When Mr. Liao came out, Ren Yaoting was still standing quietly under the corridor in a daze.
Turning around, seeing the proud face of Mrs Liao, Ren Yaoting's eyes lit up. She hurriedly stepped forward to help Mrs Liao diligently: "Grandmother, how is it? He agreed with what you said to your uncle?"
Seeing that she was his only granddaughter, Mrs. Liao's smile grew bigger and bigger. She patted Ren Yaoting's hand that was supporting her and said, "Of course I agree."
Ren Yaoting was overjoyed, and his words became incoherent: "The marriage between the third sister and Han Gongzi... can't be done?"
When Mr. Liao heard this, he looked at Ren Yaoting strangely: "How did you know that I was here to talk about this?"
Ren Yaoting hesitated: "I saw you in a bad mood this morning, so I asked the people in your yard."
Liao didn't think it was a pestle, but was happy because her granddaughter cared about her.
"The third sister she..." Ren Yaoting really wanted to know the exact news.
Liao said indifferently: "The marriage between the two families is not a child's play. How can you say that it will not be successful? Listening to what they mean, it should not be long before the Han family will condemn the matchmaker."
Ren Yaoting heard the words as if struck by lightning: "What did you say? Young Master Han wants to marry the third sister?"
Liao Shi gave Ren Yaoting a strange look: "What are you doing so loudly?"
Ren Yaoting's face was pale, and he followed Liao in despair.
A few days later, just as Ren Yaoqi came out of the study in the Xikuoyuan, the maid Sang Yu reported to her: "Miss, someone from your grandfather's family has come, and the wife is recruiting someone to speak in the main room."
Hearing this, Ren Yaoqi turned around and walked towards the main room, while asking, "When will you come here? Why didn't you report to me?"
"It didn't take a quarter of an hour to come in. You were in the study at the time, and the master did not allow the slaves to enter and leave the study at will, and the slaves did not dare to go in." Sang Ling hurriedly followed Ren Yaoqi's footsteps and replied.
Ren Yaoqi didn't say much, and went straight to the main room.
Li's two maids, Xi'er and Que'er, were both guarding the door, and there were no other maidservants around. Ren Yaoqi knew at a glance that it was Mammy Zhou who had instructed not to wait for the stray people to come.
Xi'er and Que'er saw Ren Yaoqi coming over and looked at each other. Xi'er was about to go in to report, but Ren Yaoqi had already waved his hand and lifted the curtain and went in by himself.
Xi'er and Que'er glanced at each other again, but in the end they just stood there with their hands tied and didn't move.
When Ren Yaoqi entered, there was no one in the bright room, and there were subtle voices from the Dongci room on the right. She walked under the curtain and heard a female voice inside: "... Xia Sheng also found out that the old lady of the Han family was also capable, because Han Jianping only gave birth to her one daughter, and the wife died early. She is in charge of everything, big and small. But after marrying Han Dongshan, she seldom goes out and walks around.
Ren Yaoqi stood there and listened for a while, but instead of going in, he turned and came out again.
Motioning for Xi'er to follow her to the side, Ren Yaoqi asked, "Is the girl Yihong here? Isn't she here alone?"
Although Xi'er was a little surprised that Ren Yaoqi came out so quickly, and she still didn't seem to go in, she still replied very quickly and softly: "It's Miss Yihong who came, and there is a girl named Yihong who came with her. Xia Sheng's martial artist. But his man cannot enter the inner courtyard, so Mammy Zhou arranged for someone to lead him to drink tea in the outer courtyard."
Ren Yaoqi nodded: "It's talking inside, so I won't go in." Then he turned and left.
When he walked to the front of Ziwei Courtyard, Ren Yaoqi beckoned and called a woman: "Go to the outer courtyard and take the man named Xia Sheng from my grandfather's house to Yiran Pavilion outside the second door."
Although Yiran Pavilion is not in the inner courtyard, it is very close to the second gate. On weekdays, most of the people in the outer courtyard where the mother-in-law and maidservants want to meet are there. Because the view around the pavilion is excellent, and there are people walking around, they are not afraid of any secrets. The masters are going out. If the sedan chair or carriage has not come, they will wait in the pavilion for a while, so Ren Yaoqi will not feel inappropriate to go there.
Ren Yaoqi went back to his room and changed his clothes for going out, and then took two maids and two old ladies to the second door.
Xia Sheng has been led and waited in Yiran Pavilion.
Xia Sheng was a little surprised when he saw Ren Yaoqi coming out. He thought it was Mammy Zhou who called him here.
"Miss Biao." Xia Sheng bowed his head and bowed.
Ren Yaoqi nodded: "Is this Jizhou you went to?"
Xia Sheng cupped his hands and replied, "Miss Hui Biao, it's small."
"I have a few questions that I want to ask you. I'm afraid you don't know what Yihong has relayed." Ren Yaoqi looked at Xia Sheng and smiled.
"Excuse me, Miss."
"Ren Jianping, the former patriarch of the Han family, only gave birth to one daughter. Han Dongshan cannot take over as the patriarch. Who is the current patriarch?"
"The current patriarch of the Han family is Han Jianping's distant cousin, Han Jianxin. He is nearly 20 years younger than Han Jianping, and is about the same age as Han Dongshan, but his seniority is high, so Han Dongshan elected him as the patriarch. Although Jianxin is the patriarch, he is very reliant on Han Dongshan. The family affairs will be discussed with Han Dongshan before making a decision. In the past few years, Han Dongshan proposed that the Han family wanted to set up a clan school. Han Dongshan is responsible for all the expenses, so Han Dongshan's prestige in the clan is still higher than that of the patriarch Han Jianxin."
"Oh? That clan didn't say he was bad?" Ren Yaoqi raised his eyebrows slightly.
Xia Sheng thought about it, but said, "That's not true. Han Jianping actually has one or two cousins who are a little bit closer. Their attitude towards Han Dongshan is not as good as those who are more distant. There is one named Han Jianmin. It was Han Jianping's cousin. I heard that Han Jianping had planned to succeed his youngest son to inherit the family business. Later, for some reason, Han Jianping gave up this idea and not only handed over all the family's business to his son-in-law Han Dongshan. Let Han Dongshan enter the ancestral hall of the Han family, and he is also planning for Han Dongshan's prestige in the family."
"Later Han Jianping died. Han Jianmin originally planned to join forces with several ethnic brothers to expel Han Dongshan, but he was punished by Han Dongshan preemptively. A few years later, Han Jianmin died, and no one from the Han family took the lead in provoking trouble. After all, Han Dongshan still takes good care of the members of the Han family. When I went to Jizhou this time, the people in the Han clan were almost one-sided and said good things about Han Dongshan. Dongshan is not good, only Han Jianmin's youngest son Han Zuwang seems to be very dissatisfied with Han Dongshan and said a lot of unpleasant words. But the words he said were verified by the youngest, and most of them were slanderous words."
Xia Sheng said this with some disapproval, and somewhat looked down on Han Zuwang.
Ren Yaoqi couldn't help but ponder. How Han Zuwang's character is not her business, she just wants to mess up the marriage between the Han family and the Ren family.
"What's going on at Han Zuwang's house?"
Because Han Zuwang is one of the few people in the Han family who is willing to say that Han Dongshan is not good, Xia Sheng really seriously checked the matter of this person, and when asked, he replied: "Han Zuwang's father, Han Jianmin, has three sons, and he originally thought about it. He adopted his youngest son to Han Jianping, so after Han Jianmin's death, Han Zuwang, the most favored youngest son, did not get much property. After the three brothers separated, he still took the old and young Lai with him in the ancestral house assigned by the eldest. Willing to leave, relying on the help of his two brothers from time to time. After he was drunk, he always said to everyone that everything Han Dongshan should belong to him now, and a foreigner is not entitled to the property of the Han family. He is dissatisfied with Han Dongshan It must be for this reason.”
"Oh? Han Dongshan just let him talk nonsense like this?" Ren Yaoqi asked with a smile.
Han Dongshan is so talented that he can settle all the people of the Han family, but why can't he settle a Han Zuwang
Xia Sheng shook his head: "Han Zuwang wholeheartedly believes that Han Dongshan's property belongs to him, and he has no face. Let's just say that his father died because he opposed Han Dongshan. If something happened to him that day, it must be Han Dongshan's black hand. No one would dare to touch him."
When Ren Yaoqi heard the words, he became somewhat interested in this person, and he didn't seem to be completely mindless.
"In the last letter, in addition to asking you to check these relatives of the Han family, it also asked you to check the details of Han Dongshan. Did you find anything?" Ren Yaoqi asked again.
She was very satisfied with Xia Sheng's answer before. She had been in contact with Xia Sheng for a while in her previous life, and she still knew a little about his way of doing things. She knew that although he looked rough, he had a very meticulous temperament. Therefore, in her last letter, she nominated Xia Sheng to go to Jizhou.
"I asked an old man who used to work in the Han family. Han Dongshan really fled from the south. In the 32nd year of Qinglong, there was a drought in the south, and then there was a locust plague. Many people starved to death, many People fled to Yanbei, which suffered relatively few disasters. It was at this time that Han Dongshan and a group of people fled to Jizhou. Once Han Jianping went out, he encountered several victims who were about to starve to death and went out to steal money. He was rescued by Han Dongshan, and then brought back to the Han family by Han Jianping. According to Han Dongshan, his family was all dead, and there were some distant relatives from his mother's side in Yanbei, so they came to seek refuge, but it was a long time ago. , and experienced the invasion of the Liao people, and he could no longer find his distant relatives, so he stayed in the Han family. After that, he won the appreciation of Han Jianping and recruited him."
"Apart from these, can't find anything else?" Ren Yaoqi frowned, "He didn't mention his former family?"
Everyone would have a birth history, so she didn't believe that Han Dongshan would have jumped out of a rock, nor that he didn't leave any flaws for so many years.