Chapter 148 Adventure in the Valley
More than ten years later, the Han Dynasty gradually stabilized, and the bandits and rebels in various places were slowly suppressed. "I would rather be a peace dog than a person in troubled times." After a long period of turmoil and war, people finally Lived a peaceful life.
But just at this time, somewhere, a strange thing happened that shocked the government and the public.
The thing is this: In that place lived an old eunuch who had served Qin Shihuang for many years. This old eunuch had been with Qin Shihuang since he was more than ten years old. He was about the same age as King Qin Yingzheng, and he had been with him since he was very young. He served Ying Zheng. Later, when the Qin Dynasty was overthrown and the Han Dynasty was established, he came out of the palace and returned to his hometown to make a living by farming. At that time, this old eunuch was already over fifty years old, but he was still in good health. His health is very good, and he can often go to the mountains to collect medicine.
Although the war has stopped for more than ten years, because all aspects were so severely damaged by the war, both population and financial resources are still far from being restored. Most places are still sparsely populated, the land is barren, and all kinds of materials are in short supply. ,,History books record that even the emperor at that time could not find a few horses of the same color to drive.
This old eunuch was naturally optimistic and open-minded. Although he was so old, he still hummed a ditty every day and went to the mountains to collect medicine. Because when he was in the palace, he had been hanging out with several imperial doctors around the First Emperor for a long time, and he was somewhat familiar with medicine. People from all over the country often come to him for medical treatment and medicine.
One spring, dysentery was prevalent in that area, and a large amount of herbal medicine was urgently needed. However, in the area where medicine was often collected, this herbal medicine was no longer available, so the old eunuch had no choice but to go deep into the mountains to find it. Unfortunately, because The mountains in that area are high and the forests are deep, and we don’t go there often, so before he knew it, the old eunuch got lost. Now he was a little panicked, because he knew that getting lost in this uninhabited mountain would usually be due to lack of food and water and quickly trapped to death.
The old eunuch groped in the mountains and trekked for more than two days, but in the end he still couldn't find a way out of the mountains. After all, he was old, and the food he brought had been used up. Bian soon passed out in a mountain due to lack of physical strength. next to the stream.
I don't know how long it took, but when he woke up in a daze, he felt as if he was lying on a bed, and there was still a sweet taste of rice porridge in his mouth. Someone must have given him porridge to drink, and there was something in his stomach. After eating some food, I felt somewhat energetic.
The old eunuch opened his eyes and looked at everything around him. He felt that this was a simple thatched house. He could smell a faint smell of grass and wood. The light in the house was a bit dark, but he could feel someone sitting next to him.
When the man saw him waking up, he quickly came over and asked, "Old man, are you feeling better?"
When he heard this voice, the old eunuch couldn't help but trembled. He felt that this voice had an indescribable sense of familiarity. He couldn't help but struggled to get up and wanted to sit up. The man quickly came over to help him and took a pillow to cushion him. Behind him, when the old eunuch was sitting on the head of the bed, squinting and taking advantage of the dim light to carefully look at the person next to him, he was suddenly so frightened that he rolled and fell under the bed, and then fell to the ground, all over his body. He was trembling with excitement and couldn't say a word. He just kowtowed desperately. His series of strange actions made the man sitting next to him at a loss. The man hurriedly came over to help him.
The old eunuch didn't know why, but he was lying on the ground kowtowing with tears streaming down his face. His voice was choked with sobs, and he seemed to be saying vaguely: "Your Majesty...Your Majesty...is it true?"
The man was even more confused. He didn't know what to do for a while. He felt that this old man without a beard, who looked a bit like an old lady, was indeed behaving strangely, as if he was not mentally normal.
After lying on the ground and crying for a while, the old eunuch seemed to have calmed down a little. He wiped his eyes with his sleeves, then looked at the man carefully and murmured: "You really are. Your Majesty?" Before the man could answer, he suddenly pulled the man's right hand over, looked at it carefully, and then exclaimed loudly: "Yes, you are really your Majesty, don't we, the king and his ministers, Will we meet again in the underworld? Is this God's will?" After saying that, his legs went weak and he knelt on the ground and started crying again.
This time, the man seemed to be calmer, and while holding the old eunuch up, he said: "I am not your majesty, I am an iron egg, and we are not in some underworld, this is in the valley, where I have been since I was a child. I have lived here for more than ten years.”
After the man finished speaking, he opened the window of the hut, and then opened the door. As a result, the light in the room suddenly became much brighter. The old eunuch looked outside, and it was true that the sun was shining brightly outside, the trees were green, and the grass was green. He could still see the steep cliff. He turned his head again and stared at the person in front of him, the expression on his face becoming more and more confused.
Because the old eunuch felt that the fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy in front of him looked too much like King Qin Ying Zheng. Not only did he look very similar, but he also acted exactly like him. His temperament and expression were just like the Ying Zheng who looked exactly like him back then, even though he had an accent. It is different from Qin Wang Yingzheng, but the sound quality is very similar.
What's even more amazing is that in the palm of this young man's hand, there is a black mole that is the same as King Qin Ying Zheng's. This is simply incredible. As someone who is about the same age as Ying Zheng and has served King Qin Ying Zheng almost all his life. , the old eunuch was extremely familiar with all aspects of Ying Zheng. He knew that even among the eighteen sons of Ying Zheng, none of them looked so similar to King Qin Ying Zheng. This young man must be Ying Zheng. 's reincarnation.
The old eunuch calmed down his emotions, bowed and asked the young man respectfully: "May I ask why your father is not here? How long have you lived here in your mansion?"
When the old man saw that the old man was so polite to him, he felt a little embarrassed. He blushed and scratched his head with his hands and said, "My parents have gone out of the mountain, but they should be back soon. They went to the mountain to take out some salt and cloth. I have lived in this valley since I was a child, probably for more than ten years. I occasionally go out into the mountains with my parents, but most of the time I stay in the valley. Sometimes I go hunting outside the valley. Today I was the one who went to the stream. I found you fainted there when I was waiting for prey. If you fainted somewhere else, I might not be able to find you, because many wild deer, hares, etc. often go to that stream to drink water, so I often go there. The one by the stream."
After the young man explained, the old eunuch realized that he was really lucky. Fortunately, he fainted by the stream. However, he wanted to see the young man's parents at the moment. For some reason, this young man who looked very much like Qin Wang Ying Zheng suddenly His calm heart suddenly became turbulent, and he even trembled with excitement. He felt that fate was so wonderful, so wonderful that he could not even imagine it.
Although the old eunuch was still very weak, he was exhausted from the torment just now. With the help of the young man, he returned to the bed tiredly and lay down. When the young man covered him with a quilt, the old eunuch suddenly became excited again. Tears welled up in his eyes. He had the illusion that King Qin Yingzheng was supporting him and covering him with quilts. In the past years, he had served King Qin Yingzheng like this countless times. Unexpectedly, today There is a person who looks like the King of Qin and serves him like this. Maybe this is what people often call destiny.
When the old eunuch woke up again, he saw three people sitting beside the bed. Before he could speak, he heard a man shout loudly: "Sir, do you remember me? I am the guard Zhao Meng."
This sentence was like a stimulant, causing the old eunuch to sit up suddenly. His violent reaction shocked the three people next to him.
"Zhao Meng, is it really you?" the old eunuch asked in a trembling voice. Because he was so excited, his already sharp voice became even louder and sharper. The old eunuch looked in front of him seriously. Although there are many wrinkles on this middle-aged man's face, from the space between his eyebrows and his general facial features, he can clearly recognize that this man is the guard Zhao Meng.
"It's me, sir. I didn't expect that we would meet here by such a coincidence. I thought I would never see you again. I always thought you had died in the rebellion."
Guard Zhao Meng also looked extremely excited.
The guard Zhao Meng and the old eunuch were from the same hometown, and they both worked for King Yingzheng of Qin, so they were very familiar with each other. Whenever they had the opportunity to see each other, they always talked about their hometown dialect. When he was many years old, due to the pressure of life, he left his hometown and entered the palace of the King of Qin to serve the King of Qin. However, the mountains, waters, people and things in his hometown remained deep in his heart. In the end, he In his beautiful memories, every time in the dead of night, he did not know how many times he fell asleep with tears of missing his hometown.
"Do you want to be close to the people from your hometown?" When you meet people from your hometown in a foreign country thousands of miles away, the feeling is of course extremely cordial and sweet. Therefore, the friendship between Zhao Meng and the old eunuch was established under the same hometown feeling. , ordinary people cannot appreciate it, the friendship between them has reached the point where they talk about everything.
What's more, they didn't expect that in the turbulent times, the two of them would meet unexpectedly in a valley deep in the mountains after experiencing life and death. How could they not be filled with emotion?
The two hugged each other and cried for a long time before they slowly stopped crying. Only then did the old eunuch notice that besides the young man, there was a woman next to him. Although there were some traces of time on her face, The clothes are also very simple, but still graceful and beautiful. This woman sits quietly next to her, her head slightly lowered, her face is very calm, not too sad, not too happy, just quiet He looked at the old eunuch and Zhao Meng crying bitterly.
Chapter completed!