It is said that Qin Shihuang was controlled by a daughter

Little Mengye wanted to jump over the person behind him.

Meng Ye called his uncle.

Xu Zhi's grip loosened, as if relieved. "It's still early, why did you come here from Zhangtai Palace?"

When Meng Yi took Meng Ye, he lowered his eyes to look at her, and sweat appeared on her forehead.

Xu Zhi saw him holding his little niece in his arms, and his movements looked very unnatural.

Apparently, he had never held a child either.

However, Meng Yi was quite indulgent towards his niece. He allowed her to grab the crimson ribbon hanging from his hat, smiling gently and not angry at all.

Xu Zhi recalled a time when Meng Yi brought a box of pastries. He thought she must have injured Li Xian's eyes, so he insisted that she go and apologize to Li Xian. He also wanted her to eat the pastries, which made her furious.

Later, when it was mentioned by chance, Xu Zhi learned that it was Hu Hai who saw Meng Yi on the road and asked Meng Yi to deliver the cakes to him.

However, the plum blossom pastry Meng Yi brought was exactly the same as the one that poisoned her in Kuaiji.

Hu Hai... was so young, but he abused and tortured the palace ladies, and was extremely vicious.

But he is quite good at acting in front of adults.

Meng Yi was coaxed, and she was almost coaxed too.

Xu Zhi was puzzled. Since Meng Yi didn't think deeply about children, why did Meng Yi dislike her and call her scheming when she had only shown a little abnormal intelligence and behavior when she was young?

Meng Ye hugged his neck and spoke in his ear, his sentences quite complete, "Uncle and Daddy... I can't bear to leave... Hug..."

Meng Yi knew that his brother had been in the army for a long time and he probably rarely saw his daughter.

He smiled and coaxed her, "Then let's go find daddy later, okay?"

Yuan Man was worried that her daughter would disfigure Meng Yi. She was even more afraid of her father than she had been in the Qin Dynasty. The emperor's authority was far more important than anything else.

When meeting the emperor, you must not make any mistakes.

"Don't wrinkle your uncle's clothes." Yuan Man reminded her, then held her in her arms.

"Aye is young, but quite active." When he said this, Xu Zhi felt that he glanced at her...

Turning his head, he really stared at her.

...Meng Yi probably remembered how she had climbed up to Ying Zheng as a child and coaxed him to take her out of the palace.

At that time, in order to save Han Fei, she didn't want Meng Yi to think too much and go to Ying Zheng to complain, so she took great pains to think of leaving the palace and going to Li Si's house to find Li Xian.

Even though Meng Yi is her good teammate now, it does not prevent Xu Zhi from keeping the grudge in her heart and expressing it in words.

She glared at him and raised her hand to stop him. "Master Meng, please don't overthink it. I definitely didn't pull the cord of my father's crown."

"My little niece is indeed more lively than Your Highness was in his youth."

"What do you mean by your niece? My sister's daughter must be my niece first."

But her last name is Meng, isn't it?

Seeing that she didn't care about her image at all, Meng Yi moved to her sister's side and took out a purse-sized object from somewhere.

As soon as Meng Ye saw the soft thing in her hand, with its round head and round ears... her eyes lit up and she stretched out her little hand to reach for it.

"I like my aunt more than my uncle."

Yuanman rarely saw her sister interested in debating such a boring thing.

Meng Yi had never seen a purse in the world uglier than the one in her hand.

However, my little niece liked it very much and held it in one hand.

"Auntie. I like it."

Xu Zhi nodded with satisfaction, "Our little Ye'er has good taste."

Meng Ye lifted up the soft thing and said, "Mom, look."

Xu Zhi saw the suppressed disdain on Meng Yi's face.

Suddenly, she remembered that before, she was held in Ying Zheng's arms, and Meng Yi was beside her, and he glanced at her with the same look.

"My father often says that you are knowledgeable and experienced, and the Prime Minister also praises you for your exemplary position as a judge and your broad knowledge. So, what animal is this that I'm embroidering?"

Don’t talk about Meng Yi.

Yuanman didn't recognize it either. Those three black balls were hugging each other. Over the years, her sister's embroidery skills had not improved at all.

Is it actually an animal?

Meng Yi frowned, "...I don't know."

She suddenly became proud and said, "It would be strange if you knew."

Meng Yi seemed to laugh out loud in anger, and shook his head helplessly, agreeing with her, "Please tell me, Princess."

Yuanman originally thought that the atmosphere was a bit tense.

But Meng Yi didn't care about Ying Hehua.

"This is called Mickey Mouse." She squatted down, stretched out her hand and sketched a shape in the air, then said to Meng Ye with a smile, "There are many others, such as Tigger, Flying Pig, Tom Cat, etc. I will embroider them for you when I have time. But I made several different bell pendants for Fugui a few days ago. I will bring them to you in a couple of days."

Meng Ye blinked, not quite understanding, but put his arms around her neck and kissed her on the face.

Two or three years later, when Meng Ye had grown up, she couldn't bear to throw away the purse embroidered with Mickey Mouse. And even much later... even though her aunt had become a taboo throughout the dynasty during that period, she refused to take it out and destroy it.

Ying Yuanman knew that Fugui was a rabbit, the rabbit that Li Zuoche raised in his mansion.

"When Aye was just two years old, Zuo Shuzhang would catch some small animals for Aye when he had no military duties."

Xu Zhi finally understood...it turned out that it was Li Zuoche who taught her. That kid was very smart when he was young. He kept calling Xu Zhi "Princess Sister" which made Xu Zhi very happy.

After so many years, she has risen to a higher generation.

Xu Zhi saw that the night outside had fallen and the fish lanterns had become brighter.

She was still a little uncomfortable leaving her sister's warm and comfortable palace, but after taking the first ten steps, she had quickly recovered her emotions.

Outside Gaoquan Palace, she saw a row of fairies standing outside.

She leaned over and asked, "There are a lot of people here today. Almost everyone is here. Qi Ru came to the banquet quite a bit, and your brother has been in Shangjun for the past two years. He came back this time and just happened to encounter this incident... Do you think this was arranged by Tian Dan, or is it something else?"

Meng Yi was slightly surprised by Ying Hehua's change of topic, but he quickly straightened his face and said, "Just now, I left Zhangtai Palace and ran into Supervisor Li."

"Li Xian. Where did he go?"

As soon as she asked this question, she saw her brother and Han Fei behind him in the distance.

"Li Xian went to Zhangtai Palace."

"Zhangtai Palace?" Her heart sank, but she also realized that her father, Li Si, was not there. "Did he say anything?"

Meng Yi's gaze shifted further, landing on Han Fei. "Li Xian hopes the princess won't be afraid to talk to Mr. Wenshan."

"Just that?"

Meng Yi looked at her and said, "Yes."

"Your Highness, please come this way." An eunuch interrupted her thoughts. It was not until she sat down at the table that she realized the strangeness of this banquet.

Her nominal husband was dead, and the late husband was Fu Chu, a prince before the fall of Chu.

It was inconvenient for her to appear as a married lady, nor was she Ying Zheng's unmarried daughter.

It was no secret that she held the official title of Shaofu and had once participated in government affairs in the Fuqiu Palace.

So, it was natural for her to stand together with a group of court officials in official uniforms.

It was not until then that Xu Zhi began to understand Han Fei and Zhang Liang of the past.

After the country was destroyed, they wore white clothes and stood among the vast crowd of Qin officials.

As for her, she wore a red robe and had shining hairpins. She sat next to these men as a woman.

She thought she had gotten used to the rules and regulations of ancient society, but when she was stripped of her identity as a princess, the suffocating, long-lost oppression surged up at this moment.

At any time, should outliers be eliminated or protected?
Qin music played.

It was the first time she sat so far away at a banquet, and she was surprised to find that it seemed like she had not looked at her father carefully for a long time.

She also had no way to get close to Ying Zheng to observe his face.

It was as if across layer upon layer of mountains, and amidst the rising and falling music, I heard the expected beginning.

Historically, the proposal to burn books took place eight years after the county system was finalized.

Now it's five years.

However, tonight's palace banquet seemed to be full of ups and downs. Mixed with the discussion of book burning was the matter of Xu Fu's second voyage to the east.

Xu Zhi looked at Qi Ru who was taking the lead, and saw Tian Dan looking embarrassed.

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An hour ago, Meng Yi saw Li Xian.

I don’t know if he saw it wrong, or maybe the moonlight and candlelight outside the hall were too dim, making Li Xian’s face look pale.

Although Meng Yi was a civil servant, he was also good at martial arts. He could see that Li Xian's breathing was unstable, as if he had just suffered a heavy blow.

"Are you injured internally?"

Li Xian tried his best to regulate his breathing, and his usually dark eyes revealed a rare calmness. "I'm fine."

"Aren't you going to Gaoquan Palace?"

He felt a little exhausted. "Meng Yi, you must not let Yong'an see the Taoist priests that the emperor is seeking immortality with tonight, especially that immortal master."

"Your Majesty's Immortal Master?"

"Yes." Li Xian said firmly.

Meng Yi was puzzled.

Li Xian and Li Si were not opposed to Ying Zheng's wish to send Xu Fu out to sea.

Although they did not support it as much as Wang Quan and others, they kept repeating the same things over and over again.

A neutral attitude is the most ambiguous, especially since it is the neutrality of the Prime Minister.

"You had no objection to this at the court meeting," said Meng Yi.

Li Xian looked at him, the coldness of the moon passed through his dark hair, like the flow of time.

"Not everyone is like Lord Meng. He has been by the Emperor's side since childhood and possesses a natural trust."

Suspicion is as simple as eating and drinking to those who are well versed in magic.

They never trust anyone.

But now, Li Xian saw Xu Fu standing in front of the endoscope, and he felt that the fifteen-year ending that Xu Zhi knew was not false.

Will the fifteen-year verdict be as unchangeable as the name on the Chu Wu Red Stone?

Li Xian didn't believe it.

But how did this immortal master and Xu Fu convince Ying Zheng to go to such great lengths to seek immortality? Did Ying Zheng want immortality at this time?

Zheng Li is not here tonight.

Is it...

Li Xian's eyes darkened. "Just now I saw that man surnamed Wang, and then I realized that there is more than just Zhao Gao in the Central Government," he said.

"It turns out that the Inspector also cares so much about Zhao Gao." Meng Yi said.

Li Xian remained silent, his discomfort visible, and he couldn't help but speak faster. "Everyone is here today, and what father said is just about freedom of speech. If it is exploited by those with ulterior motives, it could be disastrous. However, I think there are enough people here at Gaoquan Palace today, so things won't be too bad."

He also reminded that if Yongan wanted to see Han Fei after the banquet, he could take her directly to the side hall.

"Han Fei just told me that he came to discuss the agreement between him and the princess, and he had no other intentions. Tingwei, please don't stop him."

Meng Yi waved his hand. "Your Majesty knew about this day many years ago." He looked him over and was silent for a moment. "I see you're not feeling well. Why don't you go to Gaoquan Palace to rest? Just sit there."

Li Xian smiled. These two people from the Meng family were similar to her in some aspects. They always cared about trivial matters, which made him unable to calm down and tortured him repeatedly.

It prevented him from being a complete bastard in his previous life.

So what about this life...can he grasp these things that are as fragile as glass?
He was silent for a moment, looking at Mount Li hidden in the night, and then at the Yunyou Palace, which had a little eaves exposed among the palaces in Xianyang.

"I have something important to attend to." "But you have to tell the princess that I'm going to Zhangtai Palace."

The moonlight fell on Li Xian's body, like a layer of dust, or like armor as thin as a cicada's wing.

"The princess is very concerned about today's palace banquet. She will be worried if you are not at the table."

He smiled faintly, "She's a smart person. I believe she won't let the situation escalate or cause any mistakes."

However, Li Xian had not yet left the Xianyang Palace.

A man was already standing in front of him.

Clad in white, he stood out gracefully, like a celestial being banished from heaven. (End of Chapter)