Scheme of the Official Descendant

Xiao Jinglin sent Ren Yaoqi back to Baoping Hutong, and stayed for lunch before leaving with Hongying.

Soon after Xiao Jinglin left, Apple led Sydney back.

After Xueli left Ren's house, although her dress was much more plain, her complexion was better than when she was in Ren's house. Seeing Ren Yaoqi, Xueli hurried forward to salute.

Ren Yaoqi saw that her cheeks were rosy, and her breath was still a little short, obviously she came to see her just after rushing back from the Lei family's Zhuangzi.

Ren Yaoqi was not in a hurry to ask questions, she just asked her to sit down and have some tea and snacks to rest, and then asked someone to invite Ren Yaohua over. When Xiao Jinglin was there just now, Ren Yaohua was not in a hurry to ask her about seeing Lei Pan'er. Ren Yaoqi also wanted to wait for Sydney to find out the news before telling Ren Yaohua about Xiao Qiao's.

When Ren Yaohua came over, Sydney had already finished a cup of tea and used a few pieces of pastries, filling her stomach so-so.

Ren Yaoqi told Ren Yaohua the whole story of meeting Lei Pan'er and Xiao Qiao today, and also explained her guess about Xiao Qiao's purpose.

Xue Li said on the side: "Miss Wu's guess should be correct. When I saw Miss Lei's wet nurse, I heard from her that Xiao Qiao began to pay attention to Miss Lei's family as soon as she entered Lei's mansion. Personally take care of her basic necessities, food, housing and transportation. Originally, Miss Lei was taken care of by the nanny, but after Mrs. Qiao came, the nurse couldn't get in her hands. Mrs. Qiao wanted to let Miss Lei move to She went to live in the yard, and the wet nurse said in front of the Patriarch of the Lei family that Miss Lei accepted the bed, so Miss Lei stayed with the second master Lei in the end. Maybe it was because of this that Xiao Qiao had a grudge against the wet nurse, and later The wet nurse was slandered by Xiao Qiao for embezzling Miss Lei's private house money, and then kicked out of Lei's residence."

Ren Yaohua frowned all the time and listened, and finally thought about it: "Is this little Qiao's and Pan'er's biological mother really similar?"

Xue Li nodded: "The wet nurse said that the two of them look alike in appearance, but the first Mrs. Qiao has a gentle temperament and a very good temper, unlike Xiao Qiao's."

However, Ren Yaoqi asked: "Little Qiao had no heirs when she was in her husband's house?"

"It seems that she was pregnant before, but unfortunately her husband passed away at that time, and she had a miscarriage due to grief and fear. I heard that the child was already in shape when the miscarriage was born, and it was a baby girl."

Ren Yaoqi nodded. It's no wonder that although Xiao Qiao has never been a mother, she is so obsessed with her children. It turns out that she once got it and then lost it.

"What's the attitude of the Lei family towards Xiao Qiao?" He asked again.

"Because Xiao Qiao looks like Miss Lei's biological mother, Miss Lei doesn't reject her closeness, and she is willing to listen to her words, otherwise she wouldn't have let her drive the nurse out of the house before. The Patriarch of the family didn't see anything, but he told the whole Lei family not to neglect her, and he didn't stop Miss Lei from getting close to her. The Patriarch did not let go."

Ren Yaoqi couldn't help thinking after listening, and then looked at Ren Yaohua who frowned and said nothing.

Ren Yaohua noticed that her gaze turned her head, raised her eyebrows, and looked inquiringly.

Ren Yaoqi smiled: "This is a matter of the Lei family's inner courtyard, and it's not good for me to intervene. Even you are not suitable to intervene now."

Ren Yaohua understood, nodded and said: "I know that." After a pause, she said to Ren Yaoqi, "Don't worry, I will deal with it when the time comes."

Ren Yaoqi smiled, although she was worried, she also knew that she still needed to let Ren Yaohua do it by herself, otherwise Ren Yaohua might blame her for meddling in turn.

Before Sydney left, Ren Yaoqi comforted her and said, "I want to delay your marriage with Zhu Ruomei for another year, but don't worry, I will let you get married in a leisurely manner."

Xue Li's face turned red when she heard the words, but she still tried her best to look decent: "Thank you, miss." She hesitated for a while, and then said, "Miss, can I still do things for you after getting married?"

Ren Yaoqi couldn't help laughing when she heard the words, and her tone was a little teasing: "Zhu Ruomei can be regarded as a figure now, big or small, and many people have to call him when he goes out What am I doing?"

Xueli only thought that Ren Yaoqi was joking with her, and quickly said: "This servant just wants to serve you."

Sydney's words were also sincere. Although the relationship between Fifth Miss Ren and her master-servant did not have a good start, after staying by Ren Yaoqi's side for a long time, she understood that Fifth Miss Ren is a very good master.

Even after she left the Ren family, Ren Yaoqi took good care of her, and the daily routines and rewards were no less than those of close servants. It was also because Miss Ren paid so much attention to her as a maid from the beginning to the end. Great respect for her too.

What's more, Zhu Ruomei does not have a proper official position now, and Xueli only thinks that he is an unknown follower with the second son of Yanbei Prince's Mansion. Xueli thought, even if it is inconvenient to serve Miss Fifth closely because she has to serve her mother-in-law, she can still manage a dowry shop or Zhuangzi for her.

Ren Yaoqi patted her hand, and said in a warm voice: "It's good that you have this kind of heart, so how about it, if you think it's good to come back and help me with things, then you can come back, I will treat you well."

Xue Li breathed a sigh of relief when she heard the words, and quickly thanked her.

What Ren Yaoqi said was just to comfort her, because she knew that Zhu Ruomei was not an ordinary person. Judging from the current situation of Yanbei Palace and Xianwang Palace, there may be some big moves in the next year. Ruomei will definitely come in handy. It would be better for Zhu Ruomei to marry Xueli when Zhu Ruomei has a half-time official position than to marry Xueli now. It's just that these things are not suitable to be brought up with Sydney now, so Ren Yaoqi didn't explain too much.

The next period of time was very calm, so in the blink of an eye, it was late August, and Ren Yaohua was about to leave the cabinet.

Just a few days before Ren Yaohua came out of the cabinet, there was news from the Ren family's old house that Fourth Miss Ren Yaoyin had returned.

The eldest wife of the Ren family is not happy about her daughter's return at this time. The Ren family is now in a precarious situation, and they don't know when they will be able to overcome the difficulties. The eldest wife sent a letter to the eldest daughter a while ago, and asked the eldest daughter to find a family for Ren Yaoying in the south of the Yangtze River. A good family, taking advantage of the Gu family's power, she will accompany her with a generous dowry, so that Ren Yaoyin can't find a good family.

But Ren Yaoyin wanted to come back at this time, how could the Ren family have the heart to plan for her marriage now? Ren Yaoyin's age is too late. Mrs. Ren's plans fell through, so even though she hadn't seen her daughter for a few years and was really worried about her, she still didn't give Ren Yaoyin any good looks.

Ren Yaoqi did not respond, Sanfang has now moved away from Baihe Town, and will only become more and more independent in the future, so naturally there will be less interaction with Ren Yaoyin.

And Ren Yaohua is going to get married soon, she doesn't like Ren Yaoyin, and she can stay away from each other in the future, so she doesn't care about it at all.

Ren Jiafa married the day before the wedding.

The Ren family prepared a dowry for Ren Yaohua, according to the example of the Ren family's daughter-in-law, accompanied by a Zhuangzi, a three-entry house, two shops, a set of huanghuali furniture, clothes, jewelry, various decorations and daily necessities, although because of the current Ren's family is not as good as before, and Ren Yaohua's dowry has also shrunk a lot, but in the eyes of outsiders, Ren Yaohua's marriage is still glorious.

Generally speaking, when a daughter of a wealthy family gets married, in addition to the dowry given by the family, the parents and in-laws will also subsidize some. As for the amount of subsidy, it all depends on the strength of each house and household. So sometimes there is a difference in dowry even for the daughters of the same house in the same family.

Mrs. Li didn't save much private money these years, so she just gave Ren Yaohua the few sets of good jewelry she saved. Li Shi felt very guilty because of this, other mothers would subsidize their dowry to their daughters, but when Li Shi got married, it was the most difficult time to present the integrity of the palace, where could there be any dowry to accompany? Ren Yaohua didn't care about this at all, Ren Yaohua knew the financial situation of the third room best, so she was only willing to ask for half of the sets of headgear that Mrs. Li wanted to give her, and she wanted to leave the other half to Ren Yao Expect.

However, Ren Yaoqi had a conversation with Ren Shimin, and that night when Ren Yaohua came to listen to his teachings, the third master generously gave her three thousand taels of silver at the bottom of the box, and also gave her some famous paintings and copybooks. Ren Yaohua was shocked and a little flattered by using this valuable and elegant thing as a facade.

The Rong family also added a dowry to Ren Yaohua, two thousand taels of silver and a pair of dragon and phoenix jade pei. After Xianwang Mansion got in touch with Hezhong, there was no need to hide some things, there were still some foundations. It is said that the pair of jade pendants were rewarded by the former emperor.

When the rest of the relatives added make-up to Ren Yaohua, they expressed somewhat. Ren Shijia was the most generous, besides adding a set of red gold hair, a pair of jade bracelets, and eight pieces of brocade to Ren Yaohua, they also gave Ren Yaohua an extra thousand dollars. two silver.

Ren Shijia was not so generous when other nieces were married. The main reason why she treated Ren Yaohua differently was because of Ren Yaoqi, and now that the Lin family had separated, Lin Kun had a lot of property. Jia has a lot of money.

She even pulled Ren Yaoqi and secretly said: "Good boy, when you get married, Auntie has something good for you." She was very confident.

On the day of the wedding, four of the eight dowry maids prepared by Mrs. Ren for Ren Yaohua were originally to be sent to Lei's house together with her dowry, but Mrs. Ren did not expect that when the dowry was sent Before Lei's house, all the maids she carefully prepared were replaced by Madam Zhou calmly. RS