On the winter solstice, all the people of Xichuan celebrate in the city. In the middle of winter, the guards on the mountain are not strict, even when the prince escapes.
Jiang Heng said, "We came early." He glanced at Jie Gui intentionally or unintentionally.
Jie Gui's purpose is obvious. The goal at the beginning of today was not to bring him to Zhongshan, but to take Jiang Heng away while Geng Shu summoned his subordinates to besiege Li Hong.
But he changed his mind on the way, and when he arrived at Zhongshan, it was not yet noon.
There is only one road on Zhongshan Mountain, and the top of the mountain is the ancestral temple of the Li family. Jiang Heng was thinking about how to find a safe place to hide, and when he was waiting for Geng Shu to come, he suddenly heard someone say, "Is it you?"
Jie Gui: "Not only did I come early, but I also ran into someone I shouldn't have run into. I made a mistake."
"Hide," Jiang Heng said, "right now, I can handle it."
The person who came was Li Hong. This time, Li Hong was followed by hundreds of people. They walked up the ladder and saw Jiang Heng at a glance.
Jiang Heng was too late to run, if he ignored Li Hong and escaped, the other party would definitely be suspicious.
Fortunately, he hadn't seen Jie Gui standing farther away. Jie Gui took advantage of the short moment to retreat and hide behind a pillar on the side of the ancestral temple.
Jiang Heng straightened his clothes, saluted Li Hong calmly, and said with a smile, "Your Majesty."
Li Hong climbed to the last level, stopped, looked down at him condescendingly, and said suspiciously, "Luo Heng? What are you doing here?"
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Jiang Heng said, "I will do whatever His Majesty Wang does."
Li Hong narrowed his eyes, pondered for a moment, and said, "Looking at your appearance, you were only sixteen or seventeen years old, the year Li Sheng died. I think you haven't remembered anything yet."
Jiang Heng replied, "Yes."
Li Hong didn't care about Jiang Heng, he walked past him, guards lined up everywhere, and guarded the open space in front of the ancestral temple.
"What relationship do you have with him?" Li Hong said solemnly.
Jiang Heng replied: "Even if you have never met, you have received the grace of your son."
Li Hong said coldly: "If you have the heart, just come in."
The guards have scattered to the ancestral temple to protect the place from outsiders. Jiang Heng saw that on the top of Zhongshan Mountain, there were only a thousand people brought by Li Hong, and King Wu of the Heart Dao really entrusted him.
As everyone knows, this is because Li Mi escaped, and Li Hong deliberately strengthened the guard. On weekdays, Li Hong went with a hundred guards and went wherever he wanted. As a myth, who would dare to attack him
Jiang Heng pretended to come to worship Young Master Sheng, and easily deceived Li Hong's trust. He followed him all the way into the ancestral temple, bypassed the garden, and turned to the open space behind the temple. Although Li Sheng came from a concubine, he was the illegitimate son of the previous generation king. According to the rules of the dynasty, he was not allowed to enter the ancestral temple after his death. He could only be buried in the deep path in the plum garden not far from the bell of the town.
Jiang Heng raised his eyes to look at the sky, thinking how to find a way to escape.
Li Hong, dressed in plain clothes, came to the tomb of his younger brother, lifted up the front of his robe, and knelt down.
"Win." Li Hong said solemnly.
Jiang Heng thought for a while, and knelt down not far behind Li Hong.
"Thirteen years." Li Hong took the wine from the guard and poured it in front of the tombstone. "Time flies so fast."
When Jiang Heng was four years old, Geng Yuan sang the world, and it was also the anniversary of the death of the five masters, Gongzi Sheng, Chongwen, Bi Jie, Chi Yanjing, and Changling Jun.
"After the beginning of spring," Li Hong knelt down and said, "Brother will send troops for you to attack Juicong."
Jiang Heng looked at the tombstone and pondered.
Li Hong said again: "When I take the juice and kill the dog, and then destroy the juice, the Yong Kingdom will return to the place where it should go like a fallen leaf. For this day, I have been waiting for thirteen years. . If you have a spirit in the sky, just protect your brother. My brother is also tired, this is the last thing I can do for you. "
"You always told me not to fight, not to fight." Li Hong murmured, "Now you have been dead for thirteen years, and the peach trees that you and I planted in the palace when we were young have grown to the size of Mi'er. It’s too high. After the spring, the peaches will bear, and I will bring them to taste with you.”
Li Hong's indifferent expression suddenly fluctuated, and his eyes became gentle.
"Mi'er, Xiao'er, Shuang'er, they've all grown up." Li Hong said again, "I followed your plan before I wanted to get married first and break Juicong's guard, but Mi'er took it seriously, you Are you saying this is ridiculous?"
Li Hong smiled bitterly again, nodded and said, "I thought he could do better than me when he sat in my position, but now it seems that it is difficult, that kid will forget this bloody feud sooner or later. You are right. Yes, it's time for me to abdicate, but I can't just walk away like this, brother | I'm thinking of you day and night, win."
Suddenly, Jiang Heng seemed to see Geng Shu who was separated from him back then.
"Day and night, I miss you." That was what Geng Shu said to him after meeting him. Li Hong's tone at this moment was exactly the same as when Geng Shu said that.
"Brother didn't protect you well," Li Hong choked again, "You won't blame me, will you?"
Li Hong's eyes were red, and after a while, he didn't say any more, perhaps because he was worried about Jiang Heng's presence.
"I also brought a little righteous man," Li Hong said. "A few months ago, he almost rushed to avenge you... Come, Luo Heng, come here."
Jiang Heng got up and walked over, and knelt down beside Li Hong again.
Li Hong said again: "I swear that I will cut him with a knife and cut him with a thousand knives. How can I fake my hand? However, Sheng, I don't blame him, he and you are also destined, Luo Heng, come, you... "
Li Hong was about to instruct Jiang Heng, but Jiang Heng had already bowed down and bowed three times to Young Master Sheng, thinking:
I'm sorry, Young Master Sheng, my father cheated on you, and now I want to cheat on your brother again, I'm so sorry.
When Li Hong saw Jiang Heng raised his eyes, there were also tears on his face, as if his true feelings were revealed, so he patted Jiang Heng's shoulder casually.
"Wait for the news from my brother," Li Hong said. "Next time, my brother will definitely bring Juicong's head."
With that said, Li Hong got up, turned around and left, no more nostalgia.
Jiang Heng said: "Your Majesty, since I have sacrificed, I will..."
"Just chat with me, Luo Heng!" Li Hong said, "Although the solitary king still doesn't know who you are, but thirteen years later, the person who is willing to take revenge for him at any cost will be the only one in this world. It's just you and me."
Jiang Heng's heart "crack", it's over. After a while, not only Li Hong will go mad, but Geng Shu will also go mad.
Inside the ancestral temple, monks prepared tea and snacks.
Li Hong looked at Jiang Heng, and his eyes always made Jiang Heng feel a little uncomfortable. From the first time we met, Li Hong had this attitude.
"Now, are you still reluctant to say it?" Li Hong said.
Jiang Heng knew that Li Hong had always wanted to know why he wanted to assassinate Juicong. Maybe King Wu believed that he had received the favor of Gongzisheng indirectly, or he had an undeniable feud with Beiyong.
Jiang Heng was about to start making up a story, but Li Hong said, "Forget it, it is fate to meet by chance, so I will save this story until the day Juicong dies."
Jiang Heng whispered, "Thank you, Your Majesty, for your understanding."
Li Hong bent his legs against his side, resting one hand on his lap and holding the tea bowl with the other, drinking tea carelessly.
"The parents are still at home? How many people are there?" Li Hong said, "It can be said after all."
Jiang Heng replied: "Both parents died, and there is an elder brother."
"Yeah." Li Hongxiang had already asked Rowan before, and replied, "Your brother is also here in Xichuan?"
Jiang Heng smiled, and Li Hong said, "The first time I saw you, King Gu knew that you were the son of an assassin."
Jiang Heng was startled, his palms sweated for a moment, and he forced a smile: "Wang He said this?"
Li Hong said: "The son of the assassin has always seen six roads and listened to all directions, but without him, because there are too many enemies in the world, he must always be on guard."
Jiang Heng took a deep breath, and Li Hong closed his eyes and glanced at the snow-covered Qingsong outside the court, but said casually: "But looking at your figure and physical strength, it is obvious that you have never killed anyone."
Jiang Heng said in his heart that Li Hong should not be underestimated, but he could see his details at a glance.
"Yes." Jiang Heng said, "The next generation... The younger generation is all martial arts, not taught by their parents. The teacher's family is heavy on Wen Tao, but light on martial arts, and only learned a little life-saving kung fu."
"In troubled times, life is like duckweed," Li Hong said. "It's not that easy to save one's life."
Jiang Heng squeezed his sweat and regained his desire to leave.
But Li Hong said again: "After being apart for many years, is Mr. Ghost alright now?"
Jiang Heng: "!!!"
Jiang Heng almost knocked over the tea bowl. After leaving Haige, Li Hong was the second person to know about Haige! In addition to Long Yu, Li Hong directly broke his teacher's inheritance!
"Your Majesty..." Jiang Heng swayed countless times between whether to lie or not after a brief moment of thought. Then, he decided not to hide any more, and replied, "Thank you for worrying, sir, he is very good. You... have seen Mr. ?"
Li Hong didn't even look at Jiang Heng, and said thoughtfully, "Ten years ago, I was in a hurry. Mr. Ghost still fulfilled his promise."
Speaking, Li Hong's eyes were quite meaningful, and he said to Jiang Heng: "My own son, you rescued me."
When Jiang Heng heard this, he knew that the plan was exposed.
"Your Majesty is joking." Jiang Heng had no point in fleeing now, but in his hands, in addition to Geng Shu, he still had a secret chess move.
"How do you know?" Jiang Heng suddenly seemed to have changed a person, no longer a submissive teenager, sitting in a full robe.
"That's right." Li Hong laughed, shook his head gently, and said, "Luo Heng, do you know how I guessed it?"
Jiang Heng began to think about the escape strategy and the situation that Geng Shu faced. Did Luo Wang betray them? Or Ji Shuang? Li Jin? No, it is impossible. Once the incident occurs, everyone will be implicated, and no one can be alone.
He bet that Li Hong's words contained temptation, and he didn't know the whole truth.
"Your master, Mr. Ghost, made an agreement with the solitary king a long time ago," Li Hong replied, "Just after Li Sheng was assassinated by Geng Yuan, the solitary king wanted to devote all his power to the country and went out to fight Juyong. , the day when Chao Ju Cong took his revenge."
Jiang Heng murmured: "He stopped you, but you guessed wrong. Your Majesty, Mr. Ghost is the head of my Haige, but not my master."
Li Hong replied: "Whatever it is, he did successfully persuade the Lone King at that time, and it was not the best time for a decisive victory. The Lone King also understands that he can wait and is willing to wait. When he was about to leave, he also said that in the future One day, when the melee between the five kingdoms in the world resumes, he will come to persuade him, but the person who persuades is not necessarily him, maybe his apprentice."
Li Hong made another "please" action and said: "You assassinated Juicong, presumably because of the order of the teacher, right?"
Jiang Heng breathed a sigh of relief when he heard the words. Although Mr. Ghost lived in Haige, he still worried about the land of Shenzhou, and Li Hong's guess only originated from the agreement between Li Dai and Mr. Ghost in the year when the son Sheng died.
"You tried to use assassination to stop this war, but you failed." Li Hong said, "It's a pity, so now you are in Daiguo and want to stop this war from another source. ."
Jiang Heng smiled and said, "Your Majesty's guess is not entirely correct, but it's almost there."
Li Hong said again: "But you can't assassinate the Lone King, you are definitely not the opponent of the Lone King."
Jiang Heng replied: "There are probably not many people in the world who can stab Your Majesty, and I am by no means one of them."
Li Hong murmured: "So, you rescued the prince, and let him plot, court, usurp, and take the throne in Xichuan City under Zhongshan Mountain on the day when the solitary king came to pay homage to Prince Sheng."
Jiang Heng replied, "Your Majesty is really sober."
Li Hong was still sitting in that lazy posture, raised his index finger, tapped his temple, and said, "If you drink too much, your judgment will always be affected. Last night, I really wanted to understand. You are a talent and Mr. Ghost's apprentice. It's a pity, too smart. Do you know why I turned a blind eye?"
Jiang Heng said: "Because Your Majesty is confident, no one in the army of Daiguo dares to challenge you."
"Exactly." Li Hong said, "If you want to rebel, you are still too tender, Luo Heng. Your wish is good, but no one will be able to successfully ring the bell of the kingdom given by Emperor Jin. , the expedition is unstoppable.”
At this time, the sound of fighting finally sounded outside.
Jiang Heng replied: "That's not necessarily true, Your Majesty, you never thought about it, what if it wasn't you who came on behalf of the national army?"
Li Hong leaned slightly and said seriously: "Then you will die. If the person who rebels against you is a soldier of your own country, the Lone King still wants to spare your life and take you on a personal expedition, so that you can watch the Lone King with your own eyes. Take off the head of the Juicy Cong item. But as long as you move to a foreign country, the Lone King will execute you and tell the world."
The cry of killing was getting closer and closer, and in an instant, the arrow shot through the pane and flew into the room. Li Hong raised his finger, and the two fingers in the food volleyed into the air, and immediately grabbed the shadow-like arrow firmly.
Jiang Heng pondered, stared at Li Hong, and said, "Presumably Dai Wang always feels that no one can make you bow your head."
Li Hong said solemnly, "In today's world, who else can give orders to the Lone King?"
"Isn't the emperor too?" Jiang Heng raised his eyebrows.
Li Hong was suddenly startled.