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Wuguan Chidao, after exhausting nearly 20,000 Qi slaves, finally completely repaired after the winter last year.

Although it is still rugged, it can be smoothly navigated through the curved and narrow mountains.

Under the escort of thousands of heavily armed guards and five hundred Xuanwu guards, the procession led by Qin Shi Huang marched at sunrise and sunset, and after half a month of turbulence, it passed through Shangluo, Danfeng, Shangnan, and Xixia counties, and finally walked out of the reckless mountains to Zhongxiang (now called Neixiang County), which was only less than two hundred miles away from Wancheng.

After arriving in Zhongxiang, the team was stationed, and set up a line outside Zhongxiang City to stay for three days, Qin Shi Huang met with Zhongxiang officials and respected scholars and old men in Zhongxiang, and at the same time, there were countless forbidden army sentries scattered around to inquire about the news, and Xuanwuwei also had dozens of horses secretly sneaking into Wancheng and surrounding counties.

"Report~, everything in Nieyang County is calm, and there is nothing abnormal!" A janitorial soldier rode a horse and got down on one knee outside the line to report.

"Report~, the county is calm!"

"Report~, there is nothing unusual in Pheasant County!"

"Report~, Wancheng is peaceful, and there is nothing abnormal!"

With the continuous arrival of sentinels, many ministers who accompanied the emperor on the tour also settled down and breathed a sigh of relief at the same time.

Accompanying the emperor on a parade is both an honor and a chore, from Xianyang to Wancheng is only a thousand miles, but the road is rugged and bumpy, these usually pampered civil officials basically feel that they are about to fall apart.

Now out of Funiu Mountain, to the southeast counties are all Pingchuan, the road is naturally much wider and smoother, and at the same time, there is no need to worry about falling rocks and beasts in the mountains.

"Newspaper~" The three black-clothed Xuanwu guards rushed straight into the line, showed their golden waist cards and entered the big tent, knelt down on one knee together.

"Your Majesty, my subordinates have gone to Qinghe Town, Pheasant County to find out the news, and Chen Xu is not in Qinghe Town."

"It's not in Xiaohe Village either!"

"It's not in the county seat of Pheasant County!"

The three Xuanwu guards reported one after another.

Qin Shi Huang, who was sitting on the high chair, put down a book made of hemp pulp paper in his hand, his face was slightly disappointed, and after a long time, he waved his hand and said, "Explore again!" ”

"Oh~" The three Xuanwu guards exited the tent.

"Report~" Three more fast horses galloped into the line, and three black-clothed Xuanwu guards entered the big tent.

"Have you ever heard about Chen Xu?" Qin Shi Huang asked a little eagerly.

"Your Majesty, your subordinates have already inquired and learned that Chen Xu is in the foot house of a family called Qinghe Inn in Wancheng, drinking and feasting every day!" A Xuanwu guard said.

"Qinghe Inn?" Qin Shi Huang was stunned for a moment and asked suspiciously, "Isn't it called Qinghe Store?" ”

"Your Majesty, the Qinghe store has now expanded into three, one is called Qinghe Inn, which specializes in providing all kinds of food and accommodation, and the other is called Qinghe Theater, which rehearses several songs and dances called Tianxian Pei every day, and now everyone in Wancheng knows it, and Qinghe Store is now operating as usual, selling Qinghe wine, Qinghe vinegar, Qinghe tea oil and rice candy cakes, as well as clothes, shoes, hats and porcelain!"

Although the three Xuanwu guards came and went in a hurry, they still inquired about everything Chen Xu had in Wancheng.

The main reason is that these three industries belonging to the Qinghe Group are too famous, and now they are not only famous in Wancheng, but also in the surrounding counties.

Many of them gathered in groups to discuss the plot after watching it, and even some families began to speculate and add about the origin and origin of characters such as Heavenly Court, Heavenly Emperor and Queen Mother, and discussing Tianxian match has now become a new fashion among celebrities and gentlemen

And the story of Tianxian is now a household name in Wancheng, and the excerpts and lyrics of each character have also begun to become the mainstream folk opera.

"Qinghe Inn, Qinghe Theater, Tianxian with ......" Xuanwuwei retreated, Qin Shi Huang sat on the chair and was silent for a long time, and then ordered to summon Li Si Zhao and others.

"Your Majesty, no!" After listening to Qin Shi Huang's plan, Li Si, the first minister of the left, objected, "Wancheng does not have a palace, so the emperor's line must be arranged outside the city, so that the advance and retreat can be guaranteed to be safe, and there are no lieutenants and guards in the city to respond, once an unknown situation occurs, it is too dangerous to be trapped in the city!" ”

"Your Majesty, what Zuo Xiang said is good, the situation in Wancheng is unknown, you can't rush in, you can be stationed outside the city tomorrow, and you can call the people's officials and famous scholars to meet each other in Xingyuan!" Meng Yi also hurriedly dissuaded.

"Your Majesty, you must not enter the city!" The rest of Zhao Gaojiang Heng and the accompanying doctors and officials all spoke together, trying to dispel the emperor's whims.

Qin Shi Huang was silent for a long time and then nodded and said: "You Aiqinggu are worried about my safety, or tomorrow, I will be stationed thirty miles outside the city, but I want to enter the city!" ”

"Your Majesty, no!" The ministers hurried to dissuade again.

"I have made up my mind, don't persuade again!" Qin Shi Huang's face was majestic, and his sleeves were waved and he stopped talking.

Everyone withdrew silently, and then under the arrangement of the servant Zhao Gao and the accompanying Zhonglang generals and the leader of the forbidden army, a large number of forbidden troops dressed as ordinary people and tourists went to Wancheng, holding the Weiwei Mansion token to secretly take over the city gate guards, and when the emperor entered the city, a large number of Xuanwu guards would also accompany him to protect him, because Wancheng is not Xianyang, the situation in the city is complicated, and there is no lieutenant to clear the road in advance, so there must be unscrupulous people in the crowd, and unknown dangers may occur at any time.

But this kind of thing can only make the accompanying officials nerve-wracking.

If the emperor is disturbed in the city or something worse happens, the entire Wancheng will definitely be full of blood.

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Although I had heard that the emperor was coming, I had waited for seven or eight days without seeing a shadow, and even all kinds of gossip began to stop, so the restless mood in Wancheng slowly subsided, and some people speculated that the emperor's parade convoy might not come to Wancheng.

Chen Xu naturally has this kind of speculation.

Although he is looking forward to the arrival of Qin Shi Huang, he is also very nervous, just like going to a unicorn company to interview as a manager in the future, he always feels that his heart is hanging in space, and he is not ready to go to the world.

Even he didn't know the taste of Qin Shi Huang.

Will they meet and cut him down as a demon and sacrifice the flag.

But no matter whether Lao Ying comes or not, life still has to go on, because after half a month of preparation and rehearsal, the first 'Rain Tour to the West Lake' of White Snake Legend has been rehearsed, and it is basically ready for official performance, and he also wants to divert his highly nervous mood and attention through the performance.

"Hu Kuan, arrange for these newly printed leaflets to be sent out!"

Chen Xu called Hu Kuan, who was chatting with Bo Daocheng in front of the stage, and threw him a stack of printed leaflets in his hand.

Hu Kuan looked at it and said with a smile: "It's finally time to watch a new show, not to mention the audience, but I have to vomit every day when I watch it." ”

"Lots of, go!" Chen Xu's eyes widened, Hu Kuan shrank his neck in fright and hurriedly ran out of the door, ready to find a few gangsters who were blocking the street at the door every day to cheat and cheat and distribute leaflets, but his body shook suddenly when he stepped out of the door of the theater, and then cautiously stepped back step by step.

"Hu Kuan, what are you doing?" Hu Kuan's strange performance made Chen Xu inexplicable, so he walked behind Hu Kuan and patted him on the shoulder.

"Big ...... My lord...... Outside...... Outside......" Hu Kuan stammered and pointed outside.

"Outside?"

Chen Xu turned his head and found that there was no one at the door of the theater that was noisy every day, and it was unusually quiet, and the group of gangsters who cheated on food and drink were gone.

"Nima, there are ghosts in the blue sky and daylight?" Chen Xu muttered a sentence and stepped out of the door of the theater, facing the strong sun at the turn of spring and summer, and couldn't help but close his eyes slightly, but the situation in his eyes made his heart sound like a big drum.

I saw that on the street that was crowded with people on weekdays, there was a burly swordsman with a long sword on his back and a man dressed in black, and there was no idler on the whole street, and the temperature of the air seemed to have dropped by seven or eight degrees, shrouded in a cold air.

In the middle of the street more than ten meters away from the gate of the theater, there was a group of people, led by a middle-aged man of about forty, slightly fat, wearing a black brocade robe, embroidered with dragon patterns, a jade belt around his waist, a white face, wearing a jade crown, and his beard was slightly grayish, but the whole person looked extraordinary.

And there are several middle-aged men who are also forty or fifty years old around this person, all of them are dressed in brocade robes, jade crowns and long beards, and their appearances are different, but they all have the same strong aura.

At the moment when Chen Xu stepped out of the theater gate, the eyes of a group of people on the street fell on him almost at the same time.

What caught their eyes was a young man wearing a black T-shirt inside, a small Chinese stand-up collar on the outside, and a belt at the waist of his straight trousers, his hair was tied with a strip of cloth on the back of his head, and the whole person looked weird and weird.

I'll go, Qin Shi Huang is coming!

When Chen Xu's heart was pounding, his mind was pure and transparent like a block of ice, and only this only thought flashed in an instant, just like someone told him in the dark, the one who was surrounded by the stars and the moon was Qin Shi Huang, the ancestral dragon of Huaxia who was respected as the first emperor of the ages by later generations.

It looks majestic, but it also looks ordinary!

Chen Xu licked his lips and swallowed his saliva, and then after he methodically tidied up his clothes and hair, he waited for the pounding heart to slowly calm down, then he took a deep breath and strode out of the theater gate, bowing to a group of people from a distance of ten meters.

"Chen Xu, a citizen of the mountains and wilderness, greets His Majesty the First Emperor!"