bookrebus Chapter 168 The Great Qin Princess (1)
Chapter 168 The Great Qin Princess (1)
"Ptooey, ptooey, ptooey!" Wangyou spat out a mouthful of dirt and looked up at the sky speechlessly.
"Host, are you alright?"
"Thank goodness, thank goodness! I'm so grateful to you for bringing me to this era where there's hardly anything to eat!" Wangyou rolled her eyes and said.
"Host, do you want to extract the cheat ability? You didn't do it in the last world, so why don't you do it in this one too?" Duobao awkwardly changed the subject.
"Draw!" Wangyou reached out and pressed the button on the roulette wheel, then drew a wisp of the Great Dao and a shop in the Myriad Realms Trading Mall.
"It's like my wish came true! This mall is incredibly useful!" Wangyou temporarily stored the essence of the Great Dao, intending to absorb it again after this world ended.
"The host's luck is as good as ever!" Duobao is no longer surprised; he's gotten used to it after a while.
After extracting the cheat code, Wangyou began to sort out the timeline. She was exactly twelve years old now. Her birth was rather complicated. Her mother was a princess of the Yan Kingdom, and her father was a prince of the Zhao Kingdom. However, all of that was in the past, because she was now the only child in her family.
It is now 221 BC, the time when the First Emperor had just unified China. She is currently in Lintao, which is also called Lintao in later generations. It is still some distance from the capital, Xianyang.
After roughly figuring out where she was, Wangyou dusted herself off and prepared to go to the government office to register her personal information. After registering, she would head to Xianyang; otherwise, how long would it take for her to develop in this land of yellow earth?
After registering her household registration information, Wangyou shouldered a small package and headed towards Xianyang. Wangyou herself didn't want to go, but she had no choice.
Buy a horse-drawn carriage? Horse-drawn carriages are strategic resources. You, an ordinary citizen, would be asking for trouble if you tried to buy and sell horses. Buy an oxcart? Oxen are scarce and are allocated by the government. There isn't enough land for arable land, so where would you find any to sell? Donkey carts are even rarer. And don't even think about mules; they don't exist at this time.
What could Wangyou do but walk? Fortunately, she had been learning martial arts since childhood, so traveling was no problem for her.
Since arriving here, Wangyou has stopped being picky about food. The food here is extremely scarce, and Wangyou is the kind of person whose parents don't see for more than a year or two. So Wangyou just takes whatever she wants to eat from her spatial storage.
Robots are fine, at least they're much better than pig swill.
Having finally witnessed the unification achieved by the First Emperor, she hurriedly went to Xianyang to obtain an official position. Otherwise, she would feel like a thief if she wanted to eat anything, because people could smell even the slightest aroma, which was very troublesome, probably due to food scarcity.
Furthermore, Lintao was located in a strategic center and was not safe at all, because the sounds of fighting could be heard all night, which seriously affected sleep.
Wangyou traveled along the Tao River, stopping frequently, and it took her about two months to reach Xianyang City.
But now a problem has arisen: how can a young girl like her meet the First Emperor? Perhaps sneaking in at midnight is not out of the question.
Despite having many ideas, it's more important to find a place to stay first. I'll rest for a few days and then go find the First Emperor. That's the decision.
Wangyou found an inn and extended her stay for a month, paying with gold. At that time, the currency was not standardized, and Wangyou didn't have enough copper coins, so she could only use gold.
However, Wangyou never expected that the gold she offered was too pure, and the shopkeeper secretly reported her. As a result, she had just taken a bath and hadn't even put her clothes on properly when someone broke into her room.
"Where did this bastard come from, trying to watch me take a bath!" Wangyou raised her hand and slapped everyone who had entered the room out, then quickly dressed and came out.
"Take it!"
"Hey, wait a minute, are you guys crazy? What did I do that you want to arrest me?"
"This gold is yours, isn't it!"
"correct."
"Then there's no problem, let's take it!"
“Young general, just because I’m speaking nicely to you doesn’t mean I’m easy to bully. What’s wrong with me giving you gold? Is gold trading not allowed?”
"Where did you get this gold, which is of such high purity?"
"This... gold... is highly pure! Are you sure!" Wangyou said, looking at the slightly reddish gold. This was the lowest purity gold she had found.
"I suspect you are a spy. Please come with us!"
"Do you think I'm stupid? Once I'm in, I'm not going to come out!" Wangyou shook her head vigorously at the thought of going to prison. Even if you beat her, she couldn't go in. Is prison a place for humans?
……
"What happened over there?"
"Your Majesty, someone checked into the inn and brought out gold of very high purity, so the innkeeper took them to the authorities!" Ling Yuan said respectfully, bowing his head. His predecessor, Zhao Gao, had done something terribly wrong and was beheaded by His Majesty. He couldn't afford to be careless.
"Oh!" The First Emperor was intrigued by this, so he stepped out of the carriage and saw a lively little girl outwitting his soldiers. The little girl was clearly very skilled in martial arts, but she did not kill them.
Ying Zheng looked at the girl and felt that her profile looked so familiar!
"I'm telling you, shopkeeper, you're not being fair at all! I used gold, what rule says I can't use it? Just because the purity is a little higher, you're suing me? And you guys, bringing so many soldiers to arrest a young girl like me, aren't you ashamed?" Wangyou stood on the high place, angrily pointing at the people below and cursing.
"I'm going to find Your Majesty the First Emperor right now!" Wangyou turned around and prepared to fly towards Xianyang Palace.
As Wangyou turned around, her face was completely exposed to the sunlight. Ying Zheng stared at that familiar face and froze on the spot.
"His Majesty!"
"Return to the palace!" Ying Zheng turned and climbed into the carriage. "Send men at top speed. Once this young lady arrives at the palace, she must be treated with utmost care and respect!"
"Yes, Your Majesty!" Ling Yuan didn't dare to delay and quickly sent someone to deliver the order, while also sending Ying Zheng's carriage back to the palace as soon as possible.
Wangyou, who had originally planned to storm Xianyang Palace, found that these people were unusually gentle and respectfully invited her into Xianyang Palace, where they even served her tea and snacks.
"The First Emperor was actually quite a nice person!" Wangyou took a sip of tea and quietly waited for the emperor to return to the palace.
Looking at the world information it had urgently retrieved, Duobao suddenly felt a bit lost. Should it tell its host or not?
After thinking it over, Duobao decided to give Wangyou a heads-up, regardless of whether Wangyou could still remember or not, "Host, you know this Ying Zheng."
"I know him? How did I meet him?"
"Host, do you remember the child you had during your second mission? This is him!"
"Is that so!" Wangyou was also surprised and began to think about where she had met Ying Zheng.
Before Wangyou could wake up, the palace gates were opened, and the First Emperor, who was nearly 1.9 meters tall and had an imposing presence, walked in. However, those who knew him well knew how hurried the First Emperor's steps were.
Before long, Ying Zheng walked up to Wang You, but for a moment, he didn't know what to say, so the two of them just stared at each other blankly.
One was wondering if this was really his mother, and the other was wondering if this was really her adopted son. For a moment, neither of them knew how to start the conversation. The main problem was that Wangyou hadn't remembered yet, and Yingzheng didn't dare to confirm.