Li Yue returned to Li Mansion.
Sitting in the carved and hollowed-out hall in the middle is the owner of the Li Mansion, the court lieutenant of the Qin Dynasty, the famous man in front of the King of Qin, and also her father - Li Si.
Li Si was dressed in casual clothes, soaking his feet in the tub with his eyes closed. There was a beautiful little girl next to him who was rubbing his shoulders and back. The big girl is back."
Li Yue remained silent at first.
Until Li Si opened his wrinkled eyelids and looked at her, those eyes that were racing in the officialdom made Li Yue feel more and more trembling and unfamiliar, and stiffly said: "Dad."
Li Si: "Yeah."
She no longer knew what to say.
After a long time, Li Si saw her reserved look and said solemnly, "You are now an official girl of the Li family, one of the most noble girls in Xianyang City. You are not an ordinary commoner. You should act as you should, and don't act like a field girl." Like stalks of grass.”
Li Yue immediately bowed and saluted: "Yes, father, that young master."
As if he had touched some taboo, Li Si's lazy body stiffened, his face changed, and he asked again: "Why are you coming home so late?"
After reviewing the draft he had prepared in his mind, before Li Yue could speak without missing a beat, he frowned and waved again, "Go down."
Didn't mention it.
Li Yue didn't dare to ask, but immediately bowed and saluted: "Yes, father."
In a serious tone, before she could reach the door, Li Si's voice was deep and solemn, even a bit condescending: "I will betroth you to the second son of the Meng family, Meng Yi, and we will get married in a few years."
Li Yue paused in her steps. She saw her beautiful figure reflected in the polished mirrored ornaments. It was herself who was appreciating both the refined and the popular. The other self, using fancy little feet, went over and grabbed her father's beard and muttered, "Daddy." ,I do not want."
Maybe it's too cold now. Even the instep of her feet felt stiff standing here. "Yes, father, my daughter knows."
After speaking, Li Yue walked out.
The pine trees in the courtyard are in bloom, and the flowers are blooming and falling for several years.
Li Yue felt cold, very cold.
It was so cold that even the white breath exhaling from her mouth made her feel a bit inexplicable, a long-lasting warmth and nostalgia.
There was a time when she was also the most beloved daughter in her father's heart.
Tingwei Li Si, the daughter of a very popular powerful minister, was a wild girl from the fields.
The girl also had a gentle and beautiful mother, and the family lived a simple life, but they were once happy. Later, the girl's father resigned and went to Jixia to study, leaving her mother to raise the girl alone in troubled times. Time was like gravel, tortured The woman's face was full of illness. The girl's father passed away before he returned to his hometown. In the end, he was buried in a pile of straw mats. It is not known which wild dog picked up the body, and even the grave was missing. Couldn't get on.
The girl's father is a high-ranking official with a good salary, many wives and concubines, and a house full of children.
He seemed to have forgotten his mother a long time ago.
Even his daughter's looked particularly crowded.
The darkness of the past was like a mountain that could not sink to the bottom. Li Yue looked up at the night, where a few cold stars were wrapped around the world and flying around for no reason. She stretched out her hand, as if to pick off the longing that traveled far away, "Mom, I miss you so much. "
It was a dry and cold north wind again, which could not bring away any trace of human smoke but penetrated people's bones. The door plaques of inns, taverns and card rooms were hung with layers of cowhide steps to separate the bone-crushing cold air. Some pedestrians wore bamboo hats. Wearing face masks, we walked in the streets extending in all directions, stamping our feet and blowing our noses. There were even a few officials in silk and satin walking crowded together.
"How come it's windy but not snowing?"
"Yes, the capital has passed by this year. It's really freezing to death. It's strange and weird."
"It's really, really cold. Brother, how is the situation in your furniture field?"
"I'm afraid it won't be possible next year, let's just wait and see."
Several officials trembled and walked into a teahouse. The heat and the sound of people came. There was a big shelf in the middle and a table. On the table, a speaker was talking about various affairs of the country vividly. The waiter next to him was holding hot tea. Mijiang and Ma Gao said respectfully to them, "Dear gentlemen, what we are introducing now is all new things, please take a seat."
Several officials nodded and took their seats with their sleeves ruffled.
"What does it mean to not listen to the advice of your ministers when you have made a mistake?"
The old Qin man below sighed and said brightly, "We don't know, please tell me quickly."
"As the leader of the Five Hegemons, Duke Heng of Qi was killed by his subordinates and ridiculed by the world because he refused to listen to advice and went his own way. You can imagine how serious the harm will be if you don't listen to the words of loyalty."
The speaker shook his head while holding a wooden board and continued, "Guan Zhong is such a genius, the first Prime Minister of the Spring and Autumn Period."
"But despite this, Duke Heng of Qi did not listen to a word of what he said. Guan Zhong said that Yi Ya, who donated his own son's head to treat Duke Heng of Qi, would not be allowed to take charge of political affairs. Yi Ya had the head of a leopard and the eyes of a tiger. , no matter how you look at it, it’s not a good thing. Qi Heng insisted on going his own way and ended up starving to death. He deserved it. I don’t want to think about it. How can a person love the monarch if he doesn’t even love his own son? "
"Yeah, yeah, that makes sense."
"You don't even love your son. This is totally heartless."
When the officials who were listening attentively heard this, they saw a dark-haired young man sitting over and smiled at them, "How can a person care about the people if he is not filial to his own mother?" He didn't think about it and said, "Dear experts, I am just a traveling scholar. I heard about Qin's imprisoned mother and I have some questions, so I would like to ask all the experts for advice."
Several officials looked at each other and said, "The King of Qin imprisoned his mother, so did we."
As they talked, they knocked on the long table and joined in the elegant discussion of politics.
The heat of the debate in the teahouse was boiling over, and everyone, regardless of their status, was drinking and talking. Their remarks might be sharp, indirect, or inadvertent, but the words never changed.
The king of Qin imprisoned his mother.
Unfilial.
Great evil.
"Mortal people can be really hypocritical." On the second floor of the teahouse, the mountain ghost was sitting cross-legged on the wooden railing. "He said he didn't want any money, and he also used a big sign of being righteous. According to them, it's possible that the parents stabbed their children. , the children still have to sing in return?"
Bai Tu was beside him: "Do you hate mortals?"
"No, this mountain ghost is protecting them." The mountain ghost said with a smile, "Bless them with yellow fragrance and warm mats, a hundred miles of rice, and filial piety that touches the heavens. If they fail to do so, I will severely condemn them with words."
Bai Tu's eyebrows glanced at another place: "The Qin State has become chaotic."
"I know that Lu Buwei, the prime minister of the country, has been poisoned by the adder and has been put into the coffin early. Although the old man doesn't know when he provoked it, but fortunately, the adder did this, otherwise the King of Qin would have taken it back How many years and months will we have to wait before we can unify the world?" The mountain ghost muttered, "Could it be that that viper is one of ours, old fox, do you know him?"
"We met a long time ago."
"What intersection?"
"I am the emperor, and he is the minister." Bai Tu said lightly, "Qin is in chaos, but I only need a few words to enlighten it."
Mountain Ghost: "."
He shouldn't ask random questions.
Everything made this old fox stick up his tail. He used to have seven tails, but now he's fine.
The black orbs without the whites of the mountain ghost's eyes turned. It seemed that he wanted to roll his eyes but didn't: "Old fox, you have lived for so many years and your cultivation is so high. You really don't have a place in the list of gods. Or have you offended some kind of god?"
He didn't expect the old fox to spit out anything with his old teeth, but he didn't expect that the old fox really didn't vomit.
Bai Tu glanced at him sideways with a good-looking face, her upward fox eyes always showed a look that seemed like a dream but not a dream, but the fox could never say two good words, "Mind yourself."
Success, gain.
The mountain ghost crossed his legs indifferently and saw the waiter passing by carrying the lacquer plate. He stretched out his slender claws to grab a few fruits, stuffed them into his mouth, chewed the cores and spit them back. He grinned and said, "Just take two bites." , don’t be stingy, don’t be like him. Any generous and upright mortal will be blessed by the mountain ghost, who will bless you with promotion and wealth."
The waiter dared not say anything in anger, so he took out the sticky core with his hands, looked at them twice, and finally commented, "It's sick."
Mountain ghost, Bai Tu: "."
After the waiter finished speaking, he entered the private room next to him. Unexpectedly, there was a shocking sentence inside, "The King of Qin imprisoned his mother, it is unforgivable to be punished by heaven!" jumped out, and immediately a big piece of gold was thrown out from the middle. , hit the waiter on the forehead, the waiter let out an ouch, and just fell onto the gold.
The mountain ghost chuckled: "That's what I said."
Bai Tu said seriously: "Do you remember what I just said?"
"What words?"
The mountain ghost was still looking at the waiter in the shop with a funny look of hiding the gold despite the pain. When he saw Bai Tu's face was not good, he changed his words and said, "I remember everything. After all, he is a mountain ghost. Mortals pray for blessings. If you are seriously ill, Minor illnesses are all under the control of ghosts. You are an old fox at such an old age. It is obvious that you cannot remember and you are still slandering ghosts everywhere."
Bai Tu glanced sideways at him.
The mountain ghost is still smiling at the excitement in the mortal world.
When the Mountaineer Ghost took the medical notice issued by King Qin and saw King Qin Ying Zheng sitting on the throne wearing a distinguished black robe of stars, all his thoughts seemed to be stuck.
Mountain Ghost: "."
Wait, this boy from the Human Emperor seems to be hard to fool. He doesn't look very old, but he is indeed majestic.
What was the excuse that the old fox had just asked him to give to King Qin to kill him?
Ying Zheng raised his chin and said: "Since you have revealed the list, you can't cure it, so it should be like this."
As soon as he finished speaking, several armored soldiers walked in from the darkness of the hall. Their sonorous footsteps carried the murderous spirit of a bloody battle. In just a moment, it made people feel like they were on the battlefield of a fierce battle.
The bloodshed, death, and thunderous explosions were shocking.
Several soldiers were also carrying a huge bronze cauldron. Inside the bronze cauldron lay more than a dozen white bones. The special smell of burnt meat lingered on the tip of everyone's nose. The mountain ghost's eyelids twitched uncontrollably. There were also about a dozen famous doctors who were full of confidence with their posts, alchemists from ancient families, eccentrics who drew talismans to ward off evil spirits, and child prodigies who were inspired by the noise. Their faces turned pale with fright.
There were even a few of them who couldn't stand still, with feces and urine flowing everywhere, and making all kinds of ugly appearances.
King Qin Yingzheng put his fingers on the throne, with twelve strings of jade nails covering his face, giving him a cruel indifference to everything.
No one knows whether the young master in the palace can be cured.
But if it can’t be cured, it will definitely lead to death.
King Qin simply did not stop him, and soon these masters, a mixed bag of good and bad, left with oil on their feet.
——Except the mountain ghost.
Anyway, mountain ghosts are not afraid of death.
He was still twisting and twisting below, and said with a scornful smile: "King Qin is a temperamental man, and he will not speak secretly. King Qin, you should know that you are not an ordinary person. There are thousands of miraculous medicines in the world, and only your blood is the only one." It's the most nourishing. As long as you feed half a cup of blood every month, skin and flesh will grow on your bones in less than a year."
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"Heart-blooded, rawhide and meat?!"
"Is that really what the quack doctor said? Using human blood as medicine?"
"It is absolutely true that there is no cure for the poison of the young mistress in the palace, and even the palace doctors are unable to do anything about it. King Qin still had to seek medical treatment urgently when he fell ill, and found some charlatans and magicians with nooks and crannies. Now the palace There was a lot of commotion here, and if there was any movement, it would be spread."
"I also heard that the King of Qin not only listened to the advice of using blood from the head as medicine, but also fed him half a cup every three days."
"Crazy, I think he is crazy. A madman can give birth to a madman, and a madwoman can give birth to a mad son. This King of Qin is probably completely crazy."
All the relatives of the Qin State gathered together. The plum blossoms peeking out of the window became a picturesque scene. They sat around the stove roasting venison and talked about state affairs. In fact, it is not called state affairs. In fact, it is not just about the King of Qin. A series of trivial things unfolded.
Mi Qi sat in the middle, pressing his knees with one hand, and holding a dagger in the other hand to put the deer meat into his mouth.
"Changping-kun, what do you think?"
Someone else said, he pointed to his temple with his fingertips, "To be able to do this for a woman, I think this King of Qin is either a coward obsessed with beauty, or this place is abnormal."
"You cook people all the time, do you think you can be a normal person?"
"Don't forget the matter of the imprisoned mother. In my opinion, Lu Buwei's death was almost entirely his fault. We just wanted to get Lu Buwei off his horse, but we didn't expect this kid to be so ruthless. Cruel, really cruel."
"You sing along with whatever is said in the Xianyang wine shop, and pay attention to the rumors. There is no need to blame the King of Qin entirely for Lu Buwei's death. Maybe he fell off his horse, and he was unwilling to accept it. Did he die in depression?"
"You are telling your shitty joke! Damn, Lu Buwei, what a noble person? Why did he die in depression? It was the King of Qin's method that brought it about. Do you still remember what the Queen Mother Huayang said back then? Too much stubbornness, too much ambition. Too much, unruly and unruly, this King of Qin has a twisted mind."
"Even if suffering can temper a person, it can also wear away a person. When the late king was a hostage, his humiliating career for more than ten years caused him to be depressed. He only suffered one defeat and became bedridden. Now the King of Qin He is also a hostage, and his temper is also the same. He has served as the king of Qin for two generations. I think he has rubbed it all the way! How embarrassing!"
Mi Qi said coldly: "Shut up, all of you."
The noisy clan members were immediately speechless. The north wind was still blowing shrilly outside the window, and the chaos of the late government had already swept across.
In fact, they don't want Qin to be in trouble.
Mi Qi's rough brows slightly pressed, he wiped away the smoky smell on his body, and stood up: "Don't you want to know whether King Qin is crazy or not?"
All the clan members: "Yes"
"Would you like to know if you try it?"
They were shocked: "How, how can you try this?"
"Now the King of Qin is cooking all the people in the world, teahouses and wine shops are talking crazy about the King of Qin's cooking of meat, the evil of imprisoning his mother, even Lao Ai is disrupting the country, Zheng Guo is tired of Qin, and other major events, but you must not forget, what caused these , if Lao Ai had not tempted the Queen Mother to kill her son, could the King of Qin have imprisoned his mother? If the King of Qin had not opened up the officialdom of the Qin State, could the Zheng State have exhausted Qin? Just because these outsiders disturbed the Qin State, why don't we criticize it and say that now the Qin State There are still foreigners lurking in the country, so we, the old clan of Qin, can take this opportunity to get rid of the inside and outside?"
Mi Qi drank the strong wine in one gulp, "The King of Qin is now alone. Think about it. Doesn't he have to rely on us clan members to do anything? If he is not crazy, he will be obedient."
The clan members understood immediately and hesitated: "In addition to internal interference, it is good to eradicate dissidents, but according to the nature of King Qin, what if he is not obedient?"
Mi Qi put his hands behind his back and approached the window, cutting off the cold plums that poked through the window, "I would rather trust outsiders than my own family members. Such a King of Qin, if he dares to kill Father Zhong today, he will kill us tomorrow."
He pushed open the window suddenly, and the strong wind poured in. "Only those who are obedient are qualified to be the King of Qin, don't you think so?"
*
"Young Master Fei, the letter has been sent out. Do you think Mr. Changping can fall into the trap?"
In the Nuan Pavilion, Ji Dan smelled Gu Xiao's back in front of him, and his words were already a bit anxious, "He can really persuade the King of Qin to issue an order to eliminate adultery, and as you said, it will eventually lead to the entire Qin court to be suspicious of each other, and dog bites dog." , all become blind, deaf, and lame?”
Han Fei was playing the xun, whimpering, light and elegant, in tune with the north wind blowing outside the window. His superb skills should have attracted the whole room to drink tea, but Ji Dan was very impatient.
He couldn't help it. He really couldn't help it. In the past few years as a hostage in the Qin State, not to mention the strangulation of the forces in the Yan State, let's just say that he lived an ignoble life under the hands of the bastards who were killed in the past, and was humiliated by a woman at his feet. .
This anger.
He had had enough, really had enough.
He couldn't bear it, he really couldn't bear it.
He now wished he could rush to the Qin Palace to make King Qin a human pig, and watch him cry and kneel down and beg for mercy every day.
Ji Dan's face was gloomy and twisted: "Han Fei!"
Han Fei put down the xun, wiped it carefully with a cloth, and said while wiping: "Changping Lord is not an ordinary clan member of the Qin State. Behind him stands the royal family of the Chu Kingdom. Standing, rooted, and rooted in the centuries-old influence of the Qin State Panheng , plus the Queen Mother Huayang is still safe and sound in the harem, the King of Qin must also understand this quite well. The King of Qin has survived in the chaotic and powerful power gap. After the mountain of Lu Buwei is removed, there will still be clan members. The guillotine was placed on his neck, and in order to survive, he had to agree even if he didn't agree."
"Okay, okay, okay!"
Ji Dan's eyebrows danced on his face, and he couldn't wait to continue: "As long as the order to eliminate adultery is given, all the talents stationed in the Qin State will be chilled because of suspicion and rumors. At that time, according to what you said, I, with my high official position and generosity, will Lu tempted him, and the copper-walled fortresses of Qin fell apart into a cup of loose sand, hahahahaha."
(End of chapter)
