I rely on Qin Shihuang to enshrine the gods

In this stage confrontation where there is no fire, Baitao is the one who plays the role.

Ba Qing followed her, covered his mouth and smiled and said, "My sister is very talented, but I have opened my eyes to my old sister. This archery skill is probably inferior to even the strongest warrior."

Bai Tao said indifferently: "Sister Ba should have known that I am from the palace. My archery was taught by Jun Shang, and he is the strongest warrior."

Ba Qing was seen through, but nothing happened, "Your Majesty has great skills."

She added, "But after all, I borrowed my sister's light, otherwise my sister would not be able to see such good archery skills."

Although Baitao is used to flattery, she doesn't want to keep talking around, "Well, it's getting late, I'm going back, Sister Ba."

She came here mainly for business, not for entertainment.

Ba Qing bent his lips and said, "Your sister wants to come out to buy pigeons, right? If you didn't buy the pigeons, you will return empty-handed. Come on, my sister will sit in my room and keep her comfortable. "

Baitao couldn't refuse her steady way of handling things, and said, "Sister Ba is really a wise person. If that's the case, then that's fine."

The incense was lit by the maid, spraying a string of smoke rings.

On the carved red sandalwood chi table, there is a chiseled gold birdcage, and there is a colorful munia inside.

Its tail is extremely long, purple, brown and orange are mixed together, the chest is soft white hair, the crest is blue, and the back is yellow leather. It is so colorful that it cannot be described.

Bai Tao followed Ba Qing in, and saw the colorful bird in the middle.

Feeling familiar, I took a few glances and said, "I'm afraid this bird is called a colorful bird."

"Good sister, you really have a lot of knowledge."

"No, it's mainly because I have one too."

Ba Qing was surprised, "This bird was born in the depths of Yunmeng Lake, and it is unique in the world. Where did you get it, sister?"

"Your Majesty gave it to me, and he also told me that this bird is unique." Baitao said, "This is a deception by a bird dealer. If it is unique, how can one breed offspring? Could it be that it is born to itself?"

"Pfft, my sister is funny."

Ba Qing laughed. She picked up the jar next to her, sucked up the liquid with a hose, and stuffed it into the bird's beak.

The bird opened its two small eyes and swallowed it irresistibly.

Baitao was puzzled: "Sister Ba, what are you doing?"

"Feed it mercury."

After the colorful bird drank the whole tube of mercury, it seemed a little struggling.

Ba Qing was still smiling, as if it was covered with a calm face.

After she finished feeding, she turned her head and said, "Since we have collided with the one given to my sister by the Lord, how can I be worthy of its uniqueness if I don't prolong my life."

Bai Tao frowned, feeling that the bird was in pain, and it was someone else's bird, so she didn't say much.

"Three drops of mercury and one tael of gold, does my sister feel distressed?"

Ba Qing turned the bead string on the breastplate, she came over and sat down holding Baitao, "Don't blame me for spending money, old sister, old sister comes from Bashu, where mercury cinnabar is extracted everywhere, nothing else, old sister, I am Too much money to spend.”

No wonder.

Now Baitao also knows why she is dressed so richly, but she still finds it strange: "There are so many cinnabar, and the business is also there, why did you come to Qin from Bashu?"

"It's not that the people below are not strong enough."

Ba Qing rubbed his brows, and shook the armor in his hand, "Cinnabar, mercury, they are good, but they have to be sold, so what's the use of throwing them in your hands if you don't sell them? It's not just my family, how many hands are there in the open and in the dark, wishing to immediately peel off my skin and separate the hot ones from it?"

"Ugh----"

She let out a long breath, and said: "The tree attracts the wind. If you have this idea and family property, how can you do it without the foundation of that idea? If not, I will go out and settle it myself. These years, old sister, I have come to Xianyang City to do business. Although the income is not very good, it is still peaceful, not a loss."

Ba Qing was clumsy, and Bai Tao didn't pierce it: "There are so many inns, all used as a cover to sell cinnabar for you, how can the income not be good?"

Ba Qing sighed: "Isn't it just a bite here and a bite there, the skin is broken and the bones are left. It's like this in troubled times. Business is hard to do. Why don't you be low-key? Old sister, I almost kneel I'm begging for help."

The colorful bird is placed on the cage, and it has begun to drowsy.

There are willow branches sweeping the lintel outside the window, and there is no need to talk among wise people.

Unknowingly, Baitao imitated brother Zheng's way of thinking, playing with the cup.

Putting it down, he said: "As long as Sister Ba pays the commercial tax on time and abides by the law, then I will help you and tell the king, and you will be able to handle things better when the time comes."

Ba Qing hid the joy in his heart, and held her tender hands, "My good sister, when my elder sister saw you for the first time, she felt that you were the noble person whom she wanted."

"Looking at it now, it really is."

Her eyes sparkled, and she said in a manly voice, "In this way, as long as my old sister's business comes to Xianyang to sell, it will be [-]% lower than other countries. Give generously."

Being held by a sister, Baitao felt a little unnatural, and said in a low voice, "Okay."

So cute.

How could there be such a smart, beautiful and well-behaved girl? How could there be such a clever, beautiful and well-behaved girl in the world? I have blinded that cold-faced king for nothing.

The more Ba Qing watched it, the more he liked it, and the more he watched it, the more he liked it.

After personally delivering the pigeons, she gave a few boxes of new gadgets before she was willing to stop. When Baitao left, she was still reluctantly waving.

When Ba Qing came back to his senses, the boy from the backyard hurried over, "Patriarch, it's not good, that colorful bird died for some reason."

"If you die, you die. What's the fuss?"

Ba Qing spat at him, then raised his face and went upstairs to spit, "The one who plays the high mountains and rivers, the one who plays the Guqin from the lower Riba people, don't you hear that?!"

"........."

"In broad daylight, the noisy and scumbags make my brain ache. If the business is messed up, I'll see if my mother will pick your skin! Bah!"

The sound upstairs stopped abruptly.

The boy looked at the mad proprietress, with a shocked expression on his face: "Master... the upstairs is small, and the young ones entertain distinguished guests."

"Which honored guest do you care about, which honored guest can have the honor just now?" Ba Qing pinched his waist, grabbed the servant's ear with one hand, and asked his face, "Also, we have never raised colorful birds, which are only available in the palace. , that is unique, do you understand?"

The little servant was in so much pain that he couldn't figure it out.

But he is convinced of the Patriarch who led the Ba family to prosperity, "Ah, it hurts, ah no, ah yes! Patriarch!"

*
Baitao brought a money bag when she went out, and when she came back, she brought an eagle, a pigeon, and a few nodding boys, and brought in several boxes full of treasures.

This shocked Rui'er who was facing him enough, "Little master, are you going to robbery?"

Baitao: "."

Baitao blinked: "Is it still exposed?"

"Hahahahaha!" Rui'er leaned on the door frame and bent over with a smile, "If the young master goes to rob Dao later, he must bring his servant with him, and the servant can help the young master to cover up."

Baitao pretended to be angry: "What's the matter with robbing or not? If you turn around and settle accounts, you female envoy who settles accounts, wouldn't you have everything?"

Rui'er covered her mouth in "fear": "Little master, this is not very good, why don't the servants go and prepare first before coming, so as to avoid the little master's trip in vain."

"Pfft."

Baitao smiled, "Okay, these are given to me by an old sister outside who has too much money to spend."

She didn't tease her either, and handed the eagle to the lady-in-waiting, and walked in with a carrier pigeon.

Rui'er followed closely beside her, lifting the beaded curtain for her, "What kind of old sister is she, so generous."

"Just get what you need."

Baitao tied the letter to the pigeon's leg and let it fly out. Rui'er looked up at Lve Ying flying towards the blue sky, "Who is this letter for, little master?"

Baitao foolishly said, "Well, for that rich old sister."

"Little master is also rich." Rui'er joked, "he is richer than your majesty, and now your whole family is spent on little master."

Baitao said casually: "Then if I leave, wouldn't he be penniless?"

"As long as Taotao doesn't leave, the widow's worth won't change."

Cool and magnetic voice.

Like sandalwood but not sandalwood, the light and cold incense hit, Baitao was stunned, turned her head and looked up, "Brother Zheng?"

Rui'er obviously saw it a long time ago, saluted, and left with a snickering smile.

Ying Zheng was still wearing a royal robe, with sacrificial inscriptions painted on it, wrapped around and around.

He stretched out his arms to embrace the soft white peach, "Give me a hug for the widow."

"Okay, then I'll give you another kiss."

Baitao was embraced by him in an obedient manner, and stood on tiptoe to kiss his chin.

Unexpectedly, it was a little out of reach, she lowered her head to look around, and was about to move a long case, "Wait for me for a while."

He stopped her, chuckled, bent down and pecked her pink lips, "You were so tall before, and you are so tall now."

Baitao's beautiful eyes turned around, and she said angrily: "What, it's obvious that you are too tall."

"The widow?"

"I don't blame you, I just want to blame you." Baitao stomped his feet and was about to enter the inner room. Unexpectedly, Ying Zheng grabbed his hand. He pinched his nose and compromised, "You're still like a child. You have to coax me." .”

"You don't have to coax me, I'll be fine anyway."

"real?"

"Okay, fake."

Baitao doesn't know how to heal on her own, she just wants to be coaxed.

Ying Zheng came over and pinched her peach blossom noodles, "It's not that it's small, or it's only this big in memory."

Baitao: "." It's better not to coax.

She pretended to bite fiercely, Ying Zheng patted her head, and averted her attention, "When I came in, I saw many servants moving boxes, what did you do when you went out?"

"Um……"

Baitao didn't talk about robbing and shooting pigeons for the time being.

Otherwise, it's like a child ran out to play, couldn't fight, and came back to complain to an adult.

She picked up the matter of Ba Qing and said, "She is the owner of the Ba family, from Bashu, and has a business of cinnabar under her command. Now she comes to Qin State to sell it. She said that in the Qin State Commercial Firm, she can reduce the profit by [-]%. She also gave me a lot of money. baby."

"What about the conditions?"

He grabbed her double snail bun, and said calmly, "Except for the widow, it is impossible for outsiders to be so kind to the widow Taotao for no reason."

Baitao: That seems to make sense.

But friendship in the world is just that, Xixi is all for profit.

She said in relief: "The condition is that her business name seems to have encountered many problems and was slandered by many people. I was thinking that having such a big customer who pays business taxes is also good for Xianyang and Daqin." Instead of driving people away to pay taxes in other countries, it is better to come to our Xianyang and give brother Zheng a private house money."

The little fox analyzed clearly, with a pointed bun dangling back and forth.

Ying Zheng's handsome brows were full of smiles, and he looked at her seriously for a moment, "Well, the widow's Taotao is the smartest, and she also knows about private money."

Baitao crawled along the pole, "No, I'm not only smart, but I'm extremely, extremely, thinking of you."

The girl's strange appearance made him smile sullenly. He picked her up and hung her on his body, and Ying Zheng walked out of the bedroom. "I will send someone to take care of the matter, but it's not too late to finish dinner first."

Baitao tapped the pattern on his shoulder, "Brother Zheng, do other people know that you are like this?"

"how?"

"Take care of eating, drinking and playing."

"In the whole world, Taotao is the only one who is so careless and makes everyone happy."

He put her on his lap, and kissed her head deeply.

Baitao was already used to being kissed, and she didn't forget to hold the pot helmet with her right hand and wrap him with mutton sauce.

Well, it's also good to stop his kiss-loving mouth.

After dinner, Ying Zheng started to approve documents without stopping.

Baitao was alone on the swing in the backyard. The lotus flowers were in full bloom in the backyard, and the cool wind blew in. She stared at the dragonfly perched on the lotus leaves.

Resisting the urge to jump on a dragonfly, Baitao went to ask Rui'er beside her, "Do you still remember what you promised me, that old man can raise a cricket king, with white teeth green?"

Rui'er was peeling lotus seeds, but she smiled and said nothing.

She got up and went back to the house, holding an earthen pot in her hands after a while, "I forgot to eat, forgot to sleep, and I will never forget the crickets that my master misses so much. I ordered someone to send them over from the north of the city this morning." .”

With the Cricket King in his hands, Baitao was about to open it eagerly. Unexpectedly, he felt that the sound inside was very strange, a series of "clicking, clicking, clicking" sounds of arthropods colliding.

Baitao: "Is the Cricket King like this?"

Rui'er also heard the movement, and said hesitantly, "Maybe it's the Cricket King, something different."

"wrong."

The impact in the clay jar in his hand was getting bigger and bigger, Baitao secretly thought that something was wrong, so he was about to throw away the jar in his hand.

Unexpectedly, at that time, a shiny black and red centipede rushed out of the jar with the lid open, waving hundreds of elephants, and rushed straight to Baitao's face.

The teeth of the sickle struck, Baitao dodged sideways, and then slammed the can body against it.

"Bangdang-"

The centipede's torso was shriveled, bloody and bloody, and Rui'er, who immediately reacted, yelled in horror, "Ahhhhhh!"

This movement attracted the guards hiding in the palace, and they ran over with their spears in hand and asked, "Mistress Baitao, envoy Ruier, what's the matter?"

Ruier still had a look of horror on her face, she looked at Baitao, "Little master, are you okay?"

Bai Tao's expression was indifferent, and she sat back on the swing again, "It's nothing, it's just a centipede that came out to scare people, you can clean it up."

The half-dead centipede on the ground was still stretching its legs and flicking wildly.

The guard hurried over to clean up the wreckage, and said shamelessly, "The subordinates should be damned. Such a big centipede was put in, which shocked the little master. The subordinates will go down later to receive the punishment on their own."

Baitao: "I've said it's fine, you don't have to do this."

She knew that the Qin law was strict. If she missed a job, she would be passive and sabotage. There was no ambiguity at all. If she was punished, she would even take half her life.

Rui'er also slammed down, kneeling on the ground with a pale face.

She knelt and crawled over, first to see if there was no wound on Baitao's body, and then cried, "Master, you... It's all your fault for the servant, and it's all because the servant didn't check it well. If the young master is really injured, the servant will die a hundred times." It’s not a pity to die ten thousand times.”

"It's fine." Baitao pursed her lips and smiled, "I'm very skilled, it's just a centipede, it can't hurt me."

There is no need to make such a fuss about a small thing that she can slap to death with one paw.

Rui'er's heart hanging in her throat finally fell down, she bit her lips again and said: "But the slave girl really opened it to check at first, it is indeed a white-toothed cricket king, that's right, there must be a traitor trying to harm the young master this time, The treacherous man betrayed the Cricket King, intending to commit murder."

"The servant begged the young master to allow the servant to arrest this traitor before punishing the servant."

Baitao marveled at Rui'er's thoughtfulness and thoughtfulness, and said, "It's not wrong to harm me."

But it wasn't people who hurt her.

Stepping on the letter that the centipede brought out just now, her eyelashes trembled: "Don't say anything about this, I have to go out of the palace tomorrow."

Rui'er looked at her big black and white eyes, and said with infinite gratitude: "Yes!"