In the evening, Ren Yaohua came back after receiving her punishment, and Ren Yaoqi went to talk to her.
Ren Yaohua asked Xiangqin to rub her sore wrist and said to Ren Yaoqi, "Grandfather came back this afternoon, and I heard him tell Grandmother that the woman was actually the same Mei Hong from back then. I asked her a few questions and everything matched."
Ren Yaoqi frowned. It wasn't a surprise to her, but Aunt Fang was truly capable. She had actually found someone like this. Or had she been planning this all along? But Mei Hong hadn't appeared in her previous life, or perhaps this move by Mei Hong hadn't been used in her previous life?
If this is true, then she really did it deliberately.
"How did she come back to Yanbei, and how did she end up in that place?" Ren Yaoqi asked.
Ren Yaohua waved Xiangqin away, signaling that it was all right. Then, he continued, "She didn't say the Ren family sold her to that place. She only said she was sold to a family as a maid, but later got kicked out because she offended the mistress of that family. After that, she was sold twice more before finally returning to Yanbei. But her words were so disjointed and vague about the time periods, my grandfather said he could only believe two or three points of it."
Ren Yaoqi thought for a moment. "Did Grandfather have her redeemed and sent away?" Whether Mei Hong was manipulated or sold back by accident, how she explained this to the Ren family was beside the point. The mouth is in the head; it can change its mind at any time.
Ren Yaohua nodded: "I'll send him off this afternoon."
At this moment, Wu Jing hurried in, her face pale as she said, "Miss Third, Miss Fifth, things are going badly. Just now, a maid in our courtyard heard that this matter had somehow spread outside, and that maids from other families had secretly come to our house to inquire about it. Some even said that Mei Hong was a maid who served closely by Miss Third's side."
These are just the words spoken openly, and we don’t know how they smear us behind the scenes.
Ren Yaohua's face also turned pale: "Do you know who spread it?"
Ren Yaoqi said calmly, "Grandmother has issued a strict order not to spread this information outside. So the fact that the news spread so quickly must have been arranged by someone outside."
Ren Yaohua said, "Fortunately, Mei Hong has been sent away. Otherwise, if she had been bribed to speak nonsense, it would have been even more difficult to explain."
Ren Yaoqi shook his head: "I don't think it's a good idea."
Ren Yaohua frowned.
Ren Yaoqi looked at Ren Yaohua: "Grandfather just told us to send him away before? Now that things have become a big deal, what do you think the Ren family will do?"
Ren Yaohua thought about what he had heard before, his grandfather's tone at that time, and the Ren family's usual style of behavior. His face changed and he asked, "Is Meihong afraid she will not survive?"
The Ren family had Mei Hong's indenture contract, and she was a slave. It would be very easy for the Ren family to kill Mei Hong. All they had to do was pay a sum of money to the government, and the government would not interfere in the matter of a master beating a slave to death.
Ren Yaoqi smiled and sighed, "What a calculated plan! She anticipated that the Ren family would send the person away, and then after the person was actually taken away by the Ren family, she made a bigger fuss. Now, in order to quell the rumors, the Ren family would not let Mei Hong appear in Baihe Town again, even if it meant killing her."
"Then what?" Ren Yaohua asked.
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