"Are you Zheng Jun?" The old eunuch held up the lantern and looked Chen Xiaomu up and down suspiciously. Chen Xiaomu was still wearing the Chu army armor he changed into outside Xinhe County a few days ago when he was preparing to enter the city with Ximen Ruoen!
The old eunuch put down the lantern and shook his head, "Master Jun, this old slave has been in the palace of Zheng for many years, and he still knows Zheng Jun's armor. I wonder why the military master claimed to be Zheng Jun to confuse the old slave?"
When Chen Xiaomu heard this, he looked down at the armor he was wearing and couldn't help but laugh. No wonder the old eunuch didn't believe him. He was wearing a Chu army armor, but he said he was Zheng Jun. He turned to look at the dozen guards following him. , asked, "Which of you is from Zheng Jun?"
The dozen or so guards behind him couldn't help but look at each other, and none of them dared to step forward, because none of them were Chen Xiaomu's guards, they were all Zhang Yun's people. Only then did Chen Xiaomu remember that he had never had any guards at all, and there was no such thing. People assign escorts to themselves, and Li Gui's reconnaissance company usually follows him. Whenever there is a reconnaissance mission, they are all sent out, and he immediately becomes a polished commander.
Chen Xiaomu had no choice but to change the way he asked, "Which of you knows that bastard Li Gui from the reconnaissance company? Go and find him for me. This bastard didn't care about the safety of the old leader at all. He didn't know where he died after he entered the city." , let’s see if I won’t masturbate this little bastard later.” Chen Xiaomu scolded him as he said it, making Ximen Ruoen, who was still sobbing just now, burst into laughter.
"Forget it, let me go, they may not know Li Gui," Zhang Yun saw that the guards behind him didn't answer, so he volunteered to stand up.
Before Zhang Yun could leave, there was a burst of hurried footsteps at the door of the Political Palace, and then Li Gui's voice came in, "Mr. Chen, are you in there?"
Chen Xiaomu smiled, really talking about Cao Cao. When Cao Cao arrived, he came back and said, "I'm here, you come in!"
Hearing Chen Xiaomu's voice coming from the palace, Li Gui, who was at the entrance of the Political Palace, quickly ran in with seven or eight scouts and stood in front of Chen Xiaomu.
Chen Xiaomu pointed to the old eunuch holding the lantern and said to Li Gui: "You used to be in the Princess Guards of Zheng State. You must be familiar with the people and things in the palace. Do you know this father-in-law?"
Hearing this, Li Gui walked up to the old eunuch and looked him up and down for a long time before turning to Chen Xiaomu and said: "Mr. Chen, we used to be just the Imperial Guards who were responsible for standing guard outside the palace. The only person in the palace who really dealt with these people was the Palace Chief with a sword. Those who serve as bodyguards, because they frequently move around the palace to protect the emperor.”
Chen Xiaomu was a little disappointed. He bowed his hands to the old eunuch and was about to lead the team to leave. At this time, the old eunuch standing on the steps suddenly asked Li Gui, "Are you that boy from Mr. Li's family?"
The old eunuch's words made everyone stunned. Everyone looked at Li Gui in surprise, wanting to see how he would react. Li Gui was also embarrassed. He quickly turned around and gave the old eunuch a fist in his arms, "Dare I ask, do you know this father-in-law?" Father?"
The old eunuch nodded, "Master Li and I not only know each other, but are also good friends. At first, he was afraid that you would not have enough to eat at your aunt's house, so he asked me to ask someone to get you into the Royal Forest Army to eat food and serve as a soldier. Later, one time While you were standing guard outside the palace, he and I happened to be sent by the deacon to purchase some items outside the palace, and he pointed you out to me from a distance!"
"Is your father okay now?" Li Gui asked anxiously.
The old eunuch glanced at Li Gui, hesitated, and said, "When did you surrender to the Chu army?"
"Surrender to the Chu army?" Li Gui was startled and asked the old eunuch, "When did I surrender to the Chu army?"
The old eunuch said nothing, holding a lantern and pouting behind Li Gui.
Li Gui turned around and looked behind him before he suddenly understood. He smiled and explained to the old eunuch, "Old man, these are the soldiers from Hubei of the Chu State. They are now joining us to resist the invasion of the Chu people!"
The old eunuch had never heard of soldiers from the Chu Kingdom and Hubei, and he couldn't understand what was going on. He still had a suspicious look on his face. Li Gui couldn't explain it for a while, and in a hurry, he knelt down on the ground. , raised his hands and swore to the sky, "Old man, if I, Li Gui, surrender to the people of Chu, I will be struck by five thunders from heaven, and my whole family will not be allowed to...!"
When the old eunuch saw Li Gui's posture, he hurriedly interrupted Li Gui's oath and waved his hands repeatedly: "Boy, you don't have to say anything anymore. I believe you. Get up quickly. I have something urgent to ask of you."
"What's the matter? Old man, I haven't finished swearing this oath yet!" Li Gui asked in surprise.
"Queen Lu, do you know?" the old eunuch asked anxiously.
Li Gui nodded and glanced at Chen Xiaomu. Chen Xiaomu winked at him and motioned for him to let the old eunuch continue.
"Empress Lu is critically ill now, and we don't dare to go out to find sir to treat her and get medicine, because there are Chu troops everywhere outside. It would be terrible if they find out. I just heard you call this military master sir, can you? Let him look after Queen Lu's illness?"
"Where is Queen Lu now?" Chen Xiaomu asked first before Li Gui could speak.
The old eunuch looked behind Chen Xiaomu. Including the seven or eight people brought by Li Gui, a total of more than 20 people, some wearing Chu army armor and some wearing Zheng army armor, began to hesitate again.
"Hey, old man, stop being in a daze and take us to see Queen Lu!" Chen Xiaomu stamped his feet anxiously. That was Su Xingran's mother, his mother-in-law, and he had to like her.
The old eunuch gritted his teeth and waved to Chen Xiaomu, "Except this gentleman come with me, the rest of you will wait where you are, okay?"
Chen Xiaomu followed the old eunuch, twisting and turning around countless buildings in the palace. In the darkness, the outlines of these buildings were like squatting giant beasts. They had just been occupied by the Chu army for two months. It showed an aura of decadence. It was quiet in the dark night, and only the rapid footsteps and breathing of two people could be heard.
The old eunuch led Chen Xiaomu to finally stop in front of a fire well in the palace that was specially used to put out fires. He looked around as a habit, and then slowly removed the iron cover at the well head. He held up a lantern and looked into the well. A thick rope full of knots hung from the wellhead to the water below. The old eunuch coughed twice at the wellhead, and there was an immediate reaction in the well. The brick wall near the water surface was like a door. They were also beaten open.
The old eunuch held the lantern pole in his mouth, pulled up the rope with both hands, stepped on a row of inconspicuous dimples on the well wall, and began to climb down the well. He was probably used to climbing. The old eunuch was very skilled. Flexible, he climbed to the door of the well in the blink of an eye, then leaned in slightly, and got in. After a while, the old eunuch stuck his head out of the hole again and waved to Chen Xiaomu who was standing at the mouth of the well.
Chen Xiaomu picked up the rope at the wellhead, gritted his teeth, and followed the example of the old eunuch, using his feet to push on the small holes on the well wall and sliding down. When he was near the water at the bottom of the well, he stepped on it and slipped. If the old eunuch hadn't held him up at the entrance of the cave, he would have almost fallen into the water below. The entrance to the cave was short and narrow, and could only accommodate one person bending through.
Chen Xiaomu bent down and followed the old eunuch forward for three or four meters. He arrived at a room of about ten square meters. The top of the room was slightly higher than the outside. He could barely stand up. Chen Xiaomu stood at the door and looked at it. Looking at the layout of the room, there is not even a table, let alone a bed. There is a long floor with straw against the wall, and some quilts are piled on it. There are more than ten quilts placed against the wall opposite the straw bunk. Bowl, and a large bag that seemed to contain grain. Because the room was relatively humid, the outside of the bag was covered with a layer of long green mold.
Chen Xiaomu turned back to look at the people in the room. Except for himself and the old eunuch, they were all women. Among them were three beautiful-looking women with dull faces, wearing palace maid costumes that were almost stripped of color. They were lying on the straw bed. There was a middle-aged sick woman, her face was flushed, and she kept coughing softly. Although the clothes on her body were ragged and unseemly, they could not hide the noble temperament she had cultivated over the years. Sitting next to the noble lady was a man who was also in tattered clothes. Because the woman lowered her head, Chen Xiaomu couldn't see clearly what she looked like.
The middle-aged sick woman raised her eyes and saw Chen Xiaomu sizing her up. She hurriedly got up from the thatched bed and said weakly, "Sir, please take the trouble to climb down to see the doctor for the Ai family!"
Chen Xiaomu hurriedly bowed down and said to her, "Are you the Queen of Zheng?"
The middle-aged sick woman said bitterly: "Sir, what kind of Queen is there now? I am just a subjugated woman who is trying to survive!"
Chen Xiaomu suddenly knelt down in front of Queen Lu's thatched bunk. Although he usually didn't bother to do this, facing Su Xingran's mother, his mother-in-law, who was his real elder, he felt that it was understandable. At that moment, he rushed to the straw bunk. After Queen Lu kowtowed, she said, "Mother, my son and I are late, so you have to suffer!"
Queen Lu, who was lying on the thatched bunk, was shocked when she heard this, "What did you just call me?" Even the woman sitting next to Queen Lu raised her head and looked at Chen Xiaomu in shock. This woman looked almost exactly like Su Xingran. Chen Xiaomu I felt even more certain that I had called the wrong person.
At this time, the old eunuch who brought him in hurriedly walked to him and said, "You little gentleman, I brought you in to ask you to treat the Queen. You can't recognize people randomly!"
Chen Xiaomu shook his head and said: "I didn't identify anyone randomly, because I am Xingran's husband-in-law, so I call the Queen the Queen Mother!"
"What? Xingran and the others are still alive?" Empress Lu seemed to be even more surprised this time than before, and at the same time there was unconcealable surprise in her eyes.
"Are you okay, eldest sister and father?" The beautiful girl sitting in front of Queen Lu's shop couldn't help but jump up!
Chen Xiaomu nodded, "When I came out, they were all in Tianquan County. I don't know if they have come out now."
"Then how did you enter the city?" Queen Lu looked at Chen Xiaomu's Chu army armor and became a little suspicious.
"Of course they defeated the Chu army in the city and broke in!" Chen Xiaomu said proudly.
After hearing this, Queen Lu became even more confused. Hundreds of thousands of Chu troops in the new capital city, and even the more than 100,000 defenders of the Zheng Kingdom were wiped out by them. How could you easily break in? Could it be that your Chen State sent more troops, but that's it, how big the movement of the siege was, and you were able to capture this huge city of Xinjing without being noticed! You won’t believe it even if you’re a liar!
Chen Xiaomu saw that Queen Lu did not believe him more and more, and even the face of the old eunuch who led him in became gloomy. He had no choice but to bite the bullet and spend a long time, starting from when Su Xingran went to Chen Guo to move reinforcements, ( Of course, he ignored the fact that he pretended to be Chen Hong, the sixth prince of the Chen Kingdom, and married Su Xingran) until he had just led troops to ambush the Chu army's defenders in Xinjing City, and was tricked by him into opening the city gate and entering the city. When he came to Empress Lu, he explained it in detail. In order to gain Empress Lu's trust, he also deliberately pretended to let slip that Su Xingran had a mole on his thigh.
After speaking eloquently for a while, it turned out to be more exciting than what he said in a storyteller. Chen Xiaomu admired his excellent eloquence from the bottom of his heart. Especially when he saw Su Xingran's sister, Su Xingchen's eyes were bright and she was looking at him with all her concentration. He felt even more proud. He got carried away, and the more he talked, the more enthusiastic he became, and the more he talked, the more legendary he became!
Queen Lu and everyone in the room were stunned by Chen Xiaomu's legendary experience!
After being stunned for a long time, Empress Lu finally recovered from the shock, took Chen Xiaomu's hand, and said happily, "Thanks to having you as our son-in-law, our country of Zheng has been able to recover now!" Then she sat next to her. Su Xingchen's hand, "Xingchen has suffered a lot hiding in this darkroom with me for more than two months, or let Xingchen be your military wife from now on!"
"What?" Chen Xiaomu thought that he heard wrongly. This queen's mother-in-law was so interesting that she actually wanted to marry her two daughters, two princesses of the Zheng Kingdom, to herself.
