Unexpectedly, he was a blind man.

"Mr. Ren, my name is Xie Siheng. I'd like to come over and ask you about some of my mother's past."

Although this person is somewhat different from what the eldest princess described, it is normal for people to change over the years.

Thinking of this, Xie Siheng bowed gracefully towards Ren Dongnan. Even though the other party couldn't see him, he couldn't be impolite.

Ren Dongnan tilted his head slightly towards where Xie Siheng was speaking, and asked in surprise, "Thank you?"

Xie Siheng's heart skipped a beat: "Yes!"

Ren Dongnan didn't say anything else. He opened the door, entered the yard and walked towards the main hall, not caring at all whether the people behind him followed him or not.

Since Xie Siheng has come here, of course he has to ask clearly.

Ren Dongnan sat down and took a sip of cold tea: "Your mother, Zhongli Xingyue?"

"Yes!" Xie Siheng sat upright.

"What can you prove?" Ren Dongnan spoke slowly and his tone was unclear.

Xie Siheng raised his hand and took off a crescent-shaped jade pendant from his waist and handed it to him: "My mother said that she would give this to you when she saw you."

Ren Dongnan stretched out his hand and accurately took the jade pendant.

It feels warm to the touch and has a delicate texture. There is a small bump on the tip below the crescent.

Ren Dongnan's brows relaxed and his eyes softened, as if he was recalling the past.

"Your mother and I did know each other before. Back then, the three of us, Zhongli Xingyue, Gongye Ji, and I, were friends through fighting..."

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Ji Changying was very curious about what Xie Siheng wanted to talk to Ren Dongnan about.

After all, gossip is human nature!

But this was someone else's privacy, and he had clearly shown that he didn't want her to know, so she held it in.

After all, they are friends, not enemies, and we should have some morals.

"Yue Niang! Ah Ying! Are you back? Have you eaten? Where's the harvest?"

As soon as she entered the door, Mrs. Hu looked around and was a little puzzled when she didn't see Ji Fengshou.

"My dad went to see my uncle and the others. I haven't eaten yet and I'm a little hungry." Ji Changying touched his stomach and had digested the food he had eaten in the morning long ago.

Madam Wang ordered Shaoyao, "Go prepare some food for you two."

Ji Changying fished out the letter Ji Fengshou had given her and handed it to Madam Wang: "I met County Magistrate Wang today. He didn't even know you were here! He even sent someone to Liangzhou to look for you. When I told him, he quickly wrote a letter for me to bring back to you."

Upon hearing this, Mrs. Wang's expression relaxed.

If Wang Ziru was so heartless as to ignore his wife, she would be heartbroken.

"He still has some conscience." Mrs. Wang raised her chin and took the letter. She glanced at it and then returned to her expressionless face.

Throughout the entire letter, he didn't ask her whether she had eaten well or slept well, nor did he specify when he would pick her up. Instead, he kept asking where Ping An had gone!

However, when she thought of this long-time attendant, Mrs. Wang's expression became gloomy.

In order to save her, Ping An held the barbarians back and let them go first, but unexpectedly, they did not survive and were still captured.

Thinking of this, Mrs. Wang suddenly lost her appetite. She said a few words reluctantly and turned back to her room.

Mrs. Hu looked at him and sighed, "Even if you have money, you may not live a happy life. We are all miserable people!"

Zhou picked up the noodles that Shaoyao brought over and took a sip. "How is it bitter? Isn't this delicious?"

Mrs. Hu rolled her eyes at her and said, "What do you know?"

Ji Changying didn't want to understand either. She picked up the bowl of noodles and started eating with her mother happily.

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Ren Dongnan hadn't spoken so much in one day for at least ten years, and he felt his stomach growling with hunger.

He took another sip of cold tea. "That's all I know about your mother. We haven't seen each other for at least twenty years. I didn't expect that when we met again, your mother had already..."

Xie Siheng sat there for a long time without saying a word, like a piece of wood.

"Don't be too sad. In the end, everyone is just a handful of dust. It's just a matter of time. Life must go on."

Ren Dongnan rarely spoke to comfort others. After he finished speaking, he stood up and patted Xie Siheng's shoulder awkwardly.

He smelled the delicious food from next door. It should be time for dinner, right?

When he opened the door, five secret guards looked at him in unison.

Ren Dongnan remained calm, as if he didn't feel the gazes on him. He walked out the door and went straight to the next door to wait for dinner.

Ying Yi couldn't help but mutter: "I don't know if he is really blind or just pretending to be blind..."

Several people nearby nudged him and motioned him to look inside the room.

Xie Siheng held the jade pendant in his hand, sitting on the chair with an expressionless face, stroking the jade pendant constantly in his hand. It seemed that his heart was not as calm as he looked.

He couldn't help but doubt his own life experience again.

According to Ren Dongnan, the three of them met through fighting, and later became good friends and traveled the world together.

Gradually, feelings began to develop between his mother and Gong Yeji...

Later one day, Gong Yeji left without saying goodbye, and his mother was taken away by people from the palace.

Only Ren Dongnan was left, and he finally returned to Liangzhou where the three of them had agreed to settle down.

Could it be that Marquis Xuanping knew about this past event and decided to kill him on impulse?

Xie Siheng quickly denied it again.

Not only did he want to kill him, but he also wanted to destroy his face and find someone in Beijing to replace him. This was definitely not a momentary impulse.

Marquis Xuanping had never been close to him, but the fact that he had decided to kill him so decisively made him start to doubt whether there was something wrong with the results of the blood test he had secretly done before.

Is he really his biological son?

He needs to resolve the issues here as soon as possible.

He wants to go back to Beijing and figure out everything himself!

Ying Yi nudged Ying Er and asked him to go ahead, but Ying Er shook his head and refused desperately, signaling him with his eyes to go ahead.

The two of them stood at the door, pushing and shoving each other, but no one dared to step forward and interrupt Xie Siheng at this time.

"Just say whatever you want to say!" Xie Siheng put away the jade pendant and glanced at the two of them indifferently.

The other secret guards all took a step back, and Ying Er stood at the front alone.

He glanced around, his nose almost crooked with anger, but facing Xie Siheng's intimidating gaze, he gritted his teeth and stammered, "Uh...it's time for dinner...should we go next door...and get a free meal?"

As he spoke, his stomach growled in unison.

The other four secret guards lowered their heads even lower. They simply couldn't imagine the prince's current expression!

After waiting for an unknown amount of time, Xie Siheng replied, "Alright."

Hmm? Okay?

Ying Er looked up suddenly: "That's great! I'll go tell them right away!"

He had long been curious about what the Ji family's food tasted like. That day, the barbarians were about to kill him, but Ren Dongnan was still concentrating on eating.

Today was the same. When it was time for dinner, he left the prince and ran to eat for free. How delicious must it be?