It snowed heavily for five days and five nights, and the entire capital was covered in snow, and the ground was already a foot thick with snow, and countless houses in the city and suburbs of Beijing collapsed under the heavy snowfall, and countless people froze to death.

As soon as winter began, it snowed, and it was still such a once-in-a-century heavy snowfall, which turned the capital into a snow city.

In the next half month, the snow was still falling, and it seemed that there was no way to stop, more and more people froze to death, and more and more people had no fixed place to live, wearing thin clothes and huddled on the edge of the major mansions in the capital.

Under the call of the official family, the dignitaries and nobles in the capital took out the surplus clothes in the house to help the people affected by the disaster, and set up a porridge shed at the door of their mansions, so that these people could drink a mouthful of hot porridge every day and barely survive this cold and biting winter.

Earl's Palace, Inner Courtyard.

The injuries on Mu Ningxuan's body had begun to slowly scab over, and the room was as cold as an ice cellar, and there was no one under it.

The door creaked open, and a man in a black brocade robe strode in.

"County Lord, how are you doing these days?" The man's face was smiling, but his eyes were cold.

The man standing in front of Mu Ningxuan and speaking was the second son of Earl Zhengxun's mansion, Guo Zhenghuai, who was also her nominal husband of Mu Ningxuan.

Mu Ningxuan stared at Guo Zhenghuai expressionlessly, and said coldly: "Why, you have time to come to me today?" Mu Ningxuan never dreamed that the man who used to talk sweetly to her and had a tryst under the moon has now become like this.

Guo Zhenghuai showed an unshaven look on his face, and touched his cuffs playfully: "The battle report just came, your father Muhou Ye has died on the battlefield, thinking that you are always a father and daughter, I always have to tell you, cry, and do your daughter's filial piety." ”

Mu Ningxuan's face turned pale in an instant, her heart seemed to be pierced by countless needles, as the eldest daughter of the Mu family of the Marquis of Pyeongchang, she was named the lord of Ningxuan since she was a child, and she entered the palace to accompany the queen mother for many years, and she was not close to her father after leaving the palace.

After getting married, she knew that her father loved her in his heart and wanted to make up for her, and it was her willful arrogance after returning home that made her father feel cold.

But even if her father is cold, he often asks someone to inquire about the news after she gets married, and often sends her things, Mu Ningxuan understands in her heart that sending things is fake, and her father wants to protect her from being bullied by her in-laws.

But her mother's death has a lot to do with her father, and her brother's imprisonment was also taken by his father to arrest him, Mu Ningxuan's heart was painful but she couldn't shed tears.

"Tut-tut, when you heard that your father died, you didn't even have a single tear, it's really cold-blooded." Guo Zhenghuai looked mocking and continued: "Your father is alive, I can't do anything to you, I always have to do superficial work, but now, your father is dead, and your eldest brother has also entered the prison, and there is no day to turn over." Tell you, I will send you to Zhuangzi tomorrow, and you can do it yourself! ”

"Why? I'm all..."Mu Ningxuan bit her lip out of the blood, and subconsciously put her hand on her stomach, she didn't understand, why Guo Zhenghuai did this to her, if she hated her and didn't marry her, why did she do this!

Guo Zhenghuai's face changed color instantly, and he looked at Mu Ningxuan fiercely: "Why?" You're embarrassed to ask me, do you think I'll let you go if you're pregnant? If it weren't for you, how could Ning Jia have died? I, Guo Zhenghuai, have a woman giving birth, and there is no shortage of you! ”

Ning Jia, Mu Ningjia, her third sister, one of the concubines of the Mu family, and one of the few people in the Mu family who are really good to her, but at that time she was praised by Guo Xiaoniang to the point that she didn't take anyone in her eyes, the so-called sincerity, how could Mu Ningxuan, who had just returned home, see it clearly.

Guo Xiaoniang is her father's very favored concubine, Guo Xiaoniang's maiden family is the Zhengxun Earl's Mansion, and she is Guo Zhenghuai's aunt in terms of generation, Guo Xiaoniang married into the Pingchang Marquis Mansion and belongs to the noble concubine, after her mother's death, although her father did not raise her to become the stepwife, but she did not remarry, and the entire Mu family has been taken care of by Guo Xiaoniang alone all these years.

Actually, Guo Zhenghuai is right, the third sister did die tragically because of her, if she didn't believe in Guo Xiaoniang too much, and brought the pastries with strong abortion pills to the third sister to eat, the third sister would not have died of dystocia.

The third sister asked the bride maid to secretly throw away the pastries before she died, just to keep her.

Afterwards, Mu Ningxuan was very sorry and afraid, but there was no evidence in her hand to prove that the murderer was Guo Xiaoniang, when Guo Xiaoniang gave her pastries, it was just the two of them, after all, the pastries were brought to her third sister to eat, and Guo Xiaoniang was very good to her, and she was not easy to ask.

"You are actually for the third sister, since your sweetheart is her, marry her, why do you want to marry me?" Mu Ningxuan said resentfully.