The Plot of a Concubine's Revenge

Chapter 24 Meeting: The Winds and Clouds of Ronghua Courtyard

Li was even more surprised when she heard this, she knew that Ren Yaoyi was not happy with Old Madam Ren since she was young, so Ren Yaoyi disliked going to Ronghua Courtyard the most, except for the morning and evening meditation, she didn't go there when she could. Ren Yaoyi knew what Li was thinking, so she explained: “I happen to be going to look for fourth sister, so I'm just stopping by to take a look, mother don't worry.”

Seeing her insistence, Li couldn't say anything else and just said to Ren Yaohua, “Hua'er will also go over to take a look together, right?” If it was before, Li would never have said such words, but recently the relationship between Ren Yaoshi and Ren Yaohua's sisters has eased, this is something that Li and a few close people around her have witnessed for all to see.

“No need, I'll go and return, third sister stay and talk with you.” Ren Yaoqi said as she headed out. She had something on her mind, and on the way, she only focused on leading her maids forward with her head buried in her hands. When she rounded the nine corridors and was about to turn through the garden, she heard the sound of several men talking in the garden drifting along the wind. At the same time, she also heard the “creaking” sound of several pairs of boots stepping on the snow getting closer and closer.

“Didn't Third Uncle bring us to the garden to pick snow from the plum trees to make tea? There are a few plum trees in the mansion, but none of them are in bloom.......Cough...... “A teenager's voice complained in dissatisfaction.

“Miscalculation! A mistake! But Yijun ah, not the third uncle said you, you should also come out more around is, always stuffed in the room without disease will be suffocated out of the disease.” Ren Shimin leisurely said.

“Third master, can't you see that the third young master just coughed again? Bad, bad, must be out of the wind and catch a cold, later go back to the big wife will certainly uncover my skin! Young master, since there are no plum blossoms, we'd better go back. You have to take care of yourself!” A voice with a sobbing tone urgently said.

“Nonsense! Where does the young master go that you should be in charge of? Give me ......cough......” The teenager seethed with dissatisfaction, only to be interrupted by another cough.

“Young master ......”

When Ren Yaoqi heard this, she realized that it was her father and third cousin who were in the garden at this time. Third cousin Ren Yijun was the second son of the Grand Master, and had a deficiency brought from his mother's womb, and a physiognomist had once asserted that he wouldn't live past the age of ten. Over the years, the first wife searched around for secret recipes to replenish the body, daily stewed tonic soup for him, three meals a day only also eat medicinal food, it can be said that her cousin is soaked in a pot of medicine to grow up. Now Ren Yijun sixteen years old, although the small disease constantly, but also still live a good end.

Thinking that his father had abducted his cousin, who seldom went out, and let him blow in the snow, Ren Yaoqi couldn't help but have a headache. If Ren Yijun really got any injury, the first wife will definitely put this account on his head again. Ren Yijun because of poor health is always detained in their own yard rarely go out, coupled with the home to the old lady down to the siblings are indulged in letting him, so that he developed a somewhat eccentric and withdrawn temperament. The relationship between him and his peers, including his full brother and sister, is light, but only with Ren Shimin, the third uncle is very close.

Ren Yaoqi remembers that in his last life, he also disliked this third brother who was eccentric and never had a smile on his face. Until later, after dad died Ren family did not dare to carry his body back. Under the scorching sun of June, she knelt in the courtyard of the Ronghua Courtyard and cried and pleaded with Master Ren and Mrs. Ren to collect the body of her father, and in the end, she almost fainted from heatstroke and didn't let the people inside make half a move. At that time Ren Yijun leaned on his crutches and walked over with a gloomy face, pulling her up and leaving. She stumbled and stumbled in a daze as he pulled her to the Ren family's “Three Provinces Hall”, which is the place where the ancestors' tablets are enshrined, and is the Ren family's ancestral hall. “What's the use of crying? Their hearts are cold, and so is their blood. You should be like this ......” said Ren Yijun, raising the walking stick in his hand he swept down the dozen or so tablets on the offering table in a single swipe. She was so scared that she was dumbfounded, and watched as he threw the cane in his hand and madly stomped on the tablets on the ground, while also cursing, “Eating our offerings but letting our children and grandchildren suffer, indulging those nasty people in the Ren family to trample on us, it's okay to break the incense like this!” She was infected by his crazy and reckless appearance, thinking about the cause of her father's death, hatred rose in her heart, climbed up and picked up the tablets on the ground one by one and smashed them fiercely into the wall. When the rest of the Ren family arrived at the news, only broken pieces of wood remained on the ground. The ancestor's tablets were smashed by them without a single one left. Elder Ren was so angry that he almost fainted, the Grand Master went up and slapped Ren Yijun to knock him to the ground, and the First Mistress also collapsed to the ground in fear. He was smiling coldly and looked around the crowd: “All I smashed! The family law and all that is also directed at me! The lives of the Ren family aren't worth much anyway!”

That was the first time she realized that this third brother, who had been treated like a porcelain doll since childhood, was actually not as weak and vulnerable as they had imagined.

Ren Yaoqi turned around and walked back again, thinking about persuading his father and Ren Yijun to go back, but then she heard the voice of an unfamiliar teenager. “Without the rootless water from the plum blossoms using spring water to make tea is also very good, I happen to have a newly shipped back Huizuan spring water there, why don't I have someone go back and fetch it now.” Ren Yaoqi's footsteps lurched, she looked through the branches and leaves of the several clumps of Haitong trees in front of her into the garden, and side by side with Ren Shimin and Ren Yijun there was a teenager around fifteen or sixteen years old. She wasn't very close, and with the trees covering her, she couldn't see the young man's face. She only knew that he had a long figure, and his posture was like a jade tree in the wind. Unlike Ren Shimin's wide-sleeved and wide-robed elegant appearance, he had a kind of introverted composure that was extremely rare in a teenager. Ren Yaoqi probably guessed his identity.

At this time, there were footsteps behind her again, looking back Ren Yaohua saw Ren Yaohua walking along the corridor, seeing her standing at the entrance by the garden wanting to enter but not entering, she couldn't help but frowned and looked over. Over there Ren Shimin is proposing to go to the warm pavilion in the middle of the garden to drink tea and play chess, Ren Yaohua turns back and walks back again. “What are you standing there for?” Ren Yaohua glanced towards the garden, apparently she also faintly heard someone in the garden. Ren Yaohua smiled towards her, “Nothing, just now I seem to have heard father and third brother's voices. I originally wanted to go over to say hello, but I realized that there were other people with them. I'd better not go over.” Ren Yaohua then stopped asking questions and led the way towards Ronghua Courtyard. Ren Yaohua glanced at the direction of the garden again before following behind Ren Yaohua.

In Ronghua Courtyard, Old Madam Ren's main room was bustling with activity. When Ren Yaohua and Ren Yaoshi went in, they saw that apart from Old Madam Ren, Ren Yaoyin and Ren Yaoyu, there was also a woman in her thirties and a woman of eleven or twelve years old. The woman had an unhealthy waxy face, and her body seemed to be sick. The woman sitting against her looked similar to her, except that her eyes were not as large as the woman's, but were long and slanted with a single eyelid. Her complexion was excellent, fair and clear, lining her lips without a dot of vermilion. It was said that a white color could cover up three ugly things, not to mention that she herself was not ugly, so she looked very watery. “Why did you guys come over?” Old Mrs. Ren was a little surprised to see Ren Yaohua and Ren Yaoqi walk in. “I came to look for fourth sister.” Ren Yaohua smiled and walked over to bow towards Old Mrs. Ren. Old Mrs. Ren heard this and stopped asking questions, as for what Ren Yaoyi came for, she was even less concerned. “These are the two daughters of the Lao San family,” Old Mrs. Ren said to Mrs. Han, then instructed the two sisters, ”Mrs. Han family and Miss Han family. You haven't met before, go over and meet them.” The two of them, Ren Yaohua and Ren Yaoqi, went forward to meet the Han family's mother and daughter. “I've heard from Da Aunt Xiao mention that all of the Ren family's young ladies are really outstanding. It's true that I've seen them today.” Mrs. Han smiled and pulled Ren Yaohua and Ren Yaoqi up one by one, sizing them up. Xiao Da Aunt's kind of people who are well connected and can get things done will always say nothing but good things about her patrons, and Mrs. Ren laughed, “It's still the Han family's girls who have the appearance of a lady of the house.”