Chapter 423: True and False Princesses
After breakfast, everyone went out of the backyard of the restaurant to a famous spot in the capital, Xiaoyue asked Xiao Wan on the road if Xiaoting had reminded Mo Cong that the capital was in danger and must leave immediately, Xiaoting said that he had been reminded, but Mo Cong said that there was no need to take a cup, the bow, the snake, the shadow, the grass and the trees, the soldiers were frightened, and the bird with the bow fled, otherwise he wouldn't come to the capital after escaping this time. Xiaoyue Xiaozhu felt a little reasonable when she heard it, but she still couldn't rule out the danger, and she was always a little apprehensive in her heart.
The whole morning and afternoon, the time was spent in such a worry, in the evening, everyone rode horses and parted ways, Mo Cong and Hang Rui went to the palace for dinner, and Mo Yu and the others went back to the backyard of the restaurant.
The dinner party that day was normal, and after dinner in the evening, Hang Rui accompanied the queen to talk in the dormitory, and Hang Xiao took Mo Cong to the imperial study to continue drinking. In order to ensure that today's plan is foolproof, Mo Cong must be as drunk as possible, Hang Xiao specially asked people to call Lei Bao over, and the three of them drank wine and chatted about some military affairs in Ruiguo and Montenegro.
"How many centaurs are there in Montenegro now?" Hang Xiao asked, drinking wine.
"It's not much, it's just three guards. Mo Cong said as he drank his wine.
"There aren't many people in the three guards, so how many do you want?" Hang Xiao said angrily.
Lei Leopard drank next to him and didn't speak, he had been to Montenegro, and knew that there were far more soldiers and horses in Montenegro than three guards, and the so-called three guards should refer to the hundreds of thousands of elites who were most capable of fighting, in addition to these elites, there were some standing forces.
"Anyway, Your Majesty, don't always think about encircling and suppressing Montenegro, otherwise with the garrison army and veterans who have been discharged and demobilized, there will be more than five guards. Mo Cong said sure enough.
"Who is so idle that they want to encircle and suppress Montenegro, I am thinking...... Can you feed so many soldiers and horses?" Hang Xiao asked.
"It's okay, the military salary in Montenegro is relatively low, and some people don't even pay the military salary but just give some pocket money, so it's easier to feed. In addition, the gods gave me a large sum of silver in case of emergency, so the military salary was relatively abundant. Mo Cong said.
"How much money did the gods give you?" Hang Xiao asked curiously. Thunder Leopard was also curious next to him.
"Not much, just about 130 million taels of silver. Mo Cong said.
"That's not much?" Hang Xiao and Lei Leopard were shocked, Lei Leopard was shocked by this number, Hang Xiao was shocked by the sum of the two numbers, the immortals on his side gave 140 million taels, and Mo Cong's side was also close to this number, so the silver that Zhao Rong and the others privately embezzled was double what he imagined, which was indeed outrageous. "Why do you want so much silver, contribute some of it to the court. Hang Xiao thought for a moment and discussed.
"Silver sounds like a lot, but it's not much on average. The old right guard and the middle guard avant-garde were owed military salaries by the imperial court for several years. There are still many people who died in the war for the country but did not receive any pension, these two sums of silver add up to a huge amount, and now Montenegro has to pay a large amount of military pay every month, so I really don't have the spare money to contribute to the imperial court. If Your Majesty really wants it, I will sell the congratulatory gifts from my previous marriages and the dowry given by Your Majesty and contribute them to the imperial court, and I am afraid that many things will be worth a lot of silver. Mo Cong said.
"Forget it, the imperial court did owe a lot of military salaries to the army in the past few years, not only the right guard, the central guard, the front guard, and not only the central army, this account is really amazing. Since it's so difficult on your side, let's just say nothing. Hang Xiao sighed and said.
While the three of them were drinking and chatting here, Hang Rui was also chatting with the queen about the short things in the family. The mother and daughter chatted for a while, Hang Rui felt that it was not early and it was time to go back to rest, so she got up to say goodbye to the queen, and prepared to go to the imperial study to find Mo Cong to go back to the princess's mansion together, but as soon as she came out of the courtyard of the queen's bedroom, she met a person.
"Father-in-law Xia is good. Hang Rui politely entered the palace at the age of seven with this legend. The old eunuch with a peerless martial arts greeted him.
"Your Royal Highness the princess is auspicious!" Father-in-law Xia, who had a sharp voice, bowed down and knelt on the side of the road to let Hang Rui pass first.
"Father-in-law Xia doesn't need to be polite, get up. Hang Rui didn't care, and said casually and passed in front of Father-in-law Xia, who was kneeling on the ground, and just one step passed. A slight sound of wind suddenly sounded behind him, and Hang Rui's acupoint was suddenly stopped.
"You ......" Hang Rui was about to ask why he attacked him, but before he could speak, he was also stopped. Stood there, unable to speak, unable to move.
Just in a moment of surprise, a woman suddenly flashed out of the pavilion shaded by trees next to her, no matter the style of clothing or hairpin jewelry, she was exactly the same as Hang Rui, and even her appearance, figure, expression and bearing were completely different from Hang Rui.
"Is this my long-lost twin sister?" Hang Rui couldn't speak or move, just looked at the woman in surprise with beautiful eyes.
The woman also stopped to look at Hang Rui, as if at the end to confirm if there was anything unusual, the two looked at each other like looking in a mirror, the scene was extremely weird.
"No problem, let's get inside. Father-in-law Xia next to him couldn't see any difference between the two when he looked left and right, and when he saw that the woman was still watching, he urged in a low voice.
The woman didn't speak, but looked up and down carefully in front of and behind her, and pulled out the folds in Hang Rui's dress due to sitting for a long time on her dress, then nodded and walked towards the queen's bedroom.
"What is she going to do?" Hang Rui thought silently as she listened to the footsteps that were no different from her own.
"Your Royal Highness, it's rude. Father-in-law Xia said a word beside Hang Rui and gently tapped Hang Rui's sleeping hole.
"They...... Could it be that Mo Cong is going to be harmed?" Hang Rui thought anxiously the moment she fainted, but such a thought only flashed before she fell asleep, and then was quietly sent to the princess's bedroom where she used to live by Gonggong Xia.
On the queen's side of the palace, the queen saw that Hang Rui had just gone out and turned back, and she felt very strange in her heart, and asked Hang Rui why she suddenly came back again.
"Father and Mo Cong finally drank once, so I won't go over to disturb their Yaxing, and Mo Cong will naturally come to me when he wants to leave in a while. Hang Rui said.
"It's okay, my mother also wants to talk to you a little longer. The queen nodded.
The two continued to talk about the topic they had just disconnected, chatting about some things in the palace and some things in Montenegro, and they could pick up everything they had said before.
At this time, the real Hang Rui was in a stupor, a large number of eunuchs and palace maids beside him stared without blinking, and Gonggong Xia took a group of top guards around the bed, and on the periphery was Yulinwei with a crossbow, from the hall where the bed was located to the dormitory a mile away.
"We suffered a loss last time, and this time we must be in good spirits, and we must not let the thieves steal the princess again. Father-in-law Xia whispered in a thin voice, his eyes always staring at Hang Rui in the bed, and he didn't move away for half a minute. He was sitting in the courtyard last time, but he was still confused and let people steal Hang Rui, this time he learned a lesson and sat directly by the bedside, he didn't believe that someone could steal Hang Rui in this way.
Xia Gonggong's martial arts are unfathomable, it is said that the eunuchs in the palace are actually nameless guards, and his kung fu is also the first in the martial arts, and the head of the main sect of the martial arts alliance can't please him, but he has lived in the deep palace for a long time and does not walk in the martial arts, so the name on the rivers and lakes is not as loud as Luo Feiyu and other martial arts masters, but the really senior martial arts people know that there is a very difficult character to mess with in the Ruiguo Palace, and no matter what kind of thieves and thieves dare not come to the deep palace to make trouble. Last time, Hang Rui disappeared in the guards where Grandpa Xia was sitting, although Hang Xiao did not blame afterwards, but Grandpa Xia himself felt that it was a great shame, this time he could not repeat the mistakes of the past no matter what, and he must strictly guard against Hang Rui.
When it was strictly guarded here, over there in the imperial study, Hang Xiao Lei Leopard Mo Cong drank and chatted and unconsciously swept a few jars of wine, Hang Xiao saw that the words were almost drunk and the wine was almost drunk, so he asked Mo Cong to go back to the princess's mansion as soon as possible and go to death as soon as possible.
"I'll go with him. Lei Leopard staggered to his feet and said.
"Mo Cong is going to the princess's mansion with Rui'er, you go with you to join in the fun, I don't think you can ride a horse like this, it's better to rest in the palace." Hang Xiao frowned and said.
The three of them came out of the imperial study while talking, and the Feng Yuan outside had been waiting for a long time, Hang Xiao asked a few eunuchs and palace maids to go to the queen's bedroom to take Hang Rui over and go to the Feng Yuan with Mo Cong, and a team of Yulin guards escorted Feng Yuan out of the palace and headed towards the princess's mansion.
"It has to be successful. Hang Xiao looked at the departing Feng Yuan and thought silently. (To be continued......)