Chapter 139 – A Green Embroidered Shoe
Xu Beihao usually can’t beat the shit out of a few sticks, but only after drinking, especially after drinking high, will not be able to control the tongue, can say anything, also dare to say anything. Probably because he had too much ink in his stomach, every time he didn’t wait to talk all the way through, he would already be sound asleep.
Zoran mountain range through the golden toad state east and west, the southern foothills of the plains looking at irrigation canals across, after the fall, the field of vision are green and yellow happy picture, and the Liyang dynasty’s southern farming area is almost the same, Zoran north is a vast grassland, Zoran steep mountains, a natural barrier, except those gap canyon composed of the pathway, north and south can not be accessed, these pathway becomes the chokehold on the north-south traffic throat.
North Mang in this place has five towns of Zuo Ran, alongside the canyon to build barricades, set up troops E guard, five towns are old acacia Zuo Xuan Chilu high Que Wu Chuan, at this time Xu Fengyen Xu Bei Hao two people walking centipede valley white road, in Zuo Xuan military town jurisdiction, Zuo Xuan pathway divided into main and auxiliary road, the main road is located in the bottom of the valley, spacious and easy for horses to gallop, the auxiliary pathway is cut into the mountain and built, dark and damp. The reputation of Zo Xuan military town is covered by a mountain peak, the centipede road is sparse, in addition to the auxiliary road is difficult to go like a centipede branches, mainly because of the fear of the local emperor here, the fifth raccoon, the man with a very strange name, is the mountain of Tibing Mountain’s master, privately also known as the Zo Ran mountain range of the Lord of, because in addition to the Zo Xuan military town in his direct control, and there are also the old acacia Wuchuan town of the two towns of the commander of the generals come from As one of the top sects of the Northern Mang Dynasty, the Tibing Mountain is undoubtedly the closest to the temple, and everyone is a pawn. When Fifth Raccoon’s daughter married Dong Zhuo, who was the most promising 13th general of the Southern Dynasty, the Tibing Mountain was thrown into the limelight, and some people in the Court of Justice immediately questioned Fifth Raccoon’s ambitions to be a wolf, unwilling to submit to the court, but fortunately, Her Majesty the Empress has always put her trust in the Jianghu martial artist, who had rescued her during her time of trouble. The fifth raccoon’s only daughter’s wedding, but also sent a broken congratulatory gift, an imperial decree will be accepted as her daughter, enjoining the rank of the wife’s complementary clothing is still above the rank of Dong Zhuo, invariably let the fat man Dong fell into the north and south of North Mang two dynasties of the laughing stock, mocking Dong Zhuo as a soft rice general, but also joked about him marrying his wife twice, each time it is a climb the dragon to the phoenix, said it is a liability to the two families.
Walking in the dark shade centipede path, although the outer edge of the path has a simple elm guardrail, but the stone floor slippery with water, only learned some physical fitness boxing Xu Beihao walked with fear, good thing Xu Fenian walked on his right, which is only a few points of peace of mind. This mountain wall between the auxiliary road width of more than ten feet, high one and a half feet, can be a donkey and a mule to carry goods slowly pass, against the inner wall roots are covered with moss, the top of the wall constantly dripping water, running horses are very easy to slip, a piece of a slab of green stone paved with a lot of gaps in the path, but also let the horse’s hooves to hit the corner, if not a horsemanship is superb, the horse is familiar with the centipede road, I’m afraid that no one would dare to shake the horsemanship here.
The waist of a new hanging a wine gourd Xu Beihuan fear of height, afraid of distraction fall, always dare not speak, this trip south they originally in accordance with Xu Beihuan’s arrangement, choose a lot of merchants easy to fish eyes of the sleepy belly hook path, but the boy nicknamed persimmon Xu Fengyen in the restaurant heard a rumor that someone wants to provoke the great master of the fifth raccoon in the Tibing Mountain again, pulling Xu Beihuan hurriedly rushed to come to the hilarity, this Let the customary cautious layout of Xu BeiHei some headaches, just this persimmon insist to see see to see the Tibing mountain of the spirit, Xu BeiHei can not leave him alone to go sleepy belly hook, coupled with the centipede road is treacherous and bumpy, this way he did not give Xu FenNian face, in the final analysis, the two age is not big son of the magnates, Xu BeiHei is not yet he can be worthy of their own to go to bow and scrape of the bright master, and Xu FenNian also do not think that You need to make a gesture to Xu Beihao, recruiting the virtuous and thirsty? My master Li Yishan alone is worth several Xu Beihao? Compared to that, Xu Fengyen was more willing to accept the blind chess player in the ten games in Yongzi Lane, or the humble man who met at the Temple of the Annunciation in Jiangnan, who treasured books as much as his life. However, Xu Fengyen can’t deny that Xu Beihao still looks a bit young compared to Xu Huainan, who has been in the temple for a long time, but he is still a step ahead of his own half-baked counterparts.
Centipede Road is as lonely as the Yellow Springs Road, no one is around, Xu Fengyen will not be difficult to talk about what martial arts Xu Beihao, personally carry the traveling bag. But even so, Xu Beihao still had to stop every ten miles or so to take a rest, about a little bit grateful for Xu Fengyen’s initiative to stop every time to take care of the face, Xu Beihao a little bit of courage to walk on the side of the guardrail with an open view, looking at the thousands of miles of fertile south of the Johoran mountain range, and finally opened his mouth to ask: ”Your Highness, why would you practice martial arts? Aren’t you afraid of delaying the future military affairs of Northern Liang? If a vassal king’s descendants, if they get by, they will naturally have less glory and wealth, and the Zhao family’s son of heaven would like to think that he would be happy with that. But to maintain the hereditary honor, always have to exhaustion, Jing’an Wang Zhao Heng is to lose a life, son Zhao Xun is into the capital, the rich and powerful, not to mention you will also be the only king of the dynasty of different surnames from the sun, the burden of the heavy, I think under the sky only the king of the Northern Liang and the son of His Highness, your father and son can feel. I would have thought that you would be the one who most despises the recklessness of the jianghu, after all, back then, the Northern Liang King personally destroyed most of the anger of the Liyang jianghu. Within the Northern Liang King’s residence are hidden dragons and crouching tigers, and countless eagles and dogs, so why does His Highness the son of the world need to personally learn martial arts and practice the sword? Lure in fame and fortune, and with a single order, there will always be countless masters who will sell their lives for you.”
Xu Beihao’s words when he wasn’t drinking were mostly in such an emphatic tone, always with a flavor of questioning.
Xu Fengyen is thinking about his mind, simply ignore this has been no family dog has not yet been sent under the fence of Xu Huainan mantle, was ignored Xu Beihuan also not angry, said to himself: “chivalry to mess with the ban on martial arts, but the two dynasties have unprecedented dominance over their respective rivers and lakes, North Mang this side of the jianghu directly into the court’s slaves, away from the sun dynasty also has to give the court lookout for the hawks and dogs, the fight in the harbor is The most important thing is that they are not the same as the others. This kind of lingering jianghu, I really can’t figure out what’s the need to personally go into the water.”
Xu Fengyen suddenly laughed, sitting on his butt on the decaying parapet, looking at Xu Beihuan for a while, Xu Fengyen looked at this high ranking Junyan who liked to look at the current situation from a high level, and said flatly, “Xu Beihuan, have you seen with your own eyes the flying swords of two thousand? Have you ever seen the seawater rise and float with your own strength? Have you seen a strand of sword energy destroy a city wall?”
Xu Beihuan calmly shook his head and said, “I’ve never seen it. But since ancient times, one thing is as good as another. The Sword Emperor of Xishu guarded the country’s gates for the Emperor, but was he not crushed by your Xu family’s iron horsemen to the point that no bones remained? Why is it that long-famous jianghu people do not want to go to the battlefield to kill? It is not because of the fear of turning over the boat in the gutter, and then the elite military brigade often have a special for the top masters of a similar martial arts rider, I guess you Liyang Chief Minister Zhang Julu these years spared no effort to tilt the empire’s taxes to the north, must let Gu Jiantang to foster a cope with the force of the North Mang jianghu force, do not look at the present day Tibing Mountain chess sword Lefu these hills are very flames of shocking, once they are driven to the sands of the battlefield to kill, can not afford a few large-scale battles squandered. A few large-scale battles to squander.”
Xu Fengnian laughed: “Are you criticizing me? Scolding me for not doing my job?”
Xu Beihao lifted the wine gourd and took a sip of wine.
Xu Fengnian laughed instead of being angry and sighed sincerely, “Your view is just like my second sister’s. Only that I, the son of the world, before I was crowned, I only had one thing to do that I could do without worrying about, you can’t expect me to bide my time and harbor evil intentions at the same time, and I’m not afraid of your jokes, I don’t have much of a direct lineage to speak of so far, and by careful calculation, it seems like the Feng Zi camp has some friendships with two to three hundred people. I would like someone to bow to me, but the second time I traveled, Xiangfan city outside the reed swamp battle, the house of a Dongyue swordsman before he died, but only cursed me a dog’s ass of the son of His Highness. That’s when I realized that no one under the sky is stupid.”
Xu Beihao wiped the wine from the corner of his mouth and teased, “So it’s because you don’t dare to sit in the dragon chair, not because you don’t want to.”
Xu Fengnian helplessly said, “Chicken and duck talk.”
Xu Beihao slowly said, “Several major events have occurred at the moment, respectively, our dynasty Taiping order has become the popularly desired imperial teacher, Zhao Kai, the son of the Zhao family, who surfaced for the first time, held a silver vase and went to the West, the white-robed monks went into the clouds to speak the Diamond Sutra, Daode Zong began to compile the Dao Collection with the support of the female emperor, Zhang Julu started to draw the elite cavalry of several feudal kings to rush to the northern frontier, of which To Yan Zhi Wang and Jing’an Wang Zhao Xun two of the most spared no effort, and the son of heaven with the same father and mother of the Guangling King Zhao Yi troops implicitly, by the elder brother summoned to the capital, face to face reprimand. Liyang began to circulate the “Huan Hu Sutra”, with the end of slandering and rebuking the Buddha, it is said that the world’s major states and counties only have to survive a temple, and the two Zen temples may not be spared.”
Xu Fenian laughed, “I’m more curious about your Northern Mang Swordsman Sword Qi near Huang Qing on Wudang. There is also the Immortal Warrior Qi who went to the south to observe the sea to practice his sword with Lü Zu’s leftover sword. As for that Wu family sword mound Zhao Liuding who has a beef with me, I heard that he took his sword attendant on a trip to the ruins of the Wu family’s nine swords to break ten thousand riders and took away three ancient swords of his ancestors, and his realm has risen dramatically.”
This time it was Xu Beihao’s turn to helplessly say, “To a cow.”
Xu Fengyin jumped off the parapet and said softly, “The old monk is surprisingly dead.”
Xu Beihuan was puzzled, “Monk Longshu, the presiding officer of the Two Zen Temple?”
Xu Fengnian nodded and stopped talking.
Two people a chicken with a duck talk a to a cow, say again and again is tasteless, just continue to rush, the foot of the centipede road circled and curved, there is nothing to take out the site attractions, the same walk boring, walked to a fork in the mountain up and down the mountain, see Xu Fengyen did not hesitate to line up the mountain, Xu Beihuan frowned and asked, “Really want to go to Tibing Mountain? ”
Xu Fenian laughed: “Of course, I want to see the flavor of the women of Beimang, how dare they call out to the Master of Tibing Mountain after losing once and almost breaking an arm. If she looks pretty, snatch her back to Northern Liang, don’t compete with me then.”
Of course Xu Beihao knew that the latter sentence was a joke, he couldn’t talk about how high he thought of this persimmon, but he didn’t dare to have any low opinion either. If he acted recklessly, Xu Fengyen wouldn’t be able to live today even if he had ten lives. Only to spend more than ten years together, Xu Beihao never asked Xu Fengyen about his martial arts realm. Halfway up the mountain, Xu Fengyen realized that travelers have to stop here, not everyone can go up to the mountain to watch the battle. Seeing the “gnarled bearded man” beside him smiling without saying anything, Xu Fengyen had to obediently go down the mountain in defeat, as Xu Beihuan expected, Xu Fengyen was not so heartless to the point that he wanted to crash through the southern wall, and there were two routes to go down the mountain, the two of them took a small, secluded road, and then went to a small, secluded road. The two took a secluded path, intentionally with many of the same ate the door of the North Mang watch the war martial arts people forked, suitable for viewing the place there is an imitation of the Jiangnan water town architectural style of elegant pavilion, outside the pavilion and no armor patrol, only stood a few expensively dressed robust servants, qi deep, the God of the Hua convergence, in Xu Fengyen’s opinion, there is a person into the second grade, the rest of the people are also in the threshold of the Dragon Gate near the pavilion has a large and a small! Two women with their backs to them, the young woman sitting on her knees against the porch columns to rest her eyes, with a rod of long cloth bag wrapped weapon on her back, the little girl resting on her cheeks on the bench.
Inside the pavilion there were two pairs of embroidered shoes of different sizes, one green and one red.
The little girl is singing a little country ballad in a soft voice, her voice is clear and crisp.
The gentleman from the private school is asking if he knows whether he knows or not.
Who is shouting Knowing Knowing in the trees.
The little moon has crept over the hillock.
Who woke up the stars in the pond?
Who rings the bells at the head of the village?
Ding dong ding dong ding ding dong ……
Xu Fenian stood still and refused to leave, Xu Beihuan saw that the gang of unruly escorts had already paid attention to this side, eyeing this side, so he tugged on Xu Fenian’s sleeve.
In the next moment, Xu Beihao knew it was not good, but immediately afterward, he only felt marveled at the absurdity.
Xu Fengyen swept into the pavilion, turned his back to Xu Beihuan and the unawares Tibingshan escorts, and gently put on the pair of green embroidered shoes for the woman in green.