"Yes, thank you, Madam." Pang Yi finally stood up obediently, his eyes a little red. He didn't dare to look at Mei Ya, for fear of embarrassing himself in front of her. Mei Ya was even closer to him than Zhong Mingwei. After all, he had been a guard for Zhong Mingwei for so many years. He really wanted to treat Zhong Mingwei as a close family member. In fact, it was not easy. Some things had been engraved in his bones for a long time, and he was afraid that he could not change them in this life. But Mei Ya was different. From the beginning, he liked Mei Ya. He treated her as his own sister. Although he never said it.
"Master Fang, Mingwei is in a bad mood today. If you have anything else to do, could you please come back tomorrow?" Mei Ya walked to Fang Zuotang and said in a deep voice.
"Yes. It's time for me to go," Fang Zuotang nodded. He glanced at Ma Zhiming and said to Mei Ya, "I'm really sorry. I didn't expect that I made you so angry. Please forgive me, Madam."
"It's okay. I know you're doing this for our own good," Meiya nodded, and turned to look at Pang Yi, "Pang Yi, please help me see the two adults off."
"Yes, I obey your command," Pang Yi wiped his face hurriedly, and then said to Zuo Tang and the other man, "Please come in, my lords."
The three of them immediately left the room together, and Mei Ya followed behind. When she saw that the three of them had gone out of the crescent-shaped door, she hurriedly ran towards the dormitory.
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"What happened? Why are you so angry?" Meiya entered the bedroom and saw the man lying on the kang with his face facing inward. Meiya took off her shoes and got on the kang. She gently pushed the man's arm and whispered, "What happened? Tell me. You've been like this all the time. I'm worried to death."
Zhong Mingwei didn't say anything. He just turned around and put his arms around Meiya's waist, then buried his face in Meiya's arms. Meiya was startled at first, then she reached out and gently patted the man's trembling back. She leaned over to the man's ear and whispered, "If you don't want to tell me, I won't ask."
Mei Ya didn't say anything at the moment and just hugged Zhong Mingwei. She knew that Zhong Mingwei was very sad and she was eager to know why Zhong Mingwei was sad. But in the end, she held back and didn't ask anything. She just let Zhong Mingwei indulge his emotions in her arms.
After a while, Zhong Mingwei finally spoke, still lying in her arms, his voice sounding a little muffled: "I have a cousin who is only three hours older than me."
"Hmm?" Mei Ya was startled. After thinking for a long time, she realized that the one Zhong Mingwei could call her cousin should be from the Xu family. However, the Xu family... Mei Ya frowned and said, "I have never heard of the Xu family having a daughter in this generation."
Yes, the Xu family had no daughters in this generation, only six sons. After they grew up, they all followed Xu Chengjin to southern Xinjiang.
"She is my uncle's illegitimate daughter. The Xu family is a century-old prestigious family. Naturally, a daughter born to a singer cannot be included in the family tree," Zhong Mingwei said, taking a breath, "but the ancestors of the Great Zhou Dynasty have a precept that all empresses in the past dynasties are from the Xu family. But my uncle has never had a daughter, so when the queen mother found out, she was cautious and raised this illegitimate daughter in Mount Wutai, telling the public that she was an unlucky girl born by a servant and sent to serve the Buddha."
"Then why didn't she marry you?" Mei Ya finally understood, but she was still confused. "Didn't you become the Crown Prince? He's the future emperor. Why didn't the Xu family recognize your cousin as their ancestor and then marry her to you as the Crown Princess?"
Yes, since the Xu family wanted to keep this illegitimate daughter as the queen, then why was it Ding Yunwen’s daughter who married into the Eastern Palace instead of Xu Chengjin’s daughter?
"It's because my father has always disliked me. The Xu family has helped me a lot over the years, but my father still hates me. Although I was later made the crown prince of the Eastern Palace, he also wanted to use me to eliminate the power of the Pingxi King in the court. The Xu family naturally saw it clearly and felt that I, the crown prince, would not be able to jump for long, so they would not be willing to marry my cousin to me," Zhong Mingwei curled his lips in a mocking manner, and said, "My uncle only has this one daughter in his life, so he must be very cautious, so he will definitely not marry her to a useless person like me."
"So... do you want to marry her?" Mei Ya held Zhong Mingwei's face and looked at his red eyes. She felt really bad in her heart.
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