It is said that Qin Shihuang was controlled by a daughter

Chapter 514 Mo Qi waved his sleeves (1)

When Xu Zhi arrived at Fuqiu Palace, Li Si and Meng Yi were already waiting inside.

She felt heavy-hearted, and she had never felt her body so heavy before.

A few days ago, she went to Mount Zhongnan, but Mo Qi and Han Fei were not there.

Lu Ze's brother Lu Shizhi handed her a bamboo tube. It was written in regular script. Maybe he wanted to use English letters to be safer, but those words were crossed out and rewritten. It was obvious that he couldn't remember.

Xu Zhi smiled to herself. The scene of them reciting "Ode to Freedom" together four or five years ago was still vivid in her mind, but now she could not remember much.

——All my life I have wanted to emulate Confucius. After seventy years of the Warring States Period and seeing all the world's affairs, I now know that I have the heart of a chivalrous man. Now that I have you to support me in the world, I can travel around with peace of mind.

Lu Shizhi handed her a very large and tall box, made entirely of wood, with patterns of classic figures and clouds from the Warring States Period painted on it. "The teacher said he had no other gift, and he hoped that this was what the princess wished for."

There is an exquisite lock inlaid on the box, and an old-fashioned combination lock on the copper.

"What is this password?"

Lu Shizhi shook his head with a proud look, "Master said that the princess would know it without him telling her. But it can only be opened three times. If Her Highness the Princess fails to open it three times in a row, the spring of this mechanism box will crush everything inside."

There are four numbers, and each line has ten Arabic numerals. Mo Qi and Mo Jia have been studying for a long time and even made a paper shredder...

She could only accept it cautiously and prepare to go back to the palace to find someone to open it.

Before she started studying the box, she was summoned to Fu Qiu Palace.

Ever since the imperial edict that she would live as a widow in Chu was announced nine months ago, her formal meetings with court officials in the Fuqiu Palace were no longer the same as before.

Separated by a large and thick screen, the lights of nine copper lamps swayed faintly in the wind, and only her figure could be vaguely seen.

"Your Highness, please tell me everything that has happened in the past few days." Meng Yi picked up the pen and said.

Li Si, who was standing by, had a gloomy face. On the way out, he was reminded by her to keep an eye on the people in the inner court, but just when he had some clues, she disappeared, and took his son with her.

As soon as she came back, he wanted to ask her privately about her son's blindness, but she said she was sick and couldn't go out. The next time they met, it was a formal scene like this.

Ying Hehua's words were quite sincere, as if he was sincerely admitting his mistakes after being caught.

In fact, Ying Zheng was extremely kind to her. He did not conduct the public inquiry in prison, but specially summoned the prime minister and the court judge to the palace.

Meng Yi had been in office for less than three months. He thought Yong'an would stay in Kuaiji County, and was surprised to learn that she had returned, thinking that she had come back because she was spoiled and could not stand staying in Chu.

But soon he received a secret letter from Fusu...Meng Yi's eyes almost went dark - Ying Hehua had caused trouble in Chu again, and had even killed officials of the Central Government with her own hands. And Fusu seemed to have been infected by her, and actually burned the bamboo slips that could not be determined.

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Ying Hehua was brought up with this kind of character, and as a father and brother he can only shoulder the corresponding responsibilities.

But Meng Yi was in a dilemma. How could he solve the case without any hint from Ying Zheng?

They also returned with Li Xian, who was seriously injured. Qin's laws were strict, and officials who were injured while on assignment had to be sent to the court for review and record.

For Meng Yi, Ying Hehua almost married him, and apart from the imperial edict, this matter was also ruined by Li Xian going to Changle Palace. Therefore, no matter how serious he judged Li Xian's injury was, it would not end well to the outside world.

As for Ying Zheng, ever since the written request was presented to him by his subordinates, the court was filled with uneasiness.

However, during this questioning, Li Si did not speak from beginning to end.

Li Si saw that when Ying Hehua was enshrined in Mount Tai, he used physical knowledge to break the Confucianist's theory of heaven, and he understood that Ying Zheng did not like strange things. The eldest son's burning of the scrolls seemed to violate the order to search for the scrolls, but in fact he won the emperor's heart.

But after all, he was Li Si. He was not familiar with Ying Zheng's other children, but he knew Ying Hehua.

How could this be done by Fusu?

Ying Zheng agreed that Ying Hehua should stay in Zhilan Palace, probably because he had other plans.

Judging from her immediate reaction, Ying Hehua was out of touch with the news and she didn’t know what Yao Jia had said before she came back.

Speaking of Yao Jia, Li Si felt that his colleague should learn a lesson. After learning that Ying Hehua had returned to Xianyang because of trouble, Yao Jia was so scared that he did not dare to go to court for several days. Not only did he lose weight, he also went to Wang Wan's tomb. After returning, he was unable to sleep or eat, and even ordered a coffin for himself.

Yao Jia was so scared, but the person involved, Ying Hehua, didn't react at all. It was as if the two of them had agreed to drink a sip of water every time they spoke a word.

"Does Prime Minister have anything else to ask me?"

Hearing this, Meng Yi felt something was wrong and asked to leave.

Li Si found that he was increasingly unable to understand Ying Hehua.

He knew that there were many eyes of Ying Zheng in the palace, and he tried to remind her, "Your Highness Princess has always been decisive in doing things, but at certain moments, in my opinion, she was ambiguous and confused. Since you are highly valued by His Majesty during the parade, why did you get involved with the prophecy book?"

"Prime Minister Li." She walked to the screen and slowly squatted down, the cold firelight shining on her black skirt. "I have some questions that I don't understand, but the people on Mount Zhongnan have gone to travel to other places. I hope the Prime Minister can help me solve my doubts."

A scroll of silk book was placed on the table, with four characters "Lüshi Chunqiu" written on it in fluent small seal script. This was what he had intended to use to prevent Ying Hehua from entering Zhangtai Palace.

But when Li Si opened it, the contents inside shocked him. Those block characters that looked like heavenly books were like divination. Could it be that the book was not burned by Fusu? !
"Have you ever seen it?"

Li Si's face remained calm, but he was shocked inside and froze in place.

Before leaving Mount Zhongnan, Mo Qi invited him to the mountain for a chat, told him to be on guard against Zhang Cang, and asked him to concentrate the power of the secret chamber to find out who had hidden the fragments he wrote. He said that if it was not a last resort, that place - Zhuzhang Island, Kuaiji County, should be buried forever.

Li Si didn't believe it until Mo Qi told him about Lu Buwei's past.

Mo Qi, who later became his colleague and was the same age as him, knew everything. However, when he asked more questions, especially repeating his dream, Mo Qi stopped talking.

He asked Mo Qi whether the ending of being beheaded in his dream was real.

Mo Qi said nothing.

Only Ying Hehua's voice pulled him back to his senses. She said, "Prime Minister. If the next chapter falls into Zhao Gao's hands, then everything will be over."

Li Si frowned, but he didn't care.

In his impression, Zhao Gao was very respectful to Ying Hehua and even listened to her orders for a while. She said she would not teach Hu Hai, and he really did not teach him. Zhao Gao did not even complain to the emperor.

Even though Li Xian insisted that his eyes were not injured by Ying Hehua, but by the people of the six countries.

He discovered that his son was vaguely planning to tie the body found on the parade route together with Zhao Gao.

Li Si seemed to think that Li Xian had gone insane because of Ying Hehua.

Zhao Gao did give Li Xian some advice when he broke into Changle Palace, so Li Si could not question Zhao Gao.

At this time, he said through the screen, "Princess, please be careful with your words." After that, he quickly said something, "Princess, don't worry, there will be a reasonable explanation for Yan Le's death."

Having said that, he turned and left.