My son, Fusu, please abdicate the first emperor!

Chapter 675 I want to crawl out!
The line of people being punished is very long...

A young man of 23 was wearing straw sandals. His feet were scratched by grass leaves and bitten by mosquitoes. His ankles were red and swollen, and there were scratches and puncture marks all over them, which were glaringly red.

His toenails were thick and long, full of dirt.

A dead caterpillar was sandwiched between the sole of the foot and the straw sandal.

Twenty-three, at this age, is no longer considered a teenager, but the beginning of one’s prime years.

Because in this era, wars were frequent and the average lifespan was only thirty years old.

It is not easy to live to the age of fifty.

But this brother is just a child!
When others started a family at the age of sixteen and had five children.

Because Ying Bu was poor, he could not marry a wife and remained single till now.

He originally lived in the six counties of Chu State.

Due to the environment and the times, he was unable to get married on time, but he did not have to suffer the punishment of Qin's laws because no girl in their area was willing to marry him.

This sunny and cheerful boy, when meeting people from all over the place, selected some people of similar age and relatively good looks and became friends with them.

Soon, they found the organization, and a group of prisoners who also spoke with Wei Chu accents began to gather around him.

He talked freely in the team.

"In the six counties, there is no one who has not heard of my name, Ying Bu."

"Six Counties, what is that place?"

Ying Bu's tall nose twitched and he stopped talking to them.

The crowd burst into laughter.

"The six counties belong to Jiujiang County and are located in the State of Chu." said an elder.

"You are so old, how did you get here?"

The man was already 43 years old. When he heard Ying Bu ask him, he couldn't help but burst into tears, "My daughter got married and her husband went to build the Great Wall. She raised five children alone, and three of them starved to death."

"Both of my sons died on the Baiyue battlefield. Their mother cried herself to death."

"I went out to pick a few leaves, saying I had committed a serious crime. My daughter wanted to spend money to save me, but I refused and just came here to make a living. It's nothing more than a few more scars on my face."

As the man spoke, he straightened his back.

As everyone listened to the old man's experience, they all felt sad.

There was a lot of noise in the team, like a swarm of bees in a bush, buzzing non-stop.

"The State of Chu is dead, dead!" someone in the crowd suddenly shouted loudly.

"General, I am innocent. I was wrongly accused by the Huai County jailer. I am innocent. He wanted to confiscate my property, so he framed me! I have a wife, three sons and one daughter at home! Without me, my children would not survive."

At the mouth of this valley, the number of prisoners was twenty times that of Qin soldiers.

The Qin soldiers all held sharp swords to conceal the fear in their hearts.

The people of Chu were watching them from the side.

Just like the groundhogs on the grassland who saw a pack of wolves coming, they half-hid themselves in their holes and looked at the Qin army vigilantly.

The man shouted loudly, but the Qin people were already extremely tired.

They could hear similar words almost every hour.

"Unjust? Who in this team doesn't feel wronged?"

"I tell you, I was sent to look after you. That's the greatest injustice!"

"There is no fairness in this world!"

The general in charge of receiving these prisoners pointed his sword at the man and shouted, "Whether your family survives or not is none of my business!"

"If you keep yelling, I'll cut off your tongue!"

After the general finished speaking, the entire team suddenly became as silent as if they had experienced a snowstorm, as if it were a winter day, with no signs of life.

Everybody shut up.

The general clearly felt that there were many pairs of eyes staring at him from behind, and he didn't dare to look back.

"Behave yourself! None of you have committed serious crimes. Just dig holes for two years and then go back. If you cause trouble again, you'll end up like him."

The general pointed to the tree behind him. Previously, no one paid much attention to this lush elm tree.

When everyone looked carefully, they found a dead person hanging from the elm tree.

The team was like leaves hit by autumn frost, and everyone was wilted.

Ying Bu's hands were tied, and his narrow eyes were filled with anger.

His cheekbones were high and his eyes showed disdain for everyone around him.

He also looked at the people around him and felt confused.

Why, we have so many prisoners and there are only a hundred Qin soldiers, but our people have lost all their dignity in front of them?

Why have these people lost the courage to resist!

Ying Bu looked at the surrounding environment. A sharp-eyed soldier noticed that this young man was not ordinary and kicked him.

"What are you looking at? If you dare to run away, I'll break your legs!"

Ying Bu gritted his teeth and refused to get angry.

He quickly lowered his head, "Yes, yes, I was wrong. I was wrong, I was really wrong."

Ying Bu begged for mercy with a playful smile, and the anger in the soldiers' hearts immediately subsided, and their tension and fear also disappeared.

After the soldiers left, Ying Bu's new brothers and old brothers all came over to comfort him.

"What did you do? Why did he rush over and hit you out of nowhere?"

"Because I am the best among men and I look handsome, he is jealous."

Everyone sneered.

"Let me tell you, I will become an extraordinary person in the future."

Everyone laughed even more happily.

"You really deserve to be beaten."

From the front of the team, loud shouts were heard from time to time.

The Qin people recruited several doctors, who built some simple wooden houses nearby, with the backs of the houses facing the river.

The Qin people treated and prescribed medicine for people who were tired from traveling, had serious illnesses, or had difficulty adapting to the local climate and water.

Ying Bu felt pain in his eyes as he looked at the contradictory scene in front of him.

It was the Qin people who bullied and persecuted the people of the six states, and it was also the Qin people who rescued the people of the six states.

Why do this?

This group of prisoners from the State of Chu were forcibly brought together to meet the needs of the construction and expansion of Qin Shihuang's Mausoleum.

What they did was in line with their conscience, but it was against the laws of Qin.

What the Qin soldiers did was legal but against their conscience.

Ying Bu always thinks about these questions.

"I wonder where Prince Hengyang lives?"

Fusu was really very good to the Chu people. His final act of not killing them on the battlefield allowed many young people to return home alive, which is enough for millions of Chu people to remember for the rest of their lives.

When hearing this name, time seemed to stop and everyone's eyes lit up.

The same is true for Ying Bu.

When the Qin people heard this question, their eyes lit up.

No matter how big the conflicts between the prisoners and the Qin soldiers were in the past, they all showed unanimous respect for this name.

People tend to agree surprisingly when they like or hate the same person or thing.

They put aside their resentments and past grudges and listened together.

"The prince has gone south to supervise the army. The Baiyue refused to surrender and would rather die than confront the Qin. The morale of the army is low, and the prince has gone to comfort the soldiers." The general's tone rarely improved, and he said a few more words.

"When are you coming back?"

"do not know."

"If the prince knew about this, he would definitely take care of it for me." The man who was worried about his wife and children at home kept shouting.

Fusu and Ji Bu once openly handled cases in the Dongjun area, in the Bolangsha area, which is the junction of Qi, Lu, Zhao, Wei, Chu and Han.

In that border area, doing some good things can easily expand your influence by spreading it from one point to the whole.

This is also the reason why Ying Zheng had to pass through the area around Bolangsha several times.

Fusu once ordered people to kill some powerful families along the way, which served as a deterrent; of course, the most important thing was that the trial of some cases gave the common people confidence that there were still people trying their best to maintain social justice.

In the hearts of the common people, Fusu is a person who can understand their inner demands.

They want fairness and peace.

In this world, there are many people who say nice things, but in the minds of the people, only Fusu will firmly defend them.

Many common people placed their hopes on Fusu.

"That is to say, with the Crown Prince here, the war in Baiyue should be over soon."

"Supervising a military operation is different from fighting a war. A military supervisor is only responsible for supervision and has no command authority."

"When will the prince come back? I want to see what Lord Hengyang looks like."

"It's just a dream. People like us will never see what Hengyang Jun looks like until we die."

The prisoners talked endlessly about Fusu and were looking forward to his succession to the throne.

Of course, there are also many people who hope that Qin Shihuang will die soon.

Many people in the world have already done this.

When Qin Shihuang's decrees indirectly killed countless old mothers' sons and made old mothers' daughters widows, he became the object of hatred among women all over the world.

After the long journey, most of the prisoners had calluses on their feet.

Along the way, sometimes we met black bears that had just woken up from hibernation and were looking for food, sometimes we met tigers, and sometimes we met long snakes incubating eggs.

The rolling green hills, with lush forests, seemed to be a natural barrier from afar. Hundreds of flowers bloomed beside the streams.

The scenery one sees while traveling is just like the experience of life. Sometimes it is full of flowers and sometimes it is just like a raging fire.

After visiting mountains and crossing rivers, Ying Bu arrived at the mausoleum area at the foot of the mountain in Xianyang, the political center of the world. He felt very complicated.

His ears were filled with the sound of people discussing Prince Qin.

Ying Bu didn't dislike the name, but he didn't like it very much either.

Ying Bu saw the head of the team, which meant more stuff on his face.

"These people were all brought here from the Thornland. Be careful, separate them and have them go to different graves."

"Yes."

Ying Bu, who was standing at the front of the team, heard this conversation and began to feel uneasy.

He looked up at the sky. Did God really want me to dig a hole? It would be better to kill me. No, I want to escape. I must find a chance to escape. I am a man who does great things. How can I dig a hole?

Ying Bu remembered that when he was a child, a guest came to his house. The guest read Ying Bu's fortune and said that he would become a king after being tortured.

When there were only two people left in front of him, Ji Bu was still thinking about these things...

Soon it was Ying Bu's turn to be punished. He had committed a minor crime, so the punishment was just to carve lines on his face.

Minor punishments use drills and chisels, while secondary punishments use knives and saws. The tattoo punishment is a minor punishment, which uses drills or chisels as torture instruments.

Using a drill to carve patterns on your face sounds painful...

Ying Bu came before an executioner, who was a short man with thin and slender hands that looked very flexible.

Ying Bu was reluctant to move forward, but was pushed by someone behind him.

Ying Bu sat on the bench. The executioner straightened Ying Bu's face, gestured at his forehead with his hand, and then started to use a sharp drill.

Ying Bu suddenly asked, "Can you carve any patterns?"

"Fancy?" The torturer smiled.

Ying Bu said politely, "Please make it look better for me, preferably like a bird of prey."

The torturer smiled and narrowed his eyes. "I will carve it, but it will be painful. Because it will take a lot of cuts."

Ying Bu shook his head. "It doesn't matter. I just want to carve it nicely so that I can look more majestic."

The torturer had rarely encountered such a thing, and he admired the man's courage in his heart.

But he was curious, "You are here to dig a hole, and you will have to fill it up later. Does it matter whether the carving is beautiful or not?"

"That's right. Even if you dig a hole, you have to be decent. Just like, you are a prisoner, you are also an official, and an official should have the dignity of an official. Although I am a prisoner, a prisoner should also have the dignity of a prisoner."

Everyone's eyes were on Ying Bu.

"You are an interesting person."

The torturer began, and Ying Bu soon felt a piercing pain on the side of his forehead, but he said nothing and endured it until the torture was over.

He felt something itchy running down his face and thought it was blood, but when he wiped it off it turned out to be sweat.

"Look how scared you are. I'm a professional."

After the punishment, Ying Bu urinated under a tree and looked at his face while the troops were still not moving.

It's all red...but the ferocious look of the bird of prey is also vivid.

"Still as handsome as ever."

Ying Bu touched his chin. He had no beard and was a rebel.

But this beauty soon disappeared.

The next night, a scar began to form, a circle of pink and white flesh protruding.

The bird is gone...

When Ying Bu thought back to the day when the tattoo was engraved, he felt that he had been greatly deceived and insulted.

He kept touching his face, missing his mother in his heart.

Ying Bu was very sad, his face was ruined...

But at this time, he didn't know that this carving on his forehead would enhance his image in the hearts of prisoners all over the world.

It's like a medal of enlistment.

Ying Bu came to the tomb, where he met many people who were dissatisfied with reality like him.

He lived here for almost a month, digging, carrying stones and chiseling stones every day.

My mood became very bad.

After a day of staying up from dawn to dusk, and having soup and rice in the evening, everyone gathered around Ying Bu to chat with their hungry stomachs.

Everyone teased his appearance, "Look at you, you got stabbed a few more times for no reason, but you ended up digging the same hole as us."

"Yes."

Ying Bu was too lazy to get angry with that person, so he smiled happily and said, "Someone told me that I would be crowned king after being tortured. Now, this is probably what will happen, right?"

Everyone laughed.

"Being king, what do you want? Qin Shi Huang does not allow anyone else to be king. In this world, he is the only king! We are all his slaves!"

"If you were a king, I would carry your shoes every day."

Ying Bu faced the ridicule without any resentment or shame.

The prophecy made by that gentleman has been half verified. Ying Bu did not believe it at first, but his mentality changed after he was tattooed.

Everyone laughed at Ying Bu for his big talk.

"Ying Bu, you wanted to be the Great King Bu, but now you are already the Tattooed Bu."

"Ying Bu, since you like to brag so much, we will all call you Ying Bu from now on."

It was only after getting to know them slowly that Ying Bu realized that only a few people were wrongly accused, and most of them were actually the dregs of society. They had been living without supervision for a long time, and because the king's power could not be reached, many people were trying to take advantage of the situation. There were quite a few petty thieves, and some had committed crimes such as rape, murder, robbery, and theft.

They were captured only because the Qin State did not value killing and they preferred to use people as labor.

Ying Bu felt that being called Ying Bu every day was no big deal, but he couldn't stand living with a murderer every day.

He felt like he had lost something.

For some reason, the Qin soldiers did not react much when they heard them discussing the king and the emperor. They completed their tasks step by step, like a machine without emotion and perception.

Ying Bu soon couldn't stand the days of not having enough food to eat every day and being bullied by the scum of society.

Those hooligans couldn't stand Ying Bu's always optimistic attitude and laughed at his calm attitude when facing others' humiliation. They teamed up to urinate in front of Ji Bu's bed at night, throw dead birds on his clothes, and put some dirt or stones in his bowl from time to time.

Do you think that being a prisoner is really too tiring and makes people suffer?

In fact, in such a place where all criminals were gathered together because of Qin law, the viciousness of people's hearts reached a peak.

Innocent people, put in such an environment, can only swallow their anger.

Of course, those who were not innocent were also undergoing labor reform, but while doing so, they hated and cursed the Qin State.

Most of the people who built the underground palace were prisoners. They didn't feel much grievance, but they were extremely resentful.

Ying Bu couldn't stand the malicious bullying of others, so he began to plan his escape.

Because the Qin officials didn't care what happened inside their own country, they just wanted the prisoners to get the job done, no matter if they were bullied or not, or if they were innocent or upright.

Wherever there are people, these crooked and twisted things are basically everywhere.

No matter where you go, there will always be officials, bad people and good people.

The same thing happens again, except that the person who inflicts suffering on you changes, and the place where you suffer changes.

It's the same wherever you run.

As long as you are born as a human being, you cannot escape from suffering these.

However, after Ying Bu faced the darkest things, he often looked up at the sky.

He didn't want to be like those people who had accepted their fate, became numb, and started to become a bad person.

He wants to climb out!
He wants freedom, he wants to have enough food to eat, and he wants his human dignity.

He doesn't want to live like this anymore.

He didn't want to deal with these bugs.

He wants light!
He wants to ride his horse to his heart's content on the grass and feel the wind!
One summer night, Ying Bu took advantage of the noisy chirping of cicadas and hit the beast that urinated in his bowl to death with a hoe.

Then he buried alive several beasts who raped the little girl and the Qin soldiers who had bad attitudes.

After taking several lives, Ying Bu finally felt like he was living a normal life.

Damn it, what kind of days were those in the past? I had to endure them.

Ying Bu and his brothers felt particularly bright and happy after killing these people.

They had never felt so happy.

The days of following the rules in the past were really frustrating.

Now, they seemed to have spit out the thousand-year-old phlegm that had accumulated in their chests.

When they chose not to be civilians anymore and became bandits, they were no longer bound and truly became wild horses that broke free from their reins and returned to heaven and earth.

Taking advantage of the moonlit night, Ying Bu and his accomplices pretended to be dung collectors and put on Qin soldiers' clothes to deceive the guards. They pushed buckets of dung and ran to the forest behind the mountain overnight.

When they arrived in the mountains and forests, the first thing they did was to throw manure on the road, deliberately causing trouble for the Qin judicial officials.

They were dressed in the clothes of Qin soldiers and cheered loudly in the wild...

From then on, there was a group of bandits on the scene, and their leader was called Ying Bu.

This gang of robbers is very active and their traces can be seen everywhere.

This incident alarmed many generals and officers at the Mausoleum of the First Emperor, but Zhang Han chose to block the news.

He couldn't let Qin Shi Huang know that the robbers around Xianyang City actually escaped from the mausoleum.

As long as the emperor doesn't know, this incident never happened.

[There should be another update tonight.]

And if there are any plot points that I have forgotten, or any plot ideas about Qin Shi Huang, please mention them as soon as possible.

How Jing Ke chose to follow Fusu and the emotional story between the protagonist and the beauty will be inserted later after Fusu succeeds to the throne. 】

(End of this chapter)