Ren Yaoying has temporarily moved back to Fangfeiyuan since she came back from the ice play competition, and is reluctant to go out to meet people.
Mrs. Lin and Mrs. Ren mentioned several times that she wanted Ren Yaoyu to move back to Ronghua Courtyard, but Mrs. Ren pretended to be deaf and dumb as if she didn’t hear.
The Spring Festival is coming soon, and the winter in Yanbei is very cold, but it still does not stop the enthusiasm of people to visit for New Years.
At that time, women who married close to their parents had the custom of returning to their parents' home for New Year's greetings on the second day of the new year.
The eldest wife of the Ren family, Mrs. Wang's family, lives in Wuzhou, which is farther north. Usually, it is a one-night drive away from Baihe Town, but now it is even more difficult to travel north due to the heavy snow. I almost never went back to my mother's house to pay New Year's greetings.
The fifth wife, Mrs. Lin, started planning to go to Yunyang City on the first day of the new year. Yunyang City is only a two-hour drive away from Baihe Town, and one can go back and forth in one day.
Mrs. Ren's direct daughter Ren Shijia came back last year on the second day of the new year. This year, because she was pregnant and wanted to raise a child, she sent a letter back early to say that she would not return to Baihe Town this year. Ren Shijia also had a hard time having an heir, and he was not able to keep it after two pregnancies. The third child was born but it was stillborn. This time, she finally got pregnant again. Naturally, the Lin family attaches great importance to it. After all, Ren Shijia is almost thirty, and it becomes more difficult to give birth as she gets older.
Ren Yaochi, the eldest young lady of the Ren family's long house, married Jiang Ning Weaving, the second son of the Gu family's second house, and has not returned to Yanbei for two years.
Ren Yaoqin, the second young lady from the concubine of the long house, was married to the capital by the second grandfather of the Dongfu as a matchmaker, and filled the house for a fifth-grade surnamed Hubu Langzhong. Yan Langzhong is sixteen years older than Ren Yaoqin, and the eldest son from the original spouse is only one year younger than Ren Yaoqin. However, the Yan family is a descendant, and the current emperor's biological mother was born in the Yan family, so even though Yan Langzhong is only a distant branch of the Yan family's direct line, he can still be a Beijing official of the fifth rank.
When Ren Yaoqi arrived in the capital at the beginning of his last life, he sent someone to look for this second sister, who had no impression, but was told that Ren Yaoqin had been dead for a year, and asked why the He Yan family was hesitant. Ren Yaoqi later asked Mr. Pei to help her investigate and learned that Ren Yaoqin had committed suicide with her own stepson, the eldest young master of the Yan family, after being noticed by the Yan family. At first, the Ren family sent the fourth master of the Ren family in Beijing to handle the matter, and Ren Yaoqi, who was far away in Yanbei, didn't hear any news.
On the second day of the new year, when Sister Ren Yaoqi went to Li's place to greet her, the eldest wife happened to send someone over to ask Li's carriage to go out, but Li thanked her and refused.
"Mother, why don't you go to your grandparents' house for New Year's greetings this year? You haven't been there for several years." After the eldest wife's people went out, Ren Yaoqi asked with a smile.
Li shook his head before answering, Ren Yaohua sneered and said, "What are you going to do when you go back? Are you drinking the northwest wind? I don't know if the house will be pawned for them this year! At that time, my mother will have to redeem it..."
"Shut up!" Li Shi suddenly shouted.
Ren Yaohua looked at Mrs. Li and couldn't help but stop talking.
Li's face was flushed red, the frame of his eyes was red, and the expression on his face was embarrassed and somewhat humiliating. Li rarely loses her temper with her daughter, and it can even be said to be obedient to her words on weekdays.
But she also has a bad scale, and she can't tolerate anyone who is rude to her family. The reason why Mrs. Li did not please the old lady Ren was not only that she could not give birth to a son, but also the reason why Mrs. Ren had insinuated her mother when she scolded her, and Mrs. Li had talked back.
Seeing Li's body trembling with anger, Ren Yaoqi pulled Ren Yaohua and dragged her to kneel in front of Li's. This time, Ren Yaohua followed Ren Yaoqi and knelt down obediently, because she could see that her words really hurt her mother's heart.
"You remember! The Li family's blood does not allow anyone to be insulted, because no one deserves it!" Li took a deep breath and said slowly.
There was a sense of pride and superiority above everyone in her voice that she had never felt before. Although her father and brother are not in harmony, and she herself is not happy, she cannot erase this innate sense of superiority engraved in her bones.
"My daughter remembers it." Ren Yaoqi gently tugged at Ren Yaohua, and Ren Yaohua repeated in a low voice.
"Let's all go out, Hua'er thinks about it behind closed doors today!" Li Shi rarely said firmly.
Ren Yaoqi pulled Ren Yaohua to get up, and the two retreated in response.
After her daughters were gone, Li was stunned for a moment and then fell onto the kang with her face covered.
Mother Zhou stepped forward to persuade her, but her eyes were wet when she saw the tears flowing from Li Shi's fingers. In the end, it was to accompany her to cry silently.
The master and servant cried for a while. Seeing that Mrs. Li was feeling better, Zhou Momo went up to help her wipe her tears.
"Slave, let someone make hot water to cleanse your face." Mother Zhou sighed, "Miss Third, she is unintentional, don't be too sad."
Li Shi choked and said: "She was born by me, and she has the blood of the Li family on her body. It's just that others look down on them. She..."
Momo Zhou stepped forward and hugged the choked Li Shi in her arms, patted her on the back lightly to reassure her. Li Shi held back her tears and said a little embarrassedly: "Mommy, I'm not a child anymore."
Mammy Zhou sighed with a smile: "Mammy watched the princess grow up. In Mammy's eyes, you are the same as the third and fifth misses."
Ren Yaoqi, who came out of the main room, looked at Ren Yaohua with a sullen face and said in a low voice, "Third sister, you clearly know that your mother can't hear those things. Don't say it again in the future."
Ren Yaohua glanced at Ren Yaohua sideways, and snorted softly.
Ren Yaoqi shook his head and was about to say something when Ren Yaohua said, "Don't you like what your father likes, and you hate what your father hates? Your father doesn't like your uncle, if you say good things about your grandfather's family, you can Aren't you afraid that your father will be angry?"
Ren Yaoqi thought for a while, looked at Ren Yaohua and said teasingly: "Could it be that in the eyes of the third sister, father is such an unreasonable person? He even interferes with whoever we like?"
Ren Yaohua said angrily, "You... you are eloquent and eloquent!"
Ren Yaoqi made a face: "You... incoherent!"
Ren Yaohua's mouth twitched: "You are naive!"
Ren Yaoqi chuckled softly, but then he restrained his smile and said seriously: "Father doesn't look down on grandfather and uncle, just..."
"It's just that my uncle complimented my father's painting well, and then tricked him into making an imitation of an ancient painting. In the end, he mortgaged his painting as a real painting to the casino!" Ren Yaohua replied.
Ren Yaoqi was silent.
Ren Yaohua was right, Ren Shimin was angry because of this, and finally threatened to cut off relations with their uncle.
"I don't want to look down on my grandfather and uncle, but I can't understand that they can mortgage the house when they can't open the pot at home, just to buy a cricket. In the end, if the mother didn't redeem the house, she would have to bring her grandmother. Follow them to sleep on the streets! I can't understand that they can't even support their maids and entourages, but they still have to support a drama troupe at home! Everyone who can be in the family is already destitute, and they can still happily walk the birds. Dogfighting is a big show! They still think they are the emperor's grandson, but they don't realize that the sky has changed a long time ago!"
Ren Yaoqi was silent again.
She had no way to refute Ren Yaohua's words, because what she said was the truth.
Some people have been accustomed to being superiors all their lives, and they don't even know how ordinary people live because no one has taught them.
Their maternal grandfather's surname is Li Mingqian, and Li is the surname of Guo. Before being reprimanded to Yanbei, he was the real nobleman of Tianhuang, the king of Xian who was conferred by the previous emperor himself.
Now he is only a commoner of Yanbei, and his descendants will never be allowed to enter the capital without being summoned.
Ren Yaoqi's surname was not Li, so she couldn't understand the actions of her grandfather and uncle in her last life.
But she remembered that after her father's death in the last life, all relatives, including the Ren family, refused to collect the body for him. Only the uncle dared to take the martial artist from the troupe he raised to carry the body of his father back. , sold his grandfather as the lifeblood of "General Changsheng" for his burial.
It was also the unspoken uncle who, at her mother's order after she was abandoned by the Ren family, chased her back to the capital at the risk of beheading and wanted to steal her from the Pei family.
In the end, she declined him and persuaded him to return to Yanbei. That was the first time she knew that a man in his thirties could cry with tears and snot, completely disregarding his image.
As the saying goes, when you meet a confidant in adversity, you see the truth in adversity.
Ren Yaoqi couldn't say this to Ren Yaohua, he could only sigh and turn around to go to his west wing.
A lot of things need to be experienced in order to understand.
Lin's family didn't come back until the sixth day of the sixth day, and as soon as he came back, Mrs. Ren called him to the Ronghua Courtyard. Of course, not to blame her for returning late, but to ask her about Ren Shijia's situation. Although old lady Ren arranged for someone to take care of her early in the morning, she was always worried about her daughter.
Yun Wenfang hasn't seen anyone during the New Year, Qiu Yun said that he went back to Yunyang City to pay New Year's greetings to his elders, but he didn't know if it was true or not.
On the day of the Lantern Festival, Baihe Town was very lively. Several large families raised funds to hold a temple fair. Ren Yaoting from Dongfu invited Han You to go to the Lantern Festival in the evening, and the Han family responded in an unprecedented manner. The second wife came over to invite Ren Yaoqi and several sisters to go with them.
Li hopes that sisters Ren Yaohua and Ren Yaoqi can go out to meet people more, because Ren Yaohua is approaching the age of marriage.
In the end, Ren Yaoqi, Ren Yaohua and Ren Yaoyu went together, but Ren Yaoyin and Ren Yaoying did not go out.