The New Year's Eve is the end of the year, and the New Year's Eve is like a pass for debtors. This year's New Year's Eve is actually very difficult for Xu Fengnian, because Xu Weixiong said that all Spring Festival couplets in Qingliang Mountain must be written by him, and there cannot be a duplicate, large and small couplets. , a total of three hundred and sixty-five pieces, and this does not include the words "spring" and "blessing". For this reason, Xu Fengnian had to ask for help from Song Dong, Ming Yu, and even Wang Chudong, who wanted more than 300 pieces of Spring Festival couplets. Make a booklet, put it on the desk, and just copy it. Since Xu Xiao died less than three years ago, he should have continued to use white couplets, but Xu Weixiong said that this year he would use red couplets. Although Xu Fengnian was reluctant, even his aunt Zhao Yutai agreed with his second sister. Ah, but they are no match for the combination of these two, so they can only accept their fate obediently.
So Xu Fengnian began to write and write on the second floor of Wutong Courtyard early in the morning. Lu Chengyan was grinding on the side, Wang Chudong helped cut the rice paper, and Xu Fengnian's three apprentices, Lu Yunchang, couldn't stand it until the stick of incense arrived in the study, and ran out. I found the bridegroom to discuss martial arts, and the big apprentice Wang Sheng, who returned to Beiliang from Beimang alone, calmed down and helped the little teacher, Wang Chudong. Only the little boy Yu Dilong was missing, and everyone in the room knew it well. Nowadays, almost all the generals in the official circles of Beiliang, especially the Youzhou border, know the allusion of the young vassal king "walking away with the wall". I don't know if it is Yan Wen Luan or Chen Yunchui blurted out the nickname "Second Xu" for the King of Beiliang, to show that there are still people in the world who can beat the young vassal king. As for who defeated Xu Fengnian on which battlefield, they gloated Veterans don't care. So Yu Dilong, who had no idea that he had caused a catastrophe, had just returned to Qingliang Mountain from outside the Youzhou Pass, and called the master who was smiling but not smiling to the secluded back mountain. It was a bit refreshing, but the child didn't show up after a long time, with a bruised nose and a swollen face, full of grievances. He sat and listened to Chaoge Huxinting for a long time, and didn't respond to calling him to eat. In the end, Lu Chengyan, the master's wife, personally After going out on the horse, he took the child's hand to eat a full meal. When he was wolfing down the child, he was still frightened and complained to the master's wife, saying that the master had beaten him for no reason and did not mention it, and asked him to practice closed-mouth meditation during this time to be a mute , Yu Dilong asked his wife what she said was wrong, Lu Chengyan looked at the child with resentful eyes, the little resentment in her heart disappeared, and she supported the child and said leave your master alone, if he wants to vent his anger on you in the future, he will come to see his wife . Yu Dilong, who was beaten into a pig's head by Xu Fengnian, smiled and said yes, grinning his teeth, and then continued to bury his head in eating. The child felt that the master's wife is really good-tempered, and the master's blessing is even better.
Xu Fengnian wrote for nearly three hours, and after finishing writing, he still had to carry stools and ladders to paste the Spring Festival couplets. Fortunately, Xu Weixiong didn't continue to torment him on this matter, except for the dozen or so places where Xu Xiao personally pasted the couplets. Like the old house, the gate of the palace, the Indus courtyard, and Tingchao Pavilion, etc., Xu Xiao has always personally made the Spring Festival couplets in these places, while the rest of the couplets are handed over to the people in charge of the mansion. Xu Fengnian asked Wang Sheng to call Lu Yunchang and Yu Dilong, and asked young girls to help set up ladders and set up stools. By the way, he checked whether the Spring Festival couplets were pasted crookedly, and every time they pasted upside down, the three apprentices would shout "Fu is here", Wang Sheng was a bit reserved when he spoke, but he could tell from the expression on the girl's sincerity that Lu Yunchang was the most sloppy and Yu Dilong had the loudest voice. According to the old rules, the Spring Festival couplets at the gate were the last to be pasted. After that, Xu Fengnian held the big bowl of rice milk in his hand, looked at the sky, and looked at the end of the street. It was time for Huang Man'er, Yang Guangdou, Chen Xiliang and others to return.
The three apprentices didn't work in vain, and they all got an extra Spring Festival couplet. Xu Fengnian didn't ask what they were going to do with it, but he could roughly guess that Yu Dilong must have given it to the big man who died outside the customs. Scout, I want someone to take it to his house. Lu Yunchang, a heartless guy, must be used to flatter a certain general and lieutenant of the Daxuelong Cavalry Army. As for Wang Sheng, whose body is becoming more and more slender like an ordinary girl, maybe it is just for collection and has no use up. Xu Fengnian suddenly smiled and asked, "How about Master's writing?"
Lu Yunchang immediately said with a playful smile: "Silver hook painted on iron, flamboyant and phoenix dancing, penetrating three points into the wood, the atmosphere is myriad..."
Xu Fengnian took it all calmly, and finally waited until the boy couldn't spit out new ivory from the dog's mouth, and said with a smile: "You can speak human language."
The boy immediately asked in a low voice: "Master, do you want to write another picture for me?"
Xu Fengnian played with taste: "It is a good thing to go to temples to burn incense and pay respects to Buddha, but if you have to go to every temple and worship Buddha when you see Buddha, it will appear insincere. In officialdom, one person is willing to give you a lot of effort, which is better than two people. It's actually better to help you with three or four points."
The young man thought for a while, then nodded vigorously.
Xu Fengnian turned his head to look at Yu Dilong, who trembled in fright, and said with a mournful face: "Master, what's wrong? I haven't talked to anyone except Master's wife!"
Xu Fengnian snorted coldly, handed the porcelain bowl in his hand to the child, and said for no reason: "You are lucky, kid."
Yu Dilong was a little aggrieved, but he didn't dare to speak.
Xu Fengnian looked into the distance, Lu Zu, Gao Shulu, Liu Songtao, Li Chungang, Wang Xianzhi, and then Xu Fengnian, maybe Xuanyuan Qingfeng in the future, and then Yu Dilong's turn.
When Xu Fengnian hoped to be truly invincible in the world, Xie Guanying appeared on the list of immortals in the land. Xiang is doing justice for the sky, but the latter ignores it. When the young people like Lu Yunchang, the Dragon King of Yudi, are born, there will be no such thing as heaven and man. People in the world will fight against each other based on their own abilities rather than their previous lives. They will be successful or defeated, dead or alive . But after all, there is no real separation between heaven and man, and there is also the so-called God's will in the dark. Xu Fengnian intuitively feels that not only will there be people who can fight Yu Dilong in the future, but it is very likely that they will come from the East China Sea. As for who it is, Xu Fengnian was not interested, and the Wang Sheng Lu Yunchang next to Yu Dilong, it was no surprise that he could only be Wang Xiufengdu Lvpao in the era when Li Chungang was the only leader, or Deng Tai'a Cao Changqing in Wang Xianzhi's era. But Xu Fengnian still hoped that Yu Dilong at that time, especially when he was not alive, would not become a wild horse running wild in the world, but be concerned about it, a "Wang Xianzhi" or "Xu Fengnian" who was completely free from the restraint and suppression of luck. ", if there is no reverence in the heart and only knows to be unscrupulous, it will undoubtedly be a disaster.
Hehe, the girl came back this time, and relayed a lot of inexplicable words, which are not only Huang Sanjia's wine talk, but also Huang Longshi's last words. It sounds very nonsense. "Flying with the Sword", traveling towards the North Sea and the sky, traveling all over the world in one day, and even picking up the stars from the sky and going down to the sea to fish for the moon. He also said that everyone will be a scholar in the future. There are more books than today's Confucian saints have read in their lifetime, but it is a pity that future scholars will not be considered real scholars, they will only be counted as flippers, and the books they read will not be the books of sages, let alone think of them , The so-called heart-to-heart has changed the taste. Many people don’t want to be heroes, so they think that there are no heroes in the world. The morals of the world have actually lost many things that the sages hoped that future generations could inherit when they were alive. So he Huanglongshi is willing to die in the present, in this world, and turn into loess here.
On the rivers and lakes, Lu Zu did not want to cross the gate of heaven, Li Chungang did not want to be promoted, Wang Xianzhi was willing to lose to Xu Fengnian... In the temple, Zhang Julu did not leave a way out, Qi Yanglong resolutely came out of the mountain, Tan Tanweng "will not go to the inn"...
Maybe it's all because they are the same kind of people as Huang Longshi.
Live by death.
Xu Fengnian sighed softly, stretched out his hand and rubbed the head of the big apprentice, and said softly with a smile: "Since you have the Happy Sword, you should live happily, don't be like... some people."
After all, the girl has grown up, and Master's intimate gesture made her blush a little.
Lu Yunchang suddenly yelled, "Master, actually Wang Sheng likes you, really, even a blind person can tell!"
The girl who didn't carry the six or seven swords on her body for the time being suddenly became murderous, and walked thousands of miles with Bai Hu'er face to the North Mang. The girl's swordsmanship has improved by leaps and bounds. So far, she is already the highest among the three disciples. It's just that the girl's mind is fully revealed here, fighting and killing Lu Yunchang, isn't it admitting Lu Yunchang's statement? But ignore it, ignore it, and the girl can't hold back her breath. Fortunately, there was a wave of horseshoes on the street to help her out at this time. It was Master's younger brother, Xu Longxiang, the leader of the Dragon Elephant Army, who returned to Zhoucheng from Liuzhou. When Xu Fengnian walked down the steps, he said, "Dilong, practice with your junior brother , how Master beat you yesterday, you can beat him as long as you don't delay the New Year's Eve dinner."
Yu Dilong froze for a moment.
Lu Yunchang, who had the brightest mind, had already run into the palace and shouted: "Fighting is fine, let me get the weapons!"
Yu Dilong hurriedly handed the porcelain bowl to the blushing Wang Sheng, and went to intercept Lu Yunchang. Wang Sheng lowered his head and returned the bowl to Xu Fengnian, and said in a low voice, "Master, I will go too."
Holding the bowl, Xu Fengnian said helplessly, "You three should take the stool and ladder back anyway."
When Huang Man'er saw Xu Fengnian, he seemed a little timid. Xu Fengnian handed the bowl to Chen Xiliang, then smiled and grabbed Huang Man'er's shoulder. The next moment, Xu Longxiang's body slid all the way in the snow on the side of the street. , stirring up countless snowflakes.
Back then, there were four sisters and brothers in the Xu family. Whenever it snowed heavily, Xu Fengnian liked to throw the thin Huang Man'er into the heavy snow. Head-sized holes were poked out on it, and big Xu characters were written. When the work was done, Xu Fengnian put his hands on his hips, proudly, while Huang Man'er sat in the snow with a foolish smile, and stood under the eaves to watch the lively elder sister Xu Zhi. Tiger would definitely clap his hands, or burst out laughing, while the precocious Xu Weixiong would curl his lips and pretend to be disdainful. Because Xu Weixiong was not very happy to play snowball fights with the three of them, so Xu Fengnian and the eldest sister had to let Huang Maner stand still at the base of the wall as a target. The two were more accurate than who threw the snowball. When it hit Huang Man'er's head with precision, the one who laughed the happiest was not Xu Fengnian, but Huang Man'er. Xu Weixiong would roll his eyes at that time.
Chen Xiliang was dumbfounded. Yang Guangdou, the governor of Liuzhou who had been in Qingliang Mountain for more than ten years, was there, and he was no stranger to this.
Soon Xu Longxiang ran up to Xu Fengnian, squatted down and put his brother on his back without saying a word, as if he wanted to run all the way from the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain before giving up.
Eating dumplings during the Chinese New Year is a rule set by Xu Xiao. When Wu Su was alive, she and her two daughters made dumplings together. After Wu Su passed away, especially when the eldest daughter married Jiangnan and the youngest daughter went to study far away, it was all arranged by Xu Xiao. .
This year's dumplings, Zhao Yutai, Xu Weixiong, Lu Chengyan, Wang Chudong, are the dumplings made by these four women.
This year's New Year's Eve dinner is still Xu Xiao's rule, women don't leave the table, so in addition to Xu Fengnian and Xu Longxiang, Wang Sheng's three apprentices, there are also Xu Beizhi and Song Dongbaiyu who are near the water, and Chen Xiliang and Yang Guangdou who came from afar. Such a large table was full of people, a rare and lively scene.
After eating the New Year's Eve dinner, it is to watch the year.
Xu Fengnian walked to the entrance of the palace hall alone, and two chairs were placed in the middle. His Highness just sat in Xu Xiao's seat carelessly, and Xu Xiao could only smile and sit on the chair beside him, never feeling anything wrong. Standing at the entrance of the lobby, Xu Fengnian looked at the dozens of old chairs placed on the left and right, and then at those two chairs, in a daze. Soon after, Song Yu, the old steward of the house, brought in a large stove, and a small tong for fiddling with charcoal was hanging from the gap of the wooden stove. Xu Fengnian held the stove and placed it at the feet of the two chairs in the center. He squatted down and began to practice Fiddle with the charcoal fire that has just glowed red. The matter of keeping the year old is a man's business. Even if Xu Xiao is a well-known wife in the world, this matter is not discussed. Of course, the old concubine Wu Su would never compete with Xu Xiao on this kind of matter. In the Xu family, Wu Su is the daughter-in-law of the Xu family, and she never said anything in the old Xu family's old rules. When Xu Fengnian was squatting in front of the stove, Xu Longxiang also walked into the lobby carrying two large bags of charcoal. To keep watch until dawn, adding charcoal and fire is indispensable. The two brothers squatted together. , I am prone to sleepiness, and Xu Xiao has never been a hero who does not mention his courageous consciousness back then. He likes to think about it, and I can't make it through every time. Here, think about it now, Xu Xiao is all alone, quite pitiful, Huang Man'er, don't you think so?"
Xu Longxiang nodded.
Xu Fengnian asked again: "You said what would Xu Xiao think when sitting here at this time of year?"
Xu Longxiang shook his head.
Xu Fengnian hesitated for a while, and said to himself: "When Cao Changqing was in Tai'an City, he told me that he could go to Xichu after the next year to pick up someone, but I don't know how to say this. The second sister may not agree. You two No matter whether a sister-in-law agrees or not, there will definitely be lumps in her heart, not to mention Yan Wenluan Gu Dazu, a great general. Yes, how can military and national affairs be trifling? So many people died in Beiliang outside the pass. After all, it was for Beiliang died, but if you say that Xu Fengnian accompanied me to go to Guangling Road to swim in the muddy water and risk the world's disgrace, what is going on? Even if I insist on my own opinion and use my identity as the king of Beiliang to suppress them, I am afraid that the next cold The Mang War has not yet been fought, and we in Beiliang have already lost our hearts."
Xu Longxiang fell into deep thought, he didn't care about big things like he did when he was a child, he just stood beside his brother happily and foolishly.
In the early years, for his elder brother, Huang Maner dared to do it against Xu Xiao, just like the song and dance on the top of Qingliang Mountain after the death of the old emperor, Xu Xiao was furious for the first time, and Huang Maner stood in the way of his father and brother In the middle, one step does not retreat.
Xu Fengnian put down the tongs, crouched shyly in front of the stove, staring at the charcoal fire in a daze.
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Even Xu Fengnian didn't know that in the night tonight, teams of people would enter the gate of Zhoucheng one by one.
In Youzhou, there are Yan Wenluan, the commander of the Beiliang infantry, Chen Yunchui, the deputy commander, Hu Kui, the governor, Huang Fuping, the general, Yu Luandao, the leader of Youqi, and others, a large group of people.
There are still a large group of Li Gongde, Li Hanlin and his sons in Lingzhou, Li Gongde, Li Hanlin, the new governor, Han Lushan, general of Lingzhou, Wang Zhi, Huang Xiaokuai, and others.
In addition to Chen Xiliang and Yang Guangdou who are already in the residence, Li Mofan, the deputy general of the Dragon Elephant Army, and Kou Jianghuai, the general of Liuzhou, are still a large group of people in Liuzhou.
Outside the Liangzhou Pass and inside the Pass, headed by Chu Lushan, the Protector of Northern Liang, and Yuan Zuozong, the Commander of the Cavalry Army, there are more people, even a large group.
On this new year's Eve, civil servants and generals of Beiliang Dao rushed to the gate of Qingliangshan Prince's Mansion one after another for unknown reasons.
Xu Yanbing stood outside the entrance of the lobby with an unusually heavy expression on his face.
Xu Fengnian stood up slowly, smiling wryly.
The lineup outside the foot of the mountain is tantamount to forcing the palace.
Since I was kept in the dark, it meant that the second sister and Chu Lushan did not agree.
Xu Fengnian stood near the chair and turned to look at the gate.
Chu Lushan was the first to appear at the gate, but he did not rush to cross the threshold.
Xu Fengnian put away his thoughts, and said in a hoarse voice, "Come in, everyone."
Chu Lushan, Li Gongde, Yan Wenluan, Yuan Zuozong, Chen Yunchui, Gu Dazu...
Li Mofan, Yu Luandao, Kou Jianghuai, Cao Xiaojiao...
Song Dongming, Bai Yu, Huang Chang...
Xu Beizhi, Chen Xiliang...
Because there were too many people walking into the lobby, more than ten chairs had to be temporarily added.
Xu Fengnian waited until there were chairs behind everyone, and then sat on the chair that Xu Xiao sat on in the past.
Xu Fengnian reached out and pressed down.
Everyone sit down.
Xu Longxiang also picked a chair to sit on one side.
That majestic momentum was not inferior to that of Cao Changqing, Deng Tai, Tuoba Bodhisattva, and all the top martial arts masters all appeared in front of the young vassal.
Xu Fengnian was not annoyed, but a little tired.
Chu Lushan, sitting beside Xu Longxiang, Yuan Zuo, Zong, and Qi Dangguo, lowered his head, as if he didn't dare to look at Xu Fengnian.
He and Xu Weixiong are the main culprits for the situation tonight, otherwise who would dare to act like this
Xu Fengnian sat upright, with his hands in his sleeves.
Just like Xu Xiao back then.