Chapter 266 – Chivalry (II)

Xu Fengyen and Xu Yanbing quietly left the team early in the morning, under the guidance of a big spy of the water whisking room, they came to the earth slope seven or eight miles northwest of the new city.

During the period of occasional a Wu or a standard crossbowman in the distance whistling past, the scout team than in the past, more than one or two riders clad in light armor but do not wear a cool sword not bear light crossbow rider, these people are after the Liangzhou border army and whisking the water room layer by layer screened out of the jianghu people, according to the Huaiyangguan military machine files show that there are already more than two hundred Central China jianghu masters were secretly absorbed into the border army scouts, which is very useful for the This is undoubtedly a kind of timely rain supplement for the border crossbowmen who tend to die in a single battle, after all, in the first Liang-Mang battle, the battle loss of the Northern Liang scouts was a huge number.

When Xu Fengyen saw the figure of one person and two horses at the top of the slope, he didn’t let Xu Yanbing follow him anymore, he rolled over and dismounted alone, leading his horse. The lanky figure on the hillside who was sitting on the ground and still appeared to be majestic, also did not get up to greet the young vassal king because of his arrival, but only raised his head and squinted at this young man who was now regarded as a heavenly devil by the Northern Mang.

Xu Fengyen loosened the reins and gently patted the back of his horse, and that big horse from the Beiliang Fiber Leaving Ranch, then lightly stepped on his hooves and went to look for horse grass alone.

Xu Fenian smiled and asked, “What is senior doing back in Beiliang this time?”

The old man who was addressed as senior was clad in heavy sable fur, when he got up, there was a clattering sound, revealing two thick iron chains, and there were two amazingly imposing hilt-less chopping swords hanging from his waist, the old man stretched out his bushel-sized palm and patted his buttocks, and suddenly the dust dispersed in all directions, and grinned, “Xu boy, I heard that your martial arts cultivation skyrocketed after you ran back from Bei Mang, and that even Wang Xianzhi also gave you a chance to You killed him? After that, Tuoba Bodhisattva, Deng Tai’a, Cao Changqing, martial arts evaluation of the remaining three great masters, you kid also beat once? Your popularity is unrivaled, grandpa, I’m not quite convinced, so I’ve come all the way from North Mang Hexi Prefecture to fight with you, how’s it going?”

Xu Fengyen looked around, then suddenly very doggedly flattered ran to the tall old man’s side, helped rub shoulders, “Chu seniors, Chu old gods, Chu masters …… this all the way trekking, tired ah? Do you want to drink and eat meat ah?”

Probably the hand does not hit the smiling man, surnamed Chu old man frankly accept the hall of the king of Beilang slips, no previous door to smash the scene of the domineering posture, smiling at this can be regarded as he watched with his own eyes little by little grown up guy, “It seems that in the city of Tai’an is really injured not light, otherwise on your kid’s farting virtues, has long been turning his face to the face, not to say with grandpa my Battle a few hundred rounds.”

Xu Fengyen did not have the good sense to say, “A thin camel is bigger than a horse, senior, don’t give face to face, if I accidentally beat your old man down, and then you gamble on your head and don’t go back to North Mang, delaying the big event that Helian Wuwei has entrusted me with, who am I looking for to cry to.”

The old man blew his beard and glared, his hands pressed the knife to fight, but unfortunately this young man looks like a dead skinny face letting the scolding look, white hair like snow old man sighed, shook his shoulders, refused the young man was not much sincerity kneading, “Ghostly ghostly ghostly, that’s right, it is Helian Wuwei begged me to come to Beiliang, two things, a good news and a bad news, which one first to listen to? ”

Xu Fenian laughed, “Listen to the bad news first, eat sugar cane backwards to be sweet.”

The old man who was once trapped for many years at the bottom of Hearing Tide Lake said in a deep voice: “I and Helian old man are both guest ministers of the lineage of the Princess Tomb of the Northern Mang Da Nian Tou, last time I didn’t hide it from you, but so many years have gone by, what is the Princess Tomb or not the Princess Tomb, the heart has long been faded, even Luoyang has gone to the Deer Mountain, and it is rumored that the little Nian Tou with the half-face make-up has also given a slap to the death of Huyan Daguan, so this time, either I or Helian Wuwei also, are here to pay back the debt to come, this matter is over, the old account two clear, the future road towards the sky each go aside ……”

Xu Fengyen white eyes: “line line, hurry to say serious things, the king is now day care, worry about that can be the world situation ……”

As a result, Xu Fengyen received a slap from the old man, also do not return the favor, as if there is no such idea, he just hold up the head type, but did not hold up how many jade tree windy posture, but touched some fine gravel, in the Northwest Desert, riding to meet the yellow sand, by and large, are such a bleak light.

The old man laughed and scolded a sentence, convergence of laughter, with a rare solemn look of serious tone said: “This bad news is really not small. Heard of that North Mang Qingluan County Lord, right? Her external identity is the first hand of the drum on the horse that Fan Bai Nu, in you or Beiliang son of His Royal Highness, this bitch with Chen Zhi Bao eye to eye for a long time, in fact, accurately she should be called Yelu Bai Nu, is a serious member of the North Mang royal family, and surnamed Murong’s old woman has a father’s revenge, can only tolerate insults and humiliation to live on, now it is not the same, ate such a big defeat, the old woman successively reuse of two beloved! , Taiping Order and Dong Zhuo are now each in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and both are having a hard time.”

Xu Fengyen nodded, “This is a reasonable thing, at that time, whether to fight Beiliang or the two Liao, originally was thinking of picking up soft persimmons to fight Gu Jiantang’s majority, otherwise the old woman would not have been in the Liangmang war before, let Tuoba Bodhisattva led more than 100,000 elite cavalry troops in the Beiting grassland to patrol the place, in the end, is to suppress those ‘Yelu Wangshi ‘ and the prairie Great Sai Tick. If this time successfully beat down Beiliang okay, horse tread on the Central Plains is just around the corner, even if the meat pain, after all, can still endure, but since even the Beiliang customs did not enter, is two different things. Light dead without harvest, no one is happy, especially for hundreds of years that gang has long been used to plowing the border and returned with a big win, the North Mang barbarians.”

The old man glanced at this light-hearted young man, wanting to speak but stopped, skimmed his mouth, the old man gave up already to the edge of the mouth of the off-topic talk, but continue the previous topic, said: “Ambitious Yelu Dongbed back to the North Mang, this kid originally can not set off the wind and waves, but can not compete with his good grandfather, the North Mang three dynasties Gu life of the Yelu Hongcai, this old man really call it an old immortal! The time when Shengzong Yelu Wenshunu hiccuped, Yelu Hongzai as one of the six people in front of the emperor’s bed, the name is just ranked in the last, is not a great big man, until the time of the death of the God Emperor, there were five people, he ranked the third, the first Emperor of North Mang to the old woman tossed to death at the moment, North Mang and five people as a minister of GuLing, Xu kid, know what are these people?”

Xu Fengnian laughed: “Great General Yelu Juelie, Central Plains Remnant Xu Huainan, Tuoba Bodhisattva, Murong Baoding. Obviously, Yelu Jurelie was a big old man, just as the old generation leader in the North Mang army barely had a seat, and Xu Huainan and Tuoba Bodhisattva, a civil and a military, are the old woman personally promoted up the heart of the old woman, Murong Bao Ding, not to mention, just look at the last name, then ranked among them, Yelu Hongcai, the old Emperor of the North Mang’s only confidant, need to use his own strength for the entire Yelu family name to shield the wind and the rain. Only in more than ten years, the old man in addition to painting ash deliberations with Dong Zhuo mixing and quarrelling, almost from no sound out of the North Court, without the backbone of the Yelu princes and grassland Da Xie Tick, this old man is naturally all greatly disappointed.”

The old man sighed: “Helian Wuwei privately told me, this time the Northern Mang surnamed Yelu finally embraced the group, letting that Qingluan county princess quietly enter the central plains of Liyang, must have drawn a big cake for Chen Zhi Bao, a heavenly big cake!”

Xu Fengnian frowned, “Chen Zhi Bao will agree?”

The old man smiled coldly: “I don’t know these temple and sand field’s curved intestines, but old man Helian said, Guangling Road war, Liyang to Chen Zhi Bao this Shu king is the attitude of using but not reuse, clearly have suspicion, to beat Western Chu, after the war, most likely Wu Chongxuan and Lu Shengxiang on the battlefield to compete for the first, the next is the young generals of Song Kasa apportionment of military success, Chen Zhi Bao will last in the rank of Guangling King Zhao Yi and Yanzhi King Zhao Bing’s front, not even Jing’an King Zhao Xun can not compare. Do you think Chen Zhi Bao so high-minded and proud of a person, even the Liyang late emperor Zhao Dun also regarded as the white soldier saint of the guy, there will be no resentment in the heart? Anyway, even I this layman, also think Chen Zhi Bao will be suffocated, Liang Mang war did not have his things, two Liao war even more not, it is not easy to get out of the western Sichuan, the result can only be in the Guangling Road to eat some scraps, the so-called saint of soldiers title? Isn’t it a joke?”

Xu Fengnian said to himself, “If Xie Guanying did not have that fiasco in the capital, this vision is not valid. But now …… Fan Bai Nu, Yelu Bai Nu, Yelu Dong Bed, Yelu Hong Cai …… are promising Chen Zhi Bao to be the Xu Snapdragon of the new dynasty of Northern Mang? Each is seeking skin with the tiger ah, Chen Zhi Bao will not be because of the thought that one day there is a chance to rule north and south and make Xu Snapdragon did not do things back then, it will go along with the promise of North Mang?”

The old man did not disturb Xu Fenian’s baffled rumination.

Xu Fengnian suddenly turned his head and asked, “What about Gu Jiantang? I don’t think this great pillar will be drawn in by Northern Mang, even with Wang Sui leading the eastern front, the victory or defeat between the two sides is only 50-50, hasn’t Northern Mang thought about how to target this difficult last famous general of the Spring and Autumn Period?”

The old man tsked and laughed: “You guys ah, worthy of being the old fox and the young fox, this point, Helian Wuwei expected, the old guy smiled and said let you kid guess, because it seems he also only vaguely got a bit of inside information, not good to jump to conclusions.”

Xu Fengyen squatted down, reached out and subconsciously grabbed a handful of hot yellow sand, pondered for a long time, “Although Liao King Zhao Wu is a help dragged behind the existence of the two Liao is still considered a barrel of mountains, then the breakthrough can only be moved to the west, between Liaodong and Beiliang, the number of characters, in fact, not much, the section ambassador Cai Nan, the strategic ambassador Han Lin, the vice general of the Hezhou generals are all early to us! North Liang iron horse scared out of their wits puppets, do not need to say anything more, but Jizhou …… Han Wang Zhao Xiong, this vassal king I can not see through, I and the Feng word battalion through the Jizhou, this word side by side king even dared to one person and a horse to come to my army, and I chat with me, by no means can be compared to Zhao Wu. Next, Yuan Tingshan, Yang Huchen, Han Fang, the three Jizhou power military generals …… Yuan Tingshan has his old husband Gu Jiantang and the Li family Yan Fort as a backer, which is both a dependency and a shackle. Yang Huchen is going to Jizhou to pay for his sins, and there is no need at all to serve as an inside man for the North Mang to go south. Han Fang, truth be told, he is a chess piece I laid early on, not to say that he is loyal to Liyang, at the very least, he will not rebel against Liyang for the sake of the Northern Mang, the Loyal Han family has fought a war with the Northern Nomads for three to four hundred years, and hundreds of people have died in the surname of Han alone, anyone can defect to the Northern Mang, Han Fang won’t.”

The old man stood beside Xu Fengyen and looked into the distance, his eyes full of yellow sand full of desolation, “The bad news has been said, the next good news, only I don’t know if this is considered good news.”

Squatting with the wind at his back, Xu Fengyen spread out his palms, the wind blew the sand away, and softly said, “Elder you say.”

The old man aggravated his tone and said, “Xu Fengyen, you should know that Helian Wuwei is in North Mang, one of those who firmly support the old woman to hold the order, this time, I surnamed Chu was able to pass through the border of the South Dynasty which is full of cobwebs and crows’ fences, and came to your North Liang smoothly and silently, of course, it’s not that I, Chu Mannu, am capable of having a great skill by myself, but Helian Wuwei and the old woman have had an extremely hidden secret talk, in addition to the Taiping order. The old woman told Helian Wuwei that the North Mang Yelu family name dares to go out and cooperate with Chen Zhi Bao, then she also has the courage to ally with you Xu Fengyian, and she will only pay more! As long as you agree to rebel against Liyang, even if you can’t take away a single soldier from Beimang, she will raise you up to a seat you can’t imagine!”

Xu Fengnian shook his head and laughed, “This old bitch, lost her mind.”

The old man lamented, “People who are about to die are all pretty much the same.”

Xu Fenian froze for a moment, “This is good news.”

The old man sighed, “Wrong, very wrong, the last sentence Helian Wuwei asked me to deliver to you is that if you end up rejecting the goodwill of the female Emperor of Northern Mang, then Northern Mang’s next southern expedition will not hesitate to kill the fish!”

Xu Fengnian said blandly, “Not to say whether I will agree or not, the twenty years outside the Northern Liang Pass and the deaths of so many people in battle have long since given the answer.”

The old man smiled, “Promise or not, it is your matter Xu Fengnian, I’ll just pass on the message, from now on, if Liang Mang is going to die or live, it has nothing to do with me with half a copper coin.”

Xu Fengyen slowly stood up, clapped his hands and smiled, “Or else a fight? I have always remembered a saying of my seniors for so many years, no matter if you can fight or not, fight and then say it!”

The old man said in a serious manner, “No more fighting, no more fighting, seniors should have the manners of seniors, not to mention that your kid is injured, even if you win, the same suspicion of taking advantage of people’s danger.”

Xu Fengnian smiled without saying anything.

The old man’s face turned red and glared, “Brat! Don’t get ahead of yourself!”

Xu Fenian laughed out loud.

The old man stretched out his palm and patted the young feudal king’s shoulder, his expression was a bit melancholy, “From the time when your brat almost drowned at the bottom of Hearing Tide Lake for the first time and was saved by me, to the time when you later ran down to dive for closed-air every now and then, or else you would just bring me things to eat, truly speaking, I have watched you turn from a child into the present-day King of Beilang… …”

Xu Fenian was a bit embarrassed and said awkwardly, “When I was in a bad mood in my early years, I often carried things to the bottom of the lake to tease seniors, I still hope that seniors don’t take it to heart.”

The old man was instantly filled with black lines.

Xu Fengyen sensibly shut up and stopped rubbing salt into the old man’s wounds.

The old man laughed brightly, “On the way here this time, I heard that now the Liyang Jianghu, no longer how to mention your lofty martial arts evaluation of fourteen people, too unattainable, to be honest, grandpa, I also have self-awareness, beat your gang of monsters, but those Da Xue Ping evaluation of what the four sides of the saints of the top ten masters, as well as copying the spring and autumn thirteen armor to get out of the xiangfu fourteen kuai, I’d love to I’d really like to go and meet them!”

Xu Fenian hmmm, reminded: “Although some are selling their names and reputation as masters, but seniors some of the experts on the list, or don’t go to provoke as well, such as in our Beiliang territory of Sui Slanting Valley Yu Xinlang, as well as martial arts alliance master Xuanyuan Qingfeng, the East Vietnam Sword Pool Chai Qingshan, as well as the first person of the South imperial edict Wei Miao, the South border side of the sword master Mao Shulang, the Dragon Palace of Cheng White Frost ……”

The more the old man listened, the uglier his face became, and he angrily said, “Rabbit cub, just say it directly, who is grandpa I can beat up!”

Xu Fengnian rubbed his chin, “That’s something to think about.”

The old man who was not in the mood to listen to Xu Fengyen’s nonsense left with a big stride, turned on his horse, one person and two riders, he was about to go south to the Central Plains to break into the world.

Xu Fengyen smiled and said, “Don’t let me hear the news that senior you just reappeared in the world and gave someone a beating down.”

The stout old man sat high on his horse and said angrily, “You kid just wait for grandpa to kill me in the Central Plains rivers and lakes!”

The old man rode down the hillside.

Xu Fengnian suddenly looked at the old man’s back and shouted, “Old man, in my life, I was able to firmly believe in my youthful thoughts of going to Wudang to raise my sword and practicing martial arts because I saw you at the bottom of the lake, and that’s what made me believe that there are indeed masters in this world.”

There are masters in the jianghu, there are immortal figures, one person can really be the enemy of ten thousand people, only then there is a chance to really take revenge with one’s own strength.

So Xu Fenian was incomparably grateful to this old man whose pipa bone was nailed into a chain, this jianghu senior who made him grit his teeth and insist on climbing on the martial arts path.

The old man did not turn around and shouted, “Pretentious! Have the ability to ……”

The old man suddenly realized that he couldn’t even say anything to hit this brat, capable of being the number one in the world? This guy did not die in the hands of Wang Xianzhi, and Topaz Bodhisattva turned thousands of miles to fight, Tai’an City is one person to fight two people.

In the jianghu, in the temple, he has never lost.

In the end, the old man who had almost reached the foot of the slope roared: ”Xu Fengnian, if you have the ability to die after me! You kid remember, when the time comes, don’t forget to get me some good wine and meat for grandpa!”