Chapter 704
Gao's eyes lit up even more, "What's all there?"
"Basically anything you want!"
"Do you have chillies?" Speaking of chillies, Gao Yao's mouth watered, as a modern man who could not resist spicy food, who could not wait to have spicy hotpot and a chilli in his dessert, he could only eat cornelian and ginger in the past few years in the Qin Dynasty, not even garlic, which was worse than death!
"Must have!"
"Where's the garlic?"
"Yes! All of it! Eggplant and pepper potatoes, groundnuts and cucumbers and broccoli, radishes and cabbage and tomatoes, and chicken seasoning and MSG and thirteen spices and soy sauce and cumin and pepper ...... hey, that's a lot too much, and since you're not making it, I'll just take it home and have the cook stew it up randomly."
Li Linfei burst out a long list of names, and Gao Yao's eyes grew wider and wider, his mouth watering even more unknowingly, the whole person has fallen into a visionary fantasy of several hundred to colorful and beautiful delicacies.
"You dare?" Only when he was fantasizing, he heard Li Linfei's last words and roared loudly then, even causing the soldiers guarding the door to draw their swords and rush in, thinking that something had happened.
"It's a thunderstorm to waste things you bastard! Leave it to me! No one will take it from me! I'll fight anyone but me who dares to touch these treasures of mine!" As he roared, Gao wanted to roll up his arms and sleeves in preparation for a big fight.
"There is no hurry for these first, I have another gift for you!" At these words Li Linfei gestured for the guards and soldiers to stand down, then clapped his hands and several female guards in leather armour, his original female retainers, walked in carrying a chest.
"Today I was promoted to general, although you did not send me a congratulatory gift, but the arrival of you and Xiaoyue people was the gift I wanted most, old brother, I also prepared a gift for you, after our first meeting, it just happened to be ready just yesterday, come and see if you like it!"
At these words Li Linfei went over and opened the box with his own hands, Gao was not surprised at first, but when he saw what was inside, he instantly froze as if he had lost his mind.
"Vegetable knives, boning knives, bone chopping knives, bread knives, slicing knives, carving knives, steak knives, ham knives ......" It was a row of all kinds of knives, containing all the kitchen knives that Guo Dong knew of.
"And there's more!" Li Linfei removed the row of knives along with the tray, revealing a pile of things underneath, pans, pressure cookers, frying pans, soup pans, steamers, milk pans, casserole pots, large horse spoons, that was a pile of all kinds of pots and pans, while around these pots and pans, immediately surrounding the four walls of the box, were hanging all kinds of spoons and spatulas for stir-frying, all of which were redeemed from the system.
"Older brother, although these things, are not those stainless steel or composite materials of our modern times, they are all built from the shock absorbing bow plates and wheel steel rims of my car after they were melted down."
Looking at Gao, who was shivering with tears streaming down his face, Li Linfei sighed and squatted down to pat Gao's shoulder: "Older brother, this is the only thing I can do for you as best I can, I'm not trying to tell you that you should let go of some things, and I won't advise you to do so, I just hope your pain can be somewhat alleviated!"
This matter, these words are really from Li Linfei's heart, not containing any interest in it, nor any scheming in it.
If it is said that Lu Su, because she was as pure as a lotus flower and flawless, ended up with a fragrant fragrance, drawing countless people to lament, then the most deserving of pity, the straightest of sighs and the most pitiful in the world of mythology is Gao Yao!
Yes, he is a great villain, but why is he a villain?
Did he ever actively seek to victimise anyone? No!
Throughout, he was defending himself and fighting back! Why should he become a eunuch and have the only souvenirs he brought with him destroyed when they both crossed over to the Qin Dynasty? And why should he be a eunuch and have his only souvenirs destroyed?
Why is it that they all take sides and divide into factions to fight for power, and that Yi Xiaochuan and Meng Tian are righteous when they attack others, while he, Gao, has to fight back to defend himself and is a villain and a treacherous minister?
Why should Yi Xiaochuan have Xiang Liang, Xiang Yu, Xiao Yue, Lu Su, Meng Tian, Yu Shu and Cui Wenzi and even San Bao, Vice General Pang, Tian Wu Chang, De Xiang and others?
And he doesn't even have the only fucking symbol of himself as a man? Even in the end, two thousand years ago Xiaoyue chose first Yi Xiaochuan and then Xiang Yu, and eventually and left him.
Two thousand years later, for Gao Lan is only a short period of two or three months, finally is also chose Yi Xiaochuan instead of him, still is as two thousand years ago Xiao Yue general left him, why?
The first thing you can do is to make sure that you have a good idea of what you are doing.
He just wants people to stop bullying him and hurting him, he doesn't want to be a fish on the chopping block anymore, is that wrong.
Li Linfei admitted that he was not a good person, this was said many times, especially in this mythical world, all the people he knew, all the people he used, all the people he approached with an aim, all the people he deliberately got their friendship and even their love.
But Li Linfei could do anything for an end, but he would not go on using and hurting them after they had become his own family and best friends, to ignore their pain and watch the joke from the side!
Sorry, but Li Linfei would dare to do anything, but traitors and beasts like Yi Xiaochuan! What is the difference between forgetting one's ancestors, renouncing one's righteousness and repaying one's enemies?
No, even those beasts and animals in real armour wouldn't do that!
He was not a good man, but at least he was a man! And not one of those beasts in human skin who despise animals!
Chapter 705
Because of this incident, after Gao had done everything he could to cook a large table of authentic star dishes, his relationship with Li Linfei was further strengthened, and he simply collapsed drunk in the end, and Li Linfei sent someone to send him back to the palace.
He and Yi Xiaochuan had known each other for years, so they were not strangers.
It was a pity that he ended up in a bad mood, and it was only after a long time that he suppressed his anger and trotted to Li Linfei's garrison general's residence to report his happiness.
"Old brother, it's not that I'm throwing cold water on you, there are only some few words I have to say."
Gao Yao's face stiffened and he looked up and down at Li Linfei: "What's wrong with you? Don't tell me you're like that guy Yi Xiaochuan, you're also going to tell me not to climb on Zhao Gao's bandwagon and to get rid of him somehow, right?"
Li Linfei rolled his eyes, "Brother, we don't have to curse like that! I won't be offended if you point your finger at me, but if you say I'm a saintly bitch like Yi Xiaochuan, don't blame me for turning my back on you!"
Gao Yao's face slowed as he looked at Li Linfei with some confusion, "Then what are you trying to say?"
Li Linfei pondered a little and organized his language, "Old brother, Zhao Gao was a powerful eunuch in history, arguably one of the most famous and powerful eunuchs in the whole of Chinese history, but this Zhao Gao you found today is a magistrate and not a eunuch."
"Let's not say for a moment if history is misremembering, after all, in history by now Meng Tian should have had a younger brother, Meng Yi, and was a civil official second only to Prime Minister Li Si, but neither did he, so the possibility of misremembering cannot be ruled out."
"But not to mention ability, just this one stammerer, not to mention getting the favour of Qin Shi Huang and becoming powerful, even communicating with others is difficult, how can you think that such a person would not be powerful."
"At first he is Zhao Gao, there is no mistake about that!"
Li Linfei rubbed his chin: "This is not certain, he is only named Zhao Gao, but it does not mean that he is the one you are looking for, after all, the duplicate name and surname this may not say, in ancient times the name has changed is a very common thing."
Gao was stunned, "Names can be changed too?"
Li Linfei rolled his eyes, "Nonsense, our modern name is bad, the household registry entry error and when small parents divorced and remarried and changed the name less?"
"Not to mention the many people who use aliases, or fake IDs! In ancient times, apart from these, there were also those who broke the law and fled to change their names, and those who changed their surname to the name of their fiefdom, and those who changed their surname to the name of their country after it was destroyed."
Speaking here Li Linfei paused for a moment and glanced slightly at Gao Yao with an odd look, "Apart from these who changed their names for their own reasons and ideas, there is another most common and most likely way for Zhao Gao to change his name, and that is the emperor giving his surname and name, Xu Mao Gong you know that right?"
Gao Yao nodded although he didn't know why he was suddenly talking about Zhao Gao talking about giving his name and surname and suddenly jumped to Xu Mao Gong.
"Xu Mao Gong of the Sui and Tang dynasties, his real name was Xu Shiji, the word Mao Gong, and then because of his outstanding merits, he was given the state surname Li by Li Shimin his father Li Yuan, and from then on his name was changed to Li Shiji."
"Later, when Li Shimin became emperor, he removed the middle word Shi from his name to avoid Li Shimin's name, and his name became Li Ji in the history books!"
Gao Yao's head was about to explode as he listened, "No, what exactly are you trying to say with all this talk?"
The corners of Li Linfei's mouth curled up in a strange curve as he looked at him, "I am saying all this to tell you that the one who is called Zhao Gao now may not still be called Zhao Gao in the future, and the Zhao Gao you are looking for may not be called Zhao Gao now. Given what the history books say about Zhao Gao's future power over the court and his being a eunuch, it is likely that he was given his name by the favour of Qin Shi Huang at a later stage."
"If I remember correctly, old brother, your ancestral home is Handan, which according to today is the former land of Zhao that has just been destroyed not long ago, if one day you are climbing up the ladder a bit, you may not necessarily not be given a surname, and at that time, the possibility of you being given the surname Zhao is very high, by then you may have such three names, Zhao Gao to, Zhao to, as well as ......" Gao Yao sniffed and stared incredulously!
"Gao Yao, the chief eunuch of the House of Internal Affairs, is devoted to his duties and has won my heart, and is immediately promoted to the order of the Central Chariot Office! Because of his ancestral origin in Handan ......"
A few days later, because the original Commander of the Central Chariot was too eager and had eaten half of the thousand-year-old ginseng offered by Zhao Gao, the magistrate of Shaanxi County, he died of deficiency.
The moment the decree came down, Gao was stunned! Did I really become the Commander of the Central Chariot? I was really given the surname Zhao, and I was really given the surname Zhao because of my ancestral origin in Handan?
Am I really Zhao Gao? The Zhao Gao who was a eunuch but had power over the court? So it's true that Li Linfei was right, I've really become Zhao Gao!
So what I've been looking for is me? The three modern-day brothers were in a frenzy,...... no, Zhao Gao instantly fell into boundless ecstasy, directly pulling Yi Xiaochuan to trot to find Li Linfei, and then, including Xiao Yue, did not shout at anyone, personally cooked a large table of dishes.
The three modern-day brothers found a place and celebrated with great gusto! Although he was probably the only one who was genuinely celebrating, perhaps.
"Old Gao, you've just recovered from a serious illness, so it's better to eat less greasy things, not to mention drinking!"
Chapter 706
Looking at Zhao Gao, who was so excited that he could not contain himself, Yi Xiaochuan was lacking in interest, and in the end was even ready to persuade him not to have this celebration not that he had to be so fatalistic, but that he really could not be happy.
"You don't know, this illness of mine came down from heaven, but this medicine has now come down from heaven too! Now that I am completely cured, of course I should drink and eat meat! Not only do I want to drink and eat meat, I want to celebrate with a big mouthful of meat and a big bowl of wine!"
"That's right, today does deserve a celebration! Come on old brother, let me toast you first, let's not get drunk today!" Zhao Gao smiled and clinked his glass with Li Linfei.
"Older brother would also like to thank you for your kind words, I didn't expect you to be right, I really have been given the surname Zhao Gao, so it's me I've been looking for! Come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come.
What Zhao Gao didn't expect was that he was happy to celebrate and Li Linfei was genuinely congratulating him, but Yi Xiaochuan didn't want to celebrate, congratulate or even come here to drink!
At first he was able to restrain himself, but after three rounds of drinking and five tastes of food, he couldn't suppress his true thoughts as the alcohol got the better of him, and finally he pushed Zhao Gao to the ground.
"I don't want to fucking drink! I don't even want to drink today you know?"
"You're happy that you've become Zhao Gao today, aren't you? I'm not happy!" Zhao Gao, who had been pushed to the ground by Yi Xiaochuan, was baffled, he didn't understand what was going on, let alone what kind of madness Yi Xiaochuan was going through.
But before he could get angry, Yi Xiaochuan suddenly fucking roared.
"Do you still remember that you are Gao Lan's brother? We both came to the Great Qin together and made a bunch of fallen brothers and wanderers! We thought that one day we could return to modern times, but you forgot! You've forgotten everything!"
The more he talked, the more he shouted, the more he couldn't control himself, and Yi Xiaochuan finally came over and grabbed Zhao Gao's arms and shook them violently.
"What do you think about every day now? You're thinking every day that I'm going to take power over the world! You're always thinking that I'm going to climb up the ladder one step at a time!"
While Yi Xiaochuan was getting more and more agitated, Zhao Gao was getting more and more sober, his drunkenness receding fast as Yi Xiaochuan's ranting, his eyes looking incredulously at Yi Xiaochuan who was shouting there like a madman.
"I'm scared! I'm scared, so scared that one day my friend will turn into that Zhao Gao!"
Finished? Looking at Yi Xiaochuan who had stopped his madness and no longer continued his rant, Zhao Gao gritted his teeth and gave him a thumbs up with his eyes red.
"You're amazing! You're noble! You can scold me now?"
"What's wrong with me scolding you?"
What's wrong with scolding me?
Zhao Gao immediately felt a sweetness in his throat, something came up, he knew what it was, but he couldn't let it spurt out, at least he couldn't spurt it out in front of Yi Xiaochuan at this time!
Even though he was not a man anymore, he would never admit defeat and bow down! Especially to Yi Xiaochuan, this damned holy mother of a bitch!
"You're so good! You're amazing!" Zhao Gao forced himself to swallow that mouthful of blood back into his stomach.
"You brought me here, have you ever fucking thought of taking me back!?"
Did Zhao Gao not know about what happened before? Wasn't there any hard feelings in his heart? How could there be! Just before he could put it in his stomach not to say, he could tell himself that these are all accidents, none of them are intended by Yi Xiaochuan, all of them have nothing to do with Yi Xiaochuan, all ...... are damned their own fate! So he's going to climb, he's going to climb up one step at a time, climb up to the place where this won't happen again!
But now, he couldn't fucking hold back any longer, couldn't cheat himself any longer!
"Go back! I'm telling you, I don't fucking want to go back now!"
Zhao Gao's tears flowed uncontrollably from his red eyes, remembering all that heartache, he simply couldn't bear it, it was some nightmare that no one could ever accept!
"Do you know what kind of suffering I've endured this side? Do you know what kind of suffering I've had to endure? Do you have any fucking idea how they bullied me, how they abused me? Do you have any idea?
"Spit! Zhao Gao twisted his head and spat a large mouthful of red, bloody spit on the ground.
"Just because I have no power or authority, I am bullied! I ...... I'm crippled! I'm a fucking invalid!"
Yi Xiaochuan only remembered at this time that he was living a good life, but Zhao Gao, that friend of his, Gao, in front of him, was going to be.
"You're fucking amazing! Everyone loves you! But what about me? Who the hell did I piss off? I was brought into the Qin dynasty by you, and I was made a eunuch because of your feud with Liu Bang! I'm a fucking eunuch now! A eunuch!"
With that, Zhao Gao could not stand it any longer and threw a fierce punch at Yi Xiaochuan's face, "Have you ever fucking thought about this? Yes! Even if you didn't fucking think about it before, couldn't think of it, or even if you didn't fucking know! What about before when Lin Fei caught Liu Bang? Did you fucking know? Did you fucking think about it at that time?"
Those words of Li Linfei at the entrance of the Hall of Lifting Sages at that time were not only about the new definition of a manly man being widely circulated, but also those words of him holding Liu Bang in one hand and pointing at Yi Xiaochuan's nose with the other at the entrance of the Hall of Lifting Sages at that time, and even those words of him exposing Liu Bang's true face, were also circulated.
As one of the parties involved, Zhao Gao, who was already the Chief Steward of the House of Internal Affairs at that time, naturally could not have missed it, nor could he have been unable to get the most detailed account of what happened and what was said.
But he could persuade himself that those were all accidents, not intended by Yi Xiaochuan, which Yi Xiaochuan also did not know and did not expect ...... but could Yi Xiaochuan also fucking pretend that none of this had happened?
"You're fucking noble! You're great! You are now a fucking general, you fucking have so many people who love you and like you, you fucking have girls here who like you, brothers who have died for you, you fucking have everything you want!"
"What about me? Have you ever fucking thought about what I've become because of you? I'm a fucking eunuch! I don't have a fucking thing! If I don't fucking move up, do I have to let people bully and hurt me again?"
With those words Zhao Gao twisted his head to look at the high steps to the side, lifted the hem of his shirt and rushed forward.