Chapter 168 Blackening needs a reason
Yi Xiaochuan looked at Xiaoyue who was dragged away by the steward of the weaving and embroidery workshop, his eyes became darker and darker.
A deep sense of powerlessness and an urgent desire for power kept surging in his heart, and he didn't know what was wrong with him?
It was as if overnight, his and Gao Yao's lives were turned upside down 180 degrees, the darkness that he had never seen before was gradually swallowing him up, he wanted to be good, but the reality kept pushing him to the other side .
After sneaking out of the palace, Yi Xiaochuan found Gao Yao again, but as soon as he entered the restaurant, he saw Zhou Ji walking towards the upstairs wing with two familiar figures.
This was the first time he saw Lu Zhi and Su Su after he escaped from Pei County. It was obviously only a year or two ago, but seeing him at this moment seemed like a lifetime away.
Aware of the sight coming from behind, Zhou Ji stopped suddenly, turned around and looked at Yi Xiaochuan who entered the door, Lu Zhi saw Zhou Ji stopped suddenly, looked back curiously, and asked in surprise, "Is that Mr. Yi?"
Zhou Ji nodded slightly, "Xiao Chuan was in a hurry when he came last time, and it happened that you were not there. We met today, let's go say hello together?"
Looking at Mr. Yi who was like a stranger, Su Su's expression was also a little surprised. The frivolous and unrestrained in the past were no longer there, replaced by a calmness that had gone through hardships, and a kind of femininity that seemed to be absent.
His appearance has not changed, but he looks like a different person.
Speaking of which, although they were disturbed by the rumors spread by Yi Xiaochuan at the beginning, this series of absurd actions actually contributed to the marriage between their sisters and Zhou Ji.
Reunited after a long absence, no amount of resentment fades away with time.
Gao Yao also noticed the three people upstairs, waved his hand and said hello, then took Yi Xiaochuan up to the second floor, and said enthusiastically, "Hahaha, I heard from Lao Zhou that when you were in Pei County, the two of you stayed together for a while. I live in Lu's house, so I don't need to introduce you if you want to come, come and come, let's chat in the first room."
"Miss Lu, long time no see."
Yi Xiaochuan looked at Lu Zhi with a complicated expression. This was not the history he knew. In his cognition, Lu Zhi should marry Liu Bang instead of Zhou Ji. He couldn't figure out why Zhou Ji dared to destroy history, but he could feel that , Lv Zhi and Su Su looked at Zhou Ji with happiness and love in their eyes. "Miss Susu, long time no see."
Lv Zhi and Su Su saluted Yi Xiaochuan one by one, and entertained him to a table. Lu Zhi also scooped up a glass of sake for him, which was regarded as a sip of grievances.
During the banquet, Zhou Ji and Gao Yao did not talk about Yi Xiaochuan's current situation. After the banquet, Zhou Ji asked his servants to send the two wives away first. He smiled, "Should I avoid it too?"
Yi Xiaochuan hesitated for a moment, knowing that the bit of historical common sense in his belly would not help the current situation except to show off in front of Gao Yao, so he shook his head and smiled wryly, "No, actually I have something to ask You ask for advice."
Surprised by Yi Xiaochuan Zhouji who is so 'humble', Zhengyan said: "It's not worth asking for advice, as long as I know, I will tell you."
The bamboo slips in the household registration hall flashed in his mind, and Yi Xiaochuan said seriously, "Have you heard of Zhao Gao?"
"Zhao Gao?" Zhou Ji was taken aback when he heard the words, and looked at Gao Yao strangely.
Gao Yao was brewing his own roasted tea, noticing Zhou Ji’s ambiguous eyes, thinking that he was stumped by Yi Xiaochuan’s question, he couldn’t help showing a look of complacency, and flaunted in front of Zhou Ji, “Hey ~Old Zhou, you don’t even know Zhao Gao, do you? I’ve heard it from Xiao Chuan~ He’s the most powerful **** around the emperor, and he even created the idiom of ‘pointing a deer into a horse’, very annoying~~”
The dull voice at the end made Zhou Ji want to hit someone, and he gave Gao a look, Zhou Ji curled his lips and said, "Of course I know Zhao Gao, Qin Shihuang's side attendant, later served as the CRRC government order, and the power was poured into the government and the public. After the death of Ying Zheng , he conspired with Li Si to tamper with the imperial edict, forced Yingzheng's eldest son Fusu to death, and supported Huhai to succeed to the throne, which directly led to the death of Qin II."
After Gao Yao listened to Zhou Ji's detailed account, the perfunctory expression on his face gradually faded away. At least he had opened a restaurant in Xianyang for almost a year. No matter how ignorant he was of history, he had a certain understanding of the power of officials in the court. With a worried expression, he pressed Yi Xiaochuan's wrist and said, "Xiaochuan, you must have provoked this person, right?"
"If I could be provoked, I wouldn't be so bored." Yi Xiaochuan sighed, "I have been in the palace for so long, I searched for people everywhere, and found that no one knew Zhao Gao, or even heard of him. So I used The novel dishes opened up the relationship with Hu Hai’s close servant, Eunuch Feng, and took the opportunity to be transferred to the Household Registration Hall, but I spent five days looking through the list of eunuchs in the palace twice, but I still couldn’t find him.”
Yi Xiaochuan raised his eyes to look at Zhou Ji, and smiled wryly, "When I was in school, I didn't pass the history grades. Lao Zhou, do you know when Zhao Gao entered the palace, and when did he make his mark?"
Without Gao Yao, is there Zhao Gao in this world?
Zhou Ji himself couldn’t explain clearly, but he knew that it would be a good thing for Gao Yao and him to lose those deafening and goosebumps.
Zhou Ji did not answer this question, but instead asked Yi Xiaochuan, "Didn't you sneer at these powers and traitors before? Why did you go to him?"
‘I want to curry favor with him, use his relationship to rescue Xiaoyue. '
Yi Xiaochuan opened his mouth, didn't say what was in his heart, raised his eyebrows and said, "Of course I want to make friends with him before he gets rich~ Right now we don't know how long we will stay in the Qin Dynasty, so we can get to know more powerful people , there is no harm in the end."
"But you didn't say that when you mentioned Zhao Gao to me last time." Gao Yao recalled Yi Xiaochuan's indignation and disgust when he mentioned Zhao Gao to him, and said, "You also said that Zhao Gao is a big treacherous minister. Be sure to stay away from him."
"The situation is different~~" After being stabbed in the back by Gao Yao, Yi Xiaochuan explained with some embarrassment, "I can try to influence him when I find him, and let him change from a bad guy to a good guy. Well done a good deed."
Don't worry about destroying history now?
Shaking his head, Zhou Ji said in a deep voice, "Xiao Chuan, have you heard of the 'butterfly effect'? When we come to this era, the history you know has already changed, don't worry about the so-called Zhao Gao, maybe his life has changed?"
Hearing this, Yi Xiaochuan had a disagreement with Zhou Ji again, and he looked serious and said seriously, "No, he can't change, and history must never change. Even if there is a so-called butterfly effect, we should try our best to Repair history, let it go on according to the established track, if the present is changed, the future will also be changed."
"Zhou Ji, you decided to stay in this world, so you have nothing to worry about, but I am different from Gao. There are still people waiting for us in modern times. What we want is to follow the history and return to the way we were before we traveled."
"Then Xiaochuan, will this restaurant opened by Lao Zhou and I change history? If it changes, will I still be able to see Gao Lan?" Gao Yao's face changed drastically, and his eyes no longer had the usual calmness. As far as he is concerned, becoming the best chef in the world has always been his ideal, but for Gao Lan, he can give up everything about himself.
"Old Gao is not very courageous, you don't need to scare him like this?" Zhou Ji reached out and patted Gao Yao's shoulder, but did not tell them that this world did not actually travel through, the two of them came to Qin Dynasty just to complete the time Closed loop, if you want to see your future family members again, you can only live to modern times by taking the elixir of life.
Zhou Ji didn’t say it because the fact is a bit outrageous, even if they said it, they wouldn’t believe it, not to mention that the closed time loop has been destroyed by him, and even he himself doesn’t know what it will be like two thousand years later.
Turning to look at Yi Xiaochuan, Zhou Ji sighed, "You keep saying that you want to restore history and let it follow the track. If history says that your friend Xiang Yu will be forced to death by your elder brother Liu Bang, what will you do?"
"If this is the necessity of history, I will obey history." Yi Xiaochuan said in a deep voice.
Zhou Ji asked again: "If you were the one who saved Duke Lu's family, and Lu Pheasant loved you deeply, and your elder brother wanted to marry her, what would you do?"
"If this is the inevitability of history." Yi Xiaochuan said in a deep voice, "I will also obey history."
Is this obedience to history or selfishness?
Zhou Ji suppressed the dissatisfaction in his heart, and said in a deep voice: "But there is no such person as Zhao Gao in the palace now, and it is impossible for there to be an idiom like referring to a deer as a horse. What are you going to do?"
Yi Xiaochuan's tone was stagnant. Although the first two erections were a bit outrageous, they were impossible things in his eyes, so he could express his thoughts with peace of mind.
Now this question actually happened in front of him, which made him unable to answer.
"Don't you want to restore history and obey history? I have a way here, do you want to try it?" Zhou Ji had a weird smile on his face, and said grimly, "You can't find Zhao Gao anyway, why don't you How about trying to be Zhao Gao yourself?"
As if frightened by Zhou Ji's expression and tone, Gao Yao took two steps aside, feeling an inexplicable chill lingering in his heart.
Yi Xiaochuan looked at Zhou Ji in shock, unable to figure out why the other party would say such ridiculous remarks.
‘If you can’t find Zhao Gao, just be Zhao Gao yourself? '
Yi Xiaochuan shook his head suddenly to disperse this thought, but the scattered thoughts are still pieced together in his mind, from the oppression in the official slave camp, to the fat eunuch's knife, and finally fixed on Xiaoyue being dragged away by the **** in charge. On the screen, he clenched his fists tightly, slowly shook his head and said, "Zhao Gao is a bad guy, I don't want to be Zhao Gao."
"Then you can be a better Zhao Gao." Although Yi Xiaochuan refused, Zhou Ji could see that he still had some hesitation, so he said with a smile, "Don't tell me you want to try to influence him, let him change from a Will the bad guy become a good guy? When you become Zhao Gao, you don’t need to be influenced at all, you will be a nice guy yourself.”
In history, Zhao Gao was a bad person. If he becomes better, then history will be changed; but if he becomes Zhao Gao in the historical track, Yi Xiaochuan doesn’t want to let himself be stained.
For a while, Yi Xiaochuan's heart was in a mess, he even forgot about asking Gao Yao for advice on new dishes, and returned to the palace in a daze, and saw Xiaoyue crying in a corner from afar figure.
In modern society, Yi Xiaochuan has never seen Gao Lan cry, but now he sees a woman who is like her twin, wiping tears with a miserable face.
Yi Xiaochuan's heart throbbed suddenly, and he tried to slow down his tone, but he still couldn't restrain the anger in his heart, "Did that **** in charge bully you again?"
"Yeah~" Xiaoyue was sad to herself, she didn't notice Yi Xiaochuan's approaching, when she looked up at him, she remembered that there was a bruise on her forehead, she quickly lowered her head and pulled her hair, trying to cover her face scars. "No, no one bullies me. I'm just a little homesick. I miss my family."
Xiaoyue wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, pretending to be relaxed and said, "Little eunuch, why are you here? Shouldn't you be on duty at the Household Registration Hall right now?"
"Didn't you agree last time? If you want to have a big meal, you are not allowed to call me little father-in-law." Yi Xiaochuan knew that Xiaoyue didn't want to cause trouble for himself. On the bright side, it is impossible to fight against the master in charge of the weaving and embroidery workshop.
In order not to burden Xiaoyue too much, Yi Xiaochuan also laughed and said, "However, you can call me Mr. Yi."
"Young master Yi?" Xiaoyue burst into a smile, feeling a little rude, so she held back her smile and said, "Seeing how much older you are than me, why are you acting like a child? I planned to call you Big Brother Yi, but now It seems that I should call you Xiao Chuan, right?"
"As long as it's not Xiao Gonggong, you can call it whatever you want."
Yi Xiaochuan's bitter expression made Xiaoyue even more amused, the two laughed and played for a while, while resolving Xiaoyue's depression, Yi Xiaochuan himself was gradually healed by Xiaoyue.
Send her to the gate of the Weaving and Embroidery Workshop, and seeing Xiaoyue leaving, Yi Xiaochuan suddenly remembered what Zhou Ji said.
If you can't find Zhao Gao, you can be Zhao Gao yourself.
In such a huge palace, only by becoming Zhao Gao can we take her out of the palace and protect her safety.
On the way back, Yi Xiaochuan kept convincing himself with various reasons until he returned to the dormitory, looking at the densely packed bamboo tubes hanging above his head, and the one with his name engraved on it that was dragged to the ground.
Yi Xiaochuan slowly closed his eyes, his face darkened, and when he opened it again, the sky outside was getting late, and a certain decision was made in his dark and deep eyes like night.
"I am repairing history so that it can run on the original track. This is my responsibility, and it is also to go home early"
Yi Xiaochuan put on the desk table and wooden box, climbed to the top step by step, and hung his nameplate on the highest position in the hall.
Dim lights flickered in the late autumn evening wind, Yi Xiaochuan walked out of the hall slowly.
Didn't look back.
(end of this chapter)