"I understand. You should go back soon." Zhong Mingwei nodded and urged Kong Wenmin.
Kong Wenmin then hurried away.
"Mingwei, who do you think would attack the Fourth Prince?" After Kong Wenmin left, Mei Ya sat there in a daze for a long time before she reacted. She looked at Zhong Mingwei with a frightened face, "Although the Fourth Prince has entered the court to listen to government affairs, he is just a mere sixth-rank Imperial Academy editor. Who would he bother?"
"It's not that my position as a sixth-rank Imperial Academy editor is a nuisance to anyone. I'm afraid it's because my father's favor is too great that it's a nuisance to some people," Zhong Mingwei said in a deep voice. He sat down next to Mei Ya, staring at the broken porcelain pieces on the floor, and then said in a deep voice, "It seems that someone can't sit still anymore."
"Who could it be?" Mei Ya said nervously, "Could it be Prince Hui? His Majesty has always loved him the most, but later on, for various reasons, he distanced himself from him and sent him out of the capital, completely cutting off his path to the throne. So he was dissatisfied, and he also heard that His Majesty has been very fond of the Fourth Prince recently, so he had evil intentions and ordered the assassins who had been lying in ambush in the palace to attack the Fourth Prince?"
"Why did His Majesty distance himself from Prince Hui and banish him from the capital? Prince Hui knows the reason better than anyone else. He naturally knows that he has no hope of ascending the throne in this lifetime. He also knows that his father has been extremely tolerant by not killing him or imprisoning him for life. So why would he be dissatisfied with His Majesty? And why would he attack the Fourth Prince?" Zhong Mingwei said slowly, "Besides, even if he did it, did he think about who would be the biggest winner after the Fourth Prince's death? It can't be that he is a poor prince who was banished from the capital and will never ascend the throne, right?"
"You mean..." Meiya's eyes widened even more. She took a deep breath and said in disbelief for a long time, "But...but how could he attack the Four Emperors? That...that's his own brother!"
"There is no such thing as brotherly love in the royal family. How did His Majesty treat the Prince of Pingxi in the past? If the Fourth Prince was still the young man who worked hard in the study room all day, he would not be an eyesore to him. But things became different later. The Fourth Prince entered the court to listen to government affairs and was quite favored by His Majesty. So this former brother has become His Majesty's number one enemy today," Zhong Mingwei said slowly, "I always thought that Prince Rong was a person who could not sit still. I didn't expect that he was even more impatient than I thought."
Mei Ya panted rapidly, her chest rising and falling, her mind was blank, she really couldn't believe what Zhong Mingwei said, she just felt that this was terrible, how could there be such a terrible thing? In fact, she knew about the bloody storm in Beijing early on, and she also saw with her own eyes what happened to Zhong Mingwei, so she always thought that she was mentally prepared and would not care about these things, but today, when she felt these things so closely, she still couldn't accept it, and still felt it was horrifying.
Mei Ya felt cold all over, until her cold hands were held by the man's warm hands. She raised her head blankly and looked at Zhong Mingwei with a bit of pity: "Mingwei, I want to go back to Ningguta."
Zhong Mingwei looked at the pair of overly frightened eyes and was speechless for a long time. He stretched out his hand and pulled the trembling girl into his arms. Feeling the girl shivering in his arms, Zhong Mingwei hugged her tighter, and he rubbed his chin against the girl's hair gently.
He didn't want to tell Meiya that after the incident with the Fourth Prince, they were afraid that they would never be able to return to Ningguta. Zhong Zhiheng had originally wanted to keep him in the capital to contain Zhong Mingzheng, and he also vaguely felt that Zhong Zhiheng was trying to help Zhong Mingrong take the throne, so he had not allowed them to return to Ningguta. Now that Zhong Mingrong was dead, no matter whether the real culprit behind the scenes could be found out or not, Zhong Zhiheng would definitely hate Zhong Mingzheng to the core, so his bargaining chip to contain Zhong Mingzheng would be even more important, and Zhong Zhiheng would naturally not let him leave the capital.
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