To Madam Pei's surprise, Pei Minghao, who had been sitting there silently, suddenly asked a question.

"Second Aunt, the people you sent out only said that Uncle Jiu brought a child back from the yacht club? Did they say anything about the child's background?"

"What do they look like? Male or female? How old are they? Have you found out about their family background?"

Madam Pei gritted her teeth inwardly.

It seems this matter is not as simple as imagined, but Madam Pei still had a gentle smile on her face as she spoke to Pei Minghao.

"No, not at all. Let me ask again to make sure."

So, Madam Pei called back, and a middle-aged man answered.

After hearing Madam Pei's question, the middle-aged man hesitated for a moment before honestly answering her.

"That was a boy who looked only four or five years old..."

After saying just that one sentence, Pei Minghao frowned deeply and reprimanded him with extreme displeasure.

"A four or five-year-old boy? How could a four or five-year-old boy be in a yacht club? Are you kidding us? How can you pass on such a message? Do you have to make this kind of mistake?"

At this point, Pei Minghao glanced coldly at Madam Pei, his eyes full of dissatisfaction and accusation, as if he were criticizing Madam Pei for wasting her time on such inaccurate information.

Just then, Madam Pei spoke up, her tone neither warm nor cold, but rather sarcastic.

"Second brother's wife, you're not doing this on purpose, are you? Are you deliberately trying to use this fake news to trick us into going against the ninth brother, so you can reap the benefits?"

Madam Pei the Second was also embarrassed and quickly explained to Madam Pei the First and Pei Minghao.

"Of course not, how could I mean that? I just want to share information. Even if something really happens later, it will be a joint effort between our two families. Why would I let you be the first to take the lead? Right?"

Madam Pei snorted coldly, not even bothering to glance at Madam Pei the Second.

Madam Pei lost face, and naturally, she vented all her anger on her subordinates.

She warned the other party in a cold voice.

"If you can deliver the message, then deliver it; if you can't, then don't do it! Are you trying to get me killed by making this kind of blunder?"

Upon hearing this, the middle-aged man immediately apologized to Madam Pei, swearing that he hadn't done it on purpose.

Therefore, he had no choice but to reveal more information to convince Madam Pei.

“Second Madam, I really didn’t lie to you. That child was indeed brought back from the yacht club by Ninth Master. As for why the child was at the yacht club, I don’t know. I only know that this is not the first time the child and Ninth Master have met.”

Madam Pei's eyes lit up, and she immediately turned to exchange a glance with Madam Pei and Pei Minghao.

All three of them understood the meaning behind each other's eyes.

Immediately afterwards, Madam Pei couldn't help but ask anxiously.

"What is the relationship between that child and Ninth Master? Is he Ninth Master Pei's illegitimate child?"

The middle-aged man dared not hide anything and immediately answered honestly.

"I'm not too sure about that either, but as far as I know, this child seems to have no relation to Master Pei. Master Pei has always kept a clean record all these years, without any women around him."

"Furthermore, judging from the child's age, when he was born, Master Pei should have already been lying in a hospital bed in a vegetative state. It's unlikely that he would have been having an affair with another woman and fathering such a large child!"

Madam Pei pressed on, unwilling to give up.

"How is that possible? If Pei Fengzhi has no relation to this child, why would he bring the child home? Would someone like Pei Fengzhi bring home a bastard child whose origins are unknown?"

The middle-aged man was silent for a moment before tentatively speaking.

"Is it possible that Ninth Master just likes kids this age? Aren't there a lot of perverted people in this world? There are also many wealthy people abroad who like to adopt little boys this age. Maybe Ninth Master..."

For a moment, the entire tea room fell silent.

The three of them looked at each other, unsure of what to say. Each lost in their own thoughts, they remained silent for a long time.

Clearly, all three of them were pondering what the middle-aged man had said and had taken it to heart.

The tea room remained silent for so long that even the middle-aged man on the other end of the phone became somewhat uneasy and cautiously asked a question.

"Second Madam, did I say something wrong?"

Madam Pei coughed lightly and spoke gently to the middle-aged man.

"It's nothing, let's leave it at that. I'll look into the rest myself. Do you have a photo of that child? Send me one."

The middle-aged man sighed, his voice filled with helplessness.

"With Ninth Master present, how could I dare to take pictures casually? You know, Ninth Master is no ordinary person. He was sent to the First Military Region when he was just over ten years old. Anyone within a mile who dares to secretly take pictures of him would be asking for trouble."

That's true. Everyone in the Pei family is afraid of Pei Fengzhi's abilities.

The reason why Madam Pei Er was able to have someone still lurking around Pei Fengzhi without being caught was because this person was much more cautious than others, so Madam Pei Er naturally believed this excuse.

Madam Pei nodded without asking any further questions.

It was the middle-aged man who suddenly spoke to Madam Pei.

"But I think I've met that child's mother before. Back then, Ninth Master even sent people to secretly investigate that woman. This task just happened to be assigned to me, so I'll give you the woman's information now."

A little while later, Madam Pei received the documents handed to her by the middle-aged man.

When she saw that the woman had previously worked as a nanny in the Ye family, Madam Pei the Second didn't take it to heart. She merely glanced at the woman's address before closing the file and looking at Madam Pei the First and Pei Minghao, who had been staring at her.

She smiled and asked, a slight curve appearing on her lips.

"Don't look at me like that, tell me what to do? I've sent the message, but I can't be the one to come up with everything, can I?"

Pei Minghao's lips tightened into a straight line, and he didn't utter a single word for a long time.

Madam Pei, however, couldn't wait to lean her upper body towards Madam Pei and asked in a low voice.

"Do you think Pei Fengzhi really has that kind of fetish? But aren't the rumors that he and that vixen Ye Ningwan have a good relationship? Since he likes normal, beautiful women, how could he..."

Madam Pei the Second was different from Madam Pei the First.

Madam Pei came from a prestigious family and was a well-regarded and pampered daughter, so naturally she was unaware of the disgusting and sordid things that happened behind the scenes in wealthy families.

But Madam Pei the Second was different. She was an illegitimate daughter, and she had to use a lot of tricks to marry Master Pei the Second back then. Otherwise, she wouldn't have been chosen as his second wife.

Back when she was in her parents' home, she was neither favored nor valued. Sometimes, her father even had to take her out to cultivate relationships, so she naturally witnessed countless disgusting, filthy, and vile things.