Ren Yaoqi let it go. After a moment's thought, she asked again, "Mammy, do you know if the Ren family offended anyone or had any grudges against anyone decades ago?"
Nanny Zhou was startled when she heard this. She looked at Ren Yaoqi and asked, "Fifth sister, why are you suddenly asking about this? What happened?"
Ren Yaoqi shook his head. "I just happened to hear something about a family named Qu. A descendant of the Qu family said some bad things about our Ren family, so I asked out of curiosity."
Nanny Zhou disagreed. "If there are families dissatisfied with the Ren family, there should be quite a few. The Ren family is not a charity, but they started out as a miner. Many people die in the Ren family's coal mines every year. If the families of these people would definitely have some complaints about the Ren family, it's not surprising."
Ren Yaoqi felt that the Qu family's affairs were not so simple. If Han Dongshan truly had a grudge against the Ren family, it must be a deep and irreconcilable feud. Ren Yaoting's mention of the Qu family tablets made Ren Yaoqi feel very uneasy.
Seeing Ren Yaoqi's face full of thought, Nanny Zhou knew she was still thinking about the Qu family, so she said, "I remember there was an old Nanny in her seventies on the farm. She sold herself to the Ren family in her early years. I heard that she was a native of Baihe Town and sold herself into slavery because her family was killed by the Liao people. When I lived on the farm with my wife, I often heard her and some of the maids on the farm talk about old things from decades ago. If your Qu family really exists, this old Nanny might know about it."
Ren Yaoqi's eyes lit up when he heard this: "How is this nanny? Could you please come into the mansion?"
"When she was young, she did rough labor. Now that she's older, she's only responsible for light chores, but her health is still very good. She can even eat five or six large white steamed buns in one meal. If Fifth Sister wants to invite her into the house, it should be possible."
Ren Yaoqi thought for a moment and said to Nanny Zhou, "Then please find a way to get her in. I have something to ask her."
The Ren family generally does not keep old maids in their mansion, and the younger ones may not remember what happened forty or fifty years ago.
Nanny Zhou nodded and agreed: "I will send someone to the farm tomorrow. The eldest lady should not care about these things."
"Thank you, Ma'am." Ren Yaoqi said happily.
Zhou hurriedly said he didn't dare.
While the two were talking, Li's maid Xi'er hurriedly lifted the curtain and came in. Seeing Madam Zhou and Ren Yaoqi there, she hurried over and said, "Madam, there's a commotion outside."
Nanny Zhou frowned: "What a mess! What's going on?"
Xier glanced at Ren Yaoqi and said even louder, "There's a quarrel going on between the Fifth Master and the Fifth Mistress. Just now, a sedan chair with a green tent arrived outside the mansion, with a woman sitting inside. The maid accompanying the sedan claimed to be looking for the Fifth Master, and the person sitting in the sedan chair was his... mistress."
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