After the rain cleared, the sky was cloudless. Secluded in the night of Zhongmu City, Bai Yan knelt in the mansion and looked at the bamboo slips.

A eunuch hurriedly came to Bai Yan's room and said something to Bai Yan, and then Bai Yan put down the bamboo slips and left with the eunuch.

In Zhongmu City, due to the arrival of Ying Zheng, the entire city has entered unprecedented martial law, and not only is there no pedestrians on the empty streets, but Qin officials can be seen patrolling from time to time.

Bai Yan took two cronies and followed the eunuch down the street, and finally came to a heavily guarded mansion.

The gate of the mansion alone was guarded by no less than twenty Qin officials armed with Changge, and there were countless Qin guards patrolling other places.

Bai Yan asked his cronies to wait outside the gate of the mansion, and then followed the eunuch into the mansion. Under the bright night.

Under the illumination of several maids holding candles, Bai Yan came to a room. The walls of the room were lit with candles, and the light of dozens of candles swayed slightly because the door was opened, but the candlelight gathered together still made the whole surroundings extremely bright.

However, to Bai Yan's surprise, not only Yingzheng, but also Shangqing Mao Jiao in the room, as well as many maids, and a imperial doctor.

"Weichen Bai Yan, meet the king!" Bai Yan slowly stepped forward and bowed to Yingzheng beside the couch.

In the ceremony, Bai Yan saw at this time that the Empress Dowager Zhao on the couch was pale and felt dying.

Looked at. The whole person was stunned in place, and looked at Shangqing Mao Jiao beside him with puzzlement. When leaving Luoyang, although the Empress Dowager Zhao still had a cough and discomfort, it was not so serious, how could she suddenly become like this when she arrived in Zhongmu City, it seemed that time was running out.

in the room. Shangqing Maojiao saw Bai Yan's gaze beside him, sighed slowly, and shook his head vaguely.

"Wu'er, Bai Yan is here!" Bai Yan heard the weak voice of Empress Dowager Zhao on the couch at this time, and turned his head to look.

When he saw the pale cheeks of Empress Dowager Zhao, looking at herself weakly, and showing a smile, Bai Yan's heart tightened, and he hurriedly saluted.

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"Bai Yan, meet the Queen Mother!" Bai Yan lowered his head slightly. When he first met Empress Dowager Zhao Ji, Bai Yan remembered that in history, Empress Dowager Zhao's lifespan was only one year.

However, at that time, seeing that Empress Dowager Zhao seemed to be unwell, and some coughs were not normal, Bai Yan had some doubts, so he asked the imperial doctor to diagnose it.

In the end, however, nothing was diagnosed. Right now, looking at the appearance of the Empress Dowager Zhao, Bai Yan couldn't help but think of the historical record that Empress Dowager Zhao Ji would die in this year.

It's just that Bai Yan really never thought that it would come so quickly and so suddenly. And Bai Yan also vaguely remembered that in this year, not only the Empress Dowager Zhao, but also the two monarchs of Chu and Wei who died together with the Empress Dowager Zhao in the same year.

In history, these two monarchs also died of illness within this year.

"Wu'er is the king!" Zhao Ji's words sounded again. Only then did Bai Yan come back to his senses. When he raised his head slightly and looked at Ying Zheng next to the bed, Bai Yan noticed that there seemed to be wet stains on Ying Zheng's exposed cheeks.

looked at Empress Dowager Zhao's weak hand and put it on Ying Zheng's cheek. Whether it was Bai Yan or Mao Jiao, they all lowered their heads again.

Ying Zheng is the monarch of Qin, the king of a country, the two of them are human ministers, and when they see the most vulnerable scene of Ying Zheng, it is best to avoid it.

"Queen Mother!" Ying Zheng's trembling words rang out in the room. Whether it was Bai Yan and Mao Jiao, or other maids and imperial doctors, they all bowed their heads and said nothing.

Bai Yan knew that the incident between Chang Yu and Zhao Ji at the beginning, as well as Chang Yu's rebellion, were true, but some of these things, just like the stories of the princes of the Beacon Opera, would be tampered with.

One of the most problematic is that in the Qi Nian Mutiny, Qi Nian Palace was the residence of the Empress Dowager Huayang at that time, and Chang Yu used all his forces to rebel in Qi Nian Palace.

In the whole process, it was the Chu system that won in the end. Chang Yu died, Lü Buwei was exiled, after these two events, Yingzheng took power, Changping Jun served as the prime minister of Qin, and a number of Qin Chu officials successively replaced the forces of Chang Yu and Lü Buwei.

The longer he stayed in the Qin State, the more clear Bai Yan knew that now that the scholar clan was in power, it was basically impossible to usurp power from the inside, and to pass through a generation.

Behind Tian Qi's generation of Jiang, it was not only the Tian Dan Dynasty that was in power, but also the decline of the royal family after the Jiang clan of Qi was defeated in the Five Kingdoms, and it was in this situation that the follow-up would have to be followed by the efforts of several generations of the Tian family to complete the Tian family's replacement of the Jiang family.

It was put hundreds of years later, hundreds of years after someone shouted that the prince would have a kind of Xiangning, it was recorded that the Sima clan usurped Wei, and he did not dare to do it at one time, but waited until all the old ministers of Wei died of illness before he dared to gradually control the king of Wei.

In the case of the existence of the Qin Guoying clan, Chang Yu is not clear in his mind, and there will be people who remind him of the thousands of guests under his command.

In the Qin State, there are the Ying clan relatives of the Qin State. Behind the clan of the Yu Ying clan represents all the old Qin people, as well as those old scholars in the Qin State, not to mention the Mengshi, Yang, Li and many other countless clans.

In such a situation, unless there are people from the Ying clan who kill all the royal relatives of the Ying clan, even if they succeed in killing Ying Zheng, they will not be able to succeed to the throne, and those old ministers and veterans in the territory of the Qin State will not agree, and all the old Qin people will not agree.

If it is so easy to succeed to the throne, it is estimated that Zhao Guo has already changed more than a dozen surnames in more than 100 years. in the room. Bai Yan lowered his head, and heard the conversation between Ying Zheng and Empress Dowager Zhao in his ears, and felt some emotion in his heart.

Although I don't know the details of what happened at the beginning, Bai Yan will not be stupid enough to ask again, the matter of Chang Yu's rebellion has been determined, Chang Yu's vain attempt to assassinate Ying Zheng has become a fact, and Lu Buwei has also been dead for many years, and everything has been settled.

The only thing that is certain at the moment is that the previous speculation was correct. After all, Yu Yingzheng and Empress Dowager Zhao are mother and son, mother and son who have experienced hardships together.

Compared with the first king of Qin, for Yingzheng, there was only his mother Zhao Ji in this world who took care of him and protected him.

If Ying Zheng didn't care about Zhao Ji, he wouldn't be here until late at night, and if there was no accident, Zhao Ji would be posthumously crowned as the empress dowager in the future.

"Bai Yan!" Ying Zheng's voice sounded. Bai Yan raised his head, looked at Ying Zheng, and raised his hands.

"Wechen is here!" Bai Yan replied softly. Inside the study. Ying Zheng looked at her dying mother on the bed, and tears couldn't help but appear in her eyes.

Compared with the complaints about his mother in the past few years, at this moment, Yingzheng's mind is full of scenes and scenes of his mother taking care of him when he was a child, remembering that when he was a child, the world seemed to have malicious intentions towards him, and the safest place was in his mother's arms.

I remembered what my mother had just said, and I wanted to go back to the place where I lived when I was a child.

"Tomorrow, immediately lead the iron cavalry to escort the widow and the queen mother to Handan, without delay." Ying Zheng instructed.

Yu Yingzheng didn't turn his head to look at Bai Yan, feeling the hand on his face, gently stroking himself. At this moment, Yingzheng doesn't want to do anything, just wants to enjoy it, and his mother comforts him like she did when she was a child.

Looking at his mother, Ying Zheng was full of reluctance. If my mother is not there, I will have no mother in the future, and I am the only one in this world.

"No!" When Bai Yan heard Ying Zheng's words, he knew that Ying Zheng was preparing to rush to Handan, and without waiting for the Xianyang garrison and the guards, he hurriedly made a salute.

After receiving the order, Bai Yan saw the scorching eyes beside him, understood it, and then retired to Ying Zhengji.

When Bai Yan left the room, he glanced at the imperial doctor with doubts, but he also knew that it was not the time to ask, so he could only leave first.

Late at night. When Bai Yan followed the maid out of the mansion, he happened to be outside the door of the mansion and met Ying Kan, who came to see him in a hurry.

Looking at Ying Kan's heartfelt appearance, Bai Yan stopped and bowed to Ying Kan.

"Lord Ying!" Bai Yan spoke. Feeling Ying Kan hurriedly walking in front of him, Bai Yan shook his head when he saw this, and then ignored Ying Kan and left with two cronies.

Listen to the voice behind him that Ying Kan wants to see. Bai Yan is not sure whether Ying Zheng will summon Ying Kan, but Bai Yan knows very clearly how those people in the past regarded the Queen Mother and treated the Queen Mother, Ying Zheng couldn't be clearer, but he ignored it because he had complaints about the Queen Mother in his heart.

But at this time, the Queen Mother was dying, and at this time, Ying Kan went to Mao Jiao to disturb Yingzheng and the Queen Mother, which was really the most unwise move.

Return to the mansion. Bai Yan asked the two soldiers to call Ye to come to the mansion, and after watching the soldiers leave, he returned to his study.

Coming to the wooden table, looking at the bamboo slips obtained from the interrogation, Bai Yan knelt down and fell into deep thought. At dusk, Ying Zheng handed over all the rights to investigate to himself, and after interrogating the living people, almost all of them were holding on, and some spineless people were talking quickly, but they were all useless things.

Originally, Bai Yan was going to find a time to take these people to Yanmen, but now that the Queen Mother was seriously ill and dying, Yingzheng suddenly ordered to rush to Handan at full speed.

This hasty order disrupted Bai Yan's original deployment. However, it did not stump Bai Yan. Reaching out from the wooden table, he took a roll of bamboo slips and looked at the list of survivors on it.

Half an hour later. There was the sound of footsteps outside the door, and then ye walked into the room.

"General!" Yuye came to the wooden table and bowed to Bai Yan.

"I need you to take a bit of a toll tonight, go and make arrangements." Bai Yan looked up at Ye. In the eyes of karma doubt, Bai Yan slowly said what he was going to do tonight.

·········· Inside the cell in Zhongmu City. A man in a silk robe was lying in a wooden house, the man was covered in dust at the moment, and there were a lot of blood stains on the silk clothes, and his eyes felt dull.

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"You say, a good lord and gentleman, let go of glory and wealth and don't enjoy it, you have to assassinate Yingzheng."

"No, if I am given that status, I will stay at home all day with my beautiful wife and concubine, eat wine and meat, and never go out half a step."

"Now that the family is ruined, I heard that none of the men in the family are alive!" The two Qin officials stood at the door, watching the man discuss in a low voice, his words full of incomprehension.

A good gentleman doesn't do it, he has to do something that will be beheaded. Inside the cell. The man who was originally dead and silent, when he heard that none of the men in the family were alive, a look of pain appeared on his face, and his bloodshot eyes slowly closed.

A secluded man is the master. In the past, after leaving the main mansion and being rescued by Qi Ji, he didn't have time to breathe a sigh of relief, and he was chased and killed by Qin Qi all night.

Whether it was running to the wooden house in the alley, or to the high-rise mansion, Qin Qi could always follow him. Zhu Xun saw one Qi attack after another with his own eyes, and he was killed by Qin Qi in front of his eyes, or he died together.

And after the old man ordered to break through the wall, he was besieged by more than ten Qin knights on the way to break through, after killing a few Qin knights, and then under the Qin sword of more than a dozen Qin knights, he was cut into countless pieces and died tragically.

After he was captured, he saw with his own eyes that countless feet stepped on the corpse of the old man.

"That's him!" The door to the cell slowly opened. The lord opened his eyes weakly, and saw several Qin knights wearing Qin armor.

Then Zhu Xun was carried out of the cell by two Qin horses. Inside a wooden house. The door was slowly opened, and after the master was dragged into the room, there was immediately a pungent smell of blood, looking at the bloodstained cells and various torture instruments under the faint candlelight around him.

The Lord already knew what was going to happen to him. As expected, he was soon tied to a wooden frame, accompanied by a burly man carrying a bloody rope.

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"Who is the mastermind? And those who haven't been caught! As the man spoke, the thick rope in his hand waved his rights and threw it away, and in an instant, a scream came from the room.

"Ahh The Lord stared at him, opened his mouth, and the green veins on his forehead burst out. The next moment, before the Lord could calm down, another swing landed on his body.

Smack~Smack~! Every time he was struck, he would make the lord howl in pain. After a while, some crimson wet stains appeared on the clothes on the main body.

"This man's mouth is also hard!"

"Be careful, don't beat this person like that person, just now that person didn't say anything, he was almost killed by you." Qin Qi, who escorted the master in the room, watched this scene with relish, and inadvertently mentioned a 'corpse' that was discarded in the corner not far away, saying that the corpse was lying motionless on the ground, and its whole body was full of traces of whipping, and the blood stained the clothes red.

"Don't worry, that person is already weak, and he has been coughing, and he was dying when he brought it, if you didn't say that person killed Shangqing Guo Kai, I can't believe it, that person can lift a sword!" The burly man who had whipped the lord was naked, and retorted with indignation, his tone seemed to carry a hint of dissatisfaction.

And that is to refute. The burly man also stopped whipping, which also made the lord breathe a sigh of relief. However, at this moment, the master didn't have time to breathe a sigh of relief, and his face was hideous because of pain, and he slowly turned his head to look at the bloody man lying on the ground in the corner.

Kill Guo Kai? In an instant, the lord thought of the few people who had gone to Handan before. Among them, the weak and coughing, these were added together, and the Lord immediately guessed who the man was.

Syllable~! However, the next moment, the master didn't pay attention, and a thick rope swung down. The face that was already hideous from pain was red again.

"Say! No! Say! The burly man waved his power, several times in succession, and finally seemed to be still not satisfied, and stopped panting, looked at the master with a painful but stiff face, and turned to pick up the iron rod in the furnace.

The other side. The two Qin knight guards who dragged the master over also came to the corner and kicked the bloody man on the ground hard, and then one of them squatted down and stretched out his hand to turn the bloody man over.

The lord looked at the corner with a red face, ignoring the danger in front of him.

"Ahh The next moment, accompanied by a sharp pain in his chest, the main Xun's mouth opened to the maximum, and the whole person continued to struggle, struggling with his hands and feet to break free from the rope, and finally slowly softened.

Before coma. The Lord Xun smelled the smell of burning, and he clearly saw the bloody man who was turned over in the corner not far away, the familiar face.

"Faint! This man has fine skin and tender meat, and he never thought that his mouth would be so tight! The burly man shook his head and said.

In the room, the two Qin horses next to the bloody man saw this, glanced at each other, then looked at the corpse, changed their appearance, got up respectfully, went to the wooden frame, untied the main Xun's hands and feet, and carried him away.

in the room. After the burly man saw the master leaving, he quickly turned around and saluted the bloody man.

"General, the man is gone!" The burly man's voice fell. I saw the bloody man on the ground, who had already fainted, opened his eyes, and looked up at the door.

At this time, karma also walked in from outside the door with clothes. Bai Yan got up, looked at the clothes that were full of gaps and tattered clothes, and then looked at the two of them.

"This must not be spread!" Bai Yan instructed softly. The burly man nodded his head.

"General, if you want to leave tomorrow, does this person want to arrange for someone to be released?" Karma asked. Bai Yan shook his head.

"No need, I will hand it over to Ying Kan tomorrow, and Ying Kan will decide to deal with these people, whether these people are dead or alive depends on the will of God." Bai Yan said, then came to a huge wooden barrel, took off his clothes, revealed his body with several wounds, and poured it from his head with a wooden spoon filled with water.

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"Huh?" Ye was surprised when he heard Bai Yan's words, and then the burly man beside him, that is, the iron cavalry general in disguise, glanced at each other.

Both were a little incomprehensible.

"General, what if this man is killed?" Ye thought about it and asked with some concern. Looking at the several old wounds on the general's body, it was hard to imagine that this was a child of the scholar clan, let alone washing his body with cold water in the middle of this cold winter night.

However, for these, the industry has become accustomed to it, and even the soldiers of the whole army will not find it strange. At the moment, what karma wants to know more is that Fang has wasted so much energy and deceived the master, if he doesn't let go, he will be killed by Yingkan, wouldn't he suffer in vain tonight, and he also wasted that moment of key chess pieces.

In the words of the general, it is a chess piece.

"You underestimate the Scholars! This is Zhao Di! Bai Yan washed his body, feeling that his body was washed by cold water, and he kept heating up, and explained softly.

Looking at Ye's puzzled look, Bai Yan laughed.

"Compared with others to save people, let those warriors personally save people at a cost, and they will be convinced." After Bai Yan finished speaking, he saw the appearance of karma, and after rinsing it, he stepped forward to take the clothes and put them on.

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"You both go back to rest!" Bai Yan said. Ye and the general nodded, saluted Bai Yan, and then watched Bai Yan leave, and the two followed behind.

Day 2. The sky was dark. Bai Yan got up early and led the army of iron cavalry to gather outside the city gate.

When Bai Yan was preparing to take a small part of the iron cavalry army under his command into the city to escort Yingzheng and Empress Dowager Zhao out of Zhongmu City.

The city gate of Luoyang. More than a dozen carriages were slowly driving into Luoyang after Qin officials' inspection.

Inside the carriage, Bai Yan took his wife and daughter, felt the shaking of the carriage, and listened to the noise outside the carriage.

When he heard that the Zheng clan was plotting against him, Bai Yan shook his head. Bai Yan looked at the two daughters and looked out the window curiously, telling the second daughter about the Zheng family.

The other side. A mansion in Luoyang City. Lonely Cho You was lying on a bed, and two disheveled women beside him were snuggling in Cho You's arms.

Listening to the report of the subordinates, and listening to the investigation of the Zheng family, Zhu You laughed happily.

"That Bai Yan, he has made meritorious service again!" Cho You shook his head proudly, as if Bai Yan had made meritorious service, just like he had made meritorious service.

At this moment, in the eyes of Cho You, there is no fear of thinking of Bai Yan in the past, and instead of being calm.

At this moment a maid came with a jug of fine wine. A woman flattered her and glanced at the maid.

I didn't notice this scene. Watching the maid leave, Choyou didn't care, there were only two beauties in his eyes that he had just gotten in the past two days, with a wicked smile on the corner of his mouth, Choyou reached out to pick up the wine and drank it, and after a while, just as Choyou was about to reach out to touch the woman in his arms, Choyou suddenly felt a sharp pain in his abdomen, and his head was a little dizzy.

Chu You looked puzzled, why was it so easy to get drunk today, thinking of this, Qi You looked at the door of the room not long after the maid left, and thought of the maid just now.

Suddenly. Choyu had dizziness in his eyes, and he felt like the whole room was shaking. Seeing that he was unconscious, a woman's voice faintly came from next to his ear.

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