In March 397 BC, Nie Zheng of the State of Wei, in order to repay his thoughts, assassinated the Korean minister Yan Zhongzi on behalf of the Korean minister Yan Zhongzi, and then committed suicide. However, it is puzzling that before committing suicide, he used a knife to goug out his eyes and cut his own face, why did he disfigure?
Nie Zheng, a Korean, is a butcher, who killed people in his early years because of his anger, and in order to avoid revenge, he moved to the State of Qi with his mother and sister. The Korean minister Yan Zhongzi and Han Xiangxia were forced to flee to the State of Qi, and at the same time looking for someone who could avenge him, he heard that Nie Zheng was a warrior, so he visited nie zheng several times and wanted to ask Nie Zheng to avenge himself. Later, he prepared a sumptuous wine feast, personally picked up and dropped off, and invited Nie Mu to taste; and each time he offered a hundred pieces of gold to wish Nie Mu a happy birthday.
One ytterbium is twenty-two, a hundred ytterbium is two thousand two, to be honest, in the face of such a large sum of money, there are probably not many people who are not moved, but Nie Zheng is unusually calm and calm, and expresses great vigilance against this very heavy and unusual gift. He clearly told Yan Zhongzi that he was not a person who saw money and eyes, although he was a butcher, but this was only a profession that he had to engage in to support his mother, and that he did not dare to sacrifice lightly after his mother was alive for one day.
In addition to a piece of filial piety, we also saw Nie Zheng's proud bones. In contrast to devotion and detachment, he has his own independent consciousness and personality. Perhaps Yan Zhongzi took a fancy to Nie Zheng and showed more respect for Nie Zheng and his mother, and he gave gifts to the Nie family as usual. As the days went on, Nie Zheng was also moved.
Later, Nie Zheng's mother died, and after Nie Zheng's filial piety period expired, he said: "I am just a commoner in the city, and Yan Zhongzi is a princely secretary, he has traveled thousands of miles to make friends with me, but I have not repaid him!" He gave me hundreds of dollars, showing that he knew my personality and abilities well. To be a human being, you must love and hate, revenge must be repaid, friends must be kissed, and now that my mother has enjoyed her life, I have nothing to worry about. I'm going to use it for my confidant!"
Like Zhu Zhu, the central idea of Nie Zheng's remarks was that "soldiers die for those who know themselves", although their "confidants" are only buying their lives with money and friendship, and they are only a sword of murder and revenge in the hands of "confidants", but in that era, in the thinking of chivalry, "faith" was above life.
So Nie Zheng went to Yan Zhongzi and asked him for the name and address of the enemy family. Yan Zhongzi arranged a vehicle retinue for him, etc., but Nie Zheng refused, and on a high windy and dark night in a month, Nie Zheng rode alone on the road. Nie Zheng's actions seemed to be more "chivalrous" than those of Dictatorship, because he did not make any demands on Yan Zhongzi. Between them, there was not a trace of a trade.
Nie Zheng's assassination process can only be described as bizarre. Nie Zheng came to the door of Xia Tired's mansion, and then raised his sword and went straight in, ignoring the many guards of xia tired family, and quickly walked straight to xia tired's side, and xia tired killed him with a sword. The left and right guards witnessed the killing of Xia Lei and began to besiege Nie Zheng. Nie Zheng shouted loudly and killed dozens of people in a row.
As the guards poured in, Nie Zheng was sure that he could not escape, and in order to cover Yan Zhongzi and not involve his family, he used a knife to cut his face, gouged out his eyes, and committed suicide. Nie Zheng's body was dumped in a square in South Korea.
The climax of the story is still to come, but what is even more shocking is the action of his sister Nie Yuan. Knowing that Nie Zheng was dead, she rushed to South Korea and risked her life to lie on her brother's corpse and scream for the sky.
Someone asked her, "Didn't the girl hear that this man had assassinated my Korean minister?" How dare you identify a corpse here by name?"
Nie Yan said, "Of course I know!" He was fighting for his friends. My brother is just a butcher, but Yan Zhongzi appreciates him so much, how can he not die for his confidant! He was still thinking about my sister when he was dying, so he was afraid that self-disfigurement would affect me, so how could I now consider my own safety and let my brother's name be buried!"
The ending is that her sister Nie Yan is also killed in the square. In order to let her brother's name remain in history, the young and beautiful girl chose to sacrifice her life. The wounds were red with blood, but the face shone with regret and purity.
The feats of the two brothers and sisters together performed a bloody but romantic masterpiece. More than two thousand years ago, there was such a romantic story in this land. Romantic is touching and sad. Nie Zheng and Nie Zhen proved with their own sacrifices and deaths that although they were born as commoners, had no wealth, no power, and no excessive wisdom, their inner nobility was enough to be proud of the prince.