The dusky sunset slanted in the crowded Xianyang City Well, and a ragged teenager with yellow muscles stood in a corner of the street, his eyes sluggish and his lips blackened. He hadn't eaten a full meal in about three days.
Suddenly, a nobleman's carriage and horse galloped through the street, and the accompanying guards and servants trotted all the way to follow the master, and the long yellow dust raised by the carriage narrowed the eyes of the teenager. He wiped his tearful eyes with the back of his dirty hand, trying to see whose son it was. However, the team had long since vanished, leaving only a strange red dust.
His heart was suddenly shocked, faintly painful, and he thought, What kind of life I live, I was also born as a human being, why do some people run rampant and some people can't eat! He secretly clenched his teeth and clenched his fists, and he swore in his heart: In this life, he cannot be famous and rich, and he is a vain person!
So the young man ran to join the army, but the official in charge of recruiting the army did not even look at him in the right eye, instructed the military officials under him to come and beat him up fiercely, spit on his face, and scolded him: Look at your ghostly appearance, what kind of soldier, even the road can not move, not fast rolling! Die aside and go!
The teenager groaned and crawled away with a rolling belt. Cornered, he fell into the mud and cried. As he cried, he slammed his fists the ground, his snot and tears flowed in one hand, and he shouted hoarsely: What to do! Ah, ah, what should I do!
Helpless, he finally climbed back to the Hidden Palace step by step. The Hidden Palace, a prison, a place where labor prisoners are held, is full of mossy black and green walls, the smell of mold fills the air all day long, and the wailing of the cells like a hive is often heard, and the scolding of the prisoners by the prison guards is incessant.
Damp, gloomy, dark clouds forever shrouded the high walls; the inmates who were constantly working under the whips of the jailers were sluggish and sad-faced, they lived like zombies just for a bite to eat, and wild ghosts filled every corner, and the wind blew through - in short, this is a hell, and the people who live here are not even ghosts.
Teenagers were born here and grew up here. For countless days and nights, he huddled in a corner, fantasizing that one day he would escape from here. However, when he really escaped, he found that he had nowhere to go, the heavens and the earth were so big, where was his place?
"Gao'er, wake up! Gao'er, wake up! With the call of the rough and haggard old woman, the teenager opened his eyes.
"Mom, let me die."
The woman with flowers and grassy face was black and thin as wood, hugged the child and cried: You can't die! You died and my hard work and humiliation for so many years were in vain...
"Why suffer all this humiliation? Why work so hard? What did such hard work and humiliation bring? Do you pin your hopes on me? What can I do? What am I? I might as well die now!" Let's die together!" The teenager burst into tears.
"Don't howl! You, get me up, wash my clothes and go! And you ghost cub, you have the ability to run, run away and don't come back? Want to die? I'll let you die now!" Let you die now!" A jailer kicked the woman away, grabbed the teenager's chest and lifted him up, and with his other hand rounded him and gave him a few mouths.
The woman fell at the jailer's feet, wrapped her hands around one of his legs, and kept kissing his ankle with her mouth.
"If you want to die, be happy!" If you want to live, don't make any more trouble! Here's some food, carry your dog day son back and hurry out to wash your clothes! ”
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The teenager looked at the high wall in a daze, although the body was much better, but still full of pain, the most unbearable thing for him was the headache, he thought about the problem and the head hurt, a few days seemed to have passed a few years, he felt that he had grown up at once, he thought about a lot of problems.
None of these problems could be solved, not even his mother. Do you want to live or die? This was one of the problems that tormented him the most.
He didn't know where he came from, he didn't know who his father was, not even his mother, he had asked several times, there were so many jailers who had come to bully his mother, who could remember?
This is a small question, the key is why did he come to this world, did he come to this world to suffer? What is left of life except suffering? Look at the mother, why is she still alive?
The jailer had come to bully his mother again, he felt that they were inferior to pigs and dogs, he did not want to see them now, he wanted to go into the rat hole alone.
However, when the jailer who had finished his work walked past him with a big wave, his heart suddenly moved, and his eyes suddenly shot out a star of light. He grew up watching the jailers. The prison guards ate and drank, flaunted their might, had a vicious face, always spoke dirty words in their mouths, carried leather whips in their hands, and either bullied female prisoners or beat and scolded male prisoners.
In the past, he thought that these people were dirty and despicable, with a small face, which was the object of his contempt, but today, he felt that they were decent, and if they could be like them, they would not live in vain.
He wasn't going to die. This is a big step forward in life. When life has a goal, it will feel that the sky is blue, the clouds are white and the wind is clear, the mood is excited, the spirit is excited, the body is strong, the bones and muscles are pulled, and the soul is awakened.
He took three steps and made two steps to run to the jailer, chased after him and said, Uncle, I want to learn from you!
uncle? The jailer stopped, turned around, laughed and leaned over, squeezing a few words out of his teeth: You call me uncle? Which fucking nerve are you fucking wrong!
No, I'm serious.
Learn, learn what?
Take the officials as teachers and study the law.
The jailer looked him up and down again, and said grimly: If you want to learn, you can learn, why, just call an uncle?
As long as you are willing to teach me, let me do anything.
On your knees.
He immediately knelt down on his knees against the jailer.
kowtow.
He prostrated his head to the jailer like a garlic, his head thumping the ground, and bright red blood flowed down the door of his head.
Call Daddy.
Father! Daddy! You're my dad! As long as I don't let me die, I can do anything for you!"
The jailer was stunned. Half a day to squeeze a sentence out of the teeth: Get out of the way!
His mother stumbled over and threw herself at the jailer's feet, weeping and weeping as she kissed his ankle.
The jailer took his foot off, all right, all right, take your time.
Please Uncle Kai Kai, save my son, give him a way to live!
Are you really willing to learn?
willing! Ten thousand willing!
Then your surname is Zhao.
Okay, from this moment on, my name is Zhao Gao.
Zhao Gao followed the prison guard surnamed Zhao, whispering, feet in front of and behind him, serving properly, learning words and learning the law.
Before my mother died, zhao gao was pregnant, angry like gossamer, but with a smile: You finally raised your spirits, brave and tenacious to want to live, I died without regrets, and I was blinded when I died!
Zhao Gao was shrewd and capable from an early age, agile and studious, persistent and tenacious. After a few years, he was well versed in paperwork and law. Ordinary people in the Qin Kingdom joined the army, in addition to joining the army, they were examination officials. Zhao Gao wanted to pass the examination and enter the official palace as an official.
But he didn't want to be an ordinary little official, like Zhao Prison Guard, who had been hiding in a dark, damp prison with no light in sight, and he longed to leave here, longing to go to a bigger and sunnier place.
It happened that the Qin Royal Palace summoned officials, but there was a condition that they must be eunuchs and pass the law. This was a huge temptation for Zhao Gao, so he wielded his sword from the palace and finally entered the Qin King's Palace as an official.
Zhao Gao's clerical and legal skills are excellent, he grew up in an extremely harsh environment, and he has developed a skill of observing words and colors, so it can be said that he is handy at work.
History is calling, summoning this outstanding leader to gradually enter the vision of the King of Qin. Zhao Gao was fortunate that he was appreciated by the Qin King Yingzheng in his eunuchship in the Qin Palace, and was personally promoted step by step.
Qin Shi Huang and Zhao Gao were basically the same age, and both had experiences of suffering and humiliation in their early years, which made them feel sorry for each other when they first met. Qin Shi Huang liked Zhao Gao all his life and trusted Zhao Gao, not without reason.
But the development of history is not controlled by anyone, Qin Shi Huang died violently in the dunes, and Zhao Gao launched a dune coup, probably before, neither of them expected it.