Chapter Forty-Nine: Hellish in the Daylight
The mountains in the south of the Yangtze River are as winding as snakes, especially in Huainan Longwei Slope, three hundred miles away from the important town of Tielu, there are many business travelers, just a rare heavy snow to block the mountain road, the mountain road is difficult to travel, the general businessman Jia Ning is willing to detour the long road and turn into the post road, there is a traveler on the Longwei slope who is difficult to go north, a simple carriage moves forward slowly, the four hooves of the inferior horse do not enter the snow, it is even more difficult, the black horse with a dark mane snorts, spews out a cloud of mist, the horseman is a thin old servant, are reluctant to whip the horse, all say that the horse is fast, but the clever woman is difficult to cook without rice, an old horse eliminated in the army, the whip is too much, the rogue temper comes, and nine times out of ten he is unwilling to goFortunately, the owner of the carriage was understanding, and from time to time he comforted the groom, so that he did not have to be too anxious to hurry, the old man in the carriage had a clear face, wrapped in a dilapidated fur that was probably older than the old horse, his demeanor was serene, holding a book and reading silently, the mountains and forests outside the car were wrapped in silver, suddenly like a night of spring breeze, thousands of trees and pear blossoms bloomed, the old man lifted the curtain and looked up, the original depressed mood, but also opened a few points.
The same is on the dragon tail slope, less than half a mile behind the horse body, there are five horses closely followed, most of them are dressed in black, three men and two women, the first one is a rich middle-aged man with a slightly chubby silhouette, gave birth to a pair of round earlobes like Buddha statues, should be a blessed person, covered with an eye-catching white fox skin surface of the crane, giving people a good look, easy to get close. Behind him, he rode a young and handsome man, his face was like a crown of jade, and he carried a golden gun stick, which was such a cold weather, and he was also breathing slowly, and he really deserved to be like a god. The older of the two women, if the woman is like water, in the eyes of the world, her whole body is flowing with romantic style, it is rare to be charming but not charming, there is the dignified beauty of everyone, the girl who rides the horse side by side will be eclipsed, only the posture of the middle, like the small jasper that the neighborhood has just grown, the most rough riding is a rough young man, shabby clothes, equestrian is also lame, every other day to secretly rub the almost flowering buttocks, several times to the small jasper in front of a few times, there is no need to roll the eyes, so that the young man blushed, eager to dig a pit to bury himself in the snow, when the girl who was with him along the way turned her head and changed her face, laughing and laughing with the baton Junyan, the young man who can't hide his poverty will secretly have the courage to look at the graceful back of the slightly older woman.
His name is Li Huai'er, an authentic Tielu City person, his father and mother went early, there is an uncle who is a teaching gentleman, and the name is also given by the uncle, he thinks that he can still get his hands on this crepe sour name in this life, Li Huai'er likes martial arts since he was a child, and there is never a shortage of rumors about the rivers and lakes in the streets and alleys, just like the good deeds have discharged the top ten masters in Tielu City, Peng He at the bottom can lift his horse with one hand and throw it a few feet away, and Ding Ce, the sixth general of the military town, can shoot through the grinding disc with an arrow, it does not detract from his enthusiasm for the rivers and lakes. This time I was able to ride a horse with the first four people, because two days ago in the city was a bloody secret that he inadvertently broke through, the old man surnamed Huang who was in a carriage half a mile away, it is said that he was a big official, and he was going to the capital, for some reason he assassinated a group of black-clothed men with swords and crossbows, the old man staggered and hid in the dark narrow alley, and Li Huai'er collided with a full bosom, a rain of knives and arrows, the bow and crossbow buzzed, nailed into the wall, and Li Huai'er, who suffered from the unwarranted disaster, was also hot-blooded, mainly because he didn't have time to be afraid for a while, pulling the old man to hug his head and run away, and then the four horses in front of him were born, a good narrow road meeting, and the killing was turned upside down, Li Huai'er saw with his own eyes that the handsome brother who was playing with a stick knocked down, almost able to make an alley wall smash out of a long pit, and also saw the woman in front of him at this time with a sword and a dragon, shining in the snow, and happened to be seen by Li Huai'er The cold and beautiful face when he killed people, Li Huai'er knew at that time that as long as she could break into the hall, she would not marry in this life.
But Li Huai'er is simple, but he is not stupid, they all say that the world's masters can understand swordsmanship by watching the tide, but there is also a river outside Tielu City, Li Huai'er went to the river to pout his ass as soon as he was free, stared at the river with wide eyes, looked at the river when there was no wind and waves, looked at it when it was raining and flooding, and also saw it when the snow was majestic a few days ago, but he couldn't see a fart. I accidentally heard that the masters of the world are living in seclusion in the mountains and forests, so I walked back and forth a few times around the mountains and mountains around Tielu, except for and peeing, nothing was left, and nothing was encountered. The invincible leopard master who has fought in several streets nearby is said to have obtained two or three pages in a peerless secret book, and he has today's superb martial arts, but although Li Huaier has an uncle who teaches craftsmen, his temperament is like his father, who has been dealing with crops all his life, he naturally doesn't like to read, and he doesn't know a few words.
Li Huai'er looked at the men and women in front of him, a little deflated, the fairy sister said, when Lord Huang is sent to the capital, he will be given some entanglement to return to his hometown, and at that time, no one here in Tielu will find trouble with him, and he can continue to live in peace.
Li Huai'er was at that time, he didn't say a word, what he thought in his heart, he didn't dare to say to others: I just want to go through the rivers and lakes with you.
There is an inn on the top of Longwei Slope, which has no name for some reason, but it has been open for many years anyway, and the business is tepid, just to make a living, and the literati and scholars who are really willing to spend a lot of money are not happy to go.
The snow on the top of the mountain was at the beginning of the day, and finally drove a few points from the cold, and the five horses came to the vicinity of the inn, and saw the old man standing on the side of the carriage with a smile, and there were two carriages parked nearby, which seemed to be the same as the guests of the detention trip, and the rich middle-aged man who was covered with cranes rubbed his mink hat, a little helpless, and walked forward quickly after dismounting, and said in a low voice: "Lord Huang, we all have dry food on us for our stomachs, so don't stop?"
The old man put on a stone blue satin fabric of the patch clothes, after the sunshine, the sun showed a unique reddish-brown luster, after all, the old man is an official who entered the product, and there is a poetry and calligraphy in the belly, there is a little bit of intimidation of the people in the market without anger and self-authority. The man in the crane and mink hat has a good family background, naturally not because of the old man Huang's identity as an eight-grade official and personally involved in danger, and did not hesitate to tear his face with the officials who were in collusion with the west of Guangling Road, but because the old man Huang was in an important position, and his rank was not high, so he just entered the stream, but the weight of the words is not an exaggeration to describe it with the heavens, and the western part of Guangling Road is to obey the old man Huang to ask for his life for the people, and he bluntly admonished that he went to Beijing to serve this time and "entered Taiwan" with Zhu Guiyou, a Shuoru from the north , promoted to become the imperial history of the Tai to supervise the imperial history, but Lord Huang went to the Beijing face saint, with enough to make dozens of official hats in several huge states and counties in the west of Guangling Road to stay, which brought death to the old man, if it were not for a large number of people of insight who had the money to contribute and make a strong contribution, for the old man to block several disgraceful and ruthless attacks, not to mention the towering Tai'an City, the old man would not be able to walk half a step out of Guangling Road. In his opinion, the old man has a clean breeze on his sleeves and a very high backbone, but sometimes he is too broad and rigid, which invisibly brings great crisis to the knights of the rivers and lakes who are secretly escorting, but he is not good at telling it bluntly, and sometimes he smiles bitterly in private, and he can only comfort himself If it is not for the old man's character, he will not be able to supervise the imperial history.
The guilty old man Huang hugged his fists and thanked several knights, all without saying a word.
Li Huai'er dismounted several horses one after another, and they all respectfully hugged their fists and saluted. Ning Zong, who has always been known for his righteousness and squandering wealth in the state and county where his family is located, is a middle-aged man who retreats to the second, and laughs softly: "Then we have lunch with Lord Huang, and then speed up the journey." On the border of Guangling Road, there will be a team of people to respond, and the famous martial arts predecessor Liang will go out of the mountain in person, and then the gang of iron crumbs will not dare to be so rampant. β
The girl wrinkled her delicate nose and complained in a low voice: "Since Old Man Liang is highly respected in the rivers and lakes, he is eighty years old, and he still can't splash water with a sixty-pound pear flower gun, and he has the help of fellow martial artists, so why don't you want to walk two or three hundred miles more." β
The woman with the sword frowned and shouted softly: "Tsubaki Ya, don't be rude!"
On the contrary, Lord Huang relieved the siege, and when he walked slowly to the inn, he explained to the girl with a pleasant smile: "These long-famous Jianghu families, not to mention relatives and gangs, are the families who eat together, and they must all be registered, and they have to deal with the government, and many things have to be snorted. β
Ning Zong, who felt this most deeply, said with a smile: "Lord Huang is rich in five cars, and he knows the world at home. β
The thin old man waved his hand and laughed at himself: "It's not enough to just read thousands of books, but also to travel thousands of miles, the truth in the book is dead, and being a man is alive. This time in Beijing, it was Huang Shang who involved many heroes. Of course, there are also Miss Zhou and Miss Hu who don't let the women have eyebrows. In addition to taking away the first floor of the book collection from Huang Shang, he is already a penniless poor bastard, this way to the north, thinking that one day he will not be an official in the future, he will write a chivalrous biography, hoping to repay one or two. β
Ning Zong's face was happy, "This is a fortunate event that will go down in history. β
The girl known as Chunya chirped and said, "Lord Huang, don't forget me, my name is Hu Chunya." β
Lord Huang smiled and promised.
The woman surnamed Zhou, who has the chivalrous spirit of not eating fireworks in the world, and the handsome boy who carried a stick looked at each other and smiled faintly.
Li Huai'er, who didn't have anything to do with him, followed everyone and crossed the threshold with his head bowed, he had always regarded himself as a useless oil bottle, inferior and silent.
The inn is not big, the oil stains on each desktop have accumulated all year round, with a greasy oily gloss, not a rag can be wiped clean, Ning Zong, who has rich experience in the rivers and lakes, looked around, a little vigilant, five tables in the inn, there are only five people in the same group, and they occupy two windows, one of the sturdy young men is more oozing with blood, this is nothing, a young man at the main table is probably young and white, white clothes, white shoes, white jade belt, and a pair of peach blossom eyes that are not easy to see, Ning Zong feels tricky at a glance, even if this kind of person is mediocre, but just looking at the shelf, it is an extremely difficult child of the family, The white-headed young man sat a swarthy young man in the left hand position, and a man who raised a glass and drank in his right hand, Ning Zong, who knew people well, was even more numb immediately, the man estimated that he was nine feet tall, and Xu Zhan, the master of his own stick, was already considered majestic, and he was still slightly inferior, Ning Zong's family was not far from the garrison of an elite army in Guangling, and he had seen the killing arrogance that crawled out of the pile of dead people on the battlefield, and he was very familiar.
If this group of people intercepted Lord Huang from going to Beijing, Ning Zong estimated that even if a few lives on his side were handed over to this Longwei Slope, it would be useless nine times out of ten.
One table is Xu Fengnian, young Wu, and Yuan Zuozong.
One table is the cavalry generals Lu Song and Wang Lin who participated in the battle outside Shenwu City.
The blue bird was seriously injured, and it was not easy to bump south to the Shangyin School Palace, and followed the large team to Beiliang.
Xu Fengnian first went to the school palace to pick up people, and then went to Qingzhou to meet two groups of people secretly, and then he could go to Beiliang, how to absorb the 100,000 homeless people who were all on the horse and under the horse, it was a problem that Li Yishan deliberately left him to solve, and he made this living eye, so as to really open up a new situation in Beiliang. The reason why there is Lu Song, the style of a Confucian general, and Wang Lin, who was injured, is that he deliberately cultivates them to become henchmen, so that before he can successfully nail into the Beiliang Army, there must be a gradual process of getting to know each other, and the two of them have suffered heavy casualties, Xu Fengnian can't just pat his ass and part ways, leaving the two heroes aside, Xu Fengnian never believes that a few bold words can make talented people bow their heads and worship.
As for the white bear Yuan Zuozong, who was second only to Gu Jiantang and Chen Zhibao in the Liyang army, it was he himself who asked to go south on the same road.
Except for Ning Zong's constant eye snooping, and the girl Hu Chunya trying her best to see Xu Fengnian, after asking the inn guys for food, the rest of the old man Huang and the woman surnamed Zhou and Xu Zhan all held their breath.
The last two jars of the inn cellar wine were given to Xu Fengnian for two tables, fortunately, Ning Zong knew that he was greedy for cups and mistakes, and he didn't think about warming his stomach at the beginning, but Huang Shang, who went to Beijing to enter Taiwan as the supervisor of the imperial history, was only interested in reading, drinking and eating crabsγ
Xu Fengnian sat by the window and asked with a smile: "Old man, I still have half a jar of wine here that I can't drink, and I feel a little distressed about the money, why don't I sell it to you cheaper?"
Huang Shang's heart moved, but he still shook his head with a smile. The rivers and lakes are sinister, and the officialdom is treacherous, but in fact, many times they are all in one breath, but they are all ghosts and ghosts.
Hu Chunya, who is an ignorant heart tied to Xu Zhan, the son of Pianpian, after seeing Xu Fengnian, his mind fluctuated, but the words he said were scathing, "He looks very handsome, but he is white-headed, and he looks scary." I saw it at night, and I must have thought I had seen a ghost. β