August 210 BC

It has been three days since I left Xianyang City, and according to the speed of the carriage, I still have three days to reach Shangjun. I didn't rest much along the way, and the two horses with good feet were visibly tired and slowed down a lot. The coachman felt sorry for the horse, and advised me to find a post station to rest for the night, let the horse rest, and then get up early the next day to hurry.

I saw that the coachman was also blue and black at the moment, and I was embarrassed to urge him to hurry again, so I promised to come down and ask him to find the nearest inn to stay, have a good meal, take a bath, and get up early tomorrow to hurry.

Because it is always unsafe for my daughter's family to go out alone, I pretended to be a man for the convenience of the road, and wore Wu Yi's old clothes that Brother Qian made a special trip back to pick up from Xingyuan.

The coachman was familiar with the road, and soon found the nearest post station. The post station is located on the side of the official road, although the sparrow is small, not to mention the delicate but also comprehensive, the attitude of the little two is also very enthusiastic, as soon as we see us, they will greet the cold and ask for warmth.

"Xiao Er, I want two upper rooms, and send the bath water and wine and food to the room. I threw a string of copper coins into his hand, and said with some tiredness, "The sooner the better, we must rest early today, and we must hurry tomorrow." ”

Xiao Er happily bent over and ran to open a room for me. The groom went to the backyard to set up the carriage, and I found a corner seat in the lobby.

"Fusu Gongzi has cut himself off in Shangjun, do you know about this?" The two middle-aged men sitting next to him talked in a low voice, their voices were so small that no one else around them could hear them, except for me, who was extremely sensitive in hearing.

"Of course, I know that this has spread all over the country. The man with the beard took a sip of the wine glass, shook his head, and sighed: "It's a pity that Fusu Gongzi is upright and kind, I thought that he would be the one who would sit in the country in the future, but I didn't expect to be killed by the emperor in vain." ”

As if a handful of salt had been sprinkled on the wound in my heart, I frowned, and I couldn't help but clench the tea bowl in my hand, so hard that the back of my hand was bruised.

"But it's also strange to say, His Majesty didn't have anything to do with the Su Gongzi when he went out on patrol, so why did he suddenly give the prince his own judgment?" Another man with a sharp mouth knocked on the table and said thoughtfully, "You say...... Could it be the emperor ......?"

"Shhhh

The sharp-mouthed man's face turned pale, and he nodded and closed his mouth.

But this sentence set off a thousand waves in my heart. These two people are very right, why did Ying Zheng suddenly issue an order to help Su Gongzi judge himself on the way out of the tour? He should have enjoyed this trip to the fullest, why did he suddenly turn out some trumped-up charges and deduct the head of Gongzi? I have seen Ying Zheng once at a family banquet before, although he is strict, but he does not seem to be a tyrannical person, and besides, he can tolerate and forgive a disobedient son like Wu Yi, how can he ask for his own son's life? From this inference, with Ying Zheng's personality, he would not do such a thing.

But if it were not his will, who would have the courage to make a decree......?

I shuddered as the bowl slipped back onto the table, splashing a stain of water.

If Yingzheng would not have issued this decree if he was alive, then it would have been ...... He's dead......

I turned pale with fright, and I was a little dizzy, but I managed to hold on to the table and stabilize my crumbling body.

"Guest officer!" Xiao Er trotted over and said respectfully, "Your room and bath water are ready, do you want to use the wine and food before or after the bath?"

I didn't come back to my senses for a moment, still staring blankly at the water stains that were spreading on the table, my face as pale as snow.

Xiao Er was also frightened by my appearance, he gently pushed my shoulder, and asked nervously: "This guest officer, are you okay? Are you not feeling well?

I pulled the corners of my mouth, staggered to my feet, pushed away Xiao Er, who wanted to support me, and wanted to open my mouth to say that I was fine, but I only felt that my throat was dry and I couldn't even spit out a word.

Returning to my room, I lowered my face into the steaming bath water to calm myself down.

The qiē just now is just my speculation, and there is no news of Ying Zhengxian's death in the Qin Kingdom, which means that he may still be alive. If he was still alive, then the holy decree could only be interpreted as the result of Zhao Gao's confusion and daring slander. This is also a possibility, after all, with a treacherous and cunning person like Zhao Gao, it is difficult for others to guess what he is going to do next.

Kuanyi soaked in warm water, I couldn't help but tell sù that nothing would happen to me, nothing would happen to Wu Yi, and nothing would happen to Xiao Xu.

It is estimated that my body is too tired to run around for days, and all my tiredness is soaked out by this bucket of bath water, and I am hastily wiped it, and I fall asleep in a blur on the hard bed in the guest room.

I slept very unsteadily this night, for a while it was the appearance of Fusu Gongzi committing suicide with tears in his eyes, for a while it was the back of Wu Yi before leaving, and for a while it was the figure of Xiao Xu lying in front of the Shuangque door crying, these scenes made me uneasy, and when I finally struggled out of the nightmare, the clean clothes on my body were already soaked with sweat.

Woke up early, I went downstairs to the lobby. Xiao Er didn't seem to have woken up yet, leaning on the platform and dozing off, when he heard the sound of me going downstairs, he opened his confused eyes and said, "You got up so early, the guest officer is leaving?"

"Ah, I'll be gone in a moment. "I found a seat in the lobby and sat down, and when I got the overnight tea, I wanted a cup of herbal tea to suppress my shock.

The door of the post station was suddenly pushed open, and the man who pushed the door in looked like a flower child, and as soon as he entered the door, he shouted: "Something is going to happen!

My hands shook, and all the herbal tea that night was spilled on the table, and my heart beat like a drum, and my chest hurt.

"I just saw people with an army running around, as if they want to inform me of something big, could it be that there is going to be a war?" Hanako saw me and said very nervously: "Childe, you should quickly avoid it! If you come to recruit soldiers, you will not be able to escape and will go to the battlefield!"

Xiao Er blushed with anger, stretched out his hand to push the flower child, and shouted angrily: "Where are you called Hanako! Get out quickly, get out quickly! Don't delay us doing business!"

Hanako was also angry: "I have the good intention to remind you!

"I took it, I took it! You go out quickly!" Xiao Er pushed the flower child out of the door, and just as he was about to close the door, he heard the sound of horses' hooves quickly and clearly, followed by a man's loud voice: "His Majesty the First Emperor has been mourned for a year!

My pupils contracted violently, and then they all spread out, and the person collapsed on the ground as if he had lost his soul, trembling all over.

"His Royal Highness Xue!" The coachman, who was still sleeping in the guest room, rushed downstairs in disheveled clothes, and he knelt down in front of me with a "poof", and said with a sad face: "Your Highness, His Majesty the First Emperor has returned to the immortals, and the whole country is in turmoil, you ...... I can't go to Kamigun......"

"Don't go to Shangjun...... I shook my head, grabbed the coachman's sleeve violently, and said eagerly: "Go back to Xianyang Palace!

"Xianyang Palace?!" The coachman was shocked: "Now that you are in this shape, how can you go back to Xianyang Palace?!"

"I have to go back!" I said in a high-pitched voice, almost screaming, "I'm going to take her away!

The emperor returned to heaven, and as a concubine, Xiao Xu must be martyred.

I finally understood the sorrow in her eyes that day, she had already guessed that Yingzheng was dead when Fusu Gongzi committed suicide, she still came to comfort me even though she couldn't protect herself, and I left her so decisively!

"Xiao Xu...... Xiao Xu ...... "I smiled bitterly, laughing so much that tears flowed out," it turns out that between the two of us...... The first to turn his back on me was ......"