[Qin] Qin Shi

Li Si was awakened by the noise outside the tent. He rubbed his slightly sore forehead and asked, "What's the noise?"

There was silence in the tent, only the noise outside the tent came from far away, indistinct.This was supposed to be a mistake caused by the negligence of the servants, but it made Li Si turn pale all of a sudden.

"What's going on?" His voice seemed to be whispering to himself, and then turned into a loud cry.

This time, there was a response from outside the tent: "My lord?"

"He's holding a book!" Li Si lifted the quilt, before he even had time to put on his clothes, and stood up with his shoes on, "Where are others!"

The prime minister who called himself Daqin for so long, was the first time he saw Li Si's hysterical attendant startled for a moment, mistakenly thinking that the master was angry when he saw the servant's negligence, and knelt down on the ground in panic: "No, I don't know. …”

damn it!

Li Si was shaking all over: "What's going on outside?"

"I heard that they encountered robbers." The attendant knew a thing or two, "Master Zhao Gao has already led people to resist."

In the sight of the kneeling servant, was the robe that had slipped to the ground - Li Si, who was dressing himself, missed.

"Where are the people of Yanbei Lord?" The silk and satin were removed from sight, Li Si bent down and picked up the robe that had slipped off because of shaking hands, and he didn't care to ask someone to clean it up for him, and hurriedly tied his pocket, "Where is your majesty?" ?”

"Little I don't know."

It wasn't such an unexpected answer, even though this was the personal attendant of the Great Qin Prime Minister, who was at the pinnacle of the empire, who was he qualified to look up to: "How long has it been going on outside?"

"It's been about half an hour," the servant said softly, "it's just that I haven't been able to finish it."

No longer aware of the wrongness of the matter, it is in vain to ignore his experience of standing at the peak of power for so many years: "You take the signboard of the Prime Minister's Mansion and go to Dongying to have a look." Dongying was brought up by the Yanbei Army The guards were handed over to his lieutenant before Lord Yanbei left a few days ago.

The servant heard the dark clouds rolling under his lord's voice, responded tremblingly, and retreated out of the tent.And Li Si, also chasing the figure of the boy who exited the tent, left here, and followed the sound to the relatively noisy place.

Sure enough, it was Zhao Gao who stood up: "Master Zhao," Li Si suppressed the beating in his heart, with a calm expression, "Where did these bandits come from, so bold?"

"Master Li, did you wake up?" Perhaps because he has been in charge of punishment all year round, Zhao Gao's voice is colder than others, and even a simple question seems to be probing, "It's just a mob, Lord Li, don't worry about it."

Li Si's heartbeat became more and more frenzied: "Really," his gaze swept across the surrounding defenders, and then landed on the strong men who were besieged in the distance, "These people don't look like what Mr. Zhao said." mob'."

"Lord Li is wrong, and I don't know." Zhao Gao chuckled lightly, "I know what the Prime Minister wants to ask—it's enough to have an official guarding here, in case it really looks like Lord Li As the saying goes, this group of people is not a mob, but is proficient in the art of war and knows what blindness is, then your Majesty will be in danger."

It's almost a simile.

Li Si only felt his heart stop beating suddenly, and the suffocation spread from his chest to his limbs.

He tried his best not to show timidity and fear: "Master Zhao has broken the law of Yanbei Jun's defense. Yes, your majesty's comfort is the most important." His hands were trembling under the cover of his sleeves, his face On the other hand, he breathed a sigh of relief and trust, "Yanbei Jun's people are the most secure."

"Naturally." Zhao Gao looked at Li Si's appearance, and turned his gaze back to the distance indifferently, "After all, the prime minister also knows Gao's place, and there is no omission - if the thieves are allowed to pass you and me and go straight to His Majesty, then it would be better to go straight to His Majesty." Even if he dies before His Majesty, he can still protect his children and grandchildren."

Li Si's pupils constricted suddenly, and he looked at the smiling Zhao Gao with horror in his eyes.

"Lord Li, think it over," Zhao Gao had expected Li Si's reaction, and said without turning his head, "Everyone has seen that the prime minister is with Gao."

This is a silent threat.

Li Si opened and closed his lips several times, and finally he bit his lower lip tremblingly: "What if..."

"Where did it come from?" Zhao Gao tilted his head, with a smile on his face, "These people are the remnants of the Six Kingdoms that you have personally verified - Your Majesty has driven them to death all these years, even if they are dogs, they have been forced to There will be counterattacks in the corner, let alone people."

Li Si only felt cold all over his body. Although it was warm summer, he seemed to be in the cold winter.

Zhao Gao didn't realize it, or maybe he didn't care about Li Si's feelings at all.He just stood there with his hands behind his back, watching these rebels being firmly kept out of the line of defense, and looked up at the sky: "It's almost time," he tapped the other with his fingers behind his back. The back of the hand, "In a while, it's time for Master Li to appear on the stage."

"What do you want Si?"

"It's not a big deal," Zhao Gao said with a smile. "If a dog doesn't guard its master, then in order to prove to the world that he is a good dog and won't bully his young master just because he is an old dog, he should die for his master." go."

Zhao Gao said this with a smile.

Li Si suppressed his heartbeat, and he listened to those people screaming for revenge for the country in the distance: "These people..."

"Hush—" Zhao Gao shook his head, "Master Li, it's better not to know, some things, let them be secret forever."

Swallowing his saliva, Li Si raised his hand to wipe off the cold sweat on his forehead. After pondering for a while, he finally couldn't hold back: "Master Zhao, Si has always had a doubt over the years. Since today is the last day, can I do it for Si? Answers to your questions?"

"Master Li, but it's okay to ask."

"You and Your Majesty," Li Si looked at the man beside him with a complicated expression, "Aren't you a childhood playmate?"

"That's right," Zhao Gao said with a smile on his face, "It's been more than 30 years since I came here. If Lu Xiangguo hadn't been there back then, Gao wouldn't have been redeemed, and he wouldn't have had the honor to serve His Majesty."

This is not a secret, and Zhao Gao didn't shy away from saying it: "Later, His Majesty took pity on Gao's life experience, so he brought Gao Yi into the palace and allowed Gao to serve around him. In a blink of an eye, it was nearly 40 years of his life."

He exhaled slowly, not knowing whether he was lamenting the time he spent with Ying Zheng, or his more than 40 years of life.

However, Li Si felt that the hairs all over his body were about to explode: "Si is for power, but what exactly is Mr. Zhao doing for so many years?" This is something he has never been able to figure out, "Mr. Even if he has settled down in this country for a long time, he will make wedding dresses for others at the end of his life, right?"

Zhao Gao snorted twice: "Gao Zeng had two sons," using the past tense, "but they shouldn't exist in this world, so Gao sent them away with his own hands." So now the only one who is connected with him by blood is his daughter That's all.

So what?

So what.

"Gao is not Your Majesty, he has so many great talents and great strategies, he can even give up everything for the sake of power and fame." He looked far away, "Even a traitor from another country can trust the empire with confidence— —Master Li has always been aggrieved, isn't it that Bai Shu."

Li Si didn't deny it.

"Gao," Zhao Gao said with a smile, "When His Majesty escaped from Handan, it was Wang Jian who took him one way, and Zhao Ji and Lu Buwei took Gao the other way—after the Battle of Changping, how did Qin State treat Zhao State? Those Zhao people want to eat their flesh and spit their bones."

He raised his hand to his chest.

"If it was an inch longer, Gao wouldn't be standing here." He slowly clenched his clothes tightly with his hands, and the fine linen twisted into a blooming vortex following his movements, "But even so, When Gao was 'useless', he abandoned Gao without hesitation——Gao just wanted to be fair, is there something wrong?"

For Ying Zheng, Li Si has been able to be a "confidant" for so many years, and he can't be said to have a complete understanding of his character, but he can also be said to understand half of it.

Clear grievances and grievances are the best labels.

But on top of this, there's 'his'.

Does Ying Zheng owe Zhao Gao anything?

Owe, do not owe.

What I owe is that he almost died because of him.

No, because all of this has nothing to do with his Yingzheng.

If it is his, it will not be in arrears, and if it is not his, it will not be admitted.

Although Zhao Gao almost went to hell because he became Yingzheng's double, it was not Yingzheng who made him a double, and it was not Yingzheng who made him almost die, so Yingzheng would not feel indebted, let alone feel that he needs to make up.

That king, there is nothing more possessive than a man.

What is his can only be his, and what others give him will always be someone else's.

Zhao Gao belongs to someone else.

So even though he knew that Zhao Gao and Li Si wanted to rebel, Li Si was the only one who had a "chance" from the beginning to the end—Li Si was his minister, and what belonged to him was only his, while Zhao Gao was not.

Zhao Gao was Lu Buwei's man at the beginning, even if Lu Buwei died, this would not change.So he won't have a chance, because when Yingzheng decided to use Zhao Gao to become an official in charge of Daqin laws, the two had already been cleared.

Li Si gasped, but this was misread by Zhao Gao: "Don't worry too much, Mr. Li." He said with a smile, "The eldest son is a good boy who is most loyal to His Majesty—if he Knowing that his good Zhongfu wanted to conspire against him, he even poisoned his own father."

He lowered his eyes, with a gentle smile on his face like a neighbor's elder: "I will definitely make the most correct judgment."

Before he could finish his words, Li Si heard the sound of soldiers rushing from behind him.

"Your Majesty the Prime Minister—" The little soldier hurriedly rushed to him, "Your Majesty—"

"Steady," Zhao Gao said sharply without turning his head, "Steady, speak slowly."

Xiaobing took a deep breath, at least he stopped the slight twitching of his body: "I don't know where the bandits came out, broke through the line of defense and rushed into the hinterland." Go and preside over the overall situation."

His Majesty was not mentioned.

Li Si took a half step back subconsciously in shock, because he was standing upright and upside down, he took a half step back, but he saw Zhao Gao's face with his back to his soldier, with a more ferocious smile.

——If a dog fails to keep its master, then in order to prove to the world that he is a good dog and will not bully his young master because he is an old dog, he should die for his master.

Li Si looked at the dark lines on the soldier's armor that belonged to Yanbei Jun's relatives, and thought of Zhao Gao's words for no reason.