"Girl, the road is slippery in the snow, don't worry." Ah Chi, who was sitting in the car, carefully tucked the cotton cloak on his girl's body.

The carriage swayed forward, and Zhao Surui lifted the corner of the curtain and saw people clearing snow everywhere.

The snow on the eaves has been silent and three inches thick, and some children want to scrape the snow off the eaves with a rope, but they raise their heads and faces, and they also involve the brother who is sweeping the snow on the side, and the brother immediately picks up the snow and stuffs it in his neck, which attracts a scolding from his mother.

It was lively and lively, as if God had given this world a new white painting paper, so the agility on it was re-outlined.

Zhao Surui saw a ten-year-old girl shoveling snow again, with a swaddling baby on her back, and a child wrapped in a small quilt staring at her big black eyes.

At her feet, there was a small basket in the snowless clearing, in which were some dried dates.

The carriage gradually moved forward, but Zhao Surui's eyes still fell on the little girl.

After a few moments, he lowered the curtain.

"Ah Chi."

"Girl?"

Zhao Surui paused, and then changed someone to send: "Tong Wu."

"What do you have to say to Mrs. Shen?"

"The car is too slow, you see if there are any snacks on the road."

"Yes, Mrs. Shen."

Tong Wu was just about to get out of the car, but turned back: "Ah Chi girl, there are some small stalls here, the paper used may not be clean, and the small hands are dirty, please give the girl a handkerchief."

Ah Chi also handed out a small string of money with the handkerchief.

Turning her head to look at her girl, Ah Chi frowned, "The girl has suffered in prison."

Zhao Surui lowered his head and looked worried.

After a while, Tong Wu came back and said with a smile, "There is only one seller of red dates in the vicinity, these are scrubbed with clean snow, Shen Niangzi, you use it slowly, and the small one has bought a basket."

The cotton curtain was carefully lifted, and a handful of dates wrapped in a handkerchief were handed in steadily.

Ah Chi took it and calmed it down with the water in the pot before placing it in front of his own girl.

The carriage moved again.

Zhao Surui opened the curtain again, and only saw the back of the little girl, and he could also see joy.

Tut.

Zhao Surui rolled his eyes.

To be honest, he doesn't like who he is now.

This self who was trapped by a woman's body and trapped by Shen San's chess game.

Now that he wants to do something, he can't help but wonder if he has fallen into the trap of Shen Sanfu again, and has become more and more unlike the wise and martial Emperor Zhaode in the past.

Would he have seen a little girl in a broken shoe in the snow?

What he would see should be two frozen horses in the northwest, grasslands with nowhere to find fodder......

picked up a jujube and put it in his mouth, the jujube was the sweetness he had missed for many days, but it still made him unable to lift his temperament.

The girl had no energy, Ah Chi was originally a little worried, but seeing that the girl didn't even stop eating a handful of dates, her heart was put back in her stomach.

Walking all the way to the door of the Shen Mansion, Zhao Surui just got out of the carriage and looked up, and his brows furrowed.

"What's going on?"

Ah Chi stood aside with her hands tied, and when she saw her own girl looking over, she lowered her head and whispered:

"This is the fire that the Hu family set in our house before."

"Is this still called arson?"

Zhao Surui stared, half of the black oil gate had been burned to charcoals, and Zhao Surui could see that there were traces of slashing with knives and axes on it.

Looking at the exterior wall like a ruined wall, Zhao Surui took a deep breath slowly.

"Let's go, go in and talk to me, I want to see who is so bold as to break ground on Tai Sui's head."

Flicked his cloak and carried a small stove

, Zhao Surui strode into the Shen house.

It looked miserable from the outside, but the house was fine, there were some wooden barrels by the wall, and a newly dug ditch was now half covered by snow, and at a glance it was clear that it was dug for the fire to spread into the yard, and some of the eaves walls were blackened, and a few little girls were scrubbing with wooden sticks tied with cloths.

Walking to the main courtyard, Zhao Surui squinted his eyes, there were originally some wooden shelves in the yard, and there were some grape vines on them, and even the rattan belt shelves were now gone.

"Where are my grapes?"

"Back to the girl's words, grapes...... Before, the Hu family asked people to block the front and back roads of our house to prevent firewood sellers from coming in, so the slave maid and Tu Nan took the idea and used all the wood that was not used in the yard as firewood first, not only the grape trellis here, but also the horse shed."

Zhao Surui nodded, and had already recorded this vine in the Hu family's account.

"The fire set out outside was also done by the Hu family?"

Ah Chi thought for a while and said, "For a few days in a row, people set fires, shouting and shouting to kill, at first in the backyard, and poured tung oil into it, but it turned out that it was cold, and the tung oil was condensed, and the whole bucket was smashed into our yard. Because the house was guarded day and night, and as soon as the quilt was frozen and hard, the fire was gone. Only the night before the girl passed the hall, first the back was on fire, and then someone in front also set fire, fortunately Qingying woke up, and when the back was on fire, she also took people to guard in front, and immediately struck the gong when she saw the fire, and some people turned in from the yards on both sides of us, and they were all killed and retreated by Tu Nan, Tong Wu also cut three, and some people took advantage of the chaos to touch Xia He's residence, and Xia He took a group of mothers-in-law to clean up."

In a few words, it was a vicious battle.

Looking at the frost marks in the yard that had been washed repeatedly, Zhao Surui asked softly, "Do you have a live mouth?"

"No, Tu Nan said that those people were very alert, and they withdrew when they saw that something was not accomplished, and they didn't look like ordinary robbers."

Zhao Surui squatted down, touched a knife mark on the pillar, and asked, "Are the people from the Terracotta Division here?" What do they say?"

"They said that it was the bandits who came in through the wall that the Hu family spent money to find, and they had already run away, and only the Hu family was left."

"Hmph." Zhao Surui smiled coldly, "I'm afraid that the Hu family itself doesn't know if they have found someone else, or if they have been found by others."

Knowing that the girl was back, Tu Nan hurriedly walked out of the stove room:

"Girl, the hot water is ready, you bathe first, and stew your elbows."

Seeing that she was on all fours, Zhao Surui nodded, and listened to Tong Wu who followed behind him say loudly:

"Miss Tunan, Mrs. Shen said she didn't want to eat elbows."

Surprised, Tu Nan asked, "What do you want to eat, girl?"

She came out of the stove with the aroma of stewed elbows on her body, and Zhao Surui covered her stomach with the hand hidden under the cloak that had been so much tormented these days.

"That's it, there's no need to bother, just eat it since it's done."

His tone was light and breezy.

The two maids followed him all the way to the main room, and as soon as they entered the house, Zhao Surui casually untied the cloak on his body and handed it to Ah Chi, and then looked at Tu Nan:

"What about our casualties?"

Tu Nan lowered his head and whispered: "Seven or eight men who kept vigil outside the house were arranged, three were killed and two were wounded, and five were broken, one of them was specially guarded to report to the Soldiers and Horses, and was stabbed twice and thrown into the moat, and when he was found the next day, he had frozen to death, and the maid in the Xia He house was injured, and he finally saved his life, and a little maid named Sanliang was cut off on his left arm. The mother-in-law surnamed Wu also died, and before she died, she said that she had torn off a piece of meat from the man's hand. The people who went have already transported the bodies back to Zhuangzi, and it was Master Shao who came into the city to transport them."

Zhao Surui's undressed hand paused.

"Do those who come in have accents?"

Tu Nan shook his head: "I've asked up and down, but I haven't heard those people speak."

Sure enough, I came prepared.

For whom......

"Shi Xinmei, are you okay these days?"

"Don't worry, girl, Mrs. Shi has always lived with me

and all these days are safe and sound."

Zhao Surui nodded, continued to pull the short jacket on his body, and said:

"Compensation for the dead and wounded is the same as before."

"Don't worry, girl, it's all arranged."

Walked behind the screen and took off all the clothes he wore from the prison, and threw them to Ah Chi, Zhao Surui soaked into the pool with the scent of grapefruit, tilted his head, and asked Tu Nan to wash his hair.

"Tu Nan, do you think that a Jinyi guard like Shao Zhiqing can kill so many of us quietly?"

Tu Nan rinsed the hair of the "own girl" with the same fragrant water, and when she heard this, she thought for a moment and said:

"Master Shao is naturally okay, but if it's as elite as Master Shao, girl, although Master Shao is just a small flag of Jinyiwei, his kung fu is real, far better than ordinary."

"Yes."

Zhao Surui closed his eyes, as if he was just joking:

"Since you don't want to speak openly, most of them are outsiders with accents, and a dozen elites from outside can almost break through my small house, if there are hundreds...... I'm afraid I want to enter the imperial city and rebel?"

As he spoke, his fingers rubbed lightly against the edge of the tub.

"Tunan."

"Girl."

"I'll give you an errand."

The grate dipped in honey locust water was combed from the long hair little by little, and Tu Nan held his breath and saw his own girl suddenly laughing:

"The Hu family destroyed my grapes, you take the girls in our house, take our family's loss list, and ask for money one after another, and whoever blocks our door and burns our yard not only has to ask for money, but also has to cut all the flowers and plants in their house, grapes and pomegranates for me, and then smash their doors for me."

Tunan paused, and after a moment, she answered:

"Yes, girl."

ordered another errand to smash the house, Zhao Surui was comfortable, his heart was comfortable, and he ate two elbows in a row at night.

probably knew that he had suffered a few days in prison, Tu Nan's elbow was stewed crispy and soft, and the red oil red sauce made his lips sticky and his teeth were sticky.

is the same home, some people immediately have elbows when they go home, and some people go home, only two dishes of vegetarian dishes and three steamed buns in the pot.

A bowl of cabbage stewed tofu is vegetarian and white, and the soup is crystal clear.

A bowl of dried pickles is fried in vegetable oil and then steamed.

After bringing the food out of the stove room, Chu Jiyuan returned to the cold main room with the dishes, and had already sat down, but stood up again.

When he went to the courtyard and pulled a few from under the snow-covered pyre, he took his axe and chopped the firewood, and put it in a charcoal basin to start a fire, but did not bring the charcoal basin back to the main house.

"Knock knock."

Hearing a knock on the door, Chu Yuanjin, who was listening to his daughter's reciting poems after reading a book all day, hurriedly got up, opened the door, and saw his father carrying a burning brazier with two fire hooks.

"It's snowing all day, and it's going to be cold at night, so you and Su'er can add a charcoal basin."

The fire was melting, reflecting Chu Jiyuan's smiling face, with a bit of flattery on his face that he himself unconsciously.

Su Er poked out her little head and saw her grandfather, and greeted her grandfather with a smile.

The unfamiliar smile lines on Chu Jiyuan's face deepened a little.

"No need, father, Su'er and I are not cold, but you, who have been busy all day, eat early and rest."

The child could not hear the undercurrent surging among the adults, but just learned the tone of his own mother and said:

"Grandfather, my mother and Su'er hugged and slept together, it's not cold, grandfather should eat and rest earlier."

Chu Jiyuan opened his mouth: "Jin'er, I'm ......."

"Father, I still have to teach Su'er to read at night, don't dare to waste your time, the snow is cold on a cold night, forgive my daughter for not sending it."

The door was shut.

Chu Jiyuan looked at the wooden door in front of him with a charcoal basin, and after a while, he turned around and walked back with the brazier.

After taking a few steps, he turned around and looked

I saw the candlelight flickering in the room.

Su'er's fairy tales came out from inside, and she was reciting "My hometown is gone, and the distance and the near are all right." Forever sick mother, five years of trouble......"

"Homeless, Homeless."

He turned, his steps a little more staggering.

When he returned to the main hall and sat down, the food was already cold, but Chu Jiyuan just went to the stove to boil water again.

Just about to break the steamed buns and dip them in the vegetable soup, there was a sudden knock on the door outside the courtyard.

"Brother Chu, open the door and open the door, Lao Shi, I brought you something good!"

Chu Jiyuan hurriedly opened the door and welcomed Shi Wence into the house.

Shi Wence looked like he was walking, and the green-faced cotton cloak on his body was squeezed with a layer of snow.

"Today I wrote a letter for someone, and I got a tea or two and a pound of dried tofu fried in vegetable oil, and I just came to share it with you."

The black and strong city patrol Yushi smiled and took out the dried tofu wrapped in oiled paper from his arms.

The two oily paper bags were the same size, Shi Wence weighed one of them, and said with a smile, "This catty is for Su'er and Ah Jin to make a tooth sacrifice, and this catty for the two of us to have tea together."

When Shi Wence knocked on the door, Chu Yuanjin also heard it, and was about to take his daughter out to see the ceremony, Shi Wence took three steps and walked to the door of the wing room:

"On such a cold day, what kind of courtesy are you tossing with me? I'm just an idler who came to talk to your father."

I didn't forget to stuff the dried tofu in.

When he arrived at Chu Jiyuan's house, Shi Wence was so familiar that he seemed to be the master, and the yard that had been cleaned was covered with a thin layer of snow, and when he walked back to the main hall, he simply took off his snow-soaked shoes and put them on the edge of the brazier.

Compared with him, Chu Jiyuan, who was sitting at the table with a wooden face guarding two plates of vegetarian dishes and three steamed buns, looked really dull.

As soon as he saw him, Shi Wence smiled, "What? I hit a wall again in Ajina today?"

Chu Jiyuan lowered his head, didn't look at the dried tofu in front of him, only ate the vegetable leaves that were already cold, and after a few bites, he said:

"I deserve it."

"Heh, look at what you said, if Ah Jin still obeys you like before, you also think you deserve it."

Shi Wence ate dried tofu, but the words he said were colder and harder than the frozen tofu buried in the snow.

Chu Jiyuan was speechless for a while, and when he heard the sound from the stove, he got up to pick up boiling water, but was stopped by Shi Wence.

"I'll go."

When he came back with hot water, he turned out a teapot, took a cloth bag from his waist and pinched two pinches of tea into the pot, and then poured hot water, the fragrance of tea floated, and Shi Wence took a deep breath.

"This old melon slice tea, it smells mellow."

"You're making Lu'an tea? Lu'an tea is so expensive, what letter did you write in exchange?"

"This year, things in Yanjing City are cheap and tight." Shi Wence smiled, "Jiangxi has checked the tea tribute, and the superintendent Yao Qian was a waste of false name when he was in Beijing in the past, but when he arrived in Jiangxi, he became a killing god, turning the tea tribute over the years, and the tea officials in Lushan alone killed more than a dozen. Who would dare to use tea as a gift in Yanjing now? In the past, the expensive old melon slices can now be bought for only a few tens of yuan. Come on, come on, taste! Although I had a hard time in Yungui, the tea was also cheap, alas, but unfortunately I didn't have any money in my pocket when I left, otherwise I would have bought ten catties of Yunwu tea and came back and drank it slowly."

Taking a sip of tea soup, Chu Jiyuan continued to eat his steamed buns and vegetarian dishes, and Shi Wence took another piece of dried tofu:

"Today, I can be regarded as letting go of the niece of the Shen family. I remember that she used to be a well-behaved little lady, but now she has been sharpened by the Xie family."

Hearing Shi Wence talk about Shen Shiqing, Chu Jiyuan stopped his chopsticks again.

"Now that I am being watched by everyone, I can't move, so you take care of her more. A woman, the sword ...... moved."

"Brother Chu, don't say such things." Shi Wence propped one leg on the stool, and sat like a farmer eating in the field, "To be fair, if the niece of the Shen family doesn't do it, then there will be more than that

She wants to get away with it, she killed someone who deserves to be killed, and if I wasn't the presiding judge, I would have to applaud her."

Chu Jiyuan lowered his head again.

The right capital Yushi, who was invited back to the dynasty by His Majesty, is now in full bloom, but at home he is like a sinner who is to blame at every turn.

"If you think I shouldn't say that, I won't say it anymore." He said.

Seeing him like this, Shi Wence shook his head again and again: "Brother Chu, what do you mean by saying such things? Truth has always been truth...... Alas, the dead Qi family, I have checked, a life of bitterness, others watch, will only say that her life is bitter, but our old lawsuit is not an outsider, his husband died, just because she gave birth to a daughter was driven back to her parents' house, this is just someone to embezzle the family property, as well as her parents and younger brother, it is not an exaggeration to say that forcing good people to become prostitutes.

"I have already written a note to the county government on her brother's side, since his house and family business are obtained by his sister as a prostitute, it is ill-gotten gains, I will copy it first, and then say, the daughter of the Qi family is taken care of by the niece of the Shen family, I am not worried, and they will let them give a sum of money to the little girl when the Hu family goes up and down in a few days."

Hearing Shi Wence's arrangement, Chu Jiyuan shook his head:

"If you do this, I'm afraid that the Qi clan will not even have a place to bury in the future."

"What's so hard about being buried? Do you think that just the style of Qi's parents' house can make Qi's family buried back to their own house? Or will the in-laws who kicked her out of the door still be able to bury her back next to her husband? Not anymore."

Taking a sip of tea, Shi Wence smiled again:

"Let her daughter grow up well, if she can be a female official in the future and support the family business, she can bury her mother wherever she wants."

Hearing Shi Wence talk about the female officer, Chu Jiyuan raised his head:

"Today, do you know that His Majesty said in the court that men and women are punished equally?"

Shi Wence chewed dried tofu and looked at him, "I naturally know that if it weren't for that, how could the niece of the Shen family get out of prison easily? In this way, the criminal department still wants to talk to me a few more words, what kind of woman is not righteous and angry!"

After speaking, Shi Wence sneered.

Chu Jiyuan tore up the last steamed bun and dipped it in vegetable soup, and Shi Wence added some hot water to it, saving him from having a cold stomach.

After pulling two mouthfuls of rice, Chu Jiyuan said:

"There is news today that Elder Liu Ge is going to pay tribute."

"Liu Kangyong?" Shi Wence frowned, "Can't you? Their Liu family had been rampant in the countryside more than ten years ago, how could he retreat easily? Even if he were willing, his people would not want to."

Chu Jiyuan took a sip of vegetable soup and said, "Before the dynasty this morning, His Majesty summoned three pavilion elders and Chang Shangshu of the Criminal Department to discuss the matter, Chang Shangshu majored in the matter of cultivating the law, and the three pavilion elders all opposed it, Chang Shangshu was one against three, I heard that His Majesty favored Chang Shangshu, and Liu Ge Lao was angry."

"Pull it down! Liu Kangyong, that and the others, even if they eat in anger, will not be angry."

"Ahem." Chu Jiyuan, who was about to drink the soup, was choked.

He looked at Shi Wence, and saw that Shi Wence's thick black face was full of disdain for Liu Kangyong and the others.

Putting down the rice bowl stupidly, seeing that there were still steamed buns in it, Chu Jiyuan took a sip of tea, forcing himself to forget Shi Wence's words.

Shi Wence didn't realize it, and took another piece of dried tofu to eat there.

"There are four cabinet ministers, since Liu Shen, the head of the household department, was dismissed by His Majesty, there are only three left, although Wan Sen has taken the vacancy of the head of the household department but has not increased the rank of bachelor, it can be seen that His Majesty does not want to be constrained by the household department anymore."

As he spoke, Shi Wence glanced at Chu Jiyuan.

can make His Majesty hate the household, and the old brother next to him is also a meritorious man!

"If Liu Kangyong of the Ministry of Rites retires, who can fill it? The two waiters in the Ministry of Rites, Qian Zhaojing is Liu Kangyong's cronies, and he is smarter than him, His Majesty may not be willing to use it, Luan Zhengguang Shou Li Mu Ne...... If he becomes the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, he may not be able to suppress Qian Zhaojing. If I were Your Majesty, since I want to implement the new law, this Ministry of Rites Shangshu must choose a cronie who will not cause trouble for me."

Chu Jiyuan rinsed his mouth and cleared his heart, and picked up the vegetable soup again.

Shi Wence

But he asked him:

"Brother Chu, don't you guess who this candidate is? And not to add to the chaos, and to have qualifications......

Chu Jiyuan shook his head: "Most of them are promoted from the governors."

"Brother Chu, you don't call this a guess." Shi Wence picked up another piece of dried tofu and pushed the remaining half in front of Chu Jiyuan before he said with a smile:

"There is such a candidate, although the qualifications are a little worse, it is reasonable, besides, she is already a university scholar now, and the Duanji Temple scholar is also a university scholar!"

That's right, Shi Wence is talking about Duanji Hall Scholar, Princess Yueqing, Zhao Mingyin.

Chu Jiyuan: "Poof——!"

"Who are you talking about?"

"Who are you talking about?" In the dream, Zhao Surui asked Shen Shiqing.

Shen Shiqing, who was wearing a Luo skirt, was grinding a purple conch shell today, and when she heard Zhao Surui's surprise question, she said with a smile:

"Princess Yueqing has already taken someone to calculate the accounts of the Taifu Temple within five years, and it is said that I should also give her a real position, Your Majesty, is the position of the secretary of the Ministry of Rites not good? There is no one in this world who knows how to observe propriety more than the Heavenly Family."

Bah! He is the emperor himself, can he not know? There is no one in the world who regards etiquette more than a person from a royal family.

Etiquette is just their mastery and the method of justifying their name!

"You let a woman be the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, do you believe it or not, you made an order this morning, and at noon, those Hanlin sour Confucians can line up and jump into the Taiye Pool?"

Shen Shiqing raised her head, a little curious:

"Why noon? Because isn't the water so cold?"

Zhao Surui pondered for a moment: "...... That's exactly what happened."

After saying that, he laughed to himself.

As soon as he raised his eyes, he saw that Shen Sanfu was also laughing.

After laughing, the words still have to be said.

"The chief priest of the Ministry of Rites, you really asked my aunt to do it, and she may not be happy, since she has so many female bookkeepers who can settle accounts, you might as well let her be the governor and go everywhere to check the accounts."

Hearing Zhao Surui say this, Shen Shiqing pinched the pottery pestle and looked at him.

"Your Majesty, that's a pretty good idea."

Zhao Surui sneered: "Shen Sanrui, are you praising me? Or do you think I've gotten to your heart with this thought?"

With a faint smile on his face, Shen Shiqing asked him rhetorically:

"Your Majesty, are you thinking about my thoughts now?"

Zhao Surui almost jumped up on the spot, what was Shen Sanrui thinking?! How could he care about what she was thinking?! He! He is the wise and martial Emperor Zhaode! It's always been others who tremble at him, and other people's minds turn back and forth with him, when does he have to care about what others are thinking?! ap.

"I just know that you are a traitorous woman, and whatever you think, I think it's just a false imagination!"

"Your Majesty is right, you are the Ninety-Five, and you never need to care about what others think." Shen Shiqing lowered his head, pinched the pottery pestle in his hand and grinded it again and again.

Watching the brilliant and colorful shells being ground into a gray-purple powder, she summoned Shimizu again.

"Your Majesty."

Zhao Surui conjured a bow and arrow and a target, and was about to pull the bow and shoot, when he heard Shen Sanyu only call himself silent, he pricked up his ears and turned his head to look at her:

"What do you call me for?"

Shen Shiqing's tone was as unhurried as ever: "It's nothing, I just want to know what Your Majesty is thinking."

"What am I thinking? I'm thinking a lot, and what I'm thinking about the most is to put you to death, and I'll crush your bones and scatter ashes."

"Isn't there anything else Your Majesty wants to do?"

Shen Shiqing raised her head and looked at him.

"Do something that you want to do but can't do when you are an emperor, for example, go out of Yanjing City and see the thousands of miles of rivers and mountains in Dayong with your own eyes?"

When Shen Sanfu said this, his eyes bent slightly.

Zhao Surui saw it.

At that moment, his heart moved slightly.