Chapter 109: Asking for Immortality
Xiaobai skipped ahead and walked ahead, followed by Ying Zheng. However, after entering the inner courtyard, he was much slower. Xiaobai couldn't help but stop and wait.
"Father." Fusu stepped forward quickly, thinking that something happened to Ying Zheng.
"Things have changed and people have changed. I used to come here often. Whenever I had any doubts, I would come to him. He would patiently explain it to me. We even stayed here all night to deal with state affairs." Ying Zheng looked at the familiar surroundings. The environment sighed.
When Fusu heard this, he didn't dare to say anything and quickly lowered his head, as did everyone behind him. Everyone knew who Ying Zheng was talking about, but no one dared to point it out.
"Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
Suddenly a voice appeared, and everyone looked at the stone table that was empty just now. Su Yu had been sitting here without knowing it. There were three people standing behind him, none other than Wuming, Jiang Ni, and Ah Qing.
Ying Zheng showed a hint of surprise. When he came in, there was no one there, but suddenly he appeared, and he couldn't help but feel confused.
"Fu Huang, this is Su Zi." Fu Su said quickly.
Ying Zheng nodded and looked at Su Yu carefully. He was young, too young, not much older than Fu Su, but his temperament was extraordinary, which made people feel inexplicably close to her.
"Su Zi." Ying Zheng said with a slight cup of his hands.
"Hello, His Majesty the Emperor." Su Yu smiled.
"Uh..." Ying Zheng was stunned for a moment. Although the other party called him by his honorific title, it felt to him that Su Yu was just saying hello to an old friend, very casually.
"Your Majesty, he..." Li Si took a step forward and wanted to say something rude to Su Yu, but Ying Zheng stopped him.
Fu Nian and others sweated for fear that Ying Zheng would be angry.
"Hahaha..." Unexpectedly, Ying Zheng laughed heartily. He was very happy. It was precisely because of Su Yu's attitude towards him that countless people respected him, were afraid of him, and looked up to him, but no one had ever looked at him so calmly. Him, it made him happy.
Ying Zheng walked over and sat down on the stone pedal.
"Your Excellency is younger and more interesting than I thought." Ying Zheng said.
"Your Majesty is much older than I thought." Su Yu said.
"Well... I am forty-one this year. I have passed my forties. I can indeed be called old." Ying Zheng was not angry because Su Yu said that he was old. Instead, he admitted it generously. But if someone else had said this, he would probably have said it earlier. Just the head fell to the ground.
Fusu and the others looked at each other, somewhat doubting that the First Emperor in front of them was fake.
"I have heard many rumors about you. Some say you are a Confucian saint, and some say you are an immortal. Can you tell me who you are?" Ying Zheng stared at Su Yu and said, his body could not help exuding imperial power, and everyone present could not help but tremble. When they got up, only Su Yu and the others seemed not to be affected by this momentum.
"Your Majesty, do you believe there are gods in this world?" Su Yu asked.
"I once heard that there is a fairy island overseas called Penglai..." Ying Zheng said.
"That's enough, Your Majesty. You believe everything Yun Zhongjun said to fool you. I just ask you whether you believe it or not?" Su Yu interrupted Ying Zheng and continued to ask.
"Huh?" Ying Zheng was suddenly stunned.
"hiss…"
But the people around him took a breath of cold air, Yun Zhongjun deceived the emperor? This was something that shocked everyone.
"Your Majesty, I am going to capture Yun Zhongjun." Zhang Han took a step forward and knelt down.
If someone else said Yun Zhongjun, he probably wouldn't believe it, but from Su Yu's mouth, the matter is almost certain.
Ying Zheng shook his hand, and then glanced at the Moon God thoughtfully. The Moon God looked at his nose and his heart, as if he didn't hear what Su Yu just said.
"I believe it." Ying Zheng took a deep breath and said.
"You haven't answered my question yet." Ying Zheng stared at Su Yu and said.
Su Yu smiled, then waved his hand on the table, and then several plates of fruit snacks appeared, as well as a pot of tea and two white jade cups.
Then the teapot floated up automatically, and the two cups were filled with tea.
"Please." Su Yu said. Then a tea cup flew gently to Ying Zheng.
Ying Zheng took the tea cup, suppressed the excitement in his heart, and took a sip.
"Good tea." Ying Zheng praised.
The scene just now exceeded everyone's imagination. If you were to make the teapot fly and pour tea on its own, you only need deep skills to do it, but to conjure so many things out of thin air is shocking.
"Be it gods or immortals, they do exist, but they are just more powerful people." Su Yu said lightly.
"Your Excellency just said that there is no Penglai Island overseas, but is it true?" Ying Zheng asked.
"There is Penglai Island, but there is no Immortal. It is just an island." Su Yu said.
A look of disappointment suddenly appeared in Ying Zheng's eyes.
Then, Su Yu looked at everyone, then waved her hand again, and a dozen chairs appeared out of thin air and slowly fell to the ground.
"I didn't take good care of you. Please sit down," Su Yu said.
Fu Nian and others first carefully touched the chair, and then gently sat down. In their eyes, Su Yu was no longer the scholar who read poetry and books before, but a god.
"What does Your Majesty want?" Fusu asked.
"I want to live forever." Ying Zheng said straightforwardly.
"As long as I can live forever, I agree to any conditions." Ying Zheng continued.
"Immortality is the most primitive desire of human beings. No one can refuse the temptation." Su Yu sighed.
Then Su Yu stood up and walked to the big tree nearby. This was a peach tree, of course, not Su Yu's one.
The peach blossoms were very beautiful. Suddenly a gust of wind appeared and the peach blossoms on the trees fell one after another.
"Look." Fusu pointed at the peach tree and exclaimed.
After the peach blossoms fell, peaches actually grew. The peaches grew visibly. In front of everyone's amazement, in less than a moment, the tree was full of bright red peaches.
"Wow, so many peaches." Ah Qing said in surprise.
"A miracle, this is a miracle." Ying Zheng stood up, came under the peach tree, and looked up.
"Go, pick them and share them with everyone." Su Yu said to Ah Qing.
"Yeah." The little girl was eager to try.
"I'll help you." Zhang Liang hurried forward.
"You wait down there." Ah Qing said, and jumped onto the tree.
Zhang Liang hurriedly put his clothes in his pockets, and Ah Qing kept throwing peaches down.
Soon, Zhang Liang's clothes could not fit. Seeing this, Fusu hurried forward and put his clothes in his pockets.
"Hahaha, I also climbed trees every day when I was in Zhao State. I remember that one year I broke my leg and couldn't go out." Ying Zheng laughed at Ah Qing's lively appearance.
"Memories are always beautiful, but the longer you live, the more you will forget those beautiful pasts, and the relatives around you will also leave first. Finally, there will be no relatives in the world. Because of immortality, people will be jealous, afraid, and finally choose to stay away. Loneliness is a difficulty that immortals cannot escape." Su Yu said.
Ying Zheng listened thoughtfully, and then nodded.
"Yes, loneliness, but I don't regret it. My Great Qin needs me." Ying Zheng said solemnly.
Su Yu glanced at Ying Zheng and saw persistence in his eyes. At this moment, Su Yu knew that Ying Zheng did not want to live forever because he was afraid of death, but because of the Great Qin, because of this country, the Great Qin could not do without Ying Zheng. Without Ying Zheng, could Fusu take up the burden? Even if history changes and Fusu successfully ascends the throne, can he continue the glory of the Great Qin? The answer is unknown. Su Yu doesn't know, and Ying Zheng doesn't know even more.
"I understand." Su Yu nodded.
At this time, Ah Qing and the others had also picked peaches and ran to the crowd to distribute peaches to everyone.
"Here, here you go." Ah Qing ran over happily and picked a big one and handed it to Ying Zheng.
"It's amazing." Ying Zheng felt the weight in his hand and sighed.
In fact, it was not just him, but everyone present was like this. Everyone looked at the peaches in their hands curiously.
"Brother, give me a few more." Hu Hai ran to Fu Su and said.
"No, keep these back to the palace and give them to other brothers and sisters." Fu Su refused.
"Why give them to them?" Hu Hai said unhappily. This shows how selfish Hu Hai is in his heart.
"This is just an ordinary peach tree, not a rare thing, everyone is free to take it." Su Yu smiled.
Everyone smiled awkwardly when they heard it.
"Then, Su Yu waved his hand, and an extremely large peach appeared in the air, emitting a faint glow all over the body."
"Wow, such a big peach." Ah Qing's eyes widened.
"It's so big, several times bigger than ours." Everyone was also surprised.
"This..." Ying Zheng first looked at the peach in his hand, then looked at the one floating in front of Su Yu, and suddenly felt that the peach in his hand was not fragrant.
"This... This is too big." Ying Zheng only said this sentence for a long time.
Su Yu smiled, then looked around and said.
"Everyone should be able to see the difference between this peach and the peach in your hand."
Everyone nodded.
"It blooms every thirty years, bears fruit every thirty years, and matures in thirty years. This is the kind of peach." Su Yu said.
"So it takes ninety years to mature." Zhang Liang said hurriedly.
"Well, it's exactly ninety years, from blooming to maturity." Su Yu nodded.
Ying Zheng swallowed his saliva and asked.
"What's so special about this?"
"Eating one can increase your lifespan by fifty years. Is it special?" Su Yu smiled.
"What?" Ying Zheng said in disbelief.
"How is it possible? Eating it can increase your lifespan."
"No way."
"Didn't you see how big it is?"
Everyone started talking.
Even the Moon Goddess, who was familiar with Su Yu, was surprised.
"Yes, that's what you think. Your Majesty, please." Su Yu said as she raised her hand, and the peaches flew gently in front of Ying Zheng.
Ying Zheng stretched out his hands tremblingly and took the peaches.
"This... is for me?" Ying Zheng said uncertainly.
"I didn't bring any other gifts when I arrived in Xianyang. This peach is for your Majesty. It will add fifty years to your lifespan." Su Yu nodded.
Ying Zheng was so excited that he couldn't speak. He put the peach to his mouth with trembling hands.
Everyone also watched with wide eyes, and their throats couldn't help but swallow saliva.
"Hunchi, hunchi." Ying Zheng ate the peaches in big mouthfuls. To be honest, his image was very unsightly, but no one cared at all at the moment. Everyone just wanted to see what would happen.