The days when I pretended to be a cat in the Forbidden City[Comprehensive]

In the apse of the Qin Palace, two copper furnaces of crane beasts continuously send curling smoke into the room. The windows in the room are closed tightly, and three blankets are hung near the door to keep out the cold air, which makes the room air extremely closed.

As soon as Lu An entered the door, he frowned slightly, not because of the overly strong aroma, but because of the dead air that couldn't be concealed by the strong aroma.

Just after his eyes adjusted to the change of light and shade indoors and outdoors, Lu An saw a strange person lying in the center of the apse. Around him were several witches who were busy divination and throwing bamboo, and some witches were cooking medicine and asking soup.

Zhao Ji was sitting next to the other person, and she was holding the other person's hand tightly, as if she was passing on her own strength.Yiren's other hand was held by a middle-aged beautiful woman. Lu An didn't know who she was, but judging from her age, hair accessories, and current intimacy, he judged that this person should be Yiren's biological mother—Xia Queen Mother.

But the other Empress Dowager of the Qin Palace, Empress Huayang, was not here at the moment.

Lu An, who never expected to see this scene, was shocked. Although he made a lot of mental preparations along the way, he never expected to meet such a weak King Qin.He hurriedly walked a few steps, and bowed down five steps away from the stranger's bed, "Your Majesty!"

"Here we come." To his surprise, the Yiren who had closed his eyes and rested opened his eyes when he heard his call. His complexion was sallow, his lips were dry and cracked, and his eyes were black and blue, but he looked He was quite energetic, seeing Lu An kneeling in the distance, he even hooked his fingers to signal Lu An to get closer.

Lu An hurried forward, and together with Zhao Zheng, took the place where Zhao Ji retreated, and the hand that was vacated by the stranger was immediately held by Zhao Zheng.The stranger's eyes swept over the faces of Lu An and Zhao Zheng inch by inch, he suddenly took a breath, and said with a smile: "It turns out that the osmanthus tree is blooming, it seems that it's autumn."

He glanced past the two young men with astonished expressions, turned to the main entrance blocked by layers of curtains and sighed: "There are no osmanthus trees planted in Xianyang Palace, but there is a big tree near the east gate in the city, which will bloom every autumn." The red-colored flowers are very fragrant."

"When I was young, I was greedy. When I smelled the sweet taste, I thought it must taste sweet, so I sneaked out to eat the sweet-scented osmanthus."

As if thinking of the stupid things he did when he was young, the corners of Yiren's lips curled up, "That's not tasty at all...it's bitter."

As he spoke, he looked to the side. The Empress Dowager Xia held his hand, but tears fell down and hit the back of the stranger's hand drop by drop.Seeing that her son's hands were wet, the Empress Dowager Xia hastily fetched a silk cloth to wipe his hands again. She wiped them twice, but she still hadn't blotted the water dry, and tears fell down again.

The stranger gave her a comforting smile, then turned to Zhao Zheng and said, "I have eaten the wheat candy made by your elder brother. It looks crude at first glance, but it is actually as sweet as honey."

"It smells sweet, but it may not be really sweet."

"Looking at the crude ones, it may not be difficult to say."

He took a tired breath, "So, whether it's cold or hot, whether it's sweet or bitter, you have to taste it for yourself. What others say or what the predecessors said can be used as a reference."

Zhao Zheng's face tightened, he closed his eyes hard, nodded heavily, "My son knows."

"The sky cannot have yang without yin, the earth cannot have rigidity without softness, and people cannot have permanence without change." The corner of the strange man's lips raised, "This is written by my son, do you know why my father suppressed it?" Down?"

"Because now is not the time." The haggard man gently squeezed his son's hand, and then he felt his son squeeze it back even harder, and the other man sighed, "Father always wanted to talk to you, but always I couldn’t sort out my thoughts, until now I have to say it.”

"Father!"

"Zheng'er is smart, young, and brave. You have many talents that you don't have as a father." He will be an excellent Prince of Qin in the future, and even more, I am very happy to be my father."

"My son is very eager to change, and my father also knows that this is driven by the general trend. I just hope that my son will not forget the fish pond in Xianyang Palace, and your great-grandfather's teachings."

"The people are like fish, and laws, policies, and policies are like water in that pond. If you go too fast, you will tire the people, and if you go too far, you will hurt them. You must take it slowly and carefully."

"Son knows." Zhao Zheng replied, his eyes wandered back and forth on his father's face, the young man bit his cheek, but there was a touch of water in his dark eyes, "Father, my son knows, and he will definitely do it!"

"The people around you are all talents selected for you by your mother and I. You have been with them for a long time, and you know their conduct after thinking about it. You don't need to say more about being a father. You must have a decision in your heart."

"As a father, I don't actually worry about you. My son is a smart and brave man, and my father is proud of you."

"Father!" This compliment caused Zhao Zheng to lose control of his emotions for a moment. He held the other man's hand and rested his forehead on his father's cold fingers. Just a few more years, and a few more years. Doesn’t father want to see Zheng’er marry a wife and have children? Didn’t father once say that he wanted to see if Zheng’er’s children were the same as when Zheng’er was a child?”

"Ah, that." The strange man's eyes were a little far away for a moment, as if he saw a chubby but very bad-tempered and stubborn son, and then in his memory, that little baby suddenly became a boy. The boy with a stubborn face, the missing years in the middle are his eternal regrets.

But now he smiled very softly, "Father regretted it later, but I haven't had time to tell you. Think about it carefully, my son is enough for my father, and no fat boy in the family can compare to my son." Well done, even the eldest grandson is the same."

The pride and joy in that tone finally made Zhao Zheng unable to suppress the emotions in his heart, and there was a sobbing sound in his tone, "Father..."

The stranger did not comfort his son's rare fragility, he looked up at Lu An, "An'er..."

"Your Majesty!" Lu An's expression was extremely bitter. He leaned towards the stranger, watching the stranger's complexion gradually flush, and bad premonitions poured in like waves. This ominousness forced him to almost I want to stand up and go find a doctor.

But his body was fixed in place by the other person's eyes. The thin man's eyes were heavy, with Lu An's unshakable strength. He grinned, "Zheng'er has no brothers, you and him I have been with you all year round, and I am not far from a blood brother. Your uncle Yiren didn't help you from the beginning to the end of the matter with Wei Liao. After thinking about it, I feel embarrassed, so I thought of a compensation for you. way."

Little by little, he pulled half of his hand out of Zhao Zheng's hand, and then motioned for Lu An to put his hand up. Then he tightened his palms and held the hands of the two young men together, "I will accept you as righteousness today." Son, from now on, you will be Zheng'er's legitimate elder brother."

"I know what you're going to say. Love is love, and fame is fame." The stranger said softly, "You two, from now on, you can't let each other down."

Lu An's eye circles burned, and he finally couldn't control himself. He shed tears. Looking at Lu An, who covered his face with one hand, and Zhao Zheng, who was stubbornly biting his lip, the stranger smiled with relief, and then said: " Zheng'er, your mother is still young, even though she is the Queen Mother, if she falls in love with another man, you must not stop her..."

"Ying Yiren!" Before he finished speaking, he heard Zhao Ji's wailing roar, "What nonsense are you talking about!"

The stranger who was yelled at by name and surname was slightly stunned, and suddenly smiled more happily. He turned his head and looked at Zhao Ji's side. He saw the beautiful woman with red and swollen eye circles full of anger, and his wife who hadn't washed and rested for several days. He was extremely embarrassed, but the stranger also felt that she was extremely beautiful, just like the daughter of the Lu family who had a glimpse back then, that image of beauty remained in his heart, and has not faded until now.

"No nonsense." The other person said softly, his eyes brushed past his wife's face tenderly, as if he wanted to engrave this face in his heart forever, "I just want you to live a good life, and you and Zheng'er are all well." Yes. Nothing else will matter."

"Then you should stay with us well." Zhao Ji finally couldn't help it. She lay on the bedside of the stranger and sobbed. .Finally, he looked at the Empress Dowager Xia who had been sitting there and weeping. He smiled slightly at the Empress Dowager Xia: "Mother."

"My son." Empress Dowager Xia forced a smile, "My son has worked hard, mother knows, and mother is also proud of you."

The Yiren laughed even more happily. He took a breath, slowly pulled out a dagger from under the pillow, and pushed it in front of Zhao Zheng, "This was forged by Ou Yezi, and it's called a fish intestine."

Seeing that everyone present was looking at him in astonishment and puzzlement, Yiren tapped the hilt of his sword with his fingertips. The action of taking out the sword just now was obviously a heavy burden for him. Zhao Zhengdao said: "This is the sword of Chu State. It was the sword of King Helu of Wu who stabbed King Liao of Wu. Later, after Wu State was destroyed by Yue State, the sword came into the hands of Yue King. A hundred years later, Yue King could not keep this sword and offered it up. It was given to the king of Chu, and it is the treasure of the king of Chu."

Since it is the treasure of King Chu, why is it here?

Zhao Zheng's brain, which was stagnant due to grief, began to turn slowly because of this question, and he suddenly realized something.Back then, I heard my elder brother tell the story of Zhuan Zhu assassinating King Liao. He thought it was too bizarre and asked about the story. His father, who knew all his actions, knew about it, but he never told him that the fish intestine sword was used in the Qin Dynasty. country.

Afterwards, he left Qin State and entered the imperial court after returning to help his father take care of affairs. He had never heard that Chu State gave gifts, let alone that Chu State gave Qin State Yuchangjian, and he had never been in his father's treasury and I saw this sword in the study display.

This sword was either given to his father by the king of Chu when he didn't know it, or his father got it by accident and hid it away.

Zhao Zheng suddenly felt that Lu An's hand on his palm tightened suddenly. This abnormal reaction made him wake up. He suddenly thought of a possibility, and his expression became tense.

The stranger smiled.

He laughed under the gaze of his son who was almost spitting fire, and said with a strange sigh: "My son guessed it, yes, now the world knows that this sword is with the widow...all in this room."

Without waiting for Zhao Zheng, who frowned, to answer, he continued, "There must be a war between Qin and Chu. The Chu faction in Qin is deeply rooted and has to be eliminated."

"My widow, I want to give my son the best reason in my humble body."

...for what reason?Zhao Zheng's mind went blank, and then there was a flash of cold light. He stood up with a fierce posture that he had never seen before, trying to stop the other person from saying what was behind him, but as he stood up, , the other person's words fell lightly, "The hatred of killing one's father is irreconcilable. For this reason, the Chu family in Qin can be wiped out."

He raised his head slowly, looked at his son whose eyes were red with anger, and smiled, "The widow is the king of Qin, and you are the prince. No one can know the truth."

King Qin has a high status, and no one in the whole world dares to examine his body. At that time, as long as the royal family of Qin reveals some news that King Qin's death was assassinated by people from the Chu family, no one will doubt it.And only "revenge for the father" is the safest way to eradicate the Chu faction in the country, and it is also the method that will cause the least disturbance.

Qin State is a country where many countries are integrated, and only this method will not make visitors from other countries feel cold.And the reason is very easy to find. The Queen Mother Huayang stuffed many Chu girls into the Qin Palace, and the news that the King of Qin only favors the Queen is known all over the world. When the time comes, it will be said that those Chu girls are being used because of love and hatred. It makes sense.

Mean?Shameless?really.

The strategy of framing and framing is a complete conspiracy, but someone who can use his own behind-the-scenes events as an important weight in this plan, even at the expense of letting himself have the notoriety of being killed by a woman, is a foreigner. No.1 in the world.

The room fell into silence, Zhao Zheng suddenly took the sword in his father's hand, and before the stranger showed a smile, he saw his son lift his hand and throw the fish intestine sword into the charcoal stove for heating in the room.

Then, the Crown Prince of Qin turned around to look at his surprised father and said: "Father, the Chu faction forces, the son will definitely come up with a solution, the victory gained by stepping on the father, the son does not want it! "

"Father, do you still remember that when sorting out Qin characters, father taught the child two characters?"

"The king has a degree. The three horizontal lines are heaven, earth and man. The three horizontal lines and one vertical line mean that they traverse the three realms of heaven, earth, and man. The king is the one whose thoughts connect the heavens, the earth, and the people. The one who controls all directions and has the world in his heart is the king."

"As for the king, if his desire exceeds the sky and his spine is bent, he will die."

"The father's teachings, the child will always remember."

The other person was stunned, and after a while he laughed out loud, a drop of crystal flashed in the corner of his eyes after laughing, "My son has grown up, very good, very good."

He was completely relieved.

His child is extremely intelligent, but he is born with a ruthless nature. He is like a sword wrapped in a scabbard without a handle, and may break out of the scabbard at any time.

And he has been worried that this sword will hurt others as well as himself.

But now, his child put himself on the hilt of the sword, and then restrained his murderous aura and stayed in the scabbard,

The other person's eyes bypassed the faces of the people in the room one by one, and finally he said softly: "Please come in, Elder Zong."

As soon as the words fell, the Empress Dowager Xia and Zhao Ji broke down in tears at the same time, and Zhao Zheng also knelt down in a normal way, holding the stranger's hand and choking without saying a word.After a while, several Zong elders who were waiting outside came in with complicated expressions. They looked at the stranger quietly, and the head of the old Zong head was even more complicated. He sent King Zhaoxiang away more than ten years ago. Later, King Xiaowen was sent away. Unexpectedly, the third King Qin was going to be sent away now.

He glanced at the young and strong Zhao Zheng, and sighed in his heart.

"Grandfather!" The stranger slowly opened his eyes, "My son, Zhao Zheng, please do me a favor."

"Grandpa knows." The old patriarch nodded, and he slowly sat beside the stranger, patted him, "Don't worry, grandpa will watch."

"Thank you grandpa." The other man took a breath, moved his eyes from the faces of everyone in the room one by one, tightened the hand held by Zhao Zheng with the last bit of strength, and finally closed his eyes.

The room was quiet for a moment, and then louder crying broke out, and at this stall, Empress Dowager Xia suddenly stood up, she patted Zhao Ji's shoulder lightly, and said: "What happens after this, you Let's take care of it."

Zhao Ji was stunned, "Queen Mother?"

"My son wants to eat sweet-scented osmanthus. I'll make it for him." The expression on the back of Mrs. Xia gradually turned calm. "Osmanthus fragrans" and stumbled out.

She heard clearly just now that her son wanted to eat sweet-scented osmanthus from the east gate, and the Empress Dowager Xia got into the carriage and was about to go to the east gate to pick the flowers herself.

In fact, her son is not greedy, but really can't eat enough and can't eat well.

She fell out of favor early on, and her only son was in the middle rank among An Guojun's children. The mother and son were just two little transparents in An Guojun's harem.

Children grow up fast, and they often have to remake their clothes. They also consume a lot of fabrics, and they eat a lot during the growth period.At that time, Xia Ji's Empress Dowager Xia's mother's family was not prominent, and she was a married woman, so her natal family could not provide subsidies. Xia Ji was struggling every day to feed her children.

She is not smart, and the last solution she came up with was to tear down the east wall to make up for the west wall, and exchange the saved fabric for food.

How to save fabric?It's very simple. If the children's clothes are short, they should be mended, and if they are torn, they should be patched. When making clothes every year, they should be kept longer. It doesn't have to be too neat, just let them out a little bit at that time.Her craftsmanship is actually very good, but it can't be seen on her son, because the clothes on the other person's body are always unfit.

Although life is not easy, it is not too difficult. Xia Ji has been waiting for Yiren to grow up, and when her son grows up, she will be able to have an errand, and then she will be able to survive.

The quiet days were broken when An Guojun named the children, and An Guojun named her child "Yi Ren".

Different people, different people, different from ordinary people, the word "different" cannot be regarded as a commendatory word from any angle.There is no one in the world who is more eloquent than those in the palace, and her child has become a laughing stock among brothers since then.

The sons of the Qin State practiced martial arts since they were young. In the morning, the son happily told him that they could have lunch and meat in the school. At night, she was told by a beauty she knew that her son was picked up by another gentleman while he was practicing martial arts. clothes, and found patches on his clothes.

Her child's personality has never been quiet and gentle. He was once proud, stubborn, and rebellious, but those thorns have been smoothed out a little bit.

In the end, he was even sent to Zhao Guo as a hostage.

And all of this is because of her incompetence.

Therefore, when Lu Buwei approached her and persuaded her to agree that the other person should be recorded under Huayang's name, she agreed without hesitation.

As long as her child can live well and come back from Zhao Guoan, it's nothing for her to be wronged.

After the Yiren ascended the throne, she did feel a little overturned. Hua Yang didn't like her, and she always thought that she would persuade the Yiren to leave her. Yu Benbo, the son in front of the two mothers, saw Huayang and the Chu faction forces behind her making things difficult for other people. In the end, she gave up and chose to be a queen mother quietly.

Once this day passed, it lasted more than ten years, and at the end, she also didn't know if she really had no regrets like that.

The Empress Dowager Xia got out of the carriage, took a small basket, and carefully selected the flowers on the osmanthus tree bit by bit.

She actually learned to cook with sweet-scented osmanthus after the stranger was sent as a hostage, but she never had the chance to do it. After a long time, she also forgot about it.

The Empress Dowager Xia carefully selected each petal to ensure that each petal was the most complete and beautiful. She had just collected a small basket when she heard the bell from Xianyang Palace.

Her movements slowed down a little bit, and finally she returned to the carriage with a wooden face and a basket of fresh osmanthus flowers. She didn't let the carriage start, but sat on the carriage and looked at the huge osmanthus tree through the window frame with a wooden face. , Looking at it, she shed tears.

Some regrets, some misses, it is bound to be irreparable.

Three months later, in the first year of Qin Wangzheng, the 20-year-old Ying Zheng stood at the head of the ceremony of offering sacrifices to heaven. He watched the newest tablet that had been added to the ancestral tablet, and slowly raised his sword to cut through his palm, drawing blood into his chest. liquor.

Feng Chang took the wine bowl and sprinkled it on the pile of firewood together with the blood of the sacrifice. The firewood pile was ignited, and a large amount of smoke and dust billowed into the sky. Ying Zheng stood on the altar, and suddenly, through the layers of fireworks, he seemed to really see When his father and a group of King Qin stood on the cloud, they were all watching him silently.

Ying Zheng closed his eyes, opened his arms and let the smoke and cold wind blow his sleeves violently. He heard a question that was louder than one.

[Ying Zheng!Can you bless the people and be strict with yourself and work hard to govern? 】

can.

【You may be as open-minded as you are, and follow advice like a stream? 】

can.

[Yingzheng, the 500-year great achievements of my surname have fallen on you, and the 500-year karmic achievements are also on your shoulders. Do you dare to bear the weight of the people of Qin and the trust of the people of the world to create a great cause of everything? 】

I dare.

[In this way, it should be a great good. 】

The strong wind blew past, rolled up the soot on the ground and sent it to the blue sky, the young emperor slowly opened his eyes.

Half a year later, Empress Dowager Xia passed away and was buried in Du County.Another three months later, Meng Ao, a general of the Qin State, passed away, and the king of Qin allowed his tablet to be buried in the Martyr's Shrine.

Since then, Qin has officially entered a new era.