Chapter 13: The Erudite Xizhou (II)
But people are still indignant.
Nanfeng leaned into Xizhou's ear and teased in a low voice: "Looking at the huge influence of this General Guo, I think that if you give him a jade bottle, maybe he will go to Pudu sentient beings." β
Xizhou heard Nanfeng joking and finally became happy. He rarely smiled narrowly, and his pale face had some vivid colors: "When he was young, his beard was very thick, and it was impossible to be Guanyin, but Zhong Kui did." β
"You've seen it?"
"I've never seen it. β
Nanfeng was very disdainful of this answer, she thought: How can you, a sick scholar who has not reached the weak crown, have seen the god of war that everyone worships? Brag!
Xizhou didn't care what Nanfeng thought, and diligently poured Nanfeng a glass of wine.
The audience discussed passionately for a long time in the inscrutable smile of the storyteller. Their speculations are getting more and more outrageous, and their brains are amazing.
Finally, a milky child suddenly opened his eyes wide and asked, "Isn't it a legend that the general has three heads and six arms?
The audience exclaimed and looked at the storyteller in unison.
"That's rightβ" The storyteller said proudly and contentedly in a long voice, his head also shook, he opened the fan, and the shelf was full of swings, "His old man is a god who descended to earth, and he was sent down by God to calm the world! At the most critical moment, his old man suddenly remembered that when he was an official in the heavenly court, he learned a lot of fairy magic. I saw him silently recite a spell and light a fire in the stable. While the people were putting out the fire and had no time to pay attention to him, he slipped up to the castle tower, jumped over, and fell to the ground unscathed!"
"Hmm-"
"The general doesn't have a mount, what should he do? It doesn't matter, he has been enlightened by the heavens, and he remembers how he fought against the wind when he was an immortal in his previous life. So he made a trick, rode a gust of wind, and in the blink of an eye, he was back in the tent of our army. β
Nonsense, this is clearly an insult to people's intelligence!
But the majority of listeners and friends did not feel that this was an insult to their intelligence, but became excited. They applauded and rejoiced, so much so that they danced with their hands.
A little doll asked, "Is General Guo a fairy? What does a fairy look like?"
"This is the next story," the storyteller was satisfied, and then predicted the content of his story tomorrow, "Let's talk about what General Guo was like when he was an immortal tomorrow." Tomorrow's title is "General Guo vs. One Hundred and Eight Ghosts in Peach Blossom Mountain"!"
South Wind: "......"
What kind of mountain is Peach Blossom Mountain? Is there such a mountain? There is a big battle against one hundred and eight ghosts, do you really think he is Zhong Kui?
Obviously it is a "historical story", and he said the "mythical color", Nanfeng suddenly thought that if it was tomorrow, in the story of Mr. Storyteller, General Guo and a certain female ghost staged a fairy and demon sadomasochism, and people would be more excited to hear it, and they would faint with excitement.
She couldn't hold back, made up the picture in her head, and sneered.
"What are you laughing at?" Xizhou asked.
"Nothing. Nanfeng pouted and replied.
Xizhou didn't pursue it, but said: "People told his story like this, and I didn't expect it to be - he is actually just a general, a smart general." β
His tone was very flat, as if the old man in his seventies was his friend or classmate.
Nanfeng knew that he was about to start telling the story again, propped his chin with the palm of his hand, and said, "You know again." β
"Learn a little. β
Since Nanfeng woke up, no one was willing to talk so much to her in one breath, and suddenly became happy, but insisted on doing the pie to the fullest: "I'll listen to it." β
Xizhou saw her doubts about his "erudition", and he was not annoyed, and patiently told her: "Guo Yongning is indeed good at adapting. That night, he put some 'condiment' in the fodder for the horses, causing the horses to 'fall for thousands of miles' and become unable to move, and then set a fire in the stable. He then fled into the water and swam out of the city with the current. He is bold and careful, and his martial arts are good, and he has to be promoted by his superiors, and his official promotion is very fast. Especially in the eleventh year of Ming Jing, he sacrificed himself to save his car in the royal hunting ground, and almost died from the attack of the black bear, which was appreciated by the first emperor, and he was even more prosperous. It's just that he is too tactful in handling things, and he moves between various forces in the DPRK and China. In order to protect his own power and wealth, he did not hesitate to make false reports of military exploits, embezzlement and bribery - this is also a fact. β
"You really know a lot. "Nanfeng praised from the bottom of his heart.
He smiled self-deprecatingly as if he were specifically against her.
"I see that although this General Guo is capable, he will not be deified, those generals in the past, Wei Qing, Huo Quai, are all better than him, and I haven't seen anyone who is said to be a god? β
Xizhou coughed twice in a muffled voice and said, "No wonder you think it's funnyβsince the founding of the Yi Dynasty, almost every Son of Heaven has loved Taoist metaphysics, and even superstitious witchcraft. In the year of Jiazhen's reform, the current Son of Heaven asked a Taoist priest to do a ritual for the first time and prayed to the gods for peace. The old Taoist priest chanted to the statue for a long time, and suddenly seemed to have received the will of the gods, and after a convulsion, he dipped his fingertips in water and drew a pattern on the ground that was difficult to distinguish. This frightened the emperor who had just ascended the throne, and quickly gathered a large group of Taoist priests to study what this 'ghost painting talisman' was. The people discussed it for three whole days, and finally came up with an answer, saying that it was actually two words on it, which was 'Yong'an'. β
Nanfeng took a sip of wine and was happy: "Yo, there is such a thing!"
Xizhou also smiled, but there was a suppressed cough in his laughter, which was not hearty at all: "In order to bribe these Taoist priests, Guo Yongning spent a thousand taels of silver. That's a lot of money. β
Nanfeng was surprised: "One thousand taels! Mom, I can eat abalone and lobster hard, and I can eat it for a few lifetimes! She sighed again: "This guy is bold enough!"
Dare to expropriate tyranny, dare to bribe close ministers, dare to do things when the emperor sacrifices to the sky, naturally it is a great courage.
Recently, people have been praising him, but it is because a few days ago he helped the emperor get rid of Fang Tan, who was a powerful minister of the court, and almost killed several generals in the capital, and became a hot minister. Do you think any of the generals who can go down in history have clean hands?"
Once it will be successful, ten thousand bones will wither, and it has been like this since ancient times. However, if the military generals are like this, what about the literati?
Nanfeng suddenly remembered that today's respect for the so-called Mr. Minghong by those scholars is no less than the worship of Guo Yongning by the people in the countryside, so he asked him: "I see that those scholars also admire 'Mr. Minghong', is he very powerful?
"He?" Xizhou sneered, "He's a waste!"