Transmigration: From Farmer To Empress-Chapter 1969 - 1977: Liu Xi Proposes Marriage (2)

Nowadays, the drought has set in, and the ministers, thinking about the things His Majesty has done over the past two years, can’t help but feel great admiration, and they begin to praise the Emperor’s foresight and vision. Naturally, their reverence for the Emperor has grown even more.

Reports of disasters from various places keep coming into the palace. Nangong Yi reviews the situations and evaluates the achievements of the drought-resistant work accomplished in those disaster areas over the past two years. 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝚠𝕖𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝕖𝚕.𝚌𝗼𝗺

The final conclusion is optimistic, as those areas can all cope with the drought.

Although the disaster is severe, affecting more than half of the Great Jin Nation, due to Nangong Yi’s adequate preparation beforehand, the consequences of the drought can be easily managed in every place.

Inside Shouxian Palace

Cai Wei sits cross-legged on the kang, with two large basins of ice placed on the ground. Four young palace maids gently fan her, sending wisps of cool breeze that feel rather refreshing. Because the preliminary drought resistance work was well done, this severe drought hasn’t affected the people’s lives at all, nor has it dampened the Empress Dowager’s bright spirits.

She picked up the sour plum soup and indicated to Mo Shuya, who was sitting not far from her on a rattan chair, and laughed and said, "Taste it, this is freshly brewed sour plum soup, with added rock sugar, sour plums, and ice cubes; drinking it during this season is most cooling."

Mo Shuya took a sip of the sour plum soup, put down the cup, and said, "What the Empress said is absolutely right, this sour plum soup indeed cools better than mung bean soup."

Now, Mo Shuya is already a seventeen-year-old young lady. She wears proper court dress, her face slightly haggard, and she sits upright, speaking to Cai Wei with the utmost respect, very much unlike her previous lively, talkative, and humorous image.

Seeing her like this, Cai Wei couldn’t help but smile and said, "You little monkey, you must have been lectured by your maternal grandmother before entering the palace, striking such a proper appearance, it’s truly amusing."

Mo Shuya forced an unnatural smile, with a somewhat bashful expression, and said, "Maternal Grandmother did lecture Shuya a bit, however, Shuya has grown up and is no longer as mischievous and ignorant as when I was a child."

In fact, Cai Wei preferred her innocent and playful childhood personality; she genuinely dislikes the well-behaved, ladylike demeanor. Especially when seeing Shuya’s hesitant appearance, in the past, she would’ve already spoken her mind, so why would she now seem so indecisive and afraid to open her mouth?

"Did you have any business with me for this entry into the palace?" Seeing her unwilling to speak, Cai Wei couldn’t help but bring up the topic explicitly.

Shuya bit her lip, hesitated for a moment, and said, "No, nothing, it’s just that I haven’t seen you for a long time, so I came to pay my respects to you."

Seeing her unwilling to speak clearly, Cai Wei didn’t continue to press but asked her about the Old Madame’s health and some things about Fei’er.

Since the birth of her last child, after a few months, Fei’er is pregnant again, and it’s been more than two months now. It is said that the fetus is stable, and she has a craving for sour foods.

Everyone says that this time it must be a male child, but Fei’er herself is not very confident, because in the days before she knew she was pregnant, she kept dreaming about the garden.

Isn’t it said that dreaming of flowers means giving birth to a daughter? Compared to the belief of sour for boys and spicy for girls, she believes more in dreams.

"Aunt is doing well, eating and drinking heartily, and my Uncle Zi Qi, apart from going to court, spends the rest of his time by her side, almost hoisting her up as a deity..."

What Mo Shuya said is not exaggerated at all, the things Mo Ziqi does for Fei’er are known throughout the Jin Nation, and they are in love of their own free will, so their feelings are much closer than those marriages arranged by matchmakers.