Chapter 035 – Immortals and Mortals

The time of light snow, this year the south is rare snowflakes as big as a child’s hand.

Under the snow, that is, the stagecoach road is also difficult to travel, there is still a festival away from the Shang Yin Palace of learning, the two carriages walked quickly and casually, snow blocking the road, it happens to be near a manor near the lake, folded the road a few miles to lend a hand, look at this kind of snow is not two or three days is not stop, I’m afraid that if not to stay a night on the journey, because from the official road stagecoach road into the private mansion opened up a small path, especially bumpy, in fact, in order to the Zhu robe In fact, with the Zhu robe and Wudang Wang Xiaoping’s cultivation, but also can make the road up to a few feet thick snow melted away, but that is also too shocking, Xu Fengyen does not want to act so ostentatiously, five or six miles of snow road, it is hard to walk nearly an hour, the manor house hangs a plaque in gold, Xu Fengyen is a literate person, a glance is from the world’s fourth line of the book written in the world “cut the deer sacrifice” of the hands of the Dong Fu, Youyan Mountain Resort, one out of the father and son of the martial arts champion. The father and son of the martial arts alliance of the big Zhuangzi, family school has a long history, is one of the few in the jianghu to the power of a family to ask over the jianghu clan, both internal and external cultivation, long in the practice of qi and casting swords, Youyan Villa of the Longyan incense burner was once with the casting of the Baxiu sword Tongxi sword furnace, just Tongxi sword furnace has been in ruins, Longyan incense burner is not followed by dust, but unfortunately is also closed to the furnace for 20 to 30 years, nearly a since this manor has not been out of the amazing generation, but just rely on the ancestor to save up for a long time, and the family is the only one that has been able to save up. Just relying on the ancestors saved the shade of hard maintenance, but in a state, is still deservedly jianghu earliest, not to be underestimated, Xu Fengyen walked off the carriage, the manor since sweeping snow in front of the door, even if so majestic snow, manor front is still every hour to let the servants diligently sweeping the snow, so that the snow on the ground is thin, can be seen in the bottom of its heritage.

Two carriages visit the manor in this kind of heavenly light, in the gate near the side house warmed by the stove of the concierge rushed to trot out, for fear of slowing down the guests. Youyan Villa has always had a very good reputation, the House of the next person is also considerate and meticulous, after the winter, before the snow, has sent out sable hat thick clothes, but also added an extra bag for cold expenses of silver, as the main gate of the concierge, Zhang Mu is also considered a member of a small leader, but also the face of the role of the manor, sable hat texture is also extraordinarily good, but also to be able to put on a piece of fox, that is, unusual county officials, may not be as good as him! This style, Zhang Mu ushered in, see more than the government martial arts on the three teachings of the nine streams, two carriages is not surprising, but is the handiwork of small families, but that a few men and women, can really let the practice of the fiery eyes of the Zhang Mu startled, the leader of the young man with white head and white fur and white boots, the waist hangs a simple modeling of the knife, a pair of phoenix eyes, handsome and lawlessness, manor on the small master is already considered a rare man of beauty! The young master of the manor has already been considered a rare beautiful man, seems to be one step behind. White-headed young man stood next to the purple woman, not to mention the appearance, the odd deep temperament, how like their own young saw the old manor master, heart and soul on the fear of scruples? Just look at a glance, will not dare to look more. Behind the young man and woman, there is also a robust teenager, as well as a withered man who cannot recognize the depth of the man, as well as an elderly Confucian who is freezing and rubbing his hands and stomping his feet.

Zhang Mu’s stomach muttered, they are all new faces, it will not be the New Year’s Eve, to come to the manor to borrow the sword to watch the sword of the tricky characters, right? Youyan Mountain Villa collection sword is quite abundant, all non-extraordinary, many in the jianghu renowned swordsman like here to borrow the sword to have a good time, the contemporary master of the manor and is a throw a lot of money of luxury nature, friends all over the world, watch the sword is okay, if you meet the borrowing of the sword of the people, most likely also have borrowed no return, so that the manor’s collection of swords is becoming increasingly rare, the old master of the manor hands down more than ninety handles of the sword, and now there are only half of less than that, this is still the Lady of the Virtuous! Not hesitate to quarrel with the lord of the manor several times, only with great difficulty will be a few of the sharpest of the world’s most famous swords sealed into the sword furnace old ground, otherwise it is inevitable to those jianghu people spoiled to go.

Xu Fengyen gently clasped his fist and said with a slight guilty conscience: “It happened that the snow blocked the road, unable to continue southward, my Xu Qi has long admired the great name of Youyan Mountain Villa, so I am honored to come here to borrow the night for a day or two, I hope you will bear with me.”

Zhang Mu listen to like a mouthful of Tai’an City accent, listen to not like intentionally boarding the door to ask for a famous sword characters, such as relief, the owner of the bank prefer to welcome guests all over the world, Zhang Mu learn by experience, underlings are also contaminated with a few points of bold, as long as it is not those who are not selling their names and fame but also like to take advantage of the so-called swordsman, Zhang Mu in fact, and do not resent, coupled with the several in front of the gas attitude is not bad, extremely colorful, speech and mannerisms and the arrogance of the world’s son conceited, Zhang Mu is also close to a few points. Zhang Mu is also close to a few points, is hesitant to open the mouth to let them wait for a moment, so that the staff to report a report, but think that these guests who came from afar to borrow the night in the snowy days waiting outside, in the sense of reason is not appropriate, in case it is a powerful and noble children, we have to lead to the Youyan Villa is no need for the scourge of the door, can be led to the door, out of the condition of the situation, the counting to him, he is a small concierge can not afford to eat! Aah. Just when Zhang Mu did not show the left and right between the difficult, the gentleman surnamed Xu has smiled and said: “I trouble you to inform the master of the bank, I’m here to wait quietly is, if there is inconvenience, there is no harm, Xu Qi can see Dong Fu’s line of letters, come to ride the pleasure, even if you do not enter the door, but also ride the pleasure to go.”

How is the heart of this gentleman, Zhang Mu do not dare to speculate, but the fine things on the preaching, on the road! Zhang Mu heart comfortable, also respectfully cupped his fists and returned the salute, and pushed the boat smiling: “I dare to let Mr. Xu wait a little bit, Zhang Mu this personally go to talk to the Zhuangzi.”

Xu Fengnian stretched out a palm, signaling the concierge to ignore his group. Then he quietly stood in the wind and snow, looking up from afar to admire the four characters of “Youyan Villa” on the plaque in gold lacquer, smooth and richly moist, well versed in the realm of neutrality and peace. About an incense stick work, Zhang Mu trotted out, the pace is fast and light and not impatient, obviously is the door into the room of the practitioners, not the usual jianghu those haphazardly fabricate a few sets of style to go to the self-proclaimed warrior of the guy can be compared, followed by a housekeeper looks like the black fox fur son of the old man, see Xu Fengyen and his entourage, cupped his fists and said aloud: “Xu Gongzi quickly please come in, this time! This time, the Youyan Villa has really been rude. My name is Zhang Han, I will show you the way, the residence has already set up a fireplace and warmed up a few pots of yellow wine.”

Xu Fengyen smiled and returned the salute, “Xu Qi’s intrusion is in front of me, first of all, I would like to thank Youyan Mountain Villa for the favor of lending me a place to stay.”

The manor housekeeper hurriedly led the way while waving his hand and smiling, “Mr. Xu, don’t be polite, but there are hospitality is not good, but also hope that Mr. open up as much as you like, although Youyan Villa is not that family gate, but as long as the noble guest is coming to the door, it is always not stingy with the enthusiasm.”

Xu Fengyen smiled and nodded, his group followed Zhang Han across the threshold of the side door, the main door is not open, it makes sense, a mansion door, not open to anyone, like the Beiliang Royal Palace opened the door only a handful of times, the people who get this honor, are not the Liyang Dynasty, either explicitly or implicitly, the top figures. Xu Fengyen’s group of strangers whose names have not even been heard of by Youyan Mountain Resort, was able to ask the head steward to personally go out to meet them, this courtesy is not really too shabby. After Xu Fengyen passed the door, will heart warm alcohol a smile, with unknown hidden secrets, the old yellow sword box hidden six swords, one of them will come from the Youyan Mountain Villa’s Longyan incense burner, named Sinking Fragrance. All the way as if there is no end through the corridor through the building, finally was led to a building can be full of snow lake view of the lake courtyard, courtyard door stone carving shakusetsu two words, really should be the scene, that is, the origin of a superior vein eyes above the top of the XuanYuanQingFeng, can not be picked out, into the yard before, but also back to a glance of the snow fell into the water of the dragon jumping lake, YouYan Villa by the mountains, Crouching Tiger Mountain has a vein extending into the water, such as the sleeping tiger roosts, look out, the top of the mountain! The top of the hill has a pavilion for enjoying the lake.

In addition to the perennial care of the quiet courtyard of the existing two wonderful maids, Zhang Han also deliberately brought a few originally not in the ruler of the snow yard to do the work of the maidservant, but also in the posture of the upper, perhaps knowing that carry the “family”, inside and outside of the courtyard together with the five or six manor housemaid, are the temperament of the quiet and dignified, not the kind of a glance can be peeped out of the charm of the foxy child, Zhang Hand Into the courtyard but not into the house, with a smile on his face said to Xu Fenian: “Mr. Xu, the master of the manor coincidentally has something in the body, can not immediately come to meet, Mr. forgive me.”

Xu Fenian shook his head and said, “It should have been Xu Qi who personally went to pay his respects to the Lord of the Manor, if the Lord of the Manor were to come in person, I would be truly guilty. Old Mr. Zhang, just need to inform Xu Qi when he is free when the lord of the manor, in the next must personally go with the gift to pay tribute, just did not expect the snow blocked the road, delayed the established trip, had to borrow the night in a hurry, the gift is very light, is really sweaty.”

Zhang Han in a good mood, haha laughed: “The visitor is a guest, Mr. Xu polite, polite ah.”

To be honest, Zhang Hand is really annoyed with those so-called fart jianghu豪客, looks like a big grin, a photo is to talk to the owner of the brotherhood, big words, what he has something to do when the two ribs of words, in fact, shrewd even he is the big housekeeper of the village are ashamed to be ashamed of themselves, in the manor stayed in less than a few tens of years or more than a few months, eat and drink, eating phase is too poor, a little unintentional slowness, may be run to the owner of the manor With a few words of yin and yang, and even more, there was a also known as the reputation of the Southeast rivers and lakes of the famous swordsman, are more than fifty years of age, even made the bank on the female maidservant of the disgusting human behavior, as for those who came to the name of the swordsman ranger, who is not rushing to the bank to hide the sword, the small plan to play the crackling, the banker is the kind of good people can not pull the face of the Zhang Han is just a servant, even if he was willing to sing the white face, but also can not sing the flower, these people will not be able to sing, but also to sing the white face. Also can’t sing flowers, these years aggrieved the lady who has the way to hold the family. Today hit such a polite and sensible Xu Gongzi, so that Zhang Han heart half of the stone landed, after all, Youyan Villa want to rise again, the need is still those down-to-earth jianghu friends, the more the better, if the family’s fathers and mothers hold the real power of the government officials and eunuchs, the Youyan Villa, but also is tantamount to a great blessing of the charcoal in the snow.

Zhang Han gently left, five maidservants are beautiful ripples, can not help but look at a few more eyes of the fox fur gentleman, really handsome, and not that kind of fat and powder gas handsome, but full of Yingqi, the three outer courtyard maids originally also some complaints, who is happy to serve outsiders in the cold weather? After seeing Xu Fengyen with his own eyes, he was full of joy, and it overflowed on their beautiful faces. Let the teenager e look at the sneaking pleasure, I said that my own son of a brother to where all ate incense, he could not help but cut a glance at the purple-clothed woman, the latter keenly aware of the teenage dead man’s eyes, the line of sight interlaced, indeterminate, the least not too much killing intent, the teenager froze for a moment, this ghostly woman changed her temperament? Surprisingly, there is no sign of fighting and killing?

Small courtyard really warmed up a few altars of Zhuangzi self-brewed top sinking jar of yellow wine, charcoal in the fireplace in full, the house door half open, still let a person feel warm, through the courtyard door you can see a courtyard door of the silver-white lake view, the courtyard is not big, just two into the house is enough, but also does not give a person the feeling of coldness and lonesomeness, has been in the small courtyard of the foot snow to do the job of the two maids to go to the busy, in fact, the courtyard would have been clean, is just to do a look, so that the Guests feel the manor side of the attentive goodwill. Three string door maidservant is waiting for yellow wine and guests, Xu Fengyen smiled and asked them whether they drink wine, can drink wine, they look at each other a smile, after nodding politely, one of them opened only said can drink about one or two of the wine, do not dare to drink more, otherwise to the steward bumped into, can not help but lecture. Xu Fengyen then asked for a few more glasses, the guests and the maidservants drank yellow wine together, and it was a happy occasion. Sword idiot Wang Xiaoping does not drink, went to the house to close the door to shut down.

Liu Wenbao all drank out of his reddish rosacea and recited words, all of which were great poems and essays on drinking, making the few maids who mistook him for an old bookkeeper find it amusing.

Xu Fengnian asked with a smile, “Before entering the courtyard, I saw a boat tied up by the lake, can we go on the lake at this time of the day?”

A bolder maidservant’s autumn waves flowed, her voice soft, “Sir Xu, there is a specialized boat shaker on the manor, as long as the slave girl goes to inform, she can go into the lake to fish, and warming the wine on the boat is also possible. But this moment the snow is too big, if you are fishing on the lake, it will be too cold, you have to put on a straw raincoat lined with thick cotton.”

Xu Fengnian nodded and said, “Then please fetch the straw raincoat hats, rocking the boat will not be necessary.”

The graceful female maidservant answered a promise, got up and left, not long to sway again, the green bird got up to put on the heavy straw raincoat for the gentleman, Xu Fengyen carried a delicate bamboo hat, and a box of refined fish bait that had been prepared earlier, out of the courtyard, in addition to XuanYuan QingFeng, a group of people were sent to the lakeside, Xu Fengyen stepped on the canoe alone, smiled and waved to the crowd, the five female maidservants were only focusing on looking at the gentleman’s divine appearance! The five maidservants only focused on looking at the divine appearance of the gentleman, thinking about what people rely on clothes and Buddha rely on gold makeup, this Xu Gongzi is a straw raincoat, that is how to look handsome, they did not pay attention to the young man called Xu Qi’s white head after boarding the boat, do not see swinging the wooden sculls, the boat has been gently sliding into the lake.

Big snow big lake, lonely boat Demoiselle.

A pole fishing cold river snow.

Female maidservants back to God, a long time refused to leave, until really can not survive the snow winter cold, only to return to the foot snow small courtyard.

Half an hour later, a group of white people tread water to, both men and women, fluttering as white butterflies, temperament beyond the world.

Floating like an immortal.

This group of immortals tread water lightly, a swept is five or six feet, high swept over the boat, directly to the Youyan Villa.