"Please Su Gong atone, the villain casually said that he had no other intentions, please don't worry about Su Gong, listen to the words shown by the stars, the stars are born to make a calendar, and everything else is just a trick! Last year, the White Tiger Star was also at the moon, and there was no change of monarch. Seeing that Su Gong was stunned, he hurriedly knelt down and begged for mercy and explained.

"Hurry up, Lone is just wondering why this White Tiger Star suddenly brightened."

"Xie Su made it public, and the minister suddenly remembered that there was still something unprepared, so he retired first!" I'm afraid I'll say the wrong thing and leave.

"Okay, let's go."

Su Gong saw that Gou was far away, he didn't care, and the panic in his heart was amplified by Gou Fangcai's words. He looked at the bloated part of the "fire dragon" again, and it didn't seem to move, but it was still early, and it was understandable that Baiguan was afraid of the cold.

Suddenly, a strong wind blew from the south, and the torches in the hands of the guards were almost blown out, and suddenly the chill hit, and Su Gong couldn't help but wrap himself in thick clothes, but it was useless.

"Let's go back to the account." Su Gong couldn't withstand the cold after all.

A large tent large enough to accommodate forty or fifty people was erected on the southern slope of the summit, and several smaller tents were scattered around it, and everything in the tent was available, especially the large brazier inside the tent, which made the temperature inside the tent very different from the outside of the tent. Su Gong took off his thick clothes, and the guards sent washing things and left, Su Gong did not rinse his mouth and clean his face, but lay down directly.

Panic kept him awake, and at the age of seventeen he was under pressure that he wasn't supposed to be at this age. He was still thinking about all kinds of possibilities, each of which was a way to deal with him, but all of this had to be premised on the premise that Wei Li would not kill him immediately.

The guard in the middle of the guard camp shouted the fourth watch, at this time there was a whispered discussion in front of the tent, Su Gong guessed that the hundred officials had reached the top of the mountain, hurriedly got up and went out, and remembered the cold outside the tent, turned back and put on thick clothes and came to the tent.

Outside the tent are really the ministers who have just reached the top, and of course, some ministers, especially the elderly ministers, are still slowly climbing halfway up the mountain.

After the hundred officials saluted Su Gong, they each wrapped their clothes to resist the cold, and regretted not wearing thicker ones one by one. After returning the salute simply, Duke Su looked for Min and Chen Jing among the hundred officials, and saw that the two were clinging to each other and looking at him.

Chen Jing saw the panic in Su Gong's demeanor, after all, a seventeen-year-old boy had not experienced a major event, and he still needed to be tempered. But at this time, this kind of demeanor and demeanor may have already been seen by Duan's dead friends, especially Xue and others.

"Duke Su and others asked to come to the tent to keep warm." Chen Jing arched his hand and asked Su Gong loudly.

All the ministers joined the request one after another, which embarrassed Su Gong and eased his frightened demeanor.

"There is a stove in the tent of the ministers, come in quickly." Su Gong hurriedly said.

A few people really couldn't bear the cold and walked a few steps to Su Gong when they saluted Su Gong and quickly entered the tent, at this time Su Gong was like a welcoming doorman and the ministers who entered responded one by one, Chen Jing and Min also approached the tent, it seemed that they could not resist the cold, when the two passed by Su Gong, Chen Jing saluted and whispered:

"Everything is under control, Su Gong is too worried, don't forget to show weakness to Wei Li and beg for mercy."

Su Gong didn't say anything, just nodded in response.

After another hour, all the officials who participated in the sacrifice had reached the top, and they had also come to the tent to ask Su Gong to prepare, and the eastern sky had already leaked a little white.

The heavenly court seemed to be looking forward to such sacrifices, and the slightest wind blew up, but the chill increased a lot.

In order to show solemnity, Su Gong could only take off his thick clothes and wear a sacrificial costume that could not keep out the cold in order to show solemnity, and he did not feel the chill in the tent, but as soon as he got out of the tent, his body was exposed in the ice and snow.

As the king of a country, ceremonial things often best reflect his majesty, Su Gong remembered his father's expression when he sacrificed to heaven before, and gritted his teeth and stiffened. Then the hundred officials followed Su Gong in accordance with the pre-arranged order and slowly ascended Tianwen Peak.

There is a platform of five or six hundred square meters on the flat peak, and the ministers of the Su Gong have to kowtow step by step from the moment they reach the summit until the huge pyre at the east end of the platform.

Behind the tall pyre, the place where the eastern sky meets the earth is still extremely gray, and the top of the gray turns from gray to gray and white until it turns gray and blue, and the stars in the sky are long hidden as if they are afraid of touching the sun.

Before Su Gong and the ministers finished kowtowing, the gray blue of the east gradually turned dark red, and the sky above became brighter and brighter, and there was a semicircle of white between the dark red and the blue sky.

Kowtowing is not a simple kneeling, but kneeling three times after a set of bells and whistles, so it takes more than 20 minutes to walk in just 50 meters.

The sun seemed to wait for no one, and the white in the eastern sky was gradually replaced by blood red, and the original dark red was only dark. Fortunately, Su Gong and they are getting closer and closer to the tall pyre.

The kowtow ceremony finally ended at a distance of five or six meters from the tall pyre, and before Su Gong rested, the ceremonial officer shouted the word "Tianwen". A small official held a torch in his hand and handed it to Su Gong.

Su Gong held the torch in his hand and made another movement, and finally slowly came to the pyre, holding the torch and slowly approaching the thinner and softer lard-stained pine branches at the bottom of the pyre.

"Whew." The flammable pine branches burst into flames as if they exploded the moment they came into contact with the flames, and the flames quickly took over the entire pyre with the help of the wind, and with the help of lard, the tall pyres were surrounded by raging fires. At this time, the eastern sky was as red as this blazing fire, and a bright red fire disk as big as a millstone was also burning the eastern sky, and the fire disk was the sun that had just crossed the horizon.

Su Gong lit the pyre and took the jade plate handed by the celebrant with words to report to the gods and prayers for the safety and peace of all the people. Su Gong read it aloud, but was drowned out by the sound of the raging fire swaying in the wind.

Among the hundred officials, there were also foreign affairs personnel from other countries and envoys sent by the king of Yindu, and the words of the jade disc were read to these foreign affairs personnel and envoys in addition to the gods. On the back of the jade plate, there are other words and phrases, which have been there since the king of Dongsheng sacrificed to the sky for King Yin, but they were kept secret.

When Su Gong finished reading the words on the jade plate, the official brought a piece of brocade cloth and a hard object shaped like a hammer.

Su Gong took the jade dish wrapped in brocade cloth and put it on the bare rock at the top, lifted the hammer-like hard object and smashed it at the jade plate, according to the ritual requirements Su Gong should smash the jade plate as much as possible, it is said that in this way the god can receive the information on the jade plate, this kind of behavior can not help but make people guess whether the words behind the jade plate are not visible, and this behavior has existed since the sacrifice to the sky became the exclusive use of the emperor, and naturally it will not directly rely on Su Gong, but in fact, the back does write only the words and sentences of Dongsheng to be strong.

Su Gong slammed a few times to pick up the brocade cloth, pinched it with his hands and couldn't pinch a large piece, so he threw the brocade cloth into the tall pyre that was redder than the sun.

At this point, the core part of the ritual of sacrificing to heaven was over, and Su Gong and the hundred officials knelt on the ground here to make a big salute, but it took a long time to raise their heads after this prostration, as if they were waiting for something.

At this time, Jiangyuan City at the foot of the mountain was also on fire......