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A round machete, a long wooden board, and dog meat lying horizontally.Gao Jianli wiped the blood on his face, took a cloth from the piano beside him and slowly wiped his hands, when footsteps sounded from far and near behind him, he looked back casually, and a scholar in Tsing Yi walked in from the gate.

"Buying dog meat?" Gao Jianli put down the blood-stained cloth casually, the blood on his face hadn't been wiped off, and the blood on his cheeks was very coquettish.

The scholar stretched out his hand to throw a bag of things, and Gao Jianli picked it up casually. As soon as he received the brocade bag, his eyelids trembled slightly. The heavy weight showed how amazing the value of the things in the bag was.

"Do you accept business?" the scholar in Tsing Yi asked.

"I've been very busy recently." Gao Jianli threw the bag of gold aside, stretched out his hand and skillfully picked up the dog meat in front of him and hung it up on a hook, then he picked up the round machete and the rag he had just thrown aside, and wiped the blade carefully After all this was done, he turned his head and looked at the scholar, "But maybe two hours will be fine." He said lazily, "Tell me, how many people."

"one person."

"That would be easier."

The scholar in Tsing Yi took out a silk book from his sleeve and handed it over. Gao Jianli stretched out his fingers to pick it up, shook the silk book and took a look. When he saw the contents of the book, a dark light flashed across his eyes. He looked up at the book. The scholar, with a smile on his face for a while, said meaningfully: "I'm afraid your little money is not enough."

"After the matter is completed, I will give you ten times more gold."

"received."

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Meng Yi came out from the main hall of Xianyang Palace, and when he raised his eyes, there were already sparse stars hanging on the sky. He looked at it with his hands behind his back for a while, the night wind was blowing, and the snow reflected the sky in white.A little maid came up behind him, holding an orange lantern, "Master Meng, please stay!"

Meng Yi looked back, the maid handed over the lamp, "My lord, Your Majesty said that the road is slippery in snowy weather, please light a lamp for your lord."

Reaching out to pick up the warm orange lamp, Meng Yi's face was dimly illuminated by the flames, and the dancing candlelight was reflected in his eyes. "Go back." Holding the lamp, he turned around and walked down the steps with his hands behind his back.

The little palace maid looked at the young man's thin back as he walked down the long steps, with a high crown and hair tied up, the corners of the young man's clothes were blown silently in the night wind, and the Xianyang Palace behind him was full of fiery trees and silver flowers.The young man turned and left, leaving the lonely palace with lights behind. The little maid stood reluctantly looking at the figure. She couldn't explain the reason why she couldn't turn her eyes away. The appearance is better than the coquettish posture of many aristocratic children in fresh clothes and angry horses.

Late at night in Xianyang, the young man was standing in front of an ordinary mansion with a lamp in his hand. He stepped forward and knocked on the door lightly, but no one responded except for the sound of the wind.Meng Yi knocked lightly again, the knocking sound in the middle of the night was sudden and no one cared.Meng Yi didn't knock again, he stood in front of the steps and looked up at the sky.

I don't know when the fine snow fluttered gently, and fell on his face little by little. He stood there unconsciously, holding a dim lamp in his hand, and he stood alone in front of the door, motionless.

When Wang Ping touched the door in the morning and opened it with his eyes closed, he almost fell to the ground when he raised his eyes. His eyes widened in an instant, "Meng, Master Meng?"

Meng Yi reached out to brush off the snow on his body. It was still dark in the early morning of winter, and Wang Ping only felt that his eyes were clear and his face was pale.He immediately threw the door latch, turned around and ran towards Yu Zishi's room, "Master Zhao! Master Meng is here! Are you up yet?"

When Yu Zishi was awakened by the knock on the door, he frowned impatiently and asked, "What's wrong?"

"Master Meng is here! Meng Yi!" Wang Ping roared, "Standing outside all night!"

Yu Zishi's glued eyes opened instantly, "Standing all night?"

"Yeah, it's still snowing! My lord, get up and see what's wrong!"

Yu Zishi brushed off the quilt, didn't even put on his clothes, put on a long gown and walked out the door, as expected when he looked up, he saw Meng Yi standing in the yard, covered in snow and chilling.Yu Zishi immediately said to Wang Ping, "Go and boil some hot water!"

He stepped forward and asked, "Meng Yi, what's wrong with you?"

"It's okay." Meng Yi's voice was a little hoarse, except for his pale face, there was nothing unusual, "It's a bit late to leave the palace, so I'll walk around."

Yu Zishi didn't dare to delay, and led people into the house, Meng Yi sat down by the fire, even with the icicles hanging from his hair, Yu Zishi's heart jumped when he saw that. "What happened yesterday?"

"I met Your Majesty last night, and His Majesty promoted me to an official position." Meng Yi slowly pinched his unconscious finger joints, his pale face was reflected by the jumping flames, and he closed his eyes for a moment to relax, "He promoted me to an official position." Shangqing."

Shangqing, this position is not low!Yao Jia, the most powerful strategist in the Qin Dynasty, is a Shangqing, and Shangqing can even surpass Jiuqing in terms of rank.But Meng Yi's appearance clearly doesn't look like joy. In Yu Zishi's impression, Meng Yi inherited his father Meng Wu's general disposition. He is an extremely calm and calm person. He has hardly seen Meng Yi lose his composure in his life. Meng Yi did not panic when he got involved in the martial arts school, and consciously went to Xianyang Palace to plead guilty. The King of Qin fined him three years of salary. After he calmed down and thanked him, he never rode a horse again for three years. Never took a weapon again.

This is the first time today.

Yu Zishi frowned lightly, and asked for a while, "You don't want to be the Great Qin Shangqing?"

Meng Yi raised his eyes to look at Yu Zishi, and suddenly smiled softly, "I don't want to? You and I are ministers, even if the king lets the minister die, you and I should be willing." The fire melted the icicles on his hair, Condensed water slid down his cheeks, he wiped his face, the palm of his hand was astonishingly cold.

Yu Zishi was speechless for a while, and it happened that Wang Ping opened the door and came in. Yu Zishi took the hot water and handed it to Meng Yi, and winked at Wang Ping, who nodded, closed the door and exited.

"You are not quite the same as usual." Yu Zishi looked at Meng Yi for a long time, and said this for a long time.

"Really?" Meng Yi lowered his eyes and took a sip of hot water. The heat made him tremble slightly. He asked, "What kind of person am I usually?"

"Let's put it this way, usually if you make a move, I think you won't lose." Yu Zishi replied after thinking for a while.

"That's because I never act rashly when I'm not sure." Meng Yi lowered his head and curled his lower lip, "And there are too many things in the world that I'm not sure about." He raised his eyes and smiled at Yu Zishi, "There are too many."

Yu Zishi looked into the young man's eyes, and felt a little cold in his heart. He had never seen Meng Yi like this, and he looked as if he was extremely tired, and he didn't even want to say a word.

The two sat opposite each other, neither talking at all around the fire.

I don't know how long it has passed, seeing the sky getting brighter, Yu Zishi recalled the morning affairs, and felt that neither of them could sit still.He saw that Meng Yi's clothes were still wet, some places even had icicles hanging on them, his eyes sank suddenly, no matter what King Qin Yingzheng said to Meng Yi last night, if he wore this clothes to the morning court, he would definitely be in trouble.

"Take off your outer shirt and put it on the fire to dry." Yu Zishi said suddenly, "I will go to court with you later."

Only then did Meng Yi look up at the sky, he didn't say anything, and slowly untied his coat, Yu Zishi put the coat he handed over on the fire and roasted it for a while, when he looked up, he found Meng Yi even The underwear inside was all wet, and the snow melted, and a large area was wet along the collar, chest, and shoulders.Yu Zishi glanced at it, then stood up suddenly, went to the cabinet and took out a piece of clean clothes, he handed the clothes over, Meng Yi looked up and saw the hands on his clothes, and frowned suspiciously.

"I bought it not long ago. I haven't worn it a few times. It's almost brand new. You should put it on first." Yu Zishi turned his head and glanced. There was a faint morning light from the closed doors and windows. It was already getting late.

Meng Yi seemed to hesitate for a moment, then reached out and took the shirt over.

Yu Zishi himself just heard Wang Ping's words and went out in a hurry. He didn't even put on his clothes neatly. Seeing that it was too late, he went to the bedside and put on the court clothes, fastened the belt with his hand, and casually brushed his hair twice. He put the crown on.When he was almost done tidying up, he turned his head and glanced at Meng Yi, who was putting on a black court gown with his sleeves rolled up, looking up at the still cold young Shangqing.

If it weren't for Meng Yi's hair still slightly wet, the dejected scene just now would have been an illusion, the young man fastened the belt with his slender hands, and a warm white jade seal hung from his waist.He stretched out his hands and straightened his sleeves unhurriedly, and his eyes had already returned to their usual calmness.

Yu Zishi stared at him intently, but he couldn't see a trace of decadence and abjection. The young man's black clothes were like splashes of ink, and the white jade around his waist was glistening. His slightly pale face made him look cold and cold.Just turning around, the slightly tired boy who was there just now seemed to have never appeared.

"Are you okay?" Yu Zishi frowned, and asked hesitantly for a long time.

"It's okay." Meng Yi asked, "Can I dress right?"

Yu Zishi looked up and down, and walked forward after a while, "Wait, don't move." He stretched out his hand to straighten the slightly sloping crown on the young man's hair, and then took two steps back, "Straightforward." nodded.

"Then let's go." Meng Yi looked away slightly.

Seeing his appearance, Yu Zishi couldn't help asking again after a while, "Are you all right?"

"Let's go." Meng Yi turned around and opened the door and walked out.

When Yu Zishi walked out the door, he looked at Meng Yi's back, and recalled all the conversations between himself and Meng Yi. There were only a few words in the first place, but Yu Zishi thought over and over again, and finally found that he even came to find himself in the middle of the night with Meng Yi. The reason is unknown.He had absolutely no idea what had happened.

On the way to the court, he couldn't help staring at Meng Yi for a while, but he couldn't see anything strange anymore.The morning court that day was as ordinary as usual, without any special features. Before the court, the King of Qin mentioned the matter of Feng Mengyi as Shangqing, and then Meng Yi stepped forward to calmly thank him. During the whole process, the relationship between the King of Qin and Meng Yi There was no difference in performance.

Monarchs and ministers observe rituals, a scene that couldn't be more harmonious.Meng Tian and Meng Wu are both guarding the western border of Great Qin and have not yet returned to the court. At this time, King Qin promoted Meng Yi to Shangqing, which is also a kind of honor to the Meng family.

It is indeed normal everywhere, if it was not for Meng Yi's abnormal behavior last night, Yu Zishi thought he should have congratulated Meng Yi as soon as he came to court.The Meng family is indeed good, both civil and military are of high aptitude, Meng Yi was promoted to Shangqing, and he can also participate in the political affairs of the Great Qin from now on.

Yu Zishi thought for a long time, but couldn't figure out why Meng Yi lost his composure last night.Could it be that Meng Yi actually doesn't like to watch the boring Great Qin Law, and is not very willing to participate in Yu Shicheng's affairs?This is not like ah.

After getting off the court, Yu Zishi stared at Meng Yi who was about ten meters away in front of him, but still didn't understand.Suddenly he was tapped lightly on the shoulder, and he looked back, it was Zheng Bin.

"What are you looking at? You didn't hear me when I called?" Zheng Bin followed Yu Zishi's gaze.

"I didn't pay attention." Yu Zishi casually said, "What's wrong?"

"Calling you." Zheng Bin frowned, "What's wrong with you, I saw you didn't turn your eyes when you went to court, what are you thinking?"

These two old colleagues, Yu Zishi has nothing to hide from Zheng Bin, he frowned and said: "I think Meng Yi is a little strange."

"Are you talking about him?" Zheng Bin raised his eyes to look at the person in front of him, and said quietly: "In this position, this time I really wronged him."

"What?" Yu Zishi frowned fiercely, "What do you mean?"

Zheng Bin looked at Yu Zishi incredulously, wondering what this man was thinking all day long, "Didn't you listen? The King of Qin asked him to take care of the affairs of the Onmyoji and alchemists of the Seven Kingdoms."

"Onmyoji and alchemist?" Yu Zishi's heart jumped suddenly, "Isn't he the Shangqing who is in charge of Qin Lu?"

"What?" Zheng Bin turned around and pointed Yu Zishi to the next new palace, "Isn't Shanglinyuan building a new palace recently? What do you think it is? Wei Guo is dead, and there are famous people in the world Onmyojis and alchemists have both entered the Great Qin, and His Majesty recruited those people into the Qin Palace, and it is said that they will refine medicine."

Yu Zishi blurted out, "The elixir of life?"

"Well, the elixir." Zheng Bin turned his head to look at the astonished Yu Zishi, "Why did you react so strongly?"

"No." Yu Zishi hurriedly shook his head, "You said His Majesty summoned the world's onmyojis and alchemists to refine the elixir?"

"Ah."

"Aren't those people all liars?"

Zheng Bin frowned suddenly when he heard Yu Zishi's words, "It's not all, the Seven Kingdoms' luck has been in turmoil recently, I think it would be good to call a few people to have a look."

"You said that His Majesty, in the name of refining medicine, recruited onmyojis to observe luck?"

"I think that's the case. It can't be that you can really refine the elixir. You and I both know that Qin Guo doesn't believe in this." Zheng Bin retracted his gaze and glanced at Yu Zishi lightly.

Yu Zishi's heart was icy cold, he stared at Meng Yi's receding back in the distance, and felt that the blood all over his body was a little cold.

"It's a pity that Meng Yi, who was originally a good civil servant and strategist, was assigned to do these low-level things." Zheng Bin sighed leisurely, "In Qin State, the status of yin and yang arts and others is lower than that of merchants and refugees. Head down."

Yu Zishi didn't speak, and he couldn't bear to.If it was just observing luck, Meng Yi would never have reacted so strongly. I'm afraid King Qin used all the magicians and onmyojis to refine the elixir in the name of observing luck!This kind of behavior that goes against the direction of the government and the wild requires a truly prudent and resourceful person to watch out for King Qin.

Undead medicine, longevity, yin and yang, how many kings and countries have been killed by these things, Meng Yi is not clear.

Thinking of the young boy standing in front of his house in a thin court gown, covered in snow and silent, and remembering how many days and nights he used to copy the laws of the Qin Dynasty carefully with a pen, Yu Zishi felt his chest stagnate.After a while he said softly: "Poor Ye Banxu, who doesn't ask the common people and asks ghosts and gods."

Zheng Bin looked back at Yu Zishi, "What did you say?"

"I have something to do, I'll talk to you next time." Yu Zishi suddenly reached out and pushed Zheng Bin's hand away, and walked forward quickly.

Zheng Bin, who was almost thrown to the ground by his sudden push, looked at Yu Zishi's back and shouted, "Hey, what are you doing?"

"There are some things." Yu Zishi didn't even look back, and went after the boy in front of him.

Meng Yi was halfway there when he suddenly felt a heavy weight on his shoulder. He looked back, and Yu Zishi panted slightly, "Go, accompany me to the martial arts school grounds."

"Me?" Meng Yi just wanted to say no, he was directly dragged away by Yu Zishi.Yu Zishi grabbed his arm and walked towards the martial arts school field.

After going straight to the martial arts school field, without further ado, Yu Zishi went directly to the stable and pulled out the horse that Meng Yi used to ride three years ago. He turned on the horse neatly, and suddenly lowered his waist and stretched out towards the standing Meng Yi. hands. "Come up!"

"No." Meng Yi shook his head.

The horse was obviously very excited when he saw his old master whom he hadn't seen for a long time. Yu Zishi's hand holding the rein hurt so badly, he lowered his eyes, reached out and grabbed Meng Yi's arm, dragging him down Coming over, the horse growled more and more excitedly and almost threw Yu Zishi off its back. At that moment, Meng Yi firmly grasped the reins and jumped on the horse.

The horse immediately calmed down.Yu Zishi looked back at Meng Tian who was behind him, "Your Majesty didn't say that you won't be allowed to practice martial arts, after all, you are the son of a general. If you don't touch cavalry, archery and swordsmen, aren't you afraid of losing your father's face?"

The corner of Meng Yi's mouth curled slightly for a moment, and he said indifferently: "It's almost lost anyway."

Yu Zishi turned his head to stare at him, suddenly smiled and said: "I know it all, you are really miserable, after memorizing these laws, you are finally asked to refine medicine."

Meng Yi raised his eyes to meet Yu Zishi's gaze, then he calmly stretched out his hand, and gently patted the mane of the lower horse. The next moment, the horse rushed out like an arrow from the string, almost missing Yu Zishi. Throwing it out, he grabbed Meng Yi's neckline to stabilize it, and couldn't help laughing for a long time: "You have a strong temper."

"I also think this horse is a bit fierce." Meng Yi gently brushed off the hair that Yu Zishi threw on his face, and said calmly.

Turning his head and staring at Meng Yi for a long time, Yu Zishi suddenly said: "Actually, if you don't want to do about Onmyoji, you can refuse."

"Don't worry." Meng Yi said flatly.

Yu Zishi paused in his heart. It is true that pharmacists and their so-called immortality medicine have been used since ancient times. These things are very easy to control the king.Once the emperor is obsessed with longevity, the influence of these magicians on the emperor is unimaginable. If this position falls into the hands of others, it will indeed be a great hidden danger.

"Okay, let me down, you ride for a while." Yu Zishi let go of Meng Yi's collar and said to him.

After about a quarter of an hour, the horse still had no intention of stopping, Yu Zishi's mouth twitched, "This horse can't stop?"

"Ah."

Yu Zishi suddenly felt that Meng Yi looked like a gentleman, and he still had the hooligan temperament passed down from generation to generation in his family.

After running for a long time, it seemed that Lord Shangqing had finally enjoyed himself, so he stopped slowly.Meng Yi got off the horse, stroked the horse's mane, and looked at the pair of horse eyes that were quite spiritual, and his eyes were very gentle.Yu Zishi also turned over and got off the horse. Seeing Meng Yi's appearance, he laughed and said, "This horse can run quite well."

Meng Yi seemed to remember something, paused the hand stroking the horse, touched the top of the horse's head, looked at the handsome and handsome horse in front of him and said: "The horse my father brought back from Yiqu was born in It is said that the wilderness beyond the Great Wall cannot be tamed for life, my elder brother rode for two months, broke three ribs and one leg, and then rushed to send me off on my birthday."

Yu Zishi felt that Meng Tian could definitely do this.He turned his head to look at the horse, and asked with great interest, "Then how did you tame it?"

"I am more resistant to falls than my elder brother." Meng Yi patted the horse, and the horse rubbed against Meng Yi's hand, then turned and ran back to the stable.

Only then did Meng Yi look back at Yu Zishi, "I'm going back."

"Really plan to never touch swords and guns in this life?" Yu Zishi raised his eyebrows and asked, staring deeply at Meng Yi, "I wanted to say it a long time ago, but it's actually a pity."

"A civil servant doesn't need these anymore." Meng Yi looked at the huge martial arts field with his hands behind his back, the snow covered the ground in his field of vision, a piece of bright white, he smiled softly, "How much can a martial artist kill? In order to fulfill the emperor's hegemony, after all, we still need to find other ways."

"That can't be the elixir." Yu Zishi stared at Meng Yi's face and sighed for a while, "What are you going to do?"

Meng Yi lowered his head and smiled, and didn't say anything. Seeing that, Yu Zishi's spine felt chills again. A military general kills with a knife, but a civil servant kills with a slash. Yu Zishi has already experienced this from Li Si. I'm back.It's just that Meng Yi is an aristocratic son of an aristocratic family, and his experience is still inexperienced at a young age. Yu Zishi finds it hard to say how far he can do it.He felt that he might want to help Meng Yi secretly, after all, he didn't like elixir and most onmyojis, to be precise, he hated them very much.

The two of them walked outside the martial arts school and happened to pass by the archery target. Meng Yi looked back, paused for a moment, and then turned his gaze away.Yu Zishi watched his reaction, held up his sleeves and said nothing.When Meng Yi was about to walk out of the martial arts school, a lazy voice suddenly came from behind him. Meng Yi looked back and saw Yu Zishi standing not far away, holding two bows in his hand.

"Try?" the man asked, raising his eyebrows.

Meng Yi looked at him for a while, then the corner of his mouth suddenly raised slightly.

Yu Zishi threw the bow towards Meng Yi, Meng Yi reached out to catch it, and walked back towards Yu Zishi.

"Speaking of which, how is your archery?" Yu Zishi passed the quiver from the side.

"It's okay." Meng Yi stretched out his hand and put the white feather sword on the bow. He aimed at the red heart arrow target in the distance, and slowly pulled the bow away. The black clothes fluttered gently in the snow. With a long arrow whistling, the white-feathered arrow pierced through the wind and snow, and hit the red heart firmly.

Yu Zishi's eyes finally changed, he forgot that this man hadn't touched an arrow for three years.After a long while, he said softly: "You look like a person when you shoot arrows."

"Wang Ben?" Meng Yi looked up at Yu Zishi and asked unhurriedly.

Yu Zishi was in a daze, he was startled when he heard Meng Yi's words, then smiled for a while and said: "It's not him, but why do you think of him?"

"The children of a family of generals, their fathers are basically in the military camp, and almost everyone has fought against each other in private. Wang Ben is good at archery." Meng Yi drew the arrow and set the bow, but did not loosen his fingers, but just placed it on the string casually. "I competed with him once and lost."

"You lost?" Yu Zishi asked curiously, raising his eyebrows.

"He knew that I was more accurate than him, so when he was shooting, he directly knocked off every target with the huge impact force of the arrow. When I was on the field, he didn't even leave me a single target bracket in the audience." Meng Yi turned his head to Yu Zishi and said, "It's just this time, I'm very impressed."

Yu Zishi couldn't help laughing out loud, "Yes, it's his style." His Royal Highness was domineering and always took the rogue route.

Meng Yi looked at the smile on Yu Zishi's face, and suddenly asked: "It's not Wang Ben, so who are you talking about?"

"what?"

"You said that the way I shoot arrows looks like a person."

Yu Zishi lowered his head and glanced at the bow and arrow in his hand, and a red dress on an angry horse flashed in his mind. After a while, he turned his eyes away, "It's not a special person, you don't know him, I met by chance many years ago." Yu Zishi said it very casually.

That's right, in terms of archery, who in the Seven Kingdoms can compare with him?Lu Buwei once lamented that he could shoot an arrow through the chief general among all armies.

Yan Taizi Dan, Yan Dan.

Yu Zishi suppressed the emotion in his eyes, and didn't say anything more.

Meng Yi didn't shoot the second arrow after all, he put down the bow and said to Yu Zishi, "Go back together?"

"Let's go then."

After speaking, the two walked outside the martial arts school together.Just when a gust of wind blew, it lifted Meng Yi's black court clothes, and the collar that Yu Zishi ripped open just now floated with the wind for a moment, revealing a corner of the clothes inside.

After the figures of the two finally disappeared outside the martial arts school arena, the boy in black slowly walked out from behind the wall, the scarlet cloud patterns on his cuffs were bright red.Behind the boy was a thin palace man, trembling involuntarily all over.

The young man walked into the arena, and at some point, there was fine snow in the sky. The young man bent down, slowly picked up the bow, and set the arrow to the string. He pointed lightly.

The white feather slashed across the sky without making a sound.

The white-feathered arrow shattered the original arrow on the red heart and passed through the target fiercely.The fine snow fell, and the scarlet cloud patterns on the boy's cuffs were smeared by the melted snow, like a large splash of sticky blood.

The little palace man behind the young man finally said tremblingly in a voice almost sobbing: "Your Highness, it's snowing, go back, go back."