Chapter 118 – Xu family’s yearly surplus

After posting the Spring Festival couplets, Xu Weixiong returned to Wutong courtyard, leaving only the three masters to wander around the royal residence, Xu Fengyen and Xu Snapdragon talked about the affairs of Lingzhou in bits and pieces, Xu Snapdragon intermittently said some new anecdotes in the temple, for example, Gu Jiantang son-in-law went on a murderous rampage in Jizhou, and nowadays the officials are already too lazy to scold Xu Snapdragon, and have turned their attention to scolding General Gu who has lost his position of Secretary of the Ministry of the Army, and is out of the capital anyway. The Ministry of War, the original flames of the Gu hut without a head, the Imperial Palace of Justice and the Ministry of War outside of the five sections to the Minister can vigorously jump, so that the members of the Gu party on the temple dusty, very tired to cope with this year is not good ah. There is also the left priest of the Imperial College, Yao Baifeng taught a hard lesson to the second-in-command Jin Lanting, and even alarmed His Majesty the Emperor, personally went to the Imperial College as a peacemaker, which is reluctant to settle the matter, the situation in the Imperial College of the mountains has been known to everyone, the township party of their respective associations, most of which are advocating for the Jin Sanlang, which is also the reason why Yao Baifeng put down a sentence today’s gentleman like cronies to harsh cross-examination. Xu Snapdragon also said that Yan Royal Edict Prince Zhao cast that boy is not a peaceful person, with thousands of horsemen all the way north, which is like to go to the “difficult”, clearly busy showing off their power, the way a few states have been caused by the chickens and dogs jumping, not yet to the Guangling Road, where Zhao Yi, has been to let all the officials along the way to complain about the suffering and impeachment of the sonata, snowflakes! General fly into the palace. Three people walked to listen to the tide of the lake, Xu Snapdragon snapped out of it, said to go to listen to Wang Chudong that girl book, missed the hour, the girl frame big, not happy to talk to him this bad old man, Xu Snapdragon hurriedly trotted away, look at Xu Fengyen dumbfounded, it seems that rouge vice evaluation of the top of the list of the king’s east wing really powerful, even the most afraid of dealing with the books of Xu Snapdragon were subdued? Previously, there is a family letter to Lingzhou, Xu Snapdragon did say that Wang Chudong is very playful, half not afraid of him as an old reckless man, a light on him to give him a lesson, the old man and his illiterate Beilang King said that reading is actually very interesting, not boring at all, told Xu Snapdragon to read that the official history, the king and defeat of the enemy are already known, it is better to read the history of the wild. Read that talent and beauty, a thousand, surely no matter how the middle of the twists and turns of the bumps and turns, there will eventually be a white head to grow old together, in fact, is not as good as reading the scriptures, like seeing an old gentleman, from beginning to end of the sitting down, you feel that he is stereotyped for too long, but someday will also feel that their own lovely place. In addition Wang Chudong also said the reading of military books reading poetry collection of each different, let Xu Fengyen greatly admired, this niece is really bold, are able to teach up Xu Snapdragon to read, to know that no matter Li Yishan or Zhao Changling, back then did not let Xu Snapdragon patiently read a few more books.

Xu Fengnian raised his head to look at the Listening Tide Pavilion, Chen Xiliang should be in the top floor of the side room, the royal family said that this young man and the death of the no grave no mound of the state more and more similar to Xu Fengnian retracted his eyes, saw Xu Tangerine sitting alone in the pavilion, threw a large number of bait towards the lake, koi carp churning, the scene is magnificent. Xu Fengnian squatted at the edge of the platform base of the Listening Tide Pavilion, said to the side of the yellow barbarians: “Locke Baller said that the one cut of the willow that was torn apart from my body surprisingly didn’t die, it is estimated to be used by him with the sidetracked qi practitioner aptitude, before he died he came to hand the cunning Golden Cicada to get rid of the shell, it is estimated that the identity of this guy is far from being so simple as a spiderweb lifting rod, it’s okay, we will surely still have the chance to deal with him in the future. ”

Huang Baner nodded vigorously.

Xu Fenian mocked himself, “I just wonder, a cut willow is so, that by Zhao Jing Si renamed Zhao Ningshen’s little celestial master, is also just as difficult to deal with, Chunshen Lake to suppress half dead, I would have wanted to use to become a waste of him to make that Taoist ancestral court is not a pain, did not think to return to the Dragon Tiger Mountain, I heard that Zhao Ningshen’s realm once again skyrocketed, the Dragon Tiger Mountain claimed that this guy’s speed of breaking through the boundary that he can catch up with Li Chun Gang. Wudang young master Li Yu axe in the low lung mountain beheading the evil dragon, the world famous, closed for many years of old Tianshi Zhao Xiyi also did not idle, cultivated with the great yellow court of the Jade Palace, ascension is imminent, there have been countless people to the Longhu Mountain worship, and even Prince Zhao Zhuan also micro-objects to run to Huizhou to see the show, I guess nine times out of ten is the real thing. There is also that heartless Huishan bitch, when she became the martial arts alliance leader, she flipped her face faster than a book, saying that after sending all the Huishan secret manuals facsimiles to Beiliang, she is going to draw a line with me.”

Xu Feng Nian turned his head and touched Huang Ban Er’s head, gently smiled and said, “Let’s not talk about these troubles, Huang Ban Er, you don’t need to care about anything, there is father and your brother. By the way, since your brother from the Xiangfan reedbed seized and transported back to the four runic generals armor people, began to let us North Liang Machine Building Bureau of several Mohist giants to start, proceed to restore to the year when the great master Ye Hongting on the body of the piece known as the world’s first degree of runic armor, the last time in the Tiegumen Pass, the golden armour also got his hands on, and this time, the murderous cats outside of the city of God’s Wushu, I through Xu Ying from the head of that Han Diaoji to know a number of confidentiality, which is the year when he Peeling Ye Hongting a few fine process, after the New Year, I’ll go to the trip machine building bureau, with those giants to say a detailed process, after you draped that rune armor trap charge, at least do not have to worry too much about a cut off the stream of the willow attack, and also, yellow savage child, in the bullock on the hillock Xuan Yuan Jingcheng once said that you can not be easily into the finger Xuan, you must remember, in addition to brother to help you to build the rune armor, but also in the flipping building some of the Buddhist and Taoist religions of the Obscure secret manuals, that white fox child face also promised to help look for, so you have to wait for brother to find a shortcut that allows you to smoothly become a finger Xuan master, before that, even if the sky collapses, you can’t enter the finger Xuan, remember it?!”

Nowadays Huang Ban Er is really not stupid anymore, because his intuition tells him that he can’t agree, and he doesn’t have the habit of lying to his brother, so he just lifted his head there without nodding or saying anything, and the teenager with heavy pupils rotated his eyes, he just didn’t dare to look squarely at his brother.

Xu Feng Nian a chestnut knocked hard on Xu Longxiang’s head, “Give brother a nod!”

Xu Longxiang turned his ass, his back facing Xu Fengnian, unprecedentedly not agreeing to his brother’s request.

Xu Fengyen reached out and tugged on Huang Barbarian’s ear, tugged for half a day but couldn’t make his younger brother who was born in the realm of vajra turn his head, sighed and let go, staring blankly at the Listening Tide Lake that tended to calm down after Xu Beihao left.

Huang Ban Er turned around, sat on the ground with his knees crossed, reached out and gently touched his brother’s solid gray hair.

Xu Fengnian squinted into the distance.

Hearing Tide Lake has fish every year, and Northern Liang has surplus every year.

Xu Fengnian slowly lay back, the back of his head resting on the back of his hand, looking at the clear sky, sleeping peacefully.

He never told Xu Snapdragon, when he saw this father’s figure on the Chunshen Lake, even if he knew that this figure was getting older and hunchbacked every year, but as long as he saw a glance from afar, it was as if what the emperor ah Wang Xianzhi ah Zhang Julu ah Yuan Benshi ah, so that all of these guys appeared together in a pile on the lake, he Xu Fengyi was half afraid of it, and his heart was at peace!

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Two strong a lot of tiger kui whooshed out, desperately running towards Xu Fenian, the result was a hand of yellow barbarians pressed down on the ground, two strange beasts from Xu Fenian a few feet away, but could not escape from the yellow barbarians hand, the eyes even some human nature through the spirit of the grudge.

Xu Fenian laughed: “Huang Barbarian, you go play your game, bring the Bodhisattva and King Kong, brother still have to sit for a while, think about something.”

Huang Ban Er grinned and nodded, dragging the two tiger kuihs with one leg each and ran away.

Huang Baner wandered around, the first time he let go after the tiger kui, this pair of siblings to run back to listen to the tide of the pavilion side of the search for Xu Fengyen, was walking as swift as the thunder of the Huang Baner a tug on the tail, a few times ate enough suffering, only to follow him sickly.

He unknowingly came to the wutong courtyard outside the wall, only to find that his old dad did not go to that little sister-in-law to hear the book, but pushed a wheelchair and took the second sister for a walk.

Xu Snap saw Huang Barbarian and waved. That female tiger kui called Bodhisattva saw Xu Weixiong, looked particularly intimate and lively. Xu Snapdragon continued the topic of the party, slowly said: “In the future, the matter of the Northern Liang Zhengfei, you as a sister to be more check, Xiaonian can do anything in mind, father is not more assured, but the most assured but. Only on the matter of feelings, once this child falls in, it is easy to be reckless. Wei Xiong, father is not worried about the North Liang military and political affected by what, father fought so a large industry, if in the end their son half a point can not afford to squander, then dad also do a fart of the general, small years later when a fart of the North Liang king. Just father is very afraid of you this brother injured, father is rough, but after all, have seen a lot of people’s gatherings and separations, also know that this kind of invisible injuries than the knife and arrow heavy injury also come to hurt, maybe half a lifetime life can not be slowed down.”

Xu Weixiong hmmmed.

“Then there is the future side consort, to be honest, the tentative two women, already in the House of Wang Chudong and Qingzhou Lu Chengyan, father is indeed more like Wang Chudong that little girl some, but the side consort divided into size, Wang Chudong can only be in the Lu Chengyan after, after all, the talent of the Lu family, compared to relying on the Chulu Mountain only climbed to the richest position of the Qingzhou Wang Linquan, surely on the future of the Beilang The more important, the further back the more so. So after the two in-laws family disputes, as long as it does not involve the big right and wrong, you have to favor the Lu family side, which is also considered to be the father of the daughter-in-law of the land Cheng Yan a little compensation. Because the father knows that Xiaonian may not be with this poor woman in this life, respect for each other, that is, it sounds better, for the couple to finish life, in fact, is a kind of suffering. Father this period of time every day to go to Wang Chudong to listen to her story, one is interesting, the second is to take the opportunity to let Beilang know, this girl is my Xu Snapdragon nodded recognition of the first daughter-in-law, who want to step on the Wang family to curry favor with the Lu family, you have to first weigh whether it will be patting the horse’s ass pat on the hooves. As for Pei Nanwei, father knows you don’t like this Jing’an Wangfei, you don’t have to go against your will to deliberately socialize, just let it be. The world is only long brother as father, long sister-in-law as mother’s statement, from no sister to hold the family reason, the reason why the father nagged you about these, you have to take on the responsibility of this thankless, to put it bluntly, that is the father’s selfishness, for fear of the small years without relatives to take care of, so you can not marry in this life, Wei Xiong, you want to complain about the father, the father admitted. Dad ah, is a patriarchal guy, dare to do, even if the year with your mother’s life, even if the hard head, but also so bluntly said, in the absence of lipo tiger before, not less than your mother’s beatings, with lipo tiger, was beaten that called a miserable, yes, is a miserable end, your mother let father a used to the knife, gun and stick rough old men to hold the child, father again heartache daughter, but also can not bear the child must cry ah Can’t bear the child must cry ah, you that mother ah, to whom all reasonable, is to your father is not very reasonable, several times every other day still have to participate in the meeting of the military aircraft, father is bruised and swollen to the tent, by the gang of son of a bitch jokes not, once there is an old brother made a mistake, by the father himself with a whip, the guy stared at the father was your mother swollen brain, but also kneeling on his knees a hard to giggle, the father angry with the whip for more than fifty! Whip, later father went to this guy to apply gold sores medicine, he even playfully smiled with father, saying that he is no more embarrassing than I am ashamed.”

“This old brother, is Chen Zhi Bao’s father. The one who brought all the Chen family’s children, except for his young son, to their deaths openly.”

“Father is not the kind of bastard who can be so brazen as to reward the meritorious subjects with a gold medal for exemption from death while insidiously fabricating a great crime of treason, said to be a brother, that is a brother for life. It is the father owes the Chen family in the first place, so know how Chen Zhi Bao will not be convinced how the small years of this new Liang Wang, more than 10 years are not care, by this righteous son cultivate close friends. Chen Zhi Bao to leave the northern Liang, father did not stop, he wants to be both the Secretary of the Ministry of War and when the king of Shu, but also with him, father very much do not want to one day, he and Xiaonian turned against each other to the point of military confrontation, if it can be old and dead, that is the best. However, father knows that Zhang Julu Gu Jiantang’s gang of old foxes, as well as the Zhao family’s son of heaven who hides behind the curtain, will not let such a sharp and unrivaled spear rust for nothing, and not go to point the tip of the spear at Northern Liang.”

Speaking of this, the old man who had lived a life of military service had some heavy sentiments.

Xu Snap smiled and turned his head sideways to his second son Xu Longxiang and said, “Huang Barbarian son, sooner or later you will be enlightened, you have to remember how good your brother was to you. That time your brother made a big trouble, father wanted to beat him, you came out to stop, got mad at father, looked like you want to fight with father, father just pretend to be angry on the face, actually heart is very pleased. Your brother ah, these years in fact not happy, outsiders think he is my Xu primrose, is the first son of the human slaughter, it will be the scenery, here the pain and suffering, and so on you get the hang of it, in order to know your brother’s suffering. No mother no sister, nothing, spring and autumn war, dead family countless people, can be scolded by the ancestors eighteen generations, but also for this group of heartless son of a bitch to guard the gate, maybe one day to use hundreds of thousands of their own iron cavalry of the line of duty, in exchange for a peace of mind, and after the change of the lord of the Central Plains, but also be the new master in the history of the book of the cursing of the new master, and even more a large group of literati and the people did not eat any suffering to follow up the coaxing, which is the your brother’s most pitiful part.”

In the teenage years before His Highness chose to bide his time, the entire Beilang Royal House knew that His Highness was doting on his younger brother, as long as there was a fun object, no matter how precious and rare, surely not yet warmed up before they were sent to the yellow barbarians, just good things to the brawn is amazing, but do not know the importance of the hands of the yellow barbarians, where it can still be intact, but also a few things on the work of the broken, the House to clean up the mess of the people have never been I’ve never seen His Highness angry and irritated. Even after His Highness began to live a notorious life of flirtation, but also never ignored Xu Longxiang. The royal family rarely flogged the servants’ behavior, Xu Fengyen few times uncommonly furious, are aware of the tricky slaves deliberately teasing the young prince, and those times His Highness personally punched and kicked, absolutely to the death, no mercy at all.

“And, Weixiong, father knows that in your heart you care a lot about Xiaonian, just the face is cold and the heart is hot, and you can’t wipe your face on some things, but there are some times ah, you just need to smile at him, and he will be very happy. Some years ago he went to the Wudang Mountains on the practice knife, you do not like him to practice martial arts, for fear that he delayed the hereditary recklessness of the right thing, he is more afraid that you are not happy, so when he one from the bottom of the deep pool of stones, and a knife, a knife, to give you to do more than three hundred pieces, you meet the two boxes of pieces splashed all over the ground, he did not black face with you, is not it? Afterwards, he personally picked them up one by one, and some of them rolled down into Hearing Tide Lake, and he ended up picking them up all night long. Father then and Yi Shan in listening to the tide of the pavilion to see him all night, Yi Shan so a stone-hearted guy, finally drink wine to go. When I was a kid, I did a lot of things to make you happy, didn’t I? Knowing that Lip Hu loved him so much, he still helped you in every way. After Lip Hu left, do you think he felt good? Who has ever seen him tear his heart out? Originally, with his nature, thanks to the old master Wang Chonglou, has long gone to the Wudang Mountain graves to pay tribute. He is afraid ah, afraid of that Wudang Mountain, afraid to see that lotus peak. Afraid that he himself is a scourge, afraid of the people around him because he said to go away. Feng Nian from a young age, his favorite good things, either give to his sister, or give to his younger brother, he left behind nothing more than some outsiders will only think it is very valuable objects.”

Xu Weixiong lowered his head, unable to read his expression.

“Nowadays, in this world, the characters in high positions, cherish life and fame to death, the more books you read, the smarter you get, one by one, you are too smart to be a person. Who is willing to carry the coffin for the old pawn who has no relatives to bury. Who would be happy to guard the city gates for a servant girl in a foreign land with no one to depend on, for the sake of her death or life? Yi Shan is so smart, why is his vision so high that even Chen Zhi Bao does not look at him favorably, but in turn looks at him favorably? Why did Old Huang walk away from his trip to Wudi City without any attachment? Why Li Chungang obviously fought with Wang Xianzhi, but also willingly used the battle of the Guangling River as his final battle of the Jianghu? Why is it that Huan Wen, who is now the second-ranking minister, was originally an old man who often said a few words of justice to Northern Liang, but now, against his will, he is not hesitant to get his hands dirty on the transportation of water, and he is racking his brains to make things difficult for Northern Liang? Not Feng Nian martial arts talent than those on the rivers and lakes of the great master, not Feng Nian temple calculations clever to the great wisdom near the demon, in fact, very simple, as long as the people sincerely as people, slowly cohesion of the hearts and minds of the people, also won the momentum. Dad thought of years ago, is so step by step from the marketplace, a young boy, to a small lieutenant who dares to fight, and then to the general of the city at every turn, and finally to the hand of hundreds of thousands of iron horsemen of the king of Beiliang, all the way to stumble, in the eyes of many people who do not look favorably on the father’s cleverness, and so come over. Father’s opponents, the more to the back, the more clever and difficult, but many of these smart people to death, still do not understand why only father smiled to the end. Father believes that most of them can only comfort themselves before closing their eyes, God’s will is so, is Xu Snapdragon life is too hard. This statement is right or wrong, dad read and write not much, just know a little, you do not apologize to anyone, many people may not understand, or understand but do not care, but also in turn you as a fool to look at, thinking that they take advantage of. It does not matter, after all, there are still people who will remember, and the people who remember even if not many, but one is willing to contribute, and then fight a deadly battle, even if it is one against two, is still unquestionably invincible. In case of losing, it doesn’t matter, as well as being able to rise again. The more than six hundred spiritual tablets at the head of the Honorable Hearing Tide, and the old pawns’ compliments before Feng Nian’s entry into the capital, are all proof of this. Therefore, father is more certain than anyone else that the future Beilang will only be more of a headache for North Mang than it was at the time of father’s hand. The father in Feng Nian is still small, is not without thought when a stable rich family, so that, at least can give children a peace. But Chen Zhi Bao everything is good, is too smart, smart people once drilled into the bull’s-eye made a mistake, that is a big mistake, no one can come back. Feng Nian is also smart, but far more than Chen Zhi Bao heard to go to others to talk, father died, Chen Zhi Bao will no longer put anyone in the eyes, and do not think anyone is qualified to sit on an equal footing with him. If he wants to be an emperor one day, he will not hesitate to fight all the Northern Liang Iron Cavalry to the death to achieve his goal.”

After Li Yishan’s death, Xu Snap seems to have been even old and strong this kind of self-deluding words have no place to go, at this time said here, this hunchbacked old man some can’t hide the fatigue, no longer speak, stop walking, just gently reach out and help the plain clothes of yellow barbarians superfluous to sort out the neckline, and finally softly said: “yellow barbarians, in the future, you don’t easy to really fight for your life, you If you die, even if your brother survives, how sad would he be? Father told you, it would definitely be more sad than if he were alive. But things that can make your brother easier, you still need to do more. Although since your brother was born in our Xu family before you, he is the life to carry down the burden, but in the future, Qingliang Mountain, the Xu family men, there is only a brother like you left to talk to him. Whether it’s Xu Beihao or Chen Xiliang, no matter how loyal they are, they are not as close as their own family members. Huang Barbarian, the first time your brother left home in anger and traveled to the jianghu, his biggest wish was not to be a warrior, but to snatch back a big beauty for you, his younger brother. You went to Longhu Mountain, every time you receive a letter, you the book never forget the brother, know that you did not write, will still flip back and forth, over and over and over again to see. Wei Xiong, this time he saw you sitting in a wheelchair, you deliberately did not want to see him sharpening his ink, but father saw his hands, they have been shaking.”

The old man reached out his hand and touched Xu Weixiong’s head, without any words of comfort.

Xu Longxiang’s fists were clenched, his eyes resolute. The two tiger kui were so frightened that they instantly fled out, wandering anxiously in the distance, just not daring to approach the strange black-clothed young man.

The old man slowly walked back to the courtyard.

The loquat tree was still green in winter, but the old man stood all alone.

But the old man is not sad, smiled: “Daughter-in-law ah, our Xu family, already let Feng Nian support. You wait for me again, won’t let you wait too long.”