Chapter 302: Falling into the Lower Stone
Coral immediately remembered that this grandmother was the same grandmother who sent Fourth Miss Ren Yaoyin back to Ren's courtyard last time, it seems to be surnamed Duan?
Sure enough, Coral heard Ren Yaochi ask, "Mama Duan, when will the princess be free to see me?" I'll come back another day to say goodbye. ”
Mama Duan shook her head and said, "The princess has not been free recently, so Miss Ren Wu should please go back." ”
Ren Yaoqi glanced at Coral, hesitating and wondering whether he should leave or not.
Coral has been by the old lady's side for many years, and she is also a flexible brain, so she hurriedly stepped forward and said with a smile: "Mama Duan has been doing well lately, and our old lady mentioned you before coming over today, saying that she was taken care of by you because of Miss Five." ”
Saying that, Coral held Mama Duan's hand and stuffed a purse containing ten taels of silver naked into Mama Duan's sleeve, the purse was prepared by the old lady Ren before she came, and there were five or six purses of ten taels of silver, and there were also some small red envelopes in case of emergency.
Coral reminded Mama Duan of the last time she went to Ren's courtyard, Mrs. Ren generously rewarded her with a mutton fat jade toad, the look on her face eased a lot, and she nodded and greeted: "Old lady Ren has been in good health recently." ”
Seeing that there was a way, Coral was overjoyed, and the smile on his face became more and more well-behaved: "Our old lady is good, today we specially asked our fifth lady to come to the princess to say goodbye, but unfortunately when the princess has something, it seems that the only time to come back next time?" ”
Mama Duan thought for a while, nodded and said, "The princess really doesn't want to see guests today. ”
Hearing Mama Duan's words of "I don't want to" instead of "inconvenience", Coral couldn't help but "chuckle" in her heart, and asked tentatively: "Then according to Mama's opinion, when should I come again?" ”
Mama Duan was silent for a moment and sighed, but she didn't want to say more, so she only said, "Please go back." After speaking, he turned around and went back to Yanbei Wangfu, ignoring Coral calling her from behind.
As soon as Mama Duan walked away like this, Coral became more and more bottomless in her heart. But the princess clearly said that she would not see the guests, and they could not force their way in, this is the Yanbei Palace.
Coral looked at Ren Yaoqi with some embarrassment: "Fifth Miss, this ......"
Ren Yaochi shook his head: "The princess is not a guest, and I have no choice." ”
Coral sighed: "Then I have to go back to the old lady and the old lady first." ”
So Ren Yaoqi took the carriage back to Ren's house again, and after such a toss, it was already dark when Ren Yaoqi's carriage arrived in Baihe Town.
The people from all the rooms of the Ren family still gathered in Ronghua Courtyard and did not leave, but the old lady Ren and the old lady of the East Mansion disappeared, and the old lady of the East Mansion couldn't sit still and went back first.
It turned out that after Ren Yaoqi left, news came from outside one after another, and the government had previously sealed the three coal mines of the Ren family. took over the Ren family's coal stack in Yanzhou, but I didn't expect that many miners in the mine today made a fuss, and jointly sued the Ren family for taking people's lives, and Rick abused and beat the miners on weekdays.
Wave after wave of unsettled, followed by a mountain owner connected to a coal mountain under the name of the Ren family, also took the opportunity to sue the Ren family for secretly digging the coal mine across the boundary and hollowing out the belly of his family's mountain.
The matter of digging coal and digging across the boundary was originally the mountain lord who fell into the well, because there was an agreement between the two families before, and the Ren family also gave him a sum of silver every year. It's just that I didn't expect this lawsuit to lead to the Ren family's private hiding of swords in the abandoned mine.
As soon as this incident came out, everyone was in an uproar.
Whether it was the Great Zhou under the Li Dynasty or the Yanbei under the Yanbei Palace, it was strictly forbidden for private individuals to hide a large number of weapons, and hundreds of bows and arrows and a hundred Pu knives were found in the abandoned coal mine of the Ren family. Although the number of weapons is not too large, the consequences of this incident itself can be big or small.
Mrs. Ren and Mr. Ren were invited by the government not long after Ren Yaoqi left, and as soon as the backbone left, the Ren family was also in chaos.
Mrs. Ren was also anxious. But they can only leave the people in each room first, wait for news from outside, and discuss to see if there are any good countermeasures.
As soon as Ren Yaoqi entered the room, everyone's eyes were cast on her. As if she wanted to see something from her, Old Lady Ren even immediately stood up and asked a little eagerly, "How is it?" Has the princess seen you? What did they say? ”
Ren Yaochi shook his head: "The princess didn't see me. ”
As soon as Ren Yaoqi's words fell, the room was quiet, and everyone in the Ren family, you look at me, I see that your face is becoming more and more depressed.
Old Lady Ren frowned and said, "You didn't see the princess?" What's going on? ”
Coral stepped forward and told Mrs. Ren about today's events and what Mama Duan said, and Mrs. Ren's face changed, and she became angry with Ren Yao, pointing at her and scolding: "Doesn't the princess have a very good impression of you on weekdays?" I sent someone to send you things several times, how could I not see you? ”
Ren Yaochi shook her head, the coral that should be said has already been said, she has nothing to say, Mrs. Ren is obviously angry and has nowhere to be angry with her.
Master Ren Wu said: "Mother, the princess said that she can't break through if she can't see Yao Period." Now that my father and eldest brother have been invited by the government, I don't know when Lu Dao will come back, don't be angry, think about solving the problem first. ”
Mrs. Ren said angrily: "Then tell me what to do!" ”
Fifth Master Ren looked at Third Master Ren: "Why don't I go to the official mansion with my third brother and see if we can find out any news?" ”
Mrs. Ren originally wanted to nod, but then she thought about it that now that Mrs. Ren and her eldest son have been called to the official mansion, it has been more than two hours and there is still no news coming, what if the other two sons go and are trapped in the official mansion, she shook her head again and said, "What is the use of you going?" It's better to send a few more flexible stewards to wait at the official mansion, and report back in time if there is anything. ”
The fifth master can only go and send a few more stewards out.
The second master of the Ren family, who had been sitting on the side with a string of Buddhist beads in his hand, seemed to have been recalled to Fanchen, and he muttered while turning the Buddhist beads: "Why did these things rush together?" Could it be that the Ren family's luck is bad this year? ”
Old Lady Ren remembered the words that Old Lady Ren said before leaving, and couldn't help frowning: "If you have bad luck, you can spend money to eliminate disasters, I'm afraid that you will commit a villain!" ”
When everyone heard this, they couldn't help but look at Mrs. Ren.
The fifth wife was anxious, and hurriedly asked, "Mother, what villain?" Do you mean that someone deliberately tried to harm our Ren family? ”
Old lady Ren also thought about whether it was because the Ren family's plan to marry the Zeng family angered the Yanbei Palace, so that the Yanbei Mansion wanted to teach the Ren family a lesson, so he asked Ren Yaoqi to go to the Yanbei Mansion to test the princess's attitude.
Later, the government came to the door, saying that a weapon was found in the abandoned mine cave of the Ren family, and the old lady Ren was shocked and began to wonder if this trick was done by the Han family in order to take revenge, after all, if the Yanbei Royal Mansion wanted to teach the Ren family a lesson, there was no need to go around this big circle and frame him with all his heart.
Ren Yaochi had just listened to the conversation between Ren Shimao and Ren Shimin, and she also knew that Ren's mine cave was found to hide weapons, and that Old Lady Ren and Master Ren were invited by the government, and she was also thinking about it in her heart.
Based on Ren Yaoqi's understanding of Xiao Jingxi, Xiao Jingxi really disdains to do this kind of framing just to teach the little Ren family a lesson, and she also thought of the Han family, who had not moved for a long time.
It's just that the Han family can hear the wind so quickly, and step on the Ren family at this juncture, whether there was any hint from the Yanbei Palace, Ren Yaochi is not clear.
Let the Han family come forward to deal with the Ren family, it is really easy to get involved.
Because the old lady Ren did not have the grudge between the Ren family and the old lady of the Han family among the juniors, the old lady Ren said so much and kept silent.
The dinner was used by everyone in the flower hall of Ronghua Courtyard, but the chopsticks had not been used much for this meal, and the steward who inquired about the news outside ran back sweating profusely.
"Old lady, something is wrong, the old lady and the eldest master have been taken into custody by the government."
Mrs. Ren shook her hand and dropped her chopsticks, and when she got up, she was about to fall down when she was unstable, she trembled her lips and said, "You, what did you say?" What is the detention? ”
The eldest lady hurriedly helped Mrs. Ren, and her face changed: "What the hell is going on, you say it slowly!" ”
The steward gasped and said, "Originally, the government said to take our old lady and the eldest master for questioning, but the masters have been in for most of the day and have not come out. Seeing that it was about to get dark, the slaves only spent fifty taels of silver to find out the situation of Master Yang, and waited for nearly an hour, and Master Yang finally delivered the news, but asked the slaves not to wait, and quickly came back to discuss how to get the masters out, because the old lady and the eldest master had been detained and imprisoned in the yamen prison because of the private possession of weapons. ”
Because the Ren family is generous, the relationship with the official family is not bad on weekdays, so when they encounter anything that is difficult to solve, they will also negotiate with the yamen, and even sometimes deal with one or two subordinates who have made mistakes with the help of the government. But the master of the Ren family never thought that he would also be unable to get out of the yamen.
Even when Old Lady Ren and Master Ren left the Ren family, they didn't think that they might be detained.
The ladies were all frightened by the news, and the old lady Ren rolled her eyes and fainted.
The eldest lady who was closest to the old lady couldn't help but pull her and almost fell, so she hurriedly called someone: "Come and hold the old lady, and the fifth brother and sister will ask the doctor to come ......"
Everyone in the Ren family was frightened by the fact that Old Lady Ren was imprisoned and Old Lady Ren fainted.
Mrs. Ren was not in trouble, she first helped Mrs. Ren lead someone to help the old lady to the inner room, and then invited the doctor to come into the house to treat Mrs. Ren.
The second master Ren, the third master Ren and the fifth master Ren were also caught off guard, and after the doctor entered the house to show the old lady, he said that the old lady Ren was just angry and anxious and had no worries about her life, so they hurriedly went out to gather their stewards to think of countermeasures. (To be continued......)