Chapter 40: Travel

Ren Yaoqi didn't have too much entanglement about whether to go to ice sports.
These days, she was just an excuse that it was cold and rarely came out of Ziweiyuan. Qiu Yun mentioned her in front of everyone. If she deliberately avoided Yun Wenfang and Qiu Yun, she would be noticed.
Ice play is an activity often played by Yanbei people in winter. Although Ren Yaoqi has not played it by himself, he has seen it a few times.
These women are just sitting in a makeshift shelter on the shore watching. The men were divided into several teams, wearing skates, and competing on the river where the ice was about a foot thick.
Of course, the viewers also have their own lottery to bet which team wins or loses, but they are all small pieces of money, and even if the bet is right, the money is used to reward the servants who play, there is no real way to rely on this Gamblers. Otherwise, it is not elegant but insulting.
This time, Ren Yaoqi went to Li's place before the door came out. Originally, he wanted to wait for Ren Yaohua to invite Ann and then go to the car. He didn't want Ren Yaohua to go to Ronghuayuan first.
Li asked Mother Zhou to take out an embroidered purse and hand it to Ren Yaoqi, "There is some scraps of silver in it, for you to use as prize money and rewards. You will hand it to the maid to collect it."
Ren Yaoqi took it in his hand, raised his head and smiled at Li, "I see, mother."
When he came out, Ren Yaoqi gave the money bag to Mother Zhou again: "My monthly bills have been in the box and have not moved. In addition to the rewards received during the New Year, there are also two hundred to two. In a few days, my father gave me two hundred taels of silver bills for me to buy books and pens that I like. I should keep the silver."
Madam Zhou hurriedly said, "The wife asked the slave to prepare this for the young lady, and the third lady also has it. You should accept it."
Ren Yaoqi still handed the bag back and said gently, "I know my mother doesn't want to wrong me and my third sister, and I don't want to let her down, so I accepted it in front of her before. But you have always You are in charge of the accounts for your mother. You know the situation in Ziweiyuan more clearly than I am. Mother has more money to spend."
When Li married into the Ren family, there was almost no dowry, and each month was just thirty-two months for the Ren family.
Fortunately, Ren Shimin's thirty taels of monthly bills were sent to her after Li's return home. Ren Shimin didn't care about this amount of money. He had never asked Li for the money.
The Ren family is not short of money, and the elders of the Ren family can withdraw less than two thousand silver from the account of the outer courtyard every year as entertainment expenses. Ren Yiyan, who is already married, can also withdraw one thousand taels every year.
It's just that if you exceed two thousand taels, you need to get the approval slip with his seal from the old lady. Except for the second room old man and the fourth old man in the capital, the other elders seldom need to be approved by the old man. After all, two thousand taels is not a small amount.
Li's sixty taels of silver a month, in addition to rewarding his followers, but also from time to time subsidies to her parents, often stretched out.
"Miss Fifth..." Mother Zhou looked at Ren Yaoqi in a daze, her eyes flushed.
After returning this time, Ren Yaoqi's performance was beyond her expectations. Ren Yaoqi smiled, turned and left.
After coming out of the main room, Ren Yaoqi thought about it and went to the study when he passed by the Xikuayuan.
Ren Shimin is sitting behind his large bookcase while drinking tea while appreciating a few new inkstones he bought.
Seeing Ren Yaoqi pushing the door in, he put down his teacup and waved with a smile: "Yaoyao, come and take a look. These Fang Chengni inkstones are newly acquired by his father and are all made by famous artists."
Ren Shimin's smile carries the pure joy of a child, and he always makes no secret of his joy every time he gets something good.
In the past, Ren Yaoqi would secretly slander her dad as being too free and easy and incomprehensible, but now it is not the case.
Ren Yaoqi stepped forward and had a good time with Ren Shimin and asked after having a good time with the inkstone: "There is an ice sports competition in our house today, why don't you go?"
Ren Shimin's lack of interest: "What's so good about Bingsports? A group of rash guys pushed around! Insulting gentleman! Are you going?"
Ren Yaoqi nodded: "It's been a long time since I went out, sisters all go."
Ren Shimin uncovered a sandalwood box from the drawer under the bookcase, took out two silver notes of 100 denominations from it and handed them to Ren Yaoqi: "Go to your mother and replace it with a naked silver boy and use it as the prize. Help Daddy choose a team."
Ren Yaoqi accepted it with a smile, and received it in his purse: "Then the team with the red belt is OK?"
Ren Shimin tilted his head and thought about it seriously: "Red is tacky, let's choose the white team."
Ren Yaoqi contemptuously said: "The New Year is almost coming, who wears a white belt? It's not bad luck!"
"Then the blue team?"
Ren Yaoqi made a grimace: "I want to bet on the red team! I like red!" After speaking, he got up and left.
"Children are self-willed. They cry after losing." Ren Shimin shook his head and sighed helplessly.
When going out, Ren Yaoqi and the fourth lady Ren Yaoyin ride in the same carriage.
The several carriages in front and back were all the young ladies of Ren's family. Ren Yaoqi could still hear Ren Yaoyu's chattering faintly from the carriage behind, as well as the voice of the mother who murmured to discourage her from letting down the curtain.
In contrast, Ren Yaoqi's carriage was much quieter.
Ren Yaoyin was sitting on the carriage making tea, her movements were skillful and elegant, her smile was quiet, and the swaying carriage did not make her hands unstable.
Ren Yaoqi sat opposite her with his chin supported and admired her movements.
"Before, my cousin asked if the fifth sister would go." Ren Yaoyin poured a small cup of tea from a purple sand cup and handed it to Ren Yaoqi, smiling.
Ren Yaoqi took it steadily and thanked her with a smile.
Ren Yaoyin's gentle expression is no different from usual, Ren Yaoqi can't feel any discomfort in her words.
Ren Yaoqi didn't know whether Ren Yaoyin knew that the Ren family had chosen her as a candidate to marry the Qiu family, nor did she know her attitude towards this matter.
In her previous life, she did not have close contacts with several sisters in her family. Ren Yaoyin is much easier to get along with than other sisters in the Ren family. Although she is favored by the old lady, she did not pose in front of other sisters. Both have a good temper, so Ren Yaoqi and her are relatively close.
However, because of this, Ren Yaoyin has no particularly good sisters in the Ren family.
"Oh? This is rare, and I am a little flattered." Ren Yaoqi blinked at Ren Yaoyin and teased.
Ren Yaoyin gave a "puff" and said with a smile: "You love to be naughty. My cousin must have rarely seen you out, thinking that you are not feeling well before asking. He is also out of concern, you will wait I thanked him when I saw him."
Ren Yaoqi flattened his mouth: "I see."
Ren Yaoyin shook his head, and said in a low tone, "Fifth sister, let alone the third cousin's distinguished status in the Qiu family, even in our Ren family, he is also valued by the elders. Grandmother treats him like her grandson. Normally. You have a good relationship with him, he treats you kindly, and if something happens in the future, he will say one good thing for you in front of your grandmother than others say ten."
Ren Yaoqi smiled embarrassedly and said, "Thank you Sister Si for the point, I see."
Ren Yaoyin smiled and nodded, took back the tea cup in front of Ren Yaoqi, poured the warm water inside into the small urn, changed a cup of hot water and put it back.
Ren Yaoqi took a sip from his teacup, but he was thinking of what Ren Yaoyin meant to say to her.
Ren Yaoyin is encouraging her to contact Qiu Yun more so as to get the attention of the old lady of the Ren family or Ren family?
When she was so old in the previous life, she was indeed thinking about how to make the old lady Ren like her granddaughter every day, and like the rest of the Ren family, she wanted to have a good relationship with Qiu Yun.
Ren Yaoyin's words scratched the itch.
It's just that Ren Yaoyin said these things to her at this time...
Is it because she really cares about her sister, or does she have other thoughts?

Thank you Sidles, ugly warm winter, Zhiyan Zhiyu for your reward~
Thanks to Ah Lu Nana for the long comment~
Thank you also for the good girls of Wen Zhuo Chong~
Seeing my relatives complaining that there are too many characters to figure out who is who, when I am free tomorrow, I will list a relationship table for the Ren family and send it to the book review section.
^^~
`Mei Nan has finished the article:
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