After Rebirth, I Became a Powerful Minister’s Beloved

The sound of firecrackers on New Year's Eve came from outside the window.

Jiang Suihan frantically knocked on the window: "Brother Xiao, Nan Xiaowu, come out to watch the fireworks. I have stored up a lot of fireworks and firecrackers, come and play!"

The sound of firecrackers was deafening, completely swallowing Xiao Yi's words just now.

Nan Baoyi rubbed his ears and was forced to raise his voice: "Second brother, what did you just say?"

Xiao Yi was expressionless.

He really wanted to tie Jiang Suihan to the fireworks and let him perform flying.

He let go of his hand and said lightly: "It's nothing."

Nan Baoyi lifted her skirt and climbed onto the Luohan couch, pushed open the window covered with Korean paper, looked out with her head, and saw the gorgeous fireworks in the garden.

All kinds of firecrackers were piled up under the eaves, and the maids smiled and approached Jiang Suihan, begged him for beautiful fireworks, and pestered him to teach them how to play.

It's the excitement that should be on New Year's Eve.

"So lovely!"

She couldn't help admiring.

Xiao Yi rested his chin with one hand, and squinted at her.

The light from the fireworks fell on her fair and tender cheeks, making the little girl's bones even more delicate.

Her eyelashes are curly and slender, and her pupils are as moist as water. The fireworks reflected in her eyes are like a fiery galaxy in the world.

He reached out and lazily rolled up a strand of her sandalwood hair to play with.

He smiled: "In another hour, Jiaojiao will be thirteen years old. Do you have any New Year's wishes? Tell me, and my brother will fulfill it for you."

Nan Baoyi is charming and naive: "I hope that my second elder brother will become famous sooner and become an extremely human minister!"

Xiao Yi raised his eyebrows.

Without waiting for him to think about it, the little girl added: "In this way, the second elder brother can also come to Beijing earlier to help me meet my husband and son-in-law. I have already thought about it, all officials below the third rank will be excluded, but if the other party is particularly good-looking , you can add points as appropriate..."

Xiao Yi was expressionless.

He wanted to tie Nan Baoyi and Jiang Suihan to the fireworks and let them perform flying together.

Nan Baoyi didn't know what he was thinking, and was still lying by the window, admiring the fireworks in the garden.

His eyes fell into the distance.

The Furong Pavilion is brightly lit, and incense cases are also displayed.

The young man in white clothes Shengxue held a mahogany sword in one hand and a yellow talisman paper in the other, chanting words.

She exclaimed: "Second brother, this Mr. Shen looks like a Confucian scholar, but is he trying to exorcise evil spirits?"

Xiao Yi followed her gaze.

He said: "Shen Yichao likes to study Taoist classics, and he is also very proficient in the theory of yin and yang. Every New Year's Eve, he asks astrology to calculate his fortune for the coming year."

Nan Baoyi nodded, the small abacus in his heart was crackling.

If she spends a lot of money, would Shen Yichao be willing to calculate the fortune for the coming year for her whole family?

Xiao Yi added another sentence: "Chang Xin studied under him when he was young."

Nan Baoyi was silent.

Thinking of trying that half-baked witchcraft, she immediately didn't have any expectations for Shen Yichao.

The cold wind blows.

The flying snow seeds fell in the garden, the maids shuttled back and forth with gauze skirts laughing, and the fireworks bloomed in the long night, making this year's New Year's Eve extraordinarily peaceful.

By the window, Nan Baoyi picked up a cup of warm wine and took a sip.

She raised her eyebrows and said, "Second brother, I am very happy to watch the snow, fireworks, and excitement with you tonight."

Xiao Yi disagreed.

If the little girl marries him, he guarantees that she will be happy every day, even in bed late at night...

The wine is mellow and fragrant.

As the child's time approached, the sound of firecrackers came from outside the mansion, indicating that the people were preparing to welcome the New Year.

Nan Baoyi chanted up and down: "The sound of firecrackers marks the end of the year, and the spring breeze brings warmth into Tusu. Thousands of households always exchange new peaches for old talismans!"

She looked at Xiao Yi, Danfeng's eyes sparkled: "Second brother, did I read well?"

Xiao Yi's expression was indifferent.

It's just a seven-character quatrain. It's more difficult if you don't read it well, right?

He held out his hand out the window.

The cold wind blows fine snow onto his palm, light and cold.

His eyes were dimmed: "This winter's snow, one after another, is more than in previous years."

Moreover, since the beginning of autumn, the weather has been extremely cold, and even the surface of the lake, which was not frozen in previous years, has formed a thick layer of ice.

Nan Baoyi smiled sweetly, shaking his head and reciting: "'Yake predicts that the farming will be good, and the auspicious snow will not disappear in three winters', second brother, snowing is a good thing, as the so-called auspicious snow heralds a good year—"

Before she finished speaking, she suddenly became speechless.

There was a dignified look on her fair and tender face.

In her previous life, in the spring of the year she was thirteen years old, there was a severe drought in central Sichuan, and there was no harvest for farming.

There was a famine in Shu County, and many people starved to death.

The disaster relief funds allocated by Shengjing City have not been in place for a long time. In the end, it was the Nanfu and the rich merchants of Shu County who opened warehouses to release grain to relieve the people and survived the crisis.

At that time, she was pampered in a deep boudoir, still living a life of luxury and good food, so she didn't have a deep impression of the famine in Shu County, and it just came to her suddenly.

And after tonight, she will be thirteen years old!

Nan Baoyi wrinkled his face.

God gave her a chance to be reborn, so she must have hoped that she could save more people.

Now that she knows that there will be a famine in Shu County, it is better to prepare in advance.

She grabbed Xiao Yi's sleeve, "Second brother, next spring—"

As soon as I spoke, I couldn't go on.

In the eyes of others, she is just an inexperienced boudoir lady.

How would she tell her second brother that there would be a drought next spring?

Even if he said it, I am afraid that the second brother would not believe it.

Xiao Yi watched the little girl hesitate to speak.

He pinched her face, and said in a provocative voice, "Is there a secret you want to tell brother?"

The little girl drooped her eyelashes and said nothing.

She clutched the embroidered handkerchief uneasily, her white and tender face was filled with unprecedented seriousness, her brows were full of thoughts, as if she was thinking about how to speak to him.

Xiao Yi rested his chin in his spare time, and casually patted her forehead, "Are you having an affair with brother?"

"I'm afraid if I say it, you don't believe it..."

"As long as it is Nan Jiaojiao's words, I will believe it."

Nan Baoyi bit her lips lightly, thought for a long time, and said softly: "Second brother, do you still remember the dream I mentioned to you?"

"Remember."

"In that dream, in the spring when I was thirteen years old, there was a severe drought in the middle of Shu, the farmers had no crops, and the whole Shu county was in famine, and many people starved to death..."

Nan Baoyi said while paying attention to Xiao Yi's expression.

But the minister of power was as indifferent as ever, as if he didn't take anything to heart.

She couldn't help feeling sad.

She knew that no one would believe such words.

When she was thinking about a solution, she suddenly heard Xiao Yi ask: "You want me to stockpile food?"

She looks up.

The powerful minister lost his laziness, and his expression was stern and serious.

It was his usual expression when dealing with files.

Like a drowning person catching driftwood, she nodded quickly: "Yes, store food!"

"How much is there?"

"The more the better!"

"Benhou understands." Xiao Yi summoned Shi Ku without hesitation, "Send people to the neighboring counties to exchange all the money in my account for food."

He called other staff members and arranged orders one by one.

Nan Baoyi stared at him blankly.

My lord, do you trust her just like that?