Why don't you ask your mother? "

Seeing that Ren Yaohua's face looked better, Ren Yaoqi couldn't help but chuckle.

Whether Yunyang city will go or not is not so important to Li. Can Li Shi go to be able to show the status of the main room in front of aunt Fang? Even if Li Shi is aggrieved, it is just for Ren Shimin.

So when Ren Yaowei was very angry about this matter, Ren Yaoqi secretly asked yuan Dayong to help her buy an old painting of the previous dynasty from a poor scholar.

Ren Yaoqi knows the origin of every painting he loves in his hands. Originally, this painting was bought by one of Ren Shimin's supervisors this autumn. Ren Yaoqi bought this painting in advance.

Because Ren Shimin has a hobby. After getting a good painting, he will spend half a month carefully studying and then copying it by himself.

Sure enough, Ren Shimin couldn't move his feet any more when he saw the painting feet. What dragon boat race on the Dragon Boat Festival was all over the eyes of the third master. He won't give up his mind for the sake of smoke and clouds. So the three masters waved their hands, and the master of Yunyang city did not go, and he wanted to paint in seclusion at home.

In this way, Li was happy, and aunt Fang was depressed.

If aunt Fang and Ren Shimin go to Yunyang city to watch a dragon boat race, Li's wife will be left at home. Naturally, she will be underestimated. And aunt Fang with the treatment of the main room, in the city of Yunyang string door is also more convenient.

Now Ren Shimin gives up her son and doesn't go, so it's not convenient for Aunt Fang to act.

In the afternoon, Mrs. Ren sent someone to find Ren Shimin, and wanted him to go to Yunyang city with him. After all, this is also an annual event. All the respectable families in Yanzhou will pass by, and the men can exchange family friendship with each other.

But who was the third master? He would not go if he said no, and no one could force him to go. Finally, he just lay down in the main room and pretend to be ill. Mrs. Ren was so angry that she couldn't help it.

Li's cooperation is waiting in front of the third master's bed. When he is thirsty, he carries water, and when he is hungry, he serves his best.

Even Ren Yaohua was very happy. After a few days of stinking, she finally cleared up and bent her mouth to see the maids clean up their things.

Ren Yaoqi was also in the room watching the maid pack up her things, saying that she was watching. In fact, it was mammy Xu directing the maids. She was leaning on the Kang to read a book.

Just at this moment, mother Zhou came.

Seeing mother Zhou coming, Ren Yaoqi thought it was Ren Shimin and Li's other side of the main room. He could not help but put down the book in his hand and sat up on the Kang.

Mother Zhou came forward to salute, but said in a low voice: "Miss five, lady Luo is here."

Ren Yaoqi did not respond to the name of this person for a while: "luopozi?"

"It's the old lady in Chuang Tzu you said you wanted to see a while ago." Mother Zhou explained in a low voice.

Ren Yaoqi immediately remembered.

It was the woman who lived in Zhuangzi. The last time Ren Yaoqi asked about the Qu family of mother Zhou, she said that there was an old woman living in Chuang Tzu, and she knew everything about Baihe Town very well.

It should have been invited long ago. I didn't want this lady named Luo was bitten by a wild dog outside Zhuangzi a while ago, so she was delayed. Ren Yao period also because of these messy things of Ren family, temporarily put this matter aside.

"Where are the people?" Ren Yaoqi asked.

"At the moment, the whole house is busy. I asked the servant girl to take her to have a meal and rest. After all, I'm old and I'm afraid there's something wrong. Do you want to see her now? "

Ren Yaoqi thought: "let her rest first, and then come to see me later."

"I originally told the people in Chuang Tzu to wait for her wound to be healed and then send them back. I thought it would be some more days. I didn't want to just catch up with your request for Yunyang city. At this time, it's my servant's poor arrangement." Mother Zhou pleaded guilty.

Ren Yaoqi waved his hand and comforted him: "it's OK. I just want to ask her something. It's the same to come early and come late. "

Mother Zhou went down to arrange, and after dinner, Ren Yao asked her to bring the woman who was surnamed Luo.

She is in her seventies and has been working in Zhuangzi. Her hair is gray, her face is tawny, her face is full of wrinkles, and she is still limping. Her spirit is quite good.

She was supported by a girl of eight or nine years old. She was pretty, but her skin color was too dark. She wore a bun and a red sweater. Her eyes were smart.

Seeing Ren Yaoqi's eyes resting on the little girl, mother Zhou quickly said: "this is the granddaughter of Luo Po Tzu. Her grandparents and grandsons depend on each other for their lives. Luo Po Tzu does not trust to leave her in Chuang Tzu and brings her here together."

Although it was strange that she was so old and her granddaughter was still so young, Ren Yaoqi did not ask much. She nodded with a smile and asked mulberry to take a stool to let her sit down.

Mrs. Luo apologized and sat down carefully next to half a stool. She was afraid to speak first. Then her little girl felt a little curious about the things in the room. She saw her grandmother, who was stiff, but didn't dare to be presumptuous. She stood behind her in a proper way next to her mother-in-law.Ren Yaoqi gently said to the little girl, "would you like to follow this mulberry sister to eat snacks first?"

The little girl glanced out of the corner of her eye at the red lacquer inlaid mother of Pearl eight edged food box on the table, which was filled with various kinds of snacks and fruits, such as baiguodun, sugar ear, bean flour cake, honey Mahua, sugar lotus seeds, sunflower seeds and so on. She swallowed a mouthful of water, and then looked at her grandmother without moving.

Mrs. Luo patted her hand gently: "listen to the master, go."

Mulberry picked up the red lacquer inlaid mother of Pearl eight edged food box, waved to the little girl, and took her out.

Looking at her granddaughter's leaving step by step, she shook her head and said to Ren Yaoqi, "don't be surprised, miss. Children grew up in the countryside, and have never seen anything in the world."

Ren Yaoqi smile: "I look at it is very good, body bone is also strong, she usually follow you to work with the ground?"

The old lady's face was full of deep wrinkles: "this child is very kind-hearted. She wanted to help me with my work when she just learned to walk. She would help me with what I do on weekdays. I've been childless and childless all my life. When I'm old, I've picked up a treasure. It's worth my life. "

Ren Yao period a Leng, it turns out that the little girl is not a mother-in-law granddaughter.

She seemed to know what other people thought. She said, "this child was picked up on the farmland seven years ago. At that time, she was only six or seven months old."

Mother Zhou was a little surprised: "so she is only seven years old? I thought I was nine

The little girl is strong and tall, and she looks smart, almost like a child of eight or nine years old.

"No, it's a big meal! Fortunately, she can do her own work, otherwise I can't support her Mrs. Luo shook her head and said with a smile.

Ren Yaoqi looked at this old woman. She was very old, and her appearance was no different from that of ordinary peasant women who worked in the fields all the year round. However, Ren Yaoqi felt that she did not speak in an outsider way. The peasant women were vulgar and even her adopted granddaughter knew how to behave.

"Has mother Luo been in our village all the time? Where is the family? " Ren Yaoqi asked.

She narrowed her eyes and thought for a while and then said, "the maid is from the outskirts of Baihe Town. Her parents died of starvation in the disaster year, so she has been working in Zhuangzi since childhood, but the Chuang Tzu was not Ren's family."

"Oh? Which family did Chuang Tzu belong to? " Ren Yaoqi asked.

Several of Ren family's big Chuang Tzu were bought when Baoming, the former director of the family, was almost the same as Ren's house.

"Before Ren's family, the Chuang Tzu belonged to a Tang family." Luo Po Zi Dao.

Ren Yaoqi remembered that the house seemed to have been bought from a family surnamed Tang. It might have been that when the family bought the ancestral house, they also bought the name of Zhuangzi to Ren's family. This is a very common thing.

Mother Zhou saw that Ren Yaoqi was asking Mrs. Luo what she said. She thought about it and called out all the servant girls in the room. Only she stayed in the room herself.

"I wonder if mother Luo remembers a family surnamed Qu? It should be the rich people in Baihe Town decades ago. Later, I don't know why their family has fallen down. " Ren Yaoqi looked at Mrs. Luo and asked softly.

The old lady narrowed her eyes and thought, which seemed to be her usual expression when she thought about things: "I haven't heard of such a rich family."

Ren Yao couldn't help frowning: "really? Think again? "

If she really thought about it again, she still shook her head: "No. Miss, are you sure it's near white crane town? Could it be from somewhere else? "

Ren Yao period can not help but be a little disappointed, nodded: "maybe I remember wrong." After thinking about it, she asked, "in my grandfather's generation, has Ren's family ever been at odds with any family?"

On hearing the speech, Luo Po Zi took a look at Ren Yaoqi and said with a smile: "Miss, what's this saying? Ren's family has always been harmonious and friendly with its neighbors..."

Mother Zhou stood beside Ren Yaoqi and interrupted in a cold voice: "Mrs. Luo, we miss five are looking for you so far away, not to listen to you talk about all those nonsense. You can answer whatever you ask. If you answer well, the young lady will give you a silver reward and send you and your granddaughter back

After a meal, Mrs. Luo looked at mother Zhou and Ren Yaoqi, who was smiling and speechless. After thinking for a long time, she said, "if you don't agree It's not without it. At that time, Ren's family bought several hills on the western mountain to build a coal mine. They once filed a lawsuit with a nearby mountain Lord. The mountain master wrote a number one son to go to the county master to tell Ren's family to dig the coal mine to the bottom of his mountain top. However, Ren Jiahua bought the mountain top of the mountain at a high price, and the two families settled down. In addition, one year a coal mine collapsed and buried a lot of people. The son of a family took the lead in making trouble and was finally arrested by the government. However, I heard that the man ran away on the way of escort. Before leaving, he said that he would be at odds with Ren's family. However, after so many years, no one has appeared. It is estimated that he has become a pile of loess. "

Ren Yaoqi listened quietly and made a psychological judgment.

The old lady went on to talk about several families who had a big and small festival with Ren's family decades ago. Finally, Luo Po Zi racked her brain and couldn't think of anything. She looked at Ren Yaoqi and said with a smile: "Miss, I only remember so much."Ren Yaoqi looked out of the window. It was past the time for the lantern. Lanterns were lit outside the yard and candles were lit in the room.

"That's all for today. You go back and have a rest." Ren Yaoqi brought tea with a smile and motioned for mother Zhou to send people out first.

Mother Zhou sent Mrs. Luo out and gave it to her servant girl. She asked her servant girl to take her to the courtyard for a rest, and then she turned back.

"Young lady, will this lady stay with you?"

Ren Yaoqi was leaning against the Kang to think about things. He looked up and said, "well, let her stay in the house for the time being. I'll make plans when I come back from Yunyang city."

She always thought that she could ask anything from Luo Pozi, but she would leave for Yunyang city early tomorrow morning, and Ren Yaoqi had no time to ask her questions carefully today.

"The slave and maidservant first arranged for their grandsons to live in the outer court. The young lady has a rest early today. She will leave as soon as she arrives at Mao tomorrow. " Mother Zhou ordered her to step down and tell her servants to come in and serve Ren Yao.