Destiny Only Han

Chapter 96

Hearing the young man's words, Xu Neg's eyes lit up behind the veil, and he grinned, revealing a few white teeth.

"Two hundred gold."

Her ethereal and distant voice came out from the veil, startling the young man's eyes wide and his fists clenched.

"Two hundred gold, why not grab it!"

Xu negative said unhurriedly: "If you don't want to, then forget it."

The young man had no choice but to take off the beautiful jade around his waist: "This is my father's accessory during his lifetime. It is worth more than two hundred gold. I will mortgage it to you first, and I will redeem it later."

A maid walked by, took the jade pendant after saluting, and returned to behind the veil.

Xu negatively held the jade pendant with a smile on his face, but still maintained his ethereal voice: "Hedong Anyi, there is a daughter named Bo, who should be the mother of the Son of Heaven!"

The young man frowned and asked, "You mean, the daughter of the Bo family in Anyi will give birth to a son who will become the emperor?"

Xu Negative nodded slightly: "Of course."

The young man asked again: "If I marry a daughter of the Bo family, will I become the father of the Son of Heaven?"

In the veil, an ethereal and distant voice came: "The secret of heaven must not be revealed..."

The young man was silent for a long time, and when he was about to get up and leave, he suddenly asked again: "I have another question, I hope you can answer it."

Xu Negative asked: "Is it related to fate?"

The young man shook his head: "It doesn't matter."

Xu Negative said concisely: "Ten gold."

The young man smiled helplessly. Before he came, he had heard of Xu Negative's reputation of "demanding money at death", so he nodded and said, "Yes, I will give it to you when you redeem the jade pendant."

Xu negative Xi smiled: "Ask."

The corner of the young man's mouth raised slightly: "What I want to ask is, why do you need so much money? Don't fool me with nonsense such as needing to do something to avoid God's punishment!"

Xu negative puffed up his cheeks, half happy and angry: "My family is not rich, so I want to save some more dowry for myself, so that even if my husband and son-in-law prodigal, they can spend a few more years in ruin, so that they won't both live on the streets..."

The young man was taken aback, laughed loudly and left.

After a while, a black shadow flashed outside the door, it was Xu Wang, the county magistrate of Wenyi.

He looked at Xu Negative, who built the Golden Horseshoe into the Great Wall, and said with some concern: "Daughter, have you asked too much recently... These guys are all murderers, if..."

Xu Negative raised his head, his expression neither sad nor happy: "Why, are you worried that my calculation is not accurate?"

Xu Wang nodded and said: "The fate of life is impermanent, even if the patriarch dies and comes back to life, it can't be counted as the end of life, just in case something goes wrong..."

Xu negative sneered:
"There is no chance. Take Wei Bao today as an example. It is true that his parents died early. He came today with no one else besides two guards. That is to say, he has no trusted followers around him. I said he did not." Friends are also right..."

She paused for a moment: "As for Fengwang and Shoushou's early death... Hehe, since King Chen's uprising, has any king lived for more than two years?"

Xu Wang nodded, and asked again: "Then what about Bo's daughter as the son and mother of heaven?"

Xu Negative pouted: "If Dad didn't take 150 gold from others, can I say that? Besides, if you want to become the emperor, you must be an adult at least! What happens in 20 years, let's talk about it in 20 years!"

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Wuguan.

A hundred feet to the north of Chengguan, stands the residence of the general guarding Wuguan.

The winding path leads to seclusion, and at the end of the corridor shaded by green bamboos is an elegant study room.

At this moment, Li Cang, the guard of Wuguan, looked in shock at an old man with white beard and hair who appeared in front of him.

Li Shiqi.

Li Cang's lips trembled slightly: "You, how did you get in?"

Li Shiqi sat down in front of him, calmly: "Guess."

Li Cang lowered his voice: "What time is it now? How dare you come to my place? Do you want to die?"

Li Shiqi said confidently: "You and I will see each other once, and it will be the same as before. I don't believe you will betray me."

Li Cang smiled and shook his head: "I didn't expect you to see through... But if you come to be a lobbyist, you should avoid opening your mouth as soon as possible."

Li Shiqi smiled faintly: "Is there any wine?"

Li Cang nodded heavily: "Enough!"

After finishing speaking, he added: "But today I can't get drunk with Jun Yi..."

Seeing Li Shiqi's puzzled face, he continued, "My wife is pregnant and can't smell alcohol... I'm not afraid of your jokes, I haven't had a drop of alcohol for several months..."

Li Shiqi let go of life and smiled, "Husband and wife are deeply in love, why laugh?"

Li Cang muttered in a low voice: "If you're still talking and laughing, you haven't stopped..."

He turned around and opened the door, and called a servant girl: "Let the cook prepare some wine and meat and bring it over... don't look at me, I don't drink it, it's for entertaining guests, and tell my wife, I won't go there at night Let her eat less melon..."

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At night, the lights in the abode are like beans.

Li Shiqi and Li Cang sat opposite each other under the lamp, their faces turned red, and it was obvious that they both drank a lot.

Li Cang lowered his head, drunkenly talking about his wife's original gentleness and virtuousness since she got married. She has been replaced by unruly and willful, which made him miserable every day...

Li Shiqi agreed, "Then why don't you divorce your wife and remarry?"

Li Cang suddenly said in an octave-high voice: "My wife is such a good woman, I can't find her with a lantern. You asked me to divorce my wife, why are you so happy?"

Li Shiqi's face was full of disdain: "Then you can bear it! Is he really cheap! He`tui!"

Li Cang wiped his face and said drunkenly: "I know, you still want to persuade me to surrender to the Chu army. In the current situation, even most of the guards in the pass don't want to fight any longer."

"But I have my own difficulties. My parents and brothers, my wife's parents and brothers are all in Xianyang City. If I surrender to the Chu army, neither family will live long!"

Li Shiqi nodded slightly. Although his face was drunk, his eyes were shining. It was obvious that he was pretending to be drunk.

After all, he is the high-yang alcoholic who has been tested by alcohol!
Li Shiqi fanned the wind by his collar, and said casually, "If you die in battle, Qin will not pursue your family anymore, right?"

Li Cang nodded subconsciously, but then suddenly raised his head, feeling less drunk: "If I die in battle? Why should I die in battle? If I die, what will my wife do?"

Li Shiqi smiled and shook his head: "I didn't say that you would really die. For example, after the city was broken, you, your wife, and the servant girl hid in a safe corner, and then set fire to the general's mansion, so as to declare the city to the outside world." Unwilling to be humiliated, he set himself on fire and died..."

Li Cang said hesitantly: "Then, then I will have to remain anonymous..."

"stupid!"

Suddenly, a crisp female voice came from outside the door.

Li Shiqi raised his head and looked towards the door. What he saw was a pregnant young woman with picturesque eyebrows.

"Husband, ma'am..." Li Cang suddenly shuddered, completely sober: "You, listen to my sophistry... No, it's an explanation..."

The young woman rolled her eyes and looked straight at Li Shiqi: "Brother, what you mean is to let the two of us pretend to die, hide it from the court, and then say that we are lucky to survive..."

Li Shiqi nodded: "That's exactly the truth! The younger siblings are smarter!"

The young woman smiled faintly, and said coldly: "Brother, don't flatter me, you tricked my husband into drinking with you, let's settle it later!"

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Under the city of Wuguan, war drums are rumbling, and soldiers are like clouds.

Liu Bang was wearing a red battle armor, standing on a four-horse chariot, holding the battle flag of the Chu army, looking majestic.

In the distance, a drunken-eyed Li Shiqi staggered towards him: "Fortunately, it's not a disgrace!"

Liu Bang nodded slightly, pulled him into the chariot, and waited for the next entourage to enter Wuguan.

At the forefront of the Chu army, Cao Shen wore armor with a sword and a crown of feathers, orderly commanding the soldiers to pull the catapult.

Because of the narrow roads and the tight schedule, the trebuchets used by the Chu army were still the human-pulled trebuchets used by the Qin army, rather than Liu Ying's design, or plagiarized return guns, that is, gravity trebuchets.

Well, trebuchets already existed during this period, and it is said that the inventor was Fan Li, a famous minister of the former Yue State.

Simple and rude, all rely on manpower, there is no accuracy at all, but as long as the number is enough, the stones fired can always hit people!
At the gate of the city, a Qin military school dressed as a military officer in a knee-length long jacket, a breastplate with colored suspenders and colored lace, a long skirt underneath, pointed shoes on his feet, and a double long crown on his head. Wei, spinning around like ants on a hot pot.

The Chu army is already preparing to attack the city, but his general is still hungover, and without his soldier talisman seal, he cannot mobilize the garrison behind the city gate!

If it weren't for the fact that he couldn't leave here, Captain Qin wanted to rush into the guard's mansion and vent his anger with Li Cang!

He drew out his long sword with a swipe, cheering up the soldiers around him.

The only thing that makes him feel lucky is that the soldiers on duty on the city wall today are all sons of good families around Xianyang City. household.

For more than a hundred years, their ancestors only knew the word farming and fighting, shed their blood on the battlefield, and their loyalty to Qin was impeccable!
Captain Qin drew his sword and shouted: "Million years of Qin! Kill!"

The soldiers on the city wall responded one after another: "Kill! Kill! Kill!"

At this moment, their blood was in full swing, for Qin, for the glory of their ancestors!

Fight to the death!

Under the city wall, Cao Shen was full of disdain, and he quickly drew out his sword: "Let it go!"

Accompanied by a burst of loud slogans, the trebuchets fixed outside the range of the Qin Army's crossbow threw stones one after another, and after crossing the apex, they fell rapidly and hit the top of Wuguan city with a crackling sound.

However, just looking spectacular, the actual killing effect is not ideal.

Because of the threat of catapults, the city walls of this period were built high and thin, so as to minimize the damage caused by stones hitting people standing on the city walls.

As for the city wall being smashed down?
Well, the solid rammed earth city wall basically doesn't consider this issue. After all, the manpower-pulled trebuchet has limited power and is not enough to launch boulders.

Moreover, the thinness of the city wall is a relative concept, but it looks a little thin compared to the later era when artillery was prevalent, but the narrowest point is also four or five meters wide.

After the parapet, Captain Qin began to taunt:
"Haha, with just this little skill of yours, I can guard this section of the city wall until I die of old age!"

(End of this chapter)