The empress sat in front of the grave for an entire day from morning to night with wine bottles strewn all over the ground.
"He even knows how to sing! It's quite nice! "The empress threw the wine bottle aside and laughed as she suddenly thought of something.
Ren Baqian looked at the empress and wondered if she had drunk too much. Did she really drink too much? Not only did she drink in front of the grave, but she also wanted to sing? Should she go to the disco?
After drinking a box of sorghum liquor, even the empress couldn't help but get drunk.
She immediately said modestly, "I only sang 'Pomp and Circumstance' well! It would be even better if there was an erhu. "
The empress immediately stopped talking. After sitting there in a daze for a long time, she said dully, "I have said so much to you, but you didn't even reply to me. It's boring to talk alone, and you talk to yourself like a fool. Forget it, I'm leaving. I'll come back to see you on my way back. "
After the empress finished speaking, a gust of wind blew, causing the nearby branches and weeds to rustle.
"I don't understand what you are saying either. Anyway, I'm leaving, and you don't have to send me off. " The empress waved her hand and stood up from the ground, swaying a little.
Ren Baqian put his arm around her waist, and she didn't object, allowing him to do so.
"Goodbye, mother-in-law." Ren Baqian even politely nodded at the grave to bid farewell.
After walking for about 100 meters, there were winged cavalry warriors waiting there.
However, all of them had bumps on their faces and were beyond recognition.
"Did you guys dig out a beehive?" Ren Baqian asked subconsciously.
In the end, this group of people took out two beehives reluctantly and said, "Sir Ren, there are two beehives from Golden Ring Peak nearby. This honey isn't only fragrant but also has all kinds of miraculous effects. It makes people feel like they are in the clouds and forget about the troubles of time.
"So precious?" Ren Baqian was surprised. Looking at their reluctance, he knew that this was definitely something good.
"It's mainly because it's rare. This thing is rare even in the periphery of the Sixty Thousand Mountains, and we only encountered two here," one of the winged cavalry warriors said.
Looking at the bumps on their faces, these bees were pretty impressive to be able to sting a winged cavalry warrior like this.
"This is for Her Majesty." Everyone brought over two beehives that were half the size of a human.
"It's not good for me to take your things. How about this, each of you will be rewarded with silver …" The empress was halfway through her sentence. She didn't even know how much money was left in the treasury.
Ren Baqian immediately replied, "Everyone will be rewarded with 300 taels of silver. Everyone at the foot of the mountain will get a hundred taels! "
"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Everyone was overjoyed.
One had to know that a winged cavalry warrior's salary was only 15 taels of silver.
Three hundred taels of silver was almost two years of their salary.
However, in the Yun Nation, an Earth Wheel expert's annual salary was at least 2,000 to 3,000 taels.
The empress glanced at Ren Baqian. Each of the 200 winged cavalry warriors on the mountain would receive 300 taels of silver. Each of the 400 winged cavalry warriors at the foot of the mountain would receive 100 taels of silver. This would be a total of 10,000 taels of silver.
The annual expenses of the palace, together with the salaries of the palace guards and palace maids, were only about sixty thousand taels of silver.
These ten thousand taels of silver made her heart ache.
On their way down the mountain, the empress asked, "How much silver does the imperial treasury have?"
Ren Baqian knew more about this than the empress.
The empress almost never asked about it.
"Including the sale of spices and mirrors, there are 630,000 taels of silver in the imperial treasury. There are also some treasures given by the ministers during the birthday celebration last year," Ren Baqian whispered.
The empress blinked her eyes and asked in surprise, "So much?"
Previously, there were only tens of thousands of taels of silver in the imperial treasury. She didn't expect there to be more than 600,000 taels of silver, which surprised her.
This was equivalent to 10% of the national treasury's annual income.
"This is part of the purchase of medicinal herbs." Ren Baqian continued, "Now that the families of the officials in Lan City are almost out of money, I'm afraid that their income will drop in the second half of the year.
However, Your Majesty has always allocated funds from the imperial treasury to purchase weapons in the Yun Nation. Now that the money has been saved, there will naturally be a surplus. At the end of the year, the gold mine will also receive more than 100,000 taels of silver. "
The empress nodded and said, "That's true. This is all thanks to you."
Knowing that there was so much money in the imperial treasury, the empress didn't care about the 10,000 taels of silver that Ren Baqian had thrown out just now.
It was already dark by the time they went down the mountain. The village was pitch-black except for a few torches near the gate and a few stone houses in the innermost part of the village.
For the villages in the mountains, lighting up was never an easy task.
The animal oil that could be used to light the torches was also very precious to them.
Qi Ziting had already prepared a meal for them. After eating, Ren Baqian and the empress extinguished the light and lay down in the room.
One of them was still on the bed and the other on the floor.
Not long after, Ren Baqian heard the empress's breathing stabilize.
It seemed like she was fast asleep.
She didn't sleep much last night, but it wasn't a big deal for her.
However, after speaking in front of the grave for the entire day, the empress had exhausted a lot of her mental energy. After a day, she was a little tired.
Ren Baqian was originally very sleepy, but he couldn't fall asleep after lying down. He simply got up from the floor and sat at the table. He supported his chin with one hand and looked at the empress's silhouette in the dark.
Although there was only a little moonlight shining in from outside, with the improvement of his strength, he could see more clearly than ordinary people in the dim light. He could even see the empress's appearance and the rise and fall of her chest as she breathed.
Sure enough, good-looking people looked good when they slept!
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder … but the empress was originally a beauty …
He wanted to climb into bed … but was afraid of being kicked off …
Ren Baqian's thoughts ran wild. He wanted to laugh when he thought of the empress talking about family matters in front of the grave during the day.
He felt that the empress was quite cute when she looked like that.
On the bed, the empress felt uncomfortable being stared at by Ren Baqian …
In fact, she had already woken up when he got up. However, she wanted to see what he was going to do, so she didn't say anything.
In the end, he sat in front of the table and kept looking at her. As he looked at her, he even laughed! She didn't know what he was thinking about.
Now that the empress wanted to open her eyes, it wasn't appropriate, so she simply continued to pretend to be asleep.
There was still some sweetness in her heart.
After a while, she gradually let go and allowed Ren Baqian to look at her as she fell asleep.
The next day, Ren Baqian went out yawning again!
Seeing him like that, the empress felt that he deserved it.
Fortunately, there wasn't much to do today. During the day, the empress and Qi Ziting chatted, and Ren Baqian found a place to catch up on his sleep.
Ren Baqian didn't know how long he had slept, but he was slapped awake by someone. At that time, Ren Baqian was sleeping when someone slapped his face and nose.
Then, he found someone else beside him.
Lin Qiaole!
He didn't know where she slept all day, but she had come out of nowhere today. She was lying on her back drooling, holding a bag of sweets in one hand, and slapping him with the other.
Ren Baqian covered his face as he got up from the ground. He could smell the smell of alcoholic chocolate coming from Lin Qiaole's mouth … He also saw the wrappers scattered on the ground.
Looking at her face … which was a little red, Ren Baqian felt that she might have drunk too much.
She had drunk too much alcoholic chocolate!
She couldn't drink alcohol! Not at all!
Ren Baqian opened the bag and found that all the alcoholic chocolate was gone.
He casually threw the bag back into her hands. He wanted to give her a kick, but he didn't kick her when he saw her acting like a little girl.
Ren Baqian sighed and felt that he was quite unlucky to have gotten into trouble while he was sleeping!
He walked out to stretch and saw that the empress and Qi Ziting were still sitting there.
The sun was setting, but the two of them were still sitting there talking about something.
Looking at this scene, one couldn't tell that one was the current empress, and the other was said to be a bloodthirsty murderer who assassinated the previous emperor for the throne.
This scene was too harmonious.
Although the two of them were close relatives and hadn't seen each other for 10 years, it was normal for them to talk a lot.
Now, Ren Baqian understood that the empress didn't actually talk a lot. She started to talk more when she was with him. Now, looking at her and Qi Ziting in front of the grave …
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