Chapter 8: Hantan Lake (I)

The snow scattered on a blue lake at the end of the Danqi wooden corridor, gradually turning into ice water and merging with the surface of the lake. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 At the end of the info corridor is a bamboo building, and four armor soldiers are carrying a copper stove at the door, and the light of the fire at the furnace emits a trace of heat.

The group quickened their pace to the corner of the bamboo building, Jiang Yuan pointed to the boat not far away, and motioned for the four armor soldiers to carry the copper furnace to the boat at the ferry on the shore of the lake. Xiao Qian adjusted the armor on his body and led everyone to the boat by the lake in front. Su Yue and Chai Wuming stepped on the boat and placed around the copper furnace, and a heat wave came to their faces. The eaglet on the jade tassel flew happily in the cabin.

"Your Highness" Jiang Yuan took a cup of hot tea from the waiter behind him and handed it to King Xiaofu, and shouted respectfully, "Drink a cup of ginseng tea to drive away the cold"

Xiaofu Wang took the cup of hot tea from Jiang Yuan's hand, and the heat in the teacup came to his face. Looking back at Su Yue and the others beside the copper stove, there was a hint of concern in his tone, and said, "Hurry up and show tea to your adults." ā€

Two waiters brought out six cups of tea from the side room of the cabin, and walked quickly to Su Yue and the others, and everyone took the hot tea from the waiter's hands and held it with both hands. Jiang Yan picked up the teacup and brought it to his lips, and a warm current slowly flowed into his tongue and teeth. He watched Su Yue and the others holding the hot tea in their hands to keep warm, and coughed, "Su Qianhu, the cold air in the middle of winter in Luoyang shouldn't need to be Yanjing." ā€

Su Yue held the teacup in his right hand, and his left hand gently shook up and down on the flame at the copper stove. Suddenly, he heard Jiang Yuan calling him, and hurriedly replied, "Let His Highness and Lord Jiang laugh, although Yanjing is colder than Luoyang, but as soon as you enter the Fuwang Mansion, a chill will come." Chai Wuming and Ji Feng beside him both nodded, and the two of them also felt the bitter cold in the rockery of the Fuwang Mansion, especially the boats by the lake.

Xiao Qian, who was beside Jiang Yuan, drank all the hot tea in his cup and laughed, "You may not know that the place we are in now is not an ordinary lake, it is extraordinary. ā€

Su Yue and the others looked surprised, staring at Xiao Qian's lean face. Chai Wuming slowly handed the teacup in his hand to his mouth, took a sip, a hint of happiness flashed in his eyes, and said with a smile, "Really, what is the mystery of this lake?" Everyone on the boat shook slightly, the boat slowly sailed from the shore to the center of the lake, and the tongue of fire in the eight-ding copper furnace around the cabin spewed out along the lines of the furnace mouth, turning the snow petals falling in the air into hot gas, and the hull exuded bursts of heat to drive on the cold lake.

The little Fu King on the main throne closed his eyes slightly, his left hand supported his crooked head, and the hot tea in his right hand floated a trace of aroma around the tip of his nose, and his face was intoxicated. Sitting down, Jiang Yuan chuckled lightly, and said in a low tone, "Did Lord Chai pay attention to the surface of this lake when he got on the boat?"

"Lake" Chai Wuming turned his head to look out of the window of the boat, the sky was full of silver, but there was no snow on the lake, and he said, "This is the rumored Hantan Lake?" Outside the window of the boat, the lake water is clear and bottomless, and the snowflakes falling from the sky fall into the lake and melt into water immediately, and the end of the eye is the snow and the sky are one and the same.

"Brother Chai is really well-informed", Xiao Qian sat on the wooden chair, added a novice to his teacup, looked up at the eaglet flying happily on the top of the cabin, and said softly, "This lake is Hantan Lake, you should be careful, don't fall into the lake." ā€œ

"Hantan Lake?" Ji Feng looked confused, turned his head to Chai Wuming on the side and asked, "Is this lake so wonderful?"

Chai Wuming put down the teacup in his hand, turned his back to Jiang Zhen and Xiao Qian, his eyes stopped at the lake outside the window for a long time, his face sank, his tone was as usual, and he said softly, "The fourth brother doesn't know, there is a bitter cold place in the north of Mobei, frozen for thousands of miles of perennial snow, and there is a thousand years of cold ice under the snow-capped mountains. ā€œ

"Ah" Ji Feng heard this and said in a panic, "There is such a magical thing in the world. ā€œ

Su Yue looked at Ji Feng's surprised expression and smiled indifferently, "You are not an ordinary person, what are you worried about." His eyes swept over Jiang Yuan and Xiao Qian, who were two zhang away, and his gaze stayed on the face of Xiao Fu Wang on the main seat, Xiao Fu Wang still had his eyes closed, and the teacup in his right hand was filled with hot tea, and his face was expressionless.

He thought to himself, the old man at the door with a strange body has both cold ice fingers and lion roar skills and other tricks in the rivers and lakes, and there is a hidden West Sea magic "mountain stone ghost" in the rockery in the house, and there are thousands of years of cold ice in the lake at this moment. If someone else trespasses into the mansion, he will die in the rockery before he meets the government soldiers, let alone get close to this Hantan Lake.

This time, Su Yue and others were ordered to inspect the kings, and King Yan, as the brother of King Qing, was naturally easy to deal with, but King Fu had been operating Northern Xinjiang for more than ten years, and he was even more enveloped by the mysterious forces in the rivers and lakes. Su Yue's face was as usual, but his heart was already on pins and needles, so he had to force his mind, looked at Jiang Yuan in front of him, and sighed and said, "King Fu's Mansion is really unpredictable, Lord Jiang will definitely take a few good students of my brother to visit, and it is not in vain to come to Luoyang once." ā€œ

"Definitely... Surely" Jiang Yuan nodded and smiled, with a hint of mystery in his eyes, looking at Chai Wuming who was standing at the window.

"If you feel cold, I will order someone to bring the prepared velvet fur. Xiao Qian got up, walked to the door of the side room of the cabin, coughed lightly inward, and the four waiters in the side room walked out lightly holding a black velvet fur. He looked at the little Fu King who was in deep thought on the throne, and stepped forward and whispered in his ear, "Your Highness, you can also add a velvet fur, this lake is cold." ā€

"Very good. King Xiaofu relieved himself from his contemplation, looked at the velvet fur handed over by Xiao Qian, and saw the people in the cabin again, and said with a smile, "Everyone put it on, Hantan Lake is not a wasted name, and the lake is even more cold and biting when it is cold in winter." If you have any injuries in the Fuwang Mansion, I will have to go to Jinling to ask His Royal Highness the Crown Prince for guilt. ā€

"Yes," everyone smiled at each other, and took the velvet from the waiter's hand and draped it over his body. At this moment, Xiao Qian ordered the waiter to place the heater in the side compartment into the cabin, and the cabin, which was originally a little cold, suddenly seemed extremely warm.

Chai Wuming took the velvet fur, sat on the wooden chair by the window, his eyes still stayed on the lake outside the window, and his tone was a little more solemn, "It seems that this lake is very wide, and we haven't reached the shore yet." He wrapped his clothes tightly and picked up a cup of hot tea from the wooden table beside him and put it to his lips.

Suddenly, the eaglet in the air may feel a little hot, and flew to Chai Wuming's eyes and slapped the curtain on the window of the ship, and the slightest cold wind quickly filled in along the gap in the window.

The jade tassel in the velvet fur saw that the little eaglet was beating the curtain in front of Chai Wuming's eyes, and whistled gently, and the little eaglet could fly back to her shoulder and snuggle quietly. She looked at the cold wind blowing on Chai Wuming's slender cheeks, and said gently, "Second brother, are you okay?" ā€

Chai Wuming turned around, and the cold wind blew his long hair, floating on his shoulders. He looked at the eaglet on the shoulder of the jade tassel, and said in a flat voice, "It's okay, this wind is blowing, it will be more sober." ā€

The jade tassel looked up at the eaglet on her shoulder, and when she was looking at herself, she glared at it coldly. The little eagle seemed to understand a trace of its master, and sank its head, not daring to look directly into the eyes of the jade tassel. At this moment, in the curtain behind Chai Wuming, a trace of snowflakes flew in, and one or two snow petals fell on the wooden planks with the heat in the cabin and turned into speckled water droplets.

"It's so comfortable" After Ji Feng's slightly trembling body was draped in a heavy velvet fur, coupled with the newly moved stove, he began to stretch out, and his expression on his face was much calmer.

Jiang Qian came to Su Yue's side, sat on one side, and said with a gentle smile, "Fuwang's Mansion is not as good as Jinling, if Su Qianhu and your lords have anything uncomfortable, inform Jiang in time, and Jiang will take care of your trip to Luoyang on behalf of His Royal Highness." ā€

Su Yue smiled, looked at Jiang Yuan, and then moved his gaze to King Xiaofu, intertwined with King Xiaofu's deep gaze. said with a smile, "Everything is to fulfill the emperor's order, and I hope His Royal Highness will take care of it." ā€œ

"There... There" Xiao Fu Wang put the teacup in his hand on the wooden case aside, his gaze gradually turned soft, but his tone changed from the previous gentleness.

"Hahaha" Jiang Yuan smiled loudly, broke Su Yue's gaze, and said with joy on his face, "That's right, it is also the emperor's order for us to protect the northern frontier, and Su Qianhu will definitely inspect Luoyang well and give the emperor and the prince a satisfactory report." ā€

Su Yue hurriedly shifted his gaze to Jiang Yuan, nodded, and said respectfully, "Definitely, the lower official will truthfully return what he has seen and heard in Luoyang to the commander."

Xiao Fuwang got up from the main seat, walked to the middle, looked at Su Yue and the others, smiled, and said softly, "You must not be restrained, when you come to Fuwang's Mansion, you should be in Jinling Town, and you will never be visible to this king." ā€

"Your Highness" Su Yue clenched his hands into fists, his face became more respectful, and said lightly, "Five of us, Luoyang and his party are all arranged by His Highness and Lord Jiang. ā€œ

"Well... Good... Okay," Xiao Fu Wang said with a smile, "Su Qianhu and his entourage are ordered by the emperor to inspect the northern frontier, and the Fu Wangfu Mansion must take care of it wholeheartedly, you must not see this king, no matter what you encounter in Luoyang, you can find this king at any time." ā€

"Yes," Su Yue, Chai Wuming and others responded in unison.

"Five?" Xiao Fu Wang's eyes swept back and forth over the people in the cabin, with a trace of solemnity in his eyes, and asked softly, "Could it be that this king is wrong?"

Chai Wuming hurriedly stepped forward and explained, "Your Highness, my third brother Tong Ye is still on the official ship at Luoshui Wharf at the moment because he is not strong enough to drink... I hope you don't blame it. ā€

"I see" Xiaofu Wang stretched his eyebrows and laughed dryly, "Walking in the rivers and lakes, it is inevitable to be greedy for a cup or two, it doesn't matter, after landing on the shore, I will order someone to pick up Lord Tong." ā€

"Thank you, Your Highness," Su Yue, Chai Wuming and others saluted.

"I saw outside, and you saw outside again. Jiang Yuan stepped forward quickly and helped the four of them up.

Su Yue got up and looked at King Fu not far away, with a trace of worry in his eyes, and said softly, "King Fu has been guarding the northern frontier for more than ten years, and the Fu Wang's Mansion is even more in Luoyang, strategizing thousands of miles to save the northern frontier of the Ming Dynasty from war." Although the five of us were ordered to inspect, but when we first arrived in Luoyang, if there is anything inappropriate, I hope Your Highness will bear with us."

Chai Wuming, Ji Feng, and Yu Tassel beside Su Yue saluted again, "The five of us have just arrived in Luoyang, please take care of Your Highness."

"Definitely... Surely" King Xiaofu's gaze swept over everyone, stopped on Jiang Yuan, and motioned for him to help the four of them up.