Chapter 052 – Two Ingots of Silver, Buy a Famous General in Spring and Autumn and Send a Clanking Literary Minister

Xu Fengyen and Huang Shang playing riddles together, in addition to the age of not too young Ning Zong vaguely grasp the clues, most feel that these two people feel that just drinking is too boring, learn that the literati trolls make a show of mystery. Especially in the segment Chun’an and other rough ears, only to feel uncomfortable, the right and as a whisper, head down to drink wine, more drink is to earn a mouthful, outside the door of the Iron Lodge elite cavalry is close to eighty, not to mention a large number of foot soldiers, a good catching turtles in a jar, the segment Chun’an thought of this, to the one that will be introduced to their own group of inns on the Prince and then there are some grudges, think this kind of fear, it would be better to drum up the energy! I think it’s better to kill them than to sit back and wait for death.

Got two ingots of silver of the rugged man expressionless, as if he did not understand the meaning of the words, stagnant eyes, the white-headed boy still refused to stop, while drinking wine while laughing, “after the surrender of the East Vietnamese naval division of the Great Governor Gu Zhun word, the Liyang naval division such as a tiger to add wings, as if breaking through the bamboo, more than 100,000 troops to kill the wave of the sun lake, just parked outside the mouth of the lake of large warships multiply the dragon, Fu crab on more than 60 ships, in danger of being killed, but the enemy is not in a state of emergency. More than sixty ships, the critical orders of the Boyang Lake guard pretend to be killed swore to fight to the death of his colleague Du Jiankang, take over the Ministry of the Du Division of the navy, forced to withdraw from the mouth of the lake and the Lotus Chau two passes, the Liyang Division of the navy mistakenly thought that the Boyang Lake Division is determined to break the siege and fled, the ministries to scramble for military success, heavy and difficult to float the crab ride the dragon parked in the outer river, and only let the sampan warships of lightweight and flexible sailing into the inner lake, not knowing that the Boyang Lake guards to make the death of the Du Jiankang to come back to life to kill A horseback, this person is personally led by three thousand guards dead, will be the mouth of the lake narrow water card blocking, so that the Liyang naval division cut off, the head and tail can not echo, and then let the two sons rushed into the Crab Crew Dragon, canoe full of oil altar, set fire to the ship, and the giant ship with the death, finally a hammer, so that the original unstoppable Liyang naval division all intercepted in the lake in the wave of the sun, the rumors of the South Tang Dynasty visible country of the great fire, burned for Three days and three nights, this person’s son died by no means say, even two from the jianghu family of daughter-in-law are military, together with the martyrdom of the Boyang Lake, can be said to be a white sent full of black hair. The family flame is severed, is a great unfiliality. The success of this battle, Boyang Lake division disembarked, with the will to die on the way to the capital, but do not know that the South Tang monarch has long been on the away from the sun to surrender the reward of the South China Duke heart, angrily rebuked this great disloyalty, sent a secret messenger to give two pots of poisoned wine. Boyang Lake division surrendered without a fight, eighty years old general Du Jiankang given death was cut off the head, into the box, the South Tang dynasty master clad in hemp clothes open the city gate, holding the box, kneeling to welcome the emperor division. That day the South Tang Kingdom extinguished.”

Huang Shang added oil to the fire, said: “Afterwards, the South Tang this dead king, with the rest of the Spring and Autumn several countries of the hard brothers and sisters rushed to the city of Tai’an, away from the first emperor laughed at the death of hundreds of thousands of sailors, only to bring Du Jiankang a person with the life, is still owed to me a head. The same day was sealed South Duke, died that day in the South Duke’s residence, reduced to a laughing stock. Song family old man compiling the history of the Spring and Autumn period, about the Southern State Duke is given a bad posthumous or beautiful posthumous, with the old first aid disputes, and ultimately compromise, only to give a not bad not beautiful flat posthumous. South Tang Hong people, the national surname back then, now everyone is ashamed of the surname Hong.”

The innkeeper’s cross-fleshed face twitched a few times, wanting to speak, reached out and wiped his face, smiled, his eyes were no longer cloudy, gently walked towards the wine table, softly asked with a smile, “A few guests, rewarding the countryside village boy with a bowl of wine?”

Xu Fengnian spread his hands and said, “Sit.”

The shopkeeper rubbed his hands together and sat down, then looked at Xu Fengyen, “Your Excellency is the big man in charge of Liyang Zhaohouli? That’s really young and promising, ordinary people can’t enter this place.”

Xu Fengnian shook his head and laughed, “I barely fought with Zhao Hook, and I also fought with Northern Mang Spider Web, all of them are difficult goods that will take off layers of skin if I touch them, so I won’t touch them if I can. You can rest assured that my trip out traveling, just by chance through the Dragon’s Tail slope, at first just curious about how someone would be in the middle of nowhere to get an inn, if it is to seek wealth, that vision is also too poor, said it is to seek a stable, that is more or less. Mr. Huang said he would be some physiognomy, in fact, I know a little bit, the shopkeeper is clearly the age of a son, but the face is still too young, it so happens that there are some people in the house is specialized in the skin weaving, the first time we met, there are some questions, to be honest, the maintenance of a skin, and the maintenance of the jade contrary to raising jade more and more rounded, but a thousand gold can not be bought by the root of the face of the skin, but not good to wear for twenty years. But for this I also only as a family have a difficult to read the scripture, meet is fate, drink over the wine is just, but when I walked out of the inn to go to the thatched hut to enjoy the scenery, the field of vision, guess the weather is clear, can be seen in the South Tang Boyang Lake. And the shopkeeper’s speech vocabulary, previously accosted, although deliberately covered up, has been no different from the local accent, but there are a few words, biting some deep-rooted, clearly is the old sound of the South Tang Dynasty, you say coincidentally, I’m a dude attached to the elegance of the good not to learn, the bad will be, but also happens to be some understanding of the South Tang sound tunes, it is more and more curious.”

The old man in charge of the shop glanced at the ignorant Duan Chunan, then laughed brightly, “Your son is learned and skillful, and his insights are refuted, it really makes an old man like me, who is half in the yellow mud, not to be convinced of old age, the newborns can be feared ah.”

Huang Shang, who always paid attention to the shopkeeper’s demeanor, saw that glimpse of him and was creeped out in his heart, rushed to mend his ways and said warmly to Ning Zong and Duan Chun’an, “Brother Ning, take Duan Warrior to the doorway to see what’s going on out there.”

A cold sweat Ning Zong as if amnestied, got up and pulled Duan Chun’an arm to drag vigorously to the door.

The old shopkeeper body no longer half a bit of mercenary gas, smiled lightly: “Ask an annoying question, the son of the old man is curious, the old man is also curious about the son of what you just said, on the Liyang Zhao hook North Mang spider webs are familiar with. The children of ordinary families don’t have this treatment.”

Huang Shang, who will soon become a Beijing official, interjected coldly, “Huang is only taking advantage of today’s drinking, and will only talk about drinking in the future. If the two of you can trust, I continue to sit and dabble with the wine, if you can not trust ……”

Not waiting for Master Huang to finish, Xu Fengyen smiled and lifted the wine jar, to Huang Shang still half a bowl of wine bowl to pour full, are smart people, as much as possible.

The shopkeeper’s eyes softened a few points, mumble mumble mumble made a mouthful of wine, then looked up at Yuan Zuozong who had been motionless, and said bluntly, “Yuan Baixiong, a deadly battle at the Princess Grave, the old man has been longing for it.”

Yuan Zuozong narrowed his eyes and smiled, “Compared to the battle at Bo Yang Lake, it was a hundred thousand miles worse.”

Huang Shang was first stunned beyond words, then instantly realized, his face showed a bitter smile, and finally sprinkled, bowed his head and murmured, “Let’s just say that there’s no good thing under the sky to take advantage of for nothing, but this wine is spicy to the mouth but warms up the heart, this sitting today, there’s no great regret in this life.”

The shopkeeper stared at Xu Fengyen and said, “I heard that the son of Beilang has traveled three times, and he has traveled all over Liyang and North Mang, so it’s not like he’s full of food? This Mr. Xu, can you explain to me?”

Xu Fengyen stopped drinking, his hands inserted his sleeves, “At first it was fleeing, later that trip was to walk around, walk the path that old dad had traveled back then, take a look at the great rivers and mountains he fought for, as for why he went to North Mang, to be really honest, this small half altar of leftover wine on the table isn’t quite enough.”

The shopkeeper shook his head and said, “There really isn’t any wine left.”

Rubbing his face, with his seat by the window, he looked out the window and laughed softly, “Looking at the giant lake in South Tang, the next nine floors of high buildings, through the eight directions of the air, supporting half of the sky, the good mountains and good water from the bottom of the eyes to meet. The accent of the countryside does not change, the accent of the countryside does not change. When the wind is clear and the clouds are broad, on a few altars of bad wine, discussing the two dynasties and the history of the world. Chewing and chewing and pouring out all the blocks in the chest, is not it a pleasure? Wouldn’t it be great!”

Xu Fengyen softly said, “There is a history of right and wrong, and the king of hell will be asked about the weight of good and evil.”

Huang Shang, who should have been honestly silenced, heard this, drank a bowl of wine, raised his sleeve and wiped the corners of his mouth, and lamented, “What is written in the history of the dynasties is only what the emperor thinks, and the king curses the loser, five words only.”

The old shopkeeper repeatedly murmured the word “loser”, even the old tears, jerked his head up, wine and tears a bowl of drink, “Gu Dazu all dead, in the end there is still a few good words about the old South Tang, but I am the first emperor of the South Tang, bear the blame, died unjustly ah. Since ancient times and the next five thousand years, how many emperors sitting on the throne, would rather be ashamed of the ancestors, not ashamed of the people a person? The world says that before Du Jiankang drank the poisoned wine, he jumped to his feet and scolded the late emperor for being dim-witted and farting! They say that before he died, Du Jiankang wanted to cut off his own eyes and throw them into Lake Boyang so that he could open his eyes to see how the late emperor would end up, fart! The world said that Gu Da Zu led the troops to fight outside the South Tang’s borders, enough to keep the South Tang’s throne for 20 years, fart! What a good thing to ask the King of Hell, what a good thing to scold the defeated! Gu Dazu has been languishing for twenty years, but today he has heard two words from a human being!”

Xu Fengnian got up and calmly said, “Northern Liang Xu Fengnian, I have met General Gu. Xu Snap once said that Gu Dazu is full of guts, that Southern Gu is far superior to Northern Gu, and that he is the Li Chun Gang of the temple. Master Li Yishan also held General Gu’s Wushu Ash Collection in high esteem, calling it the number one contemporary military book, higher than the ancients.”

The old shopkeeper shook his head in silence.

Huang Shang put down his wine bowl and gently asked, “Some people in the capital said that they want to keep Northern Mang from entering the Central Plains with a single hoof, is that true?”

Xu Fengnian was about to speak, when Yuan Zuozong behind him sneered, “Does Lord Huang know that Bei Liang’s old pawns made six hundred voices of respect?”

Huang Shang laughed: “I heard about it, but I didn’t believe it before.”

Xu Fengnian turned his head and said, “Second Brother Yuan, I’ll give you half a bowl of wine time.”

Yuan Zuozong smiled and left, heading towards the door of the inn, leaving behind a sentence, “That’s enough.”

Huang Shang’s expression changed slightly and he sighed softly. Gu Dazu, who had been working as a shopkeeper incognito, rubbed his temples with some knowing smiles in his eyes.

The next sentence Xu Fengnian said was truly a boulder thrown into the lake, “The Northern Liang Infantry still lacks a Vice Commander, General Gu received two ingots of silver, he must give me an explanation. As for Lord Huang, don’t go to the capital to die, the civilian seats in Beiliang Dao are at your disposal. It’s not up to Lord Huang to go, Xu Fengyen is determined to be the first soldier after the ritual, that is, knocked out, tied also tied to go. Anyway, Iron Lodge soldiers died cleanly because of you, Lord Huang even if he jumped into Lake Boyang a hundred times he still can’t wash it off, he might as well go to Northern Liang with me.”

Gu Dazu laughed, “Sharp tactics, worthy of being Xu Snap’s son, right on the appetite. In advance, a penny for a penny, what vice commander, infantry grand commander is more like it, let that squatting thatch pit not shit Yan Wenluan give me a mop-up job.”

Huang Shang helplessly said, “Then I implore His Highness the World Prince to knock me out first.”

Xu Fengnian stuck his hands in his sleeves and smiled like a fox.