Shen Yuelan's whole body stiffened when she heard this. How could she have run into the commander of the Qin Army? You are dressed too casually. You don't look like a general at all.
Bai Qi looked at the shocked Shen Yuelan and immediately showed a smug smile. Haha, who are you looking down on, you little bastard? I am also a great general who can lead an army of one million.
Shen Yuelan swallowed her saliva. Really, how could she run into such a killer? After the lessons in the Song Dynasty, Shen Yuelan really didn't want to have anything to do with some key historical figures anymore.
Because it will be very troublesome, and you don't know whether your words and actions will affect his decision-making. It would be fine for a historical figure like Lao Zhao who is in [retirement status].
If it was someone like Liu E or Bai Qi, Shen Yuelan felt that it would be better for her not to have too much contact with them in the future, but judging from the current situation, it seemed that this matter was beyond Shen Yuelan's control.
Seeing that Shen Yuelan was about to run away, Bai Qi picked her up with one hand and slipped her back to the Qin army camp. It was not that Shen Yuelan could not resist, but because Bai Qi had no ill will towards her, Shen Yuelan did not make any confrontational move for the time being, but chose to wait and see.
There are both advantages and disadvantages to following Bai Qi. Because she was brought back personally by [Daliangzao], none of the generals in the Qin army camp doubted the identities of Shen Yuelan and others. Shen Yuelan was able to successfully infiltrate the Qin army camp.
The progress of the war was even faster than Shen Yuelan had imagined. After the fall of Yingdu, the Chu army demonstrated its defeat to the fullest. The Qin State was able to quickly occupy the western part of Chu and a large area of land north of the Yangtze River, and established Nanjun there.
The Battle of Yan and Ying ended completely with Qin's great victory. Bai Qi was recalled by the King of Qin for his outstanding military achievements. According to historical facts, this time when Bai Qi returned to his country was when he was named Wu'an Jun, which was probably the time when he was most proud.
But no one knows how Bai Qi felt eighteen years later when he defeated the Zhao army in the Battle of Changping, was awarded death in Duyou (Xianyang) for his great achievements and was sentenced to death.
Shen Yuelan has already imagined the tragic ending in which she will be powerless to do anything when facing the death of an acquaintance in the future. This is truly an unsolvable situation.
Shen Yuelan was also in the team returning home this time. Although Shen Yuelan didn't really want to go back with Bai Qi, Bai Qi seemed very interested in Shen Yuelan's well-equipped and well-trained guards, and insisted on letting her go back with them.
Because she didn't want to fall out with Bai Qi for the time being, Shen Yuelan had to follow him back to the country. Along the way, Bai Qi took good care of her and even chatted with Shen Yuelan when he had nothing to do.
Bai Qi and his wife Wei Lan had a daughter, but unfortunately she died shortly after birth. If she were still alive, she would be about the same age as Shen Yuelan (in terms of appearance).
However, one son survived and was named Bai Zhong, which means the second son of the Bai family. He was later granted the title of Duke of Taiyuan by the First Emperor. It is said that the great Tang Dynasty poet Bai Juyi was a descendant of Bai Zhong.
Different from the cold and bloody image in history, the Bai Qi that Shen Yuelan saw was actually just an ordinary person who was eager to build a career. He was a bit careless in character, but he was meticulous, quick-witted and cheerful.
But as an enemy, he was indeed a terrifying guy. The forty or so Qin Rui soldiers under Shen Yuelan fought against him one by one, but none of them could be his match.
In the end, Shen Yuelan cheated and let the five Qin Rui soldiers rush forward and finally captured the monster. Although he was a rare talent, human power was limited and he could not resist the trend.
Bai Qi's journey back home was similar to Shen Yuelan's route from Jiangling Prefecture to Qinzhou in the Song Dynasty. Looking at the familiar scenery, Shen Yuelan curiously compared the differences between the two sides.
The scenery of the Warring States Period was more pleasant than that of the Song Dynasty. Towering trees, rare birds and animals could be seen everywhere. It was completely different from the forests of the Song Dynasty, which had become much sparser.
During the Warring States Period, the primeval forests that had not experienced the destruction of unified dynasties such as the Qin, Han, Sui and Tang dynasties could be seen everywhere in Guanzhong. They looked full of vitality, completely different from the scenes of yellow sand in later film and television works.
During the Warring States Period, the roads in the wild could basically be described as narrow goat paths. Because no one knew whether this piece of land would still belong to them tomorrow, basically no country would waste the manpower to build these wild roads.
Therefore, the road of this era is truly a road paved by foot. Even though Shen Yuelan has been treated with favor by Bai Qi and got a warhorse to ride, Shen Yuelan still walked in a very awkward manner along the way.
The diet during the Warring States Period is even more difficult to describe. The common condiments were only salt, wine and plums. If you were lucky, you could find some dogwood as a substitute for chili peppers.
Although records of sugar, pepper, ginger, fennel, and onion were also found during this period, they were not popular, so Shen Yuelan did not expect them.
The only ways to cook food are steaming, boiling, roasting, and eating raw. This is because during the Warring States Period, cooking oil was mostly derived from animal fat, which was very precious and was mostly used for barbecue.
Therefore, oil-related methods such as frying, stir-frying, cooking and deep-frying were not popular in the Warring States Period, and easily available vegetable oil only appeared in some records for the first time in the Han Dynasty.
Moreover, the last two methods of steaming, boiling, roasting and eating raw can only be used when you can eat meat. However, the common people in the Warring States Period could not eat meat at all, and the nobles could not eat it all the time.
Not being able to eat meat would have been fine, but the staple food that people consumed during the Warring States Period was the most unbearable for Shen Yuelan's small teeth. During this period, people consumed staple foods such as beans, millet, rice, and wheat, and except for beans, the other staple foods were relatively soft.
The other types are eaten directly with the shell, so they are quite hard on the teeth. This resulted in people's teeth being generally worse during the Warring States period than in later generations.
Most of the wild vegetables edible to ordinary people are high in fiber, which is quite tough. Not to mention the ones starting with the word "Fan" (Fan), even the ones starting with the word "Hu" (Hu), such as the ones starting with "Zhang Qian's Selected", are still a long way off.
Shen Yuelan didn't want to go back to the inner world to get a new set of teeth, so she seldom ate with Bai Qi and the others. Even if they caught meat on the road, Shen Yuelan would not eat it. What's the point of eating barbecue without any seasoning?
Shen Yuelan and her companions often prepared their own meals in private under the cover of their Qin army companions. Before Shen Yuelan came, she knew that the food in the Warring States period would not be very delicious, so she deliberately stockpiled a large amount of rice, meat, fruits, vegetables and seasonings in the core space.
Of course, because they were still on a fast march, Shen Yuelan and the others had no time to prepare a big meal, and they could only secretly cook some easy-to-cook porridge.
Bai Qi and the others just thought that Shen Yuelan and the others were used to eating from their own stove, and they didn't care about them eating from their own stove. After all, the prey they caught was not enough for them to eat.
Shen Yuelan and the others were tactful enough not to share the meat, which made everyone in Bai Qi's team look up to them. Therefore, on the rest of the journey, the local Qin army took good care of Shen Yuelan and the others, and would share some of the meat they got with them.
Shen Yuelan also returned the favor by secretly giving them some wine to try. Among these people, Bai Qi drank the most. According to Bai Qi himself, they were not going to fight, so what was wrong with drinking a little wine?
This guy would often come over and ask Shen Yuelan for wine. As time went by, Shen Yuelan somehow became Bai Qi's adopted daughter.
The cause of the incident was that Bai Qi lost a bet with himself, and then ran over to tell Shen Yuelan that a real man should emulate Shang Jun, who set up a tree at the gate and kept his word. Since he lost the bet, he must take Shen Yuelan's surname.
But because Shen Yuelan told him that she had no surname, Bai Qi let Shen Yuelan take his surname, and from then on Shen Yuelan was called Bai Lan in the Warring States Period.
Although Bai Qi's words sounded nice, Shen Yuelan knew very well in her heart that this guy only wanted to take her in as his adopted daughter because he had his eyes on the good wine in her hand.
Chapter 122: Drinking Leads to Mistakes
Shen Yuelan was not satisfied with her identity as the daughter of a general. Her horse riding skills were so poor that it would be a waste of her talent to learn the Bai family's skills for killing enemies in battle.
In response to this, Bai Qi waved his hand and indicated that it was okay. Marching and fighting did not rely solely on force. The most important thing was the brain. It would be enough for Shen Yuelan to have enough brains.
Although what Bai Qi said was correct, Shen Yuelan didn't dare to really participate in the war between the seven heroes. If she wanted to play the game of competing for supremacy among the heroes, it would depend on whether she had the ability to do so. Just relying on the 100,000 Qin troops in her hands, she really couldn't succeed in the Warring States Period.
If it were the Spring and Autumn Period, Shen Yuelan could still play a game of war among the states with an army of 100,000, but in the Warring States Period, there were few wars with less than 100,000 troops, not to mention her identity as a civil servant in the other world.
Of course, Bai Qi had no plan to let Shen Yuelan lead the troops or anything. Although it was not new for women to participate in wars, there were still only a few who could lead troops to fight like Queen Fu Hao of the Shang Dynasty over the past thousand years. Bai Qi did not have the courage to let Shen Yuelan be the second Fu Hao.
It just so happened that Shen Yuelan didn't dare to do so either. Just when the two of them reached a tacit consensus and were about to enter Hangu Pass, a sharp arrow pierced Bai Qi's chest and knocked him off his horse in an instant.
Seeing Bai Qi falling off his horse and dying with his eyes open, Shen Yuelan was dumbfounded. Oh my god, this is not how the script is supposed to be played out. I'm so panicked by you doing this.
Shen Yuelan hurriedly dismounted to check on Bai Qi's condition, but it was too late. Bai Qi was hit by a poisonous arrow that went straight into his heart. Even if Shen Yuelan had nine hands, she couldn't save him.
The assassin who assassinated Bai Qi was a thirteen or fourteen-year-old girl from the State of Chu. Her family was destroyed by Bai Qi, so she followed him all the way just to kill Bai Qi.
At this moment, she had been captured by Bai Qi's soldiers. Those angry soldiers wanted to kill her directly, but they thought of the fact that there was a young lady who the general had just recognized in the team.
Therefore, he did not take direct action, but instead took him to Shen Yuelan to await his fate.
Shen Yuelan stared at the man for a long time. Hiss, this man is not a time traveler? He is not even a soul traveling through a body? Then how could she kill Bai Qi, a monster?
Shen Yuelan was puzzled for a long time until she saw the wine bottle on Bai Qi's waist. Then Shen Yuelan had a flash of inspiration and roughly guessed how Bai Qi died.
Tsk, drinking has ruined things. Shen Yuelan looked at Bai Qi lying on the ground with a twitching mouth. This guy is really getting a little too proud of himself.
But Shen Yuelan realized that this matter was more or less related to herself and she couldn't just leave it alone. She had to find a corner and call Gan Yuelong for help. After she told him what happened, the person on the other end of the phone was also speechless about Bai Qi's death.
It seems that from now on, not only can I not drink and drive, I can’t ride a horse either.
Gan Yuelong told Shen Yuelan that it was not uncommon for a historical figure to suddenly die due to some bizarre coincidences. She just needed to report it to the Time Management Bureau for record and wait for someone to come and fix it.
However, because the Time Management Bureau has just undergone a major maintenance, there is no money to add a major patch for Bai Qi in a short period of time. The only solution now is for Shen Yuelan to erase the memories of everyone present, and then find someone to play Bai Qi for a while.
When Hua Liluo has money, she will come to help Shen Yuelan fix the problem. Shen Yuelan looked up at the sky in silence, but she had no choice but to do as he said. Then who should take over for a while?
Shen Yuelan took a quick look around and found that she was definitely dependent on Huanyan. Suxin was talented but lacked authority. The only person with a similar personality to Bai Qi was Suyi. So, Suyi inexplicably became Shen Yuelan's adoptive father.
As for the successful female assassin, Shen Yuelan didn't know what to do with her, so she had to temporarily tie her up and bring her back to Qin State, keeping her under guard while waiting for the people from the Time Management Bureau to come and deal with her.
Thanks to Bai Qi's drunk driving, Su Yi successfully experienced the pleasure of being the Marquis of Wu'an. However, it seemed that King Yingji of Qin did not like Bai Qi very much.
Compared with the polite fake smile of King Yingji of Qin, the congratulations of Wei Ran, Prime Minister of Qin, seemed much more sincere. After all, Bai Qi was Wei Ran's son-in-law, and Wei Ran's daughter Wei Lan was Bai Qi's wife.
Wei Ran was the half-brother of Queen Dowager Xuan, and the uncle of King Yingji of Qin. In a sense, Bai Qi and King Yingji of Qin were also relatives.
But there were a lot of such distant relatives around King Yingji of Qin. After all, the royal families of various countries in the pre-Qin period were all organized according to clans.
In Xianyang, any tile thrown down could hit a group of relatives with royal blood, but relatives among relatives like Bai Qi were not taken seriously by the King of Qin at all.
Of course, Bai Qi didn't care whether he was taken seriously by the King of Qin or not. At that time, the power of Qin was still in the hands of the Queen Dowager Xuan, and the government was also controlled by the "Four Nobles" of Qin headed by Wei Ran, Marquis of Rang.
Everyone says that Bai Qi assisted the King of Qin, but in fact Bai Qi has always been a man of Marquis Rang and Queen Dowager Xuan. This is why Yingji was particularly unhappy with Bai Qi.
Therefore, after the Queen Dowager Xuan and Marquis Rang fell one after another, King Yingji of Qin found an opportunity to sentence Bai Qi to death, as he did not need a disobedient Wu'an Jun.
Of course, these are all things that happened later. At least at this moment, Bai Qi (in plain clothes) was happy, and began to follow the script of the Time Management Bureau, welcoming and seeing off guests, and celebrating the happy event of being conferred the title of "Wu'an Jun".
Shen Yuelan also successfully moved into the Bai family under the name of Bai Lan and became the legitimate daughter of the Bai family. Wei Lan accepted this well and even welcomed it quite a bit.
It was just as Bai Qi said, the couple had some obsession with their daughter because of the loss of their beloved daughter in their early years, so Shen Yuelan was unexpectedly popular in the Bai family.
Especially that kid Bai Zhong, he ran away with a red face as soon as he saw Shen Yuelan. Tsk, my sister's charm is so uncontrollable.
However, Wei Lan soon suspected Bai Qi, played by Su Yi, because Su Yi could not sleep with Wei Lan. Therefore, Wei Lan always suspected that Bai Qi had kept a mistress outside after he was named Wu'an Jun.
The matter was once reported to Wei Ran, the prime minister of Qin, and there was even a rumor that Bai Qi wanted to kill his wife. This caused Su Yi to go on strike recently and she could no longer do this job.
Therefore, Shen Yuelan had to make many phone calls, urging the Time Management Bureau to send someone to patch the issue as soon as possible.
[Sister Hua, if you guys don't come over, Wei Lan will kill her husband tomorrow to prove her truth! ]
[Ha, that's not as weird as you say. Okay, okay, I get it. Just hold on for a while. Someone will be coming over soon. Keep Bai Qi's body well. With that, we can save a lot of trouble.]
[Really? It's not like you've never been in a relationship before. Can't you just help her vent during sex? Why do you have to make it so complicated?]
[Um, Sister Hua, haven’t you heard that women are like wolves at thirty and tigers at forty? ]
[It’s not like we haven’t tried before. We’ve even used up a few toys, but it didn’t work at all except for making Wei Lan even more irritable.]
[Now we just need to find a man for her, but we can't really cuckold Bai Qi, so please hurry up and make Bai Qi alive.]
Hearing Shen Yuelan's complaints, Hua Liluo was speechless. What was going on? But out of love for Shen Yuelan, Hua Liluo still promised Shen Yuelan that she would send someone over as soon as possible.
After getting reinforcements, Shen Yuelan was finally in the mood to enjoy life. As long as Wei Lan didn't get involved in Bai Qi's trivial matters, she was still a very gentle mother.
Not only was she very kind to Shen Yuelan, but she also took care of Shen Huanyan and Su Xin. The Bai family was not large in number, and apart from Bai Qi and his wife, there was only Bai Zhong, a teenage boy.
Most of the household affairs were handled by Wei Lan alone. The arrival of Shen Huanyan and others helped her relieve a lot of pressure.
Shen Yuelan once asked her why she didn't buy some slaves for the family, as the Bai family was not without money. Upon hearing this, Wei Lan sighed and said that the family had some old servants in the early years, but they all passed away over the years.
As Bai Qi's reputation grew, the slaves he bought were all evil. They were either the King of Qin's spies or the Queen Dowager Xuan's loyal soldiers.
With these people around, the daily food, clothing and expenses of Bai Qi and his wife were all clearly known by those in the palace. Even whether they had sex every day was known to them.
Bai Qi and his wife had always felt very upset about this. After a long time, they could no longer endure this kind of life where they were spied on every day, so they simply dismissed all the evil servants in the house on the grounds that there were not many people in the family.
In this way, Bai Qi and his wife had to do all the chores at home by themselves. Although it was tiring, they felt happy.
However, Bai Qi was alienated by the King of Qin because of this. Although the Queen Dowager Xuan did not say much, she also ignored Bai Qi for a while. As the saying goes, there is gain and loss, and the couple did not care about it.
Wei Lan often discussed cooking with Shen Huanyan, and chatted with Shen Yuelan about winemaking and art. He even practiced swordsmanship with Su Xin for a few rounds. He could be said to be a very talented person.
Although Wei Lan is nearly forty years old, she still has her charm. It can be seen that when Wei Lan was young, she was definitely a great beauty. Beauty and hero complement each other very well.
Chapter 123 Human Relations and Worldly Wisdom
The Bai family was considered a family of officials in the Qin State and lived a wealthy life, but even in such a family, they only ate meat a few times a month.
Shen Yuelan had been in the Bai family for several months. Apart from being able to eat some sacrificial meat as a reward from the palace at specific times, if she wanted to eat meat at other times, she had to rely on the prey that Bai Qi (in plain clothes) brought back when he went out hunting.
Occasionally, if he could hunt some wild rabbits or pheasants, he would bring them back to enjoy a snack. As for prey such as wild boars and deer, Bai Qi did not dare to enjoy them all to himself. Most of the time, he would send them to the palace or to his father-in-law.
After all, Bai Qi was given the title of Wu'an Jun by the King of Qin, and was secretly promoted by the Queen Dowager Xuan and Marquis Rang, so he could give it or take it away.
Therefore, no matter how high Bai Qi's status was, he had to be worldly-wise. Naturally, Bai Qi, played by Su Yi, had to follow the script. Every ten days or half a month, he had to go out and hunt some prey and bring it back to those people.
I have to say that Su Yi's mouth is much sweeter than Bai Qi's. The King of Qin has been very happy with Su Yi these past two days. He has rewarded Bai Qi (played by Su Yi) with many good things and promised Bai Qi (played by Su Yi) that he would continue to serve as the commander-in-chief of the Qin army.
He will also send Zhang Ruo, the governor of Shuzhong County, to be his deputy, and order them to continue to lead the army to attack Chu, attack Wu County and the Jiangnan region of Chu. The King of Qin's meaning is also very clear. As long as Bai Qi (played by Su Yi) follows me, I will ensure that you will have a good life.
The same goes for Wei Lan. Although he is still irritable at night, he has become much gentler than at the beginning, and all this is thanks to Su Yi's clever words.
Her words of praise came out one after another as if they were free, praising Wei Lan so much that he was so happy that he seemed to be four or five years younger. He was in high spirits the whole time, making Shen Yuelan and others exclaim that they had lost their studies.
Seeing that Su Yi finally found the feeling of playing Bai Qi, Shen Yuelan couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, even though Hua Liluo had promised Shen Yuelan that they would send someone over as soon as possible.
But if they wanted to really take action, Shen Yuelan felt that she would have to wait at least another one or two years. It was great that Su Yi could hold on.
Among the rewards bestowed by the King of Qin was actually the condiment salt. According to Wei Lan, the [Indian Salt] and [Flower Salt] bestowed by the King were quite valuable luxury goods.
[Printed Salt] is a salt block that is refined through multiple processes. It is square in shape, crystal clear, and looks like a white jade official seal, so it is called Printed Salt.
[Flower salt] is made by spreading salt on the slate roof, adding a proper amount of water, and exposing it to the sun to make the salt juice hang down, making salt blocks of various shapes like stalactites, so it is called flower salt.
Compared with ordinary refined salt (large-grain salt), coarse salt (bean-grain salt), and field salt (pink salt), these two types of salt are expensive because of labor costs.
Because it looks good and can satisfy the vanity of royal nobles and wealthy businessmen from various countries, it is very popular among them, but in terms of taste, there is actually no difference between the two.
Therefore, Wei Lan did not use these luxury goods, but chose to give Su Xin some half a tael of money and asked her to buy some refined salt for consumption. As for those flashy luxury goods, they should naturally be used wisely and given away as gifts in the future.
Shen Yuelan had no desire to collect salt blocks, so she let Su Xin do whatever Wei Lan said.
Compared with salt blocks, Shen Yuelan prefers the sacrificial meat that the King of Qin gave her when he offered sacrifices some time ago. Although it is a bit fat, it can be used to make animal oil and oil residue.
Shen Yuelan and others could also use this excuse to take out the vegetable oil they had stored, and use it because they had the leftover animal oil.
With oil, Shen Yuelan could let Shen Huanyan openly cook something in the name of researching new dishes, although the food tasted weird due to the lack of some key seasonings.
But at least it can be a change of pace and help Wei Lan and Bai Zhong replenish their bodies. A while ago, Shen Yuelan took Wei Lan's pulse and found that Wei Lan's health was much worse than she had imagined, and he needed to take some nutritious food for diet therapy.
The little guy Bai Zhong is still growing and also needs nutritional supplements. Especially after he practiced martial arts recently, he has consumed a lot of physical energy and needs to consume enough energy to ensure that his body does not have any problems.
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