There is the sound of horses' hooves outside Beiliang Pass, like the voice of the old chicks, which has been resounding for 20 years.

There are some sounds of reading in the pass, as if the young phoenix is clear to the old phoenix.

These sounds of reading come from brand new academies.

Liangzhou City and the new White Horse Academy, different from the previous Qinglu Cave Academy are located in the mountains and forests, this academy was built in the downtown of Liangzhou City, just from the capital to return to the hometown of the science master Yao Baifeng as the first master, not only the Qingliang Mountain Mansion gave 6,000 volumes, the North Liang King Xu Fengnian is personally given a plaque, the North Liang Road Envoy Li Gongde, the new Liangzhou Thorn Shi Lu Dongjiang, Youzhou Thorn Shi Huangyan all have a private book gift, for a time the Northern Liang dignitaries and the wealthy lords have followed, all of them are proud to donate rare books to the White Horse Academy.

This made the White Horse Academy also complete a feat that no one has ever done before, that is, on the first day of the establishment of the academy, the library building reached as many as 10,000 volumes, so the library building of the academy was also named after 10,000 volumes. At the same time, Yao Baifeng set a precedent by adding a sage hall in the academy to sculpt the statues of Confucian sages of the Zhang family and the ten philosophers and thirty-six sages. In addition to Yao Baifeng as the head of the academy, Bai Yu, a well-known Mr. Bailian of Longhu Mountain in the south of the Yangtze River, and Xu Beitong, the former Lingzhou Thorn Shi, served as the deputy head of the academy at the same time, and Huang Shang, the mountain master of Qinglu Cave Academy, and other Central Plains Confucians who rushed to Beiliang to take root, also promised to come to the White Horse Academy on time to give lectures, and even rumored that the king who led thousands of scholars to Liang also promised to contact Shangyin School Palace, and promised to introduce a Mr. Jishang to Liang to teach from the Shangyin School Palace, which is known as the "source of the world's reading seeds", every year.

As a result, the White Horse Academy, which originally only accepted 80 people, was broken through the threshold, and had to recruit more than 200 young scholars without exception, and the number of local and foreign scholars in Beiliang was roughly the same. Lu Dongjiang, the parent official of Liangzhou, who was a famous man in the Qing Dynasty, was even more enthusiastic, and took the support of the White Horse Academy as the first fire after taking office, and opened the door to all matters of the academy。

In the early autumn, a carriage in Liangzhou City slowly drove to the downtown area, the carriage was very ordinary, and there was no horse to follow, the horseman was not like a middle-aged man with a horseman, the curtain of the car had been lifted to a corner, and the person in the carriage was so quiet looking at the picture on the street, looking at the flowers.

Some shops have changed their signs, some stalls have disappeared, some restaurants are still selling the green ant wine, and some inns have inherited their father's business.

When passing by a newly opened shop, the carriage slowly stopped, and the groom waited quietly for the master's instructions, not daring to speak without permission, reminding the people of the academy that they were patiently waiting for his arrival.

The young man holding the corner of the curtain looked at the storefront, remembering that every time the fresh clothes and angry horses returned, they would go there to buy a big oil paper package of sauce beef, and he was the girl he met there, and he never thought that the old owner of the shop was Huang Sanjia.

At that time, the weird big cat of the girl was still alive.

I remember that it was also around here, and the girl reunited after a long absence, and for the first time I saw the little monk from the north and south who wanted to become a Buddha and burn out the relics, and there was a monk from Landa Mountain who insisted that he go to the Western Regions, so that he could double cultivate with the white-clothed Bodhisattva who was shocked at the gate of Xiangfan City in the future. For a while, I didn't regret beating my chest, but now that I think of this incident, I just laughed at it. I don't know why she gave birth to a female Bodhisattva with a head full of green silk, and she who traveled through the rivers and lakes and saw her by the water for the first time and mistakenly thought she was an immortal.

He lowered the curtain and said softly, "Steward Song, go to the White Horse Academy." ”

Song Steward, Song Yu, the chief housekeeper of the Qingliang Mountain Royal Mansion in Beiliang. It can be said to be the only one in Beiliang Road, and there is no other semicolon.

The carriage stopped at the gate of the White Horse Academy, and when Xu Fengnian stepped out of the carriage, he suddenly asked, "Have there been not many assassins who have broken into Qingliang Mountain in the past few years?"

Song Yubi stood respectfully beside the young vassal king, bowed slightly, and said calmly: "Lord Wang, probably because those stupid rivers and lakes have finally opened up, this year's Qingliang Mountain, there has never been an assassination, it is very peaceful, and many people in the house are a little unaccustomed to it." ”

Xu Fengnian said with a smile: "It's true that there is a lot less fun in fishing, by the way, it seems that there are a lot fewer rangers who show up?"

Song Yu laughed softly: "Now the masters of the rivers and lakes want to shake their skills in front of the prince, and it is too difficult for them. ”

Xu Fengnian stood on the side of the street, looked up at the plaque of the White Horse Academy, and said with emotion: "I never thought that our Liangzhou could have a day when the academy opened. ”

Song Yu said: "It's all the credit of the prince, not everyone in the world is blind or bored with lard, justice is in the hearts of the people." ”

Xu Fengnian nodded solemnly, "Song Yu, you haven't fallen behind at all in all these years, others say good things to your face, it's always better for you to return to the basics." ”

Xu Fengnian has been His Royal Highness the Prince for many years, and Song Yu has a bright smile on his face, as if he remembered the absurd time when he bullied men and women in front of the saddle for His Royal Highness the Prince in the early years.

Song Yu's ability to shoot horses has not decreased, and his qi cultivation kung fu has risen even more in recent years, coupled with the temperament of this young vassal king, he is not dissatisfied with the lack of movement in the White Horse Academy, so he naturally will not make that kind of boring move of revitalizing the teacher and asking the guilt. What's more, he knows better than anyone else that the co-owner of the Beiliang Iron Cavalry around him has been extremely kind to scholars in the past few years, otherwise this White Horse Academy, which is already a blockbuster, would not be able to do it. There were not many rich and powerful vassal kings in the Liyang Dynasty, but there were also a few, just like Zhao Bing, the daring king of Yan, or Zhao Yi, the king of Guangling, who was once in the sky, who could let those well-educated scholars gather together to preach and teach in the territory under their jurisdiction? Jing'an Dao also has a green party in the court, and it is also close to the hinterland of the Central Plains of Shangyin Xue Palace, so it is not the same as not being able to run a good academy?

Song Yu glanced at the scene near the carriage without a trace, in fact, in addition to them, there were four or five carriages, the same as the style of the powerful and extravagant, Song Yu knew that in addition to the arrival of the prince today, in fact, there were six or seven generals visiting the academy at the same time, it was not a coincidence, but the White Horse Academy, under the proposal of the deputy academy master Xu Beitong, would invite the military generals to talk about the battlefield every once in a while, Mo said that this was something that had never happened in other academies, I am afraid that the ancestor of the Tianxia Academy, the Shangyin School Palace, has never had such a strange thing。 Although these carriages are not amazing, but those horses are all full of precious horses, to be precise, placed in the Beiliang border army, either A or B, because it is from the two pastures of Beiliang Xianli and Tianjing, but it has gone through a special channel to flow into the customs and has not supplied the border army.

Those old generals, who have been fighting horses for most of their lives, have more than a dozen good horses at home after returning to the field, what's wrong?

It is said that the meritorious old men of Beiliang who visited the White Horse Academy together today include Wei Tieshan and Liu Yuanji, two veteran deputy marshals who returned to the border army not long ago but have no actual power for the time being.

Seven or eight generals, all of whom had been smoked by the Spring and Autumn Period, were the first batch of veterans invited by Xu Beiji to the White Horse Academy.

Not to mention, the current Beiliang officialdom, especially the civil officials, I am afraid that only the two young officials Xu Beizhi and Chen Xiliang can invite these old guys, even if Li Gongde can't do it, and Song Dongming, the nominal deputy economic envoy and the de facto leader of the Beiliang civil officials, can't do it

to, as a "relative of the emperor", Lu Dongjiang, the assassin of Liangzhou, couldn't do it.

Because if you say a heart-wrenching word, in fact, in today's Beiliang civil and military, only these two young people are the real ministers of the dragon.

Ning Emei, the main general of Tiefutu, Huangfu, the general of Youzhou, and Gu Dazu, the deputy marshal of the infantry army, are still inferior to these two.

The backbone of the White Horse Academy is actually not Yao Baifeng, the grandmaster of the Liyang literary world, but Xu Beitong, who retired from the position of Lingzhou Thorn History.

Song Yu, as the former steward of Wutong Courtyard, is now the chief steward of the entire Qingliang Mountain, of course, he is a well-deserved person of this young vassal king, and the most important thing is that Song Yu is not too old, in his early forties, if nothing else, not to mention that he will not have the opportunity to be the patriarch of the three dynasties of the Beiliang Xu family in the future, the weight is heavy, it is conceivable that this has nothing to do with whether this man is wearing an official or not. The prime minister's concierge is still a third-grade official, not to mention the number one butler of a vassal king's mansion? So Song Yu is very content, and he is even more grateful to the father and son of the Xu family.

Song Yu slowed down slightly and followed Xu Fengnian towards the White Horse Academy.

The gate of the White Horse Academy hurriedly walked out of a young green-shirted scholar, looked around, and saw Xu Fengnian and Song Yuhou slightly stunned, he was a Huainan foreign country scholar who had recently studied in the academy, and he was not a member of the group who resolutely went to Liang with Wang Xijiu, his ancestors and Yao Baifeng were classmates, and they had apprenticed together with Mr. Zhengyuan in Shangluo County, because of this incense, his grandfather heard that Yao Baifeng presided over the White Horse Academy to re-lecture, and let this eldest grandson rush to Liangzhou, because of his gentle personality and profound family education, the elderly Yao Baifeng asked this young man to help with some trivial matters to usher in, and today the grand arrival of the gang of Beiliang military bigwigs, most of them were brought into the academy by him. The White Horse Academy also temporarily got the news from Qingliang Mountain, saying that the prince was coming, which was naturally a big deal in the eyes of the young scholar, but the attitude of Mr. Yao Baifeng and Xu Beitong made him a little confused, not salty or light, just said that he would lead the way after seeing people, but the young scholar would inevitably make trouble, and he couldn't recognize the young vassal king, but he was quickly relieved, presumably a powerful Liyang vassal king would definitely be shocked when he went out. To tell the truth, he is full of the legendary young vassal king, very curious, but also a little admired, the Central Plains is full of "Southern Song and Northern Xu" said, the Western Chu Song Yushu of the colorful article and the Northern Liang Xu Fengnian's demeanor, and said that the world is unique, quite in the spring and autumn of the year "South Xie North Li" charm.

The young man looked at the white-robed man with a sword who only had one servant, and his intuition told him that the man in front of him was most likely Xu Fengnian, but with such a light and simple follower, how could he be the master of the Beiliang Iron Cavalry who successfully stirred up the general trend of the world?

Xu Fengnian climbed the steps and saw a simple wooden frame placed at the door, and a string of delicate jade hooks tied to the horizontal fence for hanging swords.

Xu Fengnian once promised the mountain lord Huang Shang in the early days of the establishment of Qinglu Cave Academy that no matter which Beiliang martial artist he was in the future, regardless of his official rank, if he wanted to enter Beiliang Academy, he would take off his saber.

At this time, there are seven Beiliang knives hanging on the wooden frame.

Wooden frame jade hook hanging battle knife.

Xu Fengnian walked in front of the wooden frame, looking at the war knives, most of them were old, none of them were the latest Xu Liudao, one of the war knives with a seriously worn scabbard, and even the first generation of Xu family knives that might be called unique!

You must know that even in Qingliang Mountain, there is no first generation of Xu knife, even if Xu Xiao once sent people to buy such war knives in the Central Plains before his death, there is still no result, because the first generation of Xu knife is not much casting, a total of only seven thousand, and secondly, the conditions at that time were harsh, and the casting process was very rough, resulting in the war knife was not good, and it was damaged a lot on the battlefield, and it could not withstand a few battles, and Xu Xiao led his troops to fight everywhere at that time, and fought a lot of hard battles and defeats, which was worse than the lost dogI don't know if people can survive or not, they are used to living a life of fighting to support war, as for whether the saber is cast by themselves, it really doesn't matter, you must know that at that time, even Xu Xiao himself had done the act of directly ripping off the enemy's armor and hanging it on the battlefield.

Before Xu Xiao's death, he only liked to brag to Xu Fengnian about his great achievements, saying how many great victories he had fought and how many famous generals in the Spring and Autumn Eight Kingdoms he had defeated.

But he never told Xu Fengnian how much he had suffered in those years, and he never mentioned it.

Many things were heard by Xu Fengnian a long time later, in casual conversations with Chu Lushan and Yuan Zuozong.

Sometimes, Xu Fengnian will also think that if he has children in the future, he will have the opportunity to wait until they grow up, probably like Xu Xiao, he will only tell them that his father has defeated a great martial arts master in his life, and he will not tell them how many injuries and how much blood he has shed in those battles of life and death.

Fathers and sons in the world are probably like this.

I have never been a father myself, and I don't know my father's hardships.

When Xu Fengnian slowly took off the saber at his waist, he turned his head to look at Song Yu and asked with a smile: "Steward Song, will your twins who have just turned ten years old get tired of your chatter?"

Hearing such a question, Song Yu, who was extremely clever and clever, was still a little caught off guard, but soon smiled and said: "Naturally, every time I tell those two children how many big people their father has seen, they will always be scorned, and they can't wait to cover their ears, but when they tell them about the various feats of the prince, even if the children have heard it too many times, they feel it is relish." ”

Xu Fengnian has seen the pair of pink carved sisters and brothers a few times in Qingliang Mountain, different from the eldest brother who has been crowned an official and the second sister who married Lingzhou, she has a temperament and is very naughty, and she likes to run crazy on the mountains and mountains. Huyan Daguan's daughter and Yu groom's little green robe left in the palace, the relationship is good, often play and play together, once Xu Fengnian walked alone on the long embankment in the middle of the lake in the early morning, a group of children sneakily squatted on the lake, with their homemade rough fishing rods in the carp, the small wooden basin has been crowded with four or five fat koi. As a result, he hit him squarely, and deliberately coughed far away, Song Yu's young son immediately overturned the wooden basin, asked everyone to throw the fishing rod into the lake, and then ran away with a smoke. Xu Fengnian, who couldn't cry or laugh, had no choice but to help the group of troublemakers recover the fishing rods and wooden basins from the lake and stay where they were.

Listen to the origin of the koi in Chaohu Lake, from the natural pond at the top of a towering mountain in eastern Liaodong, this kind of Tianchi carp is not a vulgar thing in the eyes of qi practitioners, born with golden scales, and bears the luck of the world. Listen to the koi fish of Chaohu Lake known as a tail of ten gold, these years has been the dream of Beiliang civil officials of rare things, in the early years to follow Xu Xiao generals are all big and rough, these vassal elegant things are not interested, at that time has not yet betrayed Beiliang to Tai'an City Yan Jiexi and the like, and disdain to beg, only Li Gongde was cheeky and Xu Xiao asked for a few, Xu Xiao waved his hand, said that he grabbed it, how much he could catch it and take it home, at that time Li Gongde, who was already in the high position of the governor of Fengzhou, really ran to catch it himself, and finally caught seven or eight and went back to raise it in his own pond, it is said that there is already a pond of carp weather, of course, Xu Fengnian and Li Hanlin both know it, Li Gongde smiled from ear to ear every time he looked at the pond, not because he liked those koi carp with natural visions in his heart, but because those carp, they were all living silver!

When the young man heard this conversation, he was shocked, he couldn't believe that the young man in front of him was really the King of Beiliang, the one who led the Beiliang Iron Cavalry to block Beimang's million-strong army.

After Xu Fengnian took off the cool knife on his waist, he gently hung it on a jade hook on the far edge of the left side of the shelf.

I don't know if it's a coincidence, but in this way, the six generations of war knives of the Xu family have all been gathered.

The young scholar was a little frightened, and hurriedly said: "Dai Yuanjie of Fengtang County, see the prince." ”

Xu Fengnian was surprised: "Who are you from Fengtang County, Jizhou, who are you? Are you a descendant of Dai Jiayuan?"

Dai Yuanjie was even more surprised, he didn't expect the dignified vassal king to hear about his grandfather, their Dai family was the old Northern Han Dynasty hairpin family, nearly three hundred years of the family descendants to "indifferent Mingzhi, quiet Zhiyuan" eight characters ranked, to Dai Yuanjie's generation, just the turn of the far word, but the Dai family and many Spring and Autumn Wealthy families, with the end of the "unjust" war of the king and the defeat of the Emperor, the Dai family sank, the children of the family abide by the rules set by Mr. Jiao'an, learn but not learn. The Dai family's library building "Eight Hundred Iron Sword Building" was one of the six major library buildings in the Spring and Autumn Period, especially the collection of more than 100 kinds of rare books, fine carvings, manuscripts and school books are countless, after the old Northern Han Dynasty was led by Xu Xiao to destroy the country, the Dai family library that had never minded people going upstairs was no longer open to the public, and even the children of the family could not easily go upstairs to read books.

This young scholar with a family background raised his head and said, "It is the ancestor of the family!"

Xu Fengnian's face was a little embarrassed, "Listening to the Chao Pavilion's unique rare books, half of them were extorted from your eight hundred iron sword buildings by our Xu family in the early years, if you come to Beiliang this time to ask for those books, I will go back and let people sort them out, and try to return the original number." ”

The first time Dai Yuanjie heard this secret news, his grandfather never mentioned it to him, and he was even more embarrassed than Xu Fengnian for a while.

He is a weak scholar, how many dares can he come to Beiliang to settle accounts with the Northwest Domain King Qiuhou?

Xu Fengnian smiled and said: "The book is also dusty in the Tingchao Pavilion, it is better to return it to your Dai family, but it is said in advance that the book can be returned, but the premise is that your Dai family's library cannot be cherished by a broom, and it needs to be open to children with other surnames and scholars from other countries." You can discuss this matter with Mr. Jiaoan first. Of course, this is a reluctant invitation, Mr. Jiao'an may not agree, but it will not affect your studies at White Horse Academy, you Dai Yuanjie is relaxed. If it really doesn't work, I will give those Fengban books to the White Horse Academy in the name of your Dai family, and you can also make this matter clear to Mr. Jiao'an in the family letter. ”

After Dai Yuanjie weighed it for a while, he was relieved, and he made another move, and said sincerely: "The prince is massive!"

Xu Fengnian smiled dumbly, and some of the words that came to his mouth were still held back by him, in fact, Xu Xiao relied on a knife to "borrow" the book back then, but now it is nothing more than because of the hundreds of thousands of cold knives of his Xu family, and the matter of returning the book will become "massive", in fact, in the final analysis, the Xu family does not take care of it. It's just that Xu Fengnian doesn't want to tell a descendant of the Dai family about this.

No matter how good a book is, if no one reads it, it looks very valuable, but in fact it is the least valuable.

But Xu Fengnian also heard a lot of strange words about Huang Longshi from the girl, this Huang Sanjia said that the future readers, reading is too easy, and he doesn't pay attention to the efforts of the sages, so there will be a helpless sigh of "the ancients have said the truth".

Xu Fengnian followed the young scholar into the White Horse Academy.

The young gentleman didn't have a reason to look back, the wooden frame.

After the spring and autumn.

Xu's six knives.

Lined up here.