rebirth [rebirth]

In March of the 37th year of Yongyan, it was the cold spring.

In the Changxin Palace of the Imperial Capital, everything is crimson.

This day was the wedding day of Crown Prince Rong Jingxuan who had just ascended the throne as emperor.

As you approached, the golden crow in the sky gradually hid in the dark clouds, only the brilliant sunset glow faintly revealed.

The palace banquet, which lasted for a whole day, has just ended.

Rong Jingxuan was wearing a bright red wedding dress, and was helped by the eunuch into the Chu Ming Palace. This is his bedroom and today's new house.

Bypassing the screen of prosperity and wealth, all eyes are red. A tall and thin figure in a red wedding dress is sitting quietly on the dragon bed. The man is not covered, and his long black hair is all tied up in a purple jade crown. , which makes the forehead shiny and moist.

Rong Jingxuan walked up to him crookedly, and suddenly laughed at himself: "Are you waiting for me?"

Today's Liuli Zui was a little drunk, and he drank a lot, so he was not so scruples about speaking now.

After hearing his words, the newcomer sitting on the bed finally raised his head, revealing a handsome face with sword eyebrows and stars.

Yes, the original queen of the new emperor Rong Jingxuan is a man.

It's all the fault of that damned Taoist priest, if it wasn't for him...if it wasn't for him...Rong Jingxuan's dark eyes were full of ferociousness, and he cursed the Taoist priest who brought disaster to the country and the people, and hated his weak and incompetent father.

He, Rong Jingxuan, was the first emperor in the history of Da Chu to marry a male empress after eight lifetimes.

Oh no, maybe it will be the last one.

Rong Jingxuan's face was full of hostility at the moment, he stared fiercely at his empress Yuan, and in that gaze, there was no joy and joy of a big wedding.

How could he be happy?

And his queen, his former childhood sweetheart, former best friend Xie Mingze suddenly stood up, and he walked up to Rong Jingxuan step by step with no expression on his face, and knelt down on the ground with a "plop".

"Your majesty, minister..." His voice was very clear, even though he tried his best to stabilize himself, he still couldn't restrain the tremor in his voice.

He was nervous, scared, and embarrassed... However, God seemed to be playing the most malicious joke on him. Before he could speak with all his courage, he was interrupted by a "bang bang" knock on the door.

"Your Majesty, it's not good, the rebels have invaded the palace."

Rong Jingxuan was startled, and Xie Mingze quickly stood up from the ground. The two of them stood side by side in the warm, festive and auspicious new house, feeling cold hands and feet.

In the winter of the 35th year of Yongyan, a plague broke out in Liuli County, Linshui County, south of Dachu, and tens of thousands of people were killed.Rong Jingxuan's father, Emperor Yongyan at that time, listened to the nonsense of the Taoist Tianzhi, the national teacher, and ordered the Linshui garrison to trap the people in Liuli County and set fire to the city.

After one night, there was no one alive in Liuli.

Emperor Yongyan's stupidity angered the people of Dachu. At the end of December in the 35th year of Yongyan, a rebel party claiming to be the Shuntian Army began to rebel, and it was out of control ever since.

At that time, the crown prince Rong Jingxuan was only 16 years old, and he had only three months to stand in the court. He had no power or manpower, so he tried his best to persuade his father, but all he got was indifferent rejection.There is really no way, he can only use the power of his relatives left behind by his mother who died young, and mobilize troops to resist the rebels who are moving northward.

However, everything he did was to no avail.

Until the first month of the 37th year of Yongyan, the mighty Shuntian army finally reached the gate of the imperial capital, and was about to break into the city.

In order to defend Da Chu, Rong Jingxuan's uncles died in battle one by one. In the end, only his father, his useless crown prince, his young and sick brother, and his long-married son were left. Two princesses.

Continuing in the 230s, the Rong family of the Dachu royal family has now withered to only five members.

The rebel army had already approached the city, and the cowardly and cowardly Emperor Yongyan was completely panicked. He turned to the national teacher Tianzhi Taoist for help, and finally got a decree that was said to be given by God.

The Daoist of Tianzhi said that Xie Mingze, the eldest son of Prime Minister Xie Huaixin, is talented and intelligent, and is a rare lucky star from heaven.

Emperor Yongyan actually believed such absurd will of God.

He issued three edicts that day, one was to announce his abdication, the other was to pass the throne to the crown prince who was about to lose his crown, and the third was to appoint a male queen for the crown prince.

As soon as this edict came out, the whole court was in a state of flux.Da Chu was able to survive for more than a year under the offensive of the rebels, but only because of the hard work of these loyal courtiers.Emperor Yongyan's last move undoubtedly provoked the courtiers' last line of persistence, and their belief in Da Chu Rong's family finally collapsed.

So, on the day of Rong Jingxuan's wedding, the rebels who had been waiting at the gate of the city for a long time were finally let into the imperial capital.

What followed was turmoil and war.

Rong Jingxuan stood in his bedroom, and beside him was the new queen he married. He looked at the bright lights of the dragon and phoenix candles, and finally sighed: "Ah Ze, I'm sorry."

Xie Mingze froze all over, he slowly raised his head to look at Rong Jingxuan, only saw a blurred side face in the light and shadow: "Hall, Your Majesty..."

Rong Jingxuan frowned, he quickly took down the two sabers hanging on the wall, and threw one of them to Xie Mingze: "Ah Ze, let's go."

Xie Mingze took the sword, his cool and handsome face was finally a little moved.

It's really rare, in my lifetime, I can still hear him call Aze again.

Xie Mingze made up his mind and followed Rong Jingxuan to the outside of the bedroom step by step.They walked through the exquisite and gorgeous corridors, as if they didn't see the eunuchs and maids curled up on both sides, Rong Jingxuan's footsteps were so firm, it was the first time in his life that he was so strong.

Maybe, it's the last time.

The doors of the halls opened, and Rong Jingxuan was about to lift his feet to go out, but was pulled back by Xie Mingze: "Your Majesty, let the minister walk in front."

Rong Jingxuan hesitated for a moment, but still slightly gave up half of his body, and the two of them walked out of the palace one after the other, only to see that the garden outside was already full of rebels.

Each of them held a torch, as if they were going to burn the entire Changxin Palace into a sea of ​​flames.

In the flames, the faces of the rebels were ferocious, like man-eating beasts.

Rong Jingxuan watched his Imperial Forest Army and courtiers running towards him one after another, his eyes that had been a little numb all this time were a little surprised.

He didn't expect that so many people were willing to die with him until now.

Today is the emperor's big wedding, only he and Xie Mingze will wear the red auspicious clothes, those rebels don't care at all about the Imperial Forest Army and the ministers gathering in front of the palace gate, as if their resistance is just child's play.

At this time, a middle-aged man who looked like an officer standing at the rear of the rebel army suddenly shouted loudly: "Which one is the dog emperor? Come out and die quickly."

As soon as he finished speaking, the rebels burst into laughter, making the entire quiet and solemn Changxin Palace nondescript.

Rong Jingxuan frowned, and he raised his foot to agree, but suddenly a soft hand covered his mouth and pulled him back: "Your Majesty, this slave is Li Desheng, don't resist them, the slave knows the secret road."

The voice was very old, and Rong Jingxuan was thinking of Li Desheng's name in a trance, and it took him a long time to recall that he was the chief eunuch of his imperial grandfather.

In this short moment, Xie Mingze raised his sword and took two steps forward, and said loudly: "You traitor, you dare to call me by my name, what crime should you have?"

Rong Jingxuan only felt flustered in his heart, he really did not expect that Xie Mingze would take his place at this time.

Obviously, everything the royal father did was humiliating the Xie family, and it also broke Xie Mingze's wings.This Da Chu's most gifted and intelligent son of the aristocratic family became the emperor's male queen for no apparent reason, and the rest of his life has been ruined.

"Aze..." Rong Jingxuan murmured softly.

However, in the chaos, Xie Mingze still heard Rong Jingxuan's call.

He closed his eyes, and suddenly raised the sharp sword in his hand: "I, Da Chu Mutian, was born for the righteous way. If you wait for the rebels, if you go against the way of heaven and don't do anything big, you will be punished by everyone."

As soon as he finished his words, the rebels became angry when they were stimulated. They rushed forward and fought with the only two remaining imperial guards.

In an instant, blood spilled on the ground.

Rong Jingxuan was dragged into the bedroom by Li Desheng and other loyal ministers. He watched Xie Mingze's bright red figure blending into the killing array, his eyes gradually blurred.

"Let go of me, let me go..." Rong Jingxuan struggled suddenly.

He doesn't want to be a bereaved dog who runs away. Since the country is dead, he can only sprinkle blood on the ground to comfort the people who died in vain.

Xie Mingze was willing to throw himself to death for him. Da Chu's demise was a foregone conclusion. He didn't understand what was the point of his being alive.

"Aze...Aze..." Rong Jingxuan drank a lot of wine today, he couldn't break free from the restraint of the courtiers at all, and could only do unnecessary resistance.

At this moment, Xie Mingze seemed to have heard his call, he looked back at Rong Jingxuan, and suddenly showed him a bright smile.

The two of them were too far away, with swords and blood, several palace gates, Rong Jingxuan stretched out his hand towards him, but found that he couldn't hold anything.

He only saw the blood on Xie Mingze's purple jade crown, and the plump and handsome man under the purple jade crown made a mouth-shape, and then was knocked out.

On the eighth day of March in the 37th year of Yongyan, the rebels entered the Changxin Palace, captured the deposed emperor Rong Jingxuan alive, and killed the Supreme Emperor Yongyan and the sixth son of the emperor, Rong Jingheng, who was nearly 12 years old, at Caishikou.

On the ninth day of March in the 37th year of Yongyan, the leader of the rebel army, Chen Shengzhi, ascended the throne and changed his country name to Chen.

On the tenth day of March in the 37th year of Yongyan, Emperor Tianshun of Da Chen ordered the beheading of the royal family of Da Chu, and 300 people including the two princesses were beheaded for public display. .

In the hot summer of the first year of Tianshun, the deposed emperor Rong Jingxuan returned to the capital with his old army, but unexpectedly, he was still weak alone. He was pierced through the heart by General Chen Wang Zhongyong and died outside the gate of the imperial capital.

Rong Jingxuan clutched his chest wound and fell to the ground. The ministers and soldiers around him called him one after another, but they couldn't call back his lost life.

He tried his best to keep his eyes wide open, and with the last effort, he stared at the gate of the city.

In the 37th year of Yongyan, he was stuffed into a horse dung bucket and sent out of Beijing. When passing by the city gate, he quietly lifted the lid of the bucket and took a look outside, but saw a scene that he will never forget.

Above the high city gate, a low-hanging head was hung high above. Beside the head was a naked corpse with no clothes on it. intact place.

Rong Jingxuan suddenly covered his mouth, and the tears that he had endured for a long time finally gushed out.

That was Xie Mingze who died for him.

Rong Jingxuan began to vomit blood from his mouth, and the bright red blood stained his skirt, and also stained the only imperial jade seal he brought out from the palace.

No one would have guessed that Chen Shengzhi had been looking for the Jade Seal of Chuanguo for a whole year, but it was just an ordinary black stone, the size of a private seal.This precious jade seal is being stained with Rong Jingxuan's blood at this moment, giving off a faint warmth.

But at this time, Rong Jingxuan couldn't notice this anymore.He slowly closed his eyes, and at the last moment of his life, he suddenly recalled the last words Xie Mingze said to him outside the palace door.

Because he was too far away, he couldn't hear what he was saying at all.

However, after more than 300 days and nights, he repeatedly recalled his mouth shape, and finally at the moment of death, he understood what Xie Mingze said to him.

He said, "Jingxuan, live well."