The world is broken, the cubs mend it

Unexpectedly, the emperor suddenly shook off the people around him, staggered and pointed at Pei Zhiyan and laughed, and then burst into tears: "I really trusted you wrongly."

The late emperor's favorite prince was not him. Pei Zhiyan was the eunuch who served the late emperor's writing.

He took the initiative to approach him, offering to form an alliance with him and giving him advice on how to win over court officials.

Later, after the late emperor wrote the secret decree to pass on the throne, he put incompatible herbs in the late emperor's medicine, poisoned him silently, and re-drafted the edict imitating the late emperor's handwriting.

His mother died of illness when he was young, and there were very few people in the world who were kind to him. He also thought that "Liu Pei" was sincerely helping him.

He never thought that all his efforts would be in vain in the end and he became a toy in Pei Zhiyan's hands.

"Everyone makes mistakes sometimes. Your Majesty is a human being even though you are the emperor."

Pei Zhiyan looked at his almost insane appearance, waved his hand impatiently and had him forcibly dragged back.

The concubines also retreated tremblingly, not daring to stay any longer. Only Concubine Jing looked in the direction of the emperor before silently turning away.

"Dad, it's so cold, let's go back."

Yuanyuan lowered her head and rubbed her hands. The night wind was exceptionally cold, blowing in from the main hall.

Pei Zhiyan squatted down and tied the cloak for her, covered her cold little hands, picked her up, wrapped her in his cloak, and slowly walked back.

The night was so dark tonight that it seemed like ink was about to drip out. The cold wind rushed into the palace corridor and howled violently. Xiao Fuzi and Caizhi each held a palace lantern and walked in front.

"Dad, how come grandma and uncle are gone?"

Looking at the families of the court officials sitting next to them, Yuanyuan suddenly felt a little sad.

"Many years ago, your grandfather and great grandfather were wrongly accused, and the emperor ordered them to be killed."

Pei Zhiyan's tone was very light. It was obviously a very sad thing, but he spoke very calmly.

"Is there still a grandpa? Where are grandpa and great-grandfather?"

Yuanyuan had many doubts and kept asking questions following his words.

Pei Zhiyan knew that she was asking where those people's graves were, but he just shook his head with a wooden face and said he didn't know.

How could a person who had his property confiscated and was beheaded have any affairs after his death? The Pei family’s ancestral temple was also burned down, and my father’s soul had long since lost its place to rest.

"Dad, if you've been wronged, why don't you investigate it?"

Yuanyuan doesn’t understand why the person who was wrongly accused should die. Shouldn’t the case be investigated thoroughly and the person be cleared of the charges?

"Because someone wants them dead. Let's not talk about it anymore. Don't mention these unhappy things on a festive day."

Pei Zhiyan pinched her chubby little face, and felt happy as he saw her eyes and eyebrows becoming more and more similar to his own.

Caizhi, who was walking in front, listened silently. At first, she just thought that Pei Zhangyin was hateful and deserved to die, but when she thought about his experience carefully, she realized that he was also a miserable person.

However, little Fuzi secretly wiped away his tears as he walked. He was just born when the Pei family was ransacked.

Later, when he entered the palace, he only heard a few words from others about Pei Zhangyin.

She vaguely remembered that when she was young, the old people in the village said that General Pei was a handsome man with a great reputation on the battlefield. She had seen him from afar and could never forget him.

The Master Seal Holder was once a handsome and elegant young prince, but later his family was broken up and he ended up in his current situation. It was really too tragic.

"Don't cry, it's New Year's Day."

Caizhi scolded him in a low voice, saying that he was too sentimental for no reason.

Amid the sound of firecrackers that night, Yuanyuan had a sweet dream. She and her father lived in peace and happiness until they were old and gray.

The next day, as soon as I opened the window, a gust of cold wind blew in. It had snowed last night and the outside was covered in white.

When Yuanyuan woke up, she found a small red cloth bag on the bedside, which was filled with various small sugar cubes and dried plums.

Children in the palace didn't need New Year's money, so Pei Zhiyan gathered some delicious dried fruits and candied fruits, as well as snacks from the shops in the west of the city for her.

She can eat as many sweets as she wants today and I won't control her as usual.

The little guy was wandering around the yard with dried fruits in his arms, stepping on the snow to feed the rabbits in the backyard.

Xiaobai has grown very big, and he looks majestic as he squats at the door with his long snow-white hair.

Yuanyuan can no longer hold it, but Xiaobai will follow her like a puppy and help her chase away the little rabbits that try to escape.

Unfortunately, Xiaobai doesn’t eat dried fruits. When I feed them to him, he just sniffs them and walks away in disgust.

Pei Zhiyan was sitting in the corridor reading a book. The child suddenly went crazy and put a pile of snow on his head. He ran over and talked nonsense to him.

"Daddy, I dreamt last night that we grew old together, just like this, and my hair turned completely white."

"Don't put snow on your head. It will cause you to catch a cold or get a fever."

The unromantic old man quickly brushed off the snow on her head and stared at her seriously, not allowing her to play with the snow anymore.

"..."

Yuanyuan snorted at him unhappily and took Xiaobai into the house to keep warm.

As winter turns to spring, the winter jasmine and peach blossoms in the Imperial Garden are revealing their tender buds, and the flower beds in the courtyard of Moon Watching Tower are also reviving.

When Wu Xian came to do his work as usual, he looked at the little girl swinging her sword in the yard and couldn't help but praise her: "She's getting better and better."

"You really have a good understanding."

Pei Zhiyan only taught her some nice-looking moves. The child's body was still developing, so it was not suitable for her to learn martial arts too early.

"I think the girl looks more and more like you. Maybe she was your biological daughter in the previous life."

Wu Xian remembered that the child had confidently claimed that he was the seal holder's biological son. At that time, he thought the child was ugly, but now he was proven wrong.

"..."

Pei Zhiyan looked at the child in the yard and smiled. Perhaps she was supposed to be his child, but just appeared in a different form.

When the little fellow was tired of playing, he would come in with his sword and act coquettishly to him, asking him to wipe the sweat off his face and to eat some candied fruit.

Every time the child doesn’t get food, he stamps his feet in anger and walks deliberately making loud noises to let his friends know that he is unhappy.

An invisible tacit understanding gradually emerged between the father and daughter. When the old man went out to seek revenge, she would no longer ask any questions.

Although Quzhou survived the natural disaster last winter, after the snow melted and the temperature gradually rose, a plague broke out among the refugees.

People were in panic for a while and Quzhou was blocked in time, but the epidemic still spread to other counties.

Once infected with this disease, the patient will have a persistent high fever, fall into a severe coma and die directly.

Hundreds of people had died in less than seven days. In order to prevent the disease from spreading further, they had to be carried to the wild and burned.

Pei Zhiyan has been in the palace these days, and all the palaces are fumigating to prevent the plague. There has been no infection in the capital for the time being.

Yuanyuan has been staying in Wangyue Tower these days, and her father doesn't agree with her taking Xiaobai out for a walk.