However, after coming out, Ren Shimao remembered how disheveled he looked and hesitated. Fortunately, Mrs. Ren was also worried about her son's loss of face, so she sent someone to clear the way and let the outsiders out of the way before bringing Ren Shimao back to her Ronghuayuan.
After crying until she had no strength left, Lin found out that her good husband had already left with his mother-in-law without even looking at her. She was so angry that she smashed everything in the house.
The eldest wife tried her best to persuade her for a while, but when she saw that Lin was still trying to throw a tantrum, she just stood aside and let Lin smash everything in the house to pieces.
Knowing that Lin had lost her strength and collapsed on a chair that hadn't been overturned, the eldest wife said gently across the mess on the ground, "Now that you've let out your anger, take a good rest. Don't worry, your mother will not let you suffer any harm. I'll come to see you later."
After that, without caring whether Mrs. Lin had listened or not, the eldest wife turned around and left calmly.
"Go and help the Fifth Madam go in and rest." The eldest wife calmly and kindly instructed the maids and servants around the Fifth Madam. After they all responded tremblingly and went, she said to Cao Madam beside her, "Have someone tidy up the room. Later, you go to the storehouse in person and pick out a better set of furnishings for the Fifth Madam's courtyard."
"Yes, ma'am."
That afternoon, Ren Yaoqi practiced calligraphy in the study in the west wing, ignoring the mess outside.
In the evening, someone from the old lady came to exempt the couple from paying respects today. When Ren Yaoqi went to the main house of Ziwei Courtyard, Xiangqin, the maidservant beside Ren Yaohua, told her that the old lady had already decided to let the concubine who came to visit him enter the house. She did not arrange her to live in the Liuli Courtyard of the fifth room, but arranged her to live in the more remote and quiet Wenya Pavilion, and sent several maids and servants to serve her.
Only then did the people in the mansion know that the woman's surname was Kang, and she was indeed the concubine that the Fifth Master had kept outside. The reason why the old lady let her into the mansion without any instructions and arranged for servants to serve her was because Kang was pregnant with the Fifth Master's child.
Although it was heard that Kang was born into an ordinary farming family, her family background was clean, and now that she had the blood of the Ren family, her future was definitely bright. Some of the restless maids in the mansion were furious.
Everyone in the mansion knew the Fifth Madam's temper. They also knew that Fifth Madam Lin was very favored by the Old Madam and had a very close relationship with the Fifth Master. So, despite Ren Shimao's youth and good looks, not many maids dared to make advances on him. But now, an outsider who appeared out of nowhere had taken advantage of him.
Ren Yaoqi met Kang on the second day after she entered the mansion.
The Han family sent someone to return a thank-you gift to the Ren family. Han You also asked someone to bring some new-style fans to the Ren sisters. Ren Yaohua sent Xiangqin back and asked Ren Yaoqi to go and pick one.
Just when Ren Yaoqi was about to come out with the fan, Kang was helped in by Aunt Gui from the old lady's yard.
This Kang, who had caused such a commotion in the five houses, looked about sixteen or seventeen years old. He had a fair complexion and a clean and well-behaved appearance. He was not stunning, but his appearance was pleasing to the eye.
She wore a clean, plain, moon-white jacket with a right-side opening, and a light blue long skirt. Her hair was simply tied up, with only a silver-encrusted plum-shaped copper hairpin in the hair. However, there were water stains on the hem of her skirt, stained with a few pieces of soaked tea leaves. She looked a little disheveled.
Nanny Gui came up and said that when she was ordered to go over, Kang had been kneeling outside the glass courtyard for more than a quarter of an hour. The tea on her body was splashed by her sister Ren Yaoyu, but because it was blocked by the maids serving her, only the hem of her skirt was wet.
Old Madam Ren sighed and said, "Didn't I tell you not to go to Liuliyuan to pay your respects for the time being?" Although her tone was not particularly kind, it was still quite gentle.
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