Monks and Bachelors

"What do you think about the conversation between Jin Fenghuang and Liu Zhifu?" Liu Baichuan asked with a smile while twisting a finger in his hand.

"I heard that Zhifu Liu was also born as a Jinshi in the second list. Because he was cynical by nature, he couldn't tolerate the villains in the court, so he was released from the remote post of Huangzhou. I think that Zhifu Liu is a good-looking talent, and Phoenix will fall in love with him. Already." Lin Xueshi said with a sigh.

"Who said I could fall in love with him, the rice pulp on his official robe almost made me sick! The rice was white, and the vegetable juice was red and green. When he spoke, there were green vegetables stuck between his teeth." Jin Fenghuang frowned. Said.

"Liu Zhifu was born in poverty, unlike you who fell into the brocade heap since childhood. He has some bad living habits, but those can be changed back." Lin Xueshi said earnestly.

"Okay, let's stop this matter here, even if he wears clothes like snowflakes and begs me in the future, I won't bother to pay attention to him!" Jin Fenghuang waved his hand to express that he really has no appetite for Liu Zhifu.

After another three months like this, Jin Fenghuang kept collecting money day and night, Lin Xueshi and Liu Baichuan helped Jin Fenghuang take care of his newly opened calligraphy and painting village, and the magistrate Liu Zhiyuan always came to sit there every now and then. In front of Liu Zhifu, Jin Fenghuang stood up with a whoosh, and immediately turned cold.

Liu Zhifu had no choice but to sit down resentfully with the smiling face. He had already made a new robe with the newly received salary and cleaned his teeth, but Jin Fenghuang never noticed.

Every time Liu Zhifu talked to himself, after drinking two or three cups of tea in Golden Willow Garden, until the housekeeper yawned and his face became ugly, Liu Zhifu got up and left angrily.

Liu Zhifu returned to the yamen late at night, and was waiting for his master to see him. He hurriedly went up to him and said, "My lord! Something big happened in the court!" past.

"The emperor is only in his early thirties, why did he suddenly disappear?!" Xueshi Lin sighed.

"I heard that the emperor has lost a lot of energy since he returned from his incognito tour last time. That flattering villain gave the emperor a few male favorites. The emperor suffers from sensuality every day. The year is not easy!" said the chief steward of the Lin family who came to deliver the letter, "The former emperor has passed away, but the new emperor is the fifth younger brother of the former emperor, the second son of the present empress dowager, the master was the master of the fifth prince before, The fifth prince missed this kindness very much, so he immediately drafted a decree to transfer the master to Wujiang to take up his post." Chief Steward Xi Zizi reported.

"Ah, I finally left this poor and run-down place and went back to Yanshui!" Jin Fenghuang said excitedly after hearing this.

"This place is poor and dilapidated now, especially the Golden Willow Garden. You built it like a paradise. I'm afraid you will miss this place again when you return to Wujiang." Lin Xueshi raised his eyes and surrounded the Golden Willow Garden. Said in a circle.

"If it weren't for the fact that someone was dispatched here and couldn't leave, I wouldn't want to stay here any longer!" Jin Fenghuang said.

Xueshi Lin and Jin Fenghuang were talking lively, and Liu Baichuan was sitting alone, pouring wine down his throat glass by glass. When he finished drinking No. 15, he suddenly coughed violently.

"Bai Chuan, what's wrong with you? Drinking so hard?!" Xueshi Lin patted Liu Baichuan's back and reproached him.

"Hmph, I guess it must be that your old lover, the emperor, died, and you feel bad!" Jin Fenghuang smiled, and continued: "Or you are afraid of going back to Wujiang, that's right, my old man can't wait to see you at home. I’m really looking forward to my return, and I’m returning home, but you are different, your father only treats you as a water ghost like your mother and sister, how can you go back to your hometown?!”

After Jin Fenghuang finished speaking, he hurriedly greeted the first housekeeper, second housekeeper, and third housekeeper of Jinliu Garden to quickly sell his shop and exchange it for bank notes so that he could take it back to Wujiang.

"Stop drinking, the sky is falling, and I'm still here!" Xueshi Lin snatched the wine glass from Liu Baichuan's hand, and said with red eyes: "I beg you, don't spoil yourself, you do this , I feel uncomfortable just looking at it.”

Lin Xueshi and Liu Baichuan packed their things for the day, and when it was time for dinner, the butler brought a table full of sumptuous dishes, saying that Jin Fenghuang ordered them to prepare, but there was no sign of Jin Fenghuang.

When he got up in the morning, the second housekeeper served another table of delicious food and wine, and said that Jin Fenghuang had ordered it, but there was still no sign of Jin Fenghuang.

Liu Baichuan and Lin Xueshi said: "Golden Phoenix must be reluctant to part with his golden nest, and managed to hide, and doesn't want to go to Wujiang with us."

"Fenghuang is not such a person, is he?" Lin Xueshi didn't want to believe it, but he secretly had doubts in his heart.

"I'm afraid I'm sorry, so let's wait another day. If we don't see the golden phoenix tomorrow morning, let's get up and go first. He has a bloody horse, so it's very easy to chase us!" Liu Baichuan said Knocking on the handle of the fan, he thought about it.

When night fell, Xueshi Lin quietly went to Liu Baichuan's room, he was already familiar with this way.

When he entered Liu Baichuan's room, Xueshi Lin saw that Liu Baichuan was lost in thought under the oil lamp, so he laughed and said, "It's so late, you still don't rest, did you know that I'm coming, so you specially left the lamp waiting for me?!"

"I'm waiting for someone, but it's not you. Leave quickly, so as not to frighten my guests." Liu Baichuan pushed Xueshi Lin out as he spoke. Xueshi Lin wanted to fight back, but saw After seeing Liu Baichuan's gleaming sword hanging on his waist, he still retreated in his heart, and left resentfully.

Liu Baichuan looked at Lin Xueshi's distressed appearance, couldn't help but turned around and sneered, and sat on the bedside and waited after laughing.

It was about four o'clock, when there were several crisp knocks on the door, Liu Baichuan quickly got up and opened the door, only to see a young woman in black came in.

"My elder brother has imprisoned Mr. Jin, you go and save him!" The woman looked back two or three times, and said hastily after she concluded that she had already left the person with her.

"By the way, my elder brother is Liu Zhiyuan, the magistrate of Huangzhou." Seeing Liu Baichuan was confused, the woman immediately said again.

"This is the place where my eldest brother, Mr. Guan Jin, should not be too late, or something will change!" The woman stuffed a scroll of pictures into Liu Baichuan's hands, opened the door and was about to go out, but suddenly remembered something important , turned around, smiled sweetly at Liu Baichuan and said, "Actually, the one I really like in my heart is Mr. Liu."

Liu Baichuan held the picture in his hand, didn't care about what the woman said, and smiled so nicely, he went straight to the stable, pulled the bloody sweat horse out, beat the horse and galloped towards the place on the picture.

The golden phoenix lay down decadently on the musty-smelling pile of firewood in the dungeon of Huangzhou Prefecture. This dungeon has not been lived in by prisoners for a long time. Spiders have formed layers of webs on the corners of the walls, and mice are blatantly scurrying on the ground. .

I saw Liu Zhifu pulled a stool and sat outside the iron gate of the dungeon, with a smug smile on his face, he asked, "Why, you still don't want to?"

Jin Fenghuang sneered at Liu Zhifu: "You actually let people put medicine in my tea, I didn't expect you to be so despicable and shameless!"

"There is a saying that a phoenix is ​​not as good as a chicken. You'd better be more sensible. I've been waiting for you for two days. My patience is about to run out. By then, don't blame me for not knowing how to pity and cherish jade!" Liu Zhifu smacked his lips and looked at you. He glanced at Jin Fenghuang, and said helplessly.

"Hey, your grandpa Fenghuang has no plans to feel better if he falls into the hands of a shameless villain like you today. I advise you to give up your heart as soon as possible. Your grandpa Fenghuang will only fall in love with you if he is blind!" Jin Fenghuang sneered, saying While cursing.

"You look down on me, my lord, don't you, so I have to let someone treat you well!" Liu Zhifu clapped his hands as he said, a bald man who was white and fat and looked like a freshly made steamed bun smiled sarcastically Walking towards Liu Zhifu, Liu Zhifu threw the key in his hand to the ground, Bai Mantou bent down, pressed his belly against the ground and picked up the key with great difficulty, while opening the iron gate, he looked at Jin Fenghuang with a wink.

Jin Fenghuang looked at the white steamed buns rushing toward him, and timidly moved towards the corner of the wall, but he couldn't exert any strength in his whole body.

Liu Zhifu laughed and watched Bai Mantou turn Golden Phoenix over.

"How about it, my Phoenix, are you willing?" Liu Zhifu asked with a smile to the disheveled Golden Phoenix who was huddled in the pile of firewood.

"Liu Zhiyuan, go dreaming!" Jin Fenghuang wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth with his hand and sneered.

"Then I'll find someone to treat you well!" Liu Zhifu said while calling out an old couple. This old man is over seventy years old, with gray beard and hair, and age spots on his face and hands. .

The old man staggered towards Jin Fenghuang, Jin Fenghuang closed his eyes in despair, but still sensitively smelled the smell of the old man who was about to decay.

"How about it, my phoenix, do you still have the strength to refuse me?" Zhifu Liu asked, looking at the golden phoenix sitting slumped on the ground.

At this moment, Liu Baichuan kicked open the door of the dungeon, and Liu Baichuan cut off the iron bars of the prison where Jin Fenghuang was imprisoned with his sword.

"Golden Phoenix, hold on, I'm here to save you!" Liu Baichuan hugged the bloody Golden Phoenix.

"Young Master Liu!" Jin Fenghuang only said one sentence, and tears fell.

"Master Liu San, go and help us kill all three of them!" Liu Baichuan said, pointing at Liu Zhiyuan, Bai Mantou, and the old man.

Liu Baichuan's sword was as light as a moon shadow, and the three corpses fell in front of them in a blink of an eye. Jin Fenghuang looked at Liu Baichuan, with a grateful smile in his eyes and said, "Thank you!"

"Now, Mr. Liu San, please do me another favor, kill me too, just don't use the sword that killed them, I despise their blood being too dirty!" Jin Fenghuang said looking at Liu Baichuan.

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☆、At the end, the maple falls and Wujiang is cold

Jiangnan.

Slanting wind, drizzle, flying flowers.

A pale young man was leading a russet steed, and on the horse's back lay a man with a face like gold leaf.

A dead leaf fell from the face of the man on horseback, but the man looked into the distance unaware.

"Golden Phoenix, where has your usual arrogance gone? Why do you insist on looking for death and life?!" Liu Baichuan asked feebly. From the barren state to the south of the Yangtze River, official lists have been posted everywhere, and the world has changed to a new master. Stabbed to death the culprit of the magistrate of Huangzhou, and Liu Baichuan's appearance was impressively painted on the bulletin board.Therefore, Liu Baichuan had no choice but to take Jin Fenghuang to hide in Tibet along the way, and at the same time, he had to guard against Jin Fenghuang's self-discipline.

"In such a case, death is the most proud thing for me now, and I can't live with such shame!" Jin Fenghuang raised his head and said, looking into the distance with confused eyes.

"In front is Mianfeng Suyue Tower. Let's stay there tonight. After passing there is the boundary of Yanshui. I'm afraid there are not many people who don't recognize you, Golden Phoenix. If you really don't want to live, then Just die in the mist, so that they can see what the golden phoenix in their eyes looks like now!" Said Liu Baichuan, jumped on the horse, took the reins, and urged the sweaty horse to gallop towards Mianfengsu Moon Tower go.

Mianfeng Suyue Tower is not the largest romantic place in the south of the Yangtze River, but it is the most characteristic place in the south of the Yangtze River. Mianfeng Tower and Suyue Tower face each other across the Yanshui River. There are dozens of flower boats parked in the river. Rich people can choose a flower boat to float on the water for a night of romance, of course, they can also choose to travel all the way from Mianfeng Tower to Suyue Tower.

The people who come to Mianfengsuyuelou for entertainment include rich and poor, scholars and white men, some stay with a girl for a year or so, and some just spend a night with a certain girl. In short, Mianfengsuyuelou is an individual The most frequented places.

Jin Fenghuang got up from the bed and said while leaning against a pile of pillows and quilts behind him. "Take this stamp and go to Baoyinghao Bank, which is the branch of my Yanshui head office here. You tell Wu Guancai there that it belongs to me, and ask him to pay me 5000 taels of silver!"

Jin Fenghuang took out a Tianhuang stone seal engraved with a delicate crested head from his bosom and threw it to Liu Baichuan, saying, "After paying the money, go to Yuanlong silk and satin village to buy a piece of the best red silk, and then you can go find the silk and satin. Luo Shenzhen next to Zhuang, he has my size, and asked him to make a suit of clothes for me overnight. I entrusted Luo Shenzhen to make all the New Year's clothes for the five hundred members of Shui Jin's family."

"Why, don't you want to die?!" Liu Baichuan asked with a sneer when he saw that Jin Fenghuang ordered a lot in one go.

"When we get to this place, I really can't die! But, how can I, Golden Phoenix, go back in such a disgrace!" Jin Fenghuang sighed, and then squeezed out a huge smile on his face as if gathering all the happiness in his body .

Seeing Liu Baichuan walking out with the seal, Jin Fenghuang threw himself into the brocade quilt, suppressed his crying and muttered: "If you want to die, you can't die in Yanshui!"

When the day just broke, Luo Shenzhen sent his disciples to bring Jin Fenghuang's clothes. After Jin Fenghuang finished washing, he took a look in the mirror and felt that his face was too haggard. I called Liu Baichuan to compare with him and take a photo, and only after the photo did I realize how bad my complexion was.

"Hey! Mr. Liu San, lend me some of your powder. I can see that the powder on your face is white and even. You must be using a good product." Jin Fenghuang looked at the mirror and still felt that it couldn't be like this. A look of "returning home"!

"Who said I put powder on my face?! No!" Liu Baichuan felt aggrieved in his heart, so he added, "Women only wear powder!"

Jin Fenghuang finally dusted his face with powder, and rode on that divine horse.

Liu Baichuan held the bridle and said, "After carrying you all the way, the horse has become much thinner!"

"Hmph! This horse is not thin because it was entrusted to me. It is not acclimatized." Jin Fenghuang argued.

Liu Baichuan nodded, and said pointedly: "Yes, the wind and water in the south of the Yangtze River are too soft to raise such a handsome breed! Only the cold climate of Tianshan Mountain and the swift wind and dust can produce such a handsome man. Things!" For some reason, Liu Baichuan said here, and suddenly thought of Lin Xueshi, his face froze, and his thoughts instantly overwhelmed the sky and overwhelmed the river and sea.

"I don't know if he has arrived in Wujiang, I don't know if he is looking for me, I don't know..., bah, so what if you know?! Why don't you look for him again, and drag him down again!" Liu Baichuan cursed in his heart, and then lightly Sigh: "You can't let yourself go?!"

"Hey, Mr. Liu San, I'm suddenly very timid, can you give me another ride in secret?" Jin Fenghuang suddenly asked with a trembling voice.

"Presumably the notice to arrest me has already been posted in Yanshui?" Liu Baichuan thought to himself, but he still nodded at Jin Fenghuang. He also wanted to go back to Yanshui quietly, but his trip was not about returning home, he was just Want to sneak back and have a look.People who have returned home are always eager to yell to let people know that I am coming back in a good time, but those who secretly want to come back to have a look have to cross the street for fear of being recognized by acquaintances, the word "wealth" Sure enough, it can turn clouds and rain!

"You hold the sword, and when you see the fat white man and the dry and skinny old man, you must keep them away from me. I can't see such a person!" Jin Fenghuang said in a low voice.

After hearing this, Liu Baichuan sighed inwardly and said, "It's really useless for him to return home with such rich clothes!"

The firecrackers in Yanshui City resounded for ten miles, Jin Fenghuang sat proudly on a tall white horse, with a charming smile on his face looking at the people who were chasing and surrounding him crazily.

"I heard that Young Master Jin made a fortune selling salt in the barren state!"

"I heard that Young Master Jin has a very close relationship with the new prefect of Wujiang!"

"Young Master Jin's clothes are really beautiful!"

Liu Baichuan tiptoed up to the roof of the Liu Mansion. The snow lion that was feeding the gate of the Liu Mansion seemed to smell the smell of the old owner. On the lips of Snow Lion, he gave a command to silence.

The hall was brightly lit, Mr. Liu sat on the chair in the middle, sighed and said to his second daughter, Liu Baixuan, "I heard that the runaway child of the Jin family is back, why didn't our Bai Chuan come back with him?!"

"We, Bai Chuan, must have had a good time outside. He didn't want to go home, so he didn't want to come back. I heard that the son of the Jin family had a bad life outside. He was homesick, so he came back." Liu Baixuan said here, Suddenly his nose became sore.

"Actually, Bai Chuan is not my child! If he hadn't been raised by our family, he must..." Old Master Liu smiled wryly.

"Daddy, how could Bai Chuan not be your child?!" Liu Baixuan asked in disbelief.

"When I came back from Meichuan after marrying your mother, she had a good friend. After following me, I gave birth to your eldest sister with her, and your elder sister gave birth to another son. He died before he was born, and later he was born. After you, there was another son behind you, who also died before birth, so your mother and I went to Tiekou to tell the fortune, but he shook his head and said, I am destined to have no children! When the fortune-telling came back, your mother met my sister Chuan is a good friend, so I pretended to invite him back for a drink, but secretly drugged the wine and let your mother and him... Later, your mother gave birth to Bai Chuan, and everyone said that Bai Chuan was born delicate, and he was very similar to you. You look alike, but in my eyes, you don't look alike, your eyebrows and nose look a bit like mine, not delicate enough, but Bai Chuan's looks like that man. Hey! He's not my child after all!" Mrs. Liu used The cane tapped the ground and said.

Liu Baichuan jumped on the bloody horse, raised his eyes and looked into the distance, only to see a maple forest in the middle of the mountain in the distance that had been turned red by thick frost.

"Junior Brother, after passing the Banpo Mountain, you will find Shide Temple in front of you!" Huangfu Liang said.

Huangfu Liang was a chivalrous man Liu Baichuan met when he was fleeing in the south of the Yangtze River. After getting acquainted with him, he realized that he was actually the heir of Gu Hongzi's sword. So the two of them talked about their brothers and fought for righteousness all the way. They walked for more than three months. Huangfu Liang had just driven away a group of bandits newly stationed in Banpo Mountain, leaped on his horse and said.

"So, Lin Yanyu is going to be my teacher's wife!" Liu Baichuan said, but he said in his heart, the next generation is completely messed up!

"It turns out that there is not only Hanshan Temple, but also Shide Temple in this world." Liu Baichuan grinned at Huangfu.

Huangfu Liang's heart moved, and he thought: "How did he know that I listened to him talking about this Shide Temple, so that those who have been favored by me removed the signboard of Shuiyue Temple, and drove away those old monks and new ones?" The signboard of Shide Temple was erected."

The maple leaves swirled leisurely in the wind, and one piece happened to float in Xueshi Lin's wine glass.

"The hero Feihong killed a bully in Wujiang Mansion's Wuxia Town last night!" the butler entered the room to report.

Xueshi Lin thought to himself, last night when I rode my horse through the town of Wuxia, I saw that white shadow that was dug up and kicked off when it flew up. It must be him, it must be him! It must be him!It must be him!

"What's for dinner, master?" the Hakka asked.

"How do you eat dumplings with the skin and filling separated?" Lin Xueshi looked at the bewildered Hakka and asked with a smile.

"You think the dumplings I made are ugly, so you can eat dumplings with the skin and filling separated from now on!" Lin Xueshi recalled that year, Liu Baichuan was so angry that he only made a bowl of dumplings for himself, but put Lin The scholar's dumpling wrapper was boiled in water, and then he picked it up and said to Xueshi Lin, "Put the dumpling filling on the steamer and steam it, and wrap it in the dumpling wrapper to eat in the future."

Thinking of this, Xueshi Lin burst out laughing.

The author has something to say: After writing this point, it is considered to be a small paragraph. It is a good story. After all, there are no eunuchs.

In fact, it was conceived according to a long article, and there are still many things that have not been written, but the articles I write have always been longer and more chaotic. In fact, a lot of new ideas came out, so many things could not follow the main line. It's best to leave it at that.

Thank you for writing to the end. After all, time is squeezed out. I write at night, and I also write on Saturdays and Sundays.

Thanks also to those who read this!