Time passed day by day, Li Qing felt as if he had been abandoned, except for the rancid cakes sent by the jailer every day, no one appeared in front of Li Qing anymore, and the only one who could talk to Li Qing was the strange old man who chattered.

At first, Li Qing didn't want to deal with the strange old man too much, but after a few days of boring waiting, Li Qing still chose to talk to the strange old man to pass the time.

Li Qing found that although this strange old man was chattering, he revealed something extraordinary between his conversations, which made Li Qing understand that this old man was by no means an ordinary person.

However, although the old man was talkative, he didn't say a word about his origin, Li Qing asked a few times tentatively, but the old man opened the topic, Li Qing saw this, and didn't ask more.

"Knock"

A coarse grain cake and a bowl of white water were placed at the door of Li Qing's cell, Li Qing took the food through the fence, and the old man next door also received his own prison meal, unlike Li Qing, the old man's prison meal had an extra piece of meat in addition to the cake and water.

Li Qing, who hadn't tasted meat for a few days, looked at the old man's slices of meat and swallowed his saliva. Come, give. ”

The old man said, threw the meat slice to Li Qing, Li Qing was stunned, subconsciously caught the meat with his hand, looked at the old man, and said puzzledly: "Senior, why do you have an extra piece of meat today?" ”

The old man touched his beard and said with a smile: "The old man's day has come, it's time to go on the road, before going on the road, you have to eat a good meal, but those jailers are too stingy, so they prepared a piece of meat for the old man, stingy, stingy." ”

Li Qing hadn't reacted at first, but when he reacted, the old man had already taken a sip of water and began to lie on the stone couch to rest.

"Senior...... This meat ...... You ......"

Li Qing looked at the meat in his hand, but he couldn't eat it anymore, although he had only known the old man for a few days, but after a few days of communication between the two, they became friends, Li Qing didn't expect that the old man would come to the day of execution.

The old man didn't pay attention to Li Qing, he suddenly became very silent, as if he was hesitating about something.

I don't know how long it took, the old man suddenly got up, came to the fence, looked at Li Qing and said, "Little guy, the old man should go, but there are some things that the old man is unwilling to take away, I don't know if you are interested in taking them?" ”

Hearing this, Li Qing looked at the expectant look in the old man's eyes, and Li Qing nodded.

Seeing Li Qing nodding, the old man looked very happy, returned to the stone couch, turned out a piece of animal skin from the ground next to the stone couch, wiped it carefully, and then came to the fence and threw the animal skin to Li Qing.

Li Qing took the animal skin scroll, opened it, and found that it was actually a map.

Li Qing asked, "Senior, this is ......?"

The old man made a silent gesture, and then whispered: "Little guy, the old man is good at face-to-face, and he can see that you are by no means short-lived, the old man has seventy-two volumes of military books, hidden in Kunliang Mountain, if you are out of danger in the future, you can go to Kunliang Mountain to find it, and what you have in your hand is the map." ”

Li Qing held the map in his hand, hesitated, and said, "Senior, can you tell the name of the junior?" ”

The old man was stunned, fell into silence, and did not speak for a long time.

Li Qing saw that the old man was silent, thinking that the old man was angry, and couldn't help but show guilt.

"Old man, I am."

The old man left a word, and then left the next day, since then, Li Qing has never seen the old man again, and Li Qing is the only one left in the prison around him.

In the Xianyang Palace, the middle-aged general in military uniform and Qin Shi Huang Yingzheng stood in front of the palace building, Yingzheng looked very happy, the Huns were defeated, although the main force was not damaged, but there was no longer a threat to the strength of Great Qin in a short period of time, leaving time for the newly unified Qin State to develop and grow.

Looking at the middle-aged general beside him, Ying Zheng nodded with satisfaction and said: "Meng Tian, I thought that you would be able to hold the Hetao without losing, but it was already very difficult, but I didn't expect you to be able to drive the Huns to Mobei, and you really deserve to be the grandson of the old general Meng Tian." ”

It turned out that this middle-aged general was Meng Tian who had just broken the Huns, and Meng Tian said: "Your Majesty, this time you can break the Huns, thanks to the harness sent by Your Majesty, if there are no harnesses, even if the minister can defeat the Huns, it will not be so easy." ”

Ying Zheng nodded and said, "That harness is indeed a good thing, but no matter how good it is, there must be someone who makes good use of it, Meng Tian, you don't have to be modest." ”

Meng Tian said: "I don't know where the person who offered the harness is now, and the minister wants to thank this person on behalf of the soldiers of the Northern Expedition." ”

Hearing this, Ying Zheng nodded, beckoned, Zhao Gao hurriedly stepped forward, leaned over and said, "Your Majesty, what are your orders?" ”

Ying Zheng said with a smile: "Zhao Gao, you go and call that Li Qing to the palace to participate in General Meng Tian's celebration banquet tonight." ”

When Zhao Gao heard this, his face showed a trace of embarrassment, and he said, "Your Majesty, this matter ...... Probably ......"

Ying Zheng saw Zhao Gao's embarrassed appearance, and couldn't help but say in a deep voice: "Zhao Gao, what's wrong?" ”

Zhao Gao hurriedly replied: "Your Majesty, that Li Qing was sent by the Prime Minister's Mansion a few days ago for reselling craftsmen as utensils, and now, he is still in prison, waiting for conviction." ”

When Ying Zheng heard this, there was a trace of dissatisfaction on his face, and he said: "Reselling craftsmen as utensils? And what else is there? ”

Zhao Gao said: "This is indeed the case. ”

Ying Zheng touched his chin, thought for a while, and said: "Zhao Gao, you hold my hand and go to the heavenly prison to lead people, the soldiers of the Northern Expedition want to see this person who helped them defeat the Huns, I can't let the soldiers of the Northern Expedition down, as for the resale of utensils, Zhao Gao, you personally check for me." ”

Zhao Gao took the order and left, seeing this situation, Meng Tian breathed a sigh of relief, the matter entrusted to him by his sister was done, although Meng Tian didn't know Li Qing, but Meng Ying begged, Meng Tian couldn't refuse, so Meng Tian deliberately mentioned Li Qing.

After Zhao Gao left, Ying Zheng suddenly said, "Wei Yu is dead." ”

Meng Tian's face changed slightly, Wei Yi can be said to be a great hero of Qin's unification of the six countries, but unfortunately after the unification, Wei Yu's military reform angered the old generals of Qin, in order to calm the anger of these old Qin people, Qin Shi Huang put Wei Yi in prison, so far, it has been almost eight years.

Ying Zheng sighed and said, "I wanted to let him go, as long as he handed over the military book, but unfortunately he would rather die than obey, I ......"

As a general of the Great Qin, Meng Tian did not have much affection for Wei Mi, because Wei Mi was too strict with the officers and soldiers in the army, and he advocated declaring the soldiers who were defeated, surrendered, and escaped from the battle as "national thieves" and "military thieves", and not only punished with "killing the family and crippling the family", but also cutting the household registration, sending ancestral graves, and selling their families as slaves. Soldiers who fail to report on time and desert will be punished as the crime of fleeing.

In this way, although the combat strength of the Qin army was greatly improved, it also led to the death of many Qin soldiers in military law, so after reunification, Wei Yi would become a victim of Qin Shi Huang's pacification of the army.

Although he hated Wei Yu, Meng Tian was also deeply impressed by Wei Yu's method of using soldiers, and when he heard that Wei Yu was dead, Meng Tian couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion.