Chapter 178: Yanbei Palace

Looking at the Lin family along the way, the maids seemed to be more cautious about their breathing, and their steps were as light as a cat.
Ren Yaoqi couldn't help being surprised. Could it be that what happened to the Lin family during her absence?
This question was answered after Ren Yaoqi went to Ren Shijia's yard and met Ren Shijia.
Ren Yaoqi was very happy to return to Ren Shijia today. He handed the child to the maid, and took Ren Yaoqi to sit on the kang to ask for warmth. Ren Yaoqi also handed the gift list from Rong to Ren Shijia's maid.
"What happened in the mansion?" Ren Yaoqi asked softly.
Ren Shijia looked in a good mood.
"Shanggong disposed of those people yesterday."
Ren Yaoqi was taken aback: "Who?"
The smile on Ren Shijia’s face brought some irony:
What else? Isn’t it just those Diao slaves who dared to harm my Cen brother? Xianggong found that kind of medicine in a kitchen steward’s room. It was also involved. A few mothers and maids came out. Those people have been beaten up by the grandfather now and are about to be sold."
Ren Yaoqi was a little surprised. Is Lin Kun already planning to tear his face with the Lin family?
At this moment, there was a noise outside, mixed with women's crying.
Ren Shijia frowned slightly, and the expression on her face was somewhat complicated.
"Grandma aunt, your uncle and slave maid, grandma aunt, the slave maid has been wronged..." The woman's voice grew louder, as if someone wanted to take her away.
The aunt made Ren Yaoqi stunned and couldn't help looking at Ren Shijia.
Ren Shijia sighed, and finally said, "Let her in."
After a while, a woman stumbled in and knelt in front of Ren Shijia with a puff: "Auntie, the slave and maid are wronged..."
She raised her head with tears on her face. It was time when Ren Yaoqi recognized her as the maid Qingliu who had prepared for her uncle.
There are some dirty tear marks on Qing Liu's face, and her hair is a bit messy, but there are no injuries on her body. Seeing her movements are also very neat, she probably hasn't been through the board.
"Aoyagi, it's not that I don't believe you. It's just that the nanny's food on those days was indeed passed by your hands, and someone saw that the steward in the kitchen stuffed you with money, and the maids who committed the crime went with you. When they confessed, they also recruited you. Because you were the one given to me by your mother, the father-in-law also showed mercy to you and didn't let you be tortured. It's just that I can't tolerate you anymore, you still return to me Mother there."
"Auntie, you also said that the slave and maidservant were given to you by the old lady, and the family of the slave and maidservant was in the hands of the old lady. How could the slave and maid betray you? The slave and maid were wronged."
Ren Shijia hesitated after hearing this.
Aoyagi continued: "It must be those people who deliberately spilled dirty water on our Ren's family in order to confuse the master. Aunty, you have to be the master for the slaves."
Ren Yaoqi couldn't help but look at this low-key, gentle and smooth maid. He didn't expect that at the critical moment, his lips would be quite neat. Dare to pull the Ren family in.
Personal behavior rose to family behavior, and she really didn't move her.
Ren Shijia sighed: "You go down first, stop making trouble. I'll discuss it with Xiang Gong."
Aoyagi refused to leave, sobbing non-stop.
The big maid Chunlan next to Ren Shijia scowled her face and taught her a few words, and finally she was finally dragged by someone.
Shi Jia sighed again: "Her my mother's family was picked by my mother herself. I really can't deal with her, so I can only send her back to my mother to send her back."
At this time, someone outside reported that the big lady had come.
Ren Shijia frowned.
After a while, Mrs. Lin Da came in, with a dignified and friendly expression on her face.
"Oh, the two aunts and nephews are whispering, did I bother you?" Mrs. Lin Da started to speak, always making people uncomfortable.
Ren Shijia cheered up to deal with her.
Mrs. Lin exchanged a few words with Ren Shijia, and then smiled at Ren Yaoqi: "Good boy, I want to say a few sweet things to your aunt. Can you make it easy?" The tone was a little joking.
Ren Yaoqi got up and said, "Then I will go back first." She had no intention of participating in the Lin Family's fight.
Ren Shijia originally wanted to keep Ren Yaoqi, but Mrs. Lin Da said so, she couldn't say anything. Thinking of Lin Kun's words to her before going out, she secretly cheered herself up.
Ren Yaoqi went back to his room after coming out of Ren Shijia’s room. Seeing that there was nothing happening at Ren Yaoyin next door, Ren Yaoqi couldn’t help asking,
Where’s my fourth sister? Not in the house?

Xiangqin answered: "The slave and maid had inquired about it. The fourth lady is said to have gone to the Yun family."
Yaoqi couldn't help but raise his eyebrows: "She went there alone?"
Xiangqin lowered her voice mysteriously: "I heard that it was a letter to Miss Yun Family, and then Miss Yun Family invited her to discuss poetry."
Ren Yaoqi couldn't help but laugh when he heard this, her fourth sister actually had some abilities.
"Aren't you just returning home? Where did you find out about this?" Ren Yaoqi asked while letting Apple wait and change his clothes.
Parsley smiled triumphantly: "The maidservant is the best maid around the ladies, otherwise Miss San would not lend the maidservant to Miss Fifth."
Ren Yaoqi was dumbfounded and waved her away.
Over there, Mrs. Lin Da and Ren Shijia didn't know what they said. When I went to Ren Shijia for dinner at noon, Ren Shijia's expression was a bit bad, and Ren Yaoqi didn't ask much. I went back after dinner.
In the afternoon, Zhu Ruoju came suddenly and brought news of Luo Pozi's sudden illness.
When he heard the news, Ren Yaoqi was stunned for a long time.
"Isn't it okay yesterday?"
Zhu Ruoju’s eyes were a little red: "Originally it was good, but she looked very bad early this morning. She was out of breath and couldn't even say a word. I went to ask the doctor to go back, and the doctor said she was old. She didn’t care about some minor physical problems when she got older. After years of accumulation, she eventually caused stubborn illness. She also said that she was frustrated and determined to die. The doctor said that we should prepare for the funeral, but the doctor left her The hind legs are not working. My mother originally thought that Shui Ai would call her back to take her back, but she didn't even see the last side."
Shui Ai Ren Yaoqi did not bring it back, but let her stay in Aquarius Hutong temporarily and let Chu Chu teach her the rules. She is at Lin's house now, so it's not good to bring a maid back suddenly, and she was taking her away when she returned to Baihe Town.
Ren Yaoqi couldn't help thinking, if she hadn't forcibly picked up Luo Pozi from Zhuangzi at that time, could Luo Pozi live longer?
Ren Yaoqi knew that you shouldn't think about this kind of thing too much, otherwise you will easily fall into the devil. So she told herself not to think about it.
Asked Apple to take out thirty taels of silver to Zhu Ruoju to arrange for the burial of Lady Luo, and also sent two mamas to help. They also sent people to Baoping Hutong to pick up Shui Ai back. After Zhu Ruoju left, Ren Yaoqi lay on the kang and read a book. It was an afternoon.
On the second day, shortly after Ren Yaoqi finished breakfast, Xiao Jinglin sent someone to pick her up.
The Yanbei Palace is located in the middle of Yunyang City, facing the north and facing the south. It has four main gates from east, west, north and south plus eight auxiliary gates. It covers an area of ​​more than 500 acres. Most of the buildings are distributed on the three axes of the left, middle and right. It looks very magnificent from a distance. .
Although the Yanbei Palace is not as big as the Kyoto Imperial Palace, it was built in accordance with the rules of the imperial palace and divided into the front hall and the apse.
Ren Yaoqi got in by the carriage of the Yanbei Palace, so the road was unimpeded. It’s not easy to look at the Yaoqi in the carriage. When I got off the carriage, I took a look at it and found that the place I was going was near the west axis of the palace.
The buildings of the Yanbei Palace rarely use gold bricks, white marble, and colored glaze. Most of them are made of whole large bluestone, which is very dull in color. It is not beautiful, but it reveals domineering and vicissitudes everywhere.
Xiao Jinglin's residence is located in Yanju Yard to the west of the palace. The name is very beautiful, but the yard is nothing special. The courtyard is very large, and there are no flowers, flowers, and grasses. There are only two elderly phoenix trees.
When Ren Yaoqi entered, Xiao Jinglin was waiting for her in the courtyard, still holding a spear in her hand. Her face was calm and there was no sweat on her face. Ren Yaoqi didn't know whether she had finished training the gun or was about to practice.
Seeing Ren Yaoqi coming, Xiao Jinglin's eyes flashed, and then unexpectedly raised the gun in her hand, and suddenly came towards Ren Yaoqi, the spear pointed directly at the facade of Ren Yaoqi.
Apple, the maid walking by Ren Yaoqi's side, was startled. She exclaimed that she was about to stand in front of Ren Yaoqi, but Xiao Jinglin evaded and pushed her, pushing the person a few steps away with skill, and then the spear continued towards Ren Yaoqi. Time comes.
During this process, Ren Yaoqi kept looking at Xiao Jinglin with a smile, until the tip of the gun stopped against the tip of her nose, and Ren Yaoqi didn't even blink his eyelids.
Before Xiao Jinglin took off the gun, people laughed first: "Good courage."
Ren Yaoqi shook his head and watched Xiao Jinglin remove the gun head: "I was shocked at the beginning, but I knew I couldn't escape, so I didn't hide."
Xiao Jinglin threw the gun to her maidservant, then took another look at Apple, and said in a rare praise: "The maidservant is good, but the person is a little stupid." This is definitely a good thing.
Apple wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, saluted Xiao Jinglin, and retreated behind Ren Yaoqi.
"I'll take you to see my mother concubine." Xiao Jinglin took Ren Yaoqi's hand and walked out.
"Jing Lin, don't you change your clothes?" Ren Yaoqi looked at her menswear that was convenient for martial arts.
Xiao Jinglin looked at herself, thought about it, and then took Ren Yaoqi to turn her head into her room: "Then change it." This tone was reluctant.
Apart from the "Shu De Shun He" plaque hanging in Xiao Jinglin's boudoir, it was completely invisible that it was a woman's boudoir. The layout is horribly simple.
Xiao Jinglin quickly changed her clothes, and then took Ren Yaoqi away: "The teacher who teaches the qin is with my mother and concubine, didn't you bring the qin?" Xiao Jinglin saw Ren Yaoqi's maid with nothing.
Ren Yaoqi shook his head: "My piano is at home, it's okay, I watch you practice."
Xiao Jinglin frowned: "How can it be done? Hong Ying quickly find a piano, go to the second brother, he must have it."
The place where the princess lives is not too far from the Yanjuyuan, located on the central axis of the palace, the Jiuyangdian, where the residence of the princes and concubines of the Yanbei palace. Still not very close to the beauty, but there are a lot of trees in the temple, set off against the dull bluestone, there is a different kind of simplicity and elegance.
Princess Yanbei was sitting in the hall talking to people, Xiao Jinglin let go of Ren Yaoqi's hand before entering, so as not to let people see them pulling and pulling.
Princess Yanbei is very beautiful. When Ren Yaoqi saw Yun Qiuchen for the first time, she felt that the Yun family's eldest lady was really beautiful, but compared to her aunt Princess Yanbei, Yun Qiuchen was still inferior. some. Xiao Jingxi and Princess Yanbei are somewhat similar.
Ren Yaoqi stepped forward to bow to Princess Yanbei, and Princess Yanbei gave her a gentle smile and asked her to stand up.
"Is this Miss Ren's Fifth Miss? I often hear Jinglin mention you."
In front of Princess Yanbei, Xiao Jinglin seemed to have tempered her temper, and her voice was a few degrees lower: "I asked Yaoqi to accompany me to practice the piano."
The princess nodded, pointing to the middle-aged woman she had spoken before and said: "Then you can learn from Mr. Zou."
At this time, a woman came in outside to report that the old princess asked the princess to speak. The princess gave Xiao Jinglin a few words and went in to change clothes and went out.
The princess said that Mr. Zou is a luthier, with a very ordinary appearance and a little fat, but her reputation is very strong. Ren Yaoqi also heard of this person.
"Princess, Miss Ren, let's start." Mr. Zou was born and round, but his words were stern, no wonder Xiao Jinglin thought she was boring.
Xiao Jinglin and Ren Yaoqi followed Mr. Zou to the side hall next to them. Two pianos were placed on the low case in the room.
Xiao Jinglin asked people to relocate the case for a few more times. The three people sat around to form a "concave" character, but Hong Ying, who was going to borrow the piano later, also came back. She really held a piano in her hand and placed it carefully. Ren Yaoqi's desk.
"Huh? Why did you bring the second brother's "Great Sage's Last Voice"?" Xiao Jinglin asked in surprise.
Hong Ying said: "Second Young Master let it be taken."
Xiao Jinglin looked at Qin, blinked slowly, and then said nothing.
Ren Yaoqi had learned the piano, so he naturally knew the "Legend of the Great Sage" and couldn't help but look at it more. I wondered if it was inappropriate for me to use this valuable piano to accompany Xiao Jinglin to practice the piano, but I looked up and saw that Xiao Jinglin and Mr. Zou were both carefully tuning the strings, so I swallowed the refusal.
Mr. Zou first explained a skill in detail, and then let the two of them practice.
I have to say that Xiao Jinglin's piano sound is really... special.
Just as she could play the quiet and beautiful "Pingsha Luoyan" effect of the pipa song "Ambush on Ten Sides", the murderous aura was so overwhelming that people couldn't stand it, and Ren Yaoqi's fingers couldn't help but slip a little.
At the end, Mr. Zou calmly praised: "Very good, today only eight notes were wrong."
Xiao Jinglin raised her head and smiled at Ren Yaoqi, faintly proud.
Ren Yaoqi: "..."
Ren Yaoqi felt that Xiao Jinglin once said that this gentleman was very strict, and she definitely misunderstood others.
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