Chapter 325 Guiguzi Departs
Ying Chengjiao lay on his back on the bed, having not slept all night. Feeling a little tired, he put aside his worries and fell asleep in the gentle embrace of green plums and lilacs.
After waking up, he didn't know what time it was. He asked Qingmei and Dingxiang to bring in the food. He sat on the bed and ate without etiquette, frowning and thinking while eating.
[No wonder Guiguzi always believed that I was an outsider. It turns out that he has an old friend who proposed a parallel universe. This is really out of the ordinary! ]
Ying Chengjiao really didn't expect that in this era someone would come up with the word "universe" and have such a high level of understanding of time and space. Moreover, Shi Jiao, who studied the universe and founded the Shi family but was unknown, was also an old friend of Guiguzi.
This led to Guiguzi completely accepting time travel, something that normal people would only regard as a joke.
Ying Chengjiao did not deliberately emphasize that he was from the future, but he did not deliberately conceal it either.
But people like Xunzi, Han Fei, and Lu Buwei only thought that Ying Chengjiao's thinking was different from that of ordinary people. No one would think that he was a time traveler.
Not to mention ancient times, even in modern times, if someone pulls someone else's clothes and says it's from two thousand years ago, he will most likely be regarded as a psychopath.
Dingxiang comforted him softly, like a big sister next door. Qingmei pulled Ying Chengjiao's arm and asked him coquettishly, like a naughty little sister.
The twin beautiful young ladies with very different personalities are using their own ways to help Ying Chengjiao relieve his worries. They want Ying Chengjiao to express his sorrows and help the person they have chosen as their childhood sweetheart solve their problems.
But how can we explain this kind of thing?
Not to mention Qingmei and Dingxiang, even if all the retainers of Changan Junfu were brought here, it would be useless. Ying Chengjiao could only rely on himself. Ying Chengjiao could imagine the reactions of his retainers if he told them the truth.
If he says that I traveled from the future and Guiguzi sees it, what should I do?
Xunzi would say: "The Master does not speak of strangeness, force, disorder, or the gods."
Li Mu would say, "Your Majesty, can you please find someone else to deceive?"
Jing Ke would say: "Your Majesty, I am a reckless man, not a fool. If you want to kill the source of evil, why do you need to make up a reason? I will help you kill him tonight."
Gai Nie would say, "Nie doesn't know."
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The disciples would not find this matter difficult to handle, but would find Ying Chengjiao's time travel to be a fantasy. No one would believe that Ying Chengjiao came from the future, and no one would be worried about Guiguzi's insight into this matter and knowing Ying Chengjiao's inner worries.
In order to let the guests know the seriousness of the matter, Ying Chengjiao needed to convince them that he was from the future. Ying Chengjiao felt that it would be more difficult to make these people believe the truth than to make others believe that he was Qin Shihuang in modern times.
Taking a step back, even if I convince others, wouldn't that be making things difficult for myself? I was originally worried that Guiguzi would see through my identity, and the solution to this problem was to tell others about my identity. Is this something a normal person can do?
This is not Werewolf. There is no guarantee that the werewolf card will be seen, and the werewolf will self-destruct.
This matter can only be handled by Ying Chengjiao himself.
To be honest, Ying Chengjiao really wanted to kill him. He was very afraid of Guiguzi, as can be seen from the fact that Guiguzi's nickname was "the source of disaster".
Now that his biggest secret has been seen through, Ying Chengjiao really wants to kill someone to silence him.
But as to the question of whether to kill Xiang Yu or not, he had just said that instead of being afraid that Xiang Yu would rebel and overthrow the Qin State after growing up, and wanting to kill him before he is fully grown, it would be better for Xiang Yu to work hard on his own to make the world a better place.
Using wine as a metaphor for people, there are two ways to success. One is to weaken your opponents, and the other is to improve yourself. The former is a temporary solution, because it is impossible to weaken all opponents, and the latter is a fundamental solution, because you can always improve yourself.
He just finished teaching Guiguzi a lesson and then turned around and killed Guiguzi with a knife. Isn't this just shooting himself in the mouth?
[Forget it, I guessed it, what can I do about it? I am a time traveler, tell me and see if anyone will believe me.]
Ying Chengjiao thought to himself that nothing could stop him.
He didn't know why he was annoyed. Exposing his identity as a time traveler to Guiguzi would not cause him any substantial harm, but he was just very annoyed.
[Has this Guiguzi already guessed my identity? He brought up Xiang Yu just to test how I would deal with him after I knew my identity was exposed? How sharp! He can't have really lived for hundreds of years!]
[The Yin-Yang technique can only confirm that Xiang Yu is in Qi. Qi is so big that it would be like looking for a needle in a haystack for me to send assassins. There is a high probability that they will not kill him. Why is it that he is telling me this? He is just testing me!]
"snort!"
Ying Chengjiao turned over and sat up, then walked away, angrily going to settle the score with Guiguzi.
Qingmei and Dingxiang wanted to go along, but Ying Chengjiao strongly ordered them not to.
The sisters who were worried about Ying Chengjiao acted coquettishly and said, "Sir, please take me there, please take me there."
One appealed to my feelings and reasoned that my sisters had followed the Master since childhood and would not cause trouble for him. Let my sisters follow the Master this time, and if there is any accident, they can still take care of it for him.
Ying Chengjiao remained unmoved. He coldly and ruthlessly rejected the maid whose face was as rosy as peach blossoms in March and walked straight out of the bedroom.
After passing through two doors inside the house and stepping on the bluestone slabs to exit the main door of the house, he greeted Lu Goujian, who had gotten up early, as usual, and walked along the path leading to Guiguzi's residence in the county governor's mansion, following the footprints on the muddy ground.
Soon, Guiguzi's residence came into view.
Bang!
Ying Chengjiao violently kicked the door open and strode in. His face turned cold the moment he entered.
Bang!
He slammed the door shut with his backhand, and the interval between the loud noises of opening and closing the door was no more than three breaths.
"Wang Chan! Are you wrong?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Ying Chengjiao's brows suddenly frowned. He did not sense any living person in the house.
"Wang Chan? Are you there?"
The originally scattered eyebrows gathered together again, and Ying Chengjiao walked inside with a frown.
If he had turned around and left before, with his high martial arts skills, few people would be able to hide their aura in front of him at such a close distance.
Only Jing Ke and Yue Nu are qualified in the mansion. Gai Nie and Lu Gou Jian are not among them, and Guiguzi is even less qualified.
But after witnessing the magic of corpse magic and listening to Guiguzi talk about the corpse family all night.
After hearing from Guiguzi that the Shi family had a method of concealing their aura, Ying Chengjiao was not sure whether Guiguzi could hide his aura in front of him.
Guiguzi's residence in the county magistrate's mansion was not big. Apart from the entrance hall, there was only a living room across the hall. It was far from comparable to Ying Chengjiao's large courtyard.
A large wooden tub for bathing was placed in the center of the hall. When Ying Chengjiao passed by, he stopped and reached out to test the water temperature. It was cold.
His frown deepened.
He pushed open the only inner door and entered Guiguzi's bedroom. He took a quick look and saw no one.
In the room of less than 20 square meters, the bed and quilt were neatly folded, with no signs of being opened. On the desk were placed pens, ink, paper and inkstone.
A straw raincoat was draped over a wooden chair. Opposite the raincoat was a small puddle of water. Next to the puddle was the umbrella that Guiguzi had opened yesterday.
The newly built and moved-in bookshelf was not filled with classics, history, and books from various schools of thought. There was only one lonely book.
Ying Chengjiao closed the door with his backhand, then went to the bed and lifted up the three layers of animal skins, revealing the yellow wood.
Ying Chengjiao bent his fingers and knocked twice. The sound was dull but not hollow, proving that the bed was not hollow.
"Is it because I haven't finished my work, or..."
There is no other place in the entire room where someone can hide except this bed.
Having determined that there was indeed no one in the room, Ying Chengjiao walked to the table with a gloomy face and took his first look at the inkstone. The shape of the inkstone was nothing ordinary and it was obvious that it was not a rare item. There was no trace of water in the ink in the inkstone.
Ying Chengjiao stretched out his hand and touched it. There was a little black ink powder on his finger, and the ink had dried up.
A brush with a dry tip was pressed on a piece of paper, as if the author was afraid that the paper would be blown away.
Ying Chengjiao put away the brush, blew it habitually, and looked at it carefully. The first sentence made Ying Chengjiao's luck disappear completely.
【Your Excellency, I will take my leave now.】
"I thought it was just my illusion. Your bow last night really meant you were leaving."
Ying Chengjiao had this feeling when Guiguzi stood up and bowed last night. It was a little too formal, so he held Guiguzi.
Ying Chengjiao wanted to put down the paper and chase Guiguzi back. From the time he fell asleep until now, even if he slept longer, it was only a few hours and it was not dark yet.
Guiguzi is an old man, how far can he walk even if his legs and feet can still walk? If he can walk out of Xinzheng 300 miles away, it would be considered fast. Now the land of Han is Ying Chengjiao's territory, and Ying Chengjiao is very sure that he can find it back.
Resisting the urge to put the paper down, Ying Chengjiao muttered to himself.
"There's no need to rush. Let's see what this overly sharp old ghost of yours can say."
Continue looking downward.
【I originally wanted to tell you that we cannot work together if we are on different paths, to express my gratitude to you for your ridicule and sarcasm over the years. But I thought about it carefully, although you often do stupid things, you are just blinded, not a stupid person, and you will not believe such stupid words. If I write it like this, it will only bring shame to my reputation, so forget it.】
"You are the one who did something stupid! What stupid thing did I do! You are the stupid one! Your whole family is stupid!"
Ying Chengjiao's face looked very unhappy. Ying Chengjiao swore that if Guiguzi appeared in front of him now, he would definitely show him his skills in respecting the elderly.
[Your Majesty said to Zen that day: After seeing the truth of life, you still love life. Fighting against the sky, fighting against the earth, fighting against people, all are endless fun. I guess this is what the future Zi said. With your ability, you should not be able to say such a thing. Your Majesty does not need to pretend to be in a dream, you have too many dreams. 】
"You don't need to be sarcastic to be so rude, do you? Are you trying to be a coward like me? You are old enough, why are you acting like a coward? Are you a coward?"
Ying Chengjiao wanted to hit someone. Although this was the truth, Ying Chengjiao was still very unhappy.
【But after all, I learned about this from you, and I have to thank you for these two sentences. Before I go to fight against the heaven and earth , I would like to give you a piece of advice: it is better to have no books than to believe in them completely. What others say is always their own.】
[Your Majesty thought he was adapting to the times, but in fact, he had not done so in these years. Only after the old soldiers forced him to kill the three great families did he make some progress. Your Majesty, this time is different from your future. The system changes with time and people, and there is no soil here. ]
"I already knew it a long time ago. Do you need me to tell you? You are just talking after I have killed everyone. You are wise after the event!"
【What the King of Qin did was against the general trend. And what the Lord did was against the will of Heaven. It is difficult for the King of Qin to succeed, and the Qin State will collapse. Unless the King of Qin can live for hundreds of years like me and sit on the throne for hundreds of years. But this possibility is very small.】
[Although the four moles on my head are not as mysterious as people say, they are definitely not ordinary. The last person with such a face was named Peng Zu, who lived for 800 years. People with such a face have a long life span, just like the double pupil phenomenon. Of course, Your Majesty should not believe it.]
[This is not important. I just want you to know that even the King of Qin, who was born under the Purple Star Fate, could not go against the trend and lost the Qin Kingdom. Even if you want to go against the will of heaven and lose the Qin Kingdom, you cannot do this. When Shi Jiao was a retainer of Shang Yang, he had the same ambitions as you.]
【It was broader than what I thought above. He wanted everyone in the world to know the nature of the world. He wanted to realize his ambitions with the help of Shang Yang, who was trusted by Qin Xiaogong, in the Qin State where reforms were a death sentence. The result was that his passion was wasted. People all thought that Shang Yang's reforms made Qin a strong state. This idea was not wrong, but in the eyes of my old friend, it was better to call it a weak state than a strong Qin.】
"Is this true? When Shang Yang was carrying out the Reform Movement, there was also this matter of Shi Jiao? This is not a lie, right? Why is there no record of this in the History of Qin?"
"History of Qin" is a history compiled by the Qin State itself, which records in detail the events from the rise of Qin Fuzi to the First Emperor, just like the Wei State's historical book "Bamboo Annals".
With Ying Chengjiao's powerful position, there was no problem for him to read the entire "History of Qin", but he had never seen the name Shi Jiao in "History of Qin".
"No! Shang Yang was two hundred years ago. This old ghost can say the name Shi Jiao and can talk to me about corpse magic all night, so he must be Shi Jiao's old friend. This old ghost has lived for at least two hundred years... If my royal brother still wants the elixir of immortality when he is old, isn't it better to slice up Guiguzi and eat his meat than those people who refine shot put?"
【My old friend saw that things could not be done, so he left Shang Yang. Even my old friend could not accomplish anything, so if Your Majesty wants to accomplish anything, it will be as difficult as ascending to heaven. I have no hope at all, and this is also part of the reason why I left Your Majesty. I don’t want to die with Your Majesty. I can still live for hundreds of years.】
[If you still want to fulfill your wish, then do it yourself. I cannot serve you. Whether you win or lose, it has nothing to do with me. On the desk is the book written by my old friend. I wrote it on the spot. It is called "Corpse Son". There may be a copy circulating in the world, but this is the only complete book. ]
[Your Majesty, you can watch it yourself, practice the art of corpses, or pass it on to others. Although I feel that what my old friend has not done, Your Majesty cannot do. But doing one thing that cannot be done is doing it, and doing two things that cannot be done is also doing it. Your Majesty, just do them together, so that the corpse family will not be lost in history.
