It was a sunny day when Shangguan Tang and his group left Beijing.

Because they were carrying children and Shangguan Tang wanted to visit Xuzhou City, the team moved very slowly.

"Mom, why do we have to go to Xuzhou City? Can we not go to Xuzhou City?" In the carriage, Yun Man leaned on Shangguan Tang, holding her younger brother Yun Zhuo in her arms. The two of them opened their eyes wide and looked at Shangguan Tang expectantly.

Shangguan Tang touched their little faces and said, "Don't be afraid. What happened last time won't happen again. Mother has completely survived the disaster."

After experiencing that disaster, she was truly reborn.

Although Shangguan Tang said so, Yun Man and Yun Zhuo still couldn't like Xuzhou City.

Yun Ting glanced at them calmly and said, "Can you be a little braver? It's just Xuzhou City, not the King of Hell."

Yun Man glanced at him and said, "Brother, you are not afraid, why are your hands shaking?"

Yun Ting quickly held down his left hand which was shaking uncontrollably.

Yun Man chuckled and Yun Ting looked over with cold eyes.

Yun Man quickly hugged Shangguan Tang's arm: "Mom, look, my brother is glaring at me."

Yun Zhuo also said, "Brother glared at me."

Yun Ting: “…”

He took a deep breath, closed his eyes and decided not to bother with these two little brats for the time being.

At noon, the carriage slowly entered the city of Xuzhou. Shangguan Tang's family traveled in a low-key manner. There was no sign of the Prince of Yan's Mansion on the carriage, and it did not attract the attention of the people when entering the city.

The city of Xuzhou was being rebuilt at the fastest speed. The cracked ground, collapsed hillsides, collapsed houses, every place damaged by the earthquake had a team repairing it. The prefect, county magistrate, and the Fire Cloud Army, Flame Army, and Mo Family Army sent by the court took the lead in the work and brought the common people in. The officials and the people worked together to rebuild the city of Xuzhou. No one, old or young, was idle, and there was a busy scene everywhere.

Seeing that Xuzhou City was indeed developing in a good direction as Nangong Jingxuan and the others had said, Shangguan Tang curled up the corners of his mouth and continued to let the coachman drive the carriage inside.

After walking around for a while, Shangguan Tang and his group left quietly. They didn't know that the team building the city wall had been watching them leave.

"Is that the carriage from Prince Yan's palace?" A commoner asked the official, "I heard that the Princess of Yan has completely recovered. Is that true?"

The officer nodded: "It's true, the Princess of Yan is safe and sound."

The commoner became excited: "So, the carriage just now was really from Prince Yan's Palace? After Princess Yan recovered from her illness, she came to Xuzhou City as soon as possible. She really cares about us common people!"

After hearing what this man said, the officer no longer concealed the truth and said directly that it was the carriage of Prince Yan's Palace.

The people became even more excited when they heard this, and were deeply moved.

"The Princess of Yan still thinks of us. We are so lucky!"

"If you want to repay Princess Yan, you should work hard and strive to let her see a new Xuzhou City full of vitality and prosperity when she comes next time." The magistrate came over and said loudly.

When the people heard this, they instantly became excited as if they had been injected with chicken blood.

They will definitely not let Princess Yan down.

Despite his busy schedule, the magistrate took time out to return to the county government office, entered the inner hall, and worshiped a portrait.

If Shangguan Tang were here, she would definitely be able to recognize the person in the painting, because the person in the painting is none other than herself.

In the painting, Shangguan Tang is holding up a huge rock, which is two or three hundred meters taller than her. Her heroic posture is the same as when she rescued people in Xuzhou city.

"A-choo!" Shangguan Tang sneezed in the carriage.

"Mom, have you caught a cold?" Yun Man was shocked and immediately went to find Nangong Jingxuan.

Shangguan Tang stopped her and said, "Don't panic. Mom didn't catch a cold. I just felt that someone was talking about me behind my back."

Yun Man put her hands on her hips and said, "If anyone dares to talk about my mother, I will beat him to death."

Yun Ting held his forehead with his hand: "Can you act a little more like a girl?"

Yun Man was not convinced: "What should a girl be like? Gentle? Dignified? Who made those rules? I don't accept it. Girls should be like me. They can be fierce when they need to be fierce, and they don't need to care about other people's eyes."

She is very confident that she is not justified.

Yun Zhuo imitated her and put his hands on his hips: "Girls are fierce."

Yun Ting covered his chest and said, "Silly brother, can you not be so stupid?"

Yun Zhuo held his head high and said, "I'm stupid!"

Yun Man was disappointed with his failure: "Stupid, but not stupid!"

Yun Zhuo: “Stupid or not!”

Shangguan Tang almost laughed himself into a choke: "You guys are so funny, hahahaha!"

Yun Man raised an eyebrow at Yun Zhuo: "Mom looks very happy, go on and say you are stupid."

Yun Zhuo: "I'm stupid, I'm stupid, I'm stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid!!!"

"You've got a pretty good rhythm. Keep going," Yun Man encouraged.

"Stupid stupid stupid kill kill kill!!!"

"kill!"

There was a group of bandits hiding on the mountain road not far ahead. When they saw a team appearing ahead and were about to take action, they heard a childish voice.

"I kill kill kill kill kill kill..."

The bandits were terrified. What was going on? Was there a little killer in that team?

Nangong Jingxuan had discovered the bandits long ago. When the team passed by, two guards left the team and went around behind the bandits.

Not long after, the bandits were wiped out, but the team was not affected and continued to move forward with the sound of killing, killing, killing.

After traveling around the mountains and rivers along the way, Shangguan Tang and his party finally returned to Qingquan Village on the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month.

Snowflakes were floating in the air. The snowflakes were not big and melted as soon as they hit the ground. Although the weather was cold, the air was extremely fresh and cool.

Every household in the village was preparing for the New Year. The thick smoke from the smoked bacon rolled high into the sky. Shangguan Tang and his party saw the smoke before they even entered the village.

As soon as I entered the village, I felt the New Year atmosphere.

"Mom, I want to get off the car." As soon as they entered the village, Yun Man and Yun Zhuo clamored to get off the car to play. The roads in the village were very flat and there were children playing everywhere.

Shangguan Tang saw that Yunman and the other two wanted to go play with the other children, so he allowed them to get off the carriage.

The carriage stopped and both adults and children got off.

Many people in the village were surprised to see them. They came forward to say hello and gave Shangguan Tang and his group some melon seeds and peanuts.

Grandma Zhang said to Shangguan Tang, "You've come back just in time. New Year's Day is coming soon. The village has formed a lion dance team this year. They will have training today at 3:30 pm on the big stage in the center of the village. You can go and have a look. It's very interesting."

"Really? Then I'll have to take a closer look."

Shangguan Tang and these women sat in the pavilion and chatted.

Although it was snowing and a bit cold, Shangguan Tang felt particularly warm at the moment. The world was so brilliant, how could it not be warm?

Every smiling face in front of her was one she liked.

Thinking back to the first life in the dream, the ice and snow disaster destroyed everything, the frozen houses, the frozen corpses, it was like the end of the world. After the ice and snow ended, there were people's miserable cries and wails, and every scene was extremely painful.

Fortunately, in this life, although ice and snow disasters occurred, most of them were overcome safely.

Is this the meaning of her rebirth?

Not everyone can be reborn. Her rebirth was not destined by heaven. It was something her father and brother prayed for her, and it was also something she prayed for herself.

Shangguan Tang was thinking, if she was a bad person, without any kindness, if she had not stockpiled so many supplies and used the sacred jar to save so many people, then she might never have woken up in the earthquake in Xuzhou City.

After chatting for less than a quarter of an hour, the snow stopped. Seeing that the children's clothes were wet, Shangguan Tang went to call the children back.

"Let's stop playing for now. Go home and change your clothes. We'll go watch the lion dance team practice later."

The people in the Xiao residence already knew that Shangguan Tang and his family had returned. The door was open at this moment, and many people were outside to greet them.

Shangguan Tang's family came over and saw the people outside the door. Shangguan Tang said with a smile: "Why make such a big scene? Don't stand outside. Come on, come on, go inside. It's cold outside."

After entering the house, Shangguan Tang took off his coat and ordered his servants to take out all the things he had brought from the capital and deliver them to Master Xiao Wu, Hong's residence, the clinic and other places.

The children were extremely excited after returning home. After changing their clothes, they ran excitedly to the central stage of the village to watch the lion dance team training without waiting for Shangguan Tang's consent.

Shangguan Tang smiled helplessly and did not stop them. He had a barbecue at home with Nangong Jingxuan.

When the children came back, the barbecue was almost finished. Several of them stared with their eyes wide open in disbelief: "Dad, Mom, you actually ate alone."

Ye Qianbai did not come to Qingquan Village. After he came back, he went directly to Wenggang Village to reunite with his wife and children.

After staying in the old house for two days, Shangguan Zhenhua returned to the Shangguan residence in Wenggang Village. Shangguan Tang and his family of five went with him and visited Su Yinghuai by the way.

Seeing Shangguan Tang returned intact, Su Yinghuai wiped his eyes and said, "It's good that you're back."

Shangguan Zhenhua said with a smile: "Su Yinghuai, are you crying?"

Su Yinghuai glanced at him calmly and said, "Are you blind? This is eye boogers."

"A saint like you actually has eye boogers. It really damages your image." Shangguan Zhenhua sneered.

Su Yinghuai rolled his eyes at him: "I am a human, not a god."

Su Yinghuai cooked personally and made Shangguan Tang her favorite dishes. Although she said they were her favorites, in fact, Shangguan Tang was not picky about food at all.

"Grandpa, your cooking skills have improved a lot." Shangguan Tang praised.

Shangguan Zhenhua tasted the dish and said, "It's really delicious. You are really good, Lao Su. You are a hidden talent! Since your cooking skills are so good, I will come here to eat every day in the future."

Su Yinghuai said calmly: "Get as far away as you can."

In the blink of an eye, it was New Year's Eve.

Qingquan Village was decorated with lights everywhere, and even on the trees, there were many red lanterns of different sizes hanging.

With the couplets posted, red lanterns hung and firecrackers set off, the New Year atmosphere is in full swing.

Before the New Year's Eve dinner was ready, Su Yinghuai, Shangguan Zhenhua, Shangguan Ping'an, Shangguan Peng, Hong Longfei, Liu An, Dugu Wushuang, Ye Qianbai and others all arrived at the Xiao residence.

Today everyone is celebrating the New Year at Xiao's house.

The servants in the Xiao residence were very busy, and the master Shangguan Tang and his companions were not idle either.

"Dinner is ready, dinner is ready! Everyone hurry up and sit down in the dining room!"

There were three large round iron stoves in the dining room. The fried dishes were placed on the round stove plates. On the middle stove was an earthenware pot with steaming cabbage sprouts in it.

There are all kinds of dishes, including chicken, duck, fish, meat, cold and hot, meat and vegetarian.

Everyone's eyes were dazzled by what they saw.

"There are too many dishes." Hong Longfei wiped the corner of his mouth.

“Not much, not much.” Shangguan Tang came over and said, “There are many of us, and with this little food, I’m afraid it won’t be enough!”

Nangong Jingxuan called out, "Everyone, please sit down quickly!"

Everyone was seated, with the elders at one table, the young people at another, and the children at another. Because there were so many people, the dining room looked a lot smaller. There were laughter and the smell of food everywhere.

"Cheers, everyone!" Shangguan Tang raised his glass and clinked it with Guo Jiaojiao's: "Let's eat and drink well today. I wish all of us a smooth and successful year ahead, smooth sailing, and all our wishes come true."

"Happy New Year!"

At the end of the joyous New Year's Eve dinner, the children ran out to play. The elders drank or played chess. Shangguan Tang ordered people to bring wooden mahjong tiles and taught everyone how to play mahjong, as well as playing cards, Landlord, and Solitaire.

It was not until the early morning that the Xiao residence became quiet.

After the New Year, Shangguan Peng and Shangguan Ping'an returned to the capital to report, and Yun Ting accompanied them back to the capital to accompany Prince Gongsun Bojin.

Less than two months after returning to Beijing, Shangguan Ping'an took his wife and children to Haicheng to continue his unfinished voyage.

Shangguan Tang had nothing to do, so when Shangguan Ping'an went sailing, he took over the business and established the World Chamber of Commerce.

Without Yun Ting watching over them, the two little kids, Yun Man and Yun Zhuo, completely let themselves go, running around the village all day long. While they were running, they were thrown into the school by Shangguan Tang.

Half a year later, the Yuan Dynasty relaxed the system and allowed the establishment of women's colleges.

Shangguan Tang opened the first women's college in Tianan Prefecture, and Su Yanyun was invited to become the dean of the college.

Two years later, there were more and more women's academies in various parts of the Yuan Dynasty. Although women were still not allowed to take the imperial examinations, the opening of the academies gave them books to read and allowed them to learn many new things that they could not normally access, and they were no longer confined to the inner house.

Life in Qingquan Village was getting better and better. Most villagers had the means to send their children to school. In addition, most women's colleges established with the encouragement of the imperial court were free, and students only had to bear their own living expenses. Therefore, most women in the village would go to school.

There are more girls studying in the village, so Yunman now has a companion. She feels that she is finally not the only one who suffers from studying.

"Let me tell you, my mother is very strict with me. You must not tell my mother about what happens when you and I go out. You must not tell my mother about what happens in the college. Oh, and don't tell your parents either. In short, you can't tell anyone." On the way home from school, Yun Man, carrying a small schoolbag, sternly warned the group of girls behind her.

There are more than twenty people in this small team, and they all follow Yunman's lead.

Hearing Yunman's words, the girls nodded rapidly.

"Don't worry, we won't tell."

"What?" a voice sounded behind them.

Yun Man looked up and saw that six more people had appeared behind their team. The man and woman leading them looked very familiar to her.

"Master, if I am not mistaken, this child should be Yunman, right?"

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