Chapter 338 – Guns, Rolling Yellow Sands (IV)

A five hundred people of the Tongguan elite cavalry escorted a carriage to the Liangzhou city, personally led by the lieutenant Xin Drinking Horse did not meet with the local garrison, but the Liangzhou city of the two leaders of the water room over to take over, and then led the carriage quietly into the city, straight to that by the spring and autumn veteran of the Yang Shenxeng town of the deputy governor’s mansion.

From the carriage came down a head of power ogonori curtain hat graceful woman, but compared to the Central Plains by the literati and elegant people renamed “shallow dew” of the lady things, the woman’s this bamboo brimmed curtain hat looks rough. She was followed by three robust escort, calm and steady posture, look forward to from the male as a tiger and wolf, hair accessories oddly not like the people of Northern Liang. Good thing at this time the street outside the residence of the deputy governor of Beiliang Road is empty, otherwise it will inevitably cause people to think.

The distance from the woman nearest a middle-aged strong man in the survey of the mansion style, and she whispered to ask a few questions, get the answer full of anger, the identity of the special woman immediately reprimanded in a low voice, the burly man is obviously still some dissatisfaction, muttering, no one stops. Under the cap, the woman seems to be quite helpless, the timid Xue guards are all grassland Beiting dignitaries of the direct lineage of sons and daughters of the origin, the side of this is even more unusual.

She for that young feudal king will meet in this place, in fact, also have some curiosity, in the western capital of the spider’s web of spies show, away from the sun general Yang Shen Xing in the northern Liang Road days is not good, temporarily hung in the old general’s name of the residence should not undertake such military affairs, but since the Qingliang mountain side has been so arranged, as a guest from afar, she can only be forced to accept. In fact, she expected the worst situation, it is very likely that she did not even see the outline of Liangzhou City, a group of four people died quietly on the way. Now the young king is willing to show up, is already a good result, her familiarity with the Qingliang Mountain and the Northern Liang iron horsemen, far from the side of the three high-minded and arrogant timid Xue Xue Wei can be comparable, these three people are afraid that in their lives only with those groveling South Dynasty remnants of the past, for the perception of the Northern Liang border army, but also only stayed in the surface of the paper of some rough military documents and spy reports.

For them to lead the way, is a look and gas of the middle-aged man, well-dressed, does not look extravagant, but exquisite ironing, the residence steward-like middle-aged man beside, but also followed by a bit of the age of the maidservant, the face is beautiful, but the rich breasts, waist, fat buttocks and long legs of the tempting body, if she lies on the couch, may be like a very rouge horse. Even the drapery cap woman can not help but look at more than this House maid, not to mention her side of the timid Xue guard, did not hide his eyes hot, gulped saliva, suddenly hemmed and hawed, accelerated a few steps, reached out to touch the maid’s slender waist, the drapery cap woman was too late to block, only the sturdy timid Xue guard did not have his way, his arm was that do not know when to turn around and stop the middle-aged steward gently hold, the man made a forceful Struggle for a moment, but could not move, suddenly as a great enemy, no more contempt in the eyes, but no matter how to increase the force, always break away from that more like a scholar steward of the white fingers.

The middle-aged steward did not even look at the timid guards, but looked at the woman in the curtain hat, smiled and said: “This is not your North Mang, never give away the custom of beautiful concubines, if you have the ability to let the woman fall in love at first sight, that is the real ability, if not, this girl you will honestly constrain the side of the people, otherwise we North Liang these twenty years, to the North Mang how is the hospitality, I believe that you do not know. hospitality, I believe you are not strangers.”

After saying these words, the middle-aged man did not move and loosened his five fingers, the red-faced stout man was caught off guard and stumbled backwards, another young timid Xuewei quietly stepped forward a few parts and reached out to help him, only then did he stand still.

Lost face of the North Mang man furious, reach out and hold the waist that only the royal tent clan can hang wear the gold peach skin sheath white rainbow knife, to be a rage to draw the knife.

The middle-aged man is indifferent to this, his face is still the same kind of light and pleasant color, glanced at the North Mang burly man who seems to only grow muscles and not brains, smiled and said, “If you want to test our king’s bottom line, then I, as a servant, can’t help but advise you all, this move is meaningless and meaningless.”

The lanky man immediately restrained his grumpy look, but still gripped that gorgeous saber, staring dead on at this deep-seated martial arts expert in front of him.

At the same time, the bruises on the wrist holding the sword instantly disappeared.

It was obvious that the middle-aged steward’s hands were not bad, and this cowardly Xue Xue Wei who was deliberately in a sorry state earlier was definitely not an oil lamp either.

The drapery-hatted woman asked blandly, “This gentleman should not be the steward of this Deputy Festival Minister’s residence, right?”

The middle-aged man didn’t hide anything and nodded, “I work as an errand boy at Qingliang Mountain, doing some chores and ushering people around.”

She suddenly came to a realization, and with more respect in her tone, she asked with a smile, “But the great steward Song who came from the Wutong courtyard of the royal residence?”

The middle-aged man, whose father and son had served the Northern Liang Xu Family for two generations, first gestured with his eyes for the maidservant to continue to lead the way, then walked alongside the draped-hatted woman who had recognized his identity, and laughed, “I hadn’t imagined that the County Princess had also heard of me.”

The hooded woman was precisely the Northern Mang Qingluan County Lord under the pseudonym Fan Bainu, with the reputation of being the first drummer on the grassland horse, and the story of Fan Bainu’s story with the former Northern Liang Capital Protector Chen Zhi Bao, hero and beauty, had also been widely circulated in Northern Liang.

She softly said, “King Shu once mentioned Mr. Song’s father many times in casual conversation.”

The Grand Steward of Qingliang Mountain, Song Yu, frowned and did not reply.

Nowadays in Northern Liang, even probably even many spies who entered the Whisking Water Room a little later to die, did not understand back then that the impression of the old steward who coughed constantly all year round, in fact, with the Listening Tide Pavilion Li Yishan and the present day Chu Lushan the same as the founders of the Whisking Water Room, the reason why the Old Kui under the lake was confined under the bottom of the Listening Tide Lake in the first place, was the reason that it couldn’t defeat the Sword Jiu Huang, however, why the Sword Jiu Huang stayed at Qingliang Mountain as a stable boy, was yet another But why Jian Jiuhuang stayed in Qingliang Mountain as a horseman is another secret story that has long been submerged in the depths of the secret files of the Water Flickers Room. After Xu Snap is crowned king of Northern Liang, countless remnants of the Central Plains and the jianghu grassroots like crucian carp, have to go to Qingliang Mountain to take revenge on the Xu family, if you say that at that time the means to kill the old cripple butcher, because Xu Snap at that time Xu Yan Bing Han Laoshan this pair of Wang Xiu masters and brothers to serve as a personal escort, then at that time often wandering around the Northern Liang three states of the son of His Highness Xu Fengyian, the side of the servants and escorts on the face of the earth, if you say that the same with the same If you say that with the same North Liang will be the children of the seeds of jealousy is not bad, but meet the real jianghu masters top assassins, can not be enough to see, why Xu Fengyen is still able to survive to the hereditary recklessness?

At that time the wutong courtyard steward song fisherman, this speech and warm, temperament mellow unassuming character, early years seems to be busy all day and night to the unscrupulous son of his highness to drink flower wine to pay for the bill, for those who got into the eyes of the master of the ranger children present gold and silver plaque, as if it will only be for his highness to do some ass wiping harmless guy, is the truth of it all.

Before White Fox’s face read all the secrets of the Hearing Tide Lake’s martial arts library, there was actually another person who took the lead in accomplishing this feat.

This person is Song Yu, although because of the young once suffered a serious injury, fell into the root of the disease is difficult to cure, resulting in so far only the second grade small master’s physique, but no matter how high the vision, or after collecting the strengths of all families after all kinds of refers to the Xuan realm of the secret art, Song Yu can be described as a well-deserved clear!

After Xu Fengnian of Liangshan Mountain, Song Yu was the second person.

When Fan Baenu was led by Song Yu to a lakeside pavilion, he recognized the young feudal lord almost at first glance.

In the pavilion, there was no distinction between host and guest, and the young king was surrounded by a graceful white scholar, a tall and dignified old man, and a middle-aged man who looked similar to the old man in six or seven points.

Upon seeing Fan Baenu and his party, the young feudal lord slowly got up, walked to the top of the steps, and with a smile on his face, greeted this enemy county princess who had quietly sneaked into Liangzhou.

Fan Baenu, for some reason, instead of feeling relieved after seeing this scene, she became even more hateful towards this young man surnamed Xu.

She herself did not know why this was so, perhaps it was because this person had forced Chen Zhi Bao to leave Northern Liang, perhaps it was this person’s identity as Xu Snapdragon’s first eldest son, perhaps it was the aftermath of that tragic battle at Hulukou that had been spread into Northern Mang’s royal tent, or perhaps it was the news of Hong Jingyan’s death that she had heard just a short while ago.

Fan Baenu quickly suppressed the disgust in his heart and tried his best to keep himself calm, after all, in front of a great master of martial arts evaluation like Xu Fengnian the slightest hint of dissimilarity would be caught.

Although all four men were originally drinking, there was a small and exquisite yellow pear table in the pavilion, with a complete set of tea utensils, so I guess this is considered the Northern Liang’s way of hospitality to treat women outside of the sands.

As expected, that enchanting looking female servant girl followed Fan Bai Nu up the steps, with low smooth eyebrows and light footsteps, sat down on one side of the table, and skillfully began to make tea.

With the fall of Hongjia north run, there is no lack of noble status of the spring and autumn relics, for the North Mang dignitaries to bring a wave of spring weather of the Central Plains elegance, tea is one of the things, before this, the North Mang for the Central Plains impression of drinking tea, nothing more than put tea leaves and pouring the tea two actions, now it is even the seven prohibited twelve appropriate this kind of time than the Dafeng period is more and more elaborate and elaborate rules, have become the norm, and In a decent manner.

Xu Fengyen re-seated, with the removal of the curtain hat of Fan Bainu sitting eye to eye, for her to introduce the identity of the remaining people, respectively, Longhu Mountain’s Mr. White Lotus, the current Beiliang Road Deputy Minister Yang Shenxeng, Yang Huchen, the son of Yang Shenxeng, the temporary vice general of the Thistle, and finally added a sentence, are not outsiders, she Qingluan County, despite the freedom of speech.

When Fan Bainu was deliberating carefully, Xu Fengyen suddenly looked at the three Beimang Xuexue guards outside the pavilion, withdrew his line of sight and slowly said to her: “If the king remembers correctly, that kind of gold peach skin sheath white rainbow knife, is the Yelu royal family supervised the production of the furnace thirty years ago, a total of only sixteen, excluding a few of the king’s tent treasury, the whole of the Beimang was given nine, Huang Songpu, Liu Gui, and Yang Yuanzan have been given. And Yang Yuanzan have all obtained, the last two, seems to be Dong Zhuo as the South Court Great King and Seed Sandan promoted to the Xia Press Bowl, the person outside the pavilion is able to carry this sword on his waist, and at a glance it is the old thing that has been hanging for many years, this king believes that the identity is not lower than the county princess in any way, why don’t you enter the pavilion to have a drink together, and have a taste of our Bei Liang’s green ants?”

Fan Bainu’s eyes flashed with a touch of surprise, and she was about to speak, but the young feudal king’s next words almost made her rise in anger.

“The reason why I know the origin of this knife has nothing to do with being knowledgeable, except that for one thing, the Listening Tide Pavilion has long had this knife in its actual form, as if it was exactly what Xu Snapdragon had hand-picked off from the waist of one of the Yelu princes on the grasslands in the early years, and last year Yang Yuanzan left another handle in the gourd’s mouth.”

She laughed coldly, “The king is naturally outstanding in battle, not losing to his father’s generation, only that there is no need to remind outsiders with this battle sword.”

Xu Fengnian shook his head and laughed, “County princess is overthinking, if this king wanted to flaunt his sword with you, he wouldn’t be here to receive the four of you, since you came from Youzhou, wouldn’t it be simpler and less troublesome for me to let you go straight to Hulukou?”

Fan Bainu rose violently.

Xu Fengnian turned a blind eye, and as he reached out to pick up the wine cup, he said flatly, “Having traveled a long way to Liangzhou City, it won’t be as easy as it was earlier for the county princess to leave the table and then want to sit down again.”

With a slight smile, she turned her head and spoke in the Northern Mang language to the Satchel Sword Cowardly Xuewei who was hiding his identity, the latter striding towards the pavilion, and with that, she resumed her seat blithely.

Xu Fengyen opened the door and asked, “This king is curious, which big shot facilitated county princess’ trip south?”

She also answered bluntly, “It is none other than His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.”

Xu Fengnian was not too surprised and gave a hmmm, “Then just how big a price did he offer to buy your Beimang Emperor’s throne?”

Fan Bainu shook his head, “Your Highness is biased with this statement, who will sit on the dragon chair of Beimang in the future, the decision made by Your Highness today will indeed have a not insignificant impact, but it is not yet to the point of reaching the kind of thing that Your Highness is implying with his words.”

Xu Fenian laughed, “Not to the point? Then what would county princess risk killing her head to come to Northern Liang for, to drink the northwest wind?”

Fan Baenu was about to speak.

The maidservant who had been concentrating on making tea with her eyes on the nose and nose on the heart, finished distributing the pots, should have served the tea, but didn’t dare to disturb the two sides, and appeared to be in some difficulty.

Xu Fengyen timely resolved, “Sheriff, this is this year’s Spring God Lake new tea, you taste it, but Liangzhou is not compared to Lingzhou, there is not much well water, not to mention looking for the mountain sweet springs, so Sheriff will just drink it.”

Fan Bainu took out three fingers to receive the seven-minute full teacup, and lowered her head to take a sip.

Her waist was always straight.

She was certainly a moving beauty, with an austere and inviolable air of coolness about her body.

And this kind of aura that was able to reject normal people from a thousand miles away was exactly what a certain type of superior person would want.

It was believed that almost all men, when choosing between this county princess and that maidservant, would choose the former.

Only Xu Fengyen’s eyes were always clear, and he paid no attention to the timid Xue Wei who stood behind the Qingluan County Mistress and pressed his sword to look down on her.

Xu Fengyen after she gently put down the tea cup, ”This king originally thought that it was the authorization of Yelu Dongbed, after all, before this person returned to Beimang, accompanied by Deng Mao made a special trip to Wudang Mountain to meet with me, at that time he also made a price, when Hong Jingyan’s Zojiran Iron Cavalry was able to keep the complete establishment out of Hulukou, on the one hand of course, it is because of his sense of avoiding fighting, on the other hand, also because of that deal The matter of the Zoran Iron Cavalry was mentioned in the deal, together with the fact that our target is mainly Yang Yuanzan’s main army, and we are not willing to waste our troops on the Zoran Iron Cavalry. With this king being so open and honest, and the county princess having a Prince of Northern Mang standing behind her who is even more powerful than Yelu Dongbed, the next offer, this king feels that it shouldn’t be lower than Yelu Dongbed in any way.”

This news was a stone’s throw in the ears of the Northern Mang County Lord.

Yelu Dongbed’s ambition is not strange, but his lawlessness in the first Liang-Mang war has not yet settled, early face to face with the king of Beiliang to do business, this if confirmed by the grassland king’s tent side of the correct, the two family names already seemingly apart, will certainly set off an unprecedented storm of bloodshed.

So much so that Xu Fengyen’s next joke, so that she did not feel half a bit of ridicule, but rather chills all over her body.

“For example, when this King was still that idle Prince of the World back then, he met those rogues who mistook them for jianghu masters and looked up to them, and if they collected less silver, instead of being happy, this King had to get angry and felt that he was looking down on the identity of that ‘Prince of the World’. So this time, when your Crown Prince sends the county princess to Northern Liang, the ‘silver’ must be brought enough.”

She gently exhaled, gazing at the young vassal king for the first time, or rather the first time she looked at this young man squarely in the eyes, but did not rush to speak.

Suddenly, Xu Fengnian raised his head to look at the two expressionless ordinary cowardly Xue Xue guards outside the pavilion, “Huh? There’s a killing aura.”

County Mistress Qingluan was first stunned, then her expression changed drastically and she immediately turned her head to look.

But under the gaze of the pavilion full of characters, both of the two Xue Xie guards were at a loss.

In a flash.

Someone in the pavilion unsheathed his sword.

Under a knife, the power was no weaker than Gu Jiantang’s Fangchun Lei.