The smile on Xiao Jingxi's face froze.
Ren Yaoqi blinked slowly, turned to look at Xiao Jinglin who calmly revealed the answer without looking back, looked at Xiao Jingxi again, and then burst out laughing at an inappropriate time.
Then she was surprised to find that the second young master Xiao, who was as unattainable as a god, elegant and outstanding, had a faint blush slowly emerging from his ears.
The smile on Ren Yaoqi's face froze.
At this moment, the Second Young Master Xiao had an extremely elegant face, and his expression was as calm as ever, except that it was stained with a layer of pink, which made it look weird no matter how you looked at it.
Ren Yaoqi coughed lightly, lowered his head, and looked carefully at the tea bowl beside him, as if a flower had suddenly bloomed on it.
Without looking at Xiao Jingxi, Ren Yaoqi tried hard not to smile and focused his mind on the Lei family's affairs, so as to cover up the embarrassment for the second young master Xiao.
She didn't want to really offend this person.
The grandmother of Xiao Jinglin, the head of the Lei family, was just a concubine.
The more prestigious a family is, the more they value the continuation of their bloodline, and the most intolerable thing is the confusion of bloodlines. Therefore, truly prestigious families generally will not recognize children born to concubines, because it is impossible to prove whether they are blood relatives.
Moreover, aristocratic families with deep roots generally have many branches and numerous descendants, so they won't be short of one or two heirs of unknown origin. Even if a branch truly has few descendants, they still have the clan. In such cases, clan heirs are more reliable than bastards of unknown origin.
Such a joke made by the Ren family only exposed the shallow foundation of the Ren family, and it would only make people laugh if it were made public.
Even if the father of the Lei family's head was a bastard born to a maid, he would still be considered the legitimate heir to the Lei family's direct lineage, after all, he was born within the second gate. Unfortunately, he was born to a concubine.
Now Ren Yaoqi knew how the Lei family fell into disgrace.
The Prince of Yanbei's Mansion knew everything about the Lei family, but Xiao Jingxi also knew that the Prince of Yanbei's Mansion would not interfere.
The sound of gongs and drums was still heard on the river. Judging from the noise, the second round was about to end. The three people on the boat looked at each other without saying anything.
Just as the dragon boat from the Yanbei Palace reached the finish line and the second dragon boat was about to leave the line, an accident happened at this moment.
Ren Yaoqi only felt a sudden earth-shaking roar, and the water surface was shaken by a curtain of water several feet long, blurring his vision.
Then the mist came over like a blanket, and Ren Yaoqi didn't have time to feel whether she was cold or not, because the big ship she was on began to shake violently.
Everything on the boat tilted to the other side, and Ren Yaoqi felt like she was about to be thrown out. She couldn't help but scream, and then a strong arm grabbed her waist and stabilized her. However, there was only a low table with tea and snacks in front of them, and it was not fixed to the boat. There was nothing to stabilize her body, so Ren Yaoqi fell to the ground with the man.
The tea, snacks and fruits on the low table all came crashing down. Ren Yaoqi subconsciously closed her eyes, but felt that none of the objects had fallen on her. She opened her eyes and was met with a pair of deep, calm eyes as dark as lacquer.
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