Chapter 150: Wind and Thunder in the Garden

Xu Fengyen did not know who the person in front of the monument was talking about, but with his excellent memory, he recognized the old man’s identity at a glance, and it was the old servant of Qingliang Mountain who had temporarily become a stonemason, the ginger-loving Wu Jiang, who had stood amongst the group of stonemasons at the time of their first meeting, with his hunchbacked figure and vicissitudes of life, and was not conspicuous. If Xu Fengyen hadn’t plummeted, he might have been able to see some clues at that time. Xu Fengyen did not retreat, slowly forward, and only then realized that the old man who straightened up his back and did not cower in fear, had an excellent demeanor, and even had a powerful aura of the center of the temple court elder.

In Xu Fenian’s impression, pure jianghu people, the older generation of experts, in addition to Han Sheng Xuan Sui Xiegu two, it is easy to let a person daunted outside, the old Huang, the old man sheepskin fur, the old real person Zhao Xituan of Longhu Mountain, at first glance with the lofty martial arts masters are unrelated to the horse and cattle. This makes Xu Fengnian sure of his previous guess, the old man under the name of Wu Jiang, even if it is not the Western Chu Dynasty’s saint of calligraphy, Qi Lianhua, who is known as “seal script, cursive, running script, all thousand years of the top”, but also with the saint of the book, it’s not difficult to hide his clumsiness, but not so easy to hide his clumsiness in calligraphy. Qi Lianhua, who was born from a powerful warlord, is recognized as a great scholar with outstanding talent, but in the Chu dynasty, he was only an official Hanlin editor, and only did some small work to help Jiang’s son of heaven to write enjoined articles and inscriptions and offerings, and compiled half of the history of the previous dynasty that ended without any problems, and therefore had the nicknames of “Qi Half” and “Timothy” at that time. Therefore, at that time, there were also the nicknames of “Qi Half” and “Flower Adding Lang”, the latter of which implied that Qi Lianhua would only add flowers to flowers but could not send charcoal to charcoal in the snow. After the destruction of Western Chu, the family of Guangling Qi declined, and Qi Lianhua was nowhere to be found, which further solidified the claim that Qi was a flower adorning his wife. At that time about the spring and autumn thirteen a and a boisterous public case, qi lian hua is the western chu force launched the “book a”, especially to the line of the book is good at, only fourteen words of the “warring states sticker” a world of the world’s second line of the book’s praise, and later by the official Liyang designated as the spring and autumn painting and calligraphy double a of the right of nalan ci, there is a world of the first line of the book “ascension of the guan sticker ” and its competition, only the world is not very willing to buy this statement, do not recognize the double A Nalan right Ci said, and only recognized Qi Lianhua’s calligraphy attainments catch up with the ancient sages, but for the Spring and Autumn Book A belongs to, is not in the cursive “a ride on the dust, no one to compete with,” Huang Longshi belongs to. Later on, Liyang could not wait to launch the Song family old man as the literary armor, the same people scoffed, you Song old man at ease to be a Liyang Zhao family dog of the literary world leader is just, there is the Shangyin Palace Priest Qiyang Dragon in front of the jade, how to be since ancient times there is no text of the first Spring and Autumn “literary armor”? The court of Liyang was not satisfied, since there is no first in literature, but there is no second in martial arts, so they wanted to push the Wudi City Wang Xianzhi as the martial arts armor, only to be the self-proclaimed “second in the world” Wang old monster directly rejected. Therefore, the Spring and Autumn Thirteen A on the emergence of a number of dazzling version, which has the Longhu Mountain Zhao Taoist a certain number of armor, but the most widely circulated and the most persuasive, is still the earliest version of that. Although many people had lost touch with the thirteen Armors of Spring and Autumn, no matter what, as long as they could be nominated and talked about, naturally none of them was a dragon and phoenix among people. Xu Fengyen’s master Li Yishan was on Qi Lianhua’s calligraphy was highly respected, saying that its running script is worthy of the crown of the ancient and modern, so Xu Fengyen was naturally affected by the fish, young practicing the running script, are copying the few copies of the real handwriting of the “Qi stickers”, I don’t know how many times I scolded Qi Lianhua.

Xu Fengnian is very curious about the old man in front of him, if it is really Qi Lianhua himself, how did he become a fish in the net of Qingliang Mountain, the dead soldiers of Western Chu, in order to let the masters of the Northern Liang Royal House look away, relying on stoicism is not enough, there must be a need to have a horror of the strength as support. For the old man hibernation Xu family itself this matter, Xu Fengyen is not surprised, Jiang Nai as the only bloodline of the Western Chu royal family, naturally, can make “the country to raise soldiers for two hundred years, do not die enough to report the king’s grace” of the Western Chu soldiers to go forward, but really let Xu Fengyen scrupulous about things, is the deceased Princess Jiang Si by Xu Snapdragon back to Beiliang is a big secret! If not, Cao Changqing wouldn’t have secretly visited the Liyang court for many years to no avail, how did the old man in front of him know about it?

Xu Fengyen did not immediately retreat from the tomb, and instead, he looked at an old Chu legacy, but in fact, he was taking a big risk. Although Xu Snapdragon has taken the liberty of leaving a precious Jiang “remnants” for Western Chu, but after all, the Western Wall is Xu Snapdragon himself down, Western Chu Palace door is also he personally led the troops crashed, the Emperor and Empress is dead in front of his Xu Snapdragon, Xu Snapdragon can be said to be only a personal favor to the Western Chu and have a hatred of the country. What’s more, now Guangling Road smoke, Liyang war is unfavorable, in the world’s view of the Northern Liang iron horsemen even if they can not carry the North Mang millions of army’s southern invasion, but if you say that a large-scale retreat out of the barren Northwest, run to the Central Plains to clean up the rebels of the Western Chu, is absolutely more than enough, today’s dynasty and the field, many people feel that this is undoubtedly Xu Fengyen this king of the Northern Liang’s retreat options, Liyang can not die a soldier, the Northern Liang also have enough military achievements to place! As for the 300,000 border troops, it’s a big deal to break them up, anyway, Dazhuguo Gu Jiantang’s two Liao border line can absorb more than 100,000 in one breath. Therefore, the Western Chu court is very attentive to the movements of the Northern Liang border troops, especially Xu Fengyen, for fear that the young feudal king will someday have a brain fart and run all the way to the hinterland of the Central Plains with a large army, taking them to Chu as a surrender to the new ruler of Liyang.

At this moment Xu Fengyen side to get out of the hands of the experts, only Mi Fengjie Fan Xiao hairpin two people, and are outside the mausoleum may not trespass into the forbidden land. Sword eating old ancestor Sui Shiaogu and the Wu family’s hundred riders are all on the northern line of Liangzhou to prevent the Northern Mang from assassinating Chu Lushan inside the Northern Liang capital at any cost. Xu Yan Bing was still single-handedly chasing down that group of Northern Mang’s top experts who had joined forces to infiltrate Youzhou, and Tantai Calm and the Guanyin Sect disciples were also cooperating with Xu Yan Bing to make sure to keep that Little Nian Tou and the Great Luck House in Youzhou.

If in the past, where in the world could Xu Fengyen not go?

The old man carefully sized up this somewhat disoriented young man with complex eyes, perhaps his very presence added a bit more sword-fighting to the surrounding atmosphere, but the late old man somehow did not seem to have any hostile intent. Xu Fengyen’s peak realm was no longer there for the time being, but his keen intuition was still there, so when Mi Fengjie Fan Xiaochai, who realized that there was a change in the mausoleum, rushed into the garden, Xu Fengyen just raised his hand and signaled for the two to exit. Mi Fengjie silently left, Fan Xiaochai hesitated, still standing in the distance, Xu Fengyen also did not care about the unauthorized behavior of this female dead soldier.

The old man in simple clothes put his hands behind his back and smiled, “Xu Snapdragon never did a single thing in that life that I liked, but he gave birth to a good son.”

Upon hearing this strangely loud and disrespectful remark, Xu Fengyen could not help but frown, but quickly relieved, the old generation of literati were originally concerned about their bones, otherwise how would they have the courage to achieve the goal of ruling the world with a scholar and a king? Besides, this person is very likely to be anonymous Western Chu orphans, to the Northern Liang to Xu Snapdragon has a monstrous resentment is reasonable. Xu Fengnian smiled and asked, “Dare I ask if the old gentleman is the Western Chu Qi Shu Sheng?”

The old man’s face was a bit odd, neither denying nor admitting, just looking straight at Xu Fengnian. If Xu Fengyen, whose face was similar to that of Princess Wu Su, was the Jade Tree, the suave young man in the eyes of the women of the world, then the old man, who could vaguely be seen to have a marvelous appearance in his youth, his appearance was at least worthy of the term “old Jade Tree”. Xu Fengyen was measured a little uncomfortable, the world look at him, before in Beiliang is the kind of His Highness wasted a good skin line of sight, and later in Tai’an City is to look at the contempt of the son of a human butcher, and so on the results of his battle with Wang Xianzhi, there is a huge shift, even if it is a bratty known in the world of Beiliang border generals, such as Li Morfan Wang Lingbao streams, there is a heartfelt admiration in the eyes, but not the old man in front of us this kind of inexplicable, the only thing is that the old man in front of him is not as good as the young man. The only thing that is not in front of the old man this inexplicable eyes.

The old man said softly: “Earlier see you book Dan in the monument, can see that under a lot of hard work, you since the Wudang practice sword can be in the martial arts all the way to the courage and refinement, need to thank Li Yishan. Practicing calligraphy and chess two things, to the realm, one method through all methods, although not every calligraphy everyone and chess player can become a capable minister, or become a disciple of Li Mi like martial arts master, but for a person’s mind shaping, greatly beneficial. The dry natured Xu Snapdragon had a great change of heart after he was crowned as a feudal lord, and it had a lot to do with his learning of chess in his later years.”

Xu Fengnian did not speak. Xu primrose in Liaodong Jinzhou when he made his fortune is just an illiterate ranger, can say Xu Fenian ancestry and what bookish family what cultivation and study of the family are not even hit, the reason why Xu primrose to the north of Liang has become a big stinky chess basket, can with the second sister Xu Weixiong’s master Wang priest, two big stinky basket of chess can be able to kill the hearty and full-blown darkness of the earth, is not for no reason, at first Xu Fenian’s mother wanted Xu primrose to play more chess to sharpen the impatience of the nature, but also to make Xu primrose a good chess master, and to make him a better chess master, and to make Xu primrose a better chess master. At first, Xu Fengnian’s mother wanted Xu Snapdragon to play more chess to sharpen his impatience, and when he reached the age, it was time for him to cultivate his life. At first, Xu Snap was always three days to fish and two days to sunbathe in the net, can escape is to escape, over time, the princess will no longer say more, and then Xu Fengyen liked to play chess, probably after the death of the Wangfei, as the first eldest son of the boy Xu Fengyen and Xu Snap’s relationship with the relationship between the stalemate, Xu Snap should want to get along with his son more time, finally began to seriously learn chess, but soon be gifted His Royal Highness pulled away from the gap between the eighteen streets, after that! Xu Fengnian and Li Yishan don’t like to play chess with Xu Snapdragon, and then how to let the chess can also kill Xu Snapdragon, even if Xu Snapdragon wants to humiliate himself, it also has to look at today’s world the only teacher and disciple in the world that can not sell him the face of the duo have the mood is not it? Xu Weixiong has always been able to play chess with Xu Snapdragon with patience, but perhaps in the heart of Xu Snapdragon, who never hides his patriarchal preference for his daughter, it’s still more fun to play chess with his son, even if he’s been killed by Xu Fengyen on the chessboard and there are not many pieces left, the old Liang King who has won a great deal of battles with his horse in the Spring and Autumn and the cripple Xu who is recognized as the one who has the greatest sense of victory and defeat in the Liyang Dynasty will still feel very happy.

The unparalleled success of pacifying Spring and Autumn has made Xu Snap and the late Emperor Zhao Dun’s father both equal when meeting as monarchs and courtiers, and in the future, they were even able to wear their swords to the court, but in Qingliang Mountain, many scenes always make people, especially outsiders, feel absurd, Xu Snap is being hunted down in Wutong Courtyard, and in the king’s house, the main seat of the banquet guest is actually the young prince. This is not to say that in the bells and whistles of the public and general ministers of the family, is a small family, when the old man should not be so spoiled son, the son should not be so disobedient is right. At the end of the day, Liyang’s side will find an impeccable reason to attack Beiliang, the upper beam is not straight and the lower beam is crooked.

Xu Fengyen shook his head gently, letting his deserted self hurry up and concentrate, although the old man in front of him did not show the slightest murderous intent, but after all, he is a first-class hidden expert. Liang Mang war is imminent, if you die here, the death of the place is still appropriate, but the time is very wrong, not to mention, I am afraid that the Northern Mang can be at least less than 100,000 people died.

The old man laughed and asked, “You think I am that Western Chu Qi Lianhua?”

Xu Fengnian nodded.

The old man slowly stretched out a palm, “When you lift the pen, when you concentrate, like the sages of the previous dynasty book sages and book fairies sitting at the same table with a hundred people, the heart is right and the qi is harmonious, so that it can be fit into the subtle, close to the Great Dao. The way as the national temple weight, virtual is up full is covered, only in the flat.”

The old man’s hand gesture changed, “the ancient cloud wrist in ambush ghost, the pen has as God’s help, so the front is full of potential on all sides, the second heavy real finger, finger real section of the force are flat. Again virtual palm, palm virtual is used as intended ……”

“Hop le at le, shi word is also. Da Chu to raise soldiers for two hundred years, the country broke twenty years, there is still a morale can not be insulted.”

“For the ring must be depressed, for the wave must tear off limbs.”

“The tearing of limbs must be sent out of the war pen, and the satisfaction of the Xu Nai out of it.”

As the old man narrated, the garden was filled with wind and thunder!

Outside the mausoleum Mi Fengjie face pale, behind the box in the sword trembling more than, such as struck by lightning, whimpering and wailing.

In the garden, Fan Xiaochai’s face is bloodless, shaking, but still grit his teeth and stubbornly do not step back.

The old man’s palm slowly flip, seems to be just a pen slowly outline, like a pedantic old man in teaching private school children how to write one stroke at a time, but in the eyes of Xu Fengyen is a shocking wave, and even reminds him of that year in Tai’an City outside the hall, Gu Jiantang to the world’s first talismanic knife “South China”, to a style of square inch thunder return Cao Changqing’s approach! Both of them are on the same path, both of them have the wonderful ability to transform the corrupt into the magical, and they have reached the state of perfection. The wind and snow drifted, Xu Fengyen’s expression was heavy, earlier he and the Sword Dao Master Mi Fengjie both thought that the residue of the stone tablet was the sword qi carved by the fingers, now it seems that it was not even close to a thousand miles.

This old man, using a sword.

Xu Fengyen did not look at the fluffy wind and snow in the sky that was like being cut by a sword, and asked, “Old Mr. Qi turned out to be a sword armor among the thirteen armors of the Spring and Autumn Period?”

The old man did not answer this question, but his five fingers were slightly bent to make a closed posture, and asked in return, “Hoping to make a decision at a decision?”

Taking the standing position as the center of the circle, surrounded by a few feet without a snowflake Xu Fengyen helplessly replied, “‘Year’ is also the word.”

The old man closed his hand and sighed, “Yes, the word ‘year’. Xu Fenian.”

The wind and snow in the garden finally returned to normal, and another snowflake rustled down on Xu Fengyen’s head and shoulders.