Chapter Twenty-Six: The Phoenix Seeks the Phoenix

Feng Xi Feng Xi returned to his hometown and traveled all over the world to seek his emperor. When I haven't met anything, I don't know what to do! There are beautiful ladies in the boudoir, and the room is poisonous to my intestines. What is the fate of the neck for the mandarin ducks, and the beards and cheeks soar together!

------- excerpt from the introduction

"Surname Fan?" Zeng Hua was stunned for a moment, and vaguely guessed who it was in his heart, and couldn't help but look forward to it and be nervous, and he just hurriedly said: "Please go into the study!" ”

Zeng Hua washed his hands, changed into a green shirt and robe, pulled his hair in a bun, and stood in the study door refreshingly. At this time, I heard a gentle footstep in the courtyard, and then I heard the voice of the pro-soldier: "My lord! Guests are invited! ”

"Please come in!" As soon as Zeng Hua's words were finished, the door was pushed open with a creak, and the soldiers stood by the door and said respectfully to the people behind him: "Two please!" ”

The first to walk in was a young and handsome man with a height of seven feet (more than one meter seven, which was very tall at the time), and he walked in the door after pacing forward two steps. Zeng Hua took a closer look, it was really a dragon and a phoenix, natural nature, Xiao Xiao Susu, hearty and clear, what a Zhou Lang Tan slave!

He is exactly the expected old man, Fan Ben's son Fan Zhe. Zeng Hua couldn't help but arch his hand and said, "Fan Gongzi is visiting tonight." What a disappointment! But I muttered to myself in my heart, ******, there are still people who are more handsome than me, but fortunately, Lao Tzu is big, otherwise I would really die of jealousy.

Fan Zhe hurriedly bowed his hand and saluted back: "Sinner Fan Zhe bowed to your lord today, and asked Lord Zeng to raise your noble hand!" ”

Zeng Hua knew what Fan Zhe meant, his father Fan Ben was being a "puppet emperor" in Chengdu, and he basically belonged to the rebellious range of the nine clans who could be punished. But he dared to come to his place today to "vote", and it seems that he has received the guidance of his father. It's really ginger and it's old spicy! Man is an old traitor! There must be some deep meaning for this Fan Zhe to come here "in danger".

Zeng Hua did not face Fan Zhe directly, but detoured back behind Fan Zhe. "Who is this?"

Followed Fan Zhe into the study alone, wearing a green robe and silk shirt, wearing a cloak and hood, he couldn't see his face at all, only his body was like an aspen standing tall, and his demeanor was graceful.

Hearing Zeng Hua's question, the man stretched out a pair of Qianqian jade hands, lifted the cloak and hood on his head back, and saw a hair like a dark cloud, and then revealed a bright and bright face, which was Fan Min that Zeng Hua "some" missed. I saw Fan Min's demeanor gloomy, his face was as clear as jade, his eyes were clear like water, and he saluted Zeng Hua: "Concubine Fan Min has seen Master Zeng!" “

Zeng Hua suddenly smiled, as if he had suddenly woken up from the petrification, and hurriedly stretched out his hand to help him: "Miss Fan is very polite!" ”

Under Zeng Hua's greeting, Fan Zhe and Fan Min, two siblings, knelt respectfully at Zeng Hua's head. However, Fan Min obviously felt that a pair of "scorching" eyes were not only staring at his every move, but also "scanning" his whole body. I couldn't help but raise my head to take a look, and saw that the Zhenbei general of the Jin Dynasty, who had been instructed by the Ming edict of the Jin Dynasty, was standing there, ordering the maid to serve tea, condescending and "peeping" at himself, and couldn't help but show his face red, and his pink cheeks, which were as tender as clotted fat, were suddenly red in white, and there were three points of anger in his expression, and seven points of shyness. When I looked at it secretly, I saw that Master Zeng was even more stupid, and he was stunned there. This nerd (why does it sound so familiar?) )! Fan Min's face was even more flushed, and he couldn't help but bow his head deeply.

Zeng Hua, who was standing on the main seat, looked at the shy Fan Min and lowered his head, revealing the back of his neck with skin like white jade, and couldn't help but hold the teacup in his hand, standing there for a while, not knowing whether to sit or stand, it is estimated that he will even forget his surname.

"Lord Zeng! Zeng-sama! Zeng-sama! The embarrassed Fan Zhe coughed, but Zeng Hua did not react at all. He had to call out three times in a row, and finally called Zeng Hua's three souls and six spirits back.

Zeng Hua knew that he had lost his temper, so he hurriedly sat down, but he didn't dare to speak, and the entire study suddenly fell into a strange tranquility.

After a while, Zeng Hua took the initiative to break the silence and asked directly: "I don't know what Brother Fan and Miss Fan came to my Liangzhou for?" "Such a powerful beauty trick has been used, I guess there must be some big moves. But this beauty trick seems to be very effective, and this hasn't happened yet, and I'm already starting to get confused, so I quickly understand things while I'm sober.

"My brother and sister came to Liangzhou this time to surrender to Lord Zeng, for the sake of my father!" Fan Zhe is also straight to the point.

"Mr. Fan?" Zeng Hua nodded and said, "Yesterday, I received an urgent report from Yizhou, saying that Deng and Kui had embraced Mr. Fan and called him a puppet emperor in Chengdu. ”

"This is what Deng and Kui did when the two thieves persecuted their father. My father has long returned to the court, but the thief has sinister intentions, holding and imprisoning my father, and then spreading fake books in the name of my father, bewitching and deceiving unknown people! Fan Zhe hurriedly argued.

"What's going on? You elaborate. Zeng Hua asked.

Fan Zhe then began to tell the twists and turns one by one.

Zeng Hua, who stayed in Chengdu that day, was very aware of Fan Ben's "power" and "influence", and did not dare to slack off, so Haosheng solemnly escorted him back to Qingcheng Mountain, and allocated a lot of money, food and property to Mr. Fan.

When Zeng Hua left Chengdu to go to Liangzhou to work, for some reason, he didn't explain this stubble to Gu Tai, the new Shu County Taishou who was handed over, patted his ass and raised his legs and left. And after Gu Tai came, his eyes were dark, and he knew the details of this, but he was just busy counting the population, compiling household registration, cleaning up the land, and checking the wealthy families. But it didn't take long for the zha medicine bag in Shuzhong, which no one suppressed, to finally be ignited by Deng Ding and Kui Wen, and suddenly brought Gu Tai, the Taishou of Shu County, who had not yet sat on the hot ass.

Deng and Kui are both "old men" of the Cheng Han Dynasty, of course they know the power of the old Fan family in Shuzhong, and as soon as they occupied Chengdu, they sent people to Xishan (Qingcheng Mountain) to invite the late Prime Minister Fan Ben out of the mountain.

But Fan Ben had already understood that Deng, Kui and other "Cheng Han sincere old ministers" were not planning for their own desires, or they were whimsical and unrealistic, they were all grasshoppers after the autumn, and they didn't have much of a jump, so they didn't want to come out of anything.

But Deng and Kui were determined to serve Fan Ben as the master, send envoys every day, and write blood letters every day. They know that, by virtue of their own fame, they can gather at most one or twenty thousand people, and they may disperse for you one day. But Fan Ben is different, he is the leader of the Heavenly Master Dao in Chengdu and Shuzhong, and the mass base is not ordinarily deep. If he raised his arms and shouted, the entire Shu would immediately be like a cloud.

So Deng and Kui saw that the soft ones couldn't do it, so they simply came to the hard ones. Under the pretext that the Jin army intended to harm Fan Lao Immortal, he sent troops to "take back" Fan Ben from Qingcheng Mountain to Chengdu, and then opened the palace of the Han Dynasty, gathered "civil and military officials", and shouted long live the mountain, so he stubbornly embraced Fan Ben as the "emperor".

Fan Ben also expected that he might not be good this time, so he sent his henchmen to send his son and daughter out of Qingcheng Mountain early and hid them in Zitong County for a period of time.

When Fan Ben was leaving, he once said to Fan Zhe that once he learned that he was supported, he would immediately go to Zeng Liangzhou in Hanzhong, because at that point, he was the only one in the world who could defend the Fan family.

Hearing this, Zeng Hua couldn't help but sigh in his heart, if a person lives to this point, it will be no different from a goblin. This Fan Lao Immortal is sure that he will reach out to Yizhou sooner or later, and he is also sure that if he wants to gain a firm foothold in Yizhou Shu County, he must rely on the reputation of the Fan family. He sent his son and daughter over in advance this time, just to build a good relationship with him first and lay the foundation for cooperation.

What should I do? Accept the sincerity of the old immortals? As soon as his foundation in Liangzhou is stabilized, he will be able to send troops to Yizhou next year at the latest. Judging from the current situation, it would be good for the Zhou family father and son to stabilize their own Jianwei County's one-third of an acre, and Yang Qian and Xiao Jingwen of Guanghan Deyang would not retreat to their own Brazil County. And Huan Wen, another who has the ability to pacify Yizhou, will not easily leave Jingxiang's lair and fall into Yizhou. At the beginning, his purpose of conquering the West to become a Han Dynasty was not pure, how could he make a move at the most troublesome time?

By next year, his own army will be organized, send an army, and then respond with Fan Lao Immortal inside and out, and this Yizhou Shu County will be firmly surnamed Zeng. Zeng Hua took a deep look at Fan Min, who was kneeling there, and saw a beautiful woman who was as beautiful as a rose, damn it, wouldn't it be okay for Lao Tzu to admit it all?

"Please rest assured, oh, and Miss Fan, please rest assured! Mr. Fan is a figure that Zeng has admired for a long time, and this time he was framed by Deng and Kui, and I just put my life on the line to save him from fire and water and keep him safe. Zeng Hua swore and patted his chest and said.

That night, Zeng Hua instructed the servants and servants to clean up the west courtyard of the Liangzhou Thorn History Mansion, and place the brothers and sisters Fan Zhe and Fan Min, who were very grateful.

In the following days, Zeng Hua was busy with various government affairs, and he was a "virtuous talent" who came from the list. These people are either the children of the family who fled south to the original north, but now they have lost their value, and they dare not be rebellious anymore, so they obediently report to the Nanzheng Zhaoxian Pavilion; Some are the children of poor families in Yizhou, Liangzhou, Jingzhou and other places, or the children of fallen families, and when they heard the world-famous Zeng Liangzhou sincerely recruiting talents, they couldn't help but roll up their burdens and come over. Moreover, Zeng Liangzhou made it clear in his letters to various places that all students and talents who applied for the Nanzheng Zhaoxian Pavilion could borrow a number from the local government, and then the Liangzhou Assassin Shi would repay the local officials when they arrived in Nanzheng.

Because Zeng Hua is now a popular spicy chicken, the local government did not dare to slack off when they received the letter, and truthfully spread it to all the counties and counties, and then really lent it to those students and talents who were excited. In this way, the reputation of the newly appointed Liangzhou Assassin Zeng Hua Aicai also spread throughout the states and counties of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and even spread all the way to the Central Plains of Jiangbei.

However, Zeng Hua, who used to be often "away from home", now has to go back to his house to "rest" no matter how late it is, and often holds banquets to invite the brothers and sisters of the Fan family, or sets up tea parties by the small pavilion pool, enjoying flowers and fish, and is very happy.

That night, Zeng Hua, who had been talking in the west courtyard for a long time before reluctantly coming back, rolled over in the bed in the bedroom, couldn't sleep, couldn't help but sit up in his clothes, looked at the bright moon that slowly entered the window, and couldn't help but be stunned for a while. After a while, he simply put on his civilian clothes, pushed open the door, and walked softly into the courtyard.

The bright moon here is even brighter, illuminating the shadows of the flowers in the courtyard. Zeng Hua shouted loudly, asked the servant to fetch the wine jug and glass, and drank the wine on the stone table in the courtyard.

It is easy to get drunk alone, Zeng Hua soon became five points drunk, and couldn't help but shake and stand up, raised his wine glass, and chanted loudly: "

A pot of wine among the flowers, drinking alone without a blind date.

Raise a glass to invite Mingyue, and the shadow becomes a trio.

The moon does not drink, and the shadow disciples follow me.

Temporarily accompanied by the moon will be shadowed, and the joy must be spring.

I sing and wander, and I dance in a mess.

When they wake up, they mingle together, and when they get drunk, they disperse.

Eternal knot ruthless travel, phase Miao Yunhan. ”

He drank while groaning, and finally threw his glass and laughed, and the sound spread far away in the cold night, and soon woke up everyone in the whole house. But everyone only dared to watch from a distance, but they didn't dare to come close to disturb Lord Zeng's interest, let alone scold Zeng Hua for not having any public morality, and people would go to work tomorrow!

Zeng Hua was in high spirits, and he couldn't help but go back to the house to take off the erhu, slowly paced to the west courtyard, and then sat on the stone bench in the courtyard, tuned the timbre twice, and then began to pull up the erhu that had not been played for a long time.

Tonight's song is not at all as sad and desolate as before, but it is also euphemistic and long. It is like a spring breeze, gently soothing the green willows by the river; It is like a lonely shadow under the moon, wandering melancholy under the shadows of the trees among the flowers. The sound of the piano seems to be waiting for something, like the flowers and leaves in early spring, and the snow in the spring that melts. In the quiet night, the sound of the piano, which has been calling something, suddenly becomes tactful and harmonious, like the corresponding reflection of the mountains and flowing water, and like the harmony of the phoenix, the phoenix is flying.

Eventually, the sound of the piano disappeared faintly, but the people who had been listening to it felt that the song was still drifting gently in the distant sky. When Zeng Hua twisted up the erhu and slowly walked out of the courtyard, Fan Zhe, who was stupid, suddenly asked, "My lord! What kind of tune is this? ”

Zeng Hua laughed, but his footsteps did not stop, and he continued to walk towards the outside of the courtyard, and a voice floated over leisurely: "Phoenix Seeking Phoenix!" ”

"Phoenix? Sima Xiang's phoenix? Feng Xi Feng Xi returned to his hometown and traveled all over the world to seek his emperor. When I haven't met anything, I don't know what to do! There are beautiful ladies in the boudoir, and the room is poisonous to my intestines. What is the fate of the neck for the mandarin ducks, and the beards and cheeks soar together! ”

All those who heard Zeng Hua's answer secretly recited this song in their hearts.

On the second day, when Zeng Hua was discussing things with Che Yin, Mao Muzhi and other staff members in the lobby, Fan Zhe suddenly came to visit. Fan Zhe's identity is only known to a few henchmen such as Che Yin, and others only think that he is a friend of Zeng Hua's family.

In front of everyone, Fan Zhe wore a dress and robe, with a folded scarf on his head (fold one corner of the scarf and wrap it from the forehead back, put the two corners in the back of the head and tie the knot, and the remaining corner naturally hangs down the back of the head). I saw Fan Zhe walking up to Zeng Hua, looking at it squarely, with flat shoulders and back, arms like a drum, then pressing his right hand with his left hand, hiding his hand in his sleeve, raising his hand to increase his forehead, bowing ninety degrees, and then getting up, and at the same time his hand was raised again, and then his hand was lowered.

Seeing Fan Zhe saluting himself so formally, Zeng Hua didn't dare to slack off, hurriedly returned the salute, and then asked, "Brother Fan Shi is so polite, I don't know how it makes sense?" ”

Fan Zhe said: "My lord, my father ordered me to bring my sister to Nanzheng, and I already have the intention of entrusting me." Last night, the adult's song of the phoenix begging for the phoenix already understood the meaning below. I have obtained my sister's consent, and I would like to sprinkle it with a broom for adults! ”

When Zeng Hua heard this, his heart blossomed happily, it seems that last night's erhu was not in vain! There is no insomnia in vain! But the superficial work still needs to be done. He shook his head again and again and said: "Ling Mei is like a fairy, Zeng is a reckless and vulgar person, how can she be worthy?" ”

Fan Zhe said with a straight face: "The adult is the hero of the world, if it weren't for the adult's song of the phoenix last night, how dare we speak lightly." Now that my sister has allowed it, it is naturally logical. Zhe Bucai, cheeky please all the great sages here deign to be the matchmaker, I don't know how? With that, he turned to the crowd and bowed to him.

When everyone heard this, they finally knew what Fan Zheli came here for? Everyone is not blind, and they have seen all the performances of their adults during this time, and they all understand his little flower intestines. And last night's song "Phoenix Seeking Phoenix" is estimated to be heard by everyone in Zhengcheng in the whole south, not to mention the people who live next to it?

Immediately, everyone stood up and spoke out in favor of this family business, but Che Yin and Mao Muzhi almost fought over who was the main media.

Seeing everyone like this, Zeng Hua also smiled and agreed, and immediately sent someone to report the good news to Huan Wen and Liu Yi, who treated him like a father and brother, after all, Zeng Hua was already a single, and these two people valued him the most, so they were naturally qualified to be elders. In addition, the two sworn brothers Zhang Shou and Gan Rui are also indispensable to report to others.

In the end, Che Yin relied on his long time with Zeng Hua to grab the position of the main matchmaker, and Mao Muzhi could only be wronged as a deputy matchmaker. Immediately, the Fan Zhe brothers and sisters moved out of the Thorn History Mansion and moved directly to the Governor of Liang's Mansion to live. The official news was also released, and Liangzhou Assassin Shi Zenghua will marry the Fuling Fan family. Time, it still needs the formal consent of the woman's parents and the man's elders - Huan and Liu before making a decision. Although many details are a little vague, people don't know who this woman's family is, and they don't know when they will get married. But everyone in the know knows that when Zeng Hua will fight Chengdu and rescue his father-in-law, then he will be able to please his wife, and he will no longer have to sing "Loneliness" like a wolf howling every night.

Everyone in Nanzheng couldn't help but smile, the good days are finally coming, and they finally don't have to be harassed by Zeng Hua with a broken voice every night. Although he plays the piano well, he can't sing well, especially the song "Loneliness" that must be sung late at night with a full moon. Don't you believe it, haven't you seen that there are a lot fewer wolves near Nanzheng? People's songs are all about recruiting wolves, and Zeng Hua's singing can directly scare away wolves!

The news of Zeng Hua's marriage and his deeds soon spread to Jiangling and Jiankang. After reading the letter, Huan Wen of Jiangling couldn't help but laugh, and officially replied to the letter, and also prepared a heavy gift. After all, he accepted Li Shi's charming sister, and he was alive and well, so he naturally understood Zeng Hua, who was still lonely.

However, when Liu Yi received the letter, he was in a hurry, and hurriedly ran to the house of Sima Yu, the king of Huiji.

He's in a hurry! I asked you to send a princess from the imperial court clan to envelop this Zeng Hua, but you just didn't listen to it, and you looked down on others. If people really meet, you will go with a hot face and a cold ass. He knows this Zeng Hua very well who treats him like a disciple, if you don't play the emotional card with him now, when your court wants to rely on him, he will weigh you up and sell you!

By the way! Today is 918, don't forget the national shame! Boycott Japanese products!