Chapter Eighty-One: The West Water Closes the Snow and the Red
"My sister is arrogant, my sister's Shangyang Palace is not so big!"
"Old lady, Mrs. Lin, let me go back and ask the emperor for two decent objects, and then give them to the newcomer!" Jiang Guifei did not throw money all over the world like the scholar queen mother, but cried poorly, saying that she had to wait until the emperor returned to the court.
"You're clever, do you want this palace to give you a gift first?" The old queen mother pressed her finger on Jiang Guifei's forehead and scolded her with a smile.
"The concubine's family is a bunch of scholars, and Yunlin is a bitter cold place, it is indeed not as good as Jin'an Mansion, so the concubine will go back and rummage through the bottom of the box, and she will definitely find two decent gifts to congratulate." Jiang Guifei's words seemed to be meaningful, and she deliberately compared Yunlin with Jin'an Mansion, although all the women present were the ladies of the house, and they had seen a lot of palace fights, so they could naturally hear that there was something in them.
"The first generation of scholars is clear, and I like to read books as an old bone." The old lady smiled, and after speaking, she looked at the old lady of Jiangfu.
The old lady of Jiangfu picked up the tea bowl and greeted the Queen Mother, then got up with a smile and said, "Queen Mother, you dislike a certain family, I don't know if Xi and Sister also dislike our family's gifts?" ”
"What the old sister said, we all played handkerchiefs from childhood to adulthood, as long as the old sister came." Mrs. Bai smiled and snorted, where would she follow the muddy water.
"In the future, the young couple will start a family and live, and they will always need to eat and drink, and the Hou Mansion is not a small family, and a large family of people inside and outside is waiting for the monthly case."
"We can't afford to lose the child as an elder, I personally took out 100,000 silver dollars to buy new clothes for Yan Qiu, and it can be regarded as this child who didn't call me Grandma Jiang in vain." The old lady of Jiangfu sold 100,000 silver dollars to buy Bai Yanqiu's clothes, which was really a white jade for Tang Jin's horse, which was extremely extravagant.
The old lady of Jiangfu's shot suddenly made the ladies in the audience talk a lot, the threshold was raised so high, what should others do?
Jiang Guifei's face turned white, and her eyes revealed a cold light, this Empress Xiao and the old lady of Jiang Mansion sang and harmonized, raising the threshold of marriage and gift-giving between the two families in Berlin to such a high level, but she was decent and generous everywhere, not that her Jiang family couldn't take out this gift money, but in public, she fell into the face of Shangyang Palace, and the people who attended the tea party tonight were all big ladies from various mansions in Taikang City, and this matter would inevitably spread, wouldn't it be ridiculed by the world Jiang Guifei for being stingy, and it would be even with the Yunlin Jiang family's dignified saint family goddaughter.
At this time, the atmosphere was a little delicate, and no one else dared to interject casually, for fear that one would accidentally touch someone's mold.
"I said, old sisters, if you are so polite, I can't sit still!" Old Mrs. Bai took Mrs. Lin's hand and said.
"We're only going to drink tea tonight, and no one is allowed to give gifts! If you send the old body, you won't be nagged! ”
"Huh!" Mrs. Bai covered her mouth and laughed at the whole audience with one sentence, and the snow outside had a tendency to decrease.
The Xishuiguan wine party is in full swing, and there is wine on a snowy night, which is wonderful and fast!
Some guests walked to the room with swords, flew to the partridge platform, and shouted loudly: "Life should be everywhere, it should be like Feihong stepping on slush!" ”
After chanting poetry, a sword crosses the air, dancing in the snow, and the sword moves to condense the light.
Then there were guests who raised the table and sat on the felt outside the sill, and three or two boys waited in front of the shochu stove, and for a time the guests on the floor were gathering at the partridge platform.
"Good!"
"What a Feihong stepping on slush trees!" There is no shortage of students who are nostalgic for Taikang in front of the Partridge Stage in Xishuiguan, and there is no shortage of Shilin literati, and it is rumored that there have also been people in casual clothes who have participated in the meeting. It is also a sword-dancing person, and it is dashing in the wind and snow, fluttering like a flying fly.
The wine is not drunk, everyone is drunk, the guests are interested in being brought to ** by the sword dancer, all of them are screaming, some are slapping the table, some are knocking on the dishes, and some are turning around to beat the drum, in short, it is a joyful atmosphere,
"Hey! Ay! Look he's really flying! One of the drinkers stared wide-eyed and pulled the man next to him
Said.
"It's like a fairy soaring!" The person next to him was drunk, and followed with a poetic sentence.
I saw the sword-dancing man dressed in white and taking advantage of the snow in the sky, and really flew to the periphery of the city wall......
"Whoosh!" "Whoosh!" "Whoosh!" Three feathered arrows pierced the night sky, and it turned out that the Divine Arrow Battalion was the first to shoot when they saw that someone was about to escape from Partridge Terrace.
Although he took the risk of jumping off the city tower, and the eighteen fell to his death first, but he was ordered by the Marquis of Lingwu not to let go of any suspicious person, only to see two feather arrows grazed the arm and back of the white-clothed swordsman holding the sword, bringing up a trace of blood and spilling it, only one of the feathered arrows hit his calf, and the white-clothed swordsman suddenly lost his balance, and the whole person fell.
The sharp-eyed man had already seen the feather arrow coming, and he shook his spirit, raised his eyes and shouted: "Kill!" ”
Xishuiguan Partridge Terrace was in a mess, some people pulled their legs and rushed out, and the guests who suddenly hit the horses turned over, and the ghost hand camp had just come in not long ago, and the people had not yet spread, so they could only suddenly attack, outside
The white-clothed swordsman who fell on the other side was even more ruthless, and in the process of falling, he once again kicked on the city wall, and floated out more vigorously, looking at the posture of the ** even if he fell to death, I don't know if he had already noticed the abnormality in the street market outside, or was a person who was astute, this person attended the sword dance with the intention of observing and confirming the surrounding situation, and sure enough, a subtle refraction of the cold light was found in the snowstorm, and the killing machine loomed, which was why he jumped out of the partridge platform and turned over outside the city wall.
"Not good!" The horror inside Xishui Pass has changed, Bai Yanqiu's eyes are firmly fixed on the city tower, at this time he saw the figures rushing around, presumably someone launched it in advance.
"Gale Camp guards the exits everywhere, anyone who dares to break through will be killed!" Bai Yanqiu grabbed the reins of the horse, ready to rush out to fight at any time.
"The subordinates have orders!" The Gale Battalion drew its sword out of its sheath and immediately blocked the surrounding area of the guard, surrounding the Xishui Pass Tower.
At this time, the entire Sky Wolf Camp on the street also received the news, and immediately changed its strategy, drew its sword out of the sheath to drive the crowd away and quickly left, and the temple fair crowd fell into panic and chaos, but the Sky Wolf Camp had already firmly controlled the three directions of the periphery, and only let go of a gap at the leading to the fish dance, and the crowd instinctively rushed to the gap.
The Heavenly Wolf Battalion's disposition ability won the praise of the Lingwu Marquis, and even if it was unexpected, it did not cause a big panic, and the elite of the Yulin Army did not have the ability to control and familiarize themselves with Taikang City, which was indeed not comparable to the newcomer rangers.
"Mom! Mom! At this time, a woman suddenly fell to the ground in the crowd that was driven away, she firmly protected the child in her arms with her body, this scene happened to be seen by Lin Wushan, only to see her long eyebrows wrinkled, turned the horse's head and immediately rushed over, after the crowd grabbed the reins of the horse, the horse raised its legs and neighed, Lin Wushan directly exerted his legs, stepped on the horse's back and turned over a harrier, and jumped high over the crowd by taking advantage of the momentum, but the distance was still far away, so he had to step on the shoulders of pedestrians to borrow strength again, at this time, the close wolf camp guards threw out the steel knife in their hands for Lin Wushan to borrow strength, Three of them landed next to the woman who fell to the ground.
Linwu Mountain is like a dragonfly dotting water, this light work is Bai Yanqiu is also a little dumbfounded, not to mention the surrounding Heavenly Wolf Guards, one by one for their own master general. It's just that Bai Yanqiu was amazed, and he had a vague sense of familiarity with his method of lifting his body, and now his vision is unusual, and his understanding of martial arts is more profound, but at this time, he can't remember where he has seen it for a while.
The flow of people is too turbulent, even Lin Wushan is really difficult to stop, can only pick up the little girl in his arms to the side of the shop door post, the main will be down, the wolf battalion guards follow in time, the peripheral reserve team has been divided into two teams to integrate into the crowd, protect the main general to answer out, but although the child was saved, but the woman who fell to the ground was trampled to death, this tragic situation has happened in many places, Lin Wushan is also out of reach, can not take into account.
I saw that for a while, the feather arrows in the sky were scattered from the air like fluttering snowflakes, and it was the Divine Arrow Battalion that found that someone was about to escape in the air again, and the arrow rain covered the surrounding of the partridge platform, and the white-clothed sword guest was hit by an arrow again in the air, and his body completely lost his balance, and he fell heavily under the city wall. There are even ghost hand battalion soldiers with ropes hanging from their waists and jumping down to chase and kill, and Lingwu Hou is already in the city
Ten miles outside the wall, there were ambushes and the elite of the Xiaowu battalion, in order not to let go of any thief.
At this time, most of the people in the Xishui Guanchenglou wine shop were literati and ink writers, where there was the ability to resist, and the ghost hand camp was knocked to the ground after the move, but all those who struggled to resist were killed by swords, and the blood and water shaman were on the partridge platform, staining a large area of snow red.
It turned out that someone was setting fire to the kitchen under the kitchen, intending to disturb the audio-visual, and there were not a few people, they used tables and chairs to hold the door panel to gain time, until there was smoke coming out before the door panel was smashed, but the fire inside had already burned, and the smoke choked people, and it was impossible to see friend or foe.
The kitchen of the liquor store is mostly stacked with flammable materials, and once it catches fire, it is easy to gain momentum, and some people deliberately add fuel to the fire, and the fire quickly gets out of control.
Bai Yanqiu, who was standing on the horse, slapped his thigh when he saw the flames, "Sure enough, the wolf is ambitious, take advantage of the situation to set fire!" ”
"At this time, it is the second watch, the wind is north-west, I am afraid that the fire will not be controlled, and the ghost hand camp is still in the building." Lin Wushan had already returned to the command office, and his face was a little ugly.
"Send a signal to withdraw from the Ghost Hand Battalion, expand the encirclement outside the Gale Camp, and put all the crossbows on the arrows to release the people in the building." Bai Yanqiu immediately decided that he couldn't let the Ghost Hand Battalion fight with the spies of the Green Water Battalion in the fire, these spies are the best at hide and seek.
"Go! Go to the surrounding shops to collect all the grease and give it to the brothers in the Divine Arrow Camp, simply magnify the fire, and come to burn the Xishui Guancheng Tower, see how long they can hide? ”
"I'm afraid that Master Hou's move is inappropriate, it is the person who forced out the Green Water Battalion, I'm afraid that the crime of burning Xishui Pass is not small, after all, it is a military defense facility, and it has been abandoned for a long time and is recorded in the register of the Ministry of War." Lin Wushan really hadn't seen Bai Yanqiu's madness, and this person dared to directly order a fire and burn it down.
"What are you afraid of! Cui Hanzhang is the Sima of the Ministry of War, he is on top of it, and the one who is in the Green Water Camp is the thief who set fire to the building, and I am only a firefighting officer at most, who dares to say that it was put by Ben Hou? As soon as he said this, he was domineering, Bai Yanqiu looked around as he spoke, and the audience was silent, and only the silent snow fell in response to him.
"Maniac!" This is the first reaction in Lin Wushan's mind, this Lingwu Marquis is really crazy when he talks and acts, thinking that he is a child, could it be that he went to the Northern Expedition battlefield to change so much, his fire is the industry of King Zekang, and it is the face of the Yunlin Jiang family.
It was rumored that Lingwuhou and Cui Hanzhang burned Mingjin Mansion on fire, and Xiao Jing of Jin'an Mansion was inseparable, and she just boasted as a passerby, after all, the queen's mother is not easy to mess with, and that Xiao Jing is even more arrogant and domineering, that is, people are not in Taikang City, and they are also famous, and the battle between these two people is likely to fight with him, but if you say that you set fire to the building, wouldn't it offend half of Chili Street, that is, their Lin family also received money, and no one in Taikang City knows, That Ming Jinlou is also the place where the great prince Ping Kang Mu is a guest, wouldn't it offend King Ping Kang Mu if it was burned down?
This will be regarded as what she has seen with her own eyes, in order to search for the spies of the Green Water Battalion, Lingwu Hou actually burned Xishui Pass, and it means to burn it thoroughly, which has the meaning of tearing down and rebuilding, which really shocked her.
Lin Wushan was deeply influenced by his father, and he couldn't do things radically and took into account the situation, as the gatekeeper of Taikang City, he tried not to offend all forces, but it seems that he got on their ship tonight, and he couldn't hide from it to offend King Zekang. But at this time, watching the two of them act, there are really no taboos, are they either stunned and stupid, or they have big backers to rely on?
The Divine Arrow Battalion obeyed the order, the arrows were smeared with grease, and after igniting the fire, they shot towards Xishuiguan, and in a short time all parts of Xishuiguan were on fire, and the fire became more and more intense, and the roasted snowflakes in the air evaporated and vaporized before they could fall, and the previous snow was roasted, mixed with blood and water gurgling out.
As expected, everyone in the Xishui Pass City Tower rushed out, first the people from the Ghost Hand Battalion came out to the code, and everyone was driven to gather in the corner to verify their identity, and it turned out that there was really a person who changed his clothes, pretending to be a soldier of the Ghost Hand Battalion, and was hacked to death by the Gale Battalion when he reacted a little slower to the code, and this person suddenly understood until he died that they were destined to be unable to escape tonight.