[Qin] Qin Shi

Zhao Zheng had been listening to Bai Shu's talk about "profit first" and "money touches people's hearts", until he saw Lu Buwei bribed the guards outside Handan city with money, and let their carriage leave Handan at midnight curfew. After the guard of the checkpoint was also bribed by money, he really realized that 'money' is far more important than he imagined.

What about the king of a country?

Is the king of a country the richest person in the country?

The fast-moving carriage swayed back and forth on the uneven path, and the rapidly receding scenery beyond the carriage could be vaguely seen behind the curtain outside the window.

Zhao Zheng was held in his arms by his mother, but rather than hugging him, it was better to say that he was tightly bound with two arms, so strong that Ying Zheng, who had practiced martial arts for more than two years, felt his body tremble. Ma: "Mom?"

He looked up at Zhao Ji, seeing the complex and fearful expression on her face, but he didn't understand why his mother was not happy because they were about to return to Qin and get rid of their proton status: "Mother?" He called out again, hoping that Zhao Ji could notice his discomfort.

Zhao Ji's expression was always terrified and complicated. On the contrary, Lu Buwei, who was sitting by the side, heard Zhao Zheng's voice calling Zhao Ji repeatedly, and noticed Zhao Zheng's extremely uncomfortable movements: "Zhao Ji!" He stretched out his hand while speaking. He grabbed Zhao Ji's arm and forcibly separated her arm from Zhao Zheng's body.

In this way, Zhao Ji returned to the mind of not only drifting somewhere, almost subconsciously, Zhao Ji turned her head to look at Lu Buwei who was holding her arm, and her eyes showed helplessness and obedient dependence.This made Zhao Zheng, who had been paying attention to Zhao Ji, feel bored and aggrieved—why Lu Buwei?

Why did you notice Lu Buwei first, instead of me, the child who has always been with you?Is it because I can't bring you enough benefits?Is it because Lu Buwei's existence is far more important to you than me?Is it because for you, the person you can rely on at this moment is not me?

"You hurt Zheng'er." Lu Buwei frowned and looked at Zhao Ji. He was very dissatisfied with the other party's attitude at this time. "Zheng'er is your only child. After returning to the prince, he will be the prince's eldest son." In the future, he will inherit the throne and become the king of Qin." He bit down on the words 'the only', 'the eldest son' and 'the king of Qin'.

Zhao Ji stared straight at Lu Buwei, Lu Buwei's words awakened her mind, and she hurriedly lowered her head before she noticed her son in her arms, who had not had time to hide his uncomfortable face: "Did I hurt you? Zheng'er? I'm sorry, mother is just too excited, mother is just too happy, mother..."

Her words were chaotic, and the panic and worry in her eyes failed to subside in time. For Zhao Zheng, who had been paying attention to his mother all the time, it was a basin of cold water pouring down on his anxious heart.The firmness that has always been shaken at this moment, for Zhao Ji, for Lu Buwei, and for himself.

But these years, the habit of struggling to survive among the princes and grandchildren in Handan made Zhao Zheng subconsciously conceal his true thoughts, and even subconsciously called out a smiling face to appease his mother: "Politics It's okay, mother."

If the system was here, it would be surprising to find that Bai Shu had seen Zhao Zhengshen's venom hidden under the 'harmless' appearance from the very beginning. Zhao Ji, who raised him since then, had a friendly green name that turned into a neutral yellow in an instant, and even though she quickly returned to being friendly, that momentary change is enough to explain many things.

Seeing that Zhao Zheng was as docile and well-behaved as before, Zhao Ji breathed a sigh of relief and took Zhao Zheng into her arms again: "It's good that Zheng'er is fine, mother only has Zheng'er now, and Zheng'er must take good care of him." Mother, fight for your breath." This time, Zhao Ji patted Zhao Zheng's back gently, as if coaxing a baby to sleep.

Zhao Zheng buried his head in Zhao Ji's arms, quietly listening to the vibrating sound of the carriage, the wind outside the carriage and the swaying of the woods, and buried those tumbling dark emotions.

He had thought about the matter of breaking up with Bai Shu many times, if he did this or that, would things have a better ending.If he hadn't been so direct, but had stopped when Bai Shu refused, wouldn't Bai Shu have dug out thoughts that he didn't even want to admit from his subsequent words?

The past is irreversible, but he has learned new things from it-listen more, watch more, do more and speak less.

Until he heard the sudden and cumbersome noise between the wind and the swaying leaves. Those small sounds were not obvious in the rustling, but to Zhao Zheng, who had been shuttling through the woods in the past, they were extremely harsh and abrupt in the elegant movement. The sharp note is the falcon that brings slaughter and blood in peace.

Someone is chasing them!

"My lord, there are people chasing us from behind!" The sound of horseshoes approaching the carriage, and the low-pitched voice of a young man came from outside the curtain. After so many years of wandering around the country, it is clear that if they are caught up, only Zhao Zheng will be safe in this group, so he immediately issued an order: "Abandon the cart and get on the horse, everyone throws away the heavy objects, and advances at full speed, straight into Hangu close."

As long as you enter Hangu Pass, it will be the territory of Qin State. At that time, as long as Zhao Ji is alive and there is anyone in Zhao Zheng, then the matter will be resolved much easier.Lu Buwei's sharp eyes glanced at Zhao Zheng who was crawling in Zhao Ji's arms at the moment. This is his new bet after the alien, and he must not lose this one!

"Zhenger!" Lu Buwei grabbed Zhao Zheng's shoulders and pulled him out of Zhao Ji's arms. He didn't care about his status at the very moment, "Remember, anyone can die, but you can't die." !Save yourself and live to meet your father and great-grandfather."

After finishing speaking, he lifted the curtain of the carriage and threw Zhao Zheng onto the young man who was walking alongside the carriage. After seeing the young man pulling Zhao Zheng close to him, he nodded to the young man: "See you at Hangu Pass."

After the young man replied crisply, he wrapped Zhao Zheng in his arms with his strong arms, using his body as his backrest and cover.The steed felt the strength of the rider's grip on the horse's belly, and after a long cry, it galloped away in the direction that diverged from the carriage.

Zhao Zheng turned his head while being jolted, and among the overlapping branches, at a gradually increasing distance, Zhao Zheng saw another child who was similar in stature to him being put into a carriage by a man.He knew that child, it was the child that Lu Buwei asked him to take with him in the name of serving him before the trip.

The said to serve his child, was it for this moment in the first place?

At this moment, Bai Shu's indifferent expression before parting was in Zhao Zheng's mind.

If Bai Shu was traveling with him, would it be this child who got into the carriage at this time, or...

Zhao Zheng leaned against the strong and strong chest of the young man behind him, with the dense canopy of trees opening and fading above his head, the dark forest at night beside him, the whistling wind and the rough voice of the young man: "They are still chasing us , "During this boring and monotonous repetition, Zhao Zheng suddenly said, "Someone is chasing us."

Perhaps it was an accident and Zhao Zheng's sensitivity. After a long time, the young man hummed lightly: "Listen to the voice, there are three or four people chasing after us." Zhao Zheng could tell from the young man's voice that he was stable at the moment. The other party is not surprised that there will be pursuers behind them, and they are confident about how to deal with them.

This caused Zhao Zheng, whose heart is like duckweed, to have an inexplicable emotion. The last time he felt such an indescribable emotion was when he saw Bai Shu limp on a tree after the brown bear receded. mood.

"There should be more people."

Even if no one told him, Zhao Zheng knew that these people had come for him from the very beginning.Just like the bird eggs sent to him by Bai Shu have never been able to go back, most of the protons exchanged by various countries are sad existences who were abandoned or died in a foreign country for a lifetime.

Although they are all "abandoned children" who know each other well, they may have been dispensable in the past, but more often they are indeed a kind of showing off and proof, and an important existence that becomes a threat when necessary.Zhao Guozai found out that such a chess piece ran away, and his anger can be imagined.

"Lord Lu Buwei has arranged several groups of suspects," the young man paused, but then changed his words, "Master Lu Buwei has arranged several groups of people to go to Qin. The convoy was dismantled just now, and they don't know where you are." Or There is also a high possibility that the person they want is still in the carriage.

So the people chasing after them at this moment are just in case: "Young master, don't be afraid," the young man said calmly, "Jian will escort you back to Xianyang."

Life in Zhao country has been surrounded by malice, so Zhao Zheng subconsciously wants to test what this young man is up to.But just when he wanted to test the young man, and wanted to ask the young man what kind of reward he hoped to get after his success, Bai Shu's sarcasm suddenly sounded in his ears.

You have nothing and can give nothing.You can't do anything until you are capable enough.

It was at this moment that Ying Zheng recovered from the excitement of 'I'm going back to Qin'.He realized that his journey back to 'home' might not be as smooth as he imagined. This kind of confusion, this kind of uncertainty, this kind of floating feeling that his fate was placed in the hands of others made him feel uncomfortable.

Bai Shu was right again.

Zhao Zheng closed his eyes and listened to the sound of horseshoes approaching behind him.

Bai Shu was right again, he had nothing and couldn't promise anything.

"Are you Lu Buwei's doorman?" Zhao Zheng raised his head and looked at the young man's bearded chin when the sound of horseshoes approached, "No, you were not sent by Lu Buwei to protect me. Then you were sent by my father." What about people?"

He would not be Lu Buwei's disciple. Lu Buwei wanted them to go to Xianyang together after meeting at Hanguguan, but this young man insisted on taking him to Xianyang.Although the ultimate purpose is the same, there is a world of difference: "Why are you doing this?"

The young man glanced down at Zhao Zheng differently, wondering if he was amazed at his sharpness, or surprised that he still had the leisure to think about these things under such circumstances: "Neither of them," he said, "I'm just a ranger." Pause , as if worried that this was not enough to win the trust of Zhao Zheng, he continued, "Your father pays me to protect you."

In Zhao Zheng's memory, the foreigner who went to Zhao as a hostage had already left Handan and returned to Xianyang very early.Although Zhao Ji would tell him every few days that his father always missed him, there would always be a day when the two of them would be taken to live in Xianyang to enjoy the glory and wealth.

But the repeated words day after day, the hopeless expectations day after day, made Zhao Zheng no longer hopeful.Those illusory promises like castles in the air, those dry and monotonous descriptions and never-before-seen descriptions are not as real and exciting as a pancake or a bird's egg to Zhao Zheng.

And as time went by, as he grew sensible, he began to complain.Complain about the other person's indifference to their mother and child, complain that he has been a proton since birth, complain about Qin's indifference to proton, and complain that he has a completely different fate from others since birth.

But now, at such a time, a person suddenly appeared and told him that his father still remembered him?

"He..." Zhao Zheng opened his mouth and heard his dry voice, "Does he still remember me?"

The young man failed to answer, he held the rein with one hand, and the free hand suddenly pressed Zhao Zheng's head and pushed forward forcefully, his body also leaned forward, pinching Zhao Zheng between him and the horse. In the narrow gap between: "Be careful."

Zhao Zheng heard the sound of piercing the air, it was the sound of a bow and arrow flying through the air.

"It seems that things are not going well," the young man was still in the mood to joke at this time, "It doesn't look like they want to save your life now. This is really the worst state I can imagine."

"Hold tight," the young man straightened up again, with the long sword drawn out at unknown time in his hand, "If you accidentally break something, Jian will not be responsible." His smiling attitude formed a sharp contrast with his tense body. Compared.

Before Zhao Zheng could react, he felt the pressure on his body suddenly disappear. Even the places where the young man was in contact with his body felt the coolness of the night air at this moment.

Behind him was the crisp sound of gold and spear colliding, but Zhao Zheng didn't dare to raise his head, and subconsciously hugged the horse's neck tightly, with his legs sandwiching the horse's belly, so that he could cling to the horse's body so as not to be thrown off.He could only let the horse run farther and farther, and the sound of ping-pong behind him slowly faded away.

It would be great if he could ride a horse, it would be great if he could fight like Bai Shu, it would be great if he was already an adult...

Zhao Zheng closed his eyes tightly, thinking this way.

The person who lost control of the horse, the horse that had been running at high speed gradually slowed down, and the horse finally stopped on the side of the path.There was no sound of chasing soldiers behind him, only the sound of the wind whizzing by.It was at this time that Zhao Zheng, who was riding a horse for the first time, dared to stand up and look around.

As if hurt by Zhao Zheng's hand, the horse shook its mane vigorously and let out an impatient snort.Surprised by the sound of the horse, Zhao Zheng suddenly let go of his grip on the horse's mane: "What should I do next?" His words seemed to comfort him, and he seemed to be asking an invisible existence.

The forest at night was terrifyingly quiet, and the sound of branches rubbing and swaying in the dark night was like countless sneaking enemies, making Zhao Zheng's hair stand on end.He wanted to move forward, but he had lost his way in the woods. He wanted to retreat, but he didn't know where the horse came from.

Zhao Zheng subconsciously put his hand in his arms and grabbed the dagger in his hand.The cold bronze utensils gave him a sense of security in this dark night. He began to think about what he was going to do, and what would he do if Bai Shu was here?

It would be great if he could be by his side at this time, just like when he was trapped in the tree by the brown bear that day, he was thinking that it would be great if Bai Shu could appear.

Then Bai Shu appeared there just like that, like a person walking in the desert seeing a lake, like a person floating in the ocean seeing an island, he just appeared there in time.Even though he showed 'distrust' emotions, he still saved his life and treated him as before.

It wasn't until this time that Zhao Zheng finally realized that perhaps he owed Bai Shu, as Bai Shu said, more than what he repaid to him.From the beginning to the end, in this transaction, he, Zhao Zheng, was never the one who suffered a loss, but the one who made progress by relying on his own speciality.

But now, Bai Shu was lost by him.

And when he was alone and no one could rely on him anymore, he realized that those words of not relying on others had someone to rely on, so he said it willfully.