Chapter 50: The Lights

In the night, Xu Fengnian walked alone to the Yellow Crane Tower on Qingliang Mountain, the door of the mansion was still pasted with the spring couplets on a white background, and the lanterns in the house were also all snow-white shelves, this mansion with a strong atmosphere, after the death of the old man, there was no joy or disjoy, until the entire Beiliang Dao learned that after the young vassal king defeated the king of Emperor Wu City in one fell swoop, the atmosphere of Qingliang Mountain turned a big turn, and many hanging thoughts were put down at once, and the haze that shrouded the Beiliang Wangfu was swept away. After Xu Fengnian entered the house, he didn't go to the Wutong Courtyard where he spent his entire youth, but just went to the deserted and plain Xu Xiao's house to sit for a long time, and the two erected hangers were still holding the old Liangwang python robe and the mottled general armor, and it was reasonable for outsiders to think that Xu Xiao cared about the latter, after all, Xu Xiao, a one-man national thief, relied on his military exploits to reach the apex of the people, but few people know that Rentu actually sneered at the robe of the vassal king, and it was by no means a scorn that outsiders mistakenly thought. Xu Fengnian knows this, Xu Xiao cares not about the identity of the vassal king symbolized by the python robe, but the credit behind it, which is the "merit of rebuilding the Zhao family" that many temple ministers have deliberately forgotten. It was Xu Xiao, the spoiler, who went south to the two Liao, and forcibly helped the first emperor of Liyang to screw the dynasty in his hands, and there was no internal friction, which laid the foundation for the subsequent Jingluo Spring and Autumn Period, which is also the reason why many Zhao nobles loved and hated Xu Xiao later, and most of the old people of the clan who were close to the first emperor were in the undercurrent of the temple after the world was settled, even if they did not say a few words for Xu Xiao, they would not fall into the well, but most of the old guys in this vein had suffered large and small injuries on the battlefield, so they died earlier than some relatives who were lying down and enjoying happiness, and their descendants and descendants were not very good with today's son and the ruling blue-eyed, can't get ahead at all, and there are serious disagreements within the clan for a long time, this group of nominal dragon sons and grandsons can be said to be struggling to survive, so that this trip to the south of Western Chu has no part for them at all, most of them are another group of young Tianhuang nobles swaggering to follow a few old generals to the south to grab merits, anyway, their parents and ancestors relied on this trick to get up, this is probably a family history, practice makes perfect.

Xu Fengnian walked slowly on the mountain road, and then stopped on the mountainside to look at the lights in Liangzhou Prefecture, one place went out, and occasionally new lights were lit up elsewhere, quiet and serene.

Xu Fengnian turned around and continued to climb the mountain, this time of rushing back to Beiliang, there has been a concise spy report delivered to him in the water room, in addition to the failure of the seizure of power and still stranded in the post of the military department of the army of Lu Shengxiang stationed in Youlu Pass, there is also a vast team led by Yang Shenxing, a veteran of the Spring and Autumn Meritorious Service, Yan Zhenchun, and Youlu Pass together to build three awls, pointing directly to Western Chu, echoing with the princes of the Jingnan domain or Zhao Zhu, forming a huge encirclement of Western Chu that seems to be leaky. Xu Fengnian sneered, except for the trick of killing the rooster and setting an example to the little monkey, how could the son of heaven of the Zhao family not have the dirty thoughts that the south of the Zhao family led to the head of the king of Yan? Zhao Xun, the king of Jing'an, who has ill intentions, even if he eats these two, it is impossible for Western Chu to take advantage of the situation to go west, the northwest of the dynasty has the Beiliang Iron Cavalry, and the west has the old Western Shu of Chen Zhibao's domain, since ancient times, it is difficult to go to the blue sky, and there is Zhao Bing, the king of Yan in the south, this is the second more hidden and tight encirclement, but for the time being, there is only a Zhao Zhu who led a few cavalry in the south, and the southern Xinjiang is particularly vast. Among the several major feudal kings, Zhao Yi, who really has military power, is a sibling brother with today's son, he is in Guangling Road, and he doesn't need to sit on the dragon chair to calculate too much, Beiliang has Beimang in the north and Xishu in the south, which is equivalent to being clamped, and the result is that only Zhao Bing is left to clean up, and the court's measures to cut the feudal domain, there was a Xu Xiao top tank before, and the court naturally gave priority to Beiliang, and now as Xu Xiao leaves, it will naturally be the turn of Zhao Bing, who is far away from the Tiangao Emperor. Moreover, a new secret letter from Tai'an City said that after Zhang Julu's opinion was dismissed, he retreated to the second best place, and gave a new strategy of training troops in Xichu and collecting military power, almost even Gu Jiantang, who took the initiative to abandon Gu Lu, was also ruthlessly yin, as long as there was a sign of disobedience to the constraints of the imperial court's military department, it would be clearly and secretly dispatched to the periphery of Western Chu, and once the war was stalemate, it would be immediately put into the battlefield, and thousands of deaths would be counted as thousands. Gu Lu, who is a protégé all over the world, naturally bears the brunt, the wind and rain are shaky, Gu Lu is already crumbling, and Zhang Julu obviously still refuses to let go. If Gu Jiantang was still in Beijing and personally presided over the affairs of the dynasty's military aircraft in the Ministry of War, maybe there would be some countermeasures under this decree, but Gu Jiantang had already held the title of the Great Pillar State and led the military and government of the Northland, and Zhang Julu intentionally or unintentionally dug a pit for the only remaining general of the four famous generals of the Spring and Autumn Period, and spoke for him in the temple. In this way, Gu Jiantang, who suffered from the unjustified disaster, is not guilty of the secret excerpt, even if he is fat, where can he dare to speak and plead for Gu Lu's disciples?

This is also Biyaner's consistent conspiracy, always for the country and the people, and without any selfishness. Zhang Julu's checks and balances are pervasive, the inexorable civil and military disputes, the early disputes between relatives and eunuchs, the resurgence of party disputes in various places, and even the factional disputes of the same friends, Biyaner has been quiet, leisurely walking, if Wang Xianzhi is invincible, then Zhang Julu is more invincible in the city. For example, the officials at the head of the six departments, several times between Yu Lian and Zhao Youling, who betrayed Zhang Lu, tossed and turned, outside the temple to see the flowers in the fog, looking at it like child's play, inside is just Zhang Julu's words, under his nose, whoever does things and crosses the line, he has to obediently roll up and get out. If Zhao Youling is a protégé of the blue-eyed child, and he is born with insufficient confidence, you must know that Yu Jiankang, the old master of the Jiang Xinyu clan of Lu Dao, that is, Yu Lian's father, is the same as Zhang Julu's teacher and the master of Xixi Jiji of Xichu, and the master of the world's clan quality, and the initiator of Hongjia's northward run。 But for so many years, Zhang Julu has not sold any face to this old man.

Xu Fengnian unconsciously walked to the top of the mountain, there was a stone table and stone bench downstairs, but he saw an unexpected guy, the face of the white fox who borrowed the knife and wanted to return it with the spring thunder embroidery winter, and there was no explanation afterwards. Xu Fengnian sat opposite him, there were a lot of green ant wine jugs on the table, and even the wine glasses were two, obviously waiting for him.

The white fox said with a slight sneer: "One product and four realms, you have gathered all the four pseudo-realms, there must be no one before and no one after you." This makes me admire more than you killed Wang Xianzhi. ”

Xu Fengnian said with a smile: "It can make you admire, it's worth it." ”

The white fox poured him a glass of wine with an unprecedented face, pushed the wine glass, and asked: "Have you ever thought that when Huang Longshi disturbed the rivers and lakes, in the end he used Han Shengxuan and you to end the battle? You might as well count them, are there twenty first-class masters who died in the hands of the human cat and you? In the past, how many first-class masters could there be in any generation and a hundred years of rivers and lakes?

Xu Fengnian raised his wine glass, laughed at himself, then drank it all, and shook his head when he reached out to ask him for wine: "I really didn't think about this stubble." ”

The white fox directly threw him a wine jug with his face, and said: "I promised Mr. Li to help you once, and you killed Wang Xianzhi on my enemy's list again, which means that my Nangong servant owes you twice." But I said in advance, when I finished reading the book on the first floor of the Tingchao Pavilion, I would go to Beimang first, and if I could come back alive, this promise would be confirmed. ”

Xu Fengnian asked, "Is it the trouble to find Tuoba Bodhisattva?"

The white fox nodded with a face.

Xu Fengnian said with emotion: "One Wang Xianzhi and one Tuoba Bodhisattva, what a big hatred this must be." You're a......"

The white fox interrupted with a cold face: "I'm a man!"

Xu Fengnian laughed and said that reasoning with women is unreasonable in itself. However, the white fox face is indeed estimated to be really a man who regards himself as a master, or is he really a real man, but he is just a virtue with the male and female Murong Tonghuang who is far away?

The white fox poured a big sip of wine with his face up, and quipped: "If you were a woman, I would really marry you." ”

Xu Fengnian was speechless.

The white fox suddenly said with a face: "In the past, when I practiced martial arts, I always felt that there were endless masters who could not cut off their heads, but now I am ascending step by step, and you are the first to be killed, and it is not interesting to find that it is not interesting to kill and kill." Is it that in the end, I have to fight you to the death to live up to this life?"

Xu Fengnian choked on a sip of wine, and said angrily: "A little conscience, okay?"

The white fox put the wine jug on half of his cheek, and asked playfully, "Do you want to say that the most poisonous woman's heart?"

Xu Fengnian is probably the first time to travel to the rivers and lakes, and the real master he saw is such a person in front of him, and there are still some shadows in his heart, even if everyone in the world can fight now, he is still a little involuntarily stunned.

Xu Fengnian glanced at the chest of the white fox's face, and thought to himself that he would just take a glance like this, with the fiery eyes that he had cultivated from traveling through the flowers, even if this girl was deliberately wrapped in style, eighty percent of them would not be able to escape the scene of "prosperous peace", right?

The white fox smiled and said, "Are you looking for death?"

Xu Fengnian said calmly: "I'm not scared, even if I don't have Gao Shulu's physique, I will lose most of my spiritual energy, but it's not easy for you to kill me." ”

The white fox raised his eyebrows, "Yo, it's really out of luck." ”

Xu Fengnian suddenly swept back three or four feet with the wine jug, and scolded angrily: "White fox face, do you really say that you will turn your face?!"

The white fox squinted and was murderous.

Xu Fengnian sighed and beckoned to the top of the mountain, Wang Sheng trotted over with a red face, still the ridiculous style of honestly carrying a sword box and tying a famous sword, bowed his head and explained: "Master, I can't sleep, so I came here." ”

Xu Fengnian snorted, turned his head to look at the white fox's face and asked, "When will you go out of the building to Beimang?"

The white fox said calmly: "At least three months, more than half a year." ”

Xu Fengnian said with a smile: "Then bring my second apprentice and call him Wang Sheng." ”

The white fox nodded with a face and did not refuse.

After Xu Fengnian got the answer, he said softly: "Go to bed early after going down the mountain." ”

The tall, dark-skinned girl silently turned away.

The white fox looked at Xu Fengnian, who was sitting back in his seat, frowned and asked, "Such a good Puyu embryo, you are willing to be the shopkeeper?"

Xu Fengnian shook his head and said, "Staying by my side will not make any progress." Martial arts practice will be wasted if there is less grinding, and if you don't go back and forth a few times at the Ghost Gate, no matter how good your talent is, it will be in vain. ”

The white fox was still staring at Xu Fengnian.

Xu Fengnian said embarrassedly: "You can probably see that this girl can either learn from you and be an imposing ...... Men, either they can only be unaccustomed to the water and soil in Beiliang, and become a graceful woman who can't talk about any momentum, but can only be regarded as a graceful woman with an aura like an orchid, and ordinary girls are okay to say, but this is not in line with her Wang Sheng's heart. In fact, among the three disciples, I have the most selfishness and the highest hopes for her. It's just that this kind of thing can't be spoken, once it is said, she who is far more delicate than Lu Yunchang, the pressure will be greater, and maybe it will crush her directly. Wang Sheng followed you through Beiliang, and when you arrived in Beimang, you will be able to use the unique vigorous wind and masculinity of Biansai to concentrate on it in one go, which is more direct and effective than any verbal teachings and reading through secret books. ”

Xu Fengnian spun his wine glass and smiled, "Three apprentices, I will take Yu Dilong with me, otherwise I don't worry." Lu Yunchang will be thrown to the Ichthyosaurus Gang for a while, and then thrown into the border later. As for Wang Sheng, I'll go with you. ”

Xu Fengnian turned his head to look at the place that was more north than Beiliang, and said softly: "Beimang, I have been there, and I know that the sky is high and the clouds are wide. Moreover, there was a man who practiced his sword there. ”

The white fox looked at this man who was not yet thirty years old, staggering and walking with a saber, just to take revenge. What's next to the north of the drinking horse?

Xu Fengnian slapped his forehead and ran down the mountain.

The white fox's face showed a look of disdain, what else can this guy do when he is in a hurry to go down the mountain, Wutong Courtyard is a yard of warblers and warblers.

Xu Fengnian went to Wutong Courtyard to be true, but there were really no obscene thoughts, the two future concubines of Qingliangshan, the great writer Wang Chudong, who was only under the second sister, went to a academy in Liangzhou to give a lecture, and was dragged down by the family that did not make people worry, Lu Chengyan had to work a lot, so she could only stay in Wutong Courtyard to accumulate merit for a large group of Lu children, which was a bit of a sense of making up for the merits. Even Xu Weixiong mentioned it before, asking Xu Fengnian to go to the yard to take a look at the poor brother and daughter-in-law who were not pleasing to Lu outside the house. Xu Fengnian walked into the Yajing courtyard where the lights were not extinguished every night, a little sentimental, thinking of the delicate and transparent maids and green ants, they couldn't help but be in the alternative rivers and lakes, not even a little bit of blood Fang Gang, from beginning to end, there were only cold conspiracies and betrayal. Xu Fengnian didn't rush into the house, looking around at the familiar courtyard with the lights shining like day, the smiles of those young women lingered, and he didn't know if they had really been happy when they used to play here year after year.

Tonight is Lu Chengyan and a third-class maid string song on duty to batch red, three desks, piled up like a mountain, string song has grown up in Wutong since childhood, Xu Fengnian is very familiar, at this time is concentrating on carrying a sharp stone badger pen, this pen contains deep ink but spits ink evenly, easy to write for a long time, and has always been the hard hair that string song loves, probably because she encountered a hesitant affair, for a long time cantilever did not dare to write, dipping the ink pen on her face has drawn a new and old shade of ink, she is unconscious, like a flower-faced cat. In addition to the string song, there is also a fresh face, Xu Fengnian knew that she was a girl carefully screened out by the second sister, called Junqiu, who was a newcomer to Wutong Academy, and the secret file she disposed of was a little shallower than that of her predecessors, she was originally holding the other wrist with five fingers and turning it gently, and soon saw the figure of him, the king of Beiliang, and was startled, and was about to bounce up and salute solemnly, and the string song also came back to his senses, Xu Fengnian made a silent gesture to them, and quietly walked to the innermost table, and saw the young woman who was more strange than familiar sleeping at the desk, slender shoulders, snoring, should be tired。

Xu Fengnian gently moved a chair to sit beside her, looked at the stack of official documents that were neatly placed after the approval of Zhu was completed, carefully classified, she pressed a fold that had not yet been written in her arms, Xu Fengnian looked down, it was an official business on the side of Liuzhou, and it was said that the big blood exchange was being carried out in secret at the moment, and batches of homeless people moved into Lingzhou in an orderly manner, and then placed the foreign scholars who did not have seats to sit in the officialdom of the three states of Liangyouling to enter Liuzhou as officials. Xu Fengnian retracted his gaze and looked seriously at this Qingzhou woman who had been estranged from her, she wore a small flower brocade dress that followed the customs of the locals, far less than the layers of Jiangnan women's clothing, the temperature difference between day and night in Beiliang was very large, and a light green smock was hung on the back of the chair to keep out the cold, probably because she was in a hurry and forgot to put it on, so she subconsciously hugged her arms when she slept, most of them did not sleep steadily. Xu Fengnian sighed, carefully pulled out the overall, and helped her cover it. Of course, Xu Fengnian knew that this was the woman of the Lu family who was spoiled and admired by Lu Feiqi in Shangzhu Kingdom, Lu Chengyan was very smart, and it was precisely because of her wisdom that she could feel that the Xu family from Xu Xiao to Xu Weixiong, as well as his husband, were more partial to Wang Chudong than her in the bottom of their hearts. But such a woman who has never revealed the slightest grievance and resentment has even made a move to draw a sword outside the Lu family's new ancestral hall to kill someone, not only those Lu family old and young, it is estimated that even her father will be dissatisfied, although the daughter who marries out of Lu will inevitably spill the water that goes out, but her elbow is too far to the Xu family, and she doesn't let the Lu family, her mother's family, take advantage of it, and it is inevitable that everyone will be slandered, so why did she Lu Chengyan marry into the Xu family? The Lu family has gone through a lot of hardships and came to this poor place to take root, shouldn't they enjoy some happiness and some light?

Xu Fengnian sat next to Lu Chengyan and began to annotate the excerpts of official documents by hand, during which the third-class maid Xiange tiptoed closer, and whispered that Miss Lu would wake her up in half an hour, Xu Fengnian waved his hand.

In the dead of night, only the pen strokes across the rice paper, gently squeezing.

The new maid Junqiu occasionally plucked up her courage and turned her head to quietly glance at the young man who was extremely rich in the world.

When the sky outside the window was white, Xu Fengnian finished approving large and small excerpts, and walked out of the Wutong Courtyard silently.

Junqiu didn't sleep all night.

Peeked again and again, but I didn't see how this suave young feudal king could kill that Martial Emperor City City Lord, that was an old monster who had lived for a hundred years!

Xian Ge, who had never dared to make a sound, smashed this girl who didn't know how to make a noise with a ball of waste paper, and the latter playfully stuck out her tongue.

When Lu Chengyan woke up in a daze, Xu Fengnian had already left the city and rushed to the border.

All she saw was the big hill on the table, which had been emptied.