"Yes, I will take my leave now." Concubine Hui had no choice but to stand up and hand the bowl of steaming ginseng and wolfberry chicken soup to Zhao Ruhai. She bowed and left, but when she reached the entrance of the Yangxin Palace, she suddenly stopped.
She stared at the corridor outside. The two men who were walking side by side hurriedly towards this side suddenly began to breathe rapidly. Then their eyes began to turn red. The red eyes were staring at the man who was slightly lame and dressed in the county king's uniform. When she was about to cry, someone gently pushed Concubine Hui. She hurriedly turned around and quickly wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes, and then she heard Qing Xing whispered: "Your Majesty. We should go back to the palace."
"Yes. We should go back to the palace." Hui Fei also said softly, her voice slightly hoarse. She did not look back at the lame young man. She immediately followed Qing Xing to the other side of the corridor.
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Pang Yi drove the carriage and saw a carriage parked in front of the palace gate from a distance. Then a man wearing a bright five-clawed dragon royal uniform was helped down from the carriage. Needless to say, he knew who that man was.
"My Lord, Prince Rong is just ahead." Pang Yi said in a deep voice to Zhong Mingwei in the carriage.
"Okay, I got it." Zhong Mingwei said slowly.
"Master. Do you think the Fourth Prince was really harmed by Prince Rong?" Pang Yi squinted his eyes and looked at Zhong Mingzheng in the distance, and asked in a low voice the question that had been in his heart for most of the day.
"Looking at the current situation in the capital, it can only be him." Zhong Mingwei said slowly, while lifting a corner of the curtain, he also looked at Zhong Mingzheng from a distance. Seeing Zhong Mingzheng looking at him with his hands behind his back and squinting his eyes, Zhong Mingwei also squinted his eyes, and then said, "Your Majesty suddenly allowed the Fourth Prince to enter the court, and favored him very much. It can be seen that the Fourth Prince has been so low-key and inconspicuous over the years. It is also the intention of Your Majesty to prevent the Fourth Prince from being involved in the competition among the princes and to be able to be preserved. Now that Prince Hui has been exiled and will never have the hope of ascending the throne, although Prince Rong is the strongest, he can't stand the fact that Your Majesty's favor has been given to the Fourth Prince. In addition, the Zhao family has shown signs of turning to the Fourth Prince these days. Prince Rong has always been a rash person, so he can't sit still."
"But I feel that no matter how reckless Prince Rong is, he would never dare to do such a horrific thing under the eyes of His Majesty, right? It's better to find a random opportunity and place to do it than in the palace," Pang Yi frowned and said, "This is obviously a challenge to His Majesty!"
"He has the capital to challenge," Zhong Mingwei said slowly. Looking at Zhong Mingzheng's face, which was becoming clearer and clearer, and the smugness on his face that was difficult to conceal, Zhong Mingwei gently lowered the curtains. "Maybe he didn't have it before, but now he has it."
Pang Yi said nothing more, as he understood what Zhong Mingwei meant. Now that the Fourth Prince was dead, Prince Hui had no hope of ascending the throne. Zhong Mingwei was not only a deposed prince with a notorious record of evil, but also a cripple. Naturally, the only one who could aspire to the throne was Zhong Mingzheng. No matter how cruel Zhong Zhiheng was to him and no matter how much he believed that it was he who had murdered the Fourth Prince, he had no choice but to protect him, just like the Queen Mother who had no choice but to help Zhong Zhiheng ascend the throne.
"My eldest brother has been back in Beijing for so long, but I, as his younger brother, have never had the time to visit him and his wife. This is really wrong. I hope you can forgive me." As soon as the carriage stopped, Zhong Mingzheng came up with a smile on his face and clasped his fists.
"Third brother, you are too polite." Zhong Mingwei was helped down from the carriage by Pang Yi. He also clasped his fists to return the greeting to Zhong Mingzheng, saying, "Third brother is highly valued by our father. He has always been busy with official duties and has been toiling with paperwork all day long. If you still want to take time out to come to my humble abode, I will feel guilty and blame myself."
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