Chapter 114 – Undercurrent
In the morning sunlight, a carriage drove out of Huangnan County, Hong Shuwen rode on horseback to escort the carriage, looking lazy, surrounded by the remaining two white horse volunteers. Xu Fengyen was sitting inside the carriage, Huyan Guanyin was sleepy-eyed, curled up in the corner, with Xu Fengyen’s fur draped over her body. Last night when she stopped her horse in front of Wang’s residence, she stayed alone in the carriage, lifted the curtain several times, but did not see him who was covered by the stone lions, and only saw the tall horseman who spared his words like gold. Later returned to the courtyard side room to stay, she guessed that she also did not sleep peacefully for a night, on the contrary, in the carriage can still sleep soundly, said she is a maidservant, really do not know who is taking care of who. Huyan Guanyin open hazy sleepy eyes, barely open the eyelids, through a slit, secretly measuring this overnight in the county one hand cloud one hand over the rain of the man, on the way to Huangnan County, found that he will lift the curtain every hour, almost obsessive-compulsive disorder, she also do not know what he is looking at in the end, in her eyes, in addition to the stagecoach road as a rut of the acacia willows, there is no new things, but he always seems to see! But he always seems to see, occasionally heard the sound of horses’ hooves passing by, he will be more concentrated, or rather, lost in thought, it is hard not to be able to see a flower from the strangers?
When he was about to leave the border of Huangnan County, a horse came suddenly, it was that small leader of the Peregrine Falcon Song Gu who had entered the Chaikai Courtyard, Xu Yan Bing heard the command from behind the curtain of the carriage, panted and slowly stopped his horse. Song Gu rolled over and dismounted, kneeling on the side of the carriage, raising his head is the carriage curtain. Hong Shuwen turned his horse around and returned, then slowly circled around Song Gu, and condescendingly laughed and said, “Song leader, how to ask for silver back from me?”
This Song Valley in the whole Northern Liang Peregrine Falcon is considered a medium status role, leaving aside the “armor fish” and other cultural spies not to say, martial arts spies that is, the dead soldier, in the Peregrine Falcon rarely official rank changes, because the martial arts matter is impossible to achieve overnight, the Peregrine Falcon rely on fists to speak, the capable of mediocrity, the strength of the Song Valley has the third grade, used to be a commoner in the Northern Liang Li Cang County, Li Cang County martial arts is very popular, the Cang County, the Cang County martial arts is very good. Cang County martial arts has become a trend, there are seven surnames, each with their own unique skills, the gun fairy Wang Xiu’s wife will come from the Qi family in Cang County, Cang County. Song Valley’s martial arts journey is a legend in the city, when he was young, he met a foreign master of marksmanship to Li Cang County, the master of marksmanship was the enemy of the heavy bounty, a siege began, not to mention the two groups of specialized money to eliminate the disaster of the jianghu assassins, and even Li Cang County, there are two surnames of the big names involved, close to the realm of the Vajra of the master to kill off the seven or seven or eight of the enemy, after all, it is difficult to support the single tree, before he died, he fled to Li Cang County, an abandoned residential house, and happened to run into the family who had gone there, and then he was killed. Before his death, he fled to an abandoned mansion in Li Cang County, where he happened to run into a young man who went there to eat dog meat stew, Song Gu, who taught him his life’s teachings, but unfortunately, Song Gu did not learn half of it, and then once in a fit of pique, Song Gu leaked his moves and was recognized by his master’s enemies, and he had to become the Northern Liang Peregrine Falcon, and it took nearly ten years of struggle to make a name for himself. This time the falcon split, a product realm in the end there are a few people, I’m afraid that only Chu Lushan and Xu Weixiong two clear, but two small masters have fourteen people, falcon up and down the people know, the first two years of the more flourishing, as many as twenty people, but then Lv Qiantang died of reedbed, Shu Shyi quit, one died at the border, one missing, one died in the Chen Zhi Bao out of the road to the Shu in the Liang, one person retired after the success of the work, the sealing of the gift of a general of a miscellaneous name, the In the southeast of Lingshou founded the sect, rely on the canal to mix food, in fact, it is black eating black, big fish eat small fish small fish eat shrimp, who lives to the end, who can hold the canal this fat oil bowl.
There are no outsiders under the four, kneeling Song Gu said in a deep voice: “Whisking water society second class room Song Gu, risked his life something to report to His Highness.”
The curtain did not have the slightest movement.
Song Gu clenched his teeth, “The matter of Chai Cai Yuan, Song Gu has violated the established plan, there is a mistake in the first, Song Gu does not dare to deny. Just the reason for this, I implore Your Highness to listen to my humble servant’s explanation. Chai Caiyuan spies in the Whisker Water Society second class room recorded in the locust encoding, there is a woman in the South Dynasty Gusei state flower girl Wang Huanru, there is a woman in Kunzhou small bustard Qu Ruo, there is Gusei state several gangs of disciples to penetrate the Chai Caiyuan to become a retainer. I thought at the time that Hong Shuwen, since he was able to temporarily participate in the important military affairs of the Whisking Water Society, thought that his skills were not bad, and that it would be far more certain for him to target Qu Ruo than for the third class eagle scholar Ren Shanyu ……”
A cold voice penetrated the curtains, “Go.”
Song Valley as if struck by lightning, hands pressed into the ground, although deliberately suppressed the tone of voice, is still difficult to hide the bleakness said: “Your Highness! This action, by no means Song Gu intentionally slack!”
Xu Yan Bing where will pay attention to a peregrine falcon that is only the second-class house of the Whisking Water Society, driving forward.
Hong Shuwen pulled the reins with both hands, sitting high on the horse’s back, his body lazily leaning back, turning his head to coldly glance at Song Gu.
Near dusk, as the carriage approaches, the green and black walls of Lingzhou Prefecture are getting taller and taller, and when you pass through the wall road, it’s going to be New Year’s Eve soon, and there are even big red lanterns hanging all over the wall, which are lit up early, in fact, not only here, but also many of the high branches on the streets of the Prefecture are hung all over the place in almost one night, and it is unimaginable that this is the masterstroke of Secretary Secretary General Li Gongde, and the servants in the various magistracies are reportedly complaining a lot, and are slandering that they all have been appointed as Secretary Generals. However, the people in the city went out with a little more joy on their faces. Xu Fengyen let the carriage at an intersection of the hustle and bustle of the downtown stop, picked a restaurant, said the group to eat dinner outside, restaurant overcrowded, a line of people easily wait on the first floor of the two neighboring empty tables, Xu Fengyen let Hong Shuwen go to the counter side of the selection of engraved with the name of the dish of the bamboo stick. Only when they were seated, there were noisy voices, Huyan Guanyin followed the sound and looked, it was a sharp-tongued young man, she stopped looking at it. Instead, Xu Fengnian turned around and sat on the bench, smiling and looking.
That skinny monkey rested one leg on the bench, picking his teeth while yelling: “If I were the son of Northern Liang, with a father like the Great General, hey, if I practiced martial arts, anyway, there is such a large library full of secret manuals in the Listening Tide Pavilion, and there are countless experts, I would have already practiced the greatest kung fu, not to mention the top three in the world, but the top ten in the world will always run away easily. With soldiers, casually bring more than a hundred thousand iron horsemen, we do not brag, say what a breath to the northern barbarians kill all the Northern Mang South Dynasty Gusei dragon waist of those states have not long been inch grass?”
Immediately there are people to join in the fun and splash cold water, “really false, I can remember the Liang Mang border seems to have 300,000 to 400,000 soldiers barbarians, that is not papier-mâché, thanks to only our Northern Liang to stop, and the Northern Mang has topped the Bodhisattva this military God, the destruction of the South Dynasty is not meaningful, as long as the top of the Bodhisattva did not, but the guy fought fiercely, in case he kills the red-eye, regardless of the life of the head of you also want to do? What should we do? This is a guy who only loses to the old king of Wudi City under the sky, taking the head of a general in an army of millions of people is not just a matter of picking up the head of a bag.”
When the thin monkey heard Tuoba Bodhisattva, he obviously shrunk his neck, “Then let go of the North Mang first, and take all the iron horsemen of North Liang to run towards the east in one breath, it’s only two to three thousand miles away, except for General Gu Jiantang on the eastern border, the two elite armies of Yanzhi King Zhao Bing and Guangling King Zhao Yi are far away, so they can’t take care of it, and Gu’s old man was pressurized by our Great General back in the past, and he is not an opponent, so we will directly kill into the city, and then we will kill into the city, and we will kill into the city. If we can’t compete, we’ll go straight to the palace, sit on the dragon chair, and see who dares to challenge me! What purple beard, blue-eyed child Zhang Julu, brain again smart, hold up the death is also a kill chickens do not dare to civil officials, he dared to stand in front of me, I immediately give him a big mouth, fan him to find the north.”
Immediately someone to pick up the conversation, a face of anger, conspiratorial: “That is, we have that son of a small, incompetent, for nothing to go to the capital, what have not done, your mother at least bullied a few of the capital of the Queens of the flower also line ah, God knows this grandson is not to go to the capital over there, to the capital of the Lords of the Beijing officials in vain how much of the sweat of the North Rang of the silver, I have heard of him to the capital on the road, just escorting gold, silver and jewelry to the capital, and then to the capital, the capital, the capital, the capital, the capital, the capital, the capital, the capital, the capital, the capital, the capital, the capital. I can hear, he went to the capital on the way, just escort gold, silver, jewelry and antiques box, there are dozens of, a thousand true! This little son of a bitch who only dares to be a harbor, now that he has become the general of Lingzhou, he must have been packed up badly in the capital, and he wants to return to his own turf to ruthlessly make a fuss.”
Thin monkey slightly lowered his voice, mysteriously said: “You heard, our son’s highness this trip was originally gray return to the north of Liang, but the great general really can’t stand to see, only personally out of a trip to the north of Liang, which gave this uncompetitive son back to the two daughters-in-law, it is said to be the women of the Qingzhou, the great general stalled on such a firstborn son, is really down on the luck of his life, the great general when the next term of office, the youngest son of the king of the north of Liangzhou, the first son of the king, is really down on the luck of his life. It would be heavenly good for the young prince to become the next King of Northern Liang.”
A scholar-like young man smiled in a thick Jizhou accent and said: “Establishing the first son is not establishing the concubine, establishing the eldest is not establishing the youngest.”
An old man at the neighboring table sighed, “Right, the young prince was reincarnated late.”
Because Xu Snapdragon only married a royal consort, there is no other commonplace distinction between the first and the concubine in the high families and powerful families, used to think that although His Highness the son of the world is absurd and unscrupulous, after all, he is the eldest son, and the second son Xu Longxiang was born naive and stupid, there is no disagreement about who is hereditary and who is going to be the king of this Beilang. Just the little prince led the dragon elephant heavy cavalry, stepped through the border, the war achievements, personally trapped, but also a horse, no one is not convinced, rumor has it that Yan Wenluan Zhong Hongwu this group of meritorious veteran generals are all praise for the little prince.
A dark current surging.
This undercurrent has undoubtedly and Lingzhou storm convergence.
Xu Yan Bing naturally eat with Xu Fengyen at the same table, down chopsticks are not ambiguous, since he was beside Xu Fengyen, there has never been a flattering color. For the clamor in the building, both ears do not hear. Huyan Guanyin did not like the plates of Chinese dishes on the table, when she heard the words about the man beside her, she pricked up her ears and tried her best to listen clearly, then carefully bent down and probed to see if Xu Fengyen was annoyed, but all she saw was a smiling face that was always very calm.
Xu Fengyen turned around, wolfed down his food, and when he was full, he looked at Huyan Guanyin, who nodded, signaling that she had eaten enough.
After paying the bill, the group walked out of the restaurant, Xu Fengyen looked at the afterglow of the falling mountains and walked towards the carriage in silence.
Xu Yan Bing sighed in his heart.
Only he could understand the complex mind of the young man in front of him.
If there was really a day when Bei Liang was finally or the Northern Mang Iron Riders stepped through the northwestern gate. Then if there were a few more Beiliang people like those in the restaurant, Xu Fengyen, as the new Liang King, could have a few less points of guilt on his part.