Chapter 199 – Six taels and three

Xu Fengyen in the eight hundred white horse righteous escort, and not according to the original plan straight to the tiger head city, in order to in Huaiyang pass in the center of dispatch, but to give a shout to a place further south, with the northern Liang road rare can be called the mountains and beautiful beautiful beautiful scenery, abundant water, mountainous and steep, geography, naturally, it is difficult to escape the eyes of the military. It was in this place that Northern Liang wanted to build a city even more majestic than Tiger Head City, with huge trees from the mountains of Western Shu and Southern Zhao, stored for many years in Northern Liang, and countless boulders that had almost hollowed out the peaks of Danyu Cave Sky, being transported along the wide stagecoach road. Under the young feudal king’s hammering orders, with the Qingliang Mountain royal residence as the hub, the three states’ assassins’ residences and the local garrisons as the main force, almost the entire Beiliang Road except for Liujiu, was moved by this new city, just like the mammoth qi in the body of a master, and began to operate in a rapid manner. The new city by Xu Fengyen himself as a temporary set up will be a master craftsman position, the Secretary Li Gongde and a Mozi giant as the governor, the four assassins higher than half a grade of Liangzhou assassin Wang Peifang, the former Qingzhou God of wealth Wang Linquan, including a total of six people, as a Deputy Supervisor to participate in the specific affairs, a mouthful of all the garrison south of the Liangzhou border, and more than one hundred thousand years of age in the following fifty years of the three States of the military register of servitude, as much as possible! The groundbreaking and construction work is in full swing.

Nowadays, in Northern Liang, the only person who can give orders to Xu Fenian is definitely that Xu Weixiong who has just been appointed as Princess Fu Jing by the Liyang court. In the twilight of the setting sun, Xu Fengyen and Xu Weixiong, along with several powerful governors and deputy governors, were walking slowly along the riverbank, and that giant son of the Mozi family, who came out of Qingliang Mountain to enter the world together with Yang Guangdou, the Assassin of Liuzhou, was unable to get away for the time being, so of course Li Gongde, the same governor, who was also one of the strategic ambassadors, had to be present, to talk about the progress of the construction of the new city for the young feudal lord. In the past few years, Li Gongde could be said to have tasted all the flavors of life, firstly, he was honored to be the second grade of the Secretary of Strategy, and became the premier border official of the Liyang Dynasty, and then before he could sit down on the chair underneath his buttocks, he encountered the tumultuous pattern of the “change of dynasty” in Beiliang, and sure enough, Xu Beihao seized the title of Assassin of Lingshou State, a title that he had firmly held without saying anything, followed by Song Dongming’s assumption of the position of Governor of Qingliang Mountain, and then Song Dongming’s assumption of the position of Governor of Qingliang Mountain. The new king’s decision to appoint Song Dongming as the unorthodox deputy governor of Qingliang Mountain was naturally a check-and-balance measure in the eyes of the Northern Liang officials, but just when everyone mistakenly thought that Li Gongde was going to get the hell out of there, the young king immediately appointed him as the governor of the new city, and the desolate scene of the Governor’s mansion in early spring of the second year of the Xiangfu reign is still fresh in the minds of the officials in Lingzhou. Now many officials are beginning to regret that they did not take the opportunity to burn the cold stove. And Li Gongde after rushing to this place, but also with the past like two people, with the Mozi giant with the wind and food, so that even tired of the most important health Tian Peifang also ate a lot of pain.

Li Gongde said dry mouth, casually from the waist took off the water pot mixed with a number of flavors of fire Chinese medicine, filled a mouthful, and then heartfelt emotion: “Your Highness, my humble servant in Beiliang to do most of the life of the local officials, are digging into the mind to figure out the way of the official, even after moving into that carriage when sitting, but also secretly happy that Your Highness did not forget me Li Gongde, when the curtain was lifted up. Look at the iron horse guards dispatched by the royal family, and then look at the car outside that a face that re-flattered up, doubly cozy, like personally smacked them a big mouth, painful ah.”

Although Tian Peifang is a high-powered Liangzhou assassin, but still do not have the qualifications and Xu Fengyen Li Gongde several people walk side by side, can only pull away a few steps distance to follow behind them, because the Lord Secretary General did not deliberately disguise his voice, all to Tian Peifang hear in the ear, after chewing on the old man of the Northern Liang most will be an official is really admired to the ground, Li Li adults to see a needle in a needle of kung fu is really pure fire ah, and that the And this is not hesitate to tarnish the image of the heart and lungs, really know the essence of inviting favor and fixing favor. Tian Peifang felt that he had benefited a lot, and had the feeling that “listening to you is better than reading ten years of books”.

Li Gongde turned his head to look north at the address of the new city, laughed softly: “When he promised Hanlin to go to the border from the army, in fact, at the beginning, only thought of this baby son in the border army on the head of the mixed life, relying on his father’s relationship, to get a lieutenant when about the same, when the time is brocade clothes to return home, to return to his father’s talk is still useful on the place, but also a step forward, and later to do generals Also, do assassin also strike, better than in the border killed, so when I heard this kid sneak into the white horse crossbowmen, really scared souls, heard Li Hanlin even followed the Dragon Elephant Army attacked the Gusei state, but also as that open the way of the scouts, I’m the father of the period of time, which day did not burn incense to pray to the Buddha? So when Hanlin this kid alive and kicking back home, more than a few young people around him as a life for life robe brothers of life and death, I Li Gongde is to scold him, but can not scold ah! I like to collect money and greedy Li Gongde, how to give birth to such a son?”

Li Gongde said here, the pride on his face is extraordinarily strong, haha laughs: “How to give birth to such a son who makes father feel ashamed?!”

Li Gongde, who was so busy that his lips were full of blood blisters, paused for a moment, “So when this brat, who has been a profligate spender since he was a child, suddenly one day, said that he would take the silver he earned from hacking and slaying the heads of Northern Mang barbarians, and invited me to the best restaurant in Lingzhou to have a small drink. I, Li Gongde, am soothed, more soothed than if I had become the coveted Beiliang Dao’s strategic envoy myself, ah.”

Xu Fenian softly said, “Hanlin has been promoted to lieutenant according to the merit from the crossbowman standard chief, when I persuaded him to join the army, in fact, the same as uncle Li, just thought of letting him go to the border to calm his mind, save to do nothing in Lingzhou, all day to get into trouble, at that time, the most difficult is certainly the new uncle Li who became the strategic ambassador. I didn’t expect Hanlin to be so transformed, on his own, he became the top sharpshooter in the Northern Liang Border Army.”

Li Gongde suddenly lowered his voice and said hoarsely, “To speak from my heart, if I can reverse my decision, I am still unwilling to join the army, after all, I only have one son, if he is no longer there, who will send me to my old age? But also to send the black hair people? Even if he Li Hanlin is a lifetime of no great success of the prodigal son, in the view of the father, as long as live well, than what is strong. But there is no medicine of regret in the world that can be bought, since Hanlin has come to this point, no matter how much my Li Gongde’s heart is pounding every day, he can only do his best to listen to the fate of heaven.”

Li Gongde unorthodoxly took the lead in stopping and turning around, looking towards the city site, murmuring, “I, Beiliang, want to raise a high building here on the flat ground, and I want this city to stand majestically at the border! I, Li Gongde, don’t say anything about contributing to the Northern Liang Border Army, but I just happen to take this opportunity to personally do it, so that my own son who kills on the front line has more to rely on.”

Father’s love is like a mountain, all the fathers in the world, originally is the son’s dependence, from the beginning to the end, from old age, to death.

Somewhat out of character, Li Gongde smiled to himself, “Your Majesty, my humble servant will return to do his work first, or else he will spray spittle all over the face of that not-so-tempered giant son of the Mozi family.”

Xu Fengyen smiled and agreed, after the departure of the biggest official hat of the Lord Secretary, Wang Linquan Tian Peifang, these several deputy supervisors will also fill the position, especially Wang Linquan, special identity, not only he was Xu Snapdragon’s pawn when he was young, his daughter Wang Chudong is one of the future Beiliang Reserve Consort on the board, only because of the old Liangwang’s hasty death, the great joyful event is always delayed in Qingliang Mountain side. Now Beiliang Road, the two in-laws of the Beiliang royal family, according to Qingzhou valiant valves from the children of the Lu family should be more outstanding, but as time goes by, the ending is surprising, full of copper and Wang family has stood out, the Lu family seems to be incompatible with the soil, there are almost no several young children to serve as a powerful official of the Beiliang, calligraphy attainments of the contemporary head of the family of the JiangZuo Lu DongJiang is more depressing, reportedly a few storms later, the It is said that after a few storms, this Lu Breaker has irreconcilable conflicts with his daughter, Lu Chenyan. The Beiliang officialdom has different views on this, originally still on the king and the land two families bet on half of the light, with Wang Linquan as the new city deputy supervisor and Lu Dongjiang but not after this post, completely side by side. But maybe it is Qingliang Mountain in order to Lu family face is not too embarrassing, Lu Dongjiang a nephew became responsible for the new city to create the degree of grain and grass of the master, different from the unattainable but temporarily set up the deputy supervisor, in the north of the Liang this is a very easy to turn to the correct official position, at this moment this Lu’s son in more than twenty steps away from the tightly followed, the Lu family, the majority of the men are suave and elegant, this person is no exception, today he deliberately took off the official robes and changed into a new fresh and brightly colored clothes. Today, he deliberately took off his official robes and changed into a brand new and bright brocade clothes, in the team, he appeared to be especially superior to the common people, and he was accompanied by a few scholars of the same age.

Xu Fengyen actually recognized the identity of this person at a glance, Lu Cheng Yan’s cousin Lu Cheng Song, Qingzhou Lu family in the Chancellor of the generation of the leading elite, but Xu Fengyen for this person of the flock, some helpless, into the countryside need to follow the custom, is the simplest truth, the flock is actually equal to the out of place, the officialdom to hang out, who is not the same as the light and the dust, is very jealous of this kind of angle, after all, and pay attention to the high standard of clear and elegant scholarly literature that is a completely opposite field, and no wonder that Lu Fengnian, who was the first to be a scholar, was the only person to be a scholar, and he was a scholar. Contrary to the field, it is no wonder that the Lu family touched soft nails everywhere in Northern Liang. Xu Fengyen sighed in his heart, after talking with his old husband Wang Linquan, deliberately turned around and stopped, looking at the three rows of officials still separated from the Lu Chengsong, the characters present are cultivated into a fine Taoist deep officialdom old fox, soon let the road, has been paying attention to the young king dynamic of the Lu Chengsong will soon understand, the temperament of the dashing forward, out of the few steps, suddenly turned around to look back, and then there is a young scholar! After a few steps, he suddenly turned around and looked back, and then a young scholar hesitantly stepped out of the ranks and followed Lu Chengsong. This presumptuous action, let Tian Peifang including all the officials bottom of the heart is a little unhappy, cultivation is a little less, has wrinkled eyebrows, you Lu Chengsong a small seventh grade of the degree of the chief of staff, relying on the special status of the Lu family’s children to see the king is just, but where is the qualification to piggyback on the outsiders?

Xu Fengyen turned a blind eye to this, and after Lu Chengsong bowed and saluted, he asked with a smile, “How is Uncle Lu’s health?”

Lu Chengsong straighten up the waist, the waist and then did not bend down, this small action, but also let the nearby officials are very bad, although in the generals are not formal under the influence of the Northern Liang will not deliberately follow the kind of “the son of heaven can not look up, the vassals can not look at the level of the” rules, prohibited natural will not be even more exaggerated to the need to self-stabbing eyes to thank you for their sins, but the land Chengsong But Lu Chengsong’s arrogance that comes out of the bones of the literati of the Central Plains is really too repulsive. Lu Chengsong continued to act as if no one else was there, and said without being overbearing: “Uncle’s health is good, and he writes a dozen or so characters at home every day.”

Even Tian Peifang couldn’t help but roll his eyes… You have something to say here… Is he saying that the Lu Breaker has to pretend to be idle because he can’t fulfill his ambitions? Tian Peifang narrowed his eyes and stared at the young face that he had seen at the banquet, and had the urge to explode his foul mouth, others are not clear, but he, the assassin of Liangzhou, knows it very well, the king intended to let Lu Dongjiang serve as the governor of Liangzhou at that time, but the head of Lu’s family disliked to be given a hand, and his heart was not happy, he refused, and the king proposed to go to the White Horse Academy, which is known as the Blue Deer Cave Academy to become the master of the mountain, and Lu Dongjiang was still reluctant to, and at that time, Tian Peifang was not satisfied with his position. Tian Peifang for their own account of the Liangzhou governor of this “pit” still some guilt to come, personally hosted a banquet to invite Lu Breaking arena, the results of the Lu Dongjiang generation of Lu family men a did not arrive, only the Lu Chengsong these young people have not grown hair into the mansion, on the contrary, and the status of Lu Dongjiang equivalent of the Wang Linquan, the same is the Qingliang mountain of the royal relatives, which time and people The meeting is not all peaceful? The readers, I Tian Peifang or Yao Baifeng have appreciated a few words of the readers, it can not be that under the sky you Qingzhou surnamed Lu’s readers are expensive, I’m Beiliang readers are not worth it? In the temple hall of Liyang, there are Yao Baifeng in the old generation who is in charge of the State Crown Prison, and there is Yan Jiexi who is a university scholar in the Temple Hall, and in the young people, even if we don’t mention that white-eyed wolf Jin Lanting, there is still Sun Yin who is already in the center of the center of the country, Chen Wang, and the famous Sun Yin in the capital.

Xu Fengyen said with a pleasant face: “Nowadays, the establishment of a deputy secretary on a road, is considered to be the rule of the court, Song deputy secretary has been complaining to me that the affairs of the heavy, one person can not be busy. After all, Beiliang Road is different from other places, with the court to ask for a legitimate deputy secretary, it must not be difficult.”

Lu Chengsong, who had heard the tone of voice, inevitably looked excited, but he gently glanced at Wang Linquan, who was standing beside Xu Fengnian, and the latter did not move.

Then Lu Chengsong introduced to Xu Fenian: “Your Highness, this is Zhang Huanzhi, who is very famous among the scholars in Jiangnan, excellent in zither, chess, calligraphy and painting, especially in painting the mountains and rivers near and far, with the momentum of a thousand miles at hand. Moreover, if Zhang Huanzhi were to take part in the imperial examination, he would surely be able to win the first three places in the first grade, so he gave up his bright future and came to Northern Liang alone.”

Compared to the famous Lu Chengsong, the young scholar named Zhang Huanzhi was much more formal, and bowed respectfully, “My humble self, Zhang Huanzhi, pays my respects to His Majesty, with great fear and trepidation.”

Tian Peifang carefully observed his words, as long as the king showed a hint of dissatisfaction, he would be able to make this young man named Zhang Huanzhi sit through the cold bench in Beiliang’s officialdom.

Xu Fengyen had already sized up Zhang Huanzhi and smiled after hearing his words, “It’s hard for you.”

Zhang Huanzhi froze for a moment, bowed his head and said in a trembling voice, “I don’t dare. After I arrived in Beilang, I realized that Beilang is very different from what I remembered after seeing it with my own eyes and hearing it with my own ears.”

Xu Fengyen laughed it off, turned around and continued to walk, not long after let Tian Peifang Wang Linquan these people go back to work, only with Xu Weixiong walking side by side on the riverbank, not far away is responsible for the vigilance of the White Horse Boxers.

Xu Fengyen asked softly, “Xuanyuan Qingfeng took the initiative to liaise with Whisking Water Room?”

Xu Weixiong nodded, “The Daxueping side first contacted Liu Nirong of the Fish Dragon Gang at that time, the Wutong Yard and the Whisking Water Room were a bit rushed, so we placed many spies with jianghu identities in all three of those, and by the way, we relocated these out-of-town Whisking Water Room dead soldiers back to Beiliang, who were responsible for guiding the rhetoric.”

Xu Fengnian laughed, “No wonder at that time Xuanyuan Qingfeng said that she wanted to fight and let me lose to her, if I had known that there was such a thing, I would have agreed. This favor, it’s not small.”

Xu Weixiong asked, “How are you after meeting Mr. and his party?”

Xu Fengnian shook his head, “After all, the old gentleman is still holding the identity of the Priest of Shangyin Academy Palace, he can’t help himself with every move, and to be able to come to Beiliang has already crossed the bottom line of the Zhao Room in Liyang. I guess Qi Yang Long will soon make a countermeasure in the capital and release the news, only waiting for old Mr. Han to return from his travels to take over the position of the High Priest.”

Xu Weixiong turned his wheelchair, stopping behind him towards the river, and softly lamented, “At that time, Mr. deliberately did not enter Liangzhou city, I knew that Mr. was determined. If Mister had entered the city, we would have been disappointed instead, because it would have meant that Mister really had no desire and would have returned to the academy with all his disciples. Since he has avoided suspicion to show the Liyang court, it means that at least one disciple will quietly remain in Northern Liang.”

Xu Fenian was pleasantly surprised, “Xu Huang, Sima Can, both of them are very good as long as one of them stays.”

Xu Weixiong was probably remembering the halcyon days of studying in the Shangyin Academy Palace during those years, and was a bit lost in thought.

Xu Fengyen softly said, “Don’t worry, the old gentleman is still very fit, and rode ten miles.”

Xu Weixiong raised his head and glared, “You also don’t know to discourage?!”

Xu Fengyen blankly said, “At that time, the old gentleman was leaning on me to send them twenty miles, I was in a hurry to rush to Huaiyang Pass, plus there were already a few of Xu Huang who were all dead set on stopping them, so I didn’t make a sound.”

Said here, Xu Fengyen bad joke: “The old gentleman finally only let me send ten miles, mouth said it is my mind to the line, I see in fact, ah, is the old gentleman really can’t carry it.”

The corner of Xu Weixiong’s mouth curled up.

Xu Fengyen squatted down next to the wheelchair, rubbed his temples, and sighed: “How come the Lu family is just not enlightened. Could it be that the entire family’s cleverness is all focused on the two men of the old provider, Lu Fei Edward and Lu Chenyan, in one brain? Wang Linquan is also not an oil lamp, although has been standing by and watching, is still generous, did not fall on the Lu family, but barely good at least is a family, if Wang Linquan can take a step back more, Qingliang Mountain is also a lot of peace and quiet.”

Xu Weixiong calmly asked, “So you purposely proposed to Lu Dongjiang to his face to be that chicken-ribbed Deputy Secretary General to knock Wang Linquan?”

Xu Fengnian bitterly said, “Sort of an aside, but if I were to remain indifferent to the Lu family, this powerful family that did not hesitate to move their clan into Beiliang at the hands of Lu’s old provider, I’m afraid that it won’t take three or four years for the local officials in Beiliang to eat up all the bones. You say this is what time, even my wutong courtyard are secretly selling paintings and antiques for foreign salt and iron grain, this Lu family is good, the old priest hard work to save those gold and silver, just paintings bought more than thirty, since there is no choice to put down roots in our Beiliang, even if it is the same as Wang Linquan, with those who moved out of the Beiliang family pressure to buy the land is also good ah. This time is the light of elegance? Each and every one there complacent, feel that took advantage of the heavenly cheap …….”

Xu Weixiong suddenly gloated: “In fact, you underestimate the Wang Linquan people in the world, the God of Fortune in the spring since, quietly low-priced buy a number of valuable paintings and calligraphy, it should be to lower their status to the land family, you open this mouth, casually threw out a from the second grade of the Deputy Secretary of the Secretary of the Department of the King, Wang Linquan can be sent not to go out, otherwise the land family does not read the good not to mention that, but also by the land Dongjiang These old Lu Chancellor Song these small more and more despise.”

Xu Fengnian chagrined, “Sister, this kind of thing why don’t you say it earlier?”

Xu Weixiong smiled and said, “Blame me.”

Xu Fengyen immediately raised his hands, “It’s me who acted rashly.”

Xu Weixiong laughed coldly, “Rude? Our Beiliang King still acted rashly? Otherwise, why would he have fought with the world’s second most powerful Bodhisattva Tuoba all the way from the northern part of the western region to Snow Lotus City, and fought so soundly that the sky was turned upside down, and it was really awesome. I’ve been thinking of having a plaque made to say ‘Number One in the World’ and hanging it at the entrance of Mount Qingliang. If you think that the four words ‘world’s number one’ are tacky, how about ‘world’s invincible’? Isn’t it more domineering?”

Xu Fengyen knew this second sister’s temperament, where he dared to only add fuel to the fire and talk back, pulled a green grass from the ground with a sad face, flicked off the soil and held it in his mouth.

Xu Fengnian suddenly lamented, “A large Northern Liang, in every aspect, when the family for three years the dog is also too much ah ……”

Xu Weixiong reached out and slapped him hard on the head, “Who is a dog?!”

Xu Fengyen helplessly said, “This is not I still have the second half of the sentence, just wanted to say that we realize that our father is not easy to be in charge?”

Xu Weixiong looked towards the sky and murmured softly, “Yes.”

Xu Fengyen, who was originally squatting, simply sat on his butt on the ground, slowly chewing on grass roots.

For no reason, Xu Weixiong recalled a small tune that had not been circulated.

Back then, she and his sister, married far away in Jiangnan.

On that day, there was a young man in the wutong courtyard, using chopsticks to knock the wine bowl.

I’ll send you a thousand miles until the mountains become flat rivers.

Please drink six taels of wine when you are leaving.

I wish you rainy days in Jiangnan with an umbrella.

I wish you can shake the fan in the hot summer.

I wish you don’t forget to add more clothes in winter.

May you have many gatherings and no separations every year.

May you be free from illness and worries.

I wish you have no wind and no rain to be happy with each other for a long time.

Six, two, three.

The remaining three.

I’m in the northwest, one gate after another.

I am separated from you by one mountain after another.

In the end, I only wish me to know that you are safe.

Xu Weixiong exhaled a long breath, turned his head and softly said, “Don’t do anything stupid in the future, it will make father and mother …… and, and your sister worry.”

Xu Fengnian hmmmed, then spat out the grass roots and looked into the distance and softly said, “Topaz Bodhisattva went to Liuzhou, Huang Bangeer is there, I just don’t feel at ease.”

Xu Weixiong lowered his head, unable to see his expression, the breeze ruffled, the hair at the corner of his forehead undulating.

Xu Fengnian smiled and stood up, “Sister, I’m going to Huaiyang Pass ah. Taking advantage of the fact that Tuoba Bodhisattva is not at the border, I’m going to personally go to Tiger Head City. Sister, don’t worry, I’m sure I won’t be reckless this time, as long as I see a bad opportunity, I’ll wind up pulling and calling!”

Xu Weixiong raised his head and inexplicably said, “Shout out to second sister!”

Xu Fengnian scratched his head, “It’s all the same.”

Xu Weixiong waved his hand, “Go on, when you get to Hutou City, screw hundreds or thousands of Northern Mang heads down!”

Xu Fengnian laughed, “This is what you said yourself.”

Three days later in the dusk, when a person’s figure appeared at the head of Hutou City, the North Mang army, which had already been attacking the city day and night for more than a month, violently sounded a retreat, breaking the truce.

Looking at that person from afar, the entire North Mang army was terrified.

The next day at dawn, the gusty wind, the king of the north yard Dong Zhuo that ride in the dense North Mang iron armor guard, still only dares to slightly out of the formation of a hundred paces, looking at the tiger head of the city, he did not have any grandiose words, just raised his arm high, and then swung down.

Xiangfu two years of the most tragic battle, this opened the curtain.