Chapter 138 – A Lantern Butterfly
Song Yujing was a top-ranked flycatcher, and although he was not very old, only twenty-five, he had already been hibernating in the big net woven by Li Mibi for twelve years without fail, which was why he was able to keep an eye on Xu Beihao, who was at the top of the Zhu Sprite’s list.
North Mang has a vast territory, and there are only a few hundred fly catchers and butterfly catchers, so if everyone has to keep an eye on each other, it would be too much of a stretch, which is enough to see the importance of Xu BeiHao in the eyes of Shadow Chancellor LiMiPi, and SongYuJing has been keeping an eye on this son of the Xu family for six years, and I’m afraid that he’s the one who’s most familiar with Xu BeiHao’s living habit in the world. Xu Beihao and after the crown often go out to play in the mountains, this time with the boy Wang Mengxi two riders traveling, Song Yujing at first did not feel how unusual, but when Zhu sprites inside code six of the weak water cottage spread that shocking news, Song Yujing can be said to be like a thunderbolt, the king of the north court Xu Huainan cut off the head, the head of the human body!
The whereabouts of the head of the former North Mang’s most powerful official is still unknown!
Xu Huainan and the same dynasty for many years as the master Li Mibi has personally rushed to the source of the weak water, in the cottage to live, Song Yujing as the control of the secrets of the North Mang dynasty of the core people, very clear Li Mibi and this by the day gradually to the thinning of the North Court of the King of the relationship is not bad, can be described as a gentleman’s friendship, so these years in the name of the seemingly close monitoring of the cottage, but also only sent Zhu sprites the top killers of the Willow, but not the other! The role of the elite to find traces, a cut willow is good at killing, naturally also good at killing peers, in fact, is to protect Xu Huainan not to be the royal account of the relatives of the well, the iron cavalry brigade also by Xu Huainan’s old generals command, can be said that Xu Huainan after the day after his resignation is still comfortable to write, there is a Li Mibi personal gatekeepers, so as not to be unfavorable to the king of the North Court gossip into the palace royal court, Song Yu Jing has always thought that the entire Song Yujing always thought that the only person in the world who could take Xu Huainan’s life was His Majesty the Empress, but Zhu Hui has always been His Majesty’s usual knife in the sleeve for eliminating dissidents, so if it wasn’t Zhu Hui, who could it be? Song Yujing broke his head also can not figure out, also dare not go to think deeply. With the big secret together in the side of Song Yujing, there are a number of assessment is not inferior to his pole men and women, men and women two, Song Yujing was temporarily authorized to mobilize the treasure bottle golden toad two states all the spider web forces, plus 1,000 two hundred riders of the right to soldiers, Song Yujing no grip on the power of the excitement, but only fear and trembling.
Xu Huainan’s death will affect the whole body, the collapse of the mainstay of the North Mang is destined to agitate the temple. Xu family before is supported by Xu Huainan, the vast majority of children and grandchildren do not have a hand, only Xu Beihao so far does not show the mountain does not show, but the only hope to hold up the family beam of the key figure, is to catch or please, master in the letter did not make it clear that need Song Yujing to grasp the force of their own weight. Just Song Yu Jing soon felt that this mission is tricky, in addition to the boy servant Wang Mengxi, Xu Beihao and that strange face of the scholar even disappeared in thin air, Song Yu Jing the first time to spread a big net to fish, will be half of the rod dispatched to the south of the Golden Toad State or to find or intercept. If not for the servant boy continue to go south, rather than turn around to the north, Song Yu Jing directly can be more trouble-free and worry-free, leaving only a butterfly catcher woman to track the servant boy, just like a pawn of the servant boy from the bottle state into the Golden Toad State border, and then traveled horizontally hundreds of miles, and then finally went north, a little stop, before continuing to the south and go, go a whole ten days time, with a big inexplicable circle. During the period of Song Yujing in accordance with the weird direction of the servant boy, do not dare to take it lightly, constantly and repeatedly set up and overthrow their own speculation, several times to change the order, not only his own, almost all the rod are followed by exhaustion, and occasionally meet, their faces have no complaints, Song Yujing also know that these people eat people and not spit out the bones of the guys are not guaranteed not to be countless abdominal slanders, which is not lacking in some people proposed to kill the servant boy directly, a simple matter, Song Yujing heart Song Yujing sneered at standing and talking without waist pain, did not accept the proposal. Before the truth surfaces, Song Yu Jing does not want to make trouble with Xu Bei Hao, a hundred feet of insects die hard, the Xu family tree even if you want to fall, but also by no means within a year or two of things, especially Xu Huainan died violently, and Xu Huainan relationship with the Empress of the clouds and fog cover, without the throat of the fish, and may have to be rewarded to comfort the Xu family that group of assholes.
Song Yu Jing how can not expect Xu Bei Hoven has been distantly followed in the waiter ass back, the route is roughly the same, only to keep a day’s foot travel, Xu Bei Hoven from Xu Fengyen hand on the gnarled man’s face, Xu Fengyen is also a change, no longer carrying a bookcase, replaced a bag to let the servant look like Xu Bei Hoven on his back, the two today in a Golden Toad state in the middle of the noise of the tavern to take the quiet to eat, Xu Bei Hoven heard at first! To let the servant boy as bait, although did not refuse, the heart has been underestimated a few points, just all the way, several times in the wilderness to see him and a vermillion-robed demon with strange gestures to communicate, Xu Beihao completely re-examine this dare to go to the north of Mang’s future king of Northern Liang alone.
The two sat at the window of the tavern, and seemed to chat idly about how to pass on military secrets, Xu Beihao recently started to be greedy for wine, and would drink a few cups whenever he caught the chance, as for what kind of wine, whether it was good wine or bad wine, he didn’t abstain from it, but every time Xu Fengyen watched him drink wine he looked as if he was squatting in a latrine and couldn’t pull out the feces, which made it difficult for him to look at it. Xu Beihao drink into the abdomen, only to feel full of burning hot, can not help but snort, this slowly said: “You guess you killed the devil Xie Ling thing, thatched cottage this side of the news, how much silver money spent?”
Xu Fengnian laughed: “There must be a hundred taels of gold, right?”
Xu Beihuan shook his head and said, “Not a single penny was spent, this matter was spoken by the capital Yelu’s son in the green house, and quickly piggybacked to the thatched cottage.”
Xu Beihuan asked again, “How much did you spend when you guessed thatched cottage again to go to make sure that you had stayed in Dunhuang city for a period of time.”
Xu Fengnian thought for a moment, “I’ll still guess a few hundred taels of gold.”
Xu Beihuan laughed, “Less, about nine hundred taels of gold.”
Xu Fengyen tsked, “Really willing to put down blood money.”
Xu Beihao obviously not accustomed to drinking wine, drinking air is bold, a mouthful of drink, the cup gently knocked on the desktop full of grease stains wipe not clean, looking out the window, because of the roots of the face of the face of the rugged face of a brown man, his eyes were as soft as a woman, fortunately, only Xu Fengyen and him face to face, this I do not know when will be able to be a shock to the world to know the reader lamented:”” Want to find a proficient disguise spies, is like looking for a needle in a haystack, I and grandpa several times to pick lamps all night to project your route, that period of time, his old man’s spirit is very full, jokingly said that this kind of hide-and-seek, just like he ate when he was young southern glutinous rice dumplings, but also chewy. You may not know, modeled after the Liyang Zhao hook into the Zhu sprites, in fact, not from the hands of Li Mi Pil alone, grandpa once helped to build a large framework, Li Mi Pil can become the first close minister of the empress, known as the shadow of the chancellor and the ninth holding section of the order, grandpa has half of the credit. The two of them, both of them, are readers who were wistful in the Central Plains Spring and Autumn.”
Speaking here, Xu Beihao paused slightly and looked at Xu Fengnian, “The ability to raise a scholar, Empress Murong is the first person in the world who deserves it, and the Zhao family’s son of heaven isn’t far behind, the King of Beiliang.”
Xu Fenian cut off and laughed, “He ah, big old man, furthermore the war in spring and autumn, was originally a battle between the martial iron horseman and the penman scribe, after pushing down the high gate and powerful valves, the scholars had no home or tree to rely on, naturally they remembered Xu Snapdragon, let alone going to join this butcher son.”
Xu Beihuan shook his head and said, “There are also two kinds of raising scholars, raising noble scholars and raising cold scholars. Need to know that the expression of the scholar, at the very beginning is also only a traveler, for example, those who are famous for the longitudinal and transversal and stay in the history of the longitudinal and transversal, the lobbyist in the hundreds of schools of thought to move their lips, and then the scholar’s son gathered into a gateway, only then began to feed the noble scholar, and now the building has tumbled, the majority of them have to be for the rice sorghum, not to mention that the rise of the humble class of temples is a trend, the king of Beiliang is not good at a lot of things that you can do. The world’s scholars, this is your home to listen to the tide of the cabinet of the ten million carp, now like that listen to the tide of the cabinet and the river, breeding carp and wild carp miscellaneous, if you can pick a few of them, can be a success. Since ancient times, strategists have been harboring in a bright master, but want to ride the dragon to borrow the momentum, and rise straight up.”
Xu Fengnian laughed, “If you talk to Xu Snapdragon about this kind of theory, he’ll doze off right in front of you.”
Xu Beihao laughed it off.
Weak water hut, a dry and thin old man wearing a gorgeous Shu brocade had been sitting by the water after arriving all night from the capital city, beside him was Xu Huainan whose head had been cut off.
The old man personally checked the wound and the surrounding area of the hut, and then waved his men away, leaving only a young servant girl carrying a wickless lantern, as if he didn’t want any extra people to disturb him and his dead old friend.
In the night, the old man stretched out his arm as dry as an old bamboo, his fingers stroked the frosty sideburns, muttering: “When I was young, we came to the chaotic North Mang, you said you want to be a minister of the ages who can be a sword in the temple, but not tend to the court, but also joked that I have a small amount of gas, not to do a great job, and follow you to play a trick on the line, but also have a good way to die. You see, now how it is, I can still be able to brocade clothes night, even the eight festival order and twelve generals see me, only dare to scold me a few times behind my back to cut off the descendants shall not have a good death. You, even have the guts to give you the mourning to wear hemp mourning children and grandchildren are not one.”
“You valued Xu Bei Hoven, a body of learning all pay with him, in the love, I have been hesitant to kill, Xu old man, or you entrusted a dream to me? I will also let him go.”
“I thought I could spell out half of my life, but also to ensure that you die after her, you ah you, how to pat your ass and say go away, but also go so suffocating, figure what? To pay back the debt? To whom? People die like lights, I will not get to the bottom of it, so that you do not scold me in the bottom. It’s easier for me. Don’t worry, not to mention Xu Beihao, when it comes to the Xu family’s more than two hundred lives, I’ll always leave one or two for you.”
The old man who was chanting to himself sighed, and after a long period of silence, he raised his arm.
The blind, deaf, and mute female servant girl carrying the lantern then immediately bent down and placed the lantern with no lights in front of the powerful old man’s eyes, following which she handed out a small delicate scissors.
There were dozens of butterflies in the cage.
The old man touched out one, and his hands trembled as gently as an old crone embroidering under the lamp, cutting it in half from the middle of the butterfly.
“After your death, the butterfly in the cage will be the largest of the Order of the Peace.”