Raising the Sword into the Rivers and Lakes Chapter 25
With his nephew holding his arm, Prime Minister Fan got on Fan's mansion's gorgeous carriage. The two of them sat down in the carriage, and the carriage carried them all the way to the gate of the inner city.
It had been more than an hour since General Qi Yun saw this in the inner city. The Fan Mansion's carriage came back again. The carriage approached and the curtains were raised. He saw it was Mr. You Cheng again and he hurriedly saluted and said, "I have seen you at last."
Your Majesty, Your Majesty, where are you going?" There was a murder of nine guards last night. The guard had no intention of stopping it, but when he saw that the Right Prime Minister was about to leave the inner city, he warned him.
Fan Mou stroked his beard and said, "My nephew has come all the way, and I want to take the young man to visit Jianglin City and outside it."
"In this case, I will not prevent you from leaving the city. However, Jianglin City has not been peaceful at night recently. Please be careful," the city guard general warned.
"Thank you for your kindness, I will save you." Fan Mou pulled down the curtain, the coachman whipped up his whip, and the carriage passed through the corridor of the inner city and looked at Jianglin City as it drove away from the outer city.
The carriage was driving in the bustling outer city of Jianglin. The New Year's Day festival was approaching and there was a bustling scene everywhere.
In the carriage, the scholar in gilded clothes still had his eyes slightly closed as when he came, but Fan Mou did not look like Qi Yun's right minister when he came. At this moment, he leaned forward slightly and sat in his own carriage, as if he was that person.
The 'nephew' who came from afar, the scholar in brocade clothes across from him, was the powerful right minister of Qi Yun.
Seeing the scholar in brocade clothes looking like this, Fan Mou asked in a low voice and cautiously: "The envoy was in a hurry last night and did not ask for advice from the envoy Gao. In the future, if I am lucky enough to return to the Northern Jin Dynasty, I will definitely pay you a visit."
Fan Mou asked about the origin of his name, and a breathtaking light shone in the scholar's eyes. Fan Mou, who was staring straight at him, felt restless in the carriage, as if he had said something wrong, feeling that the right minister in front of him was
With a look of fear in his slender eyes, the scholar in Jinyi slowly withdrew his gaze, motioned Fan Mou to come forward, and whispered in Fan Mou's ear: "My surname is Zong." After saying these four words, he continued to shut up.
Keep your eyes open.
These four words were heard, and Fan Mou was so shocked that he didn't recover for a long time. The surname "Zong" was the national surname in the Jin State. Only people from the royal family could take the surname Zong. Since the scholar in brocade clothes in front of him had the surname Zong, he was holding a north
With the Black Iron Order from the Lord of Jin, Fan Mou secretly looked at the scholar in brocade clothes who was concentrating with his eyes closed. With his age and appearance, Fan Mou seemed to know his identity.
Just when Fan Mou was calculating the identity of the scholar in gilded clothes, the carriage arrived at a quiet place in the West Market of Jianglin City. The West Market of Jianglin City specializes in the business of restaurants and tea shops, and restaurants and tea shops are inherently noisy places.
However, although this place is in the West Market, there is no one making any noise within a hundred feet, and it is extremely quiet. Even the occasional carriage passers-by lowered their voices and tried their best to pass by silently.
The scholar in Jinyi opened the curtain of the carriage and was surprised as to why this place was so quiet in a bustling area full of restaurants and teahouses.
Fan Mou saw the surprised look on the scholar's face, and explained in a low voice: "Back then, when the Zhao Kingdom was still under the rule of law, Qi Yuan, the Marquis of Qi Yun, had made great contributions to pacifying the princes and was named King of Qi Yun. At that time, Qi Yuan first arrived in Jianglin incognito.
I was so thirsty that I went to Zhou's teahouse to have a rest. I drank the tea from this teahouse. When I was about to pay, I found that I had been robbed of money. When I was in trouble, the teahouse shopkeeper saw that Qi Yuan's words and deeds were either rich or noble, so he stopped.
He received Qi Yuan's tea supplies and even gave him money for travel expenses. King Qi Yun felt grateful for the shopkeeper's kindness for a cup of tea, so he borrowed paper and pen, and wrote with silver hooks and iron paintings, "Guests come to live together, and unexpectedly all guests come" as a gift to the shopkeeper.
, later Qi Yuan set the capital of the fiefdom in Jianglin, and the story of Qi Yuan and this "Qi Ranju" spread throughout Qi Yun. After that, King Qi Yun was killed by Emperor Zhao, and the people all remembered King Qi Yun's kindness.
, from then on, the common people from Qiyun to the princes and princes of the DPRK passed by this 'Qiranju', and they all consciously kept silent to mourn Qiyuan, and this 'Qiranju' became a place where no one dared to make mistakes in Jianglin City
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The scholar in Jinyi heard Fan Mou's words and looked up at the two-story teahouse. The erosion of the years has given the teahouse a unique flavor. The "Qiranju" plaque hanging on the beam further highlights the difference between this place and other shops in the West City.
place.
Just when the scholar in Jinyi was looking up at the plaque, shopkeeper Zhou of the tea house had already come out. Shopkeeper Zhou heard that the right minister of the dynasty was visiting, so he naturally wanted to welcome him personally.
"I didn't know it was Mr. Fan who came here, please atone for your sins." Shopkeeper Zhou is already sixty years old, but he is still energetic, and his eyes reveal the shrewdness of a businessman.
Facing Shopkeeper Zhou, Fan Mou was very polite and returned the courtesy: "These days, the affairs of the court are complicated. It has been a long time since I have seen Qi Ranju's Long Tuan Shengxue. I am here today to bother you."
Shopkeeper Zhou heard the Prime Minister's praise and said: "Since Mr. Fan likes it, I have sent someone to come down and I will bring the tea set to visit myself. How dare I come to visit you, Lord Labor? Hey, who is this?" Shopkeeper Zhou and Fan Mouke's suite,
Seeing a scholar in gilded clothes standing behind Fan Mou, this young man just stood there with a smile, but he had an aura of being in a position of power for a long time. Shopkeeper Zhou had seen the world, and he had hung the old Qi Yun Wang's imperial pen in the tea house.
There are countless dignitaries and dignitaries who come here to see the Qi Ranju plaque. Shopkeeper Zhou also has countless visitors. Now that he sees this scholar in gilded clothes, the more he looks at him, the more extraordinary he becomes.
Waiting for Fan Mou to introduce himself, the scholar in gilded clothes smiled and saluted Shopkeeper Zhou and said, "That's polite. I am Mr. Fan's nephew. This time, I was ordered by the elders of the family to come to Jiang Lin to visit my second uncle. I just came here on the second day."
I heard at my uncle's house that my second uncle praised Qiranju greatly, so I asked my second uncle to bring my nephew to have a look at Qiranju."
"Thank you Master Fan for your compliments. Please take a seat on the second floor." Shopkeeper Zhou bowed to Fan Mou and hurriedly led the two of them into Qiran Residence.
The scholar in Jinyi looked at the elegant layout of Qi Ran's residence and nodded slightly. As he stepped onto the second floor, Shopkeeper Zhou led Fan Mou and the two of them to an elegant room. A simple wooden sign hung beside the door.
, the word "Lanting" was written on the wooden sign. When I opened the door of the elegant room, there was actually a cave in the elegant room of Lanting. What I saw when I opened the door was not a brocade stool and tea table, but a suspended wooden bridge that reached the Jianglin City and passed through the city.
Next to the Linjiang River, Shopkeeper Zhou led the way, followed by Fan Mou and the scholar in Jinyi. Walking on the suspended wooden bridge, the scholar in Jinyi looked back and saw that every elegant room on the second floor of this natural residence was spanned by a wooden bridge or
Pass through the houses and reach the bank of Linjiang River.
After following Shopkeeper Zhou for a moment while burning incense, there were steps going down at the end of the wooden bridge. Shopkeeper Zhou went down first and waited by the steps. When he saw Master Fan and the scholar in Jinyi stepping down the steps, he made a greeting with one hand.
The scholar in Jinyi followed Shopkeeper Zhou's gesture and looked at it. There was a small boat parked by the Linjiang River in front of him. There was only one boatman at the helm. On a winter afternoon, the boatman was lazily resting on the boat as the sun was shining warmly.
, Shopkeeper Zhou stepped forward and tapped the hull of the boat with his hand. The boatman just woke up, making a sound of ahhh, and saluted to several people.
The scholar in Jinyi couldn't help but be a little curious when he saw the boatman's scene. Shopkeeper Zhou saw this and said, "Young master, what you have in mind is good. The boatmen in Qiranju are all born deaf and mute. I hired them to learn how to steer."
, one is to see these deaf-mute people having difficulties in life, and the other is that some of the guests who come to my second floor, Qi Ran, talk about matters that are inconvenient for others to hear, so it is more appropriate for a deaf-mute person to take charge."
After saying these words, Shopkeeper Zhou bowed to Fan Mou and the scholar in Jinyi, and then continued: "The old man will come back here, tea, snacks, just now when Mr. Fan's uncle and nephew were talking with the old man in front of the door, according to Mr. Fan's past
I like to prepare dragon balls to beat the snow. One way, Master Fan can enjoy the winter scenery of Linjiang River with his nephew while drinking tea. The other way, he can talk about the love between uncle and nephew. If he wants to return, he only needs to tap the two sides of the cabin with his hands.
If it's long and short, the boatman will lead the boat back."
The scholar in Jinyi said: "I didn't expect that there is such a place in Jianglin City. The method of drinking tea is really unique."
Shopkeeper Zhou saw Mr. Fan's nephew opening his mouth to praise him and said, stroking his beard: "Old man, Qiranju was originally a small teahouse. Thanks to the First Emperor, he drank a cup of tea in Laochan's tea house and gave it to me.
A piece of calligraphy, the business here has been getting better and better over the years." Shopkeeper Zhou thought of King Qi Yun, and his expression became much sadder: "But this old man was actually harmed by Zhao's Hunjun. Alas, God really has no eyes.
Forget it, Mr. Fan, sir, please get on board, I will go back to the shop and wait."
Fan Mou and the scholar in Jinyi returned a courtesy to Shopkeeper Zhou, and boarded the boat to enter the warehouse. When the boatman saw the guests boarding the boat, he started rowing, and the boat swayed towards the center of the Linjiang River.
After entering the cabin and closing the door, Fan Mou changed his posture and saluted the scholar in brocade clothes: "I don't know where this is, but the envoy is satisfied."
"Yes, I didn't expect that the capital of Qiyun Kingdom is really interesting, and the teahouse is also unique." The scholar in Jinyi looked around the cabin. There was a stove and tea sets, all available. The cabin was more elegantly decorated than the first floor of Qiranju just passed by.
, and in order to prevent the tea soup from spilling out as the ship shakes when drinking tea on the ship, this tea cup is also specially made. When you want to drink tea, you only need to use skill to open the lid of the tea cup and drink.
"Okay, there is no one else here, please tell me in detail about Wangli Villa and how to obtain the defense map of Qiyun North." The scholar in Jinyi observed the boatman for a while, withdrew his eyes and looked at
The scenery of Linjiang River outside the boat window showed a greedy look and he spoke.
"Reporting to the envoy, it's not that the lower official doubted what the envoy said, but that Li Kurong is a first-class figure in Qi Yun's martial arts world, and his martial arts attainments have reached the state of perfection. How did the envoy believe that this Li Kurong has gone crazy? After all,
This subordinate’s spy has been hidden for many years." Although he said he was guilty, Fan Mou still carefully asked the doubts in his heart.
The greedy gaze of the scholar in gilded clothes did not follow Fan Mou's questioning and retracted his words. He just said lightly: "I gave Li Kurong a classic, which may be the only cultivation method in the world that can break the immortal realm and step into the immortal realm. However, this classic
It's a broken copy. Li Kurong was so obsessed with martial arts that he was willing to take risks and start practicing. It is inevitable that he will become obsessed."
"The last time the envoy came, it was clearly stated that the envoy was ordered to visit by the elders. If anyone investigates..." Fan Mou said stutteringly.
"Don't worry, since I said so, the hometown you reported to the court will have everything to prove your identity. Even if someone investigates, there will be no mistakes." The scholar in Jinyi said.
After listening to what the scholar in Jinyi said, Fan Mou put aside his doubts and said: "In that case, please allow me to report in detail. Since Li Kurong founded Wangli Villa, although Wangli Villa has been prosperous, the descendants of Lijia have not."
There has been no talent for many years. Li Kurong's son Li Buwei has mediocre martial arts and is unable to control the overall situation. However, Li Buwei's daughter Li Wan'er is very valued by Li Kurong. My spy is already well-known in the world. He has a son who is talented.
Both of his martial arts skills are excellent. I have ordered him to propose marriage to Lijia. Li Kurong has gone crazy. If the two families get married, Lijia can still support him. This is a plan." After finishing speaking, Fan looked at the bedside and looked at
The scholar in gilded clothes who looked at the lake had no expression. He was just sipping tea and looking at the scenery, so he continued: "I have another plan. Prince Qi Tao of Qiyunning has been ordered by the emperor to secretly go north to investigate after the Yuanri Festival. If this marriage is
If the plan fails, a dead man will be ambushed at Wangli Villa and Qi Tao will be attacked and killed. The prince is attacked and can take advantage of the chaos to sneak into Jing Hua Shui Yue and take away the martial arts anecdotes."
The scholar in Jinyi put down his tea cup and said with a smile: "Did you know that Li Kurong used Mirror Flowers and Water Moon as a bait to attract many young people from famous families to rush in? However, when these people actually entered the Mirror Flower and Water Moon, they only got a glimpse of some ordinary martial arts and some insignificant rivers and lakes.
Things, those ignorant people, seeing some superficial knowledge, really think that those are the secrets of Jinghua Shuiyue, and the secrets recorded in Jinghua Shuiyue over the years that can really threaten the martial arts people, and the lost secrets of martial arts, have been written into two volumes.
No one except Kurong himself knows where these two volumes are."
Fan Mou asked in surprise: "How did the envoy learn about such secrets?"
The scholar in jinyi looked at the winter scenery of Linjiang mockingly. He didn't know whether he was laughing at the fact that he had not succeeded, or he was laughing at Li Kurong's obsession with martial arts, or he was laughing at the plan in front of him that was too childish, and said: "Because I want to
Li Kurong studied under his master for ten years, and also stayed at Wangli Villa for ten years."