Emperor Nagasawa [Rebirth]

The winter solstice is finally here.

There was no snow falling on this day, and even the long-lost sunshine appeared, as if the heavens were looking forward to Jiang Guo's sacrifice.

Jiang Ze was dressed in the crown suit and stood tall on the round mound outside the capital.Standing under the altar, Jiang Su slightly raised his head and looked up. For a moment, he felt that under the blue sky and broad daylight, his child's graceful figure and handsome back were indescribably beautiful.

He curled the corner of his mouth slightly, as if smiling in relief.

There are many ceremonies for offering sacrifices to the sky. After Jiang Ze read out the long sacrificial oration, the ritual and music trended, and finally came to the stage of burning the sacrifices.

More than a dozen attendants used iron pans to move the pile of firewood that had been prepared, and placed it at the southeast corner of the altar.Jiang Ze held the torch and approached the firewood pile nearly one person tall.

But his movements suddenly stopped.

He suddenly turned backwards!

The sharp arrow slid across his forehead in an unstoppable manner with the sound of breaking the wind. Before he could straighten up, there was a "bang" sound from the firewood pile, and someone jumped out of it, sword from top to bottom. His chest stabbed.

Jiang Ze resolutely countered with a torch.There was only a sound of "chi", the sharp sword had pierced through the wooden handle of the torch, and continued to come towards his chest!Instead of retreating, Jiang Ze advanced, and suddenly pushed the wooden hilt onto the hilt of the dagger, barely getting caught in the dagger's downward thrust.

When he straightened up, he threw the split torch towards the assassin, and the assassin swung it away with a sword.But perhaps because of the diesel oil, a small area of ​​his clothes burned.He ignored this imperceptible change, and stabbed out with his sword again.

He met a pair of familiar and unfamiliar cold eyes, his eyes suddenly froze, and his aura suddenly changed.

He dodged sideways at an unimaginable speed, tightly grasped the assassin's right hand that was stabbing with the sword, and the other hand tightly grasped the assassin's neck like lightning.In the next moment, there was only a click, and the assassin froze. Jiang Ze took advantage of the situation and broke his arm, and stabbed the dagger into his chest with his backhand, piercing his heart fiercely.

A bloody sword flew out from the assassin's chest, his eyes were cracked, and he finally fell limp to the ground!

From the appearance of the assassin to Jiang Ze's counterattack, the whole process was only a blink of an eye.Soon, most of the civil servants only had time to scream "there is an assassin" and "protect Your Majesty" one after another, and the military officers and court lieutenants only had time to rush to the altar, and the assassination had quietly ended.

The fastest mover was naturally Jiang Su.

Among all the people, he was the closest to Jiang Ze, so when the assassin died, he had already stood by Jiang Ze's side.He didn't go to see the assassin, but held Jiang Ze's wrist tremblingly, and checked him up and down.It was not until it was confirmed that he was not injured at all that he put the heart that almost popped out of his throat back in place.

Then he set his sights on the assassin's body.

The Ting Wei who had rushed here tore off his face scarf, revealing a very ordinary face under the mask.

Jiang Ze had already recognized him.

This assassin was called Nie Xing, who was originally a butcher.In the previous life, Ji Ming wanted to assassinate Prince Yu, but he did not know how to find this assassin who was hidden among the people.Soon after, in order to win people's hearts, Prince Yu personally visited his seriously ill subordinate.Passing through a secluded place, I saw an old man being insulted and scolded by several men. I couldn't bear to help the old man up personally, but I never wanted to be pierced through the chest by a sword and die in hell.

The attendants by his side didn't react until Prince Yu passed away, but Nie Xing had escaped successfully at that time, and even in the next two years, no one in Sui Kingdom was able to arrest him.

Killing a person in ten steps, not staying behind for a thousand miles, is talking about such a person.

Nie Xing disappeared for a long time.When he reappeared, he was ordered by Chu Emperor Mi Jin to assassinate Jiang Ze who had captured Suiguo.

At that time, Jiang Ze had just buried Zhang Yihou. He heard that someone picked up a relic that seemed to belong to Jiang Su in the mountain. He wanted to meet this person soon after, and then there was an assassination.

It's a pity that Jiang Ze didn't die.

Just like today, Jiang Ze crushed Nie Xing's throat, and stabbed the short sword in his hand into his chest.Then he ordered people to hang his body on the city wall and expose it to the sun for three days and three nights, as a warning to others.

He hated Nie Xing no less than Ji Ming.

Because he has been wondering whether Jiang Su was also killed by Nie Xing.

According to the memories of Zhang Yi in the past, Jiang Su led the army to repel Ji Ming and won a complete victory, but he also felt regretful because he realized the bloody and cruelty of the war.He decided to give up the rebellion, and went back to the court to meet Jiang Ze and plead guilty.So he gave half of the soldier talisman to the generals under his command, so that no one could mobilize the army to resist when Ji Ming came to attack, so he only brought more than ten loyal subordinates and hurried on the road.

Several people traveled through mountains and rivers, and rested in the Orion's House in the mountains under extreme fatigue.That night, they ate the dry food they carried with them and drank the water brought by the hunters, and they all found that their minds were blurred and their vision was dizzy.Jiang Su knew he had been tricked, so he fled in a hurry, and was finally surrounded by several people on the steep wall.Later, Jiang Su died, and Zhang Yi rolled down the cliff with Jiang Su's last words, lingering for seven years and finally completed the task.

A full 21 years.

Over the past 21 years, he often thinks of Zhang Yi's memories, trying to figure out the scene at that time.Even later, he personally walked the section of the road that Jiang Su had walked, found the wooden house where they rested, and simulated all the situations they encountered at that time as if they were on the scene.

Because of this past incident, there are too many doubts.

First of all, why Jiang Su rushed back early instead of pleading guilty when he returned with the army's victory; second, even if he came back to plead guilty, why was he in such a hurry, and even drove for several days before staying at the farmhouse in the mountains because he was exhausted; Three, half of the tiger charms on Jiang Su's body disappeared, and they never appeared again; fourth, whether Nie Xing pretended to be the Orion at that time, and who led those who killed Jiang Su?

These past events have been buried in the blood and piled corpses of countless people. Even if he lives again, because everything has changed, the truth may never come out again.

Jiang Ze slowly came back to his senses.

He reached out and took Jiang Su's hand.

He held it so tightly that he even trembled a little.When Jiang Su was hesitating whether to embrace him in his arms to comfort him, he relaxed his grip, interlocked his fingers with his wide sleeves, and joined his palms together.

Jiang Su was naturally stunned.

Perhaps because he shot and killed Nie Xing without any concealment, Jiang Ze's aura had reached its peak at this moment.The surrounding civil servants had already gathered around, and the three men asked about Jiang Ze's safety and follow-up matters, and the surroundings were full of noise.Jiang Ze no longer restrained himself, and looked around quietly with his eyes.

His gaze was out of composure, and with just one glance, all the officials were quieted down.

The young man was already in the stage of changing his voice. He tried his best to make his voice clear and pleasant in front of Jiang Su, but now he no longer pretended to be anything, and said firmly in a deep voice that already has the charm of later generations: "Check."

The prince Yu of Sui Kingdom in his previous life died at this time.Nie Xing appeared here in this life, who ordered him to assassinate him?

Taichang shook his body, and asked Jiang Ze cautiously in a trembling voice: "...then, this sacrifice to heaven...is your Majesty..."

"continue."

Although the sacrifice to heaven was able to continue, everyone's state of mind was completely opposite. They were afraid that another assassin would appear and kill Jiang Ze.Therefore, even if Jiang Ze held Jiang Su's hand the whole time, stood side by side with him on the altar to preside over the grand ceremony, and canceled the "Cloud Gate" dance with the dance team, Taichang only made a weak protest. , and quietly shut up under the cold gaze of the emperor.

Everyone noticed that Jiang Ze seemed to be different.

——At least compared to the performance of the court, the ferocity has increased by more than a little.

The firewood pile was scattered all over the altar, and the attendants carefully carried the spare firewood.Jiang Ze took the torch, ordered someone to take another one, and lit it together with Jiang Su for sacrifice.

This is what Jiang Su thought about doing before.

But standing in this position and doing this action, Jiang Su felt mixed feelings for a moment.

He remembered Jiang Ze once said to him "I will return the throne to my brother", and sneered.Because in fact, this sentence was tantamount to irony for him at the time.

Between the two of them, even though he doted on Jiang Ze countless times and accommodated Jiang Ze countless times, he had dominated since childhood.He asked Jiang Ze to study, and Jiang Ze accompanied him to study; he asked Jiang Ze to practice martial arts, and Jiang Ze accompanied him to practice martial arts; he asked Jiang Ze to be sensible and obedient, and Jiang Ze listened to him very much...

No matter what he asked Jiang Ze to do, Jiang Ze always agreed with a smile.So over time, he took everything for granted.Jiang Ze belonged to him of course, even if he would grow up, marry a wife and have children.

But Jiang Ze didn't grow up.

He has become the emperor of a country.

Jiang Su could hardly bear the sudden change of status between them.This sense of powerlessness without the power to control anything had happened once when his mother died, and again when he lost the throne, and he didn't want to experience it a third time.

So he chose to rebel.

But Jiang Ze is different from him.

He was so stubborn that he thought that he should return everything to his brother, so he really put down his edge, ignored the government, and let the officials admonish him or sigh behind his back, acting like a mediocre person.He entrusted himself to do everything that could be remembered through the ages, and when all the officials believed that he could abdicate for the virtuous, he took advantage of the opportunity to return the throne to himself.

It wasn't until he was threatened with death again that he showed his own majesty.

How frightening, what an awe-inspiring aura!

He... is ashamed of himself.

The author has something to say: I thought I would write about my younger brother dancing in public, Ni Meng is still too naive =w=

By the way, I really like to write about their previous lives. One suddenly awakened and died in his prime, and the other was crazy for many years until he was old and only had lovesickness left. What a feeling.