Fang Hui is the daughter of Aunt Fang's biological mother. Ren Yaoqi has never met her, but she has heard that this cousin had very close contacts with the Ren family when she was still a girl, and had stayed at the Ren family several times.
Ren Yaohua waved her hand to let the two maids go away, but the expression on her face was a little changeable.
"What's wrong?" Ren Yaoqi asked.
Ren Yaohua hesitated for a moment before saying, "When I was living in Ronghuayuan, I heard a few maids talking about the old things that happened more than ten years ago."
Ren Yaoqi smiled and said, "Oh? Is it related to this cousin?"
Ren Yaohua nodded and whispered, "Grandmother once wanted Father to marry Fang Hui. The Fang family also had this intention, so Fang Hui came to Yanbei several times to escape the summer heat. Grandmother and her relationship was very close."
Ren Yaohua looked towards Fangfeiyuan: "Why did Aunt Fang find someone who looks like Fang Hui? Could it be that Fang Hui and my father..." She paused here.
Ren Yaoqi thought about it. His father's attitude towards Sun Shiyi Niang was indeed much better than that of ordinary servants. However, this might also be because Sun Shiyi Niang was not a servant of the Ren family and could help Ren Shimin with his paintings. As for whether it was because Sun Shiyi Niang resembled one of his younger years, Ren Yaoqi didn't know.
At least in Ren Yaoqi's memory, Ren Shimin had never shown any unusual affection for that woman. He basically spent all his time writing and painting, and when he went out for social events, he would discuss poetry with like-minded friends.
He is a talented man, but not a romantic one.
but……
Thinking of this, Ren Yaoqi suddenly remembered that his father was not completely without some romantic affairs.
In her previous life, there was a rumor that the third master of the Ren family had a mistress. Ren Yaoqi knew about this because some of the sisters from the Ren family heard the rumor while visiting someone else. Ren Yaoyu, who was not on good terms with Ren Yaohua, secretly went to Ren Yaohua to use this to annoy her.
At that time, Ren Yaohua was no longer favored by Old Madam Ren due to Concubine Fang's schemes. However, under the instigation of some people with ulterior motives, Ren Yaohua took a few maids from Ziwei Courtyard and went out to destroy the house that was said to be Ren Shimin's secret lover's house.
But later on, they heard that the woman in the house was not actually their father's mistress. She was already married and had children. Because of Ren Yaohua's indiscriminate beating and smashing, her reputation was completely ruined. Finally, they heard that she had hanged herself.
After that incident, Ren Yaohua's reputation for brutality spread far and wide, and not only in Baihe Town, but throughout Yanzhou, everyone shook their heads when they heard about the third daughter of the Ren family. Ren Shimin was also furious that time, and he disliked Ren Yaohua even more, and even the Li family suffered.
Not long after that incident, Ren Yaohua was also imprisoned. Old Madam Ren was rarely seen anymore, and with Concubine Fang constantly stirring things up in front of the old lady, the relationship between the grandmother and granddaughter gradually weakened. Old Madam Ren had never lacked younger generations to care for her.
Without Ren Yaohua's opposition, Aunt Fang gradually took over the affairs of the third room.
Ren Yaoqi was confined to the Ren family at the time because she had offended Yun Fang. She heard all these things from the maids below.
Now that I think about it, although Ren Yaohua has a hot temper, she's not stupid. How could she have so easily believed that the woman outside was her father's mistress? Who or what influenced or guided her judgment?
The incident involving Ren Yaohua happened not too far from the time when Ren Shimin originally acquired the two paintings of beauties by Jiang Yuanyi. Is there any connection between them?
She remembered that one time when she mentioned the paintings of beauties in front of her father, her father's face looked very bad. She thought that the two paintings had been ruined by the painter who restored them, because there were no such paintings in Ren Shimin's study.
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