Chapter 41: The Prince and the Ruffian (I)
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Li Feng blinked his eyes, smiled and took a few steps back, reached Xiao Lizi's side, and got out of the way. He hummed in a low voice: "Alas, how can you run around the city on a horse in broad daylight? What if you hurt those big girls? Even if you can't hit the big girl, it's not good to hit the little girl." When the little girl grows up, maybe she will be a big beauty, what a pity. ”
Storm's voice was soft, but just enough for the knights to hear clearly. Hearing what Li Feng muttered in his mouth, the young man with a dark complexion and a mountain-like body suddenly stepped forward, and the sword in his hand slammed into Xiao Lizi's shoulder. He laughed loudly: "Ha, Xiao Lizi, you are finally willing to go back to Yanjing? The scenery in the south is good, right? Well, who is this?
After saying that, the young man pressed his sword on Li Feng's shoulder, and looked at Li Feng up close condescendingly. Li Feng glanced at the scabbard pressed on his shoulder, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart: "Damn, the sword body is four fingers wide, and it is five feet long." If this sword is slashed, it can kill at least a cow. "The scabbard of this sword is polished in brass, and it can be seen that it has been used for a long time, and there are marks everywhere, and there is no decoration on it. The sword, the scabbard, and the heavy wrist strength of the young man were a great pressure.
Li Feng's body immediately fell to the ground, and he hugged his right shoulder and howled: "It's over, I've killed someone, my bones are broken." Xiao Lizi, hurry up and get a doctor for me, otherwise I'm really going to die. ”
The knights were stunned, and the young man didn't seem to have imagined that Li Feng was such a reliant figure, his eyes wandered for a while, he laughed loudly, didn't say anything, and drove the horses away. The white-faced, thin-skinned young general behind him sneered, glanced at Li Feng with disdain, clamped his legs slightly, and immediately took small steps and ran after sitting down.
Xiao Lizi sighed at this time, shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Oh, I have obeyed you, and the Second Highness was actually fooled by you like this." But you have to be careful, if you are beaten by His Royal Highness just now, then there will be no follow-up. Now that you let His Royal Highness and that Murong Tian worry about it, you will have a lot of fun, and you will definitely have your rights and wrongs in the future. You have to be careful, the Second Highness is recognized as the number one master in the army, that Murong Tian is the number one swordsman in Yanjing, and their subordinate generals are as good as a cloud, just find a few people, you can beat your nose and face swollen. ”
Li Feng jumped up, looking at Xiao Li Zi very unhappily and shouting: "Hey, Xiao Li Zi's father-in-law, we are at least all the way, right? Why are you talking to others and extinguishing the prestige of my Li Feng master......? Eh, of course, we are all our own people, so it's best not to hurt the harmony. After a pause, Li Feng said very insidiously: "However, could it be that these two highnesses openly challenge the subordinates of the shopkeeper, and the shopkeeper is not angry at all?"
Xiao Lizi took a sip and shouted with a shrill voice: "In the future, you will call me Director Li, and you are not allowed to call me Xiao Lizi." This is the name that can only be called by the master, and you are now my subordinate, how can you call it indiscriminately?...... The master is naturally not happy that His Second Highness is asking for trouble from the people in our house, but if His Royal Highness wants to do this, what can we do?"
Li Feng directly pointed out the most critical part of the problem: "How many soldiers and horses does the shopkeeper have? If the shopkeeper has a large number of soldiers and horses, then there is no need to be afraid of the Second Highness, right?"
Xiao Lizi was silent, and walked towards the front for more than a hundred zhang, only then did he sigh faintly, like a resentful woman in the deep palace: "The prince has assigned some soldiers and horses to the master, which is enough for a guard. ”
Li Feng's eyebrows were raised, and he asked, "How many people are Yiwei?"
Xiao Lizi smiled bitterly: "One guard, between five thousand and five thousand five hundred...... But just that Murong Tian kid, the soldiers and horses under his command have six guards, and the army directly under His Second Highness has ten guards. In the entire fiefdom of King Yan, in addition to the prince's own army, His Royal Highness has the most soldiers and horses, especially the 'Iron Army' led by His Second Highness is the most elite army under all King Yan now. ”
Xiao Lizi shook his head, looked at Li Feng with a rare more concerned look and said, "After all, you are now a person in our mansion, and my father-in-law Li doesn't want you to be beaten into a dead pig and thrown into a stinky ditch, so be careful yourself." Don't go to the huddle in Willow Lane, Flower Street, follow the master, then there will be no trouble, otherwise you will be careful to be the same as the cousin of the Dugu Commander, who just came down from Changbai Mountain to join the master, and was found by Murong Tian, but was shattered by the sword qi and shattered the right wrist vein, and became a waste for the rest of his life. ”
Li Feng hurriedly handed it over: "This depends on Director Li's care in the future." There are a lot of things I don't understand, master, and I have to rely on you to give me more guidance. After speaking, as soon as Li Feng handed it away, a thumb-sized sapphire was stuffed into Xiao Lizi's hand.
Xiao Lizi was stunned for a moment, looked down at the things in his hand, and suddenly his whole face smiled as bright as a spring flower. He put the gem into his arms with a smile, and said with a smile: "Zhong, we are all the master's people, I don't take care of you, who takes care of you?" In short, you will remember one sentence in the future, don't provoke the people of the Second Highness, especially don't provoke the Second Highness, you can walk sideways in Yanjing City, hehe." ”
After thinking for a while, Xiao Lizi whispered: "Actually, Xiao Lizi, I also know in my heart that it is not easy for a person like you to ask for money? Isn't what you're asking for an official position? I know this in my heart, and if I have the opportunity, I will find you an official position. With your brother's skills, it is not a problem to be a general under King Yan. ”
Li Feng nodded and thanked Xiao Lizi, and continued to follow him towards King Yan's mansion. At this time, he had free time to think about the problem: "Obediently, under King Yan, not counting the number of troops directly under him, there are more than 16 guards and 80,000 people under the command of His Second Highness. God, I heard that the prince of our land has only an army of more than 10,000 people, and the rest are soldiers of the imperial court. This King Yan, why is he raising so many troops? Especially if he is so elite, could it be that he wants to rebel and can't do it? It's not right, the current emperor is his Lao Tzu, what did he do to make his Lao Tzu instead?"
Just thinking about it, Xiao Lizi had already led Li Feng to a mansion that occupied a huge area, and at the gate, there were more than three hundred ironclad warriors on both sides, and hanging from their waists were all the kind of guys who went to the battlefield with a sword and a knife that could split a buffalo, but not the kind of saber that Li Feng has now in his hand that is two fingers wide and more than three feet long. Seeing Xiao Lizi and Li Feng approaching the gate, the eyes of those strong men looked over at the same time, Rao is Li Feng knew that none of these strong men could threaten him, and he was still involuntarily chilled by their cold murderous aura.
Li Feng suddenly woke up, and when Fang Cai and the Second Highness looked at each other, it was not that the Second Highness's skill was higher than that of Li Feng at all, but it was really because the evil qi on his body was too heavy, and his evil qi and the breath of Li Feng collided with each other, which made Li Feng have to turn his head.
Xiao Li Zi didn't care much about these iron-clad warriors, he took out a gold medal from his hand, shook it casually, and said softly: "I am from His Royal Highness's mansion, and I came to find Gonggong Lu." This is a new recruit from our Highness, and we will add a name. ”
A black-faced man with a helmet and armor and a Yanling knife weighing at least thirty pounds at his waist strode over, looked at Xiao Lizi carefully, and then laughed: "Gonggong Li, you have been out for half a year, and your face is almost as black as my Lao Du, no wonder I didn't recognize you all of a sudden...... Hey, boy, put the sword down, and you follow Gonggong Li in. ”
Li Feng obediently left the Longquan sword in the gatehouse, and followed Xiao Lizi into the mansion from the side door. Entering the Yanwang Mansion, Li Feng found that there were three steps and one post, five steps and one sentry, and the patrol team of ten people was wandering back and forth, and the reflection of arrows was flashing in the flowers, and the guard was extremely strict. Xiao Li Zi whispered without looking back: "Be careful, don't look around, follow my father-in-law." One wrong step here is a dead word, but be careful. ”
Li Feng didn't take it seriously, and deliberately stepped into the flower garden on the side of the road, picking a small flower branch to pick out his teeth. Immediately, Li Feng felt that the qi of seven masters locked on him, and one of them turned out to be a terrifying person who had no longer entered the innate realm, and his qi was like a butcher's knife, making the skin on Li Feng's neck tremble wildly. Li Feng was slightly startled in his heart, and honestly returned to the path in the flower garden, following closely behind Xiao Lizi.
As soon as Li Feng returned to the path, the qi of the seven people disappeared without a trace, and Li Feng didn't have time to use his divine thoughts to find out their location. A trace of cold sweat oozed from Li Feng's forehead, and he warned himself: "There are countless masters in the world, but you must be careful." If you don't use spells, just those seven people can beat me into a dead dog in the blink of an eye. ”
Honestly followed Xiao Lizi in the courtyard of the house for half an hour, bypassing the courtyard of the fifth or sixth floor, and after three inspections, they came to a side courtyard with a black iron gate. There were two benches in front of the courtyard gate, and more than a dozen middle-aged eunuchs were sitting there bored and talking nonsense, looking at their big red eunuch robes and large pieces of jasper inlaid on their hats, they all thought that they were a group of big eunuchs with status and power.
And around the courtyard, it is no longer the soldiers in the courtyards in front of them who are wandering back and forth, but the big men wearing brocade clothes and embroidered with python dark flowers on their clothes. Xiao Lizi gestured proudly, and said with a smile: "Eh, Brother Lifeng, this is where Lu Gonggong is fair to deal with affairs." Eh, I can tell you, here, is the office of the personal guard of the prince and his old man, and we ourselves call it 'Jinyi Wei'. Every one of these 'brocade guards' is a good hand, and the one in charge is our father-in-law. Eh, there's no way, the prince and his old man only believe us. Hey hey ......"
Xiao Lizi didn't say it completely, this 'Jinyi Guard' is a spy organization around Emperor Taizu, and King Yan called these guards around him 'Jinyi Guard', and his intentions can be known. This Yan Wang's 'Jin Yi Wei', in terms of institutional structure, is exactly the same as the 'Jin Yi Wei' in the court, the only difference is that the 'Jin Yi Wei' here can only be majestic in the fief of Yan Wang.
Li Feng let out an 'oh' sound: "Jinyiwei? Tsk, look at the clothes they are wearing, this is not a small cost, right?" Li Feng began to feel sorry for the silver that those brocade guards spent on dressing.
Xiao Li Zi snorted lightly: "How much silver is this? Songjiang Mansion is in our prince's fiefdom, how much brocade do you want? By the way, father-in-law, I think we are all masters and remind you that if Father-in-law Lu wants to see your martial arts, then you have to show it with all your might. If Gonggong Lu is happy to see it, the position for you will be higher, and it will be more convenient to walk to the inner mansion at that time, understand?"
Li Feng nodded again and again, and said with a smile: "This is natural, this is related to my own future, I don't take it seriously, isn't it stupid?
Xiao Li Zi glanced at the wind and scolded in a low voice: "The guards in the four palaces of His Royal Highness, all of them are named here, if it weren't for Gonggong Lu, how could they come here to make up their names? It's true that we are the subordinates of our master, but isn't our master the son of the prince?
Li Feng suddenly said: "In addition to protecting those princes, we also have to monitor the people." But what do the common people have to keep an eye on? The chaos caused by a hundred ordinary people may not be as big as the chaos caused by a martial arts person. ”
Xiao Lizi felt that it was too difficult to explain these complicated issues to Li Feng, so he didn't bother to say anything, and walked straight to the black iron gate. The eunuchs at the door saw that Xiao Li Zi was approaching, and hurriedly stood up, and said with a smile: "Oh, Brother Li is back? This time, I went out with His Royal Highness, but I played hard for a while, right? Oh, Brother Li, you are comfortable and tight, where is it like us, stay here all day long, and it is rare to go out of the courtyard once...... Oh, Brother Li, you're so polite. ”
Li Feng saw Xiao Lizi grinning and took out the silver tickets one by one, and blatantly stuffed them into the sleeves of those eunuchs. Immediately, the eunuchs' enthusiasm for Xiao Lizi increased by three points, and the old eunuch who took the lead with a dusty hand in his hand said with a smile: "Eh, there hasn't been anything big in the house recently. That is, the prince forcibly took a people's girl outside for the sake of His Royal Highness, and he was very angry behind his back, and other things are not worth noting. ”
Li Feng let out a long breath, and said secretly in his heart: "These guys who don't have eggs are really unreliable, and no one dares to betray them." This thing that King Yan is angry with behind his back, they dare to take it out and say that the silver is really infinitely powerful, and anyone will be smashed down...... However, how did Xiao Lizi know that they would get the news when they gave them the money? Could it be that this is not the first time for them?"
A group of eunuchs were playing haha there, standing by boredly yawning. With a 'squeak', a crack opened in the iron door of the courtyard, and a tall, slightly purple face, with a straight countenance, and infinite majesty between his gestures walked out. Xiao Lizi and the others immediately saluted the eunuch and said hello: "Father-in-law Ma, Brother Ma, are you going out to do errands?"
This Ma Gonggong nodded, replied a few words casually, and suddenly saw Xiao Lizi, and said with a smile: "Director Li, are you here to find Gonggong Lu? This is a bad way, just now Gonggong Lu was called by the prince, isn't His Royal Highness also in the palace of the prince? If you want to find Gonggong Lu, it is estimated that you will either go to wait outside the main hall, or it is better to come back tomorrow." The prince discussed the matter, but he didn't know when it would be over. ”
Xiao Lizi hurriedly leaned up and said, "Brother Ma, look, this is my master who asked me to come over and add in the name of this strong wind." Father-in-law Lu is no more, you can just do it, help me make up his name, can you? Save me from running again tomorrow, anyway, you have such a big face in front of the prince, just help me Xiao Lizi, and you will run five or six times for me. ”
Ma Gonggong laughed: "Okay, you are Director Li, you are very good at making sycophants." Well, young man, your name is Lifeng, Your Highness has recruited you into the mansion, this is your luck, but you must serve Your Highness well, don't make a mistake...... The rules of the palace are big, you slowly follow Gonggong Li to learn, don't provoke right and wrong. ”
Li Feng made a big joke and said with a smile: "Father-in-law Ma, I will definitely learn this rule, I will definitely not dare to provoke right and wrong." He spoke seriously, but his eyes were rolling around, and his face was not serious.
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