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But Lin didn't know that when people like you, everything you do is forgivable. On the contrary, when people dislike you, your excuses will only make people more disgusted.
In addition, Old Lady Ren had already determined that her granddaughter Ren Yaoyu was evil-minded and sinister and vicious, so Lin's defense of her daughter could only have the opposite effect.
Finally, Old Lady Ren could no longer bear it and flew into a rage. She had Ren Yaoyu tied up and taken to the ancestral hall to receive family punishment.
Any family with a strong family background has its own rules, and with them comes family discipline. Although the Ren family's history isn't particularly long, the proper facade was already established during the lifetime of the previous head of the family, Baoming.
The Ren family's family code was identical to that of other large families in Yanbei: a flat, round, ironwood stick about four feet long, the thickness of an adult's wrist, gleaming even without lacquer. Like the ancestral tablets, this stick, long enshrined in the ancestral hall, served as a deterrent for years, serving more as a deterrent than a practical purpose. It instilled fear in children, surpassing the terrifying power of a simple wooden stick.
So when Ren Yaoyu heard that she was going to be punished by the legendary family rules, she was so frightened that her legs went weak on the spot. Looking at the stern attitude of her grandmother who was high above her, she even thought that her life was going to be lost.
Lin's fear of family rules was certainly different from her daughter's, but she also understood the severity of the rules. After all, the stick had never been used since the previous head of the family established the rules, and she didn't want her daughter to be the first to be subjected to them.
So Ronghuayuan began to be in chaos again, until Master Lin Wu, Ren Shimao, got the news and asked Master Ren Da to invite Master Ren back.
It was undeniable that people's hearts were biased. It would be a lie to say that he was not sad because Concubine Kang's childbirth had caused Master Ren Wu to lose his heir. However, no matter how Ren Shimao promised Concubine Kang that he would not mistreat her or the child in her belly, when the critical moment came, the relationship between them was immediately separated.
Master Ren Wu was more worried about his eldest daughter than the unborn child in Concubine Kang's belly. Although everyone blamed Ren Yaoyu for Concubine Kang's miscarriage, Ren Shimao was unwilling to accuse him and Lin's beloved daughter of malice, believing Lin's words unconditionally. Ren Yaoyu had accidentally bumped into Concubine Kang.
After knowing this, Old Master Ren thought about it and decided to return to the inner courtyard. Old Lady Ren had been very dissatisfied with the Lin family recently because of Ren Shijia, so she took her anger out on the Lin family. Old Master Ren had turned a blind eye for some reason, but the attitude of the Ren family, which he represented, towards the Lin family did not change at all.
Recently, things have seemed peaceful among the various aristocratic families in Yanbei. However, many people feel that this peace is like a frozen river in winter: calm on the surface, but beneath the ice lies a deep and turbulent current. Once spring comes and the ice breaks, the flood season will arrive.
Therefore, in this somewhat unpredictable period, Old Master Ren did not want to make things too awkward with the Lin family.
However, Old Master Ren never asked about the affairs of the inner courtyard. It would be inappropriate to overturn Old Madam Ren's decision and embarrass her at this moment, so after returning to the inner courtyard, he went straight to the study in Ronghua Courtyard and did not actually show up no matter how much Ren Shimao pleaded.
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