Vol 2 Chapter 420: Pei Zhiyan

The fifth day of May is the Duanyang Festival. This year's Duanyang Festival is more lively than in previous years.
Because of the death of his son, Yanbei has been silent for a year, even the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month has some lights. However, the excitement of the Duanyang Festival will not be affected. Since ancient times, the Duanyang Festival has originated from tribal sacrifices, dragon boat racing, hanging calamus, and bathing with moxa leaf water to drive away evil and avoid disasters. The Yanbei Palace also ordered that this year's dragon boat race can add a few more dragon boats to make the scene more lively.
The dragon boat needs to be launched in advance, so the dragon boat race in Yunyang City does not start until the afternoon.
In the morning, Ren Yaohua sent someone to bring dumplings, including five-ren, candied dates, red beans, and meat dumplings that people in the south like, filled with a basket full of dumplings. Li left some, and the rest was given to Mother Zhou to share food with the people, saying that the eldest had sent it back.
The servants of the Lei family who sent the zongzi said that the Lei family will still have a dragon boat to launch this year, but Ren Yaohua could not go because of her pregnancy. Only Lei Ting and Lei Zhen took Pan'er over.
Xiao Jinglin seems to be a little busy lately. Before the Duanyang Festival, she sent a letter to Ren Yaoqi, saying that this year, she was afraid that she would not be able to watch the dragon boat race with Ren Yaoqi. Although Ren Yaoqi had some regrets, she guessed Xiao Jinglin's busyness It may have something to do with the Liao people. Xiao Jinglin has been at Jiajing Pass for many years and has fought many times with the Liao people, and has a better understanding of border affairs than many people.
So although this year's dragon boat race is more lively than in previous years, Ren Yaoqi feels a lot boring because of Ren Yaohua and Xiao Jinglin's inability to go.
In the afternoon, Ren Yaoqi and Li took a carriage to the outside of the city. This year’s dragon boat race is still in the Liyang River section outside the city. When Ren Yaoqi and Li’s passed by, they could see the more than 20 dragon boats on the river from the river bank. One of them was better than the others. To be big, the dragon head and body are made of gold paint, which looks very magnificent and attracts attention from a distance.
When Ren Yaoqi and Li were disembarking their wagons on the bank of the river, there were many maids and ladies who didn't know which one stood on the bank of the river. They all pointed to the dragon boat in the middle of the river.
Li couldn't help but glanced a few times, and was surprised: "This dragon boat is a magnificent boat. It compares all other ships. I don't know which one is it?" It's no wonder that Li would ask this question, inserting Yanbei. The dragon boat of the emblem of the Royal Palace is next to the golden dragon. The dragon head of the Royal Palace of Yanbei has been around for a few years. Although it has been maintained every year, it is compared with the golden dragon shining in the sun. It looks a little eclipsed.
Ren Yaoqi took a look, smiled and said, "I heard that the court also has ships to participate in the dragon boat race this year."
Li nodded clearly: "That's it!"
Someone happened to say not far away at this time: "I don't know whose boat can get the first place this year."
"I have to ask? Naturally it is the ship of the Yanbei Palace!" Someone said affirmatively.
"It doesn't matter if the previous years have arrived, this year there will be no court..."
Li Shi and Ren Yaoqi didn't listen, because Madam Xu's maid saw them coming and greeted them.
Li took Ren Yaoqi and Madam Xu’s maid to the Xu’s pergola. Although Mrs. Xu had not yet come, there were already several wives and wives who were familiar with Li.
Li sat down to Mrs. Liu and Mrs. Chen and exchanged greetings with them.
Ren Yaoqi also chatted with Liu Menghan and Chen Zhiyi after they met the ceremony. Ren Yaoqi listened to Liu Menghan while paying attention to the situation on Li's side. Now Li is very used to interacting with these wives, especially when facing the wives who are acquainted with her, the smile on his face is also a lot more cheerful.
People from other families also came one after another, and there were long queues of horse-drawn carriages parked by the river bank, and warm greetings could be heard everywhere. Drums sounded in the middle of the river, and someone ran out of the pergola to watch, but only a few dragon boats in twos and threes were warming up. Only the blue dragon of the Yanbei Palace and the golden dragon of the court stopped in the middle of the river motionlessly. meaning.
Ren Yaoqi was listening to Chen Zhiyi and Liu Menghan whispering about which dragon boat could win this year, and the maid next to Mrs. Xu's Ouyang came over.
"Miss Ren, Madam asked the servants to invite you over."
Ren Yaoqi couldn't help but look around when he heard the words: "Has the sir already come?"
Although Mrs. Xu sent someone from the Xu family to the pergola to serve tea, neither she nor Xu Wanli had arrived yet.
The maid pointed to the river behind her and said, "Madam is on the boat."
Ren Yaoqi followed the maid's hand and looked over. Several private boats had been parked on the bank of the river for the convenience of watching the waiting game. However, since accidents occurred during the dragon boat race that year and injured people, the family members did not dare to board the boat. They all sat in the pergola on the shore, so there were fewer cruise ships on the river.
Ren Yaoqi took a look and found that the captains of those ships were not good enough, and Ren Yaoqi could not tell which one belonged to the Xu family.
The maid thought that Ren Yaoqi was afraid of getting on the boat, and said quickly: "Miss Ren, don't worry, the boat is very stable, and we don't follow the regatta."
Ren Yaoqi smiled and nodded: "I'll talk to my mother."
Ren Yaoqi went to say hello to Li, and then took the four maids from Leshan and Leshui Apple Mulberry to follow the maids from the Xu family.
Regarding Mrs. Xu only asked Ren Yaoqi to board the boat, the ladies and ladies present did not have much thoughts. Not to mention that Ren Yaoqi is a closed disciple of Mrs. Xu, even with Ren Yaoqi's current status, no one would say anything.
Ren Yaoqi followed the maid to the shore and saw Xu's boat. It was just a medium-sized cruise ship that could accommodate seven or eight people, and it was not conspicuous compared to other cruise ships.
When Ren Yaoqi boarded the boat, he heard faint voices and laughter coming from the cruise ship. Although she did not hear clearly what the people on the boat were saying, one of the voices made her step uncontrollably. pause.
"Miss Ren?" Seeing that Ren Yaoqi stopped suddenly, the maid who led the way couldn't help calling her.
Ren Yaoqi smiled at the maid, and asked softly, "There are still guests on board?"
At this moment, the grandma next to Mrs. Xu leaned out of the cabin and saw that Ren Yaoqi was about to board the boat and quickly walked over to help her.
Ren Yaoqi didn't ask any more, and took the cruise ship with Grandma's hands.
The cruise ship is very stable, almost making people feel unsteady, but leaving the field on the cruise ship still made Ren Yaoqi's body sway.
Ren Yaoqi entered the cabin and saw Xu Wanli and Mrs. Xu sitting at a square table in the cruise ship. Sitting opposite Xu Wanli with his back facing Ren Yaoqi's direction is a man wearing a blue shirt. When Ren Yaoqi entered, this man was saying in his usual lazy tone: "...wait. After leaving Yanbei, I still plan to go northward. I am afraid it will take at least three or five years..."
Seeing Mrs. Xu looking in the direction behind him, the man stopped talking when he realized that someone had come in, and turned around to take a look.
Ren Yaoqi also saw the man's appearance clearly. This face was familiar to her once.
His appearance has not changed much after ten years with him. The faint eyebrows and handsome appearance make people unable to tell his age. There is always a smile on his face. When speaking, he speaks very slowly. Just listening to the voice can help. People feel like a spring breeze.
When the man saw her, he seemed to be stunned, and there was a flash of surprise in his eyes.
Because Ren Yaoqi's eyes remained on him, he saw the surprise in his eyes, and couldn't help but feel a little curious.
It should be the first time they met in this life. Why did he have such an expression when he first saw her? Is there any source she doesn't know about?
Ren Yaoqi couldn't help but recall how the two met for the first time in the previous life.
When Lu Dexin took her to Beijing and walked to a post in Xiangzhou, she wanted to escape at night because of her humiliation, and was caught before she escaped from the post. When she was taken to see Lu Dexin, she ran into a man in the yard of the station. At the time, she was very scared. She was worried that Lu Dexin would come up with any way to abuse herself after she returned, so she naturally did not pay attention. The appearance of a stranger, she only later learned that the person she hit was Pei Zhiyan.
Soon after returning to Beijing, he was transferred to Pei Zhiyan by Lu Dexin.
When she was sent to Pei's house, Pei Zhiyan just looked at her for a while, and asked her to take her down without saying anything.
She thought that she had been sent to serve as a plaything for Pei Zhiyan as a concubine, and she was still upset for many days, but Pei Zhiyan never saw her again since then, so she only asked the housekeeper to send her a maid to serve her, and the meal was only on her own. In that little yard.
It wasn't until nearly a month after arriving at Pei's house that Pei Zhiyan called him over, but because the meeting place this time was in the study and it was still in broad daylight, she felt relieved a lot.
When she entered the study, Pei Zhiyan was leaning against the collapse of the study to read. Seeing that she came in, he did not look up, but instructed her to polish the ink for him. After she finished the ink, he got up and went to the writing desk to write. This writing is an hour.
Ren Yaoqi stood far away from him. At first, she was a little wary in her heart. Later, when she saw him writing seriously, she thought of her father, and she relaxed her defenses without knowing how. While Pei Zhiyan devoted herself to writing, she quietly flipped through the books on the shelf, and she didn't notice when he finished writing and walked to her.
The first sentence Pei Zhiyan said to her was: "Like reading?" She took a look at the book in her hand, and then raised her eyebrows in surprise, "You still like calligraphy and painting?"
At that time, she was reading a notebook of ancient people's appreciation of calligraphy and painting.
Seeing his gentle voice, Ren Yaoqi nodded and said sadly: "My father likes it very much." This book is also in her father's study.
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