It is said that Qin Shihuang was controlled by a daughter

Chapter 519: Pawns in Front of the Horse

In the winter of the third year of the reign of Emperor Zhuangxiang, the Queen Mother officially announced her death and buried her in Zhiyang together with King Zhuangxiang.

The funeral bells tolled loudly, and the dukes and ministers watched the ceremony.

Xu Zhi got off the chariot and saw Ganquan Palace, which had changed color. The dark palace stood under the gray sky, the music was dull, the crying was endless, and the world was so desolate.

The palace maid nodded and lowered her head.

Only the Ying family was allowed to enter the palace. After going up the steps, the royal family's robes were all tied with white silk. Ying Teng came quickly with a staff in his hand, "Your Highness, please let this old minister wait. His Majesty the Emperor and the eldest son are both inside. Princess, please come into the palace quickly."

"Is Father doing well these days?"

"Princess," Ying Teng hesitated, but couldn't help but comfort her, "Princess, when you enter the palace, you must be careful with your words and actions."

Xu Zhi walked into the dark hall, and the clan officials all looked at him, including several elders he had never seen before. Suddenly, he understood what Ying Teng meant by being careful with his words and actions.

Ying Zheng seemed to have aged a lot, and the fatigue in his eyes made her heart suddenly tighten.

Many words came to her lips, but she couldn't say them. After all, the twelve-year-old daughter and the twenty-two-year-old daughter are different.

After a long while, she could only follow the crowd and say, "My condolences, Father."

Ying Zheng looked at her. According to Zhao Gao, Ying Hehua became like this because she went to Fufeng, and the verification was confirmed.

Zhang Liang passed the scroll containing the River Map and Luoshu to Qin through Zheng Guo, and he offered the antidote to Zheng Li as a bargaining chip to protect himself. Everything was done to eliminate his danger.

But ever since Ying Zheng read the half volume of "The Book of Advancement" that was passed to him, his suspicion has never faded from beginning to end.

——'Zhang Liang, Marquis of Liu, destroyed the tyrannical Qin and became the chief minister of the Han Dynasty.'

Liu Hou, Zhang Liang.

In fact, before the advance order appeared, seven years ago, after finding out the incident in Bolangsha, Ying Zheng had already ordered the execution of the Zhang family.

But he didn't expect that his daughter had come up with a trick to destroy all of Zhang Liang's political attributes and sever his memory in order to send him away from Xianyang.

Zhang Liang also listened to and put into practice Qin's political theory, and took the lead in moving the old Han nobles to Qin. However, something went wrong on the way, and the wife of General Han Cheng, a relative of the King of Han, was accidentally killed by bandits.

Probably, except for Zhang Liang and Liu Bang, the pavilion chief who was in charge of sending the baby, no one knew where the baby was now...

After a while, Xu Zhi heard Ying Zheng asking Zhao Gao to send her to Zheng Li's palace.

Zhao Gao stood aside, his gloomy eyes sweeping over like a wild beast lurking in the night.

"I will take Her Highness here. Thanks to Her Highness's ability to do things that ordinary people cannot do, the Princess can do everything that the eldest prince cannot do. The Princess must have paid a lot to get help from others."

Xu Zhi retorted, "You are too kind, Lord Governor. But the fact that my mother is ill is really strange. I wonder if the palace has made any progress in the investigation?"

Zhao Gao's face darkened, but soon he raised his eyebrows and smiled as if on purpose, "Your Majesty's serious illness may be closely related to your life span. I wonder if Princess knows the secret?"

"Although life span is determined by heaven, it is also determined by human effort. If the governor considers carefully whether what he does is appropriate, He Hua believes that he may be able to live out his life in peace."

Maybe, it will be possible...

She was mocking him, but these words prevented Zhao Gao from getting angry.

He said indifferently, "If that's the case, then if you try your best to find it, you can live as long as the sky. I sincerely hope that your majesty will get what you want."

Looking at Ying Hehua's slightly stiff back, Zhao Gao gradually began to smile. There was one thing he was sure of now - Ying Hehua, like Li Xian, was a person who had lived another life.

People who come from the past are different from people like Zhao Gao who see the future outcome.

Qin fell. In this bloody tragedy, everyone had their own enemies.

For Zhao Gao, Ying Hehua had enough reasons to put him to death.

However, for Zhao Gao, he had to find a way to eliminate the danger before she took action.

"Officer. The Inspector has been waiting for you for a long time."

Zhao Gao stopped smiling, and when he turned around, his crying expression had completely disappeared, leaving only the gloom in his eyes, which looked like the cold clouds accumulating outside the palace.

There was a thin layer of snow under the corridor of the Supervisory Office. Li Xian stood in front of the steps. Some snow had fallen on his black official robe. His white mourning belt swayed slightly in the wind, making him look even more solemn than the royal family members in the palace.

"Yeah. It seems that Lord Li has thought it through. I see that your eye injury has healed. Congratulations."

"Thanks to the prefect for finding Xu Fu."

"I don't want to steal the credit from Lord Li. This is not what Your Majesty wants to see. It's an emergency." Zhao Gao smiled but didn't smile. He thought for a moment and said, "Just now I was in a hurry to send Her Royal Highness the Princess to the Queen's Palace."

"Mr. Zhao." Li Xian raised his hand and brushed off the snow on his sleeves, as if he didn't care where Ying Hehua was. His voice was as flat as the surface of an iced lake. "I just received a secret report that when the empress dowager's coffin passed through Baqiao, an eunuch secretly hid something that shouldn't have been taken. I was just thinking of asking the mansion commander to take a look."

Zhao Gao was interrupted when he thought of using Ying Hehua as a prelude, and immediately a look of sorrow appeared on his face. "Master Supervisor, you are joking. Who would dare to do such a treasonous thing during the Queen Mother's funeral? Could it be that someone wants to take advantage of this to cause trouble and disrupt the rituals of the national mourning?"

As he spoke, his eyes were like a poisonous snake wrapped around Li Xian - like Ying Hehua, he thought he could rely on the "prophet" to rewrite something, but he didn't know that he had already been drawn into the ending he had seen.

Li Xian stepped aside half a step, revealing a clerk holding a wooden box behind him.

The lid of the box was opened, revealing half a tiger talisman stained with ink. The word "Gao" engraved on the corner had been scratched by a sharp weapon, but was still recognizable.

Li Xian pointed his finger at the talisman and said, "The imperial edict is in charge of the palace restrictions. He should know which imperial guard this half tiger talisman is for, right?"

Zhao Gao's pupils shrank, then relaxed again, and he even laughed out loud: "Oh, isn't this the thing of Zhao Cheng, who was demoted to guard the border by Your Majesty a few days ago? He is my distant nephew, and has always been restless. I'm afraid he is holding a grudge and wants to use the national mourning to cause chaos! Thanks to the Supervisor for finding it in time, otherwise I would be guilty of a great crime."

As he spoke, he glanced at Li Xian and said with a hint of sarcasm, "I just don't know who sent this secret report? They were able to find the hidden place so accurately, as if... they knew it a long time ago."

Li Xian met his gaze without dodging it: "You are joking, Lord Governor. My duty is to investigate secrets. Lord Governor, just now you were talking to Her Royal Highness the Princess about 'longevity'. I happened to hear a few words - I wonder if Lord Governor has found a way to live as long as the heavens?"

These words were like an ice spike, piercing Zhao Gao's most secret thoughts unexpectedly.

The smile on his face froze for a moment, then turned into a deeper sinister look: "I was just chatting with the princess. But the inspector seems to be getting close to the princess recently? The Queen Mother passed away, the Queen is ill, and your Majesty is uneasy. The princess has married the Chu man and is now a widow. There are some rumors that shouldn't be spread. It's better for you to stop them as soon as possible, Lord Li."

The wind from the corridor blew snow flakes against the window frames, sounding like countless tiny footsteps.

Li Xian looked at Zhao Gao's back as he turned and left, his hand tightly grasping the jade pendant he had searched from the eunuch - the pattern on the jade pendant was exactly the same as the one seized from the former subordinates of King Han in the assassination case in Bolingsha.

The "Zhao Cheng" mentioned by Zhao Gao just now should have died of illness in exile three years ago.

Why did Liu Bang and Zhang Liang save his wife on the road?

Was this also done by Zhao Gao?

The death knell is still ringing loudly, again and again, as if it is counting down for someone.

Li Xian looked up at the tightly closed door in the hall.

This chess game that started with death is finally about to begin.

-

Xu Zhi entered the Queen's palace, which was much warmer than outside, with a heating stove and the scent of autumn osmanthus.

She stepped carefully on the carpet, afraid to wake her mother.

Zheng Li was not a sleepy person. She woke up at the slightest noise and saw Ying Hehua standing at the door in panic with a timid look on her face.

Before she could hug her daughter, the child wrapped in snow and wind rushed to her steps.

"Seeing that the Queen Mother has woken up, my daughter is finally relieved. In the past few days, my daughter has felt like every day is a year, and she is afraid that the Queen Mother will make the slightest mistake... Don't worry, I will take care of everything."

She bowed her head to the ground, and her words revealed an unprecedented strangeness, as if nothing else except power could bring her warmth, and even her words were full of distant politeness.

Noticing the dark red edge of her white collar, Zheng Li felt a pain in his heart.

At this moment, Xu Zhi's body seemed to slowly react. She was very cold before, physically cold.

Her mother brushed her long hair away and put a thick cloak on her. Suddenly she pulled her collar, and she subconsciously tried to avoid it, but was caught in the act.

“Why is there a wound here?”