Xiao Jinglin's words made Ren Yaoqi laugh. She really never thought that someone like Xiao Jingxi would say such a thing.
But if a person can do what he has to do without being burdened by fame, if he doesn't care, he has the strength to not be afraid of any opposition.
People like Xiao Jingxi should be the second type.
I have to say, this is quite enviable.
After Xiao Jingxi came back, he invited Ren Yaoqi to play the game. After more than an hour, he only played one game. This time, it was not a draw, and Xiao Jingxi won.
Xiao Jingxi said with a smile while picking up the chess pieces: "You played well in this game."
Xiao Jingxi's words reminded Ren Yaoqi of the first time the two played against each other, and he racked his brains and tried every means to not lose, so he couldn't help but lower his head and smile.
Xiao Jinglin grabbed the silly girl's ear and yawned: "You play two games of chess every day, and that day is over. It really is a quiet time."
Forgive the "inexperienced and incompetent" County Master Xiao when he said this, it was really just casual, and had other meanings, but why did it feel a little strange in the ears of the two people playing chess
Xiao Jingxi and Ren Yaoqi looked at each other, and then they both bowed their heads to pick up the pieces and stopped talking. Xiao Jinglin and the little tiger silly girl looked at this and looked at that, their innocent faces were exactly the same.
Seeing that the atmosphere was a little weird, Ren Yaoqi remembered that he still had something serious to say, so he asked Xiao Jingxi, "Mr. Xiao, do you have any impression of Fang Yacun?"
Xiao Jingxi thought for a while: "I remember that there was this person among a group of candidate officials in Yanbei not long ago, Fang Yacun... He seems to have some relationship with your Ren family?" Xiao Jingxi has always remembered the background of those officials. Have seen it all.
Ren Yaoqi nodded and pondered: "His mother and my grandmother are sisters, and his sister is my father's concubine. A while ago, some unpleasant things happened at home, which reminded me of Fang Yacun. Man, there are some places I can't figure out, and I want to ask Young Master Xiao to clarify my doubts."
Because of the Han family, Xiao Jingxi, who should know and shouldn't know about the Ren family, already knows a lot about it. Ren Yaoqi is not afraid to expose his family ugliness in front of him.
Xiao Jingxi looked at Ren Yaoqi and nodded with a smile, motioning her to continue.
Ren Yaoqi frowned and said, "Accordingly, the foundation of Fang's family is in the south of the Yangtze River. Although Fang Yacun is only a member of the Liupin state from Chuzhou, he is highly regarded by his superiors. His wife's family is also in the south of the Yangtze River, and the family is rich. Yu Qingyu It's better for him to stay in Jiangnan Yu Liupin. Xiao Gongzi, are you familiar with the affairs of Chuzhou?"
Xiao Jingxi slightly bent his fingers and tapped the chessboard lightly, thinking for a moment: "I haven't heard of Fang Yacun before, so I shouldn't have any background. But I remember that the current Chuzhou well-known name is Feng Mun. The aptitude is mediocre, and it was only at the age of fifty that he achieved the position of the longest continent, but he was not promoted by political achievements, do you know why?"
Xiao Jingxi looked at Ren Yaoqi and smiled slightly.
Ren Yaoqi was a little curious when he heard the words: "Oh? Is it because of the nepotism of in-laws?"
Xiao Jingxi smiled and shook his head: "It is indeed nepotism, but not in-laws. He recognized an eunuch who was a dozen years younger than him as his adoptive father, and adopted his youngest son to this eunuch to inherit the incense."
Ren Yaoqi couldn't help frowning when she heard the words, she had a bad feeling in her heart, rubbed the chess piece in her hand and asked, "I don't know which eunuch he recognizes."
Xiao Jingxi said, "This father-in-law's surname is Lu, and he is a person by the side of Queen Mother Yan."
Ren Yaoqi shook her hand, and the chess piece in her hand fell from her fingertips to the ground, making a crisp sound, her face was already pale, and she looked up at Xiao Jingxi in disbelief: "Who?"
Xiao Jingxi was a little stunned, not understanding why Ren Yaoqi suddenly lost his composure, he softened his voice and said softly: "It's Eunuch Lu next to the Empress Dowager Yan, this man in his thirties has served the Empress Dowager for more than ten years. Years, I am very pleased with Queen Mother Yan. But... he is just an eunuch."
However, Ren Yaoqi couldn't help but think of what happened in his previous life, and his body trembled a little.
There were some things she tried so hard to forget, and never deliberately remembered them, but hearing the name now still made her unable to deal with it calmly.
Back then, after she was sent to Eunuch Lu by the Ren family, she was very frightened, because she was serving Eunuch Lu's servants to discuss secretly. Although Eunuch Lu was a rootless person, he liked to torture women with various slanderous methods. I just saw the horrible body of a little maid lifted out of his yard.
The old woman who was sent to serve her comforted her and said that she was born in a big family and was given to Eunuch Lu as his wife, so Eunuch Lu should not treat her in that way.
The first time she saw Eunuch Lu was on the night of the third day when she was sent to bed. On that day, she went to bed early, but when she was half asleep, she felt someone touching her face. She was so frightened that she woke up. When he came over, he saw a middle-aged man with a pale face and a little fat sitting on the head of her bed. The man had an unpleasant smell of alcohol all over his body, and his eyes were so strange that she couldn't help but do evil.
She screamed in fright, but was thrown onto the bed by the man, who started to tear her clothes regardless of her struggles, and grabbed her neck with one hand.
Ren Yaoqi was so desperate that she wanted to die, but she knew that she still wanted to live, because when the man lowered his head to kiss her, she opened her mouth and bit his ear, and was finally knocked out by his slap.
When she woke up again, she learned from the mother-in-law who took care of her that the person was Eunuch Lu.
Fortunately, Eunuch Lu injured her ear at the time, sobered up most of the time, and had no interest in torturing her. She went down to see the injury first. She could not help but breathe a sigh of relief when she learned that her innocence was preserved.
But this breath didn't last long. The next day, Eunuch Lu, who had gauze wrapped around his ears, came again. This time, he also had a strange whip that was a foot long, and he whipped her without saying a word. .
That time she was beaten to the point of being bruised and bruised, with only one breath left, she rested in bed for half a month.
From then on, he would beat her with a whip every time she was wounded, but it would not hit her in the face.
She still remembered that he said to her with a twisted face: "Aren't you a virtuous woman? I want to see how long you can be chaste! One day you will not help begging Lao Tzu to go to your bed! "
She scolded "dream" in her heart, then silently endured it without saying a word. She thought that she would eventually die under Eunuch Lu's whip in her whole life, but she survived in the end and met Pei Zhiqian who was willing to rescue her from the fire pit.
That part of the past was a nightmare for Ren Yaoqi. When he heard the three words of Eunuch Lu, this nightmare was triggered from the bottom of his heart.
Both Xiao Jingxi and Xiao Jinglin felt that something was wrong with Ren Yaoqi.
Xiao Jingxi looked at Ren Yaoqi for a while, then bent over to pick up the chess piece that fell at his feet, rubbed it between his fingers for a moment, and then leaned forward and put the chess piece in Ren Yaoqi's palm.
The feeling of Wei Liang and some pieces of Xiao Jingxi's body temperature falling on the palm made Ren Yaoqi come back to her senses. She looked down at the white piece in the palm of her hand, and her eyelashes trembled slightly.
Xiao Jingxi looked at her and smiled gently: "Look, the chess piece was thrown and cracked."
Ren Yaoqi reacted, and immediately said, "I'm sorry, I... I'll give you another pair." Although she was definitely not as good as this one.
Xiao Jingxi shook his head with a smile, and took the chess piece from Ren Yaoqi's hand: "I like objects with stories, because there are stories that make them unique. You played chess with me today, and then broke I have a chess piece, so this pair of ordinary chess has become a story."
Ren Yaoqi was amused by his remarks, and even the negative emotions caused by thinking of Eunuch Lu subsided a lot. She smiled and said, "Then I will drop a few more pieces to make it more stories?"
Xiao Jingxi smiled at her when he heard the words: "That's impossible. Since it's a story, it's not intentional. Besides, you won't be able to create the same crack again."
He looked at her with gentle and bright eyes: "I just want to tell you that the crack that has been created on the chess piece cannot be eliminated, but it is precisely because of this crack that it can become the unique one now, why not treat the damage as a The story that has already happened? After all, no matter how you drop it, it will not leave the same trace. If you look down on it, it will not hurt you."
If you look down on it, it won't hurt you.
Because of Xiao Jingxi's words and his gentle eyes that seemed to be able to see through everything, Ren Yaoqi was a little stunned.
After a while, Ren Yaoqi slowly raised the corner of his mouth, looked at Xiao Jingxi and said seriously, "Thank you."
This thank you is very sincere, because she is really grateful.
It seemed that every time Xiao Jingxi could use a sentence or two to lead her out of her stunned stun.
Ren Yaoqi couldn't help but look at Xiao Jingxi more, the dark clothes made his face more like jade, which was pleasing to the eye. Such a handsome and unparalleled man can always make Ren Yaoqi forget that he is just a teenager who is only a few years older than her current age.
Seeing Ren Yaoqi staring at him without saying a word, Xiao Jingxi wanted to pick up the tea bowl to cover up his unwillingness to admit it, but he didn't want to, but got nothing.
Xiao Jinglin took Xiao Jingxi's cup away, then got up and handed it to Hongying who was waiting by the side: "Go and get a hot bowl."
Xiao Jingxi: "..."
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