Xu Xiao came out of the Xiamawei Posthouse with only a few followers from Beiliang. It was extremely light and easy. During the dog days, the capital was extremely hot, and the chirping of cicadas was disturbing. Son, the road was even hotter. Xu Xiao, dressed as a rich man, stopped and stopped. When he was resting, he ordered a bowl of tofu at a small stall. The small porcelain bowl was cool and refreshing, and it felt comfortable in the palm. Just like this bowl of almond tofu, it pays attention to the pure taste and clear distinctions. If it is cold, it will be cold.
Xu Xiao, with a slightly hunched back, sat in front of the stall, sitting with those people in the capital who depended on a large bowl of iced almond tofu for a few pennies to relieve the heat. It was quite inconspicuous. Put a small piece of translucent beautiful tofu into your mouth, taste the authentic taste, and smile slightly. This almond tofu does not matter whether it is expensive or not. It is not that rich people pour more osmanthus syrup into the tofu to make it more delicious. Show a little bit of bitterness, which is in line with the ancient saying "Summer is bitter". Xu Xiao ordered two bowls and ate up nothing left, got up and paid the five cents.
Three Wen and one bowl, two bowls and five Wen.
Xu Xiao continued walking for a full hour, until he could see the Sitiantai under the jurisdiction of the Qin Tianjian. In the past twenty years, the only king with a different surname in the dynasty visited the capital a handful of times, but not once. Come here to the Qin Tianjian who issued the calendar for the emperor to watch the sky.
The gate is guarded by heavy guards, let alone those who walk in, they will be detained and tortured if they approach. Behind Xu Xiao there are three followers including the younger brother Xiu, the Spear Fairy King. As soon as it rose, those guards didn't dare to step forward for a while, until Xu Xiao was less than ten steps away from the door, and only the guards threw their spears silently. Without Xu Xiao talking, Liu Yanbing, the world's top marksman master, became angry He shouted: "Bold!"
Holding a spear in front of Liu Yanbing is really a joke. And blocking the king of Beiliang, who can go to the palace with a sword, is of course even more of a joke.
It's just the duty of the imperial guards, and at the feet of the emperor, the Qintian prison guards are used to the respect of visitors. After being scolded, they still hold their spears and stand still, and even the guards slowly draw their knives. The Qintian prison is an important place in the dynasty. , Even the big shots in the rich and wealthy family of Qingxiang, they must not and dare not trespass!
A group of visitors who walked as lightly as Xu Xiao walked out of an ordinary-looking young woman who looked like a young woman, and said softly, "Don't be rude to the King of Beiliang."
After seeing the young woman's face clearly, the guards didn't dare to take another look, they all knelt down in an instant, and just about to open their mouths to shout, the woman said softly: "No."
Xu Xiao turned his head to look, slightly surprised, probably because he was hunched over, and couldn't tell whether he bowed or not, and said lightly: "Xu Xiao welcomes the queen."
Not only that, but Xu Xiao didn't look at the most distinguished woman in Fengyi Tianxia's entire dynasty. He just squinted at a young woman with cute freckles on the tip of her nose, and said with a smile, "Princess Sui Zhu, what happened all of a sudden?" Become a big girl? I remember seeing a little girl with braids last time."
The princess seemed to be no stranger to Xu Xiao, so she made a playful grimace, stepped forward, took Xu Xiao's hand, and said softly, "Uncle Xu, do you still remember the last time you took Xiaoya to eat almond tofu? After I went back to the palace, I asked the imperial dining room to make it, but it didn’t taste that good, I wanted to go out of the palace and look for it, but unfortunately I couldn’t find it without Uncle Xu leading the way, and I cried badly at that moment!”
Xu Xiao laughed loudly, and exhaled deliberately, "Smell, I just tasted two bowls, do they all taste like almond tofu?"
Princess Sui Zhu pinched her nose and snorted, "It doesn't smell good, Uncle Xu is lying!"
Xu Xiao's attitude towards the most famous woman in the dynasty beside him is quite plain and abrupt, but it seems that he is very intimate with the famous naughty little princess in front of him. With Xu Xiao's status, if he likes it, he likes it, and if he doesn't like to scold you They are all considered light, and you have to have some seniority to be slaughtered and scolded by this person. Why do you need to pretend? In this life, Xu Xiao has scolded Zhang Julu's benefactor, the old chief assistant, General Gu Jiantang, King Huainan, and even King Jing'an in person. As for this trip to Beijing, he beat him with a scabbard outside the palace. The half-dead official, although he is still lying on the sickbed, half-dead, but his reputation has skyrocketed in the dynasty, and they all praised him as a loyal minister of the country. You must know that the guy was criticized by Qingliu of the capital and 30,000 students of Taixue before. Their style of work is not right, and now they are exaggerating in unison. It can be seen that if they can be beaten and scolded by Xu Xiao, the king of Beiliang and Dazhu Kingdom, as long as they don't die, they can save their capital, and even make a fortune.
Xu Xiao asked the queen to enter the Qin Tianjian first, followed by Princess Sui Zhu, raised her head and glanced at the imperial plaque of "Tongwei Jiajing", and said mockingly, "Tongweijiajing!"
The queen who was walking in front frowned vaguely, but there was only a slight smile on her face.
Princess Sui Zhu, who was holding Xu Xiao's arm, nodded vigorously and said in agreement: "What a fart!"
Xu Xiao smiled and said: "It's still Xiaoya's appetite for Uncle. These days, I face a bunch of people who are an eyesore every day. In order not to look at them, Uncle doesn't know where to put his eyes."
Princess Sui Zhu, who was afraid that the world would not be chaotic, smiled and made a perverse gesture of wiping her neck. She didn't know who she learned from, and said softly: "Uncle Xu just clicked them all to make people happy."
Xu Xiao sighed and said: "It's a pity, it would be nice to have a daughter-in-law like you. When I go back, my uncle must hang Fengnian and whip him to vent his anger on Xiaoya. Not to mention that this kid is not lucky, he even annoyed Xiaoya on Wudang Mountain. beat!"
The princess hummed and said: "Since Uncle said so, regardless of whether the fight is real or fake, Xiaoya won't be as knowledgeable as that guy."
Xu Xiaoyu said earnestly: "Xiaoya, don't be as knowledgeable as Fengnian. Next time you go to Beiliang to play, don't go to the palace again. It's not bad for those few legs. By the way, let Fengnian Nian will show you the scene of thousands of carp tumbling, it is very beautiful. Xiaoya, there is a phoenix in the name of Fengnian, and there is wind in your name, this is not a small fate."
Sui Zhu Princess Zhao Fengya grinned.
The queen did not lead Xu Xiao to the Tongtian Terrace where the officials gathered in the Qintianjian, but to the Sheji Altar, where there are five colors of soil: east green, south red, west white, north black, middle yellow, and now this kind of precious tribute soil comes from the jurisdiction of Guangling King In the past, King Guangling was denounced by the whole dynasty as a greedy glutton, but only this land was not even dared to take it privately.
The queen called softly, "Ya'er."
At such an age, Princess Sui Zhu dared to yell for His Majesty to kneel on the ground to carry her, but it is said that the Ninth Five-Year Lord could only beg his daughter for mercy with a bitter face. Seemingly obedient, he immediately let go of Xu Dazhuguo's arm, and left gently, not daring to make any mistakes, saying that he was going to Tongtiantai to ask the teacher of Nanhuai Supervisor.
The queen looked at the altar which was not high, and said in a calm tone: "All these years, Ya'er has always kept the general's advice in mind. She likes to walk barefoot in the room, and often eats coarse grains. Her health is indeed much better than when she was young."
Xu Xiao clasped his hands behind his back and said calmly: "What nonsense such as the weather is falling and the earth's energy is rising and the earth's noble energy is being exhausted are all said by Qin Tianjian and the gang of useless scholars. Xu Xiao only knows that barefoot people are not afraid of wearing shoes. My children have been raised in this way since they were young, so they are still alive and kicking."
The queen didn't care, maybe she really didn't understand the meaning of the words, but just changed the subject, and said softly: "I heard about the Jiangnan Road. The one who wrote "The Female Ring" has been sent to Changchun by His Majesty palace."
Xu Xiao didn't make a sound.
The Changchun Palace is said to be Changchun, but it is actually the cold palace of this dynasty. For concubines in the palace, it is already the most terrifying prison in the world.
The woman in charge of half of the palace still had a desolate appearance without showing any emotions or anger. The people of the dynasty only knew her gentleness and virtuousness, and only the wealthy and noble families knew her power.
Xu Xiao turned his head to look at Tongtiantai, and snorted coldly, "Are you letting Xiaoya go there because you are afraid that I will do something to Nan Huaiyu, who was just a little eighth-rank pot holder back then? Xu Xiao didn't bring a knife today , the queen is too worried."
The Queen remained silent, as if tacitly acquiescing.
Xu Xiao turned around and walked straight to Tongtiantai.
She didn't turn around or turn her head, she still looked at the high place of the Sheji Altar, but her words finally became a bit more smoky, and she said in a deep voice: "General!"
Xu Xiao didn't stop, and said with a sneer, "Zhao Zhi, could it be that you have forgotten how she treated you back then, and how you treated her back then?"
The queen who was called by her name said coldly: "That's enough! Xu Xiao, so what if you take off the Dazhu Kingdom with an empty title, so what if you lose the two Liaos, you have a hereditary replacement that is inconsistent with my dynasty's ancestral system!"
The hunchbacked and lame Xu Xiao said indifferently: "The imperial court wants the Liangliao, Zhang Julu wants to reform, and he wants to be the mainstay. To be honest, Xu Xiao will give it to him. There is no nonsense. It doesn't matter if you hand over the Great Pillar Kingdom to him. But what kind of thing is Gu Jiantang, who just wants to ride on my head and pee? As for Zhao Heng, a lunatic, who has no one to back him up, dare to have the shame and shame to attack a junior?"
The queen said calmly: "I am the only one who heard these words."
Xu Xiao continued on.
She didn't stop her, but walked up to the altar of society, and her cold voice came slowly, "Xu Fengchu's first trip, King Yanchi sent nine jade hook assassins, and I took eighteen lives to stop them." Yes, because at that time I still felt that Xu Fengnian and Ya'er still had hope for a marriage."
Xu Xiao stopped, just in time to see the lively Princess Sui Zhu standing on the verandah of the attic, lying on the railing and waving.
Xu Xiao smiled.
So he left Qin Tianjian.
Empress Zhao Zhi sighed quietly, stood in the middle of the Sheji Altar, turned her head to look at the back of the old man, dazed, she vaguely remembered seeing the still young and energetic general with a naive smile, standing halfway in the room. Kneeling on the ground, he put on a pair of mille-soled cloth shoes that he sewed by himself for the unparalleled sister Wu, and the white-clothed woman, whose swordsmanship is already super holy, smiled happily just for a pair of rough cloth shoes.