Ren Yaoqi was thinking about all this when the princess suddenly asked, "What do you think about this?"
Upon hearing this, Ren Yaoqi couldn't help but look at the princess.
The princess smiled slightly. "There's been a lot going on lately, and my mother and I haven't spoken to each other for a long time. It's okay. There are no outsiders here, so it doesn't matter what you say to me."
Sure enough, the maids and nannies who had been serving there had all left at some point.
Before announcing the candidate, the King of Yanbei hadn't mentioned the matter to them, as if the decision had been made suddenly. Afterward, the Prince and Princess hadn't mentioned it to them, and Ren Yaoqi hadn't asked any further questions. But Ren Yaoqi couldn't help but think of the time Xiao Jingxi had asked her if she'd be disappointed if he wasn't the Prince of Yanbei.
To Ren Yaoqi, whether Xiao Jingxi was the Crown Prince or not, he was still Xiao Jingxi. If he was the Crown Prince, she would be his consort, fulfilling her duties conscientiously. If he wasn't, she would be his young mistress. In his free time, he would spend time with her, reading, painting, playing the zither, or playing chess, as he had done today. Their days were quite comfortable. With high status comes corresponding responsibilities, and the latter isn't necessarily more regrettable than the former.
However, Ren Yaoqi did have his own thoughts on this matter. The nonchalant attitude of King Yanbei and the Princess towards this matter made Ren Yaoqi feel that making the young master the crown prince was more of an arrangement than a last resort.
There was one thing Ren Yaoqi couldn't understand. Although the young prince was born in the palace and raised in the Empress Dowager's palace, there was even a 50% chance that he had been switched. However, the fact that Crown Princess Zhao was pregnant was certainly true, as the Yanbei Palace had later verified it. Yet, the Yanbei Palace wasn't worried about the late Crown Prince's posthumous child at all? After all, this was the only bloodline left by the late Crown Prince.
If the Xiao family was the same as the Ren family, only caring about family interests and not caring about the lives of their descendants, Ren Yaoqi would not find it strange. However, after spending such a period of time together and seeing the attitude of the prince and princess towards their children, Ren Yaoqi felt that the prince and princess were by no means cold-blooded people.
Furthermore, Ren Yaoqi felt that the princess's attitude towards the deceased prince was also very cold, and she never mentioned him on weekdays. It was as if she had forgotten that such a person existed. Ren Yaoqi had vaguely noticed this before she married into the Xiao family, but at that time she thought that it might be because the prince did not grow up under the princess's care, so the princess's feelings for him were not as strong as Xiao Jingxi and Xiao Jinglin. However, after the matter of establishing the prince, Ren Yaoqi could not help but have some doubts. In short, this matter revealed a sense of weirdness from beginning to end, which made Ren Yaoqi think more.
Originally, Ren Yaoqi had wanted to find an opportunity to ask Xiao Jingxi about this, and Xiao Jingxi had been at home for a rare few days. However, the two of them had been together these past two days, either reading or playing chess, or playing the piano and painting. They had been living a very comfortable life, so Ren Yaoqi didn't want to talk about these things anymore.
Now that the princess mentioned it, Ren Yaoqi pondered it in her heart. Just as she was about to speak, Nanny Xin came in. She brought someone with her.
Ren Yaoqi looked up and saw that the old woman who came in with Nanny Xin was actually Nanny Gong, who had helped Ren Yaohua give birth last time. Ren Yaoqi glanced at the princess, and the two of them stopped talking for a while.
Nanny Gong squinted her eyes and looked at the princess and Ren Yaoqi who were sitting on the main seat, then, with the support of Nanny Xin, stepped forward and tremblingly saluted them. The princess quickly raised her hand to support Nanny Gong, and asked Nanny Xin to help Nanny Gong sit down on a chair beside her.
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