Chapter 69: A Bad Omen
After dealing with Zheng Guo's matter, Bai Tao took a short sword and followed the honor guard to Yongcheng alone.
Chased for almost two days.
I saw six bronze cars, followed by a few more, driving quite low-key.
More than 200 cavalrymen in helmets and armor opened the way in front and drove into Yongcheng Avenue in a hurry.
The common people of Yongcheng knew that the king of Qin was coming, the drums beat loudly and the trombone sounded in unison, and the heads of the two columns of people crowded in the middle of the road could not be seen at a glance, and the cheers of the farmers and peasant women who ploughed in the four fields reached a climax like a tsunami, "Long live the king of Qin, long live the king of Qin!" β
"Long live King Qin, long live King Qin!"
"Long live King Qin, long live King Qin!"
Ying Zheng stood on top of the chariot, with long eyebrows, a straight nose and thin lips, and at a young age, he already exuded a sheath-like sharp majesty.
The face of the king, not angry and arrogant, the people of Yongcheng did not dare to look directly at Jun Yan, only Bai Tao, who came over, pulled the branches, and kept poking and poking at his handsome face.
Hmm, that's pretty.
She thought to herself.
As if sensing the gaze of prying eyes, he looked sideways, his hair moved his slightly pointed chin, Bai Tao saw him so keen, his heart jumped, and he quickly pulled a branch to hide.
After a while, the sound of sparkling carriages and horses was far away, and Bai Tao slid down the trunk of the tree to look at the shadow of the honor guard, leaving only the Yongcheng people on the side talking, "Well, I really didn't expect it, King Qin actually came to Yongcheng, I remember that I came for a while last time, it was to recognize my ancestors and return to my ancestors." β
Someone sighed: "At that time, it was Lu Xiang who took it, but I didn't expect it, after so many years, King Qin will be the master of the house in the future." β
"Tsk, you are the master of the house, you village fool, what do you know?"
Someone whispered: "Lu Xiang is generous, isn't the one issued good for us people?" I don't know what King Qin is like when he gets on the boat, and the water is still shaking, so I think it's definitely not so good. β
"! What we want in the Qin State is that the Qin people are the masters of the house, no matter how Lu Buwei is, in the final analysis, he is just an outsider, don't say this kind of ugly thing, you look at these generations of Qin kings, which one is not a hero, you know how to fart, go and go, close the door and find your mother-in-law to get a cub! β
"Alas, you are a strange man."
"But King Qin is also twenty-two out of twenty, have you begged your mother-in-law?
"Bah, you should be talking about it, please the queen. Which princess do you want to ask for? β
Someone thought about it carefully, "It should be, Chu State, I don't know, but it shouldn't be from South Korea, think about it, a few years ago, when it was snowy and winter, Mrs. Korea"
The old Qin people were holding their sleeves, and more than a dozen rows of balls were bumping together, spitting and flying, and even the ants passing by on the yellow mud ground had to be startled.
The politics of the six countries of Shandong are not only about the war situation, but also about the royal family's anecdotes, the embarrassment of the nobles, who is in the throne, who is the prime minister again, and even the sesame things can be discussed.
This kind of justice and comfort between words has become the most chewing point for the common people.
Bai Tao listened quietly by the pestle next to him, but he was more and more fascinated by it.
Waiting for a few old Qin people to ask: "You female doll, why don't you say a word, in front of everyone, you can say a few words." β
Only then did Bai Tao react.
With a polite modesty, she hurriedly followed the trajectory of the bronze car.
Well, gossip is still less listening.
For the sake of urgency, I have to protect Brother Zheng first, lest he be taken away by the red-haired snake.
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A curtain of sparse shadows, the moon in the flowers.
Bai Tao always pays attention to the movements of the red-haired snake demon, and finally inquires about spending some gold to inquire about the west, and the red-haired snake demon will be in the nine-story tower in the southeast corner if he has anything to do, and he will not come out at ordinary times.
It means that if you hide your demonic energy, you won't be discovered by the red hair.
Bai Tao put down his heart, then turned back into the prototype, lit the plum blossom mat, quietly pressed on the bricks, and the wind swept into the depths of the Yongcheng wind lantern without a trace.
The coronation ceremony is the first ceremony in the world, and both nobles and commoners need to go through, so the rules and regulations that have been precipitated are very solemn and lengthy.
Before the official start, the king of Qin had to stay in the palace and wash the dust, showing his devotion in his heart, according to this point he should be bathing.
Bai Tao thought about it, and then secretly thought about it.
What can be ignored is that his diligence is always beyond ordinary people's thoughts. Through the screen of mountains and rivers, I heard him discussing political affairs with his subordinates in the bathtub.
White Peach: "."
The magnetic rustling sound came through the dense heat, and it was a little itchy: "You mean, the middle father went to see the Empress Dowager Zhao just after he settled." β
The male voice on the other side was very familiar, and Bai Tao could hear that it was the heroic Li Xin, but the momentum of raising the sky had subsided a lot, "Yes, your majesty, it's just that the Queen Mother has always been closed, and the door of the main palace has been closed, and there is nothing to be found out of the truth." β
"The last time you touched Yongcheng, you only found out that Chang Yu had bad intentions, and there was also the matter of smashing the official ship that sent the son?"
Li Xin hesitated: "Your Majesty, with all due respect, this place is quite strange, and all kinds of inexplicable things are probably unpredictable. β
"Yongcheng, the old Wangji of the Qin people since ancient times, is the foundation of the Qin people." He said coldly, "Li Xin, if you say this kind of strange power and chaos again, you will be punished for the crime of nonsense." β
Li Xin didn't dare to say more: "It's a gaffe." β
While they were talking, Bai Tao, the little fox, jumped down, turned to stare at the pastries placed by Zhao Gao on the long table in the room, salivating and pulling his paws.
It's better to eat it or not.
I didn't expect the conversation inside to end in a few words.
Bai Tao's ears were pricked up, and when he turned around, he didn't forget to quickly pick up a pastry, and he wanted to run away, but at first glance, he saw Ying Zheng in a loose black robe standing in front of him coldly.
His pupils were deep, and after bathing in the dampness, he was reflected by the toad light outside the window, like a water demon who had just landed on the shore.
He lowered his eyes and looked at the little fox stealing pastries on the carpet.
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When Bai Tao saw him come out, his fox eyes were about to fall out.
But it's all his fault.
It's all to blame for his lack of trouble, what is her favorite pastry on the table, look, it's really wrong.
Biting him hard in his heart, Bai Tao looked at his inquiring narrow eyes again, and there was always a feeling of weakness that the fox fur was about to fall off.
She ran on the long case, and wanted to use the long case to go to the windowsill and then turn over to the ridge, but she didn't expect the tea on it to be knocked over by her paw.
"Click."
The white peach stiffened, and a plum blossom water stain fell in Yingzheng's faint gaze.
And then, one kick, and another.
Really stepped on the pastry.
In Yingzheng's deep gaze, she simply stepped on five, six, seven or eight more feet.
After trampling his rations to the ground, the white peach stubbornly jumped into a round of moonlight and disappeared.
When Li Xin heard the movement, he rushed from the side room, nervously pressed the scabbard and said, "Your Majesty, who broke in?" β
"No problem."
Ying Zheng's bony fingers twisted the fox fur mixed with the pastry residue on the case, and he turned it, "It's a wild fox that is so wild that there is no boundary." β
The white peach lying on the ridge of the temple with a pastry in her mouth, she choked suddenly when she heard this, she didn't know why she cared so much about what he thought of herself, anyway, anyone could say that she was wild, but he couldn't, no!
Bastard!
White Peach grinds her teeth.
Ying Zheng below is reading a book by the window when no one is busy, like a silhouette sandwiched in poetry, extremely clear.
Bai Tao was still grinding her teeth, and after grinding, she carefully smacked his words, and felt that she was really wild?
She really wanted to ask Zheng Guo, the beaver, after all, they are both goblins, and their aesthetics are probably the same.
But Zheng Guo was still eating in prison, and she turned her fox eyes to the ghost sparrow snake on the roof, grunted in her throat, and asked silently: Am I wild?
The ghost sparrow snake is made of stone and paint, how can she answer it silently?
The more I look at it, the more uncomfortable I become, and the more I look at it, the more irritable I become.
Bai Tao simply fanned it with one paw.
Sick of it!
Approaching the end of the night, she learned from the nobles of Xianyang City to sit and look at the moon with a dignified demeanor several times, but the more she looked at the moon, the more she looked like a big chicken with its neck stretched to lure the fox.
Forget it, don't learn.
After giving up on himself, Bai Tao went directly to the woods next to him to pull a few banana leaves, and then used a few branches to build a shelter for himself, lying on the ridge of the roof and carefully feeling Ying Zheng's heartbeat and falling asleep in a daze.
Early the next morning, the rooster crowed, and the white peach stretched out under the tree house, and opened his eyes to pull the banana leaves apart.
I didn't expect to wake up and see the dull summer wind blowing up the vast red mist, and everything in heaven and earth was like a collapsing red sea, which was weird and heartbeating.
Looking down again, you can see the endless palaces and even the endless rivers and rivers and seas from here, but now they are all gone, and the visibility beyond ten zhang is extremely low.
Hell, a sea of blood.
The premonition was not second, and Bai Tao hurriedly took away all the banana leaves.
There was a deafening sound of gongs and drums and a high-pitched voice from afar: "Oh no, no, the red mist is rising, a great omen!" β
"Oh no, no, the red mist is rising, a bad omen!"
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Several priests in sacrificial robes wore masks, combed their oily hair and fine braids, shook copper bells in both hands, and walked barefoot around the campfire with red charcoal.
Ying Zheng sat on the top seat, his condensed eyebrows and eyes lowered, and he didn't know what he was thinking.
"How's the divination?" LΓΌ Buwei asked.
The chief priest was silent, and the sparks of the black charcoal were sparked, "The red mist has come out, it is not an ordinary catastrophe, and it indicates that the Qin State will have a great evil policy in the coming year!" β
"Smack!"
King Qin has never expressed his position, and the Changping Jun Qi Qi next to him started the case, he is the prince of Chu, his mother is the daughter of Yingzheng's grandfather, and now he is in the Qin State, and he is a cousin who is more than ten years older than Yingzheng.
It is also the parents of Yongcheng's crowning this time, so that they can accompany them.
He jumped up and pointed at the priest's nose and scolded: "I am sure that the auspicious day of the crown is you, and you are also the omen of great evil, why do you contradict yourself, now I only know that I am jumping a big rope with a lot of shouting, a few pigs, and I dare to eat any chaff if I catch it, believe it or not, I will cut off your heads now." β
"Changping Jun spares his life!"
"Changping Jun spares his life!"
"This is the apocalypse, and we don't dare to fake the will of heaven." The priests fell to their knees and trembled.
Seeing that Qi Qi was the first to stand up to defend the King of Qin, he didn't have the aristocratic demeanor of the Chu State at all, so he smiled and said, "Changping Jun, don't be impatient, just sit down." β
Snorted, Changping Jun lifted his robe and sat down with a frown.
LΓΌ Buwei said to the group of panicked and uneasy clans: "It's just a red mist, in the past, it was windy, snowy, hail, and I didn't know what to do, just as the grass and trees don't grow when the soil is bad, and the fish and turtles are not big if the water is troublesome, these are all familiar changes in things, and you also ask to come to King Qin's crown ceremony on time the day after tomorrow." β
"This"
"The prime minister is reasonable."
The people of the clan have woken up with these remarks, and they are surrendered to Lu Buwei's courage, "What the prime minister said is extremely true, but it is just a red mist, since the sixth generation of Great Qin, there have been ups and downs, and we are not afraid of Yingfu and guarding our hearts, we are still afraid of a bird, and the crown ceremony of King Qin cannot be mistaken!" β
"Yes, you can't be mistaken!"
"There must be no mistake!"
The negotiation between the clan and the minister of state had habitually forgotten about the King of Qin on the throne, until Qi Qi said with a big grin, "But this red mist, it's not a matter in the end, this kind of chaos, how can you perform a crown salute?" β
Although the Qin people are rough and broad, they are in awe of heaven and earth and gods after all.
Someone came up with an idea, "Why don't you invite a few folk haiyu to sacrifice to the gods with noodles?" It is also good to dispel filth and ward off evil spirits, and pray for blessings for the crowning of King Qin. β
"That's right, it's better to reward the gods, reward the gods and bless Daqin, even if it doesn't work, it will also bless Yongcheng and the king of Qin."
The face is to reward the gods.
It was the mortals who wore silver masks, communicated with the gods, and had a dialogue with heaven and earth, starting from Yin Shang and not having a complete ritual system until the Zhou Dynasty, which is still continuing all the way.
Ying Zheng put his fingers on the seat, and in the sight of everyone, his chin was raised: "Yes." β
It was only from beginning to end that he opened his mouth to say the word.
Whether it is to follow the decree of the monarch or the will of the ministers in the "Spring and Autumn Period of the Lu Family", or to follow the Legalists, to be quiet and quiet, to see the flaws in the dark, to see but not see, to hear but not to hear, to know but not to know.
Lu Buwei sighed in his heart.
This kid has grown up more and more untamable.
It won't be long before it's time for them to see the truth between their monarchs and ministers, teachers and students.
It won't be long.
When the deliberations were over, the crowd dispersed.
Lu Buwei didn't move for a long time, he raised his eyelids to look at the kid on the main seat, Yingzheng held sharp eyes, and his whole body was full of coldness that no one could approach, like a cold thorn on his body.
He tried to step forward several times, but finally gave up.
In the end, it is unfamiliar, the opposition of political reconciliation, and it can't go back to the past when I drank all night.
He was full of taste, and when he walked out of the hall, the officials who wanted to talk to him behind him realized that this old man, who had been stable in the three dynasties and had gone through ups and downs with the previous king, had finally become rickety.
Someone stepped forward and said, "Prime Minister, what if this red mist does not retreat after eating, and the crown ceremony of this king is not delayed?" β
Another person said: "Prime Minister, this sign of red mist is indeed unusual, and the king's crown ceremony can't be in a hurry for a moment, right?" β
"yes, yes." Several alpine crowns nodded their heads in unison.
Lu Buwei took his hand, his thin eyelids pressed, "The king has an order, and he has a conclusion." After the words were closed, he walked into the red mist gloomily and never looked back, "It's like surging water, it's hard to take it back." β
"This is not the prime minister."
The mountain crests looked up in the red mist, but they could only see the faint silhouette of their colleagues.
The feeling of this moment is almost like being ready for the arrival of tomorrow, but when the real tomorrow comes, there is still a sense of amazement for yesterday's existence.
They unfolded their robes and unloaded all the officialdom entertainment, as in the past: "Prime Minister, make a clear decision." β
Prime Minister, clear judgment.
This is their admiration and respect for LΓΌ Buwei for decades as an official, and at this last moment, they still respect and respect from the bottom of their hearts.
On the carved eaves corner, Bai Tao flicked three big tails to watch them speak, and gnawed on the roast chicken that came from Yingzheng's house while watching.
After a group of high mountain crowns walked away, Bai Tao smacked the words he heard quietly hiding in the hall just now: "Huh? Brother Zheng wants to find a folk haiyu to dance the noodle dance? β
This is obviously the ghost of Chang Yu's snake demon, can they be a group of mortals.
It's better for her to be a vixen.