Volume 1 The Butterfly That Can't Fly Over the Sea Chapter 6 Shaking the Eagle Dog with a Stone
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The cheering in the courtyard continued.
Listening to the voice wave after wave, I am afraid that it will soon be the turn of the main protagonist
Sun Daren's drunkenness woke up a little, he sat down on the roof paved with black mandarin duck tiles, sighed, and stopped looking at the situation in the inner courtyard.
"Little fool, tell me how you figured this out. He asked angrily.
Wei Lai blinked, and was about to pretend to be confused.
"Don't play dumb for me. But Sun Daren blocked Wei Lai's thoughts, but when these words came out, Young Master Sun felt that something was wrong, so he added: "I mean, although you are really stupid, I can see that you kid looks at Lu Yan'er differently, and there is light in his eyes!"
Wei Lai's face froze, and his heart was filled with bitterness, but the smirk on his face became more and more brilliant: "My father said that every beautiful girl in this world will be the object of a group of boys' dreams, but there is only one lucky one." β
"But luck and misfortune are relative. β
"The misfortune of the lucky boy is that he will watch the beautiful flowers wither and wither. And the luck of that group of unfortunate boys is that in their hearts that the flower is always the most beautiful. β
Sun Daren looked at Wei Lai with wide eyes, he probably couldn't have imagined that such a thing would come out of Wei Lai's mouth.
He was stunned for a moment, then grinned.
Then Sun Daren learned from his father's old-fashioned appearance and gave Wei Lai a thumbs up: "Wei Lai, you are really an interesting fool." β
Wei Lai scratched his head and remained shy.
But just like Wei Lai didn't tell Sun Daren, these words were all made up by himself to comfort himself. Sun Daren also didn't tell Wei Lai that a flower that went to the Boundless Academy could bloom for a long, long time, even if Wei Lai was buried in the loess, that flower might not be able to wither even a little bit.
......
Zhao Tianyan, who was proud of the spring breeze, finally climbed onto the high platform erected on the inner courtyard, and said something with a smile on his face amid the shouts of everyone.
Wei Lai and Young Master Sun, who were too far apart, couldn't really hear it.
But what they really heard was-
Cluck-cluck......
Cluck-cluck......
A hurried sound of horses' hooves came from the streets of Pungya Street.
The sound of horses' hooves drew closer and closer, and the cheers of the crowd in the streets turned into exclamations as the sound of horses' hooves sounded, and the exclamations quickly turned into screams.
The movement soon spread from the streets to the Zhao Mansion.
The crowd fell silent for a moment, and the visitors and hosts turned their heads to look in the direction of the mansion gate.
There.
The wooden table was overturned, and three or four spectators who had no time to dodge were knocked into the air.
The dishes on the table, which were still hot, fell to the ground a few feet away along with a few unfortunate spectators, and the place was suddenly full of wails and messes.
"Phew!"
And the initiator of all this, a man with a white mane and five flowers under his crotch, dressed in silver armor, carrying a long knife at his waist, and carrying a bow and crossbow, pulled the reins without hurry, and stopped the war horse under his seat.
Behind him, on the passage on Fenggu Street, which was knocked open by him, the same white horse and silver armor were connected into a white line, and the man at the head stopped together, and from galloping at a rapid speed to pulling the reins and stationing the horse, the whole process can be described as neat, and the time spent is only a few breaths.
Although there were only dozens of people who came with such an order, it also gave most of the people in this Wupan City who had never seen much of the world a suffocating sense of oppression.
And sometimes, those who have seen the world are not necessarily easier than those who have not seen the world.
When the man at the head turned over and dismounted, and walked to the front of the Zhao Mansion, a person with excellent eyesight caught a glimpse of the token hanging between the gaps in the silver armor of the man's waist - a bronze cast token, engraved with the word "feather" in the seal.
"Cang Yuwei!" An exclamation sounded from the crowd, and the already silent Fenggu Street suddenly became silent as the sound rose, except for the heavy footsteps of the man walking up the stairs.
The Great Yan Dynasty has jurisdiction over the land of the four states, and in the smallest, there are mobs and bandits, and in the largest, there are many sects.
In such a vast land, if the imperial court wants to be stable, it naturally has to raise so many eagle dogs and do some things that are not so clean.
And Cang Yuwei is the most famous eagle among these eagle dogs!
The man who walked to the door of Zhao's mansion took off his helmet, revealing the somewhat old face underneath.
Behind him, more than 20 armor soldiers dressed in the same clothes as him stood in two rows at the foot of the steps of the mansion gate. When the man took off his helmet, two armorers stepped forward, one brought the overturned bench from the side, the other took out a thin blanket from his bosom, skillfully spread it on the bench, and then the two of them together delivered the bench behind the man.
The man sat down on the bench with a golden sword, his gaze swept over the terrified people around him, and then landed on the food that had been scattered by his collision outside the gate.
"Dragon's mustard, boiled winter bamboo shoots, pouring mandarin ducks, roasting fish heads, mixing flour skin, cooking white meat, sweet potato shreds, diced pheasants..."
He stretched out his hand and pointed to the scraps on the ground, and recited their original names one by one, and a soldier behind him also took out a palm-sized book and a brush with great cooperation, and began to write on the book as the man chattered.
The people were intimidated by the momentum of this group of armor soldiers, although most of them couldn't understand what this man was going to do, but none of them dared to interrupt him.
"Have you figured it out?" the man asked aloud again after a pause of less than three moments after reading the long list of names.
The armor behind him put away his pen, bowed, and replied, "Calculate it." β
"A total of twelve dishes, including the wine, according to the market price of Dayan, a table of meals is about one hundred or two or eight dollars of silver. β
"Is that so?" the man nodded, and the hand holding his helmet stretched out, and another armorer behind him stepped forward to take the helmet from him with great respect.
"A table of food is 128 yuan, which is placed from the middle of the house to the outside of the house, from the street to the corner of the street, to say the least, there are two hundred tables, right?" asked the man again.
The armor behind him hurriedly responded: "According to two hundred tables, it should be three hundred and sixty taels of silver." β
Bang dang!
At that moment, there was a sound of metal clashing.
The man at the head took off the saber at his waist, and with a twist in his hand, the long knife was smashed by him along with the scabbard on the high platform on the steps of the Zhao Mansion.
The high platform paved with good stone instantly cracked, and the scabbard was steadily inserted into the stone.
The man squinted his eyes and looked into the depths of the mansion gate, and said quietly: "Then bother Lu Zhixian to come out and say, why do you have the money to put on a feast, but you don't have the money to repair the temple for the righteous god recognized by the imperial court?"
It was only at this time that the people reacted to why this Cang Yuwei, who was feared like a tiger by the government and the opposition, came to Wupan City on the border of Ningzhou.
It turned out that he was the rumored superintendent sent by the imperial court to review the renovation of the Wupan Dragon King Temple!
There was a rush of footsteps in the house.
Two middle-aged men and a pair of young boys and girls walked out of the house quickly.
The man on the left is dressed in a white shirt and wears a small crown of hair, although it is not a precious thing, but it is all neatly kept.
The man on the right is slightly fat, wearing a brocade robe, with a jade pendant hanging from his waist engraved with the appearance of an elk and a white rabbit, and a white fat jade inlaid in the center of the crown on his head.
These two people are naturally Lu Guanshan and Zhao Gongbai, the head of Yunlai Academy.
As for the young boys and girls behind them, there is no need to say more, they are the masters of today's feast, Zhao Tianyan and Lu Yan'er. It's just that such a battle is too terrifying for this young boy and girl after all, Lu Yan'er's lips turned white, and her body subconsciously leaned on Zhao Tianyan's shoulder. Although Zhao Gongzi's face was also ugly, he tried his best to assume his responsibilities as a fiancΓ© and held Lu Yan'er's hand tightly.
The man's gaze only stayed on Lu Guanshan and Zhao Gongbai for a moment, then he passed over the two and looked at the pair of "golden boys and girls" behind him.
"I have long heard that there are outstanding people in Wupan City, but there are only 4,000 households, and there are two students who are ranked above 1,000 on the Ningzhou Dragon and Tiger List and can be valued by Wuya Academy. When I saw it today, it was really Luan Xiang Fengji, and the future life was terrifying. β
"It's a pity..."Speaking of this, he changed his words again, and said with some regret: "It's just that my father didn't take shelter from the shadow, but it dragged down your pair of Tanlang Xie Daughters, and Da Chu's Boundless Academy can't be done, but my Da Yan's edict can make an exception and invite a few people to go through." β
After saying this, Zhao Tianyan's face changed immediately, and his voice was a little higher: "What do you mean?"
The man squinted his eyes at Lu Guanshan, but said in his mouth: "Treason and rebellion are the felonies of the Zhulian Nine Clans, and there is a mistake in Lu Zhixian, who of you can take the blame?"
Treason?
The Great Yan Dynasty has always been strict, but now in the hands of Emperor Ning Yu, it has become even more severe. There was once a son of a prince, because he said some insulting words at a private banquet, he was convicted of rebellion, and more than 1,700 people from the nine clans were connected. Such a tragedy, throughout the historical history, is also unseen.
When hearing this, the father and son of the Zhao family and Lu Yan'er were all pale and a little weak, only Lu Guanshan could still stand calmly and his face did not change.
"Lu... Lu Zhi County, has always been diligent and loves the people, my lord... Is there some misunderstanding in this? Zhao Gongbai, who was slightly fat, obviously had not recovered from this sudden thunderbolt on a sunny day, although he tried his best to stay calm, but the trembling tone when he spoke still showed his inner Zhang Huang vividly.
"Hmph. The man had obviously seen a lot of such scenes, and he also enjoyed the respect of others who feared him like a tiger, he sneered and said: "Cang Yuwei has always been the most disciplined, and he doesn't have the courage to frame the court officials. β
When the man said this, he paused intentionally, and a smile appeared in his eyes when he looked at Lu Guanshan, and he asked, "Are you right, Lu Zhixian?"
Shout!
As soon as these words fell, a sound suddenly broke the air in my ears.
An object sped from the top of the man's head, and in the blink of an eye, it slammed into the man's face.
The triumphant smile on his face froze suddenly, and his body fell from the bench to the ground with the impact of the thing, describing himself as embarrassed.
Grunt...
Grunt...
And at that moment, the thing bounced off the man's head and rolled on the bluestone paved street.
The people who were taken aback by this change looked at it, and only then did they see that the thing was a piece...
Palm-sized pebbles.