As soon as the morning dawned, Liu Bang got up early in the morning, brought the dough cake made by Lu Pheasant overnight, and set off for the county government under Lu Pheasant's reluctant gaze.

By the time they arrived at the county office, Fan Xu, Zhou Bo and Xiahou Ying were already waiting there, as well as Cao Shen, a rafter with a team of laborers. Liu Bang and Cao Shen have also known each other for a long time, so although they are his subordinates, they patted him on the shoulder and said hello with a big grin.

Cao Shen is Xiao He's deputy, and he has always followed Xiao He's vision, and feels that Liu Bang is definitely not a very person, so he is very polite to him. Therefore, seeing that Liu Bang was so casual, he was not angry, and handed over the paperwork and a team of laborers to him with a smile, and repeatedly told Liu Bang to be careful on the road.

Liu Bang nodded, and when he saw that the sun was getting higher and higher, it was not early, so he took his leave and led a team of people out of Pei County and went to Lishan.

Liu Bang has done a lot of labor service, and he has counted seven or eight times before and after, and this time there are three people with Fan Xu, so Liu Bang didn't take Lu Pheasant and Cao Shen's advice too seriously.

The labor escorted this time was slightly different from the previous ones, most of the people escorted this time were prisoners and few market tourists, and less than half of them were really from good families. If you are from a good family and serve in labor, you will drag your family with you, and if you run away halfway, it will implicate your family, but the prisoners are different, most of them are ruthless and brave, and they don't have too much concern for their families, so Cao Shen repeatedly told Liu Bang to be careful.

When he first came out of Pei County, Liu Bang was a little cautious. Because these laborers are all chained with leg irons, and when they walk, they are all noisy, so Liu Bang is not worried that they can escape, the only thing he is worried about is whether the laborers will get sick on the road, if they can't make all the business in Xianyang, he Liu Bang will be punished for dereliction of duty.

Out of Pei County, to the territory of Heng County next door, there was nothing to do on the way. Liu Bang gradually slackened a little, and he didn't pay as much attention to the laborers as before. Liu Bang also has some prestige in Pei County, and those laborers have also heard of Liu Sanye's great name, so they are also respectful and obedient to him.

It was already early afternoon, but the sky was getting darker, and the sky was full of dark clouds and strong winds. Liu Bang looked up at the fact that it was about to rain heavily, frowned, and shouted loudly for the team to speed up.

The laborers were all wearing shackles, where to walk fast, as soon as they were urged by Liu Bang and others, they panicked, but a few people twisted their feet to walk even slower. Liu Bang saw that such a speed of travel must not be able to catch up with the post station before the rain, is there a place to shelter from the rain in the wilderness, now is the time of spring and summer communication, and it is most likely to get a cold. If a team of people are drenched in the rain, it is likely that some people who are weak will get sick, so Liu Bang will not be able to pay a difference when he arrives in Lishan.

In desperation, Liu Bang had to ask Fan Hao and them to untie the shackles of labor and let the three of them pay more attention. In this way, the speed of the team was very fast, and seeing that it was about to reach the post station in front, Xiahou Ying suddenly ran forward with a rolling belt, and he didn't care about the wet mud all over his body. "Big brother, it's over, it's over, just now a laborer took advantage of the chaos to run into the mountains."

Liu Bang stood there and felt like a lightning strike, stunned, unable to say a word with his mouth wide open. It took a long time to come back to his senses, and when he saw the raindrops that had fallen the size of beans, he yelled at Xiahou Ying: "Quickly take everyone into the post station to avoid the rain, Fan Xu, Zhou Bo, let's go find someone." ”

It wasn't until the time of the lantern that Liu Bang and the three returned to the post station in despair, Xiahou Ying and a group of laborers were surrounding the bonfire with a sad face, and they stood up excitedly when they saw Liu Bang coming back, and saw that the three of them sat down with a disappointed face. Xiahou Ying opened her mouth, but finally didn't ask.

Everyone was silent, no one spoke, they all thought about their thoughts, and the inn was surprisingly quiet, only the dry wood was heard burning in the 'thunderbolt' of the flames, and an atmosphere of despair enveloped everyone.

Qin Lu was very harsh on hard labor, and if one person escaped, the whole team would be punished, so that they could supervise each other. Now that there is one less person in the team, the whole team will be punished, how can they not worry.

Finally, one person couldn't stand it anymore, broke the silence and asked Liu Bang: "Pavilion chief, what do you say, if we go to Lishan like this, we will definitely not escape punishment, originally building the imperial mausoleum is a life of life, and if we go now, it will be equivalent to sending us to death." ”

The people next to him also echoed, and everyone looked at Liu Bang together.

The firelight was imprinted on Liu Bang's face, the corners of Liu Bang's mouth moved slightly, and he finally raised his head, swept away the previous decadence, looked at Zhou Bo and said; "Zhou Bo, go and open everyone's shackles."

Zhou Bo opened the shackles on the hands of the laborers one by one according to his instructions, and the laborers stood there, you look at me, I look at you, and no one understood what Liu Bang meant.

Liu Bang stood up and said in a deep voice; "You all run for your lives, I heard that going to Lishan to do hard labor is a life of nine deaths, so I might as well let everyone live. The world is so big, as long as everyone is lucky, they will not starve to death. ”

Everyone was overjoyed and thanked Liu Bang one after another, dozens of people fled with hula, and only more than 20 people were still hesitating in place. A red-faced man asked in a gruff voice; "Pavilion Chief Liu, you let us go without permission, that's a capital crime, how can you give an account to the government."

Liu Bang closed his eyes and shook his head with a wry smile; "It's just a big deal, I think that my Liu Bang's head can be exchanged for everyone's lives, why not do it."

The remaining 20 or so people listened to Liu Bang's words, and they were all greatly moved, kneeling down together, and said in unison; "We are willing to follow Pavilion Chief Liu."

Liu Bang looked up to the sky and laughed: "Okay, okay, they are all my Liu Bang's good brothers, come, bring wine, we won't get drunk today." He also secretly instructed Fan Hao to go back to Pei County overnight to pick up Lu Pheasant and his son Liu Ying.

This night of drinking in the dark, Liu Bang was upset in his heart, and he doubled his binge drinking. When he woke up the next morning, Liu Bang still had an unbearable headache and was drunk, and stumbled along the path of Mangdang Mountain with everyone. He walked in front alone, walking faster and faster, and suddenly a person stumbled and ran from the front, Liu Bang grabbed the person while he was drunk, and asked drunkly; "What's so flustered?"

The man grew his mouth and stammered; "There is a big white snake in front of you, coiled in the middle of the road blocking the road, you better take a detour and hurry up."

Liu Bang pushed the man away, his eyes widened and he shouted: "Who is my Liu Bang, my husband!" Where did the big snake come from, dare to block my Liu Bang's way, and watch me go and kill that beast. After speaking, he pulled out his sword, strode to the front while he was drunk, and sure enough, he saw a white snake with a thick bowl in the middle of the road, and he was cross-leggingly spitting out a bright red tongue letter, and when he saw Liu Bang rushing over, he stretched his body and swam towards Liu Bang.

Liu Bang was already drunk, and roared with drunkenness, swung his sword and slashed it away, only to see a 'boom', and actually cut the big snake into two ends, and the snake blood sprayed out violently, splashing Liu Bang all over his body, and stunned Zhou Bo and others who came behind him.

Liu Bang ignored the snake blood on his face, didn't look at the dead snake, and stumbled for several miles, so drunk that he lay on the ground unconscious. The people who followed up hurriedly carried Liu Bang into a vacant bamboo house in the mountains and forests, but saw that Fan Hao and Lu Pheasant were waiting in the house, and it turned out that Fan Hao took Lu Pheasant's mother and son overnight and fled to the mountains.

Lu Pheasant couldn't help but be startled when he saw that Liu Bang was covered in blood, and then listened to everyone tell Liu Bang about the process of cutting the snake, and then he was relieved. Feeling annoyed in his heart, Liu Bang not only did not listen to his advice, but also caused such a big disaster. was still drunk, how could he not be angry, just stared at Liu Bang who was drunk on the ground, and didn't help him. Everyone couldn't help but feel embarrassed when they saw Lu Pheasant, so they put down Liu Bang and went to rest in another bamboo house next door.

Fan Hao was even more angry, seeing Liu Bang who was drunk and paralyzed on the ground, he only felt that he was not angry, he had a good life, but he was forced by Liu Bang to follow him into the grass, and he was about to kick Liu Bang when he raised his legs.

Although Lu Pheasant hated Liu Bang, after all, he was his husband, so he was willing to kick and hurt Fan Xu, so he hurriedly grabbed Fan Hao and persuaded him; "My good brother-in-law, you can let your brother-in-law go for the time being, and wait until he sobers up."

His eyes fell on the bloodstains on Liu Bang's white clothes, and a thought suddenly flashed in Lu Pheasant's mind, and he couldn't help but let go of Fan Xu's hand, and said with a turn of beautiful eyes; "Brother-in-law, actually, I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing for your brother-in-law to kill the big snake."

Fan Xu turned around and looked at Lu Pheasant in confusion. Lu Pheasant thought for a moment and said in a deep voice; "Anyway, we have nothing left, so it's better to make a big deal about it, maybe we can turn things around." He told Fan Xu about the attention he thought of, and Fan Xu hesitated for a while, his eyes showing hesitation; "Sister-in-law, can this really work?"

Lu Pheasant bit his lip tightly and nodded, "We have no other way out, we can only continue to do it to the end, since we want to do great things, we must make the greatest noise." ”

Fan Hao hesitated for a moment, and finally nodded in agreement. took a large scoop of cold water and poured it on Liu Bang, Liu Bang was agitated, jumped up with a scream, looked at Lu Pheasant in a daze, and came to his senses for a long time. Only then did he smile with an embarrassed face; "It's a lady, why are you here too."

How could Lu Pheasant give him a good color at this time, snorted coldly, and said his idea, Liu Bang turned his eyes a few times after hearing this, slapped his thigh, and shouted hello. "I didn't think that my lady actually had a talent that has endured the world, but I underestimated you for my husband."

After carefully discussing the details with Lu Pheasant and Fan Xu, he made up his mind, and called Zhou Bo and Xiahou Ying again, and truthfully told him Liu Bang's plan.

At midnight, a group of laborers were sleeping in the bamboo hut, but Zhou Bo and Xiahouying were lying on the window without sleep, just listening to the movement outside the window with their ears pricked up. Suddenly, the two of them looked happy, and they woke everyone up, pretending to be frightened and holding out of the window; "Look, what is that?"

There was a faint cry of a woman outside, which seemed strange and abnormal in the middle of the night, and everyone suppressed the fear in their hearts, leaning on the window and looking out, but saw an old woman in white clothes and white head crying in the bamboo forest in front of the house.

Xiahou Ying suddenly roared with horror on her face; "I know, this is the white snake that was killed by Pavilion Chief Liu during the day, it must have become a spirit and came back to the Pavilion Chief to ask for his life."

Everyone was afraid to retreat, superstition was rampant in this era, and the villagers in the mountains and wilderness were already very afraid of ghosts, plus such a coincidental thing, how could they not make everyone afraid.

Zhou Bo said in a trembling voice; "It seems that this white snake is here to ask for his life, let's all not go out, in case it is eaten by it, it will be over."

Everyone was even more frightened when they heard Zhou Bo's words, how could they dare to go out half a step, just together, looking out of the door nervously.

But I heard the old woman's sobbing outside the door to stop, and the soft voice of resentment sounded. "I am the wife of the White Emperor, and my son is the son of the White Emperor, and today I turned into a white snake to cultivate in the road, but I was killed by the son of the Red Emperor Wude. My son, my miserable son! Son of the Red Emperor, you return my son, otherwise I will surely wash my blood here and avenge my son. ”

When everyone heard the old woman say that she wanted to wash this place in blood, they all trembled with fear, and suddenly remembered that the son of the Red Emperor in the old woman's mouth seemed to be talking about Liu Bang. Sure enough, I heard Liu Bang's loud voice sound: "The wife of the White Emperor, if there is about to be chaos today, the White Emperor is about to take power, but your son wants to act against the sky and block my way, isn't this self-destruction, what if I kill him for the Heavenly Way?" ”

The old woman screamed piercingly, and then said sharply; "Will my son die in vain?"

Liu Bang snorted heavily and shouted; "This is the will of heaven, the cycle of cause and effect, does your White Emperor's clan want to act against the heavens and not be afraid of the punishment of the Emperor of Heaven? If you want to take revenge, let's wait until the White Emperor returns to power after four hundred years. ”

Outside the house, there was another scream of pain from the old woman, and her voice was full of unwillingness. After the screaming, there was no movement outside. Everyone in the house trembled and finally waited until dawn, and then scattered down the mountain to flee for their lives, how dare they stay for a moment.

Since then, in the entire Surabaya County and even several counties in Huainan, Liu Bangnai is the son of the Red Emperor and the rumors that the Red Emperor is about to take power have spread, and almost everyone knows about it.

PS: The first volume of "Qin Shi Chaos" is over, so stay tuned for the second volume of "Imperial Sunset".

The chaos is coming, but the upper echelons of Daqin are falling apart. Northern Xinjiang is unstable, Xianyang is turbulent, and they will be incompatible, and they will have different dreams in the same bed.

In Shangjun, the last legions of Great Qin watched in silence the empire they had built.

At the foot of the Wolf Juxu Mountain, the young steppe eagle has spread its wings.

In Xianyang, the empire created by the Sixth Yu Lie is crumbling.

Jiang Nan is a newcomer, and it is the first time that he has seriously tried to write a historical novel, so it is inevitable that there will be many flaws and loopholes, so please be very tolerant and understanding. I wrote this book very carefully, and if I look closely, I will probably notice that the characters in the book, even if they are just the kind of soy sauce that play tricks, are also characters that have appeared in historical records. Some of the more important figures in the late Qin and early Han dynasties, such as Zhang Liang, Ji Bu, Yingbu, Xiahou Ying, etc., Jiangnan has carefully studied their life deeds and characters, and tried to restore their original appearance in the book. The only drawback may be that Jiangnan's language is not old and spicy enough, and many of the writing looks very immature, so Jiangnan will try to put as much thought into the language as possible.

Finally, thank you for your great attention, thank you, especially some people who silently care about me, who follow Jiangnan from a certain point, and there are many, many people who cheer me up and give me advice. Thank you, you are the driving force behind Jiangnan's writing.