Chapter Twenty-Six: Repaying Virtue with Virtue and Repaying Grievances with Straightforwardness
After Zhang Nianxin saw that Wu Weifeng had bad intentions, he hurriedly went down the attic and planned to leave. However, as soon as she stepped downstairs, she saw that the previous hundred and ten guests were leaving one after another, and even some of the servants and disciples of the previous martial arts hall were much less. Suddenly, she saw Liu Sandao, who was sitting at the same table with him before, and stepped forward and asked, "Alas, Brother Liu, what's the matter with you?"
Liu Sandao said: "Miss Zhang, you are really going to be famous in Shu in the future." β
Zhang Nianxin was puzzled: "What are you talking about? I don't understand. β
Liu Sandao smiled: "The master of the martial arts hall has announced that he will close the hall for a period of time to rectify the atmosphere of the martial arts hall. Although he said that he wanted to rectify the atmosphere, it was obvious that he was frightened by your one-enemy record. You're amazing. β
Zhang Nianxin looked back, only to see that many people who left had complained about themselves, and she said puzzledly: "I didn't beat their people again, what are they doing looking at me like this." β
Liu Sandao was helpless: "Most of these people are Zhuang Ke who eat with the Sky Eagle Martial Arts Pavilion, the Sky Eagle Martial Arts Hall is closed and I don't know when it will open, they have one less place to eat mixed rice, can I not blame you, you should be more careful." With that, he turned and walked away.
Zhang Nianxin shook his head helplessly and turned to leave. However, somehow, there was no one to lead the way in this hall, and Zhang Nianxin went around several times before he reached the door. However, as soon as he arrived at the door, twenty officials came over, and the leader said with a solemn expression: "The county magistrate heard that Wu Weifeng of the Heavenly Eagle Martial Arts Pavilion was swaggering and deceiving martial arts people, so he specially sent us to investigate, and now he is also inside, and he also asked Miss Zhang to go back and be a witness." Zhang Nianxin knew at a glance that the person who came was not good, and immediately wanted to punch him until he ran out. However, the leader said: "I heard that Miss Zhang has just recovered her innocence because of the amnesty of the world, and attacking the official is an aggravated crime, and I hope Miss Zhang will not go back." Zhang Nianxin hesitated when he heard this, and taking advantage of this hesitation, the leading official hurriedly stepped back and cut the hanging railing with a knife. Suddenly, the heavy wooden door fell, and Zhang Nianxin was trapped inside. Only then did she understand why the Heavenly Eagle Martial Arts Pavilion was built in the shape of a bowl city, high on all sides and low in the middle, easy to defend and difficult to attack, as long as the door was blocked, those who wanted to go out could only turn the attic of the back hall. Seeing that the way out was broken, Zhang Nianxin sighed: "Alas, one step at a time is considered a step." With that, he turned around and went back the way he came...
On the other side, Wu Weifeng knelt in front of Lu Qiuxiao, the commander of Changming County, and said tremblingly: "Luqiu County Order, do you really want to do this? I have been collecting the mountain for a while. β
Lu Qiuxiao gritted his teeth and said: "Do you know that today's episode, I don't know how many apprentices scolded that learning martial arts is useless, took off their clothes and left? Hmph, I don't know how thick the sky is, dare to cut off my financial route? I laughed so much today that I wanted her life." β
With his permission, Wu Weifeng suddenly stood up without trembling, and said sharply: "Okay, then, Lord Lu Qiuxiao will wait for my good news." β
Lu Qiu Xiaoxie smiled: "If you can, give me a catch, I really want to taste what it's like to be her." β
Zhang Nianxin came to the martial arts arena, only to see that two large knives had been moved out of this place, and more than 20 Zhuang Ke in different costumes suddenly appeared, surrounded her, and stared at her deadly. I saw that they were all sturdy, powerful, and quite strong in kung fu, which was obviously not comparable to those disciples who were full of faΓ§ade. Beads of sweat suddenly broke out on the back of Zhang Nianxin's forehead, and she knew that if this battle started, it might be her most difficult battle so far. At this time, Wu Weifeng walked down from the attic and laughed: "Hahahahaha, what, Miss Zhang, are you reluctant to leave? Is there anything that can attract attention in this broken martial arts hall?" Zhang Nianxin looked at him coldly and asked, "Martial arts hall master, what do you mean by this?"
Wu Weifeng sneered: "Didn't you say that my Heavenly Eagle Martial Pavilion's ability is nothing more than that? Come, let you see the true strength of my Heavenly Eagle Martial Pavilion." β
Zhang Nian's face was as cold as ice: "You want to kill me?"
Wu Weifeng shook his head and said, "No, no, no, it's just for you to compete with the true elite of my Heavenly Eagle Martial Arts Gym." β
"Heh, I can't imagine that the Sky Eagle Martial Arts Pavilion is such a bandit and bandit. β
Wu Weifeng's face suddenly became gloomy, and his eagle-like eyes stared at Zhang Nianxin and said: "I'll tell you the truth today, that's right, I am a bandit, I used to be the number one in Shu, but not the first knife, but the number one thief in Shu." This martial arts hall is not mine, but from the county commander Lu Qiu Xiao's family, and I just run it on my behalf. β
Zhang Nianxin nodded and said: "Oh, I understand, ten years of old age and frailty, you took a group of brothers to be recruited by the county commander Lu Qiu Xiao's family, and became their family's thug and shield for black work, and helped Lu Qiu Xiao to collect money and become the Changming county commander. (There is no explanation in history about Luqiu's family, but it is said that he looks down on Zhang Hao, the prime minister who was born in cloth, which is enough to see that his background is not bad.) But with all due respect, it's okay for you to look down on Wang Changling as a assassin, and don't you die a big death if you look down on Prime Minister Zhang Hao and disobey orders?)
Wu Weifeng praised: "Yes, you are quite smart, I will let you understand a little more before you die." Do you know why my martial arts skills are actually not high, but so many people who came to jump in the battle didn't expose me? And today, even if you take the money and do what I say, don't want to live, my Wu Tianying's money, hehe, is not so easy to earn. Brothers, give me ......"
"Huh~" The white-clothed maid blew a cup of tea and carefully handed it to the adult in front of her. In fact, the sound of shouting and killing from outside the house just now had already scared her heart, but the adult in front of her was not afraid at all, but closed her eyes in front of the beautiful music and enjoyed it, and even hummed a little song or two. She could only endure her fear and concentrate on serving.
At this moment, the door creaked open, Lu Qiuxiao opened his eyes and saw that it was Wu Weifeng who was standing, and smiled: "How is it, is it solved?" However, Wu Weifeng did not answer him, but fell directly to the ground, at this time Lu Qiuxiao saw that he had a knife stuck in his back, and standing behind him was Zhang Nianxin, who was covered in blood and bruises, at this moment she was looking at him with the same eyes as a dead man, Lu Qiuxiao was suddenly so frightened that the teacup fell directly to the ground, knelt down and shouted: "The woman spares her life, the woman spares her life, the woman spares her life." β
Zhang Nianxin walked up to him slowly, grabbed him by the collar and pulled him up, stared at him and said, "You are Changming County Linglu Qiu Xiao, right?"
Lu Qiuxiao hurriedly nodded: "Yes, yes, it is Xia Guan, but Xia Guan is just invited to be a guest, and it is none of my business." β
Zhang Nianxin sneered and said: "Hehe, Luqiu County Order, ask you something, as a court official colluding with bandits to harm the people, what crime should you be guilty of?"
Lu Qiuxiao knelt down again and kowtowed like pounding garlic, and said: "There are still family members to support, please spare my life." β
Zhang Nianxin was furious and roared: "You have a family, don't I have a family to support?" As he spoke, he pulled out the Absolute Shadow and cut off his left ear with a knife, and cut off his ear again without being angry, and cut off his nose with another knife, which dissipated the anger in his chest, and Lu Qiuxiao rolled on the ground in pain. The woman in white on the side was frightened when she saw this scene, knelt on the ground and trembled, and when she saw Zhang Nianxin looking at her, she hurriedly cried: "Don't kill me, don't kill me." Zhang Nianxin ignored her, took off three rings from Wu Weifeng's hand, handed them to her, and said softly: "I know that this matter has nothing to do with you, there is a trail behind this martial arts hall, and the Heavenly Eagle Martial Arts Hall will not be able to wait for people to come in the future, you take these things, let's go." The woman in white took the ring and fled in a panic. After the woman left, Zhang Nianxin found a piece of paper and a pen and threw it to Lu Qiuxiao, who was lying on the ground and moaning, and said sharply: "Write, write down to me how you colluded with Wu Weifeng to clear his identity as a bandit, and how you abducted and deceived him for money and killed him when he opened the Heavenly Eagle Martial Arts Hall, and then press your handprint." β
Lu Qiuxiao hurriedly shook his head when he heard this, because he knew that if he really wrote it, his black gauze hat would be gone, and his life would be gone.
Zhang Nianxin put the shadow around his neck and said in a voice like frost: "If you don't write, I will gouge out your eyes again, cut off your tongue, and then chop off your fingers, one at a time." Zhang Nianxin is actually so cruel by nature, but she will not have a trace of mercy for those who want to kill her.
Lu Qiu Xiao was really frightened, and hurriedly picked up the pen and wrote, but at the moment when he finished writing and handed the paper to Zhang Nianxin, he clearly saw that a wound on Zhang Nianxin's face slowly healed, and the blood stains were gone.
On the other side, the group of officials saw that there had been no movement inside for a long time, and the leader laughed: "It's been silent for so long, that little girl must be dead." β
The person next to him chimed in: "Heh, the guy who doesn't know the height of the sky deserves it." Who told her to dare to provoke the people of the Heavenly Eagle Martial Arts Pavilion, doesn't she know how much silver Wu Weifeng honors us every month?"
"Okay, don't talk about it, open the door and collect her body. β
The heavy wooden door slowly opened, and the more than 20 catchers were stunned for a moment, only to see Zhang Nianxin's white clothes stained with blood, but standing in front of them unscathed.
The leader swallowed a mouthful of water, stepped forward and asked with courage, "Miss Zhang, what's the matter with you?"
Zhang Nianxin said: "Wu Weiying doesn't want to bear the guilt, and wants to send people to murder the county commander, and I have already killed them all." Saying that, Zhang Nianxin pulled the rope in his hand, and more than 20 hideous heads with bloody faces rolled down from behind her like flowing water, this scene was very terrifying, and several younger catchers were directly frightened and rolled away, and the rest were also trembling and sweating.
Zhang Nianxin smiled: "You can take these heads to receive the reward, I'll go first." β
The leader of the catcher was so frightened that his legs were weak, and he dared to stop him, so he had to give up his hand and say: "I won't send it away." β
Zhang Nianxin slowly walked out of the mountain, and as soon as she left their sight, a mouthful of black blood spit out, she covered her chest and said with difficulty: "Although I have stepped up my cultivation in the past few days, my cultivation of the Suwen Sutra is still not enough." "In fact, after fighting the more than 20 masters in this battle, her strength was already exhausted, and if the next 20 catchers were on the same page, he could only be captured. The reason why she wanted to cut off the heads of those more than 20 people was not to show her bloody brutality, but because she knew that she would not be able to leave safely without some means to suppress the group of officials who were afraid of the weak and afraid of the hard. Seeing the eyes of the officials who had left, she left in a hurry with a trembling limp.
On the other side, after Zhang Nianxin left, the remaining servants wandered around the door for a long time, and finally had the courage to walk in, only to see that it was full of headless corpses, which was very terrifying, he took a long breath and walked in around the corpse. Finally, after turning around for a long time, he saw Lu Qiuxiao, the county magistrate with a bloody face and dull eyes, in the attic, he stepped forward and waved his hand twice in front of his eyes, and shouted: "My lord, are you okay?" Lu Qiuxiao came back to his senses, remembered the sensational scene just now, and said to himself: "I saw that his wound was still bleeding just now, why did it happen..."
The official was puzzled and asked, "What did you say, my lord?"
Suddenly, Lu Qiuxiao stood up and shouted, "Ghost, it's a ghost." "I ran outside in horror, and ran for five miles before I fainted from excessive blood loss......
Luoyang, Xinwangfu.
Wu Jiansheng came to Xuantong's room again, and unsurprisingly, he was flirting with the maid again, this time with a light incense. He didn't bother to say anything, and asked directly: "It's been two months, why hasn't your father come back yet?"
Li Xuantong laughed: "He, he didn't even enter Chengdu when he arrived in Henan, and he went directly to Chang'an, and I heard that the saint gave him a bigger mansion there, and he lived there in the future." β
"Oh, when are we going to be with him?"
"Move over?" Li Xuantong put down the cherry Biluo in his hand, and let Yilan retreat and sneered: "He can't bear to talk about my son." β
Wu Jiansheng was taken aback and asked, "What does this mean? You are not his own?"
Li Xuantong sighed: "Alas, you know, I'm not a concubine, not even a concubine, just an illegitimate child." It was only after several of my brothers died of illness that they were raised. In addition, I don't have a proper shape on weekdays, only know how to eat, drink and have fun, and he has never liked me very much. β
Wu Jiansheng suddenly realized and said: "Oh, I understand, so he is now famous and has plans to have another son." β
Li Xuantong said with a sad face: "Yes, on the way back to Chang'an, he met a woman surnamed Wei, took her as a concubine, and already has plans to take her as a side wife." β
When Wu Jiansheng heard this, he was a little angry, and said: "Your father has a brain problem, he is almost fifty years old, how many years can he live at most? When he died, his children were no more than ten years old, and he supported a teenage child as an heir, did he manage such a big family?"
Li Xuantong smiled bitterly: "Who made my mother from a humble background just a maid? Fortunately, his heart is not too ruthless." β
Wu Jiansheng found a place to sit next to him, and asked tentatively: "Then you promised to recommend me to be an official in the DPRK..."
Li Xuantong waved his hand and said: "Don't mention it, do you know how my father gave the Shengshanghui rules? He put all the merits of reporting Li Lingyue's rebellion on his head, and even I didn't mention a word, I didn't even have the qualifications to enter Taixue and practice, let alone you? Originally, I planned to play for a few more days and report to the palace, alas, it's a pity, I can't get out of the rest of my life at all." β
Wu Jiansheng was completely angry at this moment, and slammed his fist on the table where the fruit was placed, and said angrily: "Your father is too brazen and unkind. Treat you and me like this. β
Li Xuantong sneered: "If he is really a fair-minded, affectionate and righteous person, King Yue should have died with Princess Changle when the rebellion happened." β
Wu Jiansheng was silent, and the sudden change made his future at a loss, and he said for a long time before he said: "Then I am now..."
Li Xuantong held his hand and said: "Don't worry, you have helped me so much, I will never treat you badly, as long as it is a matter of Luoyang Realm, I can help, this son, ah no, this young master will definitely do his best." The twenty women in the house, you can choose which one you want, and you can take the jewelry and antiques sent by the palace, even if the palace is emptied, I won't look at it. β
However, Wu Jiansheng still frowned and grimaced, and said meaningfully after a long time: "You don't understand, I didn't study hard in the first half of my life, and I can't do anything after my studies are completed, and I can't achieve anything." I had to learn carpentry from my uncle all the time. It's been like this for half of my life. Now that I've finally met you, a noble man who can lead me to fame, I thought I could enter the court and achieve some fame, but in a blink of an eye, the opportunity was lost by your father. I lived a messy life in the first half of my life, and I don't know how to end it, but at this moment, I have changed the situation in the world with my knowledge, and I still want to follow you to do nothing? Should I live my life so ordinarily? I am not reconciled, I am not reconciled. β
Li Xuantong was a little unimpressed when he heard this, and said: "Don't worry about food and clothing, don't worry about harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes." Every day, you just need to spend all day drinking, surrounded by beautiful women to serve, and there are all kinds of delicacies on the table. This kind of fairy-like day, I don't know how many people in the world can't ask for it, what do you dislike?" he said, picked up the peach crisp on the table and tasted it carefully.
Wu Jiansheng looked at him and shook his head, and said with some disappointment: "Li Xuantong, aren't you such a person who has meat and only cares about being full today, no matter where tomorrow's eclipse comes from?"
"Phew," Li Xuantong spit out the peach cake and asked, "Then what kind of person do you think I should be?"
Wu Jiansheng said seriously: "Okay, then let me ask you, you have lost your identity as the son of the world now, and you also know that this kind of thing will happen sooner or later, so you found a way to show Dugu Feng a good impression, and saw that I was useful to win me over, all of which were to elevate your status in front of your father." Now, you still lose your identity as the prince of the king. Today, your father is kind to you and has left you a place to live. Tomorrow, if he suddenly gets angry or gives away your house to someone else in order to win over people, what should you do? What should I do with Xiaopian and me? Will I drink the northwest wind with you? You don't even have the capital to settle down, haven't you thought about this? Be prepared for danger in times of peace, Li Gongzi, don't blow yourself up anymore. Then he turned and wanted to leave. Li Xuantong stopped him: "Slow, are you going to Chang'an to find my father?" It just so happened that Miss Zhang replied that she was almost in Longzhou, and you could take her by the way. She became famous in Bashu a few months ago, and beheaded 25 people including the bandit leader Wu Weifeng in Changming County alone, and reported to Mianzhou that the county commander of Changming County colluded with Wu Weifeng to seek money and kill him, but the county commander Lu Qiuxiao was frightened by her, and shouted three times before she was imprisoned, and the demon was scared to death, and now she is called the ghost Rakshasa in the rivers and lakes. However, the court is very dissatisfied with her lynching, so remember to meet her when you go to Chang'an. β
Wu Jiansheng listened to it and said:, kill twenty-five, this girl surnamed Zhang is too powerful, let her go to find someone seems to be condescending. Alas, wait, why is the name Lu Qiuxiao so familiar? I'll go, isn't Wang Changling the one he killed? Wang Changling, Wang Changling, I can't imagine that you will be saved by a woman you have never met in your life...