Cut off my tendons in my hands and feet to make me marry? Prepare to die!

Emperor Shengwen looked at Yue Ran with a complicated expression.

As a king of a different surname who holds military power in the Great Chu, the Dingbei Palace has always been a thorny existence in the eyes of successive Great Chu monarchs.

In order to take back the military power, the Dingbei Army only targeted the Northern Palace.

He wanted to deal with the Dingbei Palace, but the successive Dingbei kings were all loyal and fought for the Great Chu. Now, the family is dwindling, with only two sons, and neither of them is capable.

The only thing Yue Ran can show off is a girl.

Sometimes Emperor Shengwen himself couldn't tell whether he hoped Yue Ran would be a boy or a girl.

If Yue Ran were a man, with such a broad mind and such military achievements, he would definitely inherit the throne of King Dingbei. The next generation of King Dingbei would still be able to support the entire northern territory for Da Chu.

That also means that the Dingbei Army will continue to be controlled by the Dingbei Palace and will not be able to become a sharp weapon in the hands of the emperor.

He was glad that Yue Ran was a girl, so he generously appointed Yue Ran as General of Cavalry, gave her the right to open her own residence, and gave her glory that was difficult for other women in the Great Chu to achieve.

It was because after Yue Ran established his own government, she was just General Yue Ran, not the heir to King Dingbei.

He gave away a General of Cavalry, a General's Mansion, and also separated the most outstanding children from the Dingbei Palace.

Today, Yue Ran presented this golden miracle, and Emperor Shengwen was more cautious.

"Yue Ran, you are offering a miracle, do you have anything to ask for?"

Could it be that the two concubines of King Dingbei are pregnant? Is Yue Ran planning something for her future brother?

Yue Ran raised his head, his eyes were clear and transparent, and he said frankly:

"I have no other requests, except that under your majesty's rule, the great Chu will be peaceful and the people will live and work in peace and contentment."

She smiled:

"Your Majesty has already done all of this!"

"Then I pray that Your Majesty will be healthy and that the people of Great Chu will be blessed with long-term well-being."

Emperor Shengwen looked at Yue Ran steadily, and a smile gradually appeared in his majestic eyes.

"Yue Yuan had a sweet mouth when he was young, and I think you are no less sweet than him!"

Yue Ran responded obediently:

"I was raised by my father, so I naturally look like him."

Emperor Shengwen laughed twice, and when he thought about Yue Yuan sending his beloved daughter to fight in the northern border, he felt a little guilty.

He held the hollow golden egg in his hands, feeling the almost endless warmth and soft golden light, and was filled with joy.

He considered himself to be one of the wisest rulers of Chu in the past 200 years since its founding.

Occasionally he thought that if he could have another auspicious sign from heaven, his life would be more complete.

The auspicious sign he had in mind at the time was nothing more than some jade characters that were like the icing on the cake, or perhaps some strange astronomical phenomenon.

He never expected that he would get a miracle that could actually save the people from the blizzard.

Emperor Shengwen looked at Yue Ran standing beside him, then returned to his desk and said loudly:

"Decree! Today, auspicious signs have descended from heaven to bless our Great Chu, protecting our people from the harm of the snowstorm. It is truly the benevolence of heaven. I wish to grant amnesty to the world."

"Another decree is drafted to reward General Yue Ran with ten thousand taels of gold, and to grant Yunzhou to Princess Yue Ran."

He paused, then added: "There's no need to make a big fuss about this imperial decree, just keep a low profile."

The chief eunuch in the imperial study remained motionless, though he was shocked.

It is very rare for the children of a king of a different surname to be granted a fief. Yue Ran is the first princess of a different surname to be granted a fief. Moreover, Yunzhou has always been prosperous and it should have been the fief of a favored prince.

It can be seen that Emperor Shengwen was in a really good mood today.

Yue Ran quickly knelt down to express his gratitude.

Emperor Shengwen's decree of amnesty did not mention the origin of the auspicious sign from heaven. Yue Ran also had the same idea. He thought that a miracle was too high-profile and it would be better to make a fortune in silence.

She is not Feng Xiaolou, and she does not need to rely on miracles to gain the respect of the people. It would be better for Emperor Shengwen to draft an edict to reward her with gold and fiefdom in a low-key manner.

As for the eunuch Wang Chun who is in charge of writing in the Imperial Study today, he is a well-known taciturn person around Emperor Shengwen. He and Chen Wenjin grew up with Emperor Shengwen. They are the most trusted confidants of Emperor Shengwen. No one can get any secrets of Emperor Shengwen from him.

With money in one hand and fiefdom in the other, Yue Ran left the palace and returned home contentedly.

The sound of milk humming in my head:

"I was so scared. I thought you really didn't want me anymore."

Yue Ran smiled and touched the pouch around her waist:

You are the most valuable treasure in the world, how could I not want you?

The ingot rolled in the purse:

"I didn't expect that the shell I shed after sucking blood would be so cute!"

Yue Ran smiled and shook her head. She really didn't know what Yuanbao was. Even its shed shell still had endless heat and golden light, but it was much softer and dimmer than the original body.

She looked up at the light golden barrier in the sky. According to her memories from her previous life, the blizzard would stop in a few days, and the golden barrier would disappear with it.

It seemed as if its appearance was just for this snowstorm.

Before dark that day, Emperor Shengwen's decree of amnesty spread throughout the capital, and fast horses were sent to all prefectures and counties to convey the emperor's will.

East Palace.

Chu Hantian was almost the first to learn about the auspicious sign that Emperor Shengwen had received.

"Auspicious signs from heaven?"

Chu Hantian gritted his teeth and spoke word by word.

He exerted force with his hand and crushed the paperweight on the table into pieces.

He knew that Yue Ran had returned to Beijing from Qingquan Villa.

He also knew about the incident when his father summoned Yue Ran to the palace to inquire about Hall being kidnapped from the execution ground.

He was even prepared to wait for his father to feel resentful about Yue Ran's discovery of Xiangrui's achievements that threatened the emperor.

Who would have thought that when the emperor's decree came down, there was not a single word about Yue Ran, not even the source of the miracle.

Just drop from the sky.

"What was Yue Ran's expression when she left the palace?"

The young eunuch of the East Palace quickly replied:

"Your Highness, Yue Ran was smiling when she left the palace."

Chu Hantian frowned slightly.

He offered a miracle, but the imperial edict didn't mention Dingbei Palace at all. How could Yue Ran still laugh?

She turned a blind eye to his offer of the position of Imperial Concubine, and now she was content to be treated coldly by her father.

He paced back and forth in the study, with a look of unwillingness in his eyes.

What a great opportunity this was. Xiaolou should have won the love of the people with this auspicious sign. In this way, his proposal to marry Xiaolou as his principal wife would be what the people wanted.

He stopped and thought, no, since his father didn't want to give the credit to Yue Ran, maybe he could still find a way out.

On the second day, a rumor spread in the capital.

Feng Xiaolou, the concubine's daughter whose biological father's identity is unknown, cuts her wrists every day at home to draw blood and copy scriptures to pray to God to have mercy on the people and stop the snowstorm. She did the same thing this morning, but because of excessive blood loss, she invited several famous doctors in the capital to come to her house for treatment.

There are also rumors that before the golden barrier appeared, Feng Xiaolou went to the Fahua Temple on Qingquan Mountain to burn incense and knelt devoutly before the Buddha.

In the early morning of the day when the golden barrier appeared, golden light also appeared in the house where Feng Xiaolou lived in Lihua Lane.

"Could this golden barrier in the sky be the result of Miss Feng's compassion that moved the heavens?"