Chapter 132 – Crossing the River
A man and a woman are generally safe, through the Dongfeng County, near the folding Gui County, Xu Fengyen and Pei Nanwei two riders parallel in a deep trestle road, and then eastbound a hundred miles away, is known as a bundle of forbidden things of the heavenly danger of the Tongguan Pass, Tongguan Pass is solid, the North Liang solid, the folding Gui County deservedly the primary pass, there are heavy guards, holding 6000 troops of the Tongguan Lieutenant Xin Drinking Horse, undoubtedly is the King of the North Liang is extremely valued! This time Xu Fengyen mobilized soldiers and horses from all over Lingzhou to leave his residence, but Tongmen Pass did not move a single soldier, enough to show the supreme status of Tongmen Pass in Lingzhou. Xu Fengyen did not let Huang Xiaofu’s six hundred horsemen to follow, but first detour to Tongmen Pass to rest, only with Pei Nanwei and Xu Yanbing galloped on this secret palisade which only allowed military horses to step on, in the past there were some government officials and generals’ children to compete with the horse power of the horses here, but now with a piece of paper, they don’t want to hit the tip of the spear before the general of Lingshou left and seek their own bad luck, the reason why Pei Nanwei wanted to step off the carriage and take a breath of fresh air was due to the fact that She comes from a scholarly family, she heard that the poetic son of heaven in the previous dynasty won the top spot in the border poems of all dynasties with a song of Tongmen Hanging Ancient Times, which gave rise to the origin of the Folding Gui County, and it is said that there is still a cliff engraving of the Swordsman on the mountain wall in front of her, so she was a bit mesmerized by the experience.
Xu Fengyen hands do not pull the reins, closed his eyes and concentrate, let the horse run forward, Pei Nanwei horsemanship is mediocre, but better than not afraid to fall off the horse and get hurt, took off the curtain hat, put on a purple sable fur, riding a handsome black horse, her scene in the snow, I do not know whether to say it’s like a butterfly or a peony with the wind and snow fluttering. When Pei Nanwei stopped her horse and tilted her head to see the blurred stone carvings on the stone cliff, it seems to be just the same thing, some of the pleasure of returning from the defeat of the tasteless, especially when Xu Fengyen mentioned to her that this trestle, just the former dynasty more than two hundred years of the country’s throne, in the vicinity of this place before and after the more than 20,000 corpses, which makes Pei Nanwei creeped out, and then no longer have half a bit of leisure and elegance.
The sky is nearly dusk, the head is unwilling to stop the goose feather snow, trestle dead silence deep, she is obviously a little afraid, only to find words, slow down the horse speed, with the side of the man asked about the Northern Liang spies hand eyes of the sky, but why can not probe the bottom of the pair of masters and servants. Xu Fengyen stretched out his hand, accumulating a palm full of snowflakes, holding out a small round snowball, said carelessly: “Good spies, more than those brave and good at war lieutenant lieutenant is more rare and valuable, not only to ensure that they can withstand the loneliness of the year after year, carry through the conspiracy and trickery, the key is the need to be loyal, but also able to be a single person to sift out all kinds of news, and then take his life to pass back. Finally then take the life to pass back, so no five or six years to polish, out of a qualified spy can be safely appointed, some of the old spies, either said to disappear, or directly betrayed the enemy camp, spying is difficult in the spies to do things have not easy, but also to test a person’s toughness, not who are happy to do this line. Previously in the hands of Chu Lushan, outside the Northern Liang spy dead, away from the Yang thirty states, the whole twenty years, but also cultivated more than four hundred people, not to mention that half of them need to put a long line to catch a big fish, apportioned to more than two hundred counties in more than thirty states, each county can have a few? Moreover, last year, in order for those scholars to go to Liang smoothly, we lost many precious spies who had been hiding for many years. Besides, our northern Liang effort to eradicate the spies of the two sides of the North Mang Liyang, Zhao hook and spider web also did not rest for a day, the enemy three parties, every year to die a lot of people, but also thanks to Chu Lushan in charge of spying, replaced by any one person, the northern Liang has long become open-eyed blindness. The light that said out very scary 300,000 iron horsemen, can not win a big battle, the South Korean war, the Northern Liang iron horsemen all the way forward, a large part of the military credit, have to be credited to the head of the Northern Liang spies. Last time I went to Huangnan County, I only cared about killing people to vent my hatred, and slaughtered a few double-faced spies, afterward, my sister scolded me as a loser who doesn’t know how expensive it is not to be in charge of the family, it really isn’t wrong.”
Xu Fengyen gently threw the snowball into the distance and said softly, “This world, it’s really too big, it’s not easy to find out one person.”
Pei Nanwei glanced at him, unable to see His Highness’ expression, only feeling vaguely some uncommon despondency.
The wind and snow howling, there are dozens of miles away from that Tongmen pass, put aside in the usual not show the road is long, this time the trestle snow thick, the horse’s hooves deep, Pei Nanwei even if there is a warm ermine fur, but also began to feel that the crime is not light, and her horsemanship in the view of the experts is really crappy, Xu Fengyen looked at the sky, there are more and more signs of the rain, the three riders and against the wind, Pei Nanwei insisted on solo snow and wind at night, Xu Fengyen coldly looked on when Her horse slipped, her hands were already cold and numb, she was unable to clutch the reins, she fell on the trestle and rolled, but the snow was soft, so she couldn’t be injured. Xu Fengnian Le horse back, stretched out a hand, she is tough, stood up and turned around, reached into the sable collar, through the body temperature to cover her hands, gritted her teeth and got on the horse, continue to horse forward. Xu Fengyen did not bother to sneer, accelerated his horse forward, blocked in front of her ride to block the bone-chilling wind, and so they finally saw the lofty wall of Tongmen Pass and the flickering lights, with a mouthful of grievances to the end of Pei Nanwei finally fainted and fell off the horse, Xu Fengyen only then embraced her on the horse, fast horse into the city.
Tongmen Lieutenant Wei Killing Qing personally led the way with the driver, and led His Highness into the simple official residence without half a bit of luxury, when Pei Nanwei woke up with a headache and found herself lying in a warm room like spring, except for the fur soaked with snow has been taken off, the clothes are intact, as if she had played a turn in the ghost gate of the King Consort of Jing’an this is only a little bit of the spirit of a few points, and turned his head to see the house set up a pot of fireplace, and the man with his back to the bed is cooking the food. The man with his back to the couch is cooking wine, the fragrance of the wine permeates, the hungry Pei Nanwei nourishes her energy, puts on a pair of brand new warm boots, sits on his side, stretches out her hands for warmth, Xu Fengyen reaches out and points to the mahogany carving food box on the stool, indicating that she herself is well-fed and well-fed, but very generously poured a cup of hot alcoholic rice wine for her, Pei Nanwei uncovered the lid of the food box, and did not pay attention to what is the etiquette, burying her head to devour the food! After drinking that cup of wine, and then asked for two cups, soon there is a strong tiredness flooded, perhaps assured but he, endured the fight of the eyelids, but also do not go to bed to sleep. In fact, the two know very well, they are playing a bet, in the bet who is the first to surrender, before this, that is, well water is not offending the river water, do not have to go to her intentionally put on what chaste martyr posture. Pei Nanwei propped up her eyes and squinted at him, his face was illuminated by the charcoal fire, he took off his outerwear, revealing that even an amateur like Pei Nanwei saw the value of the ghostly green soft armor, she bit her lips to clear her head for a few moments, and asked with a hoarse voice, “Why do you want to practice with the sword?”
Xu Fengnian was slightly lost in thought, then shook his head and said in a flat tone, “If I tell you that it’s for fun, and say that I once wanted to be a hero who pulls out his sword to help others when he sees an injustice, you definitely won’t believe me. If I say it’s to save my life, you’ll again say that I was born in a blessed place and don’t know what’s good for me, so I’m moaning about being sick.”
Pei Nanwei poured herself a glass of wine, but didn’t drink it all in one bold gulp like earlier, instead taking the warm glass and pressing it against her cheek, she laughed and said, “I’m more convinced of the former when it comes to your original intention of practicing the sword.”
It was not easy for her to be interested in small talk, but Xu Fengyen in turn was in a depressed state of mind, and blandly said, “We still have to catch up in the morning, so you sleep your way through. Don’t worry, I’ll go out when I’ve sat down enough.”
Pei Nanwei wrinkled his good-looking eyebrows that had extremely natural charm, still went to the bed to lie down, hands cupped the corner of the quilt, for a long time did not hear any movement, turned sideways and looked at that back inside the house.
Not long after, he took the iron tongs and plucked some ash to cover the charcoal fire, letting the charcoal in the furnace burn slower, then got up and gently left the house.
Xu Fengyen came to the wall of Tongmen Pass, Xu Yanbing and Wei Killing Qing both stood at a distance, very sensible not to disturb.
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Heavy snow fell continuously all night, and in the morning, the green mountains were white.
A ride and a servant broke into Folding Gui County unhindered all the way, since earlier when they first entered the border of Northern Liang and shocked a few teams of ickle-like government soldiers and horses, after that they were like no one’s business, the retainer with the strength of Vajra realm couldn’t help but ask: ”My lord, is it hard for this Northern Liang Shizi to be scared and hide? Thinking that everything will really be fine just because he’s hanging up his war exemption card?”
Taking a folding fan to gently slap the palm of his hand, the handsome gentleman admired the snowy scenery along the road and sneered, “Lezhang ah Lezhang, you really think with your ass, when Han Diaoji didn’t kill you, isn’t it too much to dirty your hands?”
The robust squire hemmed and hawed and laughed in a low voice, not daring to talk back in the slightest.
The son of a man opened and closed the peach blossom beauty folding fan in his hand, smiled and said: “That His Highness is not so cowardly as to avoid its sharpness, but this son of a man really didn’t put him in his eyes, but more want to learn to teach the left-handed sword of the white bear Yuan Zuozong, the world only knows that Yuan Baixiong is the world’s first horse combat, but don’t know that he had once sparred with Gu Jiantang, and then he switched to practicing the sword with his left hand, thinking that someday he will be the first to fight with our General Gu, and he will be the best. After that, he switched to practicing with his left hand, hoping to get back at General Gu someday. However, if I want to see the cavalry commander Yuan Baixiong, it is not easy, the few Northern Liang iron horsemen in Lingzhou are no longer good, but still can not be underestimated, it depends on that Xu Fengyen in the end, how big the welcoming ceremony can be set up. Le Zhang, if it’s only a small fight of a few hundred riders, it’s up to you to set it up, remember one thing, it’s alright to break arms and legs, killing is exempted.”
The Vajra Realm servant twisted his neck, cackling like a string of soybeans bursting, nodded his head and smiled grimly, “If that His Royal Highness is petty and takes three to four hundred riders to casually fool the male, the formation, no matter how thick it is, won’t be able to withstand a few of my back and forth rushes.”
The son did not wear a sword at his waist, but used a long vermilion rope to tie the famous sword, the other end of the rope was tied to his wrist, and hung on the side of the horse’s belly, swaying.
Le Zhang glanced at the knife, eyes a little scorn.
This thing was an equal weapon to the world’s number one talismanic sword, Nan Hua, half a catty or two.
The name is also do not know which predecessor to take, half of not pay attention to, just simply called “across the river”.
He Le Zhang at least is the devil of the big names, a son before, a few of the heavenly devil to go to the magic platform to provoke the Longhu Mountain great real Qi Xuan frame, the results were not only failed to equalize the world, but instead slaughtered all, deer mountain from the devastation, the river is declining, two decades ago, he Le Zhang as the devil of the outer mountain disciples, barely first-rate masters, especially among the realm of a first-rate, a bit frivolous, refused to go deer mountain! The only surviving one of the aged public monarch’s solicitation, did not enter the mountain marquis, but with a group of men without authorization to rise up, claiming to be the head of the devil religion, in the martial arts set off a not small bloody storm, has not yet built up a career to dominate the jianghu, was a bright red python robes of the eunuchs blocked down, this human cat came alone, in addition to him, everyone was flayed and stripped, if it is not the Han Diao Temple to keep him alive to use as a probe for the secret site of the deer mountain, the Also has long been difficult to escape death, but after the deer mountain and then did not want him to enter the mountain, Le Zhang these years as a street rat, has been fearful, for fear of being a human cat as a waste to do away with, wait until last year in the capital came the news of the death of Han Diao Temple, he just cried tears of joy, thinking about is not to re-emerge from the world to rise again, the result is to give in front of this claimed to come from the deer mountain of the young man to beat up the father and mother, and even the Gu General’s Even General Gu’s square inch thunder can make out, some Wu family sword mound and the East Vietnam sword pool within the many secret techniques, but also endless, and his own a few moves of the pressure box skills, only to be that young man looked at a time, to be able to take it into their own hands, he Le Zhang even if it is a first-class masters, how, how can not be horrified?
Le Zhang had to convince, under the sky is really a hundred years of martial arts genius. In the past, it was Wang Xianzhi Li Chungang, these seniors in the jianghu, and in the future, it will probably be the turn of the young master of the knife “across the river”.
The young man looked up and saw a peregrine falcon passing by, raised a charming smile and said to himself: “It’s a bit slow.”