Li Shi was even more surprised when he heard this.
Ren Yaoqi Ren Yaoqi is different from Ren Yaohua. She has not been allowed to be the old lady's favor since she was a child, so she dislikes going to Ronghua Court.
On weekdays, in addition to saving in the morning and evening, she will not go if she can.
Ren Yaoqi knew what Li was thinking: "I happened to be looking for the fourth sister, so I just took a look by the way. Mother don't have to worry."
Seeing her insistence, Mrs. Li couldn't say anything else, she just said to Ren Yaohua, "Will Hua'er come and have a look together?"
If it was before, Mrs. Li would never have said such a thing, but the relationship between Ren Yaoqi and sisters Ren Yaohua has eased recently, which is obvious to all of Mrs. Li and the people who are close to him.
"No, I'll go back when I go. Third sister stay and talk to you." Ren Yaoqi went out while talking.
She had something in her heart, and she just walked forward with her maids buried in her head along the way. Going around the Nine-Bend Corridor, when I was about to turn from the garden, I heard the chatter of several men in the garden drifting down the wind. At the same time, she also heard the crunch of several pairs of boots in the snow getting closer.
"The third uncle brought us to the garden, didn't he say that he wanted to pick the snow on the plum tree to make tea? There are a few plum trees in the house, but none of them have bloomed... cough..." A boy's voice was dissatisfied. complained.
"Mistakes! Mistakes! But Yijun, it's not the third uncle who told you, you should also come out and walk around more. If you are always bored in the room and don't get sick, you will be suffocated." Ren Shimin said leisurely.
"Third master, didn't you see that the third young master coughed again just now? Damn it, he must have caught a cold from the wind when he came out. When I go back, the eldest lady will peel off my skin! Young master, since there are no plum blossoms, Let's go back, shall we? You have to be careful with your body!" A crying voice hurriedly said.
"Long-winded! Where is the young master going, it's your turn to take care of the east and west? Give me... cough cough..." The boy burst out in dissatisfaction, but was interrupted by the sound of coughing.
"Master..."
When Ren Yaoqi heard this, she understood that it was her father and her third cousin who were in the garden at this time.
The third cousin, Ren Yijun, is the second son of the eldest master. He suffers from deficiencies from his mother's womb. A minister once asserted that he would not live to be ten years old. Over the years, the eldest wife has been looking for the secret recipe to replenish her body, making him stew soup every day, and only eat medicated meals three times a day. It can be said that her cousin was soaked in a medicine jar.
Now Ren Yijun is sixteen years old, and although he suffers from minor illnesses, he is still alive and well.
Thinking that it was his father who kidnapped this cousin who rarely went out, and let him blow the cold wind in the snow, Ren Yaoqi couldn't help but have a headache. If Ren Yijun really got into trouble because of this, the eldest wife would definitely put the blame on him again.
Ren Yijun was always detained in his yard and rarely went out because of his poor health. In addition, from the old lady to the brothers and sisters at home, all of them let him go, which made him develop a strange and withdrawn temperament. The relationship between him and his brothers of the same generation, including his own elder brother, is light, except for the third uncle Ren Shimin.
Ren Yaoqi remembered that he didn't like this yin and yang weird third brother in his last life and never had a smile on his face.
Until later, the Ren family did not dare to carry his body back after Dad died.
Under the scorching sun in June, she knelt in the courtyard of Ronghuayuan and cried and begged the old man and Mrs. Ren to collect the corpse for her father. In the end, she almost fainted from heat stroke, but the people inside didn't make any movement.
At that moment, Ren Yijun came over with a sullen face on crutches, pulled her up and left.
She was stumbled and dragged by him to the Ren family's "Sanxingtang", which is the place where the tablets of ancestors and ancestors are enshrined, and the ancestral hall of the Ren family.
"What's the use of crying? Their hearts are cold, and so is their blood. You should be like this..." With that, Ren Yijun raised his crutches and swept down the dozen or so tablets on the offering table.
She was so frightened that she was completely dumbfounded, and she watched him throw the crutches in his hand and stomped on the tablet on the ground like crazy, while yelling: "Eat our offerings and let the children and grandchildren suffer, Even if the filthy people of the Ren family are to harass us, this kind of incense will be broken!"
She was infected by his crazy and wanton appearance, thinking about the cause of her father's death, hatred rose in her heart, she got up and picked up the tablets on the ground and smashed them against the wall one by one.
When the rest of the Ren family heard the news, there were only broken pieces of wood left on the ground. Ancestor's tablet was smashed by them and not a single one remained.
The old man was so angry that he almost fainted, the eldest man stepped forward and gave Ren Yijun a slap in the face and knocked him to the ground, and the eldest wife collapsed to the ground in fright.
But he sneered and looked around the crowd: "It's all my fault! Family law and so on are also coming at me! Anyway, the Ren family's life is not worth much!"
That was the first time she realized that this third brother, who had been treated like a porcelain doll since childhood, was not as weak and vulnerable as they thought.
Ren Yaoqi turned around and walked back, just as he was thinking of persuading his father and Ren Yijun to go back, he heard the voice of an unfamiliar teenager.
"It's better to use spring water to make tea without the rootless water on the plum blossoms. I happen to have a jar of newly shipped Huiquan spring water there. Why don't I have someone go back and get it now."
Ren Yaoqi paused in her footsteps. She looked into the garden through the branches and leaves of the clumps of Haitong in front of her, and walked side by side with Ren Shimin and Ren Yijun, a boy of about fifteen or sixteen years old. She was not very close, and there were trees blocking her, so she couldn't see the boy's appearance. All I know is that he is tall and long, like a jade tree in the wind. Unlike Ren Shimin's free-spirited wide-sleeved robe, he has a kind of introverted calm that is extremely rare in young people.
Ren Yaoqi probably guessed his identity.
At this time, there were footsteps behind her, and when she turned back to Ren Yaoqi, she saw Ren Yaohua walking along the corridor, and when she saw that she was standing at the entrance beside the garden and wanted to enter, she couldn't help frowning and looked over.
There, Ren Shimin was proposing to go to the warm pavilion in the garden to drink tea and play chess, and Ren Yaoqi turned around and walked back.
"What are you doing standing there?" Ren Yaohua glanced into the garden, apparently she also faintly heard someone in the garden.
Ren Yaoqi smiled at her: "It's nothing, I just seemed to hear the voices of my father and third brother. I wanted to go over to say hello, but found that there were others with them. I still can't go."
Ren Yaohua stopped asking questions and took the lead to go to Ronghua Court. Ren Yaohua glanced at the direction of the garden again, and then followed behind Ren Yaohua.
In the Ronghua Courtyard, the old lady Ren's main room was lively. When Ren Yaohua and Ren Yaoqi went in, they saw a woman in her thirties and an eleven- or twelve-year-old woman besides the old lady Ren, Ren Yaoyin and Ren Yaoyu.
The woman looked beautiful but had an unhealthy sallow face, and her body seemed to be ill.
The woman sitting next to her looked similar to her, except that her eyes were not as big as a woman's, but obliquely long single eyelids. Her complexion was excellent, fair and clear, and her lips were tinged with red.
It is said that one white covers three ugly, but she is not ugly herself, so she looks very smart.
"Why are you here?" The old lady Ren was a little surprised when she saw Ren Yaohua and Ren Yaoqi walking in.
"I'm here to find the fourth sister." Ren Yaohua smiled and walked over to salute the old lady Ren.
When the old lady Ren heard the words, she stopped asking. As for what Ren Yaoqi came for, she didn't care.
"These are the two daughters of the third family," Mrs. Ren said to Mrs. Han, and then instructed the two sisters, "Mrs. Han and Miss Han. You haven't met before, so let's meet you."
Ren Yaohua and Ren Yaoqi came forward to greet the mother and daughter of the Han family.
"I heard Aunt Xiao mentioned that all the ladies of the Ren family stand out. It's true that I saw them today." Mrs. Han smiled and pulled Ren Yaohua and Ren Yaoqi up one by one, and looked at them.
Aunt Xiao, a well-connected person, always has good things to say about her customers, not bad things.
The old lady Ren smiled and said, "It's still the Han girl who looks like a lady."