Rong's words made Ren Yaoqi alert.
If the Queen Mother truly wanted to summon the sisters to the capital, not even the Yanbei Palace could stop her. After all, they were nominally citizens of the Great Zhou. However, women entering the palace must be unmarried. If they were already engaged, even the Queen Mother would not be able to force them to come to the capital.
"But we can't just marry off our third sister casually just because we're afraid he'll use some underhanded tactics, right?" Ren Yaoqi frowned.
Rong looked at Ren Yaoqi thoughtfully after hearing this: "Are you only worried about your sister? What about you? What if the Queen Mother summons you to the capital?"
Ren Yaoqi didn't know how to respond to Rong's words.
Rong shook her head and sighed, "The Yanbei Palace may be able to protect you, but are you sure anyone is willing to offend the Queen Mother for you? Most of the time, women are just victims in power struggles."
Ren Yaoqi knew that Rong had misunderstood the meaning of her silence, but she did not explain. She just smiled and said, "I know, Grandma."
Rong knew that she was intelligent, so she didn't mention it again. She just told Ren Yaoqi, "Go back and ask your mother to think it over and see if there's a suitable candidate."
Ren Yaoqi agreed, and soon after, the people sent by Rong to follow Ren Yaohua came back and said that Ren Yaohua took her own carriage back home after leaving. They saw that Ren Yaohua had safely entered the mansion and came back to report.
Ren Yaoqi finished his lunch at Rong's house before returning home. When he got home, Li was taking a nap. Ren Yaoqi did not disturb Li's rest, thinking that he would tell her Rong's words after Li got up in the afternoon.
However, Nanny Zhou pulled Ren Yaoqi aside and told her that after Li came back, Ren Yaohua and Li had another dispute. Li had been crying in the room and was finally persuaded by Nanny Zhou to go to sleep.
Nanny Zhou asked Ren Yaoqi to go see Ren Yaohua and persuade her.
Ren Yaoqi sighed helplessly. Ren Yaohua has always been prejudiced against her maternal grandfather's family. Ren Yaoqi has advised her more than once, but Ren Yaohua still cannot let it go.
After saying goodbye to Nanny Zhou and coming out of the main room, Ren Yaoqi went to the east wing to find Ren Yaohua.
But what surprised Ren Yaoqi was that Ren Yaohua was not in the room. Instead, the head maid Wujing was sitting on the kang in the inner room and embroidering with an embroidery frame.
Seeing Ren Yaoqi come in, Wujing quickly put down the work in his hands, got off the kang and bowed.
Ren Yaoqi looked around and asked in surprise, "Where's the third sister? Not in the room?"
Wu Jing was hesitant at first, but when she saw Ren Yaoqi staring at her with a frown, she lowered her head and said, "The Third Miss has gone out."
Ren Yaoqi asked quickly, "Where did she go? When did she leave? Who did she bring with her? Why didn't even Madam Zhou know?"
Wujing said, "After the Third Miss left the Madam's, she locked herself in her room and drove me and Pingguo out. Later, Miss Lei brought a letter, and I came in to deliver it to the Third Miss. After reading it, the Third Miss said she wanted to go out. But at that time, the Madam was furious. Nanny Zhou was also trying to persuade the Madam, but the Third Miss didn't want to go to the main room to ask for permission at that time, so she told me to prepare the carriage. The doorman saw that it was the Third Miss who was leaving. He thought the Madam had given her permission, so he didn't stop her."
Ren Yaohua was used to being the boss in the Third House, and everyone below her was afraid of her. Her orders were always similar to those of Li. Seeing that she was leaving, no one stopped her, thinking that the mistress had already known about it and no one would think that Ren Yaohua had left without permission.
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