postscript.
The ice and snow melt, and all things come back to life.
It's a new year again.
According to the process of the previous life, in the early spring of this year, floods will first occur in several southwestern states, followed by the Suizhou area in the north. The second earth dragon will turn over, and nearly half of Dayong will be in dire straits.
Qi Xu and Wei Yunlan have been preparing for this.
After witnessing the wedding of the emperor and empress last year, Wei Mingyi was sent to the southwest to be specifically responsible for the management of waterways. Qi Xu gave him great power. If any local officials or noble families in the southwestern states obstructed the flood control, they could be executed first and reported to the emperor later.
In the north, since the beginning of spring, people living in areas severely affected by the earth dragon's turning over have been relocated elsewhere.
With multiple preparations, the impact of natural disasters on Dayong was far smaller than that in Wei Yunlan's previous life.
Due to sufficient food reserves, the scenes in the disaster-stricken areas of the previous life where people were starving and even had to eat their own children will never happen again.
…
Another year has passed.
In the capital, there is a slightly dilapidated house with only one entrance.
The courtyard was filled with desolation and sadness. An old woman with a blind eye was sitting in the yard washing clothes.
Seeing the woman sitting under the eaves, fanning herself with a fan, her hair a little messy, and only vaguely recognizable as a pretty woman with nothing to do, he could not help but frown and shouted, "Why don't you come over and give me a hand?"
"Madam Jiang, how can you talk to me like that?" The woman's face turned cold.
"Heh." The blind woman sneered, "Do you still think you are the wife of the prince who is so high and mighty, waiting to be served?"
"If it weren't for the old lady, I would have left long ago." The one-eyed blind old woman was none other than Nanny Jiang, the head nanny beside Qin, the wife of Marquis of Jinyang.
But now, Qin can no longer be called Madam Hou.
There is no Jinyang Marquis Mansion in the capital anymore.
Years ago, the mansion of Marquis Jinyang was taken back by the imperial court, and Qin, Chen Feng, and Xue Linglong had no choice but to move to this dilapidated courtyard with their only two remaining old servants.
In fact, compared to living in the Jinyang Marquis Mansion, the three of them felt relieved.
Since Wei Yunlan became the queen, her reputation among the people has been getting better and better. They have been worried that Wei Yunlan will take revenge on them later.
Fortunately, the other party seemed to have forgotten about them.
Nowadays, the title of Marquis is gone.
But at least, they each still have some private property hidden away, waiting for the storm to pass, and they will have the opportunity to leave the capital and live a prosperous life...
Xue Linglong was impatient to argue with Nanny Jiang. She had three hundred taels of silver hidden on her body and planned to wait until summer came and the disaster of the earth dragon in the north subsided, and then she would go north with the silver notes. Someone said that she had eaten some exotic food in the capital of Huaizhou in the north, which sounded a bit like what she had eaten in Beijing, so she planned to go there and look for it.
In the room, Shen Feng woke up, recalling the scene that he had dreamed of countless times, with reluctance in his eyes.
He grabbed the bottle of wine on the bedside table, tilted his head back and took another sip, then lay down on the bed.
In the main room, Qin drank a bowl of medicine, counted the things secretly left in the box, sighed, but there was a hint of relief in her eyes.
Just as he was about to tell Madam Jiang to pack up his bags, he heard the sound of horse hooves in the alley outside.
Immediately afterwards, a group of guards rushed into the courtyard.
"Who are you?" Qin came out of the house and looked at the guards who appeared in the yard with horror in her eyes.
Chen Feng also shuddered and sobered up completely.
"What do you want to do?"
"Kneel down." A guard shouted coldly, and then took Qin, Chen Feng and Xue Linglong to the courtyard and made them kneel on the ground.
At this moment, a bright yellow skirt came into the eyes of the three people.
Following the hem of the skirt outlined with gold thread, the three of them looked upwards.
A very familiar face, but one that they dared not look directly at, appeared before their eyes.
"It's you..." Xue Linglong was a little dazed.
Once upon a time, the postures of the two people in the dream were completely reversed. At that time, she was the one who was high above, and the one lying on the bed, gasping for life, was the woman in front of him.
“Yun Lan…” Chen Feng murmured.
He was immediately kicked to the ground by the guards, "Shut up, you are not allowed to call the nobleman's name."
Chen Feng's cheek was slightly scratched by the ground, and his eyes were still on the woman's face in front of him. However, due to the guards' watchful eyes, he did not dare to shout again.
Next to Xue Linglong and Chen Feng, Qin, who was kneeling on the ground, was silent as a cicada, not daring to breathe.
My heart is full of regret.
If I had known this earlier, I would have known...
"Please present the things." A faint voice fell into his ears.
A question arose in the minds of the three people at the same time: What is that?
A maid came over with a tray.
On the tray, there were three small porcelain cups, and there was a faint smell of wine wafting from the cups.
The three of them felt a sudden shock in their hearts at the same time and looked over in disbelief.
Then he shuddered with fear.
Xue Linglong looked at the three porcelain cups, then at the elegant woman in front of her, and asked in a lingering voice: "You...you had the dream too, right?"
Shen Feng's gaze also fell on that face, as if waiting for an answer.
In the dream, they poisoned her.
Now, she wants to give him a taste of his own medicine.
"You've already won, why don't you let us go?" Shen Feng's voice was a little hoarse.
But no one told him the answer.
All they got in return was a cold "drink".
With that order, the poisonous wine went down his throat.
Three figures fell to the ground in the yard at the same time.
Their eyes were still open, but no one closed them for them.
The elegant and graceful woman in the golden and jade-threaded dress just glanced at them one last time and turned away.
How to repay kindness when you repay evil with kindness?
This is what they deserve.
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