Chapter 6: Calculation
Ying'er and Zhu'er were married to two servants in the outer courtyard and became ordinary servants in the outer courtyard.
The boundary between the outer courtyard and the inner courtyard of the Ren family is clear, and even if some people have been in the Ren family for a lifetime, it is extremely difficult to step into the hanging flower door where the weeping lotus pillar stands out from the eaves.
"Mama, you should say that this is the time, the time! Now that we're back, does she want to be able to stretch her hand so long? Ren Yaohua's eyes were cold, and she said coldly, "Tomorrow, I will bring her in, and the minions who were originally blown down by the wind in the courtyard." ”
Mama Zhou persuaded: "Third Miss, we are about to come back, let's put this matter aside for the time being, right?" The people we brought back are only a few, and this crape myrtle courtyard still needs someone to be an errand, even if you want to pick someone again, or buy it separately, you have to give it to the old lady and the eldest lady first. Besides, if you want to get rid of people, you need to have a reason, you can't drive the people in the yard for no reason, not only does this make the people under the head cold, but the old lady is not easy to deal with. ”
Ren Yaohua already hated the other aunt in her heart, and after listening to Mama Zhou's words, she raised her eyebrows and said, "Grandmother's side is up to me, as for the beginning?" Isn't that easy? Laziness, broken mouths, stealing, disrespectful to the Lord...... The master has convicted them, can they refute it? ”
"Third Miss ......"
"The third sister wants to offend all the people in this family before she gives up?" Ren Yaochi suddenly said loudly.
Ren Yaohua looked at Ren Yaoqi with a cold face and cold eyes, Ren Yaoqi turned a blind eye to her anger and said lightly: "Aunt Fang has rearranged a lot of people to come in for Ziwei Courtyard, but except for Mama Zhu and the two personal maids next to me, most of them are not her own people. ”
"Not her people?" Mama Zhou thought for a while and muttered, "It stands to reason that she doesn't have more than a year, and she really doesn't have that much ability......"
Connections need to be managed, and Mama Zhou has helped the Li family run for more than ten years, but she has only a dozen honest henchmen who are serving around her, and two of them have been sent away.
The other wives of the Ren family are also not vegetarians, how could Aunt Ren Fang be too big and ride on top of them?
Ren Yaochi nodded: "Most of the maids and women in Ziwei Courtyard are newly selected from Zhuangzi from all over the country a year ago. ”
Ren Yaohua sneered and glanced at Ren Yaoqi: "This courtyard is managed by Aunt Fang, don't you still have to go through her hand to pick someone?" Even if these people had nothing to do with her before, didn't they become her people if they followed her path? ”
Although Ren Yaohua has a strong temperament, he is not a dull person. Although he is not very old, he has his own opinions because he has helped the weak Li family to take ideas since he was a child.
Ren Yaoqi didn't deny what Ren Yaohua said, but nodded in agreement: "What the third sister said is right, these people have taken the path of Aunt Fang and got such an idle errand, so they are all grateful to her, and her reputation in the mouths of the people in Ren's mansion has become better and better this year." ”
The Li family and Ren Yaohua went to Zhuangzi, there were few masters in the crape myrtle courtyard, but the share was the same, and Aunt Fang never deducted it, so the errand of the crape myrtle courtyard became recognized by the servants of the Ren family as having a lot of oil and water.
This time, although Ren Yaohua's face was even more ugly, he didn't speak immediately.
The eldest maid Xi'er couldn't help but wonder: "But didn't the fifth miss say that these people are not Aunt Fang's people?" Now it's her person...... Is that her person after all? ”
Ren Yaoqi thought for a while and said softly: "Although these people are all the children of Aunt Fang's newly selected family from Zhuangzi, they all have some kinship with the old lady, the eldest wife, the second wife, and the powerful mother-in-law and maids in the courtyard of the fifth wife. For example, the sister-in-law Niu who is in charge of the door key in our yard and her sister-in-law is the eldest daughter-in-law of Mama Gui in the old lady's yard, and the Liu Er who is in charge of the tea when we come to our yard is the sister of the first-class maid next to the eldest lady in the autumn equinox, and Mrs. Liu, who is in charge of hot water in the backyard, was originally a porter in the outer courtyard of the Ren family, but her niece is now in charge of the accounts in the courtyard of the fifth lady......"
Mama Zhou can be regarded as an old man crawling over in the backyard, and after listening to these few words, she heard the powerful relationship, and her heart set off a storm.
The maid Que'er was also angry: "She actually used the errand of our Ziwei Academy as a favor to please the other masters of the Ren family!" ”
Ren Yaoqi shook her head, and she glanced at Ren Yaohua.
Ren Yaohua's lips were pursed tightly, making her cold face have a somewhat stubborn look, but her eyes were blazing with anger.
"Of course, she can please the old lady and the people around the eldest lady, but the main purpose is not this."
When everyone heard this, their eyes were all on Ren Yaoqi.
Ren Yaoqi looked at Ren Yaohua: "Her purpose is the third sister and her mother." ”
Ignoring the stunned eyes of several people, Ren Yaochi continued to say unhurriedly, "She has calculated the third sister's temperament, and you must not allow the people she arranged to stay in Ziwei Courtyard, and you will start cleaning up the inner courtyard as soon as you come back." In fact, these people have nothing to do with her, and they can't stop her if they are sent anywhere. She gave her a favor and she accepted it, but you offended the old lady, the eldest wife, the second wife, and the fifth wife because of this. ”
Ren Yaohua is also the daughter of the Ren family, and Mrs. Ren always has a little favor for her, so she will always return to the Ren family. Aunt Fang understood this from beginning to end, so she never thought that she could completely drive Ren Yaohua and the Li family out of the Ren family.
She is a concubine, and even if she gives birth to a son, she can't straighten it out, so what she wants is the control of the three-room backyard.
Even if Li and Ren Yaohua return to the Ren family, they can no longer shake her status.
"This vile and shameless poisonous woman!" Xi'er gritted her teeth and scolded.
Ren Yaohua gradually calmed down because of her anger, and said word by word in an indifferent tone: "She just wait and see, I will definitely make her look good!" ”
Ren Yaochi asked calmly, "How do you want to make her look good?" Let her set rules for her mother, and then take the opportunity to rectify her? ”
Ren Yaohua raised his eyes and looked at Ren Yaoqi with a calm face.
Mama Zhou was afraid that the two sisters would quarrel again, so she hurriedly played a round: "The third lady is also thinking that we have been gone for a year, and the people of the Ren family only know that there is a Fang Aunt in Lu Dao, but they don't know that there is a serious master in Lu Dao. I want to take the opportunity to give Aunt Fang the opportunity to establish rules for my wife. ”
Ren Yaoqi didn't want to quarrel with Ren Yaohua, so he nodded: "The idea is not wrong, but the timing is wrong." ”
"Oh? How is it wrong? Ren Yaohua raised her eyebrows and said coldly.
Ren Yaoqi said seriously: "Didn't I ask the third sister how to give Aunt Fang a good look?" Before you left the house, you did give her a few good looks, but have you ever wondered why you can give her a good look, so that she has nowhere to redress her grievances? ”
Ren Yaohua didn't speak, but Xi'er said: "Of course, our third lady is more embarrassed than Aunt Fang in front of the old lady!" With the support of the old lady, Aunt Fang naturally didn't dare to be presumptuous when she saw the third lady. ”
Mrs. Ren doesn't like the Li family, but she treats Ren Yaohua's granddaughter well.
At the beginning, Ren Yaohua pushed Ren Yihong into the water, and the old lady also thought that she was young and vigorous, and she missed it, so she did not deliberately frame her brother's life, and helped her say good things to the old man Ren.
Aunt Fang also knew this. So what if one day the old lady no longer stands on the side of the third sister? ”
"How is this possible, the old lady has always loved Miss San, and she also sent someone to bring food to Miss San when we were in Zhuangzi." Magpie shook her head hurriedly.
Ren Yaohua and Mama Zhou were silent.
There is no shortage of juniors around the old lady, and today's Ren family is the fourth lady Ren Yaoyin from the eldest lady and Ren Yaoyu from the fifth lady are the most favored, and they are often stayed by the old lady in the East Warm Pavilion of Ronghua Courtyard.
Today, Ren Yaohua and Li went to say goodbye to the old lady, although the old lady was very happy to see Ren Yaohua, but when Ren Yaohua pleaded for Li, she was reprimanded with a cold face.
In the Ren family before, Mrs. Ren would never say a word of weight to Ren Yaohua. Every time Mrs. Ren embarrassed the Li family, with Ren Yaohua on the side, Mrs. Ren would give her granddaughter some face.
"So the most important thing for the third sister now is not to think of trouble with Aunt Fang, so that her reputation as mean and domineering is purposefully publicized to the point that everyone knows about it. Rather, he worked hard to consolidate his position in front of the old lady. As long as you are still the most favored granddaughter by the old lady's side, you will have more opportunities to teach Aunt Fang a lesson in the future. Ren Yaoqi pointed out calmly and objectively.
No one noticed the indifference to Mrs. Ren revealed in her calmness. It seems that in her heart, Mrs. Ren is just a tool to gain a foothold in the inner house, and she has use value, not her grandmother.
"Third Miss, Fifth Miss makes sense." Mama Zhou pondered Ren Yaoqi's words, and the more she thought about it, the more frightened she became.
Aunt Fang first cut off the old people left by the Li family in Ziwei Courtyard, firstly, she could cut off the connection between the Li family and the Ren family's main house, so that the estrangement between Ren Yaoqi and the Li family and Ren Yaohua deepened. The second is to give her the empty space for those people in Ziwei Courtyard next.
If she does this, she will definitely be furious when Ren Yaohua returns home, so her follow-up trick will come.
Let Ren Yaohua completely fall out of favor with Mrs. Ren, and offend the masters and minions of the Ren family and fall into isolation, this is her ultimate goal.
Ren Yaohua also figured it out at this time, and couldn't help but feel aggrieved, she wanted to ask Ren Yaoqi mockingly, "I fell out of favor with my grandmother, didn't I just call your intentions?" ”
But to the calm eyes of the previous Yao period, she still swallowed the words.
Although Ren Yaohua was noncommittal, Mama Zhou knew her very well, and she must have listened to it. He smiled at Ren Yaochi with great satisfaction: "Fifth Miss has really grown up, and even the lady and the old slave haven't thought about these things." ”
Ren Yaoqi lowered her eyes and was silent, she studied under Pei Zhiyan, who was born as an emperor in her previous life, and the twists and turns of these inner houses seem to her now as if she has unveiled the curtain and control table of the shadow puppet, and the dense control lines that control the puppet's gestures are all clear.