Qin Hu

Chapter 173 You mean, you also want to be emperor?

Xiang Yu nodded seriously. From the first moment he saw Zhao Zihu, he felt that not only was this boy as tall and powerful as himself, but he also seemed to be blocking his way in the future.

But he hasn't reacted until now. He listened to the speculations of Xiang Liang and Fan Zeng, and identified the Zhao family and the group of people who came to pretend to defect as Daqin people related to Zhao Gao, Li Si, and even Wang Bi and Meng Wu. People in the court.

Originally regarded as a thorn in the flesh, it is reasonable for Xiang Yu to think that Zhao Zihu, who is of similar stature, poses a great threat to himself, and it is not really any abnormal inspiration.

However, Fan Zeng could not help thinking too much.

He calculated through divination that the southeast has the spirit of the emperor, so he went to Pengcheng to join the Xiang family, and accidentally helped to catch the lost Yuzhou tripod in Qin Dynasty as evidence, so he regarded Xiang Liang and Xiang Yu as the people who will achieve hegemony in the future .

Naturally, they also thought that they were born with something supernatural.

Fan Zeng sat on the edge of the couch and was silent for a while. Suddenly he took out a long brocade box from behind his back and opened it. He found a gorgeous ginseng lying in it. The ginseng's fragrance was rich and instantly spread throughout the room.

He stroked it with his hand, squinted his eyes and said with a sinister smile: "Hundred-year-old ginseng! It's really a big deal! I'm afraid it's not just the little spies sent by Zhao Gao and Li Si who can get it... ..."

"That! Fan Lao thinks, where does this family come from?" After being stunned for a while, Xiang Yu expressed puzzlement. He didn't feel the slightest aura of a martial arts leader in Ying Zheng, and he felt that it was impossible Wang Ben, Meng Wu.

Fan Zeng had met Wang Ben and Meng Wu before, and he knew that these two were guarding against the Xiongnu and raising funds for Baiyue, so he would definitely not come to do such a boring thing, so he could only mutter: "I can't figure it out at the moment. …”

Xiang Yu frowned, very unhappy, except for all the necessary tactics on the battlefield, he didn't like this kind of guessing game very much, he always felt that it was something that people who are idle can do it.

"However, the young master can test Zhao Zihu more. He looks quite naughty!"

Hearing Fan Zeng's urging words, Xiang Yu was extremely astonished, suddenly felt his heart was pungent, and coughed a few times with difficulty breathing.

Pressing his chest and relaxing, he felt much better and was thinking, what's wrong with Mr. Fan?Don't you dislike my wayward nonsense on weekdays...

Fan Zeng naturally saw Xiang Yu's thoughts, but he just smiled, put the ginseng on his body, then stood up leaning on his stick, turned around and walked away.

He wouldn't tell Xiang Yu that he planned to use Zhao Zihu as the sharpening stone for this kid. A person who is too young and conceited must sharpen his spirits.

Xiang Yu stared at Fan Zeng's receding back for a long time, blinked even more blankly, and was about to ask a question, but heard the voice of the elder who turned outside the door.

"Young master, please rest well first. Also, the best ginseng can't be wasted..."

He lowered his head and looked at the brocade box on his lap. Xiang Yu didn't want to take the wild ginseng at first. What's the point of teasing people first and then giving them gifts?
But now, he realized that he seemed to have no choice but to take it, not to mention the real need of recovering from the internal injury, and sending it back to others would be a joke.

After sitting in the room for a long time, Xiang Yu still didn't understand why Fan Zeng wanted to provoke Zhao Zihu.

After eating the evening food and medicinal soup brought by the servants, he chatted with Xiang Liang and Long Qie for a while, and he fell asleep when he felt sleepy.

However, before Xiang Yu fell asleep, a thought kept swirling in his mind: he must ask Zhao Zihu to try lifting the bronze tripod with one hand tomorrow morning.

Otherwise, he really wouldn't be able to swallow this breath...

Xiang Yu didn't know the benefits of being a woman, and Xiang Yu, who was alone, never dreamed that Zhao Zihu was lying on the lap of a beautiful woman at this time, and asked Lu Zhi to pick his ears, let alone enjoy it.

Before that, Zhao Zihu took advantage of the opportunity of wandering around in Xiangjiazhuang to pass by a dozen or so doormen, and took more than a dozen pieces of cloth without anyone noticing.

Those retainers were naturally the spies stationed in Xiangjiazhuang under Zhuo's instructions, and the note recorded the key information they obtained in Xiangjiazhuang in a few words.

However, Zhao Zihu did not immediately open up many cloth strips to look at them as soon as he returned to the room. Instead, he let Lu Zhi finish picking his ears and take a comfortable nap for a while...

It wasn't until he felt that the person watching outside should be one of his own that he pretended to go to the toilet, then wandered and sneaked into Ying Zheng's room three rooms away.

Combining the information on these banners, Ying Zheng and Zhao Zihu roughly grasped the staffing, how many horses, weapons, and even money and food in Xiangjiazhuang at this time.

After reading it, Ying Zheng could not suppress his anger and sneered again and again: "Okay! That's great! Secretly hiding weapons and military books, this family is really ruthless..."

In the afternoon, after Xiang Liang sent the unconscious Xiang Yu back to the east chamber, he turned back and took them to visit Xiangjiazhuang. All he saw was a group of servants and retainers equipped with soft bows and spears, and no swords. a handful.

He collected soldiers from all over the world, gathered them in Xianyang, sold Feng Dy, and cast them as twelve golden men, in order to weaken the people of the six countries and stifle the rebellion. But now looking at the information, I know that there is an underground cast in Xiangjiazhuang The field is on the edge of Surabaya.

Yingzheng didn't want to discuss it with Couna at the moment, so he arranged for Zhao Tuo to find an opportunity tomorrow, so that the detective who was hiding here would send a message to Li Gui and Zhuo in Pengcheng outside, asking them to gather troops to encircle Xiangjiazhuang .

But Zhao Zihu hurriedly stopped him: "Father! Don't worry, don't be angry. Are you hurting yourself? Since they are always putting on a show, why don't we put on a show for them too, and let's have a reasonable cooperation?"

"Oh? Coward. You mean..."

Seeing Zhao Zihu's malicious smile, Ying Zheng calmed down a little and asked with a smile.Suiuwa beckoned, he listened to it carefully, his eyes gradually brightened.

Immediately afterwards, he clashed his fists and praised, "Just do it like this", and immediately tore off a piece of cloth from the corner of his clothes, wrote a few lines of writing, and handed it to Zhao Tuo: "Zilong! Find an opportunity tomorrow morning, send out."

"Wei~" Zhao Tuo's expression was solemn, he took the cloth with both hands, without looking at it, folded it a few times, and put it in his lapel.

Zhao Zihu nodded and didn't linger any longer. He quickly left his father's room and stepped out the door. He heard someone rushing away and muttered, "Oh! Did I eat bad tonight?"

He understood that this was the Mohist who had been installed by him.

When Zhao Zihu returned to the room, he found that there should be many such people nearby, and they didn't respond to any of his actions.

What surprised him, his father Ying Zheng, and Zhao Tuo was that they were thinking about how to pass on the information tomorrow, so they fell asleep and took a pillow.

Early in the morning, when it was just dawn, Zhao Zihu heard Xiang Yu in the courtyard of the west wing, and shouted at the top of his voice, "Zhao Zihu, you should get up! Zhao Zihu, come out for me..."

He put on a coat and went out to have a look, and saw Xiang Yu, a foolish boy, turned around abruptly, stared at him fiercely, and said angrily: "You don't want to let go of what you agreed to do yesterday, do you?"

"I haven't washed or eaten yet!" Zhao Zihu yawned lazily and excused himself.

Unexpectedly, before the words fell, Xiang Yu clapped his hands and called the four servants in.

The servants carried copper basins, cloth towels, toothbrush and other toilet utensils, as well as various exquisite meals.

Zhao Zihu was embarrassed: "How embarrassing is this? It's almost a five-star service..."

"Hey! As long as you can lift the cauldron, you can say anything." Xiang Yu patted his chest with an indifferent face.

However, he still asked subconsciously: "You shouldn't want to eat greasy things like barbecue in the early morning, right?"

Yo ho!This time his mind was spinning quite fast, Zhao Zihu smiled, he just brushed his teeth and washed his face, grabbed a few pieces of cakes to fill his stomach, and accompanied Xiang Yu to the bronze cauldron in the front yard.

Servants, retainers, etc. gathered here again, Ying Zheng and Xiang Liang were also alarmed, Zhao Tuo and Long Qie mingled in the crowd, but Fan Zeng still did not appear.

Zhao Zihu stood still in front of the bronze tripod, glanced at Xiang Yu's provocative face, closed his eyes with a smile, and began to stretch his muscles in a strange manner.

Everyone was amused by his actions, just pointing and discussing a few words, they saw this kid suddenly opened his eyes and squatted down.

However, unlike Xiang Yu's hugging by the waist before, Zhao Zihu directly grabbed the two legs of the bronze tripod, and lifted it over his head very quickly.

When Xiang Yu saw it, the corners of his eyes twitched, he knew he had lost.At the same time, I also understand that he lost because of his age...

This kid heard about it, but I haven’t grown up yet!
Xiang Yu comforted himself in his heart, so he heard Xiang Liang ask Ying Zheng funny.

"Brother Zhao! Yesterday you praised my Yu'er as a fierce tiger. What about your baby? He lifted the cauldron so effortlessly. It's not too much to call him a dragon."

The corners of Ying Zheng's mouth twitched. Knowing that Xiang Liang was probing again, he was really uncomfortable: "Patriarch Xiang! You can't talk nonsense..."

"How can we children from ordinary families compare themselves to dragons? This is a big taboo, and it is said that they will be beheaded and beheaded by the barbarians!"

Seeing his flashing words, Xiang Liang also got tired of it. He apologized for his "gaffe" and wondered in his heart, is this family really just a small role, and Mr. Fan is worrying too much?

Just as Xiang Liang was thinking, he watched Zhao Zihu straighten his waist, slowly let go of his left hand, and only held up the thousand-jin bronze tripod with his right hand, and took a big step, which was incomparable to Xiang Yu's three steps yesterday.

Not only that, Zhao Zihu also said in a relaxed tone: "The position of this copper tripod is inappropriate. It occupies too much space. I have to move it further!"

In this way, amidst the speechless shock of the people, he walked another ten steps and placed the copper tripod in a corner of the front yard.

What most people don't know is that Zhao Tuo took this opportunity to quietly hand over the cloth to a Mohist, and quickly staggered his position.

Under such circumstances, the farce of raising the tripod came to an end.

However, Zhao Zihu also found that Xiang Yu seemed to be relying on him from then on.

The cloth message he sent to Li Gui was to tell the royal driving team in Langya to find someone to pretend to be the emperor and parade to Pengcheng...

During the period of waiting for the false emperor, Xiang Yu came to Zhao Zihu almost every morning, asking him to accompany him to practice martial arts, ride horses, and even go swimming in the morning.

Anyway, he was idle and bored, Zhao Zihu didn't refuse, but he didn't expect that Xiang Yu would always compete with himself for the first place.

Especially in swimming, even Liu Bang, Zhao Tuo, and Long Qie were forced to participate in it.

Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, Ying Zheng and others have been in Xiangjiazhuang for six days.

In the early morning of the seventh day, news came from the other side of Pengcheng that the emperor's driving force was about to enter Pengcheng.

People in Xiangjiazhuang, whether it was Ying Zheng, Xiang Liang, or Fan Zeng, were extremely excited when they received the news.

Xiang Liang immediately arranged dozens of servants to clean the section from the east gate of Pengcheng to the gate of the pasture. He and Xiang Yu also took a bath and changed their clothes, planning to go into the city to have a look.

As soon as they went out, they ran into Ying Zheng, Zhao Zihu and others who were also dressed in new clothes.

Ying Zheng excused himself: "We were in Luoyang, but we didn't see the emperor's royal team with our own eyes. This time we have to take a closer look!"

"That's right! Let's go together." Xiang Liang responded briskly, making people look like he didn't suspect anything.

So, a group of thirty or so people left Xiangjiazhuang and walked to the east gate of Pengcheng, which was five miles away.

Wherever the first emperor's driving team passed by, no one else was allowed to ride horses or goods, otherwise it would be considered disrespectful.

Not long after everyone entered the east gate, they saw the noise of drums and horns, fluttering flags, and rising dust at the northwest end, as a large group of carriages and horses turned over.

Seeing the situation, the people around hurriedly bowed deeply and lowered their heads, Xiang Liang and the others obediently followed suit, but Ying Zheng was stunned for a moment before letting Zhao Zihu tug his sleeves and then bend down and bow his head.

Although the arrangement had already been arranged in this way, Ying Zheng couldn't accept it for a moment when he thought of paying a big gift to a person pretending to be himself.

At the same moment, he was thinking, my convoy has arrived, what will rebels like Xiang Liang think and do at this time.

Unexpectedly, just as the first two cars passed by, he suddenly heard Liu Bang on his right say something unexpectedly.

"Is this the emperor's car? Is this the emperor's guard of honor? A man should be like that!"

Ying Zheng's scalp exploded now, turned his head away, and stared at Liu Bang viciously, obviously asking, [Old boy!What do you mean, you want to be emperor too? 】

What surprised him even more was that later, when Xiang Yu caught a glimpse of the emperor pretending to be driving in the third car, he said in shock: "Is he just a tall and thin old man? He can take his place!"

Ying Zheng turned around abruptly again, and glared at Xiang Yu to the right. If he hadn't noticed Xiang Liang and Xiang Yu's words the first time, he would have pulled him over and tried to cover the kid's mouth, and he would have cursed.

OK!You kid is more ruthless than your uncle!Is directly trying to replace me...

(End of this chapter)