Chapter 280 – Iron Rider Wind and Snow Down to Jiangnan (II)
Qingliang Mountain Wang Fu, early this morning, out of a young woman, walked into an old man, both have a deep connection with the Xu family.
The old man called Wang Linquan, early years of the old Liang Wang side of the veritable pawn, even and Lin Doufang this set of people are very familiar with, so this time his daughter did not sit in the North Liang main consort, also refused to the North City Deputy Supervisor of the post of the old man will be sued for illness at home.
At this time Wang Linquan and his only daughter Wang Chudong in listening to the tide of the lake for a walk, looking at the still carefree daughter, the old man is both relieved and worried, relieved that his daughter should not have been here to suffer, worried that the future identity eventually changed, under the sky and then good with the in-laws, the days are long, inevitably there is no unexpected bump bump bump bump, their own daughter is so simple, how to fight with people, how to do that! How can her daughter, so simple as she is, fight with others and do things like that? What’s more, Wang Linquan on the same out of the Qingzhou Lu woman has always been disliked, and very early on the talk of the famous Lu Dongjiang of the stream is scorned, to be honest, Wang Linquan indeed has never been in the northern Liang grievances of the Lu family had a half a point of the well, but Wang Linquan also know that in fact that the son-in-law, I hope that I can get along with the Lu family, and even in some things to help the Lu family, but Wang Linquan he never thought he was What sage perfect people, do not do bad people, also can not do to help opponents is equal to pit their own good deeds, fortunately, the young feudal king wanted to think, never open mouth to force him to do what Wang Linquan, so Wang Linquan is also happy to play dumb, cold-eyed look at the Lu family blindly jumped up in the eyes of the disgrace.
Wang Linquan stopped, the corner of the eye quickly surveyed the surrounding area, which said in a soft voice: “Daughter ah, soon married, parents do not want you to be aggrieved to run back to the mother’s home, close to the mother’s home can not do nothing more than …… However, if you really suffered a great deal of aggrievement, or to talk to your parents! The girl who married out splashed out water, that’s a bastard words, don’t take it seriously.”
Listening to his father’s contradictory words, Wang Chudong grinned.
Wang Linquan hurriedly reminded, “My dear daughter, how many times has your mother told you to smile without showing your teeth?”
Wang Chudong made a lively and playful face.
Wang Linquan said helplessly, “If you never grow up, how can your parents be confident that you will marry.”
Wang Chudong smiled and said, “Father can’t let go, so I won’t marry.”
Wang Linquan raised his hand and gestured to hit, but he, the father who was famous for doting on his daughter in Qingzhou back then, how could he really give up, not to mention hitting, he didn’t even want to say a heavy word.
Wang Chudong hands twisted behind his back, raised his head and softly said: “Father, in fact, I know, even if Sister Lu does not do the right consort, it is not my turn, it should be the woman surnamed Jiang in Xichu, the king’s real most unable to let go of the woman is her, only she is not suitable to do the king’s consort of Beiliang just. So Sister Lu is also not easy. Father, I know you are afraid of me angry, in fact, I’m not angry, not unhappy, the king every time back to Qingliang Mountain, will take the time to ask his daughter with the book “the first snow” in the head of all kinds of ambush line it, but also said that later, when he is really free, must personally stare at me to write a novel about his three trips to the rivers and lakes of the playbook, how to write a warrior how to write, I told the king, to write him chivalrous and swinging no problem, but he likes the rivers and lakes. problem, but his favorite female warrior of the jianghu must be surnamed Wang, and must be of national color, and the king agreed.”
Wang Linquan was speechless.
Young people nowadays, ah, they really don’t understand anymore.
Wang Chudong narrowed her eyes and smiled into a crescent moon, “Father, when you have time, you can drink more tea with that Mr. Lu, father, didn’t you used to love to attach yourself to elegance, sitting at the same table with the renowned Literary Forest Breaker, how face-saving to spread it out, isn’t it?”
Wang Linquan said with a stern face, “The threshold of other people is so high, your father is old, he can’t cross it.”
Wang Chudong shook Wang Linquan’s arm.
Wang Linquan’s face was a bit heavy, “Did the king authorize this with you? To ask me to take the initiative to show goodwill to the Lu family?”
Wang Chudong shakes her head and says seriously, “Father, no.”
Wang Linquan looks at his daughter’s eyes and stares for a moment before finally nodding his head, “I believe in my own daughter, and I also believe in the Great General’s son.”
Wang Chudong wrinkles her nose and says, “Wrong, wrong, wrong, trusting our Northern Liang’s king, of course, is also trusting your son-in-law!”
Wang Linquan couldn’t help but cry and laugh, and said hopelessly, “Father will listen to you.”
Wang Chudong suddenly said cautiously, “Father, can we really get along with the Lu family as relatives in the future? The kind that is not too far but not too close, the kind that is a little bit of icing on the cake?”
Wang Linquan sighed and rubbed his daughter’s head, “I know, dad will take care of it, hey, dad is afraid that if he is kind and well-intentioned, that Lu Breaker won’t appreciate it, and will mistakenly think that dad has ulterior motives. Just just just, in fact, father also know with the Lu family friendship, in the final analysis, or let his daughter here better do some, just before always feel the heart nest blocked a breath, is the father careful eyes.”
Wang Chudong lowers her head, “Father, it’s my daughter who has wronged you.”
Wang Linquan laughed happily, “Silly daughter, unless it’s those women who really don’t know any better, there’s no daughter under the sky that would let her father be aggravated. Who says that daughters grow up to be outwardly oriented? Not in our family! Father is very happy, really!”
Wang Chudong smiled brightly.
Wang Linquan whispered, “Daughter, your mother is right, among women, not to fight is to fight.”
Wang Chudong smiles, like a little fox that has just been refined in the deep mountains and wild forests, “Dad, what did you say, my daughter didn’t hear it.”
Wang Linquan laughed loudly and didn’t say anything else.
The Lu House with all the lights and colors, ushered in a rare guest who belonged to the reasonable but definitely unexpected.
Lu Chenyan, the future Northern Liang Consort, came in a light carriage.
House of foreign subordinates for this woman and the Lu family kind of almost Beiliang official indifference relationship known to everyone, as secret, even those high-minded Lu children, now also do not regard this ruthless woman as their own family, one by one, both fear and resentment, mixed feelings.
Xiangfu first year, Lu family in Northern Liang is still quite beautiful, Xiangfu two years on the more difficult, but after the fall there is a turnaround, to the spring of this year, there is a piece of heavenly joy at the door.
For Lu Chen Yan’s general return to the family, now waist pole than last year’s hard a lot of the Lu family, in fact, there are some eerie broken words, yo, you are not threatened again regardless of the death of our Lu family, how, just heard that your father is about to become the assassin of the Liangzhou, which remembered there is a mother’s family? You don’t know how to be ashamed of yourself, but at the beginning of the first month, you came to pay your father a New Year’s visit. Is it true that you’re not as comfortable as you think you are in the outside world in Qingliang Mountain? Lu Cheng Yan, led by the groveling old steward of the Lu family, went straight to Lu Dongjiang’s small courtyard.
At this time of the day, Lu Dongjiang was indeed in the courtyard dipping his broom into the water to write large characters.
Seeing his daughter appearing at the entrance of the courtyard, the springtime Lu Clan’s contemporary family head did not immediately put down the special broom, and waited until the remaining small bucket of water was completely bottomed out, before handing the broom to a young maid with a graceful figure, and then took the hand towel and wiped his hands, leisurely turning around, smiling, “E. Excel, it’s here ah.”
Lu Dongjiang’s heart towards this daughter who was honored by the Lu Clan’s old provider was actually more complicated than that of an ordinary Lu Clan’s son or daughter.
This daughter who had not been close to him, her father, in any way since she was a child, had too many of the old family head, Edward Lu’s, imprints on her.
Even before, many people believed that if Lu Chengyan was not a daughter, the seat of the Lu Clan’s family head would not even be Lu Dongjiang’s turn to sit.
Lu Dongjiang knows that this is not absurd, that night in front of the Qingzhou family, if Lu Chengyan is not a daughter, but his son, then he will definitely not be able to receive the old ancestor’s hands of the inconspicuous bamboo lantern.
Lu Dongjiang, more than anyone else, hopes that the Lu family will be able to soar in Northern Liang, more than anyone else, hopes that the old ancestor, if he knows, will be glad that the lantern was handed over to his own hands!
Lu Chengyan said expressionlessly, “Do you know why the Lu family was able to produce a Lord Assassin?”
Lu Dongjiang froze for a moment and laughed coldly, “Even if there were a million reasons, at least it certainly wouldn’t be due to you blowing your pillow wind, Chengyan.”
Lu Chengyan pulled the corner of his mouth, “Looking around at the current Northern Liang Dao Assassins, Yang Guangdou of Liuzhou, Chen Xiliang. Lingshou Changsui, Song Yan. As for Youzhou, the post of the Viceroy has been vacant for two years, and there is only the Assassin Hu Kui.”
Lu Dongjiang chest to pick up the words smiled: “Now compared to the remaining three states rank higher than the rank of Liangzhou, the same empty driver has been a long time, and the Liangzhou assassin Tian Peifang or, Deputy Secretary Song Dongming also, are and your father’s relationship is good, although there is no any gaggle, but gentleman’s friendship is as light as water …… ”
Lu Cheng Yan stared at this man who he has not called out a father for a long time, his eyes dark, deeply hidden sadness, asked: “Do you know that the Lu family knows that after having a Liangzhou Assassin who is an official of the second rank, the Xu family, which has retreated again and again, is going to start to reason with the Lu family and no longer think of favors in every way? Then do you know that your move is tantamount to one person monopolizing the Lu family’s qi for two whole generations?”
Lu Dongjiang angrily said, “Lu Chengyan, don’t forget that I am your father!”
Lu Chengyan laughed bitterly, “Lu Dongjiang, if I really forgot, what am I doing here? Did you not realize that the only reason I went out of my way to cut ties with the Lu family, to make a show of old age and death, was to make him feel more guilty about the Lu family? Do you think he doesn’t know about this selfishness of mine? It’s not that he doesn’t know, it’s that he pretends not to know! Do you really think that old fox Tian Peifang and Song Dongming, who are capable of supporting a country’s government, would treat you as a man of the world just because you have a hand in writing? Are you stupid or are they? Is there not a single person in the Lu family who is not blind?”
I don’t know whether it was anger, fear, or regret.
Lu Dongjiang tremblingly stretched out a finger, pointing at this increasingly unfamiliar woman, “Lu Chengyan, you bastard! You get the hell out of the Lu family!”
Lu Cheng Yan unexpectedly laughed, “Don’t worry, I will get out, only before that, I have to take away the old ancestor’s hanging statue from the ancestral hall, I’m afraid that his old man will die in peace when he looks at such a home every day.”
Lu Dongjiang glared angrily, “How dare you?!”
Lu Chengyan narrowed her eyes and said coldly, “Lu Dongjiang, from the moment I, Lu Chengyan, decided to come here today, I no longer consider myself a member of the Lu family, just the daughter-in-law of the Xu family, so if you still want to be the Assassin of Liangzhou, shut up!”
Lu Chengyan repeated, “Shut up for me, do you hear me?”
Lu Dongjiang’s face was blue, but he just couldn’t manage to say a single word of harsh words for some reason.
In the small courtyard, not far from this pair of father and daughter that Lu Dongjiang’s newly acquired and pretty maid from Rouge County was already scared half to death, and couldn’t wait to close her eyes and cover her ears to squat on the ground.
On this day, when the calm-faced Lu Chengyan left the Lu family with a scroll of paintings, no one was there to see her off.
When Lu Chengyan sat in the carriage, holding the portrait of her old ancestor in her death grip, she lowered her head, her mouth biting her arm to keep herself from crying out, unwilling to let the horseman whose real identity was Song Yu, the royal family’s head steward, hear her.
Suddenly, the carriage did not immediately drive to Qingliang Mountain, but before Lu Chengyan left the door, as if by chance, but also as if on a whim to act as a coachman for the future Princess, the Senior Steward gently knocked on the carriage curtains.
Lu Chengyan suppressed her sobs and asked softly, “Steward Song, what’s wrong?”
Song Yu said through the car curtain, “Before His Majesty left home, he instructed my humble servant to hand over a small brocade pouch to Wangfei when she returns to her mother’s home and then returns to Qingliang Mountain.”
The car curtain gently lifted a corner, and Song Yu handed over a carefully treasured exquisite brocade pouch.
Lu Chenyan opened the pouch with a foggy head, and inside was only a page with one sentence written on it.
Lu Chengyan bawled her eyes out.
This lucky woman who was said to be a “match made in heaven” with the young feudal king, this foolish woman who had once quietly lit a life-changing lamp to exchange her life for his, this strong woman who had borne the family’s fate alone after her ancestor’s death, and this crazy woman who was able to tell her own father to shut up, cried for the first time in her life, without a care in the world.
On that piece of paper, the handwriting is familiar, meticulous, written “Don’t cry, this life is a family.”
On this day, the civil and military officials of Tai’an City, who had only just finished celebrating the New Year, were on their way to attend the first morning court of the New Year, all of them were worried.
Even Duke Yan Gao Shizhi and Marquis Huaiyang Song Daoning looked gloomy after getting off the bus.
In fact, yesterday, the two have been to the palace overnight to see His Majesty, not only them, the three provinces and six ministries of the prominent ministers have been gathered to meet, although the young Prince of Heaven seems to look calm, only to say that there are 10,000 iron cavalry in the North Rang under the banner of the pacification of the Guangling, unauthorized intrusion into the river state, cloudy tone, but the Emperor that the deathly suppressed anger, everyone here is clear. In the end, there are not too many substantial countermeasures. Among the Ministry of Rites Minister Jin Lanting suggested that the Ministry of War Minister Xu Gong from the two Liao border, leading the capital city elite to Guangling Road to reinforce the southern expedition commander Lu Shengxiang, His Majesty did not agree and did not refuse, the Ministry of War Minister Tang Tieshuang then suggested that the court ordered the Jizhou General Yuan Tingshan south of the Guangling, and the Ministry of Minister Xu Gong, two lines of the two go hand in hand. There is an old minister of the Ministry of Revenue, I do not know which tendon is wrong, or is afraid that the 10,000 Northern Liang iron horsemen are not going to Guangling Road to quell the chaos, but turn the spearhead straight to the city of Tai’an, so with His Majesty the emperor suggested that the king of Shu from the jurisdiction of the 10,000 more troops, the young Prince of Heaven changed his face, but fortunately, Tantan Weng mended the fold, and quickly added a sentence, said that 10,000 troops can be Fortunately, Tantan Weng quickly added that the 10,000 soldiers and horses could be temporarily “lent” to Minister Xu of the Ministry of War.
Gao Shizhi looked at the side of this because of the cold and blanched hair little, softly asked: “Why not change a thicker fur?”
Song Daoning bitterly said, “Last night I simply didn’t sleep at all, and it was warm inside the study, so I casually took such a piece at that time. My temperament you are not unaware of, when I went out I guess my face did not look too good, how would the subordinates dare to come to the side of the house to make trouble for themselves.”
Gao Shizhi without saying a word took off his own fur, and Song Daoning changed the fur, like a subordinate of Huaiyang Marquis residence, is personally help the marquis in front of him to replace.
Song Daoning said softly, “Old Gao, you say in case one day Tai’an City can also see the smoke, we also want to go to the city to draw the bow and shoot the enemy, is it you die first or I die first?”
Gao Shizhi pooh-poohed a few times and said angrily, “In the New Year’s Eve, can you not say bad luck words?!”
Song Daoning snorted, “Consider it childish talk, childish talk, haha.”
Gao Shizhi lowered his voice and said, “I don’t dare to guarantee anything else, take a step back and say, even if Gu Jiantang of the two Liao rebelled, Northern Liang Xu Fengnian wouldn’t hit Tai’an City.”
Song Daoning curiously said, “Could it be that Xu Fengyen really just went to save a woman from Western Chu, as rumored in the streets? I originally didn’t believe it, I just thought it was a joke.”
Gao Shizhi bared his teeth and said, “That guy, what can’t he do? An ordinary person can single-handedly challenge Deng Tai’a and Cao Changqing? An ordinary person, dare to go to the Qin Tian Supervisor to kill in and out?”
Song Daoning stopped and asked in a deep voice, “The woman’s identity, could it also be as absurdly rumored that it is none other than the Empress of Western Chu?”
Gao Shizhi shook his head and said, “This is hard to say, true or false, God knows.”
Song Daoning got to the bottom of the matter and said, “Gao Shizhi, do you know when the matter of the Northern Liang Xu family harboring the deceased princess of Chu spread in Tai’an City?”
Gao Shizhi headache: “In fact, this kind of rumor is very early ah, years of old sesame rotten grain, but then the circulation is not wide, never set off big waves, but last year into the winter, suddenly began to boil in the city, a hair out of hand. Your marquis house has strict rules, that’s why you, ah, can’t hear this kind of gossip that’s hard to get into the hall of elegance.”
Song Daoning fell into deep thought.
Gao Shizhi laughed: “What’s there to think about, if I look at ah, it must be that no longer bearded Jin Lanting is making waves, Gao Tingshu Wu from the first of these a few helpers to run errands, can not escape. I wondered, how this Northern Liang people, on the contrary, than we these authentic capital city people still hate Northern Liang?”
SongDaoNing softly lamented: “the countryside people want to fight for water in the same village, the officialdom colleagues a house to fight for chairs, are the same reason, anyway, some readers do not reason up, you can not say what.”
Gao Shizhi wondered, “You are not a reader?”
SongDaoNing glared: “New Year’s Eve, what’s the point of cursing?”
Gao Shizhi was speechless.
Your mother, our brother and sister are surrounded by the most outstanding readers in Liyang, even if you are the Marquis of Huaiyang, if this word spreads out, see if you don’t give people with spittle drowned alive.
Gao Shizhi and Song Daoning walked side by side, “Daoning, do you think that Xu family boy will not really rebel, right?”
Song Daoning laughed and asked, “Scared?”
Gao Shizhi muttered, “The Northern Liang cavalry on the western front, the Northern Mang barbarians in the north, and Cao Changqing in the west Chu in the south, if it’s really such a situation, aren’t you afraid?”
Song Daoning played with the flavor: “Who was it that just said that Northern Liang would definitely not come to Tai’an City to fight the autumn wind?”
Gao Shizhi said bitterly, “Things are unpredictable, in case the young man surnamed Xu is really the kind of man who doesn’t want rivers and mountains but wants a beautiful woman, then it’s up in the air.”
Song Daoning’s face was no better, “Honestly, what are you afraid of?”
Gao Shizhi reddened his face and whispered, “North Mang West Chu is afraid of a bird, I am afraid that North Liang will give up and not guard the country’s door.”
Gao Shizhi thought that after saying this, he would be laughed at by his good brother, but he never thought that Marquis Huaiyang softly said, “I am also afraid of the Northern Liang iron cavalry ah. Who do you think is really not afraid in the temple today?”