Early the next morning, Master Ren made another trip to Yunyang City, this time he went alone.
Although the guards of the Yanbei Palace forbade the people from entering and leaving the house, they turned a blind eye to the people inside and the visitors who spoke through the gate. This was originally unreasonable, but no one realized it.
When the concierge came in and reported that the eldest master of the Ren family was here again, Ren Yaoqi was accompanying Mr. Ren San to paint in the study. Painting has always been a good medicine for Ren Shimin to relieve his worries.
"No." Mr. Ren San was very displeased when he was interrupted, and said with a cold face without turning back.
Ren Yaoqi thought for a while, and asked the doorman, "Master Ren came by himself? Did you say that you are looking for your father?"
"The eldest master only brought an entourage today. He only said that he has important matters to discuss with our master, and that he must go see him." In response, everyone in the Ren family knows that if the third master Ren is not angry, he has a bigger temper than anyone else.
Ren Shimin frowned when he heard the words and was about to get angry, but was stopped by Ren Yaoqi.
"Dad, you should go and see the uncle. You have a good relationship with the uncle on weekdays. Besides, the decision to expel you from the clan is not something he can do. He may have something important to do with you this time. ?"
Ren Shimin thought about it and sighed, then put down the pen in his hand: "Let's go see you then."
Ren Shimin cleaned his hands and went out. Ren Yaoqi cleaned up the pen, ink, paper, inkstone and inkstone on the bookcase and left the study, only to see Mammy Zhou standing outside the study with a worried expression.
"Miss, the eldest master is here again?" Mammy Zhou asked as soon as she saw Ren Yaoqi.
Ren Yaoqi nodded: "Father just went out to meet Uncle."
Mammy Zhou looked around and saw that there was no one else around, so she leaned over and asked in a low voice, "Miss, the eldest master is here to find the master again. Could it be that the Ren family has changed his mind again?" Everyone hopes to get rid of the Ren family, as long as there is no old lady Ren to dictate, the backyard of the third master Ren is the final decision of the Li family. If she didn't dare to think like that before, but now the third master Ren has an official position and can stand on his own. Naturally, the farther away from those people, the better, so as not to be held back later.
Regarding Mammy Zhou's worries, Ren Yaoqi just smiled and said firmly, "No." The second elder of the Ren family always seeks advantages and avoids disadvantages. How could he change his mind so easily
"Then why did the eldest master come here?" Mammy Zhou frowned.
Ren Yaoqi smiled and said, "Who did the mama send to follow? Xi'er or Que'er?"
Mammy Zhou was a little embarrassed: "It's a second-class maid in the yard. I'll let her watch it. If anything happens, you can come back and report it in time."
Ren Yaoqi didn't take it seriously: "I'll find out later."
Unexpectedly, Ren Shimin came back less than a stick of incense after going out, and he was still full of anger. Seeing Mammy Zhou standing in the courtyard, Ren Shimin said to her: "Go on, if there is another person from the Ren family in Baihe Town in the future. Whoever comes, beat me out with a stick!" After saying this, he went straight to the study. Didn't come out until this evening.
Mammy Zhou was stunned for a while, then immediately bowed her head and bowed her hands and replied "yes" respectfully.
When Ren Shimin entered the study, Mammy Zhou called the little girl who had been sent to inquire about the news to Ren Yaoqi to inquire.
The little maid said: "The eldest man didn't speak in a loud voice, and the slave did not hear it clearly. Later, the lord suddenly lost his temper and said to the eldest master, 'I am incompetent and not so shameless as to divorce my wife to avoid disaster. It's totally unreasonable to think about pushing the women and children out to prevent disasters! In the future, you won't have to worry about my family's housework! It's good to leave!' Then the master came back."
After hearing about it, Mother Zhou gritted her teeth with hatred, and told the maid not to spread the word and sent her away before she said to Ren Yaoqi: "It turns out that the eldest master is here to urge my master to divorce his wife, but fortunately the master did not listen to them. Yes." Only at this time did Mother Zhou really realize the benefits of Ren Shimin.
Mr. Ren San may not be good at everything. Only the character is the same that people can't pick the wrong place.
After this day, Mr. Ren came again, but Ren Shimin did not go out to see him. After that, Ren Shizhong didn't come anymore, and the Ren family didn't send anyone else to persuade him. Seeing that Ren Shimin and the others were imprisoned for six or seven days, the Yanbei Palace had no intention of releasing anyone, and the attitude of the Yanbei Palace had been kept secret. There were rumors that the Yanbei Palace would wait until after the old princess' birthday banquet. People will come to deal with the matter of Xianwangfu. Because of the death of the prince, the old princess' birthday banquet could no longer be held, but according to the custom, the court still had to send someone over to give some rewards.
Seeing that the birthday banquet of the old princess was getting closer and closer, the Ren family finally gritted their teeth and opened the ancestral hall, and officially expelled Ren Shimin from the Ren family. From then on, no matter from the law or the patriarchal law, Ren Shimin was not regarded as Baihe Town. Ren's family.
Master Ren Wu and his wife Ren Shijia came to inquire about the news and sent them things, and Ren Yijun also sent a letter to Ren Shimin. Although they can't help much, their hearts are there.
During this period, something happened to the Lei family. The Lei family was suddenly haunted.
A woman who was patrolling the night passed by outside the ancestral hall of the Lei family and saw a woman in white sitting on the wall of the ancestral hall, smiling at her with a pale face. The woman fainted on the spot. Later, two more times, someone saw this "girl ghost" on the swing in the garden and not far from the study.
Everyone in the Lei family was in a panic, and no one dared to come out after nightfall, and those who wanted to be on duty at night would also bring three companions to strengthen their courage.
Later, there were rumors that the deceased Mr. Qiao came back, because the two places where she appeared later were the places where Lei Paner usually played and read and read. Come out and stare at Ren Yaohua.
If other women heard rumors of people with noses, eyes, and eyewitnesses, they would be trembling and paranoid even if they weren't frightened and bedridden. But when Ren Yaohua heard this, there was only anger in his heart.
Ren Yaohua doesn't believe in ghosts, she only believes that someone is pretending to be a ghost. What's more, she has never done anything wrong, even if there is a ghost, she is not afraid. Regardless of the person's purpose for doing such a thing, it is despicable to make a fuss about a deceased person.
Lei Ting wanted to come forward to investigate this matter, but was stopped by Ren Yaohua. The matter in the inner court should be resolved in the inner court, not to mention that Lei Ting is very busy every day, Ren Yaohua can't rely on him to help her out in everything, not to mention that Ren Yaohua knows that this incident is aimed at her. Lei Ting ordered the housekeeper Liu Gui to obey Yaohua's orders.
On the second day, Ren Yaohua called all the servants of the Lei family to the front of the council hall, and strictly prohibited them from mentioning this matter again. This is the first time that Ren Yaohua has treated a servant of the Lei family with such a severe attitude after marrying into the Lei family.
After controlling all the servants in the house, Ren Yaohua herself rarely went out, especially after You Qi entered the night, she no longer took a step out of her yard. Originally, when Lei Paner went to the study to practice calligraphy or went to play on the swing in the garden, she would follow her, but now Lei Paner has changed the place for practicing calligraphy to the small study in the main room, and Lei Paner is also not allowed. Go and play in the garden.
Lei Pan'er is very well-behaved and doesn't complain about anything, but when people outside see it, they think Ren Yaohua is guilty and scared. And Ren Yaohua fell ill within a few days and stayed at home even more.
After a few days like this, the "female ghost" who had not appeared for a long time appeared again in the corridor not far from Ren Yaohua's main room.
Only this time, this "female ghost" was caught by several nursing homes that had long been ambushed in the dark.
The steward of the outer court took a lantern and took a picture of the motionless female ghost, but found that it was just a paper figure. The paper figure was put on a hood and clothes, and only the mouth was painted bright red with cinnabar on the snow-white face. Looking at it from a distance at night is really a bit scary.
Liu Gui took the paper man to Lei Ting and Ren Yaohua to return to his orders.
"Didn't find suspicious people nearby?" Lei Ting looked at the paper figurines on the ground and asked in a low voice.
"The man tied the paper figurine to the pillar of the corridor and hid himself. When the young man came to find it, the man found out what had happened and fled."
Ren Yaohua's eyes kept on the paper figurine, she got up and walked over to take a closer look at the clothes on the paper figurine.
Seeing that Ren Yaohua was about to take off the clothes on the paper figure, Liu Gui quickly stopped him and said, "Madam, don't touch it, it's bad luck."
Although Ren Yaohua was not afraid, he did not touch it again.
"What did you find?" Lei Ting also got up and walked over, standing beside Ren Yaohua.
Ren Yaohua paused and said, "This material... is Yun Jinbu."
Lei Ting glanced at Liu Gui, Liu Gui twisted a sleeve carefully, nodded and said, "It's really Yun Jinbu."
Although cloud brocade cloth does not seem to be much different from ordinary fine cloth on the market, its price is more than dozens of times higher. It is generally used by wealthy families to make underwear, which is comfortable and sweat-absorbent, which is very suitable for famous families. That kind of "low-key luxury" mentality.
"The brocade cloth is very precious, so it definitely won't belong to the people in the house. Besides, I remember that several masters in our house do not like to use this kind of cloth for clothes, so I didn't let the purchaser buy it. It's..." Speaking of this , Liu Gui glanced at Ren Yaohua, and seeing that Ren Yaohua had no reaction, he said again, "But after the wife came, Xiao Rang, the purchaser, went to find a few horses and came back."
In the past, when the Lei family had no mistress, Liu Gui needed to be caught by foreign affairs and internal affairs.
Ren Yaohua nodded: "I don't like to use this either. I only gave two horses to people, and the other two remained untouched in the warehouse."