It was not until this moment that he suddenly realized that what warmth and kindness were all his wishful thinking. How could he forget that this was the heavenly family? How could there be father-son affection in the heavenly family? There had always been only the relationship between the monarch and his subjects.
"Take a look at this memorial." After an unknown amount of time, when Zhong Minge felt that his legs were about to break from kneeling, he heard a voice neither light nor heavy floating down from above his head. Then, with a "click", a memorial fell in front of Zhong Minge.
"I dare not." Zhong Minge kowtowed hurriedly.
"It's okay. I allow you to watch it." Zhong Zhiheng looked down at Zhong Ming'e who dared not move, and said lightly, "After all, this is related to your maternal grandfather's family. I want to hear your opinion."
Zhong Ming'e was startled, then he reached out for the memorial and tremblingly opened it. As soon as he opened it, his heart went cold, and then beads of sweat appeared on his head. Then his hands trembled even more. When he finished reading the last word, beads of sweat as big as beans fell on the memorial with a "click". Zhong Ming'e was busy wiping his face with his sleeve, and while panting, he raised his head and looked at Zhong Zhiheng nervously and shockedly: "Father, what...what does this mean?"
"What do you mean you don't understand?" Zhong Zhiheng said indifferently, glancing at the pale Zhong Ming'e, then walked to the couch and sat down. "When the Jinyiwei was investigating why the Princess of Hui County gave birth to a strange baby, they discovered these old scandals of the Cui family. What? Ming'e, do you really know nothing about these things?"
"Son, son, I don't know." Zhong Ming'e said with trembling lips.
"You don't know about the rejuvenation pills?" Zhong Zhiheng said indifferently.
"Yes...I have never heard of it before. I really don't know." Zhong Minge tried hard to make his words clear, but his voice was trembling.
"It seems that you, like me, have been kept in the dark by the Cui family," Zhong Zhiheng sneered, picking up the teacup on the small table and gently scooping it up, while slowly saying, "Since you don't even know about the rejuvenation pill, then I guess you don't know about other things either?"
"Yes, I don't know," Zhong Ming'e said, pursing his lips and asking through gritted teeth, "I don't know how the Jinyiwei found out these old stories. Please tell me something, father."
"What? Are you suspecting that I have instructed the Embroidered Uniform Guard to frame the Cui family?" Zhong Zhiheng said slowly, with his brows lowered, looking at Zhong Minge who was kneeling on the ground and didn't dare to raise his head.
"I dare not! I absolutely dare not!" Zhong Ming'e kowtowed repeatedly, "Father, please understand. I dare not doubt you!"
"Okay." Zhong Zhiheng said with a frown.
"Yes, thank you for your concern," Zhong Ming'e knelt straight and said carefully, "I am worried that you were deceived by someone, so I asked this question unnecessarily."
"Yes, I was also afraid of being deceived, so I established the Jinyiwei, but I didn't expect that I would be deceived all these years, and it was always the people closest to me who deceived me," Zhong Zhiheng said slowly, putting the teacup back on the small table, and paused before saying, "The Queen Mother deceived me for the Xu family, and the Imperial Concubine deceived me for Prince Rong and the Zhao family." At this point, Zhong Zhiheng looked at Zhong Minge, paused, and then said, "Your mother, the most virtuous and kind Concubine Shu, didn't she deceive me?"
"Father..." Zhong Ming'e couldn't utter a word. He didn't know if it was because of fear, nervousness, or sadness, but his eyes began to blur. He looked at the shining hem of the dragon robe in front of him with tearful eyes. Apart from sobbing, he could no longer utter a word.
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