On this day in the late autumn of the second year of Xiangfu, it is destined to evolve into countless strange and strange sayings, the sun and moon rise on the side of Qin Tianjian, the Sanskrit sound is curling, several times the long rainbow hangs in the air, and the immortals hang in the air. In the process of fighting between the two sides, the entire camp was torn to pieces, and the place where it passed was like a bamboo, especially the descendants of the new general Wu Chongxuan, the secretary of the military department, suffered the most serious crimes, with more than 1,000 casualties. The so-called unadaptability of ordinary people is just physical discomfort, and it is rare for elites like Wu Shangshu to lose their arms and legs and even lose their lives. The key is that almost no one has identified the true identity of those two figures, which is what makes the Gyeonggi Southern Army feel the most embarrassed.

And when the culprit Xu Fengnian walked down the altar, the Li Jiajia soldiers, under the leadership of Li Shouguo and Li Changliang's father and son, swore to guard the gate to the death, and put on a resolute posture of stepping over the corpses of more than 1,000 people when they wanted to go out, but in fact, the heavy cavalry army that had lost more than half of the heavy cavalry on the street outside the gate had quietly withdrawn from the street after the Andong general Ma Zhongxian passed a secret decree almost frantically and quickly, but in order not to disturb the people of the inner and outer cities and the capital, and not to cause greater panic, this cavalry army, which had not yet been put into the Liangliao battlefield, was seriously injured, and did not immediately go out of the city to the station。 Ma Zhongxian hurriedly left his father's sickbed in the mansion of the general of Zhengbei, and he didn't even have time to put on the official robes of military ministers, let alone put on iron armor.

In particular, Ma Zhongxian, who is extremely familiar with the officialdom of the capital, knows that when the bad news of the family spreads out of the mansion and spreads to the temples and markets, soon the government and the opposition in Tai'an City will say that his father will not die sooner or later, and it is precisely when the King of Beiliang made a big fuss about the Ministry of Rites and Qin Tianjian that he swallowed the last breath, he was frightened, and he was scared to death by the young man surnamed Xu!

Ma Zhongxian, who looked nondescript in a large area of iron armor, clenched his fists, his eyes were red, and he couldn't wait to turn the horse's head and give an order to chop the surnamed Xu into meat puree!

An old man in cloth clothes walked through the "weak and windy" infantry army formation of the Li Jiajiashi, Li Shouguo wanted to remind him, the old man smiled and waved his hand, and walked straight to the king of Beiliang who stopped at the edge of the altar, the old man did not stand in front of the young man, the two were side by side, but one faced north and the other faced south.

Xu Fengnian said indifferently: "I thought it was Tantanweng from Menxia Province who came here as a lobbyist, but I didn't expect it to be Lord Zhongshu Ling who came here to sing white faces." ”

Qi Yanglong, the chief official of Zhongshu Province, looked up at the high altar and said with a smile: "Qin Tianjian was destroyed like this, it's a pity." ”

Xu Fengnian said: "Beiliang has killed more than 100,000 people outside the pass, and it is not a pity that everyone faces the north and dies?"

Qi Yanglong nodded and said in a deep voice: "In my opinion, it's a pity. Qin Tianjian was ruined, and I, as a reader who likes to read history, feel a pity. Tens of thousands of Beiliang soldiers died in battle, and I, as a citizen of Liyang, feel that it is a pity, and it is respectable. It's just that now I have gone to the capital to ask the court for a robe to put on, so I have to come here to nag the prince. ”

Xu Fengnian's left hand holding the knife was pierced by the long rope on his shoulder, his arm drooped, and blood continued to flow out of his sleeve and drip on the ground along his fingers. Because of the manic qi in his body, that face was pale and bloodless for a moment, and turned purple and gold in an instant, and as for the cracking of the eyebrows, the blood slid down the bridge of his nose, adding a bit of heavy aura to the handsome face of the young vassal king.

This one person made the young man who shook the entire capital twice, and said expressionlessly: "Three thousand people, for every one person who dies, I will be deducted from Beiliang 1,000 stone cao to transport grain and grass, it was Zhao Zhen himself." Then I might as well tell Lord Zhongshu Ling directly, three million stone Caoyun, dare to miss one stone, and there will be 30,000 Beiliang iron horses to ride south into Guangling! Anyway, it is a matter of course for the vassal king to be difficult, your court doesn't care about the life or death of the people of Beiliang, I, Xu Fengnian, are very talkative, and I don't mind letting you Liyang understand what 'loyalty' means!"

After Qi Yanglong heard these sharp words, he didn't pretend to be angry, and said with a smile on his face: " King Beiliang, to tell the truth, what about my Qi Yanglong, no matter where his ancestral home is, he has always regarded himself as the Shangyin School Palace in Guangling Road as his home, Yang Shenxing and Yan Zhenchun have already tossed on my land, Song Li's bastard and Kou Jianghuai tossed again, and then it will be Wu Chongxuan and Lu Shengxiang, the so-called famous generals, to make trouble, if they can fight quickly, it is just a matter of who wins and who wins, as long as the winner is divided, it is a good thing for the people of Guangling Road, I am afraid that it will be so stalemate, and it is good to say that if the soldiers are exhausted, it is not to take the lives of the people to fill the pitIsn't this the truth, King Beiliang?"

Xu Fengnian was silent.

Qi Yanglong doesn't look like a central minister, but like a bad old man with a stomach full of complaints and unhappiness, and when he finally catches a young descendant who can pour out his heart, he can't close the conversation box at all," Cao Changqing has a knot, he can't pass his own threshold, Yan Shenggong can't persuade him, of course I'm not willing to waste saliva, as for those who help the court lead troops to fight, my Zhongshu Ling is not moving, besides, the world's martial artists have made contributions on the battlefield, whether it is a horse leather shroud, or a marquis and a general, each with his own ability, each with his own destiny, it is their truth, I Qi Yanglong can't just go to them to chatter because he pities the common people in the world, say something empty talk that wants them to put down the butcher's knife, take 10,000 steps back and say, persuade Lu Shengxiang Wu Chongxuan, there will definitely be Ma Shengxiang Song Chongxuan coming out, after all, I, after all, I can't stop the general trend of the world。 ”

Qi Yanglong suddenly turned his head and stared at the young man with a bloody face up close, "But I think it works to tell you." No way, you are Xu Xiao's son, Xu Xiao's guy has always been very reasonable, otherwise in order to let Wei Xiong's little girl enter the school palace, he can smash a lake embankment more than ten miles long with gold and silver for my family? Before I entered Beijing, I had to walk every morning and evening, rain or shine! I don't know if Xu Xiao told you that when he led the soldiers and horses to the rivers and lakes, he passed through the Shangyin School Palace from Longhu Mountain, and had a private visit to Weifu, blocking my old guy in the house and taking off the cool knife...... Well, if I'm not mistaken, it's probably the handle you are hanging now, slammed it on my desktop, and asked me if the name 'Xu Fengnian' was good, of course I gave a thumbs up and said yes, it's really good. Then your father immediately became kind and pleasant, saying that I, Qi Yanglong, was really a scholar with a university question, and turned his head to ask your mother for the four words 'full of strategy' and gave it to me, I was very happy, of course, it was not this fart who was not of any level, but in the end, your father did not cut me with a knife. ”

Xu Fengnian raised his right hand and wiped his face.

Qi Yanglong continued to look at the far-reaching altar of Sheji, "You definitely can't imagine how much silver the lake embankment, how much silver Beiliang sent, no matter how long the causeway is, the manpower and material resources of the Shangyin School Palace, which is lush with Wenlin, are all there, and how much silver is needed? But how much did your father secretly send, you know, it was a full three million taels of silver! So the Shangyin School Palace not only had an additional embankment with willows and willows, but also secretly produced an additional library building in the south of the Yangtze River and no less than 200 sets of Fengban books in the next five years. In addition to the mountains of silver, in fact, there is a fluttering secret letter handed over to me, those words are really the ugliest I have ever seen, but for more than ten years, I often take it out and look through it when I have nothing to do, the letter said that his eldest son, must be a good material for reading, and he will come to Shangyin School Palace to study in the future, maybe he will have to give his old Xu family a champion in the future, then it is really a glorious lintel, if the son of the vassal king is not allowed to be an official, then it is not bad to get the champion as a decoration...... When I first read the secret letter, I really wanted to reply to him and ask him, you are a martial artist who has killed countless reading seeds, and you are full of food and want to make your son a literati? Your Xu family is a very popular minister in your generation, and the Great Pillar Kingdom and the hereditary recumbent are all in your hands, so you really lack a champion title? I want to ask him, what is three million taels of silver? The people of the Eight Kingdoms have died so much, how many scholars have died? Can this bit of silver compensate for the shattering of the mountains and rivers and the sinking of the Central Plains?

"When I read the letter again, as time went on, the paper became more and more wrinkled, and my heart became more and more flat. ”

"During this period, I heard that after the death of the old emperor, you kid dared to sing and dance in Qingliang Mountain, and the city was full of fireworks, and you could hear the music all over the mountain, and then you threw it out of the gate of the palace, and it was only three years of travel. At that time, I knew that Bei Liang would not settle down. I used to hope that you could squeeze out Chen Zhibao and succeed in replacing the queen of Beiliang hereditarily, but you are willing to be the king of the Taiping domain, and you are willing to let a certain general of Liyang enter Beiliang, then Beiliang is the Beiliang of Liyang, and the people of Beiliang are the people of Liyang.

When Xu Fengnian heard this, he tugged at the corners of his mouth.

The old man laughed to himself, "Of course, this is the wishful thinking of pedantic scholars. ”

The old man finally turned around and faced the Li family soldiers who were in a dense formation with Xu Fengnian, and asked with a smile: "How are these Liyang elites compared to your iron cavalry of the Northern Liangbian Army?"

Xu Fengnian asked rhetorically, "I really want to know the answer?"

The old man waited for the following.

Xu Fengnian gave the answer, "Ten people against ten people, five or five wins and losses, one hundred against one hundred, I win steadily in Beiliang, thousands of people against thousands of people, you have a miserable defeat, ten thousand people against ten thousand, then you don't have to fight, right?"

The old man smiled and said, "Really?"

Xu Fengnian said with a smile: "I just read more than Xu Xiao and have a good temper." ”

The old man nodded and said: "Yes, yes, so today I first went to the Ministry of Rites to teach the two squires, and then came here single-handedly, not even giving the face of the Queen Mother, and killing inside and outside this Qin Heavenly Prison, the immortals in the sky have slaughtered a large group of people, and the prince has a really good temper." ”

Xu Fengnian said angrily: "I just set up a relationship, and I started to rely on the old and sell the old again, do you really think I don't have any strength left to return to Xiamawei?"

The old man laughed, "Okay, it's almost the same as moving out of Xu Xiao to play with the prince, no matter how much I talk about it, I won't be able to hang up my old face." You Xu Fengnian can fight, Beiliang Tieqi can fight even more, I won't hide the mystery and make a mistake, and reveal the old foundation to you, whether it is the threat of one person less than 1,000 stones, or the heroism of 3 million stones, but it is all the will of the young emperor, I don't dare to take it seriously, and I hope that the prince will not take it seriously, but I dare to guarantee that from the end of autumn this year to the end of next summer, Liyang, especially Tai'an City, even if you tighten your belt, you will send one million stones to Beiliang, if possible, you can have another 500,000 stones, after that, there are only four words, do your best！”

Xu Fengnian frowned.

The old man sighed with emotion: "Take it when you see it, both sides have steps down." In the temple, from officials the size of sesame mung beans, to Huang Zi Gongqing, to those wearing python robes or even dragon robes, there has never been a happy person. ”

Without waiting for Xu Fengnian to speak, the old man sighed: "I don't know if it's an illusion, although there are more and more young faces in the court now, I am in it, but there is always a feeling of twilight, maybe...... Maybe after the almanac of the white-clothed monk Li Dangxin was rejected, Zhang Julu also had my sadness. ”

The old man turned his head to look at the seriously injured young man without turning his eyes, "In that book of poems that may never be circulated, he said that there are two great pleasures in life, one is a hateful thing, and in the rivers and lakes, there is chivalry in the desperate place, which is a happy thing! On the battlefield, it is a great pleasure to still carry a knife in the dead place! Every time I read in a book, I read that the historian likes to write a stroke of 'white bones' and 'the life is ruined', which is a great hate!"

The old man smiled, "It's a pity that this blue-eyed child died early, I don't know that on the map of the Liyang Dynasty that he didn't know how many times he looked at, there was a place where the names of hundreds of thousands of dead people were engraved on the stone tablet one by one." The history that has been read by generations of readers is no longer only the names of successful and defeated kings. ”

"Earlier, there was a guy who said that he had seen you and showed it in front of me, in fact, if I hadn't disobeyed the king's fate this time, I wouldn't have come to be angry, see what you Xu Fengnian has to look at? I'm a bad old man, and I'm not one of those young ladies who longed for young heroes. ”

"Hey, when I was younger, I might have been more handsome than you. ”

Xu Fengnian said: "Then it's decided." ”

The old man asked, "Then when will the prince leave Beijing?"

Xu Fengnian walked forward, "The day after tomorrow." ”

The old man looked at this back, smiled and asked, "Not today, will it be okay tomorrow?" ”

Xu Fengnian stopped, turned his scalp and smiled: "Tomorrow, okay, the book makes the Lord want to see the stone tablet? ”

The old man's smile stiffened, "The day after tomorrow will be the day after tomorrow! When the time comes, early in the morning, I will personally go to the Mawei Post House and knock on the door!"

Xu Fengnian ignored the rogue old man and walked towards the gate of Qin Tianjian.

The old man behind him raised his hands and waved them to both sides, and the Li family armor quickly dispersed left and right, leaving a wide road.

Suddenly, the old man quickly followed Xu Fengnian with a few arrow steps, grabbed Xu Fengnian's right hand, and refused to let go.

Xu Fengnian turned his head to look at the old man whose expression suddenly became solemn.

The old man lowered his voice and said, "Xu Fengnian, we must make this world less dead!"

Xu Fengnian wanted to turn around and leave.

The old man didn't know where he got his strength, and his face clenched Xu Fengnian's hand, and his face turned red.

Xu Fengnian could have broken free with a slight wave of his sleeves, but for some reason, Xu Fengnian sighed softly, nodded, and said helplessly: "Do you need to say it?"

Only then did the old man let go of his hand.

After walking out a few steps, Xu Fengnian heard the old man whisper: "If you don't do this, you can't show my Qi Yanglong's attitude to save the common people." ”

The corners of Xu Fengnian's mouth twitched, raised his right arm, stretched out his thumb, and then pointed downward.

Look at the young man's back.

The old man said, "Well, I have a little bit of the demeanor of my youth. ”

Probably because he felt that he was far away, the young vassal king couldn't hear his muttering, so when the king of Beiliang suddenly turned his head, the old man turned around with lightning speed, put his hands behind his back, and walked quickly onto the altar of Sheji, as if he was in a hurry to go there to browse the scenery.

One old and one young, with their backs to each other.

The old man retracted the expression on his face, and said silently in his heart: "Blue-eyed, if you are alive, do you grit your teeth and not ban a stone of Caoyun, or do you try your best to open all Caoyun? No matter what, I am not as good as you." ”

The old man stood at the top of the altar, saw the prickly loose soil, and slowly squatted down.

Xu Xiao, Zhang Julu.

The two of you fought for half your life, and when you go underground after you die, you actually drink together, right?

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At the gate of Qin Tianjian, there was a hehe girl, holding a scallion pancake in one hand and chewing it, and rubbing a mink hat with the other.

Xu Fengnian walked over and bent down and helped her support her mink hat.

Then a big red dress fluttered like a butterfly, and came to Xu Fengnian, spinning ethereally.

Xu Fengnian waited for her to stop, then nodded and smiled softly: "It's still good-looking." ”

Xu Fengnian took one person in one hand, "Go back to the post house first, and go home together the day after tomorrow." ”

Xu Yanbing had already returned to the carriage at the gate of Qin Tianjian at some point, and had already placed the instantaneous gun.

Xu Fengnian wiped the blood that had just ooped from the corner of his mouth with the back of his hand, and said with a smile: "It's back so soon? ”

Xu Yanbing, who was confused for a while, snorted, and waited until the young vassal king sat in the carriage, and the carriage drove out a long distance, and Xu Yanbing, who finally came back to his senses, scolded with a smile: "Damn, don't scold people with a dirty word!"

After laughing, Xu Yanbing looked into the distance, a little distracted.

The girl in the mink hat and the woman in the red robe in the hat did not sit in the carriage for some reason.

Inside the carriage.

The young man covered in blood took off the cool knife, picked up the vassal king's python robe with both hands, and buried his head in it.

Shoulders tremble.

No expressions.

Don't listen to the cry.