Chapter 494: Chicken Ribs (5,000)
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As Wen Mingxian and Sui Fuzhi said, at this time, Yang Duan and Yang Wu had gradually felt that the deal with Beidi was not easy to advance, and when Yang Jiuguan returned to the City Lord's Mansion after placing the guests from Xiyue, the two of them had already waited for a long time.
As soon as Yang Jiuguan entered the door, he bowed to the two of them first. As far as he is concerned, Yang Duan is the patriarch of the clan, and Yang Wu is the city lord of a city - although he himself is also the city lord of Sifang City, and compared with Yang Wu, he has the identity of a "great elder", but in fact, Yang Wu is higher than him in terms of prestige and status.
"Don't come to all this red tape......" Yang Duan waved his finger and pointed to the chair beside him to signal Yang Jiuguan to sit down, and waited for him to sit down before he couldn't wait to ask, "How is it?" ”
"It's not easy."
Yang Duan didn't ask what to do, and Yang Jiuguan didn't say anything "not easy to do", but the two of them knew what it was, and to put it bluntly, these two things were just the same thing. Yang Wu frowned and was silent on the side, as if he had already guessed what the situation was even without asking Yang Jiuguan.
"Old Man Wen is not easy to deal with, Sui Fuzhi is also a famous capable minister in Western Vietnam, after talking to them just now, he didn't find anything out of it, but it is certain that the Lord of Zhengyang attaches great importance to this matter......"
Speaking of this, Yang Jiuguan couldn't help but stop and smile bitterly, in fact, he also knew that even if he didn't say it, others knew that Jin Zhengyang was extremely attentive to Princess Yuqing's marriage - after all, he only had Princess Yuqing's sister, and this married sister was not only related to the face and dignity of Xiyue, but also related to the life and death of his Jin family in Xiyue.
"Can you get to their bottom line?" Yang Wu thought about it, it's too early to say anything, he can only make a prediction about the situation after meeting these people preliminarily, if he can find it, he might as well take the time to explore, if he can't find it, he might as well talk openly and honestly, what he is most concerned about at this time is naturally not a deal, anyone can do this kind of thing, but he has to ask about marrying a daughter in person, after all, he only has such a daughter, although the other person is the princess of Xiyue Kingdom, but in Yang Wu's opinion, Time is not as important as anyone's daughter, and if you want to marry, you will naturally marry in style.
"It's hard to say for the time being, after all, the contact time is still short, I want to go to entertain in the evening and find out the other party's truth." Yang Jiuguan chuckled, in fact, in his opinion, the most important thing is the political significance of Princess Yuqing and Yang Jian's marriage to Hua Hate Liu, once this matter comes true, then he dares to guarantee that Xiyue will definitely be the most determined ally of Xizhou in the next few years.
And this relationship is the most crucial link in the implementation of the "deception" plan in the future.
Of course, in front of Yang Wu, he would never dare to say this, if Old Man Yang occasionally said such a sentence in front of Yang Wu last time, it would have caused Yang Wu to almost turn his face on the spot - you know, this is almost impossible in the eyes of others. After all, the relationship between Yang Wu and Yang Duan is really close to that biological relationship, and in addition, almost everyone knows that Yang Wu respects the old man as a father-like relative.
In this way, it can also be seen that in front of Yang Jian's marriage, Yang Wu is almost losing all his reason at this time.
"Maybe it's because we're too anxious......" Glancing at Yang Wu, Yang Duan frowned and said to Yang Jiuguan with relief: "Then let's make further contact, and we still have to be stable on the surface, so as not to be seen by others." ”
"Well, I remember that." Yang Jiuguan nodded lightly, seeing that the two of them didn't seem to continue to ask about his plans, he coughed lightly and said, "I didn't understand much about one thing today, and I want to ask you two for advice." ”
"Oh? To put it bluntly, do you still need to swallow and spit out? Yang Duan glanced at Yang Jiuguan with a slightly strange look, seemed to be aware of it, and asked rhetorically, "Could it be something else?" ”
"It's exactly ......" Speaking of this, Yang Jiuguan glanced up at Yang Wu and said with a smile: "It's actually about ...... in martial arts."
"That's weird......" Yang Wu couldn't help but wonder in his heart when he noticed that Yang Jiuguan was looking at him, and said, "If you don't understand it with your knowledge, then even if you say it to me, I don't necessarily know." ”
"Well, I just wanted to ask." Yang Jiuguan was slightly stunned, but he had to reluctantly admit that what Yang Wu said was the truth. He only thought about asking Yang Wu, but if he looked at it from the eyes of outsiders, Yang Jiuguan's own knowledge could easily rank among the top few in the world, if he didn't know, then he hoped that Yang Wu could know, it was basically no way, it was purely the idea of "picking up leaks".
However, to the surprise of the three of them, this time Yang Jiuguan really "picked up the leak", and after he told Bai Sheng about what he had probed at Bai Sheng, Yang Wu actually laughed out loud.
"Hahahaha!" Yang Duan naturally didn't understand why Yang Wu, who was still in conflict with him before, suddenly laughed, but Yang Jiuguan understood the meaning of this laughter, and immediately overjoyed, looking at Yang Wu expectantly, just waiting for him to finish laughing and relieve himself.
"This ...... Coincidental! Looking at Yang Jiuguan's eyes when he looked at him, Yang Wu finally decided to give him a reassuring pill first, lest he laugh for a long time and make his heart shake. When he had laughed enough, he said with a straight face: "This...... How to say it, it is Master's ability. ”
"Master...... Is it an old man of the emperor? Yang Jiuguan was slightly stunned, but he never thought that the abnormal phenomenon that appeared in Bai Sheng and Yan Shu could still be related to Huangfu Er.
"To put it bluntly, it was a failed exercise, and the master once mentioned it to me at that time, but I didn't mention the original intention, anyway, in the end, it backfired and I gave it up directly." Speaking of this, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he said, "This exercise has a name, if you know it, you can probably understand why the master has an attitude towards this exercise." ”
"What's the name?" Yang Jiuguan asked curiously. He didn't want to learn this strange exercise, but he had always been particularly enthusiastic about this world-famous exercise, and the hidden piles scattered outside on weekdays were all kinds of news for him, and the other was to collect interesting or powerful exercises, which was just a personal hobby of his.
"Chicken ribs." Yang Wu spit out two words lightly, and after saying it, he couldn't help but laugh out loud.
"It's a pity to discard the tasteless food...... Is it this chicken rib? Yang Jiuguan was stunned, and quickly realized what Yang Wu meant by "chicken ribs...... From this point of view, this exercise is indeed unpopular in the eyes of Huangfu Er!
However, why is such a useful exercise useless in the eyes of Huang Fuer?
"You may be curious, this exercise can obviously prolong people's lives, but why is it disliked by the teacher." Seeing that Yang Jiuguan's brows were slightly furrowed, Yang Wu knew what he was thinking without asking. Sure enough, as soon as he said that, he saw Yang Jiuguan looking up at him, and that look was exactly what he was puzzled about.
"Inhumane." Yang Wu's explanation is simple, but the meaning is much more profound.
Huang Fu, who killed the Xiyue royal family in one night and wiped out the clan, what other "humanity" will he talk about? If the people of Xiyue heard it, it would be strange if they didn't laugh out loud teeth! If he had preached humanity, he would naturally not have killed countless people - but this is what most people understand as "humanity", but in fact, Huangfu'er's "humanity" is different.
His "humanity" is the combination of "man" and "Tao". Why? Huang Fuer believes that the Tao is a rule, is an order that must be observed, under the framework of the "Dao", there are also subdivisions of "Heavenly Dao", "Authentic Dao", "Humanitarian", Heavenly Dao naturally does not need to be said, that is the order set by God, Tian is not afraid of others and others painstakingly maintained, and the entire Xizhou is now trying its best to deceive, are all this "Heavenly Dao".
The tunnel is relatively simple, but the imperial power and governing power of the human world are attributed to it, and it is just a rough discussion.
As for "humanity", Huang Fuer has his own set of principles - in fact, this principle is just one sentence, more directly it is the four words "the weak eat the strong", that is, his so-called "humanity" is actually based on people as the executors of "Dao", the strong live and the weak are killed...... The group of people of the Xiyue royal family is not the weakest group of people, but they are the weakest kind of people who dare to provoke Huang Fu, so it is good to say that he follows the Tao, whether it is to say that he uses the public for personal gain, and he has always had a clear conscience about the "humane" Huang Fuer himself.
And this "chicken rib" was evaluated by him as "inhumane", what is the reason for this?
"The weak should die, and the strong should continue to live, this is Master's consistent view." Although he didn't fully agree with Huang Fu Er's statement in his heart, Yang Wu still repeated the original words that Huang Fu Er taught him in order to explain the inhumanity of this "chicken rib" to Yang Jiuguan.
"This kind of thing is completely opposite, in terms of Bai Sheng and Yan Shu, it stands to reason that Bai Sheng is extremely weak and should have died a long time ago, but Yu Shu is strong and should continue to live strongly...... However, the current situation is completely opposite, which shows that they must have done something against the "Tao" with this "chicken ribs"...... It is not in line with the consistent principles of family teachers. ”
"You're saying that if you do this, there is actually no way to recover it?" Yang Jiuguan noticed that the word "should" appeared in Yang Wu's words, which meant that if it was according to the normal situation, it might not be difficult for Yan Shu to continue to live, but according to the current situation, I am afraid that after he does this, he will die soon.
This one...... Is this sacrifice worth it...... Seeing Yang Wu nodding, Yang Jiu couldn't help but express his sincere admiration for Yan Shu's actions.
"In this way, I don't have anything else to do, so I'll ...... first" Yang Jiuguan got up as he spoke, and was about to say goodbye to Yang Duan and Yang Wu, but he heard a long report from the messenger outside the door, and stood outside the door waiting for the summons.
"Come in." Yang Wu's mood was much soothed at this time, and his voice was much more crisp, and he directly called the messenger in.
"Mr. Situ Living Buddha of Xiyue asks to see him."
"Huh?" Yang Wu was slightly stunned, looked at Yang Jiuguan and Yang Duan, but saw that the two of them were also looking at him with a puzzled look, Yang Jiuguan's face was even richer, and he seemed to be a little embarrassed at the same time, probably thinking that it was because he mentioned Yanshu that Yanshu would come to the door!
"Come in and talk about it!" Yang Duan was only slightly stunned for a moment, and then couldn't figure out why the other party wanted to come here. However, if he can't think about it, he doesn't want to, especially now that he doesn't need to think about the things that can be done by directly bringing people to him, he is even more lazy to think about it, and directly calls people to summon Yan Shu to him.
Yan Shu was still dressed in white, as if this was a fixed line for them. He was brought in, and there was no trace of panic on his face, except that he had not yet recovered his normal paleness, and he entered the door like this, and then chuckled and greeted the other three people present one by one.
Yang Duan and the others naturally didn't have to make a five-body bow like his believers, and they just nodded in return.
"Forgive me for taking the liberty of bothering, I hope that a few seniors don't mind......" After he officially spoke, he called "seniors", which seemed to completely put aside the identity of the living Buddha, and really came to visit Yang Wu and Yang Jiuguan as a late student.
Of course, no one in this room would have thought so simply, forgiveness must be followed by repercussions. It was precisely because of this kind of attention that when the other party finished saying the last sentence, several of them did not say anything else, and still only smiled and greeted.
"I'm here today, not for anything else, just to ask for a few things." Yan Shu was not surprised by the reaction of Yang Jiuguan and several people, although his identity was amazing, but in fact, he did not have any advantage over ordinary people in terms of experience, and he came here in front of him to speak bluntly because he didn't want the other party to mistakenly think that he was not sincere, so he took the lead in being honest.
"Please." Yang Duan glanced at Yang Wu and Yang Jiuguan, and saw that the two of them had no doubts, so he nodded lightly and motioned for Yan Shu to continue.
"When I came here today, I saw Elder Yang pay special attention outside my carriage, and I think I already know the abnormality that appeared in the carriage and the reason for this abnormality, right?" After saying this, he saw that the other party did not answer, and continued: "I forgive me, but I ask a few people not to talk about this matter, especially not to tell Mr. Bai about the side effects of this exercise......
He ...... Don't know? Yang Jiuguan was slightly surprised, if this was the case, how did this forgiveness make Bai Sheng believe in him, and even give his life to the forgiveness?
Of course, there are very few people who know that Yan Shu is the son of Bai Sheng, even in Xiyue, only a few people know, although Yang Jiuguan has a wide range of news channels, it is difficult to collect all the things in Xiyue and Beidi, and it is not surprising that he does not know this secret at this time.
"This exercise...... How did you get it? Yang Wu was concerned about another question, because in his memory, it seemed that Huangfu had not given this exercise called "chicken ribs" to other people, why did he suddenly see it in Yan Shu? Could it be that there is no other story in this?
"This is one of the many exercises collected by the family teacher, because I feel that I can use it, I took it and practiced it recently." He didn't mean to hide the exercises, but he didn't know much, it seemed that Bai 61 Madege got it from somewhere, and he stayed in the temple and occasionally let him see it and practice, but he didn't know where and who got it.
"The Living Buddha is worried about it...... Seeing that Yang Wu and Yang Jiuguan were no longer living, Yang Duan chuckled and said: "Although Jiuguan did detect something strange today, it didn't mean to interfere, let alone be suspicious because of the difference...... We probably know this exercise, and what we have is just a mind to solve doubts. Now that the doubts have been solved, there is no longer anything related to us, and the rest is the matter of the living Buddha himself, and we will not intervene. ”
Although Yang Duan did not explicitly promise that he would "not tell Bai Sheng about the side effects of this exercise", but in his capacity, he naturally can't say whatever others ask him to say, the least workaround is to repeat the other party's meaning and make a promise, this sentence "will not intervene" is to play this role.
Yanshu is naturally a smart person, and when he heard Yang Duan say this, he immediately smiled and bowed down to thank the three of them: "In this way, Yanshu is worthy of the three." ”
This was also clearly a kind word, because after Yan Shu said this, he did not express anything else, neither took out anything to thank him, nor continued to say anything useful to them, but just said "thank you" and retired, which can be described as "coming and going", with a frank look in his heart, but the people in the room were stunned for a while.
"Come to think of it, the relationship between this forgiveness and Bai Sheng is not as simple as it seems on the surface." Looking at the back of Yan Shu leaving, Yang Wu said thoughtfully.
Yang Jiuguan nodded lightly, but he didn't say that it would be up to his people to investigate, because in his opinion, it didn't matter if this matter was almost the same, according to Fang Caiyan's words, because of helping Bai Sheng continue his life, his life would definitely not grow much, I am afraid that once Bai Sheng can't support it, he will soon run out of oil and follow Bai Sheng.
What's more, even if Yan Shu was still alive for a while, if he wanted to know the relationship between Bai Sheng and Yan Shu, wait until Hua Hate Liu and the others came back and then ask them, so why waste extra resources to re-investigate a matter that already knew the information?
"Oh, ...... else" Yang Duan raised his hand and was about to bombard, but when his hand was just raised to his chest, he remembered one thing, and immediately instructed Yang Jiuguan: "You still have to help with the work of Dou Jianzhang, this young man is still young after all, and there are some things that he can't make up his mind after all...... Do you think there is a good way? ”
Yang Jiu was concerned but thought about things that even Yang Wei couldn't do, how could he do it? However, on the surface, he still respectfully responded: "I will think of another way......"