Chapter 010: Spring Thunder is not moving in Youzhou
Xu Fengyen walked to the side of the little lady who had a good hand at embroidery, lifted the bamboo basket, handed it over to her, stopped in front of her, looked at those inverted horse pass pawns who were wearing the flag of the Northern Liang Iron Cavalry, smiled, and slowly said: ”Ladies and gentlemen, I’m a distant relative of my sister-in-law Xu Qing, I’m traveling to and from the border passes and the Lingshou, and I’ve earned some silver, there are more than a hundred taels in my body, if you don’t mind, all of them can be taken for a I have more than a hundred taels on me, if you don’t mind, you can take them all. I only beg you to be generous, don’t let my sister-in-law go to the general’s house, after all, my sister-in-law is the widow of a postman, this matter is again innocent, the general’s wife again sympathetic to the people, but if it spreads out, my sister-in-law’s reputation for the border of Beiliang is not good.”
A hundred taels of silver? Zhang Shun have forgotten to confine the little brat in his arms, all the broken silver, then, can be piled up on the table into a small silver mountain, all folded into the copper, then not to the eyes are stabbed blind? Have not seen the world of the bitter family, the rich, do not know what is rich or rich sub-division of the king, far less than the waist of ten thousand slam to catchy and intuitive image, a thousand for consistency, a hundred silver, that is a full hundred slam, in fact, silver expensive copper cheap, at least can be exchanged for a hundred and ten thousand slam, Zhang Shun thought of the biggest extravagance of his life is not to go out and walk, to be able to hang a dozen or so twenty slam in the body to hang around it? When you eat and drink, take off the copper money and throw it on the table, that’s called a bold, back home, and then wrapped around two body beautiful waist fine buttocks fat women warm bed, this life is no extra thoughts.
Zhang Shun dumbfounded to look at the young man who appeared out of nowhere, look like a man, indeed like not lack of money of the son of a man, are his mother let him eye on the knife, pariahs not to mention the waist hanging knife downtown walk, many clothes coloring are bound by the rules and regulations.
But it’s strange, Xu Qing this little bitch when there is a hand out easily a hundred taels of silver rich relatives? It’s not the kind of concubine that sneaks around in the crop fields, is it? Zhang Shun head melon rotation, pondering the cooked duck can not fly away from the pot, this hundred taels of silver from the pocket of that little white man out of the board on the nail and he has nothing to do with the fart, Xu Qing once not to go to the reverse horse pass, did not be that Goi Lieutenant underneath the body, that he is at the fingertips of the prosperous become a bubble of shit, but also caused a fishy, nearby several villages are mostly involved in the relationship, although no one can put him how, can not avoid the back to be poked in the back. The key is that it is not possible to taste Xu Weiniang’s flavor.
Zhang Shun, who will not allow himself to be undone, smiled grimly and said: “Relatives? I’ve heard that you’re a foreigner who covets Xu Qing’s body, don’t dare to compete with the military men of the Inverted Horse Pass just because you have a bit of money, be careful of stealing chickens without being able to eat the rice!”
The stout captain was not interested in Zhang Shun’s dirty water, nor did he believe in it, but after the young swordsman opened the window of the sky and spoke frankly, one of the news made one’s headache quite a bit, this little girl’s dead husband had the status of a stagecoach driver in his lifetime? Never can not be the Yuzhou side of the fallen soldiers, this Yuzhou three days twice with the North Mang barbarians fighting, the upper part of the two states of the martyrdom of the soldiers after the pension is extremely strict, not to say that the chief of the Wu can not be robbed, a ruthless also robbed, but in case of the farce of the hanged and thrown into the well, it will not be necessary to spend the money to go with all aspects of the ass, the village side of the pressure, the county government government offices also have to be informed.
This is still the second, if you let Lieutenant Han think that the work is not effective, how to compete with the rest of those who call brotherhood on the table, a turn will spare no effort to dig a pit to frame the robe colleagues, how to smooth the promotion of wealth and silver?
Seeing that in the reverse horse pass can walk horizontally military masters are hesitant up, Zhang Shun dog anxious to jump over the wall, pointing at the pair of creekside dog man and woman scolded: “Xu Qing, your man is just our jinzhou made a big joke of the stagecoach pawn, by the stagecoach threw off the back of the horse to trampled to death, said out all the face of the reverse horse pass masters! You still have the face to collect that pension, I’ll be damned! If I were an official in the county government, I wouldn’t even give you seven or eight cents, not to mention seven or eight taels! Now that your parents are in the ground, do you think no one will stop you from finding a wild man? I wonder if you killed the old men yourself? Women like you are worse than those whores in the kilns who sell their bodies to earn money for their strength and sweat, and should be paraded through the streets and immersed in pig cages on wooden donkeys!”
The boy went to tear at Zhang Shun like a demon, crying, “My father is a hero! Don’t you dare scold my mother!”
Zhang Shun was annoyed, and pushed the brat to the ground, scolding: “I don’t know whose seed you are! Still a hero, your father is a cuckolded bear! You can’t even control a horse, can you control your mother?”
Xiao Niang bit her lip, her mouth was full of blood, her eyes were hazy with tears, but she had the heart to say loudly to Righteous Pine, “Don’t cry!”
The aggrieved child froze, but really quieted down.
Wu long as a relief, since it is the territory of the state postman, and seems to even battlefield killed can not be called, is Zhou Ziru these people want to poke through the sky are not that capital. When the soldiers when to his position, who did not have a few heart eyes, Jinzhou inverted horse pass because of geographic location within the fall to the north of the cool edge, the northern barbarians ate the bear heart and leopard guts to dare to kill this big pocket, no war has been more than ten years, since there is no need to carry the head to go to fight with Mangzi life, then how to come to the beautiful future, can not wait for the world to fall pies, is not to do these not too honorable things to please Han Tao these big people’s heart? The captain remembered some years ago, his boss encountered the captain of the Han school window, was born in the clan of the tigress heard of the golden house, the boss went up without saying a word on the top cylinder, will be the little girl eight carries sedan chair married home, they do not dare to touch it, can only look at the bitch washed clean fragrance waiting for the captain of the Han school favor, but also had to go to the door personally to keep an eye out, in addition to the chief of the admiration is still admiring, it is not! When Captain Han got tired of playing with that woman, he went to the neighboring county to seek a good job for his boss, who occasionally returned home in fine clothes and could still have a good time with Captain Han.
This is the learning of being an official ah, how can the chief not be convinced?
Xu Fengyen’s eyes cold, said: “I am a scholar from Lingzhou, I have traveled to Jinzhou to the horse gate, if you want to rob people, I do not fight back, you can cross from my body, but afterward my family interrogated, two small from the sixth grade deputy lieutenant of the arch lieutenant of the gate, I’m confident that I can not handle it!”
Wu Chang and in the eyes of the people in the eyes of the tough and unrivaled cavalry, all coincidentally frowned, Wu Chang gently puzzled tone of oh a sound, staring viciously at this three times to make a pile of beautiful things to become unattractive son of a bitch, book tour? You fucking obviously wear a knife! But the head of the eye is not bad, vaguely see the man with the knife that the temperament, with the reverse horse off the number one son of Zhou Ziru, too much like, the general even if the face of the swollen fat intentionally throw a thousand dollars, but also can not pretend that this calm and calm, which makes him have a kind of throwing the hands of the bound feet. The cavalry captain rubbed his arm, his eyes finally no longer lingering on Xu Weiniang, looking at this young man who claimed to be the son of a scholarly family, his face somber.
The warhorse snorted, intermittently sounding impatient iron hooves stomping on the ground, the sound was not loud, in this quiet village stream, mixed with a few dogs barking and chickens chirping, but it was unusually alarming.
Zhang Shun’s whole heart is hanging, not up and down, difficult. Only to say that people that looks handsome to make him crazy knife youth will not steal the chicken will not be able to etch the rice, the wind and water turn, the young man shakes the floor out of the identity of the scholar, he should be worried about the inverted horse off the master of the army if the gas, take the silver will be retreated, he will only be able to steal chickens and dogs only dare to be evil townships, how to go to compete with a scholar jealousy, then it is the body of the matter of a few layers of skin off. Zhang Shun no longer dared to provoke that gentleman, carefully looked up at the chief of the army, did not dare to breathe.
Xu Fengyen turned his head and saw Xiao Niang stretching out two fingers pulling at his cuff, she shook her head vigorously, her eyes resolute.
Xu Fengyen hesitated for a moment, holding her cold little hand, pulling her back again, and then loosened his hand, just that no one had ever noticed unknowingly, his left hand slowly pressed on the Spring Thunder Blade on the left waist side.
Only Xiao Niang, about as sharp as a woman’s intuition, seemed to feel a subtle change of aura.
Like, in the village stone paved open space sunning wheat, whenever it is going to rain, she will have to rush with the villagers to collect up the wheat, God that moment, it will give a kind of suffocating dullness, if a few more thunder, it will be even more scary.
When Zhang Shun saw the horse on the back of the Wu Chang’s eyes flashed a touch of venom, he knew that today this thing is he gambled right, the poor that shit Lingshou scholar is a complete and utter loss of gambling, lost blood money, maybe even life will have to be taken in!
Behind the cavalry and the leader of the Wu Chang spend a lot of time with each other, put a fart smell know Wu Chang what he ate for dinner today, see the Wu Chang began to slowly draw the knife, behind the same today’s travel only wear a Beiliang sword cavalry is a hideous face.
More than ten Beiliang knives amazing movement in unison, slowly out of the sheath.
Zhang Shun and a few other green skins were so scared that even the leg in his pants went limp.
They were going to kill someone?
They are just the village hooligans who have neither been spared blood nor given blood, if they really want to see the killing scene with their own eyes at close range, it is estimated that they all have to pass out from fear.
At this moment, Xu Fengyen’s eyes cooled down.
There was an odd clear sound from the stream, but no one knew what kind of friction it was.
But at that moment, Xiao Niang felt a piercing coldness, she stared with those good-looking eyes, and realized that the scholarly male’s back clothing, as if it was a wave, rose up in a burst of tiny ripples, layered, advancing, and then spreading out, and then disappeared again.
Spring Thunder had been sheathed an inch.
But it was quickly pressed back into the sheath!
Xu Fengnian pressed the hilt of his sword, taking a deep breath.
Until one’s own body must die, one must not unsheath. The Buddhist sect has closed mouth Zen, once in five hundred years of sword Dao great talent Li Chun Gang after entering the heavenly phenomenon, had closed the scabbard for six years, a sword does not come out, before practicing that sword intent thick sword open the gate of heaven!
Xu Fengyen saw that the Wu Chang drew his sword and went to pull the reins, ready to charge.
Xu Fengyen stretched out his arm to stop the young lady who did not want to charge forward. He looked at the cavalry and said in a stereotypical and hard tone, ”You go back to the Inverted Horse Pass and tell Captain Huangfu Ping that there is a man wearing the Spring Thunder Sword here. I’ll give him a pillar of incense to come here.”
The ten or so warhorses that had only begun to run stopped instantly after Wu Chang tightened the reins.
Wu Chang wasn’t a fool, a young man who claimed to be a scholar from Lingzhou and dared to call out the name of Captain Guoyi, was he really just there to put on a dying act?
The future is certainly important, but life is still more important.
This world is not afraid of ten thousand, really afraid of that eventuality.
In case this young man really with Huangfu Ping general acquaintance, not to say acquaintance, just have so a nodding acquaintance, is enough to let them these can only be in the reverse horse off in a big pot to eat! In case this son of a sword is really a member of the Lingshou clan, who will take the blame when Captain Han shirks his responsibility? Lingshou is a bit far from Youzhou, but if a scholar clan can’t bring down Captain Han, who is a sixth-ranked officer, regardless of the consequences, how can he, the captain whose hands are stained with blood, do anything about it? However, the most crucial thing is that the young man in front of him is really worthy of these “what ifs”?
The chief gritted his teeth and weighed the pros and cons in his mind.
Xu Fengnian narrowed his danfeng eyes and said, “Two pillars of incense. It’s already been some time, by the time Huangfu Ping is furious, no one will be able to take the heat off of you.”
Wu Chang exhaled a mouthful of turbid air, stopped his horse and put away his sword, beckoning a cavalryman to go back to Captain Han’s side of the Inverted Horse Pass to report the situation here.
Of course he had to bring people to keep an eye on this place, and after two incense sticks, if he was sure that this kid was playing tricks, he would personally chop up this guy who had broken his face.
It’s chopping, not hacking.
Inverted horse pass.
Did not change into a comfortable satin clothes of the fruit Yi Lieutenant early up to stand in the city, in fact, since he went out of Liangzhou, in addition to sleep, there is not once in front of outsiders to dismantle the armor.
The world knows that he, Huangfu Ping, used dozens of his family’s lives to exchange for his current glory and wealth.
Only know that year proudly jianghu of a large green mountain villa, the last survived, only he and the mute son of two people, his brother even children four people together with the crime of treason was cut off the head.
But did not know that Huangfu Ping belly with tactics, once had for the king of the world’s affairs of the ambitions and aspirations.
Only know him this pig dog worse than the beast in front of the king of northern Liang prostrate, only begged to a fourth-grade general and three books of secrets, but do not know that the three books of secrets is his betrayal of the family deserved, but the fruit Yi Lieutenant, is a son of a smile inserted, as if casually thrown a bone, is considered to be alms to him this old dog.
A wagging tail of a dog from a powerful family is better than a scholar from a humble family who has read ten thousand books.
Huangfu Ping does not feel that there is anything wrong with this, he only thought in Youzhou to go for the North Liang Wang Fu in that pair of profound and unpredictable father and son to swear allegiance, and then hit his own a hundred generations of the foundation!
So he traveled almost the whole Youzhou, every county, every county, every mountain range that can be used as a strategic high point, every city and every pass, just short of walking through every village.
Huangfu Ping subconsciously touched the frosty sideburns, is already the age of confusion, can not be confused! No longer wake up from the dream, but with the brothers as muddle-headed, the Castle Peak Villa not only can not re-establish, but also the children and grandchildren to be cut off!
Inverted Horse Pass two of the biggest official rank, Zhou Xian, deputy lieutenant Zhou Ziru’s old man, as well as the arch lieutenant Han Tao are walking on thin ice standing behind the Goi Lieutenant, last night from the inn back, General Huangfu did not stay in the mansion arranged by Han Tao, but live in the post, according to the secret report Zhou Xian this old turtle visited overnight, which makes the Han Lieutenant alarmed that the general felt that he did not do the landlord’s hospitality, the officialdom or the military also, the most afraid of the post, the military also, the most fear of the landlord, the military also. Military also strike, most afraid of hindsight, Han Tao can not care about the bed on the woman’s fat round, sitting alone in front of the lamp to think to think to go, inadvertently turned back to see the original intention of the two flying swallows of the two slutty bitches there to throw winks, a clap of the thighs, the fire to go to the heart to find the two water spirit bitch, always have to serve the Huangfu generals to the comfort of the line, the Han school captains a night on the busy this, the previous two, one was returned, one was privatized, and the other was not known, the other was not known. One was returned and the other was swallowed. I don’t know if the subordinates will be able to iron out this matter before General Huangfu leaves the Horse Pass.
Moths? As long as the Zhou family’s father and son don’t take action, there will be no evil spirits in the Fallen Horse Pass!
Seeing a familiar cavalryman dismounted at the city gate, rolling and crawling up to the city, Han Tao smiled, he smiled, beside the tit-for-tat for many years Zhou Xian also followed the light smile, but the skin smiles not smile, so that Han Tao would like to smack two big mouth.
There is no official rank of ordinary cavalry was stopped from afar, Han Tao dared not in front of the Goi Lieutenant, pacing over, see the cavalry face with the general ugly shit and urine, only to realize that things have a bad beginning, so that he came to the corner of the city building, do not wait for the arch lieutenant to send word, the cavalry will be bamboo tube pour beans out of a brain, it is not too complex doorway, Han Tao immersed in the field of government for many years, all of a sudden, sorted out thoroughly, the face changed a few times to lift the feet, and the face of the police, and then the police, and then the police. The face changed a few times, raised his foot to kick the death of this tipped off to the bad news of the little brat, but only raised his leg, then put it down violently, and hurriedly turned toward the Huangfu general, this twenty steps away, walking days like years.
Heavy hearted Goi Lieutenant Huangfu Ping although the mind is not in this inverted horse off the hook, but the corner of the eye to see Han Tao want to speak and then stop the stifled face, smiled and asked: “Han Tao, there are words straight to it.”
Hearing a direct name instead of a polite but rusty official position, Lieutenant Han sighed in relief, bent down and trotted a few steps closer, whispering, “My Guan Pass cavalry cruised a village within the jurisdiction, and met a Lingshou scholar who claimed to be a scholar who traveled to the city with a book, and said he knew the general.”
“Hmm?”
Huangfu Ping’s face was calm, just staring at Han Tao.
Feeling immense pressure, Lieutenant Han hurriedly said, “That scholar seemed to be wearing a Spring Thunder Blade.”
Huangfu Ping gave an unenthusiastic cry, and no one saw him instantly clench his fists, the veins on the backs of his hands rippling.
This most highly regarded Go Yi Captain in the Northern Liang Army at the moment flatly said, “Prepare a horse for this general, you let that cavalryman lead the way, you guys don’t have to follow.”
Lieutenant Han sweated like rain, the skin of his mouth green and trembling as he risked his life and whispered, “That scholar also said that he would only give the general two columns of incense.”
Captain Goi turned his head and smiled.
Lieutenant Han, who was also counted as having beheaded more than ten heads on the battlefield, was probably accustomed to living in peace and quiet, and was so frightened by General Huangfu’s glance that he staggered back, leaned against the city wall, and said with a wailing face, “General needn’t worry, it won’t take a pillar of incense to get from the Inverted Horse Pass to that village.”
The two horsemen galloped furiously.
The cavalryman was already scared out of his wits, and he only hated that the warhorse under his butt wasn’t eight hooves.
By the stream.
Xu Fengnian turned to Xiao Niang and softly said, “You take Right Pine home, I will look for you guys later, don’t worry, it’s already fine, I have some friendship with a general of the Inverted Horse Pass, at most I will spend some silver to make sure you don’t have to go to the general’s mansion. If you don’t trust me, pack up, first take right pine to leave the inverted horse pass, but in the countryside remember to pay attention to this side of the news, by then you will naturally understand.”
The skeptical Xiao Niang was only about to move her steps when she saw two horsemen coming, a majestic and terrifying general halted his horse on the high slope, the rest of the cavalry masters, for some reason, only heard the sentence “quickly go back to Captain Han’s side to receive orders”, and then turned their horses and retreated in a sickly manner.
Xu Fenian and Xiao Niang walked back together, she looked back with her child in her arms, and when she saw Xu Fenian waving his hand with a smile, she held her son’s hand and trotted towards the village.
Only two people were left by the stream.
Goi Lieutenant Huangfu Ping tumbled down from his horse and threw himself on the ground like when he first entered the Beiliang King’s residence, not saying a word, his five fingers stabbed into the ground, hating to plunge his entire body deep into the earth to appear humble enough.
Xu Fengyen slowly approached in front of this Guoyi Lieutenant who was already the first line of powerful generals in Youzhou, and calmly said: ”Originally, if you were to piss your pants as soon as you saw this Shizi and kowtow and kneel down to me in front of those guys or something, this Shizi would cut off your head without saying a word. Anyway, it doesn’t matter who’s wearing this Goi Lieutenant armor.”
Huangfu Ping didn’t say a word, his robust and magnificent body just sticking to the ground in death.
“When a small official to honor when a big official, robbing a woman to warm the nest in the night, this is nothing, Liyang Dynasty Beimang Dynasty which place does not dare this kind of shabby thing.”
“When a small official and then let the hands to do things, raising a large crowd of people hurt people and money, this is nothing, when the official does not figure in the hands of the right Well, can be understood.”
“See the posture of a good woman, although it is a stagecoach widow, but robbed, after the incident to give some silver compensation, the woman is dead or alive, the officials naturally have nothing to do with it, only blame her life is not good, her man’s ability is not good, this is still nothing, under the sky than this is also a messy thing, this son has seen a lot.”
Speaking here, His Highness Xu Fengnian smiled.
Captain Guoyi’s mind was blank.
He only vaguely remembered that night when the Beiliang King’s residence had an audience with him, a jianghu bereaved dog, His Highness the son sat in the main chair, and the Beiliang King who was the ultimate martial artist under the sky even smiled and accompanied him to sit in the side seat.
Xu Fengyen looked toward the stream and sneered, “But in Beiliang, there is clearly an iron law, the first day of entering the Beiliang army should be shouted eight times ten times, but also dared to draw out the Beiliang sword, to cut the heads of the common people, this is going to be a good calculation, in the end, what is counted!”
Xu Fengyen fiercely said angrily: “Beiliang sword, at first is the common people smash pots and sell iron before forging out, the blade is naturally sharp, but what is the sharpest in what place, Xu Snapdragon once personally told me this unseasonable son many times, many times, so much that I am going to have callus on my fucking head!”
Huangfu Ping’s lips were already pressed against the ground, and the heavy scent of mud and grass hit his face as he said, “Huangfu Ping’s death penalty.”
Xu Fengnian suppressed the emotions in his heart to death, and the sheath of his Spring Thunder Blade trembled more than once.
For a long time, His Highness the Prince smiled to himself and said softly, “I am already the hereditary and reckless His Highness the Prince of Northern Liang, my old man dared to follow and snatch King Jing’an Zhao Heng’s woman, dared to go to the head of the city of Wudi to sit for a while, and dared to cut the flesh of His Highness the Prince of Guangling, and still dared not to forget this sentence, where did these people get their guts from? From Xu Snapdragon? From Chen Zhi Bao? Or was it given by some marvelous big shot?”
Xu Fengnian squinted at Captain Guoyi, after he calmed down, he laughed: “Get up, today’s matter can’t be blamed on you, you’re on horseback and in armor these days patrolling Youzhou, mixed reputation, this son doesn’t care whether you’re just making a show or you genuinely want to do something, as long as you don’t let this son come across this kind of thing again on the line, anyway, Captain Guoyi has already given it to you, how do you want to flap around in Youzhou? How do you like to turn over, this son has always been a playboy temperament, only look at the results, gave you time, by the time you still can not let this son satisfied, fruit Yi Lieutenant residence, that in fact is your brother’s son of the little guy, can be really your Huangfu family of a plant only seedling.”
Originally already half standing straight waist Huangfu Ping immediately re kneel down.
His Highness the World Prince narrowed his eyes and laughed, “Your Huangfu family, all of you are ruthless, but you are the most ruthless, even your own son was able to allow himself to be killed, and for fear that that nephew you were so determined to cultivate into a heavy weapon would leak the information, you burned his throat.”
Huangfu Ping burst into tears.
“You go back to the reverse horse pass, today this thing is not to cut a few heads even if finished, in the end how to do, you this fruit Yi lieutenant, do. This Shizi, look. Of course, if you even a few official hats do not dare to take off, a few lives do not dare to accept, even if this Shizi go out of sight.”
Huangfu Ping said in a deep voice, “Huangfu Ping knows, please don’t worry, Your Highness the World Prince!”
His Highness the son walked towards the village, and seemed to say to himself, “That child from the Goi Lieutenant’s residence is now called Huangfu Qingping, and there’s also a child whose real name is Huangfu Qingping, who was a book boy at Wutong Court some time ago, unlike his tiger-poisoned father, he’s simple in nature, and is quite industrious, which this son likes very much.”
Huangfu ping heavy kowtow, so a through honor and disgrace ruthless lord, in this moment from the bottom of his heart sobbed uncontrollably said: “Huangfu ping from today, willing to die for His Highness the son of the world!”