For teacher, for father

The oil lamp quietly illuminated one side brightly, it was almost late at night, only the side of the low table in the Lanxin Hall was illuminated by the oil lamp, and the rest had gradually fallen into crimson with the night.

Zheng Shuang was sitting blankly on the soft cushion at this time, holding a touch of tender pink peach petals between her fingers, her eyelids were slightly drooping, and the eyes covered by eyelashes could not see the thoughts in her black pupils.

It has been a full seven days since I lived in this palace wall. The concubine of King Qin was deserted. In the whole harem including her, there were only three beauties in the palace. Even the king just married back to the palace as a show. From the pale faces of the two noble princesses, it could be seen how much resentment they had towards this man.

Locked in this gorgeous cage every day, unable to contact the outside world, youthful years, even love has been taken away... Zheng Shuang can understand their resentment, aristocratic background, marrying the king of a country at a young age, arrogant to the end It is inevitable.However, the gap between the dream life and the present is too great, so that the beautiful and immature face is withering day by day.

The girl hugged her slender shoulders.She is just the daughter of a commoner and has no feelings for Ying Zheng. She dare not imagine that she will become like that one day?

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"Zheng Meiren... beauty, but fell asleep?"

A soft knock on the door interrupted Zheng Shuang's thinking. The huge Lanxin Hall was cold and devoid of any atmosphere. The girl hurriedly put on a coat, and answered the question and opened the carved wooden door: the people outside the door were rickety. He was lying down, the rain had completely wet his clothes, his forehead was dripping with water, he looked embarrassed, but his tone was soft: "It's raining heavily, it's cold outside, don't come out, go ahead and talk."

Zheng Shuang nodded, and hurriedly invited Zhao Gao, who was drenched in the rain, into the room.

Although the harem is large, but under the premise that the king has no interest in them at all, there is no reward, no rewards, even the maids and guards lack interest, and the rules have gradually weakened a lot.

Otherwise, Zhao Gao's late-night meeting with Qin Wang's woman would have been seen and reported to him by someone with a heart, and his crime would be death.

"Why... are you back again?"

"I showed this peach branch to the king to have a look, and I found out that the king is depressed and doesn't care about state affairs... It's obviously a good opportunity, but it's a pity, this strange rain."

"..." Zheng Shuang was dumbfounded, she never imagined that Zhao Gao would mention her name in front of the emperor while she lived in the Lanxin Palace all day long.Even at the risk of fighting for a place for her.

She is a daughter of an upright official, how can she know how to flatter her?Today's peach blossom branch must be one of the ways Zhao Gao thought of to win the favor of the king.

"It doesn't matter, it won't work this time, there will be another time." Seeing that the other party didn't speak, Zhao Gao thought that Zheng Shuang was disappointed and lonely, so he could only comfort him softly: "I have been on duty for the past few days, and I found that although the king has a violent temper, But it's not without weaknesses..."

"weakness?"

What weakness could the violent and indifferent King Qin have?The girl had no expression on her face. She had no feelings or hatred for Ying Zheng. She couldn't blame anyone for the unfair fate.

"Your Majesty is in a depressed mood today, but everything in the Zhengyang Palace remains as usual... Except for Mr. Ji's departure from the palace, there is nothing abnormal."

"You mean..." Mr. Ji?Zheng Shuang tried hard to recall in her mind that she also heard Zhao Gao say a few words about Ji Hao later, but only a vague image of wearing a plain robe remained in her mind.

Zhao Gao nodded, carefully shaking the water droplets on his body.Wiping his face again, he took a step back, not wanting to stain the girl in front of him with the moisture on his body: "Yes, Ji Hao was the king's literature and history teacher when he was young, and he was in trouble with the king in the country of Zhao. This kind of emotional foundation is very rare, and even compared to Queen Zhao, the king pays more attention to this adult's thoughts."

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"Zhao Gao, I dare not..." Zheng Shuang said in a hoarse voice after being silent for a while, but she was only a 16-year-old girl. If there was no Zhao Gao to help her in this deep palace, with Zheng Shuang's age and mentality, she would be It is difficult to gain a place in front of Ying Zheng.

Commoner was born, if it wasn't for her father, how could she say such a thing on that day?However, Zheng Shuang's mind is immature for her big words. She has no feelings for Ying Zheng, so she still dare not do such a harmful thing.

"I will report this matter to the prime minister, so you don't have to worry about it."

Zhao Gao was not in a hurry to force the girl to make a decision. He and Zheng Shuang were both on Lu Buwei's boat, but why did they help the girl like this... It was like a fever in the head, even Zhao Gao himself wondered. well.

Maybe they both came from poor backgrounds, or maybe they were both on Lu Buwei's boat.

Obviously at a similar age, he had already decayed in the prison where the son of a criminal minister was once held, while Zheng Shuang... still retained a touch of innocence that he didn't have.

People always think that what they don't have is the best, this is the case for Lu Buwei, and it is the same for Zhao Gao.

Zhao Gao turned around, wiped off the rain on his chin, stopped looking at the expression on the girl's face, and gave a gentle salute: "The night is dark, the rain is damp and cold, beauty, please rest quickly. The villain will leave now. "

That night, the people inside the red wall thought about what was outside the red wall, and the people outside the red wall thought about what was inside the red wall...

Whether it was Zheng Shuang, Ying Zheng and Ji Hao, they were extremely depressed and unable to sleep that night.

It wasn't until the morning time was approaching that Ji Hao hurriedly wiped his tired and sore cheeks with cold water, put on neat clothes and entered the palace with Qi Yi early.

The sky is pale gray and white, and the clouds are low and heavy, suppressed in the cool morning and evening.There was a gentle cold wind blowing over the sleepy nerves of all the officials. Day after day, in the early morning, the atmosphere above the main hall was solemn and desolate.Ji Hao and Qi Yi, who had changed his identity to Ziying, stood at the front of the officials, waiting for the arrival of the young King Qin.

The cursive script of the imperial examination was written all night and it was too late to go through any revisions. The young man knew that his move would attract the counterattack of most of the clan nobles, but if he dared not bring this matter to the court, the reformers Hope is even slimmer.

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Yingzheng stayed up all night, until the morning light and the bitter morning wind blew over the boy's slightly numb nerves, and the careful knocking on the door by the palace people finally interrupted the silence in Zhengyang Hall.

The emperor still held that delicate peach branch in his fingers, and there were dots of pink petals scattered on the low table, adding a touch of bright color to the deep tones.

After Zhao Gao left last night, the sky began to rain sporadically, as if deliberately preventing Ying Zheng from going in the direction of the harem to stop him from thinking.

However, the peach tree branch in his hand still left a deep impression on the young man—appreciating flowers. Appreciating flowers at night does sound very leisurely and relaxed, but there is no beauty in his mind. Instead, it is full of youths in plain robes Holding a bamboo slip and sitting quietly on a cushion, maybe the background should be changed to the peach blossom forest in the palace... Mr. Ruo raised his head and smiled at him...

The boy showed a foolish smile, and suddenly forgot the boredom in his heart.

Such a beautiful picture made Ying Zheng want to try it out, but the reality is always skinny. When the emperor remembered the fact that his husband had left the palace today, his mood plummeted instantly, and even the pink and tender peach branches in front of him became pale. Hateful.

Throwing the peach branch to the corner of the table in a fit of anger, the emperor began to force himself to focus all his attention on the memorial in front of him, but when he picked up the memorial that Ji Hao handed in the day before yesterday for the fifth time, he was in a daze for a long while, and was suddenly caught by someone outside the house. After the sound of raindrops woke him up, the boy pressed his forehead irritably, his mind was in chaos.

He couldn't think, couldn't calm down...just because Mr. wasn't around.

Clenching his hands tightly, in the dark and quiet night, Ying Zheng once again felt the uncontrollable urge from the morning before yesterday, his mouth was dry, and he felt very thirsty.

He can no longer deceive himself, this impulsiveness and thirst are all because of the departure of one person.

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In this way, I struggled all night in the gap between imagination and reality. In the morning, Yingzheng was naturally extremely sleepy, but the morning time should not be delayed. The young man still quietly let the palace people file in to dress himself, his mind was in chaos left the Zhengyang Palace.

However, on the way to court, Ying Zheng met an unexpected person.

Guiguzi was still in the casual black clothes, with a cold face, standing on the road that Yingzheng must pass through as if appearing out of thin air, bending over, quietly observing the dewdrops on the petals of a peony.

When the emperor gradually approached, the man straightened up slowly, with no waves in his black eyes, he just stared straight at Ying Zheng with a grim expression.

"...Mr. Guigu is so excited to enjoy the flowers in the widow's garden so early in the morning."

The young man didn't like this fairy family with weird personality. He was defiant and appeared in his garden out of thin air. Naturally, he said in a bad tone: "I wonder what Mr. Guigu has seen?"

"..."

Guiguzi completely ignored the other party, looked away, wiped some dew on his hand, then turned around and walked deeper into the garden.

Ying Zheng didn't care about him, he seemed to have gotten used to Guiguzi's way of treating people these days, he turned around without interest and continued to walk in the direction of the morning hall in a hurry.

Until the moment when he started to walk again, the emperor clearly heard a deep voice floating in his ears, it was clear and leisurely, and he couldn't help but suddenly darken his face: ...

"Da Qin's fate has been changed, and those who change their fate are in danger."

The inexplicable panic occupied the heart of the young emperor for the first time. He didn't quite understand what Guiguzi meant by changing his life, let alone who the so-called changer was - but he felt strongly that this matter Must have something to do with Mr.

Unfamiliar emotions dazzled Ying Zheng's mind. He didn't even have time to think carefully about the deep meaning of this sentence, and his pace unconsciously quickened.

Until they hurried all the way to the main hall, all the officials were seated, and the emperor was seated. The shrill voice of the eunuch in charge announced the beginning of the morning court.Everything was as usual, but Ying Zheng's eyes were tightly locked on Ji Hao's body, fearing that the other party would disappear in front of him out of thin air in the next second.

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From time to time, Mr. would say something he didn't understand, and fell into a deep sleep for another five years. The time in his body stagnated as if frozen, and he came back to life... These things are almost impossible for ordinary people to encounter, but all of them happened in Ji Ji. Hao's body, even Xu Fu couldn't explain what was going on.

Even, the husband was not surprised that he came back from the dead.

Coupled with Guiguzi's warning words today, Ying Zheng suddenly felt that the whole thing was not right.

The young man suddenly discovered that he didn't know anything about Ji Hao - he knew nothing about Ji Hao except his name and his identity as a husband.

Sir... Where did you come from?Why change your life?What else has been hidden from him...