After rebirth, she became the favorite of the powerful minister.

In the end, the old man had no choice but to leave with mixed feelings.

He was happy that the little girl's lifelong event had been settled, and felt that he would have an explanation in the underworld a hundred years later. At the same time, he was depressed that his beloved granddaughter, who had just been lost and found, was about to leave the nest. So he took a jar of wine and went to Feng Qingtan to complain.

Yuan Ge burned incense and kowtowed to his parents, then burned incense and offered wine to Yuan Qi. Finally, he stopped in front of his own tablet and stood there for a while without saying a word before leaving with a blank expression.

When she walked outside, she saw Jianshu waiting in the distance, and she quickened her pace to greet him, "Why are you here?" Jianshu was Nanyin's maid here, and most of the time she followed Nanyin or stayed in Feng Qingtan's yard to accompany her. Anyway, no one went to that yard, so she would not be seen by others.

"Master Xu went to drink with someone." Jianshu followed her back, half a step behind to maintain the distance between master and servant, and continued, "He said that everyone is busy today and no one will pay attention to you and me, so he asked his subordinates to accompany you. Master Xu also said that after he dealt with those people first, he would go to Feng Lao's courtyard later to drink with you and stay up late... He also said that he would bring the wine, and he had already made arrangements for the kitchen, so you don't have to worry about anything."

"Got it." Yuan Ge lifted her skirt and walked down the mountain. After a while, she chuckled and said to Jianshu, "I don't know when I became so nagging like an old man... I don't like crowds. In previous years, I didn't like to join the crowd. Since I was a child, I only stayed up all night with my brother. Later, Nan Yin, Cheng Jin, came. He was very outgoing, noisy, and didn't care whether it was appropriate or not. He came over with a bottle of wine and insisted on staying up all night with me..."

Jianshu listened quietly. The young lady in front of her had never introduced her identity to her seriously, but after all this journey, how could she not know? It was unbelievable that a dead person could come back to life in another person's body...

"Book appraisal."

Even though he really found it incredible, Jianshu never asked anything from beginning to end. He just replied in a low voice as usual, "Yes, I'm here."

Unexpectedly, Yuan Ge laughed softly, "Jianshu... I miss him a little."

Jianshu paused, trying to understand who this "he" was, when Yuan Ge said, "It snowed heavily in Shengjing when we left. We had agreed to wait for him to come back and build a snowman together, and to spend the New Year's Eve with him this year... but now it seems that I broke my promise."

"When my brother was alive, he was in poor health and felt uncomfortable once winter came. That's why I never really like winter and snow... There's not that much snow in Zhixuan Mountain in winter." Yuan Ge put down the hem of her skirt and walked back step by step with her hands behind her back, talking about whatever came to her mind. "Jianshu, what do you think... what is he doing at this time? Who will he stay up with?"

Jianshu thought for a moment and said honestly, "He will attend the palace banquet and then return home. The young master will not stay up all night to celebrate the New Year. He did not have the habit of staying up all night in previous years. It is also possible that he simply cannot sleep and stays up all night with Wen Xiaobai."

These words were particularly humorous due to their straightforward tone. Miss Yuan looked back at the book judge with her eyes wide open. The other party had a calm expression of "it should be so"... Yuan Ge couldn't help laughing and sighed, "That's right... I also miss Wen Xiaobai a little."

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The palace banquet was held in the main hall. According to the annual custom, after lunch, the ministers would bring their wives to the palace to pay their respects. The ministers would go to the imperial study to see His Majesty, while the female relatives would go to the palace to talk with the Queen.

The palace banquet started at twilight hour, and the song and dance party lasted for two hours. Then there were fireworks. However, His Majesty has been taking better care of his health in recent years. He usually gets up and leaves the table at twilight hour. This year is a little different. His Majesty seems to be in high spirits. He even drank several glasses of wine in front of him. During the banquet, he talked to the queen with a smile for a while, then turned around and called Song Wenyuan. He raised the wine glass in his hand but did not drink it. "My dear minister Song... I heard that the Northern Pacification Division has closed many major and old cases recently. Wenyuan has worked hard."

Song Wenyuan took the wine glass and drank it all, then stood up and returned the greeting, "It is my humble servant's duty to share your majesty's worries."

A minister interrupted with a smile, "Yes, now the people are praising Lord Song, saying that he is young and promising, praising him for his wisdom and courage, and praising him for his handsome appearance..." After saying this, he laughed out loud, with a bit of humor and a bit of inappropriateness. The lady next to him glared at him, but he didn't care at all.

The emperor also smiled, waved his hand and asked Song Wenyuan to sit down, then said, "You did a good job, so you deserve a reward! Tell me, what reward do you want?"

Song Wenyuan asked the eunuch beside him to fill the glass with wine, raised the cup with both hands, and toasted solemnly, "Earlier, I asked your majesty for three months. Now that I have solved all the important cases in the Northern Pacification Office, your majesty asked me what I want, so I dare to speak up... Please allow me to leave early."

"Leave early?" The emperor was suspicious. "I gave you a reward, but you just want to leave early? Why? You have an appointment with a beautiful woman, and you are in a hurry to keep it?"

It was the same minister from before, laughing, "Young people! You are different!"

Song Wenyuan put down the wine glass in his hand, lowered his eyebrows and smiled softly for a moment. The smile was soft and tender, but it was fleeting. The young Lord Song bowed to the emperor again, "Yes. This is my only request. I will leave early and take a three-month leave, just to go out of the city to pick up my wife overnight... I promised her that we can build a snowman together. If I go too late, winter will be over when I come back, and there will be no snow in Shengjing City. Wouldn't that be breaking my promise to her? Please agree, Your Majesty."

The young man, who had just reached the age of twenty, no longer had the sharpness of the court robes he wore in the past, nor the thoroughness of his responses in the court. Instead, he was a little more reckless and gentle. The commander who had never been flawed in the past seemed to have begun to have a soft spot.

The emperor's eyes darkened as he stared at Song Wenyuan meaningfully. After a moment, he suddenly smiled and waved his hand, "Go... If I reject you now, I'm afraid that Minister Wen will ask for sick leave from me after the New Year. Go, go!"

Song Wenyuan left the table in a hurry and disappeared into the night in the blink of an eye. Some ministers reacted belatedly and turned to ask Wen Changling, "Lord Song said before that he was looking for his wife, but now he is going to pick her up. Didn't Madam Song say she was missing? Could she have been found?"

Wen Changling smiled but said nothing, he just stood up and toasted.

The colleague beside him saw it clearly, "Didn't you notice that the young master of the Xu family hasn't shown up for a long time since that day? I heard that on the day when Madam Song went out of town, Master Xu went to the Kejing Marquis's mansion and took away a guard. Then the maidservant beside the young lady also went out of town... This is not a disappearance, it's obvious that he went out to travel. Maybe it was just a play performed by these people to solve the case!"

Everyone suddenly realized what was going on, except Tong Mingru and Qin Yongpei, who exchanged a look through the graceful dancer that was known only to us but unknown to the world.