Chapter 158 Bei Liang to reason with the North Mang Liyang
It is said that the sycamore tree can attract the phoenix habitat, in fact, like the sun does not tolerate the shade and cold, sprouting is particularly weak, it is difficult to imagine that in the north of Liang this kind of place can be alive sycamore tree, but since it was born in the Qingliang Mountain previously His Highness’s private residence compound, it is the same as a good tire, not only live, but also unusually flourishing. Just the sycamore trees in the sycamore courtyard, this courtyard but there are a few gloomy bleak and miserable, probably because of the approaching Qingming, the underground people too much to miss the people on the ground, so the sycamore courtyard someone died quietly, is a batch of Zhu female Hanlin in the cucumber, the second-class maid, the name of the long forgotten, His Highness the son of the first tour of the jianghu returned, like to eat the cucumber of the old Liang Wang’s first-born son to her! A cucumber vulgar nickname, when she also protested to come, and then was shouted accustomed to, but also grudgingly accepted, cucumber’s death, sudden and inexplicable, died in the new Liang Wang coincidentally not in the Qingliang Mountain of the empty, so that many people have been caught off guard, wutong courtyard outside of the King’s House of the Qing guest servants, do not dare to break the mouth, even if it is the head of the yard, but also silenced, the size of the wutong courtyard in charge of the military affairs of the Xu Weixiong did not say anything, the funeral is simple, the funeral is a simple and hasty, the funeral is a simple and hasty, the funeral is a simple and hasty. The funeral is simple and hastily done.
Xu Fengyen light car from the land of the stragglers back to the Royal Palace, still did not go to that less and less to go to the Wutong courtyard, sitting in a wheelchair Xu Weixiong in the pavilion on the lake to find him, handing him a cucumber to kill himself before the handwritten suicide note, Xu Fengyen took over without looking at a glance, and then thrown to the lake, gently thin a sinking sandalwood-colored paper, fell on the lake surface, soaked and wet, then slowly sunk into the lake, and even did not startle the ripples. Half a point of ripples, the suicide note and the woman are so, light, as if said no, no, insignificant. Xu Weixiong calmly told Xu Fenian, cucumber after writing the letter, in the house with a pair of chopsticks pierced through the neck, ambush death, very strange death, the next day at dawn was called to her to the main house to approve the red, the same as the second-class maid Bai Baijiu found. Xu Weixiong also said that on the letter, cucumber admitted that since her childhood is the court is inserted in the northern Liang Zhao hook secret spy, this life has been betrayed twice, once this time the temple went to the danger of intruding into the land of the stragglers, the last time is to disclose the whereabouts of the Northern Mang route. At the end of the letter, she said she hoped that His Highness would live to come back to see her suicide note, and also said that in her next life she would like to serve His Highness, and would no longer be so inhuman.
Xu Fengyen looked calm, could not see the sadness and happiness, Xu Weixiong also said blandly: “Beiliang falcon split, Wutong courtyard and Chu Lushan’s spies have the internal and external, I knew at that time that you have already noticed that there are mole in Wutong courtyard, I hope that they can be convergent a little bit, to see the good and end it when it was to give them a chance to live. Only you should know one thing, since embarked on this road, simply can’t turn back, talk about what to cherish life or not, women’s life is thin, not to mention a female spy, after all, she can still decide when to die, how to die, and did not suffer before she died, the previous spring and autumn unjust war, was dug out from behind the smoke of war female spy, no one has her blessing.”
Xu Fengnian sighed, rubbed his cheek fiercely, words came out from between his fingers, slightly slurred, “There is also a spy who is involved with the Northern Mang, hidden even deeper, who is it? Without her leaks, not to mention alarming the Orange State Holding Festival Order Murong Baoding’s great drive, even Hong Jingyan could not possibly run to Qingcang City to intercept and kill me, these two people stepped on the point to step on the spot just right, obviously through the North Mang think-tank precision deduction, it seems that she has a lot of thicker skin than that girl in the cucumber ah.”
Xu Weixiong asked rhetorically, “Do you really not know, or are you playing dumb? How many can there be in Wutong Courtyard with this kind of stoicism and heart?”
Xu Fengyen put down his hands, caged his sleeves with both hands, turned his head to look at the lake, and said softly, “I’m going to meet her, sis, help me prepare two cups of wine.”
Xu Weixiong hesitated for a moment, but finally did not make a sound. Wutong courtyard second class maids have their own private houses, each with their own flavor, and the house of the royal family small state hand green ants most miscellaneous games numerous, the house placed many strange and bizarre objects, the collection of books, but not much, she is good at chess, but there is no chess pier, do not see a piece to play chess, to play chess, she is with the year’s Shizi His Royal Highness direct hand to hand talks in the main courtyard, can always kill Xu Fengyen to lose their helmets and armors, never see her mercy, that is, on the On the godly first nineteen ways of the second county princess, when the heart has a spiritual rhinoceros, occasionally can also fight on a drums and drums, see the green ants of the smartest to the extreme, probably wisdom must be hurt, green ants are also wutong courtyard maid in the body bones of one of the weakest, the good thing is that xu fengyen is a character around the big spenders of the losers, that is, wudangshan mountain old real person song Zhiming to send to the king’s mansion of the treasures of the elixir, but also year-round regular to give the green ants to go to the warmth of the The body. Today, the wutong courtyard is not green ants on duty batch of red, the door is not covered, she sat alone at the window, looking out the window green sycamore trees, the corner of her mouth with a smile, when she heard the knock on the door, turned his head to see a handful of a cup of wine of His Highness, smiled and stood up, wutong courtyard of the women, most of the young men still like to put this gentle and handsome still regarded as their son His Highness. Xu Fengyen walked to the window, set aside two cups of wine, followed her earlier line of sight to look out the green window, green ants never cared about those inferiority or superiority, anyway, Wutong courtyard is not very concerned about these rules, gently sit back in the chair, elbow against the chair handle, body tilted, looking up at him, so many years, it is the same, this man is always staring at the north of the country, looking at the Jiang Hu and the Jiangshan, she can only look at him, his side or back, at best, when playing chess and drinking to each other, she can only see enough of his front.
Green Ant asked with a soft smile, “Cucumber is a fool, Your Highness, don’t you think so?”
Xu Fengnian did not shift his gaze, nodded and said, “In this courtyard, she has always been the dumbest one, the ugliest writing, the stinkiest chess player, and the guzheng player with little spirit, every time she is encouraged by you guys to go and touch the bad luck, to stab fish young Wei, to stab Pei Nanwei, to stab Lu Chenyan, to attack on all sides and make enemies on all sides, and to take the blame and still think that she is righteous and is the warrior of the heavens and the earth. Every time I want to scold her a few words do not know how to speak, scolding in a roundabout way, she will certainly take it as a compliment to her, scolding bluntly, that will not cry to death. The most stupid one, became a spy, in the end really stupid. So I do not blame her, because she is a stupid girl, not to mention that in the Yang Yang Yangzhou side she has parents alive, is forced. Then you, never is the yard the most intelligent one, my sister said, you in the northern mang no relatives, why are still happy to give the barbarians to sell their lives to serve death? For fun? If you had turned your back on the barbarians earlier, and were content to be the green ant of your Northern Liang woman, who could have come to Wutong Courtyard to kill you? Seed Liang? Murong Baoding? Or Hong Jingyan? The last two, the world’s top ten masters, together by you called to Qingcang City, not the same failed to kill me? I really can’t understand.”
Green Ant calmly said, “Your Highness, why don’t we drink wine and chat? Which cup is Your Highness’s and which cup is the slave girl’s? Consider it as practicing for the slave girl. Slave girl is more courageous than cucumber, deeper in the city, the heart of the same thought that your highness can go home alive, but the slave girl is more interested in talking to your highness again, cucumber, she does not dare to, not only is stupid, or a coward.”
Xu Fengnian softly sneered, “Really already a ghost. In time for the Qingming Festival, it’s quite good.”
Green ants shook Xu Fengnian’s cuff, her eyes were lost, staring at him, this showy woman muttered, “Everyone is a woman, why am I a maid, why do I have to call myself a slave girl when I see His Highness, why can I only look at you from afar for the rest of my life, I’m not stupid, I dare to kill people, and I am more capable of killing people with pen on paper and harming people, I have a name as well, I also want to get married, and I want more than anything to I also have a name, I also want to marry, I want to teach children, I have too many ideas, the biggest one, Your Highness know what? I remember when His Highness came back from the capital, he drank with me and said a lot of drunken talk, a lot of gossip about dreams, saying that the dream of a lost dog is to have a home. Said the dream of the river crossing pawn, is to cross the river can turn back, said the dream of the swordsman, is to enter the jianghu have a sword out of the jianghu still have a sword, but also said you don’t want someone to die because of you, don’t want to watch the people around you one after another, you need to go to the graves in the Qingming. So my dream is to let you look at me one more time, really look at me, just like now. I’ll die so that you can remember me, live as long as you can, and hate me as long as you can.”
Xu Fengnian shook back his sleeve to keep her from clenching it.
Green Ant exhaled a breath and smiled sweetly, “The slave girl has finished and can die, Your Highness can go, don’t stain your eyes, I don’t want to make Your Highness feel an extra pile of guilt on my deathbed.”
Xu Fengyen turned around and left straight away.
Not long after Xu Fengyen left the house, a slight squeak of a wheelchair came from outside the house, Green Ant didn’t turn his head to look at the woman who was colder and smarter than himself, bending down and reaching out to hold a cup of wine, “It’s the Green Ant wine prepared by the Second County Lord?”
Green Ant did not look at the woman sitting in the wheelchair, who likewise did not look at Green Ant, her expression was scant.
Green Ant let out a soft chortle, “No two ways about it then.”
Green Ant was really smart, if it was two cups of green ant wine prepared by His Highness himself, one cup was Hatchet Wine, but the other cup was naturally an extra-legal unusual green ant wine, whether the green ants were dead or alive would have to depend on heaven’s fate. But if it was the two cups of wine given by Second Sheriff Lord Xu Weixiong, it was destined to be only two cups of poisonous wine sent behind His Highness the World Son’s back, so it was the same for her to drink which one.
Green Ant casually picked up a cup of green ant wine and drank it all in one go, so fast that before she could taste it, she picked up a second cup of wine, still tilting her head and pouring it into her stomach in one gulp. Since it is dead, one more cup of wine, always earn, in the past so many times with the second county master chess game, a few times win, it is by her little by little advantage accumulation.
Green Ant sat back in her chair, quietly waiting for death.
After a long time, Green Ant frowned, only to hear Xu Weixiong coldly say, ”I did prepare two cups of poisonous wine for you, and I also guessed that he would change another two cups for you. He thought of letting you drink one cup of wine and think that you had gotten away with it, and then leave Beiliang and find a place with beautiful mountains and water to hide, so that you could live with peace of mind. But I won’t let you leave this courtyard so comfortably, I just want to come to force you to drink up two cups of wine, so that you this white-eyed wolf that can’t be bred, know clearly who owes who! He doesn’t want you to die and wants you to live comfortably, I don’t have such a good heart, except for dying of old age, you don’t want to die, I will let a few elite peregrine falcons follow you for the rest of your life ……”
A voice interrupted the two women’s fight, “Alright, sis.”
Xu Fenian folded back and pushed the wheelchair away.
Xu Fengyen pushed her to Qingliang Mountain, overlooking Liangzhou City together, and said softly, “My last bit of patience has worn out, so don’t be reassured, sis, that in the future I won’t still be so bodhisattva-hearted. Mother used to say, no one is born to suffer, a man even if he can not treat women well, but also can not go to randomly scourge, they have to be really as a person to see. Now the wutong courtyard clean, I also have no worries, this time you as I made a break, the last with you capricious once, sister, how?”
Xu Weixiong gave a hmmm.
Xu Fengnian was surprised and laughed, “Sister, why are you so reasonable now, I’m not quite used to it.”
Xu Weixiong bumped his head back and hit him hard, and said flatly, “I saw that after you became the King of Beiliang, the number of times you went to the back of the mountain machine building bureau exceeded my estimation, so I made an exception and allowed you to be capricious once.”
The Northern Liang Machine Building Bureau was built at the bottom of the back of Qingliang Mountain.
It was this inconspicuous organization that manufactured the world’s best swords, best iron spears, best bows and crossbows, and best iron armor for the Northern Liang Iron Horsemen.
Every war sword, every iron spear, every bow and crossbow, every piece of iron armor, just a little bit better than others, but coupled with a 300,000 iron cavalry, the cumulative hidden advantage, how huge and amazing is it?
The place where Northern Liang eats the most gold and silver, besides the military expenses for raising soldiers, is on top of the large-scale ordnance that comes out of the Machine Manufacturing Bureau.
The second king of Beiliang who guarded the northwestern gateway of the empire, the degree of importance attached to this, as if it was better than the old king, simply to a sickly point of no return.
Xu Fengyen’s eyes were resolute, reaching out to make a bow and arrow throwing gesture, and said in a deep voice: “I want to talk to Beimang Liyang about an old truth set by Xu Snapdragon back then, the biggest truth under the sky is within the range of the Beiliang’s bows and crossbows!”