Pang Yi took Kong Wenjie to the front yard. For a moment, only Zhong Mingwei and Mei Ya were left in the room. Both of them were silent. Zhong Mingwei stared at the cup of jasmine tea on the table silently, while Mei Ya stared at the jar of colorful flowers on the small table, which she had thought were extremely beautiful just now. At this time, Mei Ya felt dizzy no matter how she looked at it. Mei Ya carried the jar to the big table. She walked over and sat next to Zhong Mingwei, reaching out to pull Zhong Mingwei: "Mingwei, are you scared?"
"Afraid." Zhong Mingwei looked at Meiya, nodded honestly, and sighed. "It's not that I haven't thought about it before. Those criminals would retaliate, but at that time I was still the crown prince of the Eastern Palace, how could those criminals get close to me at will? So although I felt guilty, I never worried about my safety. But it's different now." Zhong Mingwei paused here. He looked at Meiya's fair and tender face, and leaned over to kiss Meiya's slightly dry lips. "Now I am just an ordinary citizen, an ordinary citizen with a family."
Yes, how helpless and panicked the common people were in front of those criminals who didn't care about their lives? Moreover, they were common people who only wanted to protect their families from harm.
"So, you have a weak spot now?" Mei Ya asked, poking Zhong Mingwei's chest with her finger. "Is it here? Or here?"
"No," Zhong Mingwei reached out and held Mei Ya's fingers, and gently placed that white and tender hand on his heart. His pair of clear peach blossom eyes looked straight at Mei Ya, "Here."
"Then you are unlucky, aren't you?" Mei Ya felt so sweet in her heart, but she had a sullen face. She looked up at Zhong Mingwei and muttered, "With such a soft spot, you will suffer in the future. I have heard that men with soft spots are the weakest and most cowardly. What do you think you should do?"
"No," Zhong Mingwei said softly, while pressing his forehead against Meiya's forehead and rubbing his nose against Meiya's nose, he said softly, "With a weak spot, I will become stronger and more indestructible, because I have people and things that I have to protect desperately, and I have a beautiful life that I can imagine waiting for me to live day by day, so I will become stronger and stronger, girl, no one can stop me and you from growing old together."
"Bah!" Meiya spat at him softly, blushing, "I was talking to you for no reason, but what are you talking about now? You keep saying this thing is like sour plums with vinegar, and you don't think it's too sour!"
"It's not sour, not at all, and it's extremely sweet," Zhong Mingwei said with a smile, leaning over and gently rubbing Mei Ya's lips, "Why don't you try it?"
"Who wants to taste it?" Even though she said that, Mei Ya still stretched out her hands to hook Zhong Mingwei's neck. While accepting Zhong Mingwei's kiss, she said vaguely, "Yes, it's sweet..."
Zhong Mingwei couldn't help laughing, but he hugged Mei Ya even tighter.
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"Master, I think the situation is more serious than we expected." After settling Kong Wenjie, Pang Yi hurried back to the backyard. He looked unhappy and frowned at Zhong Mingwei. After a while, he hesitated and said, "Master, how about calling back Chi Chongyuan and Cheng Xiangyang? With them around, we can feel more at ease."
"No need. With a dignified fourth-rank prefectural government and an imperial guard, I don't believe that we can't keep those criminals and their families in check," Zhong Mingwei said in a deep voice, taking a sip of tea while looking at Pang Yi. "Back then, I sent you, Chi Chongyuan, and Cheng Xiangyang to Southern Xinjiang so that we could get a piece of the pie from the Xu family. Now that I've become a useless commoner, why should I pull them down? Besides, they have been working hard in the Southern Xinjiang camp for so many years, and now they have finally made some achievements. There is no reason for them to sacrifice everything for me."
Back then, in order to get a piece of the Xu family's military power and gain the Xu family's trust, Zhong Mingwei sent his confidant Pang Yi to southern Xinjiang to serve under General Xu Chengjin, the great commander of the southern border. However, he secretly sent Cheng Xiangyang and Chi Chongyuan over there. With the attention of Pang Yi, Cheng Xiangyang and Chi Chongyuan had been developing well. Later, when Zhong Mingwei was deposed, Pang Yi was just a fifth-rank infantry lieutenant in name only, while Cheng Xiangyang and Chi Chongyuan had become fourth-rank military governors under his command, in charge of southern Xinjiang's troops, money, food, and farming, as well as maintaining local security. This year, Chi Chongyuan was promoted to a higher rank and became a third-rank commander. This time, the southern Xinjiang army went into the mountains to encircle and suppress the rebellious small tribes in southern Xinjiang, and Chi Chongyuan personally led the expedition.
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