Chapter 029 – The Coming and Going of Old Friends

Xu Fengyen walked alone towards the carriage that deviated from the center axis of the imperial road, the horseman was naturally the green bird with green clothes and green embroidered shoes, Xuanyuan Qingfeng who was carrying the Jade Seal of Transmission of the State was dressed in purple, sitting sideways behind the green bird, with his feet dangling outside of the carriage, seeing Xu Fengyen leaving the court so early, although Xuanyuan Qingfeng was puzzled, he didn’t ask questions. Sitting together in the carriage, Xu Fengyen took his seat and smiled: ”Xichu returned my sword, let’s go out of the capital later, let Mr. Cao wait for a few more days, and in the meantime scare that Han Diaoji who is waiting for a rabbit somewhere. This Confucian Sage won’t be in the capital to retrieve the Yang Seal, so you’ll seize the time to draw on your qi these days.”

Xuanyuan Qingfeng frowned, “Only four or five points have been incorporated.”

Xu Fengnian laughed, “Being a man should be contented, it’s almost enough to get five or six points, it’s too much. The matter of Qi Luck is unpredictable, in case something goes wrong, in the end, it is you who will suffer, not me. Come on, take it out and give me a look, so I can help you take a look.”

Xuanyuan Qingfeng wanted to say something, coldly grunted, and finally did not move. Xu Fengyen was confused and said helplessly, “Do you really think that this jade seal is your forbidden domain? Borrowing money and returning it is a natural thing, in the past, you were rude and unreasonable with me, that was me being nice and not generalizing with you. These years I’m hiding, Chen Zhi Bao is more ruthless than me, has been quietly into the saint, Iron Gate Pass, Chen Zhi Bao is at the peak of the martial arts, and still can not beat Cao Qing Yi, if you annoy the Western Chu chess to be imperial, delayed his restoration of the country, destined to have no good fruit to eat. Besides, when it comes to the jade seal’s qi prophecy, you are a hundred thousand miles worse than your father, you are a layman, far inferior to me, I’ll be your eyes, checking for gaps, are you still not satisfied?”

Xuanyuan Qingfeng hesitated again and again, dead staring at Xu Fenian, finally slowly stretching out the slender two fingers, crooked face, from the neck twisted a string of the jade seal of the red line, gently lifted, look at the chest scenery, should be from the sheep fat beautiful jade between the peaks, carry out the jade seal, Xu Fenian cried and laughed, thought no wonder you squirm, in the end, in this kind of thing is the thick skin not up the woman, Xu Fenian immediately pretend to be serious! Xu Fengyuan immediately acted as a serious woman, to save her anger, calmly took over the red rope that still had a trace of body heat, gazed down at this jade seal of Western Chu, Xuanyuan Qingfeng turned her head, covered her heart, could not see whether her face was furious or shy. Rope falling down the jade seal presents a crystal transparent rounded scene, which has yellow and purple two gas flow rapidly, such as the summer flood season of the river, such as the nestlings from the nest, the heart of the heart, is still Xuanyuan Qingfeng, the qi leakage in the jade seal, together with the drift penetrate into the seven apertures of the three dantian of Xuanyuan Qingfeng, Xu Fengyin can not help but cry and laugh, looking up to the bitch who is still angry with himself, the gas scolded: ”This is where the Four or five points, clearly has been given to you to steal into six or seven points, previously said that you will only defeat the family, really wronged you.”

Xuanyuan Qingfeng as Xu Fengyen said is the real layman, after getting the jade seal, just burying his head to draw the jade seal contains the luck, after hearing the truth, also some leaping surprise, “really have six or seven points?”

Xu Fengnian nodded, “Try to pour out all your qi.”

In the blink of an eye, the sea of qi in the carriage shook, and the two horses suddenly stopped their hooves in a thunderous stance. Xu Fengyen’s hair fluttered erratically, emitting a tsk sound, squinting his eyes and sighing, “In the words of Taoist qi practitioners, it’s qi vaporizing Yunmengze, waves shaking the Jade Emperor Building, and shaking the Kunlun Mountains. It’s not too far off from Old Sect Master Wudang’s Great Yellow Court.”

Xuanyuan Qingfeng closed her eyes and spread out her arms, the area around Tai’an City near the palace city, Qi invisible to the naked eye converged swiftly and fiercely with the carriage as the center of the circle, she had a face of intoxicated nature.

Xu Fengnian shook the jade seal in his hand, the amplitude was getting bigger and bigger, he said in a deep voice, “Stop, stop!”

Xuanyuan Qingfeng quickly returned to her senses and collected her Qi, seemingly noticing that her demeanor was too meek, she fiercely glared at Xu Fengyen who was giving orders.

Xu Fengyen on her from her mother’s womb to bring out the arrogance and savagery, and did not think of how to suppress and tempering, the women are given to rub off the edges, such as the Qingzhou Lu Chenyan like a pebble as smooth and worldly, regardless of whether it is the rivers and lakes or the mansion, that would be how boring and uninteresting? Handed in exchange for her red rope jade seal, “take advantage of these days and then draw a point and a half, other people’s heart is not enough, a bite to eat into a fat person is not good, especially women, too fat does not look good.”

Xuanyuan Qingfeng quietly gazed at the guy, ungrateful, “Not funny at all.”

Xu Fengnian inserted his sleeves with both hands and smiled, “It’s really cold.”

After winter this year, Tai’an City was indeed exceptionally cold.

Xu Fengyen waited for Xuanyuan Qingfeng to turn around and stuffed back the jade seal into that peak depression, suddenly asked, “Xuanyuan Qingfeng, have you ever realized that you are actually very gifted in scheming, other people rely on the accumulation of down-to-earth learning, and the accumulation of experience in the official field, you rely on intuition?”

Xuanyuan Qingfeng said with a disdainful face, “You don’t want me to be a hawk and dog raised by Beiliang for you, I’ll do business with you, a pile is a pile!”

Xu Fengnian shook his head and said, “Don’t be nervous, I’m not to the point of being hungry, I’m just in a rare good mood, so I’m verbally praising you once.”

Xuanyuan Qingfeng hit the nail on the head, “You picked a fight with Artemisia Liu, the White Clothes Case in the capital? Set up the ring? This time out of the capital, and with the Zhao family’s side of the Heavenly Prince also completely settled, in the future, each according to their ability, openly draw down the road?”

Xu Fengnian smiled and nodded.

Many things on the temple, deep heavy curtain layout, step by step, every cent counts, can be put on the stage, and ultimately fell in the eyes of the courtiers, in fact, often so much, it is difficult to see at a glance cleverness, Xu Fengyen went to the capital as a vassal king’s son to observe the ceremonies, the open face of the sword into the temple may not be kneeling, the Zhao family son of God undoubtedly gave the sky a great deal of face, but give this sweet date outside, a few big stick down, are knotted and knocked! In the head of the Northern Liang, the promotion of Jin Lanting as the right priest of the State Scholarship, “hooked” science everyone Yao Baifeng into the Beijing post, promoted the Northern Liang Dupu Chen Zhi Bao for the Ministry of War, Lingshou pastor Yan Jiexi is the most honored and prominent royal relatives in one fell swoop, this is the four major sticks, can be in front of a full of the civil and military face to knock in the Xu Fenian body, how can Xu Fenian not take advantage of the situation to make a scene? It seems to be a sulking act, but it is not Xu Fengyen’s way to stabilize the Northern Liang iron horsemen’s heart.

The carriage slowly returned to the lower Mawei stage, the corrupt scholar Liu Wenbao has been no different from an old beggar, still waiting under the dragon’s claw acacia, waiting for the Prince of Northern Liang to give him a chance to show his ambition. At this time is squatting and gnawing a cold hard steamed bread, although food, clothing, housing and transportation that piece of suffering, but look at his spirit is not bad, these individuals under the people, most of them, as long as there is a little bit of hope can go to look forward to, you can show amazing toughness, which is related to the heart. Liu Wenbao is undoubtedly the type of character who has a big mouth and a bigger heart. After Xu Fengyen got off the bus, is still not a positive eye, squinting glance owes, unusual self-reliant abdomen talent TaoLi not lose others of the readers, has long been cast to other bright masters to go, but Liu Wenbao life of ups and downs, pride is still in the cold window hard reading the book of the sages read out of the arrogance of the almost all dispersed, naturally, there is a great perseverance of the biting green hills do not let go, but accurately, biting the body beside the Xu family acacia tree does not let up, it seems to be more Suitable.

Seeing Xu Fenian to walk straight into the post house, Liu Wenbao jogged over and said softly: “Mr. Xu, someone is looking for you, it’s a little girl surnamed Li, she doesn’t go into the post house, she just chats with me, she waited for half a day, and as a result she couldn’t stand the hunger, and now she’s buying food to go.”

Xu Fenian was stunned and laughed, “Did she say that her family lives in a temple, and that the temple belongs to her family?”

Liu Wenbao nodded vigorously and laughed: “Right right, the little girl can also be interesting, I was wondering, there are still women living in the temple.”

Xu Fengyen was really in a good mood this time, and said to Liu Wenbao: “You go to the post house and find a warm place, when Tong Ziliang asks about it, just say that it was me who let you stay.”

Unexpectedly, the old scholar did not know what to do, shook his head and said, “Don’t care about this one or two days, Liu Wenbao can afford to suffer, so many years have lasted through, thinking about the bitter sweetness in the future before the big.”

Xu Fengyen also do not deliberately with more than fifty years of age have not started a family old Confucian politely, Xuanyuan Qingfeng has straight into the stagecoach, let the green bird to go in first, he left alone at the door to meet the Li Zi girl.

Liu Wenbao carefully and curiously asked, “Why did your son retire from the court so quickly?”

Xu Fenian half-truthfully said, “Almost made a move with Gu Jiantang and rushed back.”

Liu Wenbao staggered, not daring to ask again.

In the distance, the young girl who aspired to be a chivalrous jianghu warrior girl bounced and jumped squarely towards the lower Mawei stage house side.

She could not easily find out that Xu Fengyen lived in XiaMaWei, and she felt that after all the hard work of crossing the mountains, she came here, and this friendship that only children of the jianghu can have, is really no second thoughts!

She went out this time, but also brought a few silver tickets, but all the instructions stupid north and south to go to the people will send a gift, did not think of how to buy clothes and powder, only some poor broken silver on the body of copper, today unprecedentedly got up early in the morning, rushed to the outside of the lower Mawei, early in the morning have forgotten to fill up their stomachs to the freezing straight shivering, and finally couldn’t stay up to beat the drum of the stomach, bought a drawer of white buns, because of the eight or nine steamed buns, on the Tai’an City’s impression is bad to the extreme, too expensive! Back then with Xu Fengyen if the capital again walking rivers and lakes, in all likelihood early to starve to death. Biting hard on an expensive steamed bun bought several times under the mountain at home, bouncing towards the post house slowly pushed.

Far away to see a familiar figure, but look at that person all white, white head, white clothes, white shoes, how with the snowman like, there is some uncertainty, will not be Xu Fengnian right?

It is said that the detained travelers will be close to the countryside, but the lower Mawei is not her hometown, but because of him, it is not jumping, slowly moving to the old dragon claw acacia.

Approached, recognized the face of the longing, the little girl froze on the spot, the mouth is still biting a mouthful of steamed bread, staring at the familiar and unfamiliar man, do not care about chivalry and ladylike manners, turned to run, hand steamed bread thrown a ground.

Liu Wenbao looked puzzled, is this little girl scared silly by the side of His Highness?

Xu Fengyen couldn’t help but walk over and pick up the steamed buns that weren’t too dirty and hold them in his arms.

The little girl ran out for a while, and then ran back, pear blossom with rain, “Xu Fenian, are you dying? My father is very capable, I’ll go back and talk to him, you wait, you must wait for me!”

Then she turned around again intending to run away.

Xu Fengyen freed a hand, pressed her little head, twisted her around, “Can’t die, I’m thinking that when I go out, if I want to be noticeable, I have to go off the beaten path, so I dyed my hair white.”

The little girl character naive, but not stupid, angry, “You lied to me!”

Xu Fengyen stuffed a steamed bun into her mouth and took one for himself, saying vaguely, “Where are the monks in the north and south of your house?”

Li Zi girl took out the steamed bun and sobbed, “Stupid north and south went to the palace to wait for the face of the saint, and had to fight with that what’s-her-name Chancellor of Green Words, and Mr. White Lotus again.”

Xu Fengyen reached out to help her wipe away the tears on her cheeks, her little face was frozen with two red piles, very funny and cute, Xu Fengyen didn’t have a sister, he always treated her as his own sister, and laughed gently, “It’s not easy to see you and you’re crying your eyes out with me? Not afraid of being laughed at by the north and south.”

Li Zi girl sullenly said, “He is so stupid, I don’t even laugh at him.”

Xu Fengnian took her cold little hand and walked towards the lower Mawei.

One of the great joys in life, meeting an old friend in another countryside.

Xu Fengyen turned his head and raised it, gently looking away.

When someone comes, into the jianghu, spirited. When going, out of the jianghu, ask the heart.

Xu Fengyen turned his head, looked down at the little girl and calmly said, “It’s a pity that Wen Hua won’t have the chance to walk the rivers and lakes with us.”

“Why ah, he is still so unproductive in practicing sword? Or is he still carrying a wooden sword?”

“Greatly improved, but he doesn’t practice the sword anymore.”

“Not in the capital? Where did he go?”

“I’m looking.”

“Hmph, Wen Hua didn’t even wait for me! Not righteous! I’ll scold him to death if I see him in the future!”

“Okay, if I find that kid first, I’ll curse him along with your share.”