In 258 BC, there was heavy snow in Handan.
I traveled through time and became a three-year-old orphan girl, who was picked up by Zhao Ji and grew up with the infant Ying Zheng.
I call him Zheng'er. They eat and sleep together and depend on each other for life.
Later I learned that he would be the First Emperor, would rule the world, and would also die after his death.
I have seen my brother die of illness in a modern hospital bed, and I don't want to see another brother make the same mistake.
At the age of twenty-six, he blocked a sword and suffered from an old illness; at the age of forty-six, he fell off his horse and walked with a stick from then on. Five times he admonished Zhao Gao for frivolous corvee and low taxes, and he secretly checked Zhao Gao for twenty years. He said to the increasingly suspicious emperor in the middle of the night countless times: People's power is like vitality, and it is difficult to recover when it is exhausted.
He asked: Why is A Zhao so wary of Zhao Gao?
I can't say - that is my long-lost biological brother, and the criminal who will bring trouble to the Qin Dynasty in the future.
On the day of the coronation, he said he would never establish a queen. I lowered my eyes and said nothing.
Seventy-three years on the road to the emperor, I spent my whole life for him to see: The country is not only in the court, but also in the fields.
I was seventy-four years old when Zhao Gao was executed. In prison, he finally remembered who I was and called me "sister" for the last time.
Three years later, I was one step ahead of Ying Zheng.
He held my hand, just like I held his when I was three years old: "A Zhao, you have guarded the Qin Dynasty for one lifetime, and I will guard you for the rest of my life."
Qin finally died in the second generation.
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I have been with you for seventy years, guarding the mountains and rivers for thousands of miles.
