It is said that Qin Shihuang was controlled by a daughter

Chapter 569: Palace Banquet, Meng Ye (3)

When the wind blew, the palace bells on the eaves swayed and rang.

"Princess Yong'an has arrived." The eunuch chanted loudly.

The courtiers leaned over and complimented her arrival.

Fusu saw his sister, and she smiled faintly at the official who was talking to her. "...The excavation of the imperial mausoleum is indeed complicated. Thank you, Lord Chang, for telling me."

Just as Chang Cong was about to say something, an official coughed twice.

"Lord Chang, Her Royal Highness is very busy, so it's better not to disturb Her Highness. I've seen quite a few scholars from Hongxue and Qiru come this year, so why don't you and I go together?"

"Master Wang, I haven't finished speaking yet."

"Haven't you figured it out yet? His Highness doesn't want us to bother him." As he said that, Lord Wang actually took Chang Cong away.

Although anyone with a discerning eye could see that Ying Zheng was genuinely angry at Yong'an's open and pointed rebuke.

However, he would not be so arbitrary as to offend Yong'an in person.

If it were in the past, she would have exploded, but not this time. There was calmness in her eyes, which was the calmness he had asked her teachers to discipline her to become many times.

When she became the person he had hoped for, Fusu felt something was missing…

After returning from Kuaiji, Fusu didn't see her for a year.

At the banquet, there was only the music of the musicians playing the zither, and the atmosphere was full of secrecy, which was no different from the countless banquets Fusu had seen in Xianyang when he was young.

Xu Zhi secretly noted down those of Zhao Gao's henchmen, waiting to settle accounts later.

Xu Zhi walked into the palace and did not see Zheng Li.

I only saw the eldest sister.

Yuanman was holding a little girl who looked like a pink ball in her hand.

She then remembered that it was in the third month of Yuanman's marriage, when Xu Zhi decided to go to Chu, Yuanman wrote a letter saying that after arriving in Jiuyuan County, she found out that she was pregnant and was sorry that she could not come to see her off.

Xu Zhi just felt strange. She just didn't give it to her, but she still remembered it and felt indebted to her.

For people at that time, once they said they wanted to go to a place and the emperor issued an edict, it was largely a lifelong matter.

But Xu Zhi wasn't like that. She'd traveled too many paths, too complex and too often. If you counted carefully, from the time she was kidnapped and taken to South Korea, she hadn't stayed in any one place for more than three years.

"It's nothing, sister." Xu Zhi paused and shook Yuan Man's hand. "It's true, sister. Someone often complained to me that the border is windy and dusty, and it's common for people to be unkempt. I think that although there is abundant grass and water there, it's extremely cold in the winter, and the facilities are not as good as those in Xianyang. Sister, you should take good care of yourself."

Yuanman saw that her smile was full of bitterness.

There is a person.

Is the person Hehua is talking about Zhao Jia?
Many people said that Yong'an was imprisoned and detained in the palace because she killed him.

Meng Tian didn't believe it. She didn't believe it either.

Ying Yuanman met Zhao Jia twice when she was in Shangjun.

At first, he did not use the name Zhao Jia most of the time, and called himself Zhao Hengcheng.

He used to go on expeditions with the army, and since the arrival of Prime Minister Li's youngest son, he often went with him.

Despite a significant age gap, the two men often maintained a special tacit understanding. For example, in horsemanship, their style was different from that of the Qin army's heavy cavalry. They were as light as a swallow, able to maintain an excellent center of gravity even when leaping onto a horse, and even draw a bow with one hand while on horseback.

If General Wang Jian, who destroyed Zhao State back then, could see this scene, he would quickly realize that the riding skills that were quite typical of a frontier army could not have been achieved without Li Mu's years of instruction, and could only have been acquired by a prince or crown prince of Zhao State.

A year later, Yuanman found out that Zhao Hengcheng and Zhao Jia were the same person.

Meng Tian always took part in all battles personally, both big and small. In the past two years, the Huns have frequently invaded, and it is not uncommon to not see him for most of the year.

It was late at night, and the daughter couldn't sleep and kept crying. "Madam, is it too stuffy in this tent? Do you want to go out and get some fresh air?"

Yuanman was outside the tent. The mountains at the border were solemn and the grass was deep and yellow. There were no trees in sight.

She saw a small bonfire and a figure appeared. The person was kneeling upright in the cold wind, facing east, speaking something she could not understand.

Yuanman thought she had met a spy.

"Madam, that man is General Zhao."

"Zhao Hengcheng?" Yuan Man was puzzled.

“Yes. You may not know, but General Zhao has had this habit since he came four years ago. Every year at this time, he comes here and kneels for two hours.” “Why is that? It’s rather poignant.”

"I heard from General Weng Zhong that General Zhao's entire family was killed. Today is their death anniversary."

Not long after, Meng Tian returned to the camp. Yuan Man brought up the matter, and Meng Tian told her the truth. She then learned that he was Zhao Jia. The first day of September was the anniversary of his mother's death. And because King Zhao had deposed the queen, his mother had not been buried in the royal mausoleum.

And how did Zhao Jia come here from gathering people to resist Qin in the past? Zhao Jia did not hesitate to tell Meng Tian directly that it was thanks to Ying Hehua's persuasion that he wanted to fulfill Li Mu's last wish of a world without war.

Zhao Jia's wish did not come true, so how could he die?

They didn't believe he would die easily.

Until they received a secret letter from Li Xian, who hoped that Meng Tian would give procedural approval to Li Zuoche's trip back to Xianyang and let him see Zhao Jia off for the last time.

Only then did they become convinced that Zhao Jia had really died in Xianyang.

It was clearly impossible for He Hua to kill Zhao Jia. But why did she admit the crime?

Not long after, Yuan Man found out that her sister did all this in order to completely kill Zhao Gao, who threatened the Qin Dynasty and their lives.

Xu Zhi saw that Yuan Man's face and eyebrows showed more tenderness than before she got married. She smiled with relief and changed the subject intentionally. "Sister, you should stay a little longer this time."

"Hehua, why are you still the same as before?" Yuan Man sighed. Just as she was about to say something else, she was not paying attention and her little daughter ran towards Ying Hehua.

Yuan Man told her that her daughter's name was "Ye", and her nickname was "Jianjia".

Xu Zhi felt that two years had passed so quickly. When Meng Ye was in the letter, he was still in his eldest sister's womb. Now he is two years old and can stumble and walk in the palace.

When she passed by her, she looked up at her. Little Jianjia's face was rosy, her eyes were bright like pearls, and her smile was as gentle as her mother's.

Before Xu Zhi could say anything, a pair of small hands pulled her sleeves.

The maid beside her was frightened.

"It's okay." The smile she showed when she saw the child was definitely genuine.

Xu Zhi originally thought that their child would be serious and serious, but unexpectedly he was quite lively.

"Hold, hold."

She thought that the two-year-old child didn't recognize people and mistook her for Yuanman.

Xiao Mengye shook Xu Zhi's sleeve.

Xu Zhi probably hadn't been in contact with children for too long. She stood there blankly, not knowing what to say or do.

Yuan Man squatted down and gently stroked her daughter's hair, "This is Aunt Hehua."

Xu Zhi followed suit and squatted down to talk to her.

Little Mengye looked at her seriously and learned quickly, "Auntie."

"Our little Jianjia likes auntie very much."

"Hug, Auntie."

The child's repeated words softened her heart, but she underestimated the accumulated worries and wear and tear over the years.

She had long forgotten how she had picked up Aying and Han Xin's child, and thought that she had not mastered the technique.

She didn't stop taking Xia Wuqi's medicine for long.

She picked up Meng Ye, and at that moment, her body felt weak because she had underestimated the weight of a two-year-old child.

She felt weak and broke out in a cold sweat. She held back her smile for fear of scaring the children.

Just as her feet were floating, she didn't know how to keep her arms balanced.

She finally said with difficulty, "Sister, please take it quickly. I can't hold it anymore."

A pair of hands held her shoulders and supported Meng Ye in her arms in time.

"Your Highness, be careful."

A steady voice came from behind her, and then she saw Xiao Mengye open his eyes wide in surprise, and put his hand around her neck to grab the person behind him.

"Uncle, hug me."