Chapter 153 – Scholar and Scholar

Learned that when the upper reaches of the crossbowman standard Li Hanlin returned from the border to build success, since he is not in the royal residence, then this kid is likely to be in the brand-new strategic ambassador’s residence in Lingzhou, Xu Fengyen took a slight detour into the more flamboyant than the Liangzhou Lingzhou, every time in the past, Li Hanlin in the home turf as the host, entertained them a few grew up together with friends of foxes and dogs, there was never a time for Xu Fengyen to be disappointed, shopping for the best green house to drink the most expensive flower wine, clean up the most domineering playboys, molest the most beautiful women and girls, Xu Fengyen still remembers except Yan Chi Ji, the ancient board nerd Kong. Wine, clean up the most domineering dude, molest the most water pretty beauty of the little girl, Xu Fengyen also remembers that in addition to the Yanchi set of this old-fashioned nerd, Kong Wuzhi is the first time in here to hand over, the flower girl gave a very sturdy big red packet after the fact, Kong Wuzhi was ashamed of a big red face, touched by the splattering of tears, and almost have to be that only understand some of the human condition of the women in the scene of the eight-carried sedan chair to marry home, Hanlin Li good to talk to make this stupid cow don’t stupid! Let this stupid cow don’t do anything stupid.

Xu Fengyen was blackened by the green bird, riding a horse.

Xu Fengyen when he first entered the North Mang on the post road beacon flint and farming nomadic is how to be on the heart, Xu Beihao is also like a rut, he just lamented: “Compared to the North Mang, Beiliang is still too small, if the territory is a little bigger, such as the swiftness of the annexation of the two places of the West Sichuan South Zhao …… ”

Xu Beihao did not continue.

Xu Fengyen and his younger brother after the meeting of the yellow barbarians, talking has not been much, the brothers, these years are still getting together more than less, to say that can be said have said eight or nine, really close to the people, but also do not need to be those who seem to be steaming words, if you meet Li Hanlin, Xu Fengyen guaranteed that the buddy is sure that the first word is “Feng brother, Huqiu building, go up! ” Huang Ban Er has obviously grown up a lot, smile less and less, more and more silent, between the eyebrows is occasionally a few threads of determination. Strange to say, the yellow savage child playing small with their second sister Xu Weixiong is not close, about a wisdom pole, more than the general mind, a simple and silly, less mind, can not get together, but the yellow savage child and big sister Xu Zhihu is only relatively familiar with a little, since childhood, only with the older brother Xu Fengyin heart of the heart, the sky is not afraid of fear of the father is not afraid of the older brother does not take him to play with him.

This time, Huang Ban Er from Longhu Mountain, surprisingly know that the first to go to the Shangyin Palace to visit the second sister, but also the beloved tiger kui given to Xu Weixiong, which makes Xu Fengyen feel very pleasantly surprised.

Not yet arrived in Lingzhou state city, from the people of the teahouse tavern gossip learned that Li Hanlin Li big scourge to the war horse trampled on the brain after a change of nature, really on the border to earn a huge military success, this time the clothes return to their hometowns, but also a time to go to the green house did not go, and did not stay at home for a few days to go with a few military robes with the other place. This makes Lingzhou scared out of their wits of the people of the city are sighing can not understand the world, when the four sons of Northern Liang, excluding His Highness is still cynical, originally some talent Yan Chi integrated the emperor’s relatives, but also dipped in the light of the resignation of the Jin Lanting, to become the status of the noble Huangmen Lang, of course, only a small yellow door, the big yellow door own seniority is enough for the small yellow door to replace the Jin Lanting. Kong Wuzhi is into the imperial army, now even by the Secretary of the emperor spoiled to the limit of Li Hanlin have great success, Lingzhou up and down are lamented, rather helpless, is not really going to let that can not help the son of the King of the North Liang when we?

Since Li Hanlin is not at home, Xu Fengyen will not go to the residence of the Minister of Strategy to disturb the official promoted to the second rank of Lord Li, there is still a Li Negative real to him even the cross-eyed disdain, do not meet okay, meet even more uninteresting.

Fish and Dragon Gang is in Lingzhou territory, not far away, just Xu Fengnian did not have the leisure to shake the identity of the broad.

Beiliang obviously more than many dusty foreign monks, most of them can only be boarded in various places to fight small temples, more than a lot of begging.

Xu Fengyen and his entourage along the spacious stagecoach road leading to the capital of Beiliang, walking slowly and uncertainly, Xu Fengyen forked out of the stagecoach road on the border of the two states for more than ten miles, to a far-famed stopping temple stopped the horse.

The reason why it is such an odd and out-of-the-way temple name, there is also a saying in the community, when the Xu family entered the Northern Liang, Xu Snapdragon and Wangfei had stopped their horses here to burn incense in the temple.

Today is not the first day of the 15th, and is not pleasant midday, the sun is poisonous, but seems to be more monks than visitors.

Horse stopping temple building save tip towering into the clouds, eaves and teeth, the wind can be heard iron horse clanking sound.

Before entering the temple, Xu Fengnian asked with a smile, “Do you believe in Buddhism?”

Xu Beihuan shook his head and said, “Most of the monks in the temples are in fact obsessive men and women who boast that they have seen through the red world, and are far from seeing through it. Especially these kinds of big temples where incense is still flourishing, there are few truly great monks of virtue. I don’t believe in Buddhism, but I don’t believe in Taoism either. I remember the Middle Aham Sutra, which says that a venerable man had not seen a woman’s face in eighty years. I have also been to Dunhuang outside the Buddhist caves, see the walls of the paintings have cut meat to feed tigers and give up their lives to feed eagles and many other images of the Buddha’s life, for me, it is really unattainable and unattainable realm, I have also been to the Taoist temple outside the Heavenly Gate of Daode Zong to read through the scriptures, there are not too many ups and downs of the heart. My grandfather said, the old monk full of wine taste say Buddhism, child prostitutes to earn money to buy yellow court, children steal rouge face, this is not confined to vulgarity is valuable. Among the three religions, Confucianism has relatively less rules and regulations, I think it suits me better.”

Xu Fengnian laughed: “So are you going in to burn incense?”

Xu Beihao said flatly, “It doesn’t prevent me from burning incense and worshiping Buddha.”

After going in, Xu Beihao stayed away from Xu Fengyen and the others, holding the incense alone and worshipping in all directions.

When he bowed his head, the scholar’s face was slightly sad.

Bodhisattvas are afraid of causes, and laymen are afraid of effects.

Out of the temple, Xu Fengyen saw gathered dozens of incense pointing and whispering, originally do not want to pay attention to, only to be tugged by the green bird tugged on the sleeve, only to find the roadside stall selling tea on the side of a familiar slim back, she stood next to a slender figure that can be described as a jade tree, the green shirt of the scholar, just can not see the appearance. Legend has it that the Stop Horse Temple is extremely effective in praying for marriage, and most of the people who come here are young men and women who have never gotten married, and during the spring season, this place is even more crowded and incense-laden. Xu Fengyen just a little pause, from the mouth of the watchers of the incense that the scholar to buy water to drink, to an old man handed a book, said the view of the son of the roots and bones of the clear, to be sold at a low price with him three taels of silver. Originally this local idle scoundrels trespassing blackmail trick, employing an older, half-fraud, half-cheating for money, as long as a little bit to give some coins as a broken fortune will deal with the past, those who are not afraid to make too much noise, the appetite are smaller, it is estimated that the scholar is noble, both arrogant and more arrogant, not only said what to make the broken skin can not be under the table of the words, is nothing more than to report to the police and so on, and a drop that broken Book of Secrets, this time to annoy the nearby gang of a dozen snakes waiting to collect money, a coaxing, rolled up the sleeve to hit people, at this time in the eyes of Xu Fengnian, has come to the theater people feel the most wonderful paragraph, the scoundrels see a young scholar around a girl like a flower like a jade, it is on the mouth of meat is not clean, that the scholar is worthy of being proud of his bones, said that the hundred is not a bookworm, but this handsome look of the scholar actually Initiative, directly a fist smashed in a burly man on the bridge of the nose, the next difficult to escape a robbery, to a dozen people a beating and kicking, if not for the woman lying on the ground to protect him, I’m afraid I have to go to bed to lie down for a number of days in order to walk.

I do not know whether it is afraid to really provoke the government Yamen to pursue, the gangsters beat fast after, cursing birds and beasts scattered.

Xu Fengyen had seen enough of the fun, laughed it off, and softly said, “Let’s go.”

Xu Beihao frowned, “This gang of loafers is so reckless?”

Xu Fengyen stifled his laughter and said, “Where are the idlers good people? If they don’t bully the weak and fear the hard, if they don’t bully men and women, are they still shrews? But you really didn’t see it?”

Xu Beihao understood the situation and laughed to himself, “I see. It’s against common sense that the money-seeking rascals didn’t scrape the money bag after they made their move, and none of them took advantage of the opportunity to touch the girl. Is this a set up between the scholar and the scoundrels?”

Xu Fengyen mounted his horse and said, “This trick, I got tired of using it when I was 13 or 14 years old. I remember that I first played it with a popular flower girl in Liangzhou, but she saw through it at a glance, but she just didn’t say anything about it. Naturally, unlike this great lady, all cried her heart out and couldn’t wait to give her body to her.”

Xu Beihao shook his head helplessly.

Xu Fengnian said flatly, “But what you can’t possibly disbelieve is that that girl is the daughter of Northern Liang’s Secretary Li Gongde. That scholar, well, he’s made a lot of money this time, spending less than ten taels of silver is more useful than composing three hundred famous poems.”

Xu Beihuan turned back to look at the woman who helped the scholar to get up, is not pearly rain, Xu Beihuan softly laughed: “You do not reveal? Aren’t you familiar with Li Hanlin? I’ve known her for many years.”

Xu Fengyen laughed to himself, “That’s a lot of bad luck, in front of the Bodhisattva, it’s hard to break up a pair of talented people.”

Xu Beihuan steered his horse to the side of the green bird, opened his mouth to ask for a few silver tickets, the green bird saw his own son just some curious eyes, do not intend to refuse, so he handed Xu Beihuan a stack of silver tickets, Xu Beihuan long horse and went, intercepted the gang of rascals in the distance, gave the silver tickets, said a few words.

Then the scholar really got a solid beating.

Xu Fengyen drove alongside Xu Beihuan and asked, “What did you say?”

Xu Beihuan laughed, “I said that I was Hanlin Li’s helper, and that Duke Li had long been displeased with that kid, so he asked me to ask all of you good men to come out and help.”

Xu Fengnian nodded his head, “This argument, it really drips. The scoundrels fought without worries, and that scholar, even if he had some official status relying on the Li family’s chickens and dogs, afterward, knowing this statement of yours, he wouldn’t dare to cry out for wrongdoing just the same. Shelled out the silver to invite people to really hit themselves, but also too suffocating. Are you damaging?”

The green bird would smile.

Xu Beihao said flatly, “Since ancient times, the readers kill the readers, is the most skillful.”

Leaving his horse out for a moment, Xu Beihuan suddenly felt some regret and asked, “Giving them more than three hundred taels of silver, isn’t it too much?”

Xu Fengyen let out a loud laugh, pointing his horsewhip at this scholar with a belly full of bad water far superior to that kind of brother, somewhat really started to appreciate Xu Beihao.