Chapter 21: The Maiden Laughs
In recent days, the weather has been extremely hot and humid, and the sky seems to be on fire, making people sweat like rain at every turn! In the evening, the originally clear sky suddenly changed color, the wind swept up, and thousands of dark clouds suddenly appeared, covering the entire sky, and the sky and the earth suddenly darkened!
Gradually, the dark clouds became thicker and lower, as if they might fall from the sky at any time, giving people a heavy sense of depression and making people feel extremely depressed! Unexpectedly, the dark, gloomy sky suddenly began to rage, and a huge lightning bolt suddenly pierced the sky.
At this moment, an urgent military intelligence came: King Yingzheng of Qin was assassinated!
I heard that the assassin almost succeeded, but fortunately, a eunuch did not hesitate to block an arrow for the king of Qin.
"What an eventful time." The young Meng Yi couldn't help but sigh.
"Fortunately, King Qin is safe, but the assassin actually ran away." Wang Ben didn't want to stop his annoying mouth for a moment.
"What? The assassin actually ran away? The young Meng Yi couldn't believe it, after all, King Qin's travel meant that there would be no less than a thousand guards. Can a man escape from the Thousand Guards?
"Yes, I also find it strange, it is said that the assassin is very skilled, he can go to heaven and earth, swim in Weishui, and do anything!" Wang Ben continued to gush on and on about the exciting news coming from Xianyang.
"Could it be him?" The young Meng Yi couldn't help but think of a person "Dragon Slayer", a character who traveled through like himself.
"Who? Do you know who it is? Wang Ben was shocked instead, and couldn't help but wonder.
"Can I know who it is? Maybe it's the same guys from the Lore Club again. The young Meng Yi was too lazy to deal with Wang Ben's curiosity.
The young Meng Yi had no choice but to resign from the coach Gong Yingwei in advance and return to Xianyang as soon as possible to find out the truth of the facts.
On the border of Qin and Han, the young Meng Yi rescued a young girl from the hands of bandits, a poor man in ragged clothes, a broken family, and lonely. She had a vegetable, cold as ice, but those eyes gave Meng Yi a very special feeling! It's bright! It was as bright as two stars in the sky. It's just that from the time she was rescued to the time she left, the girl shrank in the corner without saying a word.
Meng Yi didn't deliberately save people, after all, in this troubled world, there are bandits everywhere. It's just that this group of bandits actually dared to fight the idea of the Qin army's military rations, they are really looking for death! At the same time, it also shows that the hungry people are everywhere, and the bandits can't survive! You can only take risks, hunger makes people crazy!
After killing all the bandits and leaving some surplus dry food, Meng Yi continued to set out on the way home with hundreds of cavalry from his headquarters.
After camping in the evening, Meng Yi took advantage of the moonlight to come to the stream, nibbling on dry food while thinking about how to track down the Dragon Slayer.
Suddenly, a bush next to him flickered.
Meng Yi couldn't help but laugh, thinking to himself: Could it be that it is a little thief who doesn't open his eyes?
"How are you?" Meng Yi used his bronze long sword to push through the grass, and he saw a pair of bright eyes. It's actually the girl I saved in the afternoon!
"I can do laundry and cook, please take me as a slave!" The messy girl looked up at Meng Yi with her little head up.
"How did you catch up with us? Just a pair of small feet? Meng Yi saw that the girl was bold and thief, and he dared to ask Qin Jun to take her in.
"You can only walk the big road on horseback, but I can walk faster through the mountains and the small road." The girl said without any fear, with indescribable confidence in her tone.
"But how did you find us in this wilderness?" Meng Yi then asked, he became interested in this little girl.
"There's only this creek in the vicinity, and besides, aren't you going to camp? To make a fire for cooking, you can't do without a stream. The girl's eyes widened, flashing with wisdom.
"Well, you can stay. What is your name? Meng Yi smiled slightly, and handed over a piece of dry food.
"Xiaocao, my father said that it is easy to feed!" The girl hurriedly took the dry food, and replied vaguely as she nibbled on it.
"It's not a nice name. Since you don't like to talk or laugh, you will be called a smile in the future. The young man Meng Yi frowned, thought for a moment, and said jokingly.
"Okay, if you give me food, I'll call Meng Xiao." With a dirty little face, a messy hair like a chicken nest, and a pair of bright eyes, this is a very special girl. But when he finished speaking, he continued to keep silent and continued to nibble on dry food.
Grunt! A soft sound came, Qin Mu knew too well what this sound was, and he realized that this girl had been extremely obedient by hunger.
"Don't just eat dry food! Let's go, take you to the broth. Meng Yi took the lead and walked back to the barracks.
After Meng Yi greeted a group of soldiers under him, he quietly looked at the gobbling girl Meng Xiao.
"Oh no, I've got to take a few bites, or there won't be any broth." Meng Yi looked at the mutton soup that was about to bottom out and couldn't help but smile bitterly.
The Qin-South Korea border has been in war every year, not to mention wild animals, even wild food crops have been digested by groups of hungry people. Most of the grain, grass and meat of the Qin army were transported to the front from the rear. Now we can only hope that the Qin State will garrison the newly occupied land as soon as possible to reclaim, eliminate bandits, and recruit displaced people to pioneer the land, otherwise next year this piece will be a scene full of bones.
Meng Xiao had just finished drinking the broth, and his bright eyes were still looking at the jerky in his hands dryly, and he kept swallowing.
Meng Yi looked at her small body, probably not even twelve years old, what a sin!
After returning to Xianyang Mengfu, Meng Yi threw Meng Xiao to the Meng family's relatives, instructed Hao Fubo to take care of it, and hurriedly went to see King Yingzheng of Qin.
In addition to Mengniu, a son of the Meng family, serving as the commander of the Ruishi Battalion, Meng Yi also took a fancy to two capable generals from the children of the family: Meng Hu and Meng Wolf. As soon as I saw the name, I knew that it was the guard carefully selected by Meng Fu, the head of the Meng family. Since this is the case, Meng Yi naturally smiled. The so-called children of the Meng family, in fact, many are homeless orphans, and the head of the family, Meng Fu, raised them and cultivated them to become talents, just for the future of the Meng family.
At this moment, in order to deal with the assassination that may come at any time, Meng Yi must be prepared for twelve points.
With twenty guards, Meng Yi walked on the streets of Xianyang. Because he wanted to meet King Yingzheng of Qin, he could only get up early and obediently wait for King Qin's summons outside the palace.
"Damn breaking the rules, isn't it just to meet? As for getting up before dawn?" Meng Yi couldn't help but complain.
"Second Young Master, please be careful! Now that the Qin State is getting stronger and stronger, and it looks like it is about to sweep the six countries, there are naturally more rules in and out of the palace. "Meng Hu is only a few years older than Meng Yixu, although he has a tiger's head, but he is careful and good at talking. On the contrary, the same five big and three rough Meng Wolf is much more silent.
"By the way, are the two of you married? If you don't have a family, do you have a sweetheart? "It is forbidden to run wild horses in the royal city, and Meng Yi is really idle and bored walking slowly on a tall horse.
"Of course not. The head of the family once issued a strict order not to talk about marriage without authorization. Meng Hu replied with trepidation.
When Meng Yi heard about such a family rule for the first time, he was relieved, henchmen such as Meng Hu and Meng Wolf, together with the descendants of the Meng family, if they wanted to marry a wife, they had to go through the family review. In addition to being innocent, a woman with no conflict of interest in the family can marry into the powerful Montessori clan today.
"This is the helplessness of the children of the family." When Meng Yi thought that his future wife would have to be selected by his elders first, he instantly felt that he had no right to marry. But after thinking about it, it seems that Meng Yi in history has no descendants, right? In that case, why bother? When I solve the Dragon Slayer, I can be freed and leave without any emotional debts!
In addition to the peasants and herdsmen rushing to the market, they also encountered groups of Qin soldiers who were exercising in the morning from time to time, and they marched through in a neat formation shouting orders, adding a strange color to this big city. It turned out that many people got up earlier than them, and Meng Yi's heart suddenly balanced. The Qin folk style is simple and martial, and Hu clothes or short clothes are prevalent, but all of them are vigorous. Pedestrians are mostly equipped with weapons, and the prosperity of martial arts is beyond the reach of the other six countries. Except for the ministers and nobles, there are few fresh clothes and gorgeous clothes that can be seen everywhere in the other six countries.
Xianyang City is divided into inner and outer cities. The inner city is mainly composed of Xianyang Palace in the north of Weishui and Xingle Palace in Weinan, across Weishui, relying on the Wei Bridge as long as 280 steps to connect the traffic on both sides of the strait, forming a magnificent palace group, and the scale far exceeds the palaces of the other six countries. The two palaces are magnificent, all of them are high-platform buildings, there is the upper choke of the sky, the lower pressure of Li Shu that kind of lofty and broad, magnificent, there is a faint image of the king of the world. The outer city is more than ten times larger than the inner city, and it is a county town inhabited by civilians, with developed commerce, frequent travel, and a wide variety of goods, and good quality and low prices.
When Meng Yi came to the square outside the Xianyang Palace, he saw that the steps outside the hall were full of civil and military generals wearing crown robes, chatting in twos and threes, and the atmosphere was very serious.
After the eunuch reported, Meng Yi was easily received by King Yingzheng of Qin.
"King Qin is fine, Weichen thanks God." Meng Yi immediately saluted.
"I really have to thank God for sending a loyal guard Zhao Gao to the widow." Although King Yingzheng of Qin was assassinated a few days ago, he was still calm and calm.
"Loyal Guardian Zhao Gao?" Meng Yi was startled and asked in disbelief.
"That's right, it's the eunuch who blocked an arrow for the widow." King Yingzheng of Qin didn't notice Meng Yi's strange look, and said to himself.
The Qin royal family is surnamed Zhao, so Ying Zheng can actually be called Zhao Zheng. And Zhao Gao was originally a distant relative of the Qin State clan, and Zhao Gao's father was also a long history of swords and pens, and he was a lower-level civil official in the hidden official, and married Zhao's mother who worked in the hidden official and gave birth to Zhao Gao and several brothers. In this way, it is also convenient to explain why Zhao Gao was able to become a first-rate lawyer and calligrapher at that time, and was able to study history step by step and get ahead, because he had his father's personal family education. The time when Zhao Gao entered the Qin palace was set in the twelfth year of the reign of King Qin, that is, in 235 BC. Zhao Gao entered the school at the age of 17 as a history student, passed the Taishi examination at the age of 20, participated in the unified examination at the age of 23, and entered the palace with the first place except for the history of Shangshu, and the time was in the 12th year of the reign of King Qin. That is, in 235 BC, Zhao Gao was only twenty-three years old.
Zhao Gao in history was reused after the prince of Qin, but he didn't expect to be appreciated by King Yingzheng of Qin so quickly, could it be that the mysterious "Dragon Slayer" secretly helped Zhao Gao?