Chapter 277: One Sword, One Life
Ying Chengjiao noticed Li Si's actions.
"No need to bow, Gan Luo is my brother, not an outsider, so let's do as we should."
Li Si glanced at Gan Luo again.
"Chang'an Jun values friendship and loyalty, so don't expect others to be like you."
Gan Luo sneered in response.
"When my brother and I were playing, you were still behaving like a barbarian in the countryside of Chu. Don't think that you can speak nonsense just because you are the prime minister. Qin is not Chu..."
Gan Luo, who had been bullied by Ying Chengjiao, burst into resentment and attacked Li Si madly without any intention of stopping.
Li Si stared at Ying Chengjiao the whole time, without even glancing at Gan Luo.
Most of the Legalists' disciples are utilitarians, and they never care about anyone who does not affect them and does not violate the law.
Ying Chengjiao hugged Gan Luo, put their heads together, and smiled brightly.
"He was my brother in prison. Even if he got out and turned into a corpse, he would still be my brother."
Gan Luo's lip snips were silenced, his verbal attacks fell flat, and the original arrogance on his face froze.
Li Si's facial expression has not changed since he came in, a stern face that is iron-faced and impartial.
Hearing Ying Chengjiao's words, the corners of his lips curled up slightly, and if it was a little bigger, it could be called a smile.
"good."
Ying Chengjiao grabbed Gan Luo's head with both hands and turned it 90 degrees so that it was facing him.
"You should be more polite . He is still the chief justice. If you treat him like this, you will not even be able to leave a complete body."
...I must die, right?
Gan Luo's brows were wrinkled as he suppressed his anger.
He said in a deep voice: "I will be dead by then, why would I care whether my body is intact or not?"
"Ah, you don't care about keeping the body intact? That's what Jin Yong and Gu Long wrote in their novels!"
Who cares if the body is intact when the person is dead? Aren’t those Jin Yong and Gu Long your pseudonyms? Aren’t those novels all written by you?
Gan Luo was very annoyed. He closed his eyes and took a deep breath. When he opened his eyes again, his face was full of sincerity. He opened his mouth and was about to say something, but what he saw in front of him was no longer the hateful face, but a back figure.
At the moment when Gan Luo closed his eyes, Ying Chengjiao stood up, with his hands behind his back and his back to Gan Luo, an expression of compassion and sadness on his face, and he lowered his head to look at the piles of hay on the ground.
"Considering that we are brothers, you can kill yourself and I will leave your body intact."
Han Ji was a stunning beauty, and King Zhuangxiang of Qin was handsome enough to be called a handsome man.
Ying Chengjiao, who inherited the looks of both of them, definitely has a good appearance and is quite good looking among the handsome men.
Coupled with the impartiality that comes with the Yellow Emperor that he has cultivated to perfection, at this moment he really has a kind of extraordinary demeanor.
If Li Si was not afraid of affecting the overall situation, he would have clapped his hands and cheered.
Gan Luo did not think that Ying Chengjiao was extraordinary, he just thought that Ying Chengjiao was mentally ill. Not only was he suffering from madness, he was probably also suffering from hysteria.
I even dare to commit suicide, so why shouldn't I dare to kill you?
Since I'm going to die anyway, why shouldn't I fight you to the death?
"You should say thank you." Ying Chengjiao, who had not heard a reply for a long time, turned around and taught patiently.
Thanks for nothing!
Thank you for asking me to commit suicide?
Gan Luo's face darkened as he said in a deep voice, "You asked a prime minister to come to Xianyang Prison just to humiliate me?"
"It's to save Shangqing." Li Si said before Ying Chengjiao could speak, and looked at Gan Luo for the first time since entering the prison.
Gan Luo's face was startled, and then became uncertain.
I was so absorbed in thinking about how this fellow was going to deal with the aristocratic families that I didn't even notice the existence of Li Si.
It is reasonable for a Legalist left prime minister to treat this boy with courtesy, so why would he be so respectful?
It’s like... the person in front of him is not this guy, but His Majesty!
Since he entered Qin, he was recommended by Lu Buwei and has been deeply favored by His Majesty, just like the second Wei Yang.
He was promoted from a palace official to the left prime minister in a few years. He dared to be an enemy of the entire court. Why did he surrender to this brat?
"Ha." Li Si raised his lips, revealing an ugly, mocking smile this time, and said, "He became prime minister at the age of nine, the leader of aristocratic families, and the Shangqing Gan Luo, but he is nothing special."
Gan Luo was not willing to be outdone.
"What a lackey you are! You clearly hate me so much, but you want to please your brother by provoking him. The Legalist style of being upright and unyielding is completely lost on the Left Prime Minister. If the Lord knew you were like this, he would never grant you amnesty."
Gan Luo and Li Si were once Lu Buwei's retainers.
As a descendant of the Gan Luo family and the first-class noble of the Qin State, meeting Lu Buwei was as easy as eating and drinking for him, and it was effortless for him to be his retainer.
Li Si was different. He had his gifts thrown away by his housekeeper, was verbally humiliated, and was thrown into prison for speaking wildly in the streets. If it weren't for Lü Buwei's leniency, there would be no Li Si today.
Gan Luo was younger than Li Si, but he had been a retainer of Lu Buwei several years earlier than Li Si, and knew Li Si's past very well.
Li Si turned his head away and no longer looked at Gan Luo. His goal had been achieved.
He didn't care whether Gan Luo lived or died, nor did he care whether Gan Luo could worship another person as his lord together with him. He just wanted to show his loyalty to his lord by doing his hard labor.
The Legalists were upright towards the outside world and would do whatever it took to get the emperor.
Shang Yang met Qin Xiaogong three times and talked about the imperial way, the kingly way, and the hegemonic way. His governing beliefs changed three times.
What does this mean?
Li Si's heart was filled with emotions and he was burdened with thoughts. His mouth was pursed into a straight line again.
"Who is in charge of the aristocratic families outside now?" Ying Chengjiao looked at Gan Luo who was staring at Li Si gloomily, and said with a dull look.
"The one released was the Cai family, and the one in secret was Meng Xibai." Li Si answered quickly.
When he first received the news that a number of heads of noble families did not return home at night, he went to Xianyang Prison in person to talk to Ying Chengjiao about it. But now he pretended that it was the first time he spoke to Ying Chengjiao.
Push the old guy Cai Ze out, Meng Jiakun, Bai Fei, and Western magic are good methods.
With Cai Ze leading the way, if this guy skips Cai Ze to deal with Meng Xibai, it would show his cowardice.
However, since this guy wants Li Si to come in to intimidate me, I'm sure he won't play by the rules...
With this guy's audacious behavior, he will arrest Cai Ze, Meng Jiakun, Bai Fei and Xi Shu and put them in Xianyang Prison together!
Gan Luo collected information and made bold guesses, his pupils dilated.
"What they did."
"A group of family heads did not return home at night. There was no plaque hanging on the place where they stayed. They called it the New Tower."
"The business of the building is almost going out of business, and they built a new building. This is just an eye-opener for me."
Ying Chengjiao slowly calmed down, looked at Gan Luo, and said to Li Si: "I am not dead yet, how can I let them take away my brother's power? Capture Meng Xibai and the other three and bring them here to see my brother."
Li Si responded respectfully: "Yes."
Only Meng Xibai was arrested and Cai Ze was spared. This guy would not be afraid to arrest Cai Ze.
Either they had no evidence that Cai Ze violated Qin law, or they instigated Cai Ze to rebel.
The former is very good, this guy's power will decline.
If it is the latter, then it is not a big problem. Cai Ze, the old man, will not fail, but he will not accomplish anything either.
Li Si responded to the young man's words with the word "Yes" instead of "Yes"...
Did he really treat this boy as his dog? Or was he deliberately creating confusion?
Gan Luo was skeptical.
Li Si responded but did not leave, with an embarrassed look on his face for a moment.
"I have some doubts, and I need the Lord Chang'an to help me solve them."
"explain."
"The three families of Meng, Xi and Bai have more than a thousand people in total. Xianyang Prison is not big enough to hold them all."
"Then let's just try them. My brother doesn't want to see these people. Those who deserve it should be beheaded, and those who deserve it should be sentenced to prison."
"Wei, what's the charge? "
"Except for involvement in the trafficking of scrap weapons, all other crimes found were charged."
"only."
Li Si had no more doubts this time and stood up to leave.
"etc!"
Gan Luo shouted loudly, his face showing extreme anger and deep fear.
Seeing that Li Si did not pause, he ran to the cell door as fast as his body could bear and blocked the door.
Perhaps he ran too fast, or perhaps he was too panicked, he was out of breath.
huff
huff
Li Si walked up to him and glanced at him.
"A vicious dog blocks the road, but a good dog won't."
Whether you give in or not, you are still a dog. Li Si will take revenge on the spot.
Gan Luo was here ten breaths ago, and at this moment he must be searching for words to respond with beautiful language.
Gan Luo now fixed his eyes on Ying Chengjiao and forced a smile, his voice trembling and intermittent.
"Brother, you, you, what did you just say? Are you kidding?"
Ying Chengjiao ordered Li Si.
"Arrange the final trial for Meng Jiakun, Xishu, and Bai Fei. Put handcuffs, leg irons, and neck shackles on them, and bring them to my brother's cell to live with him."
Gan Luo's scalp exploded, but he still held on to a glimmer of hope.
"Brother, stop making trouble. There are thousands of people there."
Ying Chengjiao looked as if it was a matter of course.
"What's wrong with thousands of people? According to what you said, I didn't punish them for the crime of trafficking in used weapons, and I didn't offend any of the noble families, so isn't that enough?"
"You are crazy, you are really crazy, how dare you do this!"
Unreasonable, unpredictable, the behavior of a madman.
In an instant, many words emerged in Gan Luo's mind, and he wanted to continue shouting loudly at Ying Chengjiao.
The last glimmer of hope was shattered. He suppressed his desire to vent his anger, changed his target, and screamed at Li Si in front of him.
"He's crazy, are you crazy too? The Meng, Xi and Bai families are deeply rooted in Qin, and their children are all over Qin! If you dare to carry out this order, you will fall into an irretrievable situation!"
A sarcastic smile returned to Li Si's mouth.
"A vicious dog blocks the road, but a good dog won't."
He grabbed Li Si by the collar, but his strength was not enough to lift Li Si up.
But the emotions that had nowhere to vent in his heart made Gan Luo burst out with strength far beyond his usual level, pulling Li Si to the point of tiptoe.
Twisting his head, blood vessels like earthworms appeared on Gan Luo's neck and face.
He gritted his teeth and said viciously: " Li Si , don't make a mistake. Don't go crazy and die with this bastard! You are favored by the emperor. If nothing goes wrong, your Li family will be the first-class family in Qin State in the future. You can serve as officials of Qin State for generations and enjoy wealth and honor for generations!
"If you do this, your fate will not be any better than that of Wei Yang! If you are intimidated by this brat's power, you can report this to His Majesty. See what His Majesty says and how His Majesty wants you to deal with him!"
Li Si waited for Gan Luo to finish speaking, then pried open Gan Luo's fingers one by one and threw them out with force.
Gan Luo's arm was almost thrown off, and he felt like he was going to fly out of his body.
After his heels landed on the ground, Li Si straightened his clothes and returned to his rigid, difficult and unkind appearance.
"A vicious dog blocks the road, but a good dog won't."
Li Si kept repeating the same thing over and over again - a vicious dog blocks the road, a good dog won't block it, and he refused to have any other communication with Gan Luo.
Gan Luo was furious.
But the contact just now made him realize that the months of horse stance training and months of hard martial arts training he had practiced in his childhood were not enough for him to compete with Li Si, who was proficient in the six arts of Confucianism.
He shouted at the top of his voice at Ying Chengjiao, who he just felt was unreasonable and could not be convinced by words.
"elder brother!"
This cry is sincere and heartfelt.
"When you were little, Uncle Jia Kun, Uncle Shu, and Uncle Fei all held you in their arms! The first families to turn to you were the Meng, Xi, and Bai families. Now you want to kill Meng Xibai, the man who once loyally supported you to become king. Don't you remember anything about the past?"
Li Si, who was about to push Gan Luo away and leave, changed his mind and decided to listen to what his master's master had to say next and give Gan Luo some time to nag.
This was the first time Li Si heard that the three previous heads of the Meng Xibai family had been supporters of Ying Chengjiao, and that Meng Xibai had been a force of Ying Chengjiao.
"I haven't forgotten. The first person who took me to the tower was Uncle Fei. I still remember the women whose necks were slashed by Uncle Fei with the Qin Sword in front of me."
He once again brought up the incident that had given him nightmares for a long time and made him go limp on the spot.
Ying Chengjiao thought his heart would be filled with pain, but in fact it was not as painful as it was at the beginning, just a little bit.
A long period of time will wash away everything, including the hatred and love that were once thought to be unforgettable.
At that time, Ying Chengjiao was twelve years old, which was an era when people could get married at the age of thirteen or fourteen.
It is too late for aristocrats to be exposed to sexual relations at the age of twelve.
Under the protection of the secret guards, Xi Shu, who was not yet the head of the Xi family at that time, brought Ying Chengjiao into the tower for the first time and selected an eleven-year-old concubine to deflower Ying Chengjiao.
However, Ying Chengjiao had already practiced "Huangdi" at that time, but he was still young and lacked self-control, so it was easy for him to ejaculate after coming into contact with a woman.
Moreover, given the education they received in their previous lives, a twelve-year-old boy and an eleven-year-old girl coming together to applaud love would be quite explosive even in 1991.
He immediately refused on the grounds that he was still young.
Xishu smiled evilly and said, "You didn't like it? Come on, give me ten more!"
Ten concubines who had been trained by the Xi family came up. Ying Chengjiao blushed , and kept crossing his legs while holding his gun. He shook his head and said that he was still young.
Xishu frowned and asked ten more people, but Ying Chengjiao still gave the same answer.
Xi Shu brought Ying Chengjiao to the lobby of the building, and brought the twenty concubines trained by the Xi family in front of Ying Chengjiao, asking if there was anyone he liked.
Ying Chengjiao smiled bitterly and shook his head repeatedly.
When he hadn't stopped shaking his head, screams, the sound of swords entering flesh, and the sound of swords breaking through air filled his eardrums.
He raised his head and looked carefully. Xishu was holding a bronze Qin sword, slashing at the neck of the concubine in front of him.
One sword and one column of blood.
One sword takes one life.
Those concubines only dared to cry and scream, but stood there motionless.
He seemed to be as frightened as Ying Chengjiao, who was sitting there motionless and watching.
Later, Ying Chengjiao realized that he was the only one who was frightened.
Those concubines simply didn't dare to move.
