Chapter 137: Rouge Commenting on Rouge
As winter turns to spring, warblers steal the sound of hundreds of birds. Youzhou territory on both sides of the stagecoach road have spit green grass and trees, often see groups of small yellow warbler bird shuttle which, unfortunately, the northern Liang people’s coarse, there is no that into the spring will want to go to listen to the warbler cry “yellow reed” of the literati, the road on the carriage slowly northbound, the woman in the carriage hand more than a warbler from the low branches picked off the nest, and occasionally Lift the curtain to look at the scenery along the way. All the way traveling, in order to catch up, few stops in the city, not in front of the village after the store, the woman most embarrassing than people have three urgent, she wanted to toilet for the first time, legs clenched, clenched his teeth and insisted on half an hour, has long been aware of the difference between his bias not to speak, when she finally could not hold, open to get off, and so she bowed his head and returned to sit back in the carriages, and also listened to him say a bad joke, he said that there was a former official A private visit to investigate public opinion, the results in the wilderness stomach uncomfortable up, every time a little idea to help him find a quiet place to take off his pants, the horseman for the official to find a few places, but when the official every time to unzip the waistband of the pants squat down, and do not want to, and then the horseman whenever the official asked to find a place did not say did not find, so the official finally support could not go on, jumped out of the carriage after the side of the running side! The official finally could not support, jumped out of the carriage after running side by side, finally comfortable, back when lamented that there is really a piece of feng shui treasure land ah. He finally added fuel to the fire and asked her a question, is not looking for a feng shui treasure, she picked the pine needles on the way back to the grass cob woven from the warbler’s nest, after hearing about it on the ruthless smash over, was the man with one hand to draw a circle and gently took the warbler’s nest, handed it back to her with a smile, to make up for his own embarrassing story, said he was traveling, an inadvertent to the latrine, heard the next door is not a small noise, boredom, then exported to tease! A few words of brother you are not eating garlic, the results wait a moment, his thatched room to a face like frost female warrior with a sword to tear down the door, scared him almost fell into the pit, rushed to take the hand to protect the crotch, and in the end was the female warrior threatened with a cold face to cut off his three legs. This your mother really woe out of the mouth ah, if not he was in a hurry, snapped loose his hand, let the lady warrior good to see some of what is a great male enhancement, will be scared off, I’m afraid that inevitably eat a full beat.
Pei Nanwei looked at him when he said this asshole words rarely reveal the surface of the smugness, crying and laughing, then also did not bother with him what. The hall of the Northern Liang son are so wretched, she a long time ago is not a feudal king of the woman, also lazy to pretend to be a heroine. This trip northbound border, the road has been constantly peregrine falcon swept curtains to pass the secret report, Xu Fengyen naturally did not say that those important military intelligence, but some harmless secrets are all said to her to listen to, for example, Qingyang Palace in the Qingcheng King Wu Lingsu is now in the capital to receive the seal of approval, divided into that feathered prime minister of the Heavenly Master’s Palace of the half of the cup of soup, to be able to rule the river, holding the big power, and together to rule the North and South Taoist sects. Has always been high above the Longhu Mountain seems to be unable to stand this kind of aggression, soon took out the bottom of the box killer, rumored to be the head teacher Zhao Danxia cultivated into the most difficult Taoist Jade Emperor floor, and the old master Zhao Xiyi father and son two joint blatant ascension, and then the imperial court immediately permitted the capital of the green words of the prime minister Zhao Danping as the head of the southern door of the Taoist, and exceptionally gifted the heavenly masters of the young Taoist priests Zhao Ningshen into the dynasty as an official, to become a more than the yellow door of the Lang! He became a more coveted official than the Huangmenlang, the son of heaven’s close servant, the Qiubinglang. There is also a pile of things have nothing to do with the temple, purely jianghu people jianghu things, hobby of eating the sword of the unnamed old swordsman finally out of a sword, but not wu di cheng wang xianzhi personally, but by the four direct disciple one by one to block the sword, the first three recognized talent disciples are unable to resist, and finally was that has been the master of the younger brother of the big disciple of yu xinlang, the sword blocked down the sword, shaking the rivers and lakes, the knife immediately be This swordsman was immediately regarded as a top expert who could make General Gu Jiantang fight with all his might.
Hearing these hidden secrets that make the blood of the jianghu children boil, Pei Nanwei could not bring up any interest, and put his left ear in and his right ear out, only as a small paragraph to relieve his boredom.
Close to the border, the carriage in the Qing case county stopover, Xu Fengyen specially took Pei Nanwei in a restaurant to eat a meal of local unique green fine rice, is the southern candle tree leaves mashed to take the juice of soaked rice steamed rice, its color green, the aroma is attractive, but the rice of the large blue flower bowl is even bowl wide nearly a foot, see Pei Nanwei dumbfounded, she went out of her way to eat only a small half of a bowl on the really can’t swallow, Xu Fengyen his own bowl of wind and cloud surge! Sweep empty, you are not polite to take Pei Nanwei’s bowl of rice, still enjoy. Xu Yan Bing did not enter the restaurant earlier, then showed up with a middle-aged man in satin plain clothes, still eating with his head down Xu Fengyen beckoned, signaling the man with a clean look to sit down, the man said softly after taking his seat, “The last general will see His Highness, the son of the world.”
Xu Fengnian put away his empty bowl and chopsticks, lazily leaning against the roughly made and slightly rugged back of the chair, smiled and joked, “Huangfu枰, what is it about the last general, it has been changed from the captain of the Fruitful Yi to the general of Youzhou who is in total charge of the military power of a state, are you still used to it?”
Huangfu Ping, who was already the new Yuzhou General, did not have the fear and modesty of an ordinary general or lieutenant, but just said in a deep voice: “I will not dare to let Your Highness down!”
Xu Fengnian nodded, “Chen Xiliang is managing the matter of salt administration, if he didn’t ask for help from you, you Huangfu Scales don’t need to make a fool of yourself, let those unregulated local magnates go bouncing around, when Chen Xiliang opens his mouth to ask for a loan to kill someone, then you can do it, don’t be soft at that time.”
Huangfu scale in the northern Liang Road’s leaping speed, second only to the Lingshou assassin Xu Beihao, is deservedly His Highness’s beloved, but the cost of it is really chilling, that is to watch their own family full of dead ah. Such an official addiction to the heartless Huangfu scale, in the Youzhou official reputation can be imagined naturally. Just Huangfu scale in Beiliang is a backwater, this kind of sinister villain want to party also no one is willing to sit with him, this kind of the most suitable for use as a borrowed knife to kill the puppet, can be said to be who use who rest assured, but in Beiliang also on Xu Fengyen is qualified to hold the knife only. More words will be lost, coupled with the fact that Huangfu Scale has always believed in taking credit in exchange for official positions, even if he has risen through the ranks, he still gives people the illusion of being depressed and unhappy. Xu Fengyen also did not care whether this Youzhou general had eaten, still helped him order a green essence rice, smiled: “You integrate the Youzhou jianghu forces well, my sister’s side of the evaluation of your matter is not low, I allow you to greatly extend your hand and foot to Liangzhou. By the way, you pay for the meal, I’ll take it that you’ve done your duty as a landlord.”
Standing up to send His Highness away, after sitting down, Huangfu Ping took a big mouthful of rice, finally he took out all the gold and silver in the eyes of the restaurant staff looking at the fool, put them on the table and left.
The friendship of the landlord!
These gold and silver that he carried with him, he bought the military power of the whole Youzhou, is it expensive or cheap?
The carriage drove out of Qing case county city, Xu Fengyen comfortably lying in the carriage, crossed his legs and burped, Pei Nanwei sneered, “This infamous Huangfu scale is not exactly what you call a bottomless person, you don’t also use it comfortably and comfortably?”
Xu Fengnian laughed, “How do you know he has no bottom line? Huangfu scale, even Chu Lushan, in fact, are not as simple as the outside world thinks, they and good people are naturally not the goods, but to say that there is no bottom line, to me, compared to those who are child molester, apathetic to prostitutes at the same time, while claiming to be worried about the country and the people of the Qing dynasty of the celebrities, there is a lot of bottom line. Too much of themselves as people, it is easy not to take others as people. Look at not treat yourself as a person, but more can leave a little heart. To make a less appropriate analogy, Wudang Mountain and Longhu Mountain, the same is the ancestral court of Taoism, the Master of the House of the Yellow Purple Nobleman full of fairy gas, unattainable, not dignitaries are not into that door, Wudang Mountain on the highest seniority of the old Taoist, not much fairy gas, it is able to talk to the people of the guests nagging, you say who has more humane some of the people? Huangfu scales to me as a lackey, I’m the son of his highness or not, Huangfu scales themselves, will not deny, but Huangfu scales stomach of bitterness and bitterness, really want to let this Youzhou general pouring out the bitter water, you can not bear to listen to.”
Pei Nanwei said flatly, “I don’t want to hear it either.”
Xu Fengyen sighed: “Every family has a difficult experience, only the clear wind that turns over books for no reason knows about it.”
Pei Nanwei froze and laughed, “Can’t see that you can also be sad about spring and fall?”
Xu Fengyen said with blank eyes, “I am at least a talented person who writes a hundred good poems a year, okay?”
Pei Nanwei squinted and said, “Buying and copying poems also counts?”
Xu Fengyen laughed: “If I didn’t buy the poems of these Northern Liang scholars, do you think they would have enough money to travel thousands of miles to the capital to take the examination?”
Pei Nanwei asked rhetorically, “Has there ever been a single person who said good things about you to read your favor?”
Xu Fengnian skimmed his mouth, a bit of rare embarrassment, “Probably said I didn’t hear it.”
Pei Nanwei laughed coldly, “Furthermore, Northern Liang is barren, and the scholars are even more withered, and as a result, they were all given to the court by you with both hands, you, Your Royal Highness, really have a big belly!”
Xu Fengyen touched his stomach that could hold up two big bowls of green essence rice, and laughed at himself, “The belly is not small. But good people have good karma, at that moment, aren’t there nearly a thousand foreign scholars who have come to Northern Liang to put down roots?”
Youzhou Qing case county further north is the border rouge county, the reason why it is called rouge county, is rouge of the mother-in-law is famously handsome, even in the central plains have long heard of its name, Jiangnan Road, some rich old man to concubinage a room at the right age of the rouge county women as a matter of pride, many of the some of the posture and unwilling to suffer rouge county women, most like to leave the border for the rich central plains, a go, even though many of these Even though many of these poor women fall into the dust, but also never look back, by the Liyang court ridiculed as the wall of flowers outside the wall. Rouge County has a rouge county with the same name, which is full of beautiful women, and it’s really a blessing for a man to marry a rouge county woman and go home to a hot bed, that’s really a blessing for a man to fix in a few lifetimes. Youzhou officials do not have a house of rouge women as concubines or maids, that do not have the face to go out and say hello to colleagues. Pei Nanwei may be tired of the top of the cumbersome hat, in the dusk into the rouge county inn for the night, give up the hat, was fortunate enough to recognize her face men and women are amazed at the heavenly, today is the first year of xiangfu Lantern Festival, the Lantern Festival is a big festival, the officials and the people with the same music, go out to enjoy the lanterns, the territory of the state of Youzhou is obviously different from the grain silos of the Lingzhou, the street lamp market is bustling, but do not see a few points of the splendor of the momentum, the men and women dressed in simple, simple and simple clothes. Men’s and women’s clothing and accessories are also mostly simple, not as preferred as that of Lingzhou luxury, Youzhou is not where the Xu family Liangzhou, nor is it relatively stable and comfortable Lingzhou, has always been the officials of the Youzhou self-deprecating as a stepchild, a little bit of interest and the doorway to the Lingzhou side of the head to scrape the oil and water, of course, will not forget to piggyback on the rouge of a couple of heavily purchased county women as a stranger to the official field of the knocking on the door of the step, to send the silver how vulgar! As a knock on the door of the unfamiliar officialdom, how vulgar to send silver, in case of sending less and also met with blank stares, send women in order to be both elegant and affordable.
Xu Fengyen and Pei Nanwei walk side by side, a little bit of the flavor of the man and the woman, the night can only be illuminated by the lights, a little farther away, they do not really see Pei Nanwei’s appearance, which did not cause too much of a stir, just some of her face and body, and then refused to go far away, not their own bowl, come close to look at a few eyes of other people’s bowls, but also will be able to quench the craving. A few idle ruffians are not small, want to take advantage of the crowd over to mooch, was Xu Fengnian kicked out a long way, are some of the colorful shrimp, dare not say anything, and the first loss, this after a lot of convergence, was going to pretend to call people to beat up the man, just no one is happy to look at a few more eyes on the mural on the fertile beauty of the flying woman, but also resentful to stop, coupled with the Youzhou! Inside the territory of the ordinary time fighting officials will turn a blind eye, but in the lantern market on the Lantern Festival trouble, surely have to be arrested by the city guards peeled off several layers of skin. In front of Xu Fengyen and Pei Nanwei walking three scholars, listen to the accent is to go to the cool of the Central Plains scholar, nine times out of ten is heard that the rouge county beautiful women, full of street at your fingertips of the beauty of the good man, ran to take a chance, the Northern Liang women’s culture of liberty, they may not be able to have a dewy marriage. Three young scholars have long seen behind the young woman years of beautiful women, in the way of etiquette and self-respecting identity, did not have the nerve to accost, they had to slow down the pace of intentionally put the words, the voice of the strange, like there than who is more than the shocking death, and a certain official master is a relative of the state of the Ling, will soon be entered into the county Yamen as an official, said that has always been away from the Sun dynasty is ill-intentioned to look at the North Rang’s hustle and bustle, and now the western Chu Now that the restoration of Western Chu is imminent, Northern Liang can finally also end bench high melon seeds, sit down to look at the court’s jokes. There are also said that since childhood, they aspire to the border of the iron horse and golden goose, which scholar ten thousand vassals, which gave up the reach of the title, to come to this poor place to join the army.
Xu Fengyen heard a scholar mention that chattering about the winner and loser of the restoration of Western Chu, smiled, accelerated his steps forward and took the initiative to ask: “This gentleman, how do you know that the restoration of Western Chu is destined to end miserably within half a year?”
The scholar who did have a few elegant airs did not reply to Xu Fengyen, bullheadedly glancing at Pei Nanwei, he introduced himself, “Kid is the son of Fan Clan of Raccoon County, Jiangnan Road.”
Xu Fengyen also pushed the boat into the water and pretended to be surprised: “Raccoon County Fan, that is the most famous county of the old North Han south of the big family, did not think that Mr. Fan’s family lineage is so prestigious, the entire Beiliang can not be picked out of a few ah, it is bound to be those of us in Beiliang, the governor of the adults to be treated as a guest of honor, honored to see Mr. Fan is really an honor!”
The remaining scholar also hurriedly introduced himself as the Shi Zao Zhou family from the East Vietnam Road. The remaining one scholar was probably due to his mediocre birth, and was indignant and speechless. In fact, Raccoon Fan and Shi Zao Zhou’s branches and leaves flourished during the Spring and Autumn period, is not what the threshold of unattainable first-class gateway, as long as the local last name of Fan and Zhou, most of them can be climbed on the relatives, no one will really take it seriously. These two, obviously, also came to the eyes of the wide range of Northern Liang to pull the banner, in order to indiscriminately. In this rich people’s slaves can be sharp enough to rely on a belt to see through the depth of the family, such a poor trick is really not worth mentioning, they obviously underestimated the skill of the officials of Beiliang. Beiliang is poor, but the poor are those who face the soil back toward the sky of the common people, when the official, really not endless.
Xu Fengyen originally wanted to find fun, did not expect Pei Nanwei’s words to be counted as undoubtedly shocking, “What is your last name, about my ass? I only like more than two hundred pounds of strong man, the three of you are rolling aside cool to go!”
The three readers were struck by lightning, then they didn’t dare to let out a single fart and slipped away.
Xu Fengyen stretched out his thumb towards Pei Nanwei, she stroked her sideburns, turned her head and tilted the corner of her mouth, with a face of the rare expression of the old lady who is invincible without making a move.
Xu Fengyen which pot does not mention which pot, tsked and sighed: “North Liang is really a piece of feng shui treasure land, Pei sister also dyed in the grandeur of the atmosphere.”
Pei Nanwei frowned coldly, kicked on the back of Xu Fengnian’s shoe, twisted to death.
Xu Fengyen ate softly but not hardly, not to mention not eating the pain, muttering to himself, “Only half a year? Cao Changqing and Sun Xiji two big Western Chu relics teamed up, not so unhelpful, right?”
Pei Nanwei coldly said, “A lot of people will die.”
Xu Fenian’s eyes were cold as he slowly said, “Yes, it is going to kill a lot of people. But you also need to know that Xi Chu has so many shaved hair to escape Zen, not hesitate to close themselves in the cellar, recluse into the mountains to do the wild old man, out of his mind in the middle of the night knocking on the night to patrol the city screaming are ghosts are ghosts, are worse than death, this group of people do not forget about the West Chu dynasty of the lone souls of the wild ghosts, can’t wait to drag the family together to die a more heroic death. Such foolishly loyal remnants, you don’t even know how to evaluate.”
Pei Nanwei said hatefully, “No one stops them if they want to die in a good way, but don’t drag down the innocent people who only want to live a peaceful life and sleep peacefully!”
Xu Fengyen laughed: “In the past, I always thought you were dead, like the kind of ghosts that haunted the ancient temples in the mountains and wore human skin, but today I realized that you can still speak a few words of a human being. Why don’t you stay here in Rouge County? Maybe later you will become a big living person completely. Whenever you miss the reeds by the Hearing Tide Lake, just go back and see it again.”
Pei Nanwei said without hesitation, “Good.”
Xu Fengyen had a momentary lapse of concentration, this word that exited lightly, he seemed to have said it to someone as well. Only Xu Fengyen quickly returned to normal, nodded his head and smiled, “Then I will have to show off my status as the son of the world, and greet the Rouge County Taishou Lord, and furnish you with a private residence that won’t be disturbed by people.”
Xu Fengyen asked the way to the governor’s residence, not coincidentally, the county governor with a large group of family members with the people of the people to go, practiced a pair of fiery eyes of the concierge to see his temperament is not bad, let him sit in the side door of the small room, waited for two hours, even the concierge have some admiration for the young man’s patience, during the period of many times attentive to ask for warmth and tea, which is naturally Xu Fengyen borrowed the rouge spectrum of the light of Pei beauty. When county guard Hong Shandong returned, he rubbed his eyes, he had also set foot in the Beiliang King’s mansion in his life, he did not recognize the young man, but he recognized the “escort” that could only stand, the general’s personal bodyguard Xu Yanbing! One year the general’s tour of the border, through the rouge county, Hong Shandong had the honor to see a side, this person is qualified to sit with the general’s food and drink, the memory is particularly vivid and deep. Xu Yan Bing need to stand, then sit and drink tea young man is who, Hong Shandong and not lack of heart eyes of the fool, immediately convergence of God whisking sleeve, fluttering sound kneeling, pay a visit to this visit to the cottage of His Highness, a large number of crowded in the cottage outside the Hong family children and grandchildren are staring at the eyes of a little older, know the ways of the world, some fear, the age of the small, clean eyes are full of childish curiosity. Don’t look at a county’s parental officer of the governor’s residence threshold is not low, but the residence so far received officials in the largest official hat, but also the last general of Youzhou. How big of an official is His Highness the son of the world? When this young man puts on a positive yellow python robe and becomes the King of Northern Liang in the future, all of Liyang will know how big it is.
In the bookish study, Hong Shandong from beginning to end did not have the courage to look at Pei Nanwei, know that the woman without any clear name will live in the rouge county, but also have a surprise not happy, he Hong Shandong does not mind to her as a female bodhisattva enshrined, this is what he should do, may not be what merit, but from ancient times, in case of a slight mistake, then he was also considered smooth sailing The career is not at the end of the road? Just His Highness opened the golden mouth, then he Hong Shandong can only bite the teeth also have to squeeze out a smile to accept down. That night, the governor tossed out an elegant mansion with mountains and water, Xu Fengyen by the way, let the dead soldier Yin secretly with the rouge county spies to say hello, the dead soldier Yin is a deep prestige of the big spies, familiar with this kind of hooks, since it can be done without any leaks. Then Xu Fengyen abandoned the carriage that was already redundant, and Xu Yanbing two riders left the city in the night, rushed to the not unfamiliar inverted horse pass.
Pei Nanwei did not forget to carry that drape hat when she stepped off the carriage, there were only two aged maidservants in the quiet mansion, she stood in the courtyard without saying anything until she went to her room before going to bed, she threw the drape hat in the courtyard, glimpsed a few boxes of very exquisite and pleasing expensive rouge on the dressing cabinet inside the house, and laughed coldly, “They are all burdensome.”
Seemingly valuable objects, how many are truly valuable?