Chapter 115 – Family Thief

Finally returned to the general’s residence in Lingzhou, Hong Shuwen dismounted with a big grin and yelled home. Then Hong Shuwen stared wide-eyed, a large group of fish sneaky, crowded hiding in the general’s right side of the stone lions that small open space, Hong Shuwen family life is excellent, a glance to see through this group of guys pretending to be Jianghu Haojun and the Greenwood good man, to rely on the general’s house to cheat a mouth to eat, either the gray rat skin is raccoon skin, extraordinarily brand-new, are in the sable belongs to the most worthless of the kinds, which two people’s styles are also the same, obviously is a swollen face to pretend to be a bit of a front but not coincidentally in the same shop, but also in the same shop. Obviously is a swollen face to pretend a little face, but not coincidentally in the same store to purchase the cheap leather clothing, all of a sudden to reveal. Hong Shuwen close to the past, casually scanning a circle, twenty or thirty big men, did not find a master style, which makes the innate jianghu people have preconceived notions of Hong Shuwen doubly bored, was about to turn around, His Royal Highness has been with him side by side, Hong Shuwen hurriedly do not show traces of a step back. Xu Fenian laughed, “Gentlemen, whoever has the strength of the fourth rank, please step out.”

Wufu nine products, four products is a big watershed, can have four products realm, in the local state and county can be counted as a good hand, in a county, that is almost can walk horizontally. In the martial arts style is not strong in small places enough to start a sect, not to say rich and powerful, the least can be mixed into a party of gentry. Hong Shuwen eeked out, originally thought that this group of half-assed good guys could have two or three fourth grade masters to burn high incense, never thought that all of a sudden out of the fourteen or fifteen people. Xu Fengyen saw a man with wandering eyes, threw a look to Hong Shuwen beside him, Hong Shuzi took a few steps out, and suddenly his killing aura was overwhelming, his body jumped up, his hands pressed the hilts of the two Beiliang knives at his waist, and a knee slammed into the man’s chest, and the man who had been caught by surprise was about to be hit hard, and behind him, a dry and skinny old man who hadn’t originally stood out of the way slid out a few steps on his feet, and his soles of his shoes were no more than inches from the ground, and with one hand he pushed the man away! Want to abuse the Han, a hand on Hong Shuwen’s knee, down a press, the body downward Hong Shuwen cold smile, the right hand knife violently slipped out of the sheath, the light blinding, many spectators are subconsciously squinted, but most of them can not see the general’s young retainers of the knife, can only be vaguely see the poor old man bowed over sideways, both hands clenched fists, towards the feet have not yet landed on the chest of the Hong Shuwen, the old man’s double fists a hit! The old man’s two fists out, whistling into the wind, Gang qi biting cold, some people exclaimed that it was Li Cang Yang’s nesting cannon! Hong Shuwen raised his arm to block, sliding five or six steps backwards on the ground, his right hand knife plunged into the ground, stopping his body hard, shaking his left wrist, Hong Shuwen turned his head to look at His Highness the Prince with a smile, his eyes asking if he could do it with all his might, Xu Fengyen shook his head and laughed, ”Apart from this old man, who else is a third grade expert? Stand out in a big way, Bei Liang are saying that this Shizi likes to rob people’s women by force, since all of you are not like a flowery little lady, there is no need to worry.”

A few fourth rank experts in their prime grinned, this World Prince was a quick-witted man. Some of the men who tried to muddle through also grayed out and retreated a few steps back.

In addition to the old man from Yang’s family in Li Cang County who was proficient in Long Fist and Cannon Punch, there were also two burly men who were known to specialize in external kung fu at a glance who also stepped out, and one after the other, they signed themselves up in a loud voice. Xu Fengnian nodded with a smile in his eyes, then gently lifted his chin and said loudly behind the crowd, “Brother is obviously in possession of the second grade strength, since he came here, why is he unwilling to show up, is it because he wants to open the ceremonial door of the General’s residence in Lingzhou for you before he is willing to enter the residence?”

The crowd parted, only then did the crowd notice that there was a middle-aged man in rags, squatting against the wall, full of alcohol, the soles of his feet were also scattered with several poor quality wine gourds of different sizes, and when he lifted his head, his face was scarred, like a ghost face.

This ugly man seemed to have injured his voice from years of alcoholism, and said hoarsely, “Dare I ask if Your Highness really once entered North Mang alone, carried two heads, and returned in one piece?”

Xu Fengnian gently smiled, the crowd only felt a blur before their eyes, and then they heard a boom, and after the dust and clamor rose, they only saw His Highness standing at the foot of the collapsed wall and clapping his hands.

The drunken man who was pushed into the wall with one hand by His Highness the Prince sat on the ground with a flat expression.

Many people wondered in their hearts why His Highness the World Prince was polite to everyone but showed no mercy to this second rank expert who should have been offered up high. There were also some jianghu people whose eyesight was not strong enough to think that this was a drama that His Highness the Prince had invited someone to put on, otherwise if that drunkard was really in the realm of a minor sect master, why would he have been forced back into the wall by his glib strike, and the few third rank masters who could vaguely see the general picture were horrified beyond words in their hearts. Xu Fengnian turned his head and smiled at all of them and said, “The visitor is a guest, regardless of whether he enters the house or not, each person will be given three hundred taels of silver.”

He then instructed the three white horse volunteers, “Tian Guan, Yan Ru, the two of you go and collect the silver from the steward, and then let the steward help these brothers who entered the mansion to settle down, Shu Wen, later on, you take all of the volunteers to go and find the best restaurant in the city to rub a meal, and if you spend less than you should, then I will not be able to spare you.”

Those who were not able to enter the general’s mansion in Lingzhou, looked at those characters who entered the mansion in a row, enviously. Xu Fengyen didn’t rush to leave, just stood on the street, chatting with these less than fourth grade jianghu hans, asking about who they were, what their masters were, and whether they had any intention of joining the army. Regardless of whether this group of people in the past in private pointing out the time to denigrate Xu Fengyen, really when His Highness is standing in front of the living, each and every one of them are uneasy, stand in front of the lucky to say two or three words of the guy, almost neck are red, flattered to the extreme, in front of the gray hair of the young man, but the future Emperor of the Northern Liang ah, holding a road of hundreds of thousands of soldiers in the three states, and turn back to talk to the family old and young, especially the When you talk about it with your family and especially with your brothers on the road, you will make them stare at the ground. There are also people who wonder, they say that His Highness is not only domineering in Beiliang, but also domineering everywhere, like in Guangling River, because of the Old Sword God, he dared to fight against the thousands of iron horsemen of Zhao Yi, the King of Guangling. Such a towering figure, how to feel with them to chat up also not very big frame, but easy to approach unlike words, if not to think about his distinguished identity, as well as that colorful appearance, only in terms of attire and talk, seems to be with the small counties in the family of the solid and gentle scholar about the same.

A car and horse battle can be described as luxurious hooves of a huge team of horses and hooves rush, to the general’s residence in Lingzhou straight to come. This made the concierge of the general’s residence who was already preparing to welcome the guests a bit depressed, and it so happened that one person lifted the curtain and looked towards the Li residence, the concierge fixed his eyes on it, and with a jolt and a pat on the head, he hurriedly ran towards the back of the residence. Motherfucker, in the Huangnan County with their own master fought for half a lifetime of the enemy actually showed up in the state of Lingzhou city, in the past the seven counties of Lingzhou officials of the sixth grade or above need to rush to the Lord Secretary’s residence to discuss important political matters, the carriage on the one who is never sick out of the house. Xu Fengyen heard unusually loud hoofbeats, turned his head and saw three carriages lined up, his heart was clear, and finally told those who did not become the general’s residence in Lingzhou Qingkai’s retinue of jianghu heroes, said something, roughly meaning that their group of people there are two paths to go, one is the nearest military, as long as you pass the examination, as a captain of the army is easy, the other path is even easier, the various magistracies of Lingzhou in urgent need of a large number of martial arts The other way is even easier, the government offices in Lingzhou are in dire need of a lot of martial arts skills of the Jianghu warriors, to serve as a temporary official positions, similar to the jurisdiction of the county lieutenant of the two rooms of the military and punishment, is to eliminate the violence and pacify the people, as long as the future has some achievements, come up with real achievements, Lingzhou government must give priority to the promotion. The crowd heard that only the local government of Lingzhou wants people, not to go to the border to fight for their lives, such as a weight off their shoulders, many of the keen Han are smiling, face to face, from each other’s eyes to see the desire to try.

After Xu Fengyen finished his business in a peaceful manner, he smiled and told them to make sure to eat, drink and play well, and that if they really became a member of the official circle in Lingzhou in the future, they were welcome to come to the general’s residence as guests.

Xu Fengyen turned around and slowly walked towards the three carriages, the owners of the carriages stepped down and coincidentally accelerated their steps, when they were five steps apart, the three scribes of vastly different ages knelt down at the same time.

“Huangnan County King Xihua, see Your Highness.”

“Huangnan County King Jeonglu See Your Highness.”

“Huangnan County King Luting regards Your Highness.”

The three were the contemporary family heads of the Huangnan County Shui Jing Wang Clan, Ling Su Wang Clan, and Zi Jin Wang Clan respectively. Wang Xihua was Wang Yunshu’s father, currently serving as Huangnan County’s Gongcao, with an ancient and elegant demeanor, with the legacy of ancient sages. The Shui Jing Wang Clan is famous for its rich collection of books, and the famous scholars in the clan are especially good at exegesis and exegesis, so the family is like a public office. Aspire to the family learning into the national school of the new left priest of the State Scholarship Yao Baifeng, young and incognito, when the water through the Wang’s a schoolteacher, is in order to be able to close to the water tower full of books, and then Yao Baifeng fame, the court and the countryside are aware of the depth of its learning, the old but strong, was worshipped as a patriarch of the northern literary world, and the Song family of the two husband of the world’s literary handle, is still often with the Wang’s old masters of the loan of the book for the book to buy the book. The white-haired Wang Zhenlv is from the Lingsu Wang Clan, and has produced a great real person who flew up on a crane. Zijin Wang’s origin is not as good as the rest of the three kings of Huangnan, but because of the previous dynasty out of three consecutive Zijin Guanglu Daifu, appeared three generations in the temple scene, but unfortunately short-lived, in recent times, Zijin Wang’s not attention, the contemporary head of the family, Wang Luting is not only young, only three years and the crown, but also the notorious deviant, the outside world do not know how such a notorious young man, from a flush with the Wang Yunchu The outside world does not know how such a notorious young man, from a playboy with Wang Yunshu’s reputation, transformed into the head of the Zijin Wang Clan.

Xu Fengyen was not arrogant enough to let the three family heads kneel on the street for a long time, let them get up, took them into the house, agreed to rest for the night, and then slowly talk in detail tomorrow.

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Li Mansion, the Lord Secretary Li Gongde was serving a marshmallow plant in the garden, heard the steward say that Wang Xihua went to the general’s residence to have an audience with His Highness the son of the world, and also brought along the aged and decrepit Wang Zhenlv and the milky Wang Luting, Li Gongde became a bit grim-faced, and with a cold smile, he gave a hey and said: ”Old He ah, you say that some of these people are strange or not, you give a penny to a person every day, and on any day, not to give…” He jumped and cursed. You hit a person a slap every day, one day do not hit, but he was grateful. Other people say that Huangnan County has four kings, is a piece of feng shui top good fortune, but the master I see ah, this Huangnan County is a full of white-eyed wolves, only remember to fight not remember good, I just left a year, began to ingratitude, if I did not give them paved the way to build bridges, which would have today’s scene, not to mention the other three families, only to say that the Wang Long Yi, I borrowed from them to get ahead of the world is not true, but I gave back to the Long Yi over the years, not only they gave me charity back then, but also to the Long Yi. But what I’ve given back to Long Yi over the years is more than what they gave me back then. My father-in-law waited for me to become the governor of Fengzhou before he was happy to have his first New Year’s Eve dinner with me, his son-in-law from a humble family, and now he’s begging to drag his family to this mansion for a five-generation reunion.”

The steward surnamed He was scared to silence by the master’s words, he was originally Wang’s servant, and then because in the time when Li Gongde had not yet soared to great heights, he was the only one who had invited this Wang family son-in-law to drink the small steward, even He Da Steward himself couldn’t believe that Li Gongde would go to today’s position, at first in the Huangnan County, Li Gongde was not able to do anything, and he was subjected to countless stares, and to put it bluntly, even the female servant girl’s groom didn’t even look at him in the right direction. He was the reason why Steward He was so interested in him. The reason why Steward He was so superfluous, took the initiative to invite Li Gongde to drink flower wine, it was still an accidental bounty, in the Wang family up and down to find that only Li Gongde is suitable for him to brag and show off, but also can be invited to move. Later, a man got the road, he steward became the Li family’s earliest batch of elders, he first just purely think that the master of Jairus hatred will be rewarded, drop of grace will be rewarded, and then realized that it is not so simple, the master is trying to let those who looked down on him Wang clan regret green intestines, in fact, he He Chang did not have too much to scrape the eyes of.

The matter of obscene rituals, is Li Gongde let people to expose impeachment of Song Yan, Li Negative true personally to Huangnan County governor’s residence, that is, want to let his daughter on his behalf to go to open up with Song Yan, in order to maintain the relationship, Li Gongde originally believed that Song Yan will know his good intentions. Of course, there is also the meaning of knocking Song Yan in the beginning, if you let Wang Xihua become Huangnan County governor, has even the assassin of Lingzhou will not be able to keep Li Gongde, do not want to even Huangnan County, the backyard of the Li family.

However, the daughter of the officialdom experience is not deep, but Li Gongde expected that she will certainly bring that Guo Fufeng with the Huangnan County, see Song Yan and Song Huang Mei father and daughter. He is the one who negotiated, better than the confused daughter of the good intentions to do bad things to better. There is also that Li Gongde has known a number of familiar with the “steal the dog hole” of the disciples of the officials, began to Guo Fufeng eye to eye, this young man seems to be the city actually light and restless, Li Gongde also intends to let Song Yan cold down a little bit of him, so that Guo Fufeng know want to really enter the circle of the Li family, pay far from being enough.

Pity the world’s parents, really poor. Precisely because the son or daughter before they have never personally parents, it is difficult to appreciate this pain, so it is poor.

An outer courtyard steward hurriedly ran in with a somewhat odd look, “Master, miss has returned to the house.”

How old is Li Gongde, slightly pondered, then impatiently said, “Let that person come in together.”

The steward lowered his head, and his face was delighted. Unexpectedly, Li Gongde smiled and said, “Jia Gui ah, that young man gave you dozens of taels of silver ah?”

Jia Gui immediately pulled out a silver ticket from his sleeve, bowed his waist and trotted to hand it to Lord Jingliu Envoy, by no means nonsense half-sentence, honestly said, “Fifty taels.”

Li Gongde waved his hand, glanced at the silver ticket, a helpless face, muttering to himself, “This silly daughter, taking the silver that old dad sent you to fool dad.”

Li Gongde’s eyes narrowed as he slowly put the silver ticket into his sleeve, “Surname Guo, you dare to accept this silver ticket, not afraid of burning your hands?”

He Chang, one of the inner court stewards, took the initiative to quietly retreat.

Alone, Li Gongde continued to deal with the equivocal marshmallow, stretching out two fingers, pinching off a branch and leaf, nodding and shaking his head at times.

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After the General’s Mansion put down those first set of “follow the dragon” jianghu people, there are three Wang Clan lords from Huangnan County living there, finally there is some life, Xu Fengyen was sitting in the study, through the afterglow, he was lowing his head to appreciate an expensive painting and calligraphy with a dense inscription, Huyan Guanyin tiptoed into the study, her hands holding the pot that was reprimanded as “Chrysanthemum maid”, her hands holding the pot that was reprimanded as “Chrysanthemum maid”. “Chrysanthemum maidservant” Phoenix Fairy, placed on the window. Being blocked from the light, Xu Fengyin did not look up and waved his hand at her. The calligraphy and paintings spread on the table were the genuine works of Yao Baifeng, the great son of Northern Liang in the past, Yao Baifeng’s years in the wilderness were long, and his time in the dynasty was still short. It was not that Xu Snap didn’t think of asking him to come out, but Yao Baifeng had been ignoring it, Xu Fengyen wiped his finger over the calligraphy and painting, and sighed softly, what winning the hearts of the people wins the world, are all fake, winning the scholar who sits on the river and the mountain is the real thing. Xu Fengnian raised his head and saw Huyan Guanyin’s back, she stood at the window and stared at the yellowish afterglow, making her look like the flying sky on the mural. Xu Fengyen actually know in his heart, she is their own bait, Beiliang also has a few qi practitioners, must have seen her unusual, Xu Snapdragon the reason why she is snowbound here, on the one hand, due to the curiosity, more importantly, to let her body qi, all transferred to the qi blank such as the birth of Xuan Xu Fengyen, qi qi qi, seemingly indistinct, in fact, it’s very simple, such as the so-called husband and wife phase in this world, that is a couple, a married couple. The so-called husband and wife phase in the world, that is the result of a married couple, living together night and day, with complementary qi numbers. Huyan Guanyin often listless, in addition to the surface of the soil and water, the root is still because of the abundant qi for Xu Fengyen to steal.

Xu Fengyen put away the scroll and laughed to himself, “It’s hard to prevent family thieves.”

As for the gang of jianghu people who took the initiative to attach themselves to the Lingshu General’s Office, whether or not they were mixed with dead spies from outside of Northern Liang, Xu Fengyen had the means to make their lives worse than death after their identities were revealed.

Huyan Guanyin let out a cry of alarm, and Xu Fengyen raised his arm to make a letter falcon stop.

The content of the secret letter made Xu Fengyen’s pupils contracted violently.

The Lu family in Qingzhou had suffered an assassination, and in order to protect Lu Chenyan alone, only the first-class house peregrine falcon of the Whisking Water Society died four times, and the Stopping Cloud Pavilion, which had been responsible for laying out the layout of Qingzhou, even suffered heavy losses, with almost all of its elites being lost.

Obviously both Liyang and Beimang don’t want to see the Lu family in Qingzhou become in-laws with the Xu family and then take root in Northern Liang. As long as Lu Chenyan, who is expected to become the king’s consort in Northern Liang, dies, the Lu family will completely eliminate the idea of changing the proprietor, as for which party is going to stop the Lu family from going to Liang even at the cost of blood, the secret letter only said that it is not clear yet. Xu Fengyen lit a thick red candle and burned the secret letter into ashes, the breeze through the window, the candlelight swayed and the ashes scattered. Huyan Guanyin saw that the letter had long been burnt out, he still maintained the staring posture of keeping his fingers together near the candle flame.

Xu Fengyen snapped his fingers and walked to Huyan Guanyin’s side, his eyes obscure, gently looking towards one of the warped eaves of the Jingliu Envoy’s residence.

Huyan Guanyin heard him mutter to himself, “Maybe I was wrong from the start.”