Chapter 235 – Dismissal is (III)

Xu Fengyen rolled over and dismounted, Yang Shenxing also got off the carriage, side by side, Xu Fengyen incidentally helped the new Deputy Festival Minister to introduce the people, it turned out to be the Tongshan County Sheriff led by the local officials, purely pulling out the strong man to pull out to see the world, after all, Xu Fengyen can not take Yang Shenxing seriously, but for the Tongshan County officials, the Jizhou emperor’s big name, said like a thunderclap, especially the Jinan foot soldiers under the banner of Yang Shenxing is known to be the only one in the world, interested in Yan Wenluan Yuzhou army to compete is not a year or two. Yang Shenxing’s Jinan foot soldiers are known to be the only ones in the world, and he has been interested in competing with Yan Wenluan’s Youzhou army for more than a year or two now. Today to be able to see the old general Yang one side, how is a piece of tea after dinner talk.

Now Xu Fengyen asked the old man all the way to the west is smooth polite words, Yang Shenxeng also smiled and warmly answered one by one, the atmosphere is so cordial that the Tongshan County officials are full of fog. In fact, as the parties Yang Shenxing, seemingly with the young feudal king a hate each other’s posture, in fact, pinch a cold sweat, Beiliang even the imperial decree had refused to accept, at the time of Beiliang soldiers in the wilderness, all the people under the feet of the wilderness, put down one or two corpses is a big deal? Back on the name of a bandit murder, the court is really willing to get to the bottom of it? The more Xu Fengyen warms up, the more apprehensive Yang Shenxing will inevitably be, just as Yang Huchen speculated earlier, with the Yang family’s difficult situation of the dragon trapped in the shallows, a governor of Youzhou to receive the driver even if the top of the specification, Yang Shenxing has not been conceited enough to think that he has the weight to let the King of Beiliang leave the front line to meet him in person.

Good thing Xu Fengyen didn’t continue to sell, first let Tongshan county officials return to the official residence, and then in a small tea stall by the post road to rest, shouted to wake up the dozing woman, smiled and asked for three bowls of tea, after taking a seat, he opened the door with Yang Shenxeng and said: “I’m coming to Youzhou, picking up people is by the way, after the tea, I’ll be leaving soon to go to the northeast of Youzhou in the Helan mountains, Wang Sui and his tens of thousands of North Mang elite cavalry are still in the front line for the time being, but I’m not sure what to say. Wang Sui and his tens of thousands of North Mang elite cavalry are still watching at the gate of Youzhou, if I go late, I’m afraid I won’t be able to see the famous Emperor’s son-in-law of the East Vietnam.”

Yang Shenxing face without changing color hmm a sound, the bottom of the heart is fast calculating, this time he topped the North Liang Road Deputy Festival Minister of the embroidered title of the eclipsed away from the capital, he also gave a person as a cold water poured through the cold stove, there is no correspondence on the way, coupled with the all the way to the line and have never been in contact with the people, for the world’s situation is completely open-eyed and blind, only know that the point of the news before leaving the capital, the tiger city fell, Dong Zhuo’s army was able to spread out the line, resulting in Liangzhou The first line of defense outside of Guanwai is in jeopardy, so much so that Yang Shenxing thought that by the time he approached Youzhou, he would see the image of a large number of refugees fleeing Northern Liang in a hurry. However, Xu Fengyen’s glib remark that he was going to confront Wang Sui’s cavalry in the Helan Mountains had surprised Yang Shenxing, could it be that Northern Liang was already prepared to give up the entire battlefield outside Liangzhou Pass? In half a year ago, the two Huaihuai side there are a lot of north liang related war report frequently passed to the capital, north liang also did not deliberately blockade, just since xiangfu two years since the beginning of spring, zhao hook spies and the two Huaihuai officialdom is very difficult to obtain first-hand north liang military intelligence, Yang Shenxeng heard that a few zhao hooks strongholds have been uprooted, and some cloak in jianghu people outside the skin of the spies in the follow XuanYuanQingFeng to go to the liang together, seems to be very soon also be Fushui Room detained, for which the Imperial Court’s Ministry of Military Affairs and Ministry of Criminal Affairs was greatly annoyed.

Xu Fengyen received the tea bowl from the woman’s hands, Yang Huchen really can’t help but roll his eyes, the woman to their father and son to send tea that are directly knocking the bowl on the desktop, only to the young feudal king she is holding both hands to the edge of the table, stout waist to her froze twisted with a big water snake, not in a hurry to put the bowl of tea on the table, wait until Xu Fengyen reached out to pick up the bowl of the time, naturally, there is no short of a sloppy mooching! When Xu Fengnian reached out to take the bowl, he naturally took a slapdash wipe, the woman took advantage of the advantage and didn’t stop, she laughed and teased, “Handsome young man, did you get married, if not, there is a watery girl in our village, aunt will be a matchmaker for you”, which shook Yang Huchen to the core, are all the ladies in Northern Liang so tough? What is even more strange is that Xu Fengyen not only did not get angry, but also smiled and flirted a few words, half a bit not thinner than the skin of the marketplace scoundrels, but the woman was said to be ashamed of the unprecedented. Yang Huchen heart immediately some dislike, as a long time in the field of first-class military general, Yang Huchen on this new Liang Wang’s impression is not good, now see Xu Fengyen’s frivolous words and deeds, but also let Yang Huchen frown, but somehow, Yang Huchen corner of the eye to see the father’s face smile, does not seem to be hypocritical, rather like the old man in the bush to see the up-and-coming talent, Yang Huchen some confused.

Xu Fengyen took a sip of tea, and his next words scared Yang Huchen so much that he almost dropped his bowl, “In the center line, Dong Zhuo’s army has retreated after a long time of attacking Huaiyang Pass. The battle in Liuzhou was the most tragic, 30,000 Dragon Elephant Army was one out of 100, Liu Gui led the remnants to escape to Long Waist State, as for outside of Hulukou in Youzhou, Yang Yuanzan is dead, and Seedan and Hong Jingyan are nowhere to be found.”

Yang Shenxing lowered his head to drink water, unable to see his expression, but the ripples of the water in the tea bowl continued.

Yang Huchen subconsciously blurted out, “This is impossible!”

Yang Shenxing raised his head furiously, and said angrily, “Huchen, you must not be reckless!”

Yang Shenxing put down his tea bowl and turned his head to apologize to Xu Fenian, “Your Majesty, Huchen is rude to the extreme, I hope you’ll forgive me.”

Xu Fenian playfully said, “Forgive what, I, Xu Fenian, am not the Emperor of Liyang, how can I condemn a vice general of Jizhou.”

Sweat oozed from Yang Shenxing’s forehead.

Yang Huchen clenched his fist with one hand, dead against his knee under the table, not caring about being scolded by the old man, he stared into Xu Fengnian’s eyes and asked, “Did Beiliang really defeat North Mang’s millions of iron cavalry?!”

Xu Fengyen answered, slowly saying, “A lot of people died in my Northern Liang.”

Yang Shenxing snapped, “Yang Huchen! You shut up!”

Yang Huchen, who got a wonderful comment of “loyalty and filial piety” after meeting with His Majesty, had his veins bulging on his neck at this moment, and even ignored the old man’s reproach, staring at him with wide eyes, as if he wanted to fight with the young feudal king to the end at the risk of his own life.

Xu Fengyen smiled, “You Yang Huchen or your father, is it worth me swindling?”

The one-track minded Yang Huchen pursued, “Dare I ask Your Highness how did you Northern Liang win three battles at the same time?”

Without waiting for Xu Fengyen to speak, Yang Shenxing stood up and slapped his son hard on the head, “Rabbit cub, no one will take you as mute if you don’t speak!”

A man who was the official vice general of Jizhou was beaten by his own father and his hair was messy, he still vowed not to stop and continued to ask through gritted teeth, “Your Majesty, did Northern Liang really win against the Northern Mang barbarians?!”

Xu Fengnian nodded, “Won.”

Yang Shenxing was almost about to kick this son of a bitch out of the way when Xu Fengyen waved his hand at the old man, “Lord Yang, forget it.”

Yang Shenxeng stomped his foot heavily and said painfully, “Your Highness, it’s not that I’m boasting, if Huchen wasn’t so damn stubborn, or else with his ability to lead troops, he would have been able to go to Tai’an City to get a solid general of one of the four pings, I’m really uneasy about him going to deal with that group of Tai’an City’s official greaseballs, ah! If he were to go to the capital, he’d lose his head, not to mention his rank! If he were to go to the capital, he’d lose his head, not to mention losing his post!”

Xu Fengyen laughed: “General Yang is only suitable to lead and rule the army at the local level, if he were to become an official at the foot of the Emperor, he would definitely not be able to compare to those characters who have long been refined, and I guess that even if General Yang became one of the generals of the Four Levels, he would still not be in a good position to do so.”

Yang Shenxing lamented, “Yes, so this time Huchen volunteered to go back to Jizhou, and I didn’t stop him, I couldn’t stop him anyway.”

Yang Huchen lost his mind and muttered, “Won? Really won?”

Xu Fengnian joked, “What, General Yang doesn’t want Northern Liang to win? Aren’t you afraid that when your father traveled all the way to Northern Liang, the post road would be filled with the reckless iron horsemen of Northern Mang?”

Yang Huchen, who had a hard time regaining his soul, subconsciously reached out and touched the empty sleeve, “Losing an arm, I, Yang Huchen, never thought it was a big deal, but I just have some regrets in the end, that it was hacked on the battlefield by our own people of Liyang, instead of outside of the Seaside, and lost under the knives of the barbarians of Northern Mang.”

Yang Huchen grinned and suddenly stood up, startling the old man. Yang Shenxing was afraid that this guy was going to contradict Xu Fengnian again, raising his hand to press on his son’s shoulder, “Sit down and talk!”

Yang Huchen shook his head, reached out and raised his tea bowl, and said to Xu Fenian in a solemn and hushed voice, “Your Highness, there is no wine, so let Yang Huchen dare to use tea as a substitute for wine, and toast you, and all the generals and soldiers of Beiliang with a bowl! My Yang Huchen’s biggest wish in my life, Northern Liang has done it, no matter how shit it is in Liyang and Northern Liang in the future, I, Yang Huchen, owe you a bowl of wine, in the future, if you die one day on the Liangmang sands, I will lead my troops to the sands where you died to honor you! In the future, if you, Xu Fengnian, die at the hands of the Liyang court, then I will go to the execution ground alone to honor you with that bowl of wine!”

Yang Shenxing closed his eyes, this boy Huchen, really bent on death. This kind of treacherous and obscure words can be said?

But surprisingly, Xu Fengnian also raised his tea bowl and stood up, smiling, “This bowl of tea instead of wine, I have to drink. Also, in the future, if you, Yang Huchen, have the chance to come to Northern Liang, no matter if I die or not, remember to bring a good wine, how can one bowl be enough.”

Tea bowls touched tea bowls, Xu Fengyen and Yang Huchen each drank a cup.

In the distance, the woman who couldn’t really hear the conversation glanced back at the three guests, and while packing up the groceries, she muttered in a bad mood, “These big old men are really okay, drinking a few pennies of tea and still drinking out of their grandeur? Poorly organized!”

After drinking the tea, Yang Huchen, the No. 1 general of Jizhou in the past, said goodbye and returned, and Yang Shenxing, who had palpitations, laughed and scolded, “Hurry up and get lost!”

Xu Fengyen and Yang Shenxing sat back on the stool, the woman hurriedly carried the teapot and poured another bowl of tea for the two, Xu Fengyen laughed: “Boss, don’t just add tea without tea leaves, this can be ungenerous ah. Earlier a bowl of tea cost two cents, now these two bowls can only be counted as one bowl for one cent.”

The woman two fingers in Xu Fengyen arm gently twisted a little, gas laugh: “Well well well, a penny on a penny, as aunts to you take advantage of the cheap, not aunts say you, you say you were born is handsome, listen to the accent is also our Beiliang people, how a little bit is not crisp, don’t look at the aunts feel that you look at the eye, but really want to pick a man to live together, ah, I will still choose my family! The brown guy.”

Xu Fengnian laughed: “Yes, yes, yes, strong and powerful.”

The woman’s red face glared, “Little boy! You have a flowery mouth, and you look like a scholar! Or the kind of half-assed person who can’t get a merit badge!”

Finally, the woman hesitated and asked, “You really don’t want me to be a matchmaker?”

Xu Fengyen laughed and shook his head, “I already have a daughter-in-law.”

At this moment, Yang Shenxing was a little saddened, Northern Liang, is not quite the same as Liyang.

Xu Fengyen collected his laughter and said softly, “People in poor places, have bitter lives, but many people suffer while not recognizing their fate.”

Yang Shenxing nodded and said, “The world’s best soldiers come out of Liaodong and Lianglong, the old saying is not without reason.”

Xu Fenian asked, “Lord Yang, there are two paths now, one path is to be an inactive Deputy Sectional Envoy, just to spend your old age in Qingliang Mountain.”

Not waiting for Xu Fenian to say the second path, Yang Shenxing said in a cloudy manner, “Your Highness, I’ll choose this path, I’m old and can’t withstand the tossing and turning, besides, even if Huchen left the capital, he is still in Jizhou after all.”

Xu Fengnian smiled, “OK, we are not big in Northern Liang, the scenery is naturally not as good as the Central Plains, but at least Wudang Mountain is able to escape from the summer heat, Lingshou in the southern part of the countryside is also a good place to spend the winter, whenever you are bored of staying in Qingliang Mountain, you can just wander around.”

Yang Shenxing wanted to say something.

The old man could not believe that Xu Fenian would be so generous.

Being able to tolerate Yang Huchen’s offenses, and even being able to let him, Yang Shenxing, enjoy his happiness in Beiliang.

“If anyone else came to Beiliang Dao as this Deputy Festival Minister, they wouldn’t be able to enter Youzhou.”

Xu Fengyen looked into the distance and said softly, “Yang Huchen has a father that makes him willingly work as a horseman, I, Xu Fengyen, am not popped out of a stone, of course I have. My father, Xu Snap, has an old debt in his life, what he owes him, some of which he got back, some of which he didn’t get back. There are also those he owes to people, some of which he paid back, and some of which he was destined not to pay back.”

Xu Fengyen looked at the old man who had obviously forgotten a certain part of the past, smiled and said, “Back then, there was a Liyang lieutenant who had lost to the East Vietnam King Sui one after another, even if he still saved some silver, no one was happy to sell him a few hundred soldiers and horses, at that time, there was only a military general named Yang Shenxing, although he also didn’t give up his own men and horses, but he was the only one who didn’t say anything about it, and he was on the way to the Ministry of the Army’s office. On the way to the Ministry of War Yamen, even took the initiative to chat a few words. Many years later, the old man who was no longer a junior lieutenant, said to his son, do people have to bear grudges, but also to read people’s good. Among them, he mentioned that there was a military general named Yang Shenxing, who led soldiers and fought battles, couldn’t do it, and as a human being, he was still okay.”

Yang Shenxing said sadly: “So there is such a piece of old story ah, I have forgotten, I did not expect that the great general still remember, and also told you, the king.”

Then the old man stroked his snow-white beard and said heatedly, “To be able to let the Great General himself say the three words ‘still making do’, I, Yang Shenxing, should also be content. Of course, to be a general and be said to be incapable of fighting a war, even if it was the Great General who said it, I, Yang Shenxing, am still a bit unconvinced.”

Xu Fengyen did not comment on this and said with a smile, “There will be someone to escort Lord Yang to Liangzhou later, so I won’t see him off.”

Yang Shenxing nodded his head and said, “That’s the way it should be, I would never dare to delay your majesty’s trip.”

Xu Fengyen settled the bill, dozens of riders soon galloped along the post road, among them was a high horse unridden, Yang Shenxing rolled onto the horse and cupped his fists at Xu Fengyen, “Your Highness, farewell!”

Xu Fengnian hmmmed, “Turn around and gather again in Liangzhou.”

The tea stall woman who was shocked by the dozens of iron horsemen opened her mouth wide, cautiously perked up her ears when she heard the name “Master Wang”, waited until the cavalry was far away, then approached Xu Fengnian’s side and curiously said, “Late-born, you’re name is quite odd, your surname is Wang and your name is Master Wang, and your name is so big, your parents are really big hearted. But looking at the appearance, your father is a general in Northern Liang, right? Otherwise, this tea money, you take back?”

Xu Fengnian, who was actually going to Lingshou instead of Helan mountain land, shook his head and said with a smile, “If in two more years, boss lady, you can still sell tea here peacefully, and I happen to come to drink tea again, give me a discount, how about it?”

The woman laughed, “Fine, it’s only a few pennies, the big deal is that my han will scold me for being a loser bitch. Alas, it’s a pity that when the time comes, aunt won’t dare to touch you anymore.”

Xu Fengnian helplessly said, “Still you have a big heart.”

Silky sunlight through the shade of the trees, sprinkled on the small table and bench tea bowls, quiet and peaceful.

On horseback, Yang Shenxing looked back and vaguely saw that scene.

I do not know why, being in the north of the old man in the bottom of the heart for no reason floated a thought.

Hundreds of nothing, is the Central Plains.