Chapter 140 – A Box of Charms

The girl who finished singing the little ballad of Knowing or Not Knowing was lying on the bench, turned her head and glimpsed this person intruding into the pavilion, after the initial consternation, a small face was like a sudden release of light after a cloudy rain, incomparably joyful. Xu Fengyen put on the green embroidered shoes for the woman in green, turned his head to this little ninny raised his index finger to his mouth, made a silent gesture, the child immediately covered her mouth with both hands vigorously, for fear of leaking out the secret, and then seemed to feel that such an action was too abrupt, sat up in a rather lady-like manner, but unfortunately realized that his bare feet, a pair of woven peacock satin brocade shoes were still lying on the ground, and he was a bit flushed.

A household, and then that the woman in green with a gun on the mountain provoked the mountain master, although defeated, but still honor, the North Mang martial arts complex deep into the bones, respect for all the real catty strong, even if she is an unknown young woman, but also not how to hostile, the military mountain will be treated as half a guest, and finally is appalled at the strength of the strange man, the three add up to these are the Secretary of the military mountain retainers scorned to the limit, the military mountain retainer. When breaking into the pavilion, a guest secretary in the strength of the second grade had used two fingers to touch a small piece of sleeve, just do not wait for this small master force to clutch, to similar jianghu fall sleeve shock water technique to pop open, two fingers at this time is still sore numbness and tingling.

Pavilion inside and outside the atmosphere is subtle, but the little girl to break the deadlock, in turn uncle uncle shouted once, and then in an undoubted tone of voice to invite them to go up to the mountain first, this kind of smooth style on the surface does not hurt the peace, obviously from her uncle Dong, these days, the Tibingshan is also accustomed to the little girl’s sophistication, coupled with that she was the leader of the 60,000 jackal soldiers and horses Tibingshan aunt doted on to the lawlessness, a trade-off, a few by the Fifth Raccoon After some weighing, a few of the escorts who had been arranged by the Fifth Raccoon for close protection silently left, but none of them went far, only waiting outside the view of the pavilion, and then one of them would go to the Mountain Master’s side to report the news. Xu Beihao thought through the head also did not expect such a light and breezy ending, but also do not go to do mediocre deep thought, in the pavilion overlooking the great scenery, grandpa once talked about the Jiangnan elegant land and water, is the North Mang million less than the women there is really water, unlike the North Mang women, mixed with sand, after thirty years of age tend to be too coarse to do.

Xu Fengyen sat side by side with the woman in green, reached out to remove the narrow gun bag, revealing the true appearance of the Shakuna gun, asked: ”Why did you also come to North Mang? Did you come here with Xu Snapdragon’s bitter plea?”

She pressed one cheek against the slightly cool beam and softly said, “Don’t want to lose to Sweet Potato.”

Xu Fengnian was dumbfounded, “Competing blindly.”

She was silent.

Xu Fengyen looked at her left arm, “You don’t know how to pick up soft persimmons and pinch them, you came to Tibing Mountain to look for trouble with the fifth raccoon, isn’t this looking for a crime? I heard that he even gave you face, personally?”

She nodded.

Xu Fengnian smiled, “Otherwise, I’ll fight this bout for you later. Your son has now gone through trials and tribulations, had a series of strange encounters, and his divine power has been greatly realized, not to mention the Fifth Raccoon, even Tuoba Bodhisattva dares to scold him a few times.”

Before leaving the Wutong courtyard she couldn’t claim to be obedient to your son, she shook her head and softly said, “No more fighting, accompany your son back to Northern Liang.”

There were only two first class grand maids in the courtyard, she and Sweet Potato each had their own style.

The little girl who had been left out in the corner coughed a few times, secretly put on her embroidered shoes, and stared wide-eyed at the “heartless man” who did not have any emotion of a long goodbye, which made her feel doubly lost, and she had to kindly remind him that she was still standing here. Xu Fengyen can understand Dong Zhuo placed her in the Tibing Mountain, just did not expect to really meet halfway, was recognized by her at a glance is not surprising, she already has the talent of Qi through the heart, good thing she did not reveal, otherwise to the Tibing Mountain to know the details, no less than an exhausting hunt to escape. The little girl who is a little taller holds a small lacquer box in her hand, is Xu Fengyen in Flying Fox City bazaar for her to buy a strange coincidence, just the box storage of spiders have long been dead, this is not how carefully raised can change the end, lacquer box is cheap, with weaving webs to “begging for a coincidence” of the spider varieties are also general, and now the box will be left with only a piece of scanty broken webs, Dong Zhuo away from the mountain. When Dong Zhuo left the mountain, he wanted to hide the box, give a reason to say that the subordinate cleaned the room and lost it, but he couldn’t stand his daughter’s grumbling eyes, and had to shamelessly take it out of his sleeve, saying that Uncle Dong had a hard time finding it after rummaging through the box and planing the yard. Xu Fengyen looked at this little girl who was once considered to be in trouble with the world, mixed feelings, a small one can still meet, it is really like a lifetime ago.

The little girl Tao Manwu glanced at the pavilion outside the heavy bag Xu Beihao, remembered when I was blackmailed by this guy with food to carry that big bag of money, there are some for that rough-looking uncle. She then sighed in her heart, this stingy to even Aunt Xiyi gave her a porcelain pillow are thinking of the stingy, to where not forget to make other people do hard labor, at the expense of their own these days still worry about whether he will not have silver to eat.

Xu Fenian asked with a smile, “I taught you that set of qi nourishing kung fu, did not fall?”

Tao Manwu immediately practiced knocking the golden beam and beating the heavenly drum to bathe the face and so on in order, without a single mistake. Xu Fengyen took the small wooden lacquer box from her hand and joked: “You still don’t want to throw away the broken stuff? Your uncle Dong is a mountain of gold and silver, it’s not hard for you even if you ask him for a Qiqiao that’s bigger than your person. I’ll help you throw it away.”

Xu Fengyen made a gesture to throw out the pavilion, Tao Manwu jumped up vigorously, his hands clasped his arm, the whole person hanging there comically.

Qing Bird’s eyes were warm, compassionately stroking Tao Manwu’s head, she didn’t know why the little girl would hold herself close to her, after she was seriously injured, Tao Manwu was clinging to her side. She has been at the foot of Mount Tibing to recuperate, but also more or less heard some gossip, know that her father is the city pastor of the North Mang border to leave the city, for no reason to people attacked and killed, rumor is that the royal family of the two surnames of the son of the hand, but so far the whereabouts of the murderer is not known. And the military from the military general Tao Qianzhi and Dong Zhuo and is as close as brothers of the robe, the little girl’s mother also unfortunately died in mourning on the way, since Tao Manwu however, however, was the South dynasty hot military power Dong Zhuo with the side of the cold Mang without warning, I heard that Dong Zhuo led the troops to go away from the Valley Maolong rescue, Tao Manwu left in the family with the Tibing Mountain.

The son of a lone to the north, the hobby of daily kill the northern Liang soldiers Tao Qianzhi died in the Qingming Festival, the son of a coincidence and Tao Manwu acquaintance.

The green bird looked at the male son with wide eyes.

The little girl unintentionally glanced at her sister in green who she hadn’t known for long.

Xu Fengnian, who knew she was gifted, did not stop her.

The green bird found the little girl in tears after she let go and landed on the ground, that complicated to the extreme contradictory eyes, like a spider’s web in an expensive Qiqiao box, dense and without gaps, should not have appeared in the eyes of an innocent and kind little girl.

Tao Manwu just shed tears, but also do not cry out. Finally, he smashed the small lacquer box hard on Xu Fengyen and ran out of the gazebo.

The green bird looked blankly at the gongzi.

Xu Fenian smiled bitterly, “She has the ability to see through people’s hearts.”

Knowing that he had unintentionally made a big mistake, Qing Bird looked remorseful and was about to speak, Xu Fengyen waved his hand, re-hiding the Shakura Gun in his cloth pouch, and said with a calm face, “Originally, I didn’t think to deceive her for the rest of her life, and knowing the truth one day earlier will make it easier for her one day earlier. But it’s hard for me to say this kind of thing myself. Being recognized by herself, just right.”

Although he didn’t know what was going on, but also knew that there was a big trouble pestering Xu Beihao was about to remind that he could run for his life, but Xu Fengyen had already stood up, returned the shakti back to the green bird, and scoffed to himself, “Let’s go, let’s go, the three of us, ah, we’ll just wait to be whisked by the Tibing Mountain and chased after us.”

Xu Fengyen held one of Xu Beihuan’s arms, and with the unopposed green bird, they swept down the mountain together.

Xu Beihao only felt like riding on clouds.

But the three of them did not directly flee southward, but secretly turned back into the Zojiran mountain range, Xu Beihao had to secretly sigh a really skillful and courageous ah, good at introspection, Xu Beihao rested on the bank of a stream in the mountains, a little shaken. The scholar brought many things with him when he ran north, chess is one of them, more popular in Beimang than Weiqi, in the past years, the powerful king of Beiyuan in Beimang was a veritable basket case in Weiqi, but playing chess is a pure fire, Xu Beihuan was always around his grandfather, although the 19 vertical and horizontal paths are also very familiar and proficient, but his personal preference is still to the chess that is clearly defined by the position of the pieces, and he also played against his grandfather, Xu Huainan, from time to time. I remember the first time the old man brought out a chess board, he told the young Xu Beihuan to play this game, and when he could have the chess power to play chess if he wanted to, then Xu Beihuan would be considered as a master. But in the eyes of Xu Beihuan, grandfather and people temple political struggle, always eliminate the roots, the practice with the chess approach is diametrically opposed, until this time to die, Xu Beihuan only know that this game of Liangmang and chess, surprisingly the cost is huge to the Xu family chess all dead only one of his point. Since Xu Beihao is a scholar, of course, not to the nine square of the “Shi” as his own, he looked down on the jianghu reckless, but also for this reason, Shi auxiliary emperor, strategizing, why do you need to kill the enemy in person? Jianghu masters no matter how to pull mountains and rivers, masters have masters to kill, rumor has it that the creation of Xiangqi Huang Longshi itself is the role of the “Shi” to play to the most exquisite realm, that young man once said that he wanted to open up the world of peace for the world’s poisonous Huang Sanjia, it can be said that the poison killed the entire Spring and Autumn. So beyond the temple calculations straight to the heavenly calculations of the characters, is Xu Beihao highly respected.

But all of this is built on a good situation in the chessboard, Xu Beihao may be able to show their hands, in a bad situation, the enemy killed to the side of the monarch, Xu Beihao asked himself whether he can save the tide?

Xu Beihao suddenly somewhat understand why reading into the saint of the great official son Cao Changqing why become a heavenly image of martial arts, why three into the palace.

When the water is exhausted and there are no chess pieces at hand, in the end, you have to get out of the nine palace grids by yourself.

Xu Beihao wants to enter the chess game, is a corner in the wind of the northern Liang, rather than the already powerful North Mang or Liyang.

I’m afraid this is also the key to how Grandpa taught him how to play draw.

In order to win, one must first consider defeat.

Xu Beihao can not help but look up to the young man sitting on the stone leisurely cool, then this guy in front of me has long thought of the worst situation, the entire Northern Liang destroyed, had to go alone to kill the enemy revenge?

Is it possible?

Xu Beihao did not believe it.

The green bird leapt down from a big tree, somewhat unbelievable, “My lord, there is no movement from Tibing Mountain.”

Xu Fengnian frowned, picked up a stone and threw it into the stream, slightly out of breath, muttering to himself, “This account seems to be unsettled.”

On the side of Tibing Mountain, the little girl cried and ran away, those escorts who didn’t dare to stay away from the gazebo saw this scene and subconsciously wanted to kill down the mountain. Only she squeezed out a smile and explained that Sister Qing Yi went down the mountain with her acquaintances, and she was a bit reluctant to give up. The crowd will believe it, and it is not good to ask anything. But that woman if you can not go to the moth to the flame, is also a good thing, in the end, in the North Mang jianghu prestigious mountain master is to win a young woman, the rumor is not good to hear. Tao Manwu walked a short distance, do not let the escort follow, turned his head to run to the pavilion, saw the lacquer box, stooped down to pick up, to be thrown down the mountain.

But she raised her hand, raised half a day, still could not muster up the courage to throw it away, and then as if she herself was again exasperated by her own indiscretion, she ran outside the pavilion, squatted down, and dug a hole with her small hands, burying the box in the earth.

Wipe away the tears, back to the hill of the elegant quiet small courtyard, climbed into bed, hugged that porcelain pillow shrinking in the corner, with a quilt to hide themselves.