After being forced to marry as a substitute, I became famous in the limbo

Chapter 32 The disaster of extinction
Outside the cold palace, Mu Jingzhao walked slowly towards the cold palace holding a sesame ball in his hand.

The imperial guards stationed outside the cold palace all saluted and greeted Mu Jingzhao when they saw Mu Jingzhao, "Your Majesty."

Mu Jingzhao raised his chin indifferently, and immediately noticed the coldness of Leng Gong when he came here.

If this hour was placed in the past, it should be the day of Jiang Ning's storytelling.

Today, however, it was silent.

Even Lin Zheng, who was supposed to be in the Imperial Guard group, disappeared.

Is it...

What happened?
"Where is the empress?"

If you go back to the emperor, your empress is in the cold palace. "It was clearly a very common reply, but Mu Jingzhao felt as if he could see some kind of uneasiness from the faces of the forbidden soldiers who replied.

He didn't ask any more questions, and raised his legs to step up the steps.

He had just walked to the door when he saw Lin Zheng walking towards the cabbage field with a shoulder pole in the corner.

Not far away, Jiang Ning was sitting under the eaves, staring at Lin Zheng intently, holding a bunch of candied haws in his hand, and eating with a smile on his face.

Mu Jingzhao paused, took out a sesame ball from the plate, put it in his mouth and bit it down, then turned and left the cold palace.

While chewing on the candied haws in her mouth, Jiang Ning looked at Lin Zheng picking excrement happily, and she secretly sighed in her heart that she was so smart that she could use such a wonderful method to get another free labor force for herself.

At least for now, these jobs are not afraid that no one will do them.

Perhaps it was because of his strong martial arts skills, it seemed that Lin Zheng picked up the dung without any effort.

He worked very hard, and soon filled two buckets, put the pole on his shoulders, and ran to the vegetable field at a brisk pace.

Like a no-brainer.

Jiang Ning looked at him, his thoughts seemed to fly far away.

That was three years ago, when her name was Jiang Leyin.

Her father was the most famous salt merchant in Li County, and her mother was a famous embroiderer in Suzhou.

When she was young, Jiang Ning's family was rich, her parents were loving, and her younger sister was sensible. She was just fifteen years old, and she was quite business-minded under the influence of her father.

Her father knew her thoughts, and he never restrained her thoughts and obliterated her wishes like ordinary people.

Instead, encourage her and support her to try hard.

Jiang Ning is only [-] years old, so he can go back and forth with buyers for hundreds of rounds, and finally make the other party willingly accept a lower price.

She is the pride of her parents, the role model for her younger sister, and the most pampered young lady in the family.

At that time, Jiang Ning was free and unrestrained, daring to think and act, lacking the gentleness and virtuousness of a woman in her character, but more heroic and decisive in a man.

She is full of enthusiasm, reads and writes, and studies hard to do business. She only hopes that one day, when her parents are old, she can support the family business and give her younger sister and family a stable and comfortable home.

Until one day, when the new emperor ascended the throne, the emperor issued a notice announcing that all salt mines in the country would be nationalized together with salt production and sales.

She remembered that she was the one who saw the notice that day, so she returned home feeling uneasy, thinking that a catastrophe was imminent, and told her father what she had seen and heard.

She originally thought that her father would be sad and sad.

But what she didn't expect was that her father smiled gently and told her that this was the emperor's decision for the country and the people. As common people, they should trust the emperor and support him.

The emperor will let them continue to make salt and dry it. The salt from the Lijiang River is still in her family's hands.

None of this will change.

Jiang Ning understood in an instant that they would continue to make salt, but everything was for the emperor and the government. She no longer had to negotiate prices with buyers, nor did she need to transport salt.

Although she was dissatisfied, she still believed that her father's words were correct.

My mother once told her that when encountering major events, she believed that her husband and father would never make any mistakes. This has been the case since ancient times.

So, she stopped complaining and started to process the order.

Her family's salt will be shipped to all parts of the country for sale, so she has quite contacts with nobles and nobles from all over the country.

Among them, there are many gentry who signed a contract with Jiang Ning's family for several years because of their trust.

Now that the salt industry has returned to the country, this order cannot be fulfilled, so each family can only terminate the order and compensate for the loss.

Jiang Ning will always remember that day, it was a sunny day in mid-March.

The date of the industry's return to the country is imminent, but the order has not been successfully resolved and there is still a backlog.

In order to solve her father's burden, she offered to solve his father's worries and problems, and went out to discuss the termination of the contract with others.

She remembered that the buyer was particularly difficult that day, and she talked with him for two hours, before the other party finally gave up asking them to compensate for the loss.

Even though he was exhausted physically and mentally, Jiang Ning felt unspeakable pride and pride in his heart.

Because of her, she did not live up to her father's expectations.

When she happily walked to the house with the letter of termination, she saw thick smoke billowing continuously from the direction of the house.

She felt bad and ran home quickly.

The goal was a scene of raging fire and corpses everywhere.

The bloody smell was very strong, as if it had invaded Jiang Ning's internal organs and six lungs.

So for a long time, she always felt that smell lingering at the tip of her nose, and she couldn't get rid of it no matter what.

At that time, she even forgot that she should cry.Numbly and expectantly, she was rummaging through one corpse after another in the courtyard.

Looking at the faces that were so familiar to him, they became completely unrecognizable and lifeless.

All those people were pierced through the chest by a sword and died instantly.

There was no hesitation, no mercy.

She didn't know how she accomplished all this, she only knew that she should turn over, as long as she worked hard, her parents would definitely have hope of survival.

Finally, in her father's study, she found the two bodies still tightly embracing each other.

Mother and father were lying down in the middle of the study, and father hugged mother tightly, allowing her to bury her face in her arms, just like when he usually made mother angry, there was no difference at all.

It took her a lot of effort to turn them over, the same wound, the same way of penetrating from the chest.

The mother's head was buried tightly in the father's arms, while the father held her shoulder tightly, and there was even a somewhat relieved smile on the corner of his mouth.

She didn't need to think about it carefully, she could guess what her father would say at that time.

He will definitely say, ma'am, don't be afraid.

Ma'am, I'm here, don't be afraid.

His father's smile seemed to instantly defeat all of Le Yin's psychological defenses.

She fell in the arms of her parents and burst into tears.

After crying for some time, Le Yin felt as if he heard an inaudible cry coming from a corner of the house.

(End of this chapter)