Chapter 066: The Art of Long and Short
Sheep horn girl understanding, also do not care about the two guests clamor for the host, see them put out a set of lamps to talk at night, in the hall lit two half of a thick red candle, they go to the boudoir book, room door half-covered, a slit, she did not want to light the lamp, she secretly squatted in the doorway, through the bit of dim light dizziness to eat and read. Shangyin school palace priest and Mr. as many as hair, really when the word “everyone” few comments, Wang priest won the name of the real debate lost the dispute between heaven and man, lost to today’s school of the Palace of the great priest, on the weight of the school palace is still firmly in the top three, if you say that the vertical and horizontal debate of the talent, but also no one out of its left and right. At this time Wang priest stooped and stretched his hands, roasting fire on the stove, reflecting his vicissitudes of face glittering, occasionally twisting a peanut from the dish into his mouth. Xu Fengyen sat on a small bench, carrying the little girl’s favorite pair of barbaric brocade boots, mastering the fire, away from the burning coals in the stove has some height, slowly baking. In this way, the two people no matter how prestigious identity, there is a living rustic, not like a high above the clay Bodhisattva being worshipped, the two did not rush to speak, even if the situation has been imminent, called the urgent need, but after all, the world is not as good as the hand to talk about, repentance is not allowed, the old priest Wang this time solemn, the mood is not easy, the scholar on paper, often high in the eyes of the low, the Wang Priests spend their lives researching the art of open-ended, but then good planning, but also have to rely on people to do, the chessboard on the roots of the fallen, can not be changed again, but where the living so simple, who really want to be a puppet or pawns, which is also Wang Priests on the game of the matter has never made up for the root of the sloppiness of the chessboard chess pieces are dead things, or picking the country’s best talent, randomly from the chess wait for the imperial edicts to carry out a few well-known big country hand! Not on the line?
Hiding behind the door to borrow light to read the little girl turned the page, glanced out the door of the white head of the man, hate him certainly hate up, but to say is the beginning of love like, will not be, one she is still small, two men and women, not another person how good, will certainly like, love does not know the beginning of the end of the love does not know the end of the destiny of who can say clear, goat horns girl by the ear of their own family’s book, feel that I In the future, she will still look for a scholar like her father, outside the house in the lobby warm Jun brother, good is good, but unfortunately not her dish ah. The little girl has no intention of eavesdropping, take back the shallow thoughts like paper, subconsciously stretching fingers dipped in saliva, gently flip the book, contained in the mouth, and then smashed it smashed, full of ink, and then self-conscious hehehe smile, parents always said that this habit of her is not good, it is not easy to hide the book, the book of the destruction of the abomination, can be a little girl piece of where to care about these, and repeatedly teach and change, and over time, her father also pretends to be out of sight, out of mind.
In the hall, the king priest finally spoke slowly, “do not worry about victory first worry about defeat, let’s say the bad first, six hundred people, Mr. Bachelor is about two eights, which Jixi Bachelor in the past two years, a small half of them were thrown by me with various excuses to the old Shu, Thistle and Xiangfan and other places of study, Jixi Mr. Half of them in the north of the Liang eight hundred miles to open a private academy, or attached to the local power and wealth, these people are not easy to enter the north of Liang, but they can be used for the purpose of the study. Into the northern Liang, relatively easy, but also does not rule out the possibility of the court secretly stalking, a wind blowing grass on the killers to cut off the roots, these people are still so, not to mention also stayed in the Palace, are under the knife and chopping block of fish. Xu Zhao two love points exhausted, such a large-scale migration, not to mention the difficulties along the way Daozhou county, I’m afraid that even the Zhu hooks have to go out, this group than the delicate woman is not good to go to the Mr. scholars, can not withstand the iron hooves of a few trampled, to put it mildly, a little bit of the elite Liyang armor a spear poke, can be picked out of a string of sugarplums. Your Highness said that less than half arrived in Beiliang, not alarmist talk.”
Xu Fengyen laughed: “Soldiers come to stop the water and cover the earth, Liyang iron horsemen and Zhu Gou who is specialized in assassination are accustomed to eating meat, but our secret agent spies in Beiliang are vegetarians? When we ate meat in a big bowl, they were still waiting for soup? My master once for this matter, specifically left a brocade bag, and now has begun to develop countermeasures, the ground in Liyang side, but the timing and two things, not to say that all in the Northern Liang, but compared to the previous years that the dilemma of the elasticity of the situation, or to be better, first of all, when the Northern Liang attacked the North Mang border towns, the second sister is to lead the troops all the way to kill to the South Dynasty capital city, so that the North Mang exhausted to cope with, and then there is a demon Luoyang in the last year with a A year’s worth of time has been spent in the south, killing countless iron cavalry soldiers. Beiliang raised a large number of jianghu hawks and dogs, used to be used as a precautionary measure against the North Mang jianghu forces southward infiltration, for fear that this group of desperadoes do not go to kill the heavily guarded ministers of power and honors, specially selected only in the threshold of the flow of goods hovering in the soft persimmon under the black knife, this moment can be drawn into the territory of Liyang. If the North Mang side dares to take advantage of the fire, trying to form a tacit understanding with the Zhao family, then let Xu Snapdragon once again, coincidentally, the new North Liang capital guard Chu Lushan and the cavalry commander Yuan Zuozong, are worried about how to burn the new officials, if burned to the North Mang body, even if the Zhonghongwu Yan Wenluan will be happy to see it. Further away from the sun Zhu hook, when Cao Changqing greeted the princess, also ruthlessly killed a pass Zhu hook within the top spies, and now has not yet recovered, the eagle and dog of the Northern Liang dead soldiers, battlefield killing can not, but this less than a Wu more than a standard of covert action, or good at it, with the Zhu hook on, can barely do not lose the upper hand. There is another point, before spending too much energy gas to protect me this unscrupulous dude’s set of elite dead soldiers, also can be dispatched to cope with Beiliang has long become a system of military spies, don’t forget, Beiliang iron cavalry A world, a big reason for the A in the scouts, in case of Zhao’s court tearing their faces off, and not hesitate to use more than 1,000 armored soldiers and healthy pawns, then don’t blame them for kicking on the iron plate at that time.”
The old gentleman lamented, “When the time comes, this chessboard will be a scene of dogfighting.”
The old gentleman retracted his hands that were heated by the fire and rubbed his thin cheeks, “Maybe there will be blood everywhere then.”
Xu Fengyen said flatly, “You can’t ask a horse to pull a cart without giving the horse grass to eat. There is no such good thing under the sky. My Xu family does not conspire, do not usurp the throne as emperor, to your Zhao family to guard the northwest gateway, ordinary people have a watchdog at home, but also know to give some food. Zhao family is good, all day long thinking about this only shortcoming is not wagging the tail begging for mercy of the dog hurry to starve to the skin and bones, and then find a good time to stew a pot of dog meat to eat a good time. A dog knows how to jump over the wall when it’s anxious, let alone the Northern Liang Iron Cavalry that rolls out of blood and water.”
Xu Fengyen suddenly smiled, put down the little girl’s old boots that had already been roasted by him, took the iron poker and rattled the charcoal, “But if I were the Zhao family’s Son of Heaven or the Crown Prince, I would also be wary of the Xu family, wouldn’t I allow others to snore on the other side of the couch, just understand, but for me to accept it is a million times impossible.”
The old man will smile, no longer call Xu Fengyen as your highness, intimate a few points, “you this kid, speak quite reasonable, do things on the crooked.”
Xu Fengnian smiled bitterly, “It’s not easy to be in charge. The child who can yell has sugar to eat, if you don’t splash and roll around a few times, where will others take you seriously.”
Priest Wang laughed, “Then talk about it in a better way?”
Xu Fengyen followed along with his brows sparing a few moments, and laughed cheerfully, “It’s soothing to talk about this.”
Unexpectedly, the old man shook his head and said, “I have to splash cold water on you first, let’s just calculate that half of the six hundred people will be alive in Beiliang, have you ever thought that when the temple is small and the bodhisattva is big, there are too many monks and too little porridge? The whole world readers are staring at how to settle these people in Beiliang, Beiliang is narrow and barren, although many official hats, but ultimately not can be given away casually, send more, the official hat is not worth it, after the comfort, no one is happy to continue to give you the life of a seller. What’s more, Beiliang native snakes are intertwined, and most of them are from the Spring and Autumn Warfare in the top of the general species of the family, and then up to the strife, who do you help? Who is favoritism, doomed to be inside and outside of the people, be favoritism of the appetite is growing, be left out of the heart of the cynicism. The most difficult thing is, not only is some of the blood stained military affairs to annoy people, more is the trivial family affairs to disgust people. I know you now squeeze out Chen Zhi Bao, in Beiliang began to deliberately reverse the impression of playboy, especially the group of hundred war veterans on you to change your mind a lot, is not easy, you are not afraid of this time to form a line of the Palace into the Beiliang cronyism and according to, let you lose all your efforts? Calling you a big spendthrift loser embroidered pillow?”
Xu Fengnian smiled, “The happiest thing about being married to a woman is that apart from being eye to eye with her husband, there are two other extremely important things, a fair-minded father-in-law, and a mother-in-law who has the heart of a mother-in-law. Beiliang is thirsty for talents, but there are always thousand mile horses, but not always Bole, without these hundreds of people from Shangyin Academy, the Xu family is not the same as in Beiliang, not the same as to say that the fight against the North Mang can’t lift their heads? As for the Beiliang snakes, Xu Snapdragon is not good at many things, I don’t mind being the villain at all, you have friendship with Xu Snapdragon, and you rely on this love and affection to fish and flesh the people of Beiliang and scrape the ground, but with me, Xu Fengyen, we haven’t come to that point, Xu Fengyen has come to this day all these years, originally did not rely on them. I do not favor anyone, with the snake and the river dragon on both sides of the polite reasoning, outside of Beiliang, may be my reasoning does not make sense, but in Beiliang, you dare not reason with me, I can really let you eat and take a walk. Is the head of the snake, then you rely on military service as a rich man in the field, or hold the various states and counties military affairs, it does not matter, these are your deserved, can eat too bad, bad Xu family wall root, here a hoe there a hammer digging a dog hole, so that a good a solid door wall leakage of the wind on all sides, don’t blame me to take your body to fill in the hole. If it is a river dragon, as long as not fake high, down-to-earth work, official hat, gold and silver, women are not lacking, Beiliang narrow land also has the advantage of narrow land, that is, where all in the eyes of the Xu family, do what all see. What the Xu family does is only the word fairness. As for the bitter words, I’m afraid I’ll have to labor you, old sir, I think you’ll be cursed behind your back just as much as you are.”
Priest Wang nodded and said, “There is fairness and mother-in-law two-pronged approach, this group of poor newly married young daughters-in-law without their mother’s family, as long as they are diligent and thrifty, they are not afraid of not having a day of reckoning, bumps and bruises will certainly be there, but at least not so miserable as to have to hang and throw themselves into a well, this is enough. This is not a delicate girl, as long as there is a good in-laws, that will be able to bear the pain.”
Xu Fengyen smiled and joked, “The first time I saw old sir at the top of Qingliang mountain playing against Xu Snapdragon, his speech was elegant, probably because he was spending time with such a big vulgar person like me, and his speech was vulgar as well.”
The old gentleman shook his head and laughed to himself, “This is called looking at the person and prescribing the right medicine. Getting along with such a Liyang head No. 1 reckless person as Beiliang King, if you deliberately get close to him with a big grin, you will not be able to avoid hooking up with him intentionally to drink big bowls of wine and eat big chunks of meat, and that will not be difficult for this old man like me to die. Besides, the reason why the art of vertical and horizontal is also called the art of long and short, it is nothing more than to use one’s own strength against the enemy’s shortness. Speaking of which, I would like to dare to test Your Highness, what are the respective strengths and weaknesses of Beiliang and Liyang?”
Xu Fengyen said with a helpless face, “This old gentleman has to ask Xu Beihao or Chen Xiliang, I’m not happy to reveal my own shortcomings, does this count as catching the skin of the art of strengths and weaknesses?”
Priest Wang softly hmmmed.
Xu Fengnian asked in a low voice: “This little girl’s surname is Ouyang, her grandfather’s surname is Ouyang, people from Takigang, has the old gentleman heard of this?”
Priest Wang said flatly, “The little girl’s father is half a student of mine, he is not optimistic about Northern Liang and will not follow him to Northern Liang.”
Xu Fengyen nodded, good thing, the Shangyin Academy suffered such ups and downs, the academy and the court in order to stabilize people’s hearts, with the goat’s horns girl’s father’s knowledge, in the future the days of the least will surely be a lot more generous.
Xu Fengnian stood up, “Then let’s move?”
Priest Wang stood up and smiled, “Not saying goodbye?”
Xu Fenian smiled, “That girl hates vulgarity.”
The two of them gently walked out of the house, and after Xu Fengyen closed the door to his room, he hung the jade pendant that he had gotten in passing on the grapevine.
On the second day, the wind and snow stopped, and a huge snowman several people high stood on the edge of the Buddha Palm Lake in Shangyin Academy Palace.
The goat-horned girl ran all the way to the courtyard of fish young Wei, screaming and leaping, “Sister fish, there is a big snowman by the lake, it looks like you!”