It was almost noon, the reward ceremony was officially completed, and Hang Xiao led the civil and military ministers to the Ruihua Hall to enjoy the celebration banquet. There are more than a dozen tables neatly placed in the Ruihua Palace, and everyone sits in order of rank, Hang Xiao and Chen Ruoping, Zhao Rong, Yan Tao, Guo Congjun, He Ming, Lei Bao, and Mo Cong sat at a table, and they talked and laughed as soon as they sat down.

The three giants of the Military Aircraft Department, Mo Cong saw it for the first time, and Zhao Rong had a dead face, as if Mo Cong owed him money and didn't pay it back. Yan Tao is familiar with himself, but in front of everyone, Mo Cong can't say too many words of thanks or inquiries to him, just a few words of face. In addition, Congjun was very serious, and he didn't smile at all, and Mo Cong vaguely felt that he was a little hostile to him, and he didn't know why.

A table of people talking, the palace maids sent in dishes like water, and the imperial wine was also opened, and the aroma in the Ruihua Hall was full of fragrance.

"Lei Leopard, have you finished drinking the ten jars of imperial wine, and after drinking, you will take a few more jars away. Hang Xiao saw that Lei Leopard was in a hurry to pour wine, and asked with a smile.

"Almost, ten jars of imperial wine, Lord Chen, Lord He, and Xu Hu took one or two jars each, I kept a few jars for myself, and now there are half altars, and I am worried. Lei Leopard smiled and smelled the wine.

"Mo Cong, I don't know if you like to drink or not, but when your mansion was first renovated, I thought that you might be able to do the same, so I asked them to build a wine cellar with all kinds of fine wines hidden in it, and you can enjoy it slowly when you go back. Hang Xiao picked up the wine jar and poured a bowl of wine for Mo Cong, which was flat and full of water without spilling, showing extremely high skill.

"Thank you, Your Majesty. Mo Cong held the wine bowl with both hands, neither humble nor arrogant.

Several people were talking, a wisp of incense came from far and near, Hang Rui stood behind Hang Xiao, looking at Chen Ruoping nervously and shyly.

"Why don't you dine with your queen mother, what are you doing in front of you?" Hang Xiaotou said without looking back.

"Father, I don't want to dine with my mother, I think... I want to dine with you here. In front of Chen Ruoping, Hang Rui's voice trembled.

Hearing the title of his father and queen mother, Mo Cong's heart moved, and he wondered if Murong Mingyue was also having dinner with her father and queen mother at this time.

"Okay, then you just sit here. Hang Xiao ordered the eunuch to add a chair to his right and let Hang Rui sit. As soon as this move came out, everyone was surprised, and they all looked at Mo Cong with disbelief. Hang Xiao was originally next to Chen Ruoping on the left and Mo Cong on the right, and many of us also knew that Hang Rui intended Chen Ruoping, but Hang Xiao arranged the position like this, this subtle move is meaningful.

"Father, I want to sit here. Hang Rui's face was flushed, and she carried a chair and sat next to Chen Ruoping. Hang Xiao saw that she insisted on doing so, so he would no longer stop it, so as not to be too obsessed with the public.

The seat has been set, everyone has a seat, Hang Xiao is a person who is very good at making an atmosphere, although he is a son of heaven, everyone does not feel cramped or awkward when sitting with him, and the frequency of pushing glasses and changing lamps is higher than that of other wine tables. Mo Cong's demeanor was calm and calm, and he didn't say much, just focused on listening to Hang Xiao and Yan Tao, two well-informed people, talking about various things in Ruiguo. He glanced at it occasionally, and saw that Chen Ruoping was suffering as well as Hang Rui was not ignoring it, and he was deeply sympathetic in his heart. Feeling Mo Cong's gaze, Chen Ruoping glanced at him and smiled bitterly.

After eating the celebration banquet, Hang Xiao ordered several powerful eunuchs to send Mo Cong back to the mansion, and heard that it was not far from his mansion, Chen Ruoping said that he wanted to go all the way to see it, on the one hand, he really wanted to see it, and on the other hand, it was also to get rid of Hang Rui's entanglement. The two got up and talked, Hang Rui noticed Mo Cong, and felt that it seemed to be the very fierce person just now, but listening carefully to the words and behavior, Hang Rui felt that this person didn't seem to be very fierce, and the whole person's temperament was handsome and smart, and when he smiled, he was like an indescribable comfort in the breeze, and when he frowned, his heart tightened. Hang Rui looked a little stunned, Chen Ruoping said goodbye to her before she suddenly came back to her senses, and quickly withdrew her gaze and looked at Chen Ruoping nervously.

Coming out of the palace and arriving at his deputy commander's mansion, Mo Cong sent a few eunuchs back and made several eunuchs look at each other. It was a great joy for them to send Mo Cong to the house, I thought that Mo Cong would be more or less meaningful, but I didn't expect Mo Cong to mean anything at all, and when they arrived at the place, they politely let them go back. Fortunately, Chen Ruoping was used to this kind of thing, so he quickly asked the housekeeper of the Mo Mansion to thank a few fathers-in-law with the money, and the eunuchs went back happily.

"I really don't understand these etiquettes and politeness, but I'm glad you're here. Looking at the backs of several eunuchs, Mo Cong shook his head and smiled, turned around and walked with Chen Ruoping into the Mo Mansion that had been built with a huge amount of money.

The housekeeper of Mo's house is surnamed Mo, and he is a forty-year-old uncle who looks loyal and simple, and he doesn't know if he is the real surname Mo or the surname of the master. Hearing him introduce himself, Mo Cong smiled, "Steward Mo, our surname really can't be used in front of the housekeeper, otherwise every time I call you, it seems to mean that you don't want to be a housekeeper." ”

"What the young master said is, just call me Lao Mo from now on. Seeing that the master used such a dismount as soon as he arrived, Steward Mo was nervous for a while, and led the way with low eyebrows.

Mofu is a large mansion covering an area of 60 acres facing south in the north, there is a main courtyard, two side courtyards and a backyard, the main courtyard is the place where the master lives, three in and three out of a total of 36 houses, the side yards on both sides each bring six sets of cross-courtyards, some are for the next person to live, some are ready to live with guests or concubines, the backyard is a garden-style building, the pavilions and pavilions inside, the green tree swing, the rockery and the living water, the fish pond flowers, everywhere is refreshing and pleasant.

Mo Cong watched it casually and thought it was not bad, and Chen Ruoping was also full of praise. Coming out of the backyard, Steward Mo had already gathered all his subordinates to welcome the master home, Mo Cong looked at it in a flash, and was a little dumbfounded. These subordinates have a total of twelve male servants and twenty-four maid rings, needless to say the men, Mo Cong is not interested, but the twenty-four maid rings are all in excellent shape, and they are all fresh and dizzy, which is definitely at the level of a young lady in other houses, but they all came here to be a maid ring for some reason.

Chen Ruoping looked at those maid rings and looked at Mo Cong, his expression was very strange. Mo Cong couldn't stand her gaze, so he hurriedly lectured a group of subordinates for a while, telling them what they should do, and no one should disturb them without their own instructions.

dismissed the subordinates, Steward Mo opened the treasury in the house, took another account book, and asked Mo Cong to check the things in the house. Mo Cong took a cursory look, gold, silver, pearl agate, sets of hairpin ring jewelry, all kinds of silk satin, and all kinds of things that he had never seen before. Mo Cong looked at it like a fight, said that he knew, collected the accounts, and entered the main room with Chen Ruoping.

"Brother Chen, what does the emperor mean by this, why do you suddenly have so many things?" Mo Cong casually put the accounts on the table and looked at Chen Ruoping.

"How do I know, I'm not the emperor. Chen Ruoping smiled.

"By the way, today's Zhao Rong, I've never seen him, how does he seem to... I owe him a lot of money and don't pay it back, and I keep a dead face?" Mo Cong asked.

"He has always been incompatible with the Rui [***] world, and he feels that we people just wandered around the battlefield and came back to receive so many rewards, envy, jealousy and hatred. Chen Ruoping smiled, "Especially since your reward this time is so much more than originally planned, every sum of money he feels like he should have given him the silver but gave it, of course, he feels that you owe him." ”

"Hmph, it's really a neurosis, I also said that Xu Hu Lei Bao was full of disdain when he mentioned it. Mo Cong snorted coldly, "I heard that the rebellion of the Central Army seems to be related to him, isn't that so?"

"It's a bit related, if it weren't for Zhao Rong's endless arrears of military salaries, I'm afraid there wouldn't be so many people making trouble at that time. Chen Ruoping said.

"Then since he is not enough to succeed and more than to lose, why does the emperor still use Zhao Rong now?" Mo Cong was puzzled.

"This ...... The heart of the emperor, who can guess it?" Chen Ruoping smiled bitterly.

"And that situation in the army, what's the matter with him, how do I think he is also very hostile to me?" Mo Cong asked again.

"He's a member of the Green Pine Sect. Chen Ruoping was concise and to the point.

"I see. Mo Cong suddenly realized, "Then you carried out the whipping in public at that time, didn't he even hate you? Since you know that the Qingsong Sect has such a backer, why do you have to wade into this troubled water?"

"I just don't want you to take on this alone, I want to share a little bit for you. Chen Ruoping said.

"It turns out that I am far away on the battlefield, and I have already made so many enemies in the capital. Mo Cong shook his head and smiled, feeling that the so-called officialdom was really surging, if Chen Ruoping hadn't said this, he wouldn't have known what was going on. "Brother Chen, I thought you were tired enough to fight, but it turned out that you still have to fight with these people, it's really hard for you. ”

In the face of Mo Cong's sudden concern, Chen Ruoping was a little surprised and a little moved, she has turned the tide many times over the years, but she still has to face the distrust from Hang Xiao, as well as all kinds of open guns and hidden arrows from the ministers of the DPRK and China, it is indeed very tiring and hard, but her tired mood can only be hidden in the bottom of her heart, and she still has to maintain a calm and calm appearance. For so many years, except for the emperor who would half-truthfully say that Chen Ruoping was hard, everyone else felt that Chen Ruoping's high power and infinite scenery would be unlimited, where would it be hard, and Zhao Rong and others even felt that Rui [***] Shi sold his life Chen Ruoping to receive the reward, and he was still very angry. Now Mo Cong said her hard work over the years so clearly that Chen Ruoping couldn't stop crying.

"Brother Chen, I said this to make you don't pretend to have so many things in your heart, and don't affect your state of mind for those ghosts, as long as you don't move like a mountain, those jumping clowns can't affect you even if they jump. Mo Cong saw that Chen Ruoping, who had always been strong, suddenly burst into tears, so he calmed her mind with the beginner dragon heart meditation that was self-taught.

"Mo Cong, I think... Lend your shoulder to lean on. Chen Ruoping lay on Mo Cong's shoulder with rain, sobbing softly.

Seeing that he was pretending to be a Chengren stake again, Mo Cong was helpless and speechless. "Brother Chen, people from outside may come over at any time, so... Not so good. Don't cry, let's go to the restaurant to see my eldest brother and three sisters, and sit and chat with friends, and you will be in a good mood. Mo Cong gently patted her on the back of the shoulder and told her not to do this.

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