Chapter 087 mountain into the city into the palace (above)

Three large boats from the river into the lake, eight hundred miles of Chunshen Lake, the smoke and waves, this lake contains six water to gulp the river, has always been the place of death of the military as well as the tourists excursion, Xu Fengyen stood in the bow of the boat to explain to the fish young Wei Chunshen Lake geography, accompanied by a lot of the year when Li Yishan instilled in his insights into the art of war, “before the Spring and Autumn period, the north and south confrontation, all to fight for the strongholds of the place, the control of the Chunshen will be able to Sailed east, high above, to seize the world in the posture of a lion fighting a rabbit, earlier the north want to drink horse southeast, or the south want to raise troops to the north, have to go through 800 miles of spring god lake, three cities, three passes, three mountains, has always been the attention of the military. The three cities are Xiangfan, Xingyang, Wuling, Xiangfan in terms of the world, Xingyang in terms of the southeast, and Wuling in terms of the state. Xiangfan has always been said to be the world’s waist brawn, when the three kingdoms fought here, Wang Mingyang, a former minister of Xichu, was ordered to become the county guard of Xiangfan, refused to Xu Snapu’s 100,000 soldiers and armor, and defended it for three years. Later, when Xichu was destroyed, and Xishu was forgotten, this bachelor of Jixi from the Shangyin Palace of Study still vowed to die and surrender, and cannibalism was found in the city, and Wang Mingyang even cooked his wife and children with his own hands. It is said that ten years after the city was broken, there are still more than 100,000 lonely ghosts refused to leave the city, night and day wailing, the dynasty had to let the Longhu Mountain master Tianshi went to Xiangfan, set up the Jiaojiao, Jiao bit to reach the appalling thirty-six thousand and five hundred, a feat that no one has ever done before or since. This war of attack and defense earned Wang Mingyang the name of the first general of the Spring and Autumn Period, and even Xu Snapdragon admired him. It’s just that one person achieved fame but pulled 200,000 people with him, Wang Mingyang will be a controversial figure for another thousand years.”

Yu Youwei said timidly, “We’re not going to Xiangfan, are we?”

Xu Fengyin had been habitually flicking his fingers falsely recently, all day long, I don’t know how many thousands of times he flicked his fingers falsely, probably practicing his sword to the point of going off the rails, he laughed softly, “I was going to go, if you don’t dare to do so, then we’ll go straight to Wuling.”

Yu Youwei shook her head. Xu Fengyen suddenly heard a burst of crying and shouting from the stern of the boat, fish Youwei not coincidentally just heard the legend of 100,000 grievous spirits in Xiangfan, her heart and liver trembled, and it was not easy for her to realize that she was in the front of the boat of the Chunshen Lake at the moment, and she laughed at herself with a face of self-deprecation. Xu Fengyen ignored Yu Youwei, rushed to the bow of the boat, saw a boatman holding a bloody arm rolling on the ground, two young kui, scarlet, hissed at him in a low voice, Lu Qiantang went up to tell His Highness the story once again, a trivial matter, young kui frolicking running, about to bump into the boatman, the young kui short-tempered, so he bit, Xu Fengyen frowned, the tiger kui is an ancient ferocious beasts, hungry to eat, the tiger kui is a beast, the hunger is cannibalism. Xu Fengyen squatted down, the biting young kui vajra seemed to feel the owner’s anger, lowered his head and whimpered, his skin color immediately changed from red to black, Xu Fengyen but did not treat it with arrogance, flexed his fingers and flicked the injured vajra in the wall of the boat to pop out a hole in the boat and crashed into the lake, the sister bodhisattva looked at her brother in the hole, pitifully looking back to Xu Fengyen, appeared to plead for leniency, Xu Fengyen grunted coldly and got up and said: “Compensate some silver to the injured. By the way, let the Feng Zi camp help to patch up the boat boards.”

In the twilight, on the Chunshen Lake, a hundred barges competed with each other, a thousand sails competed, a lively and prosperous scene, the closer to the fish and rice country in Jiangnan, the more and more one could not feel the thousands of miles of wilderness of the hometown of Northern Liang.

Tonight, the party will stay at night on an island in the center of Lake Chunshen, the name of Bushan. Near the island in the lake, Xu Fengyen saw Jiang Nai rare out of the cabin stood beside, explained: “this mountain was not called basking mountain, called the prison mountain, is the western queen mother imprisoned jade emperor’s daughter spring god place, prison mountain is not surrounded by the lake, just a basin, and then there is a land immortal can not afford to be angry, along the prison mountain, a sword drawing circle, collapsed eight hundred miles, which surged out of the lake, the lake. Over time, the lake became the spring god lake, the mountain became the basking mountain. As for the immortal man-made lake, naturally, is a strange talk. Nowadays, the basking mountain is full of courtyards and pavilions, the three religions and nine streams gathered, not only have the powerful and noble houses, monks and Taoist huts, there are a few deceased veterans on the island to draw a prison, stores are also many, on the island, you can pick some eye things.”

Jiang Nai stretched out his hand, Xu Fenian froze for a moment and asked, “What?”

Jiang Nai said stiffly, “Silver.”

Xu Fenian laughed, “Alright, at this moment you’ve earned several hundred taels of silver, how much do you want to take away? But say a kind reminder, you report my name, who dares to ask for money from you, why waste the secret books you earned by studying hard.”

Jiang Nai laughed coldly, “Do you think I’m a trickster like you?”

Xu Fengnian was amused and smiled, “Then how much silver do you really want? Take out hundreds of taels? Or I’ll simply give you a few thousand taels of gold on credit, in that case, you can read for several lifetimes.”

Jiang Nai said indignantly, “I’ll only take out one tael of silver!”

Xu Fengnian said helplessly, “Do you need to be so petty?”

Jiang Nai said with a stern face, “Bring it!”

Xu Fengyen blankly said, “Ask the green bird for it later, this Shizi never carries this small amount of money.”

Jiang mud straight back to the cabin, do thief general from the bookcase carefully took out a small account book, which clearly recorded the reading of the “Taixuan Jing” earned more than a few words, “Thousand Swords Compendium of Materia Medica”, “Kill Whale Sword”, and so on, each when to read and where to read, how many words each read, all have a detailed record, so far, she earned more than Xu Fengyen said a few hundred taels, but one thousand and seven hundred and thirty-four dollars, the whole day is to eat, drink, and sleep! Old Sword God paced into the cabin, was about to cross out one or two silver in the savings of Jiang Nai with one hand to raise the pen, one hand to cover the account book. Li Chun Gang can do nothing about it, standing far away from the ginger mud to do the job at hand, which carried a wine pot sitting on the table, poured wine on the table, finger dipped, and so Jiang Nai put the books back to the bottom of the bookcase, sitting on the opposite side of the Li Chun Gang to finger as a pen, wine as ink, waved on the desktop to open up a brush, a picture of the spirit of the spirit of the spirit of the spirit of the spirit of the spirit of the spirit, Jiang Nai is sitting upright, see the old man writing, a breath of fresh air through the beginning and the end. Half of the desktop, densely packed, such as the ghost gate that chaotic reef jagged, Li old man wrote before looking at the ginger mud, the latter face calm, the old man seems to be true, as the beginning of what is said does not seek to learn what the little girl, a wipe of the cuffs, and again, this time Li ChunGang have to speak: “the old man’s wild grass, the main points of the three, first of all, continuous consistency, and then strive for a thousand layers of ten thousand floors, and finally a word of no word, fearless The last is the word “no”, “no fear”, “no emotion”, “no demand”, like this wine, wipe it away, not stained with the slightest trace. The first point is the work of laziness, even if drunken cursive writing, but a closer look at the pen without a little bit of loss, all have rules, why? Why? The work done on weekdays is sufficient and fine. A word pen like a sword and a knife, sloppy not come, the old man’s word has always been known as running snake walking viper, the viewer look at the word as looking at the sword, sharp sword sharp, towering fear ……”

Li Chun Gang is talking to the rise, but glimpsed the ginger girl is yawning, the big boat lurched, seems to be going ashore, a belly of frustration of the old man lowered his head and sucked, sighed, recited Mo waste Mo waste, desktop those drinks inhaled into the mouth. Jiang Nai was accustomed to this kind of absurd behavior of the old man, together they walked out of the cabin, and saw Xu Fengyen was discussing things with the halberd Ning Emei, as if the majority of the phoenix character battalion would not go up to the mountain, which is reasonable, not to mention the 100 light armor soldiers to live under or not, these Northern Liang brigands themselves are too eye-catching. In the Jiang Nai thinking, Li old man is still there to brag about how a handful of words out of the ordinary, Jiang Nai left ear into the right ear out, hands lift up the hem of the skirt to walk down the wooden planks, glimpsed a young kui scampered up the bank, mouth holding a fat carp, seems to be in the to Xu Fengyen to take credit, but Xu Fengyen just reprimanded, that little guy immediately lying on the ground motionless, about to be pretending to be dead? Xu Fengnian just want to lift his foot to kick the little guy, the robe was another young kui gently bite, Xu Fengnian only then give up, discipline is considered to end. The two young kui dragons don’t hold any grudges, and happily followed behind His Highness, Jiang Nai was heartbroken when he saw the two little idiots, why are they so docile to Xu Fenian.

Xu Fengyen looked back at the Spring God Lake, eyes in a trance, murmured: “Arrived?”

……

Imperial Capital, Tai’an City.

Early in the morning, the sky was gray and cloudy.

Three hundred iron horsemen galloped on the official road, dust flying.

It was rumored in the capital that Northern Liang King Xu Snapdragon was about to enter the city, the only giant city in the world with a population of one million was in a state of treacherous clouds for a while, and the tall buildings on the main axle road in the city were filled with people of all colors, only seeking to catch a glimpse of Grand Pillarate Xu’s true face, and even if they couldn’t see him, they would be satisfied with a look at the array of vehicles and horses. Qingliu scholars anxious, jianghu martial arts restless, dignitaries noisy, heard that there are dozens of large and small yellow door ready to join hands to stop the car, to risk their lives to denounce the people slaughtered the living souls of the charcoal, to scold it to destroy half of the world’s reading seeds, but also rumors that there are countless ready to assassinate the martial arts, and even storytellers in the major teahouse coincidentally the same old tune, talking about the chaotic war in the Spring and Autumn period.

The ear-piercing chirping of cicadas resounded from countless branches within the capital.

Tai’an city gates have four holes, inside and outside the gates of the city of idle people were city gate lieutenant early clean, when the approaching horse troop stamped out than the cicada chirping ear-splitting 100 times the roar, when the city gate as well as the walls of the city of people to see the scarlet eye-catching Xu flag, this is the breath of the morning, suddenly suffocated up.

The horse troop slowly stepped into the city gate.

Aside from the sound of the horses’ hooves, it seemed that the entire capital city began to fall silent.

On the main axis avenue of the palace, the bystanders who had taken up a good position could not help but hold their breath.

As the horsemen moved farther and farther away, they looked at each other with a sense of relief.

The dust had settled.

Outside the city gates came two pedestrians, one of the old monks dressed in black, eye triangular, hideous appearance, like a senile sick tiger, just indifferent. The other hunchback slightly lame, wearing an ordinary rich man’s attire, looked up at the city wall, a slight smile, and beside the black monk as well as some of the morning business of the traders and pawns together by the side of the hole through the gates, occasional attention to the line of sight, are placed on the body of the old monk, the black monk is not like a compassionate monk this appearance, but the old age, pedestrians just more than a couple of eyes, and then no longer on the heart. As for the old monk beside the old man, but also not to attract attention, Tai’an City is the world’s first city, even the small people in the streets and wells claimed to have seen so-and-so generals and so-and-so university professors, who is happy to look at a hunchbacked old man?

Through the side hole of the city gate, the rich man and the black-clothed old monk walked slowly forward.

The rich man with his hands behind his back, laughed: “Yang bald donkey, the capital of a million people, you can only one is my friend ah.”

Withered old monk gently said, “If you do not touch my head, I am your friend.”

The rich man’s mouth said how can how can, they say there are two things in the world can’t touch, can’t touch the tiger’s ass, and you can’t touch the head of this Yang taiyou. But the words are so, but he is very nonchalant to reach out to touch the old monk’s bald head, the old monk does not stop, just sigh.

The rich man touched the bald head of the old monk in black and laughed.

The old monk in black had a bashful face.

This head.

Qi Xuanzheng did touch it back then, and then the lotus top collapsed in half.