Baitao didn't tell her after all.
I had just vaguely agreed to be Brother Zheng's little wife, and I was afraid that she would jump up and down with joy, "Then why do you hope so much that I can marry Brother Zheng?"
"Maybe the young master doesn't know."
Rui'er took scissors and peeled a crab for her, "Your Majesty is young, handsome, and clean. All the noble ladies in Xianyang City are watching eagerly. They all hope that one day they can take their family and fly to the branches together to become a phoenix."
"But all the noble ladies in Xianyang City know that your Majesty's thoughts are all about you, my young master."
"Usually, when I go out, the guards sent by the Lord to take care of my entertainment are all taken care of. Otherwise, how could I recover my luminous pearl so quickly?"
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Baitao felt something weird and hair-raising.
What Rui'er meant was that now she was not just sending people to simply keep an eye on her.
But does Brother Zheng have to control what she does and what she does?
Isn't this more lenient than brother?
Rui'er broke off a crab leg and placed it in front of her, and continued: "Also, my dear, when you went to the teahouse today, did you meet a pregnant woman who stole it?"
Baitao gathered her thoughts and took a few sips of the spicy soup. "Well, I remember clearly that she was a pregnant woman with a big and round belly."
"Let's talk about it now. Now she is in Xianyang Prison. She has stolen a full twenty gold pieces. In the Qin State, if you steal a few mulberry leaves for less than one gold, you will be punished with thirty days of corvee. What's more, this For twenty gold, I want this slave to tell me that my hands and feet are unclean and if I dare to touch my little master, my hands should be chopped off."
Baitao: "After being sent to prison, according to Qin law, how will Zaoyi be punished?"
Rui'er didn't accept the suggestion and said with a smile, "How can I control this? I just want to know that my mistress is not at a disadvantage."
Baitao felt that Rui'er, apart from losing some baby fat on her cheeks, had become more capable and smooth in dealing with things over the years, maybe because she had grown up.
But for people, change is not a good thing.
Baitao took a mouthful of crab roe and decided not to talk about it, "Last time you told me that your brother had trouble finding his master, have you done it? Where is your brother's master now?"
Speaking of this matter, Rui'er's face was full of joy, "Thanks to my little master, since the last time I sent you a letter, many civil servants and famous teachers have extended their olive branches and asked me to help my little brother." I went to study and gain experience.”
"But this slave also knows that, no matter how studious he is, he is a compromise talent, so he doesn't need to stand out all of a sudden."
"So the servant suggested that he go to the guest Qing Li Si's house to be a schoolboy, learn and practice, and be able to make a difference in the future and be used by the young master."
"Li Si?"
"That's the foreign minister, the one your Majesty attaches great importance to. I look at you. He is not a thing in the pond. He will have great achievements in the future. If your brother follows him, you may be able to get a good place. But it depends on your luck. I can't force it. Come."
Baitao finally remembered.
This Li Si was a foreign minister of Qin. He came from the sect of Xunzi and learned the art of emperors.
Later, he lobbied for discord in various countries, achieved great success, and was appointed as a guest minister.
However, because of his outstanding talents and learning, he was also talked about in Xianyang City.
Baitao doesn't hang out in the court, but hangs out outside the palace. She feels that the matter may not be that simple, and asks: "How did you think of looking for Li Si? Did he take the initiative to look for you?"
"Not really."
Rui'er recalled, "My little brother said that."
"I said that I met him accidentally on the trail. He was chanting while walking. What he was chanting was that people's nature is evil, and they must wait for learning and then be rectified, and there are any corrections or other things."
"My younger brother is eager to learn, so he followed him with his head bouncing, until he returned to the guest house. Li Si gave him a few nudges. When my younger brother wrote about this in a letter to my slave, my slave thought it was good, so she let him join Li Si's family. ."
As soon as she said this, Baitao felt that Li Si was quite extraordinary and extremely sophisticated.
Although you can't be unpredictable with a villain's heart, it is difficult for a single thread to become a thread or a single tree to become a forest. It is very reasonable for Li Si to have no foundation in Qin and want to pave the way for himself everywhere.
It was obvious that he had been plotted unknowingly.
The feeling of being plotted is really not good, but Baitao himself has been in the Qin Kingdom on earth for several years and has integrated into it.
You can’t say that you want to join the world but don’t want to be polluted, right?
That way, you can be both responsible and upright, and you can put yourself in a good mood.
Baitao swallowed two mouthfuls of crab meat, but it was tasteless. "Okay, I'm full."
Rui'er was surprised: "Why do you eat so little today, little master?"
"I've had enough to watch outside today. There's a chicken that keeps clucking, and..."
Baitao wanted to say something, but swallowed it back, "Also remember the Cricket King you promised me, the one with white teeth and green teeth, don't forget it."
Rui'er didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Yes!"
After nightfall, Rui'er served Baitao to bed.
After they left, Baitao rolled over and over on the bed because of this bullshit snake monster Lao Ai, getting more and more irritated, and finally transformed into his original form and jumped up and down on the bed.
This jump jumped directly to dawn without realizing it.
When the morning light came in, her fox fur was spread out on the bed.
Baitao also lost her hair this night, bah! After much thought this evening.
She came up with two ways, but they had to start from the court.
The first is to find a reason for liquidation and let the snake demon move away, but this method will easily make the Qin State restless and thankless.
The second is to find someone to impeach him with a crime, so that the snake demon has to move away. This method is the simplest and fastest, but it is too targeted and will inevitably scare the snake.
Between the dilemmas, there is an even greater difficulty facing Baitao.
That is----
Who needs to do the impeachment matter?
Baitao thought hard for a while, and the name Li Si flashed in his mind.
Lis.
Li Si was a man of great wealth and impeccable in his work. The key was that he had found her way, so if he didn't do something for her, wouldn't it be too easy for him?
Adhering to the mentality that when you pluck your hair, you have to dip it in some minced meat and bring it out. If it rains from the sky, you have to use a basin to catch it. If you bully me, I will bite you.
Baitao said he would do it.
Gather the hair ball and put it in the box, pick up the pen, put the pen away, and polish it to write the letter.
The content is as follows: I leave it to you to impeach Lao Ai.
Signed: Baitao.
She also felt that the letter was not threatening enough. What if Li Si just took it as a joke and threw it away? That would make her, a vixen, lose face.
Bai Tao pursed her lips.
Just when I was about to add the sentence "If you can't do it well, get out" in the letter, I thought about it and retracted my pen angrily.
What mortals do is different from what goblins do. Mortals like to cover up their ugliness. If they are stripped naked, they will definitely be difficult to see each other in the future. If this mortal is more petty, he may be waiting for an opportunity to retaliate.
"Just write it like this. If Li Si doesn't handle it well, it won't be too late to deal with him..."
Baitao murmured as he wrote, feeling very satisfied with what he had done, but the current difficulty was how to avoid Brother Zheng's eyes and ears and deliver the letter to Li Si?
She blinked twice and looked thoughtfully close to the colorful bird preening under the eaves.
But she was discouraged as soon as the cage door was opened. The colorful bird didn't make any move no matter how hard it flew. It seemed as if it had taken root in the cage and didn't flutter even a few times.
I'm afraid it won't be able to fly even if I control it.
"It's really like a bird but not like a bird. You can't eat or play with it."
White Peach cooed.
She followed her brother's example and played a melon-jump for the bird. She played the bird until it raised its head and chirped, stuffed the envelope into her sleeve, and carried it out of the palace.
She was going to buy a bird, preferably a pigeon.
"Come on, let's take a look."
"Look, it doesn't cost any money. A fat boy is born in the family."
People were coming and going on the street, and all kinds of vendors were shouting. Not long after Baitao left, there was a businessman in front of him with a dark face and a mustache. He was fanning a straw fan and shouting, "Selling gugu la, Sell gugu la and train gugu la well."
Baitao stopped.
Next to him was a birdcage with five smooth and shiny homing pigeons in yellow, red, yellow, white and black colors.
The businessman's eyes flashed when he saw the girl walking over in rich attire and a hood, "Oh, come and have a look. Come and have a look. This is no ordinary homing pigeon. It can deliver things and amuse you. It’s unusually good-looking.”
Baitao walked up to his vendor and paused.
Colorful doves?
"What's the use of being so fancy?"
The surrounding Lao Qin people sneered at these carrier pigeons dyed with dye, "The pigeons are just used to deliver letters. What's the point? You're not afraid of showing off your teeth if you talk too much nonsense."
"Tsk, it looks like he is a foreign businessman."
The businessman didn't hear it. He held up a dove and patted his thigh and sang, "That yellow eagle chick, that blue eagle, that red phoenix, that white eagle. That black eagle, that other sisters around are envious of her beauty." Like flowers, they will last forever, and every family will enjoy peace from generation to generation."
Baitao thought he sang well, and happened to want a Gugu. She took out her money bag and said, "How much does one cost for you?"
The businessman was secretly happy.
He just likes girls who are young, well-dressed, and inexperienced.
They are naive and easy to deceive. No matter what they sell, they have to make it look good and talk nicely, so they can spend a lot of money.
A big fat sheep waiting to be slaughtered.
He pretended to clear his throat and said: "These are all rare things, yellow eagle chicks, black eagles, each worth fifty gold, green luan, red phoenix, white eagle, each one hundred gold, small business, child sister-in-law is not deceived. Le.”
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Is this still the case with Tongsao?
Baitao felt that it was probably because he looked so easy to deceive that he was so full of gold teeth and lied when he spoke, "You can continue to sell it, I won't buy it."
She doesn't want to be taken advantage of.
With that said, Baitao stuffed back the exposed bit of golden gold, tied it in his pocket, turned around and left.
The businessman's salivating eyes fell on her bulging money bag and he couldn't pull it out at all. When he saw that she was about to leave, he quickly said: "Hey, girl, how can you leave?"
It's not easy to find a fat sheep, it would be a pity not to kill it.
The businessman stopped her and said, "Girl, it's easy to buy, but my Wufang Divine Bird is hard to find. I just looked at the pearl on the girl's head. The color and texture were flawless. Look at the girl, she is from a noble family, it is not something that untouchables like me can talk about."
Baitao interrupted: "You don't have to flatter me. It's useless for you to flatter me. I don't want to be like you."
The businessman didn't panic. He rolled his eyes and touched his beard: "Girl, you are right. My divine bird from the five directions is indeed a dove. But think about it, girl. Doves are easy to find." , they are all over the streets, but if you travel all over Xianyang City, how can you find a five-color pigeon like mine? Only these five-color pigeons can be worthy of your noble and extraordinary status, girl."
Baitao frowned and said, "Do you have to sell it to me? Do you want to buy and sell by force?"
"Well, in business, it's all about coming and going."
The businessman smiled and said: "I am a serious businessman, how can I buy and sell by force?"
"It's just that the market has been bad in recent days." His eyes were dim. "The whole family depends on my business to survive. To a noble person, it's just a piece of meat that falls between their fingers. To people like us, who are exploited by the government at all levels. , for lowly businessmen who still have to pay business taxes. If you drop it in your hands, your life will be dropped in your hands, alas."
Baitao: "."
The art of war learned by Brother Zheng - the bitter meat strategy.
She didn't want to be fooled, "No matter what you do, you can't just use a few dyed pigeons to fool people and be greedy."
Seeing that this trick didn't work, the businessman pretended to wipe his tears and was about to try another trick.
"Snapped!"
But without thinking, a white hand slapped on the table.
I don't know when a girl wearing a deep trousers dress came.
The girl's black hair was tied up in two braids hanging down her cheeks, her eyes were clear, and her cheeks were dotted with small freckles of tea leaves.
She looked like she was the daughter of a wealthy family who had not yet left the palace, but she stepped on the table again, and the clothes around her waist made a mess, and it seemed that she was not very well-behaved, "Hey! What's going on with you? What on earth are you doing?" Do you have any sympathy?"
Baitao: "?"
Doesn’t it mean that you don’t have sympathy if you haven’t been deceived?
The businessman was also obviously stunned for a moment, and he silently moved the pigeon cage farther away.
Seeing some scattered spectators gathered around him, he covered his face and cried loudly, "Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh!" Blood, tears dried up, I didn’t expect to come to Qin.”
He hesitated to speak and flattered the girl, "Fortunately, God has mercy on me. Today I met a noble person."
The girl also said: "You don't need to thank me. I have bought these five-color pigeons of yours. I live in the Cai Mansion in the east of the city. Just ask my servant to give you the money."
The businessman was overjoyed.
The surrounding people gathered around and understood after hearing this, "I see, Cai Mansion in the east of the city, and at such an age, she must be Cai Miao, the granddaughter of Gangcheng Jun Cai Ze."
"Tsangcheng-kun, he came not far from Yan State, but he has also done great things for our Qin State."
Except Tsunagi-kun has a good reputation.
Taking a step back ten thousand steps, who among the people of Qin doesn't know very well that, excluding military achievements first, merchants can really get ahead in trade.
Who can really expect to cultivate gold for a lifetime?
Although the people of the old Qin Dynasty admired the art of merchant kings, they were not necessarily so stupid.
Yes.
Regarding this kind of prosperous market trade, the people of Lao Qin have a vague ambivalence that they disagree with but eagerly look forward to.
The old Qin people immediately admired Cai Miao, "Tsk, he is an honest child."
"Okay, sister, you have a soft heart and bought a few dyed pigeons. Take pity on the poor people. You are doing a good deed."
"How much money is worth? If you do good deeds, you will be rewarded with blessings."
When Baitao saw that she was not the one who had been deceived, she was about to walk out of the crowd. Unexpectedly, two loud shouts came from behind her, "Stop!"
One is from a businessman and the other is from Cai Miao.
The businessman clasped his fists: "Fathers and fellow countrymen of the Qin State, I appreciate your kindness. I am a pariah."
As the saying goes, there is no business without treachery. He also saw that there was a great opportunity in front of him to drive up the price, so how could he miss it? "It's just that the girl in the beaded hat came earlier than the girl Cai Miao, and she also valued this." Five-colored birds, as the saying goes, first come, first served, even if Miss Cai Miao is generous, you still have to listen to what this girl says."
The businessman came over and bowed to Baitao and said, "Although businessmen are considered inferior to farmers, farmers, and merchants, we businessmen are also very particular. As long as you are willing to bid, you can compete with this girl Cai Ze's bid. The so-called price The higher one gets it, harmonious Qi generates wealth and Qi generates wealth.”
What a loud calculation!
Baitao gritted her teeth in anger, even if all her money was given by Brother Zheng, she still couldn't spend all the money.
But having more money doesn't mean she is willing to be cheated. She is still being coaxed and said: "I don't want it."
"Why not?" Cai Miao retracted her long legs, raised her chin and said, "I'll pay you a thousand gold! Do you dare to bid me a price?"
The businessman was overjoyed: What a fat sheep!
Baitao frowned slightly: What a silly girl.
But she also realized something now. This girl might not be just stupid, she might actually have a problem with her.
Baitao pressed his hood and asked in two voices: "Do you know me?"
