Wu Youji was sitting at the water's edge, watching the two cranes dancing, only black and white cranes, but at this time they were incomparably beautiful, with long legs and long necks, extremely elegant, flapping their wings, and from time to time leading their necks to grow.

There was also a sika deer cub at the water's edge in the distance, drinking with its head down, looking at Shen Mengxi alertly, jumping and running away. Wu Youji turned around, saw Shen Mengxi, put down his paintbrush with a smile, and stood up to greet her.

This is Shen Mengxi's first visit to Wuyouji's residence, which is called Zhizhi Garden, with flowers and birds, cranes and deer, and a few wild ducks and swans, which looks more like a zoo. Tuan'er liked it here, stomped his little feet happily, and learned to cry a few times as the crane cried.

A little guy dressed as a Taoist boy respectfully served tea to Shen Mengxi, and served snacks and sherbet to Tuan'er, and retreated.

Wu Youji didn't ask Shen Mengxi what he was doing, he just pushed the plate of snacks towards Tuan'er and smiled at her.

Then he burns incense with his hands, sits down by the piano, and plays the tune.

It was Shen Mengxi's "Scarborough Market" played once, and he somehow memorized the tune, but now he played it on the guqin, and made a little interpretation, which sounded more lingering.

"Grandmother, that's good!" Four-year-old Tuan'er said.

Shen Mengxi nodded, looked at Wu Youji's gray beard, and asked, "Remember it after listening to it once?" ”

Wu Youji stopped and nodded, "If you want to remember, you can still remember." ”

Shen Mengxi also nodded.

She doesn't know how to evaluate Wu Youji, who is timid and cowardly, but also gentle and affectionate. He admired Taiping since he was a teenager, until his gray hair grew over. Shen Mengxi didn't want to have too much to do with him, what he liked was Taiping, not her.

When she leaves this world, it can be regarded as a kind of consummation to let this body be buried with Xue Shao and Wu Youji.

Tuan'er climbed onto Shen Mengxi's lap, leaned his head on her chest, and looked at the sika deer cub that was approaching a little bit not far away, and he didn't know whether he was curious or afraid.

Shen Mengxi gently patted her back and sang softly with the sound of the piano, "When I leave you gently, let me go back to my north, when the north is already snowing, I will miss you far away......" Her voice was no longer soft when she was young, with vicissitudes and calmness.

Tuan'er squirmed slightly, changed to a more comfortable position, sniffed the scent of her grandmother, and fell asleep.

"Little one, sleep now, it's time to be refreshed at night." Shen Mengxi smiled.

The nurse behind her wanted to come to hug her, but she was stopped by Shen Mengxi with her eyes, she gently woke up Tuan'er, "Baby, I can't sleep yet, it's time to go sleepy at night." ”

Tuan'er rubbed his eyes and muttered that he still wanted to listen, Wu Youji laughed and began to stroke the qin, Tuan'er surged again, and Shen Mengxi sang again helplessly.

After listening to this, Tuan'er jumped off the ground, and sang it in a childish voice, Shen Mengxi happily stroked his palms and smiled, and Wu Youji also said with a smile: "This kid follows me!" ”

Shen Mengxi glanced at him and sighed: "The face is really big!" Wu Youji laughed again.

Shen Mengxi took Tuan'er back to the dormitory.

Wu Youji smiled and beckoned, and the deer cub jumped over happily, licked his fingers, and ran away happily.

******

In the tenth year of Zhengping, there was a great drought in the world, and there was a locust plague, and there were many areas in the Tang Dynasty and Daming where there was no wheat grain harvest.

There is gradually a saying among the people that the empress killed too much, and God punished her. The rumors intensified, and some officials in the government and the opposition demanded that Shen Mengxi issue an edict to reduce the punishment of heaven and save the people from suffering.

Shen Mengxi refused.

She has paid great attention to protecting the environment, and she doesn't carry the climate pot.

"It's not a drought in the Ming Dynasty, but you should persuade Li Longji to send a guilty edict to me first! This war is indeed initiated by me, if there is a punishment from heaven, let him condemn me alone, what does it have to do with the people of the world? Nonsense! When there is a great drought, if you don't try to alleviate the disaster and give relief to the victims, you just want to clamor for your own crimes here! ”

The official was extremely embarrassed and cried, "Your Majesty, the ministers have a Dan heart, all for the sake of the Ming Dynasty, and please think twice, the ministers are willing to die Mingzhi!" I only ask Your Majesty to issue an edict to relieve the suffering of the people! Your Majesty! ”

"Get out!" Shen Mengxi took the case.

The official was stunned for a moment, turned around and hit the pillar in the hall, and was pulled by Yan Jikang next to him.

There is always a category of people who are proud of those who step on high positions, and try their best to make those in high positions obey, either to death or to blackmail in the name of the people's society. Shen Mengxi didn't accept this, and immediately ordered that the official be demoted and sent to the most severely affected area for disaster relief.

The official obediently went to the disaster area.

After that, Shen Mengxi opened the treasury and released grain for disaster relief.

Mobilize the whole people, cull locusts, and eat locusts.

She went to the disaster area in person, hunted and killed locusts with her own nets, roasted them over fire, and ate them calmly.

Since then, the people have followed suit and slaughtered the locusts. The locust plague was quickly brought under control. Li Longji followed Shen Mengxi's example, and also insisted on not committing an edict and took the lead in preying on locusts, but the queen, who had been frightened by locusts, refused to get close to him in March after knowing that he had eaten locusts.

Shen Mengxi remembered the food in his Wuling space, and quietly transferred it all to a grain hoard, and secretly distributed it to all parts of the country by the secret guard to alleviate the disaster.

In August, after four months of drought, rain finally fell, and the disaster passed and the rumors disappeared.