The pig, which looks like a unicorn, has a horn in its first birth, and can recognize good and evil, and distinguish between right and wrong. The state is arrogant, but it is a very auspicious thing. - "The Classic of Mountains and Seas"

The first time Qingchen saw the pig was when she was twelve years old.

It was a very cold winter, and the snow didn't stop for days. The wind blows incessantly, as if to blow the soul out of the body.

That day, Qingji came back after listening to the evening training in the front hall. My father always did evening training, bringing the three sisters together to talk about what the so-called fair lady should do.

It is always the father who sits on the throne, takes off his court clothes, wears only a brocade robe, and listens to the sisters carry the female ring three times. I always carried it until the night was late, and there was a dead silence all around, as if there was only the rustle of leaves hanging on the ground and the crisp voice of a girl. But even so, you still have to memorize it before you can go back to sleep.

The father was very strict with them, and even if he was busy and tired during the day, he would listen to his daughters when he returned to the house before going to sleep.

It was late at night when Qingji returned to his yard that day. Today she was last in line, and even the servants around her were resting until the end, leaving only her father and herself still sitting in the front hall. One knelt on the ground and recited in a whisper, and the other sat on the throne slowly curling his beard.

Just as Qingji had finished reciting the last words of the sixth chapter of the female ring, her father stood up, touched her furry head, and said, "Let's go, send you back for my father." ”

"What?" Qingji shouted softly

Qingji was really surprised, usually the father is always upright and unsmiling, and there are few times when he is so gentle as now, let alone sending his daughter back to the house.

Realizing that he had lost his words, Qingji hurriedly lowered his head and said respectfully, "Yes." ”

The father nodded in satisfaction, as if he was very satisfied with the etiquette of the trace. He took Qingji's hand and walked towards her yard.

"Let's go inside." Father stopped in front of the door of Qingji's room and said softly. The hem of the garment lifted gently, and it seemed that even the wind had become gentle. Unlike the majestic, god-like father on weekdays, today's father is like a different person, a father that Qingji has never seen.

However, such a father seems to be not bad.

There is a rule in the Qin State that no one can enter the boudoir of an unmarried woman, even if it is a personal maid waiting to wash, she must go to the side room. It is said that if there are too many foreign objects in the boudoir, the woman will become unclean. So the father could only stand at the door.

"Well, good night father." Qingji nodded obediently and walked in. When her father saw that Qingji had entered, he opened the door for her from the outside and walked towards the main house.

"Hey, little girl."

Seeing his father turn to leave, Qingji was about to go to bed, but a voice suddenly came.

Qingji hurriedly looked up defensively, but saw nothing, the room was empty.

"Hey, here." The voice rang out again, much clearer than the last, it was a voice that was neither male nor female, coming from the table in front of it.

Clear looked at the table with the voice overlooked, and there was an animal like a lamb. Four snow-white legs lay flat on the table, the whole body nestled on the table, and the eyes that were brighter than the starry sky looked straight at Qingji.

"It's you... Talking to me? Qingchen looked at the lamb and said timidly.

"Don't be afraid, I don't have the power to attack." The lamb said, raising himself as he did not harm the hoof.

Seeing that the little lamb said with such certainty that he had no offensive power, Qingji became a little bolder, and continued to ask, "How can you speak." ”

"Because I'm a pig." The pig said as it should, shrugging his shoulders as he learned to be human.

"Hedgehog? Just the auspicious beast in the Classic of Mountains and Seas? "Although Qingji is a woman, her father's teachings are quite strict on weekdays, so she has read the Book of Mountains and Seas.

"It seems that yes, you humans call the deity that." The pig said with some smugness.

"Why didn't my father see you just now?" Qingji wondered.

"Of course you can't see it, but whoever can see the deity must be a person with an extremely kind heart." The pig said.

"My father is the prime minister of the dynasty and is admired by all people, isn't it extremely good?"

"No, your father is a hypocrite, relying on conspiracy and flattery to get to power, and he will do whatever it takes to achieve his ends, and he is an extremely hypocritical person." The pig shook his head disdainfully, as if he hated his father very much.

"Why?" Qingji suddenly lost his voice.

Her father has always been a saint in her eyes, and the people in the house say that the lord is the first virtuous minister of the dynasty, and he has made countless meritorious contributions7 for the benefit of the people. Suddenly told that his father was just a hypocrite, Qingji was inevitably extremely surprised.

"Your father relied on foresight to rescue the current king, who was still the proton of Zhao at the time, to get to the throne." Seeing that the mark was unbelievable, the pig slowly added.

Qingji was silent for a moment, and looked up to say something more, but the pig interrupted her.

"I'm here to see the kindness of your heart this time, and to remind you to be careful of your father." After saying that, the pig disappeared without a trace.

The conversation with the pig that day was like a dream, and it was unbelievably fake. But Qingji's originally peaceful life has really undergone drastic changes, and at the same time, there are also Qin States.

Two months later, the emperor died. The frail eldest son Yingzheng succeeded to the throne at the age of thirteen. Lü Buwei, the father of the country, once held power and commanded the three armies. Ying Zheng was young and sick, unable to manage the government, and lived in the harem all the year round, living in name only.

Because of his rapid action, Lü Buwei became the most powerful person in the Qin State, and he was in the sky. For a time no one could compete with it.

In September of the same year, Lü Buwei, the father of the country, personally arranged the selection of the empress for the emperor. It took three days and three days for the Father of the Nation to personally collect 312 peerless beauties with outstanding family backgrounds and talents and virtues for the emperor to choose. But what was most praised by the people was that on September 9, the day the list came out, Lü Buwei personally crossed out the name of his daughter "Lü Qingji" to show the center of Daqin.

The people were boiling all of a sudden, and for a time the whole country was praising the father of the country, and the next day, 1,152 people gathered in front of the Prime Minister's Mansion, knelt on the ground, and shouted a word together. - "The beauty of the girl is clear, and the mother is the world." ”

The father of the country was forced to be helpless, so he had to make his own decisions and send his daughter to the palace, and the mother was the world.

On the day Qingji learned that he was going to enter the palace, her mother threw herself on her and cried, saying that as a mother, she had to watch her daughter enter the dark harem.

Qingji had no choice but to smile and pat his mother's quilt, and said indifferently, it's okay, I'll take care of myself.

Smiling, but dead inside.

In fact, anyone with a discerning eye can see that Lu Buwei is advancing and retreating, and the ultimate goal is to send his daughter to the palace.

In the end, my father took advantage of him.

That night, Qingji met the pig again.

The pig lay on the bed, turned over lazily, and said, "Look, I said that your father is not a good thing. ”

Qingji sat in front of the bed, staring at the luxurious red wedding dress in front of the window, and sighed absentmindedly.

The pig looked at Qingji's gaze, and when he saw the bright red wedding dress, his eyes couldn't help but darken, and he said sincerely: "Little girl, when we met for the first time, I put a bead under your bed, which can kill you at a critical time, be careful." After a pause, he said, "Little girl, you have to take care of yourself!" ”

After the pig left, Qingji lay on the ground and found the bead at the foot of the bed.

White, round, like snowflakes in Xiangfu......

A month later, the prime minister's daughter complied with the people's wishes and entered the palace. On that day, ten miles of red makeup, three feet of snow, the whole country celebrated. Ying Zheng personally lifted the hijab for the queen and walked into the harem hand in hand. The next day, the father of the nation, Lü Buwei, announced that the whole city would lift the night ban for seven days and celebrate to the fullest.

However, in a small alley beside the street where the procession walked, something like a little lamb nested there, muttering to itself.

"Little girl, you have to take care of yourself!"