Chapter 378: Playing mahjong in the palace
Chen Xu...... The old man must kill you! ”
Zhao Gao walked around the room like a wild wolf who had lost his mind in the mansion, touching his missing half of his ears and the scars on his face, and his mouth made a sound of gnashing teeth.
"Master, Shiro is back from the palace!" A domestic servant reports the news outside the door.
"Zhe'er, well, let him come to my study!" Zhao Gao stopped and ordered.
"Yes!" Not long after the servant left, Zhao Zhe, who was wearing an inner attendant's uniform, pushed the door in, saluted respectfully and said, "Meet my father!" ”
Zhao Gao looked at his son, who was now much more stable, and the resentment and boredom in his heart suddenly disappeared a lot, and he waved his hand and said, "No courtesy, why did you suddenly go back home today?" ”
"Dad, I saw Chen Xu in the palace just now, the emperor seems to be very happy, and summoned several sons and princesses to play mahjong together, and the laughter and laughter in the palace are very lively......" Zhao Zhe said this, his face became very distorted, "Dad, Chen Xu is so favored by His Majesty, I am afraid that the child's revenge cannot be avenged!" ”
Zhao Gao's face instantly became extremely hideous, and he gritted his teeth and said: "Because of Ao Ping and Shang Tu's affairs, your father and I were almost involved, so it is not easy to make a big move at the moment, you are now a eunuch in the palace, don't come out casually if you have nothing to do, serve the emperor and harem concubines carefully, don't make a mistake, be careful and secretly cultivate power, you can rest assured, Chen Xu...... I will inevitably let him live and die! ”
"Dad, don't be impulsive, I heard that Chen Xu has immortal arts, and he can Taiyi Divine Thunder, and he blew up several big pits outside the city today......" Zhao Zhe said with a little horror.
"Fart's Taiyi Divine Thunder, I've already asked people to inquire, it's something he secretly made in the Academy of Sciences, it's just a broken crockpot, it needs to be ignited with fire to explode, but those idiots still build altars and monuments outside the city to worship Taiyi Immortal Zun, maybe the so-called Taiyi Divine Thunder in Wancheng was also a trick he made to deceive the emperor, as long as I find evidence, I will definitely expose the identity of his immortal disciple! Don't worry, Dad will definitely help you take revenge, you hurry back to the palace" Zhao Gao walked back and forth a few steps back and forth, stopped and said.
"Okay, the boy will go back to the palace immediately!" Zhao Zhe's face was much better.
"Well, by the way, let people keep an eye on Chen Xu carefully, as long as he enters the palace, be sure to find out his whereabouts, wait for me to find evidence, and then wait for a suitable opportunity to give him some ecstasy and lure him into the bedroom of an imperial concubine to commit fornication, hehe, at that time, the identity of the so-called immortal disciple will be punctured, and he will inevitably be cramped by the emperor's wok, and the three clans of Shiyi will be abandoned!" In the end, Zhao Gao had an extremely hideous smile on his face.
"Dad, don't worry, the child has always been cautious in the palace, and now he has more than a dozen eunuchs, and in a few years, the eunuchs of the entire harem will definitely be controlled by me......"
"Tuk Tuk Tuk ......" Just as Zhao Zhe spoke, there was a sharp knock on the door.
"What's the matter?" Zhao Gao drank a little annoyed.
"Master, Zhao Po is back, saying that there is something important to report!" The voice of a servant was heard outside the door.
"Zhe'er, you go first, be careful, don't make people suspicious!" Zhao Gao frowned and waved his hand.
"Yes, the boy is gone!" Zhao Zhe saluted and then exited the room.
"Come in!" Zhao Gao sat on the warm kang.
A tall, strong, disheveled, disheveled, and embarrassed-looking warrior strode in, knelt down on one knee in front of Zhao Gao with a puff and said, "Master, my subordinates failed in this operation, and Shang Tu was robbed by a group of masked bandits!" ”
"What?" Zhao Gao was furious, grabbed a teacup on the desk and smashed it on the samurai's head and roared, "Are you pigs, more than fifty masters can't even kill Shang Tu!" ”
The warrior was so frightened that he fell to the ground and said: "Master, I was originally waiting to follow to a canyon at the junction of Hanzhong and Ba County, and took advantage of the rest of the escorted soldiers to do it, but I might as well suddenly kill more than 20 black-clothed and masked warriors, the leader of the swordsmanship is superb, and more than ten of us were killed and injured in an instant, although the two sides were killed and injured in the melee, but the leader of the other party was indeed too powerful, and his subordinates tried their best to escape from the encirclement, and then hid in the mountains for several days before they dared to return to check the situation. The slain soldiers and the dead on both sides have been eaten by wild beasts, and Shang Tu's family has disappeared, they should have been taken away by the group of masked bandits! ”
"Useless!" Zhao Gao kicked the warrior to the ground with a fierce kick, his face distorted and hideous and roared loudly, "Do you know who the other party is?" ”
"The subordinates don't know, because they are all dressed in black and covered with black scarves, and it is dusk, none of them can see clearly, but the person in charge has superb swordsmanship, and it is very similar to the person who assassinated the master in Xianyang last time!" The samurai said with a frightened expression.
"Chen Xu......" Zhao Gao's eyes were blood-red in an instant, and he kicked over a chair with a fierce kick.
"The old man is angry, although Shang Tu was rescued, but the plan is not to escape life, his subordinates saw five crossbow arrows in his body, and one of the crossbow arrows shot by his subordinates hit his heart!" The samurai said tremblingly.
"Waste, what did the old man say to you, you must cut off his head with your own hands, it is rumored that Chen Xu has the art of resurrecting the dead, you dare to guarantee that Shang Tu will die, get out, get out~~" Zhao Gao kicked the warrior to the ground, and pointed to the door with his cloak and roared loudly.
"Subordinates retire!" The samurai crawled out of the room.
"Bang dang~" In the room, Zhao Gao angrily overturned the desk on the kang to the ground, and an angry roar came out: "Chen Xu, the old man and you are incompatible, you don't die, the old man can't sleep well!" ”
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In the Imperial Palace, the palace where Qin Shi Huang rested every day, the charcoal fire was blazing in several stoves, and the heat released baked the room extremely warm.
There is a mahjong table in the center of the main hall, Gongzi Fusu, Gongzi Gao, Qin Shihuang and Princess Huayu are playing mahjong, Chen Xu is standing behind Princess Huayu and pointing, and there are several sons and princesses watching next to him.
Mahjong is no stranger to the people in the palace, since the last time I let Fusu take a pair dedicated to Concubine Zheng, Chen Xu entered the palace twice to point out, playing mahjong has become the main hobby and entertainment of the harem concubines, because with this kind of relaxed and interesting entertainment, plus Qin Shi Huang has now driven a group of alchemy warlocks out of the palace, so after returning to the palace, sometimes I will go to the harem to go around, and play mahjong with my favorite concubines for entertainment, so the atmosphere in the harem has been much more harmonious recently, The concubines who have been neglected for a long time also have more laughter in the dormitory, and even take Qin Shihuang to spend the night in the harem There are also a lot more opportunities, so the concubines are more eager to learn to play mahjong, so as to increase the chance of contact with the emperor, so the concubines in the harem also have a lot of gratitude to the Qinghe Hou who invented mahjong, although it is inconvenient to say it explicitly, but every time Chen Xu enters the palace, he will get special care and respect, every concubine will salute when he sees him, and sometimes he will be rewarded with some small things, although there is no way to compare with the emperor's reward, but it is also a heart, after all, Qin Shi Huang's harem is too large, except for rouge gouache and clothes, there are not many extravagant things such as pearls and jade, and there are not many concubines.
And Hu Kuan came to Xianyang this time, brought nearly 100 pairs of ceramic mahjong, of which the palace sent 30 pairs, and this number is not enough, some concubines and princesses spent their own money to invite Xianyang's jade carpenter carpenter to carve mahjong of various materials for daily pastime.
In addition, there is nowhere to play in the cold winter wax moon, and playing mahjong has become the best way to entertain.
"A tube!" Gongzi Gao, who was sitting at the top, played a card, Princess Huayu looked at Chen Xu with a pair of beautiful eyes, and asked with a slightly red cheek: "Qinghe Hou, should I play that card?" ”
Chen Xu touched his nose, his face jumped slightly, and he whispered with a smile on his face: "Princess, you have to touch the cards first!" ”
"Oooh!" Princess Huayu came to her senses and reached out to touch the cards, but Chen Xu held down her little hand, "Princess, you should touch the cards from this side, that side is Haidilao, and you can only touch it after the bar!" ”
"Thank you Qinghe Hou for the reminder!" The Huayu Palace Lord's cheeks were as bright as peach and plum, and he blushed directly to his neck, and after touching a card in a panic, he didn't know what to do, and turned his head to look at Chen Xu again, his big eyes were a little shy.
Alas! Chen Xu sighed helplessly in his heart, bent down and pointed: "This card is placed here, play the three cylinders, do you see it, these cards make up the same suit, if you have another one, you will have to draw the card......"
Chen Xu was only a few inches away from her body at this time, exuding an aura that made her a little intoxicated, this was a smell that she liked, different from the smell of fat powder that filled the palace, with a natural smell of earth and fireworks, it smelled very good.
Princess Huayu felt that her heart was pounding very fast, and the blood all over her body was flowing rapidly, not only was her face red and her heart was beating, but her palms also began to sweat, and her body seemed to be burning like a flame.
"Three cylinders, touch!" Qin Shi Huang, who was sitting opposite, looked up at his most beautiful daughter, and then at Chen Xu, who was concentrating on guidance, his face jumped slightly, and he put out two three-cylinders, and then played a card.
Crackling, the four people on the table kept touching the cards and playing cards, and the sound of bumping and bumping bars sounded from time to time, and Princess Huayu turned her head from time to time to look at Chen Xu who was standing beside her, and her cheeks blushed and kept asking, but there was more and more tenderness and confusion in her eyes.
Chen Xu also has countless heads in his heart, tearing the sofa and tearing the mattress and tearing down the room, facing a princess who deliberately pretends to be stupid, in addition to pretending to be calm helplessly, he can only smile bitterly and keep pointing.
And the ambiguous and embarrassing appearance of the two, a circle of people naturally looked at it, several little princesses covered their mouths while looking at the cards, laughed and whispered, and a few pairs of eyes glanced at Chen Xu from time to time.
And a few sons occasionally looked at the abnormal appearance of the two, but most of them looked at the cards with relaxed faces and did not speak.
This harmonious atmosphere of the palace has almost never been, Qin Shi Huang has never been so leisure and entertainment with his children before, occasionally summoned on weekdays, but only to ask about their own study and life, although Qin Shi Huang advocates the rule of law, but for the character of his son and daughter is still relatively high, the family education is very strict, each also invited the world's famous sages in teaching learning knowledge, and under the pressure of the momentum of this father who dominates China, these princesses are also cautious on weekdays, and they are not free, I never thought of such a relaxed entertainment with my father.
But all this is because of Chen Xu's arrival, and so much change has taken place in the palace.
And they also heard that a lot of things happened in the court because of the Qinghe Marquis, a few days ago, the Ao Ping family was sentenced to death by the three clans of the father Emperor Yi for destroying the construction site of the Qinghe Marquis, which not only frightened them, but also made them full of awe of Chen Xu.
"Fifth sister, it seems that you have to go to the Qinghe Hou Mansion to learn mahjong with the Qinghe Hou, otherwise the next time the Qinghe Hou is not here, you won't be able to play!" Fusu said with a smile while playing cards.
"What my brother said is that Qinghehou is amazing at playing mahjong, and we can only bow to the wind!" Childe Gao also echoed with a smile on his face.
"What the two brothers said is that the younger sister also hopes to get the guidance of Qinghe Hou, but I'm afraid that Qinghe Hou is busy and has no time on weekdays!" Princess Huayu blushed and whispered.
"If the princess wants to learn, the minister will naturally teach her, and no matter how busy she is, she can find time!" Chen Xu replied with a warm smile on his face.
"Really? That Shiyan will visit the house in a few days, hoping that the Marquis of Qinghe will not refuse! Princess Huayu turned her head to look at Chen Xu without being reserved at all, with a look of anticipation in her eyes.
"The princess is coming, and the humble house is naturally full of brilliance!"
"Peng Sheng is shining, good words, Qinghe Houfu is not a humble house, Shi Yan has been to it once, but I like it so much!" Princess Huayu said with a hot cheek.
"Hehe~" The princesses who were watching the cards next to them couldn't help but cover their mouths and sneered, and joked together, "Fifth sister, Qinghehou's Mansion is so good, you won't come back if you go, then we will have a chance to go to Qinghehou's Humble House to have a look, and play with you by the way!" ”
Chen Xu: ......