Chapter 119 – The Great Rogue Chu Lushan

Beiliang King’s mansion is covered with intentionally pasted down fortune words, the New Year’s Eve dinner is very simple, it is to eat dumplings, Xu Fengyen Xu Longxiang this pair of brothers pulled on Xu Beihuan and Chen Xiliang, together in the kitchen to make dumplings, Wang Chudong those women have no use for it. After dinner, Xu Fengyen let two strategists accompany Xu Snapdragon to chat, he went to the tomb of Lengqing, after returning, a large group of people sitting in the wutong courtyard to keep the New Year’s Eve, it is a happy and harmonious, Lin house Zhu Hong maidservant only half a day of leisure, one after another, went to the Lin house to pick the lamp at night to read the pile of the Di Spy two newspapers. Chen Xiliang brought the little girl of Beilang, snuggled in the arms have fallen asleep, Xu Fengyen let him take the little girl first go back to rest, Chen Xiliang did not insist, the favorite hibernation of Wang Chudong has also long been sitting there dozing off, was Xu Fengyen half-carrying half-supporting left the wutong courtyard. When Xu Fengyen returned back to the courtyard again, Xu Weixiong has also gone to the Lin house to deal with important military affairs, leaving only Xu Beihuan such an outsider, Xu Primrose so an old man who was once a civil to a great pillar state and military to a great general, I don’t know what is going on with the young man to ask for advice on the realm of the official, Xu Beihuan is not shy to say Xu Primrose frequently nodded, deeply convinced, Xu Fengyen took his seat, the orange has been from the low to the high will be nineteen layers of realm to the sixteenth layer! Xu Fengyi, the world’s first son, Xu Beihao only had to re-tell the story once again, relying on the ancestor’s remaining shade of light, lying on the genealogy of the family tree to fall into a small oil and water, is the grandson of the official. Only call never touch things, called toad officer. Fierce and tricky, bullying, see the powerful and noble bowed, see the people on the roar, is the dog official. Following the system, the corpse, fishing benefits half unambiguous, just do not know to avoid disaster, called the corpse of the official. Xu Fengnian laughed and asked what kind of realm is the current Lingshu officials, Xu Beihao replied that it is a fox official, because the fox is a tiger, good at observing the words and colors. Xu Fengnian asked in return if those county governors and powerful lieutenants who instructed their subordinate officials to stir up a storm were tiger officials. Xu Beihao smiled and nodded, he also added that above the tiger official is the ghost official, bad things to do, behind the scenes to turn the clouds and rain, but live in deep simplicity, do not know the bottom of the ordinary people still think it is a clean official, this is even the most powerful in the first fourteen layers.

Xu Fengyen continued to ask: “Then which layer is Longqing county governor Zhong Chengxin?”

“Zhong Chengxin is located in the fifteenth layer. In my opinion, there is nothing easier than being an official under the sky, not greedy, not take up, step by step, there are staff cleaners to advise, rectify the situation, their own as a handcuffed cabinet, just focus on the flowers and snow also no harm, no great achievements and no great faults, and the general and the common people have nothing to worry about.”

“That Huangnan County Gongcao Wang Xihua?”

“The government is mediocre, but the reputation is very good, from no greed and cruelty, on the top, if there is good governance and good deeds will be extremely helpful, on the bottom, view the people as if they were their own, this is the ordinary people want the most clean officials, this kind of official in the sixteenth floor, their work size, depending on whether the master is wise, the big picture of the clear, the upper and lower effect, their official natural rise, the situation is dirty, this kind of official Sooner or later, they can only hang up their crowns and go, boasting that they are not for the five buckets of rice, picking chrysanthemums under the east fence. It is not that they do not want to be an official, but do not have the ability to save the day, can only be the second best, love the feathers, retreat. Officials who remain famous in history are of this kind, of course, always have to leave a few popular poems. Many of the book by the posterity of the great praise of the bone candid ministers, in fact, do not know the general body, what they do, in the world situation is not complementary, but the martyr martyrdom to the name of the straight to invite favor, meet the stupid some of the emperor, but also to let them have their way, if it is the heart of the king of the cunning, especially the heart of the small minded, as long as the slightest manipulation, you can make them a lifetime of frustration. To Xu Beihao view, Wang Xihua is not suitable to do Huangnan County County, but the State Crown Prince Huan Wen this bide his time in the officialdom, peace of mind to do a few years of study. When the time is ripe, since it can be a hit.”

“What kind of official is Song Yan, the new Lingshou Buyei who will soon become your adjunct?”

“Sixteenth level, capable officials. They are not too good at seeking fame, officialdom drilling means but also not bad, the point is that you can govern the jurisdiction of the realm of sound and color, wind and water, eyesight is very high, see the pattern of the first fifteen tiers of officials outside of the trend, but in fact, the heart of the people, only this type of person is destined to be in the officialdom to achieve a certain rank, unless they meet the temple nobleman, or else it will be difficult to move forward, other things not to mention, only those who are in the way of the position of the family position eyesight Inevitably short-sighted common people, may be in these officials in office to scold them a few times, in fact, throughout the ages, many benefits in the hundred generations of merit in the thousand years of initiatives, are from the hands of this generation of officials.”

Xu Snapdragon, who hadn’t been speaking, peeled a yellow mandarin orange and asked with a soft smile, “Bei Hoven, then you comment on Li Gongde.”

Xu Beihuan still said bluntly, “No more than a clean official is clean, greed is also greed, no more than a capable official is capable, things are also done, in general you can take care of both, it is considered to be a good official. The Lord Secretary has been the top of this layer of officials, if not a little narrow-minded, could have been another layer. There is prime minister talent but no prime minister temperament, in the northern Liang as a strategic envoy is still okay, if you go to the temple to occupy the key, calf pulling a big plow, I’m afraid it will be a bad thing.”

Xu Snapdragon nodded, handed the peeled yellow mandarin to Xu Fengnian and said, “In that case, Biye’er can be considered as a dynasty’s mainstay of governance ministers, cultivating his body and governing his country without jumping out of the way, but also personally opened up a new pattern of the world. Is he considered the eighteenth or the final nineteenth?”

Xu Beihao took half of the mandarin orange Xu Fengnian shared with him, stuffed a petal into his mouth and smiled, “Eighteenth.”

Xu Snap fell into deep thought.

Xu Fengnian broke the silence and laughed, “Xu Snap, you are really insensitive, after finishing eighteen there is only the nineteenth Zeng realm left, the orange went through a lot of trouble to specially leave you such a big horse’s ass, you are good, the horse’s head is directed at our orange, how do you let this guy kiss the horse’s ass?”

Xu Snapdragon froze for a moment, a little embarrassed, apologized and smiled, “I always thought that I was only at the level of a Ghost Officer, Bei Huan, I’m sorry.”

Xu Beihao smiled and shook his head, ate the yellow mandarin and excused himself.

He had only stepped out with his front foot when a fat pig followed with his back foot and rolled into the house.

Xu Fengnian immediately raised his hand and bellowed, “Shut up.”

The fat man stiffly swallowed back the crying wail that almost came out of his mouth, and Xu Snapdragon beckoned, “Lushan, hurry up and sit down.”

Chu Lushan, who has been promoted to the second rank of Northern Liang Capital Protector, smiles and rubs his hands together, sits on his butt on the floor that is not cold even if there is a floor dragon, and whispers with a weak face, “Righteous father, this trip is to ask for forgiveness from His Highness and the Second County Lord. However, in the New Year, Luqiu’er is carrying thorns on his bare back, I’m afraid that it will look too bad.”

Xu Fengyen helplessly said, “Song Gu’s matter, you just know in your heart, there is no one smarter than you under the sky. There is also my sister’s side, you don’t go to annoy people.”

Chu Lushan gave a sigh and stopped talking.

Xu Weixiong sniffed out of the house, to Chu Lushan cold voice: “You hall a Beilang Du Gui, half a decade since the chicken skin nasty things done, you are not bored?”

Chu Lushan shrunk his neck that was so fat and short that it was almost invisible, not daring to talk back. In fact, back then in the Xu family, the Grand Sheriff Xu Lip Hu had always abhorred this fat man, but on the contrary, Xu Wei Xiong had no preconceived notions. Xu Weixiong turned his head to Xu Snapdragon and said, “Father, what Xu Beihao said about the hierarchy of officials, I will use this to make a hidden Beiliang officials assessment vice evaluation, it will not be publicized, and will only be delivered to Fengnian for reference.”

Xu Snapdragon nodded.

Xu Fengnian asked in a low voice, “Locke Baller, what heinous deeds have you done that could make my sister furious? Did the peregrine falcon have a massive group fight with the eagle warriors?”

Chu Lushan snapped, “How dare this, is some idle boredom small joke, not worth mentioning.”

The more Chu Lushan covered up, Xu Fengyen instead some curiosity, pursued: “Give to say.”

Chu Lushan scratched his head, carefully and softly said, “Previously, the Northern Liang spies are Luqiu’er tube, so some of His Highness’s three trips, Luqiu’er know some, the third time to go to North Mang, the righteous father and gave me some, so ……”

Xu Fenian laughed and scolded, “Have a fart and put it quickly.”

Chu Lushan probably held the realization that stretching the head is a knife and shrinking the head is also a knife, the bamboo tube poured beans said once again, so that Xu Fengyen silently. It turns out that the current situation in Northern Liang is vaguely turbulent, dust and clamor. Chu Lushan when the Northern Liang capital guard, and did not start a big hand, the more you feel idle, and then haphazardly carry a few bad luck guys thrown into the whisk water room, to pick up the misery. These guys have a village man with a scholar with officials and jianghu people and soldiers and lieutenants, seven or eight people are not able to control the mouth of the kind of, with Xu Fengyen some time ago in the restaurant to listen to the skinny monkeys that the people blowing about the same virtues, listen to it, even if he was the son of His Highness bumped into it, but also too lazy to take into account what. However, apparently Chu Lu Shan did not have this good temper, a brain sent to the whisk water room, according to Chu Lu Shan skyrocketed elaborate design, began to make all people worse than death. One of the village man in the prime of life gathered to drink, said Xu Fengyen, the son of Northern Liang is too good to be, this life has never suffered, His Highness the son of the brocade, can have the old man on the mountain to burn charcoal and wait for the crops so bitter? As a result of the whisk water room, every now and then, received more than one hundred and sixty knives, each time the number of knives and the weight of the knife are different, immediately after the injury coated with high-quality gold sores, during the period of wine and beautiful women waiting, immediately after the healing with the next knife. The reason is so many knives, Chu Lu Shan is not for nothing to set the rules, but in accordance with His Highness the son from the Wudang Mountain before the start of the practice of knife killings, suffered from the light and heavy sixteen knives to start counting, plus the Wudang against the enemy Suizhu Princess of the East Vietnamese retinue, to the reed swamp to kill the armored people, duck head green to kill the salvation of the spirit, was toppled by the falcons of the spring, the Zojiran mountain range and the fifth raccoon kill each other, and later the Iron Gate Gate off the two places of Shenwu City, coupled with the Liu Artemisia division to pack up, and so on. Wait, Chu Lushan in the let whisk water room under the knife before, said to them as long as eat enough suffering, according to their different origins, each will be able to respectively hand silver 100,000 taels, leading the army of one thousand and six lieutenants, seven officials, etc., can not get through, they will let them leave. The result is without exception, no one has carried two hundred knives, two hardened jianghu man, are in the slanting armpit abdomen that knife, can not withstand, shouting not to be the opening of the Northern Liang gang sect sect master, this knife is to learn from the end of the Marco Polo back to back to the thunder spear stabbing abdomen that blow. Seven or eight people, scholars and scholars are after a knife on the crying father and mother to retreat, surprisingly, or this village boy most able to grit his teeth, but unfortunately in the end or did not survive, because the whisk water room did not tell him how many knives in the end to a head, not to mention them, even the execution of the whisk water room do not know, only Chu Lushan clear. These people indeed did not die in the whisk water room, peacefully return home after the results of the mother of the death of the mother, no mother of the change into the death of the father, a sister of the death of the sister, no sister of the sister, not only so, some good brothers are broken arms and limps, and afterward were said to be implicated in the harm for them. Some valued the reputation of the readers, have become infamous everyone spurned hypocrites, in short, what they care most, Chu Lu Shan let them lose what. Chu Lushan’s ruthlessness is that these people will be crazy when not crazy, and let the whisk water room spies appeared in front of their eyes, said to give them another chance, the result is that none of them are willing to agree, and then there is no then, because Chu Lushan slaughtered them.

Sitting on the ground Chu Lu Shan face cloudy and light, laughed softly: “Before they died, I told them, before you complained of a bad origin, just less family background, in fact, not afraid of suffering at all, so I gave you the opportunity, His Highness the son of the world in the past few years the degree of injuries, planing His Highness the son of the world in various realms of the body of the leaning, and then according to the strength of the person suffering from the knife, the pain endured in the Lockeballer seems unusual actually counts very little, according to the order of a whole trip down, it is also three hundred and fourteen knives.”

Xu Snapdragon threw a petal of orange into his mouth and laughed it off.

Xu Fengnian frowned and said a speech exactly like Xu Weixiong’s, “You’re not bored?”

Chu Lushan raised his head, his smile bright, and shook his head.

Xu Fengnian said flatly, “In the future, you shouldn’t tinker with this kind of damaging Yin virtue.”

Chu Lushan, who was obedient to His Highness the World Son, said in an unprecedented manner, “It’s okay not to see or hear, as long as I, Chu Lushan, run into it, there is one I’m going to clean up, whisking the water room isn’t bad for torture but not bad for the people, and some novice fledglings need to warm up their hands anyway.”

Xu Fengyen turned his head, stared at Chu Lushan, slowly said, “All are Northern Liang people.”

Chu Lushan collected his laughter, raised his head to lock eyes with the displeased looking His Highness, “Although I, Chu Lushan, am not surnamed Xu, I am still a member of the Xu family, and I have been a righteous son of the Great General all my life, and I have never known anything about Leiyang, and I don’t even recognize anything about Beilang not Beilang.”

Xu Fenian angrily said, “Chu Lushan! I told you to stop!”

Chu Lushan clenched both fists and rested on his knees, gritting his teeth and saying in a deep voice, “Your Highness!”

Chu Lushan one hand to support the ground in order to get up, bending down to get up when issued a series of hee hee jie jie laughter, self-deprecating: “I Chu Lushan have cleanliness, every day to change a flashy clothes, like luxury, every day to change the ride steeds, hobby food, every day to the cook to make a new pattern. What all change, only do not change the master. Chu Lushan hate to let all the benefited from the Xu family’s North Liang white-eyed wolf, all know what a simple truth, life two bitter, want but not, have but lost. As long as your highness let Chu Lushan in power one day, Chu Lushan one day can not see someone standing talking without waist pain.”

Rise after this talent stunning city deep Chu eight fork lowered his head, red eyes, slowly said: “Chu Lushan’s master only righteous father, treat your highness, since the first time from the hands of the righteous mother held swaddling clothes in the little boy, from him to Chu Lushan smiling face, as his own brother!”

Xu Snapdragon laughingly said, “Okay, okay, Lushan, you give your righteous father to sit down, family quarrel what quarrel. But then again, quarrel is also good, the heart of the words out, there is no threshold that can not be passed.”

Chu Lushan obediently sat down.

Xu Fengnian silently walked out of the house and stood alone in the courtyard.

Xu Snapdragon softly said, “Lushan, Feng Nian is also for your own good, he believes in fate, most of all he cherishes his blessings, he’s afraid that you’ll suffer retribution ah. Righteous father has already lost three righteous sons, by the time you die or Yuan Zuozong dies on the battlefield, he feels guilty about me as a father, but who can he talk to? All these years, he has been very precious to those maids in Wutong courtyard, but he dares not care too much, that is, he is worried that one day they have a change of heart because of him ……”

Hearing here, Chu Lu Shan want to speak again and again, Xu Snapdragon waved his hand and said, “In the past, not necessarily, now at this moment he can carry. There’s no way, who let him be my Xu Snapdragon’s son.”

Chu Lushan slammed his fist on his knee.

Xu Snapdragon smiled and said, “Changsheng that little girl piece, blessed face, righteous father see like, this moment while righteous father still sober, still can manage, first this pile of doll marriage fixed?”

Chu Lushan stunned, and then saw his father from the sleeve pulled out a serious jadeite bracelet fell water, the layman look at all know not worth a few silver, but Chu Lushan so that a child can stop crying of the great evil, but even violently on the whimpering up.

Xu Snapdragon from the chair stood up, squatting in front of Chu Lushan, lamented: “According to the heirloom bracelet of our Xu family, father is to help your mother to hand over to the future king of the North Liang Wang Fei, but it is not eight no one at all shadow of the thing well, father thought about it, do not give the daughter-in-law to the grandson’s daughter-in-law is also the same. You also know that of the six sons, your mother actually most distressed you, said you have talent, simple nature, know how to repay, but also advised you to read and write more. You also know that your mother’s tears are very few times, that time you help your father to carry down so many swords, your mother saw you being horse back back, in front of everyone cried, but also scolded me Xu Snapdragon is not a thing, scolded me not to treat you as a son. And you that time a thousand riders open Shu, mother counted the time, and then in the mountains waiting for you for a few days, always afraid that you can not come back, but also with the father said ah, in the future, when hurry you have a daughter, must be kissed on the family. I did not think you ended up having a string of sons, your mother before she died, but also miss this, said more than half can only become a grandson’s daughter-in-law.”

Chu Lushan hands hold that year the righteous father gave righteous mother as a token of love bracelet, like a child bawling.