Chapter 152 – I’ll Draw the Dragon and You Put the Eyes on the Dragon

Xu Fengyen entered the carriage, it was still only Xu Lip Hu and Princess Jing’an. Xu Fengyen sat down on his knees, leaning against the wall of the carriage, his brows furrowed.

Xu Lipid Tiger was a little distressed, reaching out to smooth his brother’s frown.

Xu Fengnian smiled, somewhat bitterly.

Has the delicate situation in Northern Liang become so clear that even Cao Changqing can see through it at a glance? Emperors, especially the founder of the dynasty’s successive emperors, there are a few are not borrowing the knife to kill after the knife will be withdrawn, on the side of those who were originally in charge of the knife of the companions stabbed the knife, the dog is for biting to prevent thieves, thieves have not, but also left the dog waste of food rations is not? But after all, Beiliang is not a dynasty, the border is divided, living in a corner, Xu Snapdragon, no matter how to be called the second emperor, nominally to the capital that still have to be respectful, allow you to human butcher knife on the temple, is the grace of God, is to let the stupid North Mang know that this side of the court will not be stupid enough to self-destruct the foundation of the autumn, and Xu Snapdragon is a lord is good, but also is not the kind of cunning rabbit dead dog cooking cold lord, treating the old generals of the Northern Liang, more will not be less kind and less righteousness, and Xu Snapdragon is not bad, but not that kind of cunning rabbit dead dog cooking cold lord, treat the old generals of the Northern Liang, more will not be less kind and less righteousness. On the contrary, Xu Fengnian knows better than anyone Xu Snapdragon in these years are to a large extent by the appeasement of the care of the old department of the children and grandchildren of the mind, the court side seems to be happy, knocking to take the force just right, not to force you to the king of the different surnames of the revolt, but also do not let you Xu Snapdragon really comfortable, the defection of the Northern Liang Yan Jiexi is a typical example.

Intentionally or unintentionally, the white Confucian general Chen Zhi Bao power, have their own team, even if there is no martial arts such as cloud scribes such as rain so exaggerated, but also not too far, and a Chen Zhi Bao can rival half of the Western Chu said, is the late emperor before the death of the Baohe Palace in Xu Snapdragon, when the face of a full of civil and military officials personally said.

Chen Zhi Bao is recognized as the most adept at national warfare, more than 100,000 troops deployed, out of the ordinary, it is said that he remembers the name of each lieutenant, as well as the strengths and weaknesses of their respective troops to fight, the opportunity for battle fleeting, Chen Zhi Bao but always able to make the finishing touch to the deployment of the troops, the western wall of the battle, a battle of the sound fighting for three days and nights, Chen Zhi Bao sleepless, behind the flag of the order of the pawns rotated a whole of six batches of eighteen people responsible for the record of the process of the military historian wrote off the hard without a break. The military historian wrote off the hard not under ten branches, from beginning to end, Chen Zhi Bao a white coat does not move, in his precise to the extreme countless times under the command, hard to exhaust the last hundreds of thousands of Western Chu nibbled to death of young men.

Rumor has it that the Son of Heaven now reads the record, reads it again and again, circles the wonderful place countless times, and writes down eight words at the end of the volume: really can be fascinating, not worthy of the War Immortal!

In these two years Xu Fengyen had to envision, at that time, the fame and prestige directly after the year another white Chen Zhi Bao if promised the emperor rushed to the southern border, the northern Liang will be more simple, these years Xu Snapdragon has never brought up any topic about the rightful son Chen Zhi Bao, Xu Fengyen is the son of His Highness, but also do not know Xu Snapdragon’s true inner thoughts.

To say that Xu Snapdragon is to keep Chen Zhi Bao as a side of the whetstone, much less like the kind of butchering all the meritorious patriarchs to pave the way for the successor of the emperor, Chen Zhi Bao, the White War Immortal power to sit on the big, the moment has been the tail is not big enough to fall off, really not afraid of Xu Fengyen to lose to Chen Zhi Bao, a few decades of the head chained to the waistband of his pants on the military career, will not in the end to lose a clean? As long as Chen Zhi Bao day in Beiliang cold eyes, how can Xu Fengyen really live regardless?

Xu Lihu quietly looked at his brother who was deep in thought, and as an afterthought, he was creeped out, “That Cao Changqing’s surname is Cao, and he can make the old Sword God that nervous, it can’t be Cao Guanzi, right?”

Returning to his senses, Xu Fengnian helplessly said, “Unfortunately, you’ve hit the nail on the head. This person is exactly that big official son who goes to the palace compound to play hide-and-seek with Hanren cats when he gets bored.”

Princess Jing’an was not stupid, Jiang Nai’s surname was Jiang, she was clearly a maidservant, but when she got along with His Highness the World Son, how did she ever have the half sense of being a slave or a maidservant? Pei Nanwei laughed coldly and said: ”It’s just a matter of harboring a dead princess, but also by the old ministers of Western Chu, how will your highness explain to the capital? If this matter is known by the Jiangnan scholar, make a big fuss about it, causing the dragon’s face to be furious, your highness will not come here in anger and go away in disgrace?”

Xu Fengyen’s mood was at the bottom of the valley, said in a bad mood: “It’s not your turn to be happy, this son is peaceful, your days are more comfortable, this son is not peaceful, you can be good to where, with your temperament, you can be made into a proper princess of Jing’an Wangfu, Zhao Heng is really blinded his pair of fiery eyes. Plus a coveted your body Zhao Xun, family misfortune ah. This son to save you in the fire, not grateful for just, but also dare to gloat here? Forget the taste of embroidered winter knife sheath slapping your face?”

Pei Nanwei just laughed coldly.

Xu Lip Hu headache said, “In the tea room the old sword god said the name of Cao official son, with Xu Hui Pou’s cautiousness, destined to say to say with a few old offerings to listen to, at that time, Cao Changqing and Jiang Nai’s true identity together with the water to the stone, this matter is indeed tricky.”

Xu Fengyen thought about it, smiled: “trouble is trouble, but not a big deal, Jiangnan scholar group that a few shrewd old bastard, although not good, like to eat fish in muddy water, but may not be happy to tear the face with us Beilang, and Xu Snapdragon to take a deadly feud with the benefit of what? Reckless man moving knife, literati moving mouth, well water does not offend river water, not as a last resort, are not to be tragic to come to a pen and knife each other, good, I killed a few not climate end of the stream of the scholar, and now Cao Guanzi came out to stir up the situation, as a send a handle to a few old master of the house well, in this way, their hearts can also be balanced to save the old man feel disgraced, no surprise, I left Yangchun City before, there would be someone to remind Nothing more than ‘Your Highness ah, you killed a person is not right, we Yangzhou this trip caught your small horse feet, but it does not matter, we do not care about the past, as a blind eye, so Your Highness you are not convergence of some, do not make a fuss ah, for everyone is not good,’ this kind of boring accent, ha ha, sister, you tell me, this is not to pay back the grudge, the famous scholar style. The celebrity style?”

Xu Lihu listened to his brother learn that old scholar’s accent, nodded vigorously, couldn’t help but belly laugh.

Princess Jing’an murmured incredulously, “National affairs are such child’s play?”

Xu Fengnian sneered, “Child’s play? Where is this child’s play, do you really think that the root of the family’s powerhouse is the court’s favor? You have to beg for mercy from the king? State affairs are state affairs, then compared to family affairs? If that’s the case, wouldn’t all those princesses who couldn’t marry into the big families, and all those princes who couldn’t marry into the big families, have been humiliated for nothing over the centuries?”

Xu Fengyen head knocked a car wall, fingers flick knee embroidery winter, squinting and laughing: “Now only after twenty years, a hundred feet of insects die hard, and then later maybe it is not good to say, I have to say, Xu Snapdragon is really fierce ah, ten intertwined with the roots do not know the emperor only recognizes the family family, a chopping and chopping, those who died in the hands of Xu Snapdragon, the emperor, there may be one or two even though the death of the smile! The emperor died at the hands of Xu Snapdragon. How can our emperor tolerate a flat river in the house in the yard, there are so many Yangzhou four tribes of the pits and puddles? Seal the king cracked the earth, sitting in the town of eight, in order to bluntly cut meat slowly clean up these skin stubborn disease, this move has advantages and disadvantages, but take a step back to say, these powerful feudal kings want to nine or five position, regardless of the victory or defeat, in the end are not all surnamed Zhao? The world is still the world of the Zhao family? In fact, the Spring and Autumn state war, the most tragic loss is Pei Wangfei where you are these high-minded family, today’s scholars clamor abuse, Xu Snapdragon is not afraid of, is to count on the emperor’s mind. I dare to kill people in Yangzhou, the same reasoning, Princess Pei, why don’t we make a bet, at the moment Jiangnan scholars are teaming up with the state academy students to impeach this Shizi for ignoring the law of the land for the wrongdoings, let’s bet on who will be hit by His Majesty the Emperor’s taking the board down?”

Princess Jing’an nodded and said, “Good! I don’t believe that the Emperor won’t even give you a verbal chastisement!”

Xu Fengnian struck while the iron was hot and said, “You think of the bet.”

Pei Nanwei was also resolute and said in a deep voice, “Good.”

Xu Lipid Tiger didn’t mind this kind of small fight, against women, the younger brother was good at it na. She moved her position, leaning against His Highness the World Prince, and asked, “Is Cao Changqing’s martial arts really as great as the world touts?”

Xu Fengyen exhaled a long breath and laughed softly, “Awesome to the point of being a mess, raw and fierce to the point of being coated with thin air.”

Xu Lihu asked in a low voice, “That ginger mud?”

Xu Fengnian did not speak.

He was able to make a bet with Pei Nanwei with confidence, even the betting link was hidden, that is, he was sure that the high-minded and proud Princess Jing’an was not a shrewd businessman, and once he lost to himself, the profit would instead be greater than the bet uttered by himself, but against Cao Guanzi, who couldn’t be beaten or scolded, and even more calculating, there was nothing he could do about it, and once the martial arts achievement reached the apex, he had his own qualification to look down on the crowd.

Cao Changqing first broke into the imperial city like nobody’s business, the mouth said is more domineering to no end: kill Zhao since is the ambition of life, do not laugh at Confucian ministers sideburns pale. Chu left three households so what, I enter the palace as through the corridor.

For this kind of life-threatening as a demonic master, not to mention Xu Fengyen, almost no one can not help, unless Qi Xuan frame of the stream of land immortals, otherwise I am afraid that even Wang Xianzhi can not stop Cao Qingyi desperately want to do things. That some under the pavilion against the enemy on the pavilion, not that Cao Changqing will be able to defeat the old sword god, just for this life do not forget the western Chu Cao Chess Zhao, determined things, the sky immortal Buddha can be ignored, thousands of iron armor guards in the front, as usual, all the way to kill will be killed in the past, Wang Xianzhi in the top of the building, it will be a breath of ascent to the building, Li ChunGang in the front today, naturally, is to walk up to the front, the Cao Qingyi of the vast and righteousness of the spirit, but it is the same as the sword of Li ChunGang’s intention.

Putting ginger mud or not?

Xu Fengyen did not give an answer even when he arrived at the Lu Mansion Writing Garden. Cao Changqing did not enter the mansion and did not seem to be in a hurry to put deliberate pressure on His Highness the son of the world. Xu Fengyen somewhat understood the psychology of the two emperors of the dynasty, the side of the couch, Tai’an City, there is such a Confucian who does not know when to appear in front of the eyes, there is an ineffable sense of suffocation. Cao Changqing has entered the capital three times and the palace three times, that is, he wants the Emperor Zhao of the Liyang Dynasty to know that the whole world is yours, but you may not be able to enjoy it in peace. Throughout the afternoon, His Royal Highness the Shizi with a normal face stayed in the Writing Garden to chat with his big sister Xu Lihu, Xu Fengyen talked to her about the white fox’s face that climbed up to the third floor, about the female Dharma King of the Tantric Sect that he met by chance outside of Xiangfan, the Wooden Sword Wenhua that he met accidentally in the city and eventually parted ways with, and even more so, about the Li Zi girl who grew up in a temple, and about the rosy young girl’s Wang Dongxiang and the big Kui soft-shelled turtle on the Lake of Chunshen for the hardship of practicing the sword, the Instead, he skipped over it in a few words.

At noon, after His Highness the Prince left the Temple of the State of Repose, the poor scholar and the little beggar also stepped over the threshold, the Zen room to renew the debate on the king and the bully, the time, place, and people and are on the side of the Yuan Hongqiao, this time is indeed a real loss, the hard work of cold windows and Chen Liangxie is not discouraged, Yuan Jiangyan’s Qingtang Jiangzuo first title of the real title of the first, is not a name to sell, the Jiangnan scholars have three good, good storage of prostitutes, good to keep the name, good to create a momentum. The peak is probably Yuan Jiangyan and a few others who can stand shoulder to shoulder with Mr. Hongqiao. The host Yin Dao Lin deserves the nickname of immovable monk, has not said a word, but Chen Liang Xi got up to say goodbye, Yuan Jiang Yan did not move, just nodded to indicate that the respected elderly Jiangnan famous monk is personally get up and sent to the door. Little beggar of course can not enter the meditation room, has been standing in the doorway, the hand is still holding the empty belly of the watermelon, funny and ridiculous. Walked out of the temple, Chen Liangxi turned his head to look at the temple door, vaguely disappointed look, muttering to himself: “Road is different, not what I seek ah.”

The little beggar was full of curiosity and asked softly, “Where is that kind brother?”

Chen LiangXi touched her little head and said gently, “Should have left the Temple of the Annunciation earlier than us.”

The little beggar child gave an oh-so-lost cry.

Chen Liangxi bent down to help take the watermelon and jokingly said, “What’s the matter, little Dingdong, do you like that big brother? Indeed, he’s a hundred times better looking than brother Chen.”

The little beggar’s little face turned red, hemming and hawing, very cute.

Chen Liangxi stopped poking fun at the little girl.

The little beggar clutched the poor scholar’s cuffs, walked on the road, hesitated for a long time, gathered enough courage to raise his head and was about to speak, Chen Liangxi lowered his head and softly said, “Know that the little Dingdong is still the favorite brother Chen, right?”

The little beggar smiled brightly.

Chen Liangxi tilted his head back to look at the sky with a drunken smile and said, “In the future, if brother Chen is able to step into the mud of history and leave footprints by chance, he must also let Little Dingdong accompany him.”

Since ancient times, how many reckless heroes and chaotic lords, and how many can leave a name in history? Even just a few dozen words have become a luxury! This death when posthumous poor scholar, the so-called footprints, clearly ambitious to stay in the official history, rather than private compilation of wild history barnyard history. Where does the little beggar know these, in her opinion may not be as good as having to eat fried watermelon slices for dinner to affordable celebration. She just think brother Chen said a good thing, happy, jumping, this is her rare carefree. Chen Liangxi also knew that the little girl could not understand, so he said. A brain to throw away that the sages taught the Ge Shi Zhi Zhi Zhi Zhi sincere intention positive heart cultivation body Qi family ruling the country and leveling the world eight entries, do not care what the base of the inner saint outside the king’s industry, and even their own today a curved water to talk about the king and the king of the barbarians whether to become a strange goods are not to think about it. He just smiled and said: “go, let’s go to the temple outside the stone plate for you and grandpa to draw a dragon to go, the old rules, brother Chen draws the dragon, small Dingtong to dot the eyes.”

Little Beggar gave a heavy hmmm.

Xu Hui Pou stood at the entrance of the Newspaper Temple, looking away from the large and small two fading poor backs, lost in thought. The woman of the world’s family, she was able to meet and make friends with Chen Liangxi, because of an encounter outside the temple at the wall root spring, the little beggar into the water to pick up money, was reprimanded by the monks in the temple, into the temple to borrow the scenery of the painted peonies Chen Liangxi happened to pass by, for the little beggar to solve the problem, Xu Huipu was in a good mood, so the temple did not prevent the little girl to pick up the wish money in the pool in the future, and then inadvertently found that Chen Liangxi was actually privately painted dragons, at first shocked by his Boldness, after a closer look at the next will be shocked at his exquisite painting, can be called brush the heavenly king shall handwriting as if God help!

A picture of a python fighting the dragon, above the dragon hidden in the mottled condensation of clouds, ink, the dragon long beard and huge mouth, over the clouds and fog, old and fearful, below the big scaly water, claws and paws to seize, the python coiled mountains, spitting letters towards the sky, the picture was already at the end of the Xu Hui Puff was really strange and bizarre picture to the shock of the light, Chen Liang Xie was peeped through the secret, but also did not have the slightest panic, after talking to each other, we had a very happy, Chen Liang Xie for the Extremely appreciated, only this person’s angle is too clear, Xu Hui Pou know that only the father of these Jiangnan first-class celebrities can be tamed, they saved the meaning of the Xu Tu Zhi, the original intention is to Chen Liang Xie and then be sharpened by life for a few years, will be recommended to Xu’s mother’s family, from the bureaucrats to do small officials, may be able to turn into a dragon and rise, Chen Liang Xie in the future naturally thankful for the Xu’s given to the clouds and rain, to be considered a real family to use, but the embroidery pillow After the appearance of His Royal Highness, everything is in chaos, pandemonium, her layout for several years ruined!

Now, the Chen Liangxi who dominates the Qu Shui Liu Goblet has been considered to have taken off, and soon his reputation will spread all over the Jiangnan Road, and Xu’s family will have to recruit again, firstly, it will have to be done blatantly, and secondly, the cost is destined to be several times more than the original one, so how can Xu Hui Pou not be annoyed with His Royal Highness? The bigger picture is, if not Lu Baijie show up, she almost fell to the unscrupulous son to warm the quilt of the end, Xu Huifu dedicated to monasticism, naturally regarded as a great shame.

Just now in the temple to see Euryong Yuan Jiangyan, the eyes of this long-famous big man obscure gloomy, more so that Xu Huifu creepy.

The famous scholar who can say, “Keeping a scholar is not like keeping a dog, it is like boiling an eagle, if you are hungry, you will use it, if you are full, you will soar away,” is not just a moral Confucian who can only talk in a mysterious and wonderful way!

Xu Hui Puff sighed, disheartened.

She walked out of the Temple alone, narrowed her eyes and slowly walked towards the wall, her face bleak and colorful: “Cao Changqing? What does it have to do with me? I’ll just pretend I never heard it!”

This female crown looked down at a clump of weeds and sneered, “A woman is as cheap as grass yet.”