Ying Zheng, who was angry, saw Meng Tian enter the study, asked him to calm down, and then sat down. When Meng Yi saw his eldest brother, he mouthed Meng Tian Nunu and motioned Meng Tian to go up and persuade the king, Meng Tian gave his younger brother a look, and then walked in front of Ying Zheng and said: "Actually, the king doesn't have to be angry, because in the eyes of the minister, this is just a trivial matter, and it is not worth being angry at all." ”

Ying Zheng glanced at him, and said angrily: "You said it lightly, the widow still expects you to come back this time to help the widow suppress the arrogance of Lu Buwei's gang, you are good, but you persuaded the widow to come." Didn't you forget about the widow when you had a daughter-in-law?"

Meng Yi saw that Yingzheng's anger not only did not disappear but had a rising trend, and hurriedly interjected: "What is the king talking about, although my eldest brother has my sister-in-law, but he is still loyal to the king, I can guarantee this with my head." ”

Ying Zheng looked at Meng Yi and said, "Do you believe what the widow said?"

Meng Tian was speechless for a moment and smiled awkwardly. Ying Zheng left his seat, led the two Meng brothers to the innermost part of the study, and then asked Meng Tian to ask a bookshelf full of bamboo slips to move. After Meng Tian moved away, a secret door was revealed. Ying Zheng asked Meng Tian to open the secret door, and then the three of them walked in, and after entering, they moved the mechanism behind the secret door and moved the bookshelf back to its original position.

Meng Tian has been to this study quite a few times, but he only learned on the first day that there was a secret room in the study. Looking at Meng Yi's appearance, it should not be the first time he has come here. There was no one in the secret room with candles lit, but there were some common pastries in the palace on the table inside. There are three bookshelves in the secret room, which are full of bamboo slips, but I don't know what is recorded.

Meng Tian looked at Ying Zheng and asked, "Your Majesty, is this place?"

Ying Zheng didn't speak, and it was Meng Yi who answered him, "This secret room is after you went on the expedition, I went outside to find some classics for the king, and I saw a bamboo slip with some dust on it, so I went to open this bamboo slip to see what was written on it, but I didn't expect that the bamboo slip was the key to this secret room, and then the king and I found this secret room." ”

Ying Zheng sat down and looked at Meng Tian and Meng Yi, and beckoned the two to sit down together, if this is placed outside this secret room, this is absolutely impossible, if it is seen, Meng Tian and Meng Yi will be accused of trespassing, but there are only three of them here, and the relationship between the three of them is so good.

After the two sat down, Ying Zheng pointed to the three large bookshelves and said, "This secret room must have been left by my father, but he didn't tell me when he returned to heaven." These three bookshelves contain the military, land, taxes, and the names and origins of all the ministers of the Qin State, and I think this is probably the most useful thing my father left me. Not only that, but there is also the information of all the spies that my Great Qin has planted in the rest of the princes' countries, so it can be said that only when you are in charge of this place can you really be considered to be in charge of the entire Qin State. ”

Meng Tian opened his mouth and asked, "Your Majesty, who else knows about this secret room?"

Ying Zheng understood who Meng Tian wanted to ask, and said, "Don't worry, Lu Buwei shouldn't know this place." It can be said that this place was built specifically for Lü Buwei. When my father was alive, he had already found that Lü Buwei's power was gradually out of his control, but he remembered that Lü Buwei had helped my father ascend to the throne and rescued the widow and the queen mother from Zhao State, so he didn't move him, but let him be Xiangguo, and let me worship Xiangguo, hoping that he could contribute to my Qin State with peace of mind. ”

Meng Tian nodded, now Lu Buwei in Xianyang City can be said to cover the sky with one hand, and the royal clan of Qin State has been suppressed by him, except for a few royal clansmen who are close to Yingzheng can also live in Xianyang City and receive a vacant position, the rest of the Wang clan relatives are either sent to remote areas as officials, or they are accompanying the capital Yongcheng to retire with peace of mind. Now basically all the civil officials above the court of the Qin State are submissive to Lü Buwei, except for Li Si and a few people, few people remain neutral, because with Lü Buwei's businessman's temperament, he will not let go of any unfavorable factors for him. There are also military generals who have secretly taken refuge in Lü Buwei, if Lü Buwei has military power in his hands, then he is more like the real king of Qin than Yingzheng.

Meng Yi got up and went to a bookshelf to get a scroll of bamboo slips, put it on the table in front of the three of them, and said, "Now the king is not only restrained by Lu Buwei outside the palace, but it is also unsafe in the palace. ”

"You mean the Queen Mother and the Queen Mother's concubine in the palace, right?"

Ying Zheng was a little surprised, and then relieved, presumably Meng Yi had already told Meng Tian. "Yes, the widow went to the queen mother's palace to ask for peace these days, and the queen mother refused the widow's request on the grounds that she was already unwell, but every time the widow went, he couldn't see any trace of Chang Yu, who was the big eunuch in the mother's harem. So the widow guessed that this Chang Yu must not be an ordinary person, but the widow didn't know the origin of this person, so why did he go to the palace of the queen mother when he came to the palace. ”

Meng Yi pointed to the bamboo slips on the table, and said to Ying Zheng and Meng Tian: "I once sent someone to check this Chang Yu, when he entered the palace, he said that he was having an affair with the maid of a big family, and was caught by the owner of that family, and then sent the official to be sentenced to enter the palace, there is only so much we know." ”

Meng Tian thought for a moment and asked, "Where is the maid who had an affair with Chang Yu now, and which family is that maid?

Meng Yi shook his head, this Chang Yu's experience is so short, and even the evidence can't be found now, it seems that this matter is not as simple as what is written on the bamboo slip. Meng Tian said to Ying Zheng: "Your Majesty, since this Chang Yu is so suspicious, then hand it over to the minister, and the minister will definitely find out about this matter, no matter what unknown identity this Chang Yu has, the minister must find out him." ”

"Okay, this matter is not easy for the widow and Meng Yi to do, so I can only leave it to you, no matter what method is used and how much time is used, it must be found out by the widow. ”

"No. ”

After coming out of the secret room, Meng Tian left the palace and rode the black wind back to his home, while Meng Yi continued to stay in the palace to accompany Yingzheng to handle official business. When he returned home, his father went to the barracks after his father's retreat from the court, and he would only come back at noon. Meng Tian returned to his yard, but found that Zi Yanran was not here, and asked the maid at home to find out that it was his mother who took Zi Yanran to the street to buy things.

Near noon, Mrs. Meng took Zi Yanran back to the house, and the servants and maids who followed behind each had a big package in their hands. Meng Tian saw his mother and Zi Yanran coming back, and hurriedly stepped forward to ask.

Zi Yanran saw Meng Tian coming to pick up her and her mother, stepped forward and grabbed his arm and said, "Today, my mother took me to the street to buy a lot of beautiful clothes, you see that this is a bracelet and earrings that my mother gave me, do you look good?"

Meng Tian looked at Zi Yanran, who had a obviously different temperament, and said with a smile: "Good-looking, good-looking, you are always so good-looking in my eyes." ”

Mrs. Meng looked at her son and daughter-in-law from the side, and said, "Okay, you two are not married yet, what do you look like, and, Yanran, if Meng Tian dares to bully you, you can tell me that in this family, except for the old man, none of the three of them dare to listen to me." ”

Meng Tian looked at his mother: "Mother, what are you talking about, how can I bully Yan Ran, besides, she may still bully me." ”

Zi Yanran pinched Meng Tian's waist fiercely with one hand through his clothes, blaming him for talking nonsense in front of his mother. Mrs. Meng looked at her son and daughter-in-law so affectionately, and she couldn't stop talking with joy.

Not long after, Meng Wu rode home from the barracks to have lunch. During the meal, Meng Tian told his father that his mother and Zi Yanran were going to Lü Buwei's banquet in the evening, and Meng Wu reminded Meng Tian to pay more attention to Lü Buwei and remember not to believe his solicitation. Now Xianyang City is full of storms, and there may be a storm at any time, depending on whose head this rain falls on.