Qin Official

"Brother Ji, what are you going to do? After so many years of hard work maintaining a beautiful beard, why do you want to shave it off!"

Lu Wan almost knelt down in front of Liu Ji. She didn't know what kind of hysteria this elder brother was suffering from. They were sweeping snow on Beimen Street and had the honor to see the emperor's carriage and the three generals in honor. They all felt that they had learned a lot. But Liu Ji, who had been smiling before, seemed to have seen a ghost. When he returned to the simple residence of the concubines, he slashed a copper knife on the couch and asked Lu Wan to help him shave off his beard. !

"Did you see a ghost and become hysterical?"

Liu Jiheran: "Yes, I have seen a ghost, and it is still a dark ghost."

Liu Ji was sure that he was not misjudged. Although the man had a beard, wore a fur coat and armor, and wore a beautiful young master's crown, which was majestic, his appearance was the same as that of the dark-looking Qin official. It’s rare in this world!

Against the background of the white snow, it is even more eye-catching, like a black coal in the snowdrift.

More than seven years ago, Liu Ji was still a diner under Zhang Er. Outside Huangcheng, he made eye contact with the black-faced Qin official. But at that time, Waihuang Qingxia had been defeated, and Liu Ji had also killed a Qin soldier. He thought he was worthy of Zhang Er's wine and meat, so he yelled "Protect Zhang Jun" and ran away. (Chapter 125, 126)

Later, the prodigal Liu Ji turned around and tried to be the director of a pavilion in his hometown. The experience of being a foreigner was deeply buried in his heart. He thought that in the vast sea of ​​people, that black-faced little Qin official might have died in a war long ago.

However, when he met today, he discovered that the person he was confronting that day was none other than "General Wei" who had become famous in recent years!

What frightened him was that the general actually looked at him several times. When their eyes met, Liu Ji broke out in a cold sweat. Fortunately, the convoy was moving at a fast speed. Behind Heifu was the emperor's golden car. There was no way to stop. Liu Ji took the opportunity to hide in the crowd...

"Could it be that he also recognized me?"

Thinking of this, Liu Ji felt bad. As a comrade of Zhang Er, he resisted the Qin army and killed Qin soldiers. If he was investigated, he would be beheaded as a traitor and his whole family would be imprisoned. !

"No, you can't ask him to find me!"

They were corvees, and they were watched by soldiers. They were still in the middle of the pass, and it was impossible to escape. So Liu Jixin suddenly asked Lu Wan to shave his beard for him.

"Why do you have to torture yourself for no reason..."

Lu Wan was still puzzled. For people these days, hair and beard were very important. Even after death, the hair of the deceased had to be buried separately in the ridge, or put into a small bag and placed in the coffin.

Liu Ji's beautiful beard was his most proud symbol. In the past, no matter how poor he was, he always maintained his beard very well. He washed it with clean water every day and applied some oil from time to time. People in Peixian County also respected him for it. He is the "elder".

Besides, shaving and shaving the head are humiliating punishments. Shaving is called "Nai", shaving the sideburns is called "Wan", and shaving the head is called "Kun". It's just like later generations of reform-through-labor prisoners who also had their heads shaved. If one of the three is stained, they can't hold their heads up in front of others.

Not only that, even pulling the opponent's beard and hair during a fight is considered a violation of Qin's law: if you tie up the opponent during a fight and then pluck out his beard and eyebrows, you will be punished as a city Dan afterwards. Lu Wan was afraid that if she cut Liu Ji's beard, it would be said to be a private fight and she would be convicted, so no matter what Liu Ji said, she hesitated and did not dare to do it.

"What a bastard!"

Liu Ji was angry. Seeing that Lu Wan was timid, he simply took the knife and started cutting it by himself beside the frozen pond.

After making up his mind, he moved quickly, and in three strokes, he shaved off the beautiful beard that he had cultivated for more than ten years, leaving only a short beard. He also trimmed the beard on his lips, turning the previous thick beard into It became a short sagittal beard.

"How about now? Do you still recognize me?"

There is a huge difference in temperament between a person with a beard and without a beard, a big beard and a small beard. Lu Wan and others looked left and right and felt that Liu Ji was not as majestic as before, so they all said: "When I returned to Peixian, if I didn't He said, I’m afraid no one can recognize Brother Ji.”

Liu Ji was overjoyed, and Lu Wan added, "If an official asks Brother Ji why he shaved his beard, how should he explain it?"

"It's just that after I returned to Guanzhong from Saibei, I got lice and it was so painful that I cut off my thick beard in anger!"

Liu Ji now only hopes that in this way, even if the general wants to look back for him, he will have no way to do it. After all, he is so far away, and his most obvious symbol is this thick beard...

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The first day after that was uneventful. Even the little official who was in charge of them, saw Liu Ji suddenly shaved, and just asked casually and didn't take it seriously. He only urged the men of Peixian County to go to work and deliver firewood to the military camp on the outskirts of Xianyang.

But the next day, Zhang Han's younger brother, Zhang Ping, an official in the Shaofu, was entrusted by the Beidi County Lieutenant to come to the corvee's military camp to drink a bowl of hot soup. He exchanged pleasantries with Xianyang Sikong, who was in charge of the corvee. After that, I asked him to help me find a man with a beard and beard among the concubines...

"General Wei is of great use to these people..." he said mysteriously.

Xianyang Sikong didn't understand what it meant, but it was hard to ask more questions. Naturally, it was impossible for him to personally search for people in the stinking mass of relocated prisoners. It would be too labor-intensive to check the biographies of tens of thousands of civilians one by one, and the appearance of many people was not clearly registered. So he asked a few of his hundreds of stone officials to do this and just deal with it casually.

The Baishi officials took matters into their own hands and went around the camps to gather all the laborers and call away all the bearded people they saw.

The Pei County corvee was no exception. When Liu Ji and others were pushing a heavy chariot on the muddy road, they were stopped by a Baishi official. After taking a look, they saw that no one was "beautiful and thick-bearded". Those who must" waved their hands to let them go...

Another day passed, and more than a hundred people with beautiful beards and thick beards came back safely. They were all excited, saying that they had been received by the Beidi County Lieutenant.

General Wei didn't do anything strange to them. He only praised them all for having thick beards and hair and that they were all first-class warriors. He treated everyone to a full meal and then let them go back to their camps.

But as a result, the rumor that "Beidi Lieutenant has a beautiful beard" also spread in Xianyang...

The corvees did not think of the worst, because although Kurofu was young, his reputation was already very loud, especially among the low-level corvees who came to serve in Kansai. After all, looking at the entire empire, there is only one person who can climb from Qianshou to Shaoshang within ten years.

Heifu's promotion path has become a ready-made advertisement for the military merit and title system: no meritorious service in the clan means no membership, and a strong general will be sent to the army!

In Da Qin, only merit is considered, not family background! Even if you were hatched in a hen's nest, as long as you have the talent of an eagle, you can still fly to high branches!

Zhou Bo, a native of Lianpei County, arrived at the border fortress. After hearing about Heifu's deeds, he also had the idea of ​​"getting a title through meritorious service." Glory, everyone was excited to see Hei Fu.

When Lu Wan heard about this, she was very sorry: "If Brother Ji hadn't shaved his beard, he would have been able to see General Wei..."

Liu Ji glared at Lu Wan and told him to shut up.

Liu Ji was lucky enough to escape the disaster. Fortunately, he was clever, but at the same time, he felt an indescribable feeling of frustration...

He thought that within a few years, he had gone from being a knight-errant despised by everyone, to blending into the system, to becoming the chief of the pavilion, and to becoming a figure who was respected by people from all over the country, which was quite good.

Unexpectedly, Hei Fu climbed faster than him. How did the small official who wanted to personally risk the stone back then become a high official in the imperial court and a high official in the border areas in 78 years?

"He looks like that, even if he sells his butt, no one will want it..." Liu Ji thought vulgarly.

Comparing people to each other is so annoying! At the city gate that day, Liu Ji even had a chance to kill Hei Fu, but now, it was so different that he had to rely on shaving to protect himself from being recognized and lost his head...

He is not willing to give in!

Liu Ji felt sour in his heart, but he comforted himself and said: "My brother Liu Jiao once said to me that small insects like inchworms (huo) bend their bodies in order to stretch; giants like dragons and snakes have their bodies stretched. It has to hibernate so that it can continue to survive.”

"A true man, capable of bending and stretching!"

Although Liu Ji is humble, and although he is nearly forty years old, he has accomplished nothing, deep down in his heart, he still regards himself as a dragon and a snake!

At this time, Lu Wan was still discussing with everyone in Peixian County, saying that General Wei, as the leader of Guizhou, had made meritorious deeds, gained titles, and was promoted to the rank of minister. He also opened up the outside world for the emperor. In the future, he might be able to become a general, prime minister, and be included in the sacrificial ceremony. Jingbian Temple.

They all feel that General Wei is a real man and a model for people of our generation to emulate...

"This is not a real man."

Liu Ji was sleeping in front of the wall. Hearing this, he couldn't help but interject.

"What does Brother Ji think of a real man?" Lu Wan and others asked curiously.

Liu Ji stopped talking, continued to close his eyes, and pretended to be snoring like thunder.

"Are you asleep? Were you just talking in your sleep?" The Pei County corvettes didn't pay attention.

In the darkness, after everyone fell asleep, Liu Ji opened his eyes again, which were bright and clear.

"Yes, it's just sleep talk..."

He habitually wanted to stroke his thick beard, but what he touched was short mane that pricked his hands.

The experience of that day was really like a dream. First, it was a nightmare that frightened him when the black husband glanced at him, but then it was a sweet dream of witnessing a miracle...

Not to mention the majesty of the emperor's leading guard, which must have thousands of horses riding on it. When Heifu and others went forward, when Qin Shihuang's golden chariot actually passed by, with the sound of countless mountain shouts, more than 100,000 people were gathered along the way within a ten-mile radius. , corvettes, and soldiers fell down together like wheat fields blown by the wind!

Liu Ji is also one of the straws.

He peeked out and saw the emperor riding in a huge carriage pulled by six pure white horses. The carriage and carriage were so tight that the figure of Qin Shihuang could not be seen.

But even so, Liu Ji still saw a lot.

He saw the glory of Dharma's chariot and chariot, and the left banner of the yellow house.

Qin Shihuang is the only emperor in this land. During the whole process, although he did not say a word or show his face, he was able to make thousands of people cheer for him, go crazy for him, bow to him, respect and fear him.

Even the three generals who commanded thousands of troops were, to put it bluntly, just pioneers clearing the way, and those civil and military officials were also the stars surrounding the emperor.

Liu Ji's eyes were almost blinded by the dazzling sun, and even the previous fear was completely forgotten...

The power of the world is concentrated in the chariot, in the palm of the emperor's hand.

As soon as he spoke, countless people died for him, sweeping across the world, no one could stop him!

The county knight who Liu Ji thought was extremely powerful in the past was torn to pieces in front of the sharp blades of the Qin army, and was restrained by the emperor's orders.

The Chu State, where Liu Ji had lived for more than thirty years, was devastated after the emperor's order.

The emperor is looking into the distance, and generals like Hei Fu will be working hard at night to rush to the land of quicksand.

The emperor waved, and Liu Ji and other tens of thousands of people came all the way to Xianyang and went to Saibei.

It seemed that the whole world revolved around him.

Yes, he and Hei Fu are as different as clouds and mud, but comparing Hei Fu with Qin Shihuang, how can Hei Fu not be the light of a firefly, competing with the sun for brilliance?

When he was young, Liu Ji admired the righteous Wei Gongzi Wuji.

And now, Liu Ji found that he had a new object of worship!

That is Qin Shi Huangdi!

Apart from the emperor, including Hei Fu and Liu Ji himself, they are all ants! What's the difference between high and low?

"A true man should be like this!"

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