The two walked out of the West Crossing Courtyard and were about to part ways when they saw Ren Yaohua just coming out of the main room.
Her eyes stopped for a moment on Ren Yaoqi and Han Yunqian, and her brows narrowed slightly.
Han Yunqian gave Ren Yaohua a distant nod, then turned and left. Ren Yaoqi casually summoned a maid from the west courtyard and asked her to follow Han Yunqian to get the painting.
When Ren Yaoqi turned to look back again, Ren Yaohua had already gone through the courtyard to his room.
About an hour later, the maid sent to the Han family brought paintings to Ren Yaoqi.
"Miss, when the slave girl came back, she met Du Juan who was beside Miss Seven from the East Mansion. She pestered the slave slave and asked a lot of inexplicable things, and also asked the slave slave why she went to the Han Mansion."
Ren Yaoqi took over the painting, raised his eyebrows and glanced at the maid: "Then how did you answer?"
The maid said: "The slave is telling the truth, saying that the third master ordered the slave to go to the Han residence to fetch a painting and bring it back. Seeing that she asked endlessly, the slave was in a hurry to come back and resume her life, so she just said a few words and left."
Ren Yaoqi nodded: "Thank you, go to Sydney to collect the reward."
The maid answered happily, thought about it for a while, and said with a smile: "Fifth young lady, when the servant girl was in the Han family, she encountered a strange thing."
Ren Yaoqi's heart moved when he heard the words: "Oh? What's the strange thing?"
The maid said: "Master Han went to the study to pick up the paintings, and the slaves were waiting at the second door. It was just that Young Master Han had been gone for a long time and did not come, and the slaves were anxious, so they stopped a servant of the Han family and asked her to lead the slaves to the clean room. It was very close to a clean room in the inner courtyard, and the maid took the slave to the inner courtyard. When the slave came out of the clean room, he happened to see Mr. Han and an old man in his fifties walking past the fork in front of the slave. , the old man seemed to be reprimanding Young Master Han, but he spoke with our Youzhou accent. I was about to ask who the old maid was, but the maid was startled and quickly pulled me along the other path. I said that the rules of the Han family made it bad for people to see me. After that, the maid left, and after a while, Young Master Han and the old man came out again, but this time the servant listened to the old man, but it was from Jizhou. The accent is gone. Only then did the servants know that the old man was the grandfather of Young Master Han. Miss, do you think this is strange? Didn't everyone say that the people of the Han family were born and raised in Jizhou? How could Young Master Han's grandfather say that? Our Baihe Town dialect?"
Ren Yaoqi smiled and said, "Perhaps Mr. Han came to Baihe Town when he was young."
"But the slaves heard that the old man Han fled to Jizhou from the south. He recruited the Han family because he was liked by the previous head of the Han family."
Ren Yaoqi thought for a while, and instructed the maid: "Don't mention this to others first. After all, you entered someone's inner courtyard privately and accidentally overheard other people's conversations, which is very inappropriate."
The maid nodded hurriedly and said, "The servant knows, the servant only told the fifth lady about this."
Ren Yaoqi nodded and sent the maid off.
Sitting down on the kang, Ren Yaoqi spread out the scroll in his hand on the kang table, and it really was the picture of Qiu Ju as described by Han You. There is also Ren Shimin's private seal on it. Ren Yaoqi carefully identified it and finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Then she thought of what the maid had just said to her.
When the maid heard Old Man Han say that the dialect with local characteristics of Baihe Town was misheard by the maid, or did Old Man Han adapt too quickly? Fake or some other reason not to hurt or itch
The maid heard that the old man Han was reprimanding Han Yunqian. What was the reason for reprimanding him? Does it have anything to do with the painting in her hand
Ren Yaoqi thought about it and had a headache.
This Han family is too confusing.
In the blink of an eye, when the spring flowers bloomed, Yun Wenfang came to the Ren residence again. I heard that the man who was beaten to death by him got seriously ill in the winter and died.
The man's father was a sixth-rank official, and he went to the Yanbei Palace to complain about his grievances and demanded that the Yanbei king severely punish Yun Wenfang.
Yun Wenfang was ordered by his grandmother to stay at Ren's house honestly until the matter was over, and was not allowed to go anywhere.
Yun Wenfang began to study in the outer courtyard with the children of the Ren family.
On this day, Ren Yaoqi was reading a book in the house, and Apple, the new servant girl who entered the house, came in to report that the aunt had returned, and she had already gone to the Ronghua Courtyard.
Ren Yaoqi was stunned for a while before realizing that the aunt in the maid's mouth was her aunt, Ren Shijia, who was married to the second room of the Lin family in Yunyang City.
But she remembered that Ren Shijia was still pregnant, and she was still three months away from her due date. How could she come back at this time
"Did Auntie come back alone?" Ren Yaoqi asked.
Apple nodded: "My aunt didn't come, only my aunt came back."
Ren Yaoqi thought about it, got up and went to Li's main room.
Mammy Zhou happened to be reporting Ren Shijia's affairs to Mrs. Li.
"... I heard that I had some quarrels with Second Master Lin, and I went back to my mother's house to give birth. On the way, the old lady from the long house sent two groups of people to persuade my aunt to go back, but my aunt insisted on coming back."
Li Shi couldn't help but be surprised: "Isn't the relationship between my aunt and my uncle always harmonious? Why is my aunt still making trouble this time when she is pregnant? What happened?"
Mammy Zhou whispered: "I heard that the second master Lin took in a maid next to her when her aunt was pregnant, and when she was inconvenient, she hadn't told her aunt yet. When aunt found out, she was furious, packed her things and left. ."
Li Shi was stunned: "Lin Erye has not even had a maid in the house all these years, only his aunt is the wife. Why is this... "
Mammy Zhou shook her head: "I don't know. It's just that there is no cat in the world that doesn't like to steal fishy? Second Master Lin..." Mamma Zhou saw that Ren Yaoqi had come in at some point. Standing on the sidelines and listening to them speak with relish.
Mother Zhou stopped the conversation in time, got up with a smile and bowed to Ren Yaoqi.
Ren Yaoqi didn't have the slightest embarrassment of being caught by eavesdropping, and said with a smile: "I heard that my aunt is back, I wonder if my mother should go there."
At this time, Ren Yaohua also lifted the curtain and came in. She also heard that Ren Shijia was back.
Li nodded and said, "It's just right that you are all here. I'm going to Ronghua Courtyard. Come with me to see your aunt."
Ren Yaoqi and Ren Yaohua followed Li to the Ronghua Academy.
Several people heard the laughter of Mrs. Lin's fifth wife from inside.
After the maid went in to report, the three of Li's mother and daughter entered the main room. Ren Yaoqi saw that sitting next to the old lady Ren's right hand was a woman who was pregnant, that was her aunt Ren Shijia.
Ren Shijia is the only daughter of Mrs. Ren, and she is also the oldest among the children of the Ren family in this generation. Her appearance is most similar to that of the fifth master, Ren Shimao, but her face is a little more delicate than Ren Shimao. It is said that before she came out of the cabinet , the relationship between the two siblings is also the best.
Ren Yaoqi has no impression of this aunt anymore. It seems that in the previous life, Ren Shijia did not return to her parents' home to give birth.
"Sister-in-law three." Ren Shijia wanted to stand up and salute Li, but was held down by Lin who was sitting next to her.
"My family, what are you doing with this fake ceremony? Third sister-in-law won't mind, right third sister-in-law?" Lin said with a sweet and authentic smile.
Li hurriedly said: "Don't get up, you are a person with two bodies, you should pay attention."
Mrs. Ren asked Li to sit down on the chair.
Ren Shijia looked at Ren Yaoqi and Ren Yaohua again, and said in surprise, "I haven't seen each other for more than a year, but you guys have grown a lot taller."
Lin Shi smiled and said, "I'm afraid you haven't seen Yaohua for more than a year, right? She went to Zhuangzi last year... to recover from her illness, and only came back a year ago. She hadn't come back when you came back to pay New Year's greetings the year before."
Ren Shijia thought about it carefully, then nodded with a smile: "Look at my memory."
Saying that, she smiled and waved to Ren Yaoqi and Ren Yaohua.
The two sisters walked in front of Ren Shijia, Ren Shijia took off a pair of agate bracelets from his hands, gave one to Ren Yaoqi and Ren Yaohua, and smiled kindly: "Good boy, I'll wear it for you. stubborn."
Lin glanced at the pair of bracelets: "Yo, auntie, you are so generous. Have you prepared your clothes for today? You are more than these two nieces."
Ren Shijia glared at Lin with a smile: "Is it needless to say? When did I favor one over the other?"
Lin Shi said with a bit of sourness when he heard the words: "Mother loves you the most, and the dowry she gave is all good things."
After hearing this, Mrs. Ren frowned and reprimanded Mrs. Lin: "Which aunt used her dowry to reward her niece? That's what you idiot said! Don't embarrass me!"
Lin Shi was scolded and laughed at by her, so she hurriedly said: "Daughter-in-law, isn't this joking with Shijia? It's not her mother's family, but her husband's. It's all in Lin's family. When I was a girl, my grandmother and mother didn't treat me. So generous. It can be seen that my grandmother and mother really love our aunt. "
The old lady Ren paused and said in a low voice: "Before you got married, you were the girl in the eldest room, and Shi Jia was the daughter-in-law of the second room. What do you compare to her who is separated from the room? Compared to the girls and daughter-in-law who are also in the eldest room with Lin. Compare. When the Lin family divides the manor, it will be impossible to compare."
Lin Shi couldn't help but be stunned when he heard the words: "Separate the mansion? Why do you want to divide the mansion?" Lin Shi looked at Ren Shijia puzzled, "Didn't my grandmother say that 'a single tree can't make a forest', didn't the Lin family divide the mansion?"
Ren Shijia was silent for a moment, then raised his head and said to Lin's prevarication: "Mother just said that, where is the point?"
Lin Shi took another look at the old lady Ren, who narrowed her eyes slightly and leaned on the Luohan bed as if not listening to them.
Ren Yaoqi paid attention to the expressions of the three people in front of him, but couldn't help but ponder.