Vol 2 Chapter 484: Contest

Li knew that freezing three feet was not a day's cold, so he didn't rush to excuse his brother, but echoed: "When he was young, it was a little absurd."
Ren Shimin counted the silver bills, and he was a rare shrewd one: "The money you saved and Li Tianyou paid back, don't you have so much money?"
Li looked at Master Ren's expression and said carefully: "Sure enough, I can't hide it from Master, in fact, there are still some that will be sent back."
Ren Shimin frowned when he heard it: "Didn't I say not to let her interfere with these things!"
Master Ren felt that being the head of the family, being expelled from the clan was a very shameless thing. Now he had to let his married daughter pay him money to pay him the debts of the Ren family, which made his face a bit unbearable.
Thinking about what Ren Yaoqi had said to her, Li hurriedly said: "Actually, the money was not given for nothing. She, she fell in love with the paintings of Tang Miao and Jiang Yuanyi in your hand."
Seeing Ren Shimin's widened eyes, Li's words became smaller and smaller.
Ren Shimin was stunned for a while, but smiled and cursed: "This girl, didn't she give her two pictures as a dowry when she got married? She was still thinking about my treasures."
Seeing that Ren Shimin didn’t look angry, Li finally breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile:
Qi’er said that instead of selling it to others, it’s better to sell it to her. And she bought it and put it in your study. You keep it, wait until you cough, wait a hundred years before you give it to her."
This kind of rebellious rebellion, other elders must be half-dead when they heard it, but Ren Shimin laughed haha, and then happily put the box away: "Okay! I won't let her suffer. From now on, everything in my study will be left. Give it to her, I will keep it for now."
Babies don't have to fall into the hands of others. Master Ren was very happy. As for the question of the belonging of things, Master Ren has no ambitions about this. As long as he can always enjoy it, he will be satisfied. Anyway, life does not bring death and does not take it away. What can he earn?
After hearing this, Mother Zhou couldn't help but glance at Ren Shimin, and muttered to herself: All the valuable things in your hand are in your little study. Can you be more biased?
But giving it to my own lady is better than giving it to Ren Yihong's concubine. Grandma Zhou is still satisfied with the result.
After Master Ren asked about the origin of this large sum of silver, he took the box and left without thinking too much.
After Ren Shimin left, Mother Zhou said to Li with a little worry: "The princess, those princesses and princes who have a lot of money gave you the money for your dowry. You give it all to the master. Just in case. after"
Li shook his hand to stop Mother Zhou's words, and said firmly, "There is nothing wrong with it! I will accompany him even if he is impoverished in the future."
Li picked up the coat that Ren Shimin had just taken off, and his eyes were gentle and honest, "What's more, in the final analysis, he broke with his family because of me. How can I watch him make trouble for these foreign objects. I just want to watch him every day. All lived happily and contentedly, even if it was only the dead objects in the study that made him happy." Not her.
Mother Zhou looked at Li, shook her head and sighed. Don't say anything.
Ren Shimin took the silver and wanted to return it to the Ren family in a lump sum, but then let Ren Yaoqi stop it, and Ren Yaoqi convinced him. Let him give it several times and give it all within a year. Ren Yaoqi was afraid that it would be too easy to give the money, and the old lady was going to raise some moths over there.
Ren Shimin didn't care about these small details. After listening to Ren Yaoqi's opinion, he was first sent 80,000 taels to the Ren family, and the rest was divided several times. I don't know if Ren Yaoqi's words with the big wife worked before, or if the Ren family really needs money. In the end, the Ren family accepted the money that Ren Shimin sent.
And since the funeral of the old man in the Ren family, some changes have taken place in the inner courtyard.
The old lady Ren first released a group of maids in the yard. The coral that was serving by the old lady, Jinlian's big maids were all assigned to the young stewards outside, and happily took the generous dowry given by the big lady and left. The Ronghua Institute.
Later, the old lady sent a group of newcomers to serve the old lady. Originally, the old lady was a little dissatisfied, but these new maids are very smart and sensible, not to mention their various appearances. Habits are also well known, and they are even more comfortable than the original maids, and slowly they get used to it.
The eldest wife was dealing with matters in the inner courtyard of the Ren family, but she had to report to her every day. Now the old lady still does this. Whenever big things happen, she will first seek her opinions and then deal with it. Old lady Ren didn't notice any difference from before.
The old lady has been the mistress of the inner courtyard of the Ren family since she was young. Even if her son married a daughter-in-law, she let the eldest daughter-in-law take care of the house. Relaxed vigilance.
So what the old lady does not know is that some of the servants who originally only obeyed her orders were quietly replaced by the old lady. Those people also wanted to secretly go to the old lady to make the decision, but they have not left yet. When he arrived at Ronghua Yuan, he was stopped.
After the death of the old man, the financial power of the Ren family was in the hands of the old man. The old lady replaced the old lady's confidant with her own confidant, and everyone in the inner courtyard of the Ren family understood their position.
The inner courtyard of the Ren family was changing silently, but the old lady Ren did not even notice that she was still living in the atmosphere of being the master of the house that no one dared to disobey created by her deliberately.
Until one day, the old lady Ren discovered that Ren Yaoyin, who had come to treat her every day, hadn’t come to Ronghua for a long time. I heard that the lady who came to ask Ann every day said that Ren Yaoyin was ill and was very sick. Can't get out. The old lady Ren originally wanted to let Ren Yaoyin marry the Yun family, but she could only temporarily let go of it, confessing that the old lady would let Ren Yaoyin take good care of.
The eldest lady deserved it well in front of the old lady, but secretly she had some contacts with the Ren family named Yang she had been fond of before. Although the old lady was unable to make a marriage appointment because of her filial piety, both parties did. Intention to get married.
As for Ren Yaoyin, she was taken care of by the eldest wife Yan's family not long after the funeral of the old man. All the old women and maids who served her were replaced, and the guards of the door and courtyard were replaced by Kong Wu's powerful wife. , Not let her step out of the room. The eldest wife claimed that Ren Yaoyin served the old lady intricately at the funeral of the old lady, and finally became tired and sick and had to rest for a while.
Although Ren Yaoqi here promised that the Ren family would contact the Yu family, in fact Ren Yaoqi never planned to actually meet the Yu family because she knew that the so-called Yu family was just a cover, standing behind the Yu family The Han family was the master of this matter.
But Ren Yaoqi was not in a hurry to meet the Han family, because she seemed very passive, and she was waiting for the Han family to come to her.
The old man Han has had a very comfortable and happy time recently, because the enemy’s family is declining step by step according to his design. This process makes him very enjoyable. The only pity is that the old man of Ren’s family was too careless and died too much. Quickly, he originally arranged a wonderful ending scene.
Compared with Ren's family, which is getting worse and worse, Han's family is getting better and better.
Although the Han family’s roots in Yanbei are still shallow, they have slowly gained a foothold in the Yanbei family over the past few years, and the next successor of the Ren family, who was appointed by the old man, has become the Yanbei young master. The leaders of the younger generation were gradually compared with the young master of the Yun family, and they were also appreciated by the famous Yanbei minister Sheng Shihong, becoming his closed disciple, and his future is unlimited. Now the Han family is about to become in-laws with the Yun family.
But in the heart of the old lady, these are far from enough. He wanted to repay the Ren family ten times for everything that the Zhai family suffered back then. In addition to taking back everything that originally belonged to the Han family, he wanted to see that the Ren family were all impoverished one by one. Death, so as to comfort him the spirit of the ancestors of the Zhai family.
Originally, everything was going on according to the wishes of the old man, and the long-cherished wish of old man Han was about to be realized.
It's a pity that not long after the death of the old lady, things began to change. The Han family seemed to have touched the mold gods all the way, and began to lose luck.
First, he competed with a Gao family who suddenly didn't know where to compete for the grain and oil business in Shunzhou. In the end, the Han family unexpectedly lost. Later, the old man inquired that the Gao family was actually the wife and uncle of the Lei family’s chief steward. To put it bluntly, a running dog under the name of the Lei family was not even considered a number in Yanbei, and the wife of the Ren family continued The Jiang family was from Shunzhou. The Jiang family had both reputation and connections in Shunzhou, but even this Ren family lost to the Jiang family.
The Han family originally thought it was just a coincidence, because the Han family underestimated the enemy.
But then, the Han and Yun family's newly opened salt wells in the northwest region also had problems.
Originally, based on the Yun family’s status in Yanbei and the Yun family’s connections, opening a salt well to make money was a sure thing. This was also the reason why the Han family chose to cooperate with the Yun family at the beginning. I don't know where the problem is. I only know that after the salt was mined from the salt well, the follow-up was broken, and there was no market. This is something I have never encountered before.
At this time, not only the Han family, but even the Yun family were beginning to notice something was wrong.
The first reaction was Han Yunqian and Yun Wenting, two young people.