Ah Chou was startled, then she realized that Zhong Mingwei was asking about Lao Jiang, and then she paused. She understood even more clearly that Zhong Mingwei thought that the person who sent the rocking chair was also Lao Jiang, and then she thought about how Lao Jiang treated Zhong Mingwei in the past. Ah Chou suddenly understood what Zhong Mingwei was angry about for a long time, and immediately she felt so distressed that she couldn't even eat the noodles.
"I asked Guard Kong. He said that the guard surnamed Jiang has been ordered to return to the capital. He said that he will never come to Ningguta again," Ah Chou said slowly, putting down the bowl. He asked Zhong Mingwei, "Do you still want to drink Jasmine?"
"No," Zhong Mingwei said in a low voice. He continued to pick the noodles with great effort. After eating for a long time, he whispered, "I want to drink red bean porridge."
"Okay. Then I'll make it for you tomorrow morning." Ah Chou said with a smile. He finally felt relieved. He took two mouthfuls of noodles and said a little embarrassedly, "Is the tea I made particularly unpalatable?"
"It's not bad to drink." Zhong Mingwei raised his head and looked at Ah Chou, curling his lips slightly, "It's just that there are too many flowers. It's irritating to the nose."
"Okay, I'll put less next time." Ah Chou smiled and nodded like a chick pecking at rice.
"You just said that Old Jiang was ordered to return to the capital?" After dinner, Ah Chou gave Zhong Mingwei a massage as usual. While massaging his shoulders, Zhong Mingwei suddenly said.
"Yes, that guard Kong said it himself, saying that Old Jiang left in a hurry and would never come back. So the two guards surnamed Kong stayed behind and said that they would both work in Ningguta in the future," Ah Chou said hurriedly, paused, and added in a low voice, "Don't worry, the guard surnamed Jiang will not return to Ningguta in the future, so don't worry."
Zhong Mingwei didn't pay attention to her extra words. He paused, then suddenly said, "It's probably the Queen Mother who pleaded for me."
Ah Chou didn't understand: "What?"
"That Old Jiang is obviously not a member of the Imperial Guards, but he knows everything about the capital from his conversation. It can be seen that he has close contacts with the capital. He must be a subordinate of some important official, or a concubine or prince in the harem." Zhong Mingwei thought of Old Jiang's face when he first came to Ningguta. His brows knitted together for a moment, and the word "chuan" appeared between his brows. After a pause, he continued slowly, "What kind of place is Ningguta? It is a place specially used to exile a group of criminals. It looks like a small border town, but it is hard to say which criminal is here. In his hands, he holds the lives of a large number of people in the capital, so this place has always been a place where various forces are intertwined. Who doesn’t have forces? But my father chose to demote me to Ningguta and ignored me. I’m afraid he wanted to kill someone with a borrowed knife. He naturally couldn’t kill his own son because of his reputation. But now, as soon as the guards of the Imperial Guards arrived in Ningguta, the old man returned to the capital. It can be seen that my father has changed his mind. The only person in the palace who can change the mind of such a hard-hearted person as my father is the empress dowager. "
"He...he wants to kill you?" Ah Chou's hand suddenly stopped, and his whole body froze. He couldn't recover for a long time. "He is your father, and you are his son. Why does he want to kill you?"
"I don't know," Zhong Mingwei said calmly, his dark eyes fixed on the dim candlelight. "I have been afraid of my father since I was a child. It's not because he is the emperor who holds the power over the world. I always feel that he hates me, from the bottom of his heart."
"No, how could that be?" Ah Chou couldn't stand his indifferent tone, and hurriedly comforted him, "You are his eldest son! I heard that His Majesty and Empress Zhenxian are deeply in love, and you are Empress Zhenxian's only son. He loves you so much that he can't wait to love you. How could he hate you?"
"But what if my mother dies because of me?" Zhong Mingwei said slowly, "Do you think he will hate me as his son?"
Ah Chou took a deep breath and asked in a low voice after a long while, "Didn't Queen Zhenxian... die of a sudden illness?"
"It's reasonable to say it was a sudden illness," Zhong Mingwei said calmly, "but to be exact, it should be postpartum exhaustion, and she died without treatment."
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