Chapter 134: special treatment

The dragon boat race in Yunyang City is an annual event in Yanzhou. Every year the Duanyang Festival, Yanzhou's aristocratic families gather here.
When Ren's carriage came out of Baihe Town, there were already many carriages on the official road. However, there are still a few people like the Ren family who dispatched more than twenty carriages.
It was already early in the morning when I arrived at Yunyang City. Although the sky was bright, it was not too hot to bear.
As the weather gets hotter, Ren's carriage uses breathable gauze curtains. From the moment he entered the city gate, Ren Yaoqi's gaze has been kept outside. Although she could only see indistinct pedestrians, carriages and horses, and heard various noises in the city, she could also feel the prosperity of Yunyang City, the largest city in Yanbei.
When the Liao people invaded southward, the Liao King had tried to resist the consensus and thought about moving the capital of the Liao Kingdom to Yunyang City. Unfortunately, the fourth Yanbei King Xiao Qishan was driven out of the Sixteenth State of Yanyun before it was reached. The city of Yunyang became the last wish of the Liao King.
Ren Yaoqi is very strange to Yunyang City. In my previous life, I only visited with my mother a few times when I was still young, but when I grew up I rarely had the opportunity to travel. Like her mother Li, she is a neglected existence in Ren's family. The last time she wanted to escape to Yunyang City's ancestral home for asylum, she was intercepted halfway before entering the city.
The Ren family's carriage slowly crossed the most spacious main road in Yunyang City and entered the inner city.
"Where is the carriage going?" Ren Yaoqi asked Ren Yaohua.
Ren Yaohua gave Ren Yaoqi a strange look, and then realized that this was the first time that Ren Yaoqi had come to watch the dragon boat race.
"The dragon boat needs to be launched into the water first, and the official race will not start until the afternoon. We are going to the Ren family's other courtyard in Yunyang City. We will live in the other courtyard these days."
The Ren family has a house in Yunyang City. Ren Yaoqi knew that she had been there.
The carriage in front stopped, Ren Yaohua opened the curtain and took a look: "It's the aunt who is going back to Lin's house. It's not the same way as us."
Sure enough, after a few carriages left the team, Ren's carriage started moving again, and after less than a quarter of an hour, it stopped in front of a red painted barbarian door. This is the main entrance of the other courtyard. The door doesn't open much, but Ren Yaoqi remembers that this house is actually a spacious house with four entrances.
Before the trip, they had arranged their personal residences, so Ren Yaoqi and Ren Yaohua got out of the carriage and they were led by their wife to the third West Wing. The sisters lived together in the first room north of the West Wing. The room is very spacious and fully furnished. Some of the functions in the room are what Ren Yaoqi usually uses, so it can be seen that they had been arranged before they came in.
Ren Yaohua is no stranger to this room, presumably the one who came to Yunyang City to live in before. The old lady Ren lives in the third entrance of the North House, so the third entrance of the West Chamber is a place with better conditions.
After being settled down, the fifth master came over to ask the old lady Ren for instructions, and then took the fifth wife Lin and a pair of children to the old man's house. People with five bedrooms rarely live in other courtyards when they come to Yunyang City. Most of the time they live in Lin's house. Even though Mrs. Ren was dissatisfied with her younger son in her heart, she didn't want to make any unpleasantness at this moment. She lost Ren's face in front of others, waved her hand and let them go.
In this way, there is no more serious daughter-in-law who is taking care of Mrs. Lin's side. There is only a concubine room like Aunt Fang.
Aunt Fang changed her clothes and planned to go to serve the old lady. She didn't want Ren Yaohua to take Ren Yaoqi to go to the old lady first. Seeing Aunt Fang came, she just didn't give her a chance to intervene and wait.
The old lady was surrounded by several granddaughters, a granddaughter, a granddaughter, and a house of maidservants, so she really didn't need Aunt Fang to do anything.
Finally old lady Ren looked at Aunt Fang and then at Ren Yaohua, and sent Aunt Fang back.
In fact, the old lady Ren was very shrewd. She didn't mind giving Aunt Fang a little more respect when she closed the door in the Ren family's inner house. It didn't even matter if her limelight was overwhelmed by Li's main room. But when she got outside, the family members gathered together, and she was really embarrassed to use her concubine as a serious wife. She could not have this face, but the Ren family could not afford to lose this person.
So it's not that the old lady Ren doesn't understand the difference between her concubines, she just divides the occasion.
Mrs. Ren made a speech and set up a meal earlier in the other courtyard at noon before going out. The women in their house only need to move when the time comes, and they have their own men and stewards to manage the itinerary.
Ren Yaoqi listened to the sisters happily talking about last year's Duanyang Festival around the old lady Ren. She still sat quietly and listened.
The atmosphere was full of harmony, but a woman rushed in to report: "Old lady, the carriage from the Yanbei Palace is here."
The old lady leaning on the kang, closing her eyes and resting her mind, immediately opened her eyes and sat upright: "Who is here?"
The old woman took a look at Ren Yaoqi who was sitting aside, and replied: "A carriage and a maid came, saying that the princess sent me to pick up Miss Fifth."
The room became quiet in an instant, and everyone in the room turned their eyes on Ren Yaoqi.
The old lady also looked at Ren Yaoqi and thought for a while. With a loving smile on her face, she said to Ren Yaoqi, "Since the princess is here to pick you up, you can go."
Ren Yaoqi did not expect that Xiao Jinglin would come to her so soon, and was a little surprised. After listening to Mrs. Ren's words, he whispered "Yes" softly, then got up and backed out.
The carriage of the Yanbei Palace stopped at the door. It was dark and blue and looked ordinary, but Ren Yaoqi walked in and found the logo of the Yanbei Palace under the eaves of the carriage, an eagle with spread wings.
Ren Yaoqi subconsciously glanced at where the carriage driver was sitting, and couldn't help but feel a little disappointed. It was not Dongsheng who drove the carriage but a middle-aged woman in her forties. The maid standing beside the carriage greeted him and helped Ren Yaoqi onto the carriage.
Ren Yaoqi only brought Apple with him when he came out, saying that the princess did not like too many people to follow. It is not easy for others to interfere with her. Because the princess did not come, Ren Yaoqi let Apple get into the carriage.
Xiao Jinglin's maid named Hong Ying was a little girl who didn't like to talk. She asked each question and answered. Ren Yaoqi is not a talkative person either, so he stopped asking after a few questions. She believed that this maid was by Xiao Jinglin's side, and the master and servant were too similar in temperament.
The carriage traveled for nearly two quarters of an hour, and finally stopped at a pier in Yunyang City.
Liyang River passes through Yunyang, so there are a few piers in Yunyang City. However, the pier in Yunyang City does not exist for civilian or commercial use. The river mouth into the city is guarded by the army. Therefore, in most cases, there are no boats on the Liyang River in the city, but there are women in twos and threes squatting on the stone steps of the pier. Washing vegetables and laundry, laughing and scolding the market is very strong.
Today's dragon boat race is not conducted in this section of the river in the city, but needs to go out of the city gate.
Hongying jumped out of the carriage first, then turned around to help Ren Yaoqi.
When Ren Yaoqi got off the carriage, he saw a small painting boat docked by the river. This kind of painting boat was once seen by Ren Yaoqi when he was in Kyoto. The rich boys like to sit in and listen to music. Yanbei is rare.
Ren Yaoqi was standing on the shore looking at the painting boat, but the sliding door of the painting boat's front warehouse suddenly opened, and then Xiao Jinglin walked out of it.
Seeing Ren Yaoqi, Xiao Jinglin's face was still faint, but she asked, "Are you afraid of water?"
Ren Yaoqi shook his head and walked down the stone steps on the shore. On the stone steps near the water, there are a few rotten vegetable leaves, and even some filthy things like fish scales, and you can smell a bit of water when you walk down. It is not good or bad.
Xiao Jinglin stretched out her hand and took Ren Yaoqi and pulled her onto the boat. Although the painting boat is not big, the boat body is very stable, and Ren Yaoqi didn't even shake it when he set foot on it.
There is only one maid dressed up like Hong Ying in the painting boat, and no one else.
Ren Yaoqi looked at it curiously. It was quite spacious and could accommodate at least eight or nine people. Among them were a few short tables and cushions, as well as some daily utensils. Apart from that, there is nothing special.
Although Xiao Jinglin's face was cold, she had been holding Ren Yaoqi and led her to sit down on the cushion before letting go, fearing that she would not be stable on the boat.
"This painting boat was bought by my second brother in Kyoto. I bought three boats in total. It was launched for the first time yesterday. I heard that you came, thinking that you might not have been on this thing before, so I let someone pick you up. Come here." Xiao Jinglin looked at Ren Yaoqi and said quietly.
Ren Yaoqi was looking around, and smiled at Xiao Jinglin after hearing this: "Thank you, the princess, I really haven't sat on this."
Xiao Jinglin looked at Ren Yaoqi a few times and smiled: "Fortunately, you didn't feel dizzy when you came up. Yesterday, my mother and concubine vomited up when she came up. She was so frightened that grandmother and the others were not willing to board the ship. Painted a boat for me." There was a little bit of mischief in the words.
There are few rivers in the north, so the people of Yanbei do not know how to water than the people of the south, and most people are not used to boats. Although Ren Yaoqi has never taken a boat, he has taken a boat.
The painting boat drove slowly through the inner city river, and many people stopped and watched it on the river bank. Not to mention that this painting boat was rare in Yanbei, but few dared to sail in the inner city. Ren Yaoqi was stunned by Xiao Jinglin's light today and was pointed all the way.
Xiao Jinglin didn't change her face, and didn't care about the movement outside the ship. Ren Yaoqi was also able to sit still, not to mention the fact that she was sitting in a position where it was difficult for people outside to see her true face, and there was not much pressure.
When the painting boat was approaching a large stone bridge across the river, there was a "bang" and something hit the painting boat.
The two of them didn't care at first, and they didn't want to be followed by "bang" and "bang" one after another.
Ren Yaoqi couldn't help but look at Xiao Jinglin. Someone smashed the painting boat? RS