Chapter 42: Self-Inflicted Consequences

Bai Tao threw over: "Why? ”

As soon as she raised her wrist, the big sleeves of the peacock feathers swept through the brazier, and the spark was fanned up for a moment, and then annihilated, "Eclipse, plague, winter thunder, flood, drought, earthquake, famine, locust plague, comet, glowing heart." ”

"It's all a revelation from heaven."

Mrs. Huayang closed her eyes tightly, and the fine lines at the corners of her eyes were like bursting cold white porcelain.

She muttered and prayed silently, "He can lead the Qin State to glory, but it will also bring disaster, he is an ominous person."

"What are you talking about? What bad guys? ”

Bai Tao doesn't have so many rules for growing up and young, not to mention that she is older than her, so she said directly, "Just based on a few burned turtle shells, you can conclude that others are ominous people, and you just give people hats like this?" ”

Empress Dowager Huayang, who is extremely respected in the harem, has never seen such a person dare to choke on her.

Her eyes were sharp, and she scolded angrily: "It's just a Zhao girl, protected by the King of Qin, and dare to talk back to the old woman!" ”

Bai Tao turned around and left.

The wind and snow outside blew in, blowing the curtains of the palace upside down, and the lights and candles that lit up one after another, and a few were blown out, The skirt of the Empress Dowager Huayang dragged the floor, and her face was solemn and angry.

Bai Tao came back from outside, and what she wrapped in her deerskin was the snow she was holding outside, "Look at it, the turtle shell you burned is like that, and the one I burned is different, and you won't have anything to say when the time comes." ”

The Empress Dowager Huayang frowned, watching her movements with a cold face.

White Peach patted the hollow turtle shell, stuffed it into a pile of snow that it had brought in, and poked the wooden stick into the coal.

said, "It's just divination, just for peace of mind, but you can't believe it." ”

She continued: "Han Feizi said that the sage looks at its mysteries, uses its circumstance, and forcibly says that it is the Tao, and says that those things that cannot be explained are the apocalypse, which is called deceiving the heavens and destroying oneself. ”

Mrs. Huayang snorted coldly: "You little girl, dare to reverse black and white." ”

It is indeed difficult to shatter the faith of mortals, and Bai Tao can only spread his claws.

The wooden stick quickly burned red, Bai Tao picked it up and held it in his hand, picked up the center of the stick with his fingertips, and turned it around several times, "Empress Dowager Huayang, look at it." ”

"Tricks."

Mrs. Huayang half-closed her eyes, quite disdainful, "I think that when the King of Qin came to Xianyang City, the old woman had already calculated that the disaster of the Qin State was coming, and she only glanced at him, everything was already clear, and there was a flood not long after he ascended the throne, this time I saw that it was just autumn and left, and the heavy snow covered the ground, and in a few years I would starve for thousands of miles, and there would be a drought in the Qin State in a few years." ”

"The old woman has calculated this a thousand times, but it's not"

The sound stopped abruptly.

The Empress Dowager Huayang lifted her eyelids and saw the girl looking at her with a pair of amber eyes, which were as beautiful as elf-like eyes, and the girl was holding a turtle shell taken out of the snow, and a wooden stick was inserted into the tail of the turtle shell.

The snow on the turtle's shell melted away and ticked on the ground.

The rift on that

Empress Dowager Huayang's throat tightened, and she snatched it away, "How come, it's different"

It must be different, how can ordinary divination be put in the snow to burn cracks.

Bai Tao said: "Look, let's just say that those who are false and fake can't be believed." ”

Empress Dowager Huayang carefully stroked the cracks on the turtle shell: "The old woman remembers every crack on it, every flash, every glance, how can it be different." ”

"That's just some unwarranted things, and the revelations of any catastrophe are all conjectures."

Bai Tao muttered, "If you insist that King Qin is an ominous person just because of these, then you will treat him too harshly, not to mention that he is still your grandson." ”

The Empress Dowager Huayang looked at the cracks on the turtle shell with great concentration,

After a long time, her eyebrows moved, and she sighed with a little wistful, "Everything that can be changed, everything that can be changed can be changed, this is also the apocalypse, it is the revelation that God brought to the old woman, the old woman has lived for so many years, and she has half a foot in the loess, and she has not seen through your little girl." ”

Call who the little girl, I'm over 100 years old.

Bai Tao slandered in his heart.

The Empress Dowager Huayang looked at Bai Tao, the girl's beautiful appearance was enough to fall into the city and subvert the dynasty.

She asked lightly, "What are you wearing?" ”

Bai Tao lowered his head and tilted his head left and right, and straightened it with his hand: "It's a cloak." ”

"No, it's a deer." Empress Dowager Huayang clasped one hand on her chest, and made a gesture with her left hand, "The old woman can foresee that if Qin loses his deer, the world will chase him." ”

White Peach: "? ”

What do you mean.

The Empress Dowager Huayang didn't say much anymore, her hands were folded and her forehead was pointed, and her mouth was chanting obscure Chu Ci.

Why is it still chattering in the middle of the conversation, is this the tradition of the Chu State?

The white peach fox looked at it suspiciously, thinking that he would never believe in it in the future, that half-witted mountain ghost, look at the believer who brought it.

"The mother is tired, please go back to the little master of white peach."

The old palace maid beside the Empress Dowager Huayang led Bai Tao out.

Bai Tao had just reached the threshold, and he heard Mrs. Han, who was kneeling in the snow, screaming even more poignantly.

That's right, too.

She just hasn't stopped.

"This Mrs. Han, at the end of every day, comes to kneel, kneeling for more than an hour, no one can drive away, the Queen Mother also pities her pain of losing her son, so she takes care of her."

The old palace maid pinned two green flutes to her sideburns, and she was embarrassed: "It's just that in the harem, this kind of pain is difficult to heal, and if Mrs. Han wants to see it, I'm afraid it's also difficult." ”

Bai Tao held his two hands, looked at the snowman in the snowstorm, and looked back at the inner room where the Empress Dowager Huayang lived.

The Empress Dowager Huayang is ruthless, but she keeps doing it.

She stepped forward, "What's this, you let me enlighten her." ”

The tail of the old palace maid's eyes seemed to be pressed into two rope sleeves that were getting tighter and tighter.

The Chengjiao rebellion was a tricky matter, and it also involved state affairs, and the front was turbulent.

Even the Empress Dowager Huayang didn't know where to start, so she could only dry it so coldly, not necessarily that a little girl could easily deal with it.

She didn't say much, "Then please ask the little master." ”

Bai Tao held an umbrella and went over.

"But please stay for now."

The old palace maid took out a seal from the tray of the little palace maid beside her, raised her hands high, lowered her head, and said unmeaningfully, "Please little master, bring this thing to King Qin, this is the meaning of the Queen Mother, King Qin can tell at a glance." ”

Bai Tao took it, didn't look at it much, and casually stuffed it into the inner tank of the cloak.

She continued on her way with her umbrella in hand, "Okay, I got it. ”

The door was already open, but Fei Fei Yu and Xue tried their best to blur people's vision, and when Bai Tao walked to the kneeling Mrs. Han.

Mrs. Han was like an old man in the twilight, and she was slow for a while before she realized that it was her, "What about the Queen Mother?" Why didn't the Queen Mother come to see me? ”

Bai Tao stood still.

"What are you, but you're just an orphan girl from Zhao Kingdom, get out of the way! I want to see the Queen Mother, I want to see the Queen Mother! ”

Mrs. Han's legs were already stiff and unconscious, she stared, crawling towards the Liyang Palace.

Several eunuchs stopped her, "Mrs. Han, the Queen Mother has an order not to trespass." ”

"I want to see the Queen Mother!"

Mrs. Han let out a scream of grief like a lonely vulture, "Queen Mother, it's Cheng Jiao, Cheng Jiao gave me a dream, he cried, he was wronged, wronged-"

Bai Tao blinked slightly, her thick curly eyelashes cast a shadow under her eyes, and she tore off King Qin's jade pendant from her waist, "I don't know, the Queen Mother doesn't see you, King Qin is qualified enough to come to see you." ”

"King Qin."

The blood on Mrs. Han's body froze into ice flowers layer by layer, starting from the spine and continuing down.

She looked at the eagle-shaped jade pendant in her hand, her eyes were red, "It's the King of Qin, he can't tolerate it, he can't tolerate my son, he has brutalized his siblings, he is so cruel and tyrannical, he is not worthy of being the king of Qin, he will be retributed sooner or later, he will be retributed!" ”

"Retribution, hahahaha"

The woman cried and laughed in the snow, and the terrifying voice flowed through the palace, piercing into the white peach's mind from all directions.

Bai Tao pursed her lips and said, "You think Cheng Jiao was killed by King Qin, so you hate him." ”

"I hate, of course I hate! I long to eat its flesh and eat its skin, and break its bones and lift its ashes. Mrs. Han stared at her fiercely, "I will curse him, eternal life and eternity!" Forever! Forever! ”

"But my Chengjiao, my Chengjiao. Can you come back?"

Mrs. Han stretched out her frozen red hands to pull the snow on the ground, "Cheng Jiao, Cheng Jiao, where are you, mother, mother is here." Don't be afraid, don't be afraid. ”

Several of the eunuchs standing at the gate of Liyang Palace had red eyes, and they were quite pitiful for what happened to this mother.

Pity?

However, most of the poor people in this world are just to blame.

Bai Tao said slowly: "Do you think it's King Qin who is sorry for you, it's him who hurt your son." ”

Probably everyone thought so, King Qin was put on the tip of the tongue of the Xianyang wine shop and swayed, as if he had become a cruel king.

"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid. It's not cold underground," she was still shaved with the snow.

Bai Tao said word by word: "Actually, it's not King Qin, it's not anyone, it's you who hurt Cheng Jiaoβ€”β€”β€” it's you." Mrs. Han, you are the executioner who is raised high. ”

Mrs. Han suddenly raised her head, "What nonsense are you talking about!" He is my son, my blood and bones, he is all I have, he is my everything! You don't know how affectionate a mother is for her son, and you're still talking here! ”

Bai Tao learned the tone of Brother Zheng, obviously speaking very slowly, but as sharp as the tip of a knife: "Mrs. Han, do you remember four years ago?" ”

Mrs. Han slashed onto the jade slab, and her fingertips were smoothed, "Four years ago, ......"

"At that time, you, as well as the Empress Dowager Xia, took Cheng Jiao to sail to South Korea together, but for half a month, King Han gave up a hundred miles of land to Qin without blinking, Cheng Jiao obtained a hundred miles of land in Korea without a single soldier, and was named Chang'an Jun, he was only fifteen years old at that time, and the generals of Xianyang City looked at him young, what a scenery, Cheng Jiao was afraid that he thought that all the difficulties in this world were in his wish."

Bai Tao remembers it very well.

After Cheng Jiao made great achievements, the Korean faction celebrated in the Xianyang Palace wine shop, and they were arrogant.

Even Cheng Jiao's tone of disrespect to Brother Zheng when he entered the palace.

She said slowly: "I remember that there is an old saying in the mortal world, that no merit is not punished, Cheng Jiao has merit to the Qin State, and he has been named Chang'an Jun for a hundred miles, so what merit does Cheng Jiao have for South Korea, so that King Han is willing to give up a hundred miles of land?" ”

Mrs. Han's face turned pale: "I am the daughter of King Han, and Cheng Jiao is his grandson, but it is just a hundred miles of land, why should he give him his grandson." ”

Bai Taoying's lips hooked, and she smiled brightly: "King Han is afraid that he thinks the same way, he thinks that the orthodox bloodline of the Qin State is also from his Korean royal family." ”

"You"

Good mouth!

Mrs. Han's fingertips pinched into her palm, and she couldn't spit out half a sentence of rebuttal.

Bai Tao shifted the topic away again, "Later, the Empress Dowager Xia died, and you don't have to be a rat thrower, and you also noticed that the road you paved for Cheng Jiao is becoming more and more laborious."

She fluttered lightly, "Until Zhao Ji repeatedly suppressed you in the palace." ”

Mrs. Han hated: "That pair of adulteresses and wild sons, Cheng Jiao is filial to him, so he will be forced to go on this road." ”

"But when Zhao Ji suppresses you, even if she is the Empress Dowager Bingzheng, you can resist in many ways."

Mrs. Han's heart jumped.

"Your foundation in the harem doesn't have to be weak Zhao Ji, there is the Korean system standing behind you, and the Empress Dowager Huayang who loves Cheng Jiao for you and Wu, you are the widow of the first king, and the King of Qin also respects you for three points, no matter how Zhao Ji suppresses you, you can't fall into the situation of being hungry and clothed, and you have to go back to the palace to take care of it, but you don't, you let Zhao Ji insult you, you let your subordinates be expelled, you treat yourself as a sad orphan mother, you desperately want to stimulate Cheng Jiao's hard work and go to the road you want."

Bai Tao slashed at her heart one by one, mercilessly, "What kind of way is that?" Supreme, O king. ”

But under the royal road, there are so many white bones.

Is it that bloody Fang Gang, who thinks that after receiving a hundred miles of land, he thinks that he is invincible in the world, can he go?

Mrs. Han was torn off the fig leaf and froze in place.

Bai Tao walked forward with an umbrella and no longer looked at her: "The one who killed Cheng Jiao was you, the mother who looked forward to her." ”

"Ahh

Mrs. Han roared heartbreakingly, with tears of blood and tears: "That is my Jiao'er's throne, it was originally Jiao'er's, I just want to take back everything that belongs to Jiao'er, what am I wrong about, what did I do wrong?!" Yes! ”

(End of chapter)