Chapter 40: Travel
Ren Yaoqi didn't worry too much about whether to go to the ice frolic competition.
These days, she is just an excuse that it is cold and rarely goes out of Ziwei Courtyard, Qiu Yun mentioned her in front of everyone, if she deliberately avoided Yun Wenfang and Qiu Yun, it would attract attention.
Ice play is an activity that Yanbei people often play in winter, although Ren Yaoqi has not played by himself, he has also seen it a few times.
The women were just sitting in a makeshift greenhouse on the shore watching. The men were divided into teams and skates on the surface of the river, which was more than a foot thick.
Of course, the people who watch also have their own lottery to win or lose, but they are all broken silver, and even if the bet is right, those silver coins are also used to reward those domestic servants who play, and they don't really rely on this gambling money. Otherwise, it will not be elegant but insulting.
Before going out on this day, Ren Yaoqi went to Li's place first, originally thinking that he would wait for Ren Yaohua to invite An and then go to the car, but he didn't want Ren Yaohua to go to Ronghua Courtyard first.
Li asked Mama Zhou to take out an embroidered money bag and hand it to Ren Yaoqi and said, "Here are some broken silver, which are used for you as a lottery head and a reward, and you give it to the maid to collect." โ
Ren Yaoqi took it in his hand, looked up at Li and smiled: "I know it, mother." โ
When he came out, Ren Yaoqi gave the money bag to Mama Zhou again: "My monthly silver has not been moved in the box, and the reward I received during the New Year is two hundred taels." A few days ago, my father gave me two silver tickets worth 100 taels and asked me to buy my favorite books and pen and ink. It's better for Mama to keep this money. โ
Mama Zhou hurriedly said: "This is what Mrs. asked the slave maid to prepare for Miss, and the third miss also has it, you better accept it." โ
Ren Yaoqi still handed the bag back and said gently: "I know that my mother doesn't want to wronged me and the third sister, and I don't want to live up to her wishes, so I accepted it in front of her before." But Mama, you have been taking care of the accounts for your mother, and you know the situation in Ziwei Courtyard better than me. Mother, she still has a lot of money to use. โ
When the Li family married into the Ren family, there was almost no dowry, and every month was only a monthly example of thirty taels of the Ren family.
Fortunately, Ren Shimin's thirty taels of monthly silver were sent to her after Li returned home, and Ren Shimin didn't care about this bit of silver, he never asked Li for this money.
The Ren family is not short of money, and several masters of the Ren family can withdraw less than 2,000 silver from the account room in the outer courtyard every year as entertainment expenses. Ren Yiyan, the eldest young master who has already married, can also withdraw 1,000 taels every year.
It's just that if it exceeds two thousand taels, you need to get an approval slip with his seal from Old Lady Ren. Except for the old lady in the second room and the fourth master in the capital, the other masters rarely need to be approved by the old lady, after all, two thousand taels of silver is not a small amount.
The Li family has sixty taels of silver per month, and in addition to rewarding his subordinates, he also has to subsidize his mother's family from time to time, and he is often overstretched.
"Fifth Miss......" Mama Zhou looked at Ren Yaoqi in a daze, her eyes couldn't help but be slightly red.
After coming back this time, Ren Yaoqi's performance was too unexpected for her. Ren Yaoqi smiled, turned around and left.
After coming out of the main room, when passing through the West Cross Courtyard, Ren Yaoqi thought about it and went to the study.
Ren Shimin was sitting behind his large bookcase, drinking tea and admiring a few of his newly bought inkstones.
Seeing Ren Yaoqi push the door in, he put down the teacup and beckoned with a smile: "Yaoyao, come and see, these Chengni inkstones are newly obtained by my father, and they are all from the hands of famous artists." โ
Ren Shimin's smile was pure and cheerful with a little child, and every time he got something good, he made no secret of his joy.
In the past, Yao Qi would secretly slander her father for being too free and indifferent, and he didn't understand things, but now he won't be like this.
Ren Yaoqi stepped forward to have a good time with Ren Shimin and asked, "There is an ice frolic competition in our house today, won't Daddy go?" โ
Ren Shimin's lack of interest: "What's so good about Bing Xi?" A bunch of reckless men pushed around! Insulting Sven! Are you going? โ
Ren Yaochi nodded: "I haven't gone out for a long time, and my sisters are going." โ
Ren Shimin took out a sandalwood box from the drawer under the bookcase, took out two silver tickets with a denomination of one hundred taels and handed them to Ren Yaoqi: "Go find your mother and exchange it for a silver naked child to use as a lottery head, and just help your father choose a team." โ
Ren Yaoqi took it with a smile and received it in his purse: "Then is it okay for me to bet on the red belt?" โ
Ren Shimin tilted his head and thought about it seriously: "Red is cheesy, let's choose the white team." โ
Ren Yaochi said disdainfully: "It's almost the New Year, whose family wears a white belt?" It's not too bad to be lucky! โ
"What about the blue team?"
Ren Yaochi grimaced: "I want to bet on the red team!" I just love red! After saying that, he got up proudly and left.
"Children are willful, and they have to cry when they lose." Ren Shimin shook his head and sighed helplessly.
When he went out, Ren Yaoqi and the fourth lady Ren Yaoyin rode in the same carriage.
The carriages in front and behind were occupied by several young ladies of the Ren family, and Ren Yaoqi could still hear Ren Yaoyu's chattering voice faintly from the carriage behind, as well as the sound of Mama whispering to dissuade her from lowering the curtain.
In contrast, Ren Yaoqi's carriage was much quieter.
Ren Yaoyin sat in the carriage and made tea, her movements were skillful and elegant, her smile was calm, and the rickety carriage did not make her hands unstable in the slightest.
Ren Yaoqi sat opposite her with her chin propped up and admired her movements.
"Before, my cousin specially asked if the fifth sister would go." Ren Yaoyin poured a small cup of tea from a purple sand cup and handed it to Ren Yaoqi, smiling.
Ren Yaoqi took it steadily and thanked her with a smile.
Ren Yaoyin's expression was gentle and no different from usual, and Ren Yaoqi couldn't feel half displeasure in her words.
Ren Yaoqi didn't know that Ren Yaoyin didn't know that the Ren family had taken her as a candidate to marry the Qiu family, and he didn't know how she had an attitude towards this matter.
In her previous life, she didn't have close contacts with several sisters in the family, Ren Yaoyin was much easier to get along with than the other sisters in the Ren family, although she was favored by the old lady, she didn't pose in front of the other sisters because of this, and she was good-tempered to everyone, so Ren Yaoyin was relatively close to her.
However, because of this, Ren Yaoyin has no particularly good sisters in the Ren family.
"Oh? It's a rare thing, and I'm a little flattered. Ren Yaoqi winked at Ren Yaoyin and teased.
Ren Yaoyin "poofed" and said with a smile: "You love to be naughty." My cousin must have rarely seen you come out, and he thought you were unwell before he asked. He's also out of concern, and you'll thank him when you see him later. โ
Ren Yaoqi flattened his mouth: "I know the way." โ
Ren Yaoyin shook her head, restrained her expression and whispered: "Fifth sister, not to mention the noble status of the third cousin in the Qiu family, even in our Ren family, he is highly valued by the elders, and his grandmother treats him like her own grandson. You are friendly with him, he treats you kindly, and if something happens in the future, he will say a good word for you in front of your grandmother than ten words for others. โ
Ren Yaochi smiled a little embarrassedly: "Thank you Fourth Sister for mentioning it, I know it." โ
Ren Yaoyin nodded with a smile, took back the teacup in front of Ren Yaoqi, poured the warm water inside into the small urn, and replaced it with a hot cup and put it back.
Ren Yaochi picked up the teacup and took a sip, but in her heart she was thinking about what Ren Yaoyin meant by saying this to her.
Ren Yaoyin is encouraging her to have more contact with Qiu Yun in order to get the attention of the old lady of the Ren family or the Ren family?
In the previous life, when she was so old, she really thought about how to make Mrs. Ren like her granddaughter every day, and she also wanted to have a good relationship with Qiu Yun like other peers in the Ren family.
Ren Yaoyin's words scratched the itch.
It's just that Ren Yaoyin said these words to her at this time......
Is it because she really cares about her sister, or does she have something else in mind?
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Xie Lu Xie Sideres, the ugly warm winter, Zhiyan Zhiyu's reward~
Thank you Ajun Nana for your long comment~
I also thank you for the good girls who caught the insects~
Seeing that some relatives complain that there are too many characters and can't figure out who is who, when I am free tomorrow, I will list a character relationship table for the people of the Ren family and send it to the book review area.
^^~
'Mei Nan has finished writing:
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