Empress: The Old Emperor's Way to Pursue His Wife

Chapter 113 Thank You (1)

The sky was gloomy, and the streets one after another were full of potholes and water stains. The shops and houses on both sides of the street had long been washed away by the flood and rain, leaving only remnants of eaves and walls.

In the relatively good houses, groups of refugees with yellow and emaciated faces were crowded together.

When Xiao Yi led the food delivery team down the hillside avenue, she carefully checked the terrain here.

The center of Xixing Street was built along Dongzhou Dam. Let alone looking at Dongzhou Dam at this moment, she couldn't even see the construction of the center of Xixing Street, because Xixing Street was soaking in sewage.

The place where they are at the moment can only be regarded as a corner of Westbound Street, leaning against the foot of the mountain.The shops and houses on both sides of the street did not look like they belonged to wealthy families.

The batches of refugees hiding in the rotten houses slowly moved up from the center of Xixing Street as the floods increased.

Most of these people are ordinary people who have no money and rely on Dongzhouba for food, so they are reluctant to leave this place that has raised them generation after generation.

Because as long as the thunderstorm season is over, the water in Dongzhou Dam will fall back to the original place, and they can rely on Dongzhou Dam to survive. After all, they were born and raised here, and they can more or less justifiably occupy it. A piece of land.

The water in Dongzhou Dam rises and falls very quickly. The rain last night flooded three streets.

In the heavy rain last night, many people were buried in the water that gave birth to their lives because they had no strength.

"Ah." Xiao Yi sighed softly, calling for the fire to cook porridge, and personally handed the cooked white rice porridge to those thin people who couldn't afford to line up to get the porridge.

The common people thanked this fairy who 'fallen from the sky' one after another.

"Thank you, girl, you are such a nice person."

"Thank you girl, thank you for your great kindness, girl, you will be able to marry a good family in the future."

"Miss, you are the reincarnation of Guanshiyin Bodhisattva, you are a good person."

……

Xiao Yi smiled without speaking arrogance or rashness, and continued to deliver porridge to others. When she delivered a bowl of porridge to an old man, the old man grabbed her hand excitedly.

"Miss Guanshiyin, please go downstream and save my daughter and son-in-law's family, please."

"Master, don't get excited. Don't worry. I've sent people to eat downstream. You should drink some porridge to build up your energy."

Xiao Yi fed the old man porridge with her own hands, seeing his withered body that could not be hidden under the thin shirt, Xiao Yi felt a burst of grief in her heart.

The dark clouds gradually dissipated, and the weather was still not too hot, but Xiao Yi was sweating profusely because she was walking non-stop.

She found that the people here not only need food, but also medicine, because most people suffer from mild cold and fever due to long-term starvation and rainwater immersion.

Xiao Yi touched a child's forehead, reassuring the child's mother, it was just a mild cold, if she asked her to feed the child first, she would find a doctor for them all.

Xiao Yi didn't even notice that a playful figure was approaching her not far behind her.

Xiao Yi teased the child and calmed down the child before getting up, but because of squatting for too long, her head became dizzy for a while.

A person behind her gently patted her right shoulder, Xiao Yi looked back, but there was no one there.Someone patted her left shoulder lightly again, Xiao Yi turned to the other side, no one was there.

Drowsy, she tried her best to guess who it would be, and a familiar smiling face appeared in front of her eyes.

"Xiao... Yi." Why are you here?

Xiao Yi's eyes went dark, and when she opened her eyes again, she had been lying in the county mansion for a long time, and Xiao Yi was lying on the side of the bed with a smile on her face, staring at her motionlessly.

"How did you come?"

"Of course I don't worry about my Yueyue."

"Stop sweet-talking me, how can you leave the capital, do you know how dangerous this is, did you come alone? Or with whom? Do you know that you have to return to someone who has a different heart? People know that you ran out of the palace..."

"Okay, okay, don't get excited, Yueyue, don't get excited and don't get excited."

"How can I not be excited, how can I not be excited."

"Yueyue, I'm fine. Look, I'm right in front of your eyes now, but you really can't get excited."

Xiao Yi calmed down, Xiao Yi then grinned and said with a smile: "This is not good for the child."

child!

Xiao Yi watched in surprise as Xiao Yi's big palm quietly covered her belly, and she was absolutely sure that she heard it right.

Xiao Yi gently stroked Xiao Yi's still flat abdomen, and whispered softly: "Yueyue, we have a baby, and the imperial doctor Bao has confirmed the diagnosis. I'm going to be a dragon daddy. Tell me, he will look like you. Still like me?"

Xiao Yi remained silent, and stared at her belly stupidly. She really couldn't imagine that there was a fresh life in this flat belly.

Xiao Yi didn't care if she spoke to her or not, and continued to talk about himself.

"I don't know if this baby is a boy or a girl... I hope it's a girl, just like you, Yueyue... No, no, no, my girl still has to be like her father and me, so that I won't be like you, Yueyue, From childhood to adulthood, she has acted like a monkey. You know, there are not many men in this world who are as blind as her father, and if they are like her mother, no one will dare to want them if they are not guaranteed."

"What are you talking about!" Xiao Yi raised two fingers, grabbed one of Xiao Yi's ears fiercely, and twisted it vigorously.

"Ouch~ Yueyue, take it easy, it hurts."

"Your majesty, you know the pain. The concubine thought that your iron dragon body wouldn't hurt at all. Come on, come on, the emperor will tell the concubine what you just said again."

"I say……"

"If you have the guts to say one more word, try."

Xiao Yi covered his mouth, and squeezed out a complaint from his palm: "Women are really troublesome."

"Pfft." Qiu Yuwei covered his mouth and stared at the sickly man beside him with his eyes.

Mo Yanxiao stood by the window, looking through the window sill at the laughing and cursing couple inside, his sickly face became paler and weaker.

"Mo Xiang..." Qiu Yuwei called out in a low voice, and was very annoyed and didn't know what to say.

Mo Yanxiao looked back slightly, a slight smile appeared on the corners of his pale lips, which made Qiu Yuwei's heart twitch.

"Let's go." The empress is pregnant, for the country and the royal family, that is nothing but a happy event.Only for him... Mo Yanxiao straightened his wrinkled robe, flicked his sleeves, and walked away into the breeze.

The loose robe propped up by the thin body fluttered in the wind, just like the falling dead leaves... Qiu Yuwei followed Mo Yanxiao's pace, feeling that the breeze that should have been cool was only left with a gust of coolness.

The Xiao family's disaster relief items arrived one after another within a few days.

Xiao Yi originally wanted to dispatch these things in person to feel at ease. Xiao Yi thought that she was pregnant with a dragon fetus, so she was not allowed to set foot in the disaster area again. .

Mo Yanxiao and Qiu Yuwei couldn't agree on life and death with those merchants regarding the relief of the disaster victims.After all, one talks about the fate of the people and the other talks about business interests.

In the end, it was Xiao Yi who came forward to negotiate, and the deal was considered.Who asked the empress's natal family to send carts of white rice and white noodles, medicinal materials and clothes to this westbound street as if they didn't want money.

Among them, the merchants who understood the reason for the decline of Xixing Street immediately stood up to support Xiao Yi's measures, because they saw the white money beckoning to them.

In the future, the whole country will guarantee the people of this Westbound Street, and the former prosperous appearance of this Westbound Street will surely reappear.

After gaining the support of the merchants and knowing that the people affected by the disaster had been properly resettled, Xiao Yi and Xiao Yi hurried back to the capital.Just because the emperor's son just sent a letter to Duke Ding, he sneaked here.

If you don't hurry back, I'm afraid that the Dingguo Guild will send people to arrest him.

Xiao Yi originally wanted to take advantage of this trip to enjoy the beautiful scenery of Dachu.

Whenever he cheated and wanted to stay there to play, Xiao Yi would stick out her flat belly, and when she glanced at her phoenix eyes, Xiao Yi would be like a dragon without dragon scales, or a tiger without sharp teeth. Pinch round and rub flat.

Mo Yanxiao stayed in Dongzhou and took care of all matters in Dongzhou temporarily.

As soon as Xiao Yi returned to Beijing, she called Ding Guogong to discuss matters related to the jurisdiction of Dongzhou officials, and re-drafted the corresponding plan.

As for the person behind Wu Hai, Xiao Yi didn't know that the person behind Wu Hai was actually Ding Guogong's favorite student, Song Yuanqing, until Mo Yanxiao returned to the capital a few months later and dealt with a group of officials in the capital vigorously.

For this, Ding Guogong, who was not young, almost took the blame and resigned.

Thanks to the emperor and empress who dragged him shamelessly, Duke Ding did not resign, and Xiao Yi and Xiao Yi did not end up with the reputation of being ungrateful.

(End of this chapter)