Chapter 3: The System Appears [Jinjiang Official Edition Exclusive Release·Arrived Ten Years Early...
“Ahhhh!”
He watched as his usually well-behaved and adorable son suddenly twisted and turned in his arms like a mad calf, and inexplicably stretched out his two little hands and shouted and waved at the Emperor who was striding towards him.
Before Wang Ling entered the hall, the solemn expression he had forced himself to maintain was beginning to falter.
Ying Zheng walked down the stairs in a few steps and stood one meter away from his eldest daughter-in-law and eldest grandson. He pursed his thin lips, lowered his cold gaze slightly, and quietly looked at the overly lively and active little fat boy in his eldest daughter-in-law's arms.
This is his eldest grandson Qin Ying, who, like him, was born at the beginning of the first month of the year (October) when it was snowing heavily.
It has been half a year since the birth of his grandson, and today is the first time the grandfather and grandson meet each other.
Looking at the little thing's bright eyes, he didn't know how many years it had been since he had seen such a lively baby in the palace. The little thing looked a bit like him when he was a child, but the innocent expression on his face was a bit like Fusu's when he was a child. The clear eyes that could see through things at a glance had never appeared in his eyes before.
He was born in Zhujia Lane, Dabeicheng, Handan, Zhao State, a few months after the end of the Battle of Changping between Qin and Zhao. The Qin army had just killed 450,000 Zhao soldiers on the battlefield. In one annihilation battle, all the young and strong men of Zhao State were wiped out. There was mourning in every family across the country of Zhao State, and there were cries in every household. The glaring mourning clothes hanging in the houses had not been completely torn off, and the wailing had not stopped yet, when he, the great-grandson of the old Qin King, was born in the wind and snow.
Against this backdrop, he was viewed as a thorn in the side of countless Zhao people from the moment he was born, hated to the core! To vent his deep hatred for the Qin people, King Xiaocheng of Zhao, Zhao Dan, directly ordered the imprisonment of his maternal grandfather, Zhao Kangping, a humble merchant in Handan. Barely a month old, his maternal grandfather, four masters and eight servants, a total of twelve people, were killed.
The poor mother had just finished her confinement when she heard the tragic news. Before she could even cry out, she dragged her frail body and, along with him, was forced to leave the Zhujiaxiang house funded by Lü Buwei and move into the dilapidated, leaky, and dilapidated hostage house. Countless people in Zhao scolded him as a "little wolf cub of the Qin people"! Countless Zhao nobles wanted to kill him!
After stumbling and struggling, he finally reached the age of two, when the Battle of Handan broke out again between Qin and Zhao! To save his life, his father secretly abandoned him and his mother with Lü Buwei. They bribed the gatekeepers of Handan with six hundred gold coins and secretly fled Handan in a carriage on a snowy night. The enraged Zhao Dan heard the news the next day and was furious. He imprisoned him and his mother. His mother was bullied and beaten by the prison guards, and the little boy was picked up by the guards and forced to plunge his head into a bucket of ice! The burly, fierce-looking Zhao guards laughed and counted. Every time he was about to suffocate in the freezing water, they would grab his hair and pull his head out of the water, letting him cry and catch his breath, and then they would press his head back in...
Just a month later, far away in Xianyang, his great-grandfather, driven by his reckless advance and bloodlust, ignored warnings and made a miscalculated decision in Xianyang, unjustly killing the war god Bai Qi. This resulted in a heavy loss for the Qin army at the Battle of Handan! Years of accumulated strength were annihilated in one single battle, and the Zhao people, who had won the hard-fought defense of Handan, immediately launched a brutal reckoning. Zhao Dan ordered the complete slaughter of 507 members of his mother's family (the Zhao Qian clan), from the dying, toothless elders to infants swaddled in swaddling clothes whose baby teeth had yet to grow.
Two major battles wiped out his mother's entire family! He was completely left without a single support system! Abandoned by his father, he and his mother were forced to huddle in the dilapidated hostage house, suffering beatings and bullying from countless Zhao people, a miserable existence where they couldn't survive or live. Nine years of being a hostage in Zhao nearly drove his mother mad and drove him to death! It was his darkest time, the one he least wanted to look back on, the one he felt most powerless and the most difficult to endure.
When he struggled to grow up to the age of nine, because of the death of his great-grandfather, he and his mother were finally taken back to Qin by the Qin people.
Because my mother's entire family was killed, during the long nine years of suffering, her mind had been distorted and she had both love and hate for my father. But deep in her heart, she also had a faint expectation of him. After all, the only person she could rely on, besides herself who was nine years old, was her father, the only young and middle-aged man. Unfortunately, Gui Qin did not go alone to meet their father.
In his left hand he held his half-sister Ying Kui, who was three years younger than him and born to Princess Chu, and in his right hand he held his half-brother Ying Chengqiao, who was four years younger than him and born to Princess Han. The new harmonious and happy family of five came to greet the down-and-out, weak, embarrassed and miserable mother and daughter.
He originally thought that the “merit of being held hostage in Zhao” that he had endured till he was nine years old would be valued and appreciated by the Qin people after he returned to Qin, but—
The nobles of the old Qin dynasty completely ignored him and his mother. To them, his mother was just the daughter of a humble merchant, a dancer who was not presentable and could be given away at banquets like a toy. He was also a little hostage born to a humble Zhao woman and was not presentable.
Their grandfather ignored them, their two mothers, the Queen Mother Huayang and the Queen Mother Xia, looked down on them, countless nobles in Xianyang looked down on them, and when they were in Zhao, the people of Zhao beat them physically! After they returned to Qin, the people of Qin beat them mentally!
Cheng Qiao repeatedly pointed at his nose and cursed him in private, telling him to get back to Handan with his lowly mother! Don't fight him for his father! Don't compete with him for the throne! His cousins, born with a silver spoon in their mouths and never having suffered the slightest hardship, pointed at his nose and sneered at his mother, calling her a lowly second-married bitch! He was a "Zhao dog"! He shouldn't be called "Ying Zheng"! He should be called "Lü Zheng"!
Only then did the nine-year-old realize that he was a person without a "motherland". In the eyes of the Zhao people, he was a "ruthless little wolf cub born to the tiger and wolf Qin people"! In the eyes of the Qin people, he was a "cowardly little dog cub born to a defeated Zhao woman"!
Everyone bullied him! They bullied his mother! Completely driven to desperation, he was like a starving wolf cub with green eyes. On the first day of his visit to his great-grandfather and his two great-grandmothers, he got into a brawl with dozens of children from the public office in the back garden of the Prince's residence, where his great-grandfather was mourning his great-grandfather! Unfortunately—he couldn't defeat dozens of them alone! Afterward, his father scolded him harshly! Grandmothers Huayang and Xia tapped his head, pointed at his nose, and scolded him for being uneducated! Zhao Lan, the mother whose entire family died because of the Qin royal family, was isolated and helpless. Facing two mothers-in-law who looked down on her, and hearing her own eldest mother, Queen Dowager Xia, suggesting to her eldest grandfather that he should be sent to the old capital of Yongcheng for a good discipline, her mother immediately hugged him in fear and asked him to kowtow and apologize to her eldest grandfather. She, a weak woman, also knelt in front of her eldest grandfather for a long time, crying and kowtowed to apologize, saying that it was because of her humble background, shallow knowledge, and narrow vision that she failed to teach him well in Handan. She cried so hard that she was out of breath, and her eldest grandfather was so annoyed that he had to wave his sleeves and give up.
These unbearable past events made him cold-blooded and ruthless. After he completely seized power, he killed his rebellious brother who overestimated his own capabilities! The first thing he did to destroy the State of Zhao was to drive to Handan and personally beat and bully his mother and mother! All the Zhao nobles who killed his own mother's family and insulted his in-laws were slaughtered according to the household registration! The disobedient children of the Ying royal family were demoted, killed, or exiled! However... his mother, who had depended on him since childhood, was bewitched by the fake eunuch Lao Ai and left him! His only childhood friend, Yan Dan, also sent the swordsman Jing Ke to assassinate him!
A painful youth, a repressed young adulthood, and a high-pressure middle age had transformed him into a cold, austere, sinister, ruthless, and difficult-to-approach personality! With the exception of his stubborn eldest son, who dared to speak directly to him several times, and his youngest son, who dared to act coquettishly in front of him, the rest of his sons and daughters were all timid and cowardly, cowering aside when they saw him. The little children were so frightened at the sight of him that they closed their eyes and cried loudly at the top of their lungs.
But what kind of rare sight did he see today?
He - the eldest grandson born to his eldest son who had just turned half a year old and was so stubborn that no one could persuade him, was actually trying to jump into his mother's arms with a grin on his face, his eyes full of love and admiration for him.
Even the cold-hearted Ying Zheng couldn't help but stretch out his long arms to take the fair and cute little chubby boy from his eldest daughter-in-law's arms when he saw this strange scene.
However, the next moment, he felt the back of his hand suddenly become wet.
Looking down, he saw that his eldest grandson, who had just grown a few white teeth, had been grinning for too long. As soon as he moved into his arms, a long string of sparkling saliva slid down his chubby little chin and dripped right onto the back of his hand.
Because his eldest grandson looked somewhat like himself when he was young, painful memories were brought back to His Majesty, who was also a bit of a germaphobe, and his memory instantly stopped, his body stiffened, and his pupils couldn't help but tremble slightly: "..."
And in front of His Majesty Zulong, whom he admired the most, the little fat boy Ying, who had made a fool of himself on the spot, looked up at his grandfather's handsome face, then looked down at the drool on his bony hands and opened his mouth slightly: "..."
Wang Ling had been terrified all the way, fearing that his son, entering the palace for the first time, would cause trouble in front of his grandfather. But he actually did cause trouble in public. Looking at the seemingly still scene before him, he silently let out a groundhog-like scream in his heart: [Ah! —]
In the awkward silence, the little fat boy made a "ya" sound, smiled ingratiatingly, and used his sleeve to carefully wipe the drool off the back of the emperor's hand.
Ying Zheng breathed a sigh of relief imperceptibly, and was about to return the chubby baby in his arms to his eldest daughter-in-law's arms, when a strange "sizzling" sound (the sound of electric current) suddenly rang in his mind. His long arms holding the baby paused slightly, thinking that he was hallucinating and having tinnitus. However, when he looked down, he saw that the baby in his arms also had his eyes wide open, revealing a look of surprise and astonishment.
Ying Zheng: “???”
Listening to the mechanical electronic sounds that suddenly appeared in his mind, and looking at the transparent light curtain as big as a flat plate that appeared in the air and floated between himself and the First Emperor, Qin Ying was shocked, and then he was happy and confused.
[Host, hello, Qin Ying (Qin Ying)! ]
[As a time traveler from the Qin Dynasty, your grandfather is Qin Shi Huang, and your father is Ying Fusu! A chaotic start, a devastating end!]
[When you were six months old, you accidentally burned your brain due to a high fever. Since then, you have been stupid and dull. Although you are the eldest grandson of the First Emperor and the eldest son of Fusu, your presence in the royal family is extremely low!]
[Even if fate treats you unfairly, you are "brain-dead" but determined, resilient, and never give up easily!]
At ten years old, your fate finally took a turn for the better. You successfully connected to the blind box sign-in system, and the system's energy helped repair your brain damage. Your IQ returned to normal, and you remembered your past life, ushering in a new life. However, at this moment, it was still a year since your grandfather, Ying Zheng, passed away from illness in the dunes! It was still a year since your father committed suicide! It was still a year since you were killed by your eighteenth uncle, Hu Hai, and it was still three years until the Qin Dynasty was completely destroyed!
Qin Ying: “???”
【"drop"……】
To save your own pitiful fate, for MQGA! Please work hard, young man!
[Please complete the novice mission within half an hour - Make a splash, and amaze your family, relatives, and elders. Hey - the Emperor's eldest grandson is so bold!]
[Task Completion Reward: One random blind box draw]
Six-month-old Qin Ying's eyes widened in surprise after hearing a long string of mechanical sounds in her mind.
This world is completely insane! Oh my god! He's only half a year old! How can he be ten years old?
His Majesty the Emperor, who was holding the baby, frowned slightly because he heard the strange "sizzling" sound in his mind again.
Seeing the strange expressions of the two children, one big and one small, Wang Ling, who was standing opposite him, couldn't help but say tentatively, "Father, I'm afraid Ying is about to pee. Why don't I take him down first so that you don't get in the way?"
The voice of the daughter-in-law/mother called back the attention of the two, one big and one small. Ying Zheng found that there was no strange voice in his mind anymore. He was about to nod in agreement when he felt a pain in his jaw.
Under the horrified gazes of the palace maids and his daughter-in-law, Ying Zheng looked down and saw the chubby boy in his arms. He smiled sweetly, stretched out his little hand and pulled out a few long black beards from his chin.
Wang Ling immediately knelt down and apologized, wanting to cry but having no tears, and said, "Father, please calm down. Ying is too young and doesn't understand things. He didn't mean to offend you."
Seeing the eldest lady kneeling in fear, the palace attendants, as well as Meng Yi and Zhao Gao, who had just entered, also knelt hurriedly. For a moment, countless people cried out in their hearts: "Huh—the emperor's eldest grandson is so bold!"
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