Chapter 167: A young man with a sword and a green shirt
There is prosperity in Shaoliang City, but after all, those big people in high positions also have things to worry about, but unlike others, many things, they can't say it, so they can only grit their teeth and solve it themselves.
At the critical juncture when Xie Lao's sacrificial wine entered Beijing, Shaoliang City held its breath and stared, waiting for the events that would happen in Shaoliang City in the future, His Majesty the Emperor had already said to the important ministers of the temple at yesterday's court meeting, and when the old man came to the city gate, His Majesty the Emperor would bring a hundred officials to greet him, so attached, in addition to caring about the reputation of the old sacrificial wine in the government and the opposition, but also because the reason why Da Zhou could have a chance to breathe was that Xie Ying's net worth was fought for.
Don't be unconvinced, I really feel unconvinced, so I will go and kill a few emperors and princes like that General Xie.
There are people in Shaoliang City who are worried, probably because they don't know how to face that old sacrificial wine.
There is a town located in the territory of Chen State, the original size and scale is actually not much different from the Baiyu Town in the territory of the Great Zhou, the same is that there are few people, but since the town is not far from the town more than ten miles away from the dangerous peak built on the Wanbao Pavilion, this town in just twenty years, it has expanded the scale four times, each more than the other, and now, the town can no longer be said to be a small town, in the southeast of Chen State, there is the first important town. Among them, the people who come and go, from the original merchants and traders, to the current Jianghu martial artists, literati and ink writers. The magnitude of the change is staggering.
In the final analysis, it is natural that you can't escape the three words of Wanbao Pavilion.
Wanbao Pavilion was built on the Feixian Peak more than ten miles away from the town here, and it was only completed for more than 20 years, because of the unique landscape, as well as the rendering of a group of literati and ink writers, it has long been said that it is the place to watch the sunrise in Chen Guo, even if there are tens of millions, it is still the first choice to watch the sunrise in Wanbao Pavilion.
Named after the sunrise, the light of the sky comes out, just like the Wanbao Pavilion in the Pavilion of Wanbao Pavilion why was built on this Feixian Peak, is still a mystery, Feixian Peak has always been said to be the first of the ten dangerous peaks of Chen State, if someone wants to climb the Feixian Peak on weekdays, in addition to going to climb those rugged and difficult mountain roads, but also to walk on a suspension bridge with only one iron chain, just like this, it makes many tourists who want to come to Feixian Peak to take a look, except for those martial arts who are not bad at cultivating the rivers and lakes, if you want to walk through this iron chain safely, there are very few。
Those literati and writers who left poems to praise Feixian Peak, in fact, few of them have really climbed to see it, except for a scholar who fell off the list in his early years, on the way back to his hometown, passed through here, gritted his teeth and climbed over from this chain little by little, the rest of the scholars, few people have seen climbing Feixian Peak.
However, the down-and-out scholar was bold and talented, and the poem he wrote really failed to circulate, but it was a loss for him to climb such a trip to Feixian Peak.
Since Feixian Peak is so difficult to climb, why can someone build a pavilion on this dangerous peak, it is even more puzzling, how did those wood and stone materials be transported to the dangerous peak? It is said that someone once asked a well-known predecessor in the rivers and lakes, if he wants to take those timber up the mountain, can he walk up the dangerous peak, the predecessor of the rivers and lakes first thought for a moment, said that it is not difficult to just bring a piece of wood over, and then someone asked, if you carry a boulder weighing more than 1,000 catties, and then you didn't expect that the predecessor of the rivers and lakes should go away even if you brush your sleeves, which makes people look at each other at the same time, and really feel that the Wanbao Pavilion is really strange, after all, there are masters of the rivers and lakes who personally climbed the Wanbao Pavilion to see with their own eyes the construction of the pavilion used, there is really a boulder weighing more than 1,000 catties, so that, not only those ordinary people, but even those famous masters of the rivers and lakes when they went up to the Wanbao Pavilion to watch the scenery, they didn't dare to look at the furnishings in the pavilion wantonly.
There is such a kind of person above the martial arts, in fact, it is not a secret in Chen Guojianghu.
The gods on the mountain, know that there is, but you can see it with your own eyes, in fact, it is another thing.
But in any case, as a borderless place, Wanbao Pavilion is still not dilapidated under the current twenty years of reproduction, because it was built on the top of Feixian Peak.
Built on the top of Feixian Peak, there are few people here, and they know the hardships, so they don't dare to do anything.
The legend is still a legend, and this must not affect the tourists who want to come to Feixian Peak to watch the scenery, but most people can't climb the Feixian Peak, so they can only settle in that town.
The town has been lively for the past two days, after the winter solstice, the weather is getting colder, and the most things that appear in the market will not be other objects, but only those charcoal, although the town has been expanded four times, but how to build it has not built that simple folk style, the charcoal in the market is not expensive from beginning to end, so that ordinary people can afford it. As for those wealthy families, they probably don't think about whether they can finish it, and they often buy all the charcoal they need for the whole winter before winter comes, which makes those charcoal sellers carry large bags of charcoal around the town these days, although they are tired, but they always have a smile on their faces. After all, after these charcoal are sold, there is still a lot of silver, when the time comes to buy one or two hairpins at the right price in the market, I want to come back to the house, I can also bake a fire, eat a few delicious dishes fried by my daughter-in-law, if the daughter-in-law is happier, you can also drink a wine, in the evening, I can't say that the daughter-in-law has to work harder than in the past.
It's just that compared to these, the original intention of buying that hairpin is not so complicated, I just want to see the smiling face of my daughter-in-law, after all, it is my own daughter-in-law, how can I be treated badly?
Today's largest restaurant in the town has a storyteller storytelling, in the past to think about listening to a storyteller, how to have to order a few pots of wine on the second floor of the restaurant, eat a few dollars of silver, in addition, if you want to listen to a storyteller, you can only have a chance at the beginning and end of each month, that person to middle-aged has been blessed of the restaurant shopkeeper is very good at pondering people's hearts, know what is most important in this town, so only to make such two no threshold storytelling, because today do not want money, so the storyteller is rare from the second floor to the first floor, in the most spacious lobby on the first floor, gathered a group of drinkers, said to be drinkers, but in fact, really want to drink, there are few。 Most of them came for this storytelling. Mr. Storyteller is a middle-aged gentleman who is more than half a hundred years old, a washed and somewhat whitish robe dragged to the ground, still like the rest of the storytellers, a bench is placed in the center of the lobby, and then a large bowl, a bowl of wine in the bowl, after drinking the wine, he will never say more, if he wants to make an exception, if he buys the best wine in the ten jars of the restaurant in one go, then the shopkeeper of the restaurant will personally pour a bowl of wine for the storyteller, which is the so-called "additional field" Therefore, the big sip of wine that the storyteller has to drink before each lecture will definitely attract a lot of boos.
It's not the first time that Mr. Storyteller has heard it, so it's not taken seriously at all, on weekdays, there will be a commission from the shopkeeper, someone buys a few pots of wine, someone asks for a few dishes, in private, there is an account, and then according to what was said before, how to divide it, these things, the restaurant shopkeeper and the storyteller have actually said it a long time ago, so there are no other problems.
It's just that the one at the beginning of the month and the one at the end of the month, although there is still a bottom money, but there will be no money for drinks, and often it can't be said that it has not been finished before, so the storyteller can only open another short story, but he must strive to leave some unfinished words in addition to the two scenes at the beginning of the month and the end of the month.
It doesn't have to hang people's appetites, anyway, this month can't be finished, and there is next month.
As for whether the drinkers will be impatient to listen to the stories that ask for money, it is none of their business.
Mr. Storyteller leisurely while drinking while telling those stories, hand to hand, said very smooth, to the end of the wine to the bottom, Mr. Storyteller to get up, but suddenly someone in the crowd threw out a bag of money, said to buy ten jars of good wine, the restaurant shopkeeper and Mr. Storyteller looked at each other, and then picked up the bag of money, weighed it, felt that the weight was very sufficient, and then understood to pour a bowl of wine for Mr. Storyteller, and then Mr. Storyteller was in good spirits, smiled, and talked about the second half of the story.
As for the ten jars of good wine, they were distributed by the high-roller who spent a lot of money to everyone who came to listen to the book, but he really didn't drink a sip of it.
Before the drinkers were busy drinking, they saw the man, who was a young man in a green shirt, handsome, with a sword box on his back, it seemed that he should be a disciple of a wealthy family in the rivers and lakes, and everyone nodded to him, but the man just shook his head slightly, and did not say anything.
The man who sat with him was pale, and he didn't look very old, but he had a good knife hanging from his waist, and he still didn't forget to press the handle of the knife when he drank, so that the drinkers, who had just given birth to some thoughts, soon drowned all their little thoughts in the wine.
Most of the people on the rivers and lakes can't be provoked.
At least this kind of momentum is really unprovoked.
The man with the knife held a large bowl, and after drinking a small half sip of wine, he watched the wine bowl in his hand be snatched away by the man in the green shirt and placed in the distance. ”
Li Fuyao, who was carrying a sword box in a green shirt, and Xie Ying, a young man with a knife.
These two, if the head of any one of them was carried and thrown towards Huaiyang City, the person who kept it would have some unimaginable benefits and smash it on his head that day.
Li Fuyao, whose face was also a little pale, looked at Xie Ying's appearance, and couldn't help but quip: "If you really want to die, you don't have to walk out of the imperial study that day, tsk, now that I think about it, the way you pressed one hand on the door of the imperial study and held an oil lamp in one hand was really a little interesting, but it's a pity, I can only tell stories, if you are proficient in Danqing, I should draw a picture for you." ”
Xie Ying snorted coldly: "If you want a portrait, you also need that Dayu Danqing national hand to paint it!"
In this regard, Li Fuyao laughed and dismissed it.
Xie Ying lay on the table weakly, looked at Li Fuyao a little strangely, and asked in a low voice, "Why didn't you kill that King of Qi at that time?"
Li Fu was stunned for a moment, and then asked with a smile: "Then why do you want to kill King Liang?"
Xie Ying frowned, "You know, if King Liang sits on the throne, the border war will definitely be more difficult, so he must die, at least I think he deserves to die more than that Emperor Chen." ”
Li Fuyao smiled, "Since you think so, it is a normal thing for King Liang to die, but why did King Qi die, just because he was a monk?
Xie Ying looked serious, "But he's a monk!"
Li Fuyao retorted softly: "It was before, but it won't be in the future." In the future, the King of Qi is just an ordinary man, the husband of a woman, and the father of a child, if you want to talk about the difference, that is, those royal children may not know, because the King of Qi will definitely not tell them, after all, the Xun family needs the protection of a King Qi who is a monk, but this is enough. ”
Xie Ying was a little annoyed and said, "But you still haven't told me why you didn't kill King Qi." ”
Li Fu shook the corners of his mouth, "If I say that I can't do it, believe it or not, at that time, Princess Qi was standing aside, killing his husband in front of a woman, don't you think it's a little cruel? ”
Xie Ying turned his head and sandwiched a few peanuts, "Forget it, it's not wrong for you to do this anyway, I'm too lazy to fight with you, and when I return to the border army and drive all these fools back, I will stand at the head of Huaiyang City." ”
Li Fuyao smiled, "Your border army commander may not necessarily move north, after all, it is only Huaiyang City that is chaotic, not the border." The combat strength of the Chen army is still there, even if it retreats, it will obviously be a battalion step by step, and it will not leave you with an opportunity. ”
Xie Ying rubbed his temples and said helplessly: "There's no way, this army is not up to me." ”
Li Fuyao ate a few chopsticks and vegetables, and said with a smile: "It's not far away, just killing King Liang can make you climb a long way, besides, according to your current position, climb up, isn't it the top?"
"By the way, this kind of assassination, no matter what I think these days, it shouldn't be you who came in person, right, the martial artists of the rivers and lakes of the Great Zhou are really dead?"
Xie Ying's eyes were a little gloomy, he shook his head, and did not speak.
Li Fuyao did not ask.
The two waited for the story to come to an end, then stood up and left, and the shopkeeper of the restaurant personally sent it outside the restaurant, Li Fuyao quipped: "No matter how enthusiastic the shopkeeper is, he can't afford to buy wine, this wine is not cheap." ”
This made the rich shopkeeper smile bitterly.
Fortunately, after Li Fuyao said a few words, he left with Xie Ying and no longer stayed in this town.
According to Li Fuyao's thoughts, before leaving Chen Guo, go to the Wanbao Pavilion on the Flying Immortal Peak to have a look.
Of course, Xie Ying has no opinion on this, and he is actually a little happy to be able to ignore the border chaos that will be lost if he is not properly commanded in one or two battles for the time being.
Feixian Peak is more than ten miles away from this town, Li Fuyao went to rent an ox cart, did not ask for a groom, and the owner of the car shop was also free and easy, saying that there were also their people under Feixian Peak, as long as Li Fuyao paid enough deposit.
After paying the money and getting on the ox cart, Li Fuyao drove the ox cart to Feixian Peak slowly, Xie Ying really couldn't help it, saying that you Li Fuyao has no shortage of silver in his pocket, how can it be said that he made an ox cart.
Li Fuyao didn't refute, but asked with a smile how much Xie Ying's money was a month, and the latter opened his mouth and couldn't speak.
Before and after he joined the army, where did he manage this kind of thing, the Xie family is a famous family in the Great Zhou, not only is it quite prestigious on both sides of the rivers and lakes and the court, but also has a lot of business in hand, after all, a large family, if there is no money, how to raise it?
Therefore, Xie Ying has never worried about money since he was a child, so he really can't say anything in the face of Li Fuyao's question.
Li Fuyao didn't ask, but he drove this ox cart and came to the foot of Feixian Peak at dusk.
After checking the voucher with the guy at the car dealer and getting back the money, Li Fuyao, who was thinking about going up the mountain, was stopped by the guy and persuaded him a few times, saying that the mountain peak was steep, the mountain road was difficult to walk, and now it was dusk, I was afraid that I would not be able to reach the top of the mountain before dark, and it would be very dangerous at that time, so why not wait for tomorrow to climb the mountain again? In the final analysis, he felt that this young man would not be able to go to the Wanbao Pavilion.
Li Fuyao said a few words in harmony, but he didn't listen to him in the end anyway, and took Xie Ying to start climbing.
The mountain road is difficult to walk, and the weather is even cooler after the winter solstice, and the wind blowing at dusk is really cold.
Li Fuyao said with a smile as he walked: "I didn't meet a good season, if summer comes, tomorrow's sunrise will definitely look good, now that the winter solstice has passed, whether there is sunrise tomorrow is still to say." ”
Xie Ying tugged at the corners of his mouth behind him, and suddenly asked, "How does this mountain road compare to your sword mountain?"
Li Fuyao laughed and said: "Sword Mountain is much easier to walk than this, I just had bad luck to not be able to reach the top of the mountain." ”
Xie Ying smiled and said, "Expose your bottom, I really thought you went up!"
Li Fuyao smiled and didn't speak.
Xie Ying patted him on the shoulder behind him, and said with a smile: "It's okay, I won't stop treating you as a friend because of this." ”
Li Fuyao said kindly: "Then thank you General Xie." ”
Then Li Fuyao said with some regret: "I have known two people surnamed Xie in my life, and compared with the two of them, you are really 108,000 miles behind." ”
Xie Ying snorted coldly: "Who is the other one, find out Bibi!"
Li Fuyao didn't speak anymore, but tightened the sword box behind him, and looked down at the green shirt on his body.