The vast white Yinshan grassland is covered with snow.
A bald-headed goshawk swooped down from low altitude, passing over low snow hills and withered branches.
Meng Tian, one man and one horse, braved the wind and snow to reach a tribe on the grassland.
The old patriarch of this tribe had a life-and-death relationship with him.
Now, he came here despite the wind and snow, hoping that the old patriarch would save Fusu's life for his sake.
According to his plan, he would first protect Fusu in this tribe and then return to Xianyang. Even if Yan Le and others were ordered to supervise the imperial edict, they could not control the foreign tribes.
In this way, he can go around the court with peace of mind and fight for Fusu's chance of survival.
But I heard the old patriarch say with a proud face: "Mr. Meng, there is no need to say more. I am a life-and-death friend to you. I will never let him go after what you have told me. When you send him here, I will take care of the little boy." If my daughter marries him, then he will be the son-in-law of my tribe, I will see who dares to kill the son-in-law of my tribe!"
"Old Patriarch, Meng Tian will never forget your kindness. Meng Tian will come back when spring begins. Then, let's have a good time!"
Meng Tian raised the kumiss in his hand and drank it down in one gulp with emotion.
The old patriarch also raised a large bowl of wine, patted his chest and said "Okay", and then drank all the wine with great courage.
Soon, Meng Tian braved the wind and snow again and rushed towards the Jiuyuan Camp.
No matter how sad and confused Fusu was, he would keep Fusu alive.
At the same time, as soon as Fusu went to wash up, Li Fu led several supervisors and broke into Fusu's military tent unscrupulously.
Fortunately, Meng Tian had made arrangements in advance, and the guards waiting outside Fusu's military tent did not let them break into Fusu's sleeping tent.
They could only linger outside the military tent.
But Li Fu said in a deep voice: "You guys were here last night. What happened in Fusu's tent?"
"Replying to the special envoy, until the fourth watch, there were still sounds of crying in Fusu's sleeping tent. The crying stopped at about dawn."
A supervisor bowed and said.
Although the current special envoy is Yan Le and Li Fu is just a supervisor like them, Li Fu's identity is such that no supervisor dares to treat him as an equal.
Li Fu also did not regard himself as a supervisor. He looked like a special envoy of the emperor and continued: "Besides this, what else is there?"
"There is also Wang Li. He hurried in half an hour ago and seemed to have picked up a cloth bag. After that, there was no movement inside!"
"Oh? You said Wang Li went in with a cloth bag?"
Li Fu raised his eyebrows: "Do you know what's in the cloth bag?"
"It was dark, so I couldn't see much clearly, but there was a faint smell of alcohol in the wind."
"Smells like alcohol?"
Li Fu's eyes flickered, and he suddenly remembered something.
After Yan Le read out the edict yesterday, in order to please Wang Li, he specially gave Wang Li two jars of wine.
Although Yan Le said it was to save their lives, but in Li Fu's view, if Meng Tian wanted to kill them, even Wang Li would not be able to save their lives.
Moreover, Wang Li might be the one who took action.
Therefore, Yan Le's approach made Li Fu very disdainful and at the same time very puzzled.
Now when he heard from the supervisor that Wang Li brought a cloth bag to see Fusu, and that the cloth smelled of wine, he couldn't help but have a frightening thought.
Yan Le may have betrayed Zhao Gao and Li Si.
That cloth bag is most likely Zhao Hao's secret letter.
Because Yan Le used to be Zhao Hao's subordinate.
Thinking of this possibility, Li Fu couldn't help but his heart beat wildly. He was afraid that Fusu would change his mind because of the secret letter, and he was even more afraid that he would become a sacrifice for Fusu's army to go south.
"No, I will never let Fusu change his mind about being called."
Li Fu, who became more and more frightened as he thought about it, couldn't help but murmur to himself.
Several supervisors on the side looked at each other in confusion.
After a while, Li Fulo said unexpectedly: "Apart from Wang Li, has Meng Tian ever been to Fusu's military tent?"
"No."
The supervisor in charge of the night watch shook his head, and then said in deep thought: "I guess, Sima didn't report the situation in Fusu's tent to Meng Tian in time."
"oh?"
Li Fu's eyes lit up and he couldn't help but asked with some doubts: "How did you guess?"
"Yesterday, when we came back with Fusu, Meng Tian came once and then left in a hurry. In the early hours of tonight, the camp gate opened and closed again. I speculate that Meng Tian should have left the camp."
"Is this true?"
"I don't dare to tell lies about what I saw and heard." This supervisor was very smart and neither gave a clear answer nor showed that he was lying.
Although Li Fu was very dissatisfied with such remarks, under the current situation, he could only gamble that Meng Tian was not in the camp.
Seeing that he was silent for a while, he waved his hand: "Let's go! Come with me!"
Li Fu's plan was: he had nothing to do with Meng Tian and simply ignored him. In this way, he might be able to paralyze Meng Tian and prevent them from causing trouble;
For Fusu, you must take advantage of his hesitation, sadness and confusion to pursue victory and never relax.
"stop!"
When Li Fu and others tried to force their way into Fusu's tent, a guard, Sima, stopped them sternly: "The general has ordered that no one be allowed to enter the prison camp!"
"presumptuous!"
Li Fu's face darkened: "We are under the emperor's order to supervise the imperial edict. Is the general's order more serious than the emperor's order?"
"this"
The guard Sima hesitated for a moment and then said seriously: "The special envoy has the power to supervise the edicts. You and other supervisors can just wait here for the special envoy. There is no need to overstep the mark!"
Li Fu's eyes lit up and he immediately took out his special envoy token: "I am the emperor's special envoy. Why don't you let me in to supervise the edict? Even if the general is here, he cannot disobey the emperor's order!"
The guard Sima was stunned for a moment, as if he didn't expect Li Fu to have a hand, he cupped his hands and said: "At present, General Wang Bi is supervising the army's retreat, General Rong Mo will report first!"
"please!"
Li Fu raised his hand with a calm expression, as if he was convinced that Wang Li was no match for him.
After all, he had been serving Li Si for many years and had seen and heard many strategies. When it came to conspiracies, he was still very confident.
Sure enough, within a moment, the guard Sima came out.
I saw him cupping his hands and saying: "Special envoy please!"
Soon, Li Fu and others arrived at the small courtyard outside Fusu's sleeping tent.
At this moment, the small courtyard was filled with soldiers wearing bright armor, surrounding Fusu's sleeping tent layer by layer, and no details inside could be seen.
"Who is coming?"
Wang Li, holding a three-foot sharp sword, stood solemnly on the stone steps and shouted.
Li Fu was not afraid at all, he stepped forward and cupped his hands and said, "Your Majesty has already joined General Wang. Will General Wang let you down?"
"snort!"
Wang Li snorted coldly and said noncommittally: "I pretended to be a special envoy of the imperial edict. What crime should I do?"
"This special envoy is a special envoy appointed by the emperor himself. The emperor has not ordered the revocation of my status as a special envoy. How can he say that he is impersonating?"
"What's the use of clever words and seductive people!"
Although Yan Le's behavior to please Wang Li was very suspicious, Li Fu did not dare to offend this Wang family tiger who had never dealt with him before and was legally in power, so he smiled and changed the subject:
"General Wang, this special envoy was ordered to supervise the edict. It is reasonable and legal. There should be no problem, right?"
"Since you are a special envoy, you should do what a special envoy should do and stop talking nonsense!"
Wang Li looked at Li Fu expressionlessly.
Li Fu was choked, but he was not angry. He directly arranged for the accompanying supervisors and officials to lay out the edict case in front of Wang Li. He took out the emperor's edict from the desk and recited it word by word. , until chanting to:
"Fusu is my eldest son. He is unfilial to his father and unfaithful to the country. Only by committing suicide to thank the world can he eliminate the hatred in my heart and the dissatisfaction of the people." When he said these words, Li Fu's voice rose a few times. He shouted almost at the top of his lungs.
Such a scene made Wang Li's teeth itch and he wished he could kill this bitch with a sword.
However, Li Fu pretended that nothing was wrong and shouted loudly after reading the edict:
"If the eldest son is truly a loyal minister and filial son, he should uphold the sanctity of Qin's laws and the sanctity of the emperor's orders!
If the eldest son does not obey the call, how can the world be stable?
The eldest son has not invited me again. Since he is setting an example for the world, how can he deliberately delay the implementation of the edict and act like a rebellious minister?
The eldest son violates the law and disobeys orders, which is a serious disaster for the country. The eldest son is willing to die."
"enough!"
Wang Li suddenly shouted loudly, rushed towards Li Fu, grabbed him by the collar, and said angrily: "If you shout again, I will kill you with one strike of my sword!"
"Okay, okay, this special envoy will stop shouting, stop shouting."
Li Fu was startled by Wang Li's sudden move and quickly gave in. He immediately ordered behind him: "According to the procedure, it's time to give the sword."
According to the laws of the Qin State, an edict ordering a sinner to commit suicide was usually a "sword of sin" specially given by the emperor. Because Meng Tian deliberately blocked it that day, the edict was read out, and the process of giving the sword was directly ignored. Now Li Fu is acting in accordance with the process, even though It was Wang Li, and he didn't dare to stop him too much.
Wang Li let go of Li Fu with a gloomy expression, and then looked at Li Fu's man, holding the 'Sword of Sin', and handed it to Fusu's guard Sima.
However, guard Sima took the 'Sword of Sin' and did not go in and hand it to Fusu. Instead, he stood there, motionless.
Li Fu wanted to remind Wang Li, but Wang Li waved his hand, and the soldiers who had originally surrounded Fu Su's sleeping tent immediately expanded outward.
Forced by this oppressive momentum, Li Fu could only leave the courtyard angrily.
However, they only left the small courtyard and did not leave Fusu's military tent.
"What should we do now, Special Envoy Li?"
A supervisor asked Li Fu worriedly.
Li Fu had a straight face, his brows furrowed into the character "Chuan", but he didn't say anything.
It wasn't until there was a sound of footsteps coming from Fusu's sleeping tent that he found his voice.
Fusu's long, wet hair was seen hanging around his shoulders, and he was wearing a wide, white, thick robe. After bathing, Fusu was no longer as sad and confused as before, as if he was a different person.
Oops!
Fusu's mood changed!
The moment Li Fu saw Fusu, his heart skipped a beat.
If Fusu had not been called upon to commit suicide, he would most likely have died in Jiuyuan.
Even if he doesn't die in Jiuyuan, he still cannot escape death when he returns to Xianyang.
no!
You must not sit still and wait for death!
Fusu must be forced to death!
Having made up his mind, Li Fu immediately stepped forward and held his hands in his hands, asking, "Is the eldest son going to disobey the emperor's order?"
"Um?"
Fusu was stunned for a moment, and then asked, "What does Special Envoy Li mean?"
"snort!"
Li Fu snorted coldly: "The edict has been read out in front of the eldest son, and the 'Sword of Sin' has also been handed over to the eldest son. Why did the eldest son delay the implementation of the edict?"
"I'm going to see Special Envoy Yan to confirm some things. I'm not deliberately delaying the implementation of the edict!"
Fusu said calmly.
Li Fu's face darkened, thinking that Yan Le had indeed betrayed Zhao Gao and Li Si, and was colluding with Fu Su and Zhao Hao.
Once they start colluding with each other, as Li Si's confidant, he will definitely die.
Thinking of this possibility, Li Fu shouted loudly again: "Fusu, as the eldest son of the emperor, by openly resisting the law, are you trying to start a country in chaos and bring shame to your ancestors?"
"this"
Fusu's heart was shaken and he stopped talking.
He is a sincere and loyal man.
Whether as an important minister on the border or as a son of man, he can well implement the belief that "if the king wants his ministers to die, the ministers have to die; if the father wants the son to die, the son has to die".
This is also the reason why he committed suicide because of an edict in history.
He has lived in the shadow of the First Emperor all his life. He has a fragile heart and does not like repeated entangled power struggles.
He wanted to be the eldest son of the First Emperor who believed in others and was a brave man, and he also wanted to be a person with self-belief.
When his loyalty to his father conflicts with his own beliefs, he will be hesitant and full of sadness.
This is a flaw in his character and the reason why he is destined to embark on that path of no return.
So, now that he heard Li Fu's words, he began to feel sad again, and his tears couldn't stop flowing out.
"Disobeying orders and violating the law will bring disaster to the country and the people. Even if Fusu died, he would not violate the law and bring shame to his ancestors."
Fusu choked with sobs, raised his head and shouted: "Bring me the sword!"
"Eldest Young Master——!"
Wang Li was startled and wanted to stop Fusu.
Li Fu on the side said with a stern voice: "Wang Li! You are rebelling against the Yi tribe. If you don't think about yourself, you must also think about the Wang family!"
"It's none of your business!"
Wang Li stepped forward and kicked Li Fu directly to the ground.
At this time, the guard Sima had already taken the sword.
"No, eldest son!"
Wang Li quickly hugged Fusu.
Fusu said nothing, picked up the sword and struck it across his neck.
At this critical moment, Wang Li shouted again; "Eldest Young Master, do you not care about Young Master Hao's life or death?!"
"Um?"
Fusu's heart was shocked, and he suddenly woke up a little, and put his strong hand on his neck.
At this time, a blood mark had been cut on the neck, and the blood flowed down the collar and infected the snow-white robe.
Li Fu, who was originally in pain and happiness, suddenly changed his face. He lay on the ground and shouted hoarsely: "Fusu is under the imperial edict——!"
Buzz!
Fusu's mind went blank and he didn't know how to make a decision.
It is true that he is a loyal, filial and sincere eldest son of the First Emperor, but in the three years since he was demoted to Jiuyuan by his father, he did many things that he had never thought of before, and he was very happy to do them.
The person who changed all this was none other than his beloved brother.
Fusu likes this younger brother in her heart, even though he has many younger brothers and sisters.
But this younger brother will always be the most special one.
He is timid, but also very responsible. He is weak, but he can always do great things.
Like himself, he doesn't like power struggles and just wants to do what he wants.
He seems to be only fifteen years old this year
Thinking of Zhao Hao's handwritten secret letter, Fusu instantly realized that he could not die yet. He had to protect his younger brother. Even if his father gave him death, he could not let his younger brother die.
Seeing Fusu slowly put down the long sword in his hand, Li Fu's heart dropped to the bottom of his heart.
At this time, he could no longer care about so much and shouted angrily: "Everyone will punish the rebellious ministers and traitors. The eldest son does not respect the laws of Qin, defies the emperor's orders, and brings disaster to all the other sons. It is not a pity to die!"
"What did you say!?"
Fusu glared at Li Fu.
Li Fu got up and laughed ferociously: "The eldest son rebelled against the imperial edict and violated the law. Young Master Hao and the eldest son are in cahoots with each other. According to the crime, the car will be torn apart!"
"Asshole!"
When Fusu heard Li Fu say that he wanted to 'break the car' with Zhao Hao, his eyes instantly turned red and he rushed towards Li Fu angrily.
"Eldest Young Master——!"
Wang Li was stumbled by Fusu's sudden force and subconsciously pushed forward.
The snow was slippery, and Fusu staggered, holding a sharp sword and stabbing forward.
Hearing a 'pop' sound, Li Fu, who was standing in front of Fusu, instantly opened his eyes wide and looked at Fusu with disbelief.
As soon as Fusu stabilized his body, he realized something was wrong and couldn't help but look up: "Li, Special Envoy Li, I, I" (End of Chapter)
