Chapter 372 I can understand this step by step
Vice General Wang slumped to the ground with a look of despair on his face. "Yes...I changed it. I've been a bit short on money lately, so I secretly changed the compensation the Emperor gave to Beining."
Shen Cong breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Vice General Wang admit it: "Did you only change these two boxes? Or are there others?"
Seeing Vice General Wang hesitating, Jin Congcong waved his hand and said, "Stop pretending. Since there are already omissions, we now require all the boxes to be unpacked and inspected. I believe you won't refuse this time."
Shen Cong glanced at Deputy General Wang. Since someone had already taken the blame, then...
"Someone, open all the boxes and inspect them as Dr. Jin said."
Deputy General Wang watched the guards busying themselves without saying a word, secretly calculating how much property he had to pay the compensation. He only hoped that the emperor would have a little conscience and not be too bad, otherwise he would not be able to fill the hole even if he lost everything.
The little girl couldn't sit still, so she followed Jin Congcong and the guards to check. She walked around and looked at the things in the box with a look of disgust in her eyes.
"What nonsense! Are you in Beining really that poor? Are you really that poor?"
"Tsk tsk, look at all the junk in this box! This vase would be too much of a nuisance in ordinary people's homes in our Great Zhou."
"Just this calligraphy...it's not even as good as Ben Bu Bu, and you have the nerve to put it here. Is this the only type of bad calligraphy you Beining calligraphers can do?"
"Look at this painting again. The ones I drew when I was two years old were much better than this. Don't you have any civil officials in Beining? Are they all of this level?"
"And these, what the hell are these? The servants in our house wear clothes made of better material than this."
"Hey, are these war horses? Did you guys from Beining send them to our Great Zhou to live out their days?"
"What nonsense! How dare you Beining send me these things? I don't think you Beining have any intention of letting you go back."
"Well, that's right. You're not my biological child anyway, so why would I spend so much money in exchange for you? I understand. I understand."
Guo Shuangwen's face turned grim. Even if she was dumb, she could see what was going on. If a deputy general said he wanted to exchange one or two boxes, she would believe him. If he wanted to exchange half of them, she could turn a blind eye. But these war horses... war horses could only be moved with the order of her father, so...
It was true that his father wanted her to go back, but it was also true that he didn't want to give her compensation.
Guo Shuangwen was furious but didn't dare to tell the truth. She could only kick the deputy general and said, "I don't care. Since you have exchanged these things, you must immediately take out the real compensation, otherwise I will make you look bad."
The deputy general's heart died when he saw the compensation in the box. If it was just one or two boxes, he could still gather the money with the efforts of his entire clan, but now most of them were junk, and he would not be able to collect them even if he died.
"It's all been spent and can't be recovered. Princess, please execute me, but I was the only one who did all this. Please spare my family and let them return home."
Guo Shuangwen just wanted to kill the person and put an end to it, but at this time the little girl spoke.
"What nonsense! You don't think that if you kill him, our Great Zhou will be able to swallow this humiliation, right? Don't dream on."
The little girl said this and waved her chubby little hand, "Come here, move all this silver and the junk with us back to the Beining Palace. We're going to collect the debt!"
"The old emperor wants to shirk his responsibilities. Let him dream on."
"If you still have any other things to do, take them back with me to Beining. If the old emperor of Beining doesn't want to give us the promised compensation and wants to default on it, I will hang you on the wall of your Beining Imperial City and let all the people of Beining see that your old emperor didn't even want his own princess for a little money."
After the little girl finished speaking, she looked at the guards who had come to escort the person and instructed them, "From now on, don't be too polite to her. When she came here, she was a princess of another country, but she is not anymore. Now she is at best a captive, and of course, she may soon become a dead person."
Watching Guo Shuangwen struggling to be taken away, Guo Lu, who was standing next to Buruo, frowned and said, "Princess, I'm afraid this wasn't done by the deputy general. From what I know about Emperor Beining, I'm afraid he doesn't want to give it at all, or he's just trying to fool people with these rubbish."
"Furthermore... the Beining royal family is incompetent and extravagant. With all the compensation they lost previously and this much now, I'm afraid they really can't come up with any extra money."
Bu Ruo smiled and patted her hand: "It doesn't matter. The national treasury doesn't have it, but the old emperor's private treasury must have it. If the private treasury is not enough, the royal relatives can definitely make up for it."
"But they're using these junks to fool this princess... then some of these things will cost double."
For example, war horses.
Guo Lu looked at Buruo in shock. This master was exactly what she wanted. She was going to cheat the entire Beining royal family out of all their money. It was so satisfying just thinking about it.
Xiao Yulan looked at his wife's calculating expression with eyes full of doting, and then looked at his daughter's shining eyes... Well, she really looks like her mother.
After finishing the work here, everyone returned to the inn.
"That Ruo'er... I didn't know how to deal with it just now. Before I could ask anyone about it, you had already handled it. This..."
Bu Ruo picked up her daughter and said, "I originally wanted you to go and have the fight. I asked Bu Bu to go with me because I knew you couldn't handle it at all. Besides, all of Bu Bu's decisions were correct and she did a great job."
"Tomorrow we are leaving for Beining. Beining is different from the Great Zhou. They have already popularized witchcraft among the people, so everyone must be careful along the way and remember not to go out alone."
Guo Lu was still a little worried. "Princess, I received a letter from my uncle this morning saying that the people of Beining are acting strangely, especially those in the imperial city... They seem to be bewitched and have a strong veneration for witchcraft. This has never happened in Beining before. I'm afraid this trip will be dangerous."
Bu Ruo chuckled: "It is rare for ordinary people to be able to practice, and the same goes for witchcraft."
"I've had someone bring me a copy of the witchcraft techniques and secret manuals circulating among the people. Although this witchcraft has been simplified, it's still considered a form of evil magic. Short-term practice can strengthen the body, but if it continues for a long time..."
"What will happen?"
Bu Ruo looked at Guo Lu with a rare serious expression and said, "If you practice witchcraft for a long time, you will become obsessed and lose your self. In the end, you will only obey the orders of the controller and become a puppet."
Guo Lu's eyes were filled with shock. "What on earth are they planning to do? Now, the people of Beining are all practicing witchcraft. Wouldn't Beining become a purgatory in the future? What on earth is the Emperor of Beining doing?"
Xiao Yulan looked towards Beining with a heavy expression, "It's true that the Emperor of Beining agreed to this, but it also seems to be the work of someone from another dimension. We have to be careful this time."
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