Marrying a powerful eunuch three times

Su Rutang returned to Chuitang Courtyard and saw Rong Rui and Taohua looking dejected. He ordered people to harness a carriage to visit their little beggar friends.

Rong Rui raised his head.

"Aunt Tang, you don't have to go. I'm not worried about them, I'm just worried that they'll be hungry."

Taohua nodded.

Su Rutang felt sorry for the two children's understanding, and she hoped that her daughters could live freely and not have to live according to other people's wishes.

She bent down and said softly:

"Then let's see for ourselves, okay?"

Taohua curved her eyes and nodded quickly.

Ma Liu quickly harnessed the carriage, Xia An held Taohua in her arms. The little girl wore a red cloak and a cute fisherman's hat on her head.

Chunxi sewed a circle of red fox fur on her hat.

Several people went out together with food and clothes.

Soon they arrived near the ruined temple.

The rain was so heavy and muddy that the road could not be seen clearly for a moment, and the carriage became stuck in a ditch.

Ma Liu whipped the horse, but it still didn't work.

"Second Madam. The wheel is stuck in the car. We can't move now." Ma Liu got out and stood beside the car window, wiping the rain off his face with his hand.

Su Rutang frowned. A dark cloud was floating in the sky, and it seemed that they would not be able to leave for a while.

"Go find some people to help."

"I'll go right away. Please get off the carriage and find a shop to shelter from the rain, Madam." Ma Liu turned around and ran to a nearby alley.

There is a shed not far away.

There were some people sitting under the shed.

Su Rutang took Rong Rui and Taohua out of the carriage.

Tell Chunxi and Xia An to go together.

Shang Yan also brought people to deal with the ditches. There were many victims of the heavy rains in recent days. There were many more beggars in the capital, and the higher-ups had to deal with the disaster relief.

As a Jinyiwei, he ran back and forth.

These days, I only close my eyes and rest for more than an hour late at night.

When he arrived at the shed, he saw a dozen people from the Ministry of Works huddled inside drinking tea and chatting.

They changed their shoes and robes one by one for fear of getting themselves dirty.

Shang Yan knew that the people in the Ministry of Industry were all old-timers who would not work without some benefits. He was afraid that Zhou Chengru would also give orders to them to disobey.

Huo Mi was like a mud monkey, his head was a little hot. He took out his badge from his waist and flashed it in front of the people from the Ministry of Industry.

His face was dark and he was in a bad mood. "Are you from the Ministry of Industry here to drink and enjoy the rain?"

The person who was speaking, Zhao Xiaoou, was Zhou Chengru's subordinate and was usually the best at being lazy.

He glanced at the badge.

He bowed and invited Shang Yan and the others to sit down, "My Lord, you don't know how hard it is for us to supervise. It's not worth it to catch a cold in such heavy rain.

The people ahead haven't finished digging yet. We'll recruit a few more people from our engineering department to come over and take a look tomorrow.

Sir, please sit down and have a cup of hot tea to cool off. Don't let yourself get cold just for a few lowly people."

Huo Mi, who looked like a mud monkey, laughed angrily.

Shang Yan didn't move.

He glanced at the shed and asked, "Is this the shed built by your Ministry of Industry?"

Zhao Xiaoou laughed even more happily, thinking that Shang Yan was praising him for being smart. "Our Minister Zhou is smart. He said that no one cares about us now. We should care about ourselves. He suggested that we build this shed."

Our Minister truly cares about his subordinates. He is not the kind of person who would criticize them harshly. "

He knew that his superiors were dissatisfied with Zhou Chengru.

I wanted to say a few words to make up for it.

Shang Yan hooked a small stool with his feet and sat down. The corners of his official uniform were stuck in the mud, and he looked much dirtier than those people from the Ministry of Works.

Zhao Xiaoou hurriedly poured a cup of tea.

"This is the first batch of Mingqian Iron Arhats sent from Fujian. Even the palace doesn't have them yet. Someone gave them to us in the Ministry of Works as a gift..."

Shang Yan took the teacup.

He splashed Zhao Xiaoou's face with his backhand, his expression lazy but cold. The scar at the end of his eye was particularly vivid at this moment.

Zhao Xiaoou was so scared that he staggered and fell to the ground.

The clean official uniform was mixed in with the mud.

"Sir...how, how..." Zhao Xiaoou moved his lips incoherently and reached out to wipe the tea off his face.

Su Rutang happened to come here with her children.

She wants to leave now.

Shang Yan looked like a devil, giving people an inexplicable sense of oppression that they couldn't afford to offend.

Shang Yan turned the teacup over on the ground.

"Secretary Shen ordered the Jinyiwei to inspect the canal and disaster relief. If it's not done well, no one will have a good life.

It only takes me a thought to kill a few people. If you want to drink tea, why don't you go downstairs and drink enough? How do you think?"

Zhao Xiaoou knelt on the ground in a hurry, not caring about his crooked official hat.

"Sir. I am an official of the Ministry of Works after all. How can I just... kill someone without interrogating him..." His tongue was trembling and he was tied up. The sweat on his forehead and face kept dripping down.

The air freezes.

Su Rutang turned around and was about to leave.

A deafening thunderclap sounded.

She screamed in fear.

Then several lightning bolts struck directly from the sky, and a jujube tree as thick as a bowl not far away was instantly burnt to a crisp.

Shang Yan glanced at her impatiently, "Mrs. Zhou. Is this really a coincidence?"

Su Rutang calmed down.

She remembered that it was also on this day of thunder and lightning that a fire burned the wing behind the Huguo Temple. The heavy rain put out the fire, and she knelt on the ground holding the two little corpses and begged the gods and Buddhas to return the children to her.

The lightning took her child away.

It was not until she felt a small soft touch in her hand that Su Rutang was surprised to find Yaoyao by her side.

She bowed slightly and said, "Sorry for the trouble."

Taohua tilted her head and smiled at Shangyan, then let go of Su Rutang's hand.

Walked straight over.

Xia An was shocked.

"Peach Blossom."

The Embroidered Spring Sword of the Jinyiwei next to him was unsheathed, and Xia Anding was so scared that he didn't dare to move.

Su Rutang's palms were sweating.

"Taohua, come back."

Taohua had already reached Shangyan's side, reached out her hand and took out a piece of plum candy from her purse, then raised her hand with a smile.

Shang Yan was stunned for a moment.

He has the effect of stopping children from crying. Not to mention a little girl as old as Taohua, even a boy of eleven or twelve would tremble in his calves when he saw him.

Taohua opened her mouth and made a slight babbling sound.

Only then did Shang Yan realize that he was a little mute.

He leaned forward and held the plum candy that Taohua had given him with his lips. A hint of sweetness entered his throat, the first sweetness he had tasted in a long time.

Peach Blossom smiled.

The little hand touched the crown on Shang Yan's head, and then fell on his forehead, eyes, and nose.

Thunder exploded.

Taohua shuddered with fright.

Shang Yan picked up Taohua and let her sit on his lap.

Su Rutang: “…”

Rong Rui tried to make eye contact for a long time, but Taohua seemed to see nothing.

The Jinyiwei people all widened their eyes.

There is actually a soft and sweet little girl who is not afraid of being hated by the King of Hell?

Didn’t you see Zhao Xiaoou and the sieve bran?

The rain is getting heavier.

Su Rutang simply came into the shed. Rain was drifting in from the surrounding area of ​​the shed. Xia An and Chunxi stood outside Su Rutang wearing cloaks.

Huo Mi ordered someone to bring a small stool for Su Rutang to sit on.

She bowed slightly to express her gratitude and sat on the stool. She stretched out her hand to Taohua, "Taohua, come here."

Taohua hesitated.

Shang Yan simply turned around, with his back to Su Rutang, so that Taohua wouldn't see Su Rutang, and gave her the small golden abacus he brought with him to play with.

A sneer appeared on Shang Yan's lips.

Ask Zhao Xiaoou:

"Are you questioning our Jinyiwei's arrest of people beyond their authority?"

Huo Mi raised his foot and kicked Zhao Xiaoou into the rain. "I am in the Imperial Prison and I don't care about low-ranking people. I will take your Minister Zhou to the Imperial Prison. He is also the lowest-ranking one."

"The commander is talking, and you are talking too much? Don't you like drinking tea? Give it to me."

Zhou Xiaoou rolled into the mud and water. He didn't know how he had offended these devils.

I saw Huo Mi holding a knife in his hand.

He knelt in the mud and said, "Master, please spare my life."

The people from the Ministry of Industry who were originally sitting on the stools, holding teacups and eating dried meat, and chatting, all stood up quietly and stood aside respectfully.

Some people straightened their clothes.

Shang Yan covered Taohua's face with his hands to prevent her from seeing those people.

His voice became a little calmer, "Can you do your errand in the rain?"

The people in the Ministry of Industry dared not say no, and they all said in unison:

"I will obey the orders of the commander-in-chief."

Shang Yan licked the plum candy and glanced around with a smile. "The Imperial Guards don't know anything about the Ministry of Works. They are just following you to do your job. If the emperor is unhappy because of a poor job, I will naturally not let you be too happy."