Chapter 188: Temptation
Before the spoon fell in the courtyard, Parsley returned to the Lin family and told Ren Yaoqi about today's events in detail.
Ren Yaoqi looked at her with a happy look on her face and couldn't help but laugh.
"Miss, you don't know what to do, today the Lin family's grandmother begged for a purse as soon as she saw Mrs. Fang and Miss Nine coming back, although Miss Jiu's face was not very good-looking, she still let the maid go down and take it, but of course the purse was gone. You didn't see the face of the Lin family's grandmother at that time. Ouch, happy to death slave! ”
Ren Yaoqi glanced at her with a smile: "You didn't fall off this time, did you?" ”
Xiangqin hurriedly said: "Fifth Miss, don't worry, there will be no mistakes this time." What's more, Mrs. Fang and Miss Nine have both gone out, and this matter is definitely unaware. Speaking of which, that Young Master Fang was really stunned, and he didn't even know that the purse on his body had been changed several times. ”
"Okay, you've worked hard today, go down and rest." Ren Yaochi said with a smile.
Xiangqin responded, went down with a smile, and said with a smile before leaving: "The fifth miss is different, see if they dare to bully our third miss!" ”
At this time, in the courtyard of the Ren family, Ren Yaoying also commanded a room of maids to look around for purses, but unfortunately not even a shadow was found.
Ren Yaoying's maid Chun'er looked depressed: "The slave and maid obviously remember to put it in the cabinet, how could it be gone." ”
Ren Yaoying frowned: "Look carefully and see if it's wrapped in your clothes." ”
"The clothes are all opened one by one, and I have seen ......"
Mrs. Fang, who had been sitting silently, suddenly interrupted: "Forget it, don't look for it." ”
Ren Yaoying looked at Liu: "Uncle, what does the Lin family mean by this?" Why did you suddenly remember to ask me for a purse? I've heard of this thing for the first time! It's just such a coincidence, the purse is gone! ”
Liu lowered his eyes, half a sound, and sighed: "We have been calculated." ”
Ren Yaoying was stunned: "Uncle, you mean ......"
Liu shook his head. Just as she was about to speak, a mother-in-law next to her walked in and whispered a few words in Liu's ear.
Liu's brows couldn't help frowning, and the more he wrinkled, the tighter he became.
Ren Yaoying walked in, only to hear the last sentence of the mother-in-law: "...... We only found these, and we didn't bring many people, and most of them went out with them. ”
Ren Yaoying came back to her senses from these words, and said suspiciously: "Uncle, is the third sister making trouble over there?" ”
Liu waved his hand to let the mother-in-law go out, and then sighed and looked at Ren Yaoying: "Your mother said before that they shouldn't be worried. It seems that it is still blind. I said before that you should bear with it, don't fight with her at this juncture, but you didn't listen. ”
Ren Yaoying bit her lip: "I did it very carefully, didn't the third sister find evidence either." What's more, they are mortal enemies with us, and even if it didn't have this incident, they wouldn't have made us happy. ”
Liu glanced at Ren Yaoying, sighed, and didn't say anything after all.
On the morning of the second day, Ren Yaoqi was playing with Brother Cen in Ren Shijia's house, and the porter outside came to report that Mrs. Fang Liu was here again.
The Liu family still came to see Mrs. Lin San today.
Ren Shijia is a soft character. In the end, he still shirked and couldn't take Liu to see Mrs. Lin San, this time Ren Yaochi didn't go with him, but it didn't take long for Ren Shijia to come back.
Mrs. Lin San is in slightly ill health today and does not want to see guests.
Ren Yaochi was surprised: "Why did the third wife suddenly get sick?" We haven't heard of it in the house. ”
Ren Shijia cleaned his hands. took over Brother Cen from the nurse. Mrs. Ren found a nurse for Brother Cen again, and there was no need for Ren Shijia to feed her personally.
"I don't think the third sister-in-law is sick, but I just don't want to see my cousin. Just after I sent my cousin-in-law away, the third sister-in-law scolded the eldest girl beside her to come and talk to me. Let me have time to take Brother Cen over to play with Sister Ling. This is a hint to me not to bring outsiders with me in the future. Saying that, Ren Shijia exhaled, "I don't want to get involved in these things for them." It's the best now, and it's clean. ”
Ren Yaoqi smiled when he heard this, sat down next to Ren Shijia to tease Brother Cen, and stopped talking about Liu's affairs.
In the afternoon, Ren Yaoqi went to Yanbei Wangfu by appointment.
Xiao Jinglin saw Ren Yaoqi and said, "I thought you wouldn't be here today." ”
Ren Yaoqi stepped forward with a smile and grabbed Xiao Jinglin's arm, followed her to the princess's Jiuyang Palace, and whispered in her ear: "Of course you have to come, otherwise the county lord will be lazy playing the piano again." And yesterday, thank you for the help. ”
Yesterday, Mrs. Fang and Ren Yaoying did not go to the Su family but came to Yanbei Wangfu because Ren Yaoqi brought a letter to Xiao Jinglin and asked her to do a favor.
Xiao Jinglin shook her head, didn't care, and said: "I'm not lazy, Mr. said that my piano skills have made great progress, and I am making great progress every day!" Xiao Jinglin's expression was serious.
Ren Yaoqi glanced at her playfully: "That's right, I haven't heard you play the piano for a day, let's see if there is a difference of thousands of miles." ”
The two were talking and laughing and walking towards the Jiuyang Palace, but they were stopped by a maid halfway, Xiao Jinglin looked at the maid and frowned.
"County Lord, the old princess invites you to go to Shou'an Palace."
"Did grandmother say what she was looking for me?" Xiao Jinglin regained her expressionless appearance.
The maid bowed her head and said, "The slave maid doesn't know, the old princess just asked the slave maid to invite the county lord." ”
Xiao Jinglin didn't say anything more, turned her head to Ren Yaoqi and said, "I'll come when I go, you go to Jiuyang Hall and wait for me first." ”
Ren Yaochi was about to agree, but he didn't want the maid to say, "The old princess invites Miss Ren to go with the county lord." ”
Xiao Jinglin glanced at the maid, and then looked at Ren Yaoqi.
Ren Yaoqi hurriedly smiled: "I haven't had a chance to meet the old princess, I'll go over with the county lord." ”
Xiao Jinglin didn't say anything more, and took Ren Yaoqi to bypass the Jiuyang Hall and walk towards the Shou'an Palace.
When she was about to arrive at the Shou'an Palace, Xiao Jinglin whispered in Ren Yaoqi's ear: "When you see my grandmother later, you try to talk as little as possible, talk less and make fewer mistakes." If it's hard to answer, I'll answer it for you. ”
When Ren Yaoqi heard this, he couldn't help but feel a warmth in his heart, and looked at Xiao Jinglin nodding and smiling.
Xiao Jinglin squeezed Ren Yaoqi's hand and let go.
The scale of Shou'an Hall is smaller than that of Jiuyang Palace, but it is still very magnificent, and it is also located on the central axis of the palace.
When Ren Yaoqi followed Xiao Jinglin in, there were already a few people sitting in the hall.
The old princess sat on the top and wore a mud-gold bottom with a full head trim and embroidered with a hundred birds and phoenix patterns. Temperament majestic. Sitting under her hand was a middle-aged woman with a somewhat similar face to her, dressed in a bright red ten brocade makeup and gorgeous gowns, and the girl in a purple dress sitting next to the old princess was Wu Yiyu, who had fought with Xiao Jinglin.
Ren Yaoqi followed Xiao Jinglin forward to salute, that woman was the only daughter of the old princess and the wife of Wu Xiaohe, the general soldier of Ningxia.
"I heard that Lin'er has been practicing recently? How's it going? Mrs. Wu looked at Xiao Jinglin and asked with a smile.
Xiao Jinglin said lightly: "I'm still practicing, and I don't play well." ”
Mrs. Wu looked at the old princess and smiled: "I just said that I have been back for so long, and I haven't seen Lin'er a few times, it's weird." ”
The old princess glanced at Xiao Jinglin: "Don't say that you haven't seen her a few times, it's difficult for me to see her." I have to urge three times and ask four times every time. ”
Mrs. Wu laughed on the side: "The concubine said she was laughing." I see that Lin'er is a filial person. The day before yesterday, Yiyu had seen her at Mrs. Yuntai's place. ”
Ren Yaochi glanced at Xiao Jinglin, and saw that she was standing there with an unchanged face, but she didn't hear these words with guns and sticks.
The old princess sneered and turned her head to drink tea.
Mrs. Wu's gaze turned to Ren Yaoqi's face, and said with a smile: "This girl looks like a water spirit. But...... How does it look familiar? Could it be that I've seen it before? ”
The old princess also looked at Ren Yaoqi, thoughtfully: "She is younger than Yu'er, where have you seen her." It's just a resemblance to the faces of people you've seen. Are you the granddaughter of the deposed king? The latter sentence was asked to Ren Yao.
Ren Yaochi bowed his head slightly: "Yes, old princess." ”
The old princess said to Mrs. Wu: "When you were young, I took you to Kyoto to celebrate the birthday of the emperor. You were young then. I guess I don't remember. ”
Mrs. Wu suddenly realized: "You don't say that your daughter has forgotten." Her gaze turned on Ren Yaoqi, with a deep meaning, "It's really a little similar to that person." ”
Although Ren Yaoqi stood there pretending to be dumb, his heart was like a mirror.
The person who the mother and daughter are talking about should be the biological mother of the king. Wan Guifei.
The old princess is the daughter of the former emperor, and she is a brother and sister with her maternal grandfather, King Xian, so naturally she has seen Wan Guifei.
In her previous life in Kyoto, some people said that she was somewhat similar to the late Wan Guifei.
Wu Yiyu sat on the old princess. The fox said suspiciously: "Grandmother, mother, who are you talking about?" Who does she look like? ”
The old princess touched her head. His eyes softened a lot, and he said with a smile: "You don't recognize it, when your grandmother took your mother back to Beijing, you were so old." ”
Wu Yiyu pouted, the strong and spicy girl outside, she looked a little coquettish at this time: "Then when will you take me to Kyoto to play?" ”
Mrs. Wu laughed and scolded on the side: "What are you doing in Kyoto?" ”
The old princess said to Mrs. Wu: "Okay, don't you have something to ask Lin'er?" ”
Mrs. Wu remembered what was going on and stopped laughing with her daughter, turned her head to look at Xiao Jinglin, and said to the old princess: "Mother, you see that the child is still standing." ”
The old princess waved her hand and asked Xiao Jinglin and Ren Yaochi to sit down, and Ren Yaochi followed Xiao Jinglin to sit down with her.
"Lin'er has been back for a few days, will she live in Yunyang City in the future?" Mrs. Wu thought about it and asked with a smile.
Xiao Jinglin glanced at her and said lightly: "Obey my father's arrangement." ”
Mrs. Wu took a sip of tea and smiled kindly: "Speaking of which, Lin'er is not young, and she is a girl, so it is better to stay with her parents." The border passes are all rough men, you didn't have anything to do when you were young, and you always go there when you're old, what can you do with your reputation in the future? ”
Xiao Jinglin's face remained unchanged, and after thinking about it, she nodded and said, "Thank you aunt for worrying, speaking of rough men...... It's not just Jiajing Pass, there are also many places like that in Ningxia. If my aunt and cousin have been able to stay in Ningxia for so many years and have a good reputation, Jing Lin will naturally not be afraid. ”
"Presumptuous!" The old princess scolded with a cold face, "How did you talk to the elders!" ”
Mrs. Wu's face was also ugly, and Wu Yiyu's eyes shot on Xiao Jinglin's face like a knife, and her face was gloomy.
Xiao Jinglin glanced at the three of them and curled the corners of her mouth: "I'm sorry, aunt." I grew up at the border since I was a child, and I speak relatively straightforwardly, so don't worry about me as a junior. But I think you should know that my words are as malicious as what you say. ”
Mrs. Wu took a deep breath. A smile appeared on his face: "It's good that you understand that your aunt has good intentions." Lin'er, my aunt came back to Yanbei this time because the prince had sent a letter to your uncle before, have you ever heard of it? ”
Xiao Jinglin shook her head: "I don't know, my father didn't mention it to me." ”
Mrs. Wu smiled: "Oh? I heard that the prince trusts your daughter very much, and allows you to go in and out of the study like your second brother. You also know that the son is far away in the capital, and your father is the only son with your second brother, but his body is ......."
Xiao Jinglin frowned, and said directly: "If my aunt wants to ask anything, you might as well say it bluntly." "She hates this kind of temptation to come and go, and she can't get to the point for a long time. If it weren't for her elders, who were here. She's long gone.
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