Ren Yaoting recalled for a moment: "When I sneaked into the backyard, I happened to see that the door of the main room in the backyard was open. When I got closer, I saw an old woman burning incense. Because I was afraid of being discovered by her, I didn't dare to come forward, only vaguely. I saw two or three rows of tablets enshrined above the incense table."
"You said it's not the tablet of the Han family? Did you read the words on the tablet?" Hearing this, Ren Yaoqi felt that if he could know which tablet it was, Han Dongshan's details might be able to clear the fog.
Ren Yaoting frowned and recalled: "Although candles were lit in the main room, it was still a little dark. When I was about to take a closer look, the old woman seemed to hear some motive and suddenly turned her head and looked over, so scared that I quickly hid behind. Behind the pillars of the carriage, so I only saw one... "Qu" character... Yes, the surname on the tablet is "Qu"!" Having said that, Ren Yaoting asked with some doubts, "Why does the Han family enshrine the tablet of the Qu family? Han Does the family have any relatives surnamed Qu? Or is the original owner of this house surnamed Qu? But it doesn't make sense, how could the original owner enshrine the tablet of his ancestors? The Han family doesn't have to do this."
"Qu?" Ren Yaoqi pondered to himself, Han Dongshan naturally wouldn't enshrine other people's tablets, so Qu might be his real surname.
As far as she knows, there seems to be no big family named Qu in the vicinity of Yanzhou in recent decades.
Han Dongshan seems to be fifty years old this year, so if his surname is Qu and he is from Yanbei, there should be news of the Qu family in Yanbei fifty years ago. Or is Han Dongshan just from a humble family
Ren Yaoting complained on the side: "When do you think my foot injury will be 'good'? And my mother will definitely ask."
Ren Yaoqi temporarily retracted his thoughts: "Didn't you say that the injury is not serious? It's enough to rest for a few days. As for your intrusion into the Han family ancestral hall today, don't let others know. If the elders know about it. , you will definitely feel that you are unstable and embarrassed."
This crime is serious. Generally, large families marry their eldest sons and grandsons, and being dignified is the most important point.
Although Ren Yaoting is not very old, he is very sensitive to this kind of thing now. He understands it as soon as he hears it, and nods: "I won't tell others, Fifth Sister, you won't say it, right?"
Ren Yaoqi smiled and said, "If I can say it, how can I remind you?"
Ren Yaoting was very satisfied, and held Ren Yaoqi's arm intimately: "Fifth sister, you are so nice."
The Ren family and the Han family were not far away, and the carriage soon arrived at the Ren family. The second Mrs. Ren received a letter from the old woman who came back one step earlier. She was worried about where Ren Yaoting was really hurt, so she had already condemned her confidant and greeted her.
Ren Yaoting was surrounded and returned to the East Mansion, and before leaving, he did not forget to say to Ren Yaoqi: "Fifth sister, these few days, I can't go out at home to recover from my injuries. Come to the East Mansion to see me when you are free."
Ren Yaoqi replied with a smile, and returned to the West Mansion with Ren Yaohua and the others.
Arriving at Ziwei Courtyard, Ren Yaohua asked strangely, "How come you have been close to her recently? And how could she have sprained her foot in someone else's mansion?"
Ren Yaohua knew Ren Yaoting's thoughts. Shouldn't he strive for performance in other people's houses and leave a good impression on the elders? Ren Yaohua felt that she could not understand Ren Yaoting's contrived behavior.
Ren Yaoqi said with a smile: "Although the seventh sister is not easy to get along with, she is also very coaxing. When she came to our yard last time, I comforted her, and she somehow became close to me. Woke up."
Ren Yaohua was a little unconvinced, looked at Ren Yaoqi and said, "How did you comfort her?"
Ren Yaoqi blinked, and said solemnly, "Of course I'll talk ill of people she hates with her."
Ren Yaohua was stunned for a moment, then remembered that the person Ren Yaoting hated the most at that time seemed to be her...
After trying to understand that Ren Yaohua was about to scold someone, Ren Yaoqi had already moved away from her for several steps, making faces at her: "Who wants you to look at the guests who come to the door? I'm helping you ease the relationship. And I've already told you, so this isn't talking bad words behind your back! It's just a roundabout way! You have to be a big sister, don't lose your temper and scold me!"
Having said that, Ren Yaoqi ran away with his own people very wisely.
Ren Yaohua gnashed her teeth in anger when she saw Ren Yaoqi's back running away.
The maid behind her was angry when she saw Ren Yaohua, but for some reason she was not nervous when she saw the two sisters fighting each other before. She just thought it was funny that the fifth young lady always bullied the third young lady like this, so they all held back their laughter and looked down. foot.
Although Ren Yaohua felt a little angry, she wasn't the kind of angry she used to want to slap her when she saw Ren Yaoqi. She just felt a little aggrieved and helpless.
Ren Yaoqi went back to his room to change clothes and then went to the main room to find Zhou Mama. She wanted to ask Mammy Zhou about the family of Yanzhou's surnamed Qu.
Although Mother Zhou came from the capital of Yanbei with her grandfather's family more than ten years ago, the people who presented the palace after coming to Yanbei must have carefully inquired about the situation of various families in Yanbei. The tougher the day, the more careful you need to be.
"The Qu family?" Mammy Zhou filtered through the big families in Yanbei that she knew one by one in her mind, and for a moment seemed to be unable to recall such a family.
Ren Yaoqi reminded: "About 40 or 50 years ago, the big family in Yanzhou may have suffered some disasters later."
Mammy Zhou thought about it again and shook her head: "I don't remember the existence of such a family. But most of the slaves I know are the big families in Yanbei, and some slaves from the lost family may not know. You must know four Fifty years ago in Yanbei, it was the time when Liao thieves were rampant, and many of the big families who came to the south in no hurry to hide in the south were guilty, and there were not a few people who were exterminated by the Liao people. Now the Yun family and Qiu family are these The aristocratic family also moved back after Lao Yanbei drove the Liao people out of Yanbei. For example, the Lei family, who had just moved from Muzhou to Yanzhou, was being discussed recently. The Lei family used to be as famous as the Yun family. The big family is an old-fashioned family with a long history of the Bhikshu family. However, the Lei family has not shown up for decades, and it was only recently that they heard that they were moving back. There are many people who refused to leave back then. The ancestral tombs are gone."
Ray's house? Ren Yaoqi thought about it carefully, and she didn't seem to have any impression. Presumably, after so many years of migration, the old family has not been as good as before, so she has no impression.
Ren Yaoqi also put it down. After thinking about it, she asked in a low voice, "Mother, do you know if the Ren family offended anyone or had a grudge with anyone decades ago?"
Mother Zhou was startled when she heard the words, looked at Ren Yaoqi and said, "Miss Fifth, why did you suddenly ask this? But what happened?"
Ren Yaoqi shook his head: "I just accidentally heard something about a family surnamed Qu. A descendant of the Qu family seems to have said something bad about our Ren family, so I asked out of curiosity."
When Zhou mama heard the words, she disagreed: "If you say that there are people who are dissatisfied with the Ren family, there should be not too many people. The Ren family is not a charity hall, but started by mining. People who die every year in the Renjia coal kiln are not uncommon. Little, if the families of these people will definitely have some criticisms against the Ren family, it is not surprising."
Ren Yaoqi felt that the matter of the Qu family should not be so simple. If Han Dongshan really has a grudge against the Ren family, it must be a great grudge that cannot be shared. The tablets of the Qu family mentioned by Ren Yaoting made Ren Yaoqi very uneasy.
Mammy Zhou saw Ren Yaoqi's face full of thought and knew that she was still thinking about the Qu family, so she said, "My maid remembers that there was a seventy-year-old maid in Zhuangzi who sold herself to the Ren family in her early years. I heard that she She was born and raised in Baihe Town, because her family was killed by the Liao people, so she sold herself as a slave. When the slave maid lived in Zhuangzi with her wife, she often heard her and some little girls in Zhuangzi talking about old things from decades ago. If the Qu family you mentioned, Fifth Miss, really exists, this old lady might know about it."
Ren Yaoqi's eyes lit up when he heard the words: "How is this mother's health? Can you please come into the mansion?"
"When she was young, she did rough work. Now that she is older, she is only responsible for light errands, but she is still in excellent health. She can eat five or six large white steamed buns with one meal. She should be able to come into the house."
Ren Yaoqi thought for a while, and said to Mother Zhou, "Then you can help me invite her in. I want to ask her something."
The Ren family generally does not leave too old wives, and the younger ones may not remember what happened 40 or 50 years ago.
Mammy Zhou nodded in response: "The slave will send someone to Zhuangzi tomorrow, and the eldest lady shouldn't care about these little things."
"Thank you, Mommy," Ren Yaoqi said happily.
Zhou was busy saying he didn't dare.
While the two were talking, Li's eldest maid, Xi'er, hurriedly pulled up the curtain and came in. Seeing Mammy Zhou and Yaoqi Ren here, she hurried over and whispered, "Mammy, there's a commotion outside. already."
Mammy Zhou frowned: "No beginning or no end! What's going on?"
Xi'er glanced at Ren Yaoqi, and whispered more and more: "It was the fifth master and the fifth wife who were making trouble. Just now, a small green sedan came from outside the house, and a woman sat in it. The woman who followed the sedan claimed that it was The one who came to find the fifth master is sitting in the sedan chair in the outer room of the fifth master."
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It's so early today~^^
I wish you all a happy "Saturday"~
No matter how old you are, you must maintain a heart that is as easy to satisfy and easy to be happy as a child~