It is said that Qin Shihuang was controlled by a daughter

Chapter 505: Bright Eyes

Hear Liu Bang calling his name.

Xu Zhi then became solemn. As expected, this Taoist Huangshi was Huang Shigong, the person who taught Zhang Liang "Taigong's Art of War".

There are few records of Huang Shigong in history, as mysterious as Guiguzi. Zhang Liang was his most famous student.

Huang Shigong walked on bamboo leaves, as light as a swallow, which was much more powerful than the traditional flying over eaves and wall-walking.

He was also a senior ascetic, but unlike Mo Qi who was influenced by the Mohist school of thought, Huang Shigong was strong and capable. He was dressed in jute, with his chest bare and a black cloth tied around his waist. Except for the large gourd hanging on his body, he looked no different from a country farmer.

His every move was casual and relaxed, and his leisurely posture was consistent with the style of those drunkards who appear in TV dramas.

"Grandpa, you're back. Look, there are so many of us here today," he stared at Li Xian and snorted, "Grandpa is this brother. He seems to have side effects that others don't have..."

Huang Shigong glanced at Li Xian, then touched Zhang Buzhi's head and listened to him patiently.

He glanced at the crowd slowly and smiled faintly.

Then Huang Shigong looked at Xu Zhi and said, "Madam Shen, can I have a word with you for a moment?"

Li Xian looked puzzled when he heard this.

"He said your eye injury can be cured. I'll go and see what he has to say."

Li Xian looked worried, as if if he let go of her hand this time, he would never have the chance to hold her again.

Fan Kuai, who was standing by, saw this and a hint of understanding flashed in his eyes. Liu Bang, on the other hand, paced slowly on the spot, with an unpredictable look on his face, and no one knew what he was thinking about.

The breeze blew through the woods, and the leaves rustled, adding a touch of relaxation to the slightly tense atmosphere.

Li Xian wanted to pull her to say something, but his hand was frozen in mid-air. She gently held it, raised her head and said softly, "Don't worry. If everyone can understand the Dharma, what's the point of setting up this fog barrier?"

As soon as Xu Zhi entered the room, he felt something was wrong. These bamboo and rattan tables, chairs and benches were too modern. Except for Zhilan Palace and Mo Qi's Zhongnan Mountain, they could not be seen anywhere else.

Huang Shigong doesn't say much and gets straight to the point.

"I can't save his eyes."

Xu Zhi paused, "What do you mean?"

"The witch of Chu cast a curse, and the stubborn disease has accumulated, which cannot be cured by medicine." Huang Shi said.

"The old gentleman wants me to come into the house just to tell me that there is no way?"

"How can a person who studies medicine not know his own condition?" He said, looking at the coffin by the window. The bamboo curtain was swaying in the wind, and the cloth covering Li Xian brought up a lot of mottled light and shadows.

Xu Zhisi said, "Before I entered the bamboo forest, he only had knife wounds on his body. Now that he suddenly became blind, shouldn't your fog give us an explanation?"

Huang Shigong's gaze fell on the woman in front of him again. From her behavior and conversation, and from Zhang Liang's reaction, he knew her true identity.

Huang Shigong shook his head and continued, "Young lady, you brought people into my bamboo forest. Shouldn't you give me an explanation?"

Xu Zhi felt something was wrong the moment he entered the room. Huang Shigong was not able to use these modern-style furniture conveniently. For example, when sitting on a chair, he did not even have the muscle memory formed by Zhang Liang to be able to do it easily.

Xu Zhi then combined what Zhang Buzhi had said before about many people experiencing various side effects.

She then understood that it was not that Huang Shigong did not want to give out the prescription, but that he could not solve it.

"This place is well connected. As long as the weather is clear, I am not the only one who has strayed here. Old sir, you haven't lived here for long. It doesn't matter if you can't cure the poisonous fog. We can just leave and find another place. Isn't it too much to ask us to stay without showing me the way?"

Xu Zhi's words were quite tactful, but he got to the point - Huang Shigong had probably been poisoned by the bamboo forest, and he cured himself and later lived here.

Huang Shigong found that her words really had the style of Zhang Liang, who was able to advance and retreat freely, yet at the same time put others in a corner with his gentle words.

However, her teacher is not just Zhang Liang. Xu Zhi has been persistent in achieving her goals over the years and was unable to restrain herself for a moment, so she began to interrogate him.

During the Qin Dynasty, the scope of Xia Pi was roughly in the area of ​​the north of Suining, Jiangsu and the central and southern parts of Pizhou. The seat of Kuaiji County was in Wuxian (now Suzhou, Jiangsu), Changzhou and Wuxi. The distance between Xia Pi and Kuaiji County was relatively closer to other places.

"You have lived in seclusion in Xiapi for many years. Now that you have arrived in Kuaiji County, why do you want to set up fog barriers? And why do you want to make people blind?"

Huang Shigong's brows sank.

He lived in seclusion in Xia Pi, and no one should know about it!
Before going to Xia Pi...he was a member of the royal family of Qi State. Could it be that Ying Hehua knew even this?

But Huang Shigong soon calmed down, stroked his beard, looked at Xu Zhi, and said slowly: "You are very eloquent." He smiled, "It's not the side effects of the pills that caused the blindness. This fog poison is not as simple as you think. I kept you here because I saw that you have some wisdom, and I don't want you to die. There are many traps in this bamboo forest. Even if I show you the way to detoxify, you may not be able to do it easily."

Xu Zhi looked at him, "The old man didn't answer my question. Please explain the matter of the fog poison." "You can leave alone."

"I will leave." Xu Zhi smiled, "But not alone. There are two people outside, and Li Xian. I have to take them all with me."

"Those two people?" Huang Shigong asked in confusion.

"Yes."

Huang Shigong thought that Liu Bang and Fan Kuai were Qin soldiers and officials, and Ying Hehua did not abandon them, which showed that he had some conscience. But this conscience was like a drop of water in the desert.

So Xu Zhi got Huang Shigong's unexpected consent.

But Xu Zhi's goal has not been achieved yet.

Her gaze fell on Zhang Liang through the veil, and she looked at him deeply, regardless of the fact that her gaze was fiery and direct.

She used to look at him like this in order to depict the possibility of a lifetime together. But now, in this tiny moment, she forced herself to quickly regain her icy rationality.

"And please tell them that not only are they leaving this time, but they are not allowed to come back again. Never again."

Huang Shigong drank half of the wine in the gourd and sighed, "What else do you want, young lady?"

Xu Zhi drank the tea in her hand. As the tea melted on her lips and teeth, she felt very familiar with it. It was very much like the tea cake she once gave to Wang Wan... but that was a gift from Shu.

She raised her eyebrow, "Before that, I want Li Xian to regain his sight."

Huang Shigong suppressed a smile that was not seen, and felt very relieved that Ying Hehua finally said this.

He turned serious and said, "Well, I'll tell you, there is a cave deep in the bamboo forest. There are some ancient books hidden in the cave, which may contain clues to the antidote. But the cave is full of dangers. If you want to go there, you must be extremely careful."

Xu Zhi memorized the map without hesitation.

She was probably in too much of a hurry to leave and bumped into the door. Zhang Liang subconsciously held her. His touch made her tremble as if in response to stress. His hands were warm, and his eyes were more beautiful than the most beautiful amber in the world.

In this second, she recalled too many past events, and she wanted to be pretentious and domineering in an instant. She really wanted to curse loudly, or cry loudly, pointing at Zhang Buzhi and asking Zhang Liang the classic question - who is that woman?
However, she was the one who caused all this.

Xu Zhi vaguely felt that something was wrong with Huang Shigong. Yes, Princess Yongan was cruel and ruthless. How could she have the right to cry?

She forced herself to calm down and quickly pulled her arm away from his grasp.

However, she knew that she couldn't avoid Zhang Liang too much, as Fan Kuai might become "meticulous as a hair" again.

What Xu Zhi finally remembered was that when Zhang Liang knelt in front of her as Song Lan, there was a screen between them.

He had never seen her face, and he didn't know she was a princess of Qin.

So she turned around, but just as she took a step, she felt numbness in her calf, followed by pain. The aftereffects of the snake bite were really troublesome, and she took two steps unsteadily.

From a distance that was neither too far nor too close, she thanked him in a standard way.

When she was his student, she seemed to have never performed such a standard thank you ceremony.

"...If it weren't for you and your mentor letting us take shelter here, I would have died. Jing Qian and I will definitely remember your kindness."

After saying this, she turned her back to him and walked towards where Li Xian was standing.

In the middle of broad daylight, there is more than one person trapped in darkness.

Zhang Liang could only convince himself that this was the first time he would meet her again.

The bamboo leaves rustled and fluttered one by one. As time passed, it seemed as if they were standing on the city wall of Xinzheng again and everything had returned to the starting point.

Even though Li Xian is a martial arts expert and has a superb IQ, how can a person who becomes blind later in life adapt to life in the dark so quickly?
Li Xian became quite depressed.

For two consecutive days, Ying Hehua went to the cave several times at night with a torch, but found nothing.

During the day, she really played the role of the infatuated person to perfection in front of Fan Kuai and Liu Bang.

In fact, the only person who could see the whole thing was Zhang Liang.

The magnolia is white, untainted by dust. When she smiles, it seems as if the whole world has become quiet.

The person who now has such a smile is Li Xian.

But unfortunately, he couldn't see such a gentle smile with his own eyes.