The sky outside was still a little gloomy. The rain that had been falling since last night had been falling intermittently, making people feel depressed.
Ren Yaoqi felt a little depressed, so depressed that she even felt like she needed to exert effort to breathe.
He put the peeled pine nuts in his hand on a plate and pushed it to Ren Yaoyin. Ren Yaoqi stood up and said, "I've been sitting for a long time. I'm going to get up and walk around."
Ren Yaoyin looked up at the pine nuts that Ren Yaoqi had peeled, bit off the string in her hand, and said with a smile, "You spent so much time peeling them, isn't it a bargain for me?"
Ren Yaoqi also smiled: "Fourth sister always cares about me, so I feel sorry for her too."
Ren Yaoyin was stunned for a moment, then smiled gently.
Ren Yaoqi was just walking down the corridor, and Ren Shijia didn't stop her. He just told her to be careful about the slippery floor and not get wet in the rain.
The air outside was indeed much better, with the fragrance of soil and plants.
Ren Yaoqi originally planned to take a walk under the corridor in the courtyard to get some fresh air and sort out his thoughts. However, before he reached the door of his room, he saw Xiangqin coming in from outside with a small square box in her hand.
"Why don't you bring an umbrella when you go out in the rain?" Ren Yaoqi scolded Xiang Qin when he saw that her hair was stained with tiny water droplets and her shoulders were also wet.
Xiang Qin ran over immediately when she saw Ren Yaoqi. Seeing her scolding her, she stuck out her tongue and said, "I forgot in my haste."
Ren Yaoqi raised an eyebrow: "What's so urgent?"
Xiang Qin pointed to the box in her hand and smiled brightly, "Someone wanted to hand something in for the young lady, so I ran over to check and found out it was sent by the princess."
Xiang Qin had been ordered by Ren Yaohua not to approach certain inexplicable people. So, upon hearing someone outside trying to pass something in for Ren Yaoqi, the loyal maidservant ran out without a word. Unexpectedly, the person who came wasn't from the Yun family, whom her family was wary of, but a maidservant from the Princess of Yanbei's palace, who was here to deliver something to Ren Yaoqi.
As if afraid that Ren Yaoqi would blame her for acting on her own, Xiang Qin smiled ingratiatingly while carefully watching Ren Yaoqi's expression. She wondered what she would do if the Fifth Miss lost her temper.
The little maidservant was actually in tears at this moment. She was a maidservant, earning a monthly salary but doing the work of two people. She was used to it, so she got used to it. But the master couldn't give her all the difficult work just because she was smart, capable, and clever!
Letting her offend someone or something...this is too much of bullying for a maid!
Ren Yaoqi calmly admired Xiangqin's colorful facial expressions, then smiled and took the palm-sized box: "Well, thank you for coming. Come inside and change your clothes."
Xiang Qin's face immediately turned from cloudy to bright, and her eyes sparkled with a smile. If she had a tail, she would probably wag it a few times: "Hey, I'll go right away."
Looking at Xiangqin's cheerful back, Ren Yaoqi couldn't help but smile, and even the suffocating feeling she had before dissipated a lot. Xiangqin, the maid, was actually not ignorant of the rules. Although she had a cheerful temperament, she would never let her master down at the critical moment.
Moreover, Ren Yaohua had good intentions when he told her this, so she naturally wouldn't be angry about such a thing.
Ren Yaoqi looked at the box in his hand, thought about it and decided to go back to his room first.
The palm-sized box was made of rosewood, and was intricately carved with a pattern of "fortune as vast as the East Sea." When Ren Yaoqi opened it, he was stunned. Inside was a walnut carving of the Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea.
Ren Yaoqi took out the small walnut carving and examined it carefully in his palm for a moment. He found that the middle of the walnut was hollowed out, so it was a hollow carving, and the carving was very excellent.
But why did Xiao Jinglin give her this for no reason? A gift?
Just as he was thinking this, Ren Yaoqi held the walnut up to the light and saw that there was something inside the hollow part of the walnut. This chapter has been read (please click on the next chapter to continue reading!)
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