"Brother Ji, what are you going to do? After so many years of hard work maintaining a beautiful beard, why do you want to shave it off!"
Lu Wan almost knelt down in front of Liu Ji. She didn't know what kind of hysteria this elder brother had. He was sweeping the snow on Beimen Street and had the honor to see the emperor's carriage and the three generals in honor. They all felt that they had learned a lot. Only the one who laughed before
Liu Ji, who was hehe, seemed to have seen a ghost. When he returned to the simple residence of the corvettes, he whittled a copper knife on the couch and asked Lu Wan to help him shave off his beard!
"Did you see a ghost and become hysterical?"
Liu Jiheran: "Yes, I have seen a ghost, and it's still a dark ghost."
Liu Ji was sure that he was not misjudged. Although the man had a beard, wore a fur coat and armor, and wore a beautiful young master's crown, which was majestic, his appearance was the same as that of the dark-looking Qin official.
It’s rare in this world!
Against the background of the white snow, it is even more eye-catching, like a black coal in the snowdrift.
More than seven years ago, Liu Ji was still a diner under Zhang Er. Outside Huangcheng, he met the eyes of the black-faced Qin official. Both of them were fierce in appearance and about to strike at the other with their swords. But at that time
The Waihuang Qingxia was defeated, and Liu Ji also killed a Qin soldier. He thought he was worthy of Zhang Er, so he yelled "Protect Zhang Jun" and ran away. (Chapter 125, 126)
Later, the prodigal Liu Ji turned around and tried to be the director of a pavilion in his hometown. The experience of being a foreigner was deeply buried in his heart. He thought that in the vast sea of people, that black-faced little Qin official might have died in a war long ago.
However, when he saw him today, he discovered that the person he was confronting that day was none other than "General Wei" who had become famous in recent years!
What frightened him was that the Lieutenant General actually looked at him several times. When their eyes met, Liu Ji broke out in a cold sweat. Fortunately, the convoy was moving at a fast speed. Behind Hei Fu was the emperor's golden car, so there was no way to stop.
Next, Liu Ji took the opportunity to hide among the crowd...
"Could it be that he also recognized me?"
Thinking of this, Liu Ji felt bad. As a comrade of Zhang Er, he resisted the Qin army and killed Qin soldiers. If he was investigated, he would be beheaded as a traitor and his whole family would be imprisoned.
!
"No, we can't ask him to find me!"
They were corvees, and they were watched by soldiers. They were still in the pass, and it was impossible to escape. So Liu Jixin decided to ask Lu Wan to shave his beard for him.
"Why do you have to torture yourself for no reason..."
Lu Wan was still puzzled. For people these days, hair and beard were very important. Even after death, the hair of the deceased had to be buried separately in the ridge, or put into a small bag and placed in the coffin.
Liu Ji's beautiful beard was his most proud symbol. In the past, no matter how poor he was, he always maintained his beard very well. He washed it with water every day and applied some oil from time to time. People in Peixian County also respected him for it.
He is the "elder".
Besides, shaving and shaving is a humiliating punishment. Shaving is called "Nai", shaving the sideburns is called "End", and shaving the head is called "Kun". It's just like later generations of reform-through-labor prisoners, who also had their heads shaved.
A kind of person who cannot hold his head up in front of others.
Not only that, even pulling the opponent's beard and hair during a fight is considered a violation of Qin's law: if you tie up the opponent during a fight and then pluck out his beard and eyebrows, you will be punished as a city dan afterwards. Lu Wan was afraid that she would cut herself off.
If someone cuts off Liu Ji's beard, it will be said to be a private fight and he will be punished. Therefore, no matter what Liu Ji says, he hesitates to take action.
"What a jerk!"
Liu Ji was angry. Seeing that Lu Wan was timid, he simply took the knife and cut it by himself beside the frozen pond.
After making up his mind, he moved quickly, and in three strokes, he shaved off the beautiful beard that he had cultivated for more than ten years, leaving only a short beard. He also trimmed the beard on his lips, turning the previous thick beard into a short one.
It became a short sagittal beard.
"How about now? Do you still recognize me?"
There is a huge difference in temperament between a person with a beard and without a beard, a big beard and a small beard. Lu Wan and others looked left and right and felt that Liu Ji was not as majestic as before, so they all said: "When I return to Peixian, if I don't
He said, I'm afraid no one can recognize Brother Ji."
Liu Ji was overjoyed, and Lu Wan said again: "If an official asks Brother Ji why he shaved his beard, how should he explain it?"
"It's just that after I returned to Guanzhong from Saibei, I got lice and it was so painful that I cut off my thick beard in anger!"
Liu Ji now only hoped that in this way, even if the general wanted to look for him, he would not be able to do anything. After all, he was so far away, and his most obvious sign was this thick beard...
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The first day after that was uneventful. Even the little official who was in charge of them saw Liu Ji suddenly shaved. He just asked casually and didn't take it seriously. He just urged the people of Peixian County to go to work and go to Xianyang.
Firewood was delivered to the military camp on the outskirts of the city.
But the next day, Zhang Han's younger brother, Zhang Ping, an official in the Shaofu, was entrusted by the Beidi County Captain to come to the corvee's military camp to drink a bowl of hot soup. He exchanged pleasantries with Xianyang Sikong, who was in charge of the corvee.
Finally, I asked him to help me find a man with a beard and beard among the corvees...
"General Wei is of great use to these people..." he said mysteriously.
Xianyang Sikong didn't understand what he meant, but he couldn't ask too many questions. Naturally, it was impossible for him to go to the smelly prison camp to find someone in person. It would take too much effort to check the biographies of tens of thousands of civilians one by one, and the appearance of many people
, it was not registered clearly above. So I asked a few of my subordinates to do this, and just dealt with it casually.
The Baishi officials took matters into their own hands and went around the various camps to gather all the laborers and call away all the bearded people they saw.
The Pei County corvee was no exception. When Liu Ji and others were pushing a heavy chariot on the muddy road, they were stopped by a Baishi official. After taking a look, they saw no one with a "beautiful beard".
If you must", he waved his hand and let them go...
Another day passed, and more than a hundred people with beautiful beards and thick beards came back safe and sound. They were all excited, saying that they had been received by the Beidi County Lieutenant.
General Wei did not do anything strange to them. He only praised them all for having thick beards and hair and that they were first-class warriors. He treated them all to a hearty meal and then let them go back to their camps.
But as a result, the rumor that "Beidi Lieutenant has a beautiful beard" also spread in Xianyang...
The corvettes did not think of the worst, because although Kurofu was young, his reputation was already very loud, especially among the lower-level corvees who came to serve in Kansai. After all, looking at the entire empire, within ten years,
This is the only one who climbed up from the head of Guizhou Province to become a young master.
Heifu's path to promotion has become a ready-made advertisement for the military merit system: no meritorious service in the clan can lead to a lack of membership, and fierce generals must be sent to the ranks!
In Da Qin, only merit is considered, not family background! Even if you were hatched in a chicken coop, as long as you have the talent of an eagle, you can fly to the top of a high branch!
Zhou Bo, a native of Lianpei County, arrived at the border fortress. After hearing about Heifu's deeds, he also had the idea of "getting a title through meritorious service."
Glory, everyone was excited to see Hei Fu.
When Lu Wan heard about this, he was very sorry: "If Brother Ji hadn't shaved his beard, he would have been able to see General Wei..."
Liu Ji glared at Lu Wan and told him to shut up.
Liu Ji was lucky enough to escape the disaster. Fortunately, he was smart, but at the same time, he felt an indescribable feeling of frustration...
He originally thought that within a few years, he had gone from being a knight-errant despised by everyone, to blending into the system, becoming the chief of the pavilion, and becoming a figure who was respected by people from all over the country, which was quite good.
Unexpectedly, Hei Fu climbed faster than him. How did the small official who wanted to risk his own life become a high official in the imperial court and a high official in the border areas in 1978?
"With his appearance, even if his butt is sold, no one will want it..." Liu Ji thought vulgarly.
Comparing people with each other is so irritating! That day in the city, Liu Ji even had a chance to kill Hei Fu, but now, it is so different that he has to rely on shaving to protect himself from being recognized and lose his head...
He is not willing to give in!
Liu Ji felt sour in his heart, but he comforted himself by saying, "My brother Liu Jiao once said to me that small insects like inchworms (huo) bend their bodies in order to stretch; giants like dragons and snakes have their bodies stretched.
It has to hibernate so that it can continue to survive."
"A true man, capable of bending and stretching!"
Although Liu Ji is humble and has accomplished nothing despite being nearly forty years old, deep down in his heart, he still regards himself as a dragon and a snake!
At this time, Lu Wan was still discussing with everyone in Peixian County, saying that General Wei, as the leader of Guizhou, had made meritorious deeds and gained titles along the way, rose to the rank of minister, and opened up the outside world for the emperor. In the future, he might be able to become a general, prime minister, and be included in the sacrificial ceremony.
Jingbian Temple.
They all feel that General Wei is a real man and a model for people of our generation to emulate...
"This is not a real man."
Liu Ji was sleeping in front of the wall. Hearing this, he couldn't help but interject.
"What does Brother Ji think of a real man?" Lu Wan and others asked curiously.
Liu Ji stopped talking, continued to close his eyes, and pretended to be snoring like thunder.
"Asleep? Are you just talking in your sleep?" The Pei County corvettes didn't pay attention.
In the darkness, after everyone fell asleep, Liu Ji opened his eyes again, which were bright and clear.
"Yes, it's just sleep talking..."
He habitually wanted to stroke his thick beard, but what he touched was a short mane that pricked his hands.
The experience of that day was really like a dream. First, it was a nightmare that frightened him when the black husband glanced at him, but then, it was a sweet dream of witnessing a miracle...
Not to mention the majesty of the emperor's leading guard, which must have thousands of people riding on it. When Hei Fu and others went forward, when Qin Shihuang's golden chariot actually passed by, with the sound of countless mountains shouting, more than 100,000 people were gathered along the way within a ten-mile radius.
, the corvettes, and the soldiers all fell down like wheat fields blown by the wind!
Liu Ji is also one of the straws.
He peeked out and saw the emperor riding in a huge carriage pulled by six pure white horses. The carriage and carriage were so tight that the figure of Qin Shihuang could not be seen.
But even so, Liu Ji still saw a lot.
He saw the glory of the Dharma's chariot and chariot, and the left banner of the yellow house.
Qin Shihuang is the only emperor in this land. During the whole process, although he did not say a word or show his face, he was able to make thousands of people cheer for him, go crazy for him, bow to him, respect and fear him.
Even the three generals who commanded thousands of troops were, to put it bluntly, just pioneers clearing the way, and those civil and military officials were also the stars surrounding the emperor.
Liu Ji's eyes were almost blinded by the dazzling sun. He even forgot all about his previous fear...
The power of the world is concentrated in the carriage, in the palm of the emperor's hand.
As soon as he spoke, countless people died for him, sweeping across the world, no one could stop him!
The county knight who Liu Ji thought was extremely powerful in the past was torn to pieces in front of the sharp blades of the Qin army, and was restrained by the emperor's orders to behave in a well-behaved manner.
The Chu State, where Liu Ji had lived for the past thirty years, was devastated after the emperor's order.
The emperor is looking into the distance, and generals like Heifu will work hard and sleep late at night to rush to the land of quicksand.
The emperor waved, and Liu Ji and other hundreds of thousands of people came all the way to Xianyang and headed to Saibei.
It seemed that the whole world revolved around him.
Yes, he and Hei Fu are as different as clouds and mud, but comparing Hei Fu with Qin Shihuang, how can Hei Fu not be the light of a firefly, competing with the sun for brilliance?
When he was young, Liu Ji admired the righteous Wei Gongzi Wuji.
And now, Liu Ji found that he had a new object of worship!
That is Qin Shi Huangdi!
Apart from the emperor, including Hei Fu and Liu Ji himself, they are all ants! What is the distinction between high and low?
"A true man should be like this!"
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