After reading the letter, Mrs Rong put it on the kang table, looked at Ren Yaoqi and said, "Did Xiao Jingxi ask Princess Yanbei to hand it over to you?"
Ren Yaoqi sensed the displeasure in Mr. Rong's words, and was about to say something when Mrs. Rong already frowned and said, "I thought that Xiao Jingxi, although he was young, was calm and credible in his work, but he didn't want to, but it turned out to be I overestimated him."
Ren Yaoqi heard the displeasure in Mrs Rong's words and was afraid that she would blame Xiao Jingxi, so he hurriedly said: "Grandma, don't be angry, I actually blame me for this, Second Young Master Xiao, he helped me a lot on weekdays, I'm familiar with me, so this time I will send the letter, actually..."
Mr. Rong frowned more and more: "You mean you are very close to him?"
Ren Yaoqi couldn't help but mute, how should I answer this? It must be a lie to say that it is not close, but she can't say that an unmarried woman is approaching an unmarried man.
Looking at Ren Yaoqi's expression, Mr. Rong couldn't help but be thoughtful.
Ren Yaoqi was thinking about how to explain the relationship between himself and Xiao Jingxi, but heard Rong's indifferent voice: "Xiao Jingxi has disappeared, what does this have to do with our Xian Wang Mansion? Go back and tell Princess Yanbei, We can't help anything, and as for the person Xiao Jingxi mentioned in his heart, we don't know who it is."
Rong's answer was somewhat unexpected to Ren Yaoqi. She opened her mouth to say something, but in the end she gave a wry smile and replied, "I see, grandma, this time I was ill-conceived. I've caused trouble with my grandfather, I'll be careful next time."
Perhaps the terms of the agreement between Xiao Jingxi and the Xian Wang Mansion have not been reached, or perhaps it is because of some consideration that the Xian Wang Mansion has repented now, but these are not things that Ren Yaoqi can intervene. Xianwangfu has the position and consideration of Xianwangfu, and she can't force Xianwangfu to change her mind for her own selfishness.
And she didn't know the whole story, even if she wanted to promote the cooperation between Xian Wangfu and Yanbei Wangfu, she couldn't say anything meaningful.
But despite this, Ren Yaoqi was still a little sad. She was worried that the Xian Wangfu was unwilling to help Xiao Jingxi now, and whether Xiao Jingxi could return safely.
If Xiao Jingxi can't come back then...
Maybe she should ask Xiao Jingxi and Xian Wangfu what was agreed before, and see if she can find a way to remedy it? After all, if King Xian couldn't help, there would be no one in the Yanbei Palace.
Thinking of this, Ren Yaoqi's mind also settled down, but she didn't know if Rong Shi was willing to tell her. If Mr. Rong didn't say anything, should she think of any way to persuade her
Rong saw the change in Ren Yaoqi's expression in his eyes, but he didn't speak, he just lowered his head and took a sip of tea, and then looked at the edge of the bowl and didn't know what he was thinking.
Ren Yaoqi was thinking about his speech and wanted to speak, but he heard Li Gan's voice from outside: "Who is inside?"
Chu Chu replied, "In reply to the words of the master, it is the fifth Miss Ren who is here and is talking with the old lady in the room."
Li Gan gave a "hmm", and then the sound of footsteps got closer and closer, and walked in.
Sure enough, Li Gan appeared by the curtain in a short while.
Ren Yaoqi got up and saluted: "Grandfather."
Li Gan nodded: "Yao Qi is here, Mr. Rong, let the chef bake all the game for her to taste."
Rong Shi got up, waited for Li Gan to sit down on the kang before sitting down with Ren Yaoqi, and said with a smile: "My concubine has already ordered to go down."
Li Gan nodded, then saw the letter on the kang table, he looked at Rong Shi and Ren Yaoqi, then reached out and picked up the letter and opened it smoothly.
Ren Yaoqi didn't think too much, thinking that Li Gan, like Mr. Rong, would reject Xiao Jingxi's request, but he didn't want to, but heard Li Gan suspiciously say: "Why did the Xiao family only write at this time, didn't someone already send it to him? Is it? Isn't it here yet?"
Ren Yaoqi was stunned when he heard the words, and looked up at Li Gan inexplicably: "Grandfather, you mean that the person he borrowed from you has already been lent to him?"
Li Gan nodded, looked at Ren Yaoqi and then at Rong: "Didn't she bring this letter? You didn't tell her?"
Ren Yaoqi also looked at Mr. Rong.
Mrs Rong smiled without changing her face: "Oh, just as the concubine was about to say, you came in."
Ren Yaoqi: "..."
Mrs Rong glanced at Ren Yaoqi and said meaningfully: "My concubine is just curious why he would give this letter to the princess and ask the princess to send it to Yaoqi."
Ren Yaoqi was very depressed. It turned out that after seeing the letter, Mrs. Rong knew that she had come for nothing, so the words she said later were just to test her. Seeing the flaws, not only did he defend Xiao Jingxi, but he was also racking his brains to try to find some words from the Rong family. In retrospect, Ren Yaoqi felt that he was really stupid, and Ren Yaoqi had not experienced this kind of frustration for a long time. .
Li Gan also glanced at Ren Yaoqi when he heard the words, then picked up the letter and read it again, this time Li Gan frowned when he looked at it, then he turned to ask Ren Yaoqi, "This is what he gave to the princess. , asked the princess to give it to you?"
Ren Yaoqi nodded honestly, she now understands that no matter how smart she thinks she is, with the Rong family here, her cleverness can only be regarded as a little cleverness, and she will be given by that little cleverness if she is not careful. wrong.
Li Gan stroked his beard and thought about it, just when Ren Yaoqi thought he would say something, he put down the letter and said, "Mr. Rong, I thought about it all morning, that wild goose that has been domesticated for a long time also killed Qingzong. Bar."
Ren Yaoqi: "..."
Mr. Rong replied with a good temper: "Today, there is already a chicken soup with angelica, so let Yihong raise the wild geese first."
Wild geese and chickens... Is there any necessary connection
Li Gan thought about it for a while, then nodded calmly and said, "Well, it's all poultry, so let's leave it for now."
Ren Yaoqi couldn't help but collapse.
"You guys are chatting, I'm going for a walk in the yard, I just used a lot of snacks to digest and digest food." Li Gan patted the hem of his clothes, got up and said.
Rong Shi and Ren Yaoqi hurriedly got up and watched him go out.
After Li Gan left, Ren Yaoqi and Mr. Rong sat down again, Mr. Rong said, "What else do you want to ask?"
According to common sense, Ren Yaoqi should be embarrassed and blushed, and then said that he didn't want to know anything about the relationship, but Ren Yaoqi nodded generously and said: "Yes, grandmother, I want to ask Xian Wangfu and Whether there is any agreement between the second sons of Xiao, of course, if it is really inconvenient to say, you can pretend that I have not asked."
Rong couldn't help but glance at Ren Yaoqi, and then smiled: "Since he can trust you as an outsider, what can we say that we are close relatives. You said before that Xiao Jingxi disappeared in Jinzhou? The Hejung area where Jinju is located is the last retreat that Concubine Wan left us in the past.”
"In the past?" Ren Yaoqi frowned.
When was the past? Isn't it a way out now
Rong Shi sighed: "Yeah, the last retreat that Concubine Wan left us was not Yanbei, but in Hezhong, she explained that we waited for Yanbei and the court to really turn their faces, and when the two sides had no time to fight, we would not care. You can go back to Hezhong Mansion, and your grandfather still has an imperial edict in his hand, which is the edict that canonized him as the king of Hezhong, and the time on the edict is after the previous edict of abolishing the king."
"When the snipe and clams compete, the fisherman wins?" Ren Yaoqi said in surprise.
She had always been a little strange before. During the decades of battle between Concubine Wan and Empress Dowager Yan, the two were evenly matched, and even for a long time, Concubine Wan still had the upper hand. Why would Concubine Wan be defeated like a mountain in the end? Not only did the forces disintegrate, not only did he fail to save his son, he even lost his own life.
It now seems that the situation on Concubine Wan's side was not as disadvantaged as she thought, and the forces of the Hezhong generation she had managed were not as disintegrating as the outside world thought.
King Xian was brought under the eyes of King Yanbei by her, so that King Xian's life was sheltered by the palace of Yanbei, and the forces in Hezhong were able to escape the sight of the court and continued to develop and stabilize in secret.
At this time, she had to admire Concubine Wan Gui, her strategies and methods to figure out people's hearts, she did everything perfectly, and even calculated things after her death so far.
Mr. Rong sighed again: "It was originally true, but I didn't expect that the fisherman hadn't benefited yet, so one of the snipe and mussels took the initiative to come to you."
Ren Yaoqi immediately thought of Xiao Jingxi's last visit: "You mean, Second Young Master Xiao?"
Rong Shi nodded and sighed: "The future generations are terrifying!"
Ren Yaoqi was thinking that the conflict between Yanbei and the imperial court had become clear before her death in the last life, and the situation between the north and the south was unprecedentedly tense, but she still did not live to see King Xian holding the emperor's edict. On the day he went to Hezhong to become king, it might be because the time had not come, or it might be because of the intervention of Second Young Master Xiao that something went wrong.
"He knew the retreat that Concubine Wan Gui left for you in the river, so he used this to threaten you for his use?" Ren Yaoqi didn't want to think of Xiao Jingxi as bad, but when it came to the political struggle between the two Koreas , there is no way to measure a person with good or bad, everyone can only insist and rely on their position.
Mr. Rong shook his head and said, "No, he just proposed mutual benefit."
Seeing Ren Yaoqi looking at her, Mrs Rong smiled, and reached out to help Ren Yaoqi stroke the hair in front of her forehead: "It's an alliance, an alliance between the Xian Wangfu and Yanbei Wangfu. We lend it out when he needs it. The power in the river, and he guarantees our safety in Yanbei, until the day when we return to the river, the Yanbei palace will not interfere and recognize the emperor's edict."
I see!
Ren Yaoqi thought that she had guessed correctly that there was an agreement between Xiao Jingxi and Xianwangfu, but she did not expect this game of chess to be so big.
Seeing that Ren Yaoqi lowered his head and said nothing, Mrs Rong sighed and said, "We were the one who felt sorry for your mother back then."
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The third update, the author finally lived up to expectations... 〒_〒
Finally, ask for a pink ticket at the beginning of the month~(^o^)