Chapter 107: Under the Stars
When Liu Yunu’s generals left the courtyard, Xu Fengyen asked the guards outside the courtyard to call for the two captives, County Lord Hongyan was wolfing down her food elsewhere, and when she reluctantly walked into the courtyard, her clothes were still in rags, but her mouth was full of grease, and she even burped when she crossed the threshold. This made the Liu Zi Army cavalryman beside her, who was still wearing armor and carrying a sword and bow, feel new and strange, probably realizing that a woman like her wasn’t truly unappetizing. On the table, there was still a small half altar of green ant wine left, which was obviously Liu Yunu’s “mercy”, Xu Fengyen picked up the wine bowl and pointed to a few stone benches, County Head of Hongyan sat down on her butt, and the young rider, who had become more and more respectful to Xu Fengyen, still stood honestly. Hongyan County Princess glanced at the table of the wine altar wine bowl, subconsciously sniffling, lice are not afraid of itch, simply pour themselves a bowl of wine, green ant wine, she tasted in the reverse horse pass, and even drank in the royal court in the capital, did not feel much good drink, today a bowl of wine from the tip of the tongue to the throat and then burned to the intestines and stomach, the whole person is instantly warmed up, full of warmth and satiety, finally all complete. Incidentally, she looked at Xu Fengyen’s eyes a few more points of provocation, she knew that Xu Fengyen did not let her kill herself at that time, she wanted to die again will be much more difficult than want to live, this is of course not necessarily a good thing, before entering the tiger’s head city, she thought of Xu Fengyen countless kinds of humiliating her as the Hongyan County Lord of the insidious methods, but for the time being it seems to be in a really bad situation, but it is still within the scope of her tolerance. She tilted her head back and drank the wine in the bowl in one big gulp, wiped the corners of her mouth and smiled charmingly, ”What, Your Highness wants me to serve you in bed? Then why don’t you let me change into clean clothes?”
Xu Fengnian asked rhetorically, “Do you need me to give you a mirror to look at yourself?”
Hongyan County Lord was infuriated, just about to raise her hand to throw the bowl of wine, but quickly suppressed the impulse and poured another bowl of wine in silence, able to dabble with a bowl.
Xu Fengyen also ignored this fallen phoenix, turned his head to look at the cavalryman who called himself Beggar’s Dragon Crown and said, “You are very talented in practicing martial arts, and this is also the reason why I won’t kill you.”
There was another reason Xu Feng Nian did not say, from Kilfu Long Guan’s eyes, he could not see the hatred that even an outsider like County Lord Hongyan would have, even if a person could hide his face and eyes, the flow of his qi was simply nothing to hide from Xu Feng Nian’s eyes, and qi ups and downs were directly linked to happiness, anger, sadness and joy. This means that Beggar’s Dragon Crown, a buried diamond, may be able to go very far in the path of martial arts. Of course the most critical reason is Xu Fenian hope that there is a person who can check and balance disciple Yu Di Long in the future, this youngest but as a big disciple of the child, unlike the distinctive character of the Wang Sheng and Lv Yun Chang, there are too many unpredictable, Xu Fenian do not want to the future of the jianghu in their own hands in the future more than one Xuan Yuan Dapan. Kilfu Longguan this is like the roadside casually picked up a cat or dog, his martial arts talent is not the best Xu Fengnian has seen, but belongs to the most interesting, such as Jiang Nai and Guanyin Sect charcoal selling girl, called the sword embryo, and such as Hong Washiang and Longhu Mountain Zhao Ningshen, is a real person reincarnation of the body, called Bodhi son, the Buddhist sect also has reincarnation of the spiritual child, then Kilfu Longguan a little bit of a four, what all dabbled with a little bit of the side, and what is not pure and clear. Precisely so, but most in line with Xu Fengyen’s martial arts journey, mixed and mixed, melting and casting a furnace. Not to mention that in that fight, Kilfoyle Dragon’s Crown really captured Xu Fengyen’s celestial being’s “line of separation” between breaths.
In today’s world, there are only a handful of them, and this nobody is one of them.
Kilfu Longguan is only eighteen years old now, and is already one of Liu Gui’s personal army iron cavalry, we must know that Gu Jiantang, who is the number one in sword skills, may not be as good as Kilfu Longguan at this age, of course, Xu Fengyen was even more so at the beginning.
Kilfu Longguan was a bit nervous, and said in a trembling voice: ”Bei Liang Prince, I was an orphan since I was a child, and I mix wherever there is food to eat. If Your Highness doesn’t trust little one, you can let little one be a Beiliang border army, foot soldier can do, kill Beimang certainly not soft.”
County Lord Hongyan smiled grimly at this time, fanning the flames and said, “Orphan? Maybe your parents died under the hooves of the Northern Liang iron horsemen? It’s not too late for a gentleman to take revenge.”
Kilowood Long Guan is far less than she has the heart of the city, but also is not a fool with a short root, a time did not hold back, directly scolded: “Bitch! Put your mother’s stinking ass!”
This young man said with red eyes, “My parents were killed alive by you rich and powerful Southern Dynasty bastards!”
Countess Hongyan became furious, “Southern Dynasty? The Southern Dynasty is nothing, the entire Southern Dynasty is a watchdog raised by my Yelu family name! I am Yelu Hongcai, I should have been the county lord of the king’s tent where a lowly person like you would never be able to walk within a hundred paces for the rest of your life!”
Kilowood Longguan breathed heavily, his chest rising and falling, before striding forward and slamming a slap across the face at this twat.
County Lord Hongyan wasn’t a wooden head, lowered her head, backed up, and hid behind Xu Fengnian in a puff of smoke, chattering with a smug look on her face, “Hey, couldn’t hit! Look at you, you deserve to live your life without being able to avenge your parents. Yo, maybe trash like you have been serving those enemies of the Southern Dynasty in the military, too Oh ……”
Beggar’s Dragon’s Crown suddenly calmed down and stared at the woman dead on.
Hongyan County Mistress felt a bone-deep chill, carefully took back the wine bowl and poured herself another bowl of green ant wine.
At this moment, the knock on the door sounded softly.
Xu Fenian poured two bowls of wine and said softly, “Senior Tantai, please come in.”
When the uninvited guest sat down, Xu Fengyen handed over a bowl of wine, and the other party was not polite and took a sip of the wine, his cheeks slightly red.
Yelu Hongzhai looked at the tall woman with curiosity.
Raising her hands and feet, she showed the grandmaster’s demeanor, as well as a heart-stopping writing style.
Xu Fengnian asked with a smile, “How did senior know that I had arrived at Tiger’s Head City?”
Tantai calmly and indifferently said, “I have heard my master say before, the celestials overlooking all beings in the world, as we look at the fireflies on a summer night, most of the fireflies flickered away, but there are always a few, especially bright, and even at a certain moment, momentarily bright as a star.”
Xu Fengyen instantly realized in his heart, it must be the previous interception of the four hundred riders, the qi pouring out, letting this Qi Practitioner Master who was adept at qi lookout catch the clues, and then just waiting for rabbits in this Tiger Head City neighborhood. According to Tantai calm, accurately according to the exposition of the patriarch’s master, the world’s top human masters are also the clouds of the immortal’s “people in the world”, but such as Tuoba Bodhisattva Cao Changqing these masters, they emit firefly will be particularly eye-catching. Qi Practitioners were doing the deed of mending the law net for the heaven, so naturally, it would be easier to find this small group of experts.
Xu Fengnian asked, “Isn’t it fair to say that the world’s cultivation of asking for proof of the Dao is to compete with the white moon with the light of a grain of rice?”
Tantai calmly shook his head, “Master said that cultivating the Dao is nothing more than a drop of water into the sea. Water from the Yellow River comes from the sky? No, it comes from the sea. Therefore, it runs to the sea and never returns? Not so.”
Xu Fenian snickered, “Your master’s words are all so witty and so …… reasonable?”
Tantai calmly laughed it off, as if for the honored one.
Xu Fengyen stared at the Hongyan Sheriff who still wanted to secretly pour a bowl of wine to drink, the latter resentfully retracted her hand.
Xu Fengyen pointed to the courtyard door, Beggar’s Dragon Crown took the lead to leave, Hongyan county princess waited for a few moments, guessing that the boy had already gone away, then sneakily touched the courtyard door to cross the threshold.
As a result, soon came a clear and loud “slap”, as well as Hong Yan county princess screamed angrily.
Tantai Calm said softly, “Your Highness has a good eye.”
Xu Fenian wondered, “What do you mean by that?”
She took a small sip of wine, “This pair are both people with qi, worthy of being sculpted by the king’s heart.”
Xu Fengnian sneered, “Qi luck?”
Tantai Calm’s expression remained unchanged, “Too much luck is qi luck. If you were a regular person, facing a martial arts evaluation expert who went on a killing spree, they would have survived with a hundred more lives?”
Xu Fenian was about to speak when Tantai calmly shook her head, “You have all your reasons, but that doesn’t stop the fact that they survived.”
She continued, “According to the prior agreement, my Guanyin Sect will stay south of Huaiyang Pass and north of Qinghe Pass, and we will also try our best to do something to gather qi for Beiliang, but ultimately, it is not up to the Beiliang Border Army to decide whether to stay or go.”
Xu Fengnian nodded, “This is natural.”
She still said bluntly, “If Your Highness is unfortunate enough to die?”
Xu Fengnian said helplessly, “Don’t worry, if that day really comes, I will gift the charcoal seller chick all of it before I die.”
Tantai calmly hung his wine bowl and asked in a serious manner, “The great war is approaching, you and I are talking about this, isn’t it a bit obscure?”
Xu Fengnian laughed as he looked at this woman who seemed to be completely uninitiated in the world and asked rhetorically, “What do you think?”
Tantai Calm rested one arm on the stone table, one hand resting on the wine bowl, looking up at the starry sky.
Xu Fenian was in a peaceful state of mind, closing his eyes and slowly sipping his wine.
The two people whose sights did not intersect very casually asked and answered one question at a time.
“The Northern Mang army’s strength on the border is almost at its geographic limit, but it still has spare troops and horses to pursue the next wave of offense on the northern grasslands. In the face of such an enemy that should be fought by the entire Liyang Dynasty, aren’t you worried about the most dangers-free Liuzhou?”
“Of course I’m worried. It’s probably like when Xu Snap watched me go to the Central Plains and Northern Mang.”
“To fight Liangzhou to fight Liuzhou to fight Youzhou, where to fight first, each has its own advantages and disadvantages for Northern Mang. What do you think?”
“Actually, it doesn’t matter where you fight first. My father Xu Snapdragon, my master Li Yishan, Yuan Zuozong, Chu Lushan, Yan Wenluan, Chen Yuntui He Zhongku, and people like Liu Yunu of Tiger’s Head Castle have already done the best of what Beimang should do. You may not believe it when I say it, but I’m beginning to think that Northern Liang may actually be able to hold on. But who will die in battle next in Northern Liang, I won’t know. Nor do I want to know.”
“Then why didn’t Topaz Bodhisattva show up at the border?”
“It’s like the Zhao Family’s Heavenly Prince dying to keep Gu Jiantang in the Northlands instead of letting him go to Guangling Dao because it’s the dynasty’s last killer weapon. When that old woman and the Imperial Master needed Tuoba Bodhisattva himself, it meant that the situation was only then beginning to stray from control. Until then, they were convinced that they had a solid victory.”
Tantai Calm suddenly asked a very off-topic question, “Why didn’t you kill that Northern Mang County Lord?”
Xu Fengnian was dumbfounded, silent for a moment, looking at the starry sky with her, “Of course it’s not that I like her, it’s just that she reminds me of someone I miss a lot, the same fondness for ermine overlays, the same notoriety, and the same fierce character. I can kill her but I don’t, but it’s just because I want her to know how hard it is to live.”
Tantai calmly poured the last bit of wine from the wine altar into his bowl and drank it all in one go, “Who is she that you really care about?”
Xu Fenian stretched out his finger and pointed at the starry sky, softly saying, “My big sister, there.”
After an unknown amount of time, Xu Fengyen returned to his senses and couldn’t help but hold his forehead and sigh.
This Dynasty’s No. 1 Qi Practitioner, whose status was superb and whose strength was also superb, had not only drunkenly fallen asleep, but was also lying on the table, snoring slightly.
Xu Fengyen’s mind was so sharp that he looked at her and sighed, “You should be missing that master of yours, right?”