The dawn light outside the window shines in through the gap, and the girl on the bed has her black hair hanging down like algae, and her facial features are so gorgeous that it makes your breath stop.
But on her bare feet, there was a gold chain hanging unexpectedly, and tied to the other end of the gold chain was a gold and copper beast that was blowing out smoke rings in the corner.
"Ding--stop."
Baitao climbed up from the bed as if she was boneless. When she saw the gold chain on her ankle, all her drowsiness disappeared. She tugged at it and said in confusion: "Who tied it for me?"
No one responded.
Next to him, Ying Zheng had already gone to court.
But who else could it be? Apart from him who could come and go freely, the rest of the people in this palace were nothing more than decorations in the golden cage.
Baitao shook the gold chain on her ankle, and the end of it was actually a tripping bell, and muttered: "Why are you like my brother, running around, and you still want to control me."
Li Si faced the sharp eyes of King Qin, but he was calm: "Zheng Guo is a masterpiece of South Korea. One yard is one yard, and the city can't be said to be the end. Why are you talking about the same thing? What if Zheng Guo used Thunder?
Lightning can bring down the Qin Dynasty's national power. How big are your heads enough to chop it off?"
Someone is behind it.
Ying Zheng: "Speak."
Li Si arched his back, which was very embarrassing.
Lu Buwei put down his hand and looked at Li Si with wrinkled eyelids. Li Si kept his head lowered. He and Zheng Guo were in charge of the affairs of the King of Qin together, and they were considered colleagues. He didn't expect that he would be the first to add insult to injury, but he was trying to assess the situation.
Not to mention these maids, even Baitao had almost forgotten about getting married to Brother Zheng. "I won't look at the wedding clothes. Just wear them. By the way, where is Rui'er?"
No one dares to say a word about King Qin's heart and soul.
Baitao just threatened her with a straight face, but the more she listened, the more fascinated she became.
"Ding Dong—"
"Yes, the little master is absolutely right!"
What do these people want to do?
"What is detailed work and what is point-taking?"
Baitao sat down, took an ivory chopstick and forked a piece of chicken leg. The maids bowed respectfully, and then left one after another. As the meal was finishing, the messenger from outside came in.
"No." Rui'er shook her head, "The eyes of these people in the palace have been stained. They know that this slave is the mistress, so how can they dare to criticize her harshly? It's you, the mistress."
Baitao hid behind her, "No, this is a decoration."
Li Si straightened up and finally said with a bit of sarcasm: "I don't agree with what Mr. Gangcheng said. He knows people and their faces but not their hearts. He knows his skin and his appearance but not his inside. Little does he know that Zheng Guo's dewatering years ago was not a trick. According to this,
The minister said that he should be imprisoned for a few days and then bring Zheng Guo’s family members to order him.”
"No blame."
The palace maid said: "Aunt Rui'er returned to the palace last night and is still washing and bathing. The young master will see you soon."
Even if the wheel makes a mark, he will lick it carefully with you.
After holding the sword for a moment, Lu Buwei slowly let go, sighed, and said: "The Zheng State matter has a shallow foundation. Although it does not involve much, it has deep roots. Whether to build the canal or not, it has great consequences for South Korea, Qin State, and even the world."
Changes in the situation will have a far-reaching impact. Since the King of Qin detained Zheng Guo in prison, the King of Qin must have made a decision long ago. We, the ministers, will listen to the King of Qin first."
No one had any objections.
Another person asked him to say: "You can move a lot of gold, but it's hard to find talented people. According to what Li Tingwei said, if any talented person from other countries wants to work in the Qin State, they have to go to Xianyang Imperial Prison to have their family members
Take them here? Li Tingwei, where are your family members?"
She added, "This matter is related to the country's water conservancy. It is of great importance to the whole country. It only lasted one night, and the commotion in the Qin State was as loud as the falling sky. No matter which country, they hate small things, but many people were found in the Zheng State Mansion.
Letters sent to and from South Korea were sent directly to Xianyang Prison without any trial."
Li Si bowed his head and said: "He is a foreign minister. I shouldn't say too many nonsense, but -" Before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by Cai Ze, Lord Gangcheng, in a squeaky voice, "You shouldn't make such nonsense."
Don’t speak nonsense.”
"..."
It's still too light. After Shang Yang's reform and under the strict Qin laws, even throwing ashes on the road would result in stabbing and disfigurement, let alone the crime of collaborating with the enemy and treason.
She gave her another chopstick.
The maids filed in from outside, opened the curtains, and brought lacquer trays with prepared breakfast dishes. They all stared at the gold chains on the ground.
Ling a supporter of Lu Buwei retorted, "Zheng Guo entered Qin alone, and the rest of the details are unknown. How can he bring his family to order the princes?"
Lu Buwei said calmly: "How noisy are you?"
The King of Qin, after being crowned at the age of twenty-two, can wear a sword and tie his hair.
Rui'er said firmly, "So what if Zheng Guo is a Korean master? You don't know, my mistress, and have nothing to do with me at all. You are still the first person to enter the harem, and you can't help others to point your fingers.
point."
Lu Buwei pressed his thumb lightly or heavily on the writing pen in his hand, and Ying Zheng's majestic figure was sitting on the throne, majestic and majestic.
In the Qin State, the officials who had been vigorously mediating around Lu Xiang Lu Buwei all used their keen sense of smell to sense that the King of Qin was not a fledgling, he was an eagle with full wings. Sooner or later, he would show his claws and beak, and he would be unstoppable.
to counterattack.
Rui'er was so smart, she stood still and looked at her and said nothing again.
Everyone turned their attention to King Qin again.
"I leave all the power over the investigation of Zheng Guo to you."
Rui'er held the snack she handed her, tears falling drop by drop, biting into the crab roe bun, she sniffed, "My young master - don't blame me."
Baitao asked again: "What will happen if he is imprisoned in Xianyang? Will he be punished with a stick, have a tattoo on his face or a sniffed nose, or be forced to do hard labor in ocher clothes?"
Zheng Guo was found guilty of espionage?
Who tipped off the secret and acted so quickly? How was it found out? Also, was it informed by someone from South Korea or was someone from Qin pushing it forward?
Baitao said, "How have you been these past two days? No one dares to embarrass you, right?"
"Yes! Fortunately, I have lived up to my command."
The cost of building the palace exceeded the budget. If the cost exceeded, it was said that the Queen Mother needed to use it, the Queen Mother needed to take a vacation, the Queen Mother was in poor health, and so on.
Under the eaves of the palace, she continued to look at the boundless sky outside by the window. After sending the letter in her hand, she opened the window, turned over her sleeves and robe, and disappeared into the palace of countless dreams and empty words.
Bai Tao: "What?!"
Bai Tao opened her eyes and calmed down: "Don't cry, don't cry. What happened to Zheng Guo? Please tell me the whole story carefully first."
Rui'er shook her head and shed two lines of clear tears: "It doesn't hurt, it doesn't hurt at all. My little master, I'm just afraid that I will never see you again in this life."
The white peach was in a mess, and from time to time, the miserable image of the beaver squatting in the prison flashed back. She frowned again and looked up at the vast blue clouds and blue sky outside.
Baitao fiddled with the chain and looked at her.
Last time the King of Qin had an order to summon the ministers to rectify the extravagant things in Xianyang. Anyone with a discerning eye knew that they must be heading straight for Lao Ai first. They were also eager to kill the bird Lao Ai first. Unexpectedly, the bird feathers were not caught.
Let them do all the tail-twisting.
Immediately afterwards, an eagle flew down from the sky, as fast as a speck of black ink. In the blink of an eye, only the fluctuations of the air flow disappeared.
After eating vegetarian food for several days, all the ministers were grinding their teeth and their resentment was rising to the sky.
"My lord, don't you know about this?"
compromise.
Baitao said with some distress: "Rui'er, you..."
He is a country bumpkin who appeared out of nowhere and made a name for himself by sleeping with women.
What's the purpose?
But now when King Qin is about to spread his wings and fly high, maybe King Qin wants to hear a different voice.
Combined with what she said last night, I really don’t know if she is just smacking her own feet or smacking her own feet.
Therefore, after arresting Zheng Guoxi, according to Qin's continuous sitting system, the little master Baitao in the palace should also be thrown into the dungeon and punished for his crime.
Not even willing to cover it up.
Do they dare to say more now because they think the official position is too secure and they want to hand it over to the King of Qin?
When the situation is changing, the King of Qin will definitely carry out drastic reforms.
These words woke up Rui'er. She swallowed some snacks and forced herself to calm down: "Yes, now the only one who can help me is my slave. I must cheer up and not let other bastards let Xianyang City suffer."
Those ladies in there are laughing."
She made a secret with her fingers, and a wisp of red smoke floated out from her fingertips, like a woman swaying her waist and rising straight up. She avoided countless surveillance eyes.
It doesn't matter at this glance, in just two days, Rui'er's cheeks have become much thinner and haggard, and even the light in her eyes has dimmed, like a cave with bats flying around inside.
"I'm okay, I have enough to eat and wear." Baitao asked her to sit down and eat snacks, and said relaxedly, "Let's not talk about it anymore. You must be hungry. Get up and try it. One mouthful of crab roe buns.
It's just that the crabs are not fat yet. When autumn comes, it will be a good season to eat crabs. There are also glutinous rice made of donkey rolling, which are all your favorites..."
Maybe sooner, but definitely not too late.
Rui'er choked, and she shed two more tears of anxiety when she saw her little master showing such a lack of understanding and unwillingness to strive for anything.
All the courtiers in the hall were instantly silenced, all looking at Lu Buwei, "Prime Minister——"
Buried with guilt, Baitao went down to the tunnel and said, "Your Majesty, he didn't make things difficult for you, did he?"
She really didn't care about this, but when she saw Rui'er's starry face like a crying cat, Baitao couldn't help but say, "Oh, then stop crying. Eat your fill first, and then cry."
After watching Rui'er crying and finishing the meal, Baitao finally sent her out. After thinking about it for a long time, she dragged the gold chain close to the window alone.
Rui'er shook her head.
They only said, "Your Majesty has an order. The young master has been staying in the palace for the past few days to prepare for the royal wedding. Soon someone will come to present wedding clothes to show off. They are all the embroiderers of the Lu State who were destroyed and spent several years working hard to get them."
Woven with blood."
Li Si came out from the end, held up the fluorene board, and said respectfully: "Your Majesty, I have something to say, I don't know whether I should say it or not."
This chamberlain hiding in the palace of the Queen Mother, assuming the power of the Queen Mother, is arrogant and domineering, and looks arrogant in the court. It is really like swallowing a fly and eating a rotten egg, and is as disgusting as having a sharp point of feces stuck in the mouth and stuck in the throat.
.
"They also said that my young master, you have violated the laws of Qin. Under Qin's laws, the law is merciless. I'm afraid you will be exiled. Bah! A group of dogs with bad teeth know how to bark!"
The scale of the recruitment of disciples was very large. The three religions and nine figures below and the bandits and hooligans gathered together to cause trouble, and grasshoppers jumped all over the ground in Yongcheng Street, Xianyang. When they were young, they said that the Queen Mother liked the excitement, and when they were big, Lao Ai killed them with a sword.
The Queen Mother has a purpose, but the law cannot tolerate mercy.
He doesn't look like a duplicitous monster, does he?
Ying Zheng raised his eyebrows almost imperceptibly.
After this half-explanation and half-admonition, the young King Qin sat on the throne and did not speak for a while.
Ying Zheng showed no hesitation at all: "It is well known that the great talents of the Zheng State were praised by the people for their canals built by the Qin State. But if the great talents cannot be used by the few, but are used by the Qin State, they will be nothing more than a piece of rotten wood that is difficult to carve and should be killed without mercy. Li Si
!”
This, this, this.
Who wouldn’t be jealous if this was revealed? Who wouldn’t want to drag him into the water?
Rui'er looked at the gold chain on her feet and said, "Your Majesty tied you up like this, which is certainly Your Majesty's good intention."
Others studied hard and became wives and children. They worked hard for many years before they were able to guide the country in the court.
What happened to me was that the breeding pig serving the woman on the bed was rough but extremely delicate, as smooth as a loach.
Baitao: "Where did he get the letters between him and South Korea?"
The ministers usually quacked like flapping ducks at court meetings, but now they were as quiet as a flock of chirping chickens.
Rui'er was still miserable, with tears streaming down her face.
She looked at her ankle and bit her lip, "This slave has been following his master since he was a child. He also knows that he is like a free bird in the sky. He can fly wherever he wants and stop wherever he wants.
, it must be uncomfortable for the little master to be tied up like this."
Cai Ze crossed his hands and lowered his eyebrows: "I have something to say. Zheng Guo was originally a plan of South Korea to weaken Qin, but a few years ago he stopped the flood for Qin and avoided the loss of thousands of old Qin people. It can be considered a meritorious service.
, it is conceivable that Zheng Guo is not such a selfish and narrow-minded person. The prime minister said that he is open to all rivers, which is very reasonable."
Do you have any idea about him?
Rui'er said angrily: "My little master, you don't know that during the time when I was in the water prison, there were many people who made trouble for me."
Even Prime Minister Lu didn't react much to the fact that Zheng Guo was in South Korea. He just said: "If you want to make Qin rich, the key is to build canals. Zheng Guo is a great talent. It's hard to find another in the world. A king should be open to all rivers."
.”
No one thought that this amazing turtle could say these words.
Prime Minister Lu and his group wanted to argue, but were quickly stopped by Lu Buwei.
She didn't know anything about this matter. When did Zheng Guo's stupid beaver demon just come back and be caught and make excuses?
Not long after Rui'er finished her fierce act, her eyes turned red again.
Baitao stretched out his hand and pinched her round face, and found that it was not as sensual as before, "What are you blaming? It's just you. I just hope you won't blame me, and you can eat more to make up for these few days."
Rui'er said in a tearful tone: "My little master, don't panic. Even if you lose your favor and trust, it is only temporary. Your Majesty will never sit down because of Zheng Guo's affairs."
The blame lies with you, you have long been the queen in the hearts of my slaves, now after the crowning ceremony of King Qin, I will not recognize whoever becomes the queen."
Crowning represents pro-government.
Seeing her Qi Wan look, Baitao put down his chopsticks and said: "You are also the heroine of the harem after all. How can you get the prestige to suppress those people in the palace who are crying like this?"
"You said that because your brother saved the life of the late emperor, you were favored by the princess, and because you were childhood sweethearts with the king of Qin, you were favored by the king of Qin. You also introduced rare waterworkers, and you were valued by the previous dynasty. Now that the detailed work in South Korea has been exposed, the former dynasty
The court is so jealous that not even the King of Qin can protect you."
Hearing the soft sound of the anklet, Rui'er felt as if there was a lump of sand in her throat and couldn't answer. She looked at Baitao's bare feet, which were wrapped with three circles of gold chains, like a prisoner imprisoned. "Little master, who gave this to me?"
Did you put it on?"
"Well, then you can step back."
Baitao only remembered that after Zheng Guo became his goblin younger brother, he would often open his teeth and reveal his neat glutinous rice sticks, and then call out to other aunts and aunts. She had also reminded him that since he sincerely returned to Qin, he was determined not to show his flaws.
Over the years, the officials of the Qin State have long been accustomed to the relationship between their monarchs, students, and friends.
"The cockcrow has already started, is Li Tingwei still dozing off?"
When Rui'er came in, she kowtowed: "My slave, I pay my respects to my young master."
No way.
After talking about Zheng Guo, let’s talk about Changxin Hou Lao Ai.
Baitao pursed her lips: "What kind of jokes can you tell? As long as you don't think it's a joke, others will think you are a joke. As a mortal, if you think too much, you will easily look bad."
Li Si stepped out: "Here!"
The wind blows and the palace bells sway.
"Zheng Guo is Korean, there is no need to be suspicious of this."
Baitao: "."
*
Seven days later, King Qin, the proud son of the Qin Dynasty, will go to Yongcheng to hold a crowning ceremony.
"Little master, don't feel bad, wuwuwu...who would have thought of this."
No matter what, you still have to save a beaver's life first.
Ying Zheng said: "In seven days, I will go to Yongcheng to be crowned."
The ministers suppressed their resentment and glanced at each other.
The crowning means that the Queen Mother Huayang, the Queen Mother Zhao Ji, and the Prime Minister Lu Buwei have moved away from the court. The royal power of the Qin Dynasty can be truly unified, and the King of Qin can also direct where to attack.
In fact, everyone is afraid of change. Lu Buwei's good temper and generous and moral governance have been adapted to it for more than 20 years. Suddenly, a new trend changes. I wonder what the young King Qin's methods will be like.
But at this moment, I remembered that that country bumpkin Lao Ai was about to be pinched.
Everyone was looking forward to it secretly in their hearts: Hey, I have to endure it for another seven days. After seven days, it will be useless to call that red-haired bastard the Queen Mother or my mother-in-law!