It is said that Qin Shihuang was controlled by a daughter

He ignored her anger and looked at her in silence for a moment, then took two steps forward, bent down, picked up the bamboo slips from the carpet, rolled them up one by one, and placed them in two neat piles.

He didn't look up, but looked at Azhi who was fully armed beside him - holding either a pistol or a crossbow.

The pistol that Xu Zhi took away became a tool to threaten his father to be cautious.

The sword on Li Xian's waist had been taken off by the secret guard when he entered the room. Just from the secret guard's behavior of holding the sword, Li Xian discovered that the guard beside Xu Zhi was no longer Lu Heng, whom he had sent.

Her suspicion had already become hopeless.

The words "of one mind and one purpose" are quite meaningful.

He chuckled and raised his eyebrows, "Does the princess think that you and I were of the same mind in the past?"

However, this somewhat harsh question was not a problem for Xu Zhi.

Her main purpose in coming to ask him about such old matters as the Korean crossbow tonight was not to do so. It was like a person who had experienced many heart-wrenching betrayals and plots. Would he still care about the traps of the past?

The candlelight in the attic is dark and the wind is swaying.

"Instead of asking me about my skills, why not ask yourself what I think?" Xu Zhi glanced at the pile of bamboo slips and smiled. "It's strange. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't find the Qinian Palace files, but they all appeared overnight."

Qinian Palace Files - Several years ago, she wanted to untie Zhao Ji's knot, so she asked him several times about the inside story of Lu Buwei's death under the pretext of going out of the palace to play with him.

Every time, Li Xian said he didn't know the inside story.

She was suddenly abducted to Korea by Taoyao, and her original path diverged.

Xu Zhi stood up from the couch and stood behind the curtain.

"If it weren't for the book list I gave to Wei Jiu, I wouldn't have known that there was a banned book like Lüshi Chunqiu, which only appeared in the academy of Zhilan Palace."

Li Xian's smile froze at the corner of his lips.

What was written in the file was indeed true. In his early years, he wanted Zhang Liang to be accused of privately storing banned books. However, he underestimated how quickly Zhang Liang could get rid of this identity. He was actually a junior tutor for a short time, and the books were taken away by the doctoral officials.

After so many years, he was subconsciously stunned when she suddenly brought it up.

Li Xian didn't know whether to blame his subordinates for not doing their job thoroughly, or whether he realized at this moment that Zhang Liang had always had a trick up his sleeve, which led to his calculations being exposed unexpectedly many years later.

After the eldest prince's wedding, the destruction of Qi will be officially put on the agenda.

Li Xian knew very well that his father was a stubborn man. Once he set his mind on something, he would do it even if it meant his death.

The wind blows through the curtains.

Li Xian said in a low and slow voice, "No matter what happened in the past, Princess, please believe me. The reason why the king summoned me back to Xianyang this time was definitely not because of the old case in South Korea."

"Stop pretending." She interrupted him. "The inspector has never said a single truth from beginning to end."

Ah Zhi had never seen anyone lie with their eyes open. If the eldest son had not informed the general of the search order, the book list of Zhilan Palace would be enough to charge Ying Hehua with the crime of privately storing banned books.

After a while, a black pigeon landed outside the window.

Li Xian glanced at her without leaving any trace, and raised his chin slightly: "I just committed a serious crime not long ago, and I am a guilty person. It was late at night and there was curfew, but I knowingly broke the law and came to see the princess. Isn't this sincere?"

What he said was a double entendre.

Regardless of whether Ying Zheng wanted or needed Ying Hehua to marry, she would inevitably be tied to him in the future.

And his coming to her appointment was another "conclusive evidence".

Before tonight, or before she and Li Si made their positions clear, Li Xian had never mentioned anything like this.

The subtle teasing and mockery, this is the real him.

Li Xian, who had been in the officialdom for many years, would not easily put himself in a dangerous and marginal situation unless he had something to ask for.

Xu Zhi's gaze fell from above to him.

Her eyes were icy cold, and she had completely forgotten the tacit understanding they had reached on Mount Zhongnan not long ago.

Although it was cold, even close to icy cold, he was the only one in her eyes.

Ah Zhi understood Ying Hehua's look. "Supervisor Li, I think you should tell the truth or hand over the scroll."

The night was dark.

"I want to ask him in person." Xu Zhi said.

"Yes." Ah Zhi pulled out a bundle of ropes from his waist, "It will save you from moving around."

He was quickly tied up.

Li Xian struggled symbolically and did not make any other moves. He just looked at Xu Zhi who was a few steps away.

The corners of his lips curled up into a faint smile. "The leather rope soaked in water is really tough."

The candlelight in the room shifted from her desk to her hands. She held the candlestick, walked in front of him, and tried hard to act kindly.

"Feng Quji was discussing this with Fu Qiugong yesterday. I don't think you returned to Xianyang because of the Han Guo Feng Ting case."

Li Xian smiled and said nothing.

He waited for her to perform her usual scenes.

The kind of gentle and eloquent attitude of "respecting the wise and humble" that Zhang Liang, Chen Ping, Wei Ju and Han Xin had used was used.

He will definitely benefit from it.

As expected, Li Xian had calculated this correctly.

She walked out from behind the curtain, took off the veil covering her face with one hand, and brought the fire closer with the other hand, passing the faint candlelight between the two of them.

He squatted down and asked gently, "When I came to Nanzheng County, you said you burned them, but why did they appear in the Imperial Censorate? If I hadn't intercepted them, they would have been sent to my father."

"I burned the original." "Princess, don't you know that the Yingchuan County Supervisor has kept it in the Censorate all along?"

He implied that Wang Wan should have read the sealed Korean files long ago, but it was not revealed because of Zhang Liang's concealment. Zhang Liang had been using her many years ago.

Xu Zhi was very clear about this and even discussed it with Zhang Liang.

What made Xu Zhi angry was not the known opposition, but the perceived companion.

In her opinion, Li Xian has been the latter over the years.

Loyalty from time to time, betrayal from time to time.

The past revealed is all dark.

The forbidden book left by Lü Buwei was used to deal with Zhang Liang back then. But now, isn't it used to deal with her?

"If these banned books are exposed as private possession, then given the close relationship between Mo Qi and Lu Buwei, everything on Mount Zhongnan is likely to be regarded as Lu Buwei's legacy by the conservative side and suppressed and banned." Xu Zhi maintained his last patience, "At this point, do you still want to conceal what the court judge did?"

Until Li Xian heard the last sentence.

His eyes darkened.

Li Xian still didn't answer her question, and his mocking tone sounded in front of her again, with a half-smile.

"I have seen the princess and my father discussing the future political situation, and I think the princess has already mastered it."

He then joked, "I also thought that when the princess asked me to shoot at Mount Zhongnan, she no longer took me seriously."

Somehow, as soon as he finished speaking, her hands had already grasped his collar.

Her eyes were red. "I said I would not allow anyone to interfere with the Qin State. But why did you kill him? Why did you allow Li Si to kill Zhang Ping..."

"Princess." He interrupted her. He couldn't explain to her how Zhang Ping died. He only knew that it was related to his father.

Now, he used his status as a princess to ask her to remember her mission, "Have you gone too far?"

She finally stared at him fiercely and chuckled, "So Xunzi was just an excuse. Is this why you returned to Xianyang?"

Although Li Xian was tied up, his eyes revealed a terrifying abyss.

"Azhi," he called her, then raised his head and looked at her with a smile, "Not entirely." When he smiled, "In my previous life, I let him go, and accidentally caused a disaster."

She felt cold all over when she heard him silently acquiesce to Zhang Ping's plot behind his suicide. She forced herself to slow down her voice, "You clearly told me,"

"Xu Zhi!" He paused for a moment, "I promised you that the time is before unification."

"He won't get in anyone's way in Zhongnan Mountain."

There is danger swaying beneath his sword-like brows.

"Even during the ten years Zhang Liang was in Qin, you should have known that imprisonment is useless."

Under the flowing night.

His heart, which had grown out of deep winter and was originally covered with fragrance, was now deeply wounded, and the cruel and bloody reality suddenly splashed out from it.

He looked at her dimly, "If you want the Zhang family to be extinct, Princess can come forward again."

Li Xian had been waiting for the royal family to discover the attic. In addition, he had been in prison for a long time in his previous life and had long been freed from his restraints.

Having set up the trap with his own body, his crimes are probably too numerous to list.

He found it difficult to argue, there was no place to argue, at least not now.

"Princess... Your Highness?" There was a sudden noise downstairs. It was Ying Teng's voice.

Ying Teng. It was because of his testimony that Zhang Liang was sent to Xianyang on the grounds that he saved her life.

Now, here he is.

Zhang Ping has committed suicide. If Zhang Liang has a serious problem, Ying Teng will be implicated.

Xu Zhi felt a chill in her heart. She stared at Li Xian and asked, "What do you want?"

"I think," he raised his eyes and said leisurely, "you are not allowed to love him."

She was so angry that she kicked him hard on the shoulder.

At this time, Ying Teng's voice sounded from behind her.