Chapter 350 – Fish and Dragons Gathering

The Liyang Post Road centered on the capital Tai’an City, is a well-deserved official road, once hailed as the bloodline of the country by the old Ministry of War Yamen, moreover, the Shengshi Dynasty that unified the Central Plains was likened to a land god who had never been seen before or since, and the majesty of the essence of the blood can be said to be the crown of the ancient and modern times.

Liangzhou green horse post due to the state has been close to the city, set in a busy town of downtown, because this is in and out of Liangzhou city must pass through the place, not only the size of the post house is quite large, but also has the North Liang Road many post houses in the only tour of the court, postman up to seventy people, near the garrison is also stationed year-round there is a light cavalry-based garrison, it is said that the young king of the clan’s personal guards from the White Horse Guards, half of the troops in the early years is from the cavalry, the combat power of nature is not to be underestimated, for example, now has been the first time to the state of the state of the state of the state of the state, set in a busy town downtown. Not to be underestimated, for example, now has been in the Northern Liang army step by step in the madman Hong Shuwen, was born from this unassuming troops.

Over the years, Li Gongde, who has always firmly maintained the first chair of the civil officials in Northern Liang, stayed at the Qingma Post in the early years, and when he felt like it, he waved his brush and splashed his ink, leaving behind a piece of ink treasure of “other caves of heaven”, but I don’t know whether it was because the post house was too precious, or whether it was because those four words were too much of an “iron painting with silver hooks” relationship. The relationship between the four words is too “iron paintings and silver hooks”, so many years has not been framed and hung. Green Horse Stage is located in the town of Beian, is also exceptionally prosperous eight thoroughfares, Lingshou has always had the reputation of the south of the river outside the plug, the town of Beian has a small Lingshou said, it can be seen that the town of Liangzhou town of difference, in recent years, with the strong rise of the young king of the feudal lord, the town of Beian more than a lot of news of the Central Plains of the mangroves, mixed fish and dragons, together with the influx of the north of Liangjiang Lake, over time, the town of Beian native inhabitants will be accustomed to it.

As a few Liangzhou towns do not set the night ban in the place, Bei’an town is a veritable gold grotto, like the two neighboring restaurants and greenhouses, on the joint hit “do not board the two floors, in vain to come to the North Liang,” as well as “the world’s first flower wine” of the two gold signs, the tone of voice Great, the restaurant said they have all the best wine under the sky, no less than the imperial tribute, while the green house is claiming that their girls, no less than the emperor’s family selection of the courtesans, many unbelieving foreigners holding the mindset of smashing the scene have boarded the building, the results are almost invariably vertical into the horizontal out, they drink themselves down, or lying on the bed of the little lady, so that the two floors of the town of Bei’an is more and more Fame, resounded through the Northern Liang Road and the two Huai Road, especially a green house flower girl and study in the Qinglu Cave Academy of Liang scholar elopement farce, according to the reason should be furious green house not only did not beat the lovebirds, but took the initiative to burn the flower girl’s deed of sale, the restaurant even funded the scholar thousands of taels of silver to buy a hundred volumes of books, this pile of the beauty of the affair of the beautiful talk, vibration of the Northern Liang scholarly literary world, and even the Central Plains Jiangnan have heard, so much so that a literary world celebrity big brother public tsk, personally praised that the Northern Liang city everywhere chivalry. If put aside in three or four years ago, dare to say one or two good words for Beiliang, I’m afraid that this literary celebrity no matter how respected, also want to be reduced to a street rat, and even the family together with a thousand accusations, just now, although the concurrence of a few, but there is absolutely no one who will be serious about it.

Waiting for the seal ribbon supervisor three python clothes eunuchs in the small ferry from the Long Ju River back to Bei’an Town, is already nightfall, before the green horse post side fear of accidents, had to deploy more than twenty Jing Qi elite horsemen out of the town far to meet, once to find the trace, the green horse post must be to jump over the local government, directly notify the twenty miles away from the garrison, after all, this group of eunuchs to send orders to symbolize the face of the heavenly family of the Zhao room away from the Yang. Hiking into the town of Bei’an Eunuch Liu and his entourage has been hungry, so after that extraordinarily crowded restaurant, smelling the smell of wine is not afraid of the deep alley of that rich smell of wine, inevitably some of the intention, Eunuch Liu consciously some of the two tired like a dog colleagues, said with a smile that the group to go to a restaurant to play teeth how, tall and imposing not like the castrato of the horse eunuchs are more cautious, although not refused, is still Suggest that it is best to go back to the green horse stage to change a common dress, body type is bloated but can be in the palace as light as a swallow and healthy as a flying Eunuch Song would like to say how much of a thing ah, is not under the eyes of this Beiliang King’s Palace can also have assassins not murder? But since the seal ribbon supervisor “big boss” Eunuch Liu nodded, this to the Beiliang Road jurisdiction has not been very smooth Eunuch Song, can only quietly swallow the words back to the stomach.

Back to the green horse stage after some washing and dressing, three big eunuchs around only that surnamed Qian imperial army commander to follow, the four together into the name is called “restaurant” of the restaurant, because the next door is the most famous hook bar in the town of Bei’an, vaguely audible those soft seductive warbler singing and laughing, which makes Eunuch Liu for no reason a moment of dumb laughter, if the four people drinking trip spread to the public, the four people will not be able to get to know, the four people will not be able to get to the public, the four people will be able to get to the public. If the four people’s drinking trip into the capital side, most likely will be blackmailed into the eunuchs of the seal ribbon supervisor on the greenhouse? That would be a big joke. The restaurant has three floors, although it is late at night, the first floor lobby is still overcrowded, the second floor seats are not much left, good at observing the restaurant fellows to the four people led to the best view of the top floor of the elegant room, said elegant room, in fact, it is with the embroidery of the exquisite large floor screen partition only, Eunuch Song took his seat, comfortable paralyzed leaning on the back of a chair of yellow rosewood after the heart of the wood after the dissection of the natural gourd shape, laughed softly: “The layout here is somewhat similar to the marketplace on our side.”

Changed clothes more like a Guanwai big man Eunuch Ma looked around, quite satisfied, compared to the bottom two floors are much more quiet and elegant, squinted and nodded.

Eunuch Liu and the shoulder with a piece of cotton towel restaurant young fellows and pleasant: “Jizhou old cellar, Jiangnan apricot brew, ripe flower wine, each to two pots, as for the dishes and snacks, your restaurant can do.”

The young man smiled, bowed his waist and said: “This master is really expert, when the title of the wine fairy, the ordinary guests to our restaurant, the money is not false, but most of them choose the Western Sichuan Tribute Wine Jiannan Chun burned to drink, in my opinion, that wine is good, but in terms of the mellow aftertaste is not as ripe flowers, in terms of the burnt throat is far less than the green ants of the Northern Liang authentic! The first thing I’d like to say is that there’s an unwritten rule in our restaurant that as long as you want to drink green ants, you don’t have to pay for it, and you can drink as much as you want.”

Eunuch Song asked curiously, “Even if you drink ten or eight bottles, you don’t need to pay? Are you really not afraid that you’ll be exhausted by drinking? And if someone comes to your restaurant and only drinks Green Ant Wine, does your rule still apply?”

As soon as this issue was brought up, the young fellow who was originally fawning and bending at the waist immediately proudly said, “Yes, why not! Our shopkeeper has already told us that for those who are willing and able to drink our Northern Liang Green Ant Wine, it’s not a big deal to drink down his business, it’s just as if he made friends with the heroes, and the shopkeeper even made a rule for this reason, whoever can drink six jugs of our signature Green Ant Wine in one gulp, not to mention that the money for a table of banquet is exempted, and even if you want to go to sleep in the building next door for one night, we will help pay for it! We will also help pay for it!”

Eunuch Liu smiled and said, “This kind of open for business restaurant is really rare, some interesting.”

Eunuch Song hemmed and hawed a smile, hands holding the ancient color and fragrance into the hands of the comfortable chair edge, measuring that eloquent young fellows, “It seems that you shopkeeper’s although full of copper smell, but also not vulgar, this day we …… this day the master mood is good, just to give you shopkeeper a side, let him come to my side! This old master Liu toast a cup of wine, honestly tell you, this face, miss can be this life can not get.”

The young man listened to this fat mouth full of Chinese official accent, put out the frame is really bigger than the county magistrate, in fact, the inner belly slanders, but the face did not show the slightest, begged for forgiveness, said: “This master, really sorry, our big boss is not our Bei’an town of characters, even the small has not seen a glance, not coincidentally, the management of the second boss, just next door to the place where there is a table to push off. The second owner, just next door to the table that can not be pushed out of the meal, but a few masters relax, just for you to order six pots of wine, as long as the second owner back to the restaurant, small immediately go to him to know a word, how will not let the second owner to miss the four masters.”

And did not call the casual Eunuch Song already have a few unhappy look, was about to attack, just out of the corner of the eye glimpsed Eunuch Liu from the money bag out of a fast weight of silver, not with the general hoi polloi that straight to the restaurant fellows, but rested on the desktop, slowly pushed forward, smiled and said: “Reward you, don’t think it’s too little.”

The young fellow had the best impression of the old man sitting in the main seat, like a rich man with kind brows and good eyes, and also like an old scholar coming out from a family of books, and he was kind to everyone, which is rarely seen in the restaurant where everyone is a grandpa with money in their pockets.

The young fellow hesitated for a moment, then heard that stout middle-aged man, who had been silent earlier, coldly say, “Let you accept it.”

When the young fellow carefully collected the silver and left, Eunuch Liu asked in a low voice, “How was it?”

The Qian commander who has a notable reputation in both the imperial army and the Ministry of Justice Yamen in Tai An City said softly, “There is no difference, looking all the way over, this restaurant fellows are all unusual people who have never practiced martial arts, except that there are a few tables …… on the third floor that are very uncomplicated.”

Eunuch Liu blandly laughed: “Think of the worst, here from the green horse stage is only half an incense burner away, the cavalry horse is even more instantly, not to mention the belief that the secret stalking of the Northern Liang spies will not be some useless furnishings, we drink ours, do not have to worry much.”

Cautious Eunuch Ma still have some hidden worries, the heart than the sky wide Eunuch Song is already shouted: “Drink drink drink! Qian old brother, later you can taste our hometown side of the ripe flower wine, that kind of taste, I ah, but miss half a lifetime!”

The six jugs of good wine that were famous in the imperial court and the countryside were quickly brought up, and the young fellow who got the silver reward even took the initiative to carry two more jars of top-quality green ants wine with the restaurant, which was generous at the expense of others, and it didn’t hurt.

Compared to the light-hearted eunuch Liu Gong Gong and all things do not care about the head of the Secretary Song Gong Gong, jianghu and sand field have walked the imperial army money commander to have more calculations, his shoulders ultimately bear three seal ribbon supervisor big brother’s safety and security, to the smallest, any one of the old eunuchs qualified to wear python clothes made a mistake, then he in the city of Tai’an officialdom will come to an end, to the large, really appeared to be unable to suppress the wind storm, his surname money plus The entire family and even the benefactor behind them will have to suffer. So it seems to be an impromptu drinking, the waist hanging pendant with a royal wrong gold knife commander, has been the eye to see the four sides of the ear to listen to the eight sides, for example, after ascending to the third floor, each elegant room on all sides of the four although there are screens to cover the line of sight, but there is still enough clearance between the screens, near the stairs of the two tables, not surprisingly, look at it is an unusual drinker, the seat are full of dusty smell of the beauty of the age of the beauty of the accompaniment, obviously to the next door to the green house to invite the The hook bar women, and their table on the left and right and across the table, three tables of guests, but hidden dragons and crouching tigers, the left hand side of Eunuch Liu, the table across the Shu-embroidered screen, seated four people, everyone’s breath long, a young woman with outstanding posture, especially across the table from her drink cups also one hand always touching the hilt of the knife of the middle-aged man, the imposing attitude, even if he was just a glimpse of the go, the back of the knife to his Knife man also instantly have a subtle response, although did not turn around or draw the knife, but the hand under the table obviously from rubbing the hilt of the knife into a five-finger grip, so the money commander in case of trouble, simply give up the rest of the two men’s scrutiny of the measurement.

And Eunuch Liu’s right hand side of the jade mountain and sea picture screen that table, six men and three women, the age difference is very big, weapons are different, are greatly placed on the table or hanging in the wooden rack, like a few Jianghu allies of the sect of the companion trip, mostly for the young children within the sect to save the prestige of experience, which is common in the Central Plains Jianghu, between the words are also mostly gossip about the jianghu anecdotes, at this time in the said Huishan that purple clothes The deeds of the alliance master, talking about that pile of the current boisterous legend, a windy and snowy night at the end of winter last year, Xuanyuan Qingfeng in the Daxueping cliffs one night to watch the snow enlightenment of longevity, which let the money commander as a relief.

Really let him feel tricky or Liu Gonggong opposite the table, this is why the money commander chose to sit on the opposite side of Liu Gonggong’s real reason, separated from the two screens, twenty paces away, the wine table sits a couple of middle-aged men and women, the man has a kind of money commander is no longer familiar with the atmosphere of the sand field, and only see a gloomy side of the face of a woman, the posture of the flat, but the aura of the extremely cold and ferocious, she invariably The recklessness that radiates out, and the experts of the unusual jianghu sects, very different, the latter often out of the fight is to cut, only for fame, and she out of the fight is certainly life and death, only to kill.

Wine to half-healthy, there are two groups of people almost at the same time boarded the building, first to a set of really no coincidence, it is the fly swept the Longjiao River small ferry of those Jianghu warrior heroine, just don’t know why everyone looks complex, both awe and excitement, as if the daytime ghosts almost, the strange thing is that all of these young people have replaced a dress, drink a drink also want to shower and change clothes? With the cultivation of a small master Qian commander weighed their strength, although he felt a little strange, but also did not think deeply. Although he knows that this life among the first grade of the realm of the diamond is relatively difficult, but in the second grade of the small master, especially in the face of those outside of the sands of the jianghu martial arts master, do not dare to say that the world in the same realm of the enemy, but as long as it is a fight, he is very confident that the person who survived, will only be their own. To know that even that deservedly the world’s first knife method everyone Gu Jiantang, have been to him this small imperial forest army lieutenant’s knife method is quite appreciated, if not at that time just by the court was promoted to vice commander, perhaps he will follow the Gu big pillars of the country together with the two Liao to return to the border sands.

As for the second set of people, three men and two women, the young man at the head of a hated the world know the young warrior style, not into the eyes of the money commander, but the next four people, one more than one to make him feel scared, the “young warrior” around the blind woman, holding the qin and walking, and behind her back carrying a sword box of the mute middle-aged man, the sword very heavy, but this is still he has deliberately suppressed the sword, but the sword, and the sword, and the sword, and the sword is very heavy. But this is still under the premise that he has deliberately suppressed! Behind him husband and wife look like men and women walking side by side, the young woman is incomparable eye-catching, voluptuous and enchanting body, and wearing colorful tie-dye clothes, hands and feet are tied with a string of small and delicate silver bells, people do not show their faces ringing first, the waist hangs crookedly with a sheath of snow-white curved short sword, the eye of the very high money commander at a glance can see that this is clearly the Southwest of the 100,000 mountains in the Miao people attire, and she just so hold the Beside the five short body man’s arm, eyebrows and eyes full of undisguised complacency, as if their own her man is the world’s top hero, in her set off, the original inconspicuous middle-aged man also appeared to stand out from the crowd, dressed in linen lapel short shirt, head wrapped in a green head wrap, calves wrapped with a leg binding white cloth.

A wave has not yet subsided a wave rises again, the money commander has been hanging to the throat of the heart is almost about to be on the spot out of the mouth.

Not to half a glass of wine, another starry-eyed young woman came to the second floor, she was followed by four escort status characters.

Commander Qian retracted his sight and then turned pale, what kind of identity of a woman could afford to hire four top experts who were at the very least Second Grade Minor Masters to start with to act as envoys?

In this way, a small restaurant had coldly become a situation where there were as many experts as roadside dogs.

Even Commander Qian, who was accustomed to seeing great storms, began to sweat profusely.

Eunuch Liu calmly asked, “Trouble?”

Commander Qian smiled bitterly and said, “Not necessarily, but as long as there is a conflict, it will definitely be a big trouble that will break the sky. Perhaps an emergency mobilization of one or two thousand riders won’t be able to set it right.”

Eunuch Liu waved his hand and dismissed it with a smile, “As long as this is Northern Liang, that’s enough.”

At that moment, Commander Qian was truly impressed with this Seal Ribbon Supervisor’s head eunuch.

And outside the restaurant where the fish and dragons were gathered leading to treacherous clouds, a young gentleman with a sword and a horse suddenly stopped on the street.

His stopping, also let the brothel door pimp see his appearance, immediately bright eyes, her side of the two flamboyant girls is eager to hungry tigers pounce on the sheep, that still rolled up the sleeve of the downtrodden handsome brother to eat alive on the ground to be executed.

The young man who was lost in thought didn’t seem to hear what the bawd who was covered in fat and powder was saying, and also let her pull his arm and drag him towards the green house.

He just remembered many years ago, he and Li Hanlin Yan Chi set Kong Zhenrong three of them, together with the light of drinking flower wine, that time is never Li Hanlin money, from his that Beiliang officialdom is recognized as a penny iron rooster on the side of the old man to steal silver, every time it is a night of pleasure the next day will be rushed to the torture chamber of the posture. At that time was nicknamed a Yan eat chicken Yan Chi set always can’t let go, no matter how the side of the red snuggle green, from beginning to end is like he was in the mooching. And Kong Wuzhi that stupid big man, every time on the green house is to save the suffering to go, a door put down that mantra: which girl in the building the longest time not able to pick up the customer, I will point her! So every time there is a Kong Wuzhi in the room, the wine table is bound to be an absurd scene where the most beautiful woman and the most ugly woman in the greenhouse appear at the same time.

The young male finally came back to his senses and asked with a smile, “Can His Highness the son of the world drink flowery wine without paying for it?”

The bawd whose breasts were fluttering around joyfully replied, “This gentleman really loves to tell jokes, even if the king comes, he still has to pay silver na!”

The gentleman who had already been dragged a few steps stopped, still holding his horse with one hand, and bitterly said, “Then I won’t enter the building.”

The older brothel woman gave a charming glare, “Your son is not honest, he dares to wear this kind of knife on the street at this moment, will he not have any silver? I can promise you first, even if you don’t have a single coin on you, it’s fine, owe it!”

Just at the critical moment when the young male gentleman seemed to be in a heavenly battle, an unimpressive looking man suddenly appeared at their side, trying his best to hide the excitement in his words, and lowered his voice to say, “Second class room, ground number sixteen, there is something important to report.”

The young man nodded, and without showing any emotion, he broke away from the arms of the three greenhouse women and gave them an apologetic smile before leading his horse forward.

The young man turned his head to look at the elite spy of the Water Flick Room with hot eyes, “There is an unexpected situation?”

The latter said in a deep voice, “It was just discovered that someone was intent on assassinating the three eunuchs of the Seal Ribbon Supervisor, if it wasn’t for the fact that I temporarily took the liberty of discovering the king’s whereabouts, at this point, my subordinate would have already used the secret military talisman of the Qingma Post to mobilize that garrison into the city.”

Speaking of this, this spy who was already considered to be of a not-so-low status in the Bei Liang Whisking Water Room bowed his head and said, “Please forgive Your Highness!”

The young man snickered and laughed, “Worthy of being from the water whisk room, with Chu Lushan a virtue, please what sin, please merit is more or less the same.”

That specializes in the Bei’an town of large and small intelligence Whisker Room spies obviously some overwhelmed, slightly lost in thought, rushed to the young man who led the horse to methodically report the situation in detail.

The young man was none other than the young vassal king Xu Fengnian, after hearing this, he nodded, “You don’t need to intervene in this matter next, this king will handle it on his own.”

Just as the spy was about to take orders and turn around to leave, Xu Fengyen said in a deep voice, “Hard work.”

The Water Whisking Room Spy froze, wanting to speak, but in the end, he still did not speak, grinned, and then silently left.

Xu Fengyen led his horse slowly towards the restaurant building.