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*********There is a revision at the end of the last chapter. Interested children's shoes can read it. It doesn't matter if you don't read it ^^~
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When Lei Ting turned his head, he felt a line of sight looking at him, but he only saw a carriage driving by in front of him. Seeing that the decoration on the carriage should be for female servants, he frowned and looked away.
Liu Gui chased after him, stopped a step away from him, and whispered, "Master, the Liu family passed the Hejian Mansion yesterday, and they will arrive tomorrow according to their schedule. Do you want to be a step ahead? Send someone to pick you up?"
There was no expression on Lei Ting's cold face: "Did they send someone to pick us up?"
Liu Gui glanced at his master and said cautiously, "No."
Lei Ting twitched the corners of his mouth, but it didn't make anyone feel the slightest smile, Liu Gui couldn't help lowering his head.
"Since the guests didn't say hello to us, no one would appreciate it even if you sent someone." Lei Ting's voice had no emotion at all.
"Yes." Liu Gui didn't dare to say anything, and even regretted what he just said.
Others don't know how Mrs. Tai got there, but he is very clear as Lei Ting's confidant.
The Liu family was instructed by someone to quietly send someone to Yanbei, wanting to expose the identity of Mrs. Tai in public. Mrs. Tai's identity is on the surface as the direct daughter of the great family Liu family, who was angered by the previous emperor decades ago because of her involvement in the court struggle.
Originally thought that the Liu family had already died and fled, but there were still a few fish that slipped through the net. The people who came this time are said to have sisters from the same clan of Mrs. Tai's generation.
Fortunately, the Lei family got the news ahead of time, and no one was caught off guard, but Mrs. Tai wanted to protect the Lei family...
Mrs. Tai's temperament is resolute and resolute, and it is too late when Lei Ting feels that it is not right to rush to stop it.
"Where is Pan'er now?" Lei Ting asked suddenly, with some emotion in his voice.
Liu Gui hurriedly said: "Miss is in the second master's yard. When the second master is not in the yard, she will be taken care of by the wet nurse and some maids in the second master's house. Please rest assured, master."
Thunder nodded.
Liu Gui glanced at Lei Ting and said carefully, "Master, Miss Laurel has picked up Miss several times, saying that she wants to take care of her in your yard, but Miss will not."
Lei Ting frowned: "Yuegui? The maidservant who served in front of Afu before?"
"Yes, sir. After the death of my wife, Miss Laurel stayed in the yard and was in charge of the yard's accounts on weekdays."
"Since it's an old man beside my wife, I will give her a generous dowry after the period of filial piety." Lei Ting said casually.
Lei Ting never asked about such matters in the inner court, but only because he was an old man beside his deceased wife.
Liu Gui glanced at Lei Ting, understood what he meant, and bowed his head without saying anything.
Although Mrs. Tai once mentioned letting the uncle take the house of Laurel, but obviously the uncle didn't take it to heart. Now that Mrs. Tai died, the grandfather wanted to keep filial piety, and he would not consider such a thing.
Although Liu Gui felt that at this time, it would be better if there was a woman who could be in charge in the uncle's yard. As soon as Mrs. Tai went, the Lei family didn't even have anyone who could manage the inner courtyard, which is why he clearly knew Yuegui's mind but didn't break it.
"Pan'er likes to be in the second disciple's courtyard, so let her be there, I don't have time to take care of her." Lei Ting reached out and pinched his eyebrows.
Liu Gui replied in a low voice.
Lei Ting has only one daughter, Lei Pan'er, but the father and daughter are not very close on weekdays. The head of the Lei family has too many things to do every day, and even if he is not busy, taking care of his daughter is not something he can do.
Therefore, compared to Lei Ting, a father who is always serious, Lei Pan'er is closer to his second uncle Lei Zhen, who is willing to play with her.
Although Lei Zhen was cheerful, he was a very careful young man. After Mrs. Lei Tai passed away, he took his niece over to take care of him as soon as possible. He was much more competent than Lei Ting's biological father.
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When Ren Yaoqi's carriage arrived at Tan Ji, it was just in time. Because she suddenly received news from Ren Yaohua, she left a little late.
The maid next to Xiao Jinglin, Hongying, was instructed to wait at the door for a long time. As soon as Ren Yaoqi's carriage arrived, she led the driver to drive the carriage from the side lane into the back door of the restaurant.
Although Yanbei's etiquette is not as strict as that of Kyoto, it is common for women in the inner house to go out and enter restaurants and shops.
But obviously, today's Tanji Restaurant does not accept foreign guests. When Ren Yaoqi was led by Hongying to the private room on the second floor, he didn't meet half a person along the way, not even the hall clerk.
This private room is very spacious and is divided into a front hall and a back hall. When Ren Yaoqi entered, he thought that such a flamboyant pomp was not like Xiao Jinglin's style.
Sure enough, when he walked to the back hall, Ren Yaoqi saw the brother and sister Xiao Jinglin and Xiao Jingxi sitting at the Eight Immortals table in the middle of the room and playing chess.
Xiao Jingxi seems to like playing chess very much, and every time he meets him, he always sees the chessboard.
As for why Ren Yaoqi thinks that Xiao Jingxi likes to play chess instead of Xiao Jinglin. That's because Xiao Jinglin is sitting there now with her brows furrowed, and her brows can almost catch a fly.
Xiao Jingxi, who was sitting across from her, had a smile on the corner of her mouth. She had an immortal-like temperament and appearance, but Ren Yaoqi could only see a bit of the nasty taste of cats watching mice flapping under their paws.
Seeing Ren Yaoqi walking in, Xiao Jinglin's eyes lit up, and then she threw a chess piece in her hand onto the chessboard with a blank expression, and the neat game of black, white, and less work was instantly smashed. Unrecognizable.
Xiao Jingxi's forehead jumped, but he still smiled perfectly and nodded hello to Ren Yaoqi.
Ren Yaoqi suddenly felt that being a direct immortal was actually quite tiring.
Ren Yaoqi went up to greet his brother and sister as if he didn't see anything, and then was pulled by Xiao Jinglin and sat down beside him.
"The chess game isn't over yet." Xiao Jingxi slowly stretched out his hand to reset the chessboard. Even though all the pieces were out of their original positions, Second Young Master Xiao was able to restore them exactly.
Xiao Jinglin frowned and was silent for a moment, then, without saying a word, she grabbed the pieces on the chessboard and stuffed it into the chess jar in her hand, then handed the whole jar to Hongying with a blank expression: "Buried."
Xiao Jingxi: "..."
Ren Yaoqi turned his head silently, admiring the pair of beauty bottles by the wall.
In the end, the chess piece was rescued, because the chess piece was a private collection brought by Second Young Master Xiao.
Naturally, she couldn't play chess anymore, Xiao Jinglin lowered her head and drank tea, the tea bowl covered the corners of her slightly raised mouth.
After a while of silence, Xiao Jingxi spoke first.
"It's still early, if you are not hungry, will you serve the food in half an hour?"
Xiao Jinglin ate some snacks outside just before she came, and was not too hungry, so she looked at Ren Yaoqi. Ren Yaoqi nodded, no objection. She kept thinking about it along the way and had no appetite.
This is the fourth time that Ren Yaoqi has met with the brothers and sisters Xiao Jinglin and Xiao Jingxi. Ren Yaoqi himself does not understand why he has so many interactions with these two.
"Do you know about the Lei family?" Xiao Jingxi suddenly asked Ren Yaoqi.
Sure enough, it was because of the Lei family, but she never concealed her position. I don't know what Xiao Jingxi's intentions were talking about the Lei family with her at this time.
"You mean Mrs. Lei Tai's death?" Ren Yaoqi replied conservatively.
Xiao Jingxi looked at Ren Yaoqi, the girl's expression was calm and gentle that did not match her age, and her dark and translucent eyes looked back at him without blinking or closing.
"The people of the Liu family are on their way, and they set off before Mrs. Lei Tai's sudden death." Xiao Jingxi didn't look away. He smiled slightly when he said this, as if he was a little curious about her reaction.
Ren Yaoqi was stunned at first, then startled, and it only took a moment for her to understand all the information contained in this sentence.
"She committed suicide?"
Xiao Jingxi did not speak, but it was already a default.
Although there was speculation before, Ren Yaoqi couldn't help frowning.
"Mrs. Lei's hair-bearing wife is indeed the daughter of the Liu family, but she passed away 20 years ago, and her only son-in-law also died of smallpox. This Lady Lei from Yunyang City was originally just a singer. Mr. Lei raised it as an outer room." Xiao Jingxi sighed.
So as long as someone from the Liu family came forward to identify this Mrs. Lei Tai as an impostor, then the Lei family would be over. So Mrs. Lei committed suicide before the Liu family arrived in Yunyang City.
and many more…
"Did she really commit suicide?" In order to cover up this matter, the Lei family might have killed Mrs. Lei Tai.
In fact, whether Mrs. Lei Tai committed suicide or was treated as an abandoned child by her relatives had nothing to do with Ren Yaoqi's plan, but Ren Yaoqi couldn't help but ask about the Lei family patriarch she saw when she remembered it.
Xiao Jingxi raised his eyebrows slightly, but shook his head and said, "Although Lei Ting is not a decent man, he is not a despicable person either."
Hearing Xiao Jingxi's evaluation, Ren Yaoqi felt better. Although it is difficult for Lei Ting's character to influence her future decisions, after all, she has already passed the age of self-will. But there is a difference between helping people and beasts.
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