There are many famous women in this world who are famous for their beauty or talent or for many accidental reasons. Liu Suyi, the "hairpin lady" mentioned by Ren Yaoqi, is one of them.
Liu Suyi was originally just an ordinary boudoir woman, whose function was to care for her husband, teach her children, and manage the inner courtyard. Her father was Liu Xian, the head of the household department, and married the grandson of an old censor.
One day, the old imperial censor was dismissed from office and ransacked his house because he was involved in a fraud case in the examination room. Originally, Liu Suyi could take her husband to seek help from her parents' family, but unfortunately her biological mother had passed away, and her father remarried. This sentence is correct in many cases, and Liu Suyi has a profound experience.
In the end, Liu Suyi could only rent a dilapidated yard in the old alley of Kyoto with the arrogant son of the imperial censor, and live in poverty. However, the house leak happened overnight rain, and after a series of blows, the imperial censor fell ill. The husband and wife had no money left, not even money to see a doctor.
Seeing that his husband was about to become ill, he also wanted to die. Unexpectedly, there was a turnaround.
It turns out that Liu Suyi started to practice calligraphy at the age of 3, and has no other talents, except to copy the hairpin flowers of Mrs. Li of the previous dynasty, so that the fake can be confused with the real one. Originally, this was just a hobby to pass the time. I didn’t want the words she copied one day to be seen by the daughter-in-law of the shopkeeper of a painting and calligraphy shop next door. She thought that the pair of words was Mrs. Li’s original work. After learning that it was a fake, she suggested that Liu Suyi put the calligraphy and painting in the store. Consignment in their own shop to earn some money to subsidize the family.
Originally, Liu Suyi would never be willing. After all, she was a woman who revealed her handwriting and was known to smear her reputation. However, seeing that her husband was even ill, she had to bow down for five buckets of rice. Put your own words on consignment in the calligraphy and painting shop.
I don't want to see someone coming to buy it in a few days, and bidding one hundred taels of gold.
The words were bought at a high price, life at home was improved, and Liu Suyi's husband was cured. It happened that the case of the old imperial censor was rehabilitated not long after, and the confiscated property was returned. The censor son remembered that his wife still had a pair of characters left out, so he tried to buy the characters back.
I don't know if the last word came back, but Liu Suyi's reputation as a talented girl spread. It happened that the Queen Mother Yan, who had just entered the harem at that time, was willing to hold Liu Suyi for some reason, and gave her the nickname "Mrs. Hairpin", so Liu Suyi's reputation spread.
Speaking of which, although Liu Suyi's family is not a very prominent family, it has attracted the attention of the world because of a talented girl who was praised by the Queen Mother. As for Fang Yacun's wife Liu, if you think about it seriously, she is really related to Liu's family. It's just that the blood relationship is too far away. It can only be said that it was a family more than one or two hundred years ago.
But Ren Yaoqi pointed out the "Mrs. Hairpin" at this time, naturally she had her intentions.
The empress dowager was willing to support this talented woman from the Liu family back then because the direct line of the Liu family belonged to the empress dowager family, and even the old imperial censor was the victim of the battle between Concubine Wan and Empress Dowager Yan.
Now the relationship between Beijing and Yanbei seems to be stable, but in fact it happens to be in a delicate balance. The Yanbei Palace would not like people from the emperor or the empress dowager to intervene. Therefore, Ren Yaoqi deliberately made Liu's relationship with the Liu family in the capital.
Ren Yaoqi was not afraid that Princess Yanbei would find out something to debunk her. Originally, the Liu family and the Liu family in the capital were just the same surname. But these days, relatives climb up to climb relatives. The relationship between Liu's family and Liu's family is too obvious, and she doesn't dare to come to Yanbei, but people can climb if they want.
This method is not clever, but simple methods are not necessarily useless.
Ren Yaoqi smiled and said, "So the princess has also heard of this lady? I didn't know until I heard Mrs. Fang say a few words in front of my grandmother last time."
Princess Yanbei smiled thoughtfully and lowered her head to drink tea.
Ren Yaoqi closed it as soon as she saw it, and stopped talking about Mrs. Fang, and continued to talk to Xiao Jinglin about playing the piano.
After sitting for a while, Ren Yaoqi got up and said goodbye.
Xiao Jinglin and Ren Yaoqi discussed the time to pick her up tomorrow, and then explained to the princess to send her out in person.
Because when he came, it was the carriage from the palace of Yanbei to pick him up, but Ren Shijia was careful and worried that it would be inconvenient for Ren Yaoqi to go back. He got into his own horse-drawn carriage.
When the carriage stopped halfway, Ren Yaoqi still felt a little strange.
She glanced at Apple, who was about to lift the curtain of the car to take a closer look, but heard a quiet and warm voice from outside: "Is the fifth Miss Ren sitting in the car?"
Ren Yaoqi frowned upon hearing this, and Apple, who opened the curtain and glanced at it, quickly reported, "Miss, it's Young Master Han."
Without Apple's reminder, Ren Yaoqi had already recognized Han Yunqian's voice.
Han Yunqian stood in the middle of the road all by himself, blocking the carriage's path.
Ren Yaoqi didn't speak, and Xiang Qin, who was beside him, replied smartly: "It's the frame of my young lady. I'm sorry, Young Master Han, for blocking your way."
As the chief maid by Ren Yaohua's side, Xiang Qin has never been easy to bully. After saying this, Xiangqin also glanced at Ren Yaoqi. Seeing that Ren Yaoqi was sitting there with a cold expression without any intention of talking to him, she had some confidence in her heart, and directly told the old woman who was driving the car outside, "Don't take the car out yet. Let others go first, but don't stand in the way of Young Master Han."
The woman who drives the car is very innocent, no matter how good she is, the road is only so wide. And even if she gets out of the way and others' horses don't move, she can't do anything about it! So I could only look at the young man who suddenly appeared out of the way.
Han Yunqian looked at the carriage in front of him, his eyes were dark, and there was no emotion on his warm face.
However, the two sides did not stalemate for too long. Han Yunqian tightened the reins in his hand and controlled the horse that was sitting down to let half of the road come out.
The carriage slowly moved forward again, but Han Yunqian did not go, but turned the horse's head and followed beside the carriage. This did not attract the attention of others. When many carriages traveled, they would be accompanied by male relatives or guards on horseback.
"I have a few words to say to Fifth Young Lady." Han Yunqian's voice sounded beside the curtain of the car. It was not loud, but it was loud enough for Ren Yaoqi to hear clearly.
Ren Yaoqi still didn't answer.
Han Yunqian waited for a while, seeing that there was no sound, and then said, "I wonder if the lost woman beside Fifth Young Lady has been found?"
Ren Yaoqi was actually prepared for Han Yunqian's appearance, but she didn't know why she felt a little tired, so she didn't answer because of her prejudice against Han Yunqian and deliberately ignoring him to embarrass him, but because she didn't know that she was with Han Yunqian. What to say.
One side came back for revenge, and the other side was inexplicably implicated. It is impossible for anyone to see who is pleasing to the eye.
"Young Master Han is well informed, thank you for worrying. I have been at my aunt's house in Yunyang City, and I don't know what happened at home." Ren Yaoqi said in a low voice.
Han Yunqian didn't get angry when he heard the words: "I have no other intention in coming to you, I just think that the fifth young lady is really admirable." After a pause, he said, "It's just that no matter how smart the fifth young lady is, she is only a woman after all, and many things can It's not for granted. Han hopes that the fifth lady will think twice before doing anything."
Ren Yaoqi smiled, but his expression was indifferent: "Is Han Gongzi warning me?"
An imperceptible sigh overflowed from Han Yunqian's mouth, light enough to be ignored: "Han didn't mean that."
Ren Yaoqi closed his eyes and leaned against the wall of the car to rest his mind, and refused to talk any more.
Seeing this, Xiangqin shouted to the outside: "What's going on? Why is it so slow? Why don't you hurry up! We're still riding in a carriage, I'm afraid others can follow us on horseback."
Xiangqin originally said that, but after speaking, she found that there was a language disorder in her words, and couldn't help but feel embarrassed. In fact, she really didn't mean to be mean enough to dare to scold someone's son and brother in person!
On the contrary, the woman who was driving the carriage outside was so frightened that she couldn't tell. With a sharp whip, the carriage speeded up in vain.
Han Yunqian did not speed up his horse, and quietly watched Ren Yaoqi's carriage go away, bringing up a cloud of dust. He stood there for a long time before turning his horse's head and leaving.
As soon as Han Yunqian returned to the Han Family Courtyard in Yunyang City, he was called to the study by Mr. Han.
Han Dongshan frowned as soon as he saw his grandson: "What are you busy with recently? I can't find anyone here in Yunyang City!"
Han Yunqian paused, then lowered his head and said, "Visit a few classmates and friends. Does grandfather have anything to tell grandson?"
Han Dongshan's scrutiny eyes did not leave Han Yunqian, Han Yunqian's expression did not change, as usual, he was humbly listening to teaching.
After a while, Han Dongshan looked away: "I heard that you are looking for someone recently?"
The people Han Yunqian sent out to find Mrs. Luo were all his confidants, but why did Han Dongshan know that he was looking for someone? Little things, grandfather doesn't have to worry about it."
Han Dongshan looked at his grandson for a moment, and then said warmly: "I don't care about you about those little things. It's just that you are also a descendant of my Zhai family. Many things need to be more careful, and you need to distinguish the priority from the priority."
Han Yunqian replied in a low voice.
"It seems that things are not going well recently." Han Dongshan turned and sat back in his chair, stretched out his fingers and pinched the center of his eyebrows, "It seems that there is some force in the dark against our Han family."
Han Yunqian was silent for a moment: "The Lei family must be alert."
Han Dongshan thought about it and sneered: "Perhaps, this Thunder is young, but he has some skills."