Mistress

Chapter 1

It was the cold winter of the twelfth lunar month, and there was heavy snow falling in the sky, the prime minister's mansion was covered in silver, and the trees of Yushu and Qiongzhi were truly enchanting.

If you recall the past, the brothers and sisters in the mansion would definitely come out to play snowballs and make snowmen, and they had to play for a long time before they would take a break.But right now, the entire Prime Minister's Mansion is very lonely, not to mention playfulness, in the past two months, none of the masters raise their eyebrows and laugh, and the servants dare not even raise their voices.

Li Yan lay on the heated kang, glanced at the gorgeous furnishings and exquisite utensils in the room, and finally her eyes fell on an antique screen, staring blankly.

Madam Cui sat in front of the kang, wiping her tears with a sandalwood silk handkerchief, "Ma'am, my master has been besieged in Jiaoyang City for two full months. There have been rumors a while ago that Jiaoyang City is running out of food and grass. It's unsustainable. It's so cold now, how can the master survive it?"

Mammy Cui was so anxious that when she wiped her tears, her wrinkled hands kept trembling.

Since Li Yan crossed over at dawn, she heard Cui Mama nagging a lot, plus she also had a little memory of the past of Li Nianyun, the original owner of this body, so she knew about eight or nine percent of her situation.

What is the situation?In fact... she may become a widow, or become a ghost under the sword!

Li Yan stretched out her hand unconsciously to touch her neck, it would be more cost-effective to be a widow, anyway, she has no relationship with Prime Minister Xu Cheng, and she hasn't seen him personally yet.

Whether Xu Cheng is alive or dead, she doesn't really care.However, it's not that she can be a widow if she wants to!

Two months ago, Xu Cheng was ordered by the emperor to go to Jiaoyang City [-] miles away in order to reward Wei Ji, the magistrate of Jiaoyang City, who had made great contributions to combating the drought.Because Wei Ji is Xu Chengzhi's Kaimeng teacher, although the two teachers and students have a deep friendship, they have not seen each other for ten years to avoid suspicion.

Xu Cheng's visit coincided with Wei Ji's fiftieth birthday. The emperor saw that the teacher and student had never formed a party and were self-absorbed, so he sent someone eight hundred miles to send a congratulatory gift to Wei Ji, and allowed Xu Cheng to be Wei Ji's congratulatory gift. Happy birthday.

I thought that the meeting between the teacher and the student would be a birthday feast with tears, which is very touching.Unexpectedly, they encountered King Zhaoxin's rebellion, and all the guests were besieged in Jiaoyang City.King Zhaoxin is the fourth uncle of the current emperor. The emperor usually gets along very closely with him. He always talks about "the emperor's uncle is virtuous, and the emperor's uncle is benevolent and righteous". They can be called "the best uncles and nephews in the world". Who would have thought that this good uncle would rebel!
Whether Xu Cheng, the prime minister, knew about King Zhaoxin's conspiracy, no one knows. Anyway, it is true that he and Wei Ji were besieged for two months.It is said that Xu Cheng was the only person who came to celebrate Wei Ji's birthday, and the other guests were merchants or hermits, because Wei Ji has always kept himself clean and never courted officials.

In the past two months, the emperor has not issued any decree on the surface, and no one knows whether he has acted secretly.In this way, the civil servants and military officials in the DPRK are secretly happy, because they only need to wait and see, and do not need to contribute.Of course, some people have long coveted the position of prime minister, and now they are expecting Xu Cheng and Wei Ji to be beheaded by King Zhaoxin.

There are only [-] soldiers and [-] people in Jiaoyang City, even if Xu Cheng and Wei Ji tried their best to fight against King Zhaoxin's [-] army, it would be like hitting a stone with an egg.

Theoretically, there are only two ways out for people like Xu Cheng, either to open the city and surrender, or swear to live and die with the city, and fight until the last one dies.

Now that food and grass have been exhausted, it is estimated that the final outcome will soon be revealed.

Li Yan is in a hurry, if she is the wife of a traitor, can the emperor let her go?Can you let the Xu family go?She is definitely going to be a ghost under the sword with the young and old of the Xu family.

Traveling to the Ye Dynasty, as the wife of a dignified prime minister, she failed to enjoy the addiction of an official wife, but she was worried about this head on her neck. What bad luck!

Li Yan slandered, "Master Prime Minister, don't be greedy for life and fear death and surrender to the city, otherwise you can survive, but the Xu family may be punished by the emperor."Your wife has actually been implicated to death by you, so don't implicate me as a double, okay?

If you sacrificed your life for the country, the lives of the young and old of the Xu family can be saved, and I, a widow, can live a good life. Although it is a pity to be a widow at 27, I really have no interest in having sex with a strange man couple.Even though you, Xu Cheng, have just turned [-], and you are at a high-spirited age, I heard that you are resourceful, usually the emperor's indispensable right-hand man, and...

etc!No, since Xu Cheng is both civil and military, and resourceful, why was he easily surrounded by King Zhaoxin?Alas, it seems that Xu Cheng is just an ordinary person, and those rumors are all exaggerated.

Li Yan rubbed her forehead, feeling very dizzy, forget it, don't think about it anymore, once you think about it, you lose your head.Suddenly, she felt a constriction in her stomach, which was very difficult to bear.

"Ma'am, what's wrong with you?" Seeing that Li Yan's brows were tightly wrinkled, and her expression was very painful, Cui Momo got up nervously and reached out to touch her forehead, thinking that she had a headache.

Li Yan thought to herself, does this prime minister's wife Li Nianyun have a serious stomach problem?When she thought about this, her stomach started to growl.

Cui Mama got close and heard a grunt, "Ma'am, I heard such a movement in your stomach, could it be that you are hungry?"

Li Yan nodded in embarrassment, "It's true that I'm so hungry, haven't I eaten breakfast yet?"

Nanny Cui was so excited that she became incoherent, "Husband... Ma'am, you finally remember to eat. In the past two months, you have not eaten three meals a day at all, and in the past two days, you have become a grain of rice. None have entered."

Nanny Cui is nearly fifty years old, she was Li Nianyun's nanny, she watched Li Nianyun grow up.Li Nianyun grew from a toddler to a young girl who married Xu Cheng, and then gave birth to Xu Cheng's children, until she became the prime minister's wife that everyone envied, all of which were accomplished with the company of Cui Nanny.The two masters and servants have been with each other for more than 20 years, and their relationship has already surpassed the relationship between ordinary masters and servants.

Nanny Cui greeted Qing'er and Qi'er who were standing by the door, "Qing'er, go to the dining hall quickly and ask Lao He to make a bowl of Yikehua porridge and a few side dishes! Qi'er, hurry up and take Xu'er The doctor called and asked him to give Madam a good pulse."

Qing'er and Qi'er were both hanging down wearily before, but now seeing that Madam was finally thinking about eating, they flew out immediately with joy.If the wife can be healthy as before, how can the servants who depend on the wife be unhappy?
Li Yan thought about it, people are iron and rice is steel, no matter what will happen to her next, let's talk about filling her stomach first.

After a while, Qi'er ran back sweating profusely, with a flustered expression.

Mother Cui saw that Qi'er was covered in snowflakes and didn't have the heart to beat her off, so she asked in bewilderment: "Qi'er, it's freezing outside, why are you sweating profusely, where's Dr. Xu?"

Qi'er glanced at Li Yan who was on the warm kang, thinking to herself that Madam is just getting better, so she can't let Madam worry anymore.She winked at Nanny Cui, Nanny Cui understood what she meant, and went outside with Qi'er.

Cui Mama urged her in a low voice: "Qi'er, what happened to make you so timid?"

(End of this chapter)