Chapter 034: The Horseshoe Goes South
The capital is decorated to welcome the new winter, but also to congratulate the kings to leave the capital to take over the clan. This day’s dusk is like a woman after the bed curtains wanting to talk, fading clothes extremely slow, a richly dressed middle-aged man out of the car, stepped on the afterglow slowly walked into the restaurant, there is no self-proclaimed gourmand diners in the house, are hung up to the door of the thank you wooden sign stopped at the door, the pleasure of returning from the defeat, well in the capital know nine nine museums of the boss’s wife frame than the royal relatives is still big, used to it, with the men about the same! Time to come to the street diners, see someone even into the house, thought to follow the luck, the results to a few escorts holding the hilt of the knife, blocking the way, glimpsed these escorts sheath wrapped in gold after the silk thread, were scared to silence, and immediately coyly back away. The pretty widow surnamed Hong lifted the curtain with a flourish, the hot pot of shabu shabu was already foggy, she just served some secret seasoning bowls and plates on the table, the man raised his left hand and pressed it in vain, signaling the woman to sit down, then picked up chopsticks of mutton rump meat and put it into the pot, and didn’t take back the chopsticks after some time, the woman who didn’t sit down tried her best to restrain her anger, and said in a flat tone, “Don’t spoil the meat. Don’t spoil the meat.”
The man retracted his chopsticks at the sound of the voice, slowly went to a variety of exquisite bowls and plates dipped, and only then put into his mouth, nodded, indeed a different flavor. He kept moving his mouth to chew on the capital’s most authentic shabu-shabu, but did not open his mouth to speak. The woman just kept standing with a stern face. After finishing the rump tip meat on the porcelain plate, which was tantalizing just by looking at the texture, the man put down his chopsticks and finally looked up and said, ”Hong Silk, have you ever thought about the fact that in today’s world, in every place where the governmental orders of the Leiyang imperial court are accessible, all of the people in their jurisdiction have benefited from Xun Ping without exception. All of this is due to his death, to my seeing death and saving him, and to my guilt for him after I ascended the throne.”
The woman who was called by the current Son of Heaven’s name sneered, “Hong Silk is just a womanizer with long hair and short knowledge, unable to look at the big picture, only knowing that without a man, she can only go to resent those sons of bitches who killed him. The reason why I didn’t get a few pounds of arsenic to pour into the pot today is just that I know that I can’t poison you.”
The emperor retracted his sight, the mist was permeated with a fragrance that was not cloying, after a tiring day, eating those dozen chopsticks, he only felt that it warmed his stomach and was comfortable, for the woman’s angry words and grudges, he did not think that, and said softly, “Jiaodong King Zhao Suo said a few words to him, and I let him lose all the military power.”
The woman laughed ruefully, “You are the current Son of Heaven, and there are still things you don’t dare to do?”
The emperor laughed sparingly, “You think highly of me, there are many things under the sky that can’t be done, I wouldn’t dare to move Xu Snapdragon, Xu Snapdragon’s son came under my nose, I still have to endure it.”
She laughed coldly: “The person who sits in the dragon chair, also has the nerve to fight with a child.”
The emperor reached out and waved the hot air that came to his face, and said with a sideways glance, “When I was a child, I still had to be on edge, with my tail between my legs. Tai’an City, those literati are complaining about what the capital city is not easy to live, I have always found it funny, because the world is the only palace is not easy. The courtiers want to live good or bad, the palace, is thinking about can not live. Before I ascended the throne, told himself to let all their children do not live with their father, but really when the emperor, only to know that manpower has a poor time, the son of heaven, after all, or ordinary people, can not be exempted. The family has a difficult to read the scripture, I am the head of the family, Xu Snapdragon is, you Hong Silk is also counted as half, operating this restaurant, there must be a lot of resentment, for example, you are dedicated to the purchase of the best mutton, the best pot base, the best seasoning, self-confessed fair price, penny a penny, the customer must have eaten more later, you feel that your home shabu-shabu in fact, behind the back may have to curse a few words of this mother-in-law heart is really black, or is the way to Taian City, the city of the emperor, the emperor is not the same as their father. Or if there is a situation on the stagecoach route to Tai’an City that causes you to run out of goods and you have to close down, you will be scolded even more for being ungenerous, and for opening other restaurants day after day, while you, JiuJiuHuan, treat yourself like a big man. There is no guarantee that will not put down a few bad words, will be the heart is Buddha heart, the reason is so, but the reason is a valuable theory, not precisely because it is easy to say difficult to do? And under the sky on the number of these reasons the most prickly, many people are not willing to listen to, because you said, others can not do, especially for scratching the heart and lungs. I also became the emperor, approved Zhu so many years accumulated more than the winter of the heavy snow, only to know the taste.”
The emperor did not turn his head to see the woman’s face, said to himself: “Zhao Zhi not much to say to the woman, and know that you do not like she acted, I came this time, no other meaning, just want to know for her and you know a word, she did not do it right, can go back and do it again, or will be so choose. But her heart or with me know the wrong thing and for the same, it will be difficult. People are not grass and trees, will have compassion, I say these, not to let you forgive Zhao Zhi, good as the first time. She these years in the palace, the use of copper mirror, still you sent her that year that handle, she remembers clearly, eight cents of silver.”
The emperor who is known for his diligence and thriftiness and his skill in keeping his business stood up, smiled as he walked towards the threshold and stopped, “I have to admit one thing, I’m very jealous of Xu Snapdragon when he could talk with the late emperor’s arm, and even before his death, he still didn’t forget to leave his will, Xu Snapdragon must be killed early, one of them is conducive to the stability of the imperial court, and another one is that he is good to see Xu Snapdragon earlier in the lower part of the world, if there is really a yin and nian fengdu, it is also good to work together to In the netherworld to continue to conquer, with Xu Snap aided, must be able to laugh at Yan Luo not Yan Luo, otherwise there is no this meritorious Fu General, he did not feel at ease. But Xu Snapdragon’s son, if he grows up, must be treated generously. Unfortunately, the old man dying two things, I this when the son did not do.”
Out of the restaurant, the emperor did not rush into the carriage, slowly walking in the cold wind piercing the bones of the frozen river, there are many naughty children on the river behind the back of their parents’ instructions in the chiseling ice to catch fish, the big internal escorts do not dare to approach, but only follow from afar, only Liu Artemisia division walked in the present day the son of heaven five paces away.
The emperor casually said: “willow division, a cadre of promising Liu’s children have been sent to the capital, no need to worry.”
Since he had already been honored as a master, the aged Heavenly Symbol Realm expert didn’t make much of a fuss about thanking him for his kindness, and just gave a heavy hmm.
The emperor stopped his feet and stood by the river, cupping his hands and puffing his breath, muttering to himself, “Xu Snapdragon, if your son dies before you, I’ll grant you a posthumous beauty without fail. But if you die in front of you, killing innocents posthumously, I will give you such a well-deserved bad posthumous.”
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Grass dry eagle eyes fast, snow end horse hoof light.
Two carriages on the stagecoach road flying south, there is a divine green and white luan in the sky piercing the clouds.
Going to that Shangyin Academy Palace, the melon is ripe, and if you don’t pick it again, it will be over a good time. Xu Fengyen is determined to make the Wutong courtyard into another Guangling Spring Snow House, the lack of her although it can not be said to be unable to operate, but their own home to know the price of oil and salt, in addition, Xu Fengyen also do not want to that prefer to hold a white cat of the woman, in the Palace of the Upper Yin School of being white-eyed. Xu Fengyen is sitting back to back with the green bird, enjoying the scenery along the way, the dead soldier e juvenile nature, fast horses, the two carriages in the wide stagecoach road side by side, the green bird always give outsiders the appearance of unsympathetic, but once she naturally accepted, can be said to be understanding to the bone, and the teenager made a gesture, e grin, the two jumped up to swap carriages, Xu Fengyen slightly moved position, sideways sitting behind the teenager.
Teenager e wanted to speak again and again, swinging the whip is not so smooth, Xu Fengyen asked with a smile, “If you have something to say, say it.”
The teenager who didn’t even have a name asked softly, “Sir, I don’t like that purple-clothed woman in the carriage, I hate it from the bottom of my heart.”
Xu Fengnian curiously asked, “Why?”
Teenager Eben is a person who is quick, since he opened his mouth, he also poured beans out of a bamboo tube and complained, “Who is this woman, it is not just a fart-sized mountain bandits, why in front of the son of a cross-eyed play, if it were me, I would have kicked off the wagon. A little bit do not know enough, even if she is with the Prince you do business, that is she took advantage of the sky, how to you here in turn became a big man in the sky, make it seem as if she is the Queen Mother. Prince ah, not I say you, to the woman can not be so spoiled, besides, she is not much to look at, I have looked at a few eyes, did not see her is the buttocks or breasts big, but also on a face to say that past, but Prince you and what is the person, top of the sky, the sky, in addition to you who dares to go to kill the emperor’s old man’s son, Prince, you say is not it?”
Xu Fengyen laughed out loud, “Who did you learn this ass-kissing from, it’s a mess.”
The teenager e turned his head with a resentful face, “Gongzi, I’m serious!”
Xu Fengyen converged most of his laughter, squinted his eyes and looked into the distance, it was a pity that there was no snow, so there was no beauty of that snowflake as big as a hand, smiled softly and said, “In fact, it’s not just you, there’s no one who’d like such a pussy like her.”
The teenager e waved his horse whip, “Right, then why do you obey her in every way, Mr. Gong? It can’t be that you really like her, then I have to say a word of conscience, sir, you’ve got your eyes crossed this time, it’s not worth it!”
Xu Fengnian was not afraid of whether the woman in the carriage was angry or not, leaning his head against the wall of the carriage, “Before last year, there were not many people in the whole world who liked me. This is sort of the same disease.”
The teenager e had a dumbfounded expression, clearly knowing that Gongzi had made a point, but he just didn’t understand, and just let out an oh, very reluctantly accepting it.
Xu Fengyen joked, “Many people and things, just like a woman carrying a child in October, have to wait slowly, can’t rush.”
Junior E heatedly laughed, “It would be a relief if Gongzi let that bitch get pregnant and then pat her ass and walk away.”
Xu Fengyen slapped the teenager’s head with his Northern Liang knife sheath, “Don’t know what to do, she is a female devil of the Finger Xuan realm.”
Xu Fengyen was a bit puzzled, the Hui Mountain Mountain Lord inside the carriage was unprecedentedly not moving in anger, even owed a voice.
Inside the carriage, the woman in purple looked at herself in the mirror and was silent.
Like the sound of water iced down the throat.