Chapter 117: A Lonely Man
When Xu Beihao entered the Lingshou general’s residence, it was only three days short of New Year’s Eve, almost as soon as he entered the official residence, he immediately followed His Highness the son to Liangzhou, a privilege which, if it fell in the eyes of others, would really be a favor to the Northern Liang. On the way back, there were two carriages, Huyan Guanyin occupied one, Xu Fengyen and Xu Beihuan squeezed into one carriage, the two horsemen were Xu Yanbing and Hong Shuwen, and there were no other personal guards. Xu Beihuan listened to Xu Fengyen about the Huangnan County matter once again, and was noncommittal. Persimmon and orange these two, get along, seems to be quite like Yan Zhi Wang and Nalan Yu Ci, can be called the model of the ruler and the courtiers to suit each other. The first time Xu Beihuan opened his mouth is to ask why he did not let the cut off road to block the Song Valley to finish his words, because Xu Beihuan is clear about the matter of the Chaikaiyuan, originally the hawk scholar Ren Shanyu was seriously injured in a small oversight, not much of a thing, but by His Highness, His Highness, the son of the world saw the results with his own eyes, with the gloomy nature of Chu Lushan, the Song Valley’s career on the board to be finished, whether or not to save his life are two words, if Xu Fengyin scolded at the time on the kick on the foot of the several sentences, sent through the fire. Chu Lushan instead can use the slope down donkey, only need to blame Song Valley, in the end can also spare Song Valley, is nothing more than a temporary hard to pick up a meal, to give His Royal Highness and the eagle that side of the face, the future does not prevent the Song Valley’s another appointment, but Xu Fengyen did not say anything, Chu Lushan how dare to unauthorized claim that the big thing is small? Xu Fengyen then gave the answer is that he will never interfere in the affairs of the Northern Liang spies, and even tolerate the Northern Liang spies after the separation of the organization, from colleagues into rivals of the falcon eagles each other “jealousy”, but will never allow the two are clearly the same as the fire, and each other to use the opportunity to fall on the well, the Northern Liang can not afford to this kind of internal friction. In this matter, as well as all future disputes, Xu Fengyen will not favor his second sister Xu Weixiong, will not deliberately support the falconers to suppress the peregrine falcons, and will not take the initiative to favor Chu Lushan, and even more will not make a glue paste to hit each of them with a big board to end the matter. Xu Beihao heard this answer, not stingy smile, apparently more satisfied, the Qing official difficult to break the family affairs, the root cause lies in the end of the bowl of water people did not end flat, once not end flat, it will be difficult later. However, the end of the flat also has the end of the flat difficult and bad, if not careful on the inside and outside, it depends on whether Xu Fengnian can stick to the end. Xu Fengyen knew everything, in addition to the three kings of Huangnan County joining hands to come to the general’s residence to express their loyalty, as well as each asking for an official, the method of asking for an official was also very different, also mentioned to Xu Beihuan the matter of Wang Luting’s initiative to spend money to buy the Golden Wisp Weaving.
Hearing this, Xu Beihuan frowned: “This person can be a big job?”
Xu Fengnian shook his head and said, “I’ve only met him once, and I only think that Wang Luting’s conversation is good and very appetizing, as for whether he can be qualified to be a gold strand weaver, I’ll have to ask for a few more detailed spy reports on the Zijin Wang Clan, and then I’ll take Wang Luting out to walk him around a bit to see if he’s a mule or a horse. However, the Golden Wisp Weaver is located in Lingzhou, and when the time comes, it will be you, the Assassin of Lingzhou, who will have the headache.”
Xu Beihuan asked, “What about the old weaver Li Xifeng?”
Xu Fengyen played the rascal and said, “I’m not thinking about it, or else you’ll see what to do when the time comes?”
Xu Beihao glared at him, probably too lazy to pay attention to this son of his highness, and fell into deep thought alone.
Every province in the world has a weaving bureau, and the Northern Liang Province is no exception. Nominally, it is for the royal and official use to supervise the weaving and delivery of silk produced in various places, but secretly the authority is very huge, the former dynasty has always had the weaving chief officer by ten days and months to the capital of the habit of secret folding report, which can be directly to the emperor’s desk, the stagecoach to pass on this kind of information, compared to the ordinary military intelligence is more prudent and careful. King Zhao Suo of Jiaodong and King Liu Ying of Huainan were reprimanded and heavily punished by the emperor several times because of the secret report from the local weaving bureau. Nowadays, the court of Liyang has set up the level of Dao, although the local weaving bureau has not raised the rank, but the smart people in the court know very well that, in addition to the strategic ambassador sent out from the capital, who is obviously restraining the vassal king, the number of this dozen of not too high rank weaving is the most insidious and disgusting. But Beiliang Road belongs to the golden strand manufacturing Li Xifeng, nearly old, so many years has been doing nothing, and Beiliang King Xu Primrose has not been rumored to have any interactions, neither active fawning is not too distant, once there is a biannual “half a year folding” in the stagecoach was a group of bold horse thieves unintentionally intercepted, spread all over the world, the world to know that this weaving chief official actually fainted, and the world to know that the weaving of the official is not a good idea. Know that this weaving officer is so stupid and bored that he introduced to His Majesty the Emperor the size of the Prince of Beiliang antique collection, a detailed list of nearly 40 items of more than 600 pieces, do not understand why to let such a blind old man to stay in Beiliang waste of court salaries, it is said that after the leakage of the secret folding, at that time was still a great pillar of the Xu Snapdragon laughed at this matter, so that people to this in their positions but do not seek their own affairs of the golden strand of the weaving, sent with the Zhao family salaries, and the Zhao family to the Golden Witch Weaver, the Golden Witch Weaver. Sent with the Zhao family salary of the same silver, these years a time no less, Li Xifeng is not afraid of the emperor suspicion, time and again as received.
But no matter how outsiders ridicule and belittle Li Xifeng this old man, Beiliang internal, even Li Yishan detailed analysis of this person’s official resume and talent disposition, Xu Snapdragon send silver, is not to make fun of Li Xifeng’s inactivity, but to tell this is good at the subtle deciphering the situation of Beiliang gold strand weaving, I Xu Snapdragon began to stare at you!
And Xu Fengnian did not hide the side of Xu Beihao, when the Yan family defected from Beiliang, go to the capital to enjoy the glory and wealth, it is the weaving bureau with the court red line, escape route, how to disguise, as well as along the way all over the reception, are extremely precise planning. Just because Li Yishan is always in the cold eye, this Northern Liang and the court hooked up with the game of chance, finally or Northern Liang chess is high, coupled with Chu Lushan spared no effort to explore, and ultimately was Northern Liang spies successfully intercepted, but that time Xu Fengyen soft, personally intervene to plead for the family of Yan, Xu Snapdragon, this is only one side, otherwise even if Wang Xianzhi personally come to the rescue of Northern Liang, can only be rescued only one or two people. Although Li Xifeng lost, but we must realize that he this weaving official in Beiliang is surrounded by jackals, still able to have this action, has been very breathtaking.
Xu Beihuan broke the silence and said, “If Li Xifeng wants to spend his twilight years in peace, before he returns to the capital in honor, he has to make a deal with Beiliang, but this deal, for him as a gold strand weaver, has all the benefits but no harm.”
Xu Fengnian was silent, his expression vaguely gloomy.
Xu Beihao raised an eyebrow and said bluntly, “I remember you used to have three very good friends, among them, Yan Ji Ji has already followed his family to the capital to become a royal relative, handing in as a hot Hanlin Huangmenlang, with a promising future. That Kong Wuzhi is not bad, at the end of the year also made the forbidden army lieutenant, in the end only left Li Hanlin to stay in Beiliang. Can you really bear it? You’re planning to become a loner even before you become a vassal king?”
Xu Fengnian calmly said, “Anyway, no matter what the outcome is, even if it’s the worst situation, I will ensure that the Li family will always be clothed and fed in the future. Li Hanlin’s disowning me as his brother is also something I brought upon myself.”
Xu Beihao laughed blandly, “How pathetic.”
Xu Fengyen kicked this guy, Xu Beihuan smoothly leaned against the wall of the car, patted his shirt, casually asked, “That Wang Luting’s good friend Sun Yin, was praised by Yao Bainfeng boastfully as being a talented person who washed away the bucket of bulls, not and the first scholar is better than a scholar, Yao Bainfeng became the left priest of the State Prince’s Prison, and was in charge of the literary world, was there any spying that Yao Dazhong was going to ask Sun Yin to become a priest? ”
Xu Fenian laughed: “Orange you can ah, brilliant mind! If I didn’t know that Yao Baifeng secretly asked someone to invite Sun Yin, promising that as long as this guy is willing to go to the capital, he will first go to the State Prince’s Prison to get a Qingliu Priest, and be able to participate in the Imperial Examination in the coming year, Yao Baifeng put down his old face, which is very valuable, and played favoritism to the extreme, and went to the Zhao family’s son of heaven to ask for a first place in A. If not, I really didn’t know that Huang Nanliang was going to invite Sun Yin to be a priest! If not, I really didn’t know there was such a person in Huangnan County. But you can rest assured and can’t rest assured, Sun Yin has been escorted to Lingzhou by Wang Luting, I intend to let him directly become a solid sixth rank official with a stream of goods, if you become the assassin of Lingzhou but are covered by this person’s glory, beware of me letting him take your place in a fit of rage.”
Xu Beihao glanced at Xu Fenian and did not speak.
Xu Fenian laughed: “Don’t worry don’t worry, I’m a person who likes the new but doesn’t hate the old, even if Sun Yin’s skills are great, Orange you’re still my old favorite, your favor won’t diminish.”
Xu Beihao sneered, “Hurry up and stop the car, allow me to go out and vomit.”
Xu Fengyin said with a hurt face: “Not understanding, I’m saving all the good things for you first, I found a missed azure gall bladder bottle from Dongyue imperial kiln in Peach Blush House, I can’t find the second one in the whole world, do you really don’t want it? Then I’ll give it to Chen Xiliang, that guy knows better than you.”
Xu Beihao closed his eyes to rest and said flatly, “Hurry up.”
At noon on New Year’s Eve, Qingliang Mountain, which had long been decorated with lights and colors, finally saw His Royal Highness the Shizi again.
Xu Fengyen arranged for Huyan Guanyin to stay in a secluded courtyard, with no intention of letting her meet up with the Wutong courtyard’s gang of girls. Xu Snap accompanied her all the way and didn’t talk much, just having fun. The younger brother, Huang Baner, has grown a few percent taller, more than a few points of fury between the eyebrows, when not laughing, it is actually unusually heroic, but followed by his father to giggle together will instantly break down, well but will no longer be drooling, but still let Xu Fengyen speechless. Go to see the second sister, a family of four finally get together, mastering half of the Northern Liang spies Xu Weixiong, now live in the Wutong courtyard in order to deal with important matters, Wutong courtyard in addition to the two big maids sweet potatoes and green birds, did not participate in it, the rest of the two classes of maids have become the Northern Liang “female Hanlin”, reading and screening military intelligence spies, the right to approve the red, be The people who know the name “Zhu Hong female maidservant”, especially across the nineteen channels only inferior to Xu Weixiong’s Beiliang small state hand green ants, as if born in the big picture planning, as if to become the Wutong courtyard’s second-in-command, demanding perfection of the two princesses almost reprimanded all the female maidservants, only on the green ants is very dependent on the trust. Xu family three masters into the wutong courtyard house, Xu Weixiong sitting in a wheelchair, sitting behind a low bookcase specially made for her, raised his head and glanced at the three, and then continued to lower his head from a large pile of already approved red in the secret report casually pulled out a copy of the neighboring house Zhuhong female maidservants whether there is a mistake, Xu Fengyuan jogged over to the table to see that the ancient inkstone some ink is dry, and then squatted next to the wheelchair, turned his head to pat the horse’s ass and said: “Sister, I’ll sharpen your ink.”
Xu Wei Xiong did not even turn his head to look at him, said with a smile on his face: “How dare you let the General of Lingzhou do it for you?”
Xu Fengyen played dumb and said, “I should.”
Xu Weixiong did not continue to be sarcastic to His Highness, letting him roll his sleeves and grind his ink on the side, he himself concentrated on browsing through the meticulous vermilion handwriting on those reports from all over the imperial court and Beiliang’s own espionage reports.
Xu Snapdragon smiled heartily.
Xu Longxiang sat on his butt on the threshold, resting his cheeks in a daze.
Xu Weixiong probably couldn’t stand the fact that Xu Fengyen was in the way, and said without lifting his head, “Can’t you see that the house hasn’t been plastered with bucket catty spring scrolls and peach charms yet?”
Xu Fengyen slapped his head and suddenly realized, “I’m going to write the couplets! Let’s post them together later?”
Xu Weixiong did not make a sound.
Xu Fengyen went to the free desk next door and wrote like a fly, it still took him half an hour to finish writing the 100 Spring Festival couplets needed for the royal residence, every time he finished writing a couplet, Xu Snapdragon and Xu Longxiang gently blew it dry on the side, and then went to call out to Xu Weixiong, who still had some business to do at hand, and said that she didn’t need to wait for her. Xu Fengyen had to carry more than fifty spring couplets with Huang Bang’er, Xu Snapdragon was in charge of holding a box of slightly lighter bucket catty, and started to paste the couplets from top to bottom on Qingliang Mountain, and when they arrived at the gate, they found Xu Weixiong sitting in a wheelchair, waiting quietly outside the mansion gate. Xu Fengyen smiled and let Xu Snapdragon look at the paste crooked or not, he and Xu Longxiang left and right to paste especially wide and long huge happy couplets, the two brothers at the same time to paste the couplets, turn around to see Xu Snapdragon smiled from ear to ear, the second sister also has a long time to smile.