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Chapter 73: Repeating the Same Mistake?
It had been clear skies for several days since returning from the Bailong Temple.
Today after invoking the morning greeting, Old Master Ren and Old Madam Ren left their sons and daughters-in-law behind and sent all the grandchildren out.
Ren Yaohua had originally spent her breakfast in the Old Madam’s courtyard, so now she went back to the Ziwei courtyard with Ren Yaoqi.
“I wonder what grandparents want to discuss with father, uncles, and others today?” Ren Yaohua asked casually on the way back.
Ren Yaoqi tilted her head and thought, “What did they discuss last time when everyone left behind?”
Ren Yaohua said, “At the end of last year, Granduncle wrote a letter saying that four more coal warehouses will be opened around the capital.”
“Has there been any more big business for the family recently?”
Ren Yaohua thought for a moment, “The other day Grandmother mentioned to Eldest Aunt that the Han Family had won some good salt wells and wanted to partner with the Ren Family.”
“The Han Family?” Ren Yaoqi frowned when she heard about the Han Family, she always felt that the Han Family was strange.
“What’s wrong with the Han Family?” Ren Yaohua raised her eyebrows and looked at Ren Yaoqi.
Ren Yaoqi shook her head, “I just didn’t expect the Han Family to want to open a salt farm. I heard that although doing this is a lucrative business, not everyone can make it.”
“That’s why the Han Family wanted to partner with us, the Ren Family.” Ren Yaohua said unconcernedly.
Ren Yaoqi was, however, wondering if this had happened in her last life. But don’t know if she couldn’t remember, or if she simply didn’t care about it before, she actually had no recollection of it. In the end, she gave up.
The two sisters waited for Ren Shimin and Madam Li to return for breakfast, but it was more than half an hour before they returned.
Ren Yaoqi noticed that although Ren Shimin did not say anything, Madam Li’s face was filled with faint joy, and sometimes she would suddenly frown for a while, not knowing what she was thinking.
When the family had finished their breakfast, Ren Yaoqi asked casually, “What important things did grandfather and grandmother say today?”
Ren Shimin finished gargling slowly and said carelessly, “It’s about the Ren Family and the Han Family opening a salt well together.”
Ren Yaoqi glanced at Li and said with a smile, “Is it only about this? Then why are all the aunts and uncles staying behind?”
When Li saw that Ren Yaoqi was asking questions, she said, “Why are you asking so many questions? You should learn how to do needlework and learn how to manage the household and accounts from Matron Zhou. Especially Yaohua, your sewing work is sloppy, and you need to learn more about managing accounts. From tomorrow onwards, you will spend half an hour with Matron Zhou after each morning meal.”
Hearing Li’s sudden mention of this, Ren Yaoqi’s heart suddenly stirred, could it be that Old Master Ren and Old Madam Ren had mentioned Ren Yaohua’s marriage today?
When Ren Shimin was about to go out, Li pulled Ren Yaohua aside and whispered something. Ren Yaoqi said something to Li and hurriedly followed Ren Shimin out.
After walking a few steps, Ren Shimin noticed that Ren Yaoqi was following her and turned around and said, “Why aren’t you at your mother’s place listening to her teachings? Why are you following me out?”
Ren Yaoqi smiled and took a few quick steps to Ren Shimin’s right: “I’ve come to see Father out.”
Ren Shimin laughed at his words and gave Ren Yaoqi a sidelong glance, “What is it? Tell me, Father is in a hurry to go out.”
Ren Yaoqi thought for a moment. She whispered, “Did Grandparents mention anything else today besides the salt well?”
“Why are you asking this?” Ren Shimin raised an eyebrow.
Ren Yaoqi smiled ingratiatingly, “Father, tell me? Otherwise, I’ve been thinking about it all day, and I won’t be in the mood to do anything.”
Ren Shimin glanced at her and turned back to walking on his own.
Ren Yaoqi moved closer. She whispered more and more, “Father, did Grandparents mention Third Sister’s marriage?”
Ren Shimin suddenly choked on his saliva and coughed lightly, and Ren Yaoqi went up to pat her back.
“Yaoyao, why do you dare to ask anything? Is it your business to ask these things?” Ren Shimin glared at Ren Yaoyao and scolded her.
Ren Yaoyao said in a small voice, “I just thought of it suddenly when I saw Mother mentioning that she wanted to let Third Sister learn how to manage the house, so I asked about it. Father, did Grandparents mention this or not?”
Ren Shimin was a bit helpless, seeing Ren Yaoqi’s attitude that he would follow him to the end if he didn’t answer. He could only say vaguely, “Yes, there was a mention of this.”
“Which one is he?” Ren Yaoqi was busy asking.
Ren Shimin frowned, a little displeased: “Yaoyao! Don’t ask what you shouldn’t ask.”
Ren Yaoqi bowed her head, but she still followed Ren Shimin’s lead.
She saw that she was about to leave the second door. Ren Shimin let out a soft sigh, “Han Family”
His voice was not loud, but the two words he spat out made Ren Yao freeze on the spot.
The Han Family?
The Han Family again?
Could it be that in this life, there was still no way to escape the ending of the last life?
Ren Shimin saw that Ren Yaoyao’s steps had stopped, but she stood there with a dumbfounded look on her face. So she also stopped and said with a frown, “What is wrong with you today?”
Ren Yaoqi pursed her lips and suddenly said, “Third Sister cannot be betrothed to Han Yunqian!”
Ren Shimin froze for a moment, then his frown tightened as he sized up Ren Yaoyaoqi for a moment, suddenly seeming to think of something.
He sighed lightly and said with a stern face, “You come with me to the study.”
With that Ren Shimin turned around and headed for the study in the west courtyard.
Ren Yaoqi followed him to the study in silence.
Only when they reached the study, with only father and daughter left, did Ren Shimin ask Ren Yaoyao, with a serious face, “Yaoyao, are you asking so many questions today that you shouldn’t be asking, for Han Yunqian?”
Ren Yaoqi looked up at her words and looked at Ren Shimin’s expression as if he had misunderstood something.
But Ren Yaoqi had no way to explain to Ren Shimin, could she say that Han Yunqian and Ren Yaohua’s engagement would be called off before the wedding date? No one would believe her if she said something that hadn’t happened yet.
And the Han Family and Han Yunqian were considered an excellent marriage, no matter which way they looked at it.
So Ren Yaoqi pursed her lips and did not speak.
Ren Shimin thought she had acquiesced, and could not help but sigh heavily again: “Yaoyao, you are still young
 although the Han Family has proposed to tie the knot with our Ren Family, and your grandparents and eldest uncle are happy to see it happen, but according to their age, they prefer Yaohua and Yaoyin. “
When Ren Yaoqi heard this, had the choice not yet been finalized? It was just a matter of choosing between Ren Yaohua and Ren Yaoyin?
Ren Yaohua and Ren Yaoyin were also the candidates that the Old Madam wanted to marry into the Qiu Family, but now with the addition of the Han Family, it was most likely that one would be married to the Han Family and the other would be Qiu’s fiancĂ©e.
When Ren Shimin saw that her daughter’s face was not good, she could only advise with a twisted face: “Although Han Yunqian looks good in all aspects, don’t you despise his bad chess skills? And
 and you have won him twice in a row. Any man would feel unhappy!”
Ren Yaoqi was still racking her brains on the side, but she couldn’t cry laughing when she heard Ren Shimin’s words so magically.
“Father! I don’t mean that!”
Ren Shimin gave his daughter a look, somewhat unconvinced.
Who doesn’t have youthful moments? Back then, he had also thought about finding a beautiful woman who could be the model of his painting at all times.
Back then, Old Madam Ren had wanted to tie the knot with her aunt’s Fang Family and asked for Fang Yahui, the first daughter of the Fang Family.
He had seen her a few times and thought that her side face was fine for the painting, but her somewhat broad nose was not good enough for painting from the front.
At that time, he was a bit worried, thinking that he could not just paint the side of her face for her whole life in the future. That was one of the things that bothered him the most when he was young.
Ren Shimin felt that he should have been in a similar mood back then as his youngest daughter is now.
However, the Third Master Ren had forgotten. Later, the marriage between the Ren Family and the Fang Family fell through. When Old Master Ren asked for the daughter of the newly deported Prince Xian, he did not feel much about the solution to the problem of Fang Yahui’s nose that had plagued him for years. Li’s features were so striking that it was hard to pick out any flaws and was definitely good material for painting.
But at that time Ren Shimin was no longer interested in portrait painting, but in landscape painting, which he has continued to enjoy ever since.
So in fact his old man’s so-called youthful feelings back then were different from his daughter’s.
Looking at Ren Shimin’s inexplicably sentimental face, Ren Yaoqi interrupted: “Father, isn’t it said that the quality of chess is like the quality of a person? Han Yunqian’s character is not good like his chess moves! We’d better not marry him!”
Ren Shimin came back to his senses and shook his head, “It’s your grandparents’ wish, I can’t make the decision.”
Although the adult masters of the Ren Family were called upon to attend all of the family’s major events, the final decision was not made by them, but by Old Master Ren. This was also the case with the marriage of their children.
Ren Yaoqi also had known of this.
In the last life, the most important thing about the marriage between the Ren Family and the Han Family wasn’t Ren Shimin’s approval, but that the Ren Family was interested in tying up with the Han Family. Ren Shimin was just coincidentally approved of him. If he had chosen an ordinary scholar for his children, the Ren Family would never have agreed.
Ren Yaoqi sighed.
Ren Shimin had persuaded his daughter in his own way then went out.
Ren Yaoqi came out of the west courtyard with only one thought in mind, how to stop Ren Yaohua and Han Yunqian’s engagement.
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Ren Shimin doesn’t understand what love is and considered her future wife’s most important value is her ability to be his model makes so much sense when you see how he is treating his wives now. It is painful but also on brand of him, it is so funny