It is said that Qin Shihuang was controlled by a daughter

Chapter 506: The secret is leaked, so what?
Huang Shigong realized for the first time that Zhang Liang was so unreasonable. He thought that keeping him in Qin would sharpen his anti-Qin character faster and better, but he didn't expect that many things would not develop as he expected.

He carefully stroked the ancient scroll in his hand.

In 375 BC, Han Aihou destroyed Zheng State and annexed Zheng State when Zheng Kanggong died. His descendants moved to Chen and Song. Later, all the royal family members of Zheng State were sent to the battlefield by Han State.

Duke Zheng gave this book to him, who was still a prince of Qi at the time, hoping to exchange it for the survival of Zheng in the hinterland.

But who would have thought that all of Duke Zheng's sons died in the Battle of Changping. But perhaps it was God's will that his two daughters, who were both extremely beautiful, survived the war that claimed the lives of 200,000 people. One of them took the Luoshu with her.

Qi was originally the fief of Jiang Ziya. Apart from Yan, it was the most precious country to be granted by heaven. The River Map flowed from Yan to Qi.

"Could it be that Ying Hehua came here for Luoshu?" Huang Shigong pondered.

That night, Xu Zhi finally reached the deepest part of the cave.

The cave is hollow, and the sound of falling water can be heard from deep inside, echoing in the empty space, adding a bit of mystery.

Fan Kuai walked in front of her, the flame of the torch swaying in the cold air, and suddenly he stopped.

"Madam Shen... is here."

The fire starter in Xu Zhizhan's hand shook slightly, and it turned out to be the several-meter-high stone wall that Huang Shigong had mentioned.

There was shallow water flowing in front of the stone wall, and a chill emanated from the water. Xu Zhi did not move forward, but this little bit of shallow water was nothing for Fan Kuai. The torch in his hand illuminated a corner of the cliff in front of him.

There were indeed strange symbols carved on the stone wall. These symbols looked like some long-lost writing, and they were faintly visible in the firelight.

"Did you see what was written?" she asked.

"This, this," "...it's so black that it's hard to make out the seal characters."

Seal characters? Since the six kingdoms were destroyed three years earlier, it has been less than three years since Qin's seal characters were introduced to the whole country... She looked at the traces of wear and tear on the stone wall and knew that they were definitely not engraved after he proclaimed himself emperor in the past two years.

The writing systems of the six states were different from each other, with the writing system of Chu being especially different from that of other states.

"Are you sure it's Qin seal script? Not ancient Chu script?"

He looked at it again and again, his face almost touching the wall. Fan Kuai looked embarrassed, and after a while he said, "This, uh, I don't know if I can confirm what this word is. After being summoned by Lord Li, I started to recognize seal script, so I may not be able to recognize many of the characters."

Xu Zhi sighed, lifted her skirt and was about to wade into the water, "Ah, ah," Fan Kuai hurriedly stopped her, "Madam Shen, the water is cold, don't come over. If you catch a cold, Lord Li might make trouble for me again... If these are Chu characters, Brother Liu might know. I'll go to the cave entrance and call him now."

As he spoke, Fan Kuai quickly came over again. Xu Zhi called him, but he didn't care what she said and asked her to wait for them to come back.

She was not walking smoothly to begin with, and Fan Kuai walked so fast that she could not catch up with him.

She looked at the stone wall, feeling anxious. Huang Shigong seemed easy to talk to, but he might be more troublesome than Fan Zeng... She had to master the right to interpret it before Liu Bang did.

She stepped into the water, and in an instant, a bone-chilling chill jumped up from the soles of her feet. She clenched her teeth. With every step she took, the river water surged around her ankles, pouring more coldness into her clothes.

Cold sweat oozed from her forehead, and she hurriedly held onto the rough rock beside her. Her touch triggered the mechanism, the water flow suddenly accelerated, and the stone wall rumbled.

The stone wall slowly peeled off a layer of skin, exposing the real wall surface, on which damp moss grew wildly along the cracks in the stone.

When the light in her hand finally touched the complex words, they were written in the language of Chu.

After taking a closer look, Xu Zhi's pupils suddenly shrank - there were not only words on the stone wall, but also many grooves chiseled out, with dozens of ancient books embedded in them.

Xu Zhi stood on tiptoe and took a scroll from the wall.

These ancient books seem to have gone through a long time, but they are well preserved. The dark brown bamboo slips have a warm luster, and each volume is carefully tied with a faded black ribbon.

Xu Zhi's fingertips trembled as he gently stroked the cold bamboo slips.

In the Qin Dynasty, when small seal script was popular, these dignified and neat traditional Chinese characters before our eyes are clearly fonts that appeared in later generations!
She jerked her hand away, her heart beating wildly in her chest as if it was about to burst free of its restraints.

The torch on the stone wall suddenly burst into a spark, and the sparks splashed onto the bamboo slips, but were bounced away by an invisible force. This strange scene made Xu Zhi break out in a cold sweat on his back.

Where did these ancient books come from? And why did they appear in this mysterious cave?

Countless questions exploded in her mind like thunder, shaking her so much that she almost couldn't stand.

The surface of the bamboo slips is neatly written with cinnabar in neat, square traditional Chinese characters. The handwriting is vigorous and powerful, and the strokes seem to carry the sediment of thousands of years.

The halo of the torch moved on the stone wall. Xu Zhi's fingertips brushed across the cinnabar writing on the bamboo slips, and he was suddenly interrupted by the hurried footsteps behind him.

Liu Bang held the sword in front of Fan Kuai, and the bronze spine of the sword reflected the white knuckles of her clenched bamboo slips.

"Uncle Liu, do you know what the Chu characters on the stone wall say?"

Liu Bang looked at her, and then at the two lines of text written on the stone wall. It was just an old story from the old land of Zheng State. When Zhao State sent the princess here, it went through Sishui County. The princess was the most ornamental gift sent by Zhao State, so a lot of people were mobilized. The local nobles spent a lot of money to pave the road, for fear that the beauty would be bumped. Liu Bang sighed. If he had not been hoeing the fields at that time, he would have at least come to the front to take a look at such a beautiful princess, to take a look at the curtain of the carriage, and to take a look at the edge of the skirt. Fan Kuai raised his fire, "Brother, what is written on it? Why did you take so long to recognize it?" He laughed twice, "You don't recognize it either?"

"Bullshit, I know him."

"Duke Zheng has two beautiful daughters, both are extremely beautiful..." Liu Bang started to speak immediately, but the two flowery sentences on the stone wall really made his mouth burn. "Well, damn, it's so complicated... It means that the old Duke Zheng has two beautiful daughters. He regards these two daughters as the hope of restoring the Zheng Dynasty. Then one of them was taken as a concubine by the prince of Han State, and the other was presented to the King of Chu by Zhao State. The effect is just like Bao Si and Daji, which destroyed Han and Chu. So far, Duke Zheng's strategy has been successful."

Liu Bang's rough voice mixed with the damp and musty smell echoed in the narrow cave.

Xu Zhi's breathing rose and fell slightly, and the candlelight turned the coldness in her eyes into two flickering flames.

Her mother and her aunt had suffered so much, but here they were simply described as the cause of the country's downfall.

Liu Bang bent down to pick up the scroll and caught a glimpse of the words "a evil woman who brings disaster to the country" written on the stone wall.

"Uncle Liu thinks this makes sense?"

"Ah?" Liu Bang shivered from the cold water. Seeing Xu Zhi standing in the cold water, he shivered and called her to come up. "Hiss...what's the logic?" He glanced at the bamboo scroll that Xu Zhi had thrown on the ground. He couldn't understand a single word. He naturally regarded them as the divination records of the Chu witch. "What is written in the history book should make sense."

"What kind of history book is this?" She raised her hand and threw the bamboo slips onto the moss-covered stone platform. The bamboo slips collided with the rock wall with a dull sound, startling several dormant bats.

She looked up at the stone wall and sneered, "Is it a common rhetoric for calligraphers to attribute the country's demise to women? It's nothing more than an excuse for incompetent rulers, a shield for treacherous villains, and a fig leaf for cowards."

Liu Bang looked at her and really felt that this girl was quite interesting.

"Haha, yes, the words on the wall are not well written, they are a mess. Who would carve other people's family affairs on the stone wall for no reason? Madam Shen is right. Only ignorant people will make up stories about these things."

"How can you say that?" She was separated from the fire by a pool of cold water, as if the boundary between Qin and Han was drawn. Water and fire were different, but they were inherited from the same lineage. It was a wonderful feeling. She looked at Liu Bang, a man who was only three years younger than her father. His face was unkempt, and the vicissitudes and cynicism of a middle-aged man appeared on his face at the same time.

Those eyes... they were a pair of completely different eyes, long and narrow, yet his gaze seemed to be sharp and yet inclusive, like the fusion of water and fire, with a magical power to penetrate everything.

Fan Kuai scratched his beard and hesitated to speak, but Liu Bang suddenly chuckled, and the candlelight cast a narrow shadow in the corner of his eye: "Miss, what you said reminds me of what Zhang Liang often said, 'The ruler is the boat and the people are the water.'"

Xu Zhi paused for a moment.

Liu Bang twisted his hem and reminded her that she still had an injury on her leg. "Girls, get out of the cold water quickly." He stretched out his hand.

Fan Kuai muttered in his heart, this can't be true! ! His elder brother can do anything, but he can't stand beautiful women... He quickly handed a piece of wooden stick to Xu Zhi.

Liu Bang withdrew his hand as if nothing had happened, pointed at the stone wall and said, "Madam Shen has seen many ladies in the Qin Palace. I wonder how they compare to the daughter of Duke Zheng?"

Liu Bang’s train of thought is indeed very special.

She was about to answer when he suddenly laughed, "Haha, who cares. Tsk tsk, my E'ou is not so pretty, but she's pretty good in other aspects. I'm doing this hard-working job, and she's been managing the household for me. I told her that if I die accidentally, she'll increase my wealth tenfold."

"...Is this what Uncle Liu thinks?"

"Master Li also said this to Madam Shen?"

Xu Zhi did not answer. She was thinking about the series of tactics that Lü Zhi used after Liu Bang's death. History books also criticized it.

Seeing that she didn't say anything, he laughed out loud, "But if E'sui really succeeds, I will be so happy in the underworld."

"Alright, alright," he called to Fan Kuai, "move these things out quickly, maybe they can help Lord Li get rid of the poison."

She looked at Liu Bang's back with strangeness and surprise, as he held a torch in one hand and bamboo slips in the other.

He was free and easy and heroic. Even if he didn't become Emperor Gaozu of Han, he would still be a knight and live a happy life.

She had been wading in the water for so long that she felt cold all over, but she felt more cheerful than she had in a long time.

The wall behind her was so small.

It turned out that Mo Qi had written the history book in traditional regular script and spread it to the eyes of these crucial people.

——The last reincarnation. Zhi Pei's letter was left at Changping. Maybe someone from the royal family of Zhao State picked it up, and when the country was destroyed, the descendants would take the opportunity to destroy Qin.

The secret is out. So what?
The world is vast, and a person's circumstances and fate change with time. It is by no means written in advance and cannot be changed.

She came out of the cave. It was still dark. She looked at the bamboo rolls that had been brought out and thought that tonight would be a good day for drinking.

Huang Shigong was a hermit during the Qin and Han dynasties. He was born around 292 BC and died in 195 BC. He was originally from Xiapi (now Gupi Town, Suining, Jiangsu Province). He was later included in the Taoist pantheon. The following is an introduction to his life:
Living in seclusion in Xia Pi: At the end of the Qin Dynasty, the world was in chaos. Huang Shigong hid his identity and lived in Xia Pi. People did not know his name and origin, so he was called "the old man on the bridge" and "the divine man of Xia Pi".

Book Presentation at the Waiqiao Bridge: After Zhang Liang failed in his attempt to assassinate Qin Shi Huang, he fled to Xiapi. Once, Zhang Liang met Huang Shigong on the Waiqiao Bridge. Huang Shigong deliberately threw his shoes under the bridge and asked Zhang Liang to retrieve them and put them on to test Zhang Liang. Although Zhang Liang was surprised, he suppressed his anger because of the old man's age. After doing so, Huang Shigong praised his broad mind and asked him to meet again at the Waiqiao Bridge in the morning five days later. Zhang Liang was late for the first two times, but he arrived in the middle of the night the third time. Huang Shigong was satisfied and said that he was "a teachable child". He took out a book from his sleeve and gave it to Zhang Liang, telling him that reading this book would make him a teacher of the emperor in the future. He also said that he would raise troops and start an uprising in ten years, and Zhang Liang would meet him in Jibei County thirteen years later, and then Huang Shi under Gucheng Mountain would be himself. After dawn, Zhang Liang found that the book was "The Art of War by Taigong".

Verification of identity: In the second year of Emperor Gaozu of Han (205 BC), thirteen years after Huang Shigong and Zhang Liang met at the Aiqiao Bridge, Zhang Liang followed Emperor Gaozu of Han Liu Bang through Jibei County and saw a piece of yellow stone at the foot of Gucheng Mountain. He moved it back to his palace and worshipped it as a treasure. In the second year of Empress Lü of Han (186 BC), after Zhang Liang died, he was buried together with Huang Shi to show that he would never forget him.