Chapter 94: The Little Expert of Melting Snow

In the Happy Village, which was blocked by heavy snow, people lived happy and peaceful lives. Pregnant people were everywhere, and bandits were as numerous as dogs, but people outside thought they were dead. Who knew if the people outside would be scared silly by the increased population in Happy Village?!

At this moment, in Happy Town…

“Help! It’s a robbery!” The woman in the cotton-padded jacket clutched her clothes tightly, and the eyes of the refugees around her lit up.

“This is the food that can save my family’s life. It’s life-saving!”

“My grandson hasn’t eaten for three days. Leave some food for me to eat.”

“You damn refugees, get out of our Happy Town! Get lost!”

There were refugees everywhere, disasters everywhere, and people could not live.

Zhao Ruifeng was ordered to start sending disaster relief everywhere. It was said that before leaving Jing City, the imperial advisor prayed for the country and once divined that this snow would probably last until next summer. Many people were looking forward to the end of winter, but this winter was not so easy to pass. In other words, in this infinitely extended winter. Countless people would freeze to death and starve to death.

However, this divination was only known to the emperor and the imperial advisor. If it were to spread, the world would probably be in chaos. The natural phenomenon often meant that the emperor was not worthy, and this was a punishment from heaven. The snow disaster was a sign. At that time, someone would probably use the excuse of a revolt to pull the emperor down. They would say that the heavens were warning the emperor and punishing the emperor. The riots that would arise from this were the most troublesome.

Zhao Ruifeng began to patrol to suppress the refugees and carry out disaster relief, but strangely, every time he went to a place, the snow began to gradually reduce with him as the center. Often, in less than half a month, the amount of snow in hundreds of miles around him reduced significantly. Even in the deep snow next door, one could see a clear gully. One side was thick snow, and the other side was no more than two fingers of thick snow that were constantly melting.

At first, Zhao Ruifeng did not notice this phenomenon. It was not until they went to two places that the snow began to melt more and more clearly that he noticed.

The news quickly reached the imperial palace! General Zhao Ruifeng once again set history. Even the heavens could not afford to offend his bad luck. Wherever he went, the rain and snow would retreat! He could be called a snow-melting expert!

When the emperor heard this news, his first reaction was shock, and his second reaction was fear! He immediately sealed the mouth of all those who knew about this matter. “Pass down the Imperial decree. General Zhao Ruifeng has done a great job in providing disaster relief. From today on, he will travel the whole country until he has stepped on every inch of land. If there is an inch of land that he has not stepped on, he can not return to Jing City!”

This imperial edict was quickly sent out. Similar to his previous life, Zhao Ruifeng was still not allowed to return to Jing City without an imperial edict. This time, he was not allowed to return to Jing City because the emperor was trembling at Zhao Ruifeng’s bad luck that even the heavens were afraid of! In fact, it was a good thing to be able to melt snow, but as long as Zhao Ruifeng played a huge role in this, the emperor’s heart was stifled.

“Tell me, what kind of physique does Zhao Ruifeng have? I don’t even dare to give him an official rank.” The emperor sighed. Increasing his rank meant that Zhao Ruifeng was getting closer and closer to him. The emperor did not dare to! He was afraid!

The empress only knew that the emperor had sent Zhao Ruifeng out to provide disaster relief, but he was not allowed to return to the capital without an imperial edict. Although she did not know the reason, when she heard that the emperor wanted to give Zhao Ruifeng an official title, her eyes suddenly flashed, “Your Majesty, the Zhao family is really blessed to have General Zhao Ruifeng. Zhao Ruifeng is the mainstay of our country, and the Zhao family’s girls will be participating in the selection of consorts in the future.” The selection of consorts that the empress was talking about was for the crown prince to choose a concubine.

The emperor frowned and did not mention Zhao Ruifeng’s reward again. He only muttered, “That’s right, in the future when the Zhao family’s young ladies enter the palace, it would not be good to promote the Zhao family.”

The empress laughed when she heard this and did not seem to notice anything wrong. She thought that the emperor understood that after Zhao Panpan became the crown prince’s secondary consort, the Zhao family, as Zhao Panpan’s maternal family, could not be too powerful. At least, they could not surpass the crown prince’s main consort.

The emperor and empress had no idea that they were talking about two different things.

“The empress is indeed able to see the big picture.” The emperor sighed in admiration and was even satisfied with the empress. Everyone knew that the Zhao family’s head lady, Xiao Meili, was on good terms with the empress, but the empress did not have any selfish intentions to make the Zhao family big. The emperor did not know that the empress wanted Zhao Panpan to become the crown prince’s concubine, but she was very afraid of Zhao Ruifeng, Zhao Panpan’s half-brother who had a blood feud with her.