Chengye stayed on the sidelines to practice calligraphy, and eavesdropped on his father's and queen's discussions, but he couldn't help but raised his head after hearing what his father said, "My father can't say that either."
Yun Shang couldn't help laughing when she heard the words, and turned her head to look at Chengye: "Oh? Then Chengye thinks, what should I say?"
Chengye stuck out his tongue, with a weird look: "Before I was caught in the Wu Clan, and when my father was trapped in the Wu Clan to save me, I really hated those people in the Wu Clan. But now that I think about it carefully, if it wasn’t for the Wu people who took me away and my father came to rescue me, the dark guards wouldn’t have discovered what the Wu people looked like. When we were in Yinzhou City, we couldn’t recognize those Wu people, nor Then we won’t be able to discover the monsters that the Wu people did in the rebel army.”
"If we can't find out, I'm afraid the situation will be completely different now."
Chengye blinked his eyes: "So what did the mother and queen say? What is gained is bound to be lost, and where there is a cause, there must be an effect. Because of such an experience, the current situation is here. Think about it , I was taken away at the beginning, it seems that it is not entirely a bad thing."
Yun Chang couldn't help laughing: "I'm young, but in retrospect, this principle makes sense."
Chengye stuck out his tongue, carefully glanced at Luo Qingyan's expression, and saw that there didn't seem to be any displeasure on his face, and then became more courageous: "It's a blessing in disguise."
"You even know this idiom?"
There seemed to be a flash of interest in Luo Qingyan's eyes, and he tapped his fingers on the table: "Then tell me, what does this sentence mean and what story does it come from?"
"It means..." Chengye got stuck: "It means that Sai Weng lost his horse, so it may not necessarily be a blessing. As for the story... Story..."
Chengye gritted his teeth, and turned to Yunshang for help.
Seeing his appearance, Yun Shang also found it interesting, and didn't intend to save him at all: "What's the story?"
Chengye stomped his feet: "I haven't seen it yet, I just saw this sentence occasionally and asked others what it meant."
Yun Chang laughed softly: "Okay, it's going to be dark soon, don't hurry up and practice today's handwriting, and you haven't finished writing when your father checks later, you will be finished. "
Chengye coughed lightly, lowered his head and picked up his pen to practice calligraphy obediently.
Only then did Yun Shang look at Luo again and said softly, "When are you going to find the city guard?"
Luo Qingyan hooked the corner of his mouth, but his eyes seemed to be darkened: "Of course, the sooner the better."
The sooner the better.
Yun Chang looked up at the sky outside, the best time was naturally not during the day, it was tonight.
As Yun Shang expected, after waiting for Chengye to fall asleep at night, Yun Shang and Luo Qingyan started together and went straight to Chengshou Mansion.
The secret guard had already been lurking in the city guard's mansion for a while, and when he saw Yunshang and Luo Qingyan coming, he hurriedly whispered: "The name of the city guard in Qinxi City is Hou Honglin, and there are one wife, four concubines, and seven children in the mansion. Today At night, he rested in Pei Ning's room."
Yun Shang and Luo Qingyan were not very interested in whose room he was resting in, so they went straight to the yard where he was resting.
Hou Honglin should have fallen asleep by then, the lights in the house had already been turned off, and there were no servants walking around in the courtyard, only two servant girls were on duty outside the door of the house.
The dark guard stepped forward silently, and with a wave of his hand, the two maidservants fell down limply.
Then, Yunshang and Luo Qingyan swaggered into the house with the hidden guards.
Hou Honglin should also have some martial arts skills. After they entered the room, there was a loud shout in the room: "Who?"
Yun Shang directly asked the dark guard to turn on the light.
Hou Honglin had never seen Luo Qingyan and Yunshang before, so he didn't recognize them. He just felt that the two people in front of him had excellent looks and demeanor, and they must not be ordinary people, so he hesitated for a while.
On the contrary, the woman who shared the bed with him woke up and saw the situation in front of her and started to scream. After only one cry, she was thrown out by the hidden guard.
Hou Honglin didn't even look at his concubine, he just felt his heart beating violently: "I don't know what you two are... why come to Bifu?"
The dark guard only stepped forward and showed Hou Honglin the private seals of Yunshang and Luo Qingyan.
Hou Honglin didn't seem to know everything. When he saw the seal, his whole body froze for a moment, then he tremblingly got up from the bed and knelt down on the ground: "I don't know if your majesty and empress are visiting late at night... . .. ”
Luo Qingyan didn't make a sound, only Yunshang laughed: "Master Hou only took one look, and then came to pay his respects without any doubt, are you not afraid of being a liar?"
Hou Honglin never thought that Yunshang would ask such a question, and his whole body froze uncontrollably.
"Or, Master Hou already knew that Ben Gong and His Majesty had appeared nearby, but he never thought that we would come to you, let alone that we would come to you now? Did Master Hou think that His Majesty and Ben Gong had already seen you?" left?"
Hou Honglin realized that the people in front of him were not so easy to fool, so he said tremblingly: "Pretending to be an empress is a serious crime, and few people in the world would dare to do it..."
"Really?" Yun Shang didn't feel embarrassed any longer, but continued: "Then, does Lord Hou know why His Majesty and the Palace visited late at night, why?"
"I don't know... I don't know."
Yunshang tapped lightly on the table with her fingers, regardless of whether he didn't know whether it was true or not, she just continued: "Qinxi City is the largest city in the south, but I don't know how many city defenders there are in Qinxi City now. ?”
Hou Honglin leaned down on the ground: "The defenders in the middle of Qinxi City...the total number of defenders in the city is no more than 9,000."
"Enough." Luo Qingyan said in a low voice.
Yun Shang nodded: "It's about the same."
Later, he said to Hou Honglin: "Qinxi City is adjacent to the Wu Clan. Although the Wu Clan people live away from the world, it is impossible not to leave the Wu Clan at all. Presumably there are many Wu Clan people in Qinxi City, right?"
"Yes." Hou Honglin gritted his teeth: "Yes, but not too many."
Hou Honglin said in a low voice: "The Witch Clan's voodoo techniques are somewhat evil, and we have always been on guard. If they enter the city pretending to be the people of the Xia Kingdom, and there is no trouble, we will just pretend not to see it."
"Your Majesty... Your Majesty wants to dispatch the city defenders to attack the Wu Clan?"
As soon as Hou Honglin finished speaking, Luo Qingyan's eyes swept over.
Hou Honglin hurriedly said: "My humble minister, I am just asking casually."
Hou Honglin hurriedly said: "To dispatch the city defenders, you need the secret letters and private seals of the humble ministers, and these are all in the main courtyard."
"You don't have to bother Master Hou." Luo Qingyan took a secret letter and private seal from the secret guard: "Just trouble Master Hou to put a fingerprint on this secret letter."