My emperor, long live!

Pei Mo was slightly taken aback when he heard this. Taxation is very important to the country's construction. The court has always put more emphasis on it than anything else. How dare Qin Yue conceal the report and pocket it?

"But she is the third princess. Although Her Majesty has demoted her, her food and clothing expenses have never been less than one point. What does the third princess need to spend money like water?" Pei Mo pretended to be ignorant and continued to talk.

But when it comes to spending money like running water, Pei Mo suddenly remembered that she secretly spent more than a thousand dollars on cultivating loyal soldiers. If you think about it in this direction, it can explain Qin Yue's unscrupulous behavior of collecting money.

Thinking of this, Pei Mo felt uneasy.

The man heard Pei Mo's words and asked the point, and his face was also full of astonishment. He bit his chopsticks, squinted his eyes and looked at Pei Mo and Qin Ran beside her, and asked dangerously: "I think you two have very good eyesight." Very, not like a local?"

Sensing the man's unfriendly gaze, Qin Ran nervously held Pei Mo's hand under the table. Pei Mo calmly pressed the back of her hand and wrote softly, "Don't be afraid, you won't be discovered."

Pei Mo didn't tell whether it was true or not, but asked the man back: "Does everyone in the local know the secrets of the Fenghuo City government?"

The man was at a loss for words immediately, realizing that he had said something he shouldn't have said while bragging, he lowered his head guiltily, and buried himself in the bowl to eat.

Seeing that Pei Mo deftly resolved the crisis with a single sentence, Qin Ran heaved a sigh of relief, and said softly, "I'm scared to death, what if he belongs to my third sister and finds that something is wrong with us? Isn't that... "In the middle of the speech, it stopped abruptly.

Pei Mo picked up a chopstick of beef and fed it into her mouth, with a smile on his lips: "The most taboo thing about sneaking into the enemy's interior is showing your own guilt. How can you be so nervous and flustered like you?"

Sure enough, Jiang was still old and hot, so Qin Ran didn't dare to talk nonsense, and quietly buried her head in her meal.

After dinner, there was still an afternoon of free time. Qin Ran took Pei Mo to continue shopping. The two of them were newcomers. Although the scenery of Fenghuo City was not as prosperous as the capital city, it was fresher and full of exotic customs.

Unknowingly, when the sun went down, Qin Ran's feet were sore from walking, and Pei Mo paced back to the inn with her on his back.

The sky is getting darker, there is no night market in Fenghuo City, and the people in the city rest early as soon as night falls, Pei Mo ordered the dark guards who have been following secretly to protect Qin Ran, and when it is quiet and no one is around, put on black night clothes and plan to spy at night Qin Yue's mansion.

Although Qin Yue is out of the border, she still maintains her living habits in the capital. Pei Mo uses the bright moonlight to explore the way, uses lightness skills to shuttle across the roof, and sees a big house with a garden in the distance. It is different from the nearby stone houses, it must be Qin Yue's newly built mansion.

Sensitively avoiding the patrolling guards in the mansion, Pei Mo crept into the depths of the mansion. Relying on his understanding of Qin Yue's habits before rebirth, Pei Mo knew that she had set up traps in the study to hide important belongings or letters. Remain unchanged.

Qin Yue didn't deal with business in the study tonight, so it was convenient for Pei Mo to go in directly and search for the hidden mechanism.

While paying attention to the movement outside, Pei Mo quickly searched the seemingly inconspicuous but actually hidden corners of the study, and finally found the mechanism on an ordinary celadon pen holder placed on the desk.

Slowly turn the celadon pen holder, and the bookshelf behind the desk slowly opens to both sides, revealing a dark entrance.

Pei Mo lit the torch, and entered the secret passage cautiously. The secret passage was not long. After going down, there was a small secret room. A round stone table and several stone blocks were placed in the center. The candlestick, half-burned candles are brand new, it seems that Qin Yue often talks in this secret room.

Apart from the round table, there was no other furniture in the secret room. Pei Mo saw a painting hanging abruptly on the wall, and stretched out his hand to roll up the painting scroll. Sure enough, there was a hidden compartment behind it.

He took out the wooden box inside and opened it to see that there was a thick stack of letters. Pei Mo unfolded the letters and found that it was Qin Yue's father, Fangjun Quhuai's handwritten letter!

In the letter, Qu Huai told Qin Yue that the Qu family had accumulated a huge fortune through the hard work of several generations, and she could use this wealth to secretly recruit soldiers and build a powerful secret army outside the border.

Apart from the discussion between Qu Huai and Qin Yue on how to use the money to build an army, Pei Mo also saw some letters that mentioned the ministers of the court and analyzed the situation in the court. How do you know the parties that the ministers in the DPRK secretly woo?

After comparing the handwriting of several letters and carefully observing the tone of the writers, Pei Mo suddenly discovered that it was Chen Yi, the son of the general, who secretly provided the news from the court and plotted with Qin Yue to seize the throne!

In Chen Yi's previous life, he relied on becoming Qin Ranfeng Lord and secretly supported his own forces to force the palace to usurp the throne. In this life, Qin Ran's marriage to Pei Mo cut off Chen Yi's possibility of becoming the new emperor. In addition, Pei Mo pushed Qin Zheng to be the new emperor. In this position, Chen Yi was even more helpless.

Unexpectedly, after all the roads were blocked by Pei Mo, Chen Yi would join forces with Qin Yue who was far away!

Pei Mo looked at the dates of the letters. The earliest one was written to Qin Yue to discuss the alliance soon after Chen Yi went to the border to suppress the bandits.

Pei Mo recalled that when the empress was critically ill, Chen Yi couldn't wait to recommend Qin Yue to the position. She thought that Chen Yi saw an opportunity at that time and showed his favor to Qin Yue, just like bewitching Qin Ran in the previous life. People turned out to be in such a mess so early.

After flipping through, Pei Mo folded the letter and sealed it back into the wooden box intact. When he was about to put it back into the secret compartment, he found that there was a small secret compartment underneath.

The dark grid is only the size of a palm, and the secret room is dark, so Pei Mo almost ignored this place. The grid is too small and can only be touched with half a palm. Pei Mo touched a piece of sheepskin paper with his fingers and slowly pulled it out.

When I opened it, the parchment turned out to be a map drawn with strange characters, and a criss-crossing mountain and wild place was outlined with fine pens of several colors.

Pei Mo couldn't identify which mountain corner was drawn on this map, so he simply put the map on the stone table, quietly went back to the study room, took a pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and copied it carefully.

Her copying ability has always been superb, but she quickly copied the map in a short time. If it wasn't for the different texture of the paper, she could hardly tell which one was the original map and which one was copied.

After rummaging through the secret room and finding nothing useful, Pei Mo put everything back in place, even the orientation of the writing brush was perfectly placed, and when the guards on patrol at night changed shifts, he carried out his light work and left the house quietly. He returned silently to the inn.