"I believe you." Zhao Gao said with a smile, and then raised his hand to touch the baby's head. This place was a bit cramped, and the doll subconsciously shrank back, completely leaning against the bookshelf. The thick bookshelf filled with bamboo slips was slightly shaken by his impact.
Zhao Gao's actions made him furious again: "You...why do you always touch my head? When I was still outside the palace, I heard...I heard from the neighbor's aunt that if you keep touching your head, you won't grow taller. You, you?" You are not allowed to touch."
Upon hearing this, Zhao Gao's hand froze in place and stopped moving for a long time. The call girl thought he was rejecting him and felt unhappy. The doll scratched his head, patted his stiff hand, and explained a little at a loss: "It's not that I hate you, but I'm afraid that I won't grow taller in the future."
In fact, the calmness on the surface was just an illusion. Zhao Gao had been holding back laughter in his heart for a long time, fearing that the secret would be revealed if he moved, so he froze, waiting to suppress his emotions before speaking. And the reason why I like to touch his head is actually because of his bun.
In this era, it was popular for children to comb their hair into two buns, shaped like two horns, so they were called: total horns.
He also said that today, the doll in front of him had the same hairstyle. He was fighting with someone. Although the two buns were not completely scattered, hairs sprouted in many places. They looked furry and very cute. It's also fluffy when applied and feels particularly good in the hand. Coupled with Yuxue's cute face, Zhao Gao couldn't help but take the opportunity to rub it a few more times.
When the baby misunderstood and rushed to explain, he murmured back: "It feels comfortable to touch." However, the voice was very low, and the baby did not hear clearly: "What did you say?"
Zhao Gao realized that he was losing his temper. In order to cover up, he kept silent for a moment and deliberately changed the subject: "Yes, I understand. But being touched on the head shows that you are popular, and it will not affect your growth."
"But...but the aunt next door said this in front of my mother that day, and she didn't deny it." Zhao Gao found it interesting and began to coax the little white rabbit further without changing his expression: "Then look at what I am doing now. Who is taller among you?"
"Of course it's you." The doll said honestly. Zhao Gao curled his lips and said, "That's right. When I was a child, I was often touched on the head by my neighbor's aunt. Haven't I grown so tall?"
"So you were very popular when you were a child?" Zhao Gao couldn't help but laugh. The baby's thoughts were a little off-topic, and the point seemed to be missing. But that was all in the last life. In the last life, there were many aunts and uncles in the family, and they were often "bullied" like this. But in this life, there are only father and mother...
Thinking of the situation he had traveled through, Zhao Gao felt a little lonely.
"It turns out you were cheated...then bow your head." The words he muttered at the beginning turned into a simple order to Zhao Gao. Zhao Gao was thinking about something and didn't know what he was going to do. He forgot to refuse in a daze.
He bowed his head as he was told, and the doll stood up on tiptoes like a little adult and imitated him, patted his head and said, "Thank you for today's business."
Zhao Gao, a good young man who was more than thirty years old in two lifetimes, was actually patted on the head by an old-fashioned boy who was only four or five years old. He was a little stunned for a moment. However, when the child made this unintentional move at this time, he felt an unexpected light warmth.
Forget it, it's over now, why bother thinking about your homeland anymore! Zhao Gao comforted himself in his heart.
After thinking about this, he remembered that he still had something to ask, and then he collected his emotions and said seriously: "I forgot to ask, how did the young gentleman get into trouble with the young master Qian [1]?"
The mention of Zhao Qian's doll made him angry, and he snorted disdainfully: "Zhao Qian is used to being arrogant and domineering, so naturally he likes to bully others. Others are afraid of him, but I am not afraid, so..."
So if you are used to being submissive, it will naturally feel fresh when you meet someone who dares to resist.
What Wawa didn't say was that Zhao Qian often humiliated him in front of his mother. His mother watched helplessly, feeling sorry for her son but not daring to stop him for fear of angering Zhao Qian. If Zhao Qian went too far, his mother would only dare to beg in a low voice and would never dare to disobey him in the slightest.
The mother and son can survive to this day entirely because of the help from their mother's family and their extremely humble and low-key life. If they can't help it at this time, their days as mother and son will be over.
Speaking of which, Zhao Qian is the little overlord of the Zhao Palace. He has always done whatever he wants with the favor of King Zhao. In fact, in the final analysis, he was just a concubine, and this concubine was very despised by the ministers of Zhao State, just because his mother was a prostitute.
Since she was born as a virgin, she could just live her life humbly and submissively in the palace, but who knew that she was very good at pleasing King Zhao. Not to mention the sultry tricks on the bed when the moon is dark and the wind is high, not to mention the prostitute's ability to play the harp and sing songs under the blue sky and in the daytime.
What's more, when it comes to appearance, she is not the best in King Zhao's palace, but with that charm that penetrates to her bones, she can make King Zhao lose three souls and lose seven souls with just one smile.
If it weren't for the fact that there was a wife who was being married by a matchmaker in front of Chongqi, and there was a legitimate Crown Prince Jia in front of Zhao Qian, with Chongqi's spirit and Zhao Qian's temper, the mother and son would have dominated the entire Zhao palace and could do whatever they wanted. No.
The baby was being bullied by such a person, so it's no wonder that the baby's mother had to swallow his anger.
However, Zhao Gao only thought that the baby was born to a concubine who was not favored by some young master, but he did not know that there was another mystery to the baby's identity.
However, he himself had heard the identity of the doll from his grandmother and elder father [2], and sometimes he was very doubtful as to whether it was true or not.
It is said that his Aweng was a guest from the Qin State. When he was two years old, he returned to the Qin State because of something else.
But later, Wawa accidentally heard another story: when Qin general Wang Lu besieged Handan, Zhao wanted to take out their anger on Aweng, who was serving as a hostage in Zhao. In order to survive, Aweng, under Lu Buwei's careful arrangement, left their orphans behind. The widowed mother fled back to the State of Qin, and there has been no news of her departure to this day.
So all these years, the baby and his mother could only rely on the power of their mother's family to hide in Tibet. Until the storm subsided not long ago, the baby's mother felt that she had escaped the disaster that year, and was planning to start a new life openly, while waiting for the unlucky one. The man who knew whether he would still think of their mother and son would take them back to Qin.
But who knew that Jiuding would enter the Qin Dynasty last month, completely disrupting all the arrangements of their mother and son.
Jiuding took advantage of the Qin State, and the Zhao State monarchs and ministers were really unhappy. They had already greeted the Qin State monarchs and ministers all over, and even had all the shops in Handan put up signs saying "Qin people and dogs are not allowed to enter." But even after all this trouble, it was nothing more than a quick show of words. In the end, the people of Qin in the west were still living happily.
Therefore, in order to vent the unhappiness stagnating in their hearts, they turned to target the baby mother and son in Zhao State. In this way, they were imprisoned in Zhao Palace as bargaining chips. Although it was just a confinement, thinking that their orphans and widowed mothers had never abused them, but for some reason, the special identity of the doll reached Zhao Qian's ears. Zhao Qian naturally would not let go of this opportunity to bully others, so their life It’s not easy.
Zhao Qian was bored when he was wandering around today, so he came to stir up trouble again. Wabuyu's mother felt sad when she saw it, so she lured Zhao Qian outside, and the two had a one-on-one fight. As a result, Zhao Qian was defeated, and he became angry and called the guards. The baby ran away for a while, and then he was caught by Zhao Gao, and what happened today happened.
After thinking about the matter, the baby raised his head and noticed the bamboo slips that Zhao Gao had just put aside in a hurry. He took it in his hand. After looking at it for a long time, the baby threw the bamboo slips back to Zhao Gao angrily: "This old man has a bad tone. "
At this point, Zhao Gao was amazed: Can a four or five-year-old child understand the meaning of this? "Can you understand?" Zhao Gao asked strangely.
"I can... uh... I can't understand everything. I don't understand a lot of things, but I understand the bad things the old man said about Zhang Zi and Xishou [3]!" At the end of the sentence, the doll folded his hands in front of his chest and said: He made a dissatisfied "hum" sound.
The voice of the four- or five-year-old baby was the softest. No matter how angry he pretended to be tough, he still sounded soft. Coupled with that serious and cute expression, Zhao Gao couldn't help but laugh out loud.
The volume Zhao Gao took today was "The Second Era of Teng Wen Gong", and what Wawa mentioned was Mencius's views on Zhang Yi and Gongsun Yan. Here Mencius said that Zhang Yi, Gongsun Yan and others played the role of concubines to cater to the king, which was shameful. It was this part that made the doll extremely unhappy.
"Do you know these two people?" Zhao Gao asked casually, not expecting the baby to really understand them. "Well, although I lived in exile outside the palace in the past, my eldest father thought that I had a special status, so he asked my husband to teach me how to read. At that time, my husband told me the story of these two people."
"What do you think of Zhang Zi?" Zhao Gao thought it was interesting, so he asked further. When he asked the question like this, the baby suddenly became serious. She buried her head and thought about it carefully, and said with certainty: "Zhang Zi is naturally a very powerful person, but the old man Mencius actually said that he was wrong. It's okay not to read this kind of book."
The little doll family loves to practice hero worship, and their stance is firmer than a rock, and no one will be allowed to shake it, so the more they talk, the more indignant they become.
Seeing Zhao Gao, he was noncommittal. The baby was anxious: "Don't you think that's the case?" Seeing the serious look on his face, he said, "If you don't agree with us, we will break off our friendship."
Zhao Gao was amused in his heart and tried to persuade him with gentle words: "It is true that Master Meng's words seem to be self-proclaimed, but it is human nature to think that one is right and others are wrong. Putting aside this point, there is something in the book There are many things that are worthy of praise. If you deny everything he has just because of some of his opinions that are different from yours, then you are making a big mistake out of a small gain."
"What you said seems to make some sense, so... ok. I can't understand all the things here now. I will tell you when I understand them later." Wawa said a little embarrassed. However, as soon as the words were spoken, the doll remembered something and scratched his head: "No, now that I have been brought into the palace, no one will teach me how to read. If I don't know how to read, I can't fully understand it. What should I do..."
The baby was almost whispering when he said it, and Zhao Gao didn't hear it very clearly. Suddenly his eyes lit up, he looked at Zhao Gao, and asked sincerely and a little cautiously: "Um... can you teach me?" Ordinarily, Wawa's personality is not so easy to get close to people, but for some reason, when faced with Zhao Gao would put down all his guard unconsciously.
Zhao Gao did not expect that the doll would trust him so much. After all, to the doll, he was just a stranger whom he had met for the first time. He couldn't help but ask: "Do you really believe me?"
"Anyway, you said it just now, I can only believe you." Wa Wa was quick-minded and after making up his mind, in order to achieve his goal, he used Zhao Gao's previous words to kill him, making him laugh and cry.
Looking into the baby's moist eyes, Zhao Gao couldn't say anything else if he refused. It shouldn't be a big deal if you just teach him a few words, right? Zhao Gao thought in his heart.
"Okay, I promise you."
At this time, Zhao Gao didn't know the identity of the baby, and he never thought that such a casual decision would completely affect his future life...
