Reincarnation of the powerful minister

The snow fell hard at night, the sleet flew white, and the new moon blew and curled the branches.

In the west wing room, 12-year-old Shen Qi hugged nine-year-old Shen Yan, shivering in her paper-thin quilt.

Shen Qi fell into a sleepy sleep, and soon woke up from the cold. She stretched out her hand to touch Shen Yan's icy limbs, endured the shivering, and put her younger brother's two small hands into her arms.

The 11-year-old Shen Minglu was sleeping on the low couch in the outer room, wrapped in a quilt, quietly like a curled up milk cat.The tabletop was still lit, but the candlelight was already very weak, vaguely reflecting Yao's thin and awkward figure on the curtain.

"...Mother, come to sleep, don't worry about that." Shen Qi called out in a low voice, her voice hoarse from the cold.

Yao wiped the needle on his hair, and replied: "It's all right, you guys continue to sleep, mother will be fine in a while. Go to sleep, ah."

Shen Qi knew that she would not recover in a while.

Even the skilled embroiderer had to do half a month's embroidery work, and she was ordered to finish it within five days. If she couldn't finish it, she would not be given meals and coals for the mother and child, so she was forced to stay up day and night.She is only 26 years old, and there are sporadic white hairs on her temples, and her eyes are about to burn out.

Shen Qi jumped off the bed, wanting to grab her busy hand.

Yao shi turned sideways to avoid it, his eyes were red and swollen, "Seventh brother, don't make trouble, go to sleep with Xiaojiu."

Shen Qi gritted her teeth and glared at the unfinished costume in her hand.Yao Shi had no choice but to put down her embroidery work, got up and said, "Go back to bed, and mother will sing you a little song."

"No need." Shen Qi turned her head and walked away, getting back into bed.After singing the little song, she has to continue to embroider and make up for the wasted time, so it's better not to sing.

Shen Yan fell into a drowsy sleep, shivering from the cold wind blowing into the bed, Shen Qi hugged her younger brother tightly, and opened her eyes until dawn in the swaying yellow light and shadow.

At dawn, he fell asleep in a trance, and when he woke up again, Yao Shi was no longer in the house.

She's going to fetch water and cook.The big house didn't eat the food cooked by the maid, but had to eat her cooking, and sent a maid to watch the whole process.

She finished cooking the dishes designated by the big house, and had to cook Master Shen's sick meals.

The master of the Shen family used to be the Secretary of the General Administration, a Beijing official of the seventh rank, and now he is recuperating at home due to illness.

In fact, no matter how much you rest and recuperate, it won't get better. The nose is crooked and the eyes are slanted due to the stroke, the speech is slurred, the hands and feet are trembling, and the paralysis on the bed does not look like a human being, like pajamas wrapped in a ball of oily and dry air.

The greatest skill in his life was to marry the only daughter of the Zheng family, a wealthy businessman in the capital, as his main wife.

Zheng's heart is not forgiving, his body is fatter, his tongue is sharp, his temper is jealous and aggressive, and he can't tolerate concubines.If the husband accepts one, she will clean up the other, either killing or selling it.In this way, he committed four crimes out of seven, but he couldn't resist the strong assets of his mother's family and was willing to support him, so he was full of confidence in front of Shen Experience.

There used to be a kitchen maid in the mansion, Shen Jingli liked her cooking well, she was smart and well-behaved, so she secretly used her, when she was more than eight months pregnant, she was discovered by Mrs Zheng, she was beaten with sticks until she had a miscarriage, and the adult collapsed. Died, but the fetus survived by chance, it was Shen Qi.

Shen Jikong is full of knowledge, but he can't beat the Hedong lioness, and he is concerned about her natal family, so he only devotes himself to being a henpecked marshal.Before being honest for half a year, he fell in love with Yao Shi, the daughter of a criminal officer assigned to Jiaofang Division as a prostitute. He loved her beautiful face, demure and gentle, good at singing and dancing, so he forced her to redeem her in the face of Zheng Shi's anger. Back to be a concubine.

Zheng Shi sees Shen Qi as a thorn in his side and Yao Shi as a thorn in his flesh, he can't wait to pull out, break and crush both of them.

Yao shi was born in a scholarly family, with a docile disposition, and swallowed his humiliation. He raised Shen Qi, who lost her mother at birth, as her own son, and gave birth to a pair of beautiful children, named Shen Minglu and Shen Yan.Almost by herself, she brought up the three children.

Mrs. Zheng was eager to seek a son, but she gave birth to five daughters one after another. The only youngest son was born stupid. Now he is 15 years old, and he is still drooling after his maidservant for milk.

She thinks to herself that there is no hope for the old mussel to make a pearl, and she is even more jealous of Yao Shi, and she always wants to show embarrassment and deduct money.Yao shi said a word to others, and they would accuse her of stealing men, beating and scolding her endlessly as "a whore" and "a private nest".

After Shen suffered a stroke, she even monopolized the management of Shen's residence, saying what she said was right.Not only did he deliberately assign heavy embroidery and housework to the Yao family, but he also tortured the concubine and the concubine in various ways, deliberately forcing them to their deaths.

Counting nine cold winters, there is no cotton in the quilt, and there is no charcoal in the charcoal basin.The three children had sores on their hands and feet from the cold.

Shen Qi stood up holding her itchy and painful frostbite.Shen Yan also woke up and asked, "Where's sister?"

"Going to help my mother with work." Shen Qi put on the coat for him.

"I'm going to help too."

"You little arms and legs, what can you do to help, read your book hard."

Shen Yan refused to go to school, pouted and lost his temper.Shen Qi coaxed him back and forth, but she couldn't persuade her, so she got angry and slapped him across the face.

As soon as he swung his hand, he regretted it, and withdrew his strength halfway, but it was still too late.A few fingerprints suddenly appeared on Shen Yan's cheeks, like red marks, and he slapped the sweet white glaze into Tang Sancai.Shen Qi couldn't help feeling annoyed inwardly: It doesn't matter how serious it is, the ninth younger brother is like a porcelain man, if it's broken, where can I find another one?

Shen Yan didn't cry, but covered his cheeks and said, "I'm going to school to study."

Shen Qi hugged him, feeling guilty and distressed: "If you concentrate on your studies, Mother will count on you. The other eight younger sisters and I can take care of the food, so you don't need to worry about it."

Shen Yan nodded, hung up his schoolbag, took a cold steamed bun from the table and left.

After eating the cold steamed buns, Shen Qi went to the door of the firewood room to chop firewood, and then carried them to the kitchen in piles.Not long after, I saw the little girl Qing Xing rushing over and shouted in a low voice: "Grandma wants to start a family law against Brother Nine, Brother Seven, hurry up!"

When Qing Xing was seriously ill in her early years and was thrown out of the house waiting to die, it was Yao who interceded in front of Shen Jian and prescribed a decoction to revive her.She has always been grateful for this, and secretly helped the four of them, mother and child.

After hearing this, Shen Qi threw the firewood, and left with the hatchet.

The courtyard has already set up a posture.Two rows of strong servants stood, one of the servants forced Shen Yan's thin body to the snow, the schoolbag was torn, and the books were scattered all over the floor.Shen Yan struggled to pick up the book.

Zheng's head is full of emeralds and emeralds, he is wearing a red satin jacket carved with gold, a jacket with eight groups of brocade embroidery flowers, and a sable fur scarf full of precious colors on his neck, looking rich and warm.She sat on the red sandalwood armchair on the steps, and behind her stood seven or eight attendants, their faces so gloomy that they looked like they were going to be stabbed every day.

The girl named Meihua next to her was holding a black soft whip made of rattan, which was as thick as an egg.

This soft whip is no different from an ordinary stick, it will hurt the muscles and bones if it is pulled down, the skillful technique is to press the lower wrist and then the tail, keep the skin well, the meat inside is completely rotten, and it can hurt for a month with bruises.

Shen Qi's complexion immediately changed, she rushed over to try to knock the servant away, but was stopped by two rows of servants, and shouted loudly: "What are you doing to hit my brother again!"

Mei Hua glared, "He caused the Sixth Young Master to fall into the water and almost drowned, shouldn't he be beaten?"

Shen Yan argued: "It's none of my business! Brother Six snatched my schoolbag and climbed onto the rockery, but slipped and fell into the water by himself. I even called for someone to save him."

Plum Blossom scoffed: "Sixth Young Master, no one's schoolbag was snatched, why did you just snatch yours? You must have picked him with words, angered him, and then pushed him into the water from the rockery. It's the cold winter, you clearly want to kill!"

The red marks on Shen Yan's cheeks that had just faded appeared again: "You spouted blood! Sixth brother ran and fell by himself, why should it be blamed on me? It's been like this since he was a child, obviously he doesn't understand anything... "

Mrs. Zheng was poked at the sore spot, her face turned ashen, and she sternly shouted: "Sixth brother, as the son of the eldest son, you don't understand, but you, a concubine who can't get on the table, a little bastard born of a whore from a courtyard, understand?"

Shen Qi's eyes suddenly burst into a gloomy light, and she swiped the hatchet in her hand, cutting the servant who was holding him down.The servant was in pain, and as soon as he let go of his hand, he rushed to the field.

Mrs. Zheng was so angry that she was so angry that she saw Shen Yan kneeling in front of her with her neck straight, even her appearance was about the same as that of that charming prostitute. New and old grudges welled up in her heart, and she shouted to the two rows of servants: "Standing there as wooden stakes one by one? Why don't you hit me!"

When the soft whip fell, Shen Qi had just grabbed Shen Yan's wrist, and before she had time to pull him up, seeing the wind of the whip coming, she threw herself on him without hesitation.

This whip was firmly drawn on Shen Qi's back.In an instant, his scalp exploded, and the severe pain almost cut him into two halves from the welt. He tensed his muscles and suppressed the cry of pain.

The servant with the rattan whip couldn't pull Shen Yan, so he asked the mistress, "Grandma, which one should I hit now?"

Mrs. Zheng grinned and gritted her teeth: "I will beat you to death for the two disobedient sons. Beat them to death!"

The cane whip came down like raindrops, the pain was piercing, and the cold sweat was bubbling.Relying on the stubbornness in her chest, Shen Qi clenched her teeth and refused to moan or howl, she could only tightly protect the little Jiudi under her.He knew very well in his heart that with such a posture, it was clear that the old witch was determined to take the lives of his two brothers, even if she begged for mercy, it would be useless and would only increase the humiliation.

Shen Yan listened to the whistling wind behind him, and his ears were filled with Seventh Brother's rapid breathing and painful murmurs, struggling desperately, "Seventh Brother, don't suffer for me, I can bear it, get out of the way... "

Shen Qi tightly pressed his arms and legs, her voice was hoarse and painful: "You are not guilty. She is the one who is guilty, and she is the one who deserves to be damned!"

Qing Xing knelt down with a "plop" and cried, "Seventh Brother, Ninth Brother, just give in and accuse me, and let Grandma calm down!" Then she begged Mrs. Zheng: "They are young and ignorant. Accidentally got into a fight with the Sixth Young Master, Grandma, you have a lot of adults, for the sake of the master, please forgive them once!"

Mrs. Zheng said in a sharp voice: "Little maidservant, use the master to suppress me? The master suffered a stroke and paralyzed half of his body, and he was not angry with one or two unfilial sons! Today's beatings are enough to ventilate the master! Not good Teach them, how to rectify the family tradition?"

Shen Yan was not resentful that Seventh Brother was beaten, and said back: "Even if Dad really got sick from anger, it's not because of us! Madam hits people without saying anything, what kind of family tradition?"

Zheng's face was ashen-colored with anger, and he patted the armrest and called, "What the hell! My son made a mistake, and my mother can't teach me a lesson?"

Shen Qi said coldly: "What nonsense are you talking about in front of Zhong Kui! Don't you know who we are sons and who we are mothers?"

Zheng poked him with her fingertips, trembling all over: "You... you... the son of a girl under the stove, the son of a private nest, you are indeed the same kind! A mother has no foundation, and all the children born are ungrateful and forgetful. animals!"

Shen Qi was only twelve years old, half-grown in stature, but already had a bit of a tiger-wolf mind. Hearing these insults, she immediately surged with murderous aura. pull.

The servant with the soft whip was caught off guard and asked him to stagger forward. Immediately, he was chopped on the back of the neck with a machete, and his head was cut off cleanly like chopping wood.Immediately, blood spattered and died on the spot.Everyone present was shocked.

Shen Qi pressed her hands on the blood-stained snow, and slowly got up, staring at Zheng Shi with a pair of beast-like violent eyes, with a bloodthirsty light flashing in her eyes.

Zheng Shi didn't expect Shen Qi to kill people in public. The strong smell of blood filled her with fear, she yelled "Oops", closed her eyes and lay back straight.Immediately, a girl shouted: "Grandma is not feeling well, please go to the doctor!" Several girls surrounded her and went back to the room, chattering.

Seeing that the situation is not good, the servants seem to have dispersed after the army collapsed.

Shen Qi said "Old Shacai", helped Shen Yan up, and walked back to the west wing with difficulty.

Qing Xing almost fainted from fright, got up and stumbled behind them, muttering: "He's dead... Seventh brother killed someone, what should we do?"

Shen Qi sneered: "That guy signed the contract of selling himself, he is a member of the Shen family, and the government can't control him. At most, he is being served by the old godmother's family law, and both left and right will beat us to death. Does it make any difference if we are killed or not?"