[Qin] Qin Shi

"Daddy, daddy, daddy—" a child's sharp cry came from the yard, Bai Qi raised his head from the words on the bamboo slips in his hand, and looked at the young children chasing after each other into the room.

"Don't disturb your father!" The woman who was packing her luggage in the inner room opened the curtain and reprimanded sharply.

"It's okay," Bai Qi turned around, opened his arms and embraced the two children who were about the same age, and hugged him, "Don't bully your sister, she is still young."

"No, it's because she ran too slowly." The boy snorted lightly, "Father, look what treasure we found in Mother's box!" He spread his palms as he said.

Bai Qi looked at the pearl on the immature palm, startled for a moment: "You rummaged through other people's things again."

"Mother's right," the girl retorted in a low voice, but her eyes timidly looked at the woman standing not far away with an unfriendly expression, "Is this the first time I've seen such a beautiful marble?"

"Marbles?!" The woman's face darkened, "Girl, does your father spoil you too much? What does it look like for a girl from every family to hang out with your brother all day long?"

"It's okay, they're still young." Bai Qi smiled, and shook his head to indicate that he didn't mind, "Isn't it for the sake of the little ones to have a good time, as long as the girl likes it—this is your father. For your mother."

When Bai Qi endorsed her, the girl straightened up in an instant: "This marble is so beautiful, do you have any more?"

"Girl!" the woman scolded, "This is a jade bead from the East China Sea, a rare and rare thing, not a small stone you picked up casually." It was probably given to him by her husband's king, "This is The King of Qin rewarded your father for his meritorious service in the war, it is not something you can tamper with."

The woman scolded like this, and stepped forward to take the bead away from her own child.

However, Bai Qi was stunned for a moment: "Is this from Qi?"

The woman was also stunned: "Isn't it a reward from the king to your husband?"

"No," Bai Qi shook his head and explained, "You also know that all the things rewarded by the king these years have been sold by Qi to subsidize the brothers in the army. These good-looking but useless things, Qi has never kept much. - besides, there are not many of these things in the palace, and the concubines don't even have enough for them."

"But the concubine found this from the bamboo box of the husband? Maybe it was rewarded to the husband by the king a few years ago?"

"Not anymore," Bai Qi raised his hand and picked up the jade bead from his son's palm, "In the early years, the king mainly rewarded land and titles, and the countries in the Central Plains have always looked down on Great Qin. These flashy things It's too late for them to enjoy it by themselves, so how can they give it to Qin."

"Where did the beads come from?" The woman was even more surprised, "But it was passed down from mother?"

"Mother is from Xiyi, let alone this kind of seafood." Holding the jade bead between her thick fingers, it was translucent and crystal clear under the sunlight shining into the room from outside the window, "Father is from Qi, but he is fleeing So far, if I have the financial resources, I would have bought the land and become the owner."

As he said that, he himself was also puzzled: "It seems that I really got this bead from where."

But, I can't remember the reason.

"If you don't remember, you can't remember." The woman didn't care about these trivial things. "My husband has already packed everything. This time, my husband is going to destroy Ji Zhou. He must be very careful. I heard that Ji Zhou has appeared in the past few years." A young general who knows how to use soldiers, he is highly regarded by the new king, and the princess is engaged to the prince of Qi, in case..."

"It's okay," Bai Qi put the beads back into his daughter's hands, "If girl likes it, I'll let you make a headdress and keep it for your dowry, okay?"

"Really?!" The little girl poked her brother away with her arm, her big grape eyes were shining brightly, "Father is not allowed to go back on what he says."

"Of course not," he let go of his hand, and smiled as he watched his son chase his daughter, making a fuss around the room, and the noise filled the whole room. I have to trouble my wife."

"It's my duty," the woman leaned over, "The husband is out, this is what a concubine should do."

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Hundreds of years have passed, and the Zhou Dynasty where the world was ruled by the people and the hearts of the people aspired to is already sunset and sunset.The disadvantage of being caught between the kingdoms and generations of emperors who do not know how to make progress made it impossible for even a newly-rising young general to stop the overwhelming Qin army, allowing them to quickly invade Haojing.

"Amei!" The young general in silver armor rushed into the palace, kicked over the low solid wood table, grabbed the young man sitting behind the table Ruyu, and rushed to the side.

"Brother?" If there were outsiders around, they would be shocked to realize that the young master was disguised as a man, and the young general who rushed into the room looked exactly the same as the young master.

"I don't have time to change into the maid's clothes." As he said that, the young general took off his armor, and with the help of the old servant and maid who rushed forward, he quickly changed into the clothes his sister was wearing before. "Qin's army has come in, take your maid and guards with you now!"

"Brother!" The tacit understanding between the twins made the woman realize the man's meaning instantly, "My sister won't leave, my sister will accompany my brother to discuss with Da Zhou—"

"My sister!" The man scolded her while arranging his hair crown, "You are alive, so Ji Zhou's blood will not die!"

The woman took half a step back.

Realizing that his tone was too fierce, the man softened his tone: "Sister, brother is a male, he can't survive." If Zhou Tianzi hadn't been caught, then the Qin army would definitely search and arrest, "But you are different , you are a woman, you and I come from the same source, if you are alive, your brother is still alive."

The same birth in October, 20 years of companions, no one in this world is closer than them: "Your child is your brother's child." And his child is Da Zhou's orthodoxy, "You live, It’s because my brother is still alive.”

"You are married to Mr. Qi, so take the token and go to Qi. They can replace your elder brother and continue to protect you." He looked at the tears in his younger sister's eyes, opened his arms and took a few steps forward to hug her. "It's just that in the future, after you marry someone else's wife, you must remember to stop playing petty temper like in the past, and do whatever you want."

The woman buried her head in her brother's arms, and burst into tears.

"Remember to eat well, raise my child to be white and fat, teach him martial arts and study, and watch him get married and have children." Fingers interspersed between the woman's hair, and smoothed her hair from top to bottom, "Fu Zhou and It doesn't matter, brother wants you to be happy."

"Let's go together." She tried to make a final struggle, "Go to Qi Kingdom together, they will manipulate your sister for your sake. It doesn't matter if they use it, as long as you are still alive, brother, There is still hope to return to the country in a few weeks!"

The man chuckled and shook his head, let go of his arm around his sister, and stuffed a jade pendant into her arms: "Go," pushing his sister towards the room, dressed in ordinary peasant clothes. The guard in coarse clothes said, "Brother still has guests to receive, so let's say goodbye to you."

Tears rolled out of her eyes unstoppably. She looked at her brother's back who turned and left resolutely, and heard the faint noises beside her ears. She gritted her teeth: "I won't forgive you," she cried, her voice as loud as As sad as weeping blood, "I will never forgive you, not in my whole life!"

Zhou Tianzi's footsteps paused, and a smile appeared on his face with his back to the woman.But he quickly retracted it, and walked towards the main hall of Chaoyi without looking back.

And just as Zhou Tianzi expected, when the Qin army arrested all the men with surnames and surnames in Ji Zhou, they did not endanger the female relatives too much, and even the princess who was related to the state of Qi was still in the palace. Ask.

Sitting upright on the throne of the Son of Heaven, he looked at the hero who was covered in blood donations from the people of the state of Zhou and entered with a steady pace, and chuckled: "Mr. Wu'an of the state of Qin," neither humble nor overbearing, "I have been waiting here alone for a long time."

On the other side, Princess Ji, who was escorted out of the city in the chaos, stood on a short hill in the suburbs, watching the beacon fire of Haojing Gas in the distance. The bustling and prosperous Kyoto in her memory, and the laughter on the faces of the people, all changed at this moment. Howling bitterly, he slowly clenched his palms tightly.

"Let's go, princess." The maid cautiously persuaded, "Wan Mo let down the emperor's concern for you."

"Let's go?" Princess Ji chuckled, looking at the blue sky, her eyes were blood red, and her voice was full of sarcasm, "Now that my country is gone, where else can I go?"

"Master Qi has an appointment with you," the maid tentatively said, "Qi will definitely keep you safe."

Perhaps, for the sake of the marriage contract, they would still be willing to help the Lord restore the country.

Princess Ji has been intelligent since she was a child. Since she can occasionally replace her elder brother as the emperor in the palace, she can naturally guess the meaning of the maid's words: "If you want to help, you have already done so. , I have written to Qi State in the name of my elder brother, hoping that they will send troops to help protect the kingdom of the Son of Heaven."

The more I said it, the more ironic I felt: "If you want to come, they have already come."

Now that half a year has passed, they haven't come, which has already explained a lot: "Going together at this time is to marry and have a child, and to be trapped by a man's side for the rest of his life, hoping that he will think of himself, and then rely on that A son and a half daughter to become the Queen Mother? Is that child my Zhou’s, or his own?”

The more I said it, the more ironic I felt.

The maid dared not speak.

"Which Qin general is the one who attacked my Great Zhou today?" She raised her hand and pulled out the jade pendant stuffed by her brother from her bosom, as well as the pair with the jade pendant belonging to Ji Zhou. The Tiger Talisman has long been useless.

"It's Lord Wu'an of Great Qin, Bai Qi." The guard took half a step forward and replied respectfully.

"Bai Qi," a pair of jade hands slowly pulled the tiger talisman apart, splitting it into two, "We enter Qin."

She said firmly.

"Daqin, I have nothing to do, but Lord Wuan..."

She thought of Zhou Tianzi, the co-lord of the world who responded to everyone in the past, and now, a hundred years later, when the princes are in chaos and no one listens to Zhou Tianzi's orders. She spread her palms and looked at the tiger talismans in her left and right hands, and she gradually had a plan in her heart: "... .....This princess wants him to be buried with my elder brother."