The King of Qin collapsed.

Yingzheng succeeded to the throne, and Wenxinhou Lu Buwei presided over the national funeral ceremony.

The palace was instantly dyed white, and everyone wore linen clothes to mourn. Even Baitao was put on a gray linen turban, with an unusually twisted linen rope tied around his waist.

When the previous dynasty was in turmoil, it was the prince who succeeded to the throne and took charge of the young country.

And now the foreign relatives of Zhao are rapidly rising up and overpowering the Chu and Korean cliques.

As an orphan girl who came to Xianyang from Zhao State, it was hard for Baitao to show her face.

Baitao, who had stayed in the palace obediently for three days and never even opened the door, finally couldn't help but catch a palace maid and asked, "Do you know where Brother Zheng is?"

"Your Highness the Crown Prince..."

The palace maid realized that she had made a mistake and quickly changed her words, "Your Majesty is in the mourning hall."

Because of the worry in her heart, Baitao didn't see anyone for three days and didn't want to worry so much, so she ran to the mourning hall.

A huge golden nanmu coffin stood in the middle, and the shark oil lamp underneath was still giving off a weak light, but the light was not very transparent.

Ying Zheng was dressed in mourning, kneeling upright in the middle, as if he was covered in darkness.

Baitao ran over and knelt with him, but she didn't expect that he seemed to be frozen and motionless.

Baitao made several drafts in her mind and said softly: "Brother Zheng, although your father is gone, he will become a star in the sky watching you. Don't be too sad."

Ying Zheng lowered his eyelashes, "Become a star? Are you looking at me in the sky?"

The tone in which he said this did not sound like accumulated sadness, but rather a careless tone.

Baitao felt a little weird.

He seemed to have just noticed her coming, and looked at her with black eyes, "Taotao, you're here."

Baitao hesitated for a moment, "Well, I was a little worried about you, so I came here."

"I'm fine. Death is like a lamp going out, and separation and death are just normal." Ying Zheng said solemnly, "Everyone will have this day, sooner or later, and you have to learn to get used to it."

Baitao tilted his head: "Brother Zheng, have you seen a lot of life and death?"

He has not only seen it.

I crawled out of the pit of death several times, and during those days of struggling in the dark mud, I always had a brush with death.

But Ying Zheng kept silent and said instead, "I haven't been with you recently. Did you have a good meal in the palace?"

Why did he suddenly start talking about eating again?

Bai Tao opened her eyes and said, "I ate it, but does it have anything to do with life or death?"

Ying Zheng said: "To live, one must eat."

In the past, he lived under the shelter of others in HD City. Being able to eat was just a luxury, and he was worried about being able to eat enough.

Baitao sensed what he wanted to express and comforted him: "Brother Zheng, you are the king now. You don't have to worry about this. Don't worry, you will definitely be able to have enough to eat every day in the future."

But he said silently: "When you are a general, a soldier, a peddler, a scholar who refuses to pay, or even a farmer, all you care about every day is rice, millet, wheat, and sugarcane. You have two meals a day. How can you be a king?

Let the whole world have enough to eat.”

"Ah? Wouldn't that be difficult?"

Ying Zheng's voice was smooth and flowing: "It is difficult, but someone has to walk the difficult and dangerous road first."

Baitao nodded: "Brother Zheng, you can keep walking until one day in the future, and I will always go with you. I will accompany you wherever you go."

There will always be a warbler's secret chirping in Bai Tao's eyes, like the stamens of a flower that have been nourished and grown by the spring rain, beautiful and full of sweetness.

Maybe it will be like what she said.

forever.

Ying Zheng's lips curved slightly, he held her hand and said, "Okay."

The two little ones cuddled up against each other in the dark mourning hall.

On the tree hanging with white silk in the distance, the wind puppet comes and goes, its tail ribbons are swaying in the wind, and the beautiful flowers are accidentally swayed out.

A few more months have passed, the grass is growing, the warblers are flying, and the season of peach and plum blossoms is coming.

A country cannot live without a king for a day. Ying Zheng officially succeeded to the throne on a certain auspicious day and became the King of Qin.

Wenxinhou Lu Buwei respected the late king's decree and was appointed as the Prime Minister.

He is the father of a nation.

Ying Zheng respectfully called him Zhongfu. Now Lu Buwei is in charge of the government affairs. Zhao Ji is the queen mother. Although she is the regent, she lives in the palace all day long, obeying Lu Buwei's orders and never paying attention to the government affairs.

On the contrary, Baitao's days in the harem did not change much.

The most important thing is that Ying Zheng is getting busier and busier, and at most he just feels a little bored.

However, Ying Zheng sent Baitao a playmate. She was also an innocent little girl, with cheeks as round as buns, fair and chubby, and two sweet pear dimples.

The first time Baitao saw her, he stepped on the stone with cloud patterns and asked her, "What's your name?"

The girl saluted and said, "My name is Rui'er."

"Ruier?"

Baitao smacked it and said, "Are you a native of Qin? Why do you want to enter the palace? What do you know?"

Rui'er said with a smile: "This slave is from Huangshu Village in the thirty counties of the Qin State. Because my family was poor, I sold my slave to the Qin Palace. The slave will be different."

She paused: "Eat and play."

White peach "......"

Can you eat and play?

Baitao opened her eyes wide and said, "Then will you still sleep?"

Rui'er said matter-of-factly: "Yes, this is very simple, you don't even need to learn it."

"Ah?" Baitao Jue said, "Then why did you come to the palace? You can't just eat and sleep."

Rui'er put her two little hands behind her back and said solemnly: "Your Majesty chose this slave. I think I don't know anything, but your Majesty said that I don't need to know anything else. I just want to play with my master. Before I came here,

The slaves all feel like they have gotten lucky by stepping on shit."

After saying that, she rolled her eyes, covered her mouth and said, "Bah, bah, bah, you can't bring in some local dialect. Master, please don't take offense."

Baitao: "I'm not surprised either..."

As if she was not afraid, Rui'er stared at her again and laughed, "Little master, you look like a god, your eyes are so big."

Baitao: "?"

Rui'er made a big circle with her fingers and placed it on her eye sockets to draw: "It's bigger than the wild fruits that the slave climbed the tree to pick when she was a child."

"…………"

Baitao: "Okay, okay, it's yours."

The palace maids and eunuchs here were so frightened by Brother Zheng that they were like a bunch of crowing chickens. It would be nice to have new playmates.

It doesn't matter if you can eat, sleep and play, it doesn't matter.

Baitao reached out and tugged on her sleeve, "I'm going to see Aunt Zhao later to say hello, are you going?"

Rui'er: "Aunt Zhao?"

"Aunt Zhao is the mother-in-law of the person who said she only needs to play with the master. She is the Queen Mother in this palace." Baitao deliberately went around her.

She said "Yeah" and said, "Where is the Queen Mother? Do you need to get ready?"

Baitao stepped forward with her calves, "Didn't you say that I just want to play with you? What else do you need to prepare? Let's go quickly."

She left as soon as she said so, resolutely, but Rui'er was still stunned on the spot and hadn't reacted yet.

Although Bai Tao is now small and has a bun, she walks very fast, and her little skirt rises and falls in the wind, like a blooming flower in the sky.

Rui'er Baozi, who was behind so anxiously, had her face wrinkled. She struggled to catch up with the little fox and said, "Little master, wait a minute, slave..."

Baitao, the little fox, is naughty and bad-tempered, and has a lot of fun.

He led Rui'er around in the rockery and among the green plants, walking for a while and waiting for her. Then when she saw him, he disappeared again.

Finally, I climbed up a high branch of a tree and leisurely watched her spinning around in a hurry.

Well, this is just for fun.

But not long after Baitao sat in the canopy of the tree, he heard a sudden different movement below.

It's Aunt Zhao.

She had a sad face and was looking around, as if she was looking for someone.

Why is she here?

For a moment, Baitao thought that she had missed the time and Aunt Zhao came out to catch her.

But in the blink of an eye, I thought about Aunt Zhao's undisciplined nature and her greetings were done casually, so the chance of catching her was probably low.
To be continued...