Chapter 123: The Habits of the Wise
It's just that the Lin family doesn't know what to say, when people look at you pleasing to the eye, everything you do is worthy of forgiveness. On the other hand, when people don't like you, your justification will only make people more disgusted.
In addition, Mrs. Ren has already determined that Ren Yaoyu, the granddaughter, is not right-hearted and sinister and vicious, so Lin's defense for her daughter can only have the opposite effect.
In the end, Mrs. Ren couldn't bear it anymore and was furious, so she kidnapped Ren Yaoyu and went to the ancestral hall to receive the family law.
Any family with a deep family background has family rules, and if there are family rules, there will inevitably be family laws. Although the family history of the Ren family is not too long, the faΓ§ade that should have been established when the previous family director, Baoming, was alive.
The family law of the Ren family is no different from that of other big families in Yanbei, which is an iron and wooden stick with the thickness of an adult's wrist, flat and round, about four feet long, and shiny without painting. This stick has been enshrined and ancestral hall for many years like the ancestral tablet, and in general, the deterrent significance is greater than the actual significance, and it is an existence that makes the children of all families frightened when they hear it, and it has surpassed the terrifying meaning of an ordinary wooden stick for children.
So when Ren Yaoyu heard that she was going to ask for the legendary family law, she was so frightened that her legs went weak on the spot, looking at the solemn attitude of her grandmother, she even thought that her little life was going to be lost.
Lin's fear of family law is of course different from her daughter's fear of family law, but she also knows the seriousness of asking for family law. After all, since the previous head of the family set the family law, that wooden stick has never been used, and she doesn't want her daughter to become the first person in the Ren family to eat crabs.
So Ronghua Courtyard began to make trouble again, until Lin Wuye Ren Shimao got the news and begged Master Ren to invite Old Lady Ren back.
I have to say that people's hearts are biased, Aunt Kang's miscarriage made the fifth master lose his heir, and it is false to say that he is not sad. But no matter how Ren Shimao promised Aunt Kang's tenderness and sweetness that he would not treat her and the child in her belly badly, when it came to a critical moment, the relatives were separated immediately.
Compared with the unborn child in Aunt Kang's belly, Fifth Master Ren is more worried about his eldest daughter. Although everyone said that Ren Yaoyu was the culprit of Aunt Kang's miscarriage, Ren Shimao was unwilling to speculate about himself and Lin's beloved daughter with malice, he unconditionally believed Lin's statement, Ren Yaoyu accidentally bumped into Aunt Kang.
And after the old lady Ren knew about it. After thinking about it, I went back to the inner courtyard. Mrs. Ren has been very dissatisfied with the Lin family recently because of Ren Shijia, so she has sprinkled her anger on the Lin family, and the old lady Ren has been turning a blind eye for some reason, but the attitude of the Ren family he represents towards the Lin family has not changed.
Recently, there seems to be calm between the various families in Yanbei, but many people feel that this calm is like a river frozen in winter, there are no waves on the surface, but there is a deep flow under the ice. When the spring flowers bloom, as soon as the ice breaks, the flood season will come.
So in this period when the situation is a little unpredictable, Old Lady Ren doesn't want to really get into trouble with the Lin family.
However, Old Lady Ren has never asked about the inner courtyard, and it is not good to overturn Old Lady Ren's decision to embarrass her at this time, so after he returned to the inner courtyard, he went straight to the study of Ronghua Courtyard, no matter how Ren Shimao asked him, he didn't really show up.
When Mrs. Ren received the news that Mrs. Ren had returned, Ren Shijia sent her mother-in-law to intercede with Ren Yaoyu and the Lin family. She is still in confinement and it is inconvenient to go out, but she still shows her care for Lin's mother and daughter.
Mrs. Ren originally didn't want to deal with her daughter's plea, but after learning that Mrs. Ren was back, she changed her decision after thinking for a while, and ordered someone to temporarily lock Ren Yaoyu in the ancestral hall, not allowed to visit, and then decide to punish after today's matter was clarified.
The Lin family was temporarily grounded in his own Liuli Courtyard, because Ren Yaoyu had caused a big disaster. And whether she was instructed by the Lin family to do this is uncertain. Lin was sat down.
Despite this, the Lin mother and daughter were temporarily relieved. The words "family law". Because it is used less, it is very scary.
On the surface, Mrs. Ren sold her daughter a favor to make the Lin family grateful to Ren Shijia, the sister-in-law, but in fact, it was a tacit understanding between Mrs. Ren and Mrs. Ren. She knew that the old lady Ren would not come back for no reason, since she was invited back by her son, although she did not come to the main room to interfere in this matter, it was a hint at his meaning.
I have to say that Mrs. Ren is actually a smart person, and she immediately abandoned her likes and dislikes and firmly followed Mrs. Ren's intentions, and she followed it so much that people couldn't easily detect it, plus gave her daughter a big face.
And the choice of the fifth master Ren at the critical moment made the attitude of the Lin family, who originally hated her so much, loosen. When Fifth Master Ren insisted on sending her back to Ziwei Courtyard, the Lin family did not refuse as firmly as before. Even later, when the maid of Liuliyuan was chatting about gossip, she whispered that the fifth master Ren accompanied the fifth wife to the main room where the fifth wife was grounded, and was not driven out by the fifth wife.
The last grounding unexpectedly banned the feet of the husband and wife, only one was forced, and the other was willing.
At this time, Aunt Kang was lying in the west chamber of the Liuli Courtyard, almost losing half her life. It's just that at this time, the fifth master and the fifth wife selectively ignored this matter.
No one knows what kind of mood Aunt Kang was in at this time lying on the pear blossom wood shelf bed in the west wing of the Liuli Courtyard, just like Aunt Kang calculated everything herself, but she didn't have the ability to calculate a man's heart after all.
On the Dongfu side, Ren Yaoting went to his mother first after he went back.
As soon as he saw the Su family, Ren Yaoting's eyes were red, and he stepped forward to hug the Su family, and it was impossible to let go. Today she was really scared, and she barely calmed down outside, but it was because she wanted to save face, and when she saw her mother, she felt more and more that she had been wronged today.
Strictly speaking, Su's temperament is cold, and she can't think of it as a loving mother, but that is also due to her own temperament, and for her only daughter, Su still loves her from the bottom of her heart.
Seeing Ren Yaoting like this, Su's posture was distressed, and he didn't immediately ask his daughter about what happened at that time, but patiently hugged Ren Yaoting and coaxed him for a long time, and asked people to serve the shock tea that had been prepared before and fed Ren Yaoting to drink it personally.
After calming down her daughter, Su Shi motioned to her henchman Yang Mama, who had gone to pick up her daughter before, and took the two big maids who were waiting by Ren Yaoting's side today to go to the next room.
Su Shi quietly listened to the two maids talk about today's events, her eyebrows and eyes, which had always been plain, frowned slightly, and there was a hint of coldness and murder for no reason, her appearance was very ordinary, and this look added a few unique charms to her face, different from ordinary boudoir women. It's just that this kind of look is rarely shown by Su Shi in front of outsiders, and it can be seen that several people present are her henchmen.
"What hour of the day does Kang pass by that garden?" Su Shi's tone was flat, and his face had returned to his previous calmness.
Mama Yang lowered her head and said, "The slave maid has inquired, and this is indeed the case. Not only that, but Miss Eight often came back from visiting the garden at that hour, so the two met there several times, and quarrels were common. Generally, Miss Seven is in a bad mood and deliberately humiliates Aunt Kang. β
Su Shi thought for a while, then turned his gaze to the two maids who were standing with their hands tied to the side, and said lightly: "Ting'er also knows that Ren Yaoyu often appears in the garden at that time?" β
The two maids glanced at each other, and the older one stood up and pondered: "Miss, she didn't know what to do, and she didn't want to see Kang's and Miss Eight arguing when she went to the garden near Liuliyuan with Miss Fifth last time to fight butterflies, so she stayed interested." Because it seemed that Kang's and Miss Eight had quarreled more than once, Miss also inquired. However, the slave maid looked at the young lady at that time and just asked a few words casually out of curiosity, and then she didn't mention it anymore. β
Su Shi raised his eyebrows slightly: "Ting'er was angry with Ren Yaoyu in Ronghua Courtyard today, so he deliberately chose that hour to go to the vicinity of Liuli Courtyard to flutter butterflies?" β
"This ......," the maid raised her eyes at Su Shi when she heard this, and said hesitantly, "The slave maid looked at the young lady and was indeed a little happy when she heard the quarrel between Miss Eight and Aunt Kang from the garden. β
In fact, what Ren Yaoting said in front of Ren Yaoyu and Aunt Kang at that time was a bit fanning the flames, fearing that the world would not be chaotic. However, when he was in front of Mrs. Ren before, Ren Yaoting did not explain the few provocative words he said. only vaguely said that he was going to persuade him.
Ren Yaoting rarely suffers losses in the Ren family, so she is very dissatisfied with Ren Yaoyu's squeeze on her today, and she knows that if the conflict between Ren Yaoyu and Aunt Kang is big, Ren Yaoyu will be punished.
However, if Ren Yaoting was too vicious at that time, it would not be enough, she just wanted to watch Ren Yaoyu being scolded by her elders, with some childish calculations, she did not expect Ren Yaoyu to dare to do something to Aunt Kang.
So Ren Yaoting was scared like this, in fact, because he was afraid that he was also responsible for this matter.
Although the maid is not easy to say directly, she has hinted at the situation when she explained the situation to Su Shi before, so Su Shi asked such a question.
Where could Su Shi not understand her daughter, so she didn't ask Ren Yaoting directly, but asked a maid to ask. This will help her to make the right judgment.
After being silent for a while, Su Shi said lightly: "I'm afraid this matter is not so simple. β
Smart people are always in the habit of thinking too much. (To be continued.) )