Heaven is fearless

The charcoal was burning in the brazier until it was beeping. Chu Zhang hung his head and said nothing, waiting for the scolding from the person above him.

After waiting for an unknown amount of time, a burst of short laughter suddenly sounded from the tent.

Chu Zhang was stunned for a long time before he realized who was smiling, and looked up blankly, and saw the magnificent and charming prince leaning on the table, staring at him with a smile, his eyes full of tears. overflowing smile.

"Your Highness...?" Chu Zhang murmured.

Shao Tianheng folded his hands in the cloak and looked at him with a smile: "Why, in just a few months, you don't even recognize Gu? You still have to stand there thinking for so long?"

His words really exceeded Chu Zhang's imagination. The handsome and upright young man was stunned for a while, then realized belatedly, as if... the prince didn't mean to blame him?

But...but how is this possible?

That's His Royal Highness the Crown Prince who is dedicated to the Great Wei Jiangshan.

He refuted his unreasonable delusion in his heart, but he heard the man ask lazily: "How does it feel to command an army of [-]? Is it enjoyable this time? Playing chess with you alone, you always pretend to be harmless." Look, don’t you know your little thoughts? A wolf cub pretending to be a sheep is really good.”

There was a smile in Shao Tianheng's tone, and there was no hint of anger at all. Chu Zhang looked at him stupidly, his voice trembling: "Your Highness...you don't...no..."

"Nothing?" Shao Tianheng looked at him with a half-smile, "Do you have to be scolded to be happy? What's wrong with you studying outside?"

Chu Zhang suddenly raised his hand, rubbed his elbow on his eyes twice, and when he lowered his arm, he could see a deep mark on his sleeve.

Shao Tianheng pretended not to see it, pressed his body on the chair, relieved a little of the heavy pain, and said in a soft voice: "It's nothing. In the generation of the father, the glory of the Shao family dynasty should have ended long ago. It was a little later." It doesn't matter if it's earlier, do you really want to sit in that seat when you're alone, lonely, lonely..."

His last voice was inaudible. What he said was the truth. The rule of the Great Wei should have ended in the generation of Emperor Wei. After that, there will be a world of great wars. There will be endless wars, natural disasters and man-made disasters. If it is not for the incarnation of heaven , As early as a few years ago, the king's flag of the Great Wei had been submerged in the dust of war.

Chu Zhang didn't understand what he meant, he just thought it was his treason that made His Highness embarrassed, strode forward, his voice was still trembling: "Your Highness... Your Highness, am I causing you trouble, kill me, I've been prepared for a long time, if you kill me, you will have the great merit of being rehabilitated, and you have a hundred thousand soldiers in your hands, no one can do anything to you..."

Shao Tianheng looked at him with calm eyes.

In this silent and gentle look, Chu Zhang felt his tears flow down again, and he cried and repeated: "Your Highness...you kill me."

Shao Tianheng looked at him for a while, then took out his handkerchief to wipe away the tears on his face, his tone was extremely gentle, not at all like the usual high-ranking prince: "You said you are ready, so why are you crying?"

Chu Zhang clenched his fists and his body trembled: "I...I'm not afraid of death...I..."

——I am just afraid that I will never see you again after I die.

He didn't dare to say such words, just hung his head and sobbed.

"Well, I have never wiped tears for a woman in my whole life, but I wiped them twice for you." Shao Tianheng shook his head and laughed, instead of answering Chuzhang's request, he changed the subject naturally, "Speaking of which, you have been crying since the beginning. Since arriving in the East Palace, I have said that I want to dance for Gu, and it has been delayed until now, Gu sees that today is a good day, why don't I dance for Gu?"

What he said was frivolous and bright, a little out of character, but no one cared about it.

Chu Zhang only thought that the prince had made up his own mind, wiped off the water on his face indiscriminately, showed a smile, and nodded vigorously.

This is probably the most wonderful dance in the world. It took place in the midst of the collapse of the country and the thousands of troops. The glorious capital is close to the gates, and there are only silent rotations and pauses in this world.

Chu Zhang ordered people to send him clothes that were similar in color to vermilion. This color is gorgeous and enchanting for women, but it is also magnificent for men. The sleeves hang down to the knees, and the cuffs press heavy ear patterns.

The dance in southern Xinjiang is dignified and heavy, mixed with light lifting of sleeves and stomping feet, forming a wonderful posture like a puppet. Chu Zhang wears a snow-white mask on his face, with a few simple strokes drawn on it , showing a pair of long and narrow smiling eyes and bright red lips, at first glance there is a sense of inhuman horror, but also a god-like detachment.

The big face dance evolved from the Wuzhu culture is the most unique dance in southern Xinjiang. During the big sleeve hunting, Chu Zhang raised his head and bowed his waist, and the ghosts in the mountains and forests of southern Xinjiang seemed to have human appearance in an instant. She wandered and played in the boundless mountains, smiled at the prince and grandson who strayed into the forest, and jumped over the gurgling stream and the rippling moonlight on a spirit deer.

She has a sweetheart, what does that sweetheart look like.

Noble birth, handsome appearance, bright soul.

"If someone likes the mountain, wear a stalk and bring a female dill."

The Prince of Wei curled up his fingers, tapped the table with his fingertips to beat the beat, and sang in a low voice to accompany him.

"Mountain Ghost" in southern Xinjiang is a weird and magnificent dance, which has the majesty and luxury of a goddess, and also has ghosts and ghosts in the mountains. The big-faced person with a snow-white smiling face stretches his fingers in front of him, and his sleeves hang down like clouds. Falling and tumbling.

"...The rest of the place is secluded, and the sky will never be seen, and the road is dangerous and difficult, so I come alone."

Shao Tianheng's voice slowly lowered, Chu Zhang twisted like a slack, his whole body twisted down, his flexible waist bent into a dangerous posture, and Shao Tianheng continued to sing softly: "... Qiang day is dark, the east wind is blowing and the gods are raining—cough cough cough cough..."

He stopped suddenly, covered his mouth with his sleeve and began to cough, coughing as if he was going to spit out all the internal organs in his body, Chu Zhang was startled, took off his mask and ran over in big strides: "Your Highness?!"

He had never heard of Shao Tianheng coughing like this. He reached out to help Shao Tianheng, but the other party avoided his hand, stopped for a while with his back to him, put the blood-stained handkerchief back into his sleeve, and then smiled and straightened up. Looking at him from the body: "Scared you? The wind and cold did not recover yesterday, and the cough was a bit severe."

Chu Zhang vaguely felt something was wrong, and wanted to say something, but someone raised the curtain before him.

The servant who accompanied Shao Tianheng bowed his waist and reminded in a low voice: "Your Highness, it's almost time. Your Majesty has already arrived on the tower."

Shao Tianheng sighed for a long time, but suddenly raised his hand, pulled off Chu Zhang's mask and put it on again, through a mask, he said softly to the young man in front of him who wanted to die for him: "Father's life is lonely!" Surrender, Gu told him to let you surrender at the gate of the capital, in front of the [-] troops, he couldn't bear to miss this great feat, so he came here in person."

What Shao Tianheng said was truncated, but in fact, the imperial physician said that he could only last for a maximum of three hours, so he took advantage of the situation and proposed to Emperor Wei to come to the tower to accept the surrender, and watch Chu Zhang kneel and surrender in front of the people all over the world.

No emperor would miss such a temptation, and Emperor Wei readily agreed.

Shao Tianheng saw Chu Zhang's eyes dim suddenly through the mask, but he didn't resist, and accepted Shao Tianheng's cruel arrangement meekly.

But Shao Tianheng didn't finish his sentence. He patted Chuzhang's head lightly, as if he was still the weak and timid young man who had just arrived in Wei, and comforted him softly: "Don't be afraid, you are alone, do whatever you want, be bold do it."

Chu Zhang was immersed in his emotions, completely unaware of the weirdness of this sentence, just stared at him, then nodded slowly, the teeth under the mask bit his lips firmly, and did not make a sound.

Shao Tianheng pulled his hands away and stood up with his wide sleeves hanging down. He looked like a jade mountain, with green clouds and pines. His tall and noble posture had not changed over the years, and he was as proud and calm as before.

The inner eunuch opened the curtain for him, Shao Tianheng walked very slowly, and stopped when he was about to go out, turning his head to look at Chu Zhang who was alone in the tent.

The young man wearing a mask and all in scarlet just looked at him silently, neither speaking nor moving.

Shao Tianheng looked at him and smiled slightly: "Don't cry, there are so many joys and sorrows in the world, and death and life are not a big deal, you..."

He thought for a while, at this moment he probably thought of a lot of things, all kinds of classics flipped through his mind, famous sayings of saints, family precepts, from how to bear the world to how to cultivate morality, but in the end , all he could say were the most clumsy and simple words.

"Yuan Hua, you... are fine."

This was the first time he called out the word he had chosen for Chu Zhang, and it was also the last time.

——I will pave a smooth path for you and give you a clean throne. I hope you will cherish it for the rest of your life.

The prince of Wei smiled at Chu Zhang again, and walked out of the small tent without looking back.

The law jumped to Tiandao's ear: "Is this going to end?"

Tiandao responded: "Yeah, I've had enough of this old emperor. Anyway, I'm going to die, and Emperor Wei can't even think about being comfortable. After all, I've raised Chuzhang for so long, so it's better to treat him as the emperor."

Law hesitantly said in a low voice: "Then...Chu Zhang doesn't care?"

Tiandao sighed: "What can I do, throw it to the ghost king to have a headache, I'm still worrying about the owner who doesn't know where..."

In the tent behind him, Chu Zhang stared blankly at the curtain that was still shaking slightly, his thoughts seemed to be frozen, the man left, and then... what was he going to do?

Chu Zhang picked up his sword belatedly, he wanted to fulfill His Highness's order, he was going to surrender, and he wanted to use his own death to pave the most solid way forward for His Highness.

However, he could not have imagined what would happen next.

He saw that there was someone else beside the man in the yellow robe on the tower, and the distance was a little far away, but he could tell from the crow-green cloak and plain white robe that it was His Royal Highness the Crown Prince who had just left. Talking on the tower, I don't know what to say, the officials who were crowded on the tower suddenly knelt down, and then the crown prince said something loudly, and then——

then--

Chu Zhang's pupils dilated suddenly, and he opened his mouth, as if he was about to roar, scream, or scream. He stumbled and ran forward crazily, wishing he could tear his body apart and reach the tower in a second.

But he could only watch the crow blue and plain white fall from the tower, and only had time to leave an afterimage in his eyeballs, and immediately became a broken butterfly under the tower.

- No, no no no no...

The officials on the city tower wailed in mourning, someone shouted "revenge for His Royal Highness" in his ear, and someone repeated the last sentence left by the prince over and over again, "If you are stupid and jealous, kill your parents and children with poison, you will lose your dignity." Dao, a country cannot be a country"...

All kinds of voices were intertwined in chaos, Chu Zhang just stood there as if he lost his soul, his eyes widened, and he felt that he was trapped in a bizarre nightmare, surrounded by ridiculous farce and upside-down world.

wake up...

If this is a dream, why can't he wake up? !

The general who was standing upright moved his legs, and in the next second he knelt down on the sharp sandstone. He didn't realize it, and he didn't want to stand up. He just looked at the vast whiteness, like a toddling child. , climbed over.

"Your Highness... Your Highness..."

Trembling, Chu Zhang touched Shao Tianheng's face in a pool of blood. That magnificent face was covered with blood, and his long eyelashes were quietly closed. The person sleeping on the dirty ground seemed to be sinking into an eternal dream. The long dream also imprisoned Chu Zhang at the bottom of this horrible dream forever.

"Your Highness... ah..."

He couldn't speak, his back was bent, like a stray dog ​​that had been stabbed severely, and he couldn't do anything except let out a desperate and helpless whine in his throat.

It hurts……

what hurts...

Why, it hurts so much...

He raised his face up, his dark and empty eyes were devoid of expression, there was foul-smelling sludge and blazing flames, which slowly tore the skin and poured out crazily from it.