Chapter 55: Market Disturbance(1/2)
Baitao didn't tell her after all.
I had just vaguely agreed to be Brother Zheng's little wife, and I was afraid that she would jump up and down with joy, "Then why do you hope so much that I can marry Brother Zheng?"
"Maybe the young master doesn't know."
Rui'er took scissors and peeled a crab for her, "Your Majesty is young, handsome, and clean. All the noble ladies in Xianyang City are watching eagerly. They all hope that one day they can take their family and fly to the branches together to become a phoenix."
"But all the ladies in Xianyang City know that your Majesty's thoughts are all about you, my young master."
"Usually when I go out, the guards sent by the Lord will take care of my entertainment. Otherwise, how could I recover my luminous pearl so quickly?"
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Baitao felt a vaguely weird and hair-raising feeling.
What Rui'er means is that now we don't just send people to simply keep an eye on her.
But does Brother Zheng have to control what she does and what she does?
Isn’t this more lenient than brother?
Rui'er broke off a crab leg and placed it in front of her, and continued: "Also, my dear, when you went to the teahouse today, did you meet a pregnant woman who stole it?"
Baitao gathered her thoughts and took a few sips of the spicy soup. "Well, I remember clearly that she was a pregnant woman with a big and round belly."
"Now that she is in prison in Xianyang, she has stolen a full twenty gold pieces. In the Qin State, if you steal a few mulberry leaves for less than one gold, you will be punished with thirty days of corvee. What's more, this
For twenty gold, I want this slave to tell me that if my hands and feet are unclean and I dare to touch my little master, my hands should be chopped off."
Baitao: "After being sent to prison, according to Qin law, how will Zaoyi be punished?"
Rui'er didn't accept the suggestion and said with a smile, "How can I control this? I just want to know that my mistress will not suffer any loss."
Baitao felt that Rui'er had lost some baby fat on her cheeks over the years and had become more capable and smooth in dealing with things. Maybe she had grown up.
But for people, change is not a good thing.
Baitao took a mouthful of crab roe and decided not to talk about it, "Last time you told me that your brother had trouble finding his master, have you done it? Where is your brother's master now?"
Speaking of this matter, Rui'er's face was full of joy, "Thanks to my little master, since the last letter from my little master, many civil servants and famous teachers have extended their olive branches and asked me to help my little brother."
I went to study and gain experience."
"But this slave also knows that, no matter how easy to learn, he is a compromise talent, so he doesn't need to be the first to stand out all of a sudden."
"So the servant suggested that he go to the guest Qing Li Si's house to be a schoolboy, learn and hone his skills, so that he can make a difference in the future and be used by the young master."
"Lee Si?"
"That's the foreign minister, the one your Majesty attaches great importance to. I'm looking at you. He's not a thing in the pond. He will have great achievements in the future. If your younger brother follows him, you might be able to get a good place. But it depends on your luck. I can't force it.
Come."
Baitao finally remembered.
This Li Si was a foreign minister of Qin. He came from the sect of Xunzi and learned the art of emperors.
Later, he lobbied for discord in various countries, achieved great success, and was appointed guest minister.
However, because of his different political opinions from the prime minister, he could not be promoted and was always subordinated to others. However, because of his outstanding talents and learning, he was also talked about in Xianyang City.
Baitao doesn't hang out in the court, but hangs around outside the palace. She feels that the matter may not be that simple, and asks: "How did you think of looking for Li Si? Did he take the initiative to look for you?"
"Not really."
Rui'er recalled, "My little brother said that."
"I said that I met him accidentally on the trail. He was chanting while walking, and what he chanted was that people's nature is evil, they must learn from Xunzi, the sage, and then they can be rectified, and there are any corrections or other things."
"My younger brother is eager to learn. He followed him with his head bouncing until he returned to the guest house. Li Si gave him a few nudges. When my younger brother wrote to me about this in a letter, I thought it was good and let him join Li Si's family.
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As soon as she said this, Baitao felt that this Li Si was quite extraordinary and extremely sophisticated.
Although you cannot be unpredictable with a villain's heart, it is difficult for a single thread to become a thread or a single tree to become a forest. It is very reasonable for Li Si to have no foundation in Qin and want to pave the way for himself everywhere.
It was obvious that he had been plotted unknowingly.
The feeling of being plotted is really not good, but Baitao himself has stayed in the Qin Kingdom on earth for several years and has integrated into it.
You can’t say that you want to join the world but don’t want to be polluted, right?
That way, you can be both responsible and upright, and you can put yourself in a good mood.
Baitao swallowed two mouthfuls of crab meat, but it was tasteless, "Okay, I'm full."
Rui'er was surprised: "Why do you eat so little today, little master?"
"I've had enough to watch outside today. There's a chicken that keeps clucking, and..."
Baitao wanted to say something, but swallowed it back, "Also remember the Cricket King you promised me, the one with white teeth and green teeth, don't forget it."
Rui'er couldn't laugh or cry: "Yes!"
After nightfall, Rui'er served Baitao to bed.
After the people left, Baitao rolled over and over on the bed because of Lao Ai, this bullshit snake demon, getting more and more irritated, and then she transformed into her original form and jumped up and down on the bed.
This jump jumped directly to dawn without realizing it.
When the morning light came in, her fox fur was spread out on the bed.
Baitao also lost her hair this night, bah! After this night of deep thinking.
She came up with two ways, but both of them had to be obtained from the court.
The first is to find a reason for liquidation and let the snake demon move away, but this method will easily make the Qin State restless and thankless.
The second is to find someone to impeach him with a crime, so that the snake demon has to move away. This method is the simplest and fastest, but it is too targeted and will inevitably scare the snake.
Between the dilemmas, there is an even greater difficulty facing Baitao.
That is----
Who needs to do the impeachment matter?
Baitao thought hard for a while, and the name Li Si flashed in her mind.
Li Si.
Li Si was a man of great wealth and impeccable in his work. The key was that he had found her way, so if he didn't do something for her, wouldn't it be too much for him?
Adhering to the mentality that when you pluck your hair, you have to dip it into some minced meat and take it out. When it rains, you have to use a basin to catch it. If you bully me, I will bite you.
Baitao will do it as he says.
Gather the balls of hair and put them in a box, pick up the pen, put the pen away, and polish it to write the letter.
The content is as follows: I leave it to you to impeach Lao Ai.
Signed: Baitao.
She also felt that the letter was not threatening enough. What if Li Si just took it as a joke and threw it away? That would make her, a vixen, lose face.
Bai Tao pursed her lips.
Just when I was about to add the sentence "If you can't do it, get out" in the letter, I thought about it and retracted my pen angrily.
What mortals do is different from what goblins do. Mortals like to cover up their ugliness. If they are stripped naked, they will definitely be difficult to see each other in the future. If this mortal is more petty, he may be waiting for an opportunity to retaliate.
"Just write it like this. If Li Si doesn't handle it well, it won't be too late to deal with him..."
Baitao murmured as he wrote, feeling very satisfied with what he had done. But the current difficulty was how to avoid Brother Zheng's eyes and ears and deliver the letter to Li Si?
She blinked twice and looked thoughtfully close to the colorful bird that was preening its feathers in a cage under the eaves.
But she was discouraged as soon as the cage door was opened. The colorful bird didn't make any move no matter how hard it flew. It seemed as if it had taken root in the cage and didn't flutter even a few times.
I'm afraid it won't be able to fly even if I control it.
"It's really like a bird but not like a bird. You can't eat or play with it."
White Peach cooed.
She followed her brother's example and played a melon-jump for the bird. She played the bird until it raised its head and chirped, stuffed the envelope into her sleeve, and carried it out of the palace.
She is going to buy a bird, preferably a pigeon.
"Come on, let's take a look."
"Look, it doesn't cost any money. A fat boy is born in the family."
People were coming and going on the street, and all kinds of vendors were shouting. Not long after Baitao left, there was a businessman in front of him with a dark face and a moustache. He was fanning a straw fan and shouting, "Selling gugu la.
Sell gugu la and train gugu la well."
Bai Tao stopped.
Next to him was a birdcage with five smooth and shiny homing pigeons in five colors: yellow, crimson, yellow, white and black.
The businessman's eyes flashed when he saw the girl walking over in rich attire and a hood, "Oh, come and have a look. Come and have a look. This is no ordinary homing pigeon. It can deliver things and amuse you.
It’s unusually good-looking.”
To be continued...