March 212 BC

I was 14 years old when I entered the house with Xiao Xu.

It is spring, it is the most beautiful time in Xianyang, pink peach blossoms are everywhere here and there, and the wind blows gently, and the petals are brilliant throughout the season.

At that time, Ah Fang was just a palace under construction, and there was no name. Xiao Xu and I set off from Xianyang Palace on the order of the Great Dancing Girl, crossed the Wei River overnight, passed by Ganquan Palace far away, and finally arrived at Afang, which was only a prototype at that time.

The place where the dancers usually train and live in the Xianyang Palace is called "Xianle Fang", and there are more than 20 of the best dancers in the Xianle Fang, but only Xiao Xu and I were selected to enter the Afang Palace. According to the arrangement of the Great Dancer, we must train a new batch of Dancing Girls in the Afang Palace for the next time Emperor Qin Yingzheng comes.

This Xiao Xu, who is with me, is a native of Zhao State, and her mother Fei Xue Ji was a sensational dancer in Zhao State, she has a lively temperament, and she is also the most outstanding one among our more than 20 people.

After the fall of the Zhao State, Xiao Xu's mother Feixue was captured by the Qin army and returned to Xianyang Palace to be dedicated to Yingzheng because of her beautiful appearance and outstanding dancing. And Xiao Xu was born in Xianyang Palace that year.

Since Fei Xue Ji gave birth to Xiao Xu in May when she entered the palace, everyone can guess that her father is not Yingzheng. In fact, Xiao Xu's father was a well-known swordsman in Zhao State, and he was in love with Feixue Ji Qinse, but he gave his life in the war to protect the monarch Zhao Qian. Therefore, even if it is born by Yingzheng's concubine, Xiao Xu is of inferior blood, and has always suffered the same treatment as a slave.

A few years later, Fei Xue Ji died of a vicious illness, and Xiao Xu was completely reduced to a lowly dancing girl in Xianyang Palace.

I'm not much better off than she is.

I heard the big dancer say, I am the orphan of an official of Wei Guoyi, and my mother is Korean. When the Wei Kingdom fell, I was only one year old, and my mother committed suicide with hatred on the day she entered the Xianyang Palace, and before she died, she entrusted me to the adoption of a big dancer who was also a Korean in Xianle Fang.

The big dancer is famous, and because she is appreciated by Yingzheng, she has a lot of status in the palace. She treated me very well, not only keeping me around, but also naming me Dumpsnow.

Compared to Xiao Xu, I seem to have a lot less pain. I have never grieved my mother's loss, nor have I seen my own mother laugh in front of her enemies, nor have I been driven to slavery by the people of the enemy country. With the great dancer taking care of me as my own, I never felt much pain, although I was not very happy.

Unlike my mother, I was just a casual person.

The carriage slowly drove through the gate of the palace, and Xiao Xu and I could finally lift the curtain and look around.

In fact, the prototype of Afang Palace has basically been formed, and the planning of each place has already been reported to Yingzheng by the craftsmen, and it is currently being built on a large scale, which is the upper roof on the west side of the front hall.

"It's a pity that a good place has to be destroyed to build something illusory. Xiao Xu couldn't help sighing: "It's a pity that I am a daughter, if I am a three-foot man, I will have to make a difference in this life." Instead of wasting time in this kind of birdcage and wasting youth. ”

"Why did you suddenly start to feel sad when you were fine?" I reassured her, "It's not necessarily a bad thing to be content with the status quo." ”

"It's nothing, it's just touching the scene, and suddenly there is more emotion. Xiao Xu lifted the curtain and looked at the rooftop that was still under construction, and said coolly: "Then Xu Fu has been gone for seven years, and there is no news." Not to mention whether there are three immortal mountains in this world, they are actually obsessed with the theory of immortality, and spend so much manpower and material resources to create these things, His Majesty Xià doesn't know what to think. ”

"His Majesty has unified the six kingdoms, and there is nothing to fear him today, except ......," I looked at the rooftop, "except death." ”

"Why be afraid of death?" Xiao Xu sneered: "The simplest thing in this world is death." ”

"You can't talk nonsense!" I reached out and pressed her lips and frowned, "You and I are both orphans of the war, and it should be a blessing to be alive." ”

She didn't laugh.

The carriage drove slowly, but my eyes remained glued to the roof where there was only a skeleton.

"Wait a minute!" I called the coachman, lifted the curtain and walked out of the carriage, and said to Xiao Xu through the window, "You go first, I still have some things." ”

"What do you want to get off here? It's still some distance from here to Shuangquemen. Xiao Xu worried: "You and I are here for the first time, and if there is no one to lead the way, we will get lost." ”

"Relax, someone will send me back. I smiled and said, "The eldest son of Mrs. Chen in the kitchen is the foreman, and now he is building a rooftop in Afang, and I am entrusted by Mrs. Chen to help her pass on a message." ”

"Then I will go with you. Xiao Xu made a gesture to get off the carriage.

"No need, they're all big men, won't they be a mess when you go?" I stopped her and promised, "I will definitely return to Zhao." ”

"That's what you say. She sighed and nodded.

Chen Po's eldest son, Chen Shun, is 30 years old, is also Korean with me, and is now a foreman in the construction of Ah Fang.

I walked through the wide front hall and hurried to the rooftop.

In the spring season, the sun is just right, sprinkled on the body warm, I squinted at the upper roof, which is only halfway up, and I feel a little dazzling. There was a clear fragrance of flowers floating in the wind, and I looked down and sniffed, only to feel that the knot that was still hovering in my heart just now had dissipated.

"It's just that a mere musician dares to be so rampant, relying on his good skin, and even seducing the ladies in the palace, I'm not afraid that we will really castrate you!"

In the end, I'm just a woman, and in such a troubled world, only Mingzhe can protect himself for a long time.

"Although he is a musician, he has not degraded enough to be humiliated by you. If not, this is a frame-up. The clear voice was like a drop of water dripping on my heart, and I couldn't help but stop.

"Hmph, you dare to be hard at this time, it seems that you are determined to die. I thought you would be a little smarter, but it seems that you Koreans are a bit ignorant. ”

"Koreans?" I muttered, and my stagnant footsteps moved toward the pile of wood.

"What about Koreans? What if they are not Koreans? No matter what nationality they are, they are always much better than the people of Qin who have a human face and a beast's heart. The clear voice carried a slight smile, which was full of mockery, but there was a hint of sadness and anger in the mockery.

The people who died in the country, even if they can get a trace of happiness, but in the end they are rootless leaves, and the sorrow and sadness in them are only the ones they know best.

I'm also Korean, and I can't turn a blind eye to the same root leaf that I haven't met.

I guess I heard my footsteps, and the conversation across the wood stopped, and then I saw a man dressed as a guard come out.

When the man saw me, he was stunned for a moment, and then raised his eyebrows and said, "Who are you? The ladies and dependents are all in the inner palace, how can you hang around in the front hall alone?"

"I've seen this big brother. I bowed slightly, and said very politely: "I just heard a quarrel here, so I came over to take a look, but I was curious for a moment, and I didn't mean anything else." ”

"Curious?" the man scoffed, "You, a woman wandering around this place full of men, are you not afraid that others will be curious about you?"

There was a burst of laughter from behind the lumber pile.

"I didn't want to be curious about these things, but I couldn't turn a blind eye to the suffering of my compatriots. I walked to the pile of wood, poked my head slightly, and my eyes fell on a snow-white ** body.

It's a man.

I had a fever on my face, and immediately retreated, frozen in place, neither advancing nor retreating.

"Are you still curious?" the man sneered, walked up to me, raised his hand to hold my chin, and said very frivolously: "The girl's cherishing heart for her compatriots really touched us, since the girl has such a chivalrous heart, why don't you come and accompany him?"

I patted the hand resting on my chin and sneered, "To do such a nasty thing to a teenager, I'm afraid your stomach is rotten." ”

"The girl is a fierce character, I don't know if this dress is also like this when she takes off her clothes?" The man's eyes darkened, and he raised his hand to my chest, I took a step back, and then took out the token on my waist, and said coldly: "I am the Afang dance official appointed by the Holy Lord, and this young man you are bullying at the moment should be my subordinate." As a boss, I should take him back, I wonder if you would like to show your face?"

The man's hand immediately froze in mid-air, and he looked at the token in my hand in disbelief and swallowed.

"Brothers, let them go. The man finally withdrew his hand, hugged his fists, and said hypocritically: "I don't know if it's the dancer, I was offended just now." ”

"Those who don't know are not guilty, and you can't be blamed. I withdrew the token and walked behind the pile of lumber, and sure enough, I saw that the group of people who had been flaunting their might just now had extinguished their arrogance, and the naked boy had already put on his clothes.

"I'll take the people away. I smiled, then turned to the boy and said, "Let's go." ”

Leaving the pile of wood, I walked ahead slowly, and the boy followed quietly.

"......Just now," he said with some hesitation, "Thank you girl for saving me." ”

"No thanks. ”

"I didn't expect the girl to be a dancer at such a young age. His voice was full of inquiry.

"Of course I'm not. I laughed, "This is the big dancer who was afraid that I would be wronged, so she specially lent it to me." ”

"I see. He seemed to have come to his senses, and there was a hint of a smile in his voice.

"I'm not your boss, so you don't have to be so polite. I stopped, turned my head to look at him, and said, "My name is Dumping Snow, but I am just a leading dancer who came here to teach Gong'e. ”

"It's just a mustard person, where can he compare to the girl Hui Zhilanxin. He bent down and said respectfully: "Under the name Changxi, Ah Fang is a person who blows the flute." ”

"Changxi?" I laughed, "but it's quite a poetic name." ”

The girl laughed. The corners of his mouth curled into a smile like spring.

It was a smile that was intoxicating, and I began to notice his appearance. It's just a few simple glances, but I only think that a young man with such a posture should not stay in this mortal world, but should be transformed into an immortal.

Jade muscles and bones, delicate contours, flowing black hair, gentle between the eyebrows, vaguely affectionate in the phoenix eyes, thin corners of the mouth seem to be smiling but not smiling, although he is still young, but the temperament has been fully shown between conversations, and the words and smiles have been revealed.

What a wonderful person.

"Look at your appearance......" I said tentatively, "sixteen or seventeen?"

"The girl has good eyesight, and she is indeed sixteen years old. He laughs.

Two years older than me? I muttered, "That's supposed to be older than me." ”

"I don't know the girl's age?"

"Four out of ten. I laughed, "I should call you brother." ”

"That's really a blessing for three lives. He laughed too.

In the distance, I could faintly hear the sound of craftsmen carrying building materials and the sound of construction clashing, and I couldn't help but look up at the rooftop, but I felt that my eyes were hurt by the gentle light of this spring day.

This is the ninth year after Qin's unification of the Six Kingdoms, and in this Afang Palace, which carries Yingzheng's countless absurd dreams, I met a young man named Changxi.