Successful hereditary replacement means that a new vassal king appeared in the Liyang Dynasty. Apart from the appointment of the crown prince and the enthronement of the new emperor, there is no other major event comparable to this, not to mention that this vassal king is the King of Beiliang , not only Liangzhou, but Youling Liangzhou are also decorated with lanterns and festoons, almost crazy, more imposing than the lantern market during the Lantern Festival, in order to please the new king, especially those powerful families, who are secretly competing for their lanterns Bigger and more, it feels like anyone who dares to hang up less will have to be reported the next day, and then pulled out and beheaded. The result of constant comparisons is that there are more and more festive red lanterns hanging in the door where there is no shortage of silver, so many that people's eyes are red and they feel bored. The Qingliangshan Prince's Mansion was not very noisy, the lanterns were temporarily added, but they were much simpler than previous festivals, but the servants in the mansion were full of joy, and they walked a little more briskly. Huanxi, who doesn't like that the new head of the family has a great future, and one person can ascend to heaven alone. If the new king of the palace can't live in Beiliang, and it becomes a situation where the guests bully the master, the whole palace will not have a good life.
After Xu's father and son returned to Liangzhou City from Dayue at the border, they could often see the young patriarch who changed his name to King Liang taking a walk in the mansion with the general, and the sharp-eyed and careful people secretly counted the two future princesses, Whoever accompanied the father and son more times, I just didn't care about it later, because there are only a handful of women surnamed Lu in Qingzhou. Helping the second princess push the wheelchair, but comparing the two, which is more important, how can everyone in the house be confused? And in the bottom of their hearts, they didn't like that reclusive woman from the Lu family very much, she was covered in copper stink, didn't she just pass through the gate of the palace because of her family's money? Lin Quan was just a pawn carrying the flag back then, and everything was donated to your Lu family by the general. Qingliangshan sent a clever maidservant to serve the two young women. For a long time, the maidservants who worked in the Wangdongxiang courtyard looked down on the maidservants in Lu Chengyan's courtyard, and the maidservants in the "Luyuan" palace had internal strife again and began to squint. Treat those outsider maids brought into the mansion by the Lu family. Since ancient times, when there are more women, there will be troubled rivers and lakes everywhere.
Half a decade after returning home from the border, today the two generations of the Xu family, except for Huang Man'er, who was training in martial arts, gathered to rest in the gazebo on Tingchao Lake, and there were more Wang Chudong and Lu Chengyan than ever The daughter-in-law-to-be, plus Xu Weixiong who is sitting in a wheelchair, and the absence of Xu Longxiang, is a bit of a yin and yang, but it can be seen that Xu Xiao's complexion is very good, and he is in good spirits. The reason for being pleasing to the eyes of both daughters-in-law. One is well-known in the government and the public for his talent, and the other is a natural family manager. What is important is that the two women do not show any signs of jealousy, because one is completely ignorant, and the other is too smart to do it. With them guarding the back house, the son can't get into trouble, and he can't get into trouble. It's hard to tell right from wrong without being honest. Xu Xiao, who deviated from the orthodoxy and arbitrarily dismissed his status as King of Liang, lazily leaned against the red-painted corridor pillars of the pavilion, listening to Xu Fengnian's questions and answers with everyone in the Wang family. His playfulness and humor made the old man laugh constantly. The little girl of the Wang family said half a sentence, "Ask how much you can worry about", and Xu Fengnian added, "It seems that you are short of money to buy that green ant wine". "That guy is climbing a tree", the female writer said that "the belt is getting wider and I will never regret it", the young man who has become the biggest vassal in Liyang smiled and said, "Go get a pot of water for the widow", and the quiet one Sitting in a wheelchair, the woman who was much more literary than Wang Chudong also had an imperceptible warm smile at the corner of her mouth, and Lu Chengyan, a lady carefully infiltrated by a wealthy family, smiled without showing her teeth. When she couldn't help it, she lifted her Cover with hands.
It's just that people with poor eyesight can tell where Wang Chudong is, and they naturally approach Xu Xiao and Xu Fengnian, father and son, but Lu Chengyan can only intentionally or unintentionally lean towards the second princess who is in charge of a courtyard of "Hanlin who approves red girls".
Xu Xiao smiled and said, "Nian'er, you can send Cheng Yan off, and I will chat with your sister and Chu Dong again."
Xu Fengnian hummed, and walked out of the pavilion with Lu Chengyan who got up after hearing the words, but walked all the way to the courtyard, the two were speechless, Lu Chengyan followed behind him with pursed lips, and when she turned around at the gate of the courtyard, she was already smiling at each other, Xu Fengnian wanted to He stopped talking, hesitated for a moment, and smiled lightly: "You remember to go out more often, it's not good to be bored at home. Beiliang is not as beautiful as Jiangnan, but we also have unique scenery in Beidi, so don't ride a horse to see it yourself. Look, it’s a pity. I should have accompanied you, but now I’m too busy with work, and I’m going to go out soon, to the northwest to clean up the mess of the 200,000 criminal refugees. When you come back, you Still in the mood, I'll take you to Wudang Mountain for a walk."
After Lu Chengyan was sincerely happy, her eyebrows and eyes became charming, and she blurted out the word phoenix, and hurriedly swallowed the word for year that should be followed immediately, and said softly: "King of Beiliang, don't be so polite."
Xu Fengnian made a gesture to hit her forehead with his fingers, and said helplessly, "If you have a conscience, who is more polite?"
Lu Chengyan raised the corners of her mouth, Xu Fengnian turned around with a smile, turned around again, and sure enough saw her twisting her sleeves with two fingers standing at the door without moving, waved at her, and then left. Xu Fengnian didn't listen to Chaohu and saw Xu Xiao, so he walked towards the always deserted princess mausoleum, walked gently into this mausoleum that the outside world said was "heavy gates and halberds higher than feudal kings", stretched out his hand and stroked the gestures The strict stone statues were born. At the end, there is an old man with a hunchback sitting leaning in front of the tombstone. There are very few old trees in the tomb. It is rumored in Northern Liang that it is because the sword spirit of the female sword fairy's mother is too strong. Therefore, there were not a few trees left in the Mausoleum of the Princess, which was originally full of ancient trees. When Xu Fengnian was young, he heard that after becoming a fairy, he could scatter beans into soldiers, and he could even bring people back to life. During that time, he lit the lamp and read at night, almost rummaging through the ancient books on Buddhism and Taoism in Tingchao Pavilion. Master Li Yishan scolded him bloody. It seems that no one wants to scold him now, and no one will dare to scold Xu Fengnian, King of Beiliang in the future. Hearing the sound of footsteps, Xu Xiao smiled and said, "Here we come," but there was no more to say. At this moment, there are three members of the family here, he is standing, Xu Xiao is sitting, and Princess Beiliang is lying down.
Xu Fengnian did not show any expression of grief, but stood silently in front of the stele. In the early spring, the branches of the ancient tree turned bright yellow and light green. "Spring God Ballad", if the words are hummed, then it probably means that a country girl left home and went down the mountain, and met a man she liked, and she bowed her head together. The rickety old man closed his eyes, listening to the all-too-familiar little tune, and beat time leisurely with one hand on his knee.
After the little rhyme was over, the father and son walked out of the mausoleum silently. Xu Xiao suddenly said, "Nian'er, you can let Huang Man'er go home."
Xu Fengnian bit his lip, stopped and followed quickly, and nodded.
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Tai'an City still has the lingering aftertaste of the Lantern Festival Lantern Festival, and the streets are full of tourists. In the palace, after the eunuch Han Shengxuan "died violently in the palace", Song Tanglu of Diaosi, who took over as the chief eunuch, was young enough to make people feel terrible. In the first year of Xiangfu, the spring on the gate of the palace was all done by him. , watertight. Originally very popular in the Twelfth Prison, after he resigned from the Internal Supervisor, he devoted himself to handling the duties of the eunuch who was in charge of the official seal. The master who bestowed the name back then, Song Tanglu, never went to the Spring Festival to pay New Year's greetings. Since he entered the palace and became an eunuch, respecting the master must be far better than respecting the father. This is an unshakeable rule. The word-of-mouth reputation that Song Tanglu has worked so hard to accumulate is just like the water in the copper clepsydra just once, tick-tock, there will always be a day when the leak will be over, but Song Tanglu, who looks extremely smart, doesn't care about it, and today he followed a father and son carefully Go to that tall building, Qin Tianjian, a place where a few prophecies are spread every few years, and these few words are all solemnly written on lacquered talisman paper, and put into a treasure handed down by the Zhao family. The hundred-year-old yellow clay box was finally handed over to the emperor after bathing and changing clothes. After reading it, the emperor had to burn it to ashes himself.
After Song Tanglu became the palm print eunuch, an hour ago was the first time in his life that he took back the clay box from Qin Tianjian, and then His Majesty rushed to Qin Tianjian expressionlessly, but Song Tanglu, who had been with you for many years, knew that since he beat him After seeing His Majesty, he had never clearly noticed that the Ninth Five-Year Supreme was so happy. This time when I went to the tall building, His Majesty called His Highness the Crown Prince. Outside the building, there was a whole group of people of different heights, old and young. After the death of the old prisoner, the one who took over the Qin Tianjian was not the one with enough reputation. Mr. Hu, but a young child, was nicknamed "Little Bookcase" by the old prisoner in the past, and the inside and outside of Qin Tianjian also followed suit, forgetting the child's original name. In addition to Jianzheng, who was supposed to be an elementary school student in a private school, and Song Yujing, who is highly respected, there is also a hot new nobleman in the capital, Wu Lingsu, the king of Qingcheng in a purple Taoist robe. The head of the Taoist sect is the same as Zhao Danping, and no one ridicules that his different surname is not true. Especially in Liyang, the large-scale extermination of Buddhism was so mighty, and the northern Buddhism experienced a catastrophe of extinction. Wu Lingsu lived up to the emperor's order, and personally went to the two Chan Temples to paste the paper-sealing talisman on the main entrance! There are thousands of temples in the north, all of which are in the hands of Wu Lingsu. The two heads of the north and the south, even if the two masters of the Longhu Mountain Tianshi Mansion ascended, Wu Lingsu is still aggressive when dealing with the Guangling Taoist temple at the junction of the north and the south. Hushan could only retreat step by step. Under the watchful eyes of everyone in the world, Huang Zigui of Tianshi Mansion, who had the same surname as the emperor, was extremely disgraced.
Qin Tianjian has the honor of not kneeling, and Qingcheng King Wu Lingsu, who looks like a real person, also has this treatment, but after seeing His Majesty the Emperor and His Royal Highness, he still knelt down respectfully. Originally, everyone followed the usual practice of standing and bowing, but seeing the behavior of the capital of the Northern Province, they had to kneel down and kowtow, but Xiao Jianzheng never bowed his knees. The emperor of the Zhao family was not angry, but very happy. Prince Zhao Zhuan He stepped forward quickly and pinched the child's cheek. The supervisor, who was nicknamed the little bookcase, was a little annoyed. The emperor laughed heartily when he saw this, and after suppressing his smile, he entered the building first. Wandering in front of the bookcase that required a ladder to get to the books above, Wu Lingsu and Song Yujing carefully accompanied, but His Royal Highness is well-known in Tai'an City for being easy-talking, good-tempered and kind-hearted, and Wu and Song were not too restrained. When the prince joked that he likes girls more, he asked Wu Lingsu, who used to flatter the nobles and famous officials in the capital, if there was any way to give birth to a daughter without having a son for the first time. The old-fashioned Song Yujing smiled knowingly, thinking that His Highness the Crown Prince really has the heart of a child, and it is not easy. It must be a great blessing for this dynasty to have such a prince.
Outside the building, there is a star-seeking road made of eighty-one pieces of white marble, which is six feet away from the attic. The middle-aged man who sits on the dragon chair seems to have no fear, and the emperor doesn't mind this little thing at all. There are too many people in the world who are willing to be dogs for him, and there are one or two who are not afraid of him. , and does not pose any threat to him, it is not a bad thing or a good thing. And the world is not afraid of him at all, there is this small bookcase nearby, and far away, not to mention the barbarians of the North Mang, Li Yang Chaoye, he can count on one hand, and in the number of one hand, there is only one person who can make him afraid ! Then this guy is about to die, how can he not want to laugh, laugh out loud? The emperor of the Zhao family stretched out a finger, pointing to the northwest of the dynasty, then retracted his fist, bent over and held his stomach, but suppressed his laughter, and looked straight at the roof of a hall, where three people once drank and discussed heroes, together Created the grand plan and hegemony of the Liyang Dynasty today, but the results are all dead! Good to die! The oldest one, if he doesn't die, he won't be able to ascend the throne! That bald donkey died at the Iron Gate Gate, a well-deserved death, but it was a bit of a pity to die. The last one who was about to lie in the coffin, when the prince seized the throne, chose to stand on the sidelines, which made him hate it even more! In his opinion, the old fellow died too late.
The emperor of the Zhao family turned around and touched the head of Qin Tianjian Jianzheng beside him, and asked with a smile: "Little bookcase, do you think it is safe to give him a good posthumous title or a bad posthumous posthumous title?"
One is safe and the other is appropriate.
Accompanying you is like accompanying a tiger.
If the tiger and the old fox in those temples have spent most of their lives trying to figure out the emperor's heart, they will be able to taste the truth from the emperor's words immediately.
But Xiao Jianzheng said sternly: "Grandpa Jianzheng said before his death that our Qintianjian's new calendar came out, and the almanac written by the white-clothed monks in Liangchan Temple with ulterior motives was robbed. Will the king of Beiliang be given a bad posthumous posthumous posthumous posthumous posthumous title or be granted a title?" The posthumous posthumous title has nothing to do with the overall situation. I think that since the sages said that a gentleman has the beauty of an adult, it is okay to give the posthumous posthumous posthumous title. But Uncle Emperor, what does Jie Hu mean?"
The emperor of the Zhao family, whose expression was obscure and changing very quickly, finally showed a warm smile, muttered something to himself, then raised his voice, and said with a smile: "Jiehu, it was Huang Longshi, the old enemy of your grandfather who supervised Zhengzheng, who first said it." , I think it's similar to go robbery. By the way, little bookcase, I heard that you are good at chess, when will you compete with me on the chessboard?"
The little bookcase thought for a while, and said with a bright smile: "Grandpa Jianzheng taught me five ways to make a comeback in the end. I know the first four, but I don't know much about turning the tables. But Grandpa Jianzheng said, don't worry about it." Anyway, when you understand it, you can call that old man Huang to come to Tai'an City to talk. Grandpa Jianzheng also said that if you want Huang Sanjia to lose one, only two people have a chance, and I count as one. "
Seeing the innocent appearance of the child pointing at himself, the son of the Zhao family, Longyan Dayue, took off a priceless jade pendant hanging from his waist, and said with a smile: "Then I won't bring myself to be humiliated, the jade pendant is a gift." You don’t mind giving it away. Haha, my Liyang is full of talented people. Huang Longshi, a madman, should grow old without a home and die without a grave.”
The little bookcase smiled coquettishly, holding the jade pendant in both hands, "Then I have met a lady-in-waiting sister, and I like it at a glance. If I can see her again next time, I can give her the jade pendant."
Li Yangmingjun, who has won the title of the emperors with diligence, diligence and diligence, smiled, nodded and said: "Uncle Emperor told you, the jade pendant must be given to her after you grow up, and then you will have a wife. Don't worry, I will give it to you first." I helped you find that palace lady and I will keep it for you."
The little bookcase chick pecked at the rice and nodded vigorously.
With the spring breeze blowing, the emperor of the Zhao family turned and walked towards the attic with a sneer on his lips. Liyang rewards posthumous titles according to the law. The posthumous posthumous titles are divided into civil and military. Out of the 18th class, there are two sayings that "a scholar should be granted the 24th grade" and "a man should be granted the 18th grade". Most of the important officials who died in the temple in the past few years were civil servants. Zhenzhong has several posthumous titles, but in the eyes of the world, Wenkang Wenyi can never escape, like the two masters of the Song family, and the leader of the Qing Party who has gone through three dynasties, Lu Feichi of Shangzhu Kingdom, are all listed here. It's a pity that these guys are not guaranteed at the end of the festival. Although they are among the twenty-fourth, their posthumous titles are extremely low. On the contrary, the Lu family, whose family prestige is far inferior to Song Lu's Jiangnan Road, is expected to pick up these big names. Two of the posthumous titles of beauty.
Xu Xiao
I won’t give you any bad posthumous posthumous titles, but you have been stripped of the title of Dazhu Kingdom long ago, so don’t even think about receiving the posthumous posthumous posthumous title as a military minister, and the military minister is eighteen, I want to give you the most generous one. Waiting for "Wu Li"!
After you die, no matter how timid you are, you will send you Xu Xiao on your last journey with a laugh.
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This night, Qingliangshan Prince's Mansion, which is used to the old Liang King's hard-to-conceal exhaustion, is not unusual. He still feels that maybe when he gets up together tomorrow, he will be able to see the old man walking with the young Liang King at a certain time and place in the mansion. Relaxing scene.
In the inner room of the small courtyard where Xu Xiao lives, Xu Weixiong's wheelchair is near the door, her hands resting on her lap, tightly clenched. Xu Longxiang hurried home with his head down, standing on the bedside with red eyes.
Looking from the door, I could only see the back of a person sitting by the bed.
The old man lying on the bed tried his best to suppress his cough, and said slowly: "Father knows that you don't like this Xu Xiao who only knows how to talk about the big truth, yes, you are very good at using knives and guns, really you are not. Dad doesn't like a person who speaks reason without authorization. For so many years, Dad has been a rough man who will beat anyone who scolds me. , Dad doesn't talk about these things, and if he doesn't finish his words, he won't worry about you. Remember, since you have taken the position of King of Beiliang, you must be able to listen to what you don't want to hear, and you must be tolerant of people you don't like , the same rice raises all kinds of people, each has its own difficulties, and also has its own likes and dislikes and tempers, especially those who don't remember other people's good things, you have to bear it a lot, who made you the king of Beiliang Now, it’s not about losing to anyone, but about taking care of the overall situation. Dad has been a general and king of Beiliang for so many years, and he also has a lot of grievances, and he can’t tell anyone. Leading a group of old brothers out of Jinzhou to go to the Liangliao, they were miserably murdered by a powerful school captain in Liyang. Many brothers died, and in a fit of anger, they took forty or so surviving brothers and killed them to his house. Eat and drink, but want to kill his whole family, tied them into rice dumplings and dragged them to the yard, you know what happened next? That guy is called Cai Qinghe, no one will remember him now, Cai Qinghe was in the officialdom Climbing, unscrupulous, this guy was cold-blooded and ruthless when he was shady, and he agreed that two soldiers would advance and retreat together, but he watched my 800 men die and carry 2,000 enemies, but he didn't bring his 1,000 men into the battlefield , He also brought me a message afterwards, saying that he would rather not have military merits than let me, Xu Xiao, take the position. Before he died, such a hero knelt on the ground and kowtowed to me, saying that as long as his wife and children were spared, he was willing to lead his death In the end, of course I didn’t agree to him. The family of more than 30 people, old and young, were all killed in front of him, because there were more than forty brothers standing behind me, Xu Xiao, and I didn’t know who I was. If you do this, there will be a second Wang Qinghe and a third Song Qinghe who will jump out to harm me in the future. I, Xu Xiao, may not be afraid of death, but I am afraid that my brother will die for me! Fighting the country? Fighting the country will kill people, many people will die , as long as I, Xu Xiao, don't die for a day, I owe everything to those old brothers who left early."
"When did Dad start to be afraid of death? It was after he married your mother. In the world that Dad lives in, where dying is much easier than living, fear of death may not prevent death, but those who are not afraid of death will definitely die. Dad has seen too much. This kind of dead people, and many people died at the hands of father. But the older father is, the less he dares to kill people. Father told himself that regardless of himself, he must accumulate virtue and blessings for the four of you, isn't that the reason? No matter how rough your father is, he also knows that parents in the world can be very good to their children, and there is absolutely no reason to leave a good point for yourself! Dad, who was ignorant when he was young, is much more ignorant than you were when you were young. I only know how to dawdle, thinking about the outside world all day long, wishing to leave home thousands of miles away, where would I think of a home? After the two elders left, I didn’t feel that I had a home anymore. Feng Guangguang died outside, and he would never go back to that small place. Later, I met your mother, and after I tricked your mother into the house, I felt that where she was, my home was there. Later, there was You, she left, I feel that where you are, home is where you are. Our family is different from many other families. Our family is the other way around. Looking at you guys, your mother is seldom angry. One time, my father remembers it very clearly. He told you when he was a child that when his parents were not around, if anyone bullied you, you would beat him back. Take the knife and chop it with the knife. Your mother became angry. At first, my father thought it was reasonable. My son is such a kind-hearted child. Who would dare to bully my son? Why don’t you let him lie on the bed! My son Let other people's sons lie down, Xu Xiao, as a father, let their fathers lie down together, this is the principle of the old Xu family! After your mother got angry, she calmly told me that she is not willing to be bullied by others But after the young age, it is destined not to be a child of an ordinary family. If you develop a too fierce and perverse personality, never know how to be kind to others, and don't understand that suffering is a blessing, it must be your own child who suffers the most in the end. And you said Xu There will always be a day when Xiao will die of old age. At that time, no one will protect Xiaonian. What should I do? Your mother left early, and father, who is the most unruly guy, can't teach you anything, so I firmly remembered what your mother said. In a word, habit is like killing a child. Nianer, those times when I got angry with you, it was not my father who blamed you, but my father who blamed myself for not being able to fulfill my duty as a father. You never wanted to call me father before. , Dad is really not angry, every time you beat him with a broom, every time you touch him, the pain gets worse and worse, you know that Dad is getting old, and you have grown up too, this is a great thing."
The old man's speech was intermittent, always interrupted by gasps and difficult coughs.
The young figure didn't say anything, just holding the hand of the old man on the bed with both hands.
The old man who has never shed tears in front of any of his children, this old warrior who was scolded by the government and the public as a massacre, finally shed tears today. That's the strength to raise your hand.
And the young man who couldn't even see the expressions of his sister and brother, didn't even dare to take out a hand to help the old man wipe away his tears, for fear that if he let go, the old man would really leave.
"When the emperor is called a loner, that's the difference between the emperor and his ministers. Besides, after being an emperor for a long time, I really don't take it seriously. I really think it's some kind of shit emperor. Our Xu family worked hard on their own to create this Northern Liang king. , is not far from the emperor, year, among other things, the feeling of being alone is not good. Dad has tasted it, and he doesn't want you to go this old way. So let go of Yan Jiexi's family and let them go to Beijing. As a family member of the emperor, father never regretted it. Xu Xiao even dared to scold the old chief minister so that he was so angry that he was half dead. How could he take a pedantic literati in his eyes? Father just didn't want you to turn against brother Yan Chiji. Even if you are destined to fail Brother, it’s good to let you have a good idea. The happiest thing for Dad these years is that one is coming home from the border, seeing that you are all well, and the other is dreaming of your mother occasionally. I Xu Ever since your mother agreed to marry me, Xiao has been indebted to her all her life. The only thing my father complained about her was that he left early. In fact, it is harder for the husband and wife to leave later. This suffering is nothing to say Working hard for the family business, this is what we elders should do, but many times there are good things, and no one around can say a few words, or miss her very much, and can't see her, right? The world is very Daddy, father has traveled to many places and met many people, but in his eyes, there is always only your mother as a woman."
At the door, Xu Weixiong clenched his fist to cover his lips, still crying choked up.
"The loquat tree in the yard was planted by your mother herself after she came here. Afterwards, there will be loquats, and it happens that I miss my father and your mother again. Remember to pick some off and put them on the grave."
"Nian'er, father entrusted you to take care of your second sister and Huang Man'er, as well as our Xu family, our Xu family's 300,000 cavalry, and you will have to carry it all by yourself from now on. You will be very tired , don’t blame dad for letting you take on this burden.”
The young figure nodded.
Huang Man'er raised his arms to cover his face, sobbing softly.
When the old man uttered the last words of his life tonight, Xu Weixiong threw himself out of the wheelchair and cried loudly.
The young figure looked up.
With his back to the siblings, he just opened his mouth wide, crying silently, for fear of disturbing the old man who closed his eyes.
The old man finally said, "Dad, sleep for a while."