Chapter 116: Northern Liang Weaver
The three family heads of Huangnan County stayed at the General’s Residence in Lingzhou, all not far from each other, and the three of them did not bring any more uninvited people into this official residence with a brand new plaque, except for their respective beloved escorts. His Highness let them rest for the night, let Wang Xihua at that time a tight heart, it is clear that deliberately let the three families have enough time to ventilate first, Wang Gongcao and Ling Su Wang Zhenlv as well as Zijin Wang Lu Ting are all dawn, emergency from their respective families rushed to Lingshou state, in addition to a scribbling lunch in the middle of the day, roughly exchanged, mouth promised to take care of each other at the same time, the heart of the unavoidable mutual precautions, it’s hard to do! Thoroughly with the same in and out, involving the ups and downs of the trend of a large family, no matter how cordial personal relations in the past, have to carefully weigh the pros and cons again.
Yao Baifeng hailed as “three assassins of the talent” Wang Xihua ate a talk about not a sumptuous dinner, did not rush to agree to Wang Zhenliu’s appointment, but went out for a walk alone, out of the door not long, I saw the same in the leisurely leisurely wandering descendant of Wang Lu Ting, Wang Xihua, some feelings, so calm, the descendants can be feared ah. The two nodded and smiled and rubbed shoulders, Wang Xihua along a waterfront corridor with a slow walk, running water leading to the Jinou Lake, Lingshou city, have the ability to attract the lake into their own courtyard mansion there are not a few, next door to the official residence of the Secretary of the Secretary of course counts as the first one, Wang Xihua thought of a move, turned into a close to the wall of the root of the trail through the holes in the wall can be seen in the neighboring walls of the Li House of the light, Wang Xihua suddenly stopped, it so happens that side of the wall that side of the wall has a After looking at each other, Wang Xihua, who always has his hands behind his back, laughed and said: ”Lord Li, do you have so much leisure time? I have heard that Lord Li has found a fast son-in-law ah, learning, character and life are outstanding, congratulations congratulations.”
He only addressed Li Gongde as Lord Li, but did not refer to himself as a subordinate or a humble position, showing the arrogance of Huangnan County Gongcao Wang Xihua.
Li Gongde patted his cuffs and smiled back, “I don’t need to rely on my son-in-law to retire, but at least I have a son who is quite successful and earns unadulterated military achievements on the border, Wang Gongcao, you have to take it easy.”
Wang Xihua nodded and said, “There are many great men on the border, and Mr. Li’s sands and love affairs, naturally make people envious. My son, who has no skills and only hooks up with women in greenhouses, won’t have the same fortune.”
Bei Liang are aware of the Secretary’s son, Li Hanlin, used to eat both men and women, almost every time he traveled, there is a beautiful young lady with a close companion, although now the prodigal son returns, no one doubts the authenticity of this crossbowman standard bearer’s war service, but back then, Li’s evil young man ultimately committed too many heinous crimes, and tonight, by Wang Xihua’s words of insinuation, is not the helpless son of the father to pay back the debt. Li Gongde also did not refute, bent down, Wang Xihua is wondering why the Lord of the Secretary General so surrendered to admit defeat this time, did not think when Li Gongde stood up, directly threw a handful of dirt over, smashed in the face of Wang Xihua pain is not painful, but has always been regarded as the Lingshou Sifeng Sovereign of Wang Gongcao where to suffer such humiliation, and for a time do not know how to cope with it, froze on the spot. Li Gongde laughed: “Dog day Wang Xihua, the most pretentious, I have long wanted to smoke you, today there are no outsiders, just you and I are two enemies …… Your Highness the son of the world, how did you come?”
Wang Xihua subconsciously turned his head at the sound of the voice, the result is that no one is around, where is His Highness, and turned his head again, was Li Gongde a handful of dirt splashed on his face. Wang Xihua was furious, stretched out his fingers and scolded: “Li Gongde, speech, merit and virtue of three immortal, as a heavy minister of the Tang Tang frontier, ask yourself, can have any one of them? Truly defiled the word merit! You this guy for people curt and fierce kites, really think that can be the end of life?”
Li Gongde rubbed his nose carelessly, then reached out and pointed to the top of his head, disdainfully said: “Other people respectfully call you Wang Xihua a ‘Wang three assassins’, three assassins, is not exactly the size of this official hat on my head? You don’t talk to this official what big words, you say today who’s official big, and who let you all these years inch forward, obediently when a sesame green bean size of a county Gongcao?”
Wang Xihua coldly laughed: “With you say the salary and fire, with you say reading seed, simply is to the cow!”
Li Gongde hee hee whispered and laughed: “We are the same as the duck, in the end it is still the same goods, who do not laugh at who. Waiting for you one day to become the second Yao Bai Feng, only then have the qualification to talk to me about the two things of learning and merit.”
Wang Xihua burst into a rage: “Li Gongde, who is with you all the way goods?!”
Li Gongde raised his hand, ate two losses Wang Xihua immediately a flash, only to realize that the Lord Secretary General’s hands simply do not have the clay, Li Gongde said to play you Wang Xihua is not as simple as playing with monkeys, and raised the long way to go. According to the reasoning of this a contact war between arch rivals without warning, a big victory and return to the Li Gongde should be proud, but in the northern Liang spring Li Gongde and not expected celebration, on the contrary, the face is sunken as water, haze thick. Wang Xihua’s face was cloudy at first, just waiting for Li Gongde’s back to be far away, the corner of this Wang Gongcao’s mouth quietly curved up, where there is still half a bit of annoyance, and softly said, “Li crab ah Li crab, see you rampage to a few times.”
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Xu Fengyen received the second secret letter of the day, from an old “turtle” in Lingzhou, even Xu Fengyen did not think that it would be a fourth-grade realm jianghu hero into the general’s mansion of Lingzhou, it turned out that before the crowd gathered at the door, Lingzhou Peregrine Falcon had gotten most of the characters’ backgrounds, some sketchy, some detailed, but only the missing that came out of nowhere! The drunkard, probably the foreign spies also feel that so strutting into the mansion, too suicidal, no one on the secret letter has the suspicion of spies, most of them are jianghu people with a record in the government, this is not surprising, walking in the jianghu, wanting to become famous in one fell swoop without chopping or being chopped up, it is really a fool’s dream. Xu Fengyen was reading the secret letter in his study, the turtle nicknamed “Yanwang Blade” was kneeling on the cold floor, not moving. Xu Fengyen put down the secret letter, closed his eyes, silent for a long time, then opened his eyes and said to this person: “That drunkard can not be in a hurry, but let Chu Lushan immediately check the fourth grade of Liu Bozong, especially the third grade of the strength of the Sun Chun, the two people’s life is too clean and too careful, from birth to martial arts to fame, seemingly all traces, at a glance, but the more this is the case, the more let a person Do not feel at ease. These two Sun Chun face looks old, in fact, only twenty-nine years old, Liu Bozong thirty-two years old, happens to be the youngest of the two. Although this son is not a spy this line of work, but know as long as the willingness to spend effort, get a fifteen years before the identity is very easy, and then carefully cultivate more than ten years, almost can be done completely without half a trace. Even this son suspects that their family, itself has a problem. Trouble you Peregrine Falcons to use more care.”
The hanyou was creeped out, sweating profusely, and said respectfully, “Protecting your highness’s safety and security is the Peregrine Falcon’s first and foremost duty, and it will never be troublesome.”
The hanyou would undoubtedly be in awe of this young Lingshu general’s special status, but was even more afraid that he could call the Peregrine Falcon’s behind-the-scenes head honcho by his first name. Chu Lushan’s fearfulness, outsiders that are all blackmail hearsay, not being a peregrine falcon, simply will not understand the terrifying ability of Chu’s big boss.
Xu Fengyen walked around the book case to the front of the man, bent down to help him get up, and laughed softly: ”Beiliang has quite a few civil servants and military generals, compared to you, the same is less than a hundred, less of you, Beiliang will be even more unsettled. You help me send a message to Chu Lushan, this year, let him give all the peregrine falcons more treats reward silver, this money, don’t ask him to pay out, take it out from Qingliang Mountain’s side. If someone wants a secret book or something like that, you can also boldly put it forward, the royal family side try to meet. In this son’s opinion, there is nothing under the sky that is worth more than a life, and since you all pawned your lives to the Xu family, there is no reason for the Xu family to treat you poorly.”
The man stood up, even some red eyes, hesitated for a moment, scratching his head, even some coy, boldly said: “small is Jinzhou people, with the great general and your highness’s hometown difference is only three hundred miles away, but the small left Liaodong than the great general later than the six or seven years, used to be in the other line of duty in the head of the mix, and then committed a crime, desperate to follow the great general, so many years! Are with General Chu to do things, there is no credit, are some who can do the hard work, some years ago married a daughter-in-law, gave birth to a few little girls, this year in early fall that moment it is not easy to have a kid with a handle, the small family is not short of silver, I would like to ask your highness to help my family when you have time to take a name for the kid, if your highness is too busy to come, when the small didn’t say this thing.”
Xu Fengyen said softly, “There are a lot of things to be said about taking a name, taking a bad name will affect your luck in the future, I’m a big believer in this, and I don’t quite dare to help your son take a name ah.”
The man hadn’t held much hope, so he couldn’t talk about disappointment. Xu Fengnian suddenly laughed: “But Xu Snapdragon doesn’t believe in this, turn around I’ll go to Liangzhou this time, let Xu Snapdragon help your son pick a name, in case it’s not good, or it’s hard to hear, you guys can use it as a nickname.”
The hanyou want to kneel down again, Xu Fengyen pulled his arm, helplessly said, “Okay, even if you kneel down a few more times, but I can’t just ask for a few more names for your son, besides, your son won’t be able to use it, the name isn’t a silver, ask for one more than the other.”
Han blushed and smiled, not recovering the first shrewd and cautious, some sincere naive demeanor.
“After you leave send a message to Long Qing County’s Xu Bei Hao, tell him to come to the general’s residence.”
After saying this Xu Fengyen walked near the window and the joy filled Han stopped disturbing His Highness the World Son’s thoughts and wordlessly exited the study. Xu Fengyen gazed at the pot of phoenix flower that Huyan Guanyin had brought to him “as a favor”, and was in a state of ecstasy.
Liyang’s power lies in the unification of the Central Plains, with the old master Sun Xiji as the head of the civil ministers, led a large group of Western Chu relics returned to the Liyang, the world’s orthodoxy of the dispute has been completely settled, as long as the court is willing to use the talent, it is almost inexhaustible. These talents have their own specialties, some people do concentrate on moral articles and speeches, some people are pragmatic and do things to make a success, and there are even more people doing dirty work. If it is said that Liyang is a good land of ten thousand acres, qualified to go to the store, that Beilang is in a three-quarter of an acre to change the pattern, master Li Yishan so many years can be said to be a clever woman is difficult to cook, Xu Fengyen used to joke privately, whether with Xu Snapdragon also counted with the two sisters, said that even if you can be the emperor, but also killed not to sit in the Palace of the Jinluan Temple, because he was then on the side of the early knowledge of the main political party is how difficult, just when he really is! Beginning of the layout of their own hands, feel that even if he is the son of Northern Liang, want to do things, as in the four-square cage, a little action, will hit the wall, this cage is the characters of successive generations of painstakingly base things, referred to as “rules”.
Xu Fengyen returned to the book case to write down the loose structure of the “only sue the corpse” three words, and then add a side next to the word “only” to complete the word “weaving”. Put down the pen, Xu Fengyen shrunk his hand in the sleeve, out of the study, aimlessly through the corridor through the building, in a small pavilion near the water, bumped into the small pavilion is jumping to warm up Wang Luting, this guy back then, with Li Hanlin Wang Yunshu, there is also a son of the Emei County, together with the four hegemony of Lingshou, not to say that no one can not be belittled Wang Xihua, but compared to the dead spirit of the Lingxu Wang’s family Wang Zhenliu, Xu Fengyen is interested in the new owner of the Zijin Wang Wang’s Wang Luting, the new master of the Zijin Wang. Wang Luting, the new owner of the Wang Clan, is undoubtedly more interested. Because of the hereditary succession, Beiliang is now in an inevitable turbulent times, one day, one day, the curtain has fallen, the ascendant has not yet ascended to the throne, many families are following the general trend of rolling over and vacillating, just the time sooner or later is different, will be planted in the high door of the Zhong Hongwu so that his only son, Zhong Chengxin, from the road of the civil officials, is to seek change. He is a famous scholar Wang Xihua let Wang Yunshu take the road of military generals, is also seeking change. However, most of these, after all, have a good father, do things with half the effort, Xu Fengyen only know that Zijin Wang’s has been a number of generations of people do not have great talent, originally thought that the generation of Wang Luting will be down as usual, did not think that this time there is the courage to come to the General’s mansion, if the aftermath of the return without success, the first to be the first by the Secretary to open the knife to clean up the object, certainly will not be the Wang Xihuahua and Wang Zhenlue’s two families, but the root of the unsteady Zijin! Wang Clan, it can be imagined that the young man Wang Luting is carrying a lot of pressure.
Seeing His Royal Highness approaching, Wang Luting just turned his head and smiled, continuing to bounce around.
Xu Fengyen stood beside Wang Luting, the latter opened his mouth and joked: “I know that your highness is a quick man, Luting will be straightforward, this time, following the back of the two elders to come here, is to ask for rewards with your highness, really break the boat ah, if there is no official position to get, back to Huangnan County, can be poked and prodded by the gang of old people, your highness, just take pity on poor Wang Luting? Wang Luting?”
Xu Fengyen looked towards the narrow curved water that only rippled slightly within the “rules”, and calmly said, “First say what you want to be an official, too big, this son can’t afford to give. Too small, this son also can not take the hand, if you fool you Zijin Wang Clan, behind the same to be drowned by those old man spittle.”
Wang Luting laughed brightly, “Not too big, Bei Liang Dao weaving, just such an official. Jiangnan Road, the two weaving bureau, that is the fourth rank of the fat, our northern Liang’s gold strand weaving bureau chief officer, only five, anyway, the old weaver Li Xifeng also did twelve years, should have retired.”
Xu Fengyen did not move and said, “Five products is not small.”
Wang Luting really thick skin, stop the movement of jumping in place, hands cupped a mouthful of mist, turned his head smiling face staring at His Highness, “Luting knows that it is very difficult to be an official, so there is still the intention to buy an official with His Highness, Zijin Wang is willing to come up with eighteen hundred thousand taels of silver, are silver, if not enough, the family also has some rare antique curiosities and paintings and calligraphy topiary, they can be converted into silver, as long as As long as His Highness is generous for some time, probably can barely make up another 100,000 taels. I can’t help it, compared to the rest of the three kings of Huangnan County, we Zijin Wang Clan is poor.”
Xu Fengyen sat on the bench and pressed his hand towards Wang Luting, the two of them sat against the pillar, Xu Fengyen laughed and said, “This son can sell you a gold strand weaving for 180,000 taels of silver, but there is an additional condition.”
Wang Luting laughed: “Your Highness, my sister is indeed famously virtuous, but ultimately the posture is medium, and there is a matchmaker in the body, Your Highness must not hit this idea ah.”
Xu Fengyen froze, crying and laughing, smiled and said: “your kid do not talk to this son of the oil, say serious, this son of the world know that you have a close friend, from a humble background, in the Zijin Wang’s as a tutor, science giants Yao Baifeng said that as long as the person is willing to take the examination for the title, will be the Lingshou Xieyuan, as well as is the northwestern two-way eight states of the meeting of the first yuan, or even take off the top prize, and even the middle three may be possible. This year, the temple exam was given the same jinshi Huangnan County Lu Yuyuan, seems to be benefited from your friend’s art of making, otherwise at most through the children’s test township test, not to mention the temple exam, even the test is a luxury. If you can persuade this person to come out of the mountain, this son will let you become a gold strand weaver, if you can’t say it, then you will honestly return to the Zijin Wang Clan.”
Wang Luting hilariously laughed.
Xu Fengnian was indifferent.
Wang Luting stopped laughing and said with a treacherous face, “Your Highness, please don’t worry, this guy has been forcibly kidnapped by me to the city, this will give your Highness a shout to go?”
Xu Fengyen shook his head, “No need to see, you tell him, after the New Year come to Lingzhou Prefecture to stay in the city, this Shizi has an official hat to give to him for nothing.”
Wang Luting sighed with emotion, “People are more angry than people, I still have to dump my family’s money to buy an official, this kid is good.”
Xu Fengyen suddenly said, “You are neither the first son nor the eldest son, it is not easy for you to become the head of the Zijin Wang Clan.”
Wang Luting put away his cynical demeanor, but he did not intentionally sit upright, but said softly, “Compared to Your Highness, it’s a lot easier.”
Xu Fengnian laughed, “You haven’t even become an official yet, and you’re already slipping up?”
Wang Luting laughed again, “Familiarize yourself first, since you have to be a parasite, how can you not look at people’s faces. In the future, Your Highness can give Wang Luting more opportunities to flatter.”
Xu Fengyen joked, “Then you have to learn from Chu Lushan first.”
Wang Luting was about to speak.
Xu Fengnian knew that he is a smart person, also said straight: “know what you are thinking, indeed, Chu Lushan’s ass whether it is this son or outsiders, see with their own eyes and hear with their own ears, never very tired and disgusting, but there is one thing that many people can not see, Chu Lushan is only so to a person, which is called from one to the end, so he and the Secretary General Li Taoshi are ……”
Said here, Xu Fengnian paused, no longer continue, stood up, straight away.
Seemingly relaxed and idle, in fact, has been secretly tensing the bowstring of Wang Luting for the last unusual words, at first did not think deeply, anyway, got the trip wanted everything, there are still beyond, such as relief at the same time, some suppressed excitement. But when he afterthought chewed out the meaning of which, there are some chills all over the body, is the neighboring mansion, with the change of North Liang, the owner of the mansion to follow the change of name?