Chapter 22 The outside is scorched and the inside is tender
King Qin collapsed.
Yingzheng succeeded to the throne, and LΓΌ Buwei, Marquis of Wenxin, presided over the state funeral ceremony.
The palace was instantly dyed white, everyone wore sackcloth to mourn, and even the white peach was put on a gray linen turban, and a twisted linen rope was wrapped around the waist.
When the previous dynasty was surging, in the end, it was the crown prince who succeeded to the throne, and the lord Shaoguo doubted.
And now the forces of Zhao's foreign relatives have quickly pulled up and suppressed the Chu and Han factions.
Bai Tao, as an orphan girl who came to Xianyang from Zhao State, is not good to show up.
Bai Tao, who stayed obediently in the palace for three days and never even stepped out of the door, finally couldn't help but catch a palace maid and asked, "Do you know where Brother Zheng is?" β
"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince..."
The palace maid realized that she had said something wrong, and hurriedly changed her words, "The king is in the mourning hall." β
Because of the worry in his heart, Bai Tao didn't see a figure for three days and didn't want to care so much, so he ran to the mourning hall.
A huge golden silk nanmu coffin was parked in the middle, and the shark oil lantern under it was still emitting a faint light, and the light was not very transparent.
Ying Zheng wore linen and filial piety, kneeling in the middle, as if covered in the dark.
Bai Tao ran over and knelt with him, but he didn't expect him to move like an icy body.
Bai Tao typed several times in his heart, and said softly: "Brother Zheng, although your father is gone, he will become a star watching you in the sky, don't be too sad." β
Ying Zheng lowered his eyelashes, "Turning into a star?" Look at me from heaven? β
The tone in which he said this did not feel like a heavy pathos, but dragged a bit of nonchalant tone.
Bai Tao felt a little weird.
He seemed to have just noticed her coming, and looked at her with black pupils, "Taotao, you're here." β
Bai Tao hesitated, "Well, I was a little worried about you, so I came." β
"I'm fine, people die like lights out, and life and death are just the norm." Ying Zheng said in a deep voice, "Everyone will have this day, sooner or later, you must also learn to watch it." β
Bai Tao tilted his head: "Brother Zheng, have you seen a lot of life and death?" β
He's not just seen it.
crawled out of the pit of the dead several times, and in those days of struggling in the dark mud, they were all brushing shoulders with death.
But Ying Zhengyin didn't say anything, and changed his words, "I haven't been with you recently, you can have a good meal in the palace." β
Why did he suddenly talk about eating again?
Bai Tao opened his eyes and said, "Eat it, but does this have anything to do with life and death?" β
Ying Zheng said: "If people want to live, they must always eat when they live." β
In the past, he was under the fence in HD City, and it was a luxury to be able to eat, and he was worried about being able to eat enough.
Bai Tao smelled what he wanted to express, and comforted: "Brother Zheng, you are now the king, you don't have to worry about this, don't worry, you will definitely be able to eat enough every day in the future." β
He said silently: "To be a soldier of a young general, to be a pawn of a husband, to be a refusal to pay a literati, or even to be a farmer, all I think about every day is rice, millet, wheat and soybean, two meals a day, but to be a king, then I have to let the whole world have enough to eat." β
"Huh? Wouldn't that be hard? β
Ying Zheng's voice was smooth and flowing: "It's difficult, but someone has to go first on the road of all difficulties." β
Bai Tao nodded: "Brother Zheng, you can go on until one day in the future, and I will always accompany you, and I will accompany you wherever you go." β
There will always be a warbler in the eyes of the white peach, like a flower grown by the spring rain, beautiful and full of sweetness.
Maybe like what she said.
Forever.
The corners of Ying Zheng's lips curved slightly, and he held her hand and said, "Okay." β
The two little ones snuggled up to each other in the dark mourning hall.
On the trees with white silk hanging in the distance, the wind puppets come and go, and the tail belt sways with the wind, and the splendid flowers sway out negligently.
It's been a few months again, the grass grows and the warbler flies, and the season of peach and plum exhibition is coming.
The country cannot be without a king for a day, and Yingzheng officially succeeded to the throne on an auspicious day, which was the king of Qin.
Wenxin Marquis LΓΌ Buwei respected the will of the previous king and was appointed as the minister of state.
It is for the father of a nation.
Ying Zheng called him the middle father, and now the government is controlled by LΓΌ Buwei, Zhao Ji is the queen mother, although she is the regent of the queen mother, but she lives in the palace all day long, obeys orders with LΓΌ Buwei, and never pays attention to the government.
On the contrary, Bai Tao's days in the harem have not changed much.
The most important thing is that Yingzheng is getting busier, at most he just feels a little bored.
However, Ying Zheng sent a playmate to Bai Tao, who was also an innocent little girl, with round cheeks like buns, looking at Bai Bai Chubby, and two sweet pear vortices.
The first time Bai Tao saw her, he stepped on the stone pier carved with cloud patterns and asked her, "What's your name?" β
The girl saluted and opened her mouth to say, "The slave maid is called Rui'er." β
"Rui'er?"
Bai Tao smacked his touch, "Then are you a native of Qin State?" Why do you want to enter the palace, what will you do? β
Rui'er smiled and said: "The slave and maid are from Huangshu Village in the thirty counties of the Qin State, because the family is poor, the slave and maid are sold to the Qin State Palace, and the slave and maid will be different." β
She paused: "Eat, and play." β
White Peach "......"
Can you eat and play?
Bai Tao opened her eyes wide and said, "Then will you still sleep?" β
Rui'er said as a matter of course: "Yes, this is very simple, you don't need to learn it." β
"Huh?" Bai Tao fell, "Then what are you doing in the palace, it won't be to eat, sleep and sleep." β
Rui'er put her two little hands behind her back, and said with a glance: "It was the king who picked the slave and maid, and the slave and maid felt that they would not know anything, but the king said that the slave and the maid didn't need anything else, just play with the master, and the slave and maid felt that they had stepped on the shit and hit the luck before coming." β
After that, she rolled her eyes, covered her mouth and said, "Bah, bah, you can't bring some vernacular, don't be surprised, master." β
Bai Tao: "I didn't see it strange......"
As if she was not afraid, Rui'er stared at her again and smiled and said, "Little master, you look like a fairy, and your eyes are so big." β
White Peach: "? β
Rui'er circled a large circle with her finger and put it on her eye socket to draw: "It's bigger than the wild fruit that the slave girl picked when she climbed the tree when she was a child." β
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Bai Tao: "Okay, okay, it's you." β
The palace maids and eunuchs here are frightened by Brother Zheng like a group of plague chickens that can only crow, and it is good to have new playmates.
It's okay to eat, sleep, and play, don't pick.
Bai Tao reached out and tugged at her sleeve, "I'm going to go to Aunt Zhao to say goodbye later, do you want to go?" β
Rui'er: "Aunt Zhao? β
"Aunt Zhao is the mother of the person who said that as long as she can play with her master, she is the queen mother in this palace." Bai Tao deliberately circled her.
She said "ah", "What about the Queen Mother, is that to prepare?" β
Bai Tao's calves stepped forward, "Didn't you say that you just need to play with you, then what else do you have to prepare, let's go." β
She said to go, resolutely, Rui'er was still stunned in place and didn't react.
Don't look at Bai Tao's small size now, and she still combs her hair, but she walks fast, and her little skirt rises and falls in the wind, like a blooming flower.
Rui'er Baozi, who was so anxious that her face wrinkled in the back, she struggled to catch up with the little fox's steps, "Little master, wait for the slave maid..."
The little fox of Bai Tao is naughty and vicious, and he is playful.
took Rui'er to turn around in the rockery greenery, walked for a while and waited for her for a while, and then showed her that after seeing it, there was no shadow again.
Finally, I climbed up the tall branches and watched her in a hurry.
Well, that's all about playing.
It's just that not long after Bai Tao sat in the crown of the tree, he heard a different movement suddenly sounded below.
It's Aunt Zhao.
She had a sad countenance, and was looking around, as if she was looking for someone.
How did she get here?
Bai Tao thought for a moment that she had missed the time, and Aunt Zhao came out to arrest her.
But in a blink of an eye, Aunt Zhao is casual by nature and doesn't like formality, and the matter of asking for peace is also casual, so the chance of coming out to arrest her should not be great.
"No-"
Zhao Ji walked a few laps and finally stopped.
She hung her throat, combined with the light and shadow sifted by the leaves, weaving a thin thread, tossing and turning on her charming and beautiful face, "You still dare not ........."
Can't? Don't dare to what?
And Buwei, is it Uncle Lu Buwei who laughed?
Bai Tao slowly hugged the branch and turned his head to look at the movement.
I saw that in a hole in the rockery, LΓΌ Buwei, who was supposed to be in the previous dynasty, was wearing an official robe and came out of it.
White Peach: "? β
No, isn't this a harem.
"More than ten years have passed, more than ten years have passed, but in the blink of an eye, Zhao Shu still feels that those days spent with you in HD City still seem to be vivid."
Zhao Ji closed her eyes, tears falling from the corners of her eyes, "I'm so scared, no, I'm really scared, you know?" β
"I often dream at night, I dream of you, I dream that you are by my side, where I can reach me, I dream that I kiss your breath, and we grow old."
She sobbed like a girl like the flowers blooming on the branches: "But when I wake up, it's really just a luxury dream, no, you know." β
"I'm tired of being here, I'm tired of the intrigues and intrigues here."
"Empress Dowager Huayang, she looks down on my background, Mrs. Han, she has repeatedly made things difficult for me, I came from a foreign country, no one in the palace is willing to help me, no one is willing to help me, but I am just a woman.... The first king has passed away, who else can I rely on..."
"If only you were by my side."
As soon as the words fell, the dead leaves squirmed.
LΓΌ Buwei came out of the woods, and he was like a mottled color, instantly filling her vacancy and powerlessness.
He looked at Zhao Ji, his lips twitching.
Zhao Ji's heart seemed to have thousands of clouds surging, and she flew to Lu Buwei's body, "Zhao Shu knows, Zhao Shu knows, Buwei will not give up Zhao Shu, No, No... Zhao Shu's undoing..."
"It's not Wei, my is not Wei."
She hugged her tighter and tighter, and with the initiative to approach and kiss him closely, it seemed that the two of them were about to melt into a paralyzed blood.
You have me, I have you.
The white peach on the tree stiffened and witnessed everything, and his expression was no different from that of being struck by lightning.
No, it's not...
Isn't Aunt Zhao Brother Zheng's mother-in-law? Uncle Nalu is the middle father of Zheng's elder brother.
The relationship looks a bit complicated, not to mention, the two of them are like this, does he know that Brother Zheng is caught in the middle?
Lu Buwei at the bottom let Zhao Ji kiss him, and his expression looked watertight, "Zhao Shu, you have suffered." β
"Woooooooooo
Zhao Ji seemed to cry and laugh, and beat his chest with both hands, "Wrongdoer, you are really my wrongdoer, I sent letters to your house every day before, and I thought you were pretending to be blind, just want to spoil my friendship." β
"If you don't show your face today, you have been sticking to you, I'm afraid you still have to be like an iron plate, no matter how you pry it, you can't pry it open, let me tell you, this is not happy, my Zhao Shu is yours, and you Lu Buwei can only be my Zhao Shu's."
Lu Buwei's cheeks tightened, "It's good." β
Zhao Ji pressed against his hot chest, twisted his waist and said, "Wrongdoer, you have opened your heart, then you.... Are you going to go to your prime minister's mansion for a while? Can't you stay with me and talk to me more? β
Lu Buwei squeezed out an embarrassed smile, "I'm Xiangguo, you're the queen mother, I'm afraid it's inappropriate." β
"What's wrong, it's already open, do you still have to hide it, what do I want from you? Could it be that you still don't give it? β
She bit his ear and blew lightly twice, and then said, "Your mouth full of great love can't hold back any sweet words, but Zhao Shuwei knows that the love and love you give is real, I want you now, I just want you to tell me, you love me and you are real." β
After a long drought and thirst, once touched, it is a raging craze that cannot be withdrawn.
LΓΌ Buwei said: "Evening." β
One of them is now the queen mother and the other is the minister of state, so they can't be alone for too long, and it is easy to settle down.
After getting the promise, Zhao Ji grinded twice, screamed a few times and let him go.
Reluctantly watched as Lu Buwei's tall and majestic back disappeared in the forest. Zhao Ji also nodded on her toes, walked one step and turned two laps to sing and dance.
In the deep rockery woods, until the pinched voice also drifted away.
The white peach on the tree has now been scorched.
Although she didn't stay in the mortal world for long, she also knew that cheating was not good.
After sliding down with the trunk of the tree, Bai Tao pestled a wooden stake in place for a while, and decided to go to Brother Zheng to talk about it.