Chapter Twenty-Nine: Return to Qin
Wei Kai returned to Qin from Qi in the spring of the second year.
Looking at Liyang City from afar, Wei Kai saw that there was no mourning curtain hanging on the city, and his anxious heart along the way slowly calmed down. After all, when the monarch is mourned, the whole country must wear filial piety for the monarch, hang a white curtain, and hold a funeral.
Entering Liyang City, Wei Kai seemed to have arrived in another world. Without the prosperity of the Qiguo market and the liveliness of the Korean market, the few scattered shops that Wei Kai had seen in Liyang City were gone, and the streets were deserted.
What Wei Kai could see was that the soldiers of the Qin State who came and went from time to time, if it weren't for the "Qin" flag hanging on Wei's car, I am afraid that it would be inevitable to search.
After all, Wei Kai's convoy of more than a dozen people was particularly conspicuous on this empty street. Wei Xingxing was also full of doubts, and hurriedly drove to Yingqu Liang's mansion.
Seeing Jing Jian who was about to go out from a distance, Wei Kai shouted, "Brother Jing."
Jing Jian, who had just gotten into the car, heard someone shouting at this time, but it seemed to be the sound of the wind. Immediately, however, a stoppage sound was heard.
Jing Jian looked at the convoy parked in front of the mansion, and looked at the white breath that came out of the horse's nose, and was also stunned. Who dares to make a noise in front of the second prince's mansion, Jing Jian wondered in his heart.
"Who are you, this is also the place where you go wild?"
"Brother Jing, I haven't seen you for two years, and I'm a lot unfamiliar." After Wei Kai heard this, after getting out of the carriage, he looked at Jing Jian who was about to get into the carriage and smiled.
Jing Jian looked at Wei Kai, and suddenly his mind was blank, the person he missed day and night, standing in front of him, suddenly couldn't speak, and said intermittently: "Zhao..., ah, no, Wei...".
Wei Kai looked at the embarrassed appearance of Jing Jian Jing and laughed: "It's me, Wei Kai, Brother Jing."
Wei Kai stepped forward to hug the speechless Jing Supervisor, and Jing Jian also hurriedly hugged Wei Kai and cried: "You are back, you are back."
Wei Kai looked at the tearful Jing Jian and was very moved in his heart, but he smiled and said, "Brother Jing, you will also make a posture of a daughter, hahaha."
When Jing Jian heard this, he quickly wiped his tears with his sleeve and said loudly: "I just have sand in my eyes."
Wei Kai looked at Jing Jian and smiled. Then Jing Jian hurriedly took Wei Kai into the mansion and asked the servants to kill sheep and cook.
Wei Kai, who returned to his small courtyard, saw that the furnishings outside his house had not changed at all, they were still so clean and tidy, everything was a familiar taste, and his heart was suddenly relieved, and I Wei Hansan finally came back.
Pushing open the door, Wei Kai saw Aoi sleeping on the desk with one hand propped up. The sentence "slave, I will always wait for you to come back at home" suddenly surged into Wei Kai's heart.
I haven't seen it for two years, and Aoi has grown more fresh and beautiful, although there is no gorgeous decoration, Aoi is sleeping soundly on the coffee table, but it is extraordinarily beautiful.
Wei Kai picked up his cloak and prepared to cover the sleeping Aoi. Maybe it just happened that Aoi suddenly woke up at this time, and the two looked at each other.
Aoi looked at Wei Kai in front of him, and said to himself in surprise: "The slave is not wrong, it must be ...... wrong", then closed his eyes, opened them carefully, and whispered: "Is it you, is it ....."
Wei Kai looked at Aoi, who had been covering his chest and couldn't believe him, so he smiled, touched Aoi's head with his hand and said, "It's me, I'm back."
Aoi heard Wei Kai's voice, looked straight at Wei Kai, and threw himself into Wei Kai's arms, crying and saying, "The slave knows, the slave must wait."
Wei Kai looked at Aoi who was crying in his arms, and understood that when he walked his room, it was exactly the same, neat and clean, and it must have been Aoi who had been cleaning it for two years. He left the Qin State for two years, and also left Aoi in the Qin State and lived alone for two years.
Wei Kai reached out and hugged Aoi in his arms, stroked her back, and said softly, "You won't be alone anymore, and me." I won't leave you alone anymore." When Aoi heard this, she hugged Wei Kai even more tightly and cried.
After a while, Wei Kai took a little bath, and then took Aoi to attend the banquet prepared by Jing Jian.
Looking at Kui, who was serving Wei Kai on the side, with a smile on his face, Jing Jian looked at Wei Kai with a wicked smile and said, "Brother Wei Kai, you are really good, you will return with a beautiful woman as soon as you return home."
When Wei Kai heard this, he smiled, gently looked at Aoi who was pouring wine next to him, and said, "This is Wei Kai's luck."
Afterwards, Wei Kai looked at Jing Jian and said solemnly: "I entered the city and found that Liyang City seems to be under martial law, is the monarch okay?" ”
When Jing Jian heard this, his originally smiling face became solemn and said, "Originally, I was going to wait for you to rest before telling you."
"Is it your lordship? Is the second son okay? ”
"The king's illness is even more serious, and now the old family is making people panic about the matter of succeeding the king of Qin", Jing Jian looked at Wei Kai and said with a serious face.
"The eldest son, the second son...... Alas. I want to enter the palace immediately and present the matter to the king", Wei Kai listened to what Jing Jian said, realized the seriousness of the matter, and said to Jing Jian.
looked at Wei Kai, who got up and was about to enter the palace, and immediately said in person: "Brother Wei Kai, I will go with you." Wei Kai looked at Aoi on the side and said, "You wait for me at home, come back immediately", Aoi nodded gently. Subsequently, Wei Kai and Jing Jian entered the palace together for an audience.
Qin Palace, the sleeping palace of the King of Qin.
The King of Qin was seriously injured due to the Battle of Shaoliang, and when he returned to China, he assigned the major affairs to the eldest prince Ying Qian and the second son Yingqu Liang to deal with, and he recuperated his body in the Qin Palace. But King Qin is already sixty years old, and no matter how he recupes, it still can't help.
Recently, King Qin faintly felt that his time might be short, so he privately asked the courtiers, who can succeed King Qin? Unexpectedly, it caused an uproar, and King Qin regretted it in his heart, but also felt urgent. The country is unstable, and the Qin country is not a country.
So, he summoned his children in the Qin Palace, asked for opinions, and also selected the next generation of Qin kings.
King Qin and his wife had two sons and a daughter.
Lying on his bed, King Qin Ying Shiyu looked at the three children kneeling below, glanced at the lady sitting on the edge of the bed, on crutches, and said, "Boss, second, tell me who can be the king of Qin after I die?" ”
When the three people in the hall heard this, their bodies trembled, and they all cried and said, "The monarch will live a long life, don't say such things."
After hearing this, Queen Qin on the side hurriedly stabbed the ground with a cane and said loudly: "Your father is already like this, haven't you heard the rumors outside?" ”
But in the room, only the sound of crutches stabbing the ground and the echo of the thump was heard, and there was no sound.
The third daughter of King Qin, who knelt on the side and couldn't hold it anymore, stood up in an instant and said: "Big brother, second brother, it is rumored outside that you are going to kill each other, but you should give our father and mother a word."
After Queen Qin heard the words "cannibalism" said by the third daughter, she hurriedly got up and said, "Yue'er, don't talk nonsense, your eldest brother, how can the second brother kill each other", but she involuntarily looked at the two kneeling on the ground and became worried.
The black-clothed girl next to her, hearing her mother's scolding, wrinkled her delicate nose, and ran to King Qin's side, holding King Qin's hand, and said coquettishly: "Father, look, the queen mother said me again."
King Qin looked at his beloved daughter, and Queen Qin didn't think about Yue'er's nonsense if it would affect his injury, so he sat up, hugged Yue'er and said, "Yue'er is good, you may have to rely on your eldest brother and second brother to take care of you in the future."
I saw that the girl heard King Qin's words, her heroic face, instantly cried and mourned, her small mouth, delicate eyebrows, and her big eyes full of tears looked even more pitiful at this time, and said: "Yue'er wants her father, her father..."
Seeing the little sister crying in the arms of the monarch's father, the two kneeling under the hall couldn't sit still at this time, and just as they were about to speak, they saw Hei Bo hurriedly walking and said, "Your Majesty, Jing Jian and Keqing Wei Kai ask to see you."
The people present were stunned when they heard it, Jing Jian, everyone is familiar with it, it is the close attendant of the second son, who is the guest Wei Kai? Of course, in addition to knowing that Zhao Qi is the King of Qin of Wei Kai, Gongzi Qian and Gongzi Quliang.
When Wei Kai knew that he was named a guest because of the Battle of Shaoliang, he was also quite surprised. After all, Keqing received the title of a middle doctor, and Wei Kai thought that he would not get it in a few years.
Wei Kai? The kid came back, and King Qin thought in his heart when he heard what Hei Bo said.
After Wei Kai entered King Qin's bedroom with Hei Bo, Gongzi Qian and Gongzi Quliang, who were kneeling on the ground, stood beside King Qin's bed at this time, waiting for Wei Kai's report.
"The minister Wei Kai (Jing Jian) visited the King of Qin, the queen, and the princesses and princesses." After Wei Kai and Jing Jian saw everyone in the hall, they hurriedly saluted.
King Qin looked at Wei Kai and said with a reluctant smile, "Boy, how does it feel to go out?" ”
After Wei Kai heard the sermon, he looked up at King Qin on the sickbed, and sighed in his heart, the gray hair urged the old, and the green yang forced the old age.
King Qin Ying Shixi could have recaptured Hexi in one fell swoop and swept away the shame of the Qin people for a hundred years. It's a pity that when heaven and earth work together, the heroes are not free, and the heroes who stand up to the sky are now tormented and finally die on the sickbed.
"The minister has fulfilled his mission and has formed an alliance with the Qi State"
When the king of Qin heard that he had formed an alliance with the state of Qi, he said loudly: "Good."
"My king should not have high expectations for an alliance with the Qi country. In the end, the diplomatic relations between countries still depend on the comprehensive strength of each country.
However, the alliance with Qi has bought time for our Qin State, and my Qin State can seize the time and recuperate in case of the unexpected. Therefore my king must take care of his health."
King Qin heard Wei Kai say: "It's not easy to buy time." Wei Kai, you have a lot of credit."
"As a guest secretary of the Qin State, this is what a minister should do", Wei Kai replied respectfully after hearing it.
Gongzi Qian and Gongzi Quliang on the side were also very happy after hearing that Wei Kai had completed his mission. After all, now that there are internal strife in the Qin State, an alliance with Qi can show the external environment that stabilizes the Qin State. The Qin State can free up his hands and try his best to deal with internal affairs.
King Qin Ying Shixi, looked at Wei Kai who was kneeling on the ground, thought about it, was more sure in his heart, and said to everyone: "You all go down."
Subsequently, everyone retired. Hei Bo on the side said: "Your Majesty, all the old slaves are ready", King Qin looked at the door when he heard it, sighed, and thought in his heart Don't blame me, hey.