February 208 BC

Before I knew it, I had been away from Xinzheng for nearly half a year. Now that it's the first month of the year, I don't know if Mrs. Zhang and Dan'er, who are still in Xinzheng, will feel lonely.

Since Chen Sheng and Wu Guang raised troops against Qin, anti-Qin forces have surged in various places, in addition to Liu Bang, a Chu man who raised troops in Pei County and established himself as Pei Gong, there is also Xiang Liang, who killed the county guard and sat on the position of the county guard. The Xiang clan is the largest nobleman in the Chu State, and this Liang is the son of the famous general Xiang Yan of the Chu State, so it has been supported by many people.

I followed the Zhang family and his son all the way out of Korea, and along the way, I learned many things that I had never heard of before.

For example, after leaving Xinzheng with the Zhang family's father and son, I learned that Zhang Liang had assassinated Yingzheng, and that he was the assassin he encountered when Yingzheng traveled east to Gubo Langsha nine years ago.

At that time, Zhang Liang's own brother had just died, but in order to seize the opportunity to assassinate, his brother died without burial, scattered his family resources, found a strong man named Qianding in South Korea, and made a sledgehammer weighing 120 pounds for the strong man.

Since then, he has sent people every day to inquire about Qin Shi Huang's eastern tour, even to the point of being unable to sleep at night.

According to the regulations of the Qin monarch's chariot, the Son of Heaven should be the sixth driver. In other words, only Yingzheng's chariot was equipped with six horses in the Eastern Tour, and the other palace ministers could only ride in a carriage with four horses, so the target of the assassination was clearly determined to be the only six-horse carriage in the team.

After many inquiries, Zhang Liang finally learned that Yingzheng's parade convoy was about to arrive in Yangwu County, so he led Qianding to quietly ambush Gubo Langsha.

However, to his surprise, all the chariots of Ying Zheng's eastern tour were all four-wheeled, and there were no six-horse carriages at all, so he couldn't tell which one was Qin Shihuang's car, and he could only see that the car in the middle of the convoy was the most luxurious.

It stands to reason that the most luxurious car was of course ridden by the emperor, so Zhang Liang commanded Lux Qianding to attack the car. The 120-pound sledgehammer knocked the passenger to the ground, and Zhang Liang also took advantage of the chaos to get into the reeds and fled the scene.

Qianding was hacked to death on the spot, but the person he killed was only a deputy car, Ying Zheng was assassinated many times, so he had already made preventive preparations, and arranged all the chariots into four cars, not to mention often changing cars, Zhang Liang had no way of knowing the carriage that Ying Zheng was sitting in.

Ying Zheng survived, but was very angry about the incident, although he ordered the whole country to arrest the assassins, but Qianding had already been killed, and there was no way to know who the other assassin was, so Zhang Liang was able to save his life, and because he could not find another assassin, the matter was later settled.

That assassination won Zhang Liang a lot of support, and this time he followed the example of Chen Sheng and Wu Guang to incite the people to revolt, and there were more than 100 supporters. However, he was not satisfied with this, saying that it was far from enough to have so many people, and his power was too thin to compete with the Qin soldiers. In addition, when he later learned that Chen Sheng was assassinated by the coachman, he began to hesitate to catch the power of other forces while he was depressed.

The maid Ah Rui, whom Zhang Liang and I arranged, had been following the team in a carriage and had never appeared in public, only at night when he went to Zhang Liang and Zhang Budo to serve them food and tea.

I went to bring tea to the two of them as usual that night, and as soon as I reached the door, I heard some serious conversation from inside. I gently pushed the door open, and the two of them saw that it was me, and continued with the conversation.

"It can't go on like this. Zhang Liang frowned and said, "With our current strength, we can't make a big deal at all." ”

"Then according to my father's wishes, what should we do?" Zhang Budo thought for a while, and said after consideration: "It's better to defect to those anti-Qin forces that are already small in scale first, although it is inevitable to be angry under the subservient people, it is better than being so timid and accomplishing nothing now." ”

"I thought the same thing. Zhang Liang nodded, spread out the map on the case, and looked at it for a long time before asking Zhang Budo: "No, what do you think of Pengcheng's Jingju?"

"Jing Ju? is that Jing Ju who established himself as the false king of Chu?" Zhang Budo frowned and pondered for a while before he said: "He is the name of the Chu State, and naturally many Chu people will respond, and the sage Chu Nangong of Chu once said: 'Although Chu has three households, the death of Qin will be Chu', it seems that it is not a matter of faith." ”

"This Jingju is not very remarkable, and the reason why he is sitting in this position today is also because his subordinate Qin Jia established himself as the Great Sima in Pengcheng and supported him as the king of Chu. That Qin Jia was Chen Sheng's subordinate, and he was also a brave and knowledgeable man, since he was willing to succumb to him, he must have a reason to be worthy of support. Zhang Liang picked up the brush and drew a few numbers on the map, and clapped the board: "Then it's decided, and I will go to Pengcheng Jingju." ”

After delivering the tea and returning to the room, Ah Rui came up and took my cloak, and asked worriedly, "Snow girl, your complexion doesn't look very good, isn't something wrong?"

"It's nothing, it's just that I'm going to move these days, and the journey is quite long, and I'm a little afraid that I can't bear it. I smiled at her and said with relief, "Don't worry, I'm so good." ”

"How are you doing? Every day you have to go out and find out the news, and when you come back, you look extremely lost. I can't eat, I can't sleep well, and I don't doubt that the young master has asked me several times in private. Ah Rui put the cloak on the screen and chattered: "Don't blame me for being too talkative, it is really rare to have a son like Childe who is not suspicious of such a talent, and a clear-eyed person will know that he is interesting to you at a glance, I don't believe that you are so smart that you will not be able to see it." ”

"I've seen it for a long time. I sat down by the charcoal fire, rubbed my cold fingers, and said lightly, "But so what, I don't have that kind of mind for him." ”

"Snow Maiden, your heart is too high. Ari sat down across from me, shoved a bowl of hot tea into my hand, and said helplessly, "Could it be that the person you go out to inquire about every day is your sweetheart." ”

"Yes, it's my sweetheart. I laughed.

Ari was startled, looked at me in disbelief and said, "I just said it, but I really guessed ......."

"I know you're worried about me, but don't worry, I have a sense of proportion. I drank the tea, got up and said, "Sleep, I'm going to hurry tomorrow." ”

At night, I didn't sleep well, and my eyes flickered in front of me, and a figure was always indistinguishable in the alternation of light and dark. I chased after me, but I didn't dare call his name. Calling Changxi, I'm afraid that the person is actually Wu Yi, and calling Wuyi, I'm afraid that the person is actually Changxi. In the tension and anxiety, the light gradually became stronger, illuminating the man walking in front of him, who was standing under a pear tree in full bloom, facing the moonlight, with his back to me, his long black hair scattered on his back, which looked like a painting.

I stretched out my hand and whispered: "Long ......"

The man turned his head to look at me, and I couldn't see his appearance clearly in the moonlight, only his indistinct voice was heard: "You're here......"

"Girl, Snow Maiden!" Ari shook me awake and asked nervously, "Are you okay?"

I looked at her with a worried look in front of me, sighed almost inaudibly, and said with a wry smile: "I'm fine." ”