Not to mention that Ximen Ruoen was surprised, Chen Xiaomu himself felt incredible. After coming to this world, ordinary women didn't meet many, but they met princesses who all had a close relationship with themselves! In my last life, I always heard about young lady killers, idols of middle-aged and elderly women. Could it be that I traveled through time and became a princess killer in this world?
Chen Xiaomu rubbed Ximen Ruoen's little head in his arms and laughed softly: "If this fate comes, no mountain can stop it."
Simon Ruoen rolled his eyes at him, "You're not the emperor, why do you have so many wives? Even the one you exchanged marriage certificates with, there are three of them!" Ximen Ruoen said so that he felt embarrassed and ashamed. It's piping hot.
"Didn't you say that now that there are more women than men, men can take any wives they want?" Chen Xiaomu pretended to be surprised.
"Bah," Ximen Ruoen blushed and spat at him softly, "Nonsense, I never said that men can marry wives at will. Besides, in this war-torn world, you have married so many wives, can you protect them? ?”
Chen Xiaomu patted his chest, "As long as I'm here, no one can touch my woman!"
Seeing these two people hugging each other and talking about each other, the old eunuch Wang Eunuch secretly complained in his heart. This Fu Ma Ye was so unscrupulous. He was so intimate with this woman in front of him, so he was not afraid of telling the Queen and the Queen. Princess, but she really didn’t know what to say, so she could only cough twice, "I said, Mr. Ma, it’s getting late now, do you think...?"
"Oh," Chen Xiaomu suddenly woke up after being called by the prince. He couldn't help cursing himself in his heart. He was a little forgetful and actually regarded the old eunuch standing next to him as a transparent person.
He immediately smiled and said: "Old man, you see, I have been fighting and attacking the city these past two days. I am so busy that I am dizzy. Please take care of some things. It is indeed getting late now. The queen has probably rested long ago. I won’t go over and disturb you. Please tell the Queen and Princess that I will come to pay her respects in the morning." Then he took out a silver ingot of fifty taels from his arms and stuffed it into the hands of the prince. .
Although Wang Gonggong is an old eunuch, he is usually loyal and honest in the palace, and he does not understand and cannot tolerate flattery, so his rank is not high. When the Chu army attacked Xinjing this time, everyone thought that regardless of the strength of the defending city, and the There is no problem in maintaining the city walls of Xinjing City and the grain and grass reserves for a year and a half, but who knows that the north gate of Xinjing City was quietly opened by a traitor hidden in the Zheng Army of the Chu State in the middle of the night, leading the Chu Army into the city. Although Xinjing City's The defenders of the inner city resisted desperately, but unfortunately the inner city wall was nearly three meters shorter than the outer city wall, and the two walls were relatively close to each other. The Zheng army on the inner city wall was shot with arrows by the Chu army who climbed up the outer city wall. The trebuchet hit him so hard that he couldn't hold his head up. In the end, he couldn't hold on any longer. The commander of the imperial army, Lu Jun, mobilized tens of thousands of imperial troops to fight to the death, protecting the emperor Su Chengxuan, the prince Su Muyang, the princess Su Xingyu and some of them. The ministers broke out from the main gate of the new capital city. Due to their haste, they left behind Lu Jun's sister Queen Lu and the second princess Su Xingchen who were waiting for news in the harem. Fortunately, several old eunuchs in the palace were loyal and stayed. Before the Chu army entered the palace, they hid them in a fireproof cave in the fireproof well and thus escaped disaster.
Because his rank is too low, Wang Gonggong has been in the palace for so many years. Almost no one has spoken to him properly. He usually either scolds or scolds him. Even the young eunuch who just entered the palace secretly looks down on him. He respects him like Chen Xiaomu does today. Instead of calling him father-in-law or eunuch, he called him old man as if he were one of his elders, which made him feel particularly happy. Even when Chen Xiaomu and Ximen Ruoen forgot about it and got intimate in front of him, he couldn't get angry. Now I apologized to him and gave him money. I felt a little angry in my heart, but it disappeared immediately.
Hearing Chen Xiaomu's intention, Wang Gonggong decided that he did not plan to stay in the palace tonight, so he bowed his hands to him, turned around and left with the lantern in hand.
"Husband, where are we staying tonight? Do you want to go back to the military camp and set up a tent?" Seeing the old eunuch walking away, Ximen Ruoen asked Chen Xiaomu excitedly.
Chen Xiaomu scratched her nose with his hand, smiled and patted his chest, "What kind of tent are you going to put up? Your husband and I have a lot of money. Let's find a good inn in the city to stay overnight. You have to work hard tonight to try to give birth as soon as possible." Only one son from your country will inherit the throne in the future!"
"Are you so sure that the child I gave birth to is a son? Besides, don't I have an older brother living outside? I wonder if he is married and has children?" Simon Ruoen suddenly stood down and stared at Chen Xiaomu.
"Even if you have a daughter, you can still inherit the throne. Didn't the Tang Dynasty have a queen, Wu Zetian?" Chen Xiaomu said nonchalantly.
"Tang Dynasty, Empress Wu Zetian?" Ximen Ruoen looked at Chen Xiaomu with suspicion.
Grandma, she said it wrong again, and forgot that she had traveled through the interlayer of history. Chen Xiaomu cursed himself in his heart! He explained to Simon Ruon, "This is a legend from ancient times that I heard from a storyteller in a teahouse."
Simon Ruoen's little nose wrinkled up, "You should also take what I say seriously, those people can make the dead alive!"
"What can't be taken seriously? At least there will be a basis by then. I estimate that within a few months, I will be able to get Emperor Chu to vomit out the territory of E that he occupied back then. If your brother doesn't show up by then, , you must be the emperor of this country of Hubei!" Chen Xiaomu looked at Ximen Ruoen with wide eyes.
Ximen Ruoen was startled. To be honest, she had vaguely thought about this before, but she had never made it so clear before Chen Xiaomu made it clear, "Why don't you take charge? After all, you are the one who conquered this country in Hubei." Yes! Then I will be your concubine!" Ximen Ruoen said quietly.
"Haha, how is that possible!" Chen Xiaomu laughed twice, "Don't say that I am not from your E country. Even if I am from your E country, if I become the emperor with my bohemian character, I will be a romantic emperor. Why don't you do it? Emperor, it would be more appropriate for me to take a few wives with you to have a soft meal behind you."
"Pfft", Ximen Ruoen couldn't help but laugh out loud, "It's okay for you to live with me, but I have to give you an official position, right? But your contribution to the restoration of the country is too great, at least you have to be made a king. !”
Chen Xiaomu smacked his lips, "How about you give me the title of a soft rice king? But there is one thing I have to declare first, I don't like to kneel down and worship these vulgar rituals!"
"'That's not okay!" Ximen Ruoen deliberately made a serious face, "If you go to face the king, you must kneel down and worship. If you want me to be the emperor, you can't take the lead in breaking the rules left by your ancestors, right?"
Chen Xiaomu said with a smile, "That's not right. If you ask me to kneel down and worship you in the court, then if I go to bed with you at night, I won't be able to boost my male prowess. How can I reproduce our sons and grandsons like this? Why don't you ban me?" As a free and easy rice king, I have the right not to go to court!"
Simon Ruoen nodded, "This is a good idea. Then I will make you a free and easy-going king."
"Yeah," Chen Xiaomu nodded repeatedly, "When the time comes, just ask someone to give me the imperial edict of making the king a king. Otherwise, I will have to kneel down and worship you when I receive the edict in person."
Simon Ruoen gave him an angry look, "I'm almost freezing to death, let's go find the inn quickly."
The two people left the palace and walked along the east-west road in front of the palace to the area with many houses in the west. The entire new capital city was immersed in darkness. When the time passed, soldiers of the Zheng Army on horseback occasionally flew by on the road. Although the State of Zheng is a small country, its new capital city is no smaller than the capital of Qin State, Xijing!
Since they were entering the city peacefully, most residents in Xinjing City did not know that earth-shaking changes had taken place outside. The two of them passed by an inn with an angry wind lantern hanging outside, and the door in front was still ajar. Look, this inn looks quite big from the outside. The four characters "Kyoto Inn" are written on the lantern.
Chen Xiaomu glanced at Ximen Ruoen beside him, and Ximen Ruoen nodded. The two of them walked to the ajar door and knocked softly.
"Who is it? Do you want to stay?" On a small bed behind a row of wooden counters after entering the door, a thin old man yawned and sat up sleepily from the quilt on the bed, turning his head to look at the two of them. .
Chen Xiaomu smiled and said, "We want an upper room, is there any more?"
The old man suddenly regained his energy, nodded repeatedly, "Youyou" immediately lifted the quilt, stood in front of the counter, shaking, and kept looking up and down at the boy and girl standing in front of him.
"Shopkeeper, what's the price of your upper room?" The thin old man forced a smile on his face, "Sir, we also have a nice upper room. Do you want to see it?"
Chen Xiaomu shook his head, "You don't have to look at it. Can you tell me a price?"
The thin old man raised two fingers and said, "Two taels of silver per night."
When Chen Xiaomu traveled to this world, he had never interacted with civilians at all. Most of them were in the army. Compared with the five-star hotels of later generations, these two taels of silver per night were not expensive.
Just as he was about to nod in agreement, Simon Ruoen beside him knew the value of these two taels of silver in this era because he had lived among the people for many years. If he spent two taels of silver to stay in such an inn for one night, even if it was a good-quality upper room, it would definitely be a sky-high price. After winning the sky-high price, Ximen Ruoen sneered, "Tell me, shopkeeper, do you think we two have no place to go in the cold weather, so you charge such a high price?"
When the thin old man heard this, his eyelids rolled up to the sky, "What did I say, you little woman? I didn't force you to live in my shop. If you don't like twenty taels of silver, you don't have to live there." !”
Chen Xiaomu looked at Ximen Ruomu and asked, "What's going on? Does the shopkeeper want a high price?"
"Humph" Ximen Ruoen pouted, hummed in his nose, and said: "The price he wants is not just a high price, it is simply a sky-high price. The room fee for a room like this is only five hundred yuan a night at most. He That’s four times the price.
The thin old man sneered, "I'm telling you, little lady, you only know one thing but not the other, right? You can stay in other people's inns for five hundred yuan, but do you have the means to get there? The entire New Capital City My inn in Kyoto is the only one I can stay in if there are no roadblocks."
"Road? Shopkeeper, what do you think this road is?" Chen Xiaomu asked strangely.
A proud expression suddenly appeared on the face of the thin old man, which means look, I guess you two don't have any roads. Those who have roads have already settled down early. Who wants to wander around outside in such a cold weather.
Without saying anything, he reached out and took out a few road signs from the counter and put them in front of Chen Xiaomu, "Look, these road signs have the seal of the prefect of Xinjing Prefecture. You two don't have road signs to live here. If it's night, If I encounter a police officer who is doing rounds in the government, I will be jointly and severally liable, so it is only natural that I charge you a higher price!"
"Oh, is there a Chu governor in the new capital?" Chen Xiaomu was surprised.
"'Look what you said!" The thin old man rolled his eyes at Chen Xiaomu, "I'm telling you, I'm not afraid of you turning around. The magistrate Zhang Yongzhang of Xinjing City, when he attacked Xinjing City in Chu State, he was the one who immediately He is a man who has achieved great feats. If he had not asked his son to secretly open the North City Gate, it would have been harder for the Chu army to invade the new capital than to climb to heaven!"
Chen Xiaomu nodded, took out a ten-tael silver ingot and handed it to the thin old man, smiling: "Old man, to be honest, we really had no way out, and we committed something outside, so we hid in the city. Here you go, you don’t have to look for these ten taels of silver. If you encounter a policeman doing rounds this night, I hope I can cover up for both of you. I will thank you very much in the future!"
Taking the silver ingot from Chen Xiaomu's hand, the thin old man's face instantly turned into a smile. He nodded repeatedly and said, "I see that this young master of yours is also a man of extraordinary origins, and he is very good at what he does. To tell you the truth, I and this There are some relatives with Magistrate Yongzhang. If the young master is willing to spend money, I may be able to deal with it for the young master and make the big issue become a small matter.
