The rivers and lakes in Beiliang have never been so lively. With the help of Xuanyuan Qingfeng, there were many martial arts heroes heading northward to the border with full of enthusiasm. At this moment, it was reported that a new session of Buddhism and Taoism would be held in Wudang Mountain. The news of the debate, this gave many rivers and lakes people who didn't want to get involved in the reckless war a step to step down. Let's not go to the muddy water, but just take a detour to Wudang Mountain to see the excitement, so we won't be annoyed Are you leaving the Yang court? Everyone knows that the scenery of the eighty-one peaks towards the top is very spectacular, not to mention that Lu Zu and the immortal Hong Xixiang who rode a crane down to the south of the Yangtze River are here to practice Taoism, so it's good to get a sense of immortality. For a time, as many people from other places flooded into Youliang Prefecture as crucian carp crossing the river, and as the head snake in Beiliang, the Yulong Gang, under the personal management of the gang leader Liu Nirong, not only took the initiative to lead the way for the friends in the rivers and lakes, but also borne all the basic necessities of life. Moreover, if someone thinks that it is not convenient to travel with others, then as long as they use Luyin to register their names in the sub-helms of the Yulong Gang's counties, they can get a heavy carriage fee. Going to the brothel to get drunk is still halfway through the fish and meat, and the rich and powerful Yulong Gang will not really care about it. This has invisibly improved the status of the Yulong Gang in the Central Plains Jianghu. There are not many top masters of the Yulong Gang. Fake, but it can't stop people from being so rich that they can't beat the country. If you want to live comfortably in the rivers and lakes, don't you just rely on hard fists and bulging pockets? Otherwise, you think you are the King of Beiliang in Yushu Linfeng. I heard that he is an old man who can make no less than ten female heroes who seek revenge on Qingliang Mountain fall in love at first sight with just a face before practicing martial arts. In that phoenix tree courtyard, the golden house hides the beauty... The master of martial arts who can be counted on one hand, the peach blossom sword god Deng Tai A Tai Shenlong can see the head but not the tail, the high official Cao Changqing is not young after all, and Tuoba Bodhisattva is a naturally unpleasant barbarian, Then Xu Fengnian, who is in full bloom and has continued to perform feats, has become the most interesting topic of conversation for people in Liyang Jianghu after dinner. Many martial arts heroes and green forest heroes who have just gone to Beiliang are even more eye-opening. The big and small brothels are oirans who say that they have warmed the bed for Xu Fengnian. After divination, the restaurants and teahouses also shouted that Beiliang King was full of praise for his signature products, especially those shops selling rouge and gouache, and even vowed that Xu Fengnian had bought things for his confidante from them, and the most let The young man and the young master felt grief and indignation because it was obviously a deceitful nonsense by the store, but the accompanying women and fairies were like ghosts, and bought a lot of expensive bottles and cans in those shops. The key lies in the fact that the real people who spend money like water are the big men who protect the flowers.
During the hustle and bustle of the rivers and lakes in Beiliang, just in time when the custom of rolling willows in Beiliang is at its peak, the children of rich families in Beiliang will ride horses and shoot in the countryside or in the martial arts field, hang anything on the branches, and shoot it down with their bows. The rolling willow. When those out-of-town Jianghu men saw that many Beiliang women were also familiar with bow horses, they were unavoidably a little startled. Before, they only heard that the people of Beiliang were tough, but now they are sure that what they said is true. And most of these men and women who rolled willows in Beiliang tied white hemp silk on their arms. After asking, it turned out that the people in Beiliang would tie hemp to pay homage to their dead relatives within one month after taking off their mourning clothes. This is similar to the Central Plains family. In the middle of summer, colorful silk threads are used to tie the arms to ward off ghosts and cure diseases. At the same time, this is also shocking. Could it be that Beiliang really killed so many people in Hutou City at the border of Liangzhou and Hulukou in Youzhou? Why did I only hear in my hometown of Central Plains that the Northern Liang frontier army faced the pressure of millions of troops from Beimang, and either retreated without a fight, or collapsed at the first touch? Instead, I heard that Gu Jiantang's Liangliao and his son-in-law Yuan Tingshan's Jibei line of defense, both of which are under the command of Dazhu Kingdom, have achieved success again and again. After entering Beiliang, what I saw with my own eyes, except for the Beiliang disciples who rode Sheyaliu, made people feel ashamed, and those patrolling cavalry drawn from the garrison in Beiliang made people feel awe. These are said to be far inferior in combat power If the domestic cavalry of the border iron cavalry really went out to fight with the so-called elite soldiers and horses in everyone's hometown, wouldn't it be like a top master of the first-rank realm crushing a second-rank junior master
When most people from other places started to climb mountains or approach Wudang, they heard two new legendary news. After the last time, Xu Fengnian, the king of Beiliang, led Youzhou Wanqi to fight outside Hulukou, and this time he fought against Hulukou again. Outside Toucheng, he was alone in the battle, and Dong Zhuo, the king of the Southern Court of Beimang, retreated and retreated. And the notorious Beiliang Capital Protector Chu Lushan personally led 8,000 cavalry troops from Huaiyang Pass to the northeast border of Liuzhou, smashing 30,000 Dong's private troops. Everyone hates the big villain, but if the villain is one of his own family, it is quite reassuring to think about it. Chu Lushan, the big devil who can stop crying for children, is the most suitable place to be placed at the border of Beiliang. From this point of view, Xu Fengnian became the king of Beiliang, not to mention other achievements, just being able to subdue Fatty Chu and let him stay outside Liangzhou Pass honestly is already a great merit.
Xu Fengnian rushed from Huaiyang Pass to the border between Liang and You, after meeting Chu Lushan and the heavy-casualty Jagged cavalry army, for the sake of the Buddhist and Taoist dispute that was supposed to be held at the Demon Slaying Terrace of Longhu Mountain two years ago. Of course, he didn't come to Wudang Mountain to show off, but Fushuifang spies said that two groups of people would come here to join in the fun. He no longer deliberately hides his whereabouts. The other party is even more weird, a couple who can be called the only one in the world, Xu Fengnian pays more attention to them than the Huyan Daguan couple, because that man is the white-clothed monk Li Beoxin, who is the nominal abbot of the two temples that are now closed. The abbot is also the father of a little girl who aspired to be a heroine very early on.
The arrival of the white-clothed monk largely made the debate on Buddhism and Taoism at Little Lotus Peak justifiable. Otherwise, since Li Yufu, the head teacher of Wudang, was not on the mountain, the Taoist who debated with Buddhism would be a person who did not even have many people in Beiliang. The Taoist priest who has heard the name is a disciple of Song Zhiming. It is rumored that this talent has just built a temple and practiced in Xiaozhu Peak. Wudang Eighty-one Peaks, not all peaks have Taoist Taoist temples, most of the mountains are "raised in the deep boudoir. "Knowledge", Wudang Mountain now has only twelve peaks in total, of which the Lotus Peak is the most famous. It is regarded as being able to stand on its own, and there should be some Taoism in the future. In addition, the Qingshan Temple was built with funds from Qingliang Mountain to the collection of classics presented by the King of Beiliang later, and the status of Xiaozhufeng has naturally risen. Wudang Mountain is one of the Taoist ancestral homes separated from Longhu Mountain in the north and south for hundreds of years. Among the gods of the highest generation, Wang Chonglou was the first to pass away. , the sword idiot Wang Xiaoping blocked the way and Wang Xianzhi died in a heroic battle on the banks of the Guangling River. Song Zhiming, who had lived for more than two years, also died. Yu Xingrui who cultivated strength", the latter was also the one who brought Li Yufu from the East China Sea to Wudang. There are about 20 Wudang Taoists in the generation of Li Yufu and Han Gui, and there will be more Taoists in the next four generations of Lingzhen in Qingning, especially the Lingzi generation and Zhenzi generation. , Wudang Mountain, which has been silent for a hundred years, is becoming more and more prosperous, and there are now more than 600 Taoist priests of the Zhenzi generation. This is the premise that Wudang Mountain does not want to recruit disciples indiscriminately.
Going up the mountain to burn incense, no matter whether it is relatively wealthy Lingzhou people or pilgrims from Jihe and Jihe states, they all climb the mountain by the South Shinto, which has the most beautiful scenery and the best route. The huge appeal of the Buddhist and Taoist disputes, except for the seven or eight hundred people from the rivers and lakes, most of the wealthy people in the three states of Beiliang came by car and horse, and even Huainan Road and Jiangnan Road had many people come to burn incense and watch the battle Both are correct. The mountain road of Wudang North Shinto is not wide at all, and what is more unfortunate is that it has been raining lightly since the early morning. The rainy weather will not block the road, but the muddy road will make people suffer. Stepping on the rugged mountain road for twenty miles is more tiring than walking fifty miles on the official post road.
Xu Fengnian didn't have any retinues to follow when he came to Wudang Mountain this time. In order to hurry, he didn't even ride a horse. Instead, he chose a secluded path and flew all the way like a bird, so he looked as if he hadn't been busy. He was wearing a green shirt, with two knives hanging from his waist , one is a river crossing pawn in the hands of Cong Jiang Fuding who "takes people's love", and the other is an ordinary standard cold knife. At noon, Xu Fengnian took a rest at a simple restaurant on the entrance of Beishendao. The name of the restaurant is also interesting. Bar. The restaurant was already overcrowded, full of tourists who hoped to get up to the main peak of Wudang as soon as possible. Xu Fengnian could only sit on a small bamboo stool under the eaves with more than a dozen people to hide from the rain. Waiting in line, Xu Fengnian asked for a pot of tea. The tea was branded as Wudang's "Tao Tea". Holding the jug in one hand and the cup in the other, Xu Fengnian drank it all in a few sips, and asked the restaurant staff to refill the water, and he had to pay another five cents. Apparently not only Xu Fengnian felt that he had been slaughtered badly, but the pilgrims around him also complained a lot. A few young and temperamental ones even had a bad feeling for Wudang, saying that the leaf knows the autumn. A philistine full of money. Listening to their accents, they are all foreigners. Some local pilgrims from Beiliang who often went to burn incense on the mountain frowned. An old man smiled and persuaded him a few words. When it came to burning incense on the mountain, even the incense and incense candles were gifts from Wudang. Yes, I don’t charge pilgrims a penny. Of course, how much incense money I am willing to give later, whether it is a few pennies or a few taels, is nothing more than what I can do. The old man also said that he has come here to burn incense three or four times a year since he was young, and he has never met a Wudang Taoist who offered him money.
When the old man opened his mouth, many outsiders who were curious about Wudang Mountain became interested. Some of them asked the old man if he had seen Li Yufu, the head teacher of Wudang. , from the old head teacher Wang who broke the river with one finger, to the head teacher Hong who rode a crane down to the south of the Yangtze River, I have seen it all, especially head teacher Hong, who even released the lottery for me back then. This is not I praise Haikou, in fact, there are many pilgrims who have seen these people. If you go up the mountain today, you may meet Chen Zhenren or Yu Zhenren to untie the lottery for you. Unfortunately, I heard that Master Li went down the mountain for a long journey. "
"Then it's true that you King of Beiliang used to practice martial arts in Wudang Mountain?"
"Of course, old man, I personally asked two real people of the Qing Dynasty who have known each other for many years, and they are absolutely true. They said that our prince and Headmaster Hong had a close relationship a long time ago. One person practiced martial arts and the other cultivated Taoism on the mountain. It’s really good to wait.”
A young lady from outside asked shyly, "Old man, is your King of Beiliang really as romantic and suave as rumored?"
"How can this be fake?! The son of the general and the princess has no appearance! Haha, this little girl, you don't have to be ashamed. There are so many women in Beiliang who want to marry the prince. ah."
When the old man said this, he pointed to Xu Fengnian who was drinking tea not far away, and joked with the young lady: "Look, our prince promises to be as handsome as this young master."
Xu Fengnian turned around and smiled helplessly.
The young woman flushed.
Xu Fengnian took a sip of tea and looked into the distance lightly. Just like the Taoist temple where Han Gui on Xiaozhufeng is, Qingshan Temple, Guanqingshan, where a person is, the state of mind will be different. On the battlefield, there are many bones, and there is no room for you not to be sad. And if you are in the mountains and forests, you will inevitably have a somewhat wild mood. Having personally experienced the battle of attacking and defending Hutou City, and going to meet Chu Lushan, the 3,000 cavalry and the 5,000 corpses who returned from the border of Liuzhou, even if Xu Fengnian had already fared away from Huaiyang Pass in Hutou City, he was completely far away from the sound of war drums and horseshoes. , but there seemed to be the sound of fighting all the time. The more he was in a peaceful and peaceful place, the more difficult it was for Xu Fengnian to let go. There seemed to be a picture in his mind, with the horse's head facing north in Beiliang! Head north! The blade faces north! The 300,000 border guards, for the sake of the barren land behind them, did not hesitate to stop Beimang's iron hooves with their lives.
At the time of parting, Liu Jinu said that there is no need to feel guilty, the more than 60,000 people in Hutou City did not fight for you, Xu Fengnian, but died for Beiliang. It's just that you, Xu Fengnian, deserve our peace of mind to entrust your life to let us know that we deserved to die!
But Xu Fengnian can really not feel guilty
Impossible.
Everyone under the eaves saw two men approaching from a distance, one was stocky and the other was short, because they were not eye-catching, they just glanced past them and didn't pay attention. Xu Fengnian got up slowly, called the clerk to return the teapot and cup, and then stood on the edge of the steps, just standing on the boundary line where there was rain and no rain above his head. When he made this seemingly unintentional action, the two distant visitors also slowed down, but for the pilgrims waiting for dinner under the eaves of the restaurant, this kind of incomprehensible peak Confrontation is imperceptible.
Behind Xu Fengnian, people were drinking tea, chatting and resting their minds, unaware that a turbulent wave was coming, like a tide hitting the city.
Although the two slowed down, they still walked towards the restaurant. They seemed to be walking like ordinary people. In fact, one of them didn't touch the ground at all, and didn't touch the mud. , Even the entire upper of the shoe did not sink into the yellow mud.
Seeing that they had no intention of stopping, Xu Fengnian narrowed his eyes, pressed his right hand on the handle of the pawn's knife, and made a gesture to lift his foot to step out of the steps.
The middle-aged man stopped first, and the young man next to him wanted to move on, but was suddenly stopped by his companion.
The young man stared at that guy with an angry face, and muttered in a slightly jerky Central Plains mandarin: "When I have fought with both Old Monster Wang and Tuoba Bodhisattva, is it great?"
Immediately afterwards, the young man with an unruly expression sighed, "Yes, it's quite remarkable."
He opened his voice and shouted: "Hey! You clearly know that we are not here to fight, and you have such hospitality?"
Xu Fengnian looked at this young man, not to mention the taller man in the North, but also short among the men south of the Guangling River in Liyang. His real identity was Yeludong bed, a serious man from Beimang Tianhuang. Simply put , if that puppet prince dies one day, then this guy, like Murong Longshui, is the most likely member of the royal family to become the next emperor of Beimang. Back then, because of Jia Jiajia, Xu Fengnian played a game of cat and mouse with Murong Longshui and the spider web leader Old Moth. She was quite an interesting girl. For some reason, Yelu Dongshuang swaggered and followed Luoyang to Zhulu Mountain. As for the Northern Mang master, Duanqiang Deng Mao, whose rank was similar to that of Hong Jingyan, should be the personal entourage of the former Emperor Beimang's nephew. To be precise, this is the second meeting between Xu Fengnian and Yelu Dongchuang. It was when Gao Shulu woke up four hundred years after the "sealing of mountains". Dong Chuang and Xu Fengnian barely had a relationship.
Xu Fengnian smiled, took back his steps, and sat back on the small stool. Deng Mao and Yeludong bed were able to step up the steps to the eaves. It's not that Deng Mao didn't have this ability, but since he didn't have the heart to fight to the death, neither could Deng Mao. The kind of person who is looking for trouble. As for Yeludong's bed, facing the current Xu Fengnian, if the latter wants to keep him from getting close to the restaurant, then he, a child of the Beimang royal family, really doesn't have the ability. The soles of Yeludong's bed rubbed against the corner of the steps fiercely, scraping off a thick layer of soil, and then sat down beside Xu Fengnian. Deng Mao did not sit down, because the restaurant could only vacate a spare stool.
Yeludong lowered his voice and asked, "Did you really fight Tuoba Bodhisattva? What happened? I want to hear the truth."
Xu Fengnian said to this familiar guy: "Is Xu Ying okay?"
Yeludong was stunned on the bed, "Xu Ying? Who is it?"
Xu Fengnian finally smiled a little, and said softly, "It's the woman around Luoyang who likes to wear red robes."
Yeludong groaned on the bed, "She, that's it. She used to be neither a ghost nor a ghost, but she lost her mind and cut her own side. Now she looks like an ordinary woman, but she still likes to be alone when she's okay." Wandering around there, the big red robe turned and turned, and it could take half an hour at a stretch, anyway, it made my eyes dazzled and my heart tired."
Xu Fengnian did not speak.
Yeludong was startled on the bed and said: "Why, you are so good?!"
Xu Fengnian didn't turn his head to look at the young man who was speaking out loud, but asked calmly, "Are you afraid of dying here?"
Yeludong rolled his eyes.
The next moment, Yeludong didn't dare to breathe out of bed.
Everyone under the eaves didn't realize that at that moment, the stool of the handsome young man with two knives shook, and the ordinary-looking middle-aged man had already left the eaves for a shower and then returned to stand still under the eaves. It was just strange. How come the man with his back to the restaurant is facing them without knowing it.
Xu Feng said in a young voice: "There will be no next time."
Yeludong smiled wryly and said: "I heard that you are quite funny before, and you don't seem like a person who can't take jokes. It seems that once this person becomes a master, he will become arrogant."
Xu Fengnian shook his head and said, "If one day you change your identity and go there, you will know the reason."
Yeludong bed didn't know whether he really understood or pretended to understand, "Understood."
Xu Fengnian beckoned to the store clerk to ask for a pot of tea and three cups. The shrewd clerk glanced at the short man who squatted in the latrine and refused to poop. He said that he had to buy two pots of tea, but he could borrow more A small stool, Xu Fengnian agreed with a smile, and directly squeezed out a piece of broken silver from the purse, about sixty yuan, not to mention that silver is expensive and copper is cheap in this world, the man grinned, this buddy, come on road! Later, Deng Mao finally had a chance to sit down. If the truth spread to the Jianghu, the waiter in this shop would probably be the most bullish man in the world. He bargained with Beiliang King Xu Fengnian, rolled his eyes at Yeludong bed, and tipped Deng Mao a stool! Xu Fengnian poured a cup of tea for each of the Beimang men on the left and right sides, and asked, "Are you here in Beiliang?"
Yeludong didn't hold back, "Luoyang let me tell you, apart from the fact that Cao Changqing didn't agree with that Yan Shenggong who helped Emperor Liyang settle the matter, there is no other three-year agreement to let go."
Yelu took a sip of the tasteless tea on the east bed, and continued: "And I want to meet you myself, and wonder if it's possible for you and me to do something together."
Xu Fengnian was a little lost, looking at the light rain outside the eaves, took a deep breath and said calmly: "Tell me."
Yeludong laughed at himself and said: "In my family, many relatives who are about my age have died over the years. Of course, most of them have the same surname as mine. And that... um, they follow my aunt's surname. Most of them are women. That fat girl Murong Longshui. So to be honest, I still have a chance, even if it's not big, but I have it. The reason why I sneaked out, to be honest, was to avoid the comeback chess sword Yuefu. The way, the old man was actually driven to your Liyang by my grandfather at the beginning, he killed the carbine this time, of course it was not as simple as not giving me a good look, the old guy valued my brother more, the reason? Well, the housekeepers always look for a dog, but they don't look for a wolf cub. I know that the current situation of Liang Mang's endless confrontation is in the final analysis the idea of two people, the old guy and Dong Fatty, not everyone thinks so .”
Xu Fengnian said with a half-smile, "Show some sincerity, okay?"
Yeludong laughed on the bed, his voice was softer, and he said slowly: "At the worst, I know that out of the eight generals and the twelve generals, six are firmly opposed, and Helian Wuwei is The Reckless War belongs to whether you can fight or not. It’s hard to say that they are ignorant, anyway, they just follow the trend. Of course, my parents died very early, but my grandfather is still alive. Although he is not a general who holds orders, he is good or bad. One person is worth a general and a season-holder, right?"
Xu Fengnian was familiar with the inside story of Beimang royal court, he shook his head and said, "It's more than that."
Yeludong turned his head to stare at the profile of the young feudal prince, and asked, "Do you want to do this deal?"
Xu Fengnian asked back: "Apart from wanting me in Beiliang to destroy Dong Zhuo and Taiping Ling's aura, what else do you need to do?"
Yelu Dongshuang smiled and said, "First of all, Tuoba Bodhisattva has to be killed by you. Secondly, you have to try your best to keep the main force of Hong Jingyan's Rouran cavalry on the battlefield."
Xu Fengnian sarcastically said: "You really should go to the battlefield to see it, so you wouldn't talk so lightly."
Yeludong smiled and said, "If I were someone else, I wouldn't mention it at all, but you can. That's why I'm sitting here today, drinking a pot of...good tea that costs twenty cents apiece."
Xu Fengnian asked: "Do you want to be emperor that much?"
Yeludong asked rhetorically, "You don't want to?"
Xu Fengnian laughed it off.
Yeludong quietly waited on the bed.
Xu Fengnian finally just said: "I can only promise you to take one step at a time."
Yeludong slapped his thigh on the bed, "This is enough!"
Yeludong bed put the teacup by his feet, and when he bent over to get up, he said softly: "If you and I both can reach that step, I can also promise you one thing, for half a Southern Dynasty, I will treat Yeludong bed as if I returned it to you." Your tea money is gone. When both sides of Liangmang are settled, and if you still have the intention to go south to the Central Plains in the future, I can even lend you the entire Eastern Front for three years to help you suppress the two Liao frontier armies in Liyang. Year."
Xu Fengnian watched the two go away.
People go tea cool.
After Yelu Dongchuang and Deng Mao walked more than ten miles, Yelu Dongchuang asked, "Do you think he will agree?"
Deng Mao said expressionlessly: "Why don't you agree? Except for Hong Jingyan's Rouran Iron Cavalry, the rest is what Xu Fengnian wants to do and should do. As long as Dong Zhuo and Taiping Ling are still in charge of the government together, recklessness will be a knot It's a dead end, and Xu Fengnian's chances of winning in Beiliang are too small."
Yeludong bed crossed his hands and held the back of his head, and said with emotion: "Yeah, it seems that he can only gamble with me, and he can only help me. Instead of fighting to the end with a million troops and no chance of winning, It's better to try my best to discredit Dong Zhuo and Taiping Ling, at least it will be relatively easy, as long as these two guys are forced to go all out and go down again, it doesn't need to be exhausted, it is equivalent to winning a chance for me, when the time comes, it's up to me Yeludong's ability and aura are counted."
Deng Mao hesitated for a moment and asked, "What if you really succeed?"
North and South divide the world
The dwarf grinned silently, revealing that the surname Yelu hadn't seen a ferocious blood in twenty years.
Under the eaves of that restaurant, Xu Fengnian twitched his lips.
Xu Fengnian got up and walked down the steps, and began to step into the Wudang Mountain North Shinto.
So what if such a person became the emperor of Beimang