Chapter 050 – Lanterns
In the night, Xu Fengyen walked alone towards the yellow crane tower on Qingliang mountain, the mansion door is still pasted with that white background spring couplets, the lanterns inside the mansion are also clear snow white frame, this weather tight mansion, after the death of that old man, there has been no talk about what is joyful or not joyful, until the entire Beiliang road are informed of the young vassal king in one fell swoop victory over the wudi city wang xianzhi, the atmosphere of the Qingliang mountain has turned a big corner, many hanging on the The mind of many hanged on the mind are all of a sudden put down, by the human mind to move to quiet, shrouded in the northern Liang royal palace of the haze and then swept away. Xu Fengyen into the house, did not go to the wutong courtyard that spent the entire teenage years, just go to the cold and clean Xu Snapdragon house sat for a long time, the two erected racks, still racked respectively with the style of the old Liang Wang python robe and the traces of the mottled armor of the great generals, outsiders will think that Xu Snapdragon on the latter very concerned about the reasonable thing, after all, Xu Snapdragon this one-man country is relying on the military to go to the apex of the human ministers, but less Some people knew that Ren Tu was actually interested in that Vassal robe, and by no means did outsiders mistakenly think that he was scoffing at it. Xu Fengyen knows this, Xu Snapdragon is not the python robe symbolizes the identity of the feudal lord, but behind the credit, is now many of the temple ministers have deliberately forgotten the “re-establishment of the Zhao room of merit”, when Liyang is just an alien barbarian dynasty in the north, the rise of the masses, the clans and towns, self-concerned, Chu within the Central Plains countries, who will take this country more than its own internal strife, but also to the people of the central plains, and to the people of the central plains. Who would consider this guy, who had more than his share of internal strife, as a formidable enemy? It is Xu Snap’s southward journey to the two Liao, hard to help the first emperor of Liyang to wring the dynasty in the hands of the internal conflict, which gave the subsequent strategy of the spring and autumn to lay the foundation, which is also the reason why many of the Zhaozhuang honors later on Xu Snap loved and hated Xu Snap, close to the first emperor of the set of clans of the old man, most of the world in the world of the temple after the great settlement of the dark currents, even if there is not a few words of praise for the Xu Snap, the worst is not to be downright to the Falling down a well, only this line of the old man most of the battlefield has suffered large and small injuries, and therefore die than some lying to enjoy the blessings of the clan are a little earlier, and their descendants, and more with the current son of heaven and the ruling Bieye’er is not too much to deal with, and can not make a name for themselves, coupled with the clan within the serious differences that have long been, the set of nominal dragon children and grandchildren can be said to be lingering on, so much so that this time South Expedition to Western Chu, completely without their share, more than another group of young nobleman swaggering to follow a few old generals south to seize the merit, anyway, their fathers and grandfathers are relying on this trick to climb up, this is probably considered a family learning, familiarity breeds skill.
Xu Fengyen slowly walked on the mountain road, then stopped at the mountainside to look at the faint lights in the Liangzhou state city, one went out, and occasionally a new light came on somewhere else, serene and peaceful.
Xu Fengyen turned around and continued to climb the mountain, this rushed back to the northern Liang days, whisking the water room has been a concise spy report passed to him, in addition to the failure to seize power is still lingering in the Ministry of War, Lu Shengxiang stationed in the Youlu Pass, but also to the spring and autumn meritorious veteran generals Yang Shenxeng Yan Zhenchun two people as the head of the team of the great and Youlu Pass together to build a three cones, pointing to the western Chu, and the various Jingdian clan king or Zhao Zhuo such a vassal king’s son of each other. Echoing each other, forming a seemingly dripping huge encirclement of Xichu. Xu Fengyen smiled coldly, in addition to the trick of killing the male chicken to warn the small monkey, how could the Zhao family not have the dirty idea of leading the trouble southward to the head of the King of Yanzhi? The eastern line has Guangling King Zhao Yi town, the west has a heart for death of the king of Huainan Zhao Ying, malicious Jing’an King Zhao Xun, even if eaten these two, West Chu is not likely to take advantage of the situation to the west, the dynasty’s most northwestern have the northern Liang iron cavalry, the west side of the old West Sichuan Chen Zhi Bao on the vassal, since ancient Shu Road is difficult to get to the sky, the southern border of the Yan Zhi Wang Zhao Bing, this is the second more hidden and tightly encircled, but the south side for the time being! After all, there is only a hangman led a few cavalry Zhao cast, and the southern border is especially vast, West Chu in the premise of the inability to go north, the only way to spread to the south, there is a line of survival. Several feudal lords, the real military power of Zhao Yi and today’s son of heaven is a sibling brother, itself in Guangling Road, without sitting in the dragon chair of the one to go too much counting, northern Liang north of the northern Mang south of the western Sichuan, equal to have been clamped down on, as a result of the results left Zhao Bing so a guy owes it to clean up, this dynasty of cutting the clan initiative, there is a Xu Snapdragon cylinder, the court naturally first priority of the north of the Liang, and now Xu Snapdragon, the turn of the natural sky high Emperor far away from the Zhao Bing! The first time I saw him was when he was a young man, and he was a young man. And a new letter from the city of Tai’an said that Zhang Julu in the opinion of the dismissal, the second best, gave a take the West Chu practice and collection of military power of the new strategy, almost even the initiative to give up the Gu Lulu Gu Jiantang was also a hand of ruthless Yin, as long as there is not to serve the court Ministry of War constraints on the first signs of the local forces of assassins, all the evidence of the dark transfer to the periphery of the West Chu, once the war appeared to be stalemate, will be put into the battlefield, the death of a few thousand counted a few thousand. The death of a few thousand counts as a few thousand. Will kind of students all over the world Gu Lu naturally bear the brunt of the storm, Gu Lu is already shaky, Zhang Julu apparently still refuses to let go. If Gu Jiantang is still in the capital in the Ministry of War personally preside over the dynasty military affairs, perhaps this decree will still be some under the policy, but Gu Jiantang has been topped with the title of the Great Pillar State of the General leading the northern military and political, Zhang Julu and intentionally or unintentionally to the four great generals of the Spring and Autumn the only remaining general dug a pit, in the temple to speak for it, the words of the only Gu Jiantang personally lead the troops south in order to pacify the West Chu people, almost the old Ministry of War! The Secretary of the military department almost elevated to the lofty position of a person as a country. In this way, suffered an unmitigated disaster of Gu Jiantang not on the secret folding sin even if the gall, where still dare to speak for the children of the Gu Lulu plead for mercy?
This is also Bieye’s consistent Yang plan, always for the country for the people, and not mixed with half a bit of selfishness. Zhang Julu’s checks and balances pervasive, broken not to go to the civil and military disputes, early relatives within the eunuchs of the struggle, resurgence of party struggles around, and even the same as the cronyism of the factions of the struggle, Bieye’s has been immovable, leisurely, if Wang Xianzhi is a martial arts invincible, then Zhang Julu is a much more sophisticated city of the invincible. For example, the Ministry of the Ministry of the first six, several times in Yu Lian and rebel out of Zhang Lu Zhao right age between the two back and forth between the two, outside the Temple Hall fog to see the flowers, see as a child’s play, inside, but are Zhang Julu a word of things, under his nose, who do things over the line, have to be obediently rolled up and rolled away. If Zhao right Ling is the disciple of Bieye’s children, born with a lack of confidence, but you have to know that the old head of Jiangxin Yu Yu Jiankang, that is, Yu Lian’s father, that is, and Zhang Julu teaching teacher and the West Chu Sun Xiji masters of the same big brother, assess the world’s high and low clan, but also the Hongjia north run the initiator of the old man penned a light word on the word, the family can carp jump the Dragon Gate, a word down, that means Lift the family together into the dust, the entire interlocking roots of the Jiangnan scholar group, together with Lu Daolin Lu Baijie Lu’s, as well as Gumou Xu’s Longchamp General Xu Gong, are the only people who look up to this person. But for so many years, Zhang Julu did not sell this old man half a face.
Xu Fengyen unknowingly walked to the top of the hill, downstairs with stone tables and benches, the result is to see an unexpected guy, borrowing a knife after the spring and thunder embroidery winter and want to go back to the face of the white fox child, after the fact there is no argument. Xu Fengnian sat across from him, there is a large pile of green ants wine pots on the table, even the wine cups are two, obviously waiting for himself.
White Fox’er face slightly sneered, ”One product, four realms, you put together all four times of the pseudo realms, surely no one has come before or after. This is more admirable to me than you killing Wang Xianzhi.”
Xu Fengnian laughed, “It’s worth it to make your heart admire you.”
White Fox’s face broke the precedent of helping him pour a glass of wine, pushed the glass, and asked, “Have you ever thought that when Huang Longshi stirred up the jianghu, in the end, he used Han Shengxuan and you to wrap up the case? You might as well count the number of first grade masters who died at the hands of the human cat and you, together are there twenty? How many first-rate masters were there in any previous generation? It’s only this number, right?”
Xu Fengnian raised his wine cup, smiled to himself, then drank it all in one go, shaking his head as he reached out to him for a drink, “I really haven’t thought about this.”
White Fox face directly threw him a wine pot and said, “I promised Mr. Li to help you once, and you killed Wang Xianzhi on my enemy list, it’s equal to me, Nangong Servant, owing you twice. But in advance, when I finish reading on the last floor of Listening Tide Pavilion, I have to go to North Mang first, and if I can come back alive, this promise will only be authorized.”
Xu Fengnian asked, “Could it be to find trouble with Topaz Bodhisattva?”
The white fox child face nodded.
Xu Fenian lamented, “A Wang Xianzhi and a Tuoba Bodhisattva, how big of a grudge must this be. You a pussy ……”
White Fox Child Face coldly interrupted, “I’m a man!”
Xu Fengnian laughed it off, reasoning with a woman, in itself, is not reasonable. However, White Fox’s face estimated that he is indeed sincere as a man, or maybe he is really a real man, but with the far away from the North Mang’s male and female Murong Tong Huang is a virtue?
White Fox Child Face tilted his head back and poured a large gulp of wine with bravado, snickering, “If you were a woman, I would really marry you.”
Xu Fengnian was speechless.
White Fox Face suddenly said, “In the past, when I practiced martial arts, I always felt that there were endless masters to kill and endless heads to cut, but now that I’ve risen to the top, I was robbed by you, and I realized that there’s no more meaning in killing and killing. Could it be that in the end, you have to fight with you to the death to live up to this life?”
Xu Fengnian choked on a mouthful of wine and said in a bad mood, “Have a little conscience, okay?”
White Fox’s face held the wine pot against half of her cheek, smiling playfully, she asked, “Are you trying to say that the most poisonous woman has a heart?”
Xu Fengyen was probably the first time he traveled through the jianghu, and saw the real masters in front of him, so far, there are still some shadows in his heart, even if everyone in the world can fight nowadays, there are still some uncontrollable fear.
Xu Fengnian glanced at the white fox child face chest, thought so glance, to their own travels in the flowers practiced eyes, even if this is deliberately wrapped to hide the flavor of the woman, eighty percent can not escape the “peace in the world” of the scene, right?
White Fox’s face smiled and said: “Are you looking for death?”
Xu Fengnian said flatly, “I’m not scared, even if I don’t have a high tree dew body, I also lost most of my spiritual energy, but it’s not easy for you to kill me.”
The white fox child face raised an eyebrow, “Yo, really out of breath.”
Xu Fengyen suddenly swept backward three to four feet with the wine pot, and cursed furiously, “White Fox Face, you’re really turning the other cheek!”
White Fox Child Face narrowed his eyes, murderous intent.
Xu Feng Nian sighed and beckoned towards the mountain top opening side, Wang Sheng jogged over with a red face, still with that ridiculous look of honestly carrying a sword box and bundling famous swords, he lowered his head and explained, “Master, I couldn’t sleep, so I walked here.”
Xu Fenian gave a hmmm, turned his head to look at White Fox face and asked, “When will you probably leave the building to go to North Mang?”
White Fox Child Face calmly said, “As little as March, as much as half a year.”
Xu Fenian laughed, “Then bring my second disciple called Wang Sheng with you at that time.”
White Fox Child Face nodded and did not refuse.
After Xu Fenian got the answer, he softly said, “Sleep early after you get off the mountain.”
The tall, dark-skinned girl silently turned around and left.
The white fox’s face looked at Xu Fengyen who sat back in his position and asked with a frown, “Such a good diamond embryo, you’re willing to be a shirker?”
Xu Fenian shook his head and said, “Staying by my side instead will not lead to growth. Martial cultivation is wasted with less sharpening, and without making a few trips back and forth to the ghost gate, even the best talent is useless.”
White Fox’s face was still staring at Xu Fenian.
Xu Fengnian awkwardly said, “You can probably see that this girl either learns from you and be a imposing …… man, or she can only be in the Northern Liang water and soil, reduced to a talk about any imposing, can only be considered as a breath like orchid euphonious woman, unusual young girl is okay to say, but this is not compatible with her Wang Sheng’s The heart does not match. I actually in the three disciples, she has the greatest selfishness, the highest hopes. Only this kind of words can’t be said out, once said out, the heart is far more delicate than Lu Yunchang’s, the pressure will be even greater, may be directly crush her. When Wang Sheng follows you through Northern Liang and to Northern Mang, she will be able to draw on the unique majestic wind and masculinity of the border, and be able to focus on it in a single breath, which is more direct and effective than any verbal teachings and perusal of secret books.”
Xu Fengnian swirled his wine glass and smiled, “Of the three disciples, Yu Di Long I will take with me, otherwise I don’t feel at ease. Lu Yunchang will be thrown to the Fish Dragon Gang for a period of time, and then thrown into the border later. As for Wang Sheng, go with you.”
Xu Fengnian turned his head to look further north than Beiliang and said softly, “Beimang, I’ve been there and know that the sky is high and the clouds hang over the land. Moreover, there is a person who practiced to become a sword there.”
White Fox’s face looked at this man who was not yet thirty years old, staggering and wearing a sword to walk the river, after all was said and done, it was only for the sake of revenge. Next drinking horses in the north, what was the plan?
Xu Fengnian slapped his forehead and ran down the mountain.
White Fox face floated contempt, this guy is in a hurry to go down the mountain what else can be done, Wutong courtyard that is a yard of warblers and swallows.
Xu Fengyen is to go to the Wutong courtyard is not true, but there is really nothing dirty thoughts, two future consorts of Qingliang Mountain, talent only in the second sister under the great literary Wang Chudong, ran to go to Liangzhou, a school lectures to go, by that do not let people worry about the family drag, Lu Chenyan will have to labor a lot of effort and effort, can only stay in the Sycamore courtyard for a large gang of Lu’s children to accumulate merit, a bit of merit to make up for the meaning of the past. Even Xu Weixiong earlier mentioned a mouth, to Xu Fengyen must go to the yard to see that the current in-laws of the mother’s family inside and outside of the poor sister-in-law not pleasing. Xu Fengyen walked into every night lights are not extinguished elegant quiet courtyard, some sadness, remembered the delicate maid green ants them, they have no choice but to live in the alternative jianghu, not even half a bit of blood and vigor will not be there, from beginning to end, there is only cold plotting and scheming and betrayal against their will. Xu Fengnian did not rush into the house, looking around the familiar courtyard with lights like daytime, the smiling faces of those wonderful women, haunting, and I do not know if they used to fight here year after year, whether they were really happy.
Tonight is Lu Chengyan and a third-class maid string song on duty batch of red, three desks, piles of books, string song since childhood in Wutong Dean upbringing, Xu Fengyen is familiar with, at this time is concentrating on lifting a rod of brush sharp badger pen, this pen contains ink deep but spit ink uniformly, easy to write for a long time, and has always been string song favorite hard hair, probably she encountered indecisive matters, long arm dare not put down the pen, dipping the ink! The brush has drawn new and old ink stains on her face, and she is unaware of them, like a cat with a flowery face. In addition to the string song, there is a fresh face, Xu Fengyen knows that she is the second sister carefully screened out of the young girl, called Jun Qiu, is considered a newcomer to the Wutong courtyard, her hands dispose of the secret files compared to the predecessor of the string song to be a few points of the rough, she was originally in the use of the five fingers to hold the other wrist gently turning, soon saw him the figure of the king of northern Liang, startled, to pop up and salute solemnly, the string song has also returned to their senses, Xu Fengyen to them! Made a silent gesture, quietly walked to the innermost table, saw that unfamiliar more than familiar young woman ambling to sleep, slender shoulders, faint snoring, should be exhausted.
Xu Fengyen gently moved a chair to sit beside her, looking at the batch of Zhu finished and then neatly placed stacks of official documents, carefully categorized, her arms pressed a not yet penned folders, Xu Fengyen looked down, is the flow of the state side of an official, said it is now being secretly carried out in a big change of blood, a batch of displaced people orderly moved into the rich land of the Lingzhou, and then resettlement did not have a seat to sit on the LiangYuYingLing three states of the field of the officials Scholars are entering the state to serve as officials. Xu Fengyen retracted his sight, seriously surveyed this own has been detached from the Qingzhou woman, she wore a piece of small flower brocade dress, far less than the Jiangnan women’s attire of that kind of layers and layers of intestines, the north of Liang day and night temperature difference is extremely large, the back of the chair hangs a cold with a light green smock, probably slept hurriedly, forgot to put on, so she sleeps subconsciously hugged tightly arms, more than likely did not sleep soundly. Xu Fenian sighed, carefully pulled out the coverall and helped her cover it. Xu Fengyen of course knew that this was the Lu family woman that Edward Lu Fei, the Senior Pillar State, had doted on and appreciated with all his heart, Lu Chengyan was very smart, and it was precisely because of her intelligence that she could sense that the Xu family, from Xu Snapdragon to Xu Weixiong, as well as him as his husband, were all more biased in favor of Wang Chudong rather than her at the bottom of their hearts. But such a never show half a bit of aggression and resentment of the woman, but also made in the Lu’s new ancestral hall outside the sword to kill the action, not only those Lu’s old small, it is estimated that even her father to be dissatisfied, although married out of the daughter is inevitably splashed out of the water, but the elbow is also too much to the Xu family turn, even half of them do not let Lu’s family as the family take advantage of the mother, it is a person will inevitably be slandered, and then why she Lu Chen Yan The first thing you need to do is to get a good deal of money. The Lu family has gone through a lot of hard work to come to this poor place to take root, shouldn’t they enjoy a little bit of blessing and a little bit of light?
Xu Fengyen sat next to Lu Chenyan, began to annotate a sheet of official documents, during the period of the third-class maid string song tiptoed close, whispered that Miss Lu let herself half an hour after the wake her up, Xu Fengyen waved his hand.
Late at night, the only thing is the brush across the rice paper, gently rustling.
The new maid Jun Qiu would occasionally be bold enough to turn her head and quietly look at the young man who was the ultimate in earthly riches.
When the sky outside the window was white, Xu Fengyen finished approving large and small folded official documents, and walked out of Wutong courtyard without a sound.
Jun Qiu was sleepless all night.
Peeking again and again, he could not see how this suave young feudal lord could kill that Wudi City Lord, that was an old monster who had lived for a hundred years!
String Song, who hadn’t dared to make a sound, took a ball of scrap paper and smashed this girl who didn’t know what was important, and the latter playfully spat out her tongue.
When Lu Chengyan woke up in a daze, Xu Fengnian had already left the city to rush to the border.
All she could see was the large mountain pile on the table, which had been emptied.