Stranger and Chen in the Palace

On this day, goose feathers are snowing heavily, and people open their eyes to see a world covered in silver. This is a sign of auspicious snow for a good year, and they can't help but be delighted.

Xue Zimo heard someone knock on the door of the room, opened it and saw that Ling Yichen was standing at the door with a bowl of glutinous rice balls in his hand, his head and shoulders were covered with snowflakes, and he was looking at him softly.

"Happy New Year!" Ling Yichen smiled.

Xue Zimo smiled softly and said, "Happy New Year!"

Ling Yichen entered the door and put the glutinous rice balls on the table, and said to Xue Zimo, "Come and taste it, I went to the kitchen to make it early in the morning, I wonder if it suits your taste."

"Can you make glutinous rice balls?" Xue Zimo was a little surprised.

Ling Yichen smiled: "You learn and sell now."

Xue Zimo sat down, Ling Yichen picked up one with a spoon and brought it to his mouth, Xue Zimo glanced at the glutinous rice balls in front of him, then took a bite and chewed slowly.

Ling Yichen looked at him expectantly, and waited for him to swallow the glutinous rice balls before saying, "How is it?"

Xue Zimo nodded with a smile hidden in the corner of his eyes: "Why is there only one bowl?"

Ling Yichen smiled: "I only made one bowl."

Xue Zimo looked at him, gently scooped up one with a spoon, and handed it to his mouth like Ling Yichen.

Ling Yichen looked at him in surprise, and then he couldn't hide the joy in his eyes. He swallowed the glutinous rice balls into his mouth, chewed and chewed, his brows slowly frowned, and when he swallowed the glutinous rice balls, he felt a little embarrassed and said, : "The taste, it seems, is not very good."

Xue Zimo smiled slightly, and looked down at the glutinous rice balls: "Well, so it needs to be improved." After speaking, he picked up a spoon and scooped one for himself.

Ling Yichen said happily: "Definitely."

Lantern Festival night.

Ling Yichen mysteriously pulled Xue Zimo to an open space behind the post station. As soon as he got there, Xue Zimo saw the orphans he and Ling Yichen had found a few days ago, all of them were there.

Xue Zimo said in surprise: "Why are they here?"

Ling Yichen didn't answer, but asked instead: "Do you know what day it is today?"

Xue Zimo shook his head and smiled: "Lantern Festival."

The corners of Ling Yichen's eyes and brows were full of smiles, and he turned his head and said loudly to the children, "What day are you talking about today?"

Those children also laughed very happily. Under Xia Yan's leadership, they shouted together in childish voices: "Today is Brother Zimo's birthday!"

Xue Zimo glanced at Ling Yichen in surprise, and after shouting, the children happily ran over to surround Xue Zimo, and gave him small gifts made by themselves, Xue Zimo happily took them one by one.

Ling Yichen helped him put the gifts aside, and said to the cheerful children, "Did you forget something?"

When those children heard that you look at me and I look at you, their eyes suddenly filled with sly smiles.

Seeing the children running to the center of the open space and squatting down doing something, Xue Zimo couldn't see clearly because it was night, so he looked at Ling Yichen suspiciously.

Sensing Xue Zimo's gaze, Ling Yichen gently took his hand, waiting with a smile on his face.

Suddenly, thousands of fireworks bloomed in the night sky at the same time, and the beautiful fireworks streamed down one after another, and the night sky was instantly illuminated.

Only then did Xue Zimo see that there were five very conspicuous and huge characters written on the empty snow field in the distance: Mo, happy birthday!The characters are in Junxiu's regular script, Xue Zimo can recognize them, they are Ling Yichen's characters.

"Mo." Hearing Ling Yichen's low call, Xue Zimo raised his head slightly, and Ling Yichen stared at him, "I love you!"

Different from the bitterness and depression last time, this time Ling Yichen spoke very seriously and emotionally. Xue Zimo looked at him deeply, his eyes flickering.Ling Yichen lowered his head and gently branded a kiss on Xue Zimo's lips.

This kiss is extremely gentle...

After the beginning of spring, the ice and snow melted slowly, and the reconstruction of the dam continued.

Ling Yichen and Xue Zimo got busy again. First, they had to coordinate the construction of the dam, and second, they had to make preparations against spring floods.Although the spring flood may not come, and the water flow is not very large, but the dam has not been repaired yet, everything must be careful, but fortunately Xiao Ye is able to supervise well, which relieves Ling Yichen a lot.

Xue Zimo proposed to build several large irrigation canals on both sides of the embankment, which can not only reduce the pressure on the embankment, increase the flood control capacity of the embankment, but also divert water to irrigate the farmland, killing two birds with one stone.Although it is a little troublesome now, it can be done once and for all in the future.

Ling Yichen immediately agreed to the proposal and ordered Xiao Ye to prepare to dig the canal.It's just that in this way, the manpower of the construction seems a little tense, Ling Yichen and Xue Zimo are actively trying to solve this problem.

The victims in Dianxi County and other counties have basically returned to normal life, and now they are looking forward to the repair of river embankments and canals as soon as possible, otherwise there will be a danger of flooding again when the midsummer flood season arrives.

The people of Dianxi County could see clearly that the Third Prince was really helping them with practical things this time, whether it was the disaster relief before or the construction of the embankment and canal now.All the materials used in the embankment are the best, and skilled craftsmen from all over the country are concentrated here. Even the corrupt officials who used to only bully them can only honestly devote themselves to the construction of the embankment.There is also the canal, once it is completed, it will bring many benefits to the people on both sides of the strait, and the people are grateful to the third prince from the bottom of their hearts.

Since the construction of embankments and canals is related to the vital interests of the people, many people spontaneously came to help after learning of the shortage of manpower, and the construction work was carried out in a hurry.

This busy work lasted for more than a month, and the two of them were often too busy to eat well, especially Xue Zimo, in order to make the design of the embankment and canal more reasonable, he kept going to the construction site to discuss with the craftsmen, and searched all night various information.

Ling Yichen was very distressed, but he also knew that Xue Zimo was doing it for the people along the Fen River, for him, so he could only work harder and harder to do all this well.Fortunately, the construction of embankments and canals is now on the right track, and they can breathe a sigh of relief.

Ling Yichen came to Xue Zimo's room, saw that he was still buried in his desk, pulled out the design blueprint in his hand, and said distressedly: "Don't look, there is a night market in Dianxi County tonight, let's go and see it?"

Xue Zimo looked at him helplessly, then thought that Ling Yichen was really exhausted recently, and was always dealing with the construction of river embankments and canals non-stop, and said, "Okay."

The two walked in the night market in Dianxi County, there were few people coming and going, and there were not many people setting up stalls on both sides. Although there were many restaurants, the business was very light, far less prosperous than the imperial capital.

Ling Yichen couldn't help but think of the last time he went to the night market with Xue Zimo, and turned his head and said, "I didn't expect that the night market here is so different from the imperial capital."

Xue Zimo sighed: "In fact, Dianxi County is a rich and large county. I also came here in the early years. The night market here was very lively back then. It is not what it is now."

"Don't worry, it won't be long before the prosperity here will reappear." Ling Yichen reassured.

Xue Zimo looked at him and said with a smile, "I believe it."

Ling Yichen was still about to say something, when suddenly an old man's voice came in: "You two young masters are so handsome!" The two followed the voice, and the old man from a fortune-telling stall next to them was smiling at them.

Ling Yichen and Xue Zimo looked at each other, the old man rolled his eyes and praised Xue Zimo: "Especially this young master—"

Hearing this, Ling Yichen stepped forward halfway sideways, blocking Xue Zimo, and looked at the old man unkindly.

Seeing Ling Yichen's posture, the old man jokingly said, "My lord, you are protecting food too tightly!"

Xue Zimo blushed and said in embarrassment, "Old man, what are you talking about?"

Seeing Xue Zimo's embarrassment, Ling Yichen stared at the old man angrily. If he hadn't seen his age, Ling Yichen would have greeted him directly with his fist.

The old man showed no fear at all, instead he stroked his beard, stared at the two boldly, and praised, "What a good couple!"

Hearing this, Xue Zimo buried his head a little lower, but Ling Yichen's face softened, and he stretched out his hand to wrap around Xue Zimo's waist, bringing him closer to him.

Xue Zimo didn't resist, but it wasn't because he didn't want to, but because there was an old man standing in front of the crowd, he really didn't want to talk about it like this, so he just gave Ling Yichen a unwilling look.

Seeing this, Ling Yichen was even more proud, the corners of his mouth slightly raised.

Seeing the actions of the two of them, the old man understood half of it, and smiled at Ling Yichen: "How about I do the math for you, old man?"

"I don't believe this." Ling Yichen said lightly, pulling Xue Zimo up to leave.

The old man was not in a hurry, he stroked his beard and said with a smile: "You know that encounters between people need fate, just like you and me, and like—"

The old man glanced at Xue Zimo and said, "It seems that the fate between you and this young master is very strange. You can't know when it will start and when it will end. Since you are going to leave, our fate is over! "

Ling Yichen's heart moved when he heard it, he turned his head to stare at the old man, and said, "Can you count the fate between people?" He hesitated for a while, and whispered to the old man, "Then you count the relationship between me and this person." The fate of a son."