Rebirth and madness, I am no longer the mistress of this high-class family!

But at this time, Shen Yuan's hand when she went to pick up the teapot to add tea to the cup accidentally touched the cup. The water inside also spilled out and poured onto the pear-yellow wood tabletop, forming a water mirror, which clearly reflected the The face with many corroded blemishes made him look away subconsciously.

This scene was like a sharp needle piercing the courage he had built up, draining it away.

The location where the hideous scar was left was extremely painful. His inferiority blocked the surging undercurrent in Cui Shao's eyes. When he raised his eyes again, there was only an imperceptible sadness in his eyes: "Yes, I understand."

How could he be worthy of her? She was so beautiful. Even if she and Pei Zhaoxue reconciled in the future, there would still be people who were a hundred or a thousand times better than him.

Shen Yuan didn't know what Cui Shao was thinking, but she felt that his originally high mood suddenly dropped.

In this regard, she just thought that she didn't praise him enough and he was disappointed.

After thinking about it, she asked him to wait. She got up and went into the house to get something.

When I turned back, I found a sachet with a peace charm in my hand.

"This is a gift I asked the embroiderers to sew. I haven't officially started giving it out yet. I'll give it to you first. It just so happens that I went to the temple a few days ago and asked for a few peace charms as a way to celebrate you. A promotion gift is not too bad."

Even better things, given Cui Shao's current status as a eunuch, would probably be overthought by others, or even taken away by eunuchs with higher positions than him.

Sachets are very common and this should not happen.

Cui Shao reached out and took it. There were a few bamboo leaves and some flowing clouds embroidered on the sachet. Although the style was ordinary, he was extremely happy, and his mood, which he had previously felt lost, instantly became much higher.

Within a few days after the blizzard stopped, the temperature in the capital dropped sharply, and a large number of fields on the outskirts of the city were also frozen. Most of the granaries built on the outskirts of the city were also destroyed, causing heavy losses.

The most serious thing is that some counties located in windward areas have experienced heavy snowfall, resulting in numerous casualties and in urgent need of material rescue.

When such a major incident occurred, Pei Zhaoxue was the prime minister of the dynasty, so the emperor naturally summoned him into the palace to discuss countermeasures.

Nowadays, the Yan Dynasty family is in power and can almost compete with the royal family. Many houses, fields, including materials, are in their hands.

It is naturally inappropriate to only allow the royal family to contribute.

Pei Zhaoxue thought of the aristocratic families who had spent all these years lavishly but had not done much in terms of people's livelihood. She discussed with the emperor and took this opportunity to take back some of the power that had been delegated to the aristocratic families during the emperor's reign, in the name of disaster relief. .

Also coming together were several ministers from the six departments, as well as older officials with more seniority and seniority. Most of them came from aristocratic families, so naturally they were unwilling to second the proposal.

I was just about to say that the Pei family behind Pei Zhaoxue is also the Pei family with a century-old heritage. Since he proposed this, he had the ability to come from his own family in advance.

Soon I saw him bowing his head in salute, and his voice as cold as jade echoed in the hall: "I personally invite you to start from the Pei family, and I am willing to contribute a small amount to the Holy Lord's disaster relief."

The emperor has long wanted to start gathering the power in the hands of the big families. He is a majestic emperor and the most powerful person in the Ninth Five-Year Plan, but the combined power in his hands is not half as much as those of these big families. He may say he is the emperor, but in fact he does not have much real power at all.

The Queen Mother tightly controlled these aristocratic families and refused to transfer the power in her hands to him. She said she would integrate them for him first and then hand them over to him when the time was right.

He is nearly fifty now. If you don't give it to him, when will you give it to him? Will you give it to him after he dies? !

Angrily suppressing these thoughts, the emperor cleared his throat and made a decision.

When it comes to people's livelihood and the country, no matter how dissatisfied the Queen Mother is, she has nothing to say. She also knows that water can carry and capsize a boat, so she will not be stupid enough to continue to fight against him.

After the matter was resolved, the emperor left Pei Zhaoxue behind, patted him on the shoulder happily, and even promised to give him a reward. Pei Zhaoxue originally wanted to refuse as before, but when she thought that Shen Yuan seemed to be very interested in these things, she finally accepted the reward.

In this regard, the emperor just thought that Pei Zhaoxue knew that he had to support the family after getting married, and when he gave the reward, he specially gave some things that could only be used by babies.

For example, longevity locks made of pure gold and so on.

When Pei Zhaoxue returned to the house and saw this thing, she was slightly stunned.

Marrying Shen Yuan was not in his life plan from the beginning, let alone having children.

But now let alone Zi Si, he has not even touched her body.

but

He thought about how Shen Yuan treated Pei Jinyan with all his heart, and murmured with his eyelashes, "If he has children with her, will she change?"

He actually already had a rough idea of ​​the answer, but he still couldn't help but think about the least likely one.

He was still thinking about this matter until he, as the Secretary of Comfort, took the lead to go to Yunmeng County, the worst-hit area, with the General Protector of the Country and the Imperial Envoy of the Ministry of Household Affairs.

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu I'm hungry, I'm so hungry, mother"

The blizzard blocked many roads in Yunmeng County. The number of officers and soldiers who came to provide relief this time and the manpower, carriages and horses brought by the aristocratic family were so large that the carriage slowed down after entering Yunmeng County.

Frozen bones could be seen everywhere on the roadside. When Pei Zhaoxue heard the cry, she opened the car curtains and looked outside, only to find a girl in dirty clothes lying in the arms of a woman who had already frozen to death, shaking her body and crying. Called hungry.

Surrounding her were large pieces of frozen corpses, which were too horrible to look at.

When Pei Zhaoxue saw this, she stopped the carriage and was about to ask Mo Er to help the girl, when she saw a beautiful figure appear first.

The snow has stopped long ago, and today is a rare sunny day. The warm sun is high and the golden light shines on the earth.

The girl's beautiful side face was gilded by the sunlight. There was only a simple red pomegranate-carved wooden hairpin inserted into her black hair. The golden thread on her skirt seemed to come alive in the sunlight, flowing like waves with her every step. .

The red persimmon sachet hanging on the waist has a familiar peace charm hanging on it. The more I look at it, the more familiar it becomes.

"Your mother is asleep. I will take you to eat something first, and she will come back later."

Shen Yuan spoke in a gentle tone and handed the Tang Pozi to the girl whose fingers were covered with frostbite, letting her hold it in her hands to keep warm.

"Yes, little sister, don't be afraid. We are not bad people. We are here to provide disaster relief to Yunmeng County. There is a lot of food in the carriage, and there are also very warm cotton clothes to wear." Zhiluo said as he carefully picked up the cautious girl. .

The guards who followed processed the female corpse and took it to a distant place for burial.

Pei Zhaoxue's eyes fell on the tassel of the sachet that was swinging in the wind around Shen Yuan's waist. His big jade-white hand that was still tapping on the table suddenly paused, and then his fingers gradually closed into a fist. He finally knew that the thing looked familiar.

He got off the carriage directly and headed straight towards the carriage team at Shen's shop. (End of chapter)