"I'm your sister-in-law and the master of your aunt! What do you think I am? I haven't seen you for a year, and the etiquette you learned has been fed to the dog? Aunt Fang, is this the result of your upbringing?" Ren Yaohua sneered. .
"Miss Third, forgive your sin, it's the concubine's dereliction of duty." Concubine Fang's voice was soft and her posture was extremely low, "Miss Jiu, go to Miss Third to make amends, right?"
Ren Yaoying jumped up like a cat whose tail had been stepped on: "I don't want to accompany such a vicious person. She wants to kill the sixth brother and beat and scold us. Auntie, let's go!"
"Ren Yaoying, repeat what you just said." Ren Yaohua said coldly.
"Just say it, you... um... um..."
"Miss Third, please forgive Miss Jiu's blunt speech. She is still young and ignorant. Everything is the fault of the maid and concubine. The concubine kneels down to you." Fang Auntie hurriedly pleaded, covering Ren Yaoying's body. The mouth would not let her anger Ren Yaohua again.
"Auntie—" Ren Yaoying cried, sounding a bit miserable.
Ren Yaoqi glanced outside the door, the maid and the old woman brought by Aunt Fang should still be standing outside, she had a headache.
After thinking about it, she still lifted the curtain.
In the eastern room, Auntie Fang bowed her head and knelt upright in front of Ren Yaohua, while Ren Yaoying desperately tried to pull Auntie Fang up, but was thrown away by Auntie Fang.
Ren Yaohua stood in front of the kang and watched coldly, while Zhou Mammy looked at Fang Auntie and then at Ren Yaohua, a little hesitant to say anything.
Sixth Young Master Ren Yihong stood beside the curtain frowning, as if he wanted to step forward but didn't know what he could do, which made him a little embarrassed.
Several people over there also noticed that Ren Yaoqi came in.
"Miss Fifth, your face—" Aunt Fang saw the wound on Ren Yaoqi's face at a glance, and couldn't help but whisper in shock.
Ren Yaoying also stared at the five fingerprints on Ren Yaoqi's left face in surprise, and then glanced at Ren Yaohua, the other party's aunt said: "The fifth sister must have been beaten by the third sister!"
The tone of affirmation, how to listen to how a little schadenfreude.
"What are you doing here?" Ren Yaohua said with a cold face.
Ren Yaoqi glanced at Ren Yaohua and walked over to help Aunt Fang to get up: "Mother asked me to come over and tell Aunt Fang that she just drank the medicine and was not in good spirits so I would not see you. She already knows and appreciates the filial piety of the sixth brother and the ninth sister. Today is snowy, windy and cold, and the road is slippery. Please take the sixth brother and the ninth sister back to rest earlier, otherwise, if you catch Liang Yiniang and don’t feel bad, she, a mother, will feel bad.”
Concubine Fang stiffened, and quickly glanced at Ren Yaoqi, and then at Ren Yaohua.
Ren Yaoqi also followed Aunt Fang's gaze and looked at Ren Yaohua, seeing Ren Yaohua standing there with a sneer, and then continued: "I don't want my aunt to be so sincere, and I'm still here to kneel and kowtow to my mother, I will definitely tell you. mother's."
Ren Yaoying shouted: "My aunt is not kneeling..."
Ren Yaoqi quickly cut off her words: "Who else is it that the mother is not the mother? There are only the third sister, the sixth brother, the ninth sister, and the mother of Zhou. Although the third sister, the sixth brother, and the nine sister are nominally aunt Her master, but Concubine Fang was the concubine that her father had seriously carried into the mansion, and she was also a concubine. Say you are arrogant?"
The expressions of everyone present changed.
Aunt Fang seemed to want to speak, but Ren Yaoqi refused to give her a chance: "Besides, even though we are all children and don't understand these truths, Auntie has always been praised by her grandmother for being knowledgeable and considerate. Doesn't she understand the truth? If it's you who is kneeling, isn't she deliberately making you unjust? I don't believe my aunt would do such a thing, right?"
Ren Yaoqi let go of the hand that went to help Aunt Fang, stood up, tilted her head and smiled at her, looking like she trusted her very much.
Aunt Fang lowered her head, slowly turned her knees and turned her body, and respectfully kowtowed three times in the direction of Nishijima Li's bedroom.
After kowtowing, Auntie Fang got up by herself, brushed the dust on the tender yellow satin leather skirt, and then raised her head to look at Ren Yaoqi and said softly: "Fifth Miss is right, it's the wife who is kneeling, not someone else. ."
Aunt Fang hid her exploration of Ren Yaoqi very well, Ren Yaoqi also pretended not to see it, still with a familiar look, and said briskly: "In this case, the aunt will be with the sixth brother and the ninth sister. Go back. Mammy Zhou, you should send a few old ladies to turn on the lights for Aunt Fang and the others. The road outside is slippery, but you should help them carefully."
Mother Zhou was stunned for a moment, looked at Ren Yaoqi, then looked at Ren Yaohua, who had a cold face and said nothing, and finally bowed her head and said yes, the other party's aunt bowed and said, "Yuniang, Sixth Young Master, Ninth Young Lady, please , the slaves will send you back."
Aunt Fang nodded to Mother Zhou, and said to Ren Yaohua, "Miss Third, my concubine will come to serve my wife early tomorrow morning." After speaking, she left with her children without any hesitation.
Mother Zhou also followed.
Ren Yaoqi watched Aunt Fang's soft but upright back as she walked out of the main room. Although there was a smile in her dark lacquer eyes, it was as quiet as a lake in winter, deep and calm.
Ren Yaohua's eyes have been fixed on Ren Yaoqi's face since the beginning, as if she wanted to see a flower on her face.
"Ren Yaoqi, what do you mean?"
Ren Yaoqi thought for a while, looked at Ren Yaohua and said earnestly: "Third sister, what do you think I can mean? If I let Aunt Fang kneel down just now and let the seventh sister make trouble, it will disturb the rest of the house. Who do you think will suffer?"
Ren Yaohua stared at Ren Yaoqi with unpredictable eyes for a while, but she pulled the corners of her mouth and smiled sarcastically: "I thought you were very close with Aunt Fang, and you had a close relationship with Sixth Brother and the others, so you can't see them suffering from me. Aggrieved. Could it be that you forgot, in front of grandfather and grandmother, who insisted that I pushed the sixth brother into the water. "
Ren Yaoqi lowered her eyes and said nothing, this is the dead end between her and Ren Yaohua, and it is useless to explain.
Moreover, the freezing three feet is not a day's cold, and she does not expect to change the relationship between the two today.
"Just pretend that I don't want my mother to be implicated again."
At this time, Mother Zhou walked in with four maids who were holding a copper pot, a copper basin, a face towel and a medicine box, and bowed to the two of them and replied, "Miss Three, Miss Five, the servants have already condemned the four An old woman sent Aunt Fang back to Fangfei Courtyard."
Although Aunt Fang was their father's aunt, she did not live in Ziwei Courtyard, but lived in a courtyard alone with her two children.
Ren Yaoqi nodded, and Zhou mama instructed the maid to put copper pots, copper basins and other items on the plum blossom table. The two little maids bowed and backed out, leaving only the two big maids of the Li family. Inside the room: "Miss Fifth, this servant will put a face on your face, otherwise it will be uncomfortable at night if you go out and blow the wind at night."
Ren Yaoqi nodded, walked back and sat on the kang.
The eldest maid, Xi'er, wet her face towel and wring it out. Mammy Zhou took it and gently applied it to Ren Yaoqi's face. The scalding heat on the towel made Ren Yaoqi tilt her head uncontrollably. Mammy Zhou hurriedly said: "Miss Fifth, just put it on once, don't move."
Ren Yaoqi sat without moving, after all, he was not a willful ten-year-old child, and he was over with a little pain.
The two maids, Xi'er and Que'er, looked at each other and lowered their heads again. One was waiting with a medicine bottle, the other was wringing out a face towel and waiting for Mother Zhou to exchange it.
Ren Yaohua didn't leave either. Sitting on the other side of the kang, she whispered to Mammy Zhou about Li's illness.
Ren Yaoqi listened silently, and only then did he learn that Mrs. Li caught the cold on the road, but after returning, she knelt outside Mrs. Ren's yard for a long time, so her condition worsened. The doctor came to see him and gave him a prescription for expelling wind and cold.
In the last life, Ren Yaoqi was also ill, so she didn't know about Li's illness, and no one told her. After that, I went to greet my mother but was slapped by Ren Yaohua twice.
She was sick for four or five days at the time, and when she got better, Mrs. Li also recovered. It can be seen that Mrs. Li's illness should not be a problem.
Ren Yaoqi thought that she would still have to find Mammy Zhou tomorrow and ask the doctor to give Li's prescription a look.
Mammy Zhou helped Ren Yaoqi to apply heat several times, and then took the ointment in Que'er's hand and gently applied a layer to her. Ren Yaoqi sat still and let her toss.
"Miss Fifth, are you ill?" Mammy Zhou took a look at Ren Yaoqi's face. She saw that her eyes were puffy and her lips were not as moist as usual. She thought that Ren Yaoqi had not come back from the Li family. When it was time to go out to greet him, he asked.
Ren Yaoqi paused and nodded: "I've been ill for a while, but I've been cured in the past few days, and I'll be cured by taking two more doses of medicine."
Madam Zhou was angry and anxious: "Miss Fifth, how can you see the wind when you are sick? Don't the mother-in-law and maids around you know how to stop it?"
Speaking of this, Zhou Ma's expression changed again: "You said you have been ill for some time?" They didn't know about Zhuangzi, and the people who stayed in Ren's residence did not send them a letter.
"Well, I got sick when it was hot and cold last month." After the autumn tiger, the temperature in the north dropped sharply, and the cold and heat alternated, making it the easiest to get sick.
Mammy Zhou frowned and looked at Ren Yaohua, whose face was full of ice: "It seems that the people in this Ziwei Academy have forgotten their surnames!"
Mother Zhou sighed: "We have been away for a year, and the old lady handed over the Ziweiyuan to her care. Naturally, it happened from time to time. I thought that the two maids, Ying'er and Zhu'er, were calm, and they followed my wife for many years. , it is most suitable to stay and see the courtyard. If there is anything in the mansion, I can send someone to send a letter to Zhuangzi in time, but I don’t want to let the old lady go out for the marriage. Now they can’t even enter the inner courtyard, which is a pity. ."