"Letter from home?" Ren Xi accepted it in astonishment, "Why don't I know when it happened?"
When she opened the letter and read it, she immediately frowned and looked at her maid, "Qiu Jue, was this letter written by you?"
"Yes!" Qiu Jue knelt down with a plop, "Miss, you are about to get hairpins. Don't you often think about the young master coming back to participate in the ceremony? I dared to write this letter to the Yanjie Fortress."
"Be brave, you are really brave." Ren Xi shook his head speechlessly, "Come here! Ten...five big boards will make her memory long."
The two rough ladies rushed over with a smile and pushed Qiu Jue aside.
After a while, the sound of a board being slapped hard on the buttocks was heard.
The first-class maids of Taishi Mansion live better than some Xiaojiabiyu. It's estimated that Qiu Jue won't be able to get out of bed for ten and a half days.
The four second-class maids pricked up their ears excitedly.
Only when the maids make mistakes do they have the chance to be promoted.
However, Ren Xi only slapped Qiu Ju five times and said nothing else. After a while, they had no choice but to withdraw their gaze sadly.
"So the things in this letter are false?" Ren Ning asked.
"It's not false." Ren Xi smiled and shook his head, "But the marriage has not been confirmed yet. The man will come to the imperial capital in the fall, and my grandmother asked me to see each other first before talking. If I don't like it, my grandmother won't force."
The brother and sister chatted for a while, and when Ren Ning saw that she showed no signs of disgust with her current life, she left silently.
He didn't mention the matter of setting up an independent government again.
In the afternoon, Ren Ning went into the back house again to attend the family dinner.
All the masters of the Ren family in the imperial capital, big and small, returned home and gathered together.
When Ren Ning entered, three tables of people were already sitting inside.
He is the only male in the entire Taishi Mansion who has not been included in the family tree. In the past, when banquets were held during Chinese New Year and festivals, he would always sit with his cousins who came to enjoy the autumn breeze.
"Brother Ning, come over here and sit down." The eldest brother Ren Rong waved.
Ren Ning smiled and shook his head, "I won't sit down. I'll just say two things and leave."
Buzz!
The whole family dinner was shaken at once.
Many masters turned their heads and looked at Ren Ning with surprise, regardless of whether they were familiar with him or not.
The old master waved his hand with a livid face.
The concubines, servants and even the housekeeper who were standing on one side quickly left the banquet hall and stood far away, not daring to eavesdrop.
Ren Ning turned a blind eye.
"First, please ask the old master to ask the general manager to calculate my food and clothing expenses for the past fourteen years. Ren Ning will repay me double in three days. From now on, I have nothing to do with the master's mansion."
"Secondly, I already have the girl I like, and I will get married to her in a few days. If the house has arranged a marriage for me in advance, please cancel the engagement in time and don't worry about the girl."
"Goodbye, everyone!" After saying that, Ren Ning bent down and bowed, turned around and left.
"Brother." Ren Xi stood up and shouted in panic.
Ren Ning heard it but didn't stop.
Facing a long series of surprised looks outside the door, he quickly came to the front yard and whistled.
Zhui Feng suddenly rushed to his side and held his master's hand intimately.
Ren Ning took out a carrot and fed it to the dark horse.
He got on his mount and said, "Let's go!"
Once you leave, you won't come back.
Almost not long after, the imperial study room received news from the Taishi Mansion.
The emperor laughed, "A boy with personality. What didn't the Grand Master say?"
"No. Ren Ning didn't leave any time for others to speak. He turned around and left after he finished speaking."
"This old fox..." The emperor shook his head. He picked up the new memorial and stopped paying attention to the troubles in the Taishi Mansion.
It's not that the Grand Master didn't have time to say anything, it's that he wasn't prepared to speak at all.
Be the emperor's master forever.
These four characters left on the screen wall of the Taishi Mansion by the founding emperor six hundred years ago made the Ren family the well-deserved Taishi and Young Master. Regardless of whether they have truly taught the emperor and the prince, just by virtue of their status, they are already the supreme holy teachers in the hearts of thousands of literati and students.
If such a family had another general in charge of the army, many people would probably not be able to sleep.
Therefore, when Ren Ning privately signed his military membership four years ago, he had actually been exterminated.
Of course, Ren Ning has never entered a family tree, which saves a lot of trouble.
In the next few days, Ren Ning and Ying Pan looked around for a house as if nothing had happened.
In such a large imperial capital, it is not easy to find a decent one.
Houses in urban areas are cheap, but they are too small and the environment is not good.
The house near the imperial city is big enough, but even if you have money, you can't buy it because no one is usually willing to sell it.
The two of them had money in their hands and were not anxious at all. They just looked at each other slowly. Just think of it as falling in love.
On this day, Ren Ning was looking at a five-story house near the West Market, when someone suddenly came to him with a gold-plated invitation.
"Ren Ning will be the young master, and he will be buried three days later. The Prince of Qin's Mansion is holding a banquet, and he is here to invite the young master. The emperor and the queen may attend. Please be sure to show your appreciation."
Ren Ning nodded and accepted, "Please report back to Prince Qin. Ren Ning will definitely arrive in three days."
After the person who sent the invitation had gone away, Yingpan came around curiously, "The King of Qin seems to be the first prince to be crowned king. Do you know him?"
"I don't know him." Ren Ning shook his head, "Of all the princes, I only know the third prince, and he has not yet been crowned king. I have never seen the others."
Ren Ning had some feelings.
It would be impossible for him to attend such a gathering in his former capacity. Unexpectedly, now that I have completely escaped from the clan, I will have the opportunity to participate.
Yingpan smiled and said, "The emperor and the queen will come to participate, which is interesting. I guess the emperor cannot receive you for the time being, so he will hold a banquet outside the palace to meet you privately."
"The banquet party means eating and drinking. What is Zhongfu?" asked the prairie girl because she didn't understand.
Ren Ning smiled, "Have you heard of Dog Days?"
"I've heard of it." Yingpan nodded, "It's the dog days of summer now."
"Three days are divided into early days, middle days and late days. There is a tradition in Yunchui. During the middle days, relatives and friends will gather together to eat mutton, drink rice wine and eat lychees to ward off the heat, poison and evil in the body." Ren Ning said, "This is The banquet mentioned in the invitation."
Yingpan understood and curled her lips.
"The dog days of summer last for more than a month, and the dog days of mid-summer also last for about ten days. I think this drinking and dining party is just a random excuse to get together to eat, drink and have fun."
"Indeed." Ren Ning laughed loudly, "Aristocrats don't have to worry about food and clothing. They have nothing to do all day long and just want to eat, drink and have fun."
He glanced to the southwest and said, "If nothing major happened in Yunchui, for example, if there was no epidemic in Yunzhong County, the gatherings and banquets among the nobles of the imperial capital would be one small event every three days, and one big event every ten days. Too many to count. .”
"What a waste! There are still many people out there who don't have enough to eat..." Yingpan muttered a few times. Her eyes widened: "Can I go with you?"
"The palace must be very majestic. I have never been there before when I was this old."
Ren Ning shook his head regretfully, "If we get married, we should be able to take you in. I'm afraid not now."
whee!
Yingpan was not disappointed, "Then when you become the general, I will become the general's wife. Remember to take me to play then."
Three days later, Ren Ning entered Prince Qin's Mansion as scheduled.
Looking at the situation in front of him, he vaguely understood something.
