[Wei Nie] Vertical and horizontal killing

Zhao Gaonan was drinking a cup of steaming soup outside the temporary palace of the emperor.

The eighteenth prince wears a jade crown, which is not as complicated and delicate as the crown of the Son of Heaven, only a lace woven with black silk ribbons hangs down on both sides, and is decorated with sapphire beads, dark indigo in black. The lining of the robe makes the whole person like a piece of frozen jade in summer.

Zhao Gao looked him up and down: "The eighteenth son has really grown up, His Majesty must be pleased."

Hu Hai lowered his head and played with the jade huang on his waist, and said in a low voice: "Master, why do you have to hide it from Hai, elder brother loved this kind of dress the most in Xianyang Palace in the past?"

Zhao Gao curled his lips, "Your Majesty is intelligent, but you must know that not everything has to be spoken."

Hu Hai showed childish impatience, and moved his head forward: "I know, I know, master, is this soup an introduction made by Tai Sui?"

Zhao Gao let him look at the soup carefully, but he said: "This is what the prince should not ask."

Hu Hai pouted his mouth, made a look of "I knew it earlier", and said with his hands behind his back: "Of course I won't ask others. In front of the master, does Hai still need to hide it?"

Zhao Gao smiled, and was about to say, "My son—"

Suddenly, the emperor in the hall shouted: "The widow is the real dragon coming to the world - the real dragon emperor -"

Zhao Gao immediately changed the smiling and leisurely expression on his face into panic and worry, he lowered his head, his whole body was a bit haggard, and ran forward into the palace gate with small steps, calling out: "Your Majesty———"

The voice in the hall stopped abruptly, and seemed to have stopped.

Hu Hai also showed worry like Zhao Gao, calling anxiously outside the hall: "Father? Father——"

After a while, the people inside seemed to wake up from a nightmare, and asked in a deep voice as usual: "Who is outside the door, come in."

Zhao Gao and Hu Hai looked at each other, then entered the inner hall with his head down, and saw the emperor reclined on the big welcoming pillow, looking a little thin in the dark hall.

Zhao Gao put down the tray and was about to light the lamp.But the emperor said: "There is no need to hold the lamp, that's it, that's it."

Zhao Gao was suspicious, the emperor always liked Gaotang Mingjing, everything was in his eyes, why not today?

Without thinking about it, the figure of the emperor came from behind the gauze tent: "Hu Hai, what are you doing here at this hour?"

Hu Hai hurriedly lowered his head, took out a roll of bamboo slips from his sleeve, and replied obediently: "Father told Hai not to be playful, but to study the criminal code every day. Hai has been a little slack these days and couldn't understand, so I came to ask the teacher for advice."

The emperor behind the gauze was silent for a while, seemed to be quite satisfied with the answer, waved his hand and said, "That's good, that's good. You should study the criminal code hard, and the widow has high hopes for you. ——" He stopped in the middle of speaking, and coughed slightly.

Hu Hai, who was kneeling in the hall, suddenly raised his heart, and even Zhao Gao shrank his pupils.

The emperor paused, but in the hearts of many people, it was a change of dynasty order.

He breathed calmly, Fang said: "In the future, you must help your elder brother well."

"Father!"

As soon as Hu Hai's voice came out, Zhao Gao immediately knew that he was about to be tested by the emperor, so he stepped forward in a hurry: "Your Majesty, you can't wait any longer for your decoction, you need to take it according to the time."

"..." There was a moment of silence inside the gauze tent, no one spoke.

Hu Hai came back to his senses in horror during this interruption, and realized that he had just made a big mistake. He quickly kowtowed and said: "Father is just tired from traveling and traveling, and you feel a little uncomfortable. You should take medicine first. Cut off the six kingdoms, rule the world, shoot and kill Giant shark, I have seen the fairy mountain in the sea, my father will definitely see the immortal, get the elixir of longevity, and live forever—" At the end, his voice was choked up, and he was already crying: "My father, please don't say what you said just now, Hai doesn't want to When I grow up, Hai just needs to be with my father!"

Crying sounds resounded in the hall, the crying sound was between teenagers and young people, the voice was a bit hoarse and broken, but it was like a child crying without any scruples.

The emperor finally softened his heart, and he lifted the gauze curtain: "My son, what a shame to cry like this. You, come here."

Hu Hai cried and walked forward on his knees.

The emperor's eyes were already afraid of light, and he seemed to see the former Orchid chuckling beside him in the dim light.He propped his head up and drove these useless things away.When he opened his eyes again, he saw Hu Hai who was kneeling in front of the couch, describing how he acted and dressed like Fusu back then.The pathos and self-reproach of Fusu when he left appeared in front of his eyes, but he still left with a gentle appearance.

The momentary softness disappeared from the emperor's face, and his outline has gradually become as hard as before. He said slowly: "You, after all, are still not as good as your elder brother. Let's go, call Li Si, and say that the widow wants to see him."

Hu Hai didn't lose his composure this time, he wept humblely and sadly, just like a child who was scolded by his father was so sad and guilty.Lowering his head, he said "No" first, and then muttered: "Father, don't look down on this son, I will let the eldest brother judge one day."

After Hu Hai left, Zhao Gao bowed his head and pleaded guilty: "Your Majesty, please grant me the crime of my humble minister, for neglecting to teach your son's homework during this period of time."

The emperor returned to the present from short memories, and he did not comment on Zhao Gao's plea.

Zhao Gao bent forward and served the emperor's decoction.

No matter how bloody the net is stirred up in the rivers and lakes, the owner of the net, a villain like an ant from the bottom of the six kingdoms, has been able to come to this day, and he is still afraid of the emperor of the empire.

After drinking half a cup of soup, the emperor suddenly said: "Just now you interrupted Hu Hai, what did you want to remind him?"

Zhao Gao couldn't move at that moment.

He knelt down almost immediately, lying on the smooth polished stone bricks, pleading guilty to the emperor: "Your Majesty, I am guilty."

The emperor looked at him, not revealing any expression of joy or anger: "Oh? What is the crime?"

Zhao Gao gritted his teeth and said, "Your Majesty, I am worried that you will say something that will make His Majesty unhappy. Your Majesty, your Majesty is young. Although I am only his criminal law teacher, I still have the crime of dereliction of duty. I am afraid, Your Majesty, please punish me."

The emperor pondered, but did not reveal it: "What do you think he will say that will make the widow unhappy?"

Zhao Gao knew that the emperor was already suspicious, so instead of talking about him, he might as well just admit it, because there is not even the slightest chance of saving his life: "Your Majesty, the son is young, but he is very strong. He always asks Your Majesty's criminal laws may be comparable to the Eldest Young Master's schoolwork. Just now, I am really worried that your Majesty will be arrogant and have a desire to compare and anger His Majesty."

The emperor narrowed his eyes: "Hu Hai is always with Fu Subi?"

Zhao Gao gritted his teeth and lowered his head on the steps: "Your Majesty, the Eldest Young Master was cultivated by His Majesty with all his heart and soul. He is the No. 1 Young Master of the Empire. His son is like this, and he has the temperament of not admitting defeat."

The emperor was silent for a long time this time, until he coughed lightly.

Zhao Gao felt that the murderous intent that almost broke his back just now gradually subsided, and he realized that he was sweating through his underwear.

The emperor's murderous aura became less intense, and he knew that he should be able to walk out of this dune palace alive today.

In the past 20 years, such murderous intent has not come to him for a long time, and even he thinks that he has become one of the few confidantes around the emperor.But just at that moment, he knew that he was almost decapitated because of a small mistake by Hu Hai.

He lowered his head, as if he didn't feel any fear, and served the emperor with the remaining half pot of soup.

Just about to step back carefully, the emperor suddenly said again: "Wait."

"Your Majesty, please order."

The emperor gasped slightly after lying down: "Then, who do you think should be the crown prince?"

Zhao Gao's eyes narrowed. During the repeated beatings and temptations of the emperor, he almost thought that he had returned to the situation when he was just promoted to the palace decades ago.

Then without giving him any more time to think, he lowered his head and said in an almost self-defeating tone: "Your Majesty, do you want to listen to the truth from my minister?"

The emperor stopped breathing, and closed his eyes in the dark to calm down his emotions: "Just talk, and I will forgive you for not guilty."

Zhao Gao made a look of being worried, and said: "I think that no matter how smart the other princes are, the position of heir can only be taken by the eldest son."

The emperor opened his eyes: "Why Fusu? Just because he is the eldest son of the widow?"

Zhao Gao kowtowed his head: "Your Majesty, this is only one reason. What's more important is that the Eldest Young Master is kind and talented. In the past, when the ministers and the Young Master were in Sanghai, they thought that perhaps the Eldest Young Master could take in all of you with gentleness. Hundreds of sons and daughters make the Great Qin Dynasty permanent."

The emperor frowned, and after a while, he relaxed again: "Why can't Hu Hai?"

Zhao Gao seemed to be digging out a sincere heart: "Your Majesty, the eighteenth son is still young, his temperament is unstable, and he is aggressive. But the reason why I think the son is not suitable is because I believe that your majesty will be able to come. Be guided by the immortal."

The emperor talked for too long, and coughed again.

Zhao Gao hurriedly stepped forward to tuck the quilt for him, only to find that the emperor's hands were hot again.He hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, it's time for you to rest, no matter how strong your body is, it won't be able to withstand such hard work."

The emperor finished coughing, gasped for a few breaths and said, "Do you really think that the widows can still find gods?"

"I dare not speak falsely to Your Majesty. On the previous tour to the east, I followed Your Majesty to see the fairy mountains on the sea, so I knew that Your Majesty was destined to obtain the immortal medicine."

The emperor suddenly laughed in a low voice, and after a few laughs, he coughed and gasped violently.

After Zhao Gao was overwhelmed with extreme fear and tension, he suddenly seemed to be willing to go all out, and he really took the general's words as his sincerity.He helped the emperor up and went to comfort him: "Your Majesty..."

His voice choked.

The emperor opened his eyes and looked at the dark curtain: "Zhao Gao, do you know who I met in my dream just now?"

Zhao Gao bowed his head: "I don't know." After thinking for a while, he said: "Could it be the immortal from the East China Sea?"

The emperor's expression was a bit strange, and he straightened his eyes and said: "The one I saw was King Zhao Wuling."

Zhao Gao was startled.

The emperor suddenly grabbed Zhao Gao's wrist with one hand, with great strength, and reversed the sluggishness of the past few days: "The widow saw that he looked haggard, but danced to my hands and said: "It's okay."

Zhao Gao hadn't had time to respond, but the strange-looking emperor seemed to think of something: "Who the hell arranged me in this sand dune palace!? Is it you, or Li Si? Or Hu Wujing?"

Zhao Gao responded according to the facts: "Your Majesty's health is unwell, so the one who advocates rectifying it on the spot is naturally the Prime Minister."

The emperor, who was only unpredictable just now, suddenly became irritable: "Get rid of the camp! This sand dune palace is a place where dragons are trapped, and I can't stay - let everyone leave immediately! I want to-" Before the words fell, it seemed that there was a sudden breath. Choking, unable to breathe.

"Your Majesty?!" Zhao Gao quickly stepped forward to support the emperor.

The emperor fell into the grotesque picture scroll and couldn't break free.

King Zhao Wuling, who had been starved to death by his own beloved son for three months, described himself as haggard, half-human, half-corpse, and waved at him: Abolish the elders and establish the young, the land where the dragons are trapped, the territory is divided, and the land is divided.Qin Guo misses my son, it's your turn to follow in my king's footsteps, hahahaha.