Kill him? The disadvantages are unpredictable, but the benefits are right in front of you.
Wang Andao hesitated.
"Report to your lord!" Another patrolman walked into the military camp and reported to his commander.
"What's the matter?"
"There's another spy."
"It's so annoying. I'll just kill him later."
The patrol escorted in a man who was shivering, whether from cold or fear.
As soon as Qin Hui saw the person coming, he called out: "Xing'er?"
"Sir Zhongcheng?" Xing'er shouted gratefully, "Save me, sir!"
"Who is he?" Wine Supervisor Wang Andao asked hurriedly.
"It's my slave."
Wang Andao heard clearly when Xing'er called him Master Zhongcheng just now.
He made up his mind immediately.
"Zhongcheng worked so hard." Wang Andao bowed and said, "I just remembered that Zhongcheng in the old dynasty had a Master Qin whom I met back then."
Then he ordered: "Notify Master Ding."
Master Ding is the general Ding who is guarding the Lianshui Army.
Ding met Qin Hui, ordered a banquet to be held tomorrow, and promised to inform Emperor Zhao Gou who was far away in Lin'an Prefecture.
Qin Hui was not relieved because he knew that there was still a third big gamble.
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Yun Kong had slept for a while, but when he opened his eyes again, the sky had turned white.
Several rays of morning glow bloomed in the eastern sky, like roads embroidered in the sky.
Yunkong stretched out and saw Wu Weiren cutting his hands behind his back and looking at the rising sun.
Yun Kong looked at Mr. Huang Cong beside him. His head, limbs and body had been roughly connected, and he was also sleeping soundly.
Yun Kong then climbed out of the fairy tree and stood next to the Five Flavors.
"Look," the Wuweiwei people pointed to the left side of the sunrise, which is in the northeast. "Not far over there is Qi Di, and beyond that is the East China Sea."
"Where does Wu Sheng live in the East China Sea?"
"There is no life and no fixed place, except in those few places."
Yun Kong took a breath of the fresh morning mist and looked at the sun gradually showing its face: "You haven't told that story yet."
Wu Weiren didn't answer, quietly waiting for the sun to rise.
The jackdaws suddenly made a loud noise and flew from the treetops to the downwind branches in a fuss.
There was an inexplicable excitement in Yun Kong's chest.
Layers of doubt over the years.
The hundred ghosts who were born rushed down the hillside...
When I was three years old, my parents died tragically due to a fire spirit attack...
The mysterious hints left by Master Po Lu Taoist...
Wu Sheng, who knows everything, and Wu Sheng's five disciples who secretly follow him...
The demons wanted to worship him as king and mentioned his past life...
It seems that the answer can only be found if everything is attributed to his previous life.
He waited for the Five Flavors to tell stories.
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Similarly, Qin Hui felt excited in his chest.
This excitement was mixed with uneasiness, a kind of excitement that was ready to die at any time.
──The third big gamble.
The new emperor, the new boss, the new emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty, Zhao Gou, had made himself a military marshal before the fall of Kaifeng three years ago and fled south. Now he is sitting comfortably on the dragon throne as his emperor.
After all, the palace in Lin'an Prefecture is not as grand as that in Kaifeng, and not many of the officials around it know each other.
Qin Hui calmed down and began to tell the emperor how he escaped.
After the statement was finished, Zhao Gou waited without saying a word.
So, the officials below began to speak: "The Jin people are so fierce, how can Qin Hui escape? There must be something inside!"
"That's not all, Qin Hui also took his family to escape. I wonder if the Jin people can allow a small staff officer to take his family with him during the march?"
"No," another official said, "even if the Jin people allow him to accompany the army, they will definitely leave his wife and family as hostages. Can An Neng return with the Wang family?"
"Master Qin was detained to Yanshan together with Master He (Li), Master Sun (Fu), and Master Sima (Pu). Only Master Qin can come back. There seems to be something wrong!"
"Your Majesty, Lord Qin traveled 2,800 miles from Yan (in the north) to Chu (where Lin'an in the south is located), crossed the Yellow River and crossed the East China Sea, and took his whole family with him. How could he escape?"
Qin Hui sneered in his heart: "You people who have never experienced it, what do you know?"
But he remained calm and watched.
This barrage of attacks, with some unfounded speculations added from time to time, is extremely sinister! This is just because they are jealous and afraid. They are jealous of my huge promotion capital and are afraid that I will take away their interests.
This kind of attack is a hard-earned opportunity to show loyalty and talent. If it were me, I would grasp it.
Qin Hui lowered his head, held his hands respectfully, and looked at the prime minister.
Prime Minister Fan Zongyin had been on good terms with Qin Hui before. What's more, as soon as Qin Hui came to Lin'an Mansion, he came to ask for help. Fan Zongyin puffed up his chest and strode out from the ranks of officials.
"Your Majesty," Fan Zongyin said, "loyal ministers have been rare since ancient times. Mr. Qin was detained in Yan, but his heart was always concerned with national affairs. He narrowly escaped death and finally met the emperor. He planned to provide information about the Jin people in order to protect the country. If the great cause dies, not only will all the loyalty, loyalty and courage be wasted, but later generations of historians will also blame the emperor for losing a good talent. In the blink of an eye, the great opportunity of the Song Dynasty will disappear completely, isn't it also dangerous? "
Li Hui, the chief steward of the Privy Council, also echoed: "Your Majesty, don't worry too much. Lord Qin is loyal and known to the world. When the second emperor was detained, the Jin people wanted to make Zhang Bangchang the emperor, but Lord Qin wrote a petition and scolded the Jin people." , so the whole family was detained to Yanshan, which made people cry and sing. Isn’t this a sign of loyalty?”
Zhao Gou nodded with satisfaction.
Seeing that the emperor nodded, all the officials who spoke returned to their seats as if nothing was wrong.
Qin Hui's lips twitched and he bowed deeply.
The supervisor Wang Andao and the navy general Ding who followed were all appointed as officials in the capital. They no longer had to return to the Lianshui army and lived in fear of the Jin people attacking them day and night.
Even the boatman was given the alternate official position of "Supplementary Chengxinlang".
Qin Hui won again, winning three games in a row.
Like any gambler, he couldn't stop playing.
He rubbed his hands together, trying to hide his proud smile.
As he slowly walked away from the palace, he looked back at the new palace in Lin'an Mansion.
The fourth big gamble!
he thinks.
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This is the winter of the fourth year of Jianyan.
The intersection of Lianshui and Zhongshan Rivers in Jiangsu.
Through an accidental encounter, two completely unrelated people began to lead completely different lives.
One goes to find the answer to his fate.
One, creating destiny.
Is this what real death feels like?
His pupils were dilated, staring hard at the speck of light on the mountain.
Despite the biting mountain wind blowing hard and the chill cutting into his bones, his skin was still sweating constantly, and his pores were uncomfortable being clogged with sweat.
The mountain wind bit behind the ears, and the whole face was dehydrated. The skin was dry and tight, as if it was about to crack at any time.
Unable to reach his fingertips, he grasped the stone tightly and pressed his body against the mountain wall as much as possible.
Someone has already fallen.
One of the three people who came together died.
They finally came to Qidi, looking for the legendary immortal.
It is said that Xu Fu twice proposed to Qin Shihuang to go to sea to seek immortality when Qin Shihuang visited his hometown of Qi.
When he returned from his first trip to sea, Xu Fu said that he had found the fairy island.
He reported to the First Emperor: "We are very close, but we can't get ashore." Because the gods would raise the wind and blow the boat away.
According to legend, the fairy island that Xu Fu arrived at is located in the Bohai Bay.
I wonder which one Xu Fu found among the "three pots" on the sea: Penglai, Yingzhou, and Fangzhang Sanxian Island?
So, three young people full of enthusiasm for seeking immortality trekked a long way to Langye. Legend has it that Xu Fu met Qin Shihuang for the second time and asked for a place to go to sea.
Langxie faces the East China Sea, not the Bohai Sea, where they hope to find clues to Xu Fu's voyage.
One day, when they were hungry and wandering in the mountains and forests, they suddenly saw a strange phenomenon in the sky.
Someone was flying through the air.
"It's an immortal!" The three of them were ecstatic.
They chased the immortal flying in the air, but the immortal quickly disappeared.
The three people's enthusiastic hearts seemed to have been poured cold water on, and they were very hesitant and helpless.
Unconsciously, night has covered the mountain forest. The moonless night is so dark that even the nightwings dare not cry.
In the night wind, there was a faint light of fire on the high mountain wall, and there was a vague figure in the fire.
"It's an immortal!" Hope was rekindled, and the three of them became commotion.
Unprepared, they climbed the steep mountain wall with their bare hands in a frenzy.
Until their hands were bruised and bleeding, and their arm muscles were in severe pain, they could only crawl a short distance, but it was enough to kill them.
The fire above danced wildly in the mountain wind, but no matter how hard I climbed, I couldn't reach it.
They were already between a rock and a hard place.
