Everlasting prosperity

In the midwinter of the year when Emperor Wanli passed away, in the palace of Taiyuan Palace in Jiu'an City, Jiuzhao Kingdom——

I saw officials from the Ministry of Rites went to the Temple of Heaven, Xiannongtan, and Taimiao to inform the ancestors.

At that time, King Zongzhengjin of Jiuzhao, wearing a yellow uniform, climbed the tower of Taiyuan Gate.

The officials who had been waiting in front of the palace for a long time were all dressed in court clothes. Under the guidance of the officials of "Honglu Temple", they entered Taiyuan City through the Jinshui Bridge.At this time, Zong Zhengjin was praying on the Taiyuan Gate, and the ministers stayed in the square outside the Meridian Gate.They knelt on both sides of the Yudao in the way of "Wendong Wuxi", and came down from the "Fengtianmen" after Zong Zhengjin communicated with all the gods.

After Zong Zhengjin came down from the tower of Taiyuan Gate, he entered the "Fengtian Hall" and took a seat.Only then did the ministers file in according to their official ranks to congratulate the new emperor.Then, the official eunuch officially read the imperial edict to confirm the identity of the new emperor.

During the dinner, Zong Zhengjin entertained princes, nobles, envoys, courtiers and others in Taiyuan Palace.

According to the etiquette of Yongqing, the guests left and right.When the wine is full and purpose, raise a glass and drink.The bells and drums are all in place, and the musicians are all ready to play.Dancers in bright and colorful dresses gracefully and slowly leap into the center of the palace, entering their positions.

"Boom—boom—boom—"

The sheng and drums are danced, and the music is played together.The dancing girl waved her jade arms, turned her graceful body, and her bright and soft eyes were hidden behind the silk scarf, which was very attractive.The sound of silk and bamboo lingers around the beam, circling around the ears again and again, and the beating of the drums stirs the hearts of the people.

The servant lowered his head and poured wine for Emperor Jiuzhao in a humble manner. Before the wine reached the edge of the cup, Emperor Jiuzhao Zong Zhengjin picked it up directly and drank it down.

The sound of the drums gradually picked up, one after another, the pace of the dancers became faster and faster, the atmosphere at the banquet became inexplicably tense, and suddenly the dancers let go of their long sleeves, the sound of the drums became peaceful and mocking again, and the sound of silk and bamboo changed to Become melodious sonorous.

All the people at the table breathed a sigh of relief, deeply impressed by the music and dance that turned into a succession.

The guests raised their glasses again, relieving the tension just brought about by the dancer and the music.

At this time, Zong Zhengjin who was sitting in the seat suddenly felt extremely dizzy, extremely nauseated in his throat, and wanted to vomit.

At this moment, the servant who had been lowering his head at the side realized that Zong Zhengjin's whole body defense had suddenly dropped, quietly retracted his hands into his sleeves, and suddenly pierced the dagger through Zong Zhengjin's head and neck.Blood poured down below, splattering the servant's face.

His eyes stared at the servant in disbelief, but the latter showed no fear at all, and his eyes were very indifferent.

dead man.

"Come on! Assassins—assassins!"

I saw a minister knocking over the dishes on the table in panic while shouting in horror.

For a moment, the banquet hall was in chaos, the ministers shouted and retreated, some fled to the gate in panic, some shouted to the guards, and some got under the banquet table, trembling, shouting "don't Kill me don't kill me".

Zong Zhengyuan, who was sitting on the right side of Zong Zhengjin, heard someone calling assassin, and suddenly rushed to the upper seat. He saw his father with his neck crooked, already out of breath.Looking at the assassin who was staring at him blankly, the anger in his heart instantly rushed from the bottom of his heart to the top of his head, his eyes were red, and he rushed forward with his bare hands.

I saw the assassin holding a dagger in his hand, stepping on the banquet table with one foot, and rushing down the banquet table.He was Jiu Ye, the number one dead man by the emperor's side. Since the emperor passed away and King Jiuzhao was ambitious to establish the country and proclaim himself emperor, he made up his mind to get rid of this traitor.

The dead man exists because the master is still alive. If the master is gone, the dead man is no longer needed.

But when he appeared in front of Dijun for the first time, Dijun waived this item, saying that if one day he died suddenly, he would release all the dead and let them return to their hometown.

But how did the emperor know that he, the number one dead man, has no home.

These two people stood in the middle of the banquet hall with red eyes because of the little resentment in their hearts. One was thinking about how to get rid of this thief's son, and the other was thinking about how to kill this father-killing enemy.

"what--"

The Taiyuan Palace of Jiuzhao Palace was in chaos, shouting constantly.

No one would have thought that the celebration banquet for the founding of the country and proclaiming the emperor would end with an assassin killing the new emperor.

Zongzhengyuan fought against Jiuye, and it was thankless. He was a 16-year-old boy, and he had not received the death-like training like Jiuye, so he was naturally no match for him.But the anger in his heart finally made him dazed, and he attacked someone who couldn't beat him at all.

"Come on! Kill me!" Zongzheng Yuan suddenly shouted.

Ever since, the guards and generals who had been standing by the side rushed forward, wanting to kill the culprit one after another.

But after all, he was the number one dead man by Dijun's side during his lifetime, how could he be trapped by such people and cannot move?

Zongzhengyuan watched the group of people waiting for a long time unable to kill the assassin, but the annoyance in his heart was subdued a lot because of the previous impulse. He calmed down, looked at the assassin's skills carefully, and couldn't help frowning and thinking for a while.

"Listen well, I want you to capture him alive at all costs."

"Prince! Why don't you kill him on the spot!" A general suddenly asked.

"I will keep this person for use." Zongzheng Yuan squinted his eyes and replied.

Hearing such an answer, the general thought that the prince was trying to get something out of the assassin's mouth, so he ordered the guards to take out the chain, put on a posture, and catch the assassin in the posture of hunting a beast.

Seeing the heavy chains around him, Jiuye knew Zongzhengyuan's intentions, he sneered, determined to bite his tongue and kill himself.

Zong Zhengyuan, who noticed a slight change in Jiuye's mouth, realized something was wrong, rushed forward, stretched out his hand to pinch his chin, and violently dislocated his chin.

Jiu Ye, who felt a sharp pain in his chin, endured the pain and did not utter a cry. His body was sweating coldly, and he stared angrily at Zong Zhengyuan in front of him.

"Hmph, he's a man." Zongzheng Yuan looked at Jiu Ye, who was clearly in pain and was still enduring it, and the urge to rage in his heart became stronger.

Seeing that his prince subdued the assassin suddenly, a group of guards rushed forward, Zong Zhengyuan put down his hands and let the guards catch him.

But taking advantage of this gap, Jiuye suddenly exerted strength, grabbed the sword of a guard who was closest to him, and slashed towards his neck.

Seeing this move, Zongzhengyuan suddenly kicked off the sword in his hand, but Jiu Ye, who had learned the lesson, raised the sword faster and slashed at himself.Although his feet were quite strong, there was still a blood mark on Jiuye's neck.

Enraged by this action, Zongzhengyuan grabbed Jiuye's wrist and viciously folded it in the same direction, breaking the hand that just held the sword.

Even so, Jiuye still didn't utter a yell, but just stared at Zongzhengyuan even more angrily, and there seemed to be anger in his eyes, and he wanted to tear the person in front of him into pieces.

"Drag it on, show it to me."

In the midwinter of the year when Emperor Wanli passed away, the new emperor of Jiuzhao Kingdom was assassinated and killed. The courtiers named his son Zongzhengyuan as the emperor, and he was mourned later.

In the midwinter season, Beili Kingdom is being covered by heavy snow, and it looks like it is covered in silver, which is not very beautiful.

Right here in this magnificent place, a group of men in black are ambushing at the junction of Bainiao Mountain and Fengming Mountain, waiting for a "dying person".

He was heading to Rongchizi in Gao'an, carefully observing his surroundings. He had encountered quite a few ambushes along the way, and he was getting more and more anxious as he was about to leave Bainiao Mountain.

It is said that it was born in a hundred birds and died in Fengming, and it is about these two mountains.The topography of Bainiao Mountain was first recorded by the predecessors, which made the world go back and forth, but this Fengming Mountain, because the mountain has many changes, so no one has ever been able to come out of it alive. , Naturally, no one knows how to get there.

Now, he has no choice but to venture into Fengming Mountain, only in this way can he get rid of the constant pursuit behind him.

The snow-covered Fengming Mountain was in a daze, and Rong Chizi suddenly felt the silence around him, which was an abnormal silence.He slowed down, vigilantly paying attention to the changes around him, observing the wind and grass.

"Whoosh-"

A cold arrow flew towards him suddenly.

Rong Chizi quickly turned sideways.

At this moment, all the men in black who had been ambushing appeared and rushed towards Rong Chizi one after another.

Realizing that the situation was getting worse, he drew out the sword by his side and stabbed at them, while slowly moving towards Fengming Mountain.

The people in black realized that Rong Chizi was deliberately leading them into Fengming Mountain, and they secretly thought badly.If he enters Fengming Mountain, not to mention whether he can get rid of the person in front of him, but whether he can get out alive is also a problem.Thinking so, they glanced at each other and must make a quick decision.

Seeing the eye contact between them, Rong Chizi became more and more anxious, but the more he was like this, the more he told himself that he must calm down and find a way to break out of the siege and enter Fengming Mountain.

At this time, Xiao Yizhi in the mountains thought that the snowing season would be a good time to catch wild wolves, so he took a spear and a net bag and ran all the way while observing the traces of wild wolves on the road.

Not long after, a big wild wolf was found in the bushes, presumably it was a guy who came out to look for food alone.

Xiao Yizhi tiptoed and hid beside the wolf, stopping to hold his breath every time he took a step, holding the spear tightly in his hand, and never took his eyes off the wolf.

"Whoosh-"

Suddenly, Xiao Yizhi threw a spear and shot the wolf's hind leg, then rushed up quickly, pulled out the spear and patched the wolf's neck again.After the wild wolf stopped twitching completely, he tied the wolf with a net bag, carried it on his shoulders, and prepared to leave.

After walking a few steps, he saw a person lying in front of him.

Suddenly thinking of Ji Anjun, whom he had rescued back home a few years ago, his heart beat inexplicably fast.But thinking of his mother's special care, he shook his head and laughed at himself.

"It's better to mind your own business."

Thinking this way, Xiao Yizhi carried the wolf on his shoulders and walked straight past the person lying in the snow.

And this person was Rong Chizi from before. He fled all the way, but he didn't know that the fog in Fengming Mountain was so thick that he couldn't see the road ahead, so he stepped into the air and rolled into the mountains. He saw Rong Chizi rolling down the mountain and disappeared. People waited, naturally gave up tracking and turned back.

"I'm back—" Xiao Yuzhi walked out of the kitchen, walked to the table, poured a cup of hot water and handed it to Xiao Yizhi.

Xiao Yizhi put down the wild wolf on his shoulders, took the water glass with both hands, took a sip, and asked, "Where's uncle?"

"He saw you gone for so long and didn't come back, so he went to look for you. If he can't find you, he will come back." Xiao Yuzhi replied.

"oh, I see."

Looking for him?Will that meet the one who looks dead?

Things really went as he expected, Wei Qi carried the person he met in the mountain and went home.

"Xiao Yizhi, I didn't teach you to wait until death." Wei Qi said seriously while waving a cane whip in his hand.

Xiao Yizhi knelt in front of the courtyard as he did many years ago, holding a spear in his hand, without saying a word.

"Kneel for another hour."

"Yes."

Rong Chizi didn't expect that there would be people living in Fengming Mountain. He looked at the stern-faced middle-aged man in front of him, and felt a little nervous and unreasonably afraid.

"I'll send you out of the mountain tomorrow, let's rest earlier." Wei Qi looked at the young boy and said.

When rescuing him, Wei Qi realized that this person's identity was not simple.Rolling down from the junction of Bainiao and Fengming, Xu was the one who was hunted down. Over the years, he has seen many such people, but most of them were sent out of Fengming that day, or killed directly.

But when he found Xiao Yi when he was following Xiao Yi, and it was evening, he wanted to teach him a lesson so that he would not become a ruthless and unrighteous person in the future. People picked it up.

When Rong Chizi heard this, his heart suddenly relaxed.

never mind.

He thought so.