July 210 BC

In the middle of summer nights, the house is very hot, mosquitoes are rampant, and people can't sleep.

"Luoying!" I sat up and woke up Luoying, who was sleeping beside me, "Go and light the lamp." ”

Luo Ying was sleeping in a daze, and when she heard me say this, she yawned and got up to hold the lamp.

"Your Highness Xue, is it so hot that you can't sleep?" Brother Qian, who was laying on the floor in the room, rubbed his eyes, and asked in a glutinous voice: "Why don't you get up and shake a fan for you?"

"No need. I frowned, took a few sips of the bowl of herbal tea on the side of the collapse, and said angrily: "I don't feel hot, I just feel panicked, as if something is going to happen." ”

"His Royal Highness Xue is worried about His Highness Wu Yi?" Hearing me say this, Brother Qian didn't fall asleep, but comforted me: "His Royal Highness Wu Yi is auspicious, and it will be fine." ”

It's July, and it's been more than two months since Wu Yi left Xianyang. He had told me that he would send someone back to report his safety as soon as he arrived in Shangjun, but there has been no news until now. For this reason, I also asked my father-in-law to inquire with other officials on my behalf, but there was still no news.

Frustrated, I simply got up and walked out of the room in my clothes, and sat down at the small stone table in the courtyard.

I knew what was going to happen, but I didn't know who it was about. Is it Wu Yi, who is unknown now, is it the son of Fusu who is the thorn in Zhao Gao's eyes, or is it ...... Missing a long man?

Either way, I'm afraid I can't afford it.

Seeing that I was not sleeping, the three of them had no intention of sleeping, so they put on their clothes and sat with me in the courtyard.

The evening breeze still carried a hint of heat, mosquitoes flew around in his ears from time to time, and Luo Ying was so active that he simply rolled up his sleeves to fight mosquitoes. Xiangzi saw that she hadn't hit one for most of the day, so he simply helped her fight. Brother Qian is older than them, and her temperament is also calm, she sits quietly beside me, probably because she is afraid that I am hot, and from time to time she shakes the fan in her hand to dispel the heat for me.

Outside the courtyard, there was a sudden commotion, and footsteps sounded from time to time. I was shocked, and I didn't care that my cloak was not graceful now, so I went straight to the door and opened the door.

"What's wrong?" I reached out and grabbed a little eunuch who was in a hurry, frowned and asked, "What are you doing so late?"

"When I went back to His Highness, the servants didn't know that it was the father-in-law in charge who said something big and asked the servants to go to the front hall to wait. The little eunuch replied tremblingly.

"Something is wrong?" The uneasiness in my heart became more and more intense, I shook off the little eunuch, regardless of the obstruction of Luo Ying and Brother Qian behind me, and regardless of the current dispersal of the cloak, I strode towards the front hall of Afang.

The front hall was brightly lit, and many eunuchs and palace maids gathered there, and the steward's father-in-law stood at the front, his face was unprecedentedly solemn.

I didn't go in, but stopped at the door, hidden in the shadows, and listened quietly to the voices inside.

"I recruited you here today because something happened to our Great Qin Kingdom!" The father-in-law in charge of the house trembled a little, he seemed to be very angry and sad, and he didn't say the next sentence for a long time.

He was silent for a long time, and a little eunuch finally couldn't hold his breath and asked, "My lord, what happened?"

"I really don't want to talk about it. The father-in-law of the steward said in a trembling voice: "But there is no way, he is true about this." You all listen to me, there is news from Xianyang Palace, His Royal Highness Fusu...... His Royal Highness Fusu is gone. ”

"What's up?!" I rushed out of the shadows and asked my father-in-law in disbelief: "His Royal Highness Fusu...... His Highness Fusu...... How could he have?!"

The father-in-law in charge didn't expect me to appear here, his face turned pale, he kicked the little eunuch next to him, and asked angrily: "Who told His Highness about this?

The eunuchs and palace maids below were so frightened that they all knelt on the ground obediently, not even daring to come out.

"Your Highness Xue......" The steward's father-in-law walked up to me quickly, and said with a white face: "Don't get excited, don't hurt your body." ”

"Old man......" I reached out and grabbed the sleeve of my father-in-law, held back the tears in my eyes, choked up and asked: "What you just said is Fusu Gongzi? Did I hear it wrong? You sue me, I heard it wrong......

"Your Highness!" the father-in-law knelt down in front of me, and did not speak, but just wiped his tears with his sleeve.

I fell to the ground with weak legs and feet, tears falling on the ornate blanket in the front hall, and I fainted with a wet mark.

"The slave also just learned about this matter today, and I heard Gonggong Wei of Xianyang Palace say that His Royal Highness Fusu ...... He committed suicide......" the father-in-law in charge looked sad.

"Kill himself?!" I looked up sharply and glared at him, "How could he kill himself? He clearly promised me, he promised me that I would live well! How could such a trustworthy person break his agreement with me?!"

"This is the will of His Majesty the First Emperor, and the edict said that His Royal Highness Fusu 'is unfilial, has many soldiers, has no merits, and is bluntly slandered', and His Royal Highness Fusu and General Meng Tian were given self-determination for these crimes. ”

"Being unfilial, how much does it cost to be a soldier, how much does it cost to have no size? Directly slandering in the book?" I laughed angrily, with a hint of hatred in my eyes: "You and I both know that although His Majesty the First Emperor is strict, the tiger poison does not eat children, and he has always supported His Royal Highness Su, how could he give him self-judgment? Obviously, there is a traitor who framed him! It is Zhao Gao...... It must be him...... Hahaha, why didn't he die?!Why didn't I kill him then?!"

"Your Highness!" the father-in-law in charge was so frightened that his face was bloodless, he stopped me, turned his head and yelled at the palace maid and eunuch kneeling in the palace: "I forgot what I said just now!

"Yes!" the palace maids and eunuchs kowtowed in unison.

"Give it all down!"

The palace maids and eunuchs were all sent out, and the housekeeper's father-in-law also broke out in a cold sweat, and his body trembled like a sifting chaff.

"My good highness, my snow girl, he can't talk nonsense!" the steward's father-in-law pleaded: "If this word spreads, even His Highness Wu Yi will not be able to protect you!"

Wu Yi was shocked, and hurriedly grabbed the father-in-law in charge and asked, "What about Wu Yi? Did he have an accident?"

"Your Highness, rest assured, His Highness Wu Yi has not had an accident. The steward's father-in-law patted my hand and sighed: "Don't be sad, I heard that General Meng once asked His Royal Highness Fusu to ask His Royal Highness the First Emperor for confirmation, but His Royal Highness Fusu said, 'The king wants the minister to die, the father wants the son to die, there is nothing to ask for'." They are the descendants of the emperor's family, life and death are not decided by themselves, the throne is contested, and power is tilted, this is their life. We are different from them, and for us, being alive is the most important thing. ”

I shook my head, tears streaming down my face, and I couldn't stop it. The struggle for the throne and the power tilt For Fusu Gongzi, these have never been taken to heart by him. He is so gentle, so considerate, he can be gentle to his wife and children, he can care about an enemy princess for many years, and he can even take care of the princess's orphans in every way.

"Old man, I don't understand. I shook my head and said to myself, "He has never calculated others, so why should those people come to calculate him?"

The housekeeper's father-in-law sighed: "Who let him win with the surname, who made him the son of Qin Shi Huang? ”