Liang Xiao and Liu Ling discussed for half a night, and early the next morning, he got up to exercise in the morning, while Liu Ling sat by the window and drafted a letter in Liang Xiao's tone, claiming that he was unwell, and that he was suffering from an old illness, and asked to be exempted from official recuperation. On the grounds of the great water in Shandong, he requested that the fief be transferred to Lushan in Yuzhang, and he was in one place with Jianshan's manor in Lushan.

After breakfast, Liang Xiao read it once, and without changing a word, he arranged for someone to send it to Ganquan Palace. He can read ancient texts, but he can't write ancient texts, and in this regard, Liu Ling is countless times stronger than him. Although the Son of Heaven can see at a glance that this is Liu Ling's handwriting, they are husband and wife, and it doesn't matter who holds the pen, but it can show that they have the same opinion.

After cleaning up, Liang Xiao ordered someone to prepare a horse and prepare to go out to meet Dong Zhongshu. Liu Ling said that Dong Zhongshu was a doctor in Beijing, and he had no power in his position. The Son of Heaven didn't treat him very much, and he didn't take him with him when he went to Ganquan Palace this time, so he was in Chang'an to relax. A scholar, the income is limited, he has to accept apprentices to give lectures, subsidize the family, occasionally go to a salon to open meat, sacrifice to the five visceral gods, life is not salty or light.

Although Liang Xiao scoffed at Dong Zhongshu's doctrine, he didn't have too much bad feeling for Dong Zhongshu as a person, and when he learned that he was so depressed, he asked him to bring some gifts. This time he came back from South Vietnam, and he brought a lot of good things with him. Zhao Yingqi lost to him not to mention Haizhu, Lu Xiang also sent a batch of good things such as ivory rhino horns, only from the perspective of economic interests, it was a hard profit.

Preparing the gift, Liang Xiao went out of the door, and was about to turn over and get on the horse, when a person suddenly appeared next to him, grabbed Liang Xiao's arm, so fast that he didn't even have time to react. Liang Xiao didn't have time to think about it, his instinctive arm flipped over, pushed the man away, and his right fist struck out.

"Phew!" There was a muffled sound, and the man fell out. Sit on the ground with a butt.

Annoyed and angry, Tuniu'er rushed over, drew his knife and prepared to cut. The knife was halfway drawn, and he recognized the man. "Huo Quai?"

Huo Quzhi grinned, and this fall was not light. "Senior brother, it's me."

Liang Xiao couldn't laugh or cry. stepped forward to stop Tu Niu'er, and stretched out his hand to pull Huo Qu's illness up. "What are you doing here, trying to be an assassin?"

"What an assassin you are?" Huo Quzhi covered his buttocks and said with a wry smile: "What about the master, are you at home?" ”

"The master hasn't come back, he's still in Yuzhang." Liang Xiao was halfway through speaking, and suddenly felt that something was wrong. "Hey, your master is so happy, is it because you have practiced?"

"Of course." Huo Quzhi raised his face. Said triumphantly: "It only took me fifty days to understand the meaning of the bow, and then it took fifty days to consolidate, and now I have no bow in my hand and a bow in my heart." Walking, sitting, and lying down, without leaving the bow. ”

Liang Xiao was skeptical. Seeing this, Huo Qubing didn't talk nonsense, opened his arms, and held a bow that didn't exist. Makes an open bow pose. Liang Xiao looked at it, and his eyes suddenly lit up. That's right. Huo Quzhi not only got rid of the common disease of shrugging his shoulders, but also had smooth strength and indeed completed the foundation building.

Liang Xiao nodded again and again. This kid is really perceptive, just a few sentences from Huan Yuan, he really practiced it himself.

"How's that, right?"

"That's right." Liang Xiao nodded again and again. "I think you're a little faster than I was. The master will definitely be very happy when he sees it. ”

"Really?" Huo Quzhi was surprised and delighted. Although he is confident, and even a little conceited, he is not conceited enough to think that he can surpass Liang Xiao. Now that Liang Xiao said this in front of so many people, it was undoubtedly a great affirmation of him. He didn't dare to believe his ears.

"What did I lie to you?" Liang Xiao laughed. "Okay, I'll take it upon myself to accept you on behalf of the master. The master is not in Chang'an, you follow me first. From today onwards, I will teach you archery. After seeing the master, he will personally guide you. ”

"Yes, yes." Huo Quzhi couldn't help but be overjoyed, clapping his hands again and again, revealing a youthful demeanor. Liang Xiao was also very happy when he saw it, turned around and took him into the door, went straight to the atrium, took out the bamboo bow that Huan Yuan gave him back then, and handed it to Huo Quai. "This is the bamboo bow that the master gave me back then, and you will use this bow to practice archery from now on."

Huo Quzhi looked at the bamboo bow and was a little surprised. "So soft?"

"That's right. Using a soft bow, like practicing with empty hands, is to avoid brute force. Liang Xiao thought for a while, and then said, "Boy, you should pay special attention." At the beginning of the practice, don't be too attached to the middle, and your mind should focus on the inside and not the outside. When you can really achieve the unity of the bow and the strength of the man, it will be easy to pursue a hundred shots. ”

"Okay, I'll listen to my brother." Huo Qu responded to the illness, put the bow away, and solemnly hung it in the bow bag.

Liang Xiao asked people to bring a batch of horses as gifts to Huo Quai. Huo Qu's illness was not polite, and he accepted them one by one. Just as Liang Xiao was about to go out again, he got up and said, "Senior brother, please wait, wait for me to go and meet Lingtang and Lord Weng." From now on, we are brothers and sisters, and we must not be rude. At the beginning, I was able to get the master's consent, or Lingtang helped to say yes. ”

Liang Xiao smiled dumbly, but did not stop him, and led him to meet the old lady Liang Yuan first, and then to see Liu Ling. Knowing that Huo Qubing had completed the foundation building and had become a real brother with Liang Xiao, Liang Yuan was very happy and gave two brocades as a meeting gift. Liu Ling was not stingy, he gave an ivory arrow, and specially told Huo Qubing that this arrow was cut off from the same ivory as the arrow used by Liang Xiao himself.

Huo Qu was overjoyed, and immediately put the ivory arrow on the thumb of his right hand.

After being busy, Liang Xiao took Huo Qu out of the house and went straight to Dong Zhongshu's house. Liang Xiao lived in Jiadi, north of Weiyang Palace, in the middle of the west of the city, but Dong Zhongshu's family lived in the northeast of Chang'an City. The terrain is relatively low, and it is too far away from Weiyang Palace, so it is the first choice for some people with limited financial resources but who do not want to live outside the city.

Although Liang Xiao and others were riding horses, and the roads in Chang'an City were also wide, people and cars came and went, and it was inconvenient to drive, and when they found Dong Zhongshu's house, it was already noon. It's just that Dong Zhongshu is not at home, only his old wife is at home. Probably because most of Dong Zhongshu's guests were Confucians, and seeing Liang Xiao and his party carrying bows and knives, the old woman couldn't help but be a little nervous, and her dialect was even more vague in the first place.

Liang Xiao asked a few words, but when he saw that he didn't know anything, he had to give up. He ordered the man to put down the gift and left.

walked a long way, but pounced, Liang Xiao was inevitably a little lost. He didn't go back the way he came. I went out of the city from the Los Angeles Gate, preparing to go around the city for half a week, and by the way, I took a break. Huo Quzhi said: "Senior brother, since it's okay, why don't you go to my house and sit down." ”

"Your home?" Liang Xiao was surprised. "Your home is also nearby?"

"It's just to the south." Huo Quzhi fingered. "It's not far from the Qu Shunhou Mansion."

Liang Xiao then remembered that Huo Quai's mother, Wei Shao'er, married Chen Zhang. Chen Zhang is after Chen Ping. But he is not the eldest son, his brother Chen He is the fourth generation of Qu Shunhou, after Chen Zhang became an adult, he can only analyze his family and stand on his own, next to Qu Shunhou's mansion. In his impression, this step of the place will be built as Mingguang Palace in the future, but he didn't expect that the Qu Shunhou Mansion was also here, and in the end, it probably disappeared with the demolition.

"Let's go, let's go for a long time. People are sleepy and tired, and they go to beg for saliva to drink. ”

The Chen family is in Qianqiu, although it is adjacent to the Qu Shunhou Mansion, the door is not on the side. From the outside, it is just an ordinary small courtyard, and it has nothing to do with the Qu Shunhou Mansion next to it. The difference between these concubines is still very big. No wonder Chen Zhang would marry Wei Shao'er. Fornication is one thing, but marrying a wife is another. Chen Zhang probably took a fancy to Wei Zifu's favor and wanted to climb up through the Wei family. Now that Wei Zifu has fallen out of favor, he doesn't know what to think.

Liang Xiao dismounted in front of the door. Huo Quzhi stepped forward to call the door. The door opened halfway, revealing a pale, thin face. The cold eyes swept over Huo Quzhi's face, and when he saw Liang Xiao and the others, he couldn't help but be taken aback.

"Who are you?"

"He is my senior brother, come to the house to sit and drink saliva."

"Your senior brother?" The servant sneered. The awe in his eyes suddenly disappeared. He stretched out his hand to push Huo Quai's illness away, and sneered: "You really think that you are the young master of the Chen family, and you dare to come to the door with a group of rangers......

Liang Xiao was stunned when he heard this. He thought that Wei Zifu's fall from grace might be detrimental to Wei Shao'er's mother and son, but he didn't expect that the situation had deteriorated to such an extent that even a servant of the Chen family could be rude to Huo Quai. This snob also rolls too quickly. And he saw that the servant stretched out his hand and pushed Huo to get sick. He gave Pang Shuo a look.

Pang Shuo understood, stepped forward, and pushed his palm on the half-open door. "Boom!" With a loud bang, half of the gate flew out, and the pale face of the green-clothed servant also flew out, and was pressed by the gate again, screaming in pain.

In an instant, the Chen family became lively, and more than a dozen Jian slaves rushed out with weapons and surrounded Liang Xiao and the others. Although Liang Xiao only brought a few people, where would he take these doglegs in his eyes. He put one hand behind his back, pressed the other hand on Huo Quai's shoulder, and chuckled: "Are you afraid?" ”

Huo Quzhi rolled his eyes. "There's nothing to be afraid of, it's just a fight."

"Okay, there's a chance." Liang Xiao praised and waved his hand. "Call me!"

"Whoa!" Pang Shuo and the others responded, jumped forward, didn't even use weapons, punched and kicked, and knocked more than a dozen Jian slaves to the ground in a moment, crying father and mother.

As the fight was lively, Chen Zhang walked out quickly, followed by two ranger boys with swords. Seeing this scene in the court, Chen Zhang was furious: "I don't know who the foot is, and when did Chen Zhang offend the foot so that he broke my door and hurt my servant." ”

Liang Xiao arched his hand carelessly. "Guangling Liang Xiao, I've seen Chen Jun."

"Liang Xiao?" Chen Zhang was stunned for a moment, and looked at Liang Xiao carefully for a long time before he recognized it. He originally knew Liang Xiao, but he didn't have any contact, just a little impression. Liang Xiao went to South Vietnam for more than half a year, and was tanned by the southern sun, and he didn't recognize it for a while when he was in Chang'an. Knowing that the champion Hou Liangxiao came to the door, Chen Zhang suddenly became short of breath by three points.

"Champion Hou, you are ......"

"I was invited by my junior brother Huo Quai, and I wanted to come to your house to beg for saliva to drink, but I didn't expect that the servants in your house were above the top, and they didn't let me enter the door without saying anything, and they also spoke evil words. I couldn't get angry for a moment, so I made a move. Liang Xiao grinned, without any sincerity. Chen Jun, I am a martial artist, my temper is a little impatient, please forgive me for the rudeness. ”

Chen Zhang smiled bitterly. He didn't have to think about it to know that it must have been the servant who was rude to Huo Quai, which annoyed Liang Xiao as a result. However, although he has an official position, he does not have a title, so he does not dare to provoke Liang Xiao at all, so he can only go down the steps. "The prince laughed, it was my negligence in discipline and rudeness first. Junhou, when did you become your junior brother? ”

"Just this morning." Liang Xiao touched Huo Quai's head.

Chen Zhang was suspicious, but he didn't want to ask too much, so he had to drink the servant, invite Liang Xiao to the court, and arrange the drink. Huo went to get sick and went to tell his mother Wei Shao'er. After a while, Wei Shao'er walked out, although he was wearing a brocade robe, but the brocade robe had clear creases, obviously he had just changed in. Wei Shao'er walked in front of Liang Xiao, bowed and bowed, and the moment she lowered her head, a trace of gratitude appeared in the corners of her slightly upturned eyes.

Wei Shao'er glanced at Chen Zhang. Chen Zhang said with a smile: "Madam, the sick senior brother came to the door for the first time, and the servants at home were rude first, we can treat you warmly and make amends." Do you arrange it? ”

Wei Shao'er nodded and laughed, but a little reluctantly. She bowed to Liang Xiao again, went down to the hall, and arranged a banquet. Liang Xiao saw it in his eyes and was silent. He has already identified himself, Chen Zhang naturally knows what to do, and there is no need for him to talk nonsense.

Chen Zhang was very calm, there was no abnormality on his face, and he talked and laughed with Liang Xiao - although Liang Xiao was not very enthusiastic, he only occasionally answered. Under Chen Zhang's enthusiasm, the atmosphere slowly became lively, and it was no longer embarrassing.

"Why did the prince come here? There's not much to see here. ”

"Originally, I went to visit Master Dong. I didn't expect that Mr. Dong was not at home, so he stopped by to see his sick mother and beg for saliva to drink. ”

"Master Dong." Chen Zhang thought for a moment. "He should have gone to Nagato Garden."

"Nagato Garden?"

Chen Zhang nodded and laughed, indescribably bitter. "Yes, Mrs. Chen gave birth to a prince, and now the Chen family is in the limelight, and although Changmen Garden is remote, it is a good place for literati and ink writers. If your identity is not noble enough, and you don't have much knowledge, it's rare to ask for one. ”

Liang Xiao's heart moved. Chen Zhang is afraid that he has already repented at this moment, and he has hollowed out his thoughts and has a relationship with the Chen family. But he obviously didn't know that with Wei Zifu's fall from grace, the situation had actually changed. At the moment, the Chen family is not worried about Wei Zifu, but the new Wang Meiren who has entered the palace. In line with the principle that the enemy of the enemy is a friend, the Chen family should not reject Chen Zhang at this moment.

However, Chen Zhang's character is not good, once the situation changes, this kind of person cannot be relied on, but may become a hidden danger. The mother and son brothers of the Chen family are not smart people, so it is right to remind them to be careful of Chen Zhang, at least not to lead him to his heart.

"Chen Jun, being full of economy does not necessarily mean that he is knowledgeable." Liang Xiao smiled slightly. "Qu Reverse Xianhou (Chen Ping) dominates the world, but it is not based on the knowledge of finding chapters and extracting sentences."

Entering the Chen family, it was not until this moment that Liang Xiao showed a friendly smile for the first time, and it was Chen Ping, the ancestor of the Chen family, who praised Chen Ping, and Chen Zhang was naturally happy. He suddenly remembered that the Liang Xiao in front of him was the son-in-law of the King of Huainan, and he was debating with Dong Zhongshu Jun, and he was not interested in Confucianism. And the Chen family's knowledge is also Taoist, and they still have a common language.

"Junhou, as far as I know, you don't respect Confucianism, this time I went to see Master Dong, is there any question to debate?" ——

(To be continued.) )