Chapter 4 The third quarter is under the order

Li Si didn't sleep all night.The next morning, he hurried out and went straight to Xianyang Palace.The sun has not yet risen, and the streets are clean and lonely.Sitting in the car, Li Si was restless, always feeling that something terrible was about to happen.Otherwise, why did Zhao's dog look at him twice?The few passers-by also stopped to look at him, with gloomy faces and strange eyes.Li Si passed by them, and when he looked back, he saw them smiling at him, all showing their white teeth.Li Si felt chills down his spine, as if he was slowly falling into a well-arranged net.Li Si thought it was all hallucinations caused by lack of sleep, and he slapped his forehead hard with his palm, trying to keep himself awake.

It was too early to arrive at Xianyang Palace.Li Si breathed a sigh of relief. He had to be ahead of the clan to see Ying Zheng.Li Si saw the guards at the door flirting with each other, and the smiles on their faces clearly contained malicious mockery.Li Si ordered his guards to come inside to inform him that he wanted to meet the King of Qin on important matters.The guards entered, and after a while, the doctor ordered Wang Wan to come out from the palace. Lang Zhong Ling Wang Wan came out to greet him in person, which was unprecedented, and Li Si felt even worse.Sure enough, Wang Wan said in a blunt tone, "King Qin can't see Ke Qing, so you should go back first." Li Si was not reconciled, and asked when he could see King Qin, and he could wait outside the palace.Wang Wan didn't look at Li Si, just said, don't ask, just go back, go back.Li Sidao, "Brother Wang, you and I have been friends for many years. If something happens, I hope you can tell me clearly and don't hide it from me." Wang Wan said with a wry smile, "Your guest will know soon. Wang Wan's duty is, you can't leave without permission, dear guest take care."

Wang Wan even said to be careful, which was almost saying goodbye to him, and Li Si's heart sank to the bottom.He remembered that he promised Zheng Guo to visit him again today, so he went to the prison, but found that Zheng Guo was not in prison at all.Li Si urgently summoned Meng Tian and asked where Zheng Guo had gone, but Meng Tian didn't know, and only said that Zheng Guo was secretly taken away at midnight.Seeing that Li Si was preoccupied, Meng Tian asked why, but was perfunctorily dismissed by Li Si. Li Si left the prison and walked back in a daze.He suddenly had a boredom he had never experienced, and he found that he had nothing worth doing, and nothing waiting for him to do.The coachman asked him if he was coming home, and he shook his head blankly.He was a little scared and didn't dare to go home. He didn't know how to face his wife and children.

The carriage was driving around in Xianyang City, and Li Si's thoughts were rolling like wheels, unable to stop.Was he defeated by the clan?Has he lost Ying Zheng's favor?Is he really about to be deported?Has his years of hard work gone in vain? The sun rises, the light becomes warmer, and the streets gradually become noisy.Li Si glanced back and forth, looking eagerly at the city where he had lived for ten years.The scene was born from the heart, and the endless flow of men and women, as well as the passing vehicles and horses, on the contrary exacerbated the loneliness that was difficult to dispel in his heart.Even when he was the poorest, Xianyang had never been so strange and indifferent like today, and even had a kind of closed hostility.He looked at those humble clerks or businessmen, and even envied them.In order to save money, they may have to be hungry all day, but at night, they will always try to make a decent dinner for themselves and their families. The whole family sits around, tastes slowly, and eats up all the food.They may not have tomorrow, but they don't care, they are already living the most intoxicating and wonderful time in their lives.Just the longing for a dinner is enough to make their faces glow with strange and happy light all day long.

Bloom wandered in the interior of Dublin for eighteen hours, from eight in the morning to two in the middle of the night, before returning home.James Joyce wrote a brilliant book on it.Li Si also wandered the streets of Xianyang, and got up earlier than Bloom, but no one would write a "Uli Li Si" for him.The sun goes down, darkness falls, and the heart is cold.Li Si had no choice but to go back home, and before he entered the house, he heard crying from afar. Li Si straightened his back and tried his best to look invincible.He is the backbone of the family, he must give the family confidence.His wife has fainted from crying, but his son Li You is still calm.Li You told Li Si that before he returned home, the King of Qin had issued an edict: Zheng Guo, the hydraulic engineer, traveled to Qin as his master, and the crime was unforgivable.All the princes who come to serve Qin are generally like Zheng Guo, with two ambitions in mind, not beneficial to Qin but just enough to do harm, so that when the day comes, everything will be pursued.

The premonition became a reality, and Li Si calmed down instead.After comforting his wife's family, he said to himself, Zheng Guo, it seems that he can't help you anymore, so please yourself, no matter you or me.