Chapter 163: Ying Zheng: She looks like Dong'er! This can't be a coincidence!
Wang Yan said happily.
For the ministers, it was an incomparable honor that Ying Zheng sat at the seat of elders instead of Zhao Feng's mother that day.
"The king is sitting at the seat of elders?"
Hear this.
There was a ripple in Zhao's eyes.
"Yes, mother."
"This is also the king's kindness to my husband." Wang Yan replied with a smile.
For the current court, Zhao Feng is a well-deserved new noble in the court, and is also praised as a person who will have the potential to ascend to the position of national commander in the future.
"This may really be fate."
"Brother Zheng, you are sitting in the right seat."
"This can be considered as a way to resolve the regret in my heart." Zhao thought secretly in his heart.
Time flies! Very fast.
Another two days passed.
The Zhao Mansion is unprecedentedly lively today.
Everyone in the village came to the mansion. There was no room for everyone inside, so a banquet was set up outside the mansion.
Today is the day when Zhao Feng returns to the village to hold a wedding banquet.
Although this wedding banquet was not as attended by the rich and powerful as the one in Xianyang, it was also unprecedentedly lively. All the villagers, whether former villagers or new villagers, got the opportunity to attend the wedding banquet.
For Zhao Feng, he naturally didn't care about spending so much money, and he specially held a banquet when he returned this time.
The whole village.
There were busy cooks and busy guards everywhere.
Fortunately, we have enough manpower, otherwise we would be too busy to handle it.
certainly.
As for the tables, most of them were brought by the villagers themselves, even in the Zhao Mansion there were not so many tables.
In order to fulfill my mother's dream.
Today, Zhao Feng is still wearing a black wedding dress, and so is Wang Yan.
Inside and outside the hall.
Zhao sat at the seat of elders.
Wu Lizheng also sat at the seat of elders, and at Zhao's strong request, Xia Wuqie was also allowed to sit at the seat of elders.
In this house.
There was another wedding banquet.
If the purpose of giving Wang Yan a grand wedding in Xianyang was to give an explanation, then this time Zhao Feng was giving it to his mother.
Time flies!
Zhao Feng was very comfortable staying at home, enjoying the long-lost tranquility.
Taking his wife and children for a walk in the mountains every day, and then accompanying his mother, this kind of life is simply a family happiness for Zhao Feng.
Very enjoyable and very intoxicated.
but.
What Zhao Feng longs for is to become stronger.
…
A month passed in a flash.
Village entrance.
Zhao Feng also restarted his return journey.
"Mom, are you really not going to Xianyang with us?"
"My sister is going to follow me." Zhao Feng asked reluctantly.
"You guys go ahead."
"It's good for mother to be at home and have some quiet time." Zhao said with a smile.
"That's Grandpa Xia."
"You're not going back to Xianyang either?" Zhao Feng looked at Xia Wuqi with some concern.
One month of getting along.
From the way he addressed him, one could tell that Zhao Feng's attitude towards Xia Wuqi had changed a bit.
"Ha ha."
"Xianyang is like a prison to me. From now on, I will travel around Daqin to practice medicine. When you return, tell the king that I will return when he wants to."
"He doesn't need to look for me." Xia Wuqie replied with a smile.
"You are the person the king watches the most. If you don't go back, the king will not be at ease." Zhao Feng sighed.
"It doesn't matter. When he asks about it, just show me the handwritten letter I gave you."
"After so many years in Xianyang, I'm tired." Xia Wuqi smiled with relief.
Especially looking at his daughter's appearance, he knew clearly what she was thinking. It would be bad if she found out something if he returned to Xianyang.
Let everything depend on fate.
He really didn't want to lose his daughter again, and he also had to protect his grandson.
Those people are crazy!
A madman who will do anything to achieve his goal.
"Okay." Zhao Feng could only nod helplessly.
"Ying'er, have you really thought it through? Do you really want to go out with your brother? Go to the army?" Zhao Feng looked at his sister again and asked.
"nature."
"I don't want anyone to talk about me in the village." Zhao Ying was very determined.
"Okay, just don't regret it when the time comes." Zhao Feng was too lazy to say anything.
"Qi'er, Ling'er, say goodbye to your grandmother." Zhao Feng said to his two children.
"Grandma, we'll be back soon."
"Yeah, me too."
The two little guys talked to each other.
Then.
The convoy sets off!
Zhao and Xia Wuqie watched them quietly.
"Dong'er."
"Perhaps I can avoid being exposed if I don't go back, but if I don't go back, the king might investigate further."
"As long as you are Zhao Feng's mother, you will meet the king one day. It is impossible not to meet him."
"The king is very smart, he will find out. You just think too little of him. Or do you think he is the same as he was twenty-one years ago?"
Looking at his daughter beside him, Xia Wuqie sighed.
He did everything according to his daughter's ideas, but Xia Wuqi could predict the result.
The Qin Shi Huangdi twenty-one years ago might have been able to fool people, but the Qin Shi Huangdi today cannot.
However, Xia Wuqie would not take the initiative to point it out.
…
Xianyang!
Inside Zhangtai Palace!
"Your Majesty."
"The general and his family have returned to the city."
Ren Xiong hurried to the hall to report.
Ying Zheng put down the memorial and immediately became interested: "Have all their families entered the city?"
"I don't know, but I think it should be so. After all, the general already has a mansion in Xianyang. He naturally won't leave his mother and sister to live in Shaqiu, right?" Ren Xiong said with some speculation.
"I have never met Zhao Feng's mother and sister, but today I have the chance to meet them."
"Send the imperial edict and let Zhao Feng and his family enter the palace directly."
"I might as well reward his family." Ying Zheng said immediately.
If Zhao Feng could leave all his family members in Xianyang, Ying Zheng would naturally be more confident in Zhao Feng and would use him without any scruples.
For the king, the generals who lead troops outside must have handles in their hands, which is also the control of royal power.
"I obey the imperial edict." Ren Xiong bowed and immediately retreated.
Arrived at Xianyang city.
"My lord, there are guards coming ahead."
Looking at Ren Xiong galloping towards the front, Zhang Ming immediately turned around and reported.
Zhao Feng immediately lifted the curtain and took a look.
"Admiral."
Ren Xiong rode his horse forward and bowed to Zhao Feng in the carriage.
"Commander Ren, is there anything important?" Zhao Feng smiled slightly.
"The king has ordered the general to enter the palace directly." Ren Xiong said respectfully.
"My sister, wife and children are all in the carriage. Are we going directly to the palace?" Zhao Feng asked with a little surprise.
"The king said that he wanted to meet the general's family." Ren Xiong replied immediately.
"In that case, okay then." Zhao Feng nodded and did not refuse.
Although all family members except the mother entered the palace together, if it were a palace fighting drama or a court struggle, it would not be a good thing for a general to bring his family into the palace. There might be an ambush or something like that.
But now it is in Daqin.
But Qin Shi Huang.
In history, Qin Shi Huang did not kill any meritorious officials. The so-called "being too meritorious to be feared by the ruler" did not exist at all for Qin Shi Huang.
soon.
Outside Zhangtai Palace!
Zhao Feng was waiting outside with Wang Yan, Zhao Ying, and his two children.
"elder brother."
"What kind of person is the king?"
"Is he the type who gets angry easily?"
Arriving at the Qin Palace, the highest power center of the Qin Dynasty, Zhao Ying felt a little nervous.
She was originally an ordinary woman and had never encountered such a situation.
"That's hard to say. If you talk nonsense later, I might lock you up." Zhao Feng turned his head and deliberately frightened his sister.
Hear this.
Zhao Ying's pretty face immediately showed fear: "Is it true?"
"Husband, please don't scare Ying'er."
Wang Yan couldn't bear it anymore and spoke immediately.
Then he turned to Zhao Ying and said, "Ying'er, don't listen to your brother. The king is not the kind of person who loses his temper without thinking."
"Brother, you only know how to bully me." Zhao Ying glared at Zhao Feng with dissatisfaction.
"Hahaha." Zhao Feng laughed.
Inside Zhangtai Palace!
"Your Majesty."
"General Zhao Feng and his family are already waiting outside the palace." Ren Xiong reported respectfully.
"Announce." Ying Zheng put down the memorial and waved his hand.
"The king has issued an order."
"General Xuan and his family are here to see the emperor." Ren Xiong immediately shouted to the outside.
Response.
Zhao Feng walked slowly into the hall.
Wang Yan brought the two little ones, and Zhao Ying also followed Zhao Feng into the hall.
"I pay my respects to the king."
Zhao Feng bowed to Ying Zheng.
"Greetings, Your Majesty."
Wang Yan and Zhao Ying also bowed immediately, with their heads lowered, not daring to look directly at him.
"Forget it." Ying Zheng waved his hand.
But then he just glanced at her with a hint of doubt: "Where is Doctor Xia? And why isn't your mother here?"
"Return to the King."
"Dr. Xia is traveling around to practice medicine."
"As for my mother, she didn't want to leave her hometown, so she never came to Xianyang." Zhao Feng replied with a smile.
"Doctor Xia is traveling to practice medicine?" Ying Zheng's face changed, and he immediately showed a worry: "Why didn't you stop him?"
"Your Majesty, I cannot stop him."
"This is the handwriting of Doctor Xia. Please take a look at it yourself." Zhao Feng had no choice but to take out Xia Wuqie's handwriting from his arms and hand it to Ying Zheng.
Xia Wuqie took the letter without any hesitation and opened it.
After seeing the contents of the handwritten letter, Ying Zheng's nervous expression eased a little.
"well."
"It seems that Xianyang is like a cage to my father-in-law after all."
"He actually wanted to stay away so much."
"Well, let it be as he wishes."
Ying Zheng sighed in his heart, and finally did not ask any more questions, but put the letter down.
At this time!
Ying Zheng raised his eyes slightly and looked at Wang Yan and Zhao Ying beside her.
"What are you all doing with your heads down?"
"I am not a man-eating king."
"Raise your heads, there's no need to be afraid." Ying Zheng smiled slightly.
Responding to his voice.
Wang Yan and Zhao Ying raised their heads at the same time.
Different from Wang Yan's calmness.
Zhao Ying looked anxious.
But the moment Ying Zheng saw Zhao Ying, his eyes froze.
"Dong'er?"
Ying Zheng couldn't help but exclaim.
"What winter?"
Zhao Feng was stunned and asked in confusion.
Come back to your senses.
All he saw was Ying Zheng staring at his sister.
"not good."
"Isn't this king interested in Ying Er?"
"I don't want to become Qin Shi Huang's brother, and my sister can't marry an old man."
Just a glance.
A feeling of uneasiness arose in Zhao Feng's heart.
The King of Qin is still nice to me now, but he can’t set his sights on my sister.
"Your Majesty."
"This is my sister Zhao Ying."
Zhao Feng immediately turned sideways and stood in front of his sister.
"Your sister?"
Ying Zheng looked at him in surprise, but his heart was churning.
"It seems, too similar."
"There is at least a six point similarity."
"It looks like Dong'er when she was young."
"Could it really be such a coincidence?" Ying Zheng was thinking in his heart at this moment. It was the first time he saw a woman who was so similar to Dong'er, and this woman was the sister of his most favored minister.
This is too much of a coincidence.
Are there really such similarities in this world? "Your sister doesn't look like you."
Ying Zheng retracted his gaze and said to Zhao Feng with a bit of sarcasm.
"I look like my father, and my sister looks like my mother." Zhao Feng replied with a smile.
"Zhao Ying, right?"
Ying Zheng spoke slowly.
"Yes, I am." Zhao Ying replied politely.
"Is this your first time in Xianyang?" Ying Zheng asked gently.
"Yeah." Zhao Ying nodded.
"I heard that your family is just you, your brother, and your mother."
"Now that you have come to Xianyang, your mother will be alone in the countryside, right?" Ying Zheng said with a smile.
"We persuaded mother to come, but she refused. She said she was not used to the hustle and bustle of the capital and preferred the tranquility of the countryside." Zhao Ying said truthfully.
“What a pity.”
"I also want to see the style of the mother of a 20-year-old general that can be trained for my Great Qin." Ying Zheng said with a look of disappointment.
Zhao Feng smiled and said, "Don't worry, my king. If you go to Shaqiu in the future, I will definitely bring my mother with me to see you."
"That's what you said."
"When I die one day, don't hide from me." Ying Zheng laughed.
"That's what the king said." Zhao Feng replied somewhat unhappily.
"You just came back today, so I won't say anything more to you."
"You should go back home first. We will discuss the establishment of the camp after the court session tomorrow." Ying Zheng waved his hand at Zhao Feng.
"I obey your command." Zhao Feng did not hesitate and nodded in agreement.
Then.
Zhao Feng took Wang Yan and the others away.
Ying Zheng, on the other hand, had a thoughtful look on his face, staring at Zhao Ying's figure.
"Same, very similar."
"This back view, this face, they are 60% similar."
"Is it really a coincidence?" Ying Zheng's face was very solemn at this moment, and he looked deep in thought.
Even the most difficult memorials to review had never made Ying Zheng feel this way.
"Dun Ruo." Ying Zheng shouted loudly.
After a while.
Dun Ruo immediately came to Ying Zheng from the inner hall.
"Please give your orders, Your Majesty." Dun Ruo said respectfully.
"Give me Zhao Feng's native place book again." Ying Zheng said in a deep voice.
"Yes." Dun Ruo didn't ask why. He turned around and entered the back hall. After a while, he held up a book in his hand.
This is exactly what Ying Zheng saw at the beginning.
Ignore the weak.
Ying Zheng directly opened the record and read it carefully.
This continued for quite a while.
Ying Zheng did not notice anything unusual in this record.
"Did you check this record yourself?" Ying Zheng raised his head and asked Dun Ruo.
"I checked everything myself."
"We checked the household register from the government and sent people to the village to conduct secret investigations. The records are absolutely correct." Dun Ruo replied immediately.
"Zhao Feng's father died in the battle of Handan City."
"Zhao Feng's mother's hometown is Qiulin Village."
"My mother is proficient in medicine, and Zhao Feng is also familiar with it."
"Do you think there would be such a coincidence?"
"Could it be that the person I asked you to find is Zhao Feng's mother?"
When he asked this question, Ying Zheng's eyes became hot.
"Your Majesty."
"I have seen Miss Dong'er before, and I have also drawn a portrait of her."
"And Zhao Feng's mother is not her."
"The housekeeper sent by the king to the Zhao Mansion is a secret agent of the Black Ice Platform, and he is also familiar with Miss Dong'er's portrait. No, it should be said that all the secret agents of the Black Ice Platform are familiar with Miss Dong'er's portrait. If Zhao Feng's mother is that person, she would have reported it long ago." Dun Ruo explained again.
Hearing this!
Ying Zheng had a look of disappointment.
"That's all."
"Perhaps I am overthinking it." Ying Zheng sighed and asked, "The secret agents of the Black Ice Platform have not left Doctor Xia, right?"
"Please rest assured, Your Majesty."
"No matter where Doctor Xia goes, there will always be secret warriors protecting him." Dun Ruo replied immediately.
"That's good." Ying Zheng nodded.
"If there is nothing else, I will take my leave." Dun Ruo bowed and prepared to leave.
Looking at Dun Ruo’s leaving figure.
Ying Zheng still had some hope in his heart: "Wait."
Dun Ruo immediately stopped, bowed, and waited for Ying Zheng's order.
"Let the secret servant in the Zhao Mansion in Shaqiu paint a portrait of Zhao Feng's mother. After the painting is completed, present it to me immediately." Ying Zheng said in a deep voice.
"Yes." Dun Ruo bowed and accepted the order, then retreated.
"Dong'er."
"Maybe the hope is slim, but as long as there is any possibility, I will never miss it."
"Besides... it was a bit too sudden for my father-in-law to go to the dunes this time."
"I must find out the truth." Ying Zheng murmured to himself.
Zhao Mansion!
After leaving the palace and returning home.
"elder brother."
"This king looks very majestic. I am afraid to speak in front of him, for fear that he will chop me to pieces when he gets angry." Zhao Ying said to Zhao Feng very aggrievedly.
"The king is indeed majestic, but he is not the kind of person who is moody, so you can rest assured." Zhao Feng smiled.
"Husband, what are you going to do with Ying'er?"
"Do you really want to take her to the army to suffer?" Wang Yan said with some reluctance.
"sister in law."
"Even in the military, I was just doing some of the duties of a doctor, so it wasn't like I was enduring hardship."
"Again."
"Perhaps I can improve my medical skills in the army." Zhao Ying replied with a smile.
"Do you still want to go directly to the army?" Zhao Feng said with a smile.
"Is it not possible?" Zhao Ying's face changed and she looked at her brother strangely.
"If you want to become a military doctor, you must first study in the Grand Medical Hall for half a year before you can be incorporated into the army. Besides, your brother's camp has not yet been formed, and the military medical camp also needs to fill many military doctors. You need to stay in Xianyang for a while." Zhao Feng said with a smile.
"With my medical skills, do I still need to learn from you?" Zhao Ying said somewhat arrogantly.
"The medical skills you learned at home are medical skills, but the medical skills in the army are different. You will understand when you enter the Grand Medical Palace." Zhao Feng shook his head and smiled, too lazy to explain anything.
after all.
Back in the dunes, what Zhao Ying needed was treatment for her illness, but in the military camp, she needed to heal her wounds.
There is still a big difference between the two.
"Yan'er."
"Arrange a room for Ying'er." Zhao Feng instructed.
"good."
"Ying'er, come with me."
"This will be your home in Xianyang from now on." Wang Yan immediately took Zhao Ying's hand and said gently.
After they left.
Zhao Feng went straight back to his side hall.
"I have refined dozens of batches of Bigu Pills. Next, I will refine some pills to restore internal strength and improve cultivation."
"We still need to continue collecting medicinal materials."
Zhao Feng summoned his alchemy furnace and then made the elixir as he was familiar with it.
In Zhangtai Palace! "Your Highness Li Si requests an audience."
Outside the hall, Li Si, dressed in an official robe, shouted respectfully.
As one of the Nine Ministers, he could enter the palace directly to meet the emperor, but he still needed a messenger outside the Zhangtai Palace.
See Li Si.
Zhao Gao nodded first, then said respectfully: "Tingwei, please wait a moment."
Then Zhao Gao went in to pass on the message.
"The king has issued an edict that the chief judge may enter the palace to meet him." Zhao Gao walked out and said respectfully.
"Thank you." Li Si thanked him.
He was a smart man and did not look down on the eunuch Zhao Gao, which was completely different from those great aristocratic families.
After entering the hall.
Ying Zheng was still reviewing memorials. As a diligent king, his daily task was to handle various government affairs.
…
(End of this chapter)
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