The Regent and His Wife Couldn't Possibly be so Loving.

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Chapter 29

The main hall of Da Ci'en Temple.

The women in the room looked gloomy.

Mingyi knelt on the cushion, listening to the prayers and chanting of the people around her, and looked out the window.

The sky outside the window was gloomy, and a drizzle of rain fell on the moss-covered eaves. The air was damp and stuffy, making people feel suffocated.

I don’t know when this rain will stop.

According to the original plan, Mingyi and the women in the main hall should not be in the Da Ci'en Temple at this moment, but should be on the hunt in late spring.

The late spring hunting has to be postponed to this autumn for some reason.

This story begins before the hunting trip in late spring.

The Jiangnan area is low-lying, with heavy rains in spring and hurricane-force winds in autumn, so floods are frequent.

Since late spring, the Jiangnan Road has been hit by continuous heavy rains. The previous flood had already made life miserable for the people, and they had just started the post-disaster reconstruction with great difficulty, but the continuous heavy rains were like a double whammy.

There were incidents in Jiangnan Road one after another, and Xie Shu was busy dealing with them. Mingyi hadn't seen him for half a month since the incident.

Mingyi was not idle during this half month. After the incident, he went to the Da Ci'en Temple with the families of several important ministers to pray for blessings and stay there for a while. He stayed there for half a month. Every morning he got up and went to the main hall to chant scriptures and pray for blessings. After dinner he returned to the meditation room to rest. This was what he did every day.

In the main hall, wooden fish banged and the low chanting was mixed with the whispers of several female relatives.

The whispers were very low, and Mingyi could only vaguely hear that the women were talking about the newly built dam.

After the earlier flood destroyed the old dike, the court allocated funds to rebuild a new one.

I thought the newly built dam would be somewhat useful, but I didn't expect that the heavy rains these days would easily wash away the newly built dam.

No one expected that the new embankment would be so vulnerable.

The Jiangnan Province only reported that merchants took advantage of the flood to hoard goods, causing prices to soar, monopolizing the materials for building the dam, and selling them to the government at high prices to make a profit. This led to a shortage of materials for building the dam.

In addition, the new dam was built in a hurry, and the workers who built the dam cut corners to meet the deadline, which led to the disaster.

Everything seemed to be reasonable, yet somehow strange.

Regardless of the cause of this incident, the people who suffered the most were the people in the Jiangnan area.

Mingyi continued to bow his head and recite scriptures, praying for the people affected by the disaster.

Until dusk, the drizzle gradually stopped.

Yunying helped Mingyi get up from the mat and said with pity, "Your knees are swollen from kneeling and reciting scriptures all day long. I'll get you some swelling-reducing medicine packs to apply to you later."

Mingyi was usually pampered, but at the moment she was in no mood to care whether her knee was swollen or painful. She just responded with a soft "OK".

Yunying remembered something: "I came here by wind just now and brought the prince's words."