Chapter 039 – The next dish of wine

It is not easy to have a time in the eyes of the world’s ancient ways of the heart, not long Xu Fenian can not wait to give himself two big mouth, is really a big man with a child is too unlike back to things, with a drag on the side, she is hungry also do not speak, is blinking a pair of eyes, pitifully looking at Xu Fenian, ride the horse to the small buttock petal sitting pain, she also do not cry and not make a fuss, but also still turned his head to look at Xu Fenian, wet eyes, if we are together to lead the horse, according to the rules she will have to carry no place to spend a couple of silver heavy money bag, red and swollen hands, off the hands fell to the ground, but also just silently to the ground. If it is together with the horse, according to the rules she had to carry no place to spend a couple of silver heavy money bag, small hands red and swollen, off the hand fell to the ground, but also just silently lifted, can not lift, carried on the tender shoulders, people fell down, but also not aggrieved and shouted pain, is to stand up and continue to carry the walk to walk and fall, this day under the sky, a small one to go how many kilometers? And then if Xu Fengyen single person, and inferior horses in the night is also in the open wilderness to deal with over, with Tao Manwu, Xu Fengyen also have to take two pieces of clothing out, a set of pads for her, a set of cover, the key is that this child sleeps restlessly, always kicking, if it is not Xu Fengyen will be feeding the flying sword every hour, maybe this girl only a night to freeze half dead, a few days later, Xu Fengyen really can not stay up! After a few days, Xu Fengnian really can’t stand this stubborn little girl, sleep at night had to let her nestle in his arms, against the great devil Xie Ling have never been so suffocating.

So when His Highness finally saw the Flying Fox City in the inner belly of the Dragon Waist State, the Hanging Sword Pavilion that stood on top of the city, he felt relieved.

To know that His Highness the son when he was a teenager, but the most favorite in the snowy days carrying his younger brother’s feet to throw the guy, or else with his big sister to play with the upside down onion trick, yellow barbarians obviously like it even more, every time his brother from the snow plucked out, is always naive smile bright, siblings three happy, only the second sister Xu Weixiong stood all alone in the distance, cold-eyed observer, she is precocious and early, about is not bother to play this kind of childish game! She is precocious and early wisdom, she probably does not care to play this kind of childish games, but occasionally will play a snowball fight, the premise is to fight with Xu Fenian Xu Zhihu and Xu Longxiang, Xu Zhihu is relatively weak, Huang Banye was instructed by her brother not to use force, so every time it is a big defeat and return, this time Xu Weixiong satisfied, only to lift up the pointy chin, clapping his hands and cold face, but curled up the corners of the mouth said to go to see the book of war to go. When she left, Xu Fengyen and Xu Zhihu will look at each other a smile, in the unspoken, and get beaten than beat up more happy yellow barbarians do not understand what, follow the big sister brother together giggle is.

Since bypassing the left behind the city this way traveling, especially after piggybacking on Tao Manwu, Xu Fengyen often out of focus daze, perhaps squatting on the side of the broader official road, may be looking at a newly built stagecoach station, or is standing high up to look out over the plains of the wilderness, and even found an introduction of the Jiangnan irrigation tools of the nameless lakes have to stop. Tao Manwu after all is only six or seven years old naive child, not because of the death of parents and cry to death is not easy, but she can easily see through the hearts of the people, to see all the hidden under the obscurity of the hidden real joy and sorrow, she knows who has a heart of mischief, and who is cooler and warmer in the heart. Spending time with this bad guy who put on a new skin, and only when she arrived outside Flying Fox City did she see him reveal his joyful heart for the first time, and she couldn’t help but warm up as well.

Near the city gates, Xu Fengyen rolled over and dismounted, Tao Manwu from the back of the horse, one hand holding the inferior horse, one hand holding the child, towards the city gates, the child’s small hands red and swollen like steamed buns, blisters were carefully pierced by him, nine times out of ten, will give birth to new calluses, and then later on is the callus, Xu Fengyen will no longer make things difficult for the child of this rough life, hanging the traveling bag on the back of the horse, see a team of horses roar out of the city, Xu Fengyen pulled his horse sideways, stood aside! Xu Fengnian, the leader of the young man cloaked shoulders, wearing an expensive sable fur, face cold, behind the six-horse family soldiers are wearing light armor wearing mang sword, carrying a well-made crossbow, hanging on the back of the horse with a bag of arrows, arrows save frowning, Xu Fengyen saw that the arrow feathers slightly worn but not to affect the accuracy, neither the luxury generation, but also by no means fancy furnishings, the North Mang generals son of the family will also be high on a glance, was on the generals of the people of the city gate guards all kinds of difficulties Immediately groveling, bending down with a smile to see off, there is not the slightest hint of mockery and jealousy in the smile, only reverence.

The poisonous eyes of the city gate guards to check the road guide to leave the countryside to testify, see Xu Fengyen’s inferior horse is not worth mentioning, but also lost the interest of wild geese over the pulling of hair, greatly generous release, through the dimly lit Qingliang city gate hole, Xu Fengyen subconsciously looked up and laughed, don’t know whether the girl is alive or dead, how could she be like a gecko sticking on the roof of the hole, to give a blow to himself? This kind of cold surprise, back then Xu Fengyen actually chagrined, there is a kind of morbid expectation and gratitude, that time there Li Chun Gang this immortal Buddha evening, in general, there is no opportunity for His Highness the son to take a shot, the only one is the girl huh, always regard the world’s top ten masters and the land gods as nothing, want to kill whoever is attached to the bone gangrene like a staring tip, is tantamount to a spur to Xu Fengyen, except that he still did not think about it since she in the The reeds killed without any water, why in the end she still carried the plague of qi luck for herself?

Passing through the city cave, Xu Fengyen’s stomach was full of self-deprecation, was it because he was too heartless and uncaring that he did not understand the exquisite minds of those colorful women? Just like the sweet potato in Wutong Yuan, is to practice the knife after the realization of her identity as a dead soldier, originally thought that she was just a tail of rich koi in the tide of the lake, do not feed to be reduced and thin, continue not to feed to starve to death, the fact is that she did not know how many calamities to block for themselves in the dark, I do not know how many hands stained as red as the rouge of the blood. Perhaps their own pillow in her lap the moment before she killed a few sneak into the king’s house of moths, twisting the wick of the general twisted them to death.

Picked a Flying Fox City northeast corner of the downtown inn, more than spring and autumn remnants of the settlement, the north and south of the North Mang dynasty division, clear-cut, the north royal tent south dynasty officials, just on the stage of the most conspicuous example, in the dynasty’s vast territory, more than the readers of the temple of the miracle of the career, after the initial inevitable turbulence, there have been countless piles of North Mang aristocrats trespassed on killing the foreigners of the bloodshed of the tragedy, and even at every turn is tens of hundreds of beheadings. Is dozens of hundreds of beheadings, but with the North Mang female emperor’s rule of law to every corner of the empire, during the death of more than ten Yelu and Murong dual-race children, chastisement and punishment to cut the title of many high-powered royal court ministers, to rule the north with an iron fist, as always, to the old cow licking calf like rare tenderness to soothe the southern dynasty, only to create today’s situation of peace and stability, the second generation of the children of spring and autumn relics, are starting to take for granted to the North Mang people! The children of the second generation of Spring and Autumn relics all began to rightfully regard themselves as the children of Northern Mang, and were grateful to His Majesty, the wise and mighty Emperor.

The Empress Murong once spent two years on a royal tour of every inch of land under her skirt, and everywhere she went, especially in those majestic cities and towns, there were countless people kneeling densely in the dark.

The late emperor of Liyang unified the Spring and Autumn, after the new emperor ascended the throne, has ever been to the old eight countries? Has he ever come to Northern Liang?

Xu Fengnian in the room to put the luggage, important things are on the body, do not care whether it will be stolen, but the little girl guarded in the bag full of silver next to, refused to go to eat, probably all the way to hard to carry to hold back, tossed out of the feelings, if it disappeared, she is probably going to be sad to death.

Xu Fengnian cried and laughed: “Fool, if it is stolen, you will not be easy? Go, eat and go, your little tummy rumbled for half a day, it’s not a song, I don’t like to listen to it.”

Little girl Tao Manwu face if stolen I’m not responsible for oh serious expression, Xu Fengyen laughed and joked: “Put a hundred hearts, really stolen, no matter what you do. But I will take the silver ticket to change the same weight of broken silver, continue to let you carry.”

After the little ninny who had never done things with any sense of propriety confirmed that this not too bad bad guy wasn’t joking, she watered her eyes.

If Xu Fengyen was softened by this, he also underestimated His Highness the Shizi’s coolness and heartlessness, and said two words, “Eat!”

Tao Manwu followed him, timidly threatening, “I’m not going to sing you a ballad.”

Xu Fenian didn’t look back, saying, “Fine, I was going to mercifully give you a bowl of rice, but now I’m deducting half a bowl, and you’re not allowed to eat vegetables.”

Tao Manwu immediately said, “Then I won’t sing to you again tomorrow.”

Xu Fengnian had a warm smile on his lips and gentle eyes, but did not make a sound.

Little Nizi instantly jumped up quietly, because she knew he was smiling even if she couldn’t see his face.

Seated, Xu Fengyen asked for a meat and three vegetarian two bowls of rice, the little girl Tao Manwu tutelage extremely good, food does not speak bed, small age, very ladylike, but unfortunately not a beauty embryo, after growing up is estimated to hold up is also in the posture of the people, probably more like the father Tao Qianzhi’s sake, did not inherit the face of her mother’s embryo, the woman, even if it is polite and virtuous, praised for a sentence of the god Hua Neixiu, after all, it is also A kind of helplessness after the absence of the sunken fish and geese. The only meat dish on the table is a snakehead, the practice is simple, wash off the mud after disembowelment, with pepper and three or four grains of garlic into the belly of the fish, and soybeans to cook, and then a few finger-sized carrots under the near-cooked, sprinkled with scallions can be served on the table, there is a soup in the vegetarian dishes, with five kinds of twigs boiled into the medicinal broth, Xu Fengyen only recognized the mulberry, acacia, willow and peach branches of the four kinds of meat and vegetables to nourish the stomach as long as the 40 Wen, called a good value for money! If you know that a thousand wen is only one or two pieces of silver, this table is the average city family occasionally want to go to a restaurant to add some fuel, but also certainly can afford to eat.

This has seen the counter row of bamboo sticks on the price of all the dishes Xu Fengyen into deep thought, the people’s hearts to four words, the Confucian celebrities of all dynasties are in the painstakingly persuade the emperor to listen to, only a few people are happy to lower their status in the meal on a catty, estimated that the emperors are also not happy to listen to the important ministers and pillars of as vegetable vendors with the old farmer to discuss this from the Golden Palace Imperial Study Hall out of the world is not a joke by the scholar! Death? Xu Fengyen glanced at Tao Manwu who was eating with his head down, she wanted to clip a chopstick of fragrant snakehead fish, after seeing the bad man’s line of sight in front of her, she silently retracted her chopsticks, Xu Fengyen gave her a piece of tender fish, and said flatly, “Move your own chopsticks in the future.”

Not forgetting to remind a sentence, “Be careful of the fish thorns, I won’t be happy to spend money on vinegar if you get stabbed.”

The little ninny looked up and smiled.

Xu Fenian laughed, “Peach, have some backbone, okay, being bought off by a chopstick of fish?”

In public, he made an appointment with her to call out her newly acquired nickname, Peach. At first the little girl resisted with silence, then Xu Fengyen hard-heartedly did not ride on foot, let her carry half a day’s money bag, she again agreed with Xu Fengyen nodding his head in acquiescence after shouting Peachy one more time, only then did Xu Fengyen carry her on the horse and move forward, her shoulder was hot and painful little girl biting her lip and sobbing for a long time.

Xu Fengyen eat faster, left calculated leftovers to Tao Manwu, and then patiently waited for chewing and slow swallowing her little by little to fill her stomach, leaning against the window bar, looking downtown, counting grain stores cloth stores pawn stores, until the little girl a little bit of not left over to eat clean meals, said the sound of a good, Xu Fengyen came back to life, did not get up in a hurry, and the fellows to ask for a pot of tea, which makes sitting behind the counter of the innkeeper eyebrows open, a pot of tea pouring Not too much money, but look at this gentleman’s posture, clearly will be in the inn smashed down a lot of silver money, this is called a long flow of thin water, do small business, the luxury of overnight wealth does not come, relying on these small strokes of fortune, fellows familiar with the boss’s calculations, the heart will understand, tea handing out the water with a smile and warmth.

Xu Fengyen drank tea, gently said: “Knock gold beam.”

Tao Manwu then obediently shut up and knocked his teeth thirty-six.

“Knock on the heavenly drum.”

The little girl gently lifted her hand and knocked her temples one eighteen.

“Bathe your face.”

Sitting upright little girl eyes slightly closed, palms palms rubbed hot, five fingers together, hand little finger glued to the side of the nose, palm fingers upward push, through the eyebrows between the Hall of Indies, moved up to the forehead hair, and then rubbed to the sides to the temples, slowly downward rubbed through the cheeks, to the cheeks. This was repeated, totaling six times.

Xu Fengyen drank a cup of tea, Tao Manwu also moderately finished three things in a decent manner.

Xu Fengyen two minds are very skillful, otherwise would never dare to play double sword in front of the white fox child face, wait until the little girl finished this set of Taoist introductory body nourishing techniques, continue to look at the downtown scene while contemplating matters of the heart.

In the Northern Liang Wang Fu, no matter hidden in the North Mang’s dead between the live between how many bloody news, can only see the cold numbers and words, how many North Mang control string iron horsemen, the distribution of the city how, how the state of the war horse incremental, and in front of these the most subtle side details, the peerless scholar Li Yishan said that it is best to the son of His Highness to personally walk on a round, this draws the ground for himself for two decades of the Northern Liang Chief Strategist knee childless, though Although the mouth does not say, but indeed is the world son of his highness as the same as his own flesh and blood, but he still agree with the world son of his highness self exile North Mang, elegant as Li Yishan, also gritted his teeth and exported dirty, said a go to his mother’s gentleman does not stand on the dangerous wall, the north of the north of Liang in the future need to be a fart of a gentleman north of the king of Liang! It can be seen that his wariness of North Mang, serious to what extent. Xu Fengnian still clearly remember when he handed over the hand-drawn geographical map, never recognized as his master Li Yishan silence, has been terminally ill a few years of life before he said roll to carry two jugs of wine, today, to drink with the line of 3,000 miles of rivers and mountains scenery.

This is a man who once worked with Zhao Changling to make half of the rivers and mountains as a dish of wine ah.