Even though he was already in a certain death situation, Chen Chong gradually showed a calm expression. While trying his best to calm everyone's emotions, he turned to Dong Bai and said: "Don't worry, there is no one in this world who dares to kill me, Chen Tingjian. I will lead people directly in first." Palace! Everything will be fine when you meet the Emperor and the Queen Mother."
Dong Bai had tears streaming down his face. He tried not to cry out, but held on to his husband's hand tightly. Chen Chong immediately understood that his wife was saying that she would not let him go alone no matter what. Chen Chong was very moved. He whispered: "If you are worried, just go with me." The guards who were hesitant at first felt ashamed when they saw the thin figures of the prime minister and his wife: The prime minister has been doing this all his life. People, how can you only care about your own safety! So they all asked for orders and said: "I am willing to protect the prime minister!" In the blink of an eye, everyone made up their mind and were willing to live and die with Chen Chong.
They opened the door of the house and wanted to crowd Chen Chong into the carriage, but Chen Chong refused. He said: "It's been a long time since so many people have accompanied me, so let us walk a little longer." So everyone lit torches and supported them carefully. Chen Chong walked out.
At this time, the street was extremely quiet, and not a single person could be seen at all. This gave Chen Xiu and others a glimmer of hope: maybe this trip would go smoothly. But then, the chaotic footsteps in the shadows broke their illusions. Hundreds of soldiers who were ambushing on both sides of the Prime Minister's Mansion swarmed forward. The sound of the collision of armored weapons sounded like a flood, hundreds of people They surged up and immediately surrounded Chen Chong and others on the street.
The leader of these soldiers was Yulin Lang Huanfan. He looked at Chen Chong in the crowd with complicated eyes, then opened the edict in public and read out: "According to the emperor's edict, Prime Minister Chen Chong and Chang Shi Pang Tong colluded with each other to plot rebellion. The crime is unpardonable, and the crime must be punished!" Then he drew his sword and pointed it at everyone and said, "The rest of the people who have nothing to do with it should get out of the way quickly. I am only targeting the prime minister's family for this trip. If you still follow the prime minister, I will be punished for the same crime! "
After the words fell, everyone was slightly commotion, but it quickly stopped. Someone scolded Huan Fan: "If you want to impose a crime, why bother! The prime minister is already blind, how can he usurp power? Huan Yuanze, you were promoted by the prime minister. Are you unclear about whether the prime minister has rebelled? ? It’s enough that you’re not a gentleman, but you still want to imitate Wei Tie and the others and become villains?”
However, Chen Chong quickly waved his hand to stop the scolding. He slowly walked out of the crowd with Dong Bai's support. At this time, it was the soldiers' turn to make a commotion. They all knew this Han Prime Minister and knew him. At this time, they were old and weak, but even so, the soldiers felt a sincere panic. They turned to Huan Fan for help, but found that the leader had the same expression. At this time, Chen Chong looked at the group of soldiers with a dull look and said calmly: "If you think I am guilty, you can kill me now. If you don't think so, please get out of the way."
After that, Chen Chong continued to walk forward. He felt like he had broken into a cold iron wall, and he seemed to be in a land of ice and snow. The breath in the mouth and nose of the soldiers beside him was warm, but his wife's catkins in his hands were trembling constantly. This made Chen Chong hold his wife tighter, and then successfully passed through the soldiers. Immediately afterwards, Chen Xiu and the guards also came through. The soldiers who were ordered to capture him did not really stop him, but stayed where they were, silently watching Chen Chong's back. They finally chose to give up their duties.
But this does not mean the end. Chen Chong knows that someone will stop him on the road. Who will it be? Is it Wei Xi? Is it Zhao Qiu? Or him? This answer was quickly explained. When everyone stepped into Taichang Street, they all stopped involuntarily. They saw thousands of soldiers gathered on the street, holding bloody heads in their hands, and they were colliding head-on with them. Come, and the leaders are Zhao Qiu and the cavalry general Zhang Fei.
When Zhang Fei saw Chen Chong's face, he was stunned for a moment, then became furious and shouted at Chen Chong: "National traitor, you dare to come out to die!" After saying that, he took a big knife and stepped forward, pretending to slash with it. Die Chen Chong. Although he was over sixty years old, he was still powerful. Even if some guards tried to stop him, they were still chopped into pieces by him two or three times and killed directly in front of Chen Chong. Dong Bai tried to block Zhang Fei's knife. , but was pushed away by Chen Chong, and then he stood motionless.
Chen Chong had experienced such moments of life and death too many times, but this time it was completely different, because it was his brother's blade. Chen Chong thought about many thoughts in an instant, just like those moments of life and death before, but he still did not try to escape. Instead, he finally thought: This may not be a way to escape.
But the sword was not swung down for a long time. Chen Chong could even smell the blood on the blade, but he could not swipe it down. Chen Chong felt Yide's gaze and couldn't help but feel curious. He hadn't seen Yide in three years. Is he still so rough now? Or did you lose weight after that incident? He subconsciously reached out and tried to touch Yide's face, but when he started, he touched the bones. So he said, "Is it Yide? Why have you lost so much weight?"
After saying this, Chen Chong could only hear a "bang" sound, which seemed to be the sound of the knife falling to the ground, but there was no one in the scene, but silence. Zhang Fei shook off Chen Chong's hand and wanted to pick up his own knife, but he couldn't bend down. He was so confused that Zhao Qiu on the side hurriedly came up and said: "Chariot, the Queen Mother has ordered that he be executed on the spot." Thieves, you must not be soft-hearted! If we cannot get rid of the national thieves today, the country will never have peace!"
Zhang Fei pushed him away impatiently, and finally picked up the knife on the ground. But when he looked at Chen Chong again, for some reason, he was still in a daze, unable to start. Zhao Qiu saw something was wrong, and knew that the cavalry general still cared about his brotherhood, so he simply calmed down and said to the soldiers behind him: "The national guardian, today is the day! You must repay the emperor's kindness, and Is there a better time? The Queen Mother has issued an order that whoever kills Chen Chong will be rewarded with thousands of pieces of silk and sealed with ten thousand households!"
But what was beyond his expectation was that although the soldiers killed Pang Tong and others, they did not even dare to draw their swords in front of Chen Chong. They just made a gesture of drawing the bow and loading the arrow, but they quickly relaxed. Someone else said to Zhao Qiu: "How could the Prime Minister rebel? It's probably an unjust case. The Prime Minister didn't bring any weapons. Wouldn't it be good to let him go to the emperor to prove his innocence and clear up the misunderstanding?"
Zhao Qiu became anxious after hearing this. He privately accused Chen Chong of rebelling, hoping to achieve success in one step. How could he allow others to deny it? If the Queen Mother could not withstand the pressure and give in, she would be dead! But looking at the past, no one among the thousands of people dared to attack Chen Chong. He was so angry that he quickly snatched someone's bow and arrows, and cursed at everyone: "There are so many imperial guards in the court, but there is not a single loyal minister!" Then he waved his hand and drew the bow, He shot an arrow at Chen Chong, hitting Chen Chong's lower abdomen without any bias.
It all happened so fast that everyone was caught off guard. No one expected that anyone would dare to attack Chen Chong, and time seemed to freeze at this moment. An unprecedented sharp pain swept through Chen Chong's body from his abdomen, making him unable to stand at all. Then his legs weakened and he fell directly to the ground. The eyes that were originally shrouded in darkness seemed to see light again at this time, but it was not the light of the human world, but like a colorful water surface, falling from the sky and hugging him into his arms. Chen Chong was very familiar with this kind of hallucination. When he was at the gate of Chang'an City, he saw his whole family being killed by Lu Bu, and he also saw such a hallucination. The deeds in his life and the characters he met were all passing by in front of him like a white horse, and he seemed to be floating among them, not knowing where he was coming from or where he was going. He seemed to hear something far away in his ears. The screams and fighting sounds, but if you listen carefully, they seem to turn into the cries of children and the songs of mothers.
In this comforting color and sound, Chen Chong could no longer feel any of his own existence. The brilliance around him was gradually dissipating, and he himself seemed to become empty. But at this time, a voice called him anxiously in his ear: "Ting Jian! Ting Jian!"
It was Dong Bai's voice. He opened his mouth forcefully and shouted slightly: "Is Yide here? Yide!" However, he thought, Yide might still be angry with him! Has he abandoned me?
But Yide's voice appeared, and he responded: "Brother, I'm here!"
At this time, Chen Chong woke up from his confusion. Although he could not see anything and could feel the severe pain in his abdomen, he could feel even more that he was holding his wife with one hand and his brother with the other.
He had thousands of words to say, but he couldn't express them. He paused for a long time and only said one sentence: "I'm going to die!"
At this time, Zhang Fei resisted the urge to cry bitterly and reported back tremblingly: "Brother, it's okay. I've already killed that villain Zhao Qiu, and I won't spare any of those villains Wei Tie!"
However, Chen Chong shook his head slightly and said to Zhang Fei: "Yide, please take me to the palace. Before I die, I have something to say to the Queen Mother."
After finishing speaking, he couldn't stop breathing. At this time, he felt his body being picked up by a pair of strong hands, and then he lay in a warm embrace. This warmth diluted his pain and even made his hearing temporarily impaired. Sharpness restored. He heard Yide whisper the word "good", and he also heard Dong Bai and Chen Xiu sobbing beside him. There were many, many people looking at him. They discussed in a low voice, but in the end they turned into mourning. .
The group started walking again. In Zhang Fei's arms, Chen Chong felt as if he was in a cradle and seemed to be falling asleep at any time. However, he still overcame this sleepiness and listened to the world's last echo for him. When he didn't know where he went, he heard a group of childish voices calling him "Teacher", surrounding him like oriole; when he didn't know where he went, he heard a sound like iron rain. The sound said "Dragon Head" to him, caressing him like a pine wave; gradually, more and more voices came in, there were men, women, old and young, shouting "Prime Minister" to him , rising and falling like the ocean, completely surrounding him.
No one would have thought that on this clear night, after hearing the tragic news of the coup in the city, UU Kanshu net the people of the entire Luoyang City spontaneously gathered together, following Chen Chong, and filled the ten-mile Taichang Street. . They all knew what they were about to witness.
At this time, Zhang Fei finally stopped. Chen Chong didn't know where he was, so he could only ask weakly: "Are you in the palace?"
Zhang Fei didn't speak, but he heard Liu Jia's voice. She replied in a tone so cold that it made him tremble: "Your Majesty and I are here. Whatever the Prime Minister has ordered, just say it."
Chen Chong didn't care about the resentment in it. He just tried hard, raised his hand, grabbed it forward, and actually grabbed the hand of Queen Mother Liu Jia, and then said slowly: "I know I'm sorry for you, leaving you without a father. Husband, I have no brothers, no children, but Li Rong, I am going to die soon. No matter how you treat me, I don’t care. But I only have one hope, that is, you must live a good life for the rest of your life!"
He couldn't see Liu Jia's expression, and he didn't know if she would listen, but his incomplete palm could always feel the trembling and shaking of his adopted sister, and that was enough.
After saying that, he turned around to look for the Emperor Liu Yi in confusion, and said with his last strength: "Kong Ming is a national genius. I hope that your majesty will depend on you for life and death. After I die, please let him succeed as prime minister. In less than ten years, the great Han Dynasty will definitely succeed." The population is booming! By then, the late emperor, the great ancestors, and all the martyrs of the Han Dynasty..."
Before he finished speaking, his strength was exhausted unconsciously, as if a string stretched straight and then broke. Chen Chong felt that he was free from all pain and troubles. His soul completely separated from his body and flew into the colorful ocean that had been shrouded above his head, then rose up and continued to rise until he finally touched a cloud. And in the last moment of his consciousness, he heard the clear call of a yellow swan in the sky.
