Chapter 261 Everyone is a wild animal in the melon field

The emperor looked at the empress coldly. Was the empress deliberately trying to embarrass him in front of all the officials today?

He wanted to say that the treasury was empty and that repairing the city wall needed long-term planning, but he ended up hearing the same voice that made him angry.

【Last year, many households were confiscated. The national treasury is now more abundant than ever before. The emperor will not use such lame excuses as the treasury being empty to reject the proposal.】

[However, if you want to repel the enemy, just repel the enemy. Anyway, according to General Xie's principle, if you can defeat them, then fight, if you can't defeat them, then run away. If the city wall is broken and you can't defend it, then don't defend it. ]

[If Chahar attacks again, at worst we can just give him Yuchengguan, and he can retreat back to Hanyuguan with General Qi. If Hanyuguan cannot be defended due to lack of military supplies and fodder, then we can continue to retreat.]

[Anyway, this Chu Kingdom doesn’t belong to the Zhang family, the Xie family, or the Qi family.]

[If there is a real change of dynasty, everyone sitting here can be a founding father! ]

emperor:"……"

Don't say anything to this dead girl who can't speak, and don't grumble in your heart!

The emperor almost gritted his teeth and called the Minister of Revenue to ask him to cooperate with the empress to plan the supplies to be sent to the border.

Before sitting down again, the Queen looked gratefully in the direction of Lu Xinran. If it weren't for this little girl, today wouldn't have been so smooth.

She helped her pass the emperor's test, and she would give them a big gift in return in the future.

After the imperial decree and the award were announced, the celebration banquet officially began.

Lu Xinran pulled Lu Xinlan, and the two sisters huddled behind Pei and others and continued to whisper.

"Was the battle so fierce before? There was nothing written in the military report. I thought you took back Yuchengguan without any effort."

Who could have imagined that this battle would result in the loss of another 30,000 to 40,000 men, with most of the 100,000 reinforcements already lost.

Lu Xinlan thought of what happened at the border before and shook his head slightly: "It's mainly because Ma Linyuan has too many thoughts and the people he brought with him don't obey the rules."

Otherwise there wouldn’t be so many surprises.

Ma Linyuan is a man of many thoughts, and his subordinates also have their own plans.

Even after his accidental death, his former subordinates still wanted to take over all the soldiers they brought with them.

If Xie Lang had not used thundering measures, Yuchengguan would be in disarray now.

Even if the city walls were not blown up, the city could still not be defended.

People around were listening to the conversation between the two sisters with their ears pricked up, and they also felt sighing when they talked about the various things at the border.

There are border wars every year. They used to be worried and concerned at first, but now they only care about one outcome.

No one has ever described in such detail what happened on the battlefield.

It was the first time for them to hear these details, and they also understood how difficult it was for a general to defend a city.

The emperor glanced at the empress in silver armor beside him and snorted coldly.

"But are you satisfied?"

The queen simply looked down indifferently. Meeting the emperor's displeased gaze, she asked in confusion, "Your Majesty, why do you say that? I have not sought any benefit for myself, so how can you be satisfied?"

emperor:"……"

How come the Queen seems like a different person after returning from her trip away from Beijing?

The excitement below was still going on, and Lu Yuanting, at the instigation of several of his friends, had already moved closer to Lu Xinran.

"Second sister, I have one more question for you..."

So, for the whole night, everyone was as happy as a civet in a melon field.

The hearts of the few family members who had transformed into big melons were all filled with bitterness.

The emperor was originally feeling a little depressed, and gradually lost himself in the big melons one after another, and became suspicious... How could he enjoy eating melons?

[That doctor Ma Yu had a recipe for male enhancement that could make a man impotent all night long. He used this recipe to help his favorite concubine give birth to two sons.]

[However, if you take too much of this kind of medicine, it will definitely harm your body. He has no reaction to it now.]

[Moreover, this medicine probably hurts the root cause. The two sons born to the concubine both have intellectual disabilities. They are over ten years old and drool every day.]

Everyone: "...?!!"

Forget it, I can’t afford this recipe!

Some people who were originally interested in using this prescription no longer dared to think about it after hearing that not only would they be powerless after using it, but the children born would also be idiots.

[Lord Liu from the Censorate, this is a Phoenix Man! ]

[Before the spring imperial examination that year, he deliberately came to the capital six months in advance in order to find out the situation of the various prefectures in the capital.]

[After a month of investigation, he finally set his sights on his wife.]

[In order to create a chance encounter, he even bribed the servants around Wu and deliberately made people think that Wu had an affair with him.]

[Back then, Wu's underwear was stolen by the Phoenix Man's servants.]

[Ms. Wu was speechless at the time, but Phoenix Man was still pretending that he didn't know what happened. He knew he was not worthy of Mrs. Wu's attitude of being willing to clarify everything for her, making Mrs. Wu and her family think that he was a noble person who could be trusted for life.]

[As a result, before getting married, he brought his parents, brothers and sisters over from the countryside.]

[After the marriage, the whole family was sucking Wu's blood, and Wu's dowry was almost snatched away by his mother.]

[If Wu's father had not been able to suppress him, Wu would have been bullied to no end by this shameless family.]

[Alas, what a pity! Why didn't Mrs. Wu understand that Qingping, who was by her side, had already given herself to Fenghuang Nan? She pretended that she was married, but in fact, the two children she gave birth to were both Fenghuang Nan's.]

Everyone: “Oh?!!!”

This is a big melon!

In the distance, crisp slapping sounds were heard.

Lu Xinran leaned over to look, but there were people swaying all around him and he couldn't see anything clearly.

She withdrew her gaze and prepared to continue eating melons. Lu Yuanting was so excited that his palms were full of sweat.

He took out the list he had prepared early in the morning from his pocket, scanned it, and then smiled instantly: "Second sister..."

As the night deepened, I didn't know how many rounds of singing and dancing had been performed.

Everyone enjoyed the melon very much, and the emperor's expression was no longer as cold and hard as before.

What that damn girl said makes some sense. If the border continues to lack supplies, and Xie Lang and Qi Yu can't hold it, and there are no generals available in the court, what will most likely await him is the destruction of his country.

The Queen wanted the young men of the Zhang family to rejoin the army, and she must have seen this point.

Forget it, considering that the Queen had traveled a long way to take back Yucheng Pass for him, he would not pursue her disobedience today.

On the way back, Lu Xinran was still immersed in the joy of eating melon.

It’s been a while since I’ve eaten so many big melons in such a concentrated manner, and they are all so sweet.

Even the system was extremely satisfied at this moment. After all, the quantity was large and the food was sufficient. They consumed half a year's worth of life in just one night.

"Host, we have a lot of health now. You can start guarding from now on."

"Can you bring the people around you into the cage?"

"Yes, we have enough health now, and we can protect three people including you."

Three people... Lu Xinran counted on his fingers, and felt that the other two were the two sons of luck...