After Spring and Autumn

Chapter 27 The Appearance of King Yu
"Master Meng, it's still too late to leave the city."

"Then what do you do?"

"The two of us have received great kindness from the king, and we can only repay each other with death!"

After experiencing what happened last night, Fan Li became more careful, and did not follow into the palace, but ran to the military camp outside the city to join Wen Zhong, just in case.

As soon as Su Zhi got the military talisman, he immediately sent his confidants to take over the barracks. When the two found out that something was wrong, they hurriedly slipped out of the barracks and rushed to the post, just in time to meet Meng Di and others who were "escorted" back.

"In your eyes, Goujian is the second prince you can die for, but in our eyes, Li is our robe. If the robe is in trouble, how can we go away?"

"But you can't save His Highness here, and Su Zhizhi is ruthless, and he won't care about his status as an envoy of the Chu Kingdom."

"That's not necessarily the case. Tomorrow, I will sacrifice at King Yu's Mausoleum outside the city, so I just took the opportunity to strike." Meng Di is not a person who is willing to suffer, how could he let it go when he was slapped around in the palace.

According to the rules of the Yue Kingdom, such a major event as the new king's ascension to the throne must be announced to the ancestors first, and the place is at the Mausoleum of King Yu in Kuaiji Mountain outside the city.

After Su Zhi took control of the palace, he convened a court meeting with the ministers on the spot, and decided to offer sacrifices to the ancestors the next day.For him, it was a torment to be enthroned an hour later.

After the heads of several loyal veterans were chopped off by the glamorous Chang Ge, no one dared to object, at least on the surface.

"Sigh, Lord Meng doesn't understand the situation of Yue State. There is only one road leading to King Yu's Mausoleum. At that time, there must be heavy guards. With hundreds of personal soldiers, I'm afraid you won't even be able to reach the road up the mountain." Fan Li sighed again and again.

Everyone fell into silence again. Ever since Meng Di set fire to the Wu camp, he had a lot of experience in using fire, so he thought about attacking the palace with fire at night.With the climbing ability of the Han people, and the fact that the palace has just gone through a great chaos, it is very likely to succeed.

Han Zhan was also called to discuss, and upon seeing this, he whispered a few words in his ear. Meng Di's eyes lit up, and he asked Fan Li and Wen Zhong to secretly bring the first song out of the city gate.

Meng Di was not used to the army formation of Chu State, so according to the memory of his previous life, he compiled the young and strong Han people into the first song, with 500 people in each song, and Han Zhan was the governor of the song.

The two were puzzled and asked Mengdi why he stayed alone, but they couldn't get any answer, so they had no choice but to shake their heads and leave.

Before dawn, Mengdi was "invited" to watch the ceremony with only Qiu'er by his side.

From the city gate to the mountain, there are soldiers all the way, and Su Zhi has long been dressed in front of the mausoleum.As the envoy of Chu State, Meng Di was able to stand in the forefront together with several clan elders.

Winners always need some spectators, and Gou Jian was brought over and stood at a distance, staring at Su Zhi with flaming eyes.

As a member of the royal family, he must be present at the sacrificial ceremony, but everyone's eyes turned away intentionally or unintentionally, perhaps this was the last time he appeared here.

Maybe he was too complacent, Su Zhi behaved a little lightly, smiled and called Meng Di and said: "Master Meng is very interested, I heard that he brought a maid over here, there are many beauties in Yue, how many can I give you?"

"Thank you, Your Highness. Since Your Highness has fulfilled his wish, why not let Gou Jian follow me back to Chu State, so that people in the world will praise His Highness for his kindness?"

"Go back to Chu State? Haha, Master Meng thinks he can return to Chu State?" Su Zhi teased.

"Your Highness is not afraid of being blamed by Chu State?"

"Chu State? Whether it will perish or not is unknown, do you think the widows will care?"

"Let's think about this matter after His Highness becomes the real king." Meng Di said calmly.

Seeing that Mengdi was getting angry from embarrassment, Suzhi became even happier, and nodded his chin in the direction of Goujian: "The real king, if it wasn't me, would he still be him?"

The clan elders frowned when they heard it from a distance. It is not proper to talk about maids on such an occasion.Yunchang is dead, and Suzhi is the son of the first son and the prince, so he should succeed to the throne, even if he is a little dissatisfied, he can only keep silent.

Fortunately, the sacrifice started soon, and the extremely complicated ceremony did not make Suzhi feel bored at all, on the contrary, he was always in high spirits.

The most important part of the ceremony is that the prince who is qualified to succeed enters the mausoleum alone to announce to the ancestors and listen to the will of the ancestors. Only the prince who is recognized can succeed to the throne.

It stands to reason that Goujian is also qualified to enter, but no one, including himself, has thought about this issue at all.

Go in and turn around, just stay for a while at will.Coming out naturally means that the ancestors are satisfied with him. Is it possible that King Yu will crawl out of the tomb to complain?Su Zhi smiled happily, walked in with his head held high.

Time passed by slowly, but there was no sticking out.Gradually, there were some whispering voices, and the clan elders also started to discuss. Unexpectedly, Su Zhi usually acted a little ostentatiously, but he was quite sincere in worshiping the ancestors.

However, something is getting more and more wrong. Half an hour has passed, and an hour has passed. Are there really so many things that need to be communicated?Could it be that he fell asleep in it?

Although it was the season of warm spring and flowers blooming, it was uncomfortable to be basking in the sun all the time, and many elderly ministers began to feel drowsy.

The clan elders discussed for a while, and a respectable elder coughed and asked the priest to go in and have a look.

After the priest first confessed his crime to King Yu, he stepped into the mausoleum cautiously.

When he came out, he was still alone, with a confused look on his face.

"Where is His Royal Highness?"

"His Royal Highness, Your Highness...is not inside."

not in it?Everyone fell silent.If it weren't for knowing that the priest would never be able to joke on such an occasion, the clan elder who asked the question almost threw his crutch over.

The ceremony has been rehearsed countless times, but this situation is not included.

In the end, a few clan elders were selected to go in and search again. The place is so big, of course, it is impossible to find new discoveries.

King Dayu appeared!That's the only possibility that comes to mind.

Only the priest can communicate with ghosts and gods. Seeing everyone's eyes gathered again, he was so depressed that he was about to cry. He pretended to pray with the idea that he could procrastinate for a while.

There was a soft voice in my ear: "Could it be that King Yu likes His Highness so much that he takes him to serve him?"

He raised his head suddenly and saw Meng Di's meaningful eyes, his heart was agitated, and his movements accelerated a bit.

In an almost crazy rhythm, the priest suddenly froze, trembled a few times, and shouted: "The prince is very fond of King Yu, take him to serve him!" Then he pretended to lose consciousness, fell to the ground, and closed his eyes to eavesdrop on everyone Reaction.

No one would suspect that the priest was lying, after all, the facts were right in front of him.There was a lot of discussion for a while, some were amazed, some were envious, and even more were slanderers.

Of course, there are also those who panic, like Gongbu's cronies, who are completely dumbfounded. If His Highness is not here, what is the difference between them and ants.

Fan Li was also in a daze, and it wasn't until Meng Di gave a signal with his eyes that he suddenly felt blessed and stood up and said: "A country cannot live without a king. The prince Gou Jian is filial and benevolent, so he should be the king."

Meng Di also expressed on the spot that Chu State is willing to support Gou Jian as King of Yue.

Su Zhi's cronies refused to accept and were chopped into mud.In Fan Li's words, since the crown prince serves King Yu, you, as confidantes, should continue to follow him underground.

In this way, Goujian entered the mausoleum in a daze and walked around. With the cooperation of the priest, he was perfectly recognized by his ancestors, and the enthronement ceremony was held on the spot.

In the next few months, the entire Yue Kingdom was discussing this matter, and the appearance of King Yu was obviously more interesting than who would be the king of Yue, and the incense for worship was unprecedentedly prosperous because of this.

(End of this chapter)