Pang Yi also calmed down immediately. He sat down silently and took the letter. He read it carefully and sighed: "There is no news from Chengzi and the others. They must be locked up by Xu Chengjin. That's why they lost contact with us. Alas! How miserable they are."
"Fortunately, everything is out of danger now." Zhong Mingwei said.
"It's more than a turnaround. His Majesty has issued an edict to promote Chongyuan, a poor boy, to the rank of General Zhennan. Xiangyang has also been promoted to the rank of Deputy General of the Second Rank. General, these two guys really make us proud!" Pang Yi pointed at the letter and laughed. He couldn't sit still anymore. He stood up and walked out, saying to Zhong Mingwei, "Master, I'll go buy some wine and food. Let's have a couple of drinks to celebrate!"
"Go ahead." Zhong Mingwei said with a smile, while picking up the letter on the table and reading it again.
Zhong Zhiheng promoted Chi Chongyuan and Cheng Xiangyang. That means the Xu family is completely ruined. But how is Zhong Zhiheng going to deal with Xu Chengjin? And...what about the Queen Mother?
"Mingwei, what's wrong with Pang Yi today? He's walking unsteadily." Mei Ya came in from outside with a pot of tea and a small plate of kidney bean cake. Fu Yi was startled at first when she saw Zhong Mingwei's face with a smile that he couldn't suppress, and then she also laughed. "What good news is there? You and Pang Yi are both very abnormal!"
"It's really a good thing," Zhong Mingwei said with a smile, waving at Mei Ya, "Come here and see for yourself."
"Oh!" Mei Ya agreed crisply. She poured a cup of jasmine for Zhong Mingwei and handed it to him. Then she sat on Zhong Mingwei's lap and picked up the letter to read it carefully. She now knew most of the commonly used characters. As long as the words were not too obscure, she could basically understand poetry and prose.
"The Xu family is ruined?" Meiya was more and more shocked. When she finished reading the letter, she was so shocked that she couldn't close her mouth. She stared at Zhong Mingwei, "The Xu family is the mother's family of the empress dowager! Your Majesty is the most benevolent and filial, how could he destroy the Xu family so easily?"
"He values benevolence and filial piety, so he shouldn't bring trouble to the Queen Mother," Zhong Mingwei said, pinching a piece of kidney bean cake to eat and stuffing the remaining half into Mei Ya's mouth. "Although the Xu family has fallen, the Queen Mother is still the Queen Mother, and still the most honorable woman in the Great Zhou Dynasty."
"But the Xu family has fallen after all. How can it be the same as before?" Mei Ya looked puzzled.
"You are right. The current empress dowager is certainly different from the previous ones, but who cares about this? The court officials all praise our emperor for his benevolence and filial piety. The Xu family has produced traitors, but His Majesty has not implicated the empress dowager," Zhong Mingwei said, holding Mei Ya's hand. "Even if the empress dowager has complaints about the emperor, how can she say it? Should she ask the emperor to show mercy and spare the traitors as the empress dowager, or should she fight the emperor to the death as a member of the Xu family? She can't say anything, and can't do anything. From now on, her only choice is to stay in the palace obediently, and accompany the emperor from time to time to perform a drama of a loving mother and a filial son. Maybe the emperor will be satisfied, and if he is happy, he can even leave a root for the Xu family."
"Why...why is it so scary?" Zhong Mingwei said it calmly, but Mei Ya was terrified. She looked at Zhong Mingwei with a little confusion and a little pity, "Did you...also go through this before? On the one hand, you longed for the Queen Mother and the Emperor to treat you well, but on the other hand, you were afraid that they had other plans in mind?"
Zhong Mingwei was stunned. He really didn't expect Mei Ya to say this. He hesitated for a moment, then nodded slightly.
The next second, Mei Ya reached out and hugged Zhong Mingwei into her arms. She hugged the man's head tightly. She felt so sorry for this man, this man who grew up in hardships, this man who always longed for true love but was always used and betrayed. She felt so sorry for him that she couldn't bear the pain.
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