"The envoy of Qin enters the palace." Following the announcement from the eunuch next to King Zhao, the envoy of Qin slowly walked into the palace holding a banner [1]. He walked to the palace and stood there, holding the banner and bowing. He said: "Qin's envoy Jingsu has met King Zhao." King Zhao wanted to destroy the prestige of Qin and deliberately did not answer his words to see what he would do. The courtiers watched his words and kept silent in cooperation with their own king.
Unexpectedly, after Jingsu finished speaking, he was silent for a moment. When King Zhao didn't answer, he straightened up. King Zhao curled his lips, and he took the bait, and took the lead in attacking: "Is it possible that the Qin envoys didn't learn etiquette before leaving Qin?" After King Zhao finished speaking, there was a burst of laughter, and many ministers followed their own words. The king's words mocked Jing Su:
"In the land of tigers and wolves, what kind of etiquette can we talk about?"
"Haha, is it possible that you Qin people are still uncivilized like wearing hair and drinking blood?"
"I know a Confucian scholar from Qilu. If you are interested in learning etiquette, I will wholeheartedly recommend him to you."
Jingsu was eight feet long, with a Chinese character face and a beautiful beard. At this moment, he was standing in the hall with his eyes closed and his heart calm, caressing the ox tail on the banner. Being ridiculed in this way in the main hall, his great husband's generosity was not the same. After the ministers had shut up in frustration, they calmly resisted and sarcastically said: "So this is the style of the State of Zhao. !”
"What do you mean?" Someone asked angrily, unable to sit still. Jing Su sneered and said: "The envoy came to pay homage, but the king pretended not to accept it. This is one. The envoy did not say anything first, but the ministers made sarcastic comments. This is the second. The strong wind in the Zhao Kingdom is fully displayed here. Jingsu admires his hospitality!" After saying that, he bowed deeply again.
Everyone in the Zhao Kingdom was so choked that their faces turned red and red, but he was not complacent because of it and did not want to dwell on this issue anymore. He took out a piece of silk from his sleeve, held it in his hand and said: "The letter of the new king and the country Enter." King Zhao reluctantly hooked his hand, and someone came to Jing Su to take the certificate of credence and present it to him. After he unfolded it and took a look, he immediately photographed it on the case: "I, Zhao Ren, can't understand the word Qin."
Seeing this, Jingsu smiled instead of being annoyed. He twitched the corner of his mouth and carefully took out another piece of silk. Su Dai Nian." King Zhao had no intention of quarreling with him anymore. He held the piece of silk he had just held before shaking it with his thumb and forefinger and asked, "Wait a minute, what is this letter?"
Jingsu took a step forward and looked at it carefully and carefully. After a long while, he suddenly realized: "King Zhao, please forgive me. It must be a naughty Gongsun who hid his calligraphy silk silk in Jingsu's sleeve while Jingsu was not paying attention." In." King Zhao pointed at him angrily: "You..." Before he could finish speaking, Jing Su straightened his expression and raised his voice to read the credentials. He did not want to lose the dignity of the king, nor did he dare to really offend him. The Qin envoy had no choice but to suppress his anger.
The content of the credential is mostly high-sounding words, but it is just a formality. Everyone understands that it means to tell you: I, the new king of Qin, have ascended the throne, and everyone must "get along well with each other" in the future. After Jingsu finished reciting, he still remembered the prince's private entrustment before leaving, so he added: "My grandson has been a hostage in Zhao for many years. Now the prince misses his son very much. If the king is willing to fulfill his loving father's heart, , the prince is willing to offer it with ten thousand gold."
"Your grandson is smart and generous. My queen loves him so much that she can't bear to return to Qin. Even if I have ten thousand gold, I can't bear to take away my wife's love." Jing Su brought up the love between father and son, and King Zhao brought up the love between husband and wife. He was prevaricating. At the moment, he had no choice but to mutter with some embarrassment: "This...even if I can't bring Gongsun back, no matter what, I would like to ask the king to let Jingsu meet him. When Jingsu returns to Qin, he can explain something to the prince." .”
This time, seeing that Jingsu had a good attitude and didn't bother him, King Zhao saved him the trouble of finding reasons and readily agreed: "It's not difficult. Come and bring an envoy to see Gongsun."
Here Jingsu followed the eunuch to the place, only to find that there was a doll there, but it was not the one they wanted to see. "Where did Gongsun really go?" Jing Su asked the eunuch righteously, grabbing the lapel of his clothes. The eunuch thought that he had picked up a hot potato, and feared that it would be difficult to explain to both parties. He shivered with fear and hurriedly winked at the person. Go and inform your king.
Immediately afterwards, King Zhao hurriedly ordered the search for the person, and the guards turned the Zhao Palace upside down. Seeing that he couldn't find anyone after struggling for several hours, Jingsu said: "Your country is so courageous, and you are not afraid of being despised by other countries even if you kill a young hostage. Jingsu recorded it on behalf of the prince of the country." Before Zhao Guo could wait, After this explanation, he angrily threw away his sleeves.
After leaving the palace, Jingsu returned to the posthouse to join his men. He heard his men whisper in his ear: "The deputy envoy has received Gongsun and sent someone to send him back to the west." He said calmly. He nodded and ordered: "You tell them to keep going non-stop. Someone will pick them up after entering the customs. I have to stay and walk slowly to show off."
In fact, all this was Zhao Gao's plan. After talking to the baby that day, he took the sign and went out of the palace to find Guo Kai that night. After that, Guo Kai hurriedly took the people out of the palace before King Zhao remembered their mother and son, and found someone with similar body shape and appearance to hold them up for several days. At the same time, Guo Kai inquired about the situation of the envoy from Qin State, and learned that Jingsu was indeed entrusted by a foreigner, so he hurriedly communicated with him before Jingsu entered the palace to hand over his credentials.
Before leaving, Jingsu met Zhao Gao, who had just returned from outside the city, as he wished. When he had not seen the person before, Jingsu didn't quite believe him. After seeing him, he twirled his long beard with satisfaction and praised "the descendants are formidable." This time, the two parties cooperated perfectly. Not only did they successfully take the mother and son out of the city as Zhao Gao and Guo Kai wanted, but they also followed Jing Su's own wishes and found an opportunity to mess up Zhao Wang's palace before leaving. Thinking about it this way, the young man's move to escape from his golden cicada's shell can be regarded as the best of both worlds.
Two hours ago, on the outskirts of Handan.
On the shore of the Zhu River, the west wind rustles and the fallen leaves rustle. Behind him were four plainclothes soldiers. Seeing that he had completely escaped from the Zhao Palace where he had been imprisoned for nearly five years, and was about to return to the Qin Kingdom that he had longed for for a long time, he could not be happy at all, so he was about to part with Zhao Gao at this moment. , the sorrow of separation is stagnant in the chest, and the heart is really depressed.
While he and Zhao Gao were speechless, someone suddenly came forward on horseback, looking not in the direction of Handan, but in the direction of Qin State to the west. "The king has died and a new king has been established. Send a message to Jingsu quickly and replace it with a new credential." Everyone was at a loss as to why the credential had just been delivered to the Zhao palace and a new credential came. Only Zhao Gao knew that the King of Qin passed away within three days of his official reign, and immediately after that, a stranger named Zi Chu came to the throne.
After the messenger finished explaining, everyone bowed three times to the west. When they looked at the baby who didn't know that he was the eldest son yet, their eyes were a little complicated. Gongsun... oh no, he is now called the eldest son, the eldest son. What a blessing. Before I could return home, my identity had undergone a huge change.
After someone was found here to bring a new envoy into the city to find Jingsu, both sides of the Zhu River became quiet again. Zhao Gao was heartily happy for the baby. He gracefully raised his hand to tuck a stray strand of hair behind his ear, patted his shoulder and congratulated him warmly: "Now, you are the Young Master of Qin." There is no ripple in this child's heart. For him, there is no difference between Gongsun and Young Master at the moment.
But he didn't want to worry Zhao Gao, so he finally managed to put a smile on his face and looked at him and said: "Xiao Gao, just stand still." Zhao Gao didn't know what he was going to do, and knew that he must be in his heart at this time. It felt uncomfortable, so everything went as he wanted, so I lowered my arms and took a step back to wait for him.
However, the baby's subsequent actions made everyone present look very shocked. He also took a step back, lifted up his clothes, lowered his body, and knelt down firmly in front of Zhao Gao without hesitation, saying solemnly: "The students are grateful for the teacher's kindness in teaching and solving doubts over the years. Today, I have nothing to repay, so I say goodbye three times." Then he bowed his head to Zhao Gao three times in a dignified manner.
At this moment, in addition to the solemn sound of the wind, the only sound left was the sound of the friction of the clothes of the doll as it knelt down.
The baby's behavior was also beyond Zhao Gao's expectations. He couldn't react for a moment and was stunned on the spot, and he had to bow to him three times. The deputy envoy who came to pick him up reacted and shouted at Zhao Gao: "How can I tolerate the gift from my master Qin..." Before he could finish his words, he was glanced at by Wawa with a cold face. Although he was young, his eyes were serious. It had a bit of shocking power, so the rest of the deputy envoy's words were stuck in his throat, and he couldn't utter a single word.
"You don't have to be like this..." Zhao Gao lowered his eyes to cover up the shock in his eyes, and his tone of voice was slightly unsteady. After realizing for a while that he had lost his composure, he forced himself to suppress the strange feeling in his heart, waved to the doll and said: "Get up." The doll respectfully replied: "Wei." [2] Then he patted the dust on his body and stood up from the ground. He stood up, took two steps forward, and then looked up at him.
Unexpectedly, Zhao Gao suddenly laughed when he saw the doll's appearance: "It's so ugly." The doll's forehead hit the ground when it was saluting, and there was a lot of dirt on it. Now he wanted to raise his hand to wipe it away, but he forgot his own hand. It was also stained by being pressed to the ground. Zhao Gao's eyes were hurt and he pulled his hand away, with a smile clearly showing on his lips.
"You are not allowed to laugh." The baby was not happy to be laughed at by his teacher, and there was no longer the serious atmosphere between the two of them. "Okay, I won't laugh." Unexpectedly, Zhao Gao's smile deepened after he was perfunctory. Of course, the movements of his hands were also very rude. He pulled up the doll's sleeves and wiped it on his face, and wiped it twice casually. My face was red, but it was indeed clean.
"Young Master, it's time to return to Qin. If you are discovered by Zhao later, you may not be able to escape." The deputy envoy on the side thought of sending the baby away and returning to the city to join Jingsu. He lost his patience and couldn't help but remind him. Zhao Gao took out a short dagger from his sleeve, put it into the baby's hand and said, "What I saw on the street that day was not a valuable object. I'll keep it for self-defense in the future."
The doll held it in his hand and looked at it carefully. The dagger was not big. It was made of fine iron. It was light in the hand. The shell was removed. The blade was thin, short and sharp. Although it was not a valuable object, it was valuable because of your heart. It was hidden on your body for use. It is indeed perfect for self-defense.
The baby was held in his arms solemnly, and was pulled by Zhao Gao reluctantly. He turned back three times with each step, and walked to Zhao Ji in a moment. Zhao Gao handed the baby's hand to her, then folded his hands and saluted her: "Auntie, see you later."
When the baby helped his mother get into the carriage, Zhao Gao waved to him to say goodbye. Wawa looked back for a long time before sitting in the carriage. But as soon as he sat down, he suddenly felt empty and did not dare to look out of the carriage.
We have traveled three thousand miles, when will we meet again?
The baby was stunned for a moment, until the wheels started rolling slowly, he finally woke up as if from a dream, stood up with a bang, lifted the curtain of the carriage and looked back. At this time, Zhao Gao's figure had begun to get smaller and smaller, getting further and further away.
I saw him standing casually in white clothes, reflecting the autumn sun, looking a bit unreal. At the right time, a breeze gently picked up the hem of his clothes. For a moment, the doll had the illusion that it was not him but him who was leaving. Until the carriage ran faster and faster along the Nagisa River and Zhao Gao's figure completely disappeared from sight, he was still unwilling to lower the curtain.
At that time, there was a solitary boat floating on the Zhu River, and the water was empty and leisurely.
