The Ren family started by leasing coal mines and operating coal kilns, and settled in Youzhou, Yanbei for generations.

In the decades when the sixteen states of Youyan were trampled by the iron horses of the Liao people, although the family property was scattered and the clan withered, the Ren family did not leave this land and moved south with the imperial court.

After that, the fourth king of Yanbei, Xiao Qishan, did not fall into the prestige of his ancestors, led a cadre to recover the sixteen states of Youyan, intercepted the Liao people outside the Jiajing Pass, and the Yanbei region returned to the rule of the Great Zhou.

At this time when everything was in ruins, Bao Ming, the director of the Ren family at that time, took out the three gold bars that his wife hid under the toilet compartment, and bought several ownerless barren mountains in the West Mountain outside Yunyang City in Youzhou despite the opposition of the small family.

Xu Zhen came to run when the Ren family came, this Xishan is actually a treasure land of coal, and the coal dug out of the four or five mountains bought by the Ren family is particularly high-quality, and the annual output can not only supply the entire Youzhou area but also be trafficked to the surrounding state cities.

In addition, the head of the Ren family is good at drilling camps, but in a few years, the Ren family's coal stacks have been opened all over Yanbei.

The wealth is thick, and the Ren family has since prided itself on being a wealthy family in Yanbei.

After the initial determination of Yanbei, the wealthy families that sprung up in the Yanbei area overnight did not know how few.

In addition to the Yanbei Palace, which has guarded Yanbei for generations, which is actually the uncrowned king of Yanbei, some old northern families who moved back north after the war, such as the Yun family, and the Su family, who rose to prominence in the Northern Expedition with the king of Yanbei, and the Ren family who made a windfall by various means of luck.

The old and new aristocrats are not convinced by each other, the new upstarts are not used to the fact that the old families are obviously poor and sour, but they are still above the top, and the old families look down on the new nobles The foundation is still shallow and lacks the family bearing.

It wasn't until the king of Yanbei reconciled with the middle, and the Yun family and the Su family, the leaders of the two factions, made peace first, that the situation in Yanbei really stabilized.

Over the past few decades, although there are still occasional disputes between the new and old families, most of them have been able to coexist peacefully under the strong pressure of the Yanbei Palace, and many of them have become sons and daughters.

The wife of Yonghe, the current director of the Ren family, was born in the Qiu family, a family in Jizhou, although the father of the Qiu family is not a branch of the Qiu family, but because the head of the Qiu family has no children, the elder brother of the Qiu family is inherited, so the current head of the Qiu family is actually the brother of the old lady Qiu family, and the Qiu family has also straightened his waist more and more because of this relationship in the Ren family. After all, although the Ren family will barely become a wealthy family in Yanbei due to fate, compared with the old families like the Yun family and the Qiu family, they still have some confidence after all.

The main residence of the Ren family is located in Baihe Town, at the southern foot of the West Mountain, more than 90 miles outside Yunyang City, although Baihe Town is not as prosperous as Yunyang City, the first city in Yanbei, but it is prosperous because it is located on the north-south traffic fortress, and has always been a place for soldiers to fight.

The house of the Ren family occupies an extremely wide area, carved beams and painted buildings, and the beauty of the pavilions and pavilions is no less than the garden of the southern capital.

It is said that this was also the ancestral home of a famous family in the past, and the house was sold cheaply because the family moved south, and was later purchased by the head of the Ren family, and moved in after some repairs.

Ren Yaochi has lived here since she was born, and before she left the Ren family at the age of sixteen, she rarely went out of this place, which was beautifully repaired by tiled and painted walls, although it was old and rotten silverfish.

After recovering from his illness, Ren Yaoqi walked out of Ziwei Courtyard for the first time, and when he walked under the Jiuqu Corridor and looked at this mansion again, he was in a different mood.

To be sure, the previous head of the family, her great-grandfather, had some foresight when he bought the mansion, and the exquisite house aside, the feng shui of the whole house was excellent.

It is high in the southeast and northwest, backed by the West Mountain, and has the Xiaobai River in front of it, which is the "power of heaven and earth" pursued in Feng Shui. And because the west mountain on which it depends has a long vein, ups and downs, it has become the source of "vitality" of the mansion, making the whole house a place of hiding wind and gathering qi.

And the pavilions are like clouds, the houses are high, scattered, and the avenues and paths echo in all directions. The Ronghua Garden where the head of the family lives is located in the center, the layout is like the Taiji Yin and Yang Fish Diagram, and the inner courtyard plus the outer courtyard has a total of eight courtyards to form a gossip trend.

If the land is good, the seedlings will be prosperous, and the house will be prosperous.

The person who built this mansion must have been an unborn master.

It's just that such a mansion can be lived in even if it is a dragon and a phoenix, and although the Ren family can temporarily borrow its fortune, after a long time, it will not be able to suppress its nobility, I am afraid that it will be eaten by its fortune.

It's no wonder that a few years after she left the Ren family, she heard people talk about the decline of the Ren family, and the house changed hands again.

As for where the other people who lived in the house had gone, she had no interest in inquiring.

Passing through the tall wall gate decorated with glazed tiles and wall piers of Ronghua Temple, the first thing that catches your eye is the giant Lingbi stone placed in the shallow pond in the center of the courtyard, which is named "Cangshan Xiongzhu" because of its shape like a mountain.

It is said that this stone was transported back from Anhui by the former director of the family, Baoming, who spent a huge amount of money, and it is also a wonder of Ren's house.

Bypassing the Lingbi Stone is the three vast flower halls of Ronghua Courtyard, which are closed on weekdays, only open during the New Year Festival and the banquet, and when there are many guests, there are two cross-courtyards on both sides.

Passing through the hall, is the vestibule of the main house of Ronghua Garden.

The old lady of the Ren family, Qiu, has a quirk, she doesn't like flowers and trees, and dislikes those things that attract insects and ants. Therefore, the whole courtyard is only a watery seam neat bluestone ground, and only in spring and summer, when one or two small grasses emerge from the root of the wall, you can see a little green, but unfortunately it will be uprooted by the rough lady who swept the yard.

The heavy snow fell for two days in a row and then cleared, and the snow was blown into hard ice by the north wind before it bloomed.

The courtyard of Ronghua Garden is clean and clean, without the slightest trace of ice and snow, and it has long been cleaned so that only the unchanged bluestone ground can be seen.

At this time, two twelve or thirteen-year-old girls were kneeling on the bluestone floor in the front courtyard of the main house.

They wore the indigo blue winter clothes of the second-class maids of Renfu, kneeling upright and pious with their foreheads on the ground, but their bodies were fighting like the few dead leaves hanging on the branches, and they didn't know whether they were frozen or frightened.

Ren Yaoqi walked past them, and when he stepped on the pedals connected to the foundation of the main house, he could still hear the sound of them snorting.

"It's Fang'er and Hui'er who are waiting for Miss Eight." Qingmei, who was originally one step behind, glanced at the two of them, hurriedly took two steps forward, and pretended to report in Ren Yaoqi's ear with her mouth half-covered mysteriously, and it was not difficult to hear the excitement of having a good show to watch.

Ren Yaochi turned a deaf ear and stood outside the curtain waiting for the mother-in-law to report inside.

The rules of the Ren family are very large, especially the Ronghua Courtyard of the old lady Ren and the old lady Ren, if there is no response in the main room, you can't go in. On the day Li came back, he knelt in this corridor for more than an hour because Mrs. Ren did not give her an order to enter the house.

Fortunately, the old lady didn't want to toss Ren Yaoqi today, and the mother-in-law at the door quickly opened the curtain for Ren Yaoqi: "Fifth Miss, please." ”

The warm breeze in the room greeted him, and Ren Yaoqi walked in.

The main room of Ronghua Courtyard sits in the north and faces south five rooms, the middle one is the Ming Hall, but it is empty at this time, only two maids stand in front of the carved moon cave door in the second room on the right.

Seeing Ren Yaoqi come in, the two maids curts, bowed, and opened the brocade curtain with the Fu character pattern, and a slight sound came out in the right room, mixed with the fragrance of a branded box.

It's almost time for the old lady and the old lady to have breakfast.

The younger generations of the Ren family had to have an empty stomach when they came to invite Andu, and they could only go back to the courtyard to eat after the elders had finished their dinner.

When Ren Yaoqi entered, he saw the eldest lady Wang leading her eldest daughter-in-law Zhao to set up the kang table.

On a large kang against the north wall, more than a dozen kinds of breakfast food of all sizes have been placed, and a few maids are standing aside with food boxes that have not been opened.

The eldest lord Ren Shizhong led his son and nephews to sit on the Nanmu chairs on the east and west sides, the third miss Ren Yaohua, the fourth miss Ren Yaoyin, and the ninth miss Ren Yaoying stood under the south window.

Ren Yaohua and Ren Yaoqi were in the same courtyard, but they never went in and out together when they came to Ronghua Courtyard to ask for peace. Before, when Ren Yaohua was in Ren's house, half of the time every month lived in the warm pavilion in the east of Ronghua Courtyard, and when she lived in Ziwei Courtyard, she also came earlier than her every day.

Ren Yaoqi swept around the room and bowed his head to greet the elders.

The eldest lady turned her head to look at her and smiled: "The five girls are in good shape?" The old lady also said yesterday that she wants you to rest for a few more days, and you don't have to rush over in the morning and dusk. ”

Ren Yaochi lowered his head and said, "It's all right, and if you don't come anymore, you can't say it." ”

The eldest lady smiled and nodded: "Good boy." You can recover so quickly don't forget your aunt Fang's credit, although the eldest aunt is in charge of the house, but this time you asked for a doctor and medicine thanks to your aunt in Zhang Luo. ”

Ren Yaoqi glanced at the eldest wife, smiled, and bowed her head in response.

Wang's wife has a good reputation in the Ren family, dealing with things fairly, and rewards and punishments are clear.

The tube that should be managed, and the tube that should not be managed should be turned a blind eye.

She doesn't take the credit, and she naturally doesn't have to bear the responsibility.

After Ren Yaoqi finished greeting with the eldest lady, she walked to the south window and stood with Ren Yaohua and them, and bowed her knees to the third lady Ren Yaohua and the fourth miss Ren Yaoyin, who were older than her.

Ren Yaohua turned a blind eye to her as always, but the fourth lady, Ren Yaoyin, smiled kindly at her and returned the salute. Ren Yaoying, the ninth lady who was younger than her, pursed her lips and reluctantly saluted her, Ren Yaoqi only nodded, and stood beside Ren Yaoyin.

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