Section 4: General Zhai Cao's

Ren Tianqi is very interested in the way, and he has nothing to do, although he is close to the middle of winter and a depression, he still feels that the place where he looks is so appreciative, so amiable, and he thinks of the past when he was young. Along the way, I rarely remembered what childlike fun and hobbies I had when I was young, but more I thought about my sister-in-law Cao, who was 12 years older than me, and how good it was to me.

Cao's family, its dignified and kind, very understanding, cold and warm, approachable, is the only one in Dazhai who does not have prejudices about the right village, and does not pay attention to the rich and the poor and the weak in foreign exchanges. To be honest, at the beginning, only the eldest brother Ren Tianmin agreed to marry the Cao family, who was a classmate, but others may not be able to look down on a small family like the Cao family. It was only because the eldest brother later invited his father Ren Songde to persuade Zongzhai and take charge of the house on his behalf that the marriage between Cao and Tianmin was fulfilled. After marriage, the Cao family really had the appearance of a prosperous husband, and gave birth to two sons for the Ren family in a row, and helped Tianmin take care of housework and business contacts, just a few years made the Ren family Zongzhai become one of the top nouveau riche in Guangling. The old village owner and Tian Min often don't ask much about the things in the village.

When he came to the village, Ren Tianqi appointed himself as a housekeeper to take Gong Ming to visit the old lady and present gifts, while he took his second daughter to the Cao family in the East Compound.

After decades of doing business, the village has become rich. High-rise pavilions abound, the corridor is tortuous, the flowers are like a brocade, all kinds of furnishings, all kinds of materials, are close to the extreme, the family is also brightly dressed, one by one fat head.

However, Ren Tianqi's threesome looked pampered, thin, naïve and innocent. The two daughters of Chun Tao were in the middle of it, and they were surprised and surprised by everything. The wealth of the total village is not inferior to that of the palace.

But the clothes of Ren Tianqi and the three of them are extremely luxurious, and they are all new dresses made by Wang Fu Ritter for the south.

Ren Tianqi knew that there was a group of powerful people in the general village, and he looked down on Youzhai. This Zongzhai family has little contact with the family, very high, and timid as a mouse, if it is not for the uncle Ren Songyi in the imperial court for the official cover; the third master Ren Songde in the county for the county lieutenant, Pingsu has a lot of friendship and connections, and is good at fighting uneven face, the righteous name is far and wide, and the general village has the ability to protect the village, the general village has long disappeared, can not survive. But such a group of people have abundant food and clothing, but the pampered ones are very unpopular, except for the fact that they are not willing to befriend the local powerful and calm the people, or they have many contacts with the court to seek refuge, they are closed to the country, and it is rare to have contact with the outside world. His open-mindedness and connections naturally attracted Zhu Jiazhuang's contempt, so he was guilty of conceiving money and suffered repeatedly.

Someone in the house had already seen clearly that this brightly dressed, colorful man and woman were actually Ren Tianqi, the second young master of Youzhai, and others, and they hurriedly ran into the courtyard and reported to the door.

The eldest lady Cao was half-lying on the collapse, her eyes slightly closed, and the little girl was gently tapping from behind, chatting with her niece Su Juan who was sitting next to her without saying a word.

The Cao family is an inconspicuous ordinary small family, and they will send people to come after three or five times, obviously to ask for peace, but they are actually looking forward to getting some oil and water to go back. The granddaughter of the Cao family also often lives in Zongzhai, and she lives here for seven or eight months of the year, so she is also very familiar with Ren Tianqi; the two are classmates of the same year and age, and they often play together when they are young.

An aunt came in and said, "Back to grandma, there are people going back and forth in front, saying that the young master Tianqi from the right village is coming over, and he is coming here with his second daughter." ”

Cao Shi was stunned for a moment, tilted his head and opened his eyes to ask Su Juan, and said, "Juan, who are you talking about? Who is coming here with the girl? How can I hear that Tianqi is coming!"

Su Juan said with a smile: "It's Tianqi, the second young master of Youzhai, who came back to visit my aunt." ”

Cao Shi hurriedly got up and straightened his clothes, straightened the jewelry on his head, tilted his head and smiled: "It's been seven years, this kid has been out to study art for seven years, and it's really hard for him to have such ambitions." Now that I'm back, I guess it's a success. Juan, can I still see people in my outfit? Why should we always welcome this child? Hey, he's the only good man in our family who is self-reliant!" Cao's eyes were full of tenderness and admiration. , distress and joy.

Su Juan was stunned for a moment, got up and said with a smile: "Aunt, I can go anywhere I see in your outfit, even if I go to see the emperor, it is enough to meet the Jade Emperor in the sky." ”

Cao Shi smiled disapprovingly: "That's it, this body was bought from Hangzhou by your uncle, and it should be said that it is good and gorgeous enough." Hey, it's just that my aunt is already old, and she is already old, and she is no longer as young and tender as you. Cao Shi sighed, and saw two blushes on his pale face.

Su Juan was surprised and said, "Isn't my aunt only thirty this year?"

Cao Shi hurriedly poked out the door, and said with a wry smile: "My daughter's family is twenty-eight years old, just young, and this woman is worthless once she is over thirty." Hey, I know that you and this little uncle of our family are quite good when they are young, how about it, do you want to find an opportunity to tell me about it?

Su Juan hurriedly blushed and smiled: "Aunt, you are becoming more and more unserious, why do you talk about my niece and me, even if he agrees, is it not easy to put the level of this generation! There are a hundred people in the family who will not agree, so why bother to bother with this useless heart." ”

Look, Su Juan, this girl has already had this plan in her heart to be with Xiao Jiujiu, but the old system of etiquette of the ancestors does not allow this. It's just a joke between his aunt and nephew.

Cao Shi felt justified when he heard it, smiled, sat down again, and said with a smile: "You can go play later." ”

Su Juan didn't understand, nodded hesitantly, got up and said with a smile: "I still have a piece of silk juan there that hasn't been embroidered yet, since someone is nagging with you, I'll go over first." ”

After Su Juan finished speaking, he turned around and went inside, and left.

Here, Ren Tianqi had already brought Spring Peach, and Qiu Yue came straight over with the things for the three cousins.

The people below had already led the way into the house.

Ren Tianqi stepped forward to meet the Cao family first, and then ordered Chun Tao, and Qiu Yue and the two of them saw the Cao family.

Cao didn't expect that Ren Tianqi would be so handsome and upright, and he was no longer the only sensible and likable child he was back then. The figure is not tall and burly, but it is sturdy and tough; the face is handsome, and there is a faint scar, and there are a few wild surnames in the elegant and handsome handsome, mature; a yellow shirt is very fit, it looks noble, all made of silk mink, a jade belt inlaid with gold around the waist, dotted with a few pieces of red and green gemstones, and a piece of hanging jade that is green like a river hangs around the waist.

It's really so-called clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, and the spirit is flying.

Look at the two little girls in the back, they are even more charming, richly dressed, extraordinary, white as fat, and black as water. One is holding a package, and the other is holding a long sword in his arms. The sword, the Cao family recognizes it, the old man's spotted bamboo sword, and the sharp weapon of Renjiabao's fort!

The people around him were stunned when they saw Cao's for a while, but they didn't see his words, they were already light-hearted Ren Tianqi and the three of them, this is not Cao's usual way of treating people, and they were very surprised.

A middle-aged woman hurriedly stepped forward and said with a smile: "Big lady, the second master asks you well." ”

Cao Shifang retracted his thoughts and said with a smile: "I don't know the reason, it's just that when I see my brother standing in front of me now, I think of his childhood, and I am sighing that time is like a shuttle, and seven years have passed in the blink of an eye." Brother, please take a seat. ”

Ren Tianqi sat down and said with a smile: "Sister-in-law has always been good?"

Cao nodded again and again, and said with a smile: "Okay, everything is as you wish, and there is nothing unpleasant." What, when did my brother come back, did you go to the backyard first?"

Ren Tianqi shook his head and said, "I only came back yesterday." Later, I asked Steward Ming to go on my behalf, and I came to see the eldest brother and sister-in-law first. ”

Cao Shi smiled: "You still have a conscience, and you still know that you will come to see me as soon as you come back, and you have not wasted your kindness to you in the first place." How about it, I haven't been together all these years, let's see if my sister-in-law is old?"

Ren Tianqi turned around and nodded at Qiu Yue, turned around and smiled: "Who doesn't know that your eldest lady can speak well, sister-in-law is more delicate and more affectionate than before." No, I didn't bring anything with me when I came back, I just bought three furs and gave them to my three brothers, and I hope that my sister-in-law will pass them on to the other two brothers. I heard that the two days in the village are very busy, so the younger brother didn't go to bother, and he was lazy. ”

The autumn moon is presented.

Someone had already taken it and presented it to Cao.

Cao sighed and said, "There is no one in our family who is fleshy, so don't mention those things that make you angry when you think about it." ”

Cao Shi opened the package and stretched out his hand to touch it, knowing that this was a rare and high-quality solid color bear skin in the world, each of which was no less than three thousand taels of silver, which was very valuable.

Cao Shi hurriedly asked someone to accept it, and was very happy, and said with a smile: "How can you accept such a valuable item, could it be that my brother is making a fortune outside, and he is making such a heavy move?"

Ren Tianqi smiled: "I, I haven't returned for seven years, so I have to give you one or two things that you can look at." ”

Cao Shi turned back to his subordinates and said with a smile: "Look, this person is big, and I don't know if he should be full of length, and he also knows that he has thorns in his speech." However, sister-in-law can come back to it, those stingy things, climbing rich and disliking poverty, are all done by your family name, and it has nothing to do with your sister-in-law. ”

Ren Tianqi nodded, pointed at Cao's Chun Tao Qiuyue, and said with a smile: "See the sister-in-law's clever teeth, the heroine of the female middle school, don't let the eyebrows, our family is all up and down." ”

The two daughters really didn't know what the Cao family was talking about, they looked at each other and heard what the master said, and they both got up and saw the Cao family, which was regarded as admiration.

Cao Shi hurriedly waved his hand and invited the two to sit down, and said with a smile: "The two girls don't listen to your grandfather's jokes." Where do people in the countryside have that kind of ability? It's you two girls who are smart, and in comparison, I'm all ugly pigs and ugly cats, and it's miserable. A pair of eyes kept looking at the second daughter, and their eyes were full of envy and jealousy.

Chun Tao smiled: "The eldest lady said that she was laughing. How can the two of us talk about being delicate, we can only be regarded as mediocre people around my lord, our young lady and Sister Dongxue are called handsome. ”

Cao Shi was surprised.

Ren Tianqi said with a smile: "The younger brother came back this time to get married, and these two are the personal girls of your brother and sister who have not passed through the door." ”

Cao retracted his eyes and said with a smile: "Yes, my brother is almost twenty years old, and it's time to start a family." I've been thinking about finding you a good daughter-in-law for the past two days, so don't I have a lot of heart? ”

Ren Tianqi smiled, he didn't know the conversation between his aunt and nephew.

Cao said with a smile: "How is my brother doing outside, he must have suffered a lot, is he an official or a business?"

Ren Tianqi said: "Nothing can be accomplished. However, the air has grown a little more knowledge, and I have run a few more places. ”

Ren Tianqi looked up at the inside and outside of the hall, and he was a hundred times more luxurious and luxurious than Youzhai.

Cao Shi took this into his eyes, and said with a smile: "Brother hasn't been here for many years, why don't I take you around?"

Ren Tianqi said with a smile: "That's what I mean, the second uncle and the eldest brother heard that they were talking, and I didn't bother to mix it." ”

Cao got up and dragged Ren Tianqi's hand all the way, just like Tianqi's childhood seven years ago.

The two daughters of Chun Tao were shocked.

Ren Tianqi also wanted to break free, but when she thought that her sister-in-law had taken care of her before, she was like her brother in her eyes, and her family affection was natural, so she didn't say anything, and smiled and hurriedly beckoned the two daughters of Chuntao to follow.

When I came to Cao's bedroom first, I saw that the ancient jade toys in his room were exquisite, dazzling, and could not be compared with them without the palace, but I was puzzled to see that there was a delicate and small horsewhip and a few inexplicable small toys on the dresser.

Cao Shi blushed and was ashamed when he saw Ren Tianqi's puzzled eyes, which did not escape Ren Tianqi's eagle-like eyes.

Coming to Ren Tianmin's study made Ren Tianqi feel even more confused, but he saw that there was no book in the room, empty, except for a wooden case, a wooden chair, and a wooden cupboard, there were a few common calligraphy and paintings on the wall, and there was nothing special about it, and then there was a long sword on the wall, with a black shell and a black hilt, simple and unpretentious; a study, but there were six or seven windows, and although a few windows were said to be in the middle of winter, they were wide open.

The emptiness and simplicity of the study are incomparable to the extravagant exaggeration of the bedroom.

Ren Tianqi knows that Tianmin is not a simple and unpretentious person, but a person who is extremely particular about his daily life, quite pedantic and conservative, who does not like words and is mostly silent. Now I see that there are no books in his study, which shows that he is not a rigid and conservative person in his bones, and he will not put the old rules and customs in his eyes; and I see a sword hanging in his study, which shows that he strives to be self-reliant in everything and advocates martial arts. And these two points do not match Tianmin in reality, whether others are looking away, or Tianmin is deliberately hiding something. A thought flashed through Ren Tianqi's mind. Habit becomes nature.

Ren Tianqi was quite surprised, very curious, and wanted to raise his legs to go in and take a good look.

Cao Shi hurriedly stretched out his hand to stop it, and said with a smile: "This study is clear at a glance, there is nothing to see, but in the eyes of your eldest brother, this place is a forbidden place for our family, and no one dares to enter the house." Brother, don't go in, so that someone will have to have convulsions if they find out. It's open all year round. Hey, now I have money in my family, but your eldest brother's temper has grown a lot, and even I sometimes feel strange, as if I am staying together all night, but sleeping with an unrelated outsider. Hey, no matter, let's go and see elsewhere. ”

Listening to his tone and looking at his demeanor, he was full of bitterness, and he was full of words to say to others. It's just an ancient custom of the Chinese people: family ugliness should not be publicized.

In the village, a few of the Tianqi masters and servants were allowed to go back after dinner.

The rise of Renjia Youzhai is already the consensus of everyone in the village.