Chapter 194: Old Acquaintances
After Ren Yaoqi returned to the city, Ren Shijia's housekeeper helped her find some good medicinal materials and tonics, and planned to send them to the Lei family's Zhuangzi to Lei Pan'er in the name of herself and Ren Yaohua.
Lei Pan'er is still a child, and she doesn't need those nourishing herbs, it's just etiquette. Ren Yaochi borrowed the cook from Ren Shijia's small kitchen and asked her to make a few snacks, and especially explained that she wanted to make it look better.
Ren Shijia likes to use dim sum on weekdays, but after Sister-in-law Wen left, Lin Kun asked someone to find a chef from Jiangnan who was good at making all kinds of dim sum.
Later, Ren Yaoqi asked the eldest girl Mulberry to take medicinal herbs, two turns of snacks and two jars of candied fruit to the Lei family's courtyard to visit Lei Paner for her and Ren Yaohua.
After Mulberry came back from the visit, she told Ren Yaoqi that Lei Pan'er had woken up and that there was nothing wrong with her body, and she didn't know how she fell into the well, she only remembered that she was chasing a starling who couldn't fly, and then she didn't know anything. Fortunately, when she woke up again, she was already in her bed, so she was not frightened.
I heard that Mulberry was sent to see her by the two sisters of the Ren family, and asked Mulberry to come into the room to talk. I was very happy to see the snacks and candied fruit brought by Mulberry, and said that I would come to visit my two sisters when I was healed.
Ren Yaoqi couldn't help but feel happy when she heard that Lei Pan'er was still that lively, smart and eccentric.
"How's that maid named Laurel?" Ren Yaoqi thought for a moment and asked.
"The slave didn't see Yuegui, and when she came out, she asked the nurse, and the nurse only said that Yuegui was sent back to Yunyang City by the housekeeper, and she didn't know anything else." Mulberry replied.
Ren Yaoqi thought that although Lei Ting was young and didn't care about the affairs of the inner court, he was not a stupid person. This time something happened to Lei Paner, which should make him alert to his daughter's situation.
On the second day, Ren Yaohua sent parsley over, saying that the housekeeper of the Lei family had sent some valuable rulers and bird's nest and ginseng to the courtyard early in the morning as a return gift. The Lei family's return gift was much more valuable than that sent by Ren Yao.
Because Ren Yaoqi lived in the Lin family. The Lei family sent the things to the Ren family's courtyard. Ren Yaohua asked Xiangqin to send everything to Ren Yaoqi.
Ren Yaochi asked the maid to pick out some rulers and bird's nests and send them to Ren Shijia, and let the parsley put away the rest.
There are still three days before the golden banquet, and there are many noble ladies from other states and counties who have come to Yanzhou in Yunyang City.
Xiao Jinglin sent a letter saying that tomorrow the princess would let her stroke the piano in front of the guests and accept the results of her practice in the past few days, so she would have people come over early to pick her up and go to Yanbei Wangfu on the morning of the second day.
When Ren Yaochi received the letter, he still thought about replying to the letter to make fun of Lord Xiao's stage fright, but he was stunned when he saw the name of the guest invited by Princess Yanbei.
The wife of Xu Wanli, the head of Yunyang Academy, Ouyang.
Yunyang Academy is the highest institution of learning in Yanbei, and the dean Xu Wanli has a very high status in the hearts of Yanbei scholars, and is the leader of Qingliu.
Xu Wanli was born in the Xu family in Jiangnan. The Xu family and the Pei family are the heads of Jiangnan Shilin. Someone once counted with their fingers that in the past three hundred years, among the families of prime ministers and ministers, the Pei family was the first, and the Xu family was second.
The roots of the Xu family are in the south of the Yangtze River, but this Xu Shanchang refused to enter the court as an official after winning the champion in the 35th year of the first emperor Qinglong, and began to travel around. Later, Xu Wanli came to Yanbei, and somehow became the head of Yanbei Yunyang Academy.
Yanbei has a delicate relationship with the imperial court, and many children of the Xu family are officials in the imperial court. Xu Yuan, the current cabinet chief, is Xu Wanli's cousin. Xu Wanli has never returned to Jiangnan since he came to Yanbei, and the Xu family's attitude towards Xu Wanli is also very cold, and they don't mention this Xu family's sister-in-law who enjoys a high reputation in Yanbei.
Ren Yaoqi was a Zhilu Dao, not long after Xu Wanli became the mountain chief of Yunyang Academy. The Xu family has already removed Xu Wanli from the family tree, but neither the Xu family nor Xu Wanli has made a public announcement about the matter, so although people outside have all kinds of speculations about the relationship between Xu Wanli and the Xu family, very few people know the truth of the truth.
Ren Yao also knew the way. The reason why Xu Wanli left Jiangnan and came to Yanbei was because of his wife Ouyang. This Ouyang is a remarried woman, she was originally the wife of Xu Wanli's brother and Xu Wanli's sister-in-law.
Soon after Ouyang married into the Xu family, her husband died. Originally, in a family like the Xu family, which paid attention to reputation, the Ouyang family could not remarry, but she even married her brother-in-law after the most reluctance.
The Xu family in Jiangnan couldn't accommodate unfilial descendants like Xu Wanli, so Xu Wanli could only take the Ouyang family to Yanbei. Compared with Jiangnan, Yanbei is much more tolerant of etiquette, and Xu Wanli was appreciated by Xiao Qishan, the king of Yanbei at that time, after coming to Yanbei, and Xu Wanli himself was talented and had a high level of academic literacy, so he quickly gained a firm foothold among Yanbei students.
The reason why Ren Yaoqi knew about this part of the Xu family was because Xu Wanli and her husband Pei Zhiyan were brothers-in-law. Mr. Pei's wife, also surnamed Ouyang, is the youngest sister of the Ouyang family.
Xu Wanli has a bad relationship with the Xu family, but he is very close to his wife and brother-in-law Pei Zhiyan, the two have been friends for many years, and they are friends who are friends and often exchange letters on weekdays.
On the second day, Xiao Jinglin really sent someone to take over Yao Qi and go to Yanbei Wangfu very early.
When Ren Yaoqi went, Xiao Jinglin was still practicing marksmanship in her yard.
Standing under the eaves and watching for a while, waiting for Xiao Jinglin to collect the momentum, Ren Yaoqi walked over and joked with a smile: "The county lord is nervous?" ”
Xiao Jinglin was serious: "How come?" ”
Ren Yaoqi blinked, leaned over and whispered: "It's easy for the county lord to deceive others, but it's difficult to deceive me." I'm a secret to the Lord of the Dao Dao. ”
Xiao Jinglin glanced at her: "What secret?" ”
"The county lord likes to play with sticks when he is nervous."
Xiao Jinglin was silent for a while: "This is a gun, not a stick!" ”
Ren Yaoqi smiled: "The county lord knows that I don't know martial arts, so naturally I can't tell the difference between a stick and a gun, and I ask you not to remember the villain." ”
Xiao Jinglin looked at Ren Yaoqi for a while, and suddenly said, "Then how about I teach you martial arts?" ”
Ren Yaoqi was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly said: "I still don't want it, I'm not the material for martial arts." ”
Xiao Jinglin looked at Ren Yaoqi critically when she heard this, and even circled around her a few times, and then said slowly: "Although I don't have any qualifications, it's not that I can't learn." ”
(To be continued......)