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Chapter Eighty-Seven: Going Up the Mountain, Entering the City, and Entering the Palace (I)


Three big boats from the river into the lake, eight hundred miles of Chunshen Lake, the smoke and waves are vast, this lake accommodates six rivers and swallows the river, has always been a place of death struggle for soldiers and a tourist attraction for tourists, Xu Fengnian stood at the bow of the boat to explain the geographical shape of Chunshen Lake to Yu Youwei, with many Li Yishan instilled in him the art of war instilled in him, "Before the Spring and Autumn Period, the confrontation between the north and the south, all to fight for this place as a stronghold, the spring god can sail eastward, condescending, to the lion fighting the rabbit to seize the world, earlier the north wanted to drink the horse southeast, or the south wanted to raise troops to the north, It has to pass through 800 miles of Chunshen Lake, three cities, three passes and three mountains, and has always been noticed by soldiers.

And the three cities are important, Xiangfan, Xingyang, Wuling, in terms of the world, in Xiangfan, in the southeast, in Xingyang, in the state, in Wuling.

Xiangfan has always been said to be the waist of the world, when the Three Kingdoms were in turmoil here, the old minister of Western Chu Wang Mingyang was ordered to become the county guard of Xiangfan, refused Xu Xiao 100,000 soldiers, and defended for three years, and then the West Chu was extinguished, and the Xishu forgot, this Shangyin School Palace came out of the bachelor still swore not to surrender, cannibalism in the city, Wang Mingyang was even more personally cooking and killing his wife and children, three years later, the city was broken, 200,000 Xiangfan people were left less than 10,000, becoming a ghost city, it is said that ten years after the city was broken, there are still hundreds of thousands of lonely ghosts and wild ghosts who refuse to leave the city, wailing night and night, The dynasty had to let the Heavenly Master of Longhu Mountain go to Xiangfan in person and set up the Zhou Tian Dajiao, and the Jiao position reached a staggering 36,500, which was a feat that no one had ever done before.

This offensive and defensive battle allowed Wang Mingyang to win the title of the first defender in the Spring and Autumn Period, and even Xu Xiao admired it. is just a person who has achieved fame, but he has attracted 200,000 people to accompany the funeral, Wang Mingyang will be a controversial figure for another thousand years. ” Yu Youwei said in shock: "We won't go to Xiangfan."

Xu Fengnian has been accustomed to finger flicking recently, day to night, I don't know how many thousands of times I played, probably because he practiced the knife until he went crazy, and laughed softly: "I wanted to go, if you don't dare, then we will go straight to Wuling." ” Yu Youwei shook her head.

Xu Fengnian suddenly heard a crying father and mother from the stern of the boat, Yu Youwei just heard the legend of Xiangfan's 100,000 resentful spirits, her heart trembled, and she finally realized that she was at the bow of Chunshen Lake at this time, and she laughed at herself.

Xu Fengnian ignored Yu Youwei, rushed to the bow of the boat, and saw a boatman rolling on the ground with a bloody arm, the two young kui were scarlet all over, and roared in a low voice, Lu Qiantang stepped forward to tell His Royal Highness the prince what had happened, trivial things, the young kui frolicked and ran, probably bumped into the boatman, the young kui was grumpy, and took a bite, Xu Fengnian frowned, Hu Kui is an ancient fierce beast, hungry is cannibalistic, Xu Fengnian squatted down, the biting young Kui King Kong seemed to feel the anger of the master, lowered his head and whimpered, The complexion immediately turned from red to black, but Xu Fengnian was not arrogant to him, and with a flick of his fingers, he would hurt King Kong A hole popped up in the wall of the boat and fell into the lake, my sister Bodhisattva looked at her younger brother at the hole, looked back at Xu Fengnian pitifully, as if she was pleading, Xu Fengnian snorted coldly, got up and said, "Compensation some silver taels for the injured."

By the way, let the Fengzi battalion help repair the ship's plank. ” In the twilight, hundreds of boats compete for the current on the Chunshen Lake, thousands of sails are competing, a lively and prosperous scene, the closer to the land of fish and rice in the south of the Yangtze River, the more you can not feel the loneliness of the thousands of miles of wilderness in the north of your hometown.

Tonight, the group will stay overnight on an island in the middle of the Spring God Lake, Mingmu Mountain.

Approaching the island in the lake, Xu Fengnian saw that Jiang Ni rarely walked out of the cabin and stood beside him, so he explained: "This mountain was originally not called Basking Mountain, it was called Prison Mountain, it was the place where the Queen Mother of the West imprisoned the Jade Emperor's daughter Spring God, and the prison mountain was not surrounded by lakes, but just a basin.

As for the statement that the fairy man-made lake is naturally a myth.

Nowadays, the mountain is full of courtyards and pavilions, the three religions and nine streams gather, not only the noble mansions, the monks and the monks, but also a few old people who have died on the island to draw the ground as a prison, there are many shops, on the island, you can pick some things that catch your eyes. ” Jiang Ni stretched out his hand, Xu Fengnian was stunned for a moment, and asked, "What?"

Jiang Ni said stiffly: "Silver." ” Xu Fengnian laughed and said: "Okay, you have already earned hundreds of taels of silver at this time, how much do you want to take away, but kindly remind me, you report my name, who dares to ask you for money, why waste the secrets you have earned through hard study." ” Jiang Ni sneered: "Do you think I am a person like you who is cunning and pretentious?"

Xu Fengnian was amused, and said with a smile: "Then how much silver do you want, take out a few hundred taels or I will simply give you a few thousand taels of gold on credit, so that you can read for several lifetimes." ” Jiang Ni said indignantly: "I only take one or two silvers" Xu Fengnian said helplessly: "Do you need to be so young?"

Jiang Ni said with a straight face: "Bring it" Xu Fengnian rolled his eyes and said: "Wait a minute, I want to go with the blue bird, this son never brings this little money." ” Jiang Ni went straight back to the cabin, and carefully took out a small account book from the bookcase like a thief, which clearly recorded that he had earned a few more texts by reading the Taixuan Sutra, the Thousand Swords Materia Medica, and so on, when and where each book was read, and how many words each book was read, there were detailed records, so far she has earned not only a few hundred taels as Xu Fengnian said, but one thousand and seven taels and thirty-four dollars, and the old sword god who was eating, drinking, and sleeping all day long paced into the cabin, and Jiang Ni, who was about to swipe one or two silver in his savings, held a pen in one hand and covered the account book with the other.

Li Chungang was helpless about this, stood far away and let Jiang Ni finish the work at hand, then sat on the table with a wine jug, poured wine on the table, dipped his fingers, and waited for Jiang Ni to put the account book back to the bottom of the bookcase, sitting on the opposite side, Li Chungang only used his fingers to make a pen, to make ink with wine, and swayed it on the desktop, one stroke at a time, full of spirit, Jiang Ni was sitting on the front and back, watching the old man write, in one go, through the beginning and end, half of the desktop, dense, such as the ghost gate that is craggy, Li Lao'er looked at Jiang Ni after writing, The latter looked calm, the old man seemed to really do what he said at the beginning, he didn't ask the little girl to learn anything, the cuffs were wiped and he came over again, this time Li Chungang spoke: "The old man's wild grass, there are three points, first of all, continuous, and then strive for thousands of floors, and finally a wordless, fearless, ruthless, and undemanding, such as this wine, erase it and erase it, without the slightest trace."

The first point is the lazy work, even if you are drunk and cursive, you can read it carefully, but there is no place to lose the pen, there are rules, why do you do enough work.

A word down the pen such as swinging a sword and a knife, sloppy does not come, the old man's words have always been known as running snakes, the viewer looks at the words such as looking at the sword, the sharp sword is sharp, majestic and fearful" Li Chungang was talking about rising, but he caught a glimpse of Jiang Yawn, the big boat was beaten, and it seemed that he was going to go ashore, and the old man with a stomach of frustration lowered his head and sucked, sighed, and muttered Don't waste it, and sucked the wine on the table into his mouth.

Jiang Ni was accustomed to the absurd behavior of the old man, and walked out of the cabin together, and saw Xu Fengnian discussing things with Euphorbia Ning Emei, as if most of the Fengzi battalion would not go up the mountain, which was also reasonable, not to mention whether a hundred light armor soldiers could live or not, these Beiliang soldiers themselves were too eye-catching.

When Jiang Ni was thinking about it, the old man Li was still there boasting about how his hand was superb, Jiang Ni's left ear went in and out of his right ear, he lifted his skirt with both hands and walked down the plank, and caught a glimpse of a young man running ashore, holding a fat carp in his mouth, as if he was asking Xu Fengnian for credit, but Xu Fengnian just scolded, and the little guy immediately lay on the ground motionless, probably pretending to be dead Xu Fengnian was just about to raise his foot and kick the little guy, and the robe was gently bitten by another young man, Xu Fengnian gave up, and the punishment was over.

The sister and brother didn't hold grudges, and happily followed behind His Royal Highness the Prince, seeing Jiang Ni feel distressed for a while, two little fools, why are they so tame to Xu Fengnian.

Xu Fengnian looked back at Chunshen Lake, his eyes were in a trance, and he muttered, "It's here."

Yanjing, Tai'an City.

In the early morning, the sky was gray.

Three hundred iron horsemen rushed on the official road, and the dust was flying.

It is rumored that Xu Xiao, the king of Beiliang, is about to enter the city, the only giant city in the world with a population of one million is treacherous for a while, and the high-rise buildings on the main axis of the city are occupied by all kinds of characters.

Qingliu scholars are anxious, the martial artists of the rivers and lakes are uneasy, and the dignitaries are noisy, I heard that there are more than a dozen large and small yellow men who are ready to join forces to stop the car, to risk death and angrily reprimand the life of the person slaughtered, to scold him for destroying most of the world's reading seeds, and it is rumored that there are countless martial arts heroes who are ready to assassinate in the road, and even the storytellers are in the major teahouses to repeat the same old tune, talking about the Spring and Autumn War.

The shrill chirping of cicadas resounded on the countless branches in the capital.

There are four holes in the city gate of Tai'an City, and the idle people inside and outside the city gate have been cleared by the captain of the city gate early, when the horse team that is gradually approaching tramples out of a hundred times more deafening than the cicada's roar, when the city gate and the city wall everyone see the scarlet eye-catching Xu Ziwang flag, it is the early morning of the breath, and suddenly suffocated.

The horse team slowly stepped into the city gates.

Except for the sound of horses' hooves, it seems that the entire capital has begun to fall silent.

On the main avenue of the palace, the onlookers who occupied the position couldn't help but hold their breath.

When the horse team went farther and farther, they looked at each other and felt relieved.

The dust settled.

There were two pedestrians outside the city gate, one of them was an old monk dressed in black, with triangular eyes, and a hideous appearance, like an old and sick tiger, but his expression was indifferent.

Another hunchbacked slightly lame, dressed in the costume of an ordinary rich man, looked up at the city wall, smiled slightly, and walked through the city gate through the side hole with the black-clothed old monk beside him and some peddlers and pawns who got up in the morning business.

As for the old man next to the old monk, he didn't pay attention to it, Tai'an City is the best city in the world, and even the people in the alley market claim to have seen a certain general and a certain scholar, who is willing to look at a hunchbacked old man Through the side hole of the city gate, the rich man and the old monk in black walked slowly.

The rich man took his hand and said with a smile: "Yang Bald Donkey, millions of people in the capital, but you are my friend." ” The old monk said softly: "If you don't touch my head, I will be your friend." ” The rich man said that there are two things in the world that can't be touched, the tiger's butt can't be touched, and you, Yang Taisui's head, can't be touched.

But having said that, he reached out very unceremoniously to touch the old monk's bald head, and the old monk didn't stop him, just sighed.

The rich man touched the bald head of the old monk in black and laughed.

The black-clothed old monk looked indifferent.

This head.

Qi Xuanjiao had also touched it back then, and then the top of the lotus flower collapsed in half

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