Volume 1, Xiaoxiang Concubine Chapter 7, Xijiang Yue
Zhao Yanfa suddenly woke up from his sleep and opened his eyes!
The soggy morning sunlight crept in through the cracks in the window and shone on the head of the bed. Tiny dust is flying everywhere in the sun!
Everything that happened last night was a dream!
Zhao Yan moved, and his arm just touched a ball of soft and tight meat! He exclaimed in surprise and sat up from the bed!
The exclamation woke up the sleeping Liu Qianqian beside her, she rubbed her sleepy eyes and asked, "What's wrong Zhao Gongzi, is it a nightmare?"
Nothing that happened last night was a dream!
Zhao Yanfa was flustered, and his hand touched Liu Qianqian's towering and firm chest! Liu Qianqian chuckled: "It's not enough to do it seven times last night, do you want to learn my boudoir knife technique again in the morning!"
Zhao Yanfa hurriedly jumped out of bed, got dressed and ran out of Liu Qianqian's boudoir. Liu Qianqian stretched on the bed and yawned: "Isn't it like a person who walks in the Qinglou and doesn't recognize people when he puts on his pants!"
Zhao Yanfa pushed the door out and looked around. Fortunately, there were no people in the courtyard. If someone sees himself coming out of the lady's room a few days after the old man passed the door, it is really a thousand mouths that can't be explained!
Zhao Yan sent back to the room. As soon as I entered the door, I realized that something was wrong in the room. He clearly remembered that the quilt on the bed was placed on the left side when he left last night, but now it was facing right! Could it be that he has entered the thief?
Last night, Liu Qianqian dismissed his subordinates in order to "test the knife" with Zhao Yanfa and not be disturbed by others. Then the defense of the Lu Mansion will inevitably be lax last night, could it be that a thief took advantage of this opportunity to come in and steal something!
He hurriedly flipped through his things. The only thing he had was the treasure knife "Heavenly Dao" left to him by his father-in-law, Zhao Chou. Fortunately, the knife was still there, and he breathed a sigh of relief, secretly mocking himself if he was a bit of a soldier!
Sitting on the bed and silent for a long time, the picture of you and me last night with Liu Qianqian always lingered in my mind. Every time he thought about it, he felt very guilty in his heart! As the saying goes: A friend's wife, don't be bullied! But what he did was a friend's wife, and you're welcome!
Zhao Yanfa regretted it very much, if he could resist the temptation last night, he would not have made such a mistake! However, any normal man, in that environment, with a beautiful beauty in front of him, took the initiative to throw himself into his arms, who could really sit still and not mess up?
I remember that Guo Bodhisattva told the story of the upright gentleman Yanagi Hui in the Spring and Autumn Period, saying that he encountered a downpour on the road and ran to the broken temple to hide from the rain, and it happened that a young woman also came here to take shelter from the rain. In the middle of the night, the woman woke up from the cold, so she begged to sit in the arms of Yanagi Hui to ward off the cold. Naturally, Megumi Yanashita did not allow it, saying that it was no longer appropriate for a lonely man and a widow to be in the same room, and if he sat in my arms again, it would be even more immoral! The woman reasoned and said that the doctor was a sage and a noble character, so as long as he did not have evil thoughts, what did it matter, and so on. Yanagishita Hui no longer shirked, let the woman sit in her arms to keep warm, a night of heavy rain, Yanashita Hui hugged the woman in her arms, closed her eyes and listened, not moving.
At that time, Zhao Chouwu shook his head after hearing it and said that this story must have been compiled by later generations, if it is true, then Liu Xia Hui must be good at Longyang!
Liu Xia Hui is a saint, so naturally he can sit still and not mess up! But Zhao Yanfa is not a saint!
The more I thought about it, the more ashamed I felt, and it made him fidget. After thinking about it, Lu Fu can't stay any longer, how should he face it when Lu Xiqiao comes back one day!
He packed his things, asked for a pen and paper, wrote a letter, and left with a knife.
On the way out, I also met a few of Liu Qianqian's maidservants, who gave a blessing and asked Zhao Yanfa what he was doing? Zhao Yanfa said that he went out to go around, but the maidservants didn't ask much.
Until lunchtime, Liu Qianqian asked the maidservant to ask Zhao Yanfa to eat together. The maidservant called out a few times outside the door, but no one answered. The maid thought that he hadn't come back, so she pushed the door and went in, and saw the letter left by Zhao Yanfa on the table!
Zhao Yanfa's handwriting is radiant and timeless, but such beautiful words are like knives in Liu Qianqian's eyes, stabbing into her eyes and stinging her heart!
Sure enough, just like those people, she put on her pants and left! Liu Qianqian picked up the letter and put it on her slightly heaving chest! Just go, and she walked quietly, and she couldn't even say goodbye to me! Since you don't want to say goodbye, why do you still leave this letter, do you have to let people leave a memory for you!
A servant girl walked up to Liu Qianqian and said, "Madam, you have stewed the ginseng turtle soup in the kitchen, do you want to bring it to you to taste?"
"What to taste!" Liu Qianqian's eyes were horizontal, and her eyes were full of resentment and hatred: "My body is not empty, what to make up, pour it out for me and feed it to the dog!"
I don't know if the maid threw out the soup and fed it to the dogs, but at night, the neighbors around Lufu heard more than a dozen wolf dogs in the backyard of Lufu scratching the ground and howling for a night, and the next day they were all listless!
A fast horse was galloping on the main road of Kaifeng City, and the crowd of people who came and went saw that the horse was menacing, and they all scattered to both sides, making way for the middle to make way for a road. Immediately a young man in Tsing Yi, who looked like he was in his twenties, with a handsome appearance, but there was a red mark on his face, his hair was messy, and his Tsing Yi was also stained!
One person and one horse are very fast, and they disappear from everyone's sight in a blink of an eye!
Zhao Yanfa was sitting at a street stall eating noodles. Although he left Lufu, he had not gone far and had been wandering around Kaifeng City. The fast horse galloped past, kicked up a cloud of dust, and landed on his sunny face!
He was just about to have a seizure, but he heard the two people on the table next to him saying, "Isn't this the boss Qingfeng of the six entourages of the 'Xijiang Yue' of the Lu Mansion?"
Another person said: "Didn't you hear that the six followers of their 'Xijiangyue' followed 'He Wo Wu Wu' to Qingzhou to visit the deceased? Why did they come back so quickly, or alone?"
Hearing the words of the two, Zhao Yanfa raised his head and looked at the one person and one horse who were gradually moving away, feeling that he really felt like the sixth entourage of the Lu Mansion who had only had a relationship with him, Qingfeng!
After spending a few days with Jingque in the middle of the night, Zhao Yanfa learned that they were all one of the six entourages named "Xijiangyue" under Luxiqiao. The six entourages are the war-torn orphans adopted by Luxiqiao over the years, and Luxiqiao taught them martial arts and calligraphy. Luxiqiao admired Xin Qiji, the lyricist of the Song Dynasty, and named them with Xin Qiji's famous "Xijiang Moon", which is famous through the ages, which are: Bright Moon, Don't Branch, Surprise Magpie, Breeze, Midnight, Singing Cicada!
Lu Xiqiao gave them a surname according to their names, so they were called Yao Mingyue, Liu Beizhi, Lin Jingque, Mu Qingfeng, Xiao Midnight and Xia Mingciao!
The one next to him said, "Seeing that Qingfeng is in a hurry, is something wrong?"
Another person said: "Eat well first, if something really happens, you can't escape the ears of the people in Kaifeng City!"
Zhao Yanfa's heart was cold, Lu Xiqiao treated him well, and he was friendly with Jingque, Midnight and Mingyue, if something really happened, he would definitely go to the rescue. But in order to avoid Liu Qianqian, he had just escaped from Lufu, and it would be inappropriate to go back at this time. Originally, he wanted to leave Kaifeng today, continue to go north, and prepare for the uprising, but if this kind of thing happened, he stayed in Kaifeng for a few more days to listen to the news, if it was really Lu Xiqiao and others who had an accident, he would definitely help!
Sure enough, within a few hours, the entire Kaifeng City heard the news. That man's guess is correct, there is really an accident at Luxi Bridge, and this matter is not small, if it is really investigated, but it will lose its head! That is, Luxi Bridge is related to Qin Shuyuan, the leader of the "Jianghu People" Righteous Army in Shandong, and the silver and grain and grass of the "Jianghu People" Righteous Army are all supplied by Luxi Bridge!
This time, Lu Xiqiao said that he went to Qingzhou to visit the old man, but he actually went to send silver taels to the "Jianghu people" rebels. It is said that the two sides agreed to meet in Jinan Mansion, and the "Jianghu people" righteous army came to Jin Shaoyou, a military advisor known as the "wise man with a thousand considerations", and Yue Qunshan, one of the "five saints" under the command of Qin Shuyuan. When the two sides were handing over, a group of court officers and soldiers suddenly appeared around and captured everyone, and Qingfeng took advantage of the chaos to escape!
It is said that Yan Dakai, the guard of Jinan Mansion, is ready to behead the thieves to show the public as an example!
Zhao Yanfa's heart sank, Luxiqiao is really a chivalrous man, although he is far away in Kaifeng, Henan, but he is not far away to Shandong to personally send silver two to Qin Shuyuan's righteous army, such a righteous river, it really makes Zhao Yanfa embarrassed! He finally understood why Luxiqiao has been looking for flowers and willows all these years, and likes women, but he can still make the entire Kaifeng City admire!
Zhao Yanfa has always felt sorry for Luxiqiao, Luxiqiao treats him well, so this is his chance to repay his kindness!
Late at night, on the desolate avenue, the moonlight is bleak and inaccessible!
Zhao Yanfa rode the black horse that Xiao Qingshan gave him, holding a jar of wine in his arms, standing in the middle of the avenue, one person and one horse, under the bleak moonlight, arrogant and lonely!
The sound of horses' hooves came from far and near, breaking the rare silence and desolation of the night. A team of about 100 people galloped on this desolate ancient road!
The people and horses gradually approached, Zhao Yanfa drove the horse forward, crossed the road, and pulled out the treasure knife in his hand, the white blade emitted a bleak light in the cold moonlight, like Liu Qianqian's snow-white body!
There were people in front of the team meeting, and they all slowed down, and they were the first one, dressed in green clothes, with a cold and handsome appearance, it was the eldest brother Qingfeng of the six entourages of "Xijiangyue" under Luxi Bridge!
Qingfeng held a long sword in his hand and shouted loudly under the moon, "Who is the hero in front of you, and why are you stopping on the way down?"
Zhao Yanfa replied loudly: "Brother Qingfeng, go slowly, I'm Zhao Yanfa!"
Hearing the words "Zhao Yanfa", Qingfeng's eyes lit up, and he grabbed the reins and stopped the horse, and the people behind him also stopped the horse! Qingfeng drove the horse slowly to Zhao Yanfa, his face full of joy: "Brother Zhao, I can be regarded as having found you, the master has been arrested, I went back to the house and wanted to ask you for help, but I heard that Mrs. said that you have left!"
Zhao Yanfa said: "I have heard about Lord Lu, Lord Lu is as kind to me as a mountain, I want to go to Jinan Mansion with you to save Lord Lu this time!"
Qingfeng shed tears excitedly: "Brother Zhao is chivalrous, Qingfeng has thanked the master here!" He pointed to the people behind him and said: "These are all chivalrous people in Kaifeng City, I heard that the old man was in trouble, and he came to help!"
"Okay!" Zhao Yanfa immediately stabbed and shouted loudly: "Everyone is a chivalrous man, Lu Daxia was arrested this time because of chivalrous righteousness, since everyone is here, they must also have the determination to die, Zhao has a jar of wine here, I want to drink it with you!"
Everyone got off the horse and gathered together, Zhao Yanfa had just opened the wine seal, and Qingfeng suddenly said: "Since everyone is here to save the lord this time, and the chivalrous heart can be learned from the world, then why don't you make a blood alliance here, form brothers of the opposite sex, and live and die together!"
Zhao Yanfa felt that this matter was very good, so he asked everyone's opinions. A group of people and others all got together to save Luxi Bridge, but Qingfeng was the first to look forward! But seeing that Qingfeng had a lot of respect for Zhao Yanfa, he naturally respected him, and they all said yes!
Zhao Yanfa first cut his fingers and dripped blood into the wine jar, followed by Qingfeng, and then the rest of the people. Zhao Yanfa asked Qingfeng: "Since ancient times, there has been a name for righteousness, such as the righteousness of Liu Guan and Zhang Taoyuan of the Three Kingdoms, the forty-six righteousness of Jiajialou of the Great Sui, and the righteousness of Xiao Qiushui Shenzhou in the previous dynasty, should we also have a name for this righteousness?"
Qingfeng thought for a while and said, "We are all from Henan, Henan has been called the land of the Central Plains since ancient times, why don't we call it 'Central Plains Alliance' this time?"
"Okay! What a 'Central Plains Alliance'!" Zhao Yanfa laughed, picked up the wine jar and took a sip, and said: "This time the situation is urgent, don't burn incense for the time being to inform the emperor of the queen of heaven, everyone drinks this jar of wine first, and then burns incense and prays when the hero rescues the way, and officially settles the righteousness!"
And all the people took the jar of wine, and each of them drank all the blood and wine in the jar in one gulp. Zhao Yanfa shouted loudly: "This time, I will definitely set foot in Jinan Mansion and rescue the hero!"
A cadre of people are all people from the rivers and lakes, people in the martial arts, strong in blood, and the lord of righteousness, hearing Zhao Yanfa's shouting, coupled with the stimulation of alcohol, everyone is angry and morale is high!
"Let's go, brothers of the Central Plains, come with me to save the road hero!" Zhao Yanfa shouted and drove his horse forward, the breeze followed, and a group of people also followed, and more than 100 people gradually disappeared into the night of the ancient road!
Zhao Yanfa didn't know that this seemingly hurried farce of the "Central Plains Alliance" completely changed his life!
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The night is very quiet, and it is even quieter in the broken temple. Xiao Qingshan and Yang Wenyuan held their breath, clenched their weapons, and were ready to strike at any time. The roar of the white horse outside the temple became more and more urgent, and the two of them vaguely heard someone shouting for help outside! Yang Wenyuan held the ground with his hand, and carried the mental method of "Hidden Six Senses", and found that there was a team of soldiers and horses running towards the broken temple not far away!
"Someone was chased and killed!" Before Yang Wenyuan finished speaking, Xiao Qingyi had already jumped up from the Buddha statue and jumped out of the window. Yang Wenyuan sighed secretly: This kid's light skills are really powerful, like a ghost, the dragon sees the head and the tail!
The two came to the temple gate one after the other, and a team of soldiers and horses was faintly visible in the moonlight, and the soldiers and horses were a galloping teenager before, with a wound on his thigh, and the blood stains on his pants had dried, and he limped towards the broken temple, calling for help!
"Is it someone from the imperial court?" Yang Wenyuan asked Xiao Qingshan. Xiao Qingshan shook his head, didn't speak, and rushed over. Yang Wenyuan followed.
The young man who was running wildly was already wounded in the leg, and was pursued by a group of soldiers and horses, and he ran without strength, could no longer support it, and fell to the ground. He looked up and saw the ruined temple, and tears rained down: "Buddha, the world says that you love all living beings, and you love to punish evil and promote good in your life, why did they kill me in front of your temple this time, and you didn't come out to save me!"
The sound of horses' hooves got closer and closer, and a team of soldiers and horses had come behind the young man, who knew that his life was not guaranteed, and closed his eyes: "Buddha, go to the west and talk to you about whether you will die or not!"
"The gods and Buddhas are just clay sculptures, it is better to believe in himself than to believe in him!"
A cold and handsome voice sounded in his ears, and a clear shadow fell in front of him, picked him up with one hand, and threw him backwards. Yang Wenyuan took a step forward, caught the young man, gently put him on the ground, and said, "It's okay, we're here to save you!"
The young man was overjoyed when he saw Xiao Qingyi appear like a ghost, a green coat came out of the dust under the moonlight, and Yang Wenyuan was dressed in white like snow: "It was Guanyin Bodhisattva who came down to save me!"
Xiao Qingshan looked back at the young man and said to Yang Wenyuan: "Wenyuan, take a good look at his brain, is he kicked by a horse!"
Yang Wenyuan was amused by his words, and the young man looked at Yang Wenyuan suspiciously, and asked, "Aren't you bodhisattvas?"
Yang Wenyuan shook his head and said, "There are people in the world who have the heart of a bodhisattva, but I haven't seen a real bodhisattva yet!"
Xiao Qing's shirt was long and swordsman, blocking in front of a team of soldiers and horses. A team of soldiers and horses is about a dozen people, heavily armoured, armed with spears, all fierce and vicious. The first person shouted: "We are the vanguard under the command of Yan Dakai, the guard general of Jinan Prefecture, and we are ordered to arrest the anti-thieves of the 'Jianghu people'!
This time, it was Xiao Qingshan's turn and Yang Wenyuan to be taken aback, looked at the lame young man in unison, and asked, "Are you the rebel army of the 'Jianghu people'?"
The young man was frightened by the gaze of the two, and nodded in horror: "I am one of the five saints of the 'Jianghu people', and the 'Silver Axe' Yue Qunshan Hero is a volunteer army!"
A few days ago, after Xiao Qingshan and Yang Wenyuan met Xiao Yanyu and joined his command, Xiao Yanyu briefly introduced the structure of the "Jianghu people" rebel army to the two, the commander of the rebel army is Qin Shuyuan, needless to say, there are five small commanders under Qin Shuyuan, called "five saints", namely "Xiaoxiang Concubine" Xiao Yanyu, "Silver Axe" Yue Qunshan, "Iron Fist Invincible" Zheng Qingping, "Divine Arrow" Lin Zeming and Liu Wuya.
In addition to Xiao Yanyu, these five people were all famous heroes of the rivers and lakes, after Qin Shuyuan rebelled in Shandong, founded the "Jianghu people", several people came to admire, and made great contributions to the "Jianghu people", and was given the name of "Five Tiger Generals" by Qin Shuyuan's relatives, but Xiao Yanyu is a woman, and it is a little inappropriate to call it a "tiger general", so it was changed to "Five Sages"!
Liu Wuya is recognized as the head of the "Five Sages", his martial arts are strong, if he is serious, even Qin Shuyuan is not an opponent. In addition to Qin Shuyuan and the "Five Sages", there is also a military advisor "Wise Man Thousand Thoughts" Jin Shaoyou, who has been familiar with military books since childhood, and is well versed in the art of war.
These seven people are the seven commanders of the "Jianghu people", and there are also small commanders such as the fire head army, the grain supervisor, and the vanguard guard, so I won't repeat them one by one!
Xiao Qingshan and Yang Wenyuan smiled together: "Since it is the rebel army of the 'Jianghu people', it is not an outsider, it is the right rescue!"
The young man was startled, looked at Yang Wenyuan, and asked, "Are you too?"
Xiao Qingshan raised his knife and pointed at the sky, shouting loudly: "Xiao Qingshan is here under the command of the 'Jianghu people' rebel army 'Xiaoxiang Concubine'!"
The officers and soldiers were furious and shouted: "It turns out that they are all in a gang, and it is not fun to kill one of his brothers, and killing two more will also make us sullen in our hearts!"
drove the horse straight in, thinking that Xiao Qingshan was coming!
The young man was frightened by this situation, turned around and asked Yang Wenyuan: "Aren't you going to help him? How can he handle so many officers and soldiers alone?"
"It's okay!" Yang Wenyuan smiled slightly: "These people are not enough for him to kill alone!"
The boy turned his head back to look at the battlefield and let out a low roar in his throat. I saw that the dozen or so officers and soldiers all fell under their horses, and there was a blood mark on their throats, which emitted a strange light under the moonlight!
The officer and soldier at the head were still on horseback, but his legs were shaking with fright, and he was in a cold sweat. The young man in Tsing Yi in front of him has a strange body, and his knife technique is even more weird. Just now, he was like a ghost in the crowd, and all the officers and soldiers under him fell to the ground. This is definitely not a human, but a ghost, a murderous demon from hell, a bloodthirsty Shura!
"Ghost!" The officer and soldier screamed, grabbed the reins of the horse and turned around to escape, Xiao Qingyi rose and fell, the man screamed, fell from the horse's back, and there was a blood mark on his throat!
Xiao Qingshan stood in the center of the corpse, stretched out his hand to wipe the blood on the knife, put the knife back into its sheath, and said, "Wen Yuan, come and lead the horse, just go back and bring it to General Qin!"
Yang Wenyuan and him led more than a dozen horses of officers and soldiers and tied them outside the ruined temple, helped the injured young man into the temple, and gave him medicine for his wounds. Yang Wenyuan gave him a few pieces of dry food, and the young man was obviously hungry, so he devoured the dry food.
Xiao Qingshan asked him: "How did you get hunted down by these officers and soldiers? Could it be that the general has started to act again?"
The boy chewed a few bites of the food in his mouth and swallowed it, choking on his throat and coughing uncomfortably. Yang Wenyuan handed him a bowl of water, and the young man took a sip and swallowed the food before slowly speaking: "The two young heroes probably just joined Concubine Xiao's command, and they don't know about my 'Jianghu people'. This matter also starts with an old friend of General Qin in Henan. The old friend's name is Luxi Bridge, and he is a famous hero in Kaifeng, Henan, and he has a lot of money. He and General Qin have known each other since they were young, and their love is deep, and later General Qin raised the banner of rebellion in Shandong, and Lu Daxia admired it in his heart, so he proposed to use his family property to fund the living of the rebels, and agreed to hand over in Jinan Mansion every three months, so it has been a year. ”
"This time it was the day of the handover of military salaries, General Qin sent Jin Junshi and Yue Daxia to dock, but unexpectedly Tusheng changed, and the handover was known by Yan Dakai, the guard of Jinan Prefecture, and personally led the troops to capture the two teams of men and horses and send them to the prison. I was desperately escorted by Yue Daxia to escape, in order to report the news of the Qingzhou General Association, but I was unexpectedly discovered by them and chased all the way to this point!"
Xiao Qingshan and Yang Wenyuan were both shocked. Although the two of them have not yet gone to see Qin Shuyuan, they are already members of the "Jianghu people". The matter of "Jianghu people" is the matter of two people, and they must not be ignored. Xiao Qingshan immediately said: "This matter can't be delayed, you must go to Qingzhou to inform General Qin, and let him send troops to rescue, like this!" He looked at the young man: "After you are full, you will ride the horse outside the door, no matter how far away, you must return to the 'Jianghu People' Association before tonight and inform General Qin of this matter." You have injuries on your body, and you shouldn't have go, but only you know the location of the 'Jianghu People' Association, so you have to go, can you?"
The boy nodded and asked, "What about the two of you?"
Xiao Qingshan said: "The two of us will immediately leave for Jinan Mansion to inquire about the whereabouts of the Jinjun Division." The court will show no mercy to the rebels, and will definitely behead them to show the public as an example to the world, and if something happens, our two brothers can also adapt to the situation!"
The young man had just seen Xiao Qingshan's martial arts, and knew that what he said was true, so he nodded and agreed, and after eating the dry food, he said goodbye to the two, rode a fast horse, and disappeared in front of the broken temple!
Yang Wenyuan also settled the horses he snatched from the officers and soldiers, chose one for Xiao Qingshan, and rode the white horse, the two of them were black and white, taking advantage of the moonlight, to run towards Jinan Mansion!
The boy rode through the night, leaving behind the dead trees on either side. The night breeze was slightly cool, blowing his hair, he grabbed the reins, thinking of the two teenagers he had just seen in his mind, and smiled slightly at the corner of his mouth: "'Jianghu people' should be very interesting with the two of them, and when this matter is over, I must drink with them and be friends!"
The boy thought, not looking at the situation on either side. A dark shadow lurked on a dead tree not far away. Seeing the young man galloping towards him, the black shadow roared sharply and swooped down. With a cold flash in his hand, the young man turned over and fell off the horse, his throat was already blood-red! The wish of drinking and being friends with Xiao Qingshan and Yang Wenyuan never had a chance to come true!
The black shadow leaned on his horse, pulling the reins, a soft sword in his hand flashing with cold light, and the blade was blood-red. Under the moonlight, I saw that he was a young man in black, with fair skin, bloodless, and a handsome face that looked particularly weird. He rode on horseback, looked at the young man's corpse and laughed: "After three years of practice, how much suffering I have suffered, my trick of 'falling from the sky and taking people's heads' has finally been perfected!
In the night, the strange young man in black was as happy as a child!
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