After being a widow, the empress dowager was favored by the powerful ministers

Chapter 166 God Is Merciful
Sheng Baoling had a dream. In the dream, she and Pei Ci met in the Sheng Mansion, and he squatted in front of her, sweeping the snow off her body.

The white clothes are better than snow, and the young master has a gentle voice like jade. Since then, she has never seen anyone more beautiful than him.

He belonged to the Pei family, and he was good friends with his elder brother. He was well-known and well-known in Beijing, but his health was not good since he was a child, and he was once asserted by the doctor that he would not live to be 22 years old.

For this reason, his grandmother went to the temple, begged for a string of beads for him, and chanted scriptures day and night.

But on the one hand, it left a lingering shadow in her heart.

Afterwards, Pei Ci often came to Sheng Mansion to study, just because like his elder brother, he also wanted to participate in the Spring Festival that year.

She couldn't help going to see Pei Ci from time to time, and she brought a lot of things, sometimes snacks, sometimes some gadgets, none of which were precious things, but she always thought they were rare.

I just feel that he has never smiled much, just pretending that he is unhappy, so I always want to use something to make him happy.

Until later, although she still didn't see him smile, she received some gifts in return, and they were all little things that girls like.

On the day of her birthday, he even gave him a pearl hairpin. That night, she was overjoyed and fell asleep holding the pearl hairpin.

When I woke up the next day, I didn't see the pearl hairpin. After searching all morning, I realized that it was put away by Jian Jia.

She seemed to take that sentence back then, marrying him as a wife, seriously.

Pei Ci also seemed to take it seriously.

But in the eyes of others, such as Sheng Gong, it was just a joke.

Later, when he was in high school, he also entered the palace. When we met again, one of them was a minister and the other was the current empress.

Pei Ci was appreciated by the officials, promoted all the way, and finally helped the officials to regain power and forced the Empress Dowager Fan to step down.

In the past few years, she has met Pei Ci a few times, but it was always when she was with the officials. The officials often mentioned Pei Ci in her ear, saying that this person is unparalleled and will be of great use in the future.

It is also Pei Ci's luck to be appreciated by others.

If you use one sentence to describe the relationship between Pei Ci and the official family, it is probably a confidant, acquainted with each other, and complement each other.

Later, the official's health deteriorated day by day, and he died of illness.

Pei Ci entered the palace more and more frequently.

She followed the late emperor's last wish, taught the new emperor well, assisted the new emperor, paved the way for him, and eliminated those who were dissatisfied with him along the way.

Among the several assistant ministers, Pei Ci was the only one who disagreed with such a quick delegation of power and allowing the little emperor to handle major affairs in the court.

Several times to block more.

It's not that Sheng Baoling didn't realize that under his often stern face at that time, there was still the gentle expression towards him when he was in Sheng's mansion.

Knowing that he pities her, she still treats herself as the little girl in the Sheng Mansion back then, perhaps out of a desire to take advantage of her, or perhaps out of selfishness, she began to get close to Pei Ci intentionally or unintentionally, creating opportunities to get close.

And when he wanted to take a step closer to him, he feigned unwillingness and fear.

Slowly, the unfeeling and indifferent Pei Xiang in the eyes of the world was gradually controlled by her. She liked the feeling of being cared for by him in his arms, liked the warmth when he hugged her cold self on the bed, liked his eyebrows, eyes and lips , every inch of skin on the body.

I like him calling his nickname in his ears over and over again.

I like to see him calmly restrained, pretending to be rational and struggling, which makes people want to smash it all.

Thinking that everything can only be like this, after all the identities of the two are different, if this matter is known to outsiders, the consequences will be disastrous.

It's just that she can't tell whether she is using it, or she is really admiring Pei Ci. That white dress back then was better than countless Pei Xuanjin in the world.

In fact, the answer was already in her heart.

Until Pei Ci realized what she wanted, she was flustered and knew that she couldn't go on any longer, otherwise, as far as the little emperor was concerned, it would be embarrassing.

She began to propose marriage to Pei Ci, and wanted to give him a marriage, but Pei Ci refused several times, with great patience, until the last time, when she wanted to give him a marriage with a girl from the Tang family, Pei Ci broke in like crazy that night. Deep in the palace, Tao said that he had important matters to discuss, but in fact he pressed her hard step by step, and finally approached the bottom of the wall, kissing her eyebrows and eyes.
She had complicated emotions and dared not mention marriage again.

Afterwards, Pei Ci changed from his former rationality and tenderness, and made no effort to conceal her.

How restrained he was before, how presumptuous he is now.

You advance and you retreat, I retreat and you advance again. Under such circumstances, year after year has passed.

The little emperor grasped all the power, no longer restricted, and his true nature began to be exposed. Sheng Baoling tried to dissuade him several times and tried to teach him carefully, but it was completely useless.

Several loyal and outspoken ministers who wrote letters were also tortured to death.

By the time Sheng Baoling noticed it, it was too late.

The little emperor's murderous intentions towards Pei Ci gradually became apparent. Sheng Baoling no longer had any power in her hands and could no longer keep Pei Ci. In order to protect Pei Ci, she pretended to turn against Pei Ci, in order to let him have no attachment to her and no longer interfere with him. into your own affairs.

And use the last imperial decree left by the late emperor for its purpose.

After that, he was imprisoned in the deep palace by the little emperor, and the only thing he read was the news of Pei Ci. When he learned that Pei Ci rebelled and was given the punishment of Ling Chi, he couldn't stand the stimulation and turned his head gray. and go.

However, Pei Ci's flesh and blood were made into food by the little emperor and sent to Pei's mansion, and he was asked to eat his own flesh and blood before he could let him go.

The prime minister who had been working hard for decades and devoted himself only to the imperial court, finally died on the stone steps above the Golden Palace.

It was snowing heavily for seven consecutive days, but it couldn't cover the cold bones.

By the time Pei Ci regained consciousness, he had already arrived at another place, the first emperor was still alive, and the eldest daughter of the Sheng family had already entered the palace.

Those things that have been experienced are always entangled with him. He can obviously take the whole family to leave Bianjing, away from the tragedy that will happen in the future, but he can't take the little girl in the palace with him.

She is the empress, the future empress dowager, she cannot leave this Bianjing city.

Pei Ci, who had one more choice, finally chose the little girl in the palace and the common people in this world.

He alone carried the blood debt from his previous life, secretly walked the difficult road, and laid many pawns, only for future use.

He had no choice but to pay attention to the person in the palace, but he could only restrain himself from not seeing him. In order not to repeat the same mistakes, he took extra care with every step he took.

After the late emperor left, he saw her again in the imperial garden of the palace.

She looked exactly as he remembered, but she was a little more angry.

That was the real Sheng Baoling, a little girl whom he had thought about for a lifetime and cared about for two lifetimes, but he couldn't let go of her.

God is merciful, even though he deliberately distanced himself from each other, they met frequently, both inside and outside the palace.

All the trends were different from those in the previous life. Pei Ci was glad in his heart, but felt strange, but there was no explanation for all the strange signs.

(End of this chapter)