Chapter 159: Human life

The Lin family's carriage came before the old lady Ren and her party left, and they also brought some parting gifts for their mothers.
After the carriage that sent the Ren family away, Ren Yaoqi and Ren Yaoyin were taken to the Lin family.
Ren Shijia was very happy with the arrival of the two nieces and personally took them to the place where she lived.
Ren Yaoqi and Ren Yaoyin lived in the West Wing of Ren Shijia’s courtyard. The rooms on either side of the three wing rooms were two bedrooms, and the middle was shared as the living room.
Although Ren Shijia also had the surname Ren, she was a very easy-going temperament, sometimes with a little childishness that was incompatible with her age.
The other masters of the Lin family also expressed their welcome to Ren Yaoqi and Ren Yaoyin. Mrs. Lin invited the two sisters to her for dinner. Mrs. Lin made a special visit to ask them if they had any needs. Lin Baoling and another sister of the Lin family took Ren Yaoqi and Ren Yaoyin to visit the entire Lin family mansion in two times.
However, Ren Shijia deliberately came to look for them once after putting the spoon in the yard, and explained that they would stay in the yard when they were fine, and don’t have too much contact with the Lin family. If you have to go, you must first explain to her and Report to her immediately after returning.
When Ren Shijia said this, she had the worry and anxiety that she tried to conceal on her face.
Seeing Ren Shijia like this, both Ren Yaoqi and Ren Yaoyin responded obediently. Seeing them so Ren Shijia, they smiled like comforting them: "It's okay. Auntie knows that you have always Very well-behaved, I'm just afraid that your unfamiliar place will suffer from someone's loss, and there is no other meaning. When I am free in a few days, my aunt will take you around Yunyang City."
After Ren Shijia left, Ren Yaoqi and Ren Yaoyin were still waiting in the living room to sit for a while. They both drank tea in silence and didn't know what they were thinking. Until the maid came and said that the hot water was ready and asked them to take a bath, the two sisters politely and friendly said not to leave separately.
Although Yunyang City is also near the river, it is not surrounded by mountains and rivers like Baihe Town. It is the important town of Yanbei, which is equivalent to the capital of a state, with a very dense population. So after nightfall, Yunyang City is not as cool as Baihe Town.
In Baihe Town, even in the midsummer Ren's house, ice was rarely used, and a thin quilt was needed at night. But when he arrived at Yunyang City, Ren Yaoqi was awakened by the heat in the middle of the night. In fact, it didn't reach the point where it was too hot to sleep, and even sweated very little, but it would wake up once or twice in the middle of the night, even when living in Ren's other courtyard.
This is just after the Duanyang Festival, the really hot time of the year has not yet come.
Ren Yaoqi closed his eyes and sat on the head of the bed, the veiled tent was lifted off and hung on the hook, and the night mulberry sat on the edge of the bed and fanned Ren Yaoqi lightly.
Just as Ren Yaoqi gradually felt sleepy again, there was a rustle outside. While fanning, Mulberry glanced towards the window. Seeing Ren Yaoqi's eyes opened, he whispered: "Miss, it seems it's raining."
As soon as her voice fell, a flash of lightning was printed on the white gauze window, and the rain became louder.
After a while, Ren Yaoqi heard a sound from the waiting room outside, as if it came from the room where Ren Yaoyin lived, and soon there were footsteps coming here again.
"Fifth sister, are you asleep?" Ren Yaoyin's gentle voice sounded outside through the curtain.
The bedroom of the two of them and the waiting room in the middle were opened, and it was very convenient for Ren Yaoyin to come over.
"No." Ren Yaoqi responded.
Then the curtain was lifted and Ren Yaoyin walked in. She should have also woke up in the middle of the night, wearing a big red thin cloak. The maid behind her also held a candlestick in her hand.
The candlelight in the room was originally dim, Ren Yaoyin's face was covered with light, leaving only a vague shadow that made people indistinguishable. Ren Yaoqi felt that such a face seemed to fit Ren Yaoyin more closely, and there was no sense of disobedience at all, just as she gave her.
"This weather is really...it rains if it rains. Isn't the fifth sister unable to sleep?" Ren Yaoyin walked over to Ren Yaoqi's bed, and her maid put the candlestick in her hand on the Eight Immortals table in the middle of the room. .
"Did I wake you up?" Ren Yaoqi smiled apologetically.
Ren Yaoyin staggered some of his body, did not let his shadow cover Ren Yaoqi's face, so because of the angle, Ren Yaoqi was exposed to the light, which made Ren Yaoyin see clearly. It seems that Ren Yaoqi doesn't care that Ren Yaoyin can see him clearly, but he can't see Ren Yaoyin.
"No, it was a little stuffy before it rained, so I woke up. I had a problem since I was a child, and I couldn't sleep anymore when I woke up in the middle of the night. I saw some noise on your side and came over to take a look."
Ren Yaoyin turned his head and looked at the window lattice. The outside was completely dark, so the window lattice covered by the screen was also dark. The sound of rain became louder and louder, and it seemed to be separated into two by a light gauze with small holes. world.
Ren Yaoqi couldn't tell why Ren Yaoyin came over in the middle of the night, so he didn't speak much, just followed her words in reply.
Ren Yaoyin has a calm and gentle temperament. This temperament is different from the gentleness and weakness of southern women like Aunt Fang. She always makes people feel that she is reliable and trustworthy when she talks to others. This is also the reason for Ren Yaoyin's excellent popularity.
"How did the fifth sister and the princess know? I heard that the princess doesn't like to interact with people, and he doesn't get close to people." Ren Yaoyin blinked and asked casually, with a moderate amount of curiosity.
Ren Yaoqi smiled: "I met my mother when I went to the Bailong Temple to burn incense."
Ren Yaoyin smiled thoughtfully, and then said: "It seems that this is the fate between people. Speaking of which, I was also fate with Miss Yun Jia. It was a few years ago, and I followed my grandmother to participate. An old lady’s birthday banquet in Yunyang City. She and I wore clothes with very similar fabrics and styles. When we stood together, others thought we were sisters. At that time, I was still young, but Miss Yun had long been there. Xian Ming, I was a little at a loss when facing the eyes of everyone. Miss Yun was very happy, she took me by the hand and said that she would recognize me as a goddess. There was also a Lantern Festival Lantern Festival, and we got them separately. The other party’s lantern and guessed the lantern riddle written by the other party."
When Ren Yaoyin said this, his voice was smiling, warm and soft with some nostalgia.
Ren Yaoqi felt that Ren Yaoyin's expression at this time was a bit strange. Because she didn't know, Ren Yaoyin was only half speaking. Although the lantern that Ren Yaoyin got back then was named Yun Qiuchen’s, the mystery above was written by Yun Wenting, the young master Yun. This was a chance that Ren Yaoyin later saw Yun Wenting’s handwriting. Found later. Later, she put away the lantern and the riddle on it.
"Where are you, Sister Five? Did any funny things happen between you and the princess?" Ren Yaoyin asked with a smile and tilted his head.
"Interesting thing?" Ren Yaoqi thought for a while, "At the Bailong Temple that day, the princess was using copper to cast the blessing bell. I envied her for her accuracy, so I stood there and looked at it for a long time. The dumb look made the princess notice it."
Ren Yaoyin chuckled and said jokingly: "Is this a silly person?"
Ren Yaoqi also smiled, bowing his head in silence.
"Then...what about the second young master of the Yun family? How did you meet?" Ren Yaoyin asked.
This question made Ren Yaoqi stunned and looked at Ren Yaoyin. It's just that she is still carrying the light, so she can't see her expression.
Ren Yaoqi thought, Ren Yaoyin talked about her friendship with Yun Qiuchen in order to confuse her with Xiao Jinglin, Yun Wenfang? The abacus is very precise.
Ren Yaoqi said in surprise, "Isn't it the last time he came to Baihe Town to live in Ren's family and saw him? Oh, at that time I thought he was some kind of master Wen."
Ren Yaoyin smiled and didn't know if he believed it or not, but he didn't ask any more. She looked out the window: "The rain is really heavy today, and I don't know if it can stop tomorrow."
Ren Yaoqi casually responded: "Didn't Aunt let us go out less? Let it rain when it rains, just take it in the yard."
However, Ren Yaoyin glanced at Ren Yaoqi, and she smiled for a while: "Then do you know why auntie wants to explain to the two of us who are guests in the Lin family, and don't get too close to the Lin family?"
"Could it be that my aunt in Lin's family is not as good as she seems to be?" Ren Yaoqi said calmly.
Ren Yaoyin sighed: "Because my uncle is the only heir to the second house of the Lin family, he should have inherited half of the Lin family's property. But Dafang did not agree with the uncle's branch from the Lin family. Because of this property dispute, in the future, I don't know what moths will come out. My aunt is afraid that we will be used by someone with a heart, so she told me."
Ren Yaoyin is not stingy in giving advice to Ren Yaoqi, just as when her sisters asked her about needlework when she was at home, she never kept her private.
"So, I heard some rumors originally, but no Sister Si knows so much. Thank you Sister Si for guidance." Ren Yaoqi thought for a while and said sincerely.
Ren Yaoyin smiled slightly: "My own sisters, both pros and cons are all lost, thank you for what you do."
Ren Yaoyin sat in Ren Yao's off-plan room for a while, sometimes instructing her to behave, and sometimes asking her some questions without a trace.
No matter what she asks, Ren Yaoqi's answer is not leaking.
After seeing Ren Yaoqi yawning, Ren Yaoyin smiled and said goodbye: "It's getting late, and I'm a little sleepy. Let's talk next time."
Ren Yaoqi wanted to get up to see him off, but Ren Yaoyin pressed her arm to refuse, and Ren Yaoqi did not insist.
When Ren Yaoyin lifted the curtain and came out, she couldn't help but turn her head and glanced at Ren Yaoqi, who was lying down with the help of the maid, her brow furrowed, and the smile on her face narrowed. But she only glanced at it, then turned and left.
Ren Yaoqi glanced at the dangling bead curtain and closed his eyes.
Ren Yaoqi slept well in the second half of the night, even though it rained all night outside.
On the second day, Hu Guo did not stop, but the patter was much smaller than the night.
Ren Yaoqi and Ren Yaoyin packed up and went to Ren Shijia's house for breakfast together.
Uncle Lin Kun was not in the house, as if he had left the house early in the morning. I don't know if it was because of their presence or not eating breakfast in the courtyard before.
Ren Shijia was not a serious daughter-in-law of Mrs. Lin, and because she had only given birth to a child, Mrs. Lin saved her from the twilight. Therefore, Ren Yaoqi and Ren Yaoyin do not have to go to the Lin family to greet the old lady in the morning.
To some extent, Ren Shijia's position in the Lin family is detached. But this detachment is more like a compensation from the Lin family.
The former Ren Shijia was still a little uneasy about her special status in the Lin family. She figured out a lot since she knew that she had never had any children and might be related to the Lin family's big house.
In the morning, Ren Shijia asked the maid Qingliu to take the money to the Lin family’s kitchen and asked the kitchen to add some dishes that Ren Yaoqi and Ren Yaohua liked to eat. A news came to the Lin’s inner courtyard.
Mrs. Lei's wife is dead.
At that time, Ren Yaoqi was also in Ren Shijia's room, fighting with Ren Yaoyin to finish the milky Xiaolin Cen.
Ren Yaoqi was taken aback by the news, and the hand holding the rattle paused in the air.
"Why suddenly... the day before yesterday, wasn't it all right?" Ren Shijia was also startled, and asked the maid who came in to report the letter.
Mrs. Lei came here the other day when the Lin family had a full moon drink for Lin Cen. At that time, she could not see anything wrong.
"I don't know, it's said that I suddenly got a sudden illness in the middle of the night." The maid also heard from outsiders. The Lei family sent people out to buy white cloth at dawn, and then Yunyang City received the Lei family's funeral report. , The Lin family also just received it.
Ren Shijia was a little bit sigh, but thought that Mrs. Lei Tai was almost at her age, although she was not very old, after all, she was relieved at her age.
Ren Yaoqi thought a little bit more. What she thought was whether Mrs. Lei's sudden death had something to do with her identity. If the cause of death was really not that simple, who was the one who did it.
After all, it was a coincidence that Mrs. Lei died at this time, when others wanted to use her identity to attack Lei's family.
Will her death bring the secret of her identity into the coffin or will it push the Lei family into a more dilemma?
Soon after, Mrs. Lin sent a maid over. The Lin family was going to the Lei Mansion in the afternoon to express condolences. Mrs. Lin meant to let Ren Shijia go with Mrs. Lin.
That mother must be used in front of Mrs. Lin. Ren Shijia was very polite to her and chatted with her for a while.
Ren Shijia's popularity among the Lin family's subordinates is very good, because she is generous and has no pretensions.
Speaking of Mrs. Lei’s matter, the maid also sighed:
The day before yesterday was good. When we left, the slave and maid sent her to the second door with the maid. Now that she is gone, she is gone. ..."
Ren Shijia sighed: "After all, she is getting older. I heard that when Mrs. Lei was in the south, the Lei family had a hard time, and her family fell and suffered a lot. At that time, it was impossible to say what the root of the disease was. ."
The mother was silent for a moment when she heard the words, and then lowered her voice and said: "There are some rumors outside now."
Ren Shijia was a little surprised and couldn't help asking: "What rumor?"
"I heard that Mrs. Lei died a little strangely. She actually didn't die from a sudden illness, but was killed by someone!"
Ren Shijia was stunned when she heard the words, and her face turned pale: "This...impossible? Who wants to harm her? How long has the Lei family come to Yanbei? Where is the enemy from?"
"This is not clear. The servants are also listening to rumors from outside. Think about it, this lady has heard that she pays great attention to maintenance on weekdays. She has not even a small illness throughout the year, and has never heard of any root causes. Isn’t his face ruddy and handsome when he is in front of people? As for what kind of enemy... it’s not certain, maybe it’s for Lei’s family, maybe it’s for Mrs. Lei, or it may be someone outside. People in their own house.
"Where did you hear the rumors?" Ren Shijia whispered, listening to the voice has not yet recovered from the shock.
"The slaves were told by women in other residences, but some said it came from the servants of Lei's family. As the saying goes, there is no wind and no waves. The slaves must look at this thing!"
Having said that, the eldest wife sent someone to look for this mother, and she got up and left Ren Shijia.
Ren Yaoqi and Ren Yaoyin, who were sitting next door, listened to the conversation between Ren Shijia and that mother nine out of ten.
Ren Yaoyin is not very interested in Lei's affairs. She is helping Ren Shijia embroider a pair of tiger shoes for Xiaolin Cen, carefully threading and threading.
Ren Yaoqi was peeling the pine nuts while holding small pliers while watching Ren Yaoyin doing work, but his thoughts had already flown away for a long time.
The rumors that the mother had just said made Ren Yaoqi unable to help but think of the rumors deliberately spread by Brother Cen on the full moon wine day.
Someone is secretly manipulating people to spread rumors that are not conducive to the Lei family.
It's just why it came out that Mrs. Lei was homicide? What is the purpose of the man behind?
As for why Ren Yaoqi felt that Mrs. Lei Tai was killed by others as a rumor, it was because she knew that people like the Lei family were in such a situation, and the people in the inner courtyard, especially the people who were close to the masters, were absolutely reliable.
Moreover, if it is the Han family's hand-handsman, in fact, Mrs. Lei's life is more beneficial to them than just dying. Because her identity itself is a flaw.
The sky outside is still a bit gloomy, and the rain that started last night has been falling intermittently, making people feel low.
Ren Yaoqi felt a little depressed, and this depression even made her feel that she even needed to breathe.
Put the peeled pine nuts in the plate and push it to Ren Yaoyin. Ren Yaoqi stood up and said, "I have been sitting for a long time, I got up and walked."
Ren Yaoyin looked up at Ren Yaoqi's peeled pine nuts, snapped the thread in his hand, and smiled: "It's cheaper for you to peel it for so long?"
Ren Yaoqi also laughed: "Sister Si always loves me, and I love Sister Si too."
Ren Yaoyin was taken aback, and then smiled softly.
Ren Yaoqi just walked under the corridor, Ren Shijia did not stop, just let her slide carefully, not to get wet.
The air outside really got better, with the fragrance of soil and plants.
Ren Yaoqi originally planned to cover the porch of the yard and walk around for some ventilation. By the way, he wanted to clarify his thoughts. He didn't want to see parsley coming in from outside before he walked to the door of his wing. Fangfang's small box.
"Why don't you bring an umbrella when you go out when it's raining?" Ren Yaoqi blamed when he saw that parsley's hair was stained with some fine and dense drops of water and his shoulders were also wet.
Xiangqin ran over when she saw Ren Yaoqi, and when she saw her blaming her, she stuck out her tongue: "I forgot about it for a while."
Ren Yaoqi raised his eyebrows: "What is so urgent?"
Xiangqin heard the words and pointed to the box in his hand, with a bright smile: "Someone wanted to pass in something for the young lady, and the servant girl deliberately ran to see it. Only then did she know that it was the princess who sent it in."
Xiangqin was ordered to die by Ren Yaohua, and Ren Yaoqi was not allowed to approach some inexplicable people. So when I heard someone from outside was going to deliver something for Ren Yaoqi in, the loyal little maid ran out without saying a word. The person who didn't want to come was not from the Yun family that she strictly guarded, but by the princess of Yanbei Palace. One of the servant girls is here to give Ren Yaoqi something.
As if he was afraid that Ren Yaoqi would blame him for his own proposition, Xiangqin smiled flatteringly and watched Ren Yaoqi's face. I wondered what I would do if Miss Five lost her temper on the spot.
At the moment, the little maid was also in tears. One maid led a monthly bill and was doing the work of two people, and she was used to it when she was used to it. But the master can't just give her all the hard work just because she is clever, capable and well-behaved!
Let her offend people or something... This is too bullying!
Ren Yaoqi calmly admired the colorful facial expressions of parsley, then smiled, and took the small box as big as a slap: "Well, thank you for the trip. Come in and change your clothes. Up."
Parsley’s face immediately became cloudy and clear, and her smiling eyes were shiny. If she had a long tail, she would shake it a few times: "Hey, the slave will go now."
Seeing Xiangqian's cheerful back, Ren Yaoqi couldn't help but smile, and even the feeling of depression before disappeared a lot. Xiangqin, the maid, is actually not ignorant of the rules. Although her temper is a little bit off, she never disappoints her master at critical moments.
Moreover, Ren Yaohua confessed to her that this matter was meant to be kind, and naturally she would not be angry about this matter.
Ren Yaoqi looked at the box in his hand, and thought for a while before returning to his house.
The palm-sized box is made of red sandalwood with a pattern of Furu Donghai carved on it, which is very delicate. When Ren Yaoqi opened it, he was stunned. Inside was a walnut carving with eight immortals crossing the sea.
Ren Yaoqi took out the small walnut carving and placed it on the palm of his hand for a moment. It was found that the center of the walnut was hollowed out, so it was carved with excellent carving skills.
But what did Xiao Jinglin give her this for no reason? gift?
Thinking of this, Ren Yaoqi held the walnut and looked at the light, but his heart moved. There was something in the hollow part of the walnut.