On the seventh day and night of the first month, a cold moon hung obliquely in the sky, surrounded by a few stars. The altar set up by the gold casters was placed on the high ground on the bank of the Yellow River west of the imperial palace. Walking up the mountain road, seemingly far away, winding and narrow, Yuan Ziyou and Er Zhurong wore white sacrificial clothes, leading hundreds of boys and women to the altar while praying.

At the top of the mountain, you can see a square three-story stone altar with white flags and charms depicted with the blood of five animals. The upper layer of the central altar of the altar is paved with five-colored soil: middle yellow, east green, south red, west white, north black, to symbolize the five elements, and a round stone pillar in the center of the altar means "the country is eternal". Wizard Zheng Xian prayed to the heavens with a blessing, and the bonfires jumped around, the green smoke was solemn, and dozens of witches held copper to move.

Yuan Ziyou and Er Zhurong passed through the layers of guards, came to the center of the altar, finished the blessings, bowed three times and bowed nine times to pray for the blessing of the heavens, and then walked to the altar of the gold casters on both sides. Yuan Ziyou's expression was solemn, and the uneasiness in his heart did not dare to show, he raised his eyes to look at Er Zhurong who was parallel to him, at this moment Er Zhurong's face was full of recklessness and bullying, he faintly turned his eyes to Ying'e who was mixed in the crowd, looking for confidence in her gaze.

And Ying'e watched the two most important men in her life standing together for the throne, she was a little entangled and uneasy, she believed that today's Yuanzi would definitely succeed in casting gold, because her father had lost all the people's hearts and could not sit in the world, but today everything will go as planned, she felt that her palms were in a cold sweat, and her breathing was about to stop. She could only reply with a firm look, comforting Yuan Ziyou, and told him with the shape of her mouth, "You can."

After the ceremony had passed, it was Yuan Zizhi who assisted Yuan Zi You, and Er Zhu Rong's assistant was Er Zhu Shilong, and after they cleaned their hands, they poured the molten slurry that had reached the boiling point into the mold of their statue, and the four of them began to concentrate on the casting work. There was silence all around, and everyone held their breath and waited for the result, because the Lord of Heaven of Great Wei would soon be born here.

At the most critical moment of casting the golden man, a melodious song "Luo Shen Fu" suddenly came from the other side of the Yellow River, and I saw a woman in red with beautiful hair standing on a rock, holding a feather fan and dancing with the sound of the piano, the dance posture was soft and soothing, and it looked like a flame jumping in the distance. The woman sang tactfully and in a cappella, Lin Laiquan rhymed, sad but not sad, causing Yan'er to forget to cry softly. Although he couldn't see his eyebrows clearly from a distance, the slender figure, the exquisite dancing, and the moving singing made the people on this shore couldn't help but turn their eyes back, and no longer paid attention to the four people who were sweating profusely casting gold on the altar.

Suddenly, someone in the crowd roared, "Empress Dowager Hu is back, Empress Dowager Hu is back, everyone see that is not Empress Dowager Hu's manifestation." ”

When everyone heard this, they all looked at each other, but the figure was a little like the deceased Empress Dowager Hu, and they also talked nonsense, "Yes, look at that figure, isn't it the Empress Dowager Hu." ”

"I have seen the dance of the Empress Dowager Hu back then, it is exactly the same, I'm afraid it wasn't the Empress Dowager Hu's appearance."

As soon as Er Zhurong heard that the Empress Dowager Hu had appeared, it was difficult to calm down, his heart trembled and his hands trembled, and he knocked the full molten slurry to the ground, almost burning Er Zhu Shilong on the side. He ignored it, pushed aside the crowd and rushed to the shore, only to see the woman on the other side, covering her face with a red veil, revealing a pair of beautiful eyes, he felt in a trance that the eyes were the same as Empress Dowager Hu, and couldn't help asking, "Are you back?" ”

When the woman saw Er Zhurong asking, she stopped dancing, pointed at Er Zhurong and said sharply, "Er Zhurong, you are just a minion, and you will always be a slave in this life." ”

When Er Zhurong heard this, he was even more flustered, "Is it really you, Zhen'er." ”

When Er Zhu Zhao saw that the ceremony was destroyed, he didn't believe that it was the Empress Dowager Hu's manifestation, and he was furious, "I don't believe in any ghost manifestation, so bring the bow and arrow to Lao Tzu." After saying that, he took the bow and arrow handed by the guard, and shot straight at the other side.

I saw the arrows passing by, and when the veil slipped off, the woman disappeared like a puff of green smoke, and Gao Huan grabbed the opposite bank on his horse, only to pick up a dark fragrance floating red veil. Er Zhurong's blue eyes were locked and he sniffed, but it was the magnolia fragrance that Empress Dowager Hu loved that year, he had a fantasy in his heart, and ordered Gao Huan to take the men and horses to continue to look for it on the other side.

Just when people were clamoring to discuss whether it was Empress Dowager Hu, Yuanzi raised his arms and shouted, "Congratulations to the emperor for casting a golden man, long live the emperor, long live long live." ”

Er Zhurong came back to his senses from the thoughts of the Empress Dowager Hu, and when he looked back, he saw a golden statue of Yuan Ziyou impressively placed on the stone pillar in the center of the altar, the golden statue looked mighty and awe-inspiring, and Li Yu led the ministers to bow down in unison to the golden people.

Er Zhurong suddenly realized that the manifestation of Empress Dowager Hu's soul should be a deception, just to distract himself from being cast into a golden man, he looked murderous, pulled out his sword, and walked towards Yuan Ziyou step by step.

Ying'e saw Er Zhurong approaching Yuan Ziyou with a sword from the crowd, and shouted in fright, "Daddy, don't." When he wanted to rush out, he was grabbed by He Batsheng.

He Batsheng said, "Miss, don't be impatient. ”

Ying'e looked helplessly at Zheng Xian on the side, and begged with tears, "Zheng Xianxian, you persuade Daddy, the golden man has been completed, and the destiny of heaven cannot be violated." ”

Zheng Xian looked up at the celestial phenomenon, the purple microstar suddenly brightened, Zheng Xian stopped in front of Er Zhurong and shouted, "My lord, the destiny of heaven, the emperor star appears, you must not violate the will of heaven, there will be a curse." ”

The personal soldiers of the Erzhu family were not satisfied with the result, and Erzhu Shilong said angrily, "Obviously someone is doing it, pretending to be the Empress Dowager Hu to disturb the general's mind, how can you count?" As I said, it should be a fresh start. ”

Erzhu Dulu also said, "If you just find a woman, you can say that the soul is manifested, and we are not satisfied with such indiscriminate means, and we should recast them." ”

Yuanzi saw Er Zhurong's sword pointing at Yuanziyou's neck, and hurriedly stepped forward to protect it, and scolded Er Zhurong and said, "General Erzhu, there are few people who want to be able to cast a golden man back then, so there is a saying that the king of heaven has been determined, and now that the divination has been determined, the appearance of the sky has been revealed, and even the wizard said that the emperor is the emperor of heaven, does General Erzhu want to go against the sky?" ”

Fei Mu stood up and shouted, "Whether it is destiny or man-made, we have to check it to know, and it is too early to say at this time." ”

When there was a commotion all around, Er Zhurong's eyebrows were furrowed, his eyes showed a fierce light, and he saw the cold light passing by, and a stream of blood spilled on the ground. Motoko's eyes widened, a line of blood was drawn on his neck, and after a few seconds, the blood gushed like a spring, he shook his body twice, and then couldn't say a word, and fell straight down in a daze. Zhang Haosong exclaimed, jumped forward and knelt down on his knees to catch Yuan Zizhi's body.

Yuan Ziyou watched his brother fall in a pool of blood, drew his sword and pointed at him, and angrily reprimanded Er Zhurong, "I am the Ninety-Five Emperor of Heaven, do you want to rebel if you kill my brother?" If you don't kill me today, you can sit on this throne justifiably, wouldn't it be simple and straightforward? ”

Ying'e saw that the two closest people were tense, and wanted to fight to the death every minute, so she broke away from He Batsheng's hand, pushed away the crowd, stood between the two swords, and pleaded with Er Zhurong, "Daddy, even Zheng Xian said that this is the will of heaven, why do you bother to go against the sky?" Daddy, you told your daughter before that you just want to guard the Great Wei for Empress Dowager Hu, so you sent your daughter to Luoyang City to guard her side instead of you. But you killed her with your own hands, threw her into the boiling waters of the Yellow River, and you couldn't even find her body. Today she appeared, she appeared, she said Daddy, you have a thought that you shouldn't move, and you want to continue to be wrong? If you kill the emperor, will you be able to calm the world and make the world submit? ”

Murong Shaozong stepped forward and persuaded, "General, not to mention whether Empress Dowager Hu really appeared or not, but now that everyone has seen with their own eyes that the Jin man has become a god, he is the emperor of heaven, and the general must not insist on it." ”

"If it weren't for the fact that someone found a woman to pretend to be Empress Dowager Hu from somewhere, how could my eldest brother be confused and not be able to cast this golden statue." Er Zhu Shilong was indignant, "Maybe this person was found by this child, and according to me, he should be abolished." ”

Yuan Ziyou restrained the grief of losing her relatives and said to Ying'e, "E'er, you get out of the way, let your father use this sharp sword stained with the blood of my brother to cut my throat, and let the Queen Mother, who died here, see with her own eyes how the general she supported can fight against the Mandate of Heaven for her own ambitions." I died here today, and I also had an explanation with the Queen Mother, when she left the palace before she died, she said to me that this Great Wei was entrusted to me, she said that Er Zhurong would support me to be a good emperor, if she didn't trust you so much Er Zhurong, otherwise I would never have lost my mind and crossed the Yellow River to join you, now it seems that Empress Dowager Hu and I have misbelieved. He threw down the sword in his hand, "E'er, I can't do what I promised you, in the next life, if I have the opportunity to be an ordinary country couple with you again." ”

Chengyang Wang Yuanhui, Jiyin Wang Yuanhuiye, Shizhong Li Yu, Nanzhu Kelang Zhong Wen Zisheng and others, these royalists protested one after another to condemn Er Zhurong's atrocities. Yuan Hui saw that Yuan Zizhi was killed, and he was even more indignant, and he also drew his sword to confront Er Zhu Zhao, Er Zhu Shilong, Er Zhu Dulu and others, "Er Zhu Rong, you compare yourself to Cao Cao but you are just Dong Zhuo and others, you are atrocity and rebellion, and the massacre of Heyin has long lost the hearts of the people." And the emperor is the queen of Pengcheng, loyal and famous, you can't reach it. You were born in Qihu, and most of the troops you led were after the Qiang tribe, although you are good at riding and shooting, and you have no courage, but you don't know the doctrine of etiquette. The way to govern the country, just love the people, what virtue do you have to make all the people in the world submit, the people's hearts are clear at a glance, if you kill the king today, it is the anger of people and gods, let alone try to claim yourself the emperor. My Yuan clan will fight with you to the end, and I will never bow down to you. ”

Ying'e became more and more grief-stricken, knelt on the ground, and kowtowed to Er Zhurong, "Daddy, please stop, let the emperor go, if you kill him, Ying'e will not live." ”

Gao Huan glanced around the golden statue around everyone, understood everything in his heart, and smiled bitterly, after all, he had miscalculated. Looking at the competition between these two forces in front of him, he silently stepped aside, quietly watching everything, judging the situation, but he noticed Murong Shaozong's meaningful glance at him, and he smiled faintly back.

Er Zhurong looked at Yuan Ziyou coldly, as if everything around him had nothing to do with him, his blue eagle eyes were cold, time was frozen at this moment, and everyone was watching his next move with bated breath. Who knew that he suddenly turned the blade of his sword, plunged the sword straight into the ground, folded his hands in front of his chest, bowed his head and said, "Since it is the mandate of heaven for my emperor to ascend the throne, it is natural to use the noblest blood to sacrifice to the sky. The minister asked the blood of the emperor's brother to pray to heaven, may the Great Wei be prosperous for a thousand years, and may my emperor live long live. When he knelt on the ground, although Er Zhu Zhao and the others looked at each other, they didn't dare not follow, so everyone bowed to the ground and shouted long live, so far Yuan Ziyou's identity as the emperor was finally justified under the halo of the Mandate of Heaven.

Yuan Ziyou looked at the courtiers who were prostrate on the ground, and then looked at Yuan Zizhi's dead eyes, he felt that every step he had taken was paved with the blood of his relatives, and the scarlet was so dazzling that he couldn't help but move forward. The hatred of the country and the family, the rivers and mountains of the Great Wei Dynasty, involved the grief in his heart, but because of Er Zhurong's words just now, he had to help Er Zhurong up with his own hands, "The general is for the country and the people, and he has far-reaching thoughts, and he will be crowned the king of Taiyuan and the fief of Taiyuan from today." ”

Er Zhurong got up to thank him, but Ying'e looked up and couldn't see half of Yuan Ziyou's eyes sad, and gradually began to be a little scared.