How can I bow my head and serve the powerful officials?

The New Year is celebrated with the sound of firecrackers.

Empress Dowager Cao in Kunning Palace suddenly fell ill and passed away soon after.

The emperor posthumously named her "Empress Dowager Longyi" and soon buried her. A woman in white fur coat was also taken out of the palace along with the coffin.

The middle-aged woman had a slender and handsome figure, and her beautiful eyes and brows were like a pool of dark water. She rode on a white horse, stared fixedly in the direction of the palace, and then looked away without any reluctance.

A straw raincoat and hat concealed her face, but one could see her riding a galloping horse with a long whip waving. The man, the horse and the bundle disappeared on the official road to Liaozhou, leaving only a mess of hoof prints, just like the woman's life.

From then on, I felt free and at ease.

At the Liaozhou checkpoint, Liang Wanda and Li Dongyao exchanged greetings and successfully resolved the problem between Meishan and the bandits. Liang Wanda then got on the carriage and headed for his hometown in Yizhou on a snowy day.

At some point, the horse and the carriage passed each other.

But inside the carriage, smoke was seen rising from the hot hand warmer. The reborn prefect sipped on a cup of warm tea, played a remaining game of chess, and imagined a prosperous future for his official career and the well-being of the people.

On the white horse, the prostitute's straw raincoat was covered with snow, her sleeves fluttering in the wind, hot air came out from her pink lips, her slender arms were raised in the wind, she took a few sips of hot wine, and her bright and refreshing eyes seemed like she was reborn.

Winter passes and spring comes.

After training in Dezhou, Jing Ze returned to the court. He was rewarded by the emperor for his outstanding political achievements and became the youngest prime minister in Jian'an. It is expected that he will become the prime minister in the future and assist the emperors of two dynasties.

Ouyang Jiu entered the Censorate and became the right-hand man of the upright Censor Chen. As some officials had guessed, the emperor intended to train him to be the governor of Jingzhao. Ji Songhua also entered the Censorate and moved among the officials with ease. He had a good reputation and got a lot of gossip that Ouyang Jiu could not get. The relationship between the two began to improve. They often took Zhu Xiaobiao out for a walk in the snow and spring on their days off.

Xie Shoujun was sent to the border by the emperor again, asking the Xiongnu tribe to submit to Jian'an and send the Xiongnu prince to the capital as a hostage. In order to repay the debt owed to Xie Shoujun's mother on behalf of Empress Dowager Cao, and the debt for deliberately designing him to be sent to the border, Xie Jinyu handed over half of his military orders and also sent his elite soldiers and generals to the border battlefield.

Xie Zimiao became an idle prince, often going to the Imperial Academy and attending classes with the young masters and ladies of the aristocratic families. Although he did not participate much in state affairs, he was very smart and always got full marks on the exams. Especially in biology, he showed an outstanding talent. He became obsessed with breeding sows, which made Concubine Rou angry and wanted to say that Xie Chengze was not doing his job with Xie Zimiao, but when she heard that the hybrid pork would be very delicious, she swallowed her saliva silently.

Although the backyard of the Imperial College had pigs and crops, which was quite unsightly, it was all for the good of the people. Who could go against food?

In order to have food, Concubine Rou secretly donated a lot of money to the Imperial College, hoping that they could grow sweet fruits and fragrant pork.

Spring passes and autumn comes.

The second princess of Jian'an got married. The man was a handsome man, a scholar, and very beautiful. However, his parents, who were businessmen, had both died of illness, leaving behind a huge mansion and a huge fortune, and a bunch of greedy relatives who wanted to share the property.

In order to protect the house and property, the other party found Xie Pingan and offered himself to her for a contractual marriage. He would give her money to help her become rich and famous, and she would give him power to help him establish his prestige.

The two hit it off immediately and got married immediately according to imperial decree.

The third princess Xie Shu was unwilling to fall behind, and tried to choose a smart man from among the young men of aristocratic families to give birth to a dragon son. However, the state teacher said that princesses under the age of 20 were not allowed to sleep with men. Xie Shu had to give up in frustration and planned to pick a young boy in advance to raise him, so that she would have the final say in the family in the future.

The eldest and the third wife held a wedding ceremony after the Chinese New Year. It is said that the second in command fell in love with a fierce woman in the pastry shop when he was helping the eldest to prepare for the wedding. The woman's husband died early, and she raised her son alone. She opened the pastry shop under great pressure, and Sheng Yiren also helped secretly.

Although life is more stable now, the young son is often bullied by his peers because he has no father. Every time he goes home, he shouts that he wants a new father, and a father who knows martial arts. It happened that when the child was bullied by those children, the second in command passed by and tried to stop them. The child hugged the second in command and refused to let go, calling him father and asking to introduce him to a wife.

The woman looked at the second in command, who was tall and strong and looked like he could intimidate the thugs on the street and help her protect her pastry shop, and she couldn't help but feel moved. After a few interactions, the two of them became lovers.

Everyone is moving in a good direction.