Take the case of Concubine Kang, for example. She and Master Ren Wu were having an affair without a matchmaker, and strictly speaking, she wasn't even qualified to be a concubine. Because aristocratic families attach great importance to bloodlines, Concubine Kang's secret pregnancy outside the family was actually not clear at all.
"So, with the incident between Kang Jia and the Liu family today, Aunt Kang is finished no matter if she was wronged or not?" Ren Yaohua finally figured it out.
Ren Yaoqi nodded. No matter how clever Concubine Kang was, she still came from a poor background. Raised in Yanbei, she had no idea what a true aristocratic family's rules were. Concubine Fang was from the south. While the Fang family was wealthy, it wasn't considered a noble family, and her stepmother couldn't have taught Concubine Fang much when she was young.
The Ren family has been paying more and more attention to its image in recent years, trying to get closer to the aristocratic families. Given the temperaments of Mr. and Mrs. Ren, it is impossible for them to ruin their family's reputation for a woman like Concubine Kang. Mrs. Ren ignored this point when she let Concubine Kang in, and now someone came to wake her up.
"In this round, the reason why Concubine Kang and Concubine Fang lost to Madam Lin and Mrs. Su was not because they were not smart and alert enough, nor because they were not ruthless enough. They lost because of their background." Ren Yaoqi concluded calmly.
It no longer matters whose child Concubine Kang is carrying.
If Aunt Kang was really pregnant with the young master of the Liu family as Mrs. Kang and the Liu family said, then her self-proclaimed clever act of using Ren Yaoyu to kill the fetus in her womb has now become evidence of her sinister intention to eradicate the whole family.
The child is gone, and she has no idea what is going on now.
Ren Yaoqi didn't need to see what Old Lady Ren did next to know what would happen to Concubine Kang. She was very familiar with the way the Ren family handled problems.
"They really are...killing without shedding blood." It was impossible for Ren Yaohua not to be shocked.
She never knew that a false accusation, perhaps just a rumor, could destroy someone like Aunt Kang.
From what Concubine Kang had done during her time at the Ren family, it was clear that she was no pushover. The fact that she had the guts to plot against her unborn child and that she had used such a tragic method to prove her innocence today revealed what kind of person she was.
But now, the eldest wife of the Lin family may only need to bribe a close servant of the young master of the Liu family, and with a few specious slanderous words, this powerful woman will become a discarded pawn.
The war between women in the inner house, although without the smoke of gunpowder, is full of blood.
This was the first time that Ren Yaohua truly understood it.
Seeing Ren Yaohua's shocked expression, Ren Yaohua said nothing, letting her figure it out on her own. Some things can only be understood through experience. She hoped that Ren Yaohua could grow up, mature, and understand the rules of survival in the backyard.
It was a sunny afternoon, but somehow a light rain began to fall from the clear sky. It kept coming on and off, lingering for an hour or two. This kind of rain in a sunny day doesn't last long.
The rain had just stopped and it was not yet dark when Ren Yaoqi heard the news from Ren Yaohua.
Old Madam Ren had Sister Kang bring the uncle from the Liu family into the mansion. It was the eldest master who was there to meet him. They talked for less than an hour, and no one knew what they talked about. The uncle from the Liu family then quietly led the Liu family away, not saying a single extra word as he left.
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