"Sit down and talk," Ma Zhiming waved at him and said, "I will send a message to Ningguta right away. The Jiang brothers don't need to be escorted to the capital. We will follow the laws of the Great Zhou Dynasty. They will be punished for their crimes."
"Yes. I understand." Zhou Youan said hurriedly, and lowered his voice to ask, "By the way, General. There is one thing I don't quite understand. This time the Queen Mother's token appeared in Ningguta, and it was actually from the hands of the deposed prince's subordinates. Why didn't His Majesty investigate this matter? And why didn't he vent his anger on the Queen Mother and the deposed prince?"
"That guard named Pang Yi resigned from his post in Southern Xinjiang a month ago. Now he is just an ordinary commoner. Why did he resign? Why did he go to Ningguta? Everyone with a discerning eye knows it. Naturally, Your Majesty knows it too. But Pang Yi had just arrived in Ningguta. Within a few days, he was forced to use the Queen Mother's token. You can imagine what kind of situation the deposed prince was in Ningguta, and what kind of life he had this year." Ma Zhiming sighed softly, "If the Queen Mother heard about this, I wonder how sad she would be. How could Your Majesty vent his anger on the Queen Mother? He would not argue with a commoner who was in such a situation and became disabled. Otherwise, wouldn't he be labeled as mean and heartless for all eternity?"
"General, you are right," Zhou Youan nodded repeatedly, and said, "But this time we were able to completely drive the Jinyiwei out of Ningguta, and the deposed prince has made great efforts for us. General, do you want to..."
"No," Ma Zhiming interrupted Zhou Youan before he could finish. "The deposed crown prince was deposed by His Majesty himself. He will never have a chance to turn things around in this life. Anyone who gets involved with him will get into trouble. We should appreciate his kindness and instruct Ningguta to take care of him, but we don't need to have a close relationship with him."
"Yes, I understand," Zhou Youan said, taking a sip of tea and sighing, "The deposed crown prince is also a pitiful person. He served as the crown prince of the Eastern Palace for so many years in fear and trepidation, and dared not make any mistakes. But he was deposed in such a confused way and became a half-dead cripple. Tsk, tsk, tsk, he is really pitiful."
"Which dynasty or generation doesn't have a few innocent people who died unjustly?" Ma Zhiming said in a deep voice.
Zhou Youan hurriedly agreed, "That's right. I heard that Your Majesty didn't get the throne in a legitimate way. If it weren't for the fact that the King of Pingxi was far away in the northwest and couldn't come back..."
"Shut up! How dare you say that?" Ma Zhiming shouted coldly, and put the tea bowl in his hand on the table with a bang, his face full of anger. "If I hear such nonsense again, I will slap you in the face eighty times!"
"Yes, I know I was wrong! I won't dare to do it again!" Zhou Youan bowed hurriedly.
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February 20, 1934
Ningguta.
"Mr. Gu, is this the right place?" Mei Ya asked Gu Changlin while massaging Zhong Mingwei's calf, "Am I massaging the right place?"
"Yes, this is Chengshan acupoint, and above it is Chengjin acupoint. You should massage it more often, it will be good," Gu Changlin said to the two as he packed up the medicine box, "There is almost no pus and blood now, so you don't need to clean it up anymore, just let it grow flesh."
"Really?" Mei Ya was immediately surprised and even more excited than Zhong Mingwei. She asked Gu Changlin eagerly, "Does that mean we don't have to suffer anymore in the future?"
"You still have to suffer the punishment, and it will not be lighter than it is now." Gu Changlin calmly poured a basin of cold water on Mei Ya.
"Didn't you say that we don't need to clean it? Why do we have to suffer?" Mei Ya really couldn't understand. "Mr. Gu, can you please make it clear once and for all? Stop beating around the bush!"
"He doesn't need to clean the pus and rotten flesh now, but he needs to grow flesh now, right? But you can see how badly he's injured. Almost all of his knee flesh is gone. If we follow the usual method and just leave it exposed and wait for the wound to scar and heal, it will probably be a long time. And this is the knee, a curved part, how can it easily form scars? So, we have to try another method," Gu Changlin explained to the two. "We'll continue to wrap it with gauze. First, it will help with muscle growth, and second, it will limit the growth of the bent knee, so that it won't grow well. Change it every three days. It will still hurt when we tear off the gauze."
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