Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Past Life of the Starry Night (1)
After 213 BC the Qin Dynasty
In the glorious Xianyang Palace, above the solemn court, a man in a dark court dress stepped forward to meet him and said: "Your Majesty, the minister met a priest among the people a few days ago, and some people rumored that he could bring him back to life, and he was allowed to practice the elixir."
Qin Shi Huang was overjoyed for a while, and laughed: "Where is the Taoist priest now?"
"Your Majesty, that man is already waiting outside the palace." The courtier's expression was much more relaxed than when he was in the audience, and he showed a smug smile in a place that no one could see.
"Xuan-" Emperor Qin's side had a strong ability to observe words and expressions, and his feminine voice immediately shouted outside the hall.
After a while, I saw a man in a dark blue robe hurriedly walking into the hall, and behind the man was a woman in a violet dress, the woman kept her head down, and she couldn't see her true face clearly, perhaps she had been instructed by the man in the robe.
If you look closely at the Taoist priest, you will find that there are still a few strands of hair on his forehead that have not been combed up, the sleeves of his clothes are still wrinkled, and there are dark circles under his eyes.
"See Your Majesty." The Taoist priest took the woman beside him and knelt down to the Qin Emperor and saluted.
"In the future, you will practice the elixir of life for me, and if you succeed, I will have a great reward." When it came to the elixir of life, Qin Shi Huang felt an inexplicable excitement.
After this, Qin Shi Huang asked about this Taoist priest and the elixir of life, and after knowing that he might practice the elixir of life, Emperor Qin finally left with confidence.
After that, the Qin Emperor ordered someone to take the Taoist and the woman next to him to their residence.
In fact, when the Taoist priest and the woman were about to withdraw from the main hall, the woman was curious, wanting to see what the first person in history to call the emperor looked like, so she raised her head and quietly glanced at Qin Shi Huang, who was sitting on the main hall, and couldn't help but be stunned, and quickly bowed her head.
sighed in his heart: This is the man who unified the six countries, he exudes the air of the emperor all over his body, very majestic, giving people a feeling of depression, but he has too much dead air on his body, and he is full of anger, and he is riddled with all evils, and he must not live long, and it is a pity that this generation of emperors!
However, half of his beard covered most of his face, and he seemed a little rough, although he was very imperial, but she felt a little...
When complaining about Qin Shi Huang, the woman was born with a chuckle, but fortunately she reacted quickly and covered her face with her sleeves without a trace, so that others could not see her expression. It's okay, it's better to be careful in the future, otherwise it's a capital offense.
The eunuch took them to his lodgings, and told them by the way what they should pay attention to in the palace and what they should not do, and that they should be cautious in everything they say and do, and that it is better to move less in the palace. Xu was the one he had seen the rude woman's behavior before, and because these two people were now the alchemists valued by the First Emperor, he would mention it more.
Accustomed to seeing the measurement in the palace, what to do, what to do, the eunuch understands and can't understand anymore, but sometimes he has to pretend to be confused.
"I was in the main hall just now, why did you say that I was your disciple?" The woman in the violet dress closed the door, then knelt casually on the mat and asked inadvertently.
Although the Taoist priest listened to the woman's words, he didn't pay much attention to what the woman said, and he didn't care about her impolite rules.
When he saw the tea set on the table, he began to brew the tea, and when the water was boiling, he picked up a small bamboo tube that he carried with him, and poured a small pinch of air-dried wild tea into the pot. After a while, he poured two cups of tea, one to the woman, and one in his own hand.
The Taoist priest took a sip of tea, the fragrance of tea overflowed in his mouth, and then said: "I have raised you since I was a child, and it is not an exaggeration to call me Master." After saying that, he showed a look of 'I said it was right'.
The woman drank all the tea in her hand and said boldly: "Okay, when outsiders are there in the future, you will be my master." She placed the cup in her hand on the table, using a little heavier force.
Hmph - never taught her anything, every time she mentioned it, she hastily brought her, kept her like a pet, and wanted her to call him Master, dream! Although in her heart, he is indeed incomparable.
The Taoist priest thought that the woman was bored because she was trapped in the palace, and her emotions exploded, and she thought to herself: Is she angry? He quietly raised his head, and the eyes that came into contact were not reproachful eyes, all the eyes that ushered in were star eyes, and he was ready to be blamed by the woman.
Although he adopted her who was helpless and got along with her for a long time, he can't pinch her temperament at any time, she was quite cute when she was a child!
The woman said to him in a longing tone, "Can you let me go out and play for a while, just for a while." In the last sentence, she specially emphasized that she completely ignored the warning before the eunuch left.
"Yes..."Before the Taoist priest finished speaking, the woman rushed out, and said as she ran: "You don't have to wait for me for dinner, just leave me some...... "Finally, you can visit the palace!"
“…… Come back early, though. Alas—" The Taoist priest said with extreme helplessness, as if he was used to this.
The woman had been playing in the palace for a long time, and was attracted by many beautiful and rare things, so she didn't have any major incidents, and she played until the evening, when she looked around, and found that the scenery around her was the same, and muttered to herself, "I won't get lost, right?"
After another ten minutes, the woman took a few turns in the palace, her physical strength was almost exhausted, her steps were a little messy, her body began to shake, she fell to the ground along the wall without taking a few steps, began to cough, breathing a little short, turned up her long sleeves, but found nothing, coughed: "Ahem, I forgot to bring medicine." Why is she so unlucky.
Walking slowly against the wall, she didn't even notice that she was now getting farther and farther away from her dwelling.
"Huh—" How can there be a house in the palace? The woman's brows were furrowed, her face was yellow, she didn't care about these for now, let's see if there was anyone inside, she had to ask for directions, otherwise her body would really not be able to survive, and her current body should only be able to support it for almost three hours.
The woman walked to the door of the house and just wanted to knock on the door, but the door was blown by a gust of wind, and the door was not locked?
She seemed to see a garden, with all kinds of flowers, grasses, and trees, and in the middle of the garden there was a small lake, and there were several small pavilions on top of the lake, and in the largest pavilion, there seemed to be a man looking at an old wooden plank, and because it was a little far away, she couldn't see the man's appearance clearly.
For the sake of her own body, she held on to her body and walked towards the trail in front of her, her body became weaker and weaker, and every step was very difficult, only a few steps away, she had to hold on, and every step she took, she would encourage herself like this.
I also complained a little in my heart: Why is she born with such a bad physique! As she walked, she began to complain. When she finally reached the pavilion, she took a long breath, then took a deep breath, and leaned feebly on the columns around the pavilion.
The man sat with his back to her, unable to see his face clearly, he seemed to care so much about the contents of the plank that he didn't even notice when people came.
Looking across the man's figure, she saw that the writing on this wooden board was not the small seal that was now unified in the Qin Dynasty, but the text that was even older than the small seal, no wonder this man looked so carefully, he didn't even notice that the person was beside him, it turned out to be researching.