Chapter 128 Chapter 6 The Fatal Little Thing

It was a scorching summer, with the sun in the sky and the hot wind like fire. The convoy returning to Xianyang walked listlessly on the land of the Central Plains.The elderly Li Si was drowsy in the car, but whenever he was about to fall asleep, he would always be woken up by the coachman's continuous sniffling.Li Si asked the driver angrily, "What's wrong with you?" The coachman asked strangely, "Didn't the Prime Minister smell it?" smell what?Li Si was a little puzzled and took a deep breath.Yes, there was a faint smell of rancidity in the air.Li Si asked the coachman, "Where does this smell come from?"

The coachman replied, "The little one can't tell. Anyway, the smell has not been broken along the way. It looks like it has grown legs. It follows us." When Li Si was confused, an eunuch came over, his expression flustered, and he asked in a low voice, "Did the Prime Minister hear it?" Li Si nodded.The eunuch lowered his voice, almost whispering, "It's the emperor." Li Si immediately understood, his heart suddenly seemed to be cut by a razor, his face turned pale with fright, and he hurried to the Liangche where Ying Zheng was. The No. 2 bronze carriage unearthed from the pit of the Terracotta Warriors and Horses that we can see today is the Liang chariot, but it has been scaled down by half.From the No. 2 bronze carriage, it can be inferred that the original large Biliang chariot has an interior area of ​​about six square meters. Whether it is for the living Yingzheng or the dead Yingzheng, this space is really not enough. Make spacious.

Li Si bent down to enter the car, and immediately closed the door behind him.Sure enough, the stench along the way came from Ying Zheng's corpse.The eunuchs are also keen people, they have already closed the windows of the car, and the strong stench entrenched in the small car compartment, which is even more intense. The eunuch who was on standby in the car looked at Li Si, his eyes were full of help and panic, and he was about to cry immediately.The stench of the corpse, although it was a trivial matter, was enough to destroy their entire plan.Since he started on the road, Ying Zheng has never appeared in front of the crowd again, and he has never even got out of the carriage, which is enough to attract suspicion.Coupled with the stench escaping from the cold car (and it is certain that the stench will only get stronger), it is easy for people to have associations equal to the truth, and by then, their fate will be different. Facing a huge and insoluble crisis.

Li Si ignored the eunuch. Without saying a word, he knelt down in front of Ying Zheng's body, watching that Ying Zheng's body showed signs of corruption.He was trembling all over, his hands were trembling, and tears welled up in his eyes unconsciously. It is roughly a natural law for corpses to stink, especially in such a high temperature and scorching heat, it is even more normal.However, the stench of Ying Zheng's body made Li Si suffer from pain. The sadness and excitement in his heart were even stronger than when he first learned of Ying Zheng's death. And what kind of emotion caused the old Li Si to suffer such a strong shock?

Fyodor Dostoevsky reveals to us a similar psychological emotion in his great work The Brothers Karamazov.