Chapter 10: The battle for favor

(Slightly revised at the end of the previous chapter, it does not affect reading^^~)
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"Go and let someone set up another table, and put it in the next room for a while. The boss takes the buddies back first, and the eldest daughter-in-law, fifth daughter-in-law and sisters stay here for now."
This is what the old lady meant to save her meal.
Mr. Ren never asks about such trivial matters. So after listening to the old lady's instructions, the eldest master Ren Shizhong took his sons and nephews to retreat, and the eldest lady bowed in response, and went to lead the maids to set up the table.
Lin hurriedly stopped the eldest wife and said with a smile: "Sister-in-law, don't be busy, let me go."
The eldest lady glanced at the old lady, and when she saw that she had nothing to say, she nodded and smiled at Lin: "Thanks to the five siblings."
Lin glanced at the eldest wife and groaned: "Sister-in-law, what are you talking about? It's as if I don't do any work on weekdays. I have been so hardworking today, and I have to thank you this time. , Are you burying me in front of the younger generation?"
Her voice is crisp and articulate, and the meaning in these words sounds a little bit prickly, but when she says it, it makes people feel like a joke in a close world.
"Don't be familiar with this splash monkey. She has always been black and white. You can let her go." Mrs. Ren said.
The old lady smiled and stood behind the old lady again.
When Lin heard the words, he seemed to be complimented, and smiled before turning around.
Ren Yaoqi went with the Lin family for a while, waited until the old man and the old lady had finished their breakfast, and the old lady came over to eat together.
The eighth lady, Ren Yaoyu, was a little bit unaware of the taste, holding the chopsticks tossing over and over picking a crystal steamed dumpling in her own dish, but refused to enter it, and even sneaked into the fifth lady several times.
The fifth wife was eating slowly, and she and the big wife praised that the rare and fresh winter bamboo shoots are very delicious.
If the most favored girls of the Ren family are Ren Yaohua and Ren Yaoyin, then the most fascinating daughter-in-law in front of the old lady is the fifth wife Lin, and even the head lady has to stand aside.
Not only was Lin married the youngest old son of Mrs. Ren, but also because Lin's direct grandmother was Mrs. Ren's aunt.
Mrs. Ren's aunt was married to the Lin family, the largest grain merchant in Yanbei. After the death of Mrs. Lin, the head of the Lin family was the eldest son of Mrs. Ren's aunt, who was also Lin's father.
The Lin family and Ren Shimao, the fifth elder of the Ren family, have been married since childhood. They have been married for more than ten years and have had a son and a daughter. Although the fifth master would spend three or four months in the capital with the second bedroom grandfather each year, the relationship between husband and wife has always been harmonious.
It's just that although the Lin family has a face, the old lady Ren is mediocre to the daughter of Lin's daughter Ren Yaoyu. Ren Yaoyu is far less favored than Ren Yaohua and Ren Yaoyin in front of the old lady Ren.
Before Ren Yaohua went to Zhuangzi, the Dongnuan Pavilion in Ronghua Garden could be regarded as Ren Yaohua's boudoir alone. Even Ren Yaoyin, the fourth lady of the eldest wife, did not live here.
After Ren Yaohua left, Ren Yaoyin and Ren Yaoyu moved in one after another and replaced Ren Yaohua in front of the old lady.
Ren Yaoqi vaguely remembered that soon after Ren Yaohua came back, Ren Yaoyu was driven out of Ronghua Yuan by Ren Yaohua's design, but Ren Yaohua himself did not take advantage.
Finally, their nine sisters, Ren Yaoying, moved in to replace Ren Yaoyu.
However, Ren Yaohua completely offended the fifth wife Lin because of this incident, so that Lin, who was a bit at odds with their mother Li, looked at their mother and daughter as unpleasant, so that Ren Yaohua completely fell out of favor with the old lady. , Finally got such an unfortunate marriage.
Ren Yaohua's ending was indispensable for Lin's backing by adding firewood to fuel the flames.
It's just that Ren Yaoqi in the last life was still sick at this time, and he didn't witness how Ren Yaohua designed Ren Yaoyu.
Ren Yaoqi remembered the two Ren Yaoyu's maids who were kneeling outside... Could it be that the time of that incident happened today?
Thinking of this, Ren Yaoqi glanced at Ren Yaohua.
Ren Yaohua was holding an exquisite famille rose bowl of Fushan Shouhai, sipping lotus seed longan porridge. Because the two were sitting opposite each other, when Ren Yaoqi looked over, he was seen by Ren Yaohua who just raised his head.
Seeing Ren Yaoqi wrinkle, Ren Yaohua suddenly looked at her, frowned and stared back.
Ren Yaoyin, who was next to Ren Yaoqi, noticed Ren Yaohua's sight, and couldn't help turning his head to take a look at Ren Yaoqi.
Ren Yaoqi put aside his eyes and bowed his head to eat. Ren Yaoyin knew that the two sisters had always been at odds, and thought they were awkward again, so he smiled and threw it away.
When the eldest wife and the fifth wife put down their chopsticks one after another, everyone also stopped the chopsticks.
At this time, Jin Lian, the maid beside the old lady, came over and said that the old lady asked the ladies to go to Ming Ting after breakfast.
Everyone did not dare to delay, and was waited on by the maids to rinse their mouths, and after cleaning their hands, they went to Ming Ting with the old lady.
The Ming room of the main room of Ronghua Garden is very spacious. Old lady Ren is sitting on the red sandalwood carved arhat bed in the north and drinking tea. She hasn't seen the figure of Elder Ren. She must have gone out.
The Ren family is now a big family, and the head of the Ren family is naturally a heavy burden.
After the salute, everyone took their seats one after another.
Old lady Ren put down the tea bowl in her hand, swept her eyes down, and finally settled on Ren Yaoyu: "Yu'er, come here."
Ren Yaoyu looked at the old lady Ren, but the old lady Ren's face that seemed to be smiling even when she didn't smile really made her unable to tell what she was doing. She woke up slowly, but she kept her sight. Aiming at the Lin sitting opposite.
Although Lin was still talking to the big grandmother in a low voice, he received his daughter's look for help in the first time, and he winked at her secretly, indicating that she should not be afraid and go over.
Ren Yaoyu relaxed a little, walked a few steps forward slowly, and stopped in front of the old lady.
Mrs. Ren's voice was still gentle: "The two maids who are kneeling outside are waiting for you by your side?"
Ren Yaoyu glanced at his mother and nodded.
"Do you know why they were punished to kneel?"
Ren Yaoyu subconsciously wanted to look at Lin's side again, but the old lady suddenly retakes the sandalwood dwarf table on the Luohan bed and said: "I'm asking you! Where do you look?"
Ren Yaoyu was frightened, almost crying. She usually has a lively temperament, but she doesn't know why when she sees her grandfather and grandmother it is like a mouse meeting a cat, and she doesn't like talking in front of an old lady. Her mother Lin had taught her this problem many times, but she couldn't correct it.
"Mother, Yaoyu, she was punished to kneel because she didn't know what the two maids had committed. That was why she was afraid of sneaking back to Jianjiayuan. She has always been timid, so don't be too timid for her. I'm so angry." Lin felt sorry for her daughter, and was busy making things happen for her.
The old lady Ren's face was slightly dark: "It's just spoiled by you!"
Lin himself was not afraid of being scolded, so he hurriedly said with a smile: "Daughter-in-law knows that she is wrong, isn't she sent to you to help you discipline? You teach your children well, and now who in Yunyang City doesn't know My cousin's Shijia? Every time my daughter-in-law goes back to her natal home, grandmother and mother have to preach to her cousin." In the end, Lin was still wronged.
Lin's cousin is the youngest daughter of the old lady Ren Shijia, who is married to the only son of Lin's cousin.
The old lady Ren's face slowly said, "Since this is the case, when I teach her, don't be a little distressed."
Lin hurriedly said: "Where does the daughter-in-law love this girl? Isn't the daughter-in-law love you?"
The old lady snorted, then turned to look at Ren Yaoyu: "This morning, someone saw your two maids sneaking up a bag of things out of the yard."
Ren Yaoyu just wanted to look at Lin's side, and could not bear it again, stammering: "Grandma, I...I don't know..." Forgot what her mother taught her to say before.
Lin gave Ren Yaoyu a frustrated look, and had to stand up again and said, "Mother, who saw it? Can you call her to ask? This winter morning, Wu made a dark look. Is it normal, or did the two maids just take Yu'er to change clothes and go out?"
Ren Yaoqi, who had been listening in silence, suddenly remembered. After she recovered from her illness, Ronghua Yuan and even the entire Ren family dared not talk about Ren Yaoyu’s expulsion from Ronghua Yuan, but she was from Zhu The mother heard about one thing, and that incident should be directly related to Ren Yaoyu's disgust by the old lady. Thank you for the fan sent by Arab plastic bags~ and thank you enigmayanxi who has been silently supporting someone~^^~`