This was Zhao Gao's first time riding in an ox cart. Although only one of the panels was open and it was a bit bumpy, it was still an experience. After all, ordinary people couldn't even ride in an ox cart. At this moment, the young man explained: "My master has temporarily changed his mind and wants to go back to the house. He doesn't dare to let you go back now. He will wait until he comes with me to inform you and see what the master wants."
How dare people not bow their heads under the eaves? What objection could Zhao Gao have? Continue to bask in the sun on the bullock cart, enjoy the breeze, look at the scenery, and rock slowly. Just like that, the car slowly stopped in a place. When Zhao Gao saw a gold plaque on the door, his breath froze, the corner of his mouth twitched, and he thought: Can't be such a coincidence?
"Please come in with me." The house was surprisingly large. The young man led him in from the side door and passed through several corridors and a double passage before arriving at a courtyard with three entrances.
Looking from the open door of the main room, there is a large floor-to-ceiling screen covered with gold and jade. There is a copper lamp with complicated workmanship and exquisite design at the left and right ends below it. The lamp body is the graceful figure of a young girl, the drag tray is the girl's slender hands, and the half-covered clothes on the girl's body are decorated with complicated gold threads. Right in front is a bronze square tripod with Taotie patterns, also decorated with gold patterns. The style is clearly different from the simple and heavy aesthetics of the Warring States Period, showing the owner's... unique taste.
These are just the things placed in the most conspicuous places. Apart from these, there are also many treasures displayed in this room, such as a nanmu sword stand in the shape of a green dragon with red lacquer and mysterious patterns inlaid with gold on the corners, and a bronze sword inlaid with eighteen gems. , a bed of exquisitely carved beasts with black and red lines, a white jade jade that is wider than the face... In short, they are mostly things that are either dazzlingly colorful or dazzling. Zhao Gao was dazzled by the dazzling array of treasures, so he simply lowered his head and stopped looking.
After the waiter announced outside the door, Ersan came out soon.
"My master is feeling unhappy today, so you have to be careful what you say. Come in." Hearing this, Zhao Gao said, "I am just a plaything that can play chess. I am not here to play chess. If you are in a bad mood, you will come in." do what?
He closed his eyes and sighed peacefully, then finally raised his legs and walked in. Coincidentally, a middle-aged man also came out of the inner room at this moment. The thin dark blue dark clothes with moiré brocade trim on his body were hung loosely on his body, which could barely cover his body. He must have just finished some kind of exercise. , it came out.
In comparison, Zhao Gao's clothes on the side were too plain.
At this moment, he sat down on the soft couch, with his left leg on the edge of the couch, his left hand on that leg to support his head, his right leg on the ground, and his hand on his thigh to support it. Seeing this, the anger in my heart is still not exhausted.
If he were placed in the era of smoking in later generations, he would have to light up a cigarette and puff out smoke to pretend to be serious. Zhao Gao thought about this and recalled the whispers of the civil servants about him just now, and unconsciously the corner of his mouth twitched again.
After he saluted, he found that the other party didn't notice him, and it seemed that he walked out just to take a rest, not to see him. It seemed that at this time, it would be better to just be a companion. Fortunately, Zhao Gao was a man who could take his time. Since the other party didn't speak, he was content and content, standing aside without any movement, thinking about things endlessly.
For example, I saw something interesting in the book yesterday. The day before yesterday, Youshi boasted to the officials about his ancestors' demeanor and was ridiculed by Ji Tan. For example, he suddenly discovered that this room is not all filled with tacky items. Now, The floor-standing bronze white tiger lamp beside Zhao Gao is made thick and generous, quite in the style of the Warring States Period...
In short, the middle-aged man didn't say anything, so Zhao Gao had plenty of time to spend with him.
But unfortunately, the middle-aged man was still angry and murmured to himself: "I, Guo Kai [1], am also a dignified doctor of the Zhao Kingdom. Isn't he just a acting prime minister with some military exploits [2]? After all, You’re not serious, you’re just so arrogant!”
Zhao Gao's heart skipped a beat when he heard the word "Guo Kai", and the veins on his forehead suddenly jumped up. Sure enough it was him...
This Guo Kai has a really bad reputation in the court, but he is the former companion of King Zhao. The two of them hang out together all day long, and their relationship is extraordinary. He can also understand King Zhao's thoughts very well, which makes him very popular. Happy.
For example, today he can accompany King Zhao to study the Eighteen Styles of Imperial Concubine, and tomorrow he can go to collect a new female concubine technique for Prince Zhao. In short, those tricks, three hundred and sixty-five days a year, are absolutely perfect. You can promise King Zhao that nothing will be the same every day. Also because of their tacit understanding in private, his position in the court was as stable as a rock.
It can be said that the word "Guo Kai" is known to everyone in Zhao State. Even children of four or five years old are rushing to sing: "Rotten eggs, rotten, not worth the rotten rice of Jinyang!" He is Jinyang native, that "Jinyang bad rice rice" is just scolding him in a roundabout way, which shows what kind of thing this person is.
What's more, even the people of Zhao State don't know yet, Guo Kai will have great achievements in the future. Although Zhao Gao doesn't know the whole story, he roughly knows that Zhao State died in his hands. Therefore, this person seems to be as famous as the real Zhao Gao. One of them defeated Qin, the other defeated Zhao, both of them did a very good job.
Now, with the two of them in the same room, it was completely a "meeting" between two treacherous ministers, and they were just short of reaching a friendly consensus to "disrupt the country's internal affairs." So thinking of these, the veins on Zhao Gao's forehead jumped again and again. Many years later, when Zhao Guo died, Zhao Gao still sighed with regret when he recalled the unique meeting scene between the two of them.
"Why are you here?" Guo Kai looked at Zhao Gao and asked with a sinister expression. "It was the second and third boys who told Zhao Gao to come in." Zhao Gao said truthfully. At this time, Guo Kai remembered that Ersan, who was fighting in full swing, came in and asked something, but he didn't hear it clearly. He seemed to have nodded.
At this time, the room was eerily silent. The gold-plated maid's copper lamp shone on the person, illuminating the silhouette of the person on the ground. It happened that the wind came in from outside and blew the flames out, making the atmosphere even more depressing. Get up, if someone else stood in front of Guo Kai like this, his legs would be shaking with fear. Thanks to Zhao Gao's good attitude, he lowered his head slightly and waited calmly.
"Forget it, let's go." Zhao Gao was a little surprised. Why was he so talkative today? However, his face was calm and he said calmly: "Yes, Zhao Gao is resigning." Unexpectedly, he was stopped again before he took two steps: "Wait a minute." Zhao Gao turned around calmly, bowed in a neither humble nor overbearing manner and asked: " Sir [3], do you have any other instructions?”
"Did you hear what I said just now?" Guo Kai's tone was very calm, but it could bring out that weird effect. Zhao Gao looked confused and murmured, "Did you speak just now?" Guo Kai looked at the stunned and innocent look and thought he really didn't say anything.
At this time, by chance, a seductive cry came from the inner room, and the fire in Guo Kaixin suddenly started to burn again. He didn't bother to look at Zhao Gao anymore, and hurriedly pulled off the loose robe. With the clothes on his body, he rushed into the inner room in a mighty manner and wanted to fight it for another three hundred rounds.
Zhao Gao came out, looked up at the sky, sighed inaudibly, and thought to himself: It's so dangerous. After returning to Taishi Mansion, Zhao Gao went to Langhuan Pavilion first. He saw that there was still some time before work in the afternoon. The baby did not wait for him to come at noon, so he looked there quietly and consciously... Oh, he was already asleep. I thought it was "Lao Huai" was so comforted that he was speechless and choked.
However, he lost all his shrewdness when he saw the baby sleeping. He put one small hand on his belly, holding a book in the other, and opened and closed his mouth, which made him look like he had white hair on his belly, which was lazy and fluffy. The little beast looked innocent, and a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.
Zhao Gao casually picked up the piece of wood that he had given to the baby to remember things for a while, and found that there were some serious reflections written on the front, such as: "I heard that King Kuai of Yan followed Yao's example and ceded the world to Xu You and handed over the control of the country to his son. , I deeply feel that it is unreachable. It is true that the way of governing has never changed, but Xiao Gao once said that the way of governing must change with the times. I think it is very appropriate to apply it here. The world of the country today is different from the world of Tang Yao... Yan If the country wants to reform, it must follow..."
But Zhao Gao accidentally turned to the back and saw that it was scrawled on it: "Although Confucius is very pedantic, he is also very cute sometimes." Zhao Gao accidentally let the word "cute" slip in front of him. Unexpectedly, the doll turned out to be... Picked it up.
Zhao Gao then looked down: "Shang Jun [4] is better. The way to strengthen a country is more practical than Confucius and Meng." "Mozi is a strange old man, but he still has some talents. We will use him to study in the future." ...Such "complaints" simply made Zhao Gao dumbfounded. In short, there is a real contrast between the positive and negative aspects.
Seeing that he was asleep and couldn't bear to wake him up, Zhao Gao was afraid that the child would catch a cold with the window open, so he closed the window for him gently, took off his coat and put it on him, then picked up the carving knife on the side and cut it on him. At the end of those complaints, he wrote: "Go back and copy "Mozi" again" before leaving quietly.
The next day, Zhao Gao was eating in the dining hall when he suddenly heard someone coming in and saying loudly: "King Zhao is marching to Guandong. In just a few days, the Qin army captured several cities in our Zhao country. Even South Korea and Wei were killed by surprise." , losing several cities in a row. At this moment, the Qin army's momentum is unstoppable, and the three Jin Dynasties [5] are all in chaos."
As soon as these words came out, the dining hall suddenly became noisy. After Zhao Gao listened thoughtfully and finished eating, he went to Langhuan Pavilion. Unexpectedly, he waited around but didn't see the baby. After waiting for another day, the doll also did not appear.
At first I thought something might have delayed me, but after waiting for a long time the next day and still not seeing anyone, I felt something was wrong. With the doll's resilience, it was impossible for him to stop coming to class just for a trivial matter. Zhao Gao wanted to go to his home to look for him, but he was stopped by Ji Tan before he even left the Taishi Mansion.
On the third day, I went to Wawa's house to look for people, only to find that both mother and son were missing, and there were signs of being rummaged through and pushed around in the house. He felt anxious and uneasy, but for a moment he didn't know what to do.
We don’t even know the identities of their mother and son, so how can we know what happened to them?
That night, Zhao Gao tossed and turned on the bed for a long time, unable to fall asleep, so he called Wang Chong and Zhang Xian to talk about the matter and asked them what they thought. Wang Chong and Zhang Xian never knew that Zhao Gao would have such an adventure in Langhuan Pavilion. They were still sleepy at first, but they woke up a lot in a moment. However, there was nothing they could do for a while, so they had to comfort them first. Him: If you wait a little longer, maybe you’ll be back in two more days?
At noon on the fourth day, Zhao Gao was thinking about the safety of their mother and son. He was in a daze while eating and didn't even pay attention to what was said around him. If Wang Chong hadn't suddenly poked him with his elbow, he would have been in a trance. He looked at Wang Chong with some hesitation, and the latter motioned to him to listen to the pornographic content being discussed around him.
"I heard that the king ordered the Qin concubine and his mother to be imprisoned four days ago, and is waiting for the court meeting tomorrow to announce their execution in front of all the ministers to boost morale," someone said. The other bookkeeper was very angry when he heard this: "A country with thousands of majesties wants to take revenge on a pair of helpless orphans and widowed mothers for its hatred of other countries? Oh, wouldn't it be ridiculous to tell it!"
Of course, some people support King Zhao's idea: "With false benevolence and righteousness, his Qin cavalry trampled on our borders, killed our soldiers, and injured our innocent people. We just touched one of their women and a concubine, and used their blood to inflate the morale of the army." , to pay homage to the souls of the dead. How come they are despised by other countries if they use the other's method and return the favor to the other's body? Then Zhao Ji and Zhao Zheng kill them as young as they are, what's the point?"
etc! Just now I said... Zhao Zheng, Zhao Ji, Qin Guo?
"My mother and the others all call me Ah Zheng," this is what the baby said to him a few months ago.
Qin State, Zhao family... Ying surname... name Zheng... together they are Ying Zheng.
So the baby I taught for several months was actually Qin Shihuang Ying Zheng who was held hostage in Zhao State!
Like a bolt from the blue, Zhao Gao's eyelids jumped three times when he was shocked by the news. The hand that was holding the chopsticks to pick up the food froze in place. The words were stuck in his throat and he was in a daze. He couldn't say a word. After that, the officials said He could no longer listen to arguments.
Zhao Gao was so calm and calm that even Wang Chong and Zhang Xian could not match him. This was the first time they had seen this situation. They didn't understand that Zhao Gao was just secretly teaching Qin's protons, so why did he lose his composure like this?
In the past, Zhao Gao knew that the baby's family name was "Zhao" and was called "Zhao Zheng". He was not associated with Qin Shihuang, just because he came from more than two thousand years later. People more than two thousand years later used to call Qin Shihuang "Ying". The word "politics" is written like this even in middle and high school textbooks.
According to the pre-Qin naming convention, men were called by their surname instead of their surname, so he completely ignored that the correct name should be "Zhao Zheng".
Just because the word "Ying Zheng" has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people for so many years, and he once thought that the baby was the child of a concubine of a prince in the Zhao Kingdom who was not favored, let alone the child of the Qin Kingdom.
Now it seems that it was not a coincidence that the baby's eldest father found him a Qin man as his husband, but it was deliberate. Learning Qin characters and speaking Qin dialect was also his eldest father's expectation for him in the future. "I want to be their king." I remember when the doll said this to him, he laughed it off. Looking back now, it is clear...
Zhao Gao traveled through time, and his goal was to become a "civil servant" in the Qin State, which would be able to dominate the world in the future. What he didn't expect was that a baby he casually agreed to teach would turn out to be his future boss, the one emperor through the ages - Qin Shihuang.
After spending so long with a famous figure in history, he didn't notice it at all. He had not expected the current change, so he was shocked and found it difficult to digest, so he lost his composure.
Recently, I first learned the identity of the middle-aged man, and then the identity of the doll, and the weight of the news became heavier each time. It happened that these two people were closely related to him, so it was like two thunders exploding from the ground, one after another, which shocked Zhao Gao a little at a loss.
At this time, he was in a mess and walked out of the dining hall in a daze. Wang Chong and Zhang were worried and insisted on dragging him back to the left room to let him sober up before making plans. Unexpectedly, Zhao Gao was captured after only a few steps. Summoned.
