Chapter 005 Do not miss do not wait
Youzhou turmoil, yi river and is the center of the ups and downs, this tragedy, only yi river a city, there are twenty-four family name more than forty large and small will be kind of family suffered, killed on the spot in yi river city of the local magnates not less than seven hundred people, but the strain is not dead, most of the army border. When the original knowledge of the choice of the local snakes, according to the spy spies continue to report, now the resentment is not very big, very simple, dead people, more land, in addition to the big head to the northern Liang take away, the rest of the leftovers are also considerable, all by their wall grass family to take over, to give food to the money is the maiden’s escort servants, the original will be interested in coveted by the other women maidservants, sold cheaply in the treasures of calligraphy and paintings, are all real! All of these are real benefits. After Xu Fengyen entered the city, he lifted the curtain a few times to look out and saw many cold eyes, numbness, abhorrence, fear, hatred, to name a few.
Xu Fengyen returned to the general’s residence, Song Yan and Wang Xihua has not yet returned to the house, Yi River’s closing, these two temporarily transferred to Youzhou Lingshou senior officials do not directly intervene in the specific affairs, more is the general Huangfu ping and assassin Wang Peifang, two of the main officials of Youzhou to preside over the Xu Fengyen also do not know how this pair of their political opponents can be put together, at that time, made up their minds to pull this together to call out the strongest man to the state of Youzhou, intending to let Song Yan as the state of Youzhou Bu Bujie, to assist Song Yan as a new general from the martial arts background. Auxiliary military general origin of the new assassin Hu Kui, not trust in the Liangzhou assassin Hu Kui, but the future of the four states of the Northern Liang Road, civilian and military complement each other as well as mutual checks and balances is inevitable trend, this trend, not only limited to the surface of the general assassin two positions, as for the article of learning in the Northern Liang excellence of the Wang Xihua, a little bit like for the fishy and bloody white things constantly in the state of You! “Punching”, and the Qinglu Cave Academy also need to take the hand of the literary world of the town field, everything is difficult at the beginning, the scholar to go to Liang, not all at once can not be stuffed into the Beiliang officialdom, this is a relatively gradual process, not to mention that there is no lack of abusive people in the readers, first in the academy of this sieve in the drying shaking down a bit, in order to divide a The first is to dry and shake in the sieve of the academy, in order to sort out a roughly accurate three, six, nine, etc. Xu Fengyen sat in Huangfu Ping’s exceptionally simple study, not to mention that there were not many books, even the decorative furnishings were lacking, it was a cold and gloomy room, similar to Huangfu Ping’s nature.
Xu Fengyen was flipping through an unimpressive photo book and said without lifting his head, “Come in.”
The person who entered the room surnamed Liu, is the head of the spies in Yihe City, reported to the king of Beiliang the insights gathered today, are Song Yan Wang Xihua two people’s fragmented speech. It turned out that these two after witnessing the bloodshed in Youzhou, and know the cause of the matter, for the disposal of the Yihe Huang’s no objection, but on the tavern listening to the plunge, the two have serious differences, Wang Xihua insisted that the sixty-five people listening to the book of the people, regardless of whether the people or the gentry, the crime is not the king of the North Liang such a heavy punishment, has always respected legalism Song Yan thought that everyone is guilty of the crime of the two rushed to the state of Youzhou, the original Unsurprisingly, Song Yan is to serve as the state of Youzhou, Wang Xihua is in charge of a state government, the two argued, there is a bet, if Wang Xihua won, the two exchanged the official position, and Song Yan said that he will win, the future official position as usual, but Wang Xihua in the future to see him Song Yan will have to implement the lower official to meet the upper official etiquette.
Hearing this, Xu Fengyen put down the book and laughed: “The two adults really have the leisure and elegance, it is difficult not to sixty-five people one by one query the past.”
Liu Spy softly said, “Not so, Wang Xihua only picked three people.”
Xu Fengnian nodded and said, “A scholar is afraid of winning. You continue, which three people were picked.”
The unimpressive-looking Yihe Grand Spy respectfully said, “They are Cao Sheng, the son of the Yihe Cao Clan, Qi Fengnian, the shopkeeper of the Qi Ji Satin Shop, and Han Lai Cai, the village man. Of the three, Cao Sheng is a longtime patron of the Jingyi Xuan Restaurant, while Cao’s clan is at the bottom of Yihe’s would-be seed portals. Qi Fengnian was a door-to-door son-in-law and was well regarded in the western streets of Yi River. Han Lai Cai is a fake into the building to buy wine to drink, in fact, shy, hiding in the back to take the opportunity to listen to that storytelling. These things, Song Yan Wang Xihua after the bet have carefully looked through the file, Wang Xihua in an incense burner to pick out three people, Song Yan nodded his head to recognize.”
Xu Fengyen got up and said, “Wang Xihua believes that the human heart is inherently good, everyone has compassion, Song Yan learned, but human nature is inherently evil, two people’s fight, not a moral article of the fight, in the end, it is the books outside of the human heart of the fight. If I have to guess, the loss is sure that the moralist Wang Xihua lost, but the victory is the old fox Song Yan, if the other way around, from the pile of evil people to find good deeds and good deeds, the loss will naturally be Song Yan, only Song Yan will not agree to such a bet.”
The spy leader surnamed Liu hesitated for a while, but still summoned up enough courage to say, “In my humble opinion, Song Yan is not winning, besides Cao Sheng who is burdened with two murders, like that rich Jia Qi Fengnian and village wild people Han Lai Cai, according to the law, they should have been imprisoned.”
Xu Fengnian shook his hand, “In a place like our Northern Liang, chivalry is heavy, but chivalry may not be heavy, it’s easy to commit crimes, but it’s hard not to.”
The spy was silent.
Xu Fengnian laughed, “This time, many families in Yihe city are busy fishing for oil, Liu Jingxing, you might as well cut off some gold and silver from their hands, as a treat to your brothers, there is no reason for you to work hard to do something dry eyes, not to do anything to take advantage of all the advantages, thanks to them not dare to not let go of their mouths to spit out a little fat meat. However, this king and you say in advance, this time is only special case, not you do things in the future the new rules.”
Liu Jingxing grinned happily, still not half a bit of outsiders impression of shrewd spies should have cunning, but more and more simple and honest, where it looks like a cold spy who called Song Yan Wang Xihua’s name. Xu Fengyen continued to pick up the book, Liu Jingxing will have the sense to leave, when he crossed the threshold and gently cover the door, out of the corner of his eye glimpsed a little girl, startled him, from beginning to end, Liu Jingxing did not notice such a young girl, her head tilted gold hairpin, squatting next to a half-half man-high celadon vase, and Liu Jingxing stared at. Liu Jingxing quickly narrowed his sight, lowered his head, and completely closed the door. Liu Jingxing not long gone, temporarily still Lingzhou special driver Song Yan knocked on the door and entered, Xu Fengyen held the book and pointed to the chair across the table, Song Yan frankly sat down, Xu Fengyen joked: “Our Wang Gongcao also really head into your trap.”
Song Yan is not surprised that today’s matter is known by the spies, this period of time Yihe City eyes all over the city, coupled with him and Wang Xihua and eye-catching, is a reasonable thing, Song Yan some helpless: “Wang Xihua was originally considered to be a more rounded civil officials in the Northern Liang Road, and yet so, visible Northern Liang’s governance, a long way to go.”
Xu Fengyen smiled at the huh girl and said, “Take the trouble to carry two jugs of wine.”
The young girl quietly left, really carried two pots of green ant wine back, Xu Fengyen and Song Yan one person a pot of wine, Xu Fengyen lamented: “In the past, I know that it is not easy to be the head of the family, but only when you really sit in this position, you can realize how difficult it is to be the head of the family, fighting with people, fighting with the evil, Yihe Huang’s like this, but also fighting with the good guys, Huang Shuang, Wang Xihua, and so on. More to fight with the sky, in the past to listen to the rain and enjoy the snow, are happy, now you have to consider the jurisdiction of the harvest. I now have a pile of secret letters on hand to dispose of, there is said to be the royal family steward Song Tanglu collusion with officials, for nephews to codify the genealogy of the goods. The Lu family’s sons and daughters embezzled good land and were exposed, and one of the Lu family’s elders purchased calligraphy and paintings for a large sum of money, but they turned out to be forgeries, and could not be returned or exchanged, so they had to make trouble. A small master in Liangzhou drinking flower wine, with the general seed of the children and grandchildren of jealousy, the latter called out to surround the assault, the former killed, both sides are not a good thing, according to the reason, both killed to save the heart. What’s more, the youngest son of the vice commander of the infantry army, Tieshan Wei, relocated to the neighboring state of Hezhou with his belongings, and the real gold and silver in violation of the regulations alone was loaded with sixteen big boxes, which were seized by the soldiers patrolling the customs, and the rumor that the border soldiers insulted the daughter-in-law of the vice commander of the Wei in the first place was soon spread. There was also a young lieutenant valued by Gu Dazu who inexplicably gave a half-death beating just outside the pass.”
Song Yan said flatly, “As long as there is a family in tow, there will be conflicts, there are still gaps between fathers and sons and husbands and wives, not to mention such a large Beiliang?”
Xu Fengyen laughed: “In the future, you and Hu Kui Huangfu Ping will be entrusted with the huge political affairs of Youzhou. Mr. Jingliu has been fighting for you, saying that you, Song Yan, are empty of magic power but have no use for it, so I hope that after getting you to Youzhou, you will be able to have some use for it.”
Song Yan nodded his head and said, “I deserve to bow and scrape.”
Xu Fengyen did not pick up the wine pot that was still half left, stood up and walked out of the study with Song Yan, Song Yan said goodbye and left, Xu Fengyen found Wang Xihua who was temporarily living in one of the side courtyards of the general’s official residence and told him that he had to go and meet someone, Wang Xihua was confused and followed him out of the residence, got into a carriage and left Yihe city to the outskirts, there is an irrigation ditch here, which has produced a fairly lush reed field, the Beiliang real estate is poor, and the reeds that have been used for quite a lot of purposes are all used to make a good job of the city. The reeds that are quite a bit more useful have all become the grass of a thousand golds. Near the reeds there are several small villages near the river and gathered, cool breeze, spring sunshine melting, walking on the narrow dirt road, the air is green reed grass fragrance. There are groups of village children picking young shoots, Xu Fengyen and Wang Xihua slowly came to a small ferry near the river, a clump of reeds gracefully nestled, is a rare Northern Liang soft charming scenery. Xu Fengyen has a green reed empty stem in his hand, shaped like a rough reed flute, Xu Fengyen sat on the cobblestone ferry, blowing the reed pipe, whimpering quietly. Wang Xihua did not sit down, stood by the river, thinking in his heart, probably the young vassal king was dissatisfied with why he made that bet with Song Yan, why he questioned his initiative in Youzhou, but only because he was still half a beloved, he did not use the common official imperial sleight of hand to clean up after himself.
Xu Fengyen stopped playing reed flute, raised his head, reached out and pointed to the northeast, “There is a Northern Liang scholar, went to the capital for seven years, finally made a name for himself, the year before last he had already become a minister of the Son of Heaven’s residence, and last year he became the examination of the Division of Langzhong, assisted the Ministry of Minister of Justice Zhao Youling and the Reserve Prime Minister Yin Maochun to preside over the Beijing evaluation, this year, it is even more important to participate in the evaluation of the Liyang local officials of the fourth grade, in the early spring, with the Crown Prince Zhao Zhanzhuan on a private visit to the south. In the early spring, he went on a private visit to the south with Prince Zhao Zhuan, and after returning to the capital, he got married, and the emperor personally gave him a residence, where His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and the Crown Princess were present at the same time. On the wedding night, with big red candles and a red head, the woman was a golden girl named Zhao. This scholar, in the future, is destined to rise in the world, even if it is in the cabinet to worship the prime minister, are just around the corner. In seven years, there were only two secret letters sent to Beiliang, one was the candidate for the crown prince, and the other was the physical condition of the Zhao family’s emperor. Such a scholar with great merit to Beiliang only wrote two words at the end of each of the two secret letters for Beiliang to pass on to one person.”
Xu Fenian paused for a moment and said flatly, “Do not wait.”
“Do not wait.”
Wang Xihua sighed.
Xu Fengyen continued slowly, “Before this scholar flew the coop, here came a Zhao Hook Spy to keep an eye on it, for many years. So even if it is such a simple four words, the one who is hanging on, the one who is waiting, is still from not knowing.”
Wang Xihua asked softly, “That infatuated woman is still waiting?”
Xu Fengnian nodded, reaching out and patting the stone of the ferry beside him, “At first, this is where she sent the scholar to the capital to catch the examination, and then never married, if she missed, she would come here to wait for a while, because he personally promised her back then that regardless of whether or not he could get the merit, he would return to his hometown to welcome her into the family.”
Wang Xihua sighed heartily, “Such a scholar, such a woman, should have been married to a good man, that is, the King of Beilang personally presided over the marriage for them is not too much.”
Xu Fengyin ignored it and said, “After the end of last year, the woman stopped coming to the ferry to wait for someone.”
Wang Xihua froze.
Xu Fengyen threw the reed empty tube into the water, did not turn his head, but stretched out his finger, pointing to the far side of Wang Xihua’s body, “She died in the reeds and was buried there as well.”
Xu Fengnian reached into his sleeves with both hands, “I came to Youzhou, I came to Yi River, I came to kill. You, Wang Xihua, said in your heart that I killed innocents indiscriminately, I think that no matter how innocent those powerful figures are, they are not as innocent as this woman. What’s more, such a woman, such a tragedy, Youzhou can’t even be counted. You readers, you claim to be bent on peace in the world, I, Xu Fengnian, think that peace in the world is really too far away, and peace around you is so close, you always have to do well first.”
Wang Xihua’s face paled.
Xu Fengnian got up and shook his sleeve, bowing with his face toward a small grave in the reeds.
Turning to leave, leaving Wang Xihua sitting disheveled on the ground, Xu Fengyen said in a deep voice: “Fortunate to be born as a human being, but do not treat others as human beings, since they are not human beings themselves, in Beiliang, the king will kill one when he sees one.”
There were more than a hundred dead soldiers from Youzhou showing up in the reeds, thinking that they had caught a chance to behead this singled out Human Slaughter Clan King on the spot.
Xu Fengyen put his hands behind his back, and in one fell swoop, he split all the hundred people into pieces with one hit.