[Wei Nie] Vertical and horizontal killing

The sun is in the middle of the sky, which is the time when the wind is the warmest.

The cicadas chirped in the mountains, and the wind seemed to stop, as if suffocating.

When the leaf just fell from the branch, it fluttered without wind, and then fell to the ground in a whirl.

The blindfolded swordsman moved suddenly, and his robe was raised with the movement of the sword in his hand, bringing out an arc.

The leaves fell on the soil covered with rotting leaves in the forest, split from it, and the cuts were neat and new.Beside the fallen leaves was a thin branch cut off by the sword energy, and the other end of the branch fell at the feet of the swordsman in white.

The sound of walking was slow, and the man's voice seemed very lazy in the afternoon: "This sword relies on the sharpness of Yuanhong."

Ge Nie nodded: "Indeed."

Wei Zhuang walked past him slowly, and his eyes fell on the severed tree branch on the ground: "If you are a trapper, you may not be able to give you a chance to listen to the sound and identify your position alone."

Gai Nie withdrew his sword, and his sleeves drooped without wind: "As long as they still show a murderous look."

Wei Zhuang's gaze flicked over the hanging hair on Ge Nie's cheek: "As you said, if there is a brilliant swordsman who can hide all the murderous intent before delivering a fatal blow, senior brother, what about you?"

Gai Nie turned sideways and turned his face towards the direction Wei Zhuang was speaking: "Xiao Zhuang, there are still all directions."

Wei Zhuang was slightly taken aback by this unexpected sentence.He looked at Gai Nie without saying a word, as if trying to figure out what the other party's words implied.

Gai Nie's expression was calm: "There are hundreds of schools of thought, but I am the only one."

Wei Zhuang slowly said word by word: "Master's teaching, I thought you had forgotten it." By the last word, he had already walked in front of the other party.

Ge Nie stepped back, but because he couldn't see, he tripped over the dead branch under his feet, lost his balance and staggered slightly.

Taking advantage of the situation, Wei Zhuang pushed him on the tree trunk behind him, and said in a frivolous tone, "A person who can't even see the road under his feet makes people from all schools follow suit. Brother, this is what you have always wanted to achieve." Purpose?"

Gai Nie frowned slightly, he felt that Wei Zhuang's hand was already behind his head, and with a single movement, the cloth strip covering his eyes was torn off like this

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With eyes closed, there is no light, only the heat of the sun, and the slight traces of the wind.

"I, didn't..."

His words were not finished, they were blurred.

The place where the lips and teeth meet is not soft, and even has the illusion of bloody killing.

The heat at noon is very high, and it can't compare with the body temperature of the people who are close to you.

In this world, the more powerful a person is, the more responsibility he will bear than ordinary people.A strong man, from the moment he understands his destiny, knows that he is destined not to have some trivial warmth that ordinary people seem to have at his fingertips.In the precarious time when you don't know when you will die, if you live one more day, you will miss the warmth of the world more.

The mottled shadows in the forest are cast down, and the heat is divided and chopped finely and carelessly.

There are beating birds on the branches, and the chirping of birds is getting louder.

Wei Zhuang left a little, his brows frowned, and he looked impatient.Gai Nie pressed his shoulder and gently pushed it away, and then said: "The butterfly wing bird appeared at this time, I am afraid there is some important news."

Wei Zhuang obviously didn't agree with this statement, he was the master of quicksand, no one knew Bai Feng's unconvinced thoughts better than him.But for a capable subordinate who is not vacillating in the overall situation, this small problem of looking for trouble seems insignificant.

He raised his hand, and the butterfly wing landed on his finger.

Gai Nie couldn't see it, and he quietly waited for Wei Zhuang to read the content of the message.

After seeing the news, Wei Zhuang waved his hand, and the butterfly wings flew away.But he asked first: "After Yingzheng succeeded to the throne, I remember that I went on tour four times."

Ge Nie nodded: "Yes, counting this time, it is the fifth time."

Wei Zhuang sneered: "If I remember correctly, Ying Zheng almost lost his life in Bolangsha during his third tour." Zhang Liang was the one who planned the assassination. I'm running out of breath.It's a pity that after that time, Yingzheng interrogated and killed people in a radius of ten miles, and hundreds of innocent people were implicated.As a result, Zhang Liang was forced to hide and study in seclusion. First, he came here because of guilt, but also because he knew the time had not come.

For some reason, Wei Zhuang hates people to escape the most.Therefore, he somewhat sneered at Zhang Liang's evasion. When he met his old friend on the coast of Sanghai, Sha Chi first greeted Ling Xu.

Gai Nie said: "Yes, but the event that really made the emperor shift his focus to the old families of the Six Kingdoms was the assassination of the Lanchi Palace a year later."

Wei Zhuang cast a sideways glance at the blind swordsman: "If you hadn't been there that day, Ying Zheng would have died."

Gai Nie had to say: "Xiao Zhuang, if something happened to Yingzheng that day, the empire and Li Si and the Meng family would not interrupt the fate of the country because of Yingzheng's death. On the contrary, it would force the eldest son who originally advocated recuperation to stand in an awkward position. That's not what we want to see."

Wei Zhuang saw his serious and slightly worried expression, and couldn't help but sarcastically said: "It seems that you think the hope of the empire lies in that indecisive young man. Pin your hope on one person, is this your choice?"

Ge Nie remained silent, as if he was tired, he slowly sat down cross-legged against the tree trunk, and put Yuan Hong across his lap.

There is no internal strength, but the habit of so many years has not been forgotten.

Seeing the unspeakable depression on his face again, Wei Zhuang made a rare decision to give up satirizing him for the time being. He talked about the news brought by the butterfly wing bird: "I got the list of ministers traveling with entourage. There are Dunwei, Zheng Guo, Hu Wujing, Wei Wei Yang Duanhe, and Zhao Gao's chief driver. Besides, there is a prince accompanying him."

After a little thought, Gai Nie knew who the prince was: "It's the eighteenth son Hu Hai."

Wei Zhuang snorted coldly: "Don't mention the matter of setting up the crown prince, helping Su go into exile, but the emperor is out on tour but brings the youngest son by his side. It's self-evident. Brother, maybe you made a wrong bet."

Gai Nie didn't answer these words, but analyzed them one by one: "Meng Yi is Lang Zhongling, as long as he is still the emperor's confidant, as long as he is still there, the eldest son will not be in danger."

Wei Zhuang understood the meaning of this sentence: "Oh? It is indeed a plaything to deceive the eyes to hide the most important exile from Jiuyuan. It seems that you understand Yingzheng's paranoia."

Ge Nie raised his head and slowly opened his eyes in the shadow of the mottled leaves. Because there is no focal length, his pupils are slightly hollow and weak.After leaving Xianyang, he seldom commented on the king who was both a teacher and a master in the past, but at this moment, he knew that his younger brother could understand his words: "No, as an emperor, his most fatal weakness is that his benevolence to the people around him is not thorough enough. The suspicion of them is also not thorough enough."

When they were in Guigu, they had learned that the emperor has both the interests of the world and should not have the grudges of ordinary people.The emperor can drive his courtiers like eagles and dogs to check and balance each other, but he must not have a guilty conscience.Ying Zheng is self-willed and possesses the tenacity and determination needed to be an emperor, but at the same time he has made one fatal mistake after another.

Today, these mistakes have intertwined and shaken the foundations of the empire.

The emperor lives every day, seeking longevity, but does not have a prince.For any ambitious person, it is enough to build a secret plan that can set off monstrous waves.

The empire may have missed the last chance to defend the foundation of a country.

Wei Zhuang sat down beside him and looked up at the sky.

He did understand what Ge Nie meant.

He left Yingzheng, and the old friend's entrustment was only an inducement, and more importantly, he had already seen the doomed result.

It was like one day when returning to Ghost Valley, the grown-up senior brothers were leaning against the same big tree, with a few words, the fate of the world was decided between vertical and horizontal.

Gossip about world affairs has never happened for many years.

Baifeng's intelligence network is very reliable, except for Meng Tian who sits in Jiuyuan, the eldest son who is exiled in Jiuyuan, and Zhang Han who cannot leave because of Sanghai's affairs are not in the accompanying team, other confidant officials are accompanying him .

This team does not seem to be any different from usual, it is still a moving sequence of the emperor's governance, covering the emperor's confidants and core bureaucrats, and all the links required for the issuance of government orders.

After traveling westward for less than a month, updated information came one after another.

After Yingzheng's carriage left Hangu Pass in the east, it stopped in Yangxia County in Chen County, and then continued south all the way, stopping at Yunmengze.

Here, on the surface, Yingzheng asked Li Si, Hu Wujing, and Zheng Guo to conduct missionary rituals to the people, preaching that the new imperial policy would follow the way of heaven and obey the hearts of the people, but in private, he ordered a thousand scouts, led by Weiwei Yang Duanhe and Dunwei. Under the leadership of the team, they searched for days in the islands and valleys around Yunmengze.

After crossing the Huai River, after offering sacrifices to Emperor Shun, the emperor secretly summoned Zhang Han from Xianyang.

Soon, the land of Jiangdong was almost bloodbathed suddenly.Thirteen hundred descendants of Chu nobles were captured by the Qin army. During the interrogation, those who were tortured had to confess more hiding places of the old clan.

Next, the search and arrest has expanded to Jinling, Zhufang, and Yunyang, indicating that it is the descendants of the Xiang clan who were searched and arrested.

This news wiped out all the luck left by the Mohists.

Shaoyu was silent for several days, Shi Lan was by his side all the time, even Jing Tianming, who was not sensitive to details, felt that his good brother was making a difficult decision.

On this day, the news came that Yingzheng gathered tens of thousands of prisoners in the local area, dug open the Jinling North Mountain, and dug the long ridge of the mountain.

The people of the Mo family were speechless after they knew about it. They never thought that Ying Zheng had become so self-willed and easily believed the words of the Yin-Yang family.

Tianming was worried about his friend, so after asking Gai Nie, he went to comfort Shaoyu in private.

As soon as he approached the resting place of the Xiang clan, he heard a conversation, Tianming suddenly stopped in his tracks.He didn't want to eavesdrop, but simply didn't want to appear at this time.