After pasting the Spring Festival couplets at the main gate, Xu Weixiong returned to Wutong Courtyard, and only the three masters were left wandering around the palace, Xu Fengnian and Xu Xiao talked about Lingzhou affairs piecemeal, Xu Xiao intermittently said some interesting stories about the recent occurrence of the temple, such as Gu Jiantang's son-in-law in Jizhou, now the official Wenchen is too lazy to scold him Xu Xiao, turned around and turned to scold General Gu who lost the post of secretary of the Ministry of War, anyway, Gu Jiantang is no longer in the capital, the original arrogant Gu Lu group of dragons in the Ministry of War is leaderless, and the five departments outside the Yushitai and the Ministry of War are all jumping in the matter, so that the Gu Party members in the temple are discouraged and very tired to deal with it, this year is not good。 There is also the left sacrificial wine of the Guozijian Yao Baifeng taught the second-in-command Jin Lanting a hard lesson, and even alarmed His Majesty the Emperor, and personally went to the Guozijian to be a peacemaker, which barely calmed the matter, and the situation of the mountains in the Guozijian has been known to passers-by, and the township party has formed its own associations, most of which are for the Jin Saburo to advocate and build momentum, which is why Yao Baifeng will leave a sentence of today's gentleman and friend party. Xu Xiao also said that Zhao Zhu, the son of the king of Yanyi, was not a peaceful person, and he took thousands of elite horses all the way to the north, which seemed to be going to "Jingnan", he was obviously busy showing off his might, and he was provoked by several states, and before he arrived at Guangling Road, where Zhao Yi was, he had already made all the officials along the way complain, complaining and impeachment, and snowflakes flew into the palace. The three of them walked to the edge of Tingchao Lake, Xu Xiao suddenly woke up, and said that he was going to listen to Wang Chudong's girl tell the story, and when he missed the hour, the girl had a big shelf, so she was not willing to talk to him about the bad old man, Xu Xiao hurriedly trotted away, and Xu Fengnian was dumbfounded, it seems that Wang Dongxiang, who is the deputy critic of rouge, is really powerful, and even Xu Xiao, who is most afraid of dealing with books, has been subdued? Previously, a letter from home was delivered to Lingzhou, Xu Xiao did say that Wang Chudong was very playful and aura, and he was not afraid of him, an old man, and gave him a lesson as soon as he saw him. Reading that talented and beautiful woman, the same, it must be that no matter how twists and turns in the middle, there will eventually be a consummation of growing old together, in fact, it is not as good as reading the scriptures, just like seeing an old gentleman, sitting in a precarious position from beginning to end, you think he is too stereotyped for too long, but one day he will feel that he has his own cuteness. In addition, Wang Chudong also said that there are different people who read military books and poetry collections, which made Xu Fengnian greatly admired, this girl is really bold, and she can teach Xu Xiao to read, you must know that whether it is Li Yishan or Zhao Changling, he couldn't make Xu Xiao read a few more books patiently.

Xu Fengnian looked up at the Chao Pavilion, Chen Xiliang should be in the side room on the top floor at this time, the palace said that this young man was more and more similar to the national soldier who had no grave and no grave after his death, Xu Fengnian retracted his gaze and saw Xu Tangzi sitting alone in the pavilion, throwing a large handful of bait into the lake, the koi fish were surging, and the scene was magnificent. Xu Fengnian squatted on the edge of the pedestal of Tingchao Pavilion and said to Huang Man'er beside him: "Lu Qiu'er said that the willow that was torn apart by me didn't die, it is estimated that he used the magic power of the qi practitioner on the left side of the door, and before he died, he came to the cunning golden cicada to shed his shell, it is estimated that the identity of this guy is far from being as simple as a spider web pole, nothing to do, we will definitely have a chance to deal with him in the future." ”

Huang Man'er nodded vigorously.

Xu Fengnian laughed at himself: "I wondered, a piece of willow is like this, the little heavenly master who was renamed Zhao Ningshen by Zhao Jingsi is also as difficult, Chunshen Lake was suppressed half dead, I originally wanted to use him as a waste to make that Taoist ancestral court unhappy, but I didn't expect to return to Longhu Mountain, I heard that Zhao Ningshen's realm is advancing by leaps and bounds again, Longhu Mountain is known as this guy's breaking speed, and he can catch up with Li Chungang." Wudang young master Li Yuaxe in the low lung mountain to kill the evil dragon, famous all over the world, the old heavenly master Zhao Xiyi, who has been in retreat for many years, has not been idle, and has built the Jade Emperor Tower, which is as famous as the rhubarb court, and the ascension is imminent, there have been countless people to worship on the top of the Dragon and Tiger Mountain, and even the prince Zhao Zhen also went to Huizhou to watch the play in a private service, and it is estimated that it is true nine times out of ten. There is also that heartless Huishan girl, who became the leader of the martial arts alliance, turning her face faster than turning a book, saying that after sending all the copies of Huishan secret books to Beiliang, she would draw a line with me. ”

Xu Fengnian turned his head and touched Huang Man'er's head, and said with a gentle smile: "Don't talk about these troubles, Huang Man'er, you don't have to worry about anything, there is your father and your brother." That's right, since your brother seized and transported back the four Fu generals from Xiangfan Reed, he began to let several Mo family giants of our Beiliang Machinery Manufacturing Bureau start work, and began to restore to the extent that the great master Ye Hongting was known as the world's first rune armor, last time in the Iron Gate Pass, the golden armor was also obtained, and this time the killing cat outside Shenwu City, I learned some secrets from the head of Han Mink Temple through Xu Ying, including several small fragments of the process of him peeling Ye Hongting back then, after the New Year, I will go to the machine building bureau and tell those giants about the detailed process, and in the future, you will put on that rune armor and charge, at least you don't have to worry too much about the attack and killing of a willow and the like, and, Huang Man'er, Xuanyuan Jingcheng once said that you can't easily enter the finger Xuan, you must remember, in addition to helping you build the talisman armor, my brother is also looking through some obscure secrets of Buddhism and Taoism in the building, and the white fox face also promised to help find it, so you have to wait for my brother to find a shortcut for you to become a master of the finger Xuan, before that, even if the sky falls, you can't enter the finger Xuan, remember?!"

Today's Huang Man'er is really not stupid, because his intuition tells him that he can't agree, and he doesn't have the habit of lying to his brother, so he just raises his head there without nodding or speaking, and the heavy-eyed boy rolls his eyes, but he doesn't dare to look at his brother.

Xu Fengnian knocked a chestnut on the door of Xu Longxiang's head, "Nod to brother!"

Xu Longxiang turned his buttocks, turned his back to Xu Fengnian, and did not agree to his brother's request for the first time.

Xu Fengnian stretched out his hand and pulled Huang Man'er's ears, and after pulling for a long time, he couldn't make his younger brother, who was born in the King Kong Realm, turn his head, sighed, let go of his hand, and looked at the Tingchao Lake that had calmed down after Xu Beitong left.

Huang Man'er turned around, sat cross-legged on the ground, and reached out to gently touch his brother's piercing gray hair.

Xu Fengnian squinted and looked into the distance.

There are fish in the Chao Lake every year, and there are more than in the North Liang every year.

Xu Fengnian slowly lay down on his back, the back of his head rested on the back of his hand, looked at the clear sky, and fell asleep peacefully.

He never told Xu Xiao that when he saw the figure of this father on Chunshen Lake, even if he knew that the figure of Lu Dao was getting older and older year by year, as long as he saw it from a distance, it was like an emperor, Wang Xianzhi, Zhang Julu, Yuan Benxi, let these guys appear on the lake together, he Xu Fengnian was not afraid at all, and he was very at ease!

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The two much stronger tigers swooped out and ran desperately towards Xu Fengnian, but they were pressed to the ground by Huang Man'er one by one, and the two strange beasts were a few feet away from Xu Fengnian, but they couldn't escape from Huang Man'er's palm, and there was some human psychic grudge in their eyes.

Xu Fengnian said with a smile: "Huang Man'er, you go play with yours, bring the Bodhisattva and King Kong, and my brother will sit for a while and think about something." ”

Huang Man'er grinned and nodded, dragging the two tigers on one leg and running away.

Huang Man'er wandered around, and after letting go for the first time, the two sisters and brothers were about to run back to Tingchao Pavilion to find Xu Fengnian, and Huang Man'er, who was walking as fast as thunder, grabbed his tail at once, and after suffering a few times, he had to follow him sickly.

He unconsciously came to the outside of the wall of Wutong Courtyard, and found that his father did not go to the little sister-in-law to listen to the story, but pushed the wheelchair and took the second sister to relax.

Xu Xiao saw Huang Man'er and beckoned. The female tiger named Bodhisattva saw Xu Weixiong and looked particularly intimate and lively. Xu Xiao continued the topic and said slowly: "In the future, when it comes to Concubine Beiliang, you, who is a sister, will have to check more, and you can know what to do in Xiao Nian, and my father is not more at ease, but the most assured." Only in the matter of feelings, once the child falls in, it is easy to be reckless. Wei Xiong, Dad is not worried about the impact on the military and politics of Beiliang, Dad has worked hard to build such a big business, if in the end his son can't afford to squander it at all, then Dad will be a fart general, and he will be a fart King of Beiliang after a young age. It's just that Dad is very afraid that your younger brother will be injured, and Dad is a rough man, but after all, he has seen many people's gathering and dispersion, and he also knows that this kind of invisible injury is more hurtful than a heavy injury with a knife and arrow, and maybe it won't be relieved for half a lifetime. ”

Xu Weixiong snorted.

"And then there will be the side concubine in the future, to be honest, the two women who are tentative, Wang Chudong and Lu Chengyan in Qingzhou, who are already in the house, Dad does prefer Wang Chudong's little girl, but the side concubines are divided into sizes, Wang Chudong can only be after Lu Chengyan, after all, the talented Lu family, compared to Wang Linquan, who climbed to the position of the richest man in Qingzhou by relying on Chu Lushan, it will definitely be more important to Beiliang in the future, and the more it will be in the future. So in the future, the two in-laws have a dispute, as long as it does not involve major rights and wrongs, you have to favor the Lu family's side, which can be regarded as a little compensation from your father to Lu Chengyan, the daughter-in-law. Because Dad knows that Xiao Nian may not have a heart-to-heart relationship with this poor woman in his life, and he respects each other like a guest, which sounds better, but for couples who want to live a lifetime, it is actually a kind of sin. Dad went to Wang Chudong every day to listen to her stories during this time, one was interesting, and the other was to take the opportunity to let Bei Liang know that this girl was the first daughter-in-law approved by my Xu Xiao nod, and whoever wants to step on the Wang family to please the Lu family in the future must first weigh whether he will pat the fart on the hooves. As for Pei Nanwei, Dad Zhilu said that you don't like this Jing'an princess, and you don't have to deliberately communicate against your will, just let it go. There is only the saying that the eldest brother is like a father and an eldest sister-in-law like a mother, and there is never a reason for a sister to run a family, the reason why your father nagged you about these is that you want to take on this thankless responsibility, to put it bluntly, that is the father's selfishness, I am afraid that I will not have relatives to take care of Xiaonian, so you can't marry in this life, Wei Xiong, you have to complain about your father, and your father admits it. Dad, it's a patriarchal guy, dare to be, even if you live with your mother back then, even if you are hard-headed, it is so straightforward, before there is no fat tiger, you will not be beaten by your mother, after having a fat tiger, you were beaten so badly, yes, it is a miserable end, your mother let your father a rough old man who is used to holding knives, guns and sticks to hold the child, no matter how sorry his daughter is, he can't bear the child to cry, you mother, you are reasonable to everyone, but you are not very reasonable to your father, several times you have to participate in the military aircraft meeting every other day, your father is blue and swollen to go to the camp, and was laughed at by those bastards, There was once an old brother who made a mistake and was whipped by his father with a whip, this guy stared at his father's swollen head that was beaten by your mother, and his mother knelt there and smirked, and his father was angry and smoked fifty whips, and then his father went to apply gold sore medicine to this guy, and he actually smiled at his father, saying that he was not ashamed of me. ”

"This old brother is Chen Zhibao's father. Except for the young son, all the children of the Chen family went to death calmly. ”

"Dad is not the kind of bastard who can be so brazen as to give a gold medal to his meritorious courtiers without death while insidiously fabricating a major crime of rebellion, saying that if he is a brother, he will be a brother for life. It was his father who owed the Chen family first, so he knew that Chen Zhibao would not be convinced by Xiao Nian, the new king of Liang, and he ignored it for more than ten years, and cultivated his cronies by this righteous son. Chen Zhibao wants to leave Beiliang, his father will not stop him, he wants to be both the secretary of the military department and the king of Shu, and he still follows him, his father does not want to one day, he and Xiao Nian have turned against each other to the point of meeting each other, if they can die old and not get along, it is the best. However, Dad Zhilu said that Zhang Julu and Gu Jiantang, the old foxes, as well as the Zhao family Tianzi who was hiding behind the scenes, would not let such a sharp spear rust in vain, and not point the tip of the spear at Beiliang. ”

Speaking of which, the old man of Rong Ma's life was a little sentimental.

Xu Xiao smiled, turned his head sideways and said to his second son Xu Longxiang: "Huang Man'er, you will open up sooner or later, you have to remember that your brother is good to you." That time your brother had a big disaster, and your father wanted to beat him, but you came out to stop him, and you got angry at your father, and you wanted to fight hard with your father, and your father was pretending to be angry on his face, but he was actually very relieved from the bottom of his heart. Your brother, I've actually been unhappy all these years, outsiders think that he is my Xu Xiao, the eldest son of Rentu, he will definitely be a beautiful scenery, the bitterness and bitterness here, when you open your mind, you can know your brother's suffering. No mother and no sister, it's nothing, the Spring and Autumn War, countless people who died in the whole family, but they were scolded for the eighteenth generation of their ancestors, and they had to guard the gate for these unconscionable turtle sons, maybe one day they would have to use hundreds of thousands of their own iron horsemen to die in exchange for a peace of mind, and then the Central Plains changed owners, and they had to be scolded by the new master in the history books, and a large group of literati and people who had not suffered anything followed and coaxed, this is the most pitiful place for your brother. ”

In the boyhood before His Royal Highness the Prince chose Tao Hui, the entire Beiliang Mansion knew that His Royal Highness Lu Dao was his younger brother who doted on him, as long as there was a fun object, no matter how precious and rare, it would definitely be sent to Huang Man'er before it was hot, but the good things were in the hands of Huang Man'er, who was amazingly powerful but didn't know how heavy it was, where could it still be complete, and it would be broken after a few efforts, and the people in the house who cleaned up the mess had never seen His Royal Highness the Prince angry and annoyed. Even if His Royal Highness the Prince began to live a notorious romantic life later, he never ignored Xu Longxiang. There are few acts of whipping servants in the palace, and Xu Fengnian rarely makes a lot of uncommon anger, all of which are aware that Diao Nu deliberately teased the little prince, and the few times His Royal Highness the Prince personally punched and kicked him, he definitely went to death, and he was not merciless at all.

"Also, Wei Xiong, Dad knows that you care a lot about Xiao Nian in your heart, but your face is cold and hot, and you can't wipe your face on some things, but sometimes, as long as you smile at him, he will be very happy. A few years ago, he went to Wudang Mountain to practice knives, you don't like him to practice martial arts, you are afraid that he will delay the hereditary replacement, he is even more afraid that you will be unhappy, so when he fished up the stones from the bottom of the deep pool, and made more than 300 chess pieces for you, as soon as you met, you spilled two boxes of chess pieces all over the ground, and he didn't blackface with you, didn't he? Dad and Yishan watched him in Tingchao Pavilion all night, and Yishan was such a hard-hearted guy, and he drank alcohol at the very end. When I was a child, did Xiao Nian do not do much to make you happy? Knowing that Lu Dao Fatty Tiger loved him so much, didn't he still help you in everything? After Fatty Tiger left, did you think he felt better? Who had ever seen him heartbroken? Originally, with his temperament, he was grateful to the old master Wang Chonglou, and he had already gone to the grave on Wudang Mountain to pay respects. He was afraid, afraid of Wudang Mountain, afraid of seeing that lotus peak. I'm afraid that he himself is a scourge, and I'm afraid that the people around him will leave because he says it. Since he was a child, Feng Nian has given his favorite good things to his sister or younger brother, and what he left behind is nothing more than some items that outsiders will think are very valuable. ”

Xu Weixiong lowered his head, unable to see his expression clearly.

"In this world, people in high positions are so desperate for their lives and fame that they are dying, and the more they read, the smarter they become, and they are not as smart as a person. Who wants to carry the coffin for the funeral of the old man who has no relatives and no reason. Who is willing to defend the city gate alone for her in a helpless foreign land for the life and death of a servant girl. Yishan is such a smart person, why is his vision so high that he is not even optimistic about Chen Zhibao, but on the other hand? Why did he go to the city of Emperor Huangwu without worry? Why did Li Chungang obviously have a fight with Wang Xianzhi, and he was willing to take the battle of Guangling River as his final battle of the rivers and lakes? Why is it that Huan Wen, who is now the second assistant, was originally an old guy who often said a few fair words to Bei Liang, but now he goes against his heart, and does not hesitate to use his hands and feet in Cao Yun, racking his brains to make Bei Liang feel bad? It's not that Feng Nian's martial arts talent is higher than those great masters who are rare on the rivers and lakes, it's not that Feng Nian's temple is so clever that he is wise and close to the demon, in fact, it's very simple, as long as he treats people as people sincerely, and slowly unites people's hearts, he will win the general trend. Dad thought back then, it was like this step by step from a young boy in the market, to a small lieutenant who dared to fight, to a general who slaughtered the city at every turn, and finally to the king of Beiliang, who had hundreds of thousands of iron horses, stumbled all the way, and in the eyes of many smart people who were not optimistic about Dad, he came over like this. Dad's opponents, the more they go to the back, the smarter and more difficult they are, but there are many of these smart people to death, and I can't understand why only Dad has the last laugh. Dad believes that most of them can only comfort themselves before closing their eyes, God's will is like this, but Xu Xiao's life is too hard. This statement is not right or not, my father does not read and write, so he knows a little bit, who are you sorry for, many people may not understand, or they understand but don't care, and in turn treat you as a fool and think they are taking advantage. It doesn't matter, after all, there are still people who will remember, and even if there are not many people who remember, they are willing to contribute, and then fight to the death, even if they are one against two, they are still invincible without suspense. If you lose, don't worry, you can make a comeback. Listening to the more than 600 spiritual positions on the head of Your Excellency, as well as the old pawn before Feng Nian entered Beijing, they are all proof. Therefore, my father is more sure than anyone else that Bei Liang in the future will only give Bei Mang a headache more than when he was in his father's hands. When my father was still young in Feng Nian, he didn't think about being a stable rich man, so that he could give his children a peace. But Chen Zhibao is good at everything, but he is too smart, once a smart person makes a mistake, it is a big mistake, and no one can get it back. Feng Nian is also smart, but he is far more than Chen Zhibao can hear others talk, once his father dies, Chen Zhibao will no longer put anyone in his eyes, and he does not think that anyone is qualified to be equal to him. If he wants to be the emperor one day, in order to achieve his goal, he will not hesitate to fight all the Beiliang iron horses. ”

After Li Yishan's death, Xu Xiao seemed to have no place to say such self-deceptive words as being old and strong, at this time, the hunchbacked old man was a little tired that could not be concealed, he stopped talking, stopped, just stretched out his hand lightly, and helped the plainly dressed Huang Man'er tidy up his neckline in one more move, and said softly: "Huang Man'er, don't really work hard in the future, if you die, even if your brother survives, how sad will it be?" Dad told you that he must be even sadder than he is alive. But you still have to do more things that can make it easier for your brother. Although since your brother was reincarnated in our Xu family earlier than you, then he is the life to carry the burden, but in the future, Qingliangshan, the man of the Xu family, there will only be a younger brother like you who can talk to him. Whether it is Xu Beitong or Chen Xiliang, no matter how loyal he is, he is not as good as his own family after all. Huang Man'er, your brother's first time leaving home to travel the rivers and lakes in a bad mood, his biggest wish is not to be a hero, but to snatch back a big beauty for your younger brother. You went to Longhu Mountain, and every time you received a letter, you, the elder brother who has never forgotten the book, knew that the Tao was not written by you, and would turn it over and over again, and read it over and over again. Wei Xiong, this time he saw you in a wheelchair, you deliberately didn't go to see him grinding ink, but Dad saw his hand and kept shaking. ”

The old man stretched out his hand and touched Xu Weixiong's head, without any comforting words.

Xu Longxiang clenched his fists and his eyes were resolute. The two tigers were so frightened that they fled in an instant, wandering restlessly in the distance, but they didn't dare to approach the strange black-clothed boy.

The old man slowly walked back to the courtyard.

The loquat tree is still green in winter, but the old man is standing alone, and he is alone.

But the old man was not sad, and said with a smile: "Daughter-in-law, our Xu family has already let Feng Nian hold up." If you wait for me any longer, I won't keep you waiting too long. ”