Five days later.

Midsummer has long passed, but the autumn tigers in Guangxi are still recklessly ferocious, and the sun is baking the land of Liuzhou like a furnace.

In fact, two days ago, there was a heavy rain in Liuzhou, not far from the south of Maping County, where the capital city of Liuzhou is located, there is a place called Longtan Town, where the low-lying places have a lot of water because of the heavy rain.

Under the ravages of this scorching sun, no matter what kind of rain it was, it quickly dried up, and the ground after the water was muddy, and when it was exposed to this scorching sun, it cracked and rolled up pieces of palm-sized crust, like tortoise shells that had been broken and discarded.

The bare-bare little dolls ran around the neighborhood barefoot, peeling up the clay piece by piece and picking it up as tiles, intending to save it for later use.

The weather is too hot, except for these excited children, everyone else is lazy and can't lift their spirits, the fault is not to go down to the ground to work, otherwise they are all in the shade in front of the door and behind the house to escape the heat, there are few pedestrians on the road.

Even the big willow tree, which is slim and candid, is just as listless in the ghost weather of the last mighty autumn tiger, and the willow branches hang weakly, only the knowledge hidden in the bushes is endlessly noisy, as if to cry out unwillingly in the last time of life, but unfortunately the people who hear it are more and more sleepy. It wasn't until dusk that the heat gradually dissipated a lot.

The sun sets, the afterglow is like fog, look at it, a piece of golden red, the area of Jinghu in Longtan Town is particularly cool at this time, because there is a big lake with a rare shape, about five or six hundred acres of area, lotus flowers are planted all over the bay, there are willow trees and mulberry trees all around, it is an excellent place to cool off the heat.

There is Qi'er Mountain in the north of Liuzhou City, and there is also a lake on the mountain, and it is closer than the Mirror Lake in the south of the city, so the nobles of the Han family in Liuzhou City usually go there to escape the summer when they have nothing to do. And some of the Tusi who often come to Liuzhou to deal with the Han family officials have bought properties in the Jinghu area, built a courtyard adjacent to the water or something.

In fact, the reason why Longtan Town has the word "dragon" is because the shape of this mirror lake is somewhat like a dragon, which is irregularly divided into several independent parts, such as the dragon part, dragon shoulder and front paws, dragon belly, dragon hind claws, dragon tail, etc., which is convenient for the toasts who buy houses here can get a relatively private space.

According to the old legend, the dragon part is the best part of the scenery of Mirror Lake, followed by the dragon's shoulder, and then the dragon's belly. Since the toast lords like the place of Longtan Mirror Lake, who lives in the dragon, who lives in the dragon's shoulder, and who lives in the dragon's belly are always to fight.

Guangxi Tusi, the powerful dweller is called Cen's, with a wide range of people and the crown of Guangxi Tusi followed by Huang's, the breadth of its land is slightly inferior to Cen's, but because of its close proximity to Annam, the soldiers are not strong and can not survive, and they have always been conceited by strong soldiers.

Although the rest of the families have their own evidence, they can't compete with the Cen and Huang families for one reason or another. Outsiders don't know how the two of them competed openly and secretly in this place of the Mirror Lake Dragon, but there are also rumors that because Cen Shaoxun, the contemporary leader of the Cen family, has a strange personality and has a "hermit's heart", he is not enthusiastic about many things, which made the Huang family get this Mirror Lake Dragon.

However, regardless of the Cen family, the Huang family, is the head of the snake in Guangxi that no one dares to provoke, since its ancestors followed the famous general Di Qing in the Song Dynasty to the south, was named a local official, it has been a family of Tusi for hundreds of years, and a word is said in the territory of Guangxi, sometimes it is better than the governor, and the townspeople of Longtan Town do not dare to come here to escape the summer and enjoy the coolness.

If the mirror lake is regarded as Liuzhou's "five lakes" seems to be not an exaggeration, now the lotus flowers in this "Dragon Lake" are growing vigorously, the lotus leaves in the bay are green, and there is a small boat in the distance. The boat passed, the lotus leaf avoided it, and a wisp of flute sound was as clear as a Sanskrit song, and the lotus leaf escaped in all directions with the separated lotus leaf.

The old farmer who returned at dusk leaned over his body with his hands and held a piece of rope in his hand, and walked slowly across the ridge in the distance, dragging a scrawny old cow with a spine, and on the spine sat a little doll with pigtails, and the little doll was playing with his grandfather's hat happily. Farther away, the red sun of the car ** has been half lost on the mountain. This situation and this scene are picturesque.

Hearing the sound of the flute, the old farmer subconsciously glanced at Longhu. On the lake, the blue lotus bushes, the boat is completely hidden in the lotus bushes, you can only vaguely see a young man dressed in a plain white light robe, wearing a square scarf sitting on the bow of the boat and playing the flute, there is a beauty holding an oil-paper umbrella beside him, wearing a Han family spring shirt, light waist to fold, but unfortunately she is standing facing the son, can not see her appearance, only to see a green silk, a lazy beauty bun, Wu Yaya's show obliquely inserted a golden step, lined with a long neck, the figure is indescribably romantic, indescribable reverie.

As soon as he saw this appearance, the old farmer hurriedly lowered his head. He is just an honest farmer, and it would be rude to see that there are female dependents on the ship, and then look at it, these toast masters are not something he can afford to provoke as a country man.

The old peasant lowered his head and hurried forward, and not far away, smoke was already floating over the town.

The sound of the flute like a clear Sanskrit song stopped, and the gentle and charming sound of the piano rose again, and the red sun on the horizon gradually disappeared below the horizon between the flute and the qin.

The boat stopped at a distance of about one zhang from the shore, and an old willow branch stems that grew obliquely on the shore poked into the lake, and thousands of willow sticks hung lightly on the boat, and the evening breeze gradually rose, and the willow branches swayed. The young man sat on a pineapple wooden bench in the bow of the boat, holding a fishing rod in his hand, leisurely, while the beautiful woman stood by with a smile and a groan, and turned to the men on the boat to bring a small stove and make a fire to prepare dinner.

Thinly sliced, fragrant tender lotus root is just caught from Longhu, lively crayfish are caught from the root whisker nest under the willow tree by the river with small pieces of meat, as for the fat chicken, tender sheep and old wine, they are also raised in this Longhu Villa, and there is a plate of mulberries washed like black pearls, which is even more salivating, and this fresh mulberry is picked from the mulberry tree born by the bay.

If you look at it carefully, now send this son to catch another fat fish and drink it, that is the merit is complete, all the food is produced here, and it is very interesting and game.

When the starlight began to twinkle, the hustle and bustle of the day was tiring, and the lake was quiet. The young man and the little beauty pushed the cup and changed the lamp, enjoying themselves.

It's a pity that no outsiders can get close to them, but they don't know that what the two of them are talking about at this time is not a lot of wind and snow at all.

"The Nandan Mo family and the Sien Zhao family can't help but move, the seventh prince has the leisure to let the slave family accompany you to the lake, this courage, this style, I'm afraid that the Cen family, the king of Guixi, can have."

The beautiful and handsome seventh prince of the "King of Guixi" laughed, "Miss Huang is not reminding me that the Cen family should be at peace with Guixi, and the Cen family should be at peace with the King of Guixi, then the Huang family can be at peace with the King of Guinan."

The little beauty Huang girl covered her mouth and smiled, "The seventh prince said that he laughed, the King of Guixi of the Cen family deserves his name, but where does the Huang family dare to call the Taiping Mansion of the King of Guinan and the Nanning Mansion are all the mansions made by the officials of the imperial court, my Huang family is just a Siming Mansion, how dare I mention the King of Guinan"

"The Huang family is just a Siming Mansion" The seventh prince laughed, as if he had heard the biggest joke in the world, "It is said that the prefectures and counties near Siming Mansion are all the Huang clan, that is, the Taiping Mansion, in addition to the mansion is a liuguan, there is also a person from the imperial court under him, not to mention the Taiping Mansion that he relies on to guard thousands of households, and it has long been controlled by the Huang family, as far as Nanning Mansion"

The seventh prince waved his hand, "It's not that there is a Nanning Wei put there, otherwise it's better than the Taiping Mansion, as for Nanning Wei, a hundred years ago, it was full of salary, and it was quite difficult to deal with, but now, is it enough for three thousand usable soldiers?"

Miss Huang said with a smile: "Seventh Prince, this is to underestimate Nanning Wei, Nanning Wei's available soldiers now have actually operated four thousand, about four thousand two hundred people." ”

The seventh prince raised his eyebrows slightly, "Oh, and this thing is rare, rare." But so what, will the Huang clan really take these 4,000 guards in his eyes If Ling Zun is willing, even the 40,000 wolf soldiers can also be gathered, and it is just a drum to take Nanning. ”

Miss Huang waved her hand again and again, as if she was seriously frightened, and her face was full of surprise, "What did the seventh prince say, my Huang family is loyal to the Ming Dynasty, how can there be such a suspicious heart, doesn't the seventh prince know, my father was in the pacification of the Bazhai Rebellion last year, but he got the first merit in the toast?"

The seventh prince's eyes flashed, but it seemed that he was smiling, and he nodded again and again, "That's, that's, which of my Guangxi Tusi is not loyal, but when it comes to Ling Zun's exploits in this battle, I have to ask Ling Zun, isn't he worried about being the second flower lady?"

Mrs. Hua is actually Mrs. Washi, and "Washi" is the Guangxi cavity of flowers.

Miss Huang's eyes narrowed slightly, and she said lightly, "Why should you worry about Mrs. Hua because her husband Cen Meng made a rebellion and was hated by the imperial court, so she had to mobilize a large army to fight against Pingwei after Cen Meng's death, so as to prove that she was loyal to the Ming Dynasty, and the final result was not bad.

The seventh prince smiled, picked up the gold-painted black bone fan on the table, and opened it lightly, and gently fanned a few fans on his chest, and said, "It sounds good, but it's a pity that the Cen family was originally based on Tianzhou Mansion back then, and since then it has become my Sizhou as the main branch, and Lingzun has no worries about this."

I heard that the Huang Gongji and Huang Gongsheng brothers in Siming Prefecture are not harmonious, although Gongji is the eldest son, the military power is in the hands of Gongsheng, this Huang Gongsheng is a character Huang Girl, Siming Prefecture is the largest subordinate state of your Siming Mansion, in case of chaos, I am afraid that it is not a good thing for Ling Zun At this moment, this situation, Ling Zun does not hold heavy troops and pacifies the disaster at any time, but vigorously responds to the call of the imperial court and sends troops outside. ”

Miss Huang's face stiffened slightly, and she immediately smiled faintly and said, "Thank you Seventh Prince for reminding me, but Seventh Prince came today, it doesn't seem to be this idle matter."

"Well said, well said." The seventh prince brushed the ground and took away the fan again, and said with a smile, "Miss Huang, let me tell you a piece of news, according to the inquiries of the Mo family and the Zhao family, that Gao Zhitai came to Liuzhou to persuade me to wait for the Liangjiang Tusi and agree to set up a liuguan in the Bazhai area." ”