Chapter 21: Lord Steward
That night, in a remote camp in the inner city, the master of the Great Qin Imperial Palace was lying on the couch and thinking about the next way out. Three years ago, the change in Dune City caused the death of the First Emperor. Zhao Gao colluded with Li Si to prevent mourning, tampered with the edict of the first emperor, forced the crown prince Fusu to commit suicide, and appointed the young son Hu Hai as the second emperor. After the deed was completed, Zhao Gao began to hunt down and kill the people involved in the Dune City Incident.
The chief steward was good at observing words and feelings, and he sensed the danger before Zhao Gao made a move. Taking advantage of the chaotic occasion when Qin II ascended the throne, he took the opportunity to escape from Xianyang and found a remote place to hide. Soon after, the heroes rose together, and the world was in chaos. The chief steward was unwilling to hide his head and feet for the rest of his life, and after examining the current situation, he considered defecting to one of the forces
Originally, at the beginning, the chief steward was going to Xiang Yu, the overlord of Western Chu. Who would have thought that Xiang Yu didn't believe in the art of Fang Shi at all, and only regarded him as a juggler used for fun in a wine banquet. Every time the overlord of Chu was slightly drunk, he would call him out: "Come on, you are a trickster." Make some fruits for this king to sober up...... "Every time the chief manager goes to see the overlord of Chu, he doesn't stuff a dozen peaches in his sleeves, and he has no bottom in his heart."
Not long after such a day, it was the alliance between the two armies of Xiang Yu and Liu Bang. At the banquet that night, the steward met his future benefactor, Liu Bang, the Duke of Pei. Compared with Xiang Yu, Liu Bang was very interested in Fang Shizhi's words, and I heard that this person who turned into a peach during the banquet was the chief manager of the Qin Imperial Palace. After a few glasses of wine, the overlord of Chu was also easy to speak: "They are all their own brothers, if you want to take them away, isn't it just a matter of a few baskets of peaches......"
Soon after arriving at Liu Bang's account, just in time for Liu Bang's old illness to recur in time for his concubine Qi, Pei Gong sent people to find all the famous doctors in the vicinity but did not cure it. And the Lord in charge is good at praying for blessings and alchemy medicine, and after taking the medicinal stone he personally refined, the Lord in charge prayed for Mrs. Qi for three days in a row. On the third day, God really opened his eyes, and Mrs. Qi, who was already dying, actually knew that she was hungry. After the rice porridge was fed, his face slowly became bloody.
After more than a month of recuperation, Mrs. Qi's body finally recovered as before, and Duke Pei was overjoyed and promised the chief manager the official position of a captain. I think that the Lord Steward had also eaten and seen the Lord in the Qin Imperial Palace, and a little Commander had not yet put it in his eyes. He was planning whether to make a little bad move, so that Liu Bang's wife Lu Shi also fell ill, cured the concubine and got a captain, and cured his wife, is the original manager of the Fang Shi also coming back soon? But if it is a big gamble, what will happen if Liu Bang is cured......
Just as the steward was thinking, the door of his room was suddenly blown open by a strange wind. The sound of the door banging on the door frame startled him, and when he turned to the door, a white-haired man dressed in white had already walked in.
The man did not speak when he came in, but pulled up a chair and sat down in front of the butler's couch, and stared at him all the time, the corners of his mouth curled up to reveal his peculiar sneer, which was mixed with an expression of emptiness.
The steward recognized the person at a glance. But he had died more than three years earlier, and he had personally tested the man's pulse and later watched the sergeant bury him. After more than three years, the man should have turned into bones. Why did he appear in front of him with a gray hair now?
He's a ghost, and he's come to me for revenge! He can't see any yin qi leaking out, probably because this kid was born as a monk when he was alive, and he should know a little bit about how to restrain yin qi.
The steward had set his mind on him, but his face showed a different expression from this 'result'. He muttered secretly in his heart: If it were a human being, the people who harmed him at the beginning were so miserable, and he might still be afraid of taboos now, but if it was a ghost, then even if he was unlucky, Grandpa Fang Shi was afraid of everything, and he was not afraid of such evil.
The chief steward pinched a magic decision, and after sneering, he said: "Little rabbit cub, you are not convinced, are you? Want to come back to the chief steward grandpa to take revenge? It's a pity that you forgot what grandpa did, you are really blind to your dog......" Before he finished speaking, he saw an arc of light suddenly appear in the hand of the white-haired imp opposite, and heard the last sentence in his ear: "You really haven't changed at all, you are still so annoying......" Then his eyes went dark, and he didn't know anything.
When the chief manager opened his eyes again, he was already in an unfamiliar environment. It's pitch black, and it's impossible to tell what it is. The steward was tied to a pillar, and the rope that tied him was a little wicked. He tried to struggle dozens of times, but he couldn't break free from the rope.
In such an environment where you can't see your fingers, as time goes by, the manager becomes more and more restless. The more cranky he thought, the more panicked he became. In the end, he simply shouted loudly: "Is there anyone? Whoever it is, just say a word! It's okay not to make a sound! Even if you come and beat me, I'll admit it!"
As soon as these few sentences were finished, an old voice suddenly sounded in front of the chief manager: "Wouldn't you have said that earlier?"
I don't know how long it took, but the steward was woken up by a voice talking. It was two people who spoke, and one of the familiar and caustic voices said: "It's good that you didn't kill him, otherwise you would have answered for him in my breath."
Then, I had just heard the old man's voice and said: "My old man still has this quasi-head, if it weren't for the fear that he would recruit people, I wouldn't want to do it, you know, my old man can't do it now...... But then again, I didn't expect you to swallow that. Whoever wants your life can be released, isn't it your character?"
The younger voice from earlier said, "You seem to be familiar with my character," and the young voice paused, and there was a sizzling sound in the air, followed by a rapid footstep movement. The steward peeked at it, and at this time there was already light, and he saw that an old figure had run away, and then the young voice sneered, and said behind him: "How long are you going to pretend to be dead?"
At this time, a cool breath rushed straight to the head manager's brain, and he couldn't help but shiver. When he turned his head, he was glancing at a white-haired man who should have died a long time ago.
The man named Mian curled the corners of his mouth at him and said, "Lord Steward, do you remember how to get to the palace?"