Sent Xiao Taishou out of the door, turned around, Huan Yu saw Shen Zhi standing in front at a glance, only to see that the look on Shen Zhi's face was obviously tight, and he opened his eyes weakly.

When Huan Yu passed in front of Shen Zhi, he said, "Come in with me." ”

As he spoke, he walked straight ahead.

The sky was full of snowflakes again, and they swept in the sky, and the north wind in the ears whistled by, as if it could never stop, endlessly, and the gloomy sky, like a large iron pot turned upside down, was impenetrable, and the whole earth was covered in this severe cold and ice.

It's another harsh winter, and the snow has been falling for nearly two months without stopping.

The continuous freezing caused a heavy snowstorm to fall on the territory of Chudi, and the news came from all over the country, more and more people died in hunger and cold, and more and more refugees poured out.

Since a month ago, Xuzhou City began to set up porridge sheds for disaster relief.

Today, there are more than 100,000 refugees and counting.

This time, it is the third time that large households in Xuzhou City have been convened to donate grain for disaster relief.

Looking at the paperwork spread out in front of the case, Huan Yu shouted Mr., and when he looked up, he noticed that Shen Zhi was trembling.

With a pop, Huan Yu burst out laughing.

"Saburo. Shen Zhi looked embarrassed, and his nervous expression relaxed a little, but since Huan Yu didn't mention last night's incident, he wouldn't be stupid and bumped into it, so he discussed disaster relief with Huan Yu.

At noon, Huan Yu and Shen Zhi planned to finish lunch and go out of Xuzhou to check the disaster. As soon as the food was delivered, a servant came in to report that the lady had sent someone to deliver the message. The general will have to go to the main courtyard at leisure.

Huan Yu looked up at the servant and asked, "But what is the matter?"

"It is said that the girl is a maid in the house, she is not a servant in the house, but she is temporarily living in the house, and the lady is not easy to deal with, so please go back to the main courtyard. ”

As soon as I heard this. Huan Yu frowned, in the morning, his words were already very clear. He didn't believe it, and the Yin family even had to ask him about it, thinking of this. His expression was much lighter. "Got it. ”

Waved the servant back.

The room was quiet in an instant, the atmosphere was too dull, Shen Zhi saw Huan Yu with a solemn face, thinking about what happened last night, and was thinking about finding an excuse to slip away, when he suddenly heard Huan Yu ask softly: "Sir, you say, are women easy to change their minds?"

Shen Zhi listened. I opened my mouth wide in surprise, and I couldn't close it. Yuan stared straight at Huan Yu with a pair of eyes,

As soon as he asked about the words, Huan Yu himself felt incredible, what he thought in his heart, how could he say it so openly, he felt ridiculous when he thought about it, and waved his hand busily, "Don't say it, Mr. eats by himself, I have to go back to the main courtyard." ”

When he said this, his tone was very blunt, and even revealed a little embarrassment.

Shen Zhi's heart suddenly breathed a sigh of relief.

Looking at Huan Yu again, he had no intention of pursuing the past, and listened to the meaning of Fang Cai's servant's words, it should be that Huan Yu returned to the main courtyard in the morning and handed over Cai Fu to his wife for disposal, hesitated slightly, then cared about Cai Fu, and asked, "How does San Lang plan to deal with Cai Fu girl?"

Huan Yu paused, turned around, and asked, "What does Mr. want me to do?"

"Miss Caifu looks good, she looks good, she is also interested in Saburo, and it is not bad to stay by Saburo's side to serve. ”

"It's just too attentive. Huan Yu said lightly.

Shen Zhi smiled bitterly, "Yesterday's incident was instigated by me to Shilang. ”

"I guessed, or Huan Qin didn't have that guts. When Huan Yu said this, he glanced up at Shen Zhi, and said with a smile: "Sir, I should thank you, but now I realize that more than 20 years have been in vain." ”

Shen Zhi was stunned for a moment, carefully tasting the meaning of Huan Yu's words, and when he came back to his senses, Huan Yu had already walked out of the house.

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"Shi Niang is here. ”

Shi Lan greeted the door, stretched out her hand to tie the felt curtain, and let Zheng Sui enter the house.

Zheng Sui nodded to Shi Lan, and when he heard that the room was quiet, he asked, "How is Sister-in-law doing today?"

"After drinking the medicine at noon, I fell asleep, just woke up, and said that I was going to send someone to invite Shi Niang, but I didn't want Shi Niang to come over. Shi Lan smiled and led Zheng Sui in.

The house is paved with a floor kang, as soon as you enter the house, the steaming heat will rush to your face, Zheng Sui took off the cloak on his body and handed it to Zhong Nan, and then took off the high-toothed clogs, changed into silk shoes, passed through the dark curtain separated by the outer room, and entered the inner room, sister-in-law Li's body has not improved, and throughout the winter, most of them are lying on the bed, not to mention going out, even the bed is rarely down.

"Sister-in-law. Zheng Sui shouted and walked to the bed.

Li Shi leaned back on the hidden sac at the head of the bed, looked at Zheng Sui with a smile sideways, and a pair of thin hands stretched out from the plain hemp quilt and took Zheng Sui's hand, "It's coming." ”

Zheng Sui only felt that Li's hands, even if they came out of the quilt, were very cold, as if there was no temperature, and he was busy burying Li's hands in the hemp quilt and holding the stove, and sat down on a low Hu bed next to the bed, and saw Li's eyebrows soothing, sallow face, light smile, and very good mood, thinking that he had just heard the servant woman under him reply, and Qi Wu beside the eldest brother Zheng Jing came back, so he asked with a smile: "Look at my sister-in-law so happy, is my brother coming back?"

Li nodded, "Fang Cai Qi Wu came back with a letter, in a few days, it will be the sacrifice day of the A family, and Lang Jun will come back." ”

"I have finished copying the sixteen volumes of the Amitabha Sutra, and I will bring it over and give it to my sister-in-law. After Zheng Sui finished speaking, Chenfeng stepped forward with a wooden box.

The birth mother's sacrifice day was in early February, and the "Amitabha Sutra" burned on last year's sacrifice day was copied by Zheng Sui.

This cold winter, the continuous heavy snowstorm, the weather is getting more and more severe, the displaced people are swarming, the Zheng family has set up more than ten porridge sheds in Xingyang for disaster relief, this is the usual practice, once there is a natural disaster, the big households in Xingyang, will raise food to relieve the refugees, but the Zheng family is now not as good as before, two years ago the catastrophe, the dock wall was destroyed, the materials were looted, after these two years, the vitality has not been fully recovered.

As for the other big clans in Xingyang, Guo Feng and Duan Jing's families, except for the weak Jing family, after that catastrophe, the population and family business have now withered away, and they are no longer able to help.

In order to provide disaster relief, since the end of the old year, the eldest brother Zheng Jing and the third brother Zheng Xu and the sixth brother Zheng Hong have been in charge of disaster relief in Xingyang.

Usually at the beginning of February, it should be the weeping willows hanging silk spring to report, and the earth wakes up.

Compared with the current season, the mountains and rivers are dyed with silver, and thousands of miles are frozen.

Until the end of February, the ice gradually melted, the original appearance of the heaven and the earth was revealed, the green buds of the branches spit out new shoots, the spring returned to the world, after the solar term of the spring breeze, the weather was really warm, Aya Daxiang, in mid-April, and then to the middle of May, the people at home in addition to serving.

During this period, there is a festival day for the great uncle.

There is also a family temple ancestral hall in Xingyang, which was officially completed, and for this matter, the second uncle in Pingcheng also specially sent the eldest grandson Ayalang back to Xingyang.

Therefore, after the disaster relief ended, the family has been busy with two things, one is the sacrificial removal, and the other is the recovery of the eldest brother and the third brother after the removal.

Uncle Cui Xing sent several letters in a row.

Wang Shishilang arrived in Pingcheng in early February, and in early March, he was awarded the secretary Langzhong, which was subordinate to the secretary of the Zhongshu Provincial Supervision Office.

In the blink of an eye, in June, under the Shangshu Province of the Dayan Imperial Court, the Ministry was re-established, Xing Zixing served as the head of the Ministry of Labor, and Xiao He and Zheng Jing served as the Lang of the Ministry of Qi, mainly responsible for supervising the construction of the Luoyang Palace.

Pingcheng court has decided to move the capital to Luoyang two years later.

Zheng Xu became the king of Runan.

As early as Zheng Sui's filial piety, Pingcheng's maternal grandmother Lu sent a letter: let Zheng Sui go to Pingcheng after filial piety.

In the afternoon of this day, as soon as Zheng Sui entered the Qu Courtyard, after a while, he met the maid Shi Lan in the sister-in-law's house, and led two young girls out, as soon as he saw her, Shi Lan shouted Shi Niang, standing sideways on the side of the road, two girls, following her, lowered their heads slightly, could see the delicate face, combed the hair in a hanging hair, one was wearing a pink shirt and skirt, and the other was wearing a green shirt and skirt, both of them were no more than fifteen or sixteen years old.

Zheng Sui glanced at it, he had never seen it, he thought it was a little lady at first, but when he saw that Shi Lan didn't mean to introduce, he didn't care much, bowed his head to Shi Lan, and turned around and entered the house.

"Why did you come here so early today?"

As soon as he entered the house, Zheng Sui heard the voice of his sister-in-law Li, passed through the Hunan bamboo curtain, and hurriedly replied: "I can't sleep at noon, I haven't had much lunch break, and I saw that the time was about the same, so I came over." ”

"Hee Hee received a letter from Shishiro, so he can't sleep. Li knelt on the couch and looked up at Zheng Sui's gaze, full of smiles.

"Not really. Zheng Sui's face turned red all of a sudden, making his words pale and weak.

Li Shi beckoned to Zheng Sui and asked Zheng Sui to sit down beside her, "You came just in time, sister-in-law has something serious to tell you." After Zheng Sui knelt down and sat down, Li stroked Zheng Sui's back, "San Langjun is going to Pingcheng to take up a post, and he will leave in a few days, you clean up and follow San Langjun and San Niangzi to Pingcheng." ”

The San Langjun in Li's mouth refers to the third brother Zheng Xu.

Zheng Sui sighed softly, and then listened to Li's words: "The wedding date between you and Shishilang is scheduled for May of the next year, and before the end of the year, my sister-in-law will send someone to Pingcheng to pick you up, and when the time comes, you will return to Xingyang to prepare for marriage." ”

Zheng Sui blushed and didn't make a sound, leaning on Li's body.

"Is this embarrassing?" Li lowered his head, and when he saw Zheng Sui's appearance, he reached out and twisted Zheng Sui's face.

Zheng Sui was busy dodging, in order not to make the Li family entangled in this issue again, so he started another topic and asked out loud: "Sister-in-law, the two girls who went out with Sister Shilan just now are the new maids in Sister-in-law's house?"

Li's expression was obviously stunned, and after a moment, he shook his head and said, "No." ”

"I don't look like it. Zheng Sui responded, but remembered that the two girls stood behind the maid Shilan, and they were not the style that a little lady should have, "Who are they?"

——*——*——(To be continued......)

PS: A family (home, pronounced the same as 'aunt'): refers to the mother-in-law.

Beginning: Equivalent to the Ministry of Industry in later generations, before the Sui and Tang Dynasties, it was temporarily set up as needed.