After posting the Spring Festival couplets at the main gate, Xu Weixiong returned to the Indus Courtyard, and only the three gentlemen were left wandering around the palace. Xu Fengnian and Xu Xiao chatted about Lingzhou affairs in bits and pieces, and Xu Xiao intermittently shared some anecdotes that happened recently in the temple, such as Gu Jiantang That son-in-law started killing people in Jizhou, and now the officials and civil servants are too lazy to scold him Xu Xiao, so they turned their heads and scolded General Gu who lost his position as Shangshu of the Ministry of War. Lu Qunlong has no leader, and the five departments other than the Yushitai and the Ministry of War are full of energy, which makes the members of the Gu Party in the temple feel ashamed and very tired of coping. This year is not easy. There is also Guozijian Zuo Jijiu Yao Baifeng gave Jin Lanting, the second-in-command a lesson, and even alarmed His Majesty the Emperor. Most of the associations were formed to promote that Jin Sanlang, which is why Yao Baifeng would put down a sharp question that today's gentlemen like friends. Xu Xiao also said that Zhao Zhu, the son of Yan Chi Wang, was not a peaceful person, and he took thousands of elite riders all the way north, which didn't look like he was going to "Jingnan". Before reaching Guangling Road where Zhao Yi was, all the officials along the way were complaining, complaints and impeachment memorials flew into the palace like snowflakes. The three of them walked to the edge of Tingchao Lake, Xu Xiao suddenly realized that he was going to listen to the storytelling by that girl Wang Chudong, but the hour was delayed, and the girl was too arrogant, so she didn't want to chat with such a bad old man like him, Xu Xiao was in a hurry Running away, Xu Fengnian was stunned. It seemed that Wang Dongxiang, who was second in Rouge's deputy review, was really good. Even Xu Xiao, who was most afraid of dealing with books, surrendered? Previously, a letter from family was sent to Lingzhou. Xu Xiao did say that Wang Chudong was very playful and smart, and he was not afraid of him as an old reckless man at all. He taught him a lesson as soon as he met him. The old-fashioned Hengqiu talked about reading with him, the illiterate King of Beiliang. In fact, it is very interesting, not boring at all, tell Xu Xiao to read the official history, the winners and losers already know, it is better to read the unofficial history. Reading those wits and beautiful women is the same, no matter how twists and turns are in the middle, there will be a consummation of growing old together. In fact, it is not as good as reading classics. It is like seeing an old gentleman sitting upright from beginning to end. You think he is too rigid. For a long time, but one day I will feel that there is something cute about it. In addition, Wang Chudong also said that reading military books and poetry collections are different, which greatly admired Xu Fengnian. This girl is really bold and can teach Xu Xiao how to read. You must know that neither Li Yishan nor Zhao Changling could make Xu Xiao patient. Read more books.
Xu Fengnian raised his head and looked at Tingchao Pavilion. Chen Xiliang should be in the side room on the top floor at this moment. Everyone in the palace said that this young man was more and more similar to the national scholar who died without a grave or grave. Xu Fengnian looked back and saw Xu Juzi alone. Sitting in the gazebo, throwing a lot of bait into the lake, the koi are surging, and the scene is magnificent. Xu Fengnian squatted on the edge of the platform of Tingchao Pavilion, and said to Huang Man'er beside him: "Lu Qiu'er said that the piece of willow that I tore apart was not dead, it must have been used by him as a heretic qi practitioner. Before he died, the cunning golden cicada came out of his shell, I guess this guy's identity is not as simple as a spider's web pole, it's okay, we will definitely have a chance to deal with him in the future."
Huang Man'er nodded vigorously.
Xu Fengnian laughed at himself and said, "I was just wondering, a piece of willow is like this, the little celestial master who was renamed Zhao Ningshen by Zhao Jingsi is also difficult to deal with, Chunshen Lake was suppressed to death, I originally wanted to use him who has become a waste To make that Taoist ancestral court unhappy, I did not expect to return to Longhu Mountain. I heard that Zhao Ningshen's realm has advanced by leaps and bounds again. Longhushan claims that this guy's breaking speed can catch up with Li Chungang. Feishan Slashing Dragon is famous all over the world. The old celestial master Zhao Xiyi, who has been in seclusion for many years, has not been idle. He has built the Jade Emperor Tower, which is as famous as Dahuangting. Zhao Zhuan also made a private visit to Huizhou to watch a play. It is estimated that it is true. There is also that heartless Huishan girl who became the leader of the martial arts, turning her face faster than turning a book. After all the copies of Huishan Secret Books are sent to Beiliang, they will draw a clear line with me."
Xu Fengnian turned his head and patted Huang Man'er's head, and said with a gentle smile: "Don't talk about these troublesome things, Huang Man'er, you don't have to worry about anything, you have your father and your brother here. By the way, since your brother came from Xiangfan Luwei After Dang seized and transported back the four talisman armors, he began to let some of the Mohists from the Beiliang Machinery Manufacturing Bureau start work, and started to restore the level of the so-called number one talisman armor in the world that was worn by the great master Ye Hongting back then. Iron Gate Pass, Golden Armor was also in my hand, and this time the murder cat outside Shenwu City, I learned some secrets from the head of Han Diaosi through Xu Ying, including the few detailed steps of his skinning Ye Hongting back then. After the end of the year, I will go to the Machine Building Bureau and talk about the detailed process with those giants. In the future, you will put on that rune armor and charge into the battle, at least you don't have to worry too much about the attack and killing of a section of Liu Zhiliu, and, Huang Man'er, on Guniu Dagang, Xuanyuan Jingcheng once said that you should not enter the Zhixuan easily. You must remember that besides helping you build the talisman armor, brother is also reading some obscure secret books of Buddhism and Taoism in the building. Baihuerlian also agreed to help find it, so you have to wait for brother to find a shortcut that allows you to become a master of Zhixuan smoothly. Before that, even if the sky falls, you can't enter Zhixuan, remember?! "
Now Huang Man'er is really not stupid, because his intuition tells him that he can't agree, and he has no habit of lying to his brother, he just raises his head there without nodding or talking, the boy with double pupils rolls his eyes, but he dare not look him in the face elder brother.
Xu Fengnian knocked Xu Longxiang hard on the forehead with a chestnut, "Nod for brother!"
Xu Longxiang turned his butt, turned his back to Xu Fengnian, and for the first time did not agree to his brother's request.
Xu Fengnian stretched out his hand to pull Huang Man'er's ear. After pulling for a long time, he couldn't make his younger brother who was born in the Diamond Realm turn his head. He sighed, let go of his hand, and stared blankly at Tingchao Lake where Xu Beizhi left and calmed down.
Huang Man'er turned around, sat cross-legged on the ground, and gently stroked his brother's dazzling gray hair.
Xu Fengnian squinted his eyes and looked into the distance.
I heard that there are fish every year in Chaohu Lake, and there are more fish in Beiliang every year.
Xu Fengnian lay down slowly on his back, resting his head on the back of his hands, looking at the clear sky, and fell asleep peacefully.
He never told Xu Xiao that when he saw the figure of his father on Chunshen Lake, even though he knew that this figure was getting older and hunched year after year, but as long as he saw it from a distance, he looked like some kind of emperor, Wang Xianzhi Ah, Zhang Julu, Yuan Benxi, Xu Fengnian is not afraid of letting these guys get together and appear on the lake together, he feels very at ease!
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The two tigers, which were much stronger at both ends, swished out and ran towards Xu Fengnian desperately, but was pushed down by Huang Maner one by one. The two strange beasts were several feet away from Xu Fengnian, but they couldn't escape Huang Maner's grasp The palm of the hand and the look in the eyes actually have some psychic resentment of humanity.
Xu Fengnian smiled and said, "Huang Man'er, go and play with yourself, bring Bodhisattva and Vajra with you, I have to sit for a while and think about something."
Huang Man'er grinned and nodded, dragged the two tigers and kui each by one leg and ran away.
Huang Man'er wandered around, and after letting go for the first time, the pair of siblings were about to run back to Tingchao Pavilion to look for Xu Fengnian, but Huang Man'er, who was walking as fast as a thunderbolt, grabbed his tail and ate enough for several times. After suffering, he had no choice but to follow him sickly.
Unknowingly, he came outside the wall of Wutong Courtyard, only to find that his father didn't go to the little sister-in-law to listen to the book, but pushed the wheelchair and took the second sister to relax.
When Xu Xiao saw Huang Man'er, he beckoned. The tigress called Bodhisattva Kui saw Xu Weixiong, and seemed very intimate and lively. Xu Xiao continued the topic just now, and slowly said: "In the future, you, the elder sister, should be more careful about the matter of the concubine of Beiliang. Xiaonian can know everything well. Dad is not more at ease, but the most at ease. Only In the matter of alone love, once this child falls into it, he will easily be reckless. Wei Xiong, dad is not worried about the impact on Beiliang's military and political affairs. Dad works hard for such a big business, if in the end his son can't afford to squander at all, That father is still a great general, and he will be the king of Beiliang when he was young. It’s just that father is afraid that your younger brother will be injured. Father is a rough person, but after all, he has seen many people get together and part ways, and he knows this. This kind of invisible injury hurts people more than a severe knife and arrow wound, and it may not be relieved for half a lifetime."
Xu Weixiong hummed.
"Then there is the side concubine in the future. To be honest, the two tentative women are Wang Chudong who is already in the mansion and Lu Chengyan from Qingzhou. Dad really likes the little girl Wang Chudong more, but the side concubine is divided into big and small. After Lu Chengyan, after all, the Lu family, which is full of talents, must be more important to Beiliang in the future than Wang Linquan, who climbed to the position of the richest man in Qingzhou by relying on Chu Lushan. The family had a dispute, as long as it doesn't involve big right and wrong, you have to lean towards the Lu family. This can be regarded as a little compensation for my daughter-in-law, Lu Chengyan. Because my father knows that Xiaonian may never have a heart-to-heart relationship with this poor woman in this life. Respect each other like a guest, that is, it sounds better. For a couple who are going to spend their entire lives, it is actually a kind of suffering. During this period of time, my father went to Wang Chudong's place every day to listen to her stories. Beiliang knows that this girl is the first daughter-in-law that I, Xu Xiao, nods her head. Whoever wants to step on the Wang family to curry favor with the Lu family in the future must first weigh whether she will flatter her hoof. As for Pei Nanwei, Dad Knowing that you don't like this Princess Jing'an, you don't have to go against your will to date deliberately, just let it go. There is only a saying in the world that elder brothers are like fathers and sisters-in-law are like mothers, and there is no reason why older sisters run the house. The reason why father is nagging you These things require you to take on this thankless responsibility. To put it bluntly, it is the selfishness of the father. He is afraid that Xiaonian will not have relatives to take care of him, so you will not be able to marry in this life. Ah, he is a patriarchal guy, he dares to be brave, even if he lived with your mother back then, even if he had to bite the bullet, he said it so bluntly, before there was no fat tiger, he was beaten by your mother a lot After having the fat tiger, I was beaten up in a miserable, yes, it was a terrible end. Your mother asked the father to hold the child with a knife and stick stick to hold the child. You have to cry, your mother is reasonable to everyone, but she is not reasonable to your father. She has to attend military aircraft meetings several times the next day, and her father goes to the camp with a bruised nose and a swollen face. She is laughed at by those bastards. Once there was an old brother who made a mistake and was whipped by his father himself. This guy stared at his father's forehead swollen by your mother, and he knelt there and kept giggling. Father was so angry that he whipped fifty whips. Later, Dad went to apply gold sore medicine on this guy, and he even smiled at Dad, saying that no matter how embarrassing he is, I won’t be ashamed of him.”
"This old brother is Chen Zhibao's father. Except for the young son, he took all the Chen family's children to die calmly."
"Father is not the kind of bastard who can be so brazen as to reward meritorious officials with gold medals to avoid death while insidiously fabricating treasonous crimes. He said that if he is a brother, he will be a brother for life. It is father who owed the Chen family first, so he knows what Chen Zhibao is doing. Even Xiaonian, the king of Xinliang, will not be convinced. He has ignored him for more than ten years, and let this adopted son cultivate his cronies. Chen Zhibao wants to leave Beiliang, but his father will not stop him. Let him go, father really doesn't hope that one day, he and Xiaonian will turn against each other to the point of fighting each other. It would be best if they can stay away from each other until death. But father knows that old foxes like Zhang Julu and Gu Jiantang are hiding behind the scenes The emperor of the Zhao family would not let such a sharp spear rust in vain, instead of pointing the spear point at Beiliang."
Speaking of this, the old man who has lived in the army and horse has some heavy sentiments.
Xu Xiao smiled, turned his head to his second son Xu Longxiang and said, "Huang Man'er, you will get better sooner or later, you have to remember your brother's kindness to you. That time when your brother got into a big disaster and dad wanted to beat him, you I came out to stop him, and got angry with my father. He looked like he was going to fight desperately with his father. My father just pretended to be angry, but he was actually very pleased. Your brother, these years have actually been unhappy, and outsiders thought he was me. Xu Xiao, the eldest son of Rentu, will definitely be beautiful. The bitterness and bitterness in it will only be known to you when you open your mind. Without a mother or a sister, it’s nothing, Spring and Autumn In the war, countless people died in the whole family, but they were scolded by people for eighteen generations, and they had to guard the gate for these unconscionable turtle sons. Maybe one day they would use hundreds of thousands of their own cavalry deaths in exchange for Peace of mind, after the Central Plains change master, you will have to be scolded by the new master in the history books, and there will be a large group of literati and common people who have not suffered any hardships to follow suit, this is the most pitiful place for your brother."
In his boyhood before His Royal Highness chose to keep a low profile, the entire Beiliang Palace knew that His Highness was pampering his younger brother from the bottom of his heart. Whenever there was something interesting, no matter how precious and rare, it would be sent to Huang before it was warmed. Man'er, it's just that the good things are in the hands of Huang Man'er, who has amazing physical strength but doesn't know the importance. How can it be complete? Get annoyed. Even if His Royal Highness began to lead a notorious romantic life later on, he never ignored Xu Longxiang. It is rare for the palace to whip the servants. Xu Fengnian's few uncommon tantrums were all because he knew that Diao Nu deliberately teased the young prince, and the few times His Royal Highness beat and kicked himself, it was definitely to death. No mercy.
"Also, Wei Xiong, Dad knows that you care about Xiaonian in your heart, but you are cold-hearted and warm-hearted, and you can't save face on some things, but sometimes, as long as you smile at him, he will be very happy. A few years ago He went to Wudang Mountain to practice swords. You don't like him practicing martial arts. You are afraid that he will delay the official business of hereditary succession. He is even more afraid that you will be unhappy. I made more than 300 chess pieces for you, and you spilled two boxes of chess pieces all over the floor as soon as you met, and he didn’t disgrace you, did he? Afterwards, he picked them up one by one by himself, and some fell to the ground. Tingchao Lake, but ended up picking it up all night. Dad and Yishan watched him in Tingchao Pavilion all night. Yishan is such a hard-hearted guy, and he ended up drinking too much. When I was a child, Xiaonian To make you happy, is there not enough to do? Knowing that Zhihu loves him so much, don’t you still help you in everything? After Zhihu left, do you think he feels better? Who has ever seen him tearing his heart? Originally, with his temperament, he was grateful to the old head teacher Wang Chonglou, and went to Wudang Mountain to pay homage to the grave. He was afraid, afraid of Wudang Mountain, afraid of seeing the lotus peak. The people left because he said to go. Fengnian gave his favorite things to his sister or younger brother when he was a child, and what he left behind was nothing more than some things that outsiders would think were very valuable. "
Xu Weixiong lowered his head, unable to see his expression clearly.
My god, in order to achieve the goal, I did not hesitate to fight all the Beiliang cavalry. "
After Li Yishan's death, Xu Xiao seemed to have no place to talk about self-deception like being old and strong. At this point, the hunchbacked old man was a little tired, stopped talking, stopped, and just stretched out his hand gently. , helped Huang Man'er, who was dressed in plain clothes, tidy up his neckline without any hassle, and finally said softly: "Huang Man'er, don't take it easy and really work hard in the future, if you die, your brother will survive. Sad? Dad told you, it must be more sad than him being alive. But you still have to do more things that can make your brother relax. Although your brother was reborn in our Xu family earlier than you, then he will bear it. But in the future, in Qingliangshan, the Xu family's men will only have a younger brother like you who can talk to him. Whether it's Xu Beizhi or Chen Xiliang, no matter how loyal you are, you're not as good as your own family. Huang Man'er , your brother left home for the first time in a fit of anger, and his greatest wish was not to become a hero, but to bring back a great beauty to your younger brother. You went to Longhu Mountain, and every time you received a letter, you read a book The elder brother who has never forgotten it, knowing that it was not written by you, will read it over and over again. Wei Xiong, this time he saw you in a wheelchair, you deliberately did not look at him grinding ink, dad But I saw his hands shaking all the time."
The old man stretched out his hand and touched Xu Weixiong's head, without words of comfort.
Xu Longxiang clenched his fists tightly, his eyes determined. The two tigers were frightened and fled in an instant, wandering restlessly in the distance, not daring to approach the strange boy in black.
The old man walked slowly back to the courtyard.
The loquat tree is still green in winter, but the old man stands alone, alone.
But the old man was not sad, and said with a smile: "Daughter-in-law, our Xu family has been supported by Feng Nian. If you wait for me, I won't make you wait too long."