Diqin Designer

Chapter 4 Is This the Qin Dynasty?
"Brave man, please rest here tonight!" Guo Dian said respectfully to Li Nian in front of a palace.

Looking at the palace in front of him, Li Nian nodded. This should be where he would live tonight.

"You don't have any good eyesight. Come here and serve the warrior!" Guo Dian was very polite to Li Nian, but he was not so polite to other eunuchs and palace maids.

At Guo Dian's scolding, more than ten eunuchs and palace maids hurried out of the palace and welcomed Li Nian into the palace.

After entering the room, Guo Dian asked, "Would you like to rest right away or wash yourself first?"

As if thinking of something, Guo Dian added: "Does the warrior want to eat?"

Li Nian: “…”

Seeing that Li Nian didn't understand, Guo Dian turned to the eunuchs and palace maids waiting on the side and said, "Why don't you prepare hot soup for the warrior? You guys serve him well, I'll be back soon!"

After that, he said to Li Nian, "Wait here for a while, Guo will be back soon!"

After Guo Dian left the palace, Li Nian didn't know where he went. Because of the language barrier, it was difficult for him to communicate with these people. He could only stand in the palace and look at the palace, observing the eunuchs and palace maids.

'There are no tables or chairs in the room. It is said that the earliest chairs appeared in my country during the Han Dynasty. That is to say, if I traveled to ancient China, then this place was probably before the Han Dynasty, and before the Han Dynasty...'

Recalling some of the things he had seen in the palace just now, the clothes of the handsome man, the attire of the guards, as well as the bamboo slips and the text he had seen, Li Nian's heart moved, 'Could I have traveled back to the Qin Dynasty? '

He had not studied history in detail, but he still knew some things about history, such as the Qin Dynasty's writing was small seal script, the Qin Dynasty favored black, there were no tables and chairs in the Qin Dynasty, and people were popular sitting on the ground, and the shape of the Terracotta Warriors he saw in Lintong, the more he looked at it, the more it looked like the guards around him...

"I think I traveled to the Qin Dynasty... maybe not, it could be a period before the Qin Dynasty. But if it is really the Qin Dynasty, then the handsome man could be...?"

Li Nian's heart skipped a beat, and a series of titles popped up in his mind.

"Ancestor Dragon", "The First Emperor", "Ying Zheng", "Zhao Zheng", "Qin Shi Huang", "Founder of the Qin Dynasty", "The first Chinese monarch to be called emperor".

'If it is really that person, what year is it this year? How long will it take for Hu Hai to take the throne? Where are Liu Bang and Xiang Yu? What should I do? '

For a moment, Li Nian was in a mess and his expression kept changing, which was noticed by the guard beside him. He silently took note and prepared to report it to the king later.

Just as Li Nian was daydreaming, Guo Dian came back and said to Li Nian, "Sorry for keeping you waiting!"

Li Nian gathered his thoughts and looked at Guo Dian. Behind him were two people, each holding a tray, one with clothes and the other with food.

It was obvious that Guo Dian left to prepare clothes and food for him.

At this time, several eunuchs came in carrying a large wooden barrel. One of them said to Guo Dian, "Boss, the hot soup is ready!"

Guo Dian ignored the eunuch and said to Li Nian, "Sir, would you like to wash first or eat first?" After that, he pointed to the wooden barrel and the tray with food that had been placed in the room.

Li Nian naturally understood such a simple meaning. He pointed at the tray, indicating that they should eat first. After all, man is iron and food is steel. If he skips a meal, he will be very hungry. Even if he might be beheaded or tortured later, there is no time to eat now.

Besides, he was really hungry. He had gone out to buy groceries and cook, but he wore it on the way back.

Seeing that Li Nian chose to eat first, Guo Dian asked someone to put the tray with food on a table in the room and said, "The food is simple, please forgive me!" People in Qin Dynasty only ate two meals a day. The first meal was called breakfast, also called "yong", which was approximately equivalent to around nine o'clock in the morning, so this time is also called the meal time. The second meal was called afternoon meal, also called "sūn", which was equivalent to around four o'clock in the afternoon.

People generally do not eat again after two meals, but this is the palace of the Qin Dynasty. Even if two meals have passed, some food will be prepared to prevent the nobles living in the palace from being hungry.

Glancing at the tray on the table, Li Nian thought for a moment, then sat down in front of the table, picked up the chopsticks and started eating.

The food was relatively simple: a bowl of rice made of unknown ingredients, a plate of vegetables of unknown ingredients, and a bowl of soup made of unknown meat.

"Bowl", "chopsticks" and "rice" are just the names Li Nian gave to these things. In this era, they are definitely not called that.

The dishes are simple and the taste is very average, far inferior to modern dishes. Although most modern dishes are made with high technology and craftsmanship, the taste is indeed far beyond this era.

While eating, Guo Dian waited quietly by the side, observing silently.

Li Nian knew that this person came to take care of him and also to monitor him, but he was not restrained. What he wanted to show now was that he was different from this era.

After the meal, Li Nian got up from the ground. Guo Dian waved his hand and a eunuch came forward to take the tray away.

Guo Dian pointed to the big wooden barrel and said to Li Nian, "Would you like to wash yourself now, or just take a rest?"

Li Nian was not actually sleepy at all. It was still broad daylight in the modern times when he traveled through, but he couldn't explain it. After thinking for a while, Li Nian decided to take a shower.

This person probably didn't just want to do this for his own good. He wanted to give him a bath and probably wanted to use the opportunity to bathe him to check his clothes and body.

Although the palace had been inspected just now, who can guarantee that nothing might go wrong?

"The ancients were very thoughtful, we can't underestimate them!" Li Nian secretly warned himself.

With the help of several palace maids, Li Nian took off his clothes and entered the wooden tub to bathe. He closed his eyes and leaned against the wall of the tub, feeling the hands rubbing back and forth on his body, but he did not feel the slightest joy in his heart of enjoying the treatment of the privileged class in the feudal era.

Li Nian knew very well that the man who let him live in the palace and have eunuchs and palace maids serve him was because he was attracted by his unknown origins and the modern items he brought with him from his time travel. If he could not satisfy that man in the future, his fate would be unimaginable.

On the other side, just as Li Nian thought, Guo Dian was holding the ice silk short-sleeved shirt he had taken off, stroking and examining it carefully.

'This material is neither linen nor silk, it feels soft and silky, and has a slight coolness, which is really strange.'

After stroking it for a while, Guo Dian put the short-sleeved shirt on a tray and picked up another one.

'The texture of this piece is somewhat similar to hemp, but not as rough and hard as hemp. How strange!'

Putting down the jeans, Guo Dian picked up Li Nian's ice silk panties.

"The material of this item should be the same as that of the short coat. It is a good idea to use it to cover privacy. The clothes on this person may seem simple, but they actually make a lot of sense. You can report this to the king!"

There were no underwear during the Qin Dynasty, so when Emperor Qin Shi Huang unified the country, he was also wearing an empty crotch?

(End of this chapter)