The heavy snow has been falling for three days in a row, and it has not stopped, and the ladies on the hot spring village are anxious, the queen mother's birthday is imminent, and they are still trapped here.

I had to ask the family to open the road to shovel snow, at least to open a road for the carriage to pass.

"Nanzhi's ginger soup is cooked, you can quickly transport it over for everyone to drink, it's cold, and it's about to be the New Year's Festival, don't freeze it."

Li Ziqi looked at the sky outside, as usual, the black clouds were overhead, and the day was not seen, and the snow not only did not stop, but had a tendency to fall more and more.

If this continues, I don't know how many poor families will sell their children and daughters and freeze to death on the streets.

And until now, he didn't see the Black Feather Guard led by Li Zhaoping passing by, don't have something happening on the road.

"Got it, Eighteen Niang, do you have a Jade Guanyin in your library? This time, I went to Taiyuan with Zhaoping, because Taiyuan produced a piece of white and flawless jade, and Zhao Yi asked the old craftsman to carve a white jade Guanyin to celebrate the birthday of the Queen Mother. ”

Eighteen Niang frowned, "You're worried that they won't be able to catch up?" There is no one here, but there is one in our house. ”

She got a lot of good things in the treasure house of Tubo, if she remembered correctly, there was indeed a white jade Guanyin, just enough to find help.

Li Ziqi put on a robe, and Eighteen Niang stepped forward to tie the belt for him, took another hat, and put it on with him.

"I hope I won't use it. It's windy outside, so don't send it out. ”

Li Ziqi walked out of the door, and the wind and snow outside hit his face, making people unable to open their eyes. Nanzhi had already asked the family to load the ginger soup on the cart, and it was very frightening to walk along the road. In a nearby village, the roof of a farmer's family has been crushed by snow, and the cry of a child can be faintly heard.

This is still at the foot of Chang'an City, further away?

Nanzhi couldn't bear it, took out a silver ingot from his purse, and glanced at Li Ziqi.

Li Ziqi nodded at her, and made another small servant to go with her.

The car stopped on the side of the road, and after a while, it was freezing to the point that it made people jump on their feet.

"It's really pitiful, a family of five babies, not even a jacket, and they were able to hide on the kang before. Now the house is crumbling, and they all have to freeze to death. The cost is not good this year. The government has also increased taxes, and the peasant households are about to run out of food. If there is another snowstorm...... Namzhi said sadly as he returned to the wheel, rubbed his hands.

Li Ziqi looked at the house from afar, which had almost become a small black dot under the cover of heavy snow, and thought thoughtfully.

……

Soon, the pipeline to Chang'an City was shoveled.

The snow is so heavy that if you don't go now, the road will be buried again after the night.

Eighteen Niang got into the carriage with Xu Dou lightly, and followed the convoys of each family far away, and it was almost impossible to see the edge at a glance. Obviously, this place is not far from Chang'an City, but the carriage did not enter Chang'an City until it was dark.

This entry into Chang'an seems to be another world.

The streets and alleys are brightly lit, because the Queen Mother's birthday is imminent, and the curfew will be lifted on the third day. The lanterns on this road are simply dazzling, and the pedestrians on the road are full of joy. There are even some gentlemen who specially pinched the snow balls and hid in the small buildings on the side of the street.

When he saw the beautiful little lady passing by, he threw the snow ball on her head, and saw her jump to her feet with anger, and then laughed, and had a lot of fun.

The teahouse and Chu Pavilion have all played a red card for the snow appreciation poetry competition, and they are elegant one by one.

Eighteen Niang and Xu Dou thought about the miserable scenes along the way, they couldn't speak, and they couldn't swallow when they looked at the snacks on the table.

Zhao Yi was busy congratulating his mother on her birthday, and he didn't know when he would see the disaster after this auspicious omen.

Only Dongzhu was very happy, looking at the lanterns along the way, his fingers couldn't help but pull happily, "Little lady, have you seen it, most of the lamps they use are the lamps in our lantern shop!" Some time ago, I also sent people to learn how to make ice lanterns, and they all said that Chang'an would not snow so much, and ice lanterns could not be made. You see, our ice lanterns are not unique now. ”

With so many lamps, how much silver do you have to earn! Eighteen Niang and Hou Ye can't make money, but they will ...... when they spend money just dug up 200,000 taels, she was so painful to drink water, but now she is good, and she has made a lot of money again.

"Really? That's great. Dongzhu heard the happy voice of Eighteen Niang, and couldn't help but turn around, and sure enough, he saw Eighteen Niang gently knocking on the small table on the carriage with her fingers.

She has followed Xiaoniang for so many years, and she doesn't know where she knows, once Xiaoniang points her finger at the table, there must be some bad idea.

Her ice lantern money will probably not be able to be kept again. Thinking of this, Dongzhu leaned on the edge of the window a little dejectedly and stopped talking.

When Xu Dou got out of the car, Eighteen Niang said to Dongzhu: "It's to use this silver to make merit." The people on the outskirts of the city are so miserable, let's use this silver to give porridge and some cotton clothes and quilts. Needless to say, just say that the champion Mrs. Hou prayed for the fetus in her womb. ”

In the plum period, fame is indispensable. And she, Shen Eighteen Niang, if she wants to complete the thing that defies the world's disapproval in the future, she has to start planning from now on, so that everyone in the world will stand on her side.

When Dongzhu heard this, she felt good in her heart, and her eyes rolled, "Why should the little lady make the silver of the ice lamp, we have a rice grain shop, a cloth village, and we have all of them." And when we were fighting Tibet in Songzhou before, we hoarded a lot of grain, which happened to be a good ......"

Eighteen Niang shook her head, "Grain should continue to be hoarded, and it will be useful in the future." ”

Dongzhu looked at Eighteen Niang and nodded solemnly, Eighteen Niang and Li Ziqi have done some things recently, and they are gradually not so shy of them, if she is not wrong...... Dongzhu puffed up her chest, "Little lady, I understand." ”

Eighteen Niang smiled, got out of the carriage, and as soon as she entered the house, she felt a burst of warmth. No matter how good the hot spring Zhuangzi is, it is not as good as this one.

"Little lady, the hot water has been prepared, do you want to bathe now?"

"Okay, Ming'er is the birthday of the Queen Mother, and I will enter the palace with the Hou Ye early in the morning, you go and give me a pan of fetal medicine. Dongzhu, you go to open the treasury, and the words that the abbot of the Zen Institute wrote for me before came out, and wrapped it up as a congratulatory gift for the Queen Mother tomorrow; In addition, I went to find a white jade Guanyin, the one I brought back from Tibet, and wrapped it in bright yellow brocade. ”

The next day, it was the birthday of the Empress Dowager of the Great Chu Dynasty, and the entire Chang'an City was completely renewed, with colorful lanterns, just like the New Year's Festival.

Eighteen Niang's rare makeup according to the product, took a carriage with Li Ziqi, and drove to the Daming Palace.

White snowflakes covered the palace, and what was unexpected was that it was just a birthday, but it was the beginning of a change in the pattern of a dynasty.