Chronicles of the Qin Dynasty

Chapter 1 1. The Lady of Chidao
In the twenty-third year of King Heng of Qin, the summer month of Si.

Longxi County, Didao.

The huge convoy was traveling along the newly built road.

It was noon, the sun was scorching, the soldiers' faces were dark red, their heavy clothes were soaked with sweat, and their leather armor seemed to be limp from the heat.

However, the eighty-one carriages stretched out in an endless stream, and all that could be heard along the way was the sound of weapons and armor colliding, as well as the heavy breathing of people and horses, without a single sound.

The loess road was filled with smoke and dust, but the speed of travel did not slow down at all.

All this was because the most honorable person in the carriage, the master of the Great Qin - King Qin Ji Heng was ill.

Very sick.

King Ji Heng of Qin is thirty-six years old this year.

He ascended the throne at the age of thirteen and took power at the age of twenty-six. And ten years later, on the fourth day of the tenth month, the Qin State defeated the last remaining Qi State and completely took over the world.

The world was just beginning to settle down, but it was not stable. The Qiang and Hu outside Longxi County were still eyeing it covetously. In order to stabilize the people's hearts, King Heng of Qin began his western tour in March of the spring, starting from Xianyang and all the way to Longxi.

But as soon as he entered Longxi, he fell ill.

The high fever kept coming back, and the Imperial Physician, along with several other imperial doctors, tried every possible means to completely suppress the fever. After eight or nine days of recurring fever, Prime Minister Wang Fu decided...

Return to Xianyang immediately!
The Qin Dynasty's rule had only just reached the six kingdoms, and within the Qin King's palace were only three or five young sons! If anything were to happen to the King... they, everyone, would likely be buried alive with him!

The empire built by several generations of Qin kings with painstaking efforts would probably be overturned in an instant.

Thinking of this, Prime Minister Wang Fu's face became even more gloomy.

Suddenly, the convoy stopped.

The sounds of weapons clashing and movement gradually faded from front to back. Wang Fu seemed to have a premonition, and his heart was beating like a drum.

Among these 81 carriages, the King of Qin would secretly change the carriage every day, and only his closest attendants could know where he was.

The Zhongchefu Ling at the front was obviously also among them.

At this moment, he walked quickly all the way, accurately found the carriage where Wang Fu was, and then replied in a low voice:
"Prime Minister, there seems to be something extraordinary ahead."

"In the middle of the road, a noble lady in strange clothes suddenly appeared."

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2024, summer.

Qin Shi was walking on the country road, pulling a large box full of luggage.

The sun was blazing, the mountains and plains in the distance seemed distorted. Her cheeks were flushed red from the heat, and sweat was pouring down her cheeks, but her expression was somewhat indifferent.

Until the universal wheel got stuck in the old gap of the concrete pavement, making a "click" sound.

But when she looked down, she suddenly felt a dull pain in her head, as if a sledgehammer had hit her hard and was then stirring her head violently.

She felt nauseous and numb and tired of the nagging pain from the brain tumor.

However, after staggering for two steps while dragging the suitcase in a daze, the dilapidated cement road in front of him was suddenly covered by another dirt road that he had never seen before.

Qin Shi stood there in a daze.

Looking back, the old cement road I had walked on was now just a vast expanse of white, like an endless fog.

How, how is this...

The dizziness in his head became more and more severe, and Qin Shi had no choice. However, as soon as he stepped on the soft soil, the discomfort in his head disappeared instantly.

She stood up and shook her head.

The glasses on the bridge of his nose slid down with the sweat, and even the veins on the grass beside the road were so clear.

Qin Shi took off her glasses instantly, and the world had never been so clear. And the hand holding her glasses——

She watched helplessly as her hands, which had been thin and dry due to illness, gradually became plump and full of flesh. Her legs seemed to have returned to the strong days when she was in college and was forced to take physical education exams. Energy surged from the bottom up into her chest.

She could even hear her own strong heartbeat.

Boom!Boom!Boom!
It was as if a tide was gently washing onto the beach in my head, and the painful dizziness and confusion that had recurred frequently since the tumor disappeared at that moment.

She had never been so lucid in her life.

But when she subconsciously grabbed a strand of her long hair to look at it, she found that the dry and sparse hair that had fallen out due to illness was now a large bunch of black hair.

Thick, shiny, smooth.

Qin Shi took two steps in disbelief while pulling the suitcase, and the originally heavy suitcase seemed no longer so heavy.

Looking back, the road we came from had completely disappeared, leaving only a long and solid loess road.

When she turned around, she saw in the distance a vast expanse of pale yellow dust raised by the frequent footsteps.

And the huge army looming in the smoke and dust.

——She had never seen such a huge, precise, silent, yet majestic ancient army in any film or television work.

She stood there, her heart still beating wildly with joy because of the premonition that she had inexplicably recovered, like her vigorous and endless vitality.

But his mind had calmed down, and his sight accurately caught the black blue dragon flag hanging high in front of him——

Qin

Qin Shi's heart skipped a beat.

At this time, the soldiers in front seemed to have discovered her, so with a command, the entire convoy quickly stopped.

After a while, the smoke and dust gradually settled, and Qin Shi finally saw the carriage surrounded in the middle and the six black horses in front of the carriage through the heavy armor and shields, as well as the disciplined and huge army.

These are the six chariots of the emperor.

……

How could a woman in strange clothes suddenly appear on the road?
The surroundings fell into silence.

At this moment, Prime Minister Wang Fu was also heavily guarded and came to the carriage in the front.

Standing there, one could clearly see that soldiers with weapons in hand had carefully surrounded them, and the woman in the middle was indeed as the Minister of the Imperial Chariots had said, wearing strange clothes and not like a Qin person.

Although she was just standing there under the scorching sun, wearing a strangely shaped hat and without any gold or jade ornaments on her body, she exuded a confident, relaxed and calm demeanor that could not be found anywhere else in the entire Xianyang Palace.

And her skin is so fair and delicate. I don’t know if she uses makeup powder or something, but even from a distance you can still see that it is surprisingly white, as if it has never been exposed to the sun.

The soldiers tensed up their nerves and stepped forward with swords and armor in hand to surround her - although the woman in front of them seemed to have little fighting ability, they were serving as the Qin King's attendants, and it was a dereliction of duty for them to have such a person suddenly appear on the already cleared road.

If it still can't be handled well at this time...

Thinking of this, everyone's expressions became more serious, and the fatigue from the high temperature seemed to disappear without a trace.

However, when they got close, the other party slowly closed the strange crystal piece in his hand, loosened the hand that was holding the strange box on one side, and smiled at them.

The confidence and exuberance in her smile was totally unlike that of ordinary girls like them who were often ordered around.

The other person had a straight back, fair skin, plump and smooth cheeks, a hint of rosy skin, and even white, even teeth. All of this showed that the person before him was a noble lady who had been raised on the finest food.

The lady's eyes were like stars, and her voice was like the clear spring water:

"Hello, what time is it now?"

Here I am! A new book is out! Ancient infrastructure, I hope you like it.

The background is fictional Qin Dynasty!
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