[Qin] Qin Shi

Different from Handan's luxurious life, when Bai Shu followed Lian Po all the way to the north, the surrounding environment and scenery gradually changed.The carved railings gradually changed to simple wooden boards, and the gorgeously dressed pedestrians everywhere were gradually replaced by commoner peasants, and even the gender and age gradually changed.

"What makes you think so fascinated?" Holding Bai Shu close, making sure that he would not be knocked off the horse because of his small strength, "Look at you, you haven't caused me any trouble for several hours." I don't think so at all. Lian Po said how unpleasant it was for him to say this, "I still feel a little uncomfortable for a while."

He didn't know whether it was intentional or unintentional, he pinched the horse's belly, and felt the horse summoned by the owner accelerate two steps forward, but the sudden bump and momentum made Bai Shu unable to stabilize himself, and threw his head into Lian Po's arms Li, but then he tried to straighten up and maintain his sitting posture.

Looking at Xiao Douding, who was clearly wobbling, making people feel that he was about to fall off the horse in the next second, but he had to rely on his own strength to keep his body upright and try his best to maintain his demeanor, which made Lian Po want to play tricks even more. .

And he did the same, the old horse who had been with him for many years took two steps to the side in agreement with him, allowing his master to successfully win another young man who was not sitting still.

"You're enough!" Bai Shu couldn't see that Lian Po was playing tricks, he didn't want to say anything out of the attitude of relying on others, but Lian Po's behavior of provoking him again and again was really annoying The man was annoyed, "Didn't I just let go a few more times, didn't you already take revenge on me on the road?!"

"That's not the same." Seeing that Bai Shu was the one who couldn't help it first, Lian Po hummed happily, "You wasted time and you made me fall behind, but I rushed to catch up with the big troops to make up for it." The time you procrastinate. How can you be tossed by those bumps that have occurred in order to catch up with the main force."

So in fact, you also know that those bumps are caused by you, right? !

If it wasn't because he was sitting in Lian Po's arms now, if it wasn't because he was too young, and there was no three-piece suit in this age to help him control the horse, if it wasn't for the sovereignty now in Lian Po's hands, Bai Shu swore he would He will definitely have a fight with Lian Po—fuck him for respecting the old and loving the young, this old and disrespectful guy!

"You're scolding me, right?" Lian Po didn't need to look at Bai Shu's face, he could guess what the young man was thinking even if he looked at the back of Bai Shu's head, so he slapped Bai Shu on the head, "Be grateful, brat, if it weren't for Lao Tzu, it would take many years for you to climb up step by step to be able to join the army."

Facing this guy who keeps talking about 'I', Bai Shu only felt that since he traveled across the ocean and came here through the ages, he has never touched a real fire, and he is rushing upwards: "That's not the case. "After all, he is still a young man, he turned his head and retorted loudly, "Even without you, in another six or seven years, I will be able to guard the border."

"That's not necessarily the case," Lian Po hummed, his tone still full of jokes, but he looked down at Bai Shu with connivance and deep love in his eyes, "Maybe in another ten years it will be over." The world is peaceful, not to mention joining the army to guard the border, even the logistics soldiers no longer recruit new recruits."

Bai Shu didn't notice Lian Po's expression: "Oh, as long as you have a brain, you will know that it is impossible." There are many ambitious people in the Seven Kingdoms. Although they fought a big war, they were also tempted to come and go between each other, with constant friction.

"Hey, it's really getting harder and harder to lie to children now." The corners of Lian Po's mouth rose, pretending to be troubled by Bai Shu's sensitivity, "It's time to tell you, the old man and Lin Xiang are planning to implement a new policy called How about 'You are not allowed to join the army in the year of Zhixue (15 years old)'?"

"Oh, you promulgated this new policy first." Bai Shu squinted at Lian Po, turned his head to look at the road, and said in a tone full of disdain and disbelief, "If you can persuade King Zhao, or even Prince Yan, to stop being strong Conscript soldiers, and even no longer recruit young soldiers, then from now on you say one thing, and I will definitely not say two."

After the Battle of Changping, Qin State killed a large number of Zhao State’s younger generation, resulting in a large shortage of labor force in Zhao State. Let alone those under 15 years old, it is normal for five or six years old to make a living with the elders in the family.It is only less than ten years now, and the labor force has not yet been replenished.

Lian Po looked at the back of the dark head of the boy in his arms, the original smile on his face faded away, and turned into worry and deeper expectations.

After turning his head for a while, he couldn't hear Lian Po's rebuttal behind him. Bai Shu felt a little uncomfortable for the sudden short silence. Just as he was about to investigate the situation, Lian Po's voice came from behind him.

"That's right, those things are too long ago. But you reminded the old man that if other countries take advantage of Zhao's lack of manpower and mix in the secret work, it will be bad. It's better to follow the test ( household registration) to recruit soldiers, so that no one can fish in troubled waters.”

It is obvious who these words are directed at.So far he doesn't have an official identity. Although he has been publicly identified as the "adopted son" of Lian Po's family or Lin Xiangru's family along the way, Bai Shu, who has not been able to see his ID card so far, is there any Being able to hold back his violent temper, he leaned back vigorously, intending to hit Lian Po's chest with his head.

And how could Lian Po, who had been on guard against Bai Shu's revenge, be so easily caught? He held the rein with one hand, and withdrew his other hand to his chest, wrapping the back of Bai Shu's head tightly with his calloused hands: "What, our Xiao Xizuo finally couldn't hide his violent temper, and became angry from embarrassment, ready to trade injury for injury?"

Knowing that Lian Po was making a joke, Bai Shu couldn't help but still couldn't help but wanted to catch Lian Po's wrist with a backhand: "Don't hit me," he was so angry that he followed Lian Po's self-proclaimed, "If it wasn't for Can't live without Zhao, do you think I can take a liking to Zhao, a poor place with no one, no government, and even a ruined place since the big defeat!"

Bai Shu blurted out the words out of anger, and Bai Shu realized that he had said the wrong words, but these words were like splashed water, how could he easily take them back.

It's just that Lian Po didn't seem to be dissatisfied with Bai Shu's trampling on the country he had dedicated his life to. His voice was very calm: "You don't admit that you are from Zhao, and you don't want to say which country you are from. Even if you look down on Zhao, why don't you tell me, what is your identity that you have been so proud of?"

This time, Wu Yan was replaced by Bai Shu.

When Lian Po asked the words, a sense of grievance and sourness climbed into his heart.He wanted to refute, show off, and show his country, but when the words came to his lips, he found that he had nothing to say, and he couldn't say it—his country and home were this land, but it wasn't this land. piece of land.

【Host? ] The system, which has been watching movies online incognito, noticed the string of data in the program code that belonged to Bai Shu, which he could not decipher, 【Are you okay? 】

Bai Shu didn't respond to the system, he opened and closed his mouth, his back was facing Lian Po, and he didn't notice the somewhat sluggish tone in his voice that didn't answer the question: "You are proud of your identity as Zhao, But now that King Zhao is seriously ill, everyone says that there is one king and one courtier, and when the crown prince takes over, let's see if you can still be as proud as you are today!"

Like a hedgehog, it wraps all the weak places in the deepest part, and the most difficult part is exposed outside.

His history is not good, but he also vaguely remembers that Lian Po's last shining in history was before he was replaced by King Zhao in the Battle of Changping.And when the Zhao Kingdom was defeated, after Zhao Wang stepped down this time, he disappeared on the stage of the Warring States Period: "Even if Zhao Wang is still in power today, in order to protect you, a heroic and important minister, I still let you go away from the border." Is it?"

"You've become angry from embarrassment," Lian Po exerted a little force on his wrist, restraining Bai Shu's movement of turning his head, which also prevented Bai Shu from seeing the expression on Lian Po's face at the moment, "But no matter how depressed I am now, my country Home is right behind me, as long as I look back, as long as I want to go, I can go back."

Lian Po didn't blame Bai Shu for his outspokenness and offense, his voice was very calm: "But what about you?"

He asked like this: "You don't want to be confined by 'Zhao', is it because of your pride, or is it because of the place you want to go back to, but you can never go back?" The veteran of his own name finally showed his unsluggish blade.

Those connivances, those concessions, and those actions that seem to be on the sidelines are just bait for him to lure the enemy, just waiting for the prey to bite the hook and then fall into his hands: "Aren't you afraid? Afraid to become Will the people of Zhao gradually forget your homeland?"

The veteran's words were like a sharp knife, cutting deep into Bai Shu's weakest defense: "You dare not face your fears, you dare not admit the reality, and come out from the past and move forward. You have clearly accepted it in your heart. reality, but you are still deluding yourself and wallowing in lies."

"What do you know!" Maybe it was the hand that was stuck to the deadliest place, or it was the connivance and concessions all the time, Bai Shu's disguise was cracked at this moment, "You can't see me at all. You don’t even know what I know about the things I got!”

How could you know the future I know, how could you understand my cautiousness, how could you understand my reluctance and excitement——you don’t even know that the home country you are dedicating your whole life to now will have a future in the future. Another name, a name that is feared by this land.

If you don't know what Zhao will look like in ten years, how can you know how prosperous this land will be in 5000 years!

But I know, I know that the Seven Kingdoms were unified by the Qin State, I know that the Qin State died in only two generations, and I even know that Liu Bang in Peixian County established the Han Dynasty, followed by the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties.I know that all your actions today, and all your struggles for this country, turned into bubbles in the end.

The grievance of being inexplicably pulled back to the past, facing the fear of the unknown, and being alone in this strange era, the loneliness that no one can say and no one can complain about, dripped down the cheeks and onto the clothes: "What do you know, you are just Treat me like an arrogant and ignorant child."

Do you think I didn't try to leave?

I couldn't go back to my home, and even leaving Handan became impossible because I didn't pass this ID card.In this way, there is no need to mention the possibility of entering the Qin State in an independent capacity and serving for the predecessor of the first unified dynasty on the land of China.

I don't know how the power that brought me to this era came from, I don't know how to go back to my era, I don't know what the system says 'energy', and I don't even know that if history is changed, then Will I disappear in the next second because I accidentally wiped out my ancestors.

"Do you think I'm the one who is willing to come to this shabby place!" A shabby age where, just because I was a child, what I said would only be laughed at as childish jokes, and then forgotten in the blink of an eye. "Even if I made an appointment yesterday to bring the prey to the door the next day, the host will not prepare money for me in advance on the second day. It is just because they think that I am the prey of luck, and it is impossible to do this every day. Good luck brings the prey to the door."

"But that's the prey I hunted with my real skills. Why can they just say 'good luck' to offset and obliterate my credit. It doesn't even taste like cooking here, there is no chili, no MSG, and no takeaway There is no Internet or even games, and it’s a crappy place where you can only sleep every day when it’s dark! Whoever wants to come here!”

At the end, Bai Shu was almost crying.

At some point, Lian Po's horse slowed down, and they also broke away from the main force and walked to the deserted path: "Then try to convince me," his voice was deep and steady, which made people feel at ease, "I don't believe you, so you have to convince me. If others don't believe you, you go to convince others."

Lian Po's palms covering the back of Bai Shu's head were flipped over, and they were placed on Bai Shu's face, shielding him from the oncoming wind and sand: "Then when your words are accepted and trusted by more people, I will tell you Tell the world what you see, and let the world see what you see, and know what you know."

"If you stop here, you will only be able to do this for the rest of your life."

"As you said, since the great battle between Zhao and Qin, Zhao's strength has not been as good as before." Frankly admitted Bai Shu's ridicule before, "The young and strong are all in Changping, and the children's love for Qin The fear has never subsided day by day, and this timidity will not subside within a few decades, and if this continues, we will face the Qin people—most of the Zhao people will lose without fighting."

"Zhao Kuo died there. The king attributed the defeat of this battle to me. Since then, I have not led the army. If Lin Xiangru hadn't spoken out and supported me today, if the king hadn't given me another chance, It’s not that I’ve tried my best, I’m just an ordinary old man who is holding on to the glory of the past.”

Lian Po's palm is big, just enough to cover the face of today's young man, allowing tears to flow down his face.

"There are not one thousand such old people in Zhao State, but eight hundred. But I know, I can't stop, how can I stop." Such sad words, when Lian Po said it, it was like stating a military order The general is straightforward and firm, "Those teenagers haven't grown up yet, they still need time. All the generals who can get their hands on it are folded there, and most of the new generation of young generals are still experiencing and growing

——Now the whole country has the heart and courage to fight Qin, only Li Mu and I. "

What a sad thing for a country that was once powerful.

"But child," the horse stopped shaking and bumping, "it is because of this that I can't fall down." The veteran's words were sad but high-spirited, "Behind me is the future of Zhao Guo. Road, how can I fall when I can still count the rows."

Bai Shu leaned on Lian Po's body, he could hear the veteran's steady heartbeat, that weak voice even drowned out the whistling wind in his ear, changed his own breathing, even the sound of the collision of soldiers' armor in the distance changed. It's too light to hear: "Just look around."

The hand that blocked the sun slowly withdrew, they didn't know when they passed the advancing army, and took a small path to the side of the middle team of the army. In the condescending field of vision was the Zhao army marching slowly along the steps of their predecessors .

Perhaps because they were still in Zhao State, most of these soldiers didn't put on their helmets, and let their hair flutter -- looking around, it was gray.

Most of them are old people with white hair over half a century old. They should be at the age of living at home, but they still put on armor and went to northern Xinjiang: "Their trip is to replace Li Mu's subordinates. .”

Although the Battle of Changping was a national effort, because there were barbarians in the north of Zhao State, some young and strong people stayed there to prevent those barbarians from going south to plunder the relatively empty interior of Zhao State.But no one could have expected that these people became Zhao Guo's last hope.

"Look," Lian Po put his hand on Bai Shu's shoulder, "this is the homeland I've been proud of so far, and I'm willing to dedicate my whole life to it."

Bai Shu looked at this team that was not very effective, but the average age was considered old in this day and age, and remained silent.

Lian Po didn't ask Bai Shu to speak: "I don't ask you to forget your homeland, nor ask your origin, and I won't find out where your kung fu skills come from." Overhead, looking down at the continuous team, "If you are from Zhao, you will guard the border of our country of Zhao, so that those barbarians will not be allowed to step into this land."

"From then on, you are their general. From then on, this is your home country."