The younger brother of the First Emperor

Chapter 270: Re-doing the tricks and seeing the king again

Water dripped from the bottom of the water scale, and the water level above it dropped and stopped at the third quarter of the morning.

Ying Chengjiao yawned as he walked from Li Yigong's back bedroom to the front hall. Before he even opened his eyes, he looked for his mother:
"Mom!"

A palace maid came over with her mouth covered, half squatting to tidy up the clothes for her master.

As soon as the hand was taken away, the curved corners of the mouth could no longer be covered.

"What are you laughing at?" Ying Chengjiao opened his arms and widened his eyes: "Where is my mother?"

[Madam, what you said is so accurate. The young master is still the same as before, basically a child... He was always a child!] The palace maid thought and said with a smile:

"Madam asked the eunuch to tell the young master."

She cleared her throat and imitated the tone of her mistress before she left last night, raising her voice slightly:

"Isn't mother a human? Doesn't she need to sleep?"

Ying Chengjiao then remembered that his mother was still awake when he went to bed last night.

My mother wrote so many bamboo slips, and I don't know how much brainpower she used. She went to bed later than me, so how could she get up earlier than me?

He glared at the parrot palace maid angrily:
"Why don't you just change your name to Parrot!" (Note 1)

The palace maid who imitated others was overjoyed.

Working in the palace, she not only knew about parrots, but had also seen them.

It was a small bird that could speak human language, had green feathers all over its body, and was very beautiful.

"Thank you for the name, sir. From now on I will be called Ying Niaowu!" Ying Niaowu said happily.

In this era when common people have names but no surnames, and their names are like "Heifu", "Jing" and "Zhong", "Parrot" is definitely a good name, better than Ying Chengjiao's "Chengjiao".

The 蟜 is a poisonous insect.

Cheng Jiao literally means becoming a poisonous insect.

King Xiaowen of Qin was often angry because of his grandson's bad reputation and picked on his son several times.

"Hey, hey, hey, don't take advantage of the situation!" Ying Chengjiao glanced at Ying Niaowu and said, "I only told you to change your name, but I didn't tell you to give you a surname. You are so beautiful."

"Young Master is the best, please give it to me, please give it to me." Ying Niaowu looked hopeful.

This expression and feelings are three parts fake and seven parts real.

The surname represents origin for the nobility and status for the common people.

If a commoner has a surname, it means that he or his ancestors have been favored by nobles and given a surname.

This is a plus when working or getting married.

Before Ying Chengjiao traveled around the countries, most of the people in Chengjiao's palace were given the surname Ying.

King Xiaowen of Qin jokingly said: You, a boy, have more people with the surname Ying in your palace than any other member of the royal family.

Ying Niaowu was taken into the Eastern Palace one year after Ying Chengjiao left.

The Eastern Palace is Chengjiao Palace, which was renamed by the previous king.

But no one knows what the late king's considerations were, but he never took down the three-character plaque of Chengjiao Palace and replaced it with the two-character plaque of Donggong, so the name Donggong was never used.

In addition to the Chengjiao Palace complex, the Chengjiao Palace and the Zhonghua Qing Palace were also renamed at that time.

Huaqing Palace was renamed at the same time as Chengjiao Palace. The next day, it was given a plaque called "Chu Palace" and became the bedroom of Qin Shihuang, who was the crown prince at the time.

After King Zheng of Qin ascended the throne, he moved out of Chengjiao Palace as soon as possible.

The name of the Chu Palace was changed back to Huaqing Palace.

Ying Chengjiao snorted twice and nodded his head proudly, causing Li Yigong to cheer.

Ying Niaowu, who was given a surname and changed her name, was naturally happy, and the other palace maids who were not given a surname were also happy.

Today we have Winning Parrot.

Tomorrow there will be Ying Xuanniao, Ying Ying, and Ying Falcon!
The old man Cheng Jiaogong, who had been given a surname long ago, smiled knowingly - the young master had been away for five years, and when he came back he was still the same as before, how great.

These eunuchs and palace maids are said to be old, but in fact none of them is over twenty-three years old.

They were not as noisy as the young palace maids and did their work silently.

"Ying Ping, have you ironed my clothes?" The young man's stomach was raging, and he was anxious to eat: "If they are not ironed, don't iron them. Give them to me first." "You scolded me, didn't you?" Ying Ping, who had been in Chengjiao Palace five years ago, smiled brightly: "It has been ironed a long time ago!"

A twenty-one-year-old palace maid came over, holding a moon-white blouse without a single wrinkle on it. Her bangs swayed as she walked.

If you push aside Ying Ping's bangs and look closely, you can see a shallow scar.

Five years ago, she and other old men from Chengjiao Palace knelt outside Li Yi Palace and begged the late king to release the prince.

They were so incompetent that they could only kowtow to the former king until their heads were broken and bleeding.

Ying Ping replaced Ying Niaowu and changed clothes for Ying Chengjiao just like he did five years ago.

His eyes were smiling and he was meticulous.

"I haven't heard you talk about your brother since I came back. How is he?" Ying Chengjiao hesitated for a moment, but still asked.

Ying Ping said that his brother wanted to join the army, and Ying Chengjiao asked Wang Jian to do it.

"He died in the war against Korea." Ying Ping said naturally, still smiling.

Ying Chengjiao opened his mouth and wanted to say "My condolences", but he felt that the word "My condolences" was too pale.

[Are you sick! ]
[She hasn’t told you about her brother, something must have happened to her!]
[You've already guessed it, why are you asking?]
The boy scolded himself.

"My lord." Ying Ping lowered his body, raised his head, and smiled: "Can we also use irons to iron clothes in the future? We can't let you be beautiful alone."

What girl doesn’t love beauty? Who doesn’t want to wear wrinkle-free and perfectly smooth clothes?

The palace maids had long coveted the young master's iron, but were too embarrassed to say it out loud.

Their eyes were all sparkling, and the Ying Parrot that was squeezed away by Ying Ping even forgot to pout.

Ying Chengjiao twitched the corners of his mouth:
"Let's make it clear first. If you iron my clothes, the burns will be considered work-related injuries and I will file a claim.

"Iron your own clothes, burns are fine"

"It can also be considered a work-related injury!" Ying Ping interrupted, standing up and cheering presumptuously, "Young Master, report it too!"

Amid Li Yigong's second round of cheers, Ying Ping, who was usually relatively calm, cheered the loudest.

The 21-year-old old palace maid knew that this compensation would offset the young master's guilt for his brother's death.

She understands her son best.

After the young master left the palace, all the palace maids crowded together and scrambled to use the iron, their eyes shining.

The iron is a great thing! How did you come up with it?

This iron is naturally not the electric iron used in later generations.

To put it simply, Qin Mo built a high-temperature resistant, detachable iron box with a wooden handle based on Ying Chengjiao's description.

When the charcoal is burned thoroughly and put into an iron box, heating the iron sheet will make it work like an iron.

The royal power faction and the prime ministerial power faction fought openly and secretly, and were about to fight each other to death.

Our son Cheng Jiao continued his journey of performing tricks and lewd tricks from five years ago. Judging from the iron, it was to entertain women. (Note 2)

Not even a moment later.

Government Hall.

Ying Chengjiao, who was massaging his mother's head, heard footsteps. He looked up and saw that it was his commander Lu Buwei.

"Mother." Ying Chengjiao whispered, "You should discuss matters with the teacher at the Prime Minister's residence, not in the palace. This will make things difficult for my brother."

The words stopped before he finished speaking.

Ying Chengjiao widened his eyes, took a deep breath when he saw his brother standing behind his teacher, and asked three questions to his mother in his heart.

When someone gives you a question mark, it doesn’t mean that he has a problem, but that he thinks there is a problem with you.

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[Note 1: A parrot-shaped jade artifact was unearthed in the tomb of Fu Hao, the queen of the Shang Dynasty. Parrots have existed in my country since at least the Shang Dynasty. The Classic of Mountains and Seas states: There is a bird that looks like a swan, with green feathers and a red beak. It can speak with a human tongue and is called a parrot.]

[Note 2: "Shangshu·Tai Shi Xia" says: Perform strange and lewd tricks to please women.]

(End of this chapter)