"No," Zhong Mingwei shook his head, "The Xu family is about to fall. My cousin was afraid that I would act rashly, so she asked Commander Ma to come and give me a message in person."
"Commander Ma?" Meiya didn't quite understand. "What Commander Ma? Commanding what?"
"The man just now was the commander of the Imperial Guards. Ma Zhiming." Zhong Mingwei said.
"Your cousin... can actually order the commander of the Imperial Guards around?" Mei Ya was speechless for a moment, and after a long while she spoke again. "But I heard that the Imperial Guards only obey His Majesty's orders. What kind of person is your cousin to be able to make the Imperial Guards obey her?"
"I don't know for sure," Zhong Mingwei shook his head. "I always feel that the reason why the Xu family fell was due to my cousin's contribution. I'm afraid that the Imperial Guards and my cousin had a lot of contact on a daily basis."
"That should be the case." Meiya nodded. After a while, she continued, "Your cousin must hate the Xu family. That's why she hopes that the Xu family will fall sooner even though she is also from the Xu family."
"Yes. Over the years, her life has been harder than mine." Zhong Mingwei couldn't help but let out a long sigh.
"What about now? What are you going to do?" Meiya asked hesitantly, "Can... can you do something for her?"
"I can't do anything with my current status." Zhong Mingwei shook his head helplessly, "Besides, she also told me not to interfere and to stay in Ningguta. If I force my way in, I'm afraid it will ruin her business."
"Master!" Mei Ya was about to speak when she heard Pang Yi's voice coming from outside the door.
"Talk to Pang Yi nicely later. If you lose your temper again, I'll deal with you tonight!" Mei Ya warned Zhong Mingwei while hurriedly getting up and opening the door. Then she smiled and said to Pang Yi, "Go in. I'll go to the front yard to check. The food is still half cooked."
"Yes," Pang Yi bowed and said, watching Mei Ya go to the front yard. Pang Yi took a deep breath, then walked in front of Zhong Mingwei, and knelt on the ground again with a "thump". "Please punish me, sir."
"When did it happen?" Zhong Mingwei sat up from the kang and asked Pang Yi with a serious face.
"Your Majesty, it happened in August last year," Pang Yi said in detail, "After the Queen Mother learned that my master was completely paralyzed, she ordered her subordinates to go to Mount Wutai to bring him to the palace. A few days later, your Majesty..." At this point, Pang Yi paused, looked at Zhong Mingwei uneasily, and then continued, "Now Concubine Hui is nearly eight months pregnant. I heard that your Majesty dotes on Concubine Hui and values the dragon child in her belly very much. He specially ordered Dean Qin to take care of this baby personally..."
Pang Yi talked on and on, telling all the news he knew. When he finally finished, he looked at Zhong Mingwei's expression and dared not say another word. He just knelt straight with his head down.
"Pang Yi, I'm not angry with you," Zhong Mingwei spoke slowly after a long while. He put his hand on Pang Yi's shoulder and squeezed it gently, sighing, "I'm angry with myself. I'm really useless. I was a prince before, but I couldn't protect the people I wanted to protect. Now I'm a commoner, and I'm even more helpless."
"Master, please don't say that. This is not your fault," Pang Yi said hurriedly. "The Xu family has made up their minds long ago to send Miss Cousin to the palace. You cannot change this."
"Yes, I really can't change it," Zhong Mingwei said slowly, "so today, she has to do it herself."
"Master," Pang Yi hesitated and spoke after a long silence, "You said...how could Commander Ma listen to my cousin? My cousin grew up in Mount Wutai and has never left the mountain, let alone come into contact with outsiders. She has only been in the palace for a year. How could she make the dignified commander of the Imperial Guards, Ma Zhiming, bow down to her and even risk traveling thousands of miles to Ningguta? I always feel that there is something fishy going on."
"Yes, Ma Zhiming has been in the officialdom for half his life, how could he bow down to a woman?" Zhong Mingwei said slowly. He looked at the crimson curtain fluttering in the wind, and spoke again after a while, "By the way, didn't the King of Pingxi return to Beijing?"
"Master, do you mean that there is something about the King of Pingxi involved here?" Pang Yi was startled, then nodded hurriedly like a chick pecking at rice, "That's right, the King of Pingxi just returned to Beijing, and then there was a big chaos in Southern Xinjiang. It's hard to guarantee that there is nothing about the King of Pingxi here, but..." At this point, Pang Yi frowned in confusion, "But if you say that the King of Pingxi is related to the Imperial Guards, I can still understand it. After all, the King of Pingxi commanded the Imperial Guards in the past, but how can the King of Pingxi be related to my cousin? When my cousin was born, the King of Pingxi had already gone to the northwest, and it was impossible for him to have any contact with my cousin. It's hard to say whether he can meet him when he returns to Beijing this time, but if there is no King of Pingxi, then the Imperial Guards..."
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