Chapter 071: Wanting to Return with Wine
Xu Fengyen figured out a reason, the so-called pulling out the sword and looking around in a daze, in addition to worrying about the country and the people, there is also a possibility that he got lost. Because of the modification of the established route, can only follow the general direction as a headless fly general scurrying, fortunately on the road met a team of readers who are being cut by horse thieves, sort of not draw the sword to help each other once, and then folded together to the border of the Dragon Waist State and the Orange State. The reason why the hand, is to see the identity of these people’s spring and autumn relics, and the horse thieves are no stranger, two of them is the last time to rob people back to the female head of the pressure of the village to warm the bed. This group of mixed age scholars should be not bad family, I do not know is the family hired guards head or Linshi hired five or six strong martial arts, on the three dozen or so come and go as the wind of the horse thieves can not be said to have no power to fight back, a few swordsmen also performance is quite colorful, the sword is fancy to fancy, to scare horse thieves is more than enough, a few dress up male young women look at the light, on the contrary, it is the most out of the hammer! On the contrary, it was Xu Fengyen who made the most effort and made the final decision, which made them lack interest.
This is probably because he wore a mediocre appearance rooted in the skin of the sake of the world of love, the world of love most of the literary creations speak of love at first sight, but in the end, the protagonist of the novels of the talented son, how can the man is not a jade tree or full of books thick choking the nose good? How can a woman not be like a fish and geese, and the moon and flowers?
Xu Fengyen did not talk about any loss, but rather with a few old Confucians in the team to talk, and realized that a line of people are a few Gusei State with the same breath of the sons of the family, the sages taught to read thousands of books but also travel thousands of miles, there are several people in the team at the same time and the crown, coincidentally, one of the old scholars and the Orange State big families have a marriage, but also want to see the scenery of the border, so they traveled, the young people take advantage of the young to go to the study tour, the older ones take advantage of one foot still in their prime, the younger ones to go to the study tour, the older ones take advantage of one foot still in their prime. Elderly while a foot is still outside the coffin to hurry up the tour, as for the three women, are adored and the crown scholar, although it is also the descendants of the remnants of the northern escape, infected with the North Mang wind, the courage to come to a good elopement, Xu Fengyen a little pondering, but also know that they are in the family more than half than several young talent to be a half a chip, hope to be able to take the opportunity to make a meal out of it on the way to the tour, climbed on a high branch, which is why They turned a blind eye.
Xu Fengyen and Tiannan gap set of gossip, also got the corroboration, North Mang divided into four classes of people, the Spring and Autumn relics are in the second class, and then North Mang empress net nine streams of Qing dynasty track, row of surnames fixed product, in addition to the dynastic field knowingly pave the way for Murong’s outside, but also is not useless, the South Dynasty in addition to the towering A word of the “high China” three surnames, the next A line of the so-called high family most of the C D two words mostly, and Xu Fengnian close relationship with the old Confucian, because his brother once served as the Ministry of Justice in the South Dynasty, to be among the D family, and the team headed the family, although the scholar fled the North is only the third rate of the Central Plains, but rooted in the North Mang, is about the soil and water is suitable for the family has two people ranked in the South Dynasty Nine Secretary of the high position, a leap to become a big C family, three families do not in the The three women whose families are not in the list of C and D, there are two objects of admiration are the dashing gentleman surnamed Luo.
On the way, they learned that the young man surnamed Xu Qi is only a concubine son of a family name outside the flow of Gusei State, and even give a smile to the surface of the effort are not happy to do, as if they are afraid to speak a word with this person, they will be treated as a frivolous and shallow woman by Mr. Locke, who has a sexually oriented woman.
There is still a day away from the border city of Orange State, twilight line of twenty people began to set up camp to rest, Xu Fengyen handy to help a few old Confucians set up sheepskin tents, in the snobbish view of the people more and more no interest in making friends, only those who almost lost their lives in the hands of horse thieves escorts, occasionally and this force is good is said to be a half-shi half-merchant descendants of the conversation a few words. North Mang south-central part of the north is easy to fertilize grass, close to the Jinxi State of the Liyang Dynasty and the rolling mountain ranges, but they do not dare to cross the border range is too large, encountered in the North Dynasty of the powerful, whether it is the prairie Sydney Tighe, or military generals, not to mention touch a nose, whether they can live to return to Gusai State is a matter of two words. Rough camping, began to light a campfire to roast meat, by the way, warm wine and tea, yesterday a skilled archery escort shot a single wild horse and a few swans, not yet eaten, Xu Fengyen dipped into the light of a few old Confucian scholars, only tasted a few bites of roasted half-cooked horsemeat, sitting in front of the campfire, young scholars talk about, as if an exhalation of a breath is the country’s economy and people an inhalation of a beautiful mountain and river, the old scholars are Remembering some of their youthful years in the Central Plains, somehow the topic focused on the military strength of the two dynasties, and then deduced to the bow arm strength, the old man surnamed Luo of the Ding family saw Xu Fengnian seem to be listening to the attention, then smiled and explained: “This bow strength, the so-called bow strength, is to use the method of draping a heavy weight, hanging a bow upside down, pulling it to fullness until a few kilograms of the heavy weight, the bow will have a few kilograms! The so-called bow strength is the method of hanging a heavy object upside down until it is drawn to its full capacity, how many pounds of weight, the bow will have a few pounds, there is also a relatively rare rod and scale hooks, the latter is a bit more accurate, generally used in the barracks, the old man that pulls the bow to shoot down the swan’s retinue, there are close to two stone’s arm, a hundred paces to penetrate the poplar dare not say, about eighty paces, penetrate the leather armor, one or two can be used with a good Tsuge in winter under the flow of fluids, buffalo horns and elk tendon are also a beautiful material to make bows, but unfortunately, the fish glue and the winding silk is a bit worse, or else that bow on his back can be sold for three hundred silver taels. sell for at least three hundred taels of silver.”
Xu Fengnian laughed, “Mr. Luo, in that case, that good bow can at least pull out 300 jin of bow power, right?”
The old Confucian surnamed Luo stroked his beard and laughed, “Not bad, but three hundred pounds of bow power, in any case, it would take a valiant warrior on the battlefield to pull it out. If he could pull it, he wouldn’t be an escort for the old man. Xu Qi, can you guess that this man was a Breaking Crossbowman in the Northern Liang Army in his youth?”
Xu Fengnian glanced at the silent bow-wiping man and shook his head, “Can’t really guess.”
Perhaps it was because the handsome men and women in the next campfire heard the three words of Northern Liang Army, the talk was soaring, so they lined up the martial arts generals in the Northern Liang Army, some said that Chen Zhi Bao’s gun skills were invincible, some said that Yuan Zuo Zong was the real number one in the battlefield, and some even said that that human butcher should have a first grade realm, otherwise how would he live to get the Northern Liang King’s Vassal Python Robe at the age of ten in the military, and the debate on this went on and on, with most of the handsome men and women being more biased in favor of Xu Snapdragon’s city Deep, has been on the battlefield to hide the strength, can not be two or three grade Wu Fu realm, two grade small master realm, is indeed very colorful, but in an almost to be a great general of the high and mighty will inevitably be a little out of hand. Seeing Xu Fenian’s silence, the old Confucian asked with a smile, “Xu Qi, what do you think?”
Xu Fengnian wiped the corners of his mouth with roasted meat grease stains, “I think Xu Snap lasted for the second rank, that is, he was lucky to walk off the battlefield alive. I heard that after becoming a general, every time the Daxue Battalion that followed him in charging had the highest number of losses out of all the Northern Liang Army.”
A young male with sharp ears who held Xu Ren Tu in high esteem, made a gesture to throw a branch to the bonfire, but it smashed into Xu Feng Nian’s feet, sneering, “Small fish and shrimp in a small mud pond, don’t believe what you know if you don’t know!”
Xu Fengnian smiled and nodded, saying a good word.
The old Confucian scholar surnamed Luo hurriedly warmed up the scene and laughed, “Everyone expresses their own opinion, we are all thousands of miles away from home at this moment, there is no one word.”
The young son of a thousand gold on the dingzhi family out of the elders, obviously respect a lot, a few originally wanted to take the opportunity to make trouble of the junyan also will be the words along with barbecue meat swallowed back into the stomach, migrated to the northern Mang of the second generation of children of the spring and autumn relics, although not as bad as the Central Plains that spurned will be the family species, in the northern Mang fence, but also do not dare to despise the martial arts, can be after all the origin of the family schooling, many of the habits of the same lineage, such as the Locke family son of the book and sword Lang’s reputation, but still the fragrance of books in the reputation, but still in the front of the book, the sword in the back, especially this called Xu Qi, just Gusei state of the end of the stream of the scholarly family origin, naturally, certainly is to learn the text can not, only to retreat to learn martial arts, so as to attach to the border army to save the merit, high not low low broken thing, even dare to talk about the state of affairs of the military government.
The elegant Luo family son with a branch pointed to a gentle woman, laughed: “Miss Su, you do not have a most admired that the Northern Liang Shi Zi Zi’s younger brother?”
The woman who was playing with a jade pendant softly said, “The same raccoon, they are all foppish kids who know how to bully the people by leading evil servants like dogs. However, the Northern Liang Shi Zi’s family history is a little better, the bones are all the way goods, he wants to stand in front of me, but will not look at a glance.”
Three women’s surface relationship, in fact, interesting tight, surnamed Su’s this is just a simple-minded want to travel thousands of miles, unintentional willows into a shade, so that Luo Shizi some of the heart, the remaining two women have planted flowers and flowers can not be, no matter how to scratch their heads to throw winks, Luo Gongzi just mouth to tease a few sentences, and do not give them the pill, the two girls exasperated to no avail, if there is a surnamed Su’s presence, they will be the same enemy, if the If the foreign enemy is not present, they will fight within the nest and wear each other’s shoes. One of them heard the surname Su so pretentious, can not help but laugh: “Su sister really fake ah, to the North Liang Shi Zi His Highness can not fake color? Don’t really come in front of you, blush so much that you can’t even speak, sister I have heard, His Highness is very handsome, although his style is a bit of a prodigal, when it comes to love affairs, he claims to be the second, no one dares to claim to be the first.”
The woman surnamed Su smiled wanly, did not refute.
Another charming gas heavy than elegant melon face woman is more eerie, “Su sister is not like to appreciate ancient paintings, not to mention, who do not know under the sky was harmonic stamped with the word ‘forgery’ of the famous paintings, are a thousand authentic authentic? How many collectors are regarded as suspenseful paintings, and therefore the right name?”
The woman surnamed Su smiled and said, “This point, the Northern Liang Shizi is indeed a credit to him. There is no such thing as gold, doesn’t Duke Luo also say that he is not good at the guqin? But there are five fingers on a hand, and there is also a long one, speaking of His Highness, the Northern Liang Shi Zi.”
The two women were choked by her dripping statement, looked at each other in dismay, and failed to find a handle to pinpoint, and indignantly kept quiet.
Xu Fengyen looked at the fire that was getting bigger and smiled lightly.
Being mean and sarcastic in front of people, it felt good. If it was in Northern Liang, one would not have this fortune.
Xu Fengnian couldn’t help but think of Li Yishan who never admitted to being his master, and he also missed the chicken feather duster that he used to beat on his hand when he was young. This duster is still placed on the top floor of Hearing Tide Pavilion.
Many truths were beaten out this way. For some reason, the childhood and teenage years of ignorance, being gently scolded by Xu Snapdragon for a few sentences, he felt aggrieved and ran to the mausoleum to gamble, but instead, he was hammered by Li Yishan, and he never held a grudge.
This trip back to Beiliang, how to carry a few jugs of good wine to him.