Chapter 050 – Cock-eyed old man
Xu Fengyen back to the house on the road in a good mood, extra two beef sauce is to the Wutong Court maids piggyback, no surprise Jiang Nai is still waiting in the courtyard, this small fortune now regardless of the wind and rain, every day to read 100,000 words of the secret books of the canon, do not earn enough one hundred taels of silver will never stop, every time you read the wrong read the wrong read the omission of deducting the ten money to be in the 100,000 words on the cross, today Xu Fengyen slipped out to meet the blind old Xu, the Jiang Nai on hanging out to meet less than blank looks. Today Xu Fengyen slipped out to see the blind old Xu, and left Jiang Nai hanging out to dry in Wutongyuan, and then met with a few blank stares. Xu Fengyen entered the courtyard, waiting for a long time sweet potato handed a letter sent from the Longhu Mountain, Zhao Xituan old Taoist handwriting, let the green bird will beef distributed, alone take the letter into the study, Jiang Nai squatted in the corner holding a book of “stinging dragon fist recipe”, whispered broken reading, wait until Xu Fengyen sat down this is only startled, she hurriedly got up and stood still, a face of annoyance and indignation. Xu Fengyen opened the letter, sat into a shelf pattern auspicious clouds rosewood sleeping immortal chair, smiled: “Since we have waited for half a day, then wait a little longer to read, allow me to finish reading this letter.”
Jiang Nai had no awareness of people under the roof, calmly said, “Today, a word of two cents.”
Xu Fengyen didn’t even pay attention to her, just focusing on reading the letter, Jiang Nai watched as His Highness the World Prince’s face changed from sunny to cloudy, then to a thunderstorm, and finally it was practically a black cloud pressing down on the city, and for a while, she had forgotten to repeat that a word was worth two wen. Xu Fengyen raised his hand to slap on the sandalwood handle, but only to shoot down the convergence back to nine out of ten of the force, finally in time to close his hand, which did not shoot a corner of the chair broken, even so, his face is still grim enough to scare people. Xu Fengyen stood up, walked to the window, a few breaths, turned around and was already cloudy, looked at Jiang Nai and smiled, “Come, you read and I’ll listen to the book.”
Jiang Nai read the “stinging dragon” and then read most of a sword book, the window is already deep night, she found that Xu Fengyen today unprecedentedly did not make a sound deduction. Absentmindedly listening to the sound of reading for two hours Xu Fengyen laughed: ”You have saved quite a lot of silver on my side now, why don’t we make another deal? One thousand Guan to buy a book of secrets, you can buy ten books in a year, even if you can’t practice martial arts yourself, you casually throw a few books to the jianghu people, still afraid that they won’t bite me like a mad dog? It’s better than having a lot of money and nothing to use it on. How’s that for business? Don’t look so reluctant and unimaginable, I’m just telling you what you’re thinking, with our relationship and friendship, there’s no need to be pretentious, so, it’s a deal. A book of secrets one thousand two hundred kan?”
Jiang Nai hated the “Stinging Dragon” as a sword to poke this treacherous guy to death, coldly laughed: “In the end is one thousand Guan or one thousand two hundred Guan?”
Xu Fengyen, who was exposed to the small trick, laughed: “Friendly price, 800 kan a book.”
Jiang Nai agreed in one gulp, “Good!”
Xu Fengyen waved his hand, picking up the wordy and ambiguous Longhu Mountain secret letter, frowning tightly, without lifting his head, he said to Jiang Nai, who was putting the two secret manuals back on the bookshelf, “Do you want to prepare a Noble Concubine couch for you?”
Jiang Nai snorted in contempt, “I still want to live.”
Xu Fengyen did not comment on this statement, Jiang Nai left, sweet potatoes will be holding a crystal clear glazed marquee full of fruit into the room, glaze is a rare product that can be encountered and can not be sought, ordinary rich and noble families can have glazed secondary medicinal jades is the ultimate in financial resources, here but only as a small object to hold the fruit, the only officials in the dynasty more than the fourth grade can be adorned with a small piece of glaze, and the color and lustre is often not translucent enough, His Highness is really a Waste.
Xu Fengnian picked up a snow pear, nibbled a mouthful, said in a harsh voice: “Riding a bull just sent a manuscript of the “Two Instruments Samsonite”, just to listen to the tide pavilion Grandpa Wei casually glanced at the two eyes, will be very happy to cry, said than in the pavilion that was called the king of the Dan of the ancient book of the “I Ching Samsonite” but also a good understanding of the way of heaven, look, the headmaster of the great Yellow Ting cultivation not to mention that I’m off the mountain, the Wudang is also willing to add to it. willing to icing on the cake, and then look at this Longhu Mountain, only more than a year, there are people in the House of the Heavenly Master to bully the yellow barbarians! This gang of yellow and purple Taoist priests is truly a death wish!”
Sweet Potato softly said, “Longhu Mountain has been powerful for two hundred years, while Wudang Mountain has been declining for three hundred years, and Wudang Mountain is located in Beiliang, while Longhu Mountain is thousands of miles away, so naturally, their styles are different.”
Xu Fengnian calmly said, “I had already planned to go to Longhu Mountain, and now I’m even going to the Heavenly Master’s Mansion to see the style of the Feathered Minister.”
Sweet potato tenderly kneaded Xu Fengyen’s shoulders, after his highness practiced the sword, the original weak body is too much robust, physical fitness qi growth is a day by a thousand miles, if said sweet potato before to take the technique like embroidery, that now do not ring the bells and pound the drums even Xu Fengyen think it is scratching an itch. Sweet Potato softly said, “Your Highness, do you really want to go out to the cool land again?”
Xu Fengnian nodded, half true half false smile: “But this trip out is not as a mourning dog, as a son of his highness’s platoon of gestures have to be pulled out, Longhu Mountain, Shangyin Palace of Learning, Xuan Yuan family’s lower horse villa, the Yue Wang sword pool, Luoshen Garden on the banks of Luo water river, all these places that did not dare to go in the past, have to go on a journey. Sweet Potato, follow along?”
Sweet Potato shook his head pitifully, “Can we not go, Your Highness?”
Xu Fengyen laughed it off, letting Sweet Potato put the letter away, brought two jugs of wine, and walked out of the courtyard alone to the Hearing Tide Pavilion. Every time you see that “Kuiwei Xiongjie” four words plaque, Xu Fengyen on a burst of uncomfortable, if only this ghostly nine dragon plaque alone on the top, it’s just, but there are also two words next to the words of the dragon fly white water iron painting silver hooks of the secondary plaque, anything under the sun is afraid of goods, more and more lined up with nine-dragon plaque does not enter the stream, in the fourteen years old Xu Fengyi year! In the year Xu Fengnian was fourteen years old, the surprising collapse of the old emperor can be said to be ambitious, is this hand of words is really not to be complimented.
Xu Fengyen thought of the same writing like earthworms rolling mud of the second sister Xu Weixiong, inevitably feel that if the second sister is a male body, that the Northern Liang 300,000 iron cavalry how to be firmly in the hands of the Xu family, regardless of whether Xu Fengyen is a real fool or a fake fool, can not escape.
Xu Fengyen pushed the door and walked into the hall of Hearing Tide Pavilion, helplessly said: ”Second sister, at this time a stomach of anger should subside, right? If I really can’t, I’ll go to Shang Yin Academy Palace for you to scold.”
His trip into the Pavilion in addition to find the white fox face drinking, and then is to flip through the Longhu Mountain Tianshifu ancestry, this generation of the four great masters, yellow barbarians cheap master Zhao Xituan seniority ranked second, but the most powerless, on the surface is Zhao Danxia Zhao national master in charge of the world of Taoism, only to hear that Zhao’s younger brother, Zhao Danping is not a light, this master of a year, the majority of the year are in the capital city to spread the word, all kinds of fairy deeds can be heard by the child, reputation Not lose Zhao Danxia the slightest, leaving a generation of the highest Zhao Xiyi, seems to have never news leakage.
Every family has its own problems, not to mention the countless Taoist scriptures of the Heavenly Master’s House.
Xu Fengyen is going to go upstairs today to get to the bottom of this family of “non-my clan members can’t pass on the Heavenly Master”. The outside world only knows that the Hearing Tide Pavilion is a military arsenal, but few people know that the pavilion’s achievements in collecting insider secrets are even more flourishing.
Xu Fengyen arrived at the second floor, only to turn the corner, he saw a fresh face, is a broken-armed old man, short in stature, with two goatees, draped in a piece of old and tattered sheepskin fur, tiptoeing on tiptoes and struggling to pull out a martial arts codex, dabbed in the saliva, flipped open and read.
Failing to feel any qi flow, Xu Fengyen got up in a joking frame of mind, tiptoed over and softly said, “Old brother, also here to steal books?”
The old man did not care, a glance, flipping through the book extremely fast, silent attic can only hear his clattering sound of turning pages.
Xu Fengnian stretched his head and glanced, wanting to see the content, the old man was prudent and petty, holding the book in his hand a little farther away.
Xu Fengyen pretended to stuff a few books into his arms and kindly reminded, “Old brother, don’t look, if you can get a few more books, it’s a few more books.”
The old man tightened his sheepskin fur, deafly ignoring His Royal Highness.
Xu Fengnian whispered, “Did you not see a white fox face? That’s the man with the sword who looks more beautiful than a beauty? He has a terrible temper, let’s take it easy and be careful.”
The old man finally raised his head and glanced at His Highness with cock-eyes.
Xu Fengyen pretended to warmly hook shoulders up, incomparable enthusiasm: “Old brother, upstairs secret manuals are even more superior and rare, I bought through the Royal Palace of His Highness’s maid, relatively familiar with the way, take you?”
The old man’s cock-eye became more serious, but he did not avoid Xu Fenian’s rude action.
He seemed to be quite disdainful of the good intentions of this “peer” beside him.
Xu Fengnian just wanted to speak, suddenly felt a sense of suffocation, turned his head and saw that not only was White Fox Face present, even Xu Snapdragon and his master Li Yishan were there, behind Xu Snapdragon there were even six guards of the pavilion gathered as if they were on the verge of an attack, this is?
The white fox face slowly walked, looked at the eyes like an idiot cut eyes Xu Fengnian.
Grand Pillar State Xu Snapdragon didn’t approach, just slightly bent over and softly said, “This time out of Northern Liang, Feng Nian will be more trouble.”
When and where did the only king with a different surname in the dynasty, the king of Northern Liang, treat someone with such respect?
Even the current Zhang Julu Chief Minister Zhang Julu was not qualified for this, was he?
Xu Fengnian, whose hand was still resting on the old man’s shoulder, stiffened his body.
White Fox’s face was watching the fun, her peach blossom eyes filled with gloating.
Xu Fengyen quietly glared at White Fox face, slowly withdrew his hand and put all the books in his arms back to their original places.
Xu Fengyen looked at Li Yishan who had made an exception to come downstairs, the latter smiled and shook his head, his eyes signaling no comment.
Dazhuguo and Li Yishan left together, Xu Fengyen clearly perceived that the six experts who were working as pavilion guard slaves at the Listening Tide Pavilion for their own different reasons simultaneously breathed slower and were no longer tense.
White fox face learns Xu Fenian hooked shoulders and smiled and said: “He has a strange temper, take it easy, be careful to eat and go?”
Xu Fengyen wanted to put his arm around White Fox Face’s shoulder, but he dodged it, and awkwardly explained, “I misheard you, it’s the temper that’s very good, very good.”
White fox face left in style, climbed a ladder and continued to read books on the second floor.
At the end of the day, there was still only His Highness the World Son and that cock-eyed old man left, one full of confusion, the other pretending to be a god.
Xu Fengyen thought for a while, felt that he finally got the hang of it, slightly distanced himself from the old man of unknown origin, and cautiously said, “Old brother, are you the high ranking person Xu Snapdragon invited to fight with the old demon suppressed by Listening to the Tide Pavilion?”
The old man narrowed his eyes into slits and remained silent.
Xu Fengnian pretended to be mysterious and worried: “Old brother, this thing is dangerous, Xu Snapdragon has promised you some benefits, if it is small, you must not agree, the pavilion suppresses the big devil can be very good, three heads, six arms, can swallow clouds and fog, can move mountains and overturn the sea!”
The old man was ready to stuff that secret book into the bookshelf, stopped his movement and randomly let go of his hand, but the weird thing was that the book was hanging and not falling!
The cock-eyed old man turned around and left, disliking Xu Fengyen’s annoying croaking in his ears.
Xu Fenian’s face blanched as he muttered, “Don’t ever tell me you’re that old demon of the netherworld.”
The old man’s raspy voice drummed in the attic, “How did Human Butcher Xu Snapdragon give birth to such a son like you. It’s a bit interesting.”