His Royal Highness, who only had seven acupoints left unopened, opened a new Dicang acupoint after painstakingly removing the inexhaustible qi machine implanted in his body by Huang Baozhuang. Unexpectedly, he formed sword energy and destroyed a lotus flower. The water in the lotus pond is shallow, which is unreasonable. After taking a bath and changing clothes during the day, I asked two maids about it, and I realized that this kind of lotus is a rare dry hibiscus. If it is too heavy, it will rot and die. The water storage in the pond is very particular. If it is cultivated properly, it will take a few months to bloom than the ordinary lotus, and the flowering period is also long. Harmoniously speaking, generally a wealthy family can only plant one or two plants in a tank, and it is considered a great deal. A pond with hundreds of plants does not have the money to afford it, nor does it have the energy to take care of it, which shows the wealth of the Wei family.
After slashing Qinglian with sword qi, Xu Fengnian only felt comfortable in the whole body, and the movement of qi was no longer stagnant. The beauty of the big yellow court is endless. The most obvious thing is that his eyes and ears are abnormal. But he was listening attentively to the slow blooming of a budding lotus. During this process, the sword energy rolled down the dragon wall and flowed violently along the veins, which was completely opposite to the shy stretching of the bud in the pool. It is a pity that His Highness only supported a lotus. Time, can't support the burst of majestic energy in the body. Presumably after opening the six orifices, you can stay up all night until a lotus flower fully blooms. Xu Fengnian stretched himself and laughed at himself: "A good man should last forever."
Xu Fengnian sat back at the table and weighed his current family fortune. Those flying swords are worth a lot if they are well practiced, but they are destined to be a pile of scrap copper and rotten iron in a short time. The process of learning is very hard, but now there is no torture of the old man in sheepskin fur and the two-sleeved green snake. Relying on this stupid way to raise a sword is another kind of sharpening. Once the cultivation of the sword is complete, entering Zhixuan will not be as far away as it is now. The five face skins made by Shu Sha are very clever heretics, quite practical. As for the silk embroidered armor that is worn next to the body, it is invulnerable to water and fire, and it is all nonsense. Can't pass, but it's still beneficial to deal with ordinary sneak attacks with knives and swords. Six pages have been torn out of the knife manual, and the most useful one is undoubtedly the latest page with detailed analysis of Sword Qi Rolling Dragon Wall. Only then did I realize that it was very uncomfortable to be obscure and stagnant at the beginning, but after getting used to it, I really complied with the old saying that bitterness comes first, sweetness comes later, and the old saying never deceives others. The essence of the twelve moves, including the thorny whale and the thunder-covered armor, which was extracted from the thousands of secrets, has to be repeatedly verified in the mind every day, waiting for the day to be able to accumulate and develop.
At the beginning, I chose to infiltrate the Yulong Gang to rush to Beimang, and chose to stay in the city as a foothold. Firstly, there were fewer wars in the north of Youzhou, and there was more space in the rivers and lakes. Moreover, staying in the city and Mu Tao Qianzhi was a person who must die. This person is not only familiar with the art of war, but also has superior military strength, especially the deep study of Beiliang's military and political affairs. Chen Zhibao was killed by a surprise attack, and was implicated. He was demoted to Liucheng and became a city shepherd. In fact, he was demoted and promoted secretly. His official position seemed to be downgraded, but he left the city at the border with military and political power. Once in the army cage, as long as you have a little merit, you will be favored by Longyao Prefecture and even the Northern Mang Empress, which is far greater than the chance of working hard to climb up in the highly hierarchical Northern Mang Army.
According to the information searched in Beiliang, Tao Qianzhi has unique insights in marching formations, is especially good at cunning, and has a violent temperament. , came to Liuliu City from Gusai Prefecture, without a single family member, without a penny of money, without a single treasure, and only brought six prison carts, imprisoning more than forty Beiliang soldiers captured on the battlefield However, Tao Chengmu has a close relationship with many generals and colleagues of the Northern Mang Frontier Army, and there will always be new prisoners transported to Liucheng for him to behead every day. It can be said that Tao Qianzhi is a young and strong official in the Beimang court who is favored by all parties. He has both military skills and popular reputation. .
According to the law of Beimang, the city shepherd has sixty armored personal guards, and Tao Qianzhi himself should have the strength of the second rank. Xu Fengnian weighed the weight of both sides, and smiled sinisterly. Mutual assassinations on the border between the two dynasties were very frequent, but most of them were committed by dead soldiers, and the possibility of success was not high. Bei Mang once spent a lot of money to build a team of assassins, and asked for two to three assassins from the top sects in the dynasty. A total of about 130 people, together with more than 100 elite soldiers from the army, were divided into three groups and sneaked into Beiliang. A Beiliang waiter, Chen Zhibao, Yuan Zuozong, and Chu Lushan, the three righteous sons, divided into three groups with confidence, with three thousand cavalry mixed with nearly a hundred hawks and dogs raised by the Beiliang Palace, and shot them all to death. It was a large-scale purge of iron and blood, and many heads were lost, but in fact only a few Beiliang chess pieces who had been dormant in the Beimang court for many years were found out. Only then did I know that one of the spies cultivated by the prime minister's mansion was a double-faced person, and he never refused business from Beimang and Beiliang. The right minister took the blame and resigned from office, and he still lives in seclusion in the mountains as a white man.
The entanglement of grievances and resentments between the two places cannot be explained clearly in a few words. It is like a chopping board, where your blood is smeared today, and my layer will be added tomorrow. blood tablet.
There was a gentle knock on the door, Xu Fengnian knew that one of Qiu Shuichunnong had arrived, and said, "Come in."
It is Chun Nong, who is relatively smaller and more exquisite, with fair skin, and a slightly round face that is not obvious. For such a little girl, if she puts a little force on the bed, she will worry about her body being rubbed. She deserves to be worth five A little darling of ten taels of gold. It's a pity that Xu Fengnian can't have all the big yellow courts for a day, so he has to be a monk who eats vegetarian food for a day. There are so many Yingying Yanyans with more than 80 characters in Wutong garden. Extraordinary!
The little maid walked into the room with a food box, her slender legs peeped out from under her skirt, and she hooked the door playfully. When she saw Mr. Xu, she blushed and smiled. She put the food box on the table, stood aside and bowed her head. She timidly said: "Sister Qiushui said that I will come to warm the quilt tonight, and I don't know when the young master will rest." She shamelessly said the word "serving the bed", looking at the tip of her toes, her ears turned red. In fact, in the cold spring, it was a very common duty for maidservants in big families to warm their beds and quilts. In the heat of summer, no matter how sore the hands of the servant girl shaking the fan, according to the rules, she is not allowed to doze off overnight. Both she and Qiu Shui are well-trained Jasper, and they are very familiar with serving the master, but they rarely have the opportunity to show up in the Wei Mansion after all. , Seeing this handsome young man who is highly valued by the master, love is far from being called, the shyness and timidity of a woman's nature are true. Xu Fengnian opened the food box, picked up a piece of jujube cake that melted in the mouth, looked up at this maid, her face and figure were only about 70 years old, but she had a pair of beautiful eyebrows, her eyebrows were charming, her charm was hidden at a young age, Little did they know that when Chun Nong debuted, he was commented by the horse breeders that Meimei was worth thirty gold alone. His Royal Highness, the son of the world, had been looking at the colorful flowers for a long time, so his eyesight was naturally not bad.
Xu Fengnian reached out and picked up a piece of pastry and handed it to the girl, and said with a smile: "No rush, let's sit down and chat first."
The little girl let out a soft voice, and sat slightly sideways opposite Xu Fengnian. She still lowered her head after receiving the pastry, opened and closed her small mouth slightly, and ate carefully and slowly.
Xu Fengnian said something quite unsightly: "The side of the city where you stay should also pay respects to ancestors and visit graves during Qingming. Where can anyone sell yellow paper? It will be Qingming in two days. I want to burn paper on the corner of the street and pay homage to the south."
The pretty maid raised her head and was about to speak, but she felt that she still had cakes in her mouth. She was afraid that she would be disrespectful to Mr. Xu in front of her by slurring her voice, so she swallowed hurriedly, and stretched out her fingers to wipe off a few pieces of cake residue from the corner of her mouth. , smiled softly: "Young master, just give orders, and Chun Nong will prepare it for you tomorrow."
Xu Fengnian smiled and nodded, stretched out his hand to wipe off the cake powder that was not wiped off for her, squinted his eyes and joked: "It's here."
The little maid gave her a flattering look, then lowered her head, not daring to see anyone.
Qiu Shui knocked on the door and entered, and blushed by the way when seeing this scene. She brought over a dozen calligraphy and paintings of celebrities, and the master said that he would ask Mr. Xu to examine them to identify the authenticity. Most of the calligraphy and paintings were made of copper or red sandalwood and ebony, and they were not light. Xu Fengnian got up and helped move it to the table. Seeing that Chun Nong was still in a daze, Qiu Shui secretly tapped her forehead, and reprimanded softly, "Don't you know how to help you, sir, when the light is dark?"
Chun Nong twitched the corners of his mouth in grievance, and seeing Qiushui's sister staring slightly, he hurriedly laughed and added oil to a delicate oil lamp in the shape of a white jade Guanyin holding a clean bottle. Xu Fengnian didn't care about these small fights, wiped his cuffs with his hands, and after Qiushui removed the food box, he slowly spread out a calligraphy and painting on the table, and smiled. ", unfortunately, the original work is on the Beiliang Prince's Mansion, and he was not in a hurry to reveal the truth, so he rolled it up and put it on the corner of the table, and opened the second scroll, which was Lu Ji's "Mountain Birds with Osmanthus and Chrysanthemums", with bright colors and meticulous writing Now, over the past three hundred years, the seals of later generations of collectors have been densely packed, which is enough to prove the rarity of this calligraphy and painting. Xu Fengnian's appreciating matter has been under the influence of Li Yishan, a national scholar, for many years. Undoubtedly the authenticity, close it again, and open the third one, it is the "Hengqin Picture under the Plum Tree" by the empress of the old Southern Tang Dynasty, but it is a fake, the interesting thing is not to talk about the authenticity, but only about the strength of the writing, obviously the latter is higher one chip.
After Xu Fengnian finished reading all of them, he said softly, "Qiu Shui Chun Lane, fetch a pen and paper."
Qiu Shui raised the sleeve with two fingers, grinding with one hand, Chun Nong didn't dare to be lazy, and helped to cover the cooked rice with a paperweight. They could see the amazement in each other's eyes, they obviously didn't expect Mr. Xu's handwriting to be beautiful and good, vaguely to the level of concealment, and they thought they would not be able to write it after ten years of hard work. Among the eleven calligraphy and paintings, Xu Fengnian deliberately failed to distinguish three authentic ones from the fake ones, pretended not to speak out, and mistook two uncommon ones, while the other six were accurate, and the last eight gave detailed reasons why they were genuine and fake, and The relative valuation, in which the valuation and the real situation are both wrong and right, since the old fox Wei Feng intends to test, His Royal Highness can't be too sincere in accepting the move. The stallion's feet are never exposed. After the ink was slightly dry, Qiu Shui couldn't let go of the small regular script on his hand, carefully put it in his arms, bent down to pick up the heavy calligraphy and painting, and was about to go back to the master to hand in the work.
Xu Fengnian joked to Chun: "Go and help Qiushui, I don't need to warm the quilt today."
Chun Nong was half relieved and half disappointed, his eyes widened, his expression puzzled.
Xu Fengnian patted her cheek gently, and said, "We'll talk about it after Qingming."
Qiu Shui and Chun Nong both walked out of the room with their calligraphy and paintings in their hands. There was also a maidservant of the same age who held an umbrella for Qiu Shui in the corridor. The smile in his eyes was immediately more sincere. From the master's study to here, he didn't need an umbrella to keep out the rain. It's just that the calligraphy and paintings in his arms cost a lot, so he got a spare oil-paper umbrella because of the solemnity. The three maids walked back together, naturally there were a few words of teasing and teasing among the women. Qiu Shuichun was made by the same horse breeder, and she loves her biological sisters. There is a subtle gap with the maid who came from a different background, but Smart women are born with a heavy mask of heavy makeup when they get along.
Xu Fengnian closed the door and sat cross-legged on the bed. The second time I went on a trip with Li Chungang's little clay figurine, as long as there is a bed to sleep in, most of them are in such a self-inflicted posture, and the soft armor is not removed, the house must be adjacent to or facing Li Lao Jianshen. Know to what extent His Royal Highness is afraid of death.
Chengcheng Mu's mansion was left behind. Although the majestic Tao Qianzhi was dressed in a civil official robe, it was difficult to conceal the arrogance of a general rising from the pile of bones. On the first day, all the pawns were counted, and all the gold and silver obtained were distributed to the remaining city military soldiers, but the civil officials and pen officials did not get a single copper coin. After the report was made, 30 elite soldiers from the Chengmu Mansion broke in, and their bloody heads were hung on the flagpole of the school martial arts field. Nothing came to nothing, and no one in the city dared to bully General Tao, who was new to the unfamiliar territory.
Tao Qianzhi never brought his family with him, but this city herdsman who was a fourth-rank military general is not a rigid man. Every few days, he would spend money to invite celebrities from brothels in the city to come to the mansion for tenderness. How much money should he spend? At first some brothels were not dared to take them, and they were forced into their hands. After a period of fear, there was no sign of Mr. Cheng Mu's settlement after autumn, so he was relieved, and this Chongshe The heroic deeds of the general have been spread to Liucheng, and the recognition of Tao Qianzhi has gradually received rave reviews. Many brothels offered to send top-ranking oirans to the Chengmu Mansion. They were originally worth tens of gold overnight, but they only asked for a few dozen Yin, Tao Qianzhi didn't care too much about the minutiae, and he became more and more general, which made the people in the city who were afraid of thieves come like combing officials and passing off like shaving feel at ease.
The light rain continued, and Tao Qianzhi sat in the empty and shabby study room, reading a military book at night with the lamp on.
A confidant school lieutenant brought from Gusai Prefecture stood at the door and said respectfully: "Master Hongyan County of Yuchan Prefecture came to visit in the rain."
Tao Qianzhi frowned, and said calmly, "If she enters the mansion alone, she won't be seen."
A plump woman with a sable forehead appeared next to the captain, followed by an old man in brocade clothes with her hands in her sleeves. She stepped across the threshold, put her hands on the jade belt bestowed by the emperor, and said delicately: "Yo, General Tao is so big!" Official airs, or are you afraid of causing gossip?"
The heroic and extraordinary Master Cheng Mu frowned, put down his book, and showed no fear of this royal family member with a Xianbei head on his waist, and sneered: "The princess is famous far and wide, and he likes to raise faces. Xiacheng and Chengmu don't dare to enter the eyes of the princess."
The old man in brocade clothes snorted heavily.
The corners of Tao Qianzhi's mouth curled up, his eyes were full of disdain. Holding a satin umbrella in his hand, the sable-covered Princess Hongyan laughed wildly, flaunting her beautiful branches, and waved her hand to signal the old servants of the county palace not to mind, staring at the unreasonable middle-aged city shepherd, winking and said: "Tao General, originally, this princess didn't want to enter this house. She kills people every day, and her yin is too heavy. This princess is not as strong as General Tao, so she is afraid of being haunted by evil spirits. It's almost the Qingming Festival …”
Tao Qianzhi said indifferently: "If the princess has no serious business, I will not send you off."
This rich and beautiful woman in Yuchan Prefecture was bumped several times, but she still didn't show any anger, and said with a smile: "Okay, let's stop going around with General Tao, someone asked my princess to pass a word to General Tao, eight One word, don’t go out on Qingming Day.”
Feeling being teased, Tao Qianzhi was full of anger, and the study was full of murderous intentions.
The sleeves of the brocade-clothed old man billowed like waves.
The princess patted her cheek lightly, and said apologetically, "Ah, my princess has such a stupid mouth, what are you talking nonsense about? You said something wrong. It is indeed eight words. It is not suitable to go out during the Qingming time. General Tao please don't go out." If you don't believe me, the princess dare not disobey those who say these eight words."
Tao Qianzhi turned back, without any fluctuation in tone, and said indifferently: "No!"
Princess Hongyan shook the rain-stained silk umbrella and said with a smile: "My princess will remember Tao Chengmu's hospitality today."
Under the eaves of the courtyard, the old man in brocade clothes, whose force is definitely higher than that of Tao Qianzhi, took the umbrella and opened it. After leaning towards the mistress, he said angrily: "Princess, why don't you let the old slave teach this ignorant person?" Little fifth-rank city shepherd?"
The sable-faced woman who was not in a hurry to step into the rain screen stretched out her palm to catch the rain, did not answer this question, but said with blurred eyes: "God, why are you crying?"
Two days later in the early morning, the rain was getting heavier and the roads were covered with mud. The city shepherd Tao Qianzhi took thirty relatives to the outside of the city to go to the grave of a soldier who died in battle who had left the city with his ancestral home.
Ching Ming heavy rain.
Burning paper is not easy to die.