Chapter 83 will be wrong

  Splash!

  The tall silo burst into pieces in everyone's eyes, collapsed, and splashed up a wave of gray dust.

  In the swirling dust there were unmelted snowflakes and ice chips, as well as frozen soil particles that made people cough uncontrollably as soon as they smelled them.

  "Hurry up and move the beam! It's pressing down on my sister and Sheng Da's daughter!" Niu Dapeng roared, not bothering to wait for his attendants to arrive, he rolled up his sleeves himself and rushed in with a few of his closest subordinates.

  The attendants rushed up and together lifted up the fallen roof, rafters, and pillars that had broken in two.

  Niu Xiaoye lay motionless on the ground, with a large beam lying across her back.

  Everyone carefully pulled the beam open.

  Niu Dapeng hurriedly picked up Niu Xiaoye and handed her over to a relative beside him, then bent down again to pick up the blood-covered "Sheng Siyan" who was pressed under Niu Xiaoye.

  Lifting up the blood-soaked scarf wrapped around Sheng Siyan's face, Niu Dapeng was taken aback...

  When the porridge shed collapsed, someone had already quickly reported the news upwards.

  The Crown Prince, who was busy begging the Empress Dowager for grain to be stored in the official granary, heard the news and hurriedly went to the Imperial Physician's Bureau to see Sheng Qiye. He anxiously said: "Duke Sheng, your daughter has just been crushed by a collapsed porridge shed and her life is hanging in the balance..."

  Sheng Qiye was stunned upon hearing the news, and after being dazed for half a day, he rolled up his sheepskin coat and crawled to Taihou's Anhe Hall to wail.

  "Your Majesty the Empress Dowager! Your Majesty the Empress Dowager! Please allow me to leave the palace for a moment! My daughter is in critical condition, I am not worthy of them mother and child, cannot let my daughter suffer such misfortune again!"

  The empress was startled and frowned, saying: "What's going on? What's wrong with your daughter?"

  Sheng Qiye immediately repeated what the Crown Prince had just said to him.

  "...Niu's family is serving porridge? Is your daughter going to help?" Upon hearing that it was Niu's family, the Empress Dowager's eyes sparkled and her expression visibly relaxed. "That's quite something. How did the porridge shed collapse? Truly too careless. Never mind, you go take a look. How has the Emperor been doing these past few days?"

  "Your Majesty's condition is stable. I have just prepared a new medicine, which has been taken for two days and will be taken for another two days. It should show significant improvement."

  The empress dowager's eyes sparkled again, and she nodded: "You watched over the medicine being brewed, didn't you?"

  "I'll take care of it myself, without relying on others." Sheng Qiye hastily said, and then to the Empress Dowager: "When I'm not around, please keep a close eye on His Majesty, don't let anyone give him medicine."

  The empress nodded and said in a low voice: "I know. This time, I will definitely send someone to keep a close eye on it!"

  "Many thanks to Your Majesty's gracious favor!" said Sheng Qiye as he prepared to leave the palace.

  "Wait!" The empress dowager gazed at Sheng Qi's back and suddenly called out.

  "Empress Dowager?" Sheng Qi turned around, looking at the Empress Dowager with confusion.

  The empress lifted her chin, her skin as white as jade, and her neck was smooth without a single wrinkle, as beautiful as a 28-year-old woman.

  Sheng Qi hurriedly lowered his head, feeling a bit strange.

  "...Heaven has sent heavy snow. The cold ice pierces the bone. I am also very worried about the common people. Now that your beloved daughter is injured, I also quite like that little girl. Today, I will accompany you out of the palace to take a look and investigate the people's sentiment." The empress dowager's eyes flashed with a sharp light, blocking off the words of advice that Yu Nu Gong was about to offer.

  "Prepare the imperial carriage for Concubine Yao." The Empress Dowager instructed calmly.

  Yao Nu Gong endured and endured. She said: "Empress Dowager, it's too cold outside. You had a cough yesterday. Why don't I go out for you today?"

  "How can this be? The crown prince is toiling outside, and I am helping the emperor manage the world. How can we hide in the deep palace?" The empress dowager smiled with profound meaning, "Go quickly, prepare the carriage!"

  Madam Yao did not dare to persuade him again and hastily went out to give orders.

  Because Empress Dowager was in a hurry, only one nine-curve phoenix crown was prepared, and the empress dowager boarded with support. A large brazier was placed inside to keep the empress dowager warm.

  Sheng Qiye's mind was in a mess, he flung his sleeves and left the Anhe Temple with the Empress Dowager's sedan chair. They quickly headed to the place where the Niu family was distributing porridge.

  After Sheng Qiye and the Empress Dowager left, Ning Chun, the elder sister of the Empress Dowager, went to Xia Mingdi's palace and sat for a while, also wiping away the sweat beads on his forehead.

  Although it was cold today, the fire in the palace was too big. There were fire dragons underground and fire walls on both sides. In each of the four corners, there was a large brazier, almost suffocating people to death. Remove the braziers, and reduce the flames of the fire dragons and fire walls by half." Ning Chun ordered the attending palace staff after walking around in Emperor Xiaoming's palace.

  The eunuch complied and went to instruct the underling who was in charge of lighting the fire.

  Coming out of Xia Ming Emperor's palace, Ning Chun wore a thin fox fur coat awarded by the Empress Dowager and slowly walked towards her own residence.

  Xiaogong followed closely behind Ningchun, wrapped up like a rice dumpling, and exclaimed in surprise: "Ningchun auntie, aren't you going to wear another layer?"

  Ning Chun smiled and said, "No need. I'm very hot. Just now in the palace of Your Majesty, I broke out in a sweat, so it's good to catch a cool breeze." As he spoke, he stopped at the high point of the winding corridor, gazing in the direction where the Empress Dowager's nine-bend phoenix carriage had disappeared into the distance, and sighed softly, "This sky is really going to change. Alas, what's the use? A family has been brought to this state, I hope Your Majesty will wake up soon."

  Xiaogong girl didn't understand, and smiled secretly behind: "Ning auntie, isn't the emperor almost recovered? Sheng Guogong is really formidable, the emperor has improved a lot in these two months compared to before."

  Ning Chun smiled wryly and lowered his head, walking down the winding corridor through the mountains.

  At this moment, the big gate of the imperial palace suddenly creaked open, and a long horn sounded from inside.

  "The Empress Dowager is going out on an inspection tour! All officials kneel down to welcome her!" A loud and clear voice echoed in front of the tall gate of the imperial palace.

  The Imperial Guards at the gate hastily knelt down.

  The sound of armor and swords worn on the body is particularly pleasant.

  The Empress Dowager sat inside the Nine-Bend Phoenix Carriage and said softly, "Disembark."

  The eunuch beside her hastily shouted loudly to the inner attendant following behind Feng Quan: "Empress Dowager is summoning!"

  The eunuchs who followed Feng Quan then loudly spread the news again.

  The Imperial Guards at the entrance of the palace had just stood up.

  The leader of the Imperial Guards responsible for defending the capital was General Wen, a member of the Empress Dowager's natal family.

  The Empress Dowager went on an inspection tour, and he naturally had to send the Imperial Guards to escort her.

  When Empress Dowager's sedan chair walked onto the main street of the Imperial City, a team of murderous-looking Imperial Guards had already followed behind.

  They soon arrived at the border of Niu's congee charity.

  Niu Dapeng's side is in chaos.

  He wanted to send the seriously injured and unconscious Niu Xiaoye to find a doctor for treatment, while also discovering that "Sheng Siyan" was actually not Sheng Siyan, but her maid!

  At a loss for what to do, someone came over to report, "Young Master, the Duke of Sheng has arrived and says he wants to see his daughter. And also the Empress Dowager..."

  "Imperial Grandmother!" The Crown Prince hastily came over from another block to welcome the Empress Dowager's sedan chair.

  "Empress Dowager!" Zheng Suxin also hastily arrived with the Wu family.

  Niu Datong was startled by the loud noise outside and hastily covered Shanghai Tong's dizzy face with his cloak. He whispered, "Does the Empress Dowager know about this?"

  "I understand. Don't worry, Your Highness, everything will be taken care of by Her Majesty the Empress Dowager." The one speaking to him was a eunuch-like person with a pale face and no mustache, his voice sharp and fine, with an almost imperceptible Adam's apple.

  Niu Datong pursed his lips and hastily knelt down with the others to welcome the empress dowager.

  The nine-bend phoenix sedan chair of the Empress Dowager stopped in front of the empty space before the collapsed rice shed of the Niu family.

  Sheng Qiye was anxious and worried, wishing he could fly over with wings to see how his daughter was doing.

  The empress dowager slowly called someone over to ask questions.

  Niu Datong suppressed the anxiety in his heart and recounted what had just happened. He didn't say that the person wasn't Sheng Siyan, only that both of them were injured.

  The empress nodded and ordered the thick curtains in front of the imperial carriage to be lifted, and in a loud voice said to the crowd outside: "Heaven has sent heavy snow, heaven is cold and earth is frozen, you have all worked hard. You have this heart to help the court solve its worries. The court will not disappoint you. - Come! Order the governor of the capital and the minister of revenue to open the granary and distribute grain! What time is it now? Still dragging on! Just say, it's the order of Ah Jia, let them hurry up and make a list of people's heads, and allocate rice and grain from house to house! There must be no mistake!"

  The people outside heard this and immediately shouted "Long live the Empress Dowager, long live the Empress Dowager, may she live for a thousand years!" The voices of support were endless, all praising the Empress Dowager's kind heart.

  Yao Nu Guan listened and couldn't help but glance at Zheng Su Huan and the Crown Prince with a hint of pleasure.

  The empress dowager only used this simple sentence to make Zheng Suhui and the crown prince's busy days seem dull and unremarkable.

  At once, opening the granary became the Empress's achievement, and the previous setbacks were attributed to the delay caused by subordinate officials.

  The crown prince and Zheng Suhe, who had been clamoring for Empress Dowager Cixi to release the grain, were ignored by her.

  Sheng Qiye didn't want to bother with these people's riddles, he was anxious and wanted to go see how his daughter was doing.

  However, the empress dowager refused to let him pass. He also couldn't run away on his own.

  The empress dowager smiled as she looked at the people kneeling on the ground cheering endlessly.

  When everyone's voices had died down, the Empress Dowager spoke again: "Although the Niu family is a merchant family, they have the hearts of the people and are truly rare in their conduct. Pass on the edict from the Imperial Ancestral Temple, appointing Niu Dapeng as a sixth-rank official. Niu Xiaoye risked his life to rescue the eldest daughter of Duke Shengguo. Let Duke Shengguo personally take charge of treating Niu Xiaoye's injuries, in order to proclaim virtuous deeds!" She forced this matter into being about Niu Xiaoye "risking his life" to save "Sheng Siyan", thereby setting the tone for this affair.

  Sheng Qiye was taken aback, but the Empress Dowager's decree left him no choice but to obey, so he hastily retreated and went to see his daughter's injuries.

  The empress dowager, having given her orders, did not go to see the injured person. Instead, she said that she wanted to see how the common people of the capital city were living and ordered someone to carry the Nine-Bend Phoenix Sedan Chair through the streets and alleys of the capital city.

  The curtains of the nine-bend phoenix sedan chair were not lifted again, but the people of the capital all knew that the empress dowager had come out of the palace to see everyone, and they all came out of their homes to kneel down and welcome her.

  Niu Dapeng knew that Sheng Qiye's medical skills were divine, and he was the only direct descendant of the Sheng family, as well as the emperor's sole imperial physician. If Niu Xiaoye could get him to diagnose her, she would definitely be saved, and her mood lightened a bit.

  Sheng Qiye followed Niu Datong into a residential building on the other side.

  That was also the yard bought by Niu's family, but few people knew about it.

  As soon as he entered the house, Sheng Qiye wanted to check on Sheng Siyan's injuries first.

  Niu Datong awkwardly said: "Sheng Qiye, I have something to say, don't get angry. The one who got hurt today is not your daughter Sheng Siyan, but... but her senior maid Haitang."

  This is the first update. There will be a second update in the afternoon. It's Monday, asking for pink tickets and recommended votes o(n_n)o Ha! ~~~

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