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Chapter 73 Mutiny
Dark room.Xiong Yu curled up in a corner with her head buried, her shoulder-length short hair brushing her neck, she hugged herself tightly from time to time, holding a cup in her hand.
Suddenly, there was a loud bang, and the door was kicked open, and Xiong Yu suddenly looked up.
Against the light, the guards in black armor stood at the door around a person in a black robe and hood. She raised her head to meet the gaze of the person under the black hood. It seemed that many years had passed at that moment. The child was stunned.
The person in the black robe trembled all over, but he didn't dare to take a step forward, "Back off!"
The guards in the black armor obeyed the order and immediately retreated in unison with a swipe.
All the guards stood silently behind the black robe, the red sleeves reflecting the silver guns.
That is clearly the symbol of the most elite pro-guard army of the Great Qin royal family.
The man in the black robe and the hood slowly took off the hood and walked into the dark room.She walked extremely slowly, her clear eyes seemed to suppress too many emotions, and finally she lowered herself in front of Xiong Yu, gently caressing Xiong Yu's face with trembling hands, "Xiong Yu..."
Just two words, Xiong Yu burst into tears when he saw the woman.
How many years of longing, how many lonely days and nights, and now the hearts of parents in the world.Zhao Ji stretched out her arms to hug Xiong Yu, and smiled softly with tears in her eyes, "Don't be afraid, it's fine."
Xiong Yu was held tightly by the woman in a daze. She smelled the faint scent of the woman's long black hair, and her eyes went blank for a moment, "You, you look like..."
Zhao Ji let go of her lightly, lowered her head to clear up her chaotic thoughts, and looked up again with a gentle smile on her face, she said softly: "Xiong Yu, I am your mother."
Xiong Yu suddenly opened her eyes wide and fixedly looked at the woman smiling softly in front of her. Before she could say anything, she pushed Zhao Ji away fiercely as if she was frightened.
Zhao Ji who was pushed away fell to the ground, but her eyes were still fixed on Xiong Yu, and she said softly, "It's okay, Xiong Yu."
Xiong Yu didn't know why, but when she looked at the woman's gentle gaze, her heart trembled inexplicably, she shook her head tremblingly, "No, I..." She wanted to say something, but suddenly found that she couldn't say anything completely.She could only stammer: "Father said, I, my mother...my mother has already..."
Zhao Ji sat up slowly, and stretched out her hand to hold Xiong Yu in her arms. She couldn't help herself for a moment, and kept saying, "It's the mother who is sorry for you, Xiong Yu...I am the one who is sorry for you."
Since you were born, this is the first time I hold you like this as a mother.Zhao Ji reached out to touch Xiong Yu's shoulder-length short hair, trembling all over.
"You, you are my mother?" Xiong Yu seemed to have lost his judgment, looking at this gentle woman who was almost exactly like him, he was stunned for a moment.
As soon as Zhao Ji heard the word "mother", she couldn't help it anymore, and tears burst out of her eyes in an instant.
"Xiong Yu, it's my mother who's sorry for you." This sentence almost choked up.
In 18 years, more than 6000 days and nights, you are still a baby in your dreams.I never thought that with the snap of my fingers, you would look so beautiful, so like me.
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In the empty palace, Xiong Yu, who had been imprisoned for many days, was lying on the bed and fell asleep. Zhao Ji sat beside her, gently plucking off the pearls in her short hair, caressing the young girl's face, she coaxed softly : "Sleep, my daughter."
As soon as the words came out, she closed her eyes as if she couldn't bear it.She had been imagining this scene in her mind thousands of times before, and she just leaned against her and patted her daughter's back gently, coaxing her to sleep.
This is her youngest daughter, her only daughter, the last daughter of Zhao Su.
She tightly clenched the bead flower in her hand, and she didn't even notice that her palm was bleeding from the bead flower.
She had done too many mistakes in the first half of her life, too many.
Getting up and walking to the side cabinet, Zhao Ji reached out to open the box, took out the clothes from inside and spread them out on the couch one by one, from swaddling clothes to clothes.Zhao Ji caressed the old clothes with trembling hands, there were 18 pieces in total, [-] years in total.
18 years.
Zhao Ji looked back at the girl who was sleeping soundly on the bed, and closed her eyes lightly for a moment.
……
Eighteen days later.
Yu Zishi was walking on the avenue as usual, rushing to court, when he passed the west gate of Qin Palace, his footsteps paused, he turned his head to look at the patrolling guards above the palace city, and frowned slightly.
It happened that Zheng Bin came up from behind, put his hand on Yu Zishi's shoulder, "What are you doing in a daze?"
Yu Zishi stretched out his hand and touched his nose in doubt, "Something is wrong."
"Where is it?" Zheng Bin looked back, "It's okay, the bricks are bricks and tiles, and they are not cracked."
"No." Yu Zishi couldn't tell what was wrong right away, he hesitated, "Do you feel that there are more guards patrolling than usual?"
Zheng Bin glanced back casually, "Is there? Mr. Zhao, a person like you who can't even tell the difference between Lanyuan and Shanglinyuan, can you still see this?"
"How can I not distinguish between Lanyuan and Shanglinyuan?" Yu Zishi suddenly frowned.
"You look for people in the wrong place."
"That's because there are too many people in the Palace of the King of Qin. The lunatics in the inner court, the concubines, concubines, and grandsons of the Six Kingdoms put everything in it regardless of their efforts. I remember clearly." Yu Zishi defended himself.
"Okay, okay, it's not your problem. I'm gone, I'm almost late for the court." Zheng Bin pulled off Yu Zishi's sleeves and walked towards Xianyang Palace.
Yu Zishi frowned and looked at Zheng Bin's hand that was pulling his sleeve, "Zheng Bin! What is your hand rubbing against my sleeve?"
"It's just a little firewood ashes. Mr. Zhao, please be considerate of someone like me who has to cook in the dark early in the morning. I am a family man." Zheng Bin muttered.
Yu Zishi said that he didn't want to say a word. He has been single for many years and devoted himself to serving the country and the people. He doesn't want to understand people like Zheng Bin, he just wants to kill him.
When going up to court, Yu Zishi casually glanced at the court hall, and suddenly found a strange thing.Li Si actually said that he was sick, and Prime Minister Wang Wan, who was next to him, was rarely refreshed, and his mental outlook suddenly changed.Yu Zishi was surprised, thinking that except when Li Si said he was sick when Han Fei died, Mr. Ting Wei had never been absent in all these years, no matter whether it was cold or hot.
I haven't heard any news about what happened to Mr. Ting Wei recently?Of course, it doesn't count that Li You lost a thousand dollars in gambling, it's at most Mr. Tingwei's housework.
When he was retreating, he passed by the west gate again. Yu Zishi raised his head and took a deep look at the high-rise building far away from the west gate. The Qingyue bell suddenly rang, and Yu Zishi frowned subconsciously. In the rainy weather, a chill suddenly rose in his heart.Standing in the open space, he looked around. The patrolling guards were the same as usual, and the palace ladies hurried past on the palace road at the end. Everything looked normal.
Yu Zishi turned his head thoughtfully and took a last look at the tall building, then turned around and walked out of the palace gate slowly.
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In the dim lobby, with swallows flying under the noisy eaves, Xiong Qi calmly looked at an open wooden tree in front of him.
Inside lay two flowers with blood beads, one was a birthday gift he gave Xiong Yu when she was 16 years old, and the other...
He slowly stretched out his hand to pinch the old bloody rusty pearl flower, and an old scene appeared in front of his eyes.That year the peach blossoms were in full bloom on the streets of Xianyang. He, Lu Buwei and a pretty girl disguised as a man went to the street together, and he personally presented this bead flower to her.
In that year, he had no power or power, and he had not yet been named Great Qin Changping Lord.
That year, the girl was twenty-eight years old, and she was ranked the fourth rank of Mrs. Qin Gong.
Mountains have trees, trees have branches, Jianghuai has fishing fires, Yinhan has stars.These are things you know, and the rest you don't know, I have been alone for many years.
Xiong Qi slowly clenched the bead flower, and looked at the palace maid who knelt on the ground and was at a loss.The maid was almost sobbing, "Mr. Changping, please, please help..."
Before the court lady finished speaking, the dagger in Xiong Qi's sleeve had already slit her throat.He didn't even take a look at the palace maid who was dying, and slowly wiped the blood off the dagger on his cuff.He stood up, walked out of the lobby, and said to the guard who was standing upright as he walked through the long corridor: "Clean up the corpse, and," he calmly raised his eyes to look in the direction of the palace, "ready to take His Highness Yu home. "
"Yes."
In the dead of night, the lonely city of Xianyang is lit.
The door of the West Palace was knocked lightly, and the guard who was about to lock it paused, stopped his movements and asked, "Who is outside the door?" .
"Changping Lord Xiong Qi, Your Majesty summoned you late at night, and I'm here to have an audience with you." Xiong Qi said.
The guard turned his head and gestured to the guards, signaling them to wait a while.He came out, took the bamboo slip respectfully, opened the opening and moved closer to the lamp to read carefully, it was so blurry that it was impossible to see what was written on it.He frowned very lightly and turned around, "My lord, there is something wrong with this document, the words on it..."
Before he finished speaking, Xiong Qi suddenly put his hand on his shoulder, and the blade of the dagger was firmly on his neck.He looked back at him, "What's the problem?"
The guard froze all over, and unconsciously let go of the hand holding the bamboo slip.The bamboo slip fell to the ground with a bang, and there was a crisp sound in the middle of the night.He turned his head stiffly to look at Xiong Qi.
A group of people in common clothes stood very far behind Xiong Qi at some point, the night was far away, those people came out from nowhere and walked to the road, more and more, they could not be seen clearly.He took a deep look at Xiong Qi, took a light breath, and suddenly shouted: "Close the door!"
As soon as the extremely loud roar fell, Xiong Qi's dagger cut open his throat cleanly, and blood spurted out.The guard who was originally behind the door suddenly poked his head out, and when he saw this scene, he turned around and shouted: "Close the door!"
With a movement of Xiong Qi's wrist, the dagger flew out and pierced the guard's throat, directly nailing him to the door.Countless overlapping figures gathered on the avenue almost instantly. The strongest personal guard guarding Yingchen on the border of Qin and Chu stood in the dark night, with black armor under the black clothes and black knives on the black cuffs. .
They are soldiers and bandits in troubled times, running amok in Western Chu night with swords.
After a while, Xiong Qi stepped over the corpse and walked into the half-open Qin Palace gate.In fact, the people of Qin were conceited and never believed that anyone could drive into Xianyang, let alone invade the royal city. They had almost no palace defense, and Xianyang didn't even have a city wall.
However, the Qin people forgot that in the 500 years of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period, countless kings died of civil strife and forced their palaces.
Xiong Qi had many options for saving lives, but he chose the most direct one.
The civil and military courtiers of the Great Qin Dynasty said that Xiong Qi had been talking about it for more than 20 years, but now Xiong Qi, the grandson of the royal family of Da Chu, really turned his back on him, and he finally expressed the meaning of these tongue-in-cheek courtiers.Looking at the tall building, Xiong Qi almost laughed out loud, his eyes finally blurred with a smile.
All Ying Chen's personal guards poured into the Qin Palace, and they stood around Xiong Qi.In almost a moment, the entire palace was boiling, and the lights were lit one by one, instantly lighting up half of the palace.
This is bound to be a sleepless night.Xiong Qi raised his foot and walked calmly in the direction of Xianyang Palace. Heijia's personal guards killed all the way. The maids and guards on duty at night screamed and the sound of swords and soldiers sounded at the same time. Xiong Qi's face remained unchanged and he was walking to the steps of Xianyang Palace Under this, he has not yet stepped on a step.Suddenly, a loud sound of horns echoed over the palace, Xiong Qi was shocked, and looked back slowly, all the guards drew their knives instantly.
In the corner of the palace, countless black banners of the Qin royal family were suddenly erected, churning like black waves, and countless imperial guards came out with spears, and surrounded Xiong Qi's people almost instantly, truly impenetrable.
There was another sound of horns, and countless snow-colored spears hit the ground fiercely, clanging like gold and stone, with overwhelming momentum.Xiong Qi frowned, seeing the imperial guards neatly drawing a line, the man in black court uniform, hair tied and wearing a crown slowly stepped out, scholarly and armed.
Tingwei Li Si stood with his hands behind his back, facing Xiong Qiyao, he greeted plainly: "Mr. Changping."
Xiong Qi looked at Li Si, then glanced at the Great Qin Imperial Guards surrounding him.
At that moment, the truth became clear.
Xiong Qi looked back slowly, and there was a light on a tall building not far away, reflecting a delicate figure of a woman.Dressed in a dignified black dress, with dark red and red cloud patterns tattooed on the long sleeves, it is the highest standard of clothing for the Great Qin royal family.The woman slowly took off the hood on her head, revealing a beautiful face that Xiong Qi will never forget in his life.
Xiong Qi looked at it, and suddenly couldn't help laughing out loud, the laughter was almost a bit desolate in the end.
Zhao Su, it's really you.
It turned out to be you!
At that moment, Xiong Qi felt that the first half of his life had really been a joke.He was never unaware, the day Ying Chen handed over the handwritten letter to him, he had a faint feeling that something was wrong, but he just couldn't bear to doubt her after all.Now he is standing here, facing her from a distance, and for the first time in his life, he can really look at her wantonly, but this is the scene.
Zhao Ji lowered her eyes and looked at Xiong Qi faintly. The north wind from the high-rise building blew her long black hair, which made her look incomparably beautiful against the black palace dress.She said nothing.
Xiong Qi's gaze finally turned away from her, looking at Li Si who was facing him, and scanned the Great Qin Guards behind him, as well as the Great Chu's personal guards who were in ambush beside him.
Li Si raised his hand and brushed the hair that was blown in front of his eyes by the wind, and said indifferently: "Surrender, maybe your majesty can save your life because of the love back then."
Xiong Qi almost burst out laughing for a moment. He stood upright at the foot of the steps with his hands behind his back. For the first time in his life, he vomited out the secrets in his heart. He laughed loudly and said, "Back then love? Li Si, do you know what back then love is?" Divide? I, Changping Lord Xiong Qi, was born in Xianyang. He entered the court at the age of 23 and became an eunuch. At the age of 26, he inherited the order of the first emperor to assist the country. At the age of 29, I was the imperial doctor of the Great Qin Dynasty. At the age of 30, I resigned from office to guard the border between Chu and Qin, and guarded the country for the emperor. Now that Fan has been in power for nearly 34 years, I, Xiong Qi, feel worthy of the late emperor, the ancestral temple of the Great Qin Dynasty, and the people of the Great Qin Dynasty! Your Majesty succeeded to the throne at a young age. In order to stabilize the situation in the court, I killed the family members of the Qin royal family and the civil and military courtiers. After a Chu royal family, I offended all those who could and could not be offended in the Qin royal family! Until now, the Manchu dynasty Wen Wu accused me of being a foreigner, saying that I would definitely rebel! May I ask, apart from the blood of the Chu royal family, how can I, Xiong Qi, be sorry for Daqin and you all in my life?"
Xiong Qi looked around at the Great Qin Imperial Guards around him, and said word by word: "It is said that I am in control of the government, I will resign from office, and the Chu people on the Qin-Chu border are in chaos. If no one can suppress it, I will go. Don't worry, I will accompany the minister With the military power of the Great Qin Dynasty, I summoned the people of Ying and Chen to train soldiers. I feel that my power will eventually become a long-term disaster, and I will not interfere with the government if I indulge in lust. I have already retreated to this point." He turned to look at the high platform The woman said, "You have to force me here? If so, as you wish, Great Qin Changping Lord Xiong Qi will rebel tonight!"
The sound of the word "anti" shook the world, and there was a mournful sound when it landed.Xiong Qi stood with his hands behind his back, the wind rolled up the black sleeves of countless black armor guards behind him, exposing the cold frost-colored knife light.
Li Si frowned slightly, looking at Xiong Qi's appearance, he suddenly felt uneasy.He said, "Xiong Qi, it's true that you have great merit, and that you may be loyal to Great Qin, but you can guarantee that your Chu people's personal guards will not turn against you when they see Qin conquering Chu? Ying Chen is a Where is the place where the Great Qin must pass through to attack Chu? Once Ying and Chen turn against each other, what will happen to the soldiers and horses of the Great Qin? Xiong Qi, you are tying the lives of hundreds of thousands of Great Qin soldiers to the hands of the Chu people, depending on your thoughts Benevolence."
No matter what Xiong Qi's ending is, there is only one ending for the group of people under his command, killing them all.If Xiong Qi led this group of people to rebel in Yingchen, it would be the disaster of Daqin.
Xiong Qi looked at Li Si coldly, as if a knife that had been sealed for many years suddenly came out of its sheath, and the murderous and evil aura no longer needed to be suppressed or concealed.He suddenly smiled and said, "Li Si, you are very good at talking."
Li Si squeezed his wrist with his hands behind his back, and his voice was neither soft nor heavy, as if his tone was the same as when he was chatting normally, "You said you have always been loyal to Daqin, Xiong Qi, I believe you. But you said you would not go against it, All I can say is that people's hearts are unpredictable." This is a game of chess that one cannot afford to gamble on. If a wrong move is made, it may be another hundreds of years of chaos. No one can afford to gamble on this game.
What's more, gambling is still a human heart, such an impermanent thing.
Xiong Qi looked at Li Si for a while, and suddenly laughed loudly: "People's hearts are unpredictable! What a person's hearts are unpredictable!" He laughed so hard that he almost bent his waist, but at that moment he couldn't tell whether he was laughing or screaming.In this life, he didn't lose to scheming and tricks, he didn't lose to assassination and plotting, but in the end he lost to the word "people's hearts", it's a complete joke.
Xiong Qi stopped laughing, raised his finger to Xianyang Palace, and calmly said: "Kill!"
Since ancient times, people's hearts are easy to live up to, and only swordsmen can win or lose.Then kill it, maybe you will win?Xiong Qi thought, this half of his life has been a joke, and this time is not too bad. Kill him cleanly, or die happily.He yelled at the group of personal guards who were rampant in Western Chu: "Listen to me clearly, kill a person to earn a life, and I, Xiong Qi, will accompany you on the road to the underworld! If you kill a lot, Feng will be under the underworld, and you will be enshrined as the lord of ten thousand households in the underworld! "
Who said he, Xiong Qi, was calm and resourceful?It's just that I haven't been to the madman in my life.
"Xiong Qi." A soft voice belonging to a woman floated from afar, so soft, but it just got into his ears.
Xiong Qi looked back slowly, the dignified woman on the tall building was looking at him quietly, such a beautiful face, just like the first time he saw it many years ago.Xiong Qi's eyes suddenly became blurry, and gradually he couldn't see the woman's appearance clearly.He opened his mouth and smiled at her, the emotions in his heart changed from anger to sorrow, and finally annihilated in the many years of silence, leaving an empty cavity.
He said softly: "Zhao Su, do you believe it? If you believe in me for one day, I can really die for you and your children? It doesn't matter if other people don't believe me, why don't you believe me?" He thought he had finally said these words came out, but he could not hear the slightest sound.His throat seemed to be filled with spirits, and he couldn't make any sound, just like the day when he walked alone in Yingchen, he wanted to say everything but couldn't say anything.
Looking at the man's aging face, Zhao Ji couldn't see the youthful handsomeness at all, but Xiong Qi's eyes suddenly brought back her memories of many years ago.The white horse whistling in the west wind, on the streets of Xianyang, a noble boy riding a horse and turning his head, just happened to meet his casual gaze.It was the best and most troublesome time for a woman at that time, so she leaned against a peach blossom tree and smiled slightly.
Thinking back, Zhao Ji suddenly smiled softly at Xiong Qi, but this time her smile was no longer the same as before, but a gentleness that she had never had before when she was young, like a plain hand for a long-lost old friend. Poured a glass of old wine.She turned around and said softly, "Xiong Yu, come here."
Underneath Xiong Qi's eyes changed in an instant, he watched a lively figure jump out of the light and shadow of the tall building, with shoulder-length short hair and light blue skirt.He hardly even breathed for a moment.
Xiong Yu seemed a little excited, turned her head to Zhao Ji and said with a smile: "Father finally found me? He is really old, and he has been looking for so long." She had just finished complaining slightly, and when she turned her head, she saw the Xiong Qi immediately put on an excited expression: "Father!" She waved at Xiong Qi and shouted, "I'm here! Have you seen me?"
Xiong Qi's blood was cold all over, he opened his eyes wide and shook his head at Zhao Ji, "No, Zhao Su, no!"
Xiong Yu seemed a little puzzled by Xiong Qi's inexplicable expression, turned to Zhao Ji and asked, "Mother, why didn't Father respond? And why did he bring so many people here?"
Zhao Ji gently put her hand on Xiong Yu's shoulder, stretched out her hand and rubbed her hair, tears filled her eyes at some point, she smiled softly: "Your father found you, he is very happy, If you don't believe me, call him again."
Xiong Yu turned around and waved at Xiong Qi hesitantly, and called out tentatively: "Father! Can you see me?" Suddenly, Xiong Yu was not used to being in front of so many people, so she couldn't help but raise her hand and put her short hair in front of her. Then hid it.
"No!" Xiong Qi shouted suddenly, staring fixedly at Zhao Ji's hand on Xiong Yu's shoulder.
Xiong Yu seemed startled, "Father?"
Li Si who was on the side suddenly shouted, "Take them down!" He took a sudden step back, and all the imperial guards rushed forward with guns, directly shooting them.The sound of swords and soldiers rang out in an instant, completely breaking the silence of the night.
Xiong Qi looked back, and all the guards of Chu State raised their knives and stepped forward without fear. The light of the knives was cold, and the weapons wore iron armor.Everything slowed down in front of Xiong Qi, and then he slowly turned his head to look at Zhao Ji.
The woman in black smiled with tears in her eyes, and gently pushed her hand on the shoulder of the still shocked girl.
Xiong Qi almost didn't feel any thinking process in himself, he almost passed through the guards protecting him in the blink of an eye, and rushed towards the girl who fell from the tall building.The silver dagger flew out with his backhand, and the moment the girl landed on the ground, he supported her body. Then, he froze in place as if he had lost all reaction, watching the bright red blood slowly dripping from the girl's body.
The color is not dazzling, but biting.
The next moment, he was already kneeling beside the girl and gently hugged the dying girl in his arms, "It's okay, it's okay." He seemed to be completely panicked, and stretched out his hand to cover Xiong Yu's wound, "Father is here, It's okay, Father is here."
Xiong Yu curled up in Xiong Qi's arms. After the heavy blow, her mind went blank. She wanted to speak, but when she opened her mouth, countless blood gushed out.Xiong Qi immediately raised his hand to wipe off the blood from the corner of her lips, and after wiping it off, it continued to flow out. He hugged the girl and wiped it with trembling hands, completely oblivious to the Great Qin guards who surrounded him military.He reached out to touch Xiong Yu's hair, tremblingly said: "Xiong Yu, father is here, it's all right. Father will take you home, let's go back to Yingchen, okay?"
Xiong Yu's consciousness was already very weak, and while holding Xiong Qi's sleeve, he smiled slowly, "Father, I have seen...the peach blossoms in Xianyang, and I have also seen...a beautiful...a beautiful one. It's..." As she spoke, blood gushed out of her mouth more and more, and gradually she couldn't even make a sound.
Xiong Qi put his arms around her, and said very gently: "Let's go back to Ying Chen to plant peach blossoms together, Xiong Yu, let's plant a whole palace, no, let's plant all Ying Chen, okay. Father won't shut you up from now on, where do you want to go?" It's okay, let's go back now, shall we?" He said trembling all over, and in the end he almost lost his voice while hugging Xiong Yu.
The girl in his arms was already out of breath, and his hands were still tightly clutching his sleeves, Xiong Qi lowered his head and took a look, the man who had never shed a single tear even in the most desperate situation in his life, couldn't cry for a moment.
With bare eyes, he raised his head and almost yelled at Zhao Ji who was upstairs: "Zhao Su, you are crazy! She is your daughter! I brought her here to Xianyang because you said you missed her! She It's your daughter! Zhao Su!" The voice finally broke into pieces.
He hugged Xiong Yu's body tightly, as if embracing the child with all his strength.This child, who was secretly carried home by him since birth, was brought up by him little by little. He watched her cry and laugh every day, and listened to her call his father. Now the little girl who has finally grown into a little girl, he personally Raised a little girl who has been fussy since she was a child.She is not his blood, but his daughter.
Xiong Qi reached out to wipe the blood on Xiong Yu's face, and finally collapsed completely after wiping.
You have raised this child for eighteen days, but I have raised it for 18 years.
On the tall building, Zhao Ji looked at the crying man who bent over, slowly raised her head, and forced back her tears.She stood with her sleeves upright, and this angle happened to be far away from the brightly lit Xianyang Palace.On the long steps of Xianyang Palace, the emperor in black clothes stood with his hands behind his back, and he did not know how long he had been watching there quietly.A palace man was holding a dim lamp and standing behind the emperor with his waist down. Looking from a distance, the Xianyang Palace had a magnificent scene, and the nine layers of stars behind the emperor were so magnificent. The young man in black clothes almost helped the world with his bare hands. momentum.
But in Zhao Ji's eyes, the young emperor seemed to be alone, only shouldering the burden of the country.
Without Xiong Qi, his subordinates are completely scattered.After everything was done, Zhao Ji slowly raised her skirt and walked down the tall building, passed countless imperial guards, and stood still in front of Xiong Qi, she quietly watched the man hugging the girl.
Weapons, blood, late beauties, and aging youths, this scene is like an old picture scroll slowly unfolding.
"Why?" Xiong Qi didn't know what he wanted to ask, he just wanted to say "why", like a sigh, a complex emotion.He looked up at Zhao Ji, and asked again, "Why?"
With tears in her eyes, Zhao Ji said with a soft smile, "I am the Queen Mother of Daqin."
Xiong Qi hugged the girl's cold body, but he didn't even know that it was one of them.
Crying is not worth it; laughing is too desolate.So Xiong Qi could only hug the girl, and said softly: "Zhao Su, Jianghuai has fishing boats, Yinhan has Xinghe, I, Xiong Qi, thank you for making it happen in my life."
Reaching out his hand to take out the blood-stained and rusty bead flower from his bosom, Xiong Qi gently placed the bead flower in front of Zhao Ji, he murmured in a low voice while holding the girl, but he never raised his eyes to look at the black-clothed flower in front of him. A woman in fine clothes.
In the Xianyang Palace in the distance, Li Si slowly climbed up the steps and stood in front of the black-clothed emperor.He saluted calmly, and said in a deep voice, "Your Majesty, the road to Fachu has been opened."
Ying Zheng glanced at the scene in the distance with his hands in his hands, and said, "I will issue an edict in three days to attack Chu."
Li Si knelt down, "Yes, Your Majesty."
Ying Zheng looked down at Li Si, who was kneeling in front of the steps, and then slowly raised his eyes to look at the distant sky. As far as he could see, there was a clear night, and thousands of miles of rivers and mountains.He spoke suddenly and called Li Si who was about to leave. "Do you know? This matter should have been handled by Zhao Gao."
Li Si looked up at Ying Zheng.
The emperor said slowly: "That day I ordered Lord Changping to enter Xianyang, and the person I sent to meet him was not you, but Zhao Gao."
Li Si thought for a while, then smiled lightly and said, "A lot of blood was stained on your hands when you did this. Mr. Zhao is a civil servant, let's do it as a humble minister."
After hearing Li Si's words, Ying Zheng lowered his head and smiled. After looking down at Li Si, he said softly, "Go down."
"Wei Chen retire."
Ying Zheng nodded and didn't look at him again.
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In an unknown corner of Qin Palace, the boy in black watched everything, and finally put his hood on slowly.The moment he raised his hand, half of the scarlet cloud pattern was exposed on the cuff.
In the early morning of the next day, Yu Zishi walked through the west palace gate to go to court as usual, when suddenly, his feet on the blue stone bricks paused.Turning his head to look, there seemed to be a bloodstain on the ground?He lowered his body and stretched out his slender fingers to touch the blue stone brick.
Suddenly, a semi-circular shadow slowly passed by his fingertips.Yu Zishi looked up, and at some point a bamboo bone umbrella was propped on his head.
He looked back and saw a young man in black standing behind him, holding a green bamboo bone umbrella in his hand.
"Your Highness? Why are you here?" Yu Zishi was slightly surprised.
Hu Hai stretched out his hand towards Yu Zishi, half of his cuff was bright red.
Yu Zishi hesitated for a moment, stood up with his hand supported, "Why are you here?" He asked again.
Hu Hai looked up at the sky, "I think it's going to rain today, so give me an umbrella." As he spoke, he handed the umbrella to Yu Zishi.
Yu Zishi took the umbrella, and looked at Hu Hai more and more inexplicably. He raised his hand and touched Hu Hai's forehead, "What's wrong with you?" Does it look like it's going to rain this day?
Hu Hai suddenly stretched out his hand and accurately grasped Yu Zishi's hand that was pressed against his forehead. He chuckled and said, "Maybe it will be released later. If it is not today, it may be tomorrow. If it is not tomorrow, it may be tomorrow."
The way Yu Zishi looked at Hu Hai suddenly changed, what's wrong with this kid?
Suddenly, there was a loud bang, and the door was kicked open, and Xiong Yu suddenly looked up.
Against the light, the guards in black armor stood at the door around a person in a black robe and hood. She raised her head to meet the gaze of the person under the black hood. It seemed that many years had passed at that moment. The child was stunned.
The person in the black robe trembled all over, but he didn't dare to take a step forward, "Back off!"
The guards in the black armor obeyed the order and immediately retreated in unison with a swipe.
All the guards stood silently behind the black robe, the red sleeves reflecting the silver guns.
That is clearly the symbol of the most elite pro-guard army of the Great Qin royal family.
The man in the black robe and the hood slowly took off the hood and walked into the dark room.She walked extremely slowly, her clear eyes seemed to suppress too many emotions, and finally she lowered herself in front of Xiong Yu, gently caressing Xiong Yu's face with trembling hands, "Xiong Yu..."
Just two words, Xiong Yu burst into tears when he saw the woman.
How many years of longing, how many lonely days and nights, and now the hearts of parents in the world.Zhao Ji stretched out her arms to hug Xiong Yu, and smiled softly with tears in her eyes, "Don't be afraid, it's fine."
Xiong Yu was held tightly by the woman in a daze. She smelled the faint scent of the woman's long black hair, and her eyes went blank for a moment, "You, you look like..."
Zhao Ji let go of her lightly, lowered her head to clear up her chaotic thoughts, and looked up again with a gentle smile on her face, she said softly: "Xiong Yu, I am your mother."
Xiong Yu suddenly opened her eyes wide and fixedly looked at the woman smiling softly in front of her. Before she could say anything, she pushed Zhao Ji away fiercely as if she was frightened.
Zhao Ji who was pushed away fell to the ground, but her eyes were still fixed on Xiong Yu, and she said softly, "It's okay, Xiong Yu."
Xiong Yu didn't know why, but when she looked at the woman's gentle gaze, her heart trembled inexplicably, she shook her head tremblingly, "No, I..." She wanted to say something, but suddenly found that she couldn't say anything completely.She could only stammer: "Father said, I, my mother...my mother has already..."
Zhao Ji sat up slowly, and stretched out her hand to hold Xiong Yu in her arms. She couldn't help herself for a moment, and kept saying, "It's the mother who is sorry for you, Xiong Yu...I am the one who is sorry for you."
Since you were born, this is the first time I hold you like this as a mother.Zhao Ji reached out to touch Xiong Yu's shoulder-length short hair, trembling all over.
"You, you are my mother?" Xiong Yu seemed to have lost his judgment, looking at this gentle woman who was almost exactly like him, he was stunned for a moment.
As soon as Zhao Ji heard the word "mother", she couldn't help it anymore, and tears burst out of her eyes in an instant.
"Xiong Yu, it's my mother who's sorry for you." This sentence almost choked up.
In 18 years, more than 6000 days and nights, you are still a baby in your dreams.I never thought that with the snap of my fingers, you would look so beautiful, so like me.
……
In the empty palace, Xiong Yu, who had been imprisoned for many days, was lying on the bed and fell asleep. Zhao Ji sat beside her, gently plucking off the pearls in her short hair, caressing the young girl's face, she coaxed softly : "Sleep, my daughter."
As soon as the words came out, she closed her eyes as if she couldn't bear it.She had been imagining this scene in her mind thousands of times before, and she just leaned against her and patted her daughter's back gently, coaxing her to sleep.
This is her youngest daughter, her only daughter, the last daughter of Zhao Su.
She tightly clenched the bead flower in her hand, and she didn't even notice that her palm was bleeding from the bead flower.
She had done too many mistakes in the first half of her life, too many.
Getting up and walking to the side cabinet, Zhao Ji reached out to open the box, took out the clothes from inside and spread them out on the couch one by one, from swaddling clothes to clothes.Zhao Ji caressed the old clothes with trembling hands, there were 18 pieces in total, [-] years in total.
18 years.
Zhao Ji looked back at the girl who was sleeping soundly on the bed, and closed her eyes lightly for a moment.
……
Eighteen days later.
Yu Zishi was walking on the avenue as usual, rushing to court, when he passed the west gate of Qin Palace, his footsteps paused, he turned his head to look at the patrolling guards above the palace city, and frowned slightly.
It happened that Zheng Bin came up from behind, put his hand on Yu Zishi's shoulder, "What are you doing in a daze?"
Yu Zishi stretched out his hand and touched his nose in doubt, "Something is wrong."
"Where is it?" Zheng Bin looked back, "It's okay, the bricks are bricks and tiles, and they are not cracked."
"No." Yu Zishi couldn't tell what was wrong right away, he hesitated, "Do you feel that there are more guards patrolling than usual?"
Zheng Bin glanced back casually, "Is there? Mr. Zhao, a person like you who can't even tell the difference between Lanyuan and Shanglinyuan, can you still see this?"
"How can I not distinguish between Lanyuan and Shanglinyuan?" Yu Zishi suddenly frowned.
"You look for people in the wrong place."
"That's because there are too many people in the Palace of the King of Qin. The lunatics in the inner court, the concubines, concubines, and grandsons of the Six Kingdoms put everything in it regardless of their efforts. I remember clearly." Yu Zishi defended himself.
"Okay, okay, it's not your problem. I'm gone, I'm almost late for the court." Zheng Bin pulled off Yu Zishi's sleeves and walked towards Xianyang Palace.
Yu Zishi frowned and looked at Zheng Bin's hand that was pulling his sleeve, "Zheng Bin! What is your hand rubbing against my sleeve?"
"It's just a little firewood ashes. Mr. Zhao, please be considerate of someone like me who has to cook in the dark early in the morning. I am a family man." Zheng Bin muttered.
Yu Zishi said that he didn't want to say a word. He has been single for many years and devoted himself to serving the country and the people. He doesn't want to understand people like Zheng Bin, he just wants to kill him.
When going up to court, Yu Zishi casually glanced at the court hall, and suddenly found a strange thing.Li Si actually said that he was sick, and Prime Minister Wang Wan, who was next to him, was rarely refreshed, and his mental outlook suddenly changed.Yu Zishi was surprised, thinking that except when Li Si said he was sick when Han Fei died, Mr. Ting Wei had never been absent in all these years, no matter whether it was cold or hot.
I haven't heard any news about what happened to Mr. Ting Wei recently?Of course, it doesn't count that Li You lost a thousand dollars in gambling, it's at most Mr. Tingwei's housework.
When he was retreating, he passed by the west gate again. Yu Zishi raised his head and took a deep look at the high-rise building far away from the west gate. The Qingyue bell suddenly rang, and Yu Zishi frowned subconsciously. In the rainy weather, a chill suddenly rose in his heart.Standing in the open space, he looked around. The patrolling guards were the same as usual, and the palace ladies hurried past on the palace road at the end. Everything looked normal.
Yu Zishi turned his head thoughtfully and took a last look at the tall building, then turned around and walked out of the palace gate slowly.
……
In the dim lobby, with swallows flying under the noisy eaves, Xiong Qi calmly looked at an open wooden tree in front of him.
Inside lay two flowers with blood beads, one was a birthday gift he gave Xiong Yu when she was 16 years old, and the other...
He slowly stretched out his hand to pinch the old bloody rusty pearl flower, and an old scene appeared in front of his eyes.That year the peach blossoms were in full bloom on the streets of Xianyang. He, Lu Buwei and a pretty girl disguised as a man went to the street together, and he personally presented this bead flower to her.
In that year, he had no power or power, and he had not yet been named Great Qin Changping Lord.
That year, the girl was twenty-eight years old, and she was ranked the fourth rank of Mrs. Qin Gong.
Mountains have trees, trees have branches, Jianghuai has fishing fires, Yinhan has stars.These are things you know, and the rest you don't know, I have been alone for many years.
Xiong Qi slowly clenched the bead flower, and looked at the palace maid who knelt on the ground and was at a loss.The maid was almost sobbing, "Mr. Changping, please, please help..."
Before the court lady finished speaking, the dagger in Xiong Qi's sleeve had already slit her throat.He didn't even take a look at the palace maid who was dying, and slowly wiped the blood off the dagger on his cuff.He stood up, walked out of the lobby, and said to the guard who was standing upright as he walked through the long corridor: "Clean up the corpse, and," he calmly raised his eyes to look in the direction of the palace, "ready to take His Highness Yu home. "
"Yes."
In the dead of night, the lonely city of Xianyang is lit.
The door of the West Palace was knocked lightly, and the guard who was about to lock it paused, stopped his movements and asked, "Who is outside the door?" .
"Changping Lord Xiong Qi, Your Majesty summoned you late at night, and I'm here to have an audience with you." Xiong Qi said.
The guard turned his head and gestured to the guards, signaling them to wait a while.He came out, took the bamboo slip respectfully, opened the opening and moved closer to the lamp to read carefully, it was so blurry that it was impossible to see what was written on it.He frowned very lightly and turned around, "My lord, there is something wrong with this document, the words on it..."
Before he finished speaking, Xiong Qi suddenly put his hand on his shoulder, and the blade of the dagger was firmly on his neck.He looked back at him, "What's the problem?"
The guard froze all over, and unconsciously let go of the hand holding the bamboo slip.The bamboo slip fell to the ground with a bang, and there was a crisp sound in the middle of the night.He turned his head stiffly to look at Xiong Qi.
A group of people in common clothes stood very far behind Xiong Qi at some point, the night was far away, those people came out from nowhere and walked to the road, more and more, they could not be seen clearly.He took a deep look at Xiong Qi, took a light breath, and suddenly shouted: "Close the door!"
As soon as the extremely loud roar fell, Xiong Qi's dagger cut open his throat cleanly, and blood spurted out.The guard who was originally behind the door suddenly poked his head out, and when he saw this scene, he turned around and shouted: "Close the door!"
With a movement of Xiong Qi's wrist, the dagger flew out and pierced the guard's throat, directly nailing him to the door.Countless overlapping figures gathered on the avenue almost instantly. The strongest personal guard guarding Yingchen on the border of Qin and Chu stood in the dark night, with black armor under the black clothes and black knives on the black cuffs. .
They are soldiers and bandits in troubled times, running amok in Western Chu night with swords.
After a while, Xiong Qi stepped over the corpse and walked into the half-open Qin Palace gate.In fact, the people of Qin were conceited and never believed that anyone could drive into Xianyang, let alone invade the royal city. They had almost no palace defense, and Xianyang didn't even have a city wall.
However, the Qin people forgot that in the 500 years of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period, countless kings died of civil strife and forced their palaces.
Xiong Qi had many options for saving lives, but he chose the most direct one.
The civil and military courtiers of the Great Qin Dynasty said that Xiong Qi had been talking about it for more than 20 years, but now Xiong Qi, the grandson of the royal family of Da Chu, really turned his back on him, and he finally expressed the meaning of these tongue-in-cheek courtiers.Looking at the tall building, Xiong Qi almost laughed out loud, his eyes finally blurred with a smile.
All Ying Chen's personal guards poured into the Qin Palace, and they stood around Xiong Qi.In almost a moment, the entire palace was boiling, and the lights were lit one by one, instantly lighting up half of the palace.
This is bound to be a sleepless night.Xiong Qi raised his foot and walked calmly in the direction of Xianyang Palace. Heijia's personal guards killed all the way. The maids and guards on duty at night screamed and the sound of swords and soldiers sounded at the same time. Xiong Qi's face remained unchanged and he was walking to the steps of Xianyang Palace Under this, he has not yet stepped on a step.Suddenly, a loud sound of horns echoed over the palace, Xiong Qi was shocked, and looked back slowly, all the guards drew their knives instantly.
In the corner of the palace, countless black banners of the Qin royal family were suddenly erected, churning like black waves, and countless imperial guards came out with spears, and surrounded Xiong Qi's people almost instantly, truly impenetrable.
There was another sound of horns, and countless snow-colored spears hit the ground fiercely, clanging like gold and stone, with overwhelming momentum.Xiong Qi frowned, seeing the imperial guards neatly drawing a line, the man in black court uniform, hair tied and wearing a crown slowly stepped out, scholarly and armed.
Tingwei Li Si stood with his hands behind his back, facing Xiong Qiyao, he greeted plainly: "Mr. Changping."
Xiong Qi looked at Li Si, then glanced at the Great Qin Imperial Guards surrounding him.
At that moment, the truth became clear.
Xiong Qi looked back slowly, and there was a light on a tall building not far away, reflecting a delicate figure of a woman.Dressed in a dignified black dress, with dark red and red cloud patterns tattooed on the long sleeves, it is the highest standard of clothing for the Great Qin royal family.The woman slowly took off the hood on her head, revealing a beautiful face that Xiong Qi will never forget in his life.
Xiong Qi looked at it, and suddenly couldn't help laughing out loud, the laughter was almost a bit desolate in the end.
Zhao Su, it's really you.
It turned out to be you!
At that moment, Xiong Qi felt that the first half of his life had really been a joke.He was never unaware, the day Ying Chen handed over the handwritten letter to him, he had a faint feeling that something was wrong, but he just couldn't bear to doubt her after all.Now he is standing here, facing her from a distance, and for the first time in his life, he can really look at her wantonly, but this is the scene.
Zhao Ji lowered her eyes and looked at Xiong Qi faintly. The north wind from the high-rise building blew her long black hair, which made her look incomparably beautiful against the black palace dress.She said nothing.
Xiong Qi's gaze finally turned away from her, looking at Li Si who was facing him, and scanned the Great Qin Guards behind him, as well as the Great Chu's personal guards who were in ambush beside him.
Li Si raised his hand and brushed the hair that was blown in front of his eyes by the wind, and said indifferently: "Surrender, maybe your majesty can save your life because of the love back then."
Xiong Qi almost burst out laughing for a moment. He stood upright at the foot of the steps with his hands behind his back. For the first time in his life, he vomited out the secrets in his heart. He laughed loudly and said, "Back then love? Li Si, do you know what back then love is?" Divide? I, Changping Lord Xiong Qi, was born in Xianyang. He entered the court at the age of 23 and became an eunuch. At the age of 26, he inherited the order of the first emperor to assist the country. At the age of 29, I was the imperial doctor of the Great Qin Dynasty. At the age of 30, I resigned from office to guard the border between Chu and Qin, and guarded the country for the emperor. Now that Fan has been in power for nearly 34 years, I, Xiong Qi, feel worthy of the late emperor, the ancestral temple of the Great Qin Dynasty, and the people of the Great Qin Dynasty! Your Majesty succeeded to the throne at a young age. In order to stabilize the situation in the court, I killed the family members of the Qin royal family and the civil and military courtiers. After a Chu royal family, I offended all those who could and could not be offended in the Qin royal family! Until now, the Manchu dynasty Wen Wu accused me of being a foreigner, saying that I would definitely rebel! May I ask, apart from the blood of the Chu royal family, how can I, Xiong Qi, be sorry for Daqin and you all in my life?"
Xiong Qi looked around at the Great Qin Imperial Guards around him, and said word by word: "It is said that I am in control of the government, I will resign from office, and the Chu people on the Qin-Chu border are in chaos. If no one can suppress it, I will go. Don't worry, I will accompany the minister With the military power of the Great Qin Dynasty, I summoned the people of Ying and Chen to train soldiers. I feel that my power will eventually become a long-term disaster, and I will not interfere with the government if I indulge in lust. I have already retreated to this point." He turned to look at the high platform The woman said, "You have to force me here? If so, as you wish, Great Qin Changping Lord Xiong Qi will rebel tonight!"
The sound of the word "anti" shook the world, and there was a mournful sound when it landed.Xiong Qi stood with his hands behind his back, the wind rolled up the black sleeves of countless black armor guards behind him, exposing the cold frost-colored knife light.
Li Si frowned slightly, looking at Xiong Qi's appearance, he suddenly felt uneasy.He said, "Xiong Qi, it's true that you have great merit, and that you may be loyal to Great Qin, but you can guarantee that your Chu people's personal guards will not turn against you when they see Qin conquering Chu? Ying Chen is a Where is the place where the Great Qin must pass through to attack Chu? Once Ying and Chen turn against each other, what will happen to the soldiers and horses of the Great Qin? Xiong Qi, you are tying the lives of hundreds of thousands of Great Qin soldiers to the hands of the Chu people, depending on your thoughts Benevolence."
No matter what Xiong Qi's ending is, there is only one ending for the group of people under his command, killing them all.If Xiong Qi led this group of people to rebel in Yingchen, it would be the disaster of Daqin.
Xiong Qi looked at Li Si coldly, as if a knife that had been sealed for many years suddenly came out of its sheath, and the murderous and evil aura no longer needed to be suppressed or concealed.He suddenly smiled and said, "Li Si, you are very good at talking."
Li Si squeezed his wrist with his hands behind his back, and his voice was neither soft nor heavy, as if his tone was the same as when he was chatting normally, "You said you have always been loyal to Daqin, Xiong Qi, I believe you. But you said you would not go against it, All I can say is that people's hearts are unpredictable." This is a game of chess that one cannot afford to gamble on. If a wrong move is made, it may be another hundreds of years of chaos. No one can afford to gamble on this game.
What's more, gambling is still a human heart, such an impermanent thing.
Xiong Qi looked at Li Si for a while, and suddenly laughed loudly: "People's hearts are unpredictable! What a person's hearts are unpredictable!" He laughed so hard that he almost bent his waist, but at that moment he couldn't tell whether he was laughing or screaming.In this life, he didn't lose to scheming and tricks, he didn't lose to assassination and plotting, but in the end he lost to the word "people's hearts", it's a complete joke.
Xiong Qi stopped laughing, raised his finger to Xianyang Palace, and calmly said: "Kill!"
Since ancient times, people's hearts are easy to live up to, and only swordsmen can win or lose.Then kill it, maybe you will win?Xiong Qi thought, this half of his life has been a joke, and this time is not too bad. Kill him cleanly, or die happily.He yelled at the group of personal guards who were rampant in Western Chu: "Listen to me clearly, kill a person to earn a life, and I, Xiong Qi, will accompany you on the road to the underworld! If you kill a lot, Feng will be under the underworld, and you will be enshrined as the lord of ten thousand households in the underworld! "
Who said he, Xiong Qi, was calm and resourceful?It's just that I haven't been to the madman in my life.
"Xiong Qi." A soft voice belonging to a woman floated from afar, so soft, but it just got into his ears.
Xiong Qi looked back slowly, the dignified woman on the tall building was looking at him quietly, such a beautiful face, just like the first time he saw it many years ago.Xiong Qi's eyes suddenly became blurry, and gradually he couldn't see the woman's appearance clearly.He opened his mouth and smiled at her, the emotions in his heart changed from anger to sorrow, and finally annihilated in the many years of silence, leaving an empty cavity.
He said softly: "Zhao Su, do you believe it? If you believe in me for one day, I can really die for you and your children? It doesn't matter if other people don't believe me, why don't you believe me?" He thought he had finally said these words came out, but he could not hear the slightest sound.His throat seemed to be filled with spirits, and he couldn't make any sound, just like the day when he walked alone in Yingchen, he wanted to say everything but couldn't say anything.
Looking at the man's aging face, Zhao Ji couldn't see the youthful handsomeness at all, but Xiong Qi's eyes suddenly brought back her memories of many years ago.The white horse whistling in the west wind, on the streets of Xianyang, a noble boy riding a horse and turning his head, just happened to meet his casual gaze.It was the best and most troublesome time for a woman at that time, so she leaned against a peach blossom tree and smiled slightly.
Thinking back, Zhao Ji suddenly smiled softly at Xiong Qi, but this time her smile was no longer the same as before, but a gentleness that she had never had before when she was young, like a plain hand for a long-lost old friend. Poured a glass of old wine.She turned around and said softly, "Xiong Yu, come here."
Underneath Xiong Qi's eyes changed in an instant, he watched a lively figure jump out of the light and shadow of the tall building, with shoulder-length short hair and light blue skirt.He hardly even breathed for a moment.
Xiong Yu seemed a little excited, turned her head to Zhao Ji and said with a smile: "Father finally found me? He is really old, and he has been looking for so long." She had just finished complaining slightly, and when she turned her head, she saw the Xiong Qi immediately put on an excited expression: "Father!" She waved at Xiong Qi and shouted, "I'm here! Have you seen me?"
Xiong Qi's blood was cold all over, he opened his eyes wide and shook his head at Zhao Ji, "No, Zhao Su, no!"
Xiong Yu seemed a little puzzled by Xiong Qi's inexplicable expression, turned to Zhao Ji and asked, "Mother, why didn't Father respond? And why did he bring so many people here?"
Zhao Ji gently put her hand on Xiong Yu's shoulder, stretched out her hand and rubbed her hair, tears filled her eyes at some point, she smiled softly: "Your father found you, he is very happy, If you don't believe me, call him again."
Xiong Yu turned around and waved at Xiong Qi hesitantly, and called out tentatively: "Father! Can you see me?" Suddenly, Xiong Yu was not used to being in front of so many people, so she couldn't help but raise her hand and put her short hair in front of her. Then hid it.
"No!" Xiong Qi shouted suddenly, staring fixedly at Zhao Ji's hand on Xiong Yu's shoulder.
Xiong Yu seemed startled, "Father?"
Li Si who was on the side suddenly shouted, "Take them down!" He took a sudden step back, and all the imperial guards rushed forward with guns, directly shooting them.The sound of swords and soldiers rang out in an instant, completely breaking the silence of the night.
Xiong Qi looked back, and all the guards of Chu State raised their knives and stepped forward without fear. The light of the knives was cold, and the weapons wore iron armor.Everything slowed down in front of Xiong Qi, and then he slowly turned his head to look at Zhao Ji.
The woman in black smiled with tears in her eyes, and gently pushed her hand on the shoulder of the still shocked girl.
Xiong Qi almost didn't feel any thinking process in himself, he almost passed through the guards protecting him in the blink of an eye, and rushed towards the girl who fell from the tall building.The silver dagger flew out with his backhand, and the moment the girl landed on the ground, he supported her body. Then, he froze in place as if he had lost all reaction, watching the bright red blood slowly dripping from the girl's body.
The color is not dazzling, but biting.
The next moment, he was already kneeling beside the girl and gently hugged the dying girl in his arms, "It's okay, it's okay." He seemed to be completely panicked, and stretched out his hand to cover Xiong Yu's wound, "Father is here, It's okay, Father is here."
Xiong Yu curled up in Xiong Qi's arms. After the heavy blow, her mind went blank. She wanted to speak, but when she opened her mouth, countless blood gushed out.Xiong Qi immediately raised his hand to wipe off the blood from the corner of her lips, and after wiping it off, it continued to flow out. He hugged the girl and wiped it with trembling hands, completely oblivious to the Great Qin guards who surrounded him military.He reached out to touch Xiong Yu's hair, tremblingly said: "Xiong Yu, father is here, it's all right. Father will take you home, let's go back to Yingchen, okay?"
Xiong Yu's consciousness was already very weak, and while holding Xiong Qi's sleeve, he smiled slowly, "Father, I have seen...the peach blossoms in Xianyang, and I have also seen...a beautiful...a beautiful one. It's..." As she spoke, blood gushed out of her mouth more and more, and gradually she couldn't even make a sound.
Xiong Qi put his arms around her, and said very gently: "Let's go back to Ying Chen to plant peach blossoms together, Xiong Yu, let's plant a whole palace, no, let's plant all Ying Chen, okay. Father won't shut you up from now on, where do you want to go?" It's okay, let's go back now, shall we?" He said trembling all over, and in the end he almost lost his voice while hugging Xiong Yu.
The girl in his arms was already out of breath, and his hands were still tightly clutching his sleeves, Xiong Qi lowered his head and took a look, the man who had never shed a single tear even in the most desperate situation in his life, couldn't cry for a moment.
With bare eyes, he raised his head and almost yelled at Zhao Ji who was upstairs: "Zhao Su, you are crazy! She is your daughter! I brought her here to Xianyang because you said you missed her! She It's your daughter! Zhao Su!" The voice finally broke into pieces.
He hugged Xiong Yu's body tightly, as if embracing the child with all his strength.This child, who was secretly carried home by him since birth, was brought up by him little by little. He watched her cry and laugh every day, and listened to her call his father. Now the little girl who has finally grown into a little girl, he personally Raised a little girl who has been fussy since she was a child.She is not his blood, but his daughter.
Xiong Qi reached out to wipe the blood on Xiong Yu's face, and finally collapsed completely after wiping.
You have raised this child for eighteen days, but I have raised it for 18 years.
On the tall building, Zhao Ji looked at the crying man who bent over, slowly raised her head, and forced back her tears.She stood with her sleeves upright, and this angle happened to be far away from the brightly lit Xianyang Palace.On the long steps of Xianyang Palace, the emperor in black clothes stood with his hands behind his back, and he did not know how long he had been watching there quietly.A palace man was holding a dim lamp and standing behind the emperor with his waist down. Looking from a distance, the Xianyang Palace had a magnificent scene, and the nine layers of stars behind the emperor were so magnificent. The young man in black clothes almost helped the world with his bare hands. momentum.
But in Zhao Ji's eyes, the young emperor seemed to be alone, only shouldering the burden of the country.
Without Xiong Qi, his subordinates are completely scattered.After everything was done, Zhao Ji slowly raised her skirt and walked down the tall building, passed countless imperial guards, and stood still in front of Xiong Qi, she quietly watched the man hugging the girl.
Weapons, blood, late beauties, and aging youths, this scene is like an old picture scroll slowly unfolding.
"Why?" Xiong Qi didn't know what he wanted to ask, he just wanted to say "why", like a sigh, a complex emotion.He looked up at Zhao Ji, and asked again, "Why?"
With tears in her eyes, Zhao Ji said with a soft smile, "I am the Queen Mother of Daqin."
Xiong Qi hugged the girl's cold body, but he didn't even know that it was one of them.
Crying is not worth it; laughing is too desolate.So Xiong Qi could only hug the girl, and said softly: "Zhao Su, Jianghuai has fishing boats, Yinhan has Xinghe, I, Xiong Qi, thank you for making it happen in my life."
Reaching out his hand to take out the blood-stained and rusty bead flower from his bosom, Xiong Qi gently placed the bead flower in front of Zhao Ji, he murmured in a low voice while holding the girl, but he never raised his eyes to look at the black-clothed flower in front of him. A woman in fine clothes.
In the Xianyang Palace in the distance, Li Si slowly climbed up the steps and stood in front of the black-clothed emperor.He saluted calmly, and said in a deep voice, "Your Majesty, the road to Fachu has been opened."
Ying Zheng glanced at the scene in the distance with his hands in his hands, and said, "I will issue an edict in three days to attack Chu."
Li Si knelt down, "Yes, Your Majesty."
Ying Zheng looked down at Li Si, who was kneeling in front of the steps, and then slowly raised his eyes to look at the distant sky. As far as he could see, there was a clear night, and thousands of miles of rivers and mountains.He spoke suddenly and called Li Si who was about to leave. "Do you know? This matter should have been handled by Zhao Gao."
Li Si looked up at Ying Zheng.
The emperor said slowly: "That day I ordered Lord Changping to enter Xianyang, and the person I sent to meet him was not you, but Zhao Gao."
Li Si thought for a while, then smiled lightly and said, "A lot of blood was stained on your hands when you did this. Mr. Zhao is a civil servant, let's do it as a humble minister."
After hearing Li Si's words, Ying Zheng lowered his head and smiled. After looking down at Li Si, he said softly, "Go down."
"Wei Chen retire."
Ying Zheng nodded and didn't look at him again.
……
In an unknown corner of Qin Palace, the boy in black watched everything, and finally put his hood on slowly.The moment he raised his hand, half of the scarlet cloud pattern was exposed on the cuff.
In the early morning of the next day, Yu Zishi walked through the west palace gate to go to court as usual, when suddenly, his feet on the blue stone bricks paused.Turning his head to look, there seemed to be a bloodstain on the ground?He lowered his body and stretched out his slender fingers to touch the blue stone brick.
Suddenly, a semi-circular shadow slowly passed by his fingertips.Yu Zishi looked up, and at some point a bamboo bone umbrella was propped on his head.
He looked back and saw a young man in black standing behind him, holding a green bamboo bone umbrella in his hand.
"Your Highness? Why are you here?" Yu Zishi was slightly surprised.
Hu Hai stretched out his hand towards Yu Zishi, half of his cuff was bright red.
Yu Zishi hesitated for a moment, stood up with his hand supported, "Why are you here?" He asked again.
Hu Hai looked up at the sky, "I think it's going to rain today, so give me an umbrella." As he spoke, he handed the umbrella to Yu Zishi.
Yu Zishi took the umbrella, and looked at Hu Hai more and more inexplicably. He raised his hand and touched Hu Hai's forehead, "What's wrong with you?" Does it look like it's going to rain this day?
Hu Hai suddenly stretched out his hand and accurately grasped Yu Zishi's hand that was pressed against his forehead. He chuckled and said, "Maybe it will be released later. If it is not today, it may be tomorrow. If it is not tomorrow, it may be tomorrow."
The way Yu Zishi looked at Hu Hai suddenly changed, what's wrong with this kid?
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