Chapter 207: Ying Zheng suspects that there is a vigil at the entrance of the examination room...

There were soldiers maintaining order at the entrance of the examination room. Although the people accompanying the examinees were anxious to see their children, no one dared to push forward in the face of the bright armor and sharp weapons.

——This is the Qin State, a place with the strictest laws in the world. Anyone who dares to break the rules will be attacked by those soldiers.

Fuli held Nezha back and whispered, "Don't get excited. The baby will be out soon."

Nezha took a deep breath and said self-deprecatingly, "Until today, I finally understand how my sister felt when she was teaching her apprentice."

Although he loved Fu Li's disciples equally, he didn't have a deep sense of responsibility. More often than not, he resented Ying Zheng for wasting their time together as a couple.

Fu Li quipped in a low voice, "Then can you be more considerate of Zheng'er in the future?"

"No," Nezha said confidently, "He's already been away from home, and he can't wait to see you have a moment of free time. Whenever we return to Xianyang from outside the city, he'll always find a reason to invite you to the palace. A great king, instead of thinking about how to govern the country, he spends all day thinking up these excuses."

Fu Li chuckled and suddenly spotted Zhang Han in red among the students filing out. He waved Nezha's hand and pointed, "Quick, Zhang Han is out!"

The two walked out of the tea stall, and Nezha waved to Zhang Han: "My dear disciple, your master is here."

Zhang Han was very sharp-eyed and sharp-eared. When he heard his voice, he immediately looked over, and his originally serious face was instantly filled with a smile.

He hurriedly bowed to the gatekeeper and walked over, avoiding the crowd: "Teacher, Master's Wife."

At this point, Nezha, who had been very nervous, suddenly became reserved. He nodded nonchalantly, cutting off Zhang Han's attempt to speak. "This isn't the place to talk. Let's go back and talk."

Zhang Han, who wanted to talk about his own feelings about the exam, said: "...Okay, I'll listen to the master."

Fu Li laughed and said, "Let's go, let's go, our carriage is over there."

She held Nezha's hand with one hand and patted Zhang Han's shoulder with the other, whispering to him in a voice Nezha could hear: "Don't look at your master like this, he's just pretending. Ever since you entered the examination room this morning, he's been talking a lot, and it's all the same old stuff over and over again."

Someone who usually doesn't talk much suddenly becomes talkative, and it's probably because he's nervous.

Zhang Han looked at his teacher in surprise and received a fierce glare in return.

Nezha was furious, but he didn't turn his attention to Fu Lifa, who had exposed him. Instead, he glared at Zhang Han, "What are you looking at? What are you looking at? Are you the only one with a pair of eyes?"

Zhang Han lowered his head obediently and admitted against his conscience: "My disciple's eye is cramped."

Fu Li was amused by him again.

Arriving at their own carriage, the three of them boarded. Fu Li glanced at Nezha and saw that he was clearly worried, yet wanted to maintain his dignity in front of his apprentice. So she asked on his behalf, "How did the exam go? Was it difficult? Did you find any extraordinary people?"

Zhang Han said, "The test isn't difficult. Over the past few years, I've been building up my strength according to the teacher's instructions. I can now lift a 500-jin iron chain with ease, and riding a horse, shooting arrows, and using weapons are no problem at all."

At this point, he paused, a look of amazement on his face as if he had lingering fear: "If we talk about strange people, there are indeed two of them. Judging from their accents, they sound like people from Shu.

When lifting the iron rope, they didn't even look at anything under 300 jin. They started with 300 jin and worked their way up to 1,000 jin. At the end, they even asked the invigilator if there was anything heavier.

The couple looked at each other, and Nezha said, "Some people are born with supernatural powers. How are their horse fighting skills?"

Zhang Han said, "The horse battle was standard, nothing surprising. The main problem is that the weapons are too light and the horses are not good enough. In my opinion, if both the horses and weapons were suitable, they could kill everyone on the battlefield with their supernatural powers without any skills."

Fu Li said, "The fact that they are born with supernatural powers is enough to make them stand out. Perhaps before your exams are over, these two people's information will have been sent to Zheng'er's desk. No matter how good they are at fighting, they will not have the same future."

Most of those who took the imperial examination did so for their future, and whether or not they could pass was secondary.

The couple then told Zhang Han to return to his dorm and rest well, recharging his energy for the next day's cavalry test. Nezha then gave him a box of snacks he had prepared in advance and drove him off the carriage.

"Hurry up, brat! Your master's wife and I are also going back to Xianyang."

After bidding farewell to Zhang Han, Nezha personally drove the carriage and entered Xianyang before the city gates closed. The two returned to their residence in Xianyang, but before they even entered, they saw the gates wide open, and there were obviously more soldiers at the gate than usual.

Seeing the two men return, an unfamiliar soldier stepped forward and saluted: "Gentlemen, the king invites you into the palace for an important matter."

Nezha's face suddenly turned serious, and he said unhappily, "Important matters, important matters, important matters again! Why does he always have important matters?"

Fu Li soothed him, "Zheng'er isn't someone who would do anything without a purpose. Let's go over and take a look. What if there's something wrong?"

"Hmph!" Nezha was unhappy. "Sister, you said that, obviously you know that the boy's important matter is probably just a cover, and you are just partial to him."

How can this be admitted?

Fu Li stumbled and turned in front of him. She tugged at his sleeve and shook it gently, looking up and saying, "After all these years, don't you know that I'm most partial to you? If you say something like that again, I'll be furious."

Nezha's lips curled up, and he immediately bowed his head to apologize: "Sister, I just spoke hastily, and I didn't really mean it that way. How could I not understand your feelings?"

Fu Li chuckled and glared at him. "You're such a grown-up, yet you still act like a child all day long. Zheng'er is still young, and he's always been so affectionate and loving to us. He's trying to find excuses just to see us more often. If he turns his back on us, would you be happy?"

Nezha was embarrassed for a moment, his cheeks flushed with embarrassment, and he begged for mercy again and again: "Sister, dear sister, I really know I was wrong. There are so many people here, please give me some face."

Fu Li snorted and glared at him: "You want me to save face for you? Fine, lower your head."

Nezha lowered his head obediently, jokingly saying, "Sister, are you going to hit me to vent your anger? Ouch!"

But before he could finish his words, Fu Li had already slapped him on the arm, not too hard or too light, just enough to make him feel a slight pain. But he shouted loudly, as if he was afraid that no one could hear him.

Fu Li sneered, "Aren't you afraid of being seen now?" Then she rolled her eyes at him, tilted her head back and kissed him on the cheek, then quickly pushed him away and said to the palace guards, "Go get the carriage over here."

When Ying Zheng sent someone to invite them into the palace, he must have brought a carriage.

The soldier kept his head down and didn't watch the couple's lawsuit. He responded only after receiving the order and called a companion to drive the car over to the other end of the street.

Nezha had already instructed the soldiers guarding the gate to go in and tell the family elder that he and his wife would stay in the palace tonight and asked the family elder to close the door early.

After entering the palace, Ying Zheng did not have any important matters, but he still found something to share with them to shut Nezha up.

And they also knew about that matter, which was what Zhang Han had told them about, the two candidates with extremely strong strength from Shu.

After Ying Zheng finished speaking, he waited for Nezha to find fault, and he had already prepared his response.

But today the sun seemed to rise from the west. Nezha, like Fuli, just listened with a smile and nodded from time to time, without any intention of mocking his "trivial matters".

He was a man of great cunning. Although he was deeply surprised, he kept a straight face. He remained alert and continued excitedly, "If these two men also know how to deploy troops, they are truly talented generals gifted by Heaven to the Great Qin. Why should the Great Qin not be able to unify the world?"

Nezha finally couldn't help it and poured a basin of cold water on his mouth: "What if they don't know how to deploy troops?"

Ying Zheng breathed a sigh of relief: What was supposed to come has finally come!

He laughed heartily and said cheerfully, "Born with supernatural powers is an exceptional talent. Even if they don't know how to deploy troops, I will arrange for them to serve as guards in the palace and protect me."

Fu Li smiled and smoothed things over. "If you have these two warriors protecting you, we'll feel more at ease. As for deploying troops, our Great Qin already has many outstanding generals. The Mengs, father and son, the Wangs, father and son, and that up-and-coming Yang... called Yang Duanhe? Zheng'er only needs to find the right people and assign them to the right positions, and there's no need to worry about the unification of the world."

Ying Zheng was praised by her, and his back straightened up more and more. He wanted to summon all the ministers to discuss state affairs immediately.

But reason restrained him. He took a deep breath and said excitedly, "Zheng will definitely not let the teacher down!"

"Yeah." Fu Li nodded, showing some hesitation, as if she wanted to say something, but in the end she didn't say it. She just asked Ying Zheng to rest early.

The two of them always had their own residence in the palace, in the East Palace. Because Ying Zheng was still young and had not yet married and had children, the East Palace was left to them.

After the two left, Ying Zheng thought about Fu Li's hesitation and secretly wondered what she wanted to say and why she kept silent.

Their topic of discussion today was the two incredibly powerful Shu people. Both teachers were from Shu, so could they be old acquaintances?

Ying Zheng thought for a moment, then called the soldier who had reported today and asked him to repeat the information about the two people.

The soldier repeated what he had said in the afternoon, and Ying Zheng asked for some details, questioning him until he was almost unable to bear it.

"Okay, you go down first."

The soldier, as if pardoned, bowed and left quickly.

Ying Zheng muttered to himself, "A thousand-jin stone lock still feels light. Is he truly an ordinary mortal? Shu, Shu... what secrets does Shu hide? Master, you hesitated to speak today. Did you want to remind me of something, but were hesitant to speak because of something hidden, leaving me to figure it out on my own?"

Early the next morning, he summoned Dai Xuan and Zheng Cuo and asked them to secretly form a group of spies and send them to Shu.

Both of them were shocked and unhappy, so they jointly advised Ying Zheng: Qin's top priority is to unify the Central Plains. If you are greedy, you will definitely not be able to digest it.

Ying Zheng had anticipated the two's reactions, so he was not angry, but just asked them to wait for a moment.

About a quarter of an hour later, a eunuch came to announce, "Your Majesty, the Supervisor has arrived."

There was only one supervisor in the Qin State and even in the Central Plains, and that was Dai Qu, who was in charge of the Imperial Observatory.

Ying Zheng said, "Please come in quickly."