Fu Shifeng

Chapter 138

After the late spring, it turns to Mengxia, the drizzle fertilizes the earth, and moss grows in the corner of the wall. It is the season when all kinds of flowers are flourishing, the vegetation is luxuriant, and the rice and wheat are filling.There is neither heat and fumigation, nor autumn wind and bleak injury. It can be regarded as the most comfortable time of the year in Chang'an.

Chang'an East City, as usual, is full of pedestrians and business travelers. At this time, several carriages came outside a lacquerware shop, and several shop assistants moved buckets of sealed raw lacquer from the carts into the shop.

"Be careful! This is a precious lacquer produced in Qianzhong Road. If you spill a bucket, I will break your legs!" The manager of the lacquerware shop shouted loudly, lest the shop assistants would not be stable enough.

"Guan Xu's loud voice has not changed for many years, I'm afraid it can be heard outside the wall of Dongshifang."

A middle-aged man stepped out of the carriage. His beard was neatly trimmed. He looked like a businessman from out of town, but his clothes were not wet from rain or mud. He was not young, but his whole body exuded uprightness. Spirit.

"It turned out to be Kong Weng, why did you come in person?" Manager Xu from the lacquerware shop stepped forward to salute.

"I have some business, I want to come to Chang'an to discuss in person." Kong Weng Nianxu entered the courtyard: "I just received a batch of high-quality paint, and I want to meet your master."

Manager Xu apologized and said with a smile: "What a coincidence, my master is not in the store right now, so the villain hastened to inform, Kong Weng might as well wait here for a while?"

"That's fine." Kong Weng nodded, and followed Guanshi Xu to the side hall in the courtyard. The incense in the room was wafting, barely dispelling the pungent and unpleasant smell of paint.

After Guanshi Xu left, Kong Weng was admiring some exquisite lacquerware in the house by himself, when he suddenly heard the chirping of birds.Turning his head to look, a sparrow landed on the window sill, slightly turning his head to look at Kong Weng.

"Wisdom comes from the heart, and skillful craftsmen come from the hands. To respond to the times, less power is more effective. Boats and chariots have hidden power, and organs can fly by themselves." Kong Weng inexplicably read a strange poem with disordered rhythms.

The sparrow jumped into the house upon hearing the words, and the doors and windows of the side hall were closed without wind. If a martial arts expert listened carefully, he would have noticed the subtle movement of the mechanism and the sound of gears snapping together.

After the doors and windows were closed, the sparrow's brilliance flickered, revealing the true colors of the wooden kite.

"Jiang Yan, your mechanism skills are getting better and better. The wooden kite can transform into an ordinary bird. Even I was almost fooled." Zhangju, are you planning to stay and not speak?"

"Who told you that Kong Yifang is the best at disguise?" Mu Yuan flew to a lacquerware food box: "In Fushifeng, you are the one who shows up the most, but no one has ever known your true face. What if you are pretending to be someone else?" , then am I going to be identified?"

Kong Fangfang laughed and said, "I'll let other people say that, but you, Jiang Yan, are also famous for not showing your true face. It's impossible to tell whether there is a man or a ghost, a man or a woman behind this mechanism Mu Yuan."

"The machine is so skillful that it can distinguish between men and women?" Mu Yuan asked rhetorically.

Kong Fang thought seriously for a while, and then said, "It seems not."

"That's it." Mu Yuan jumped up and down.

"What do you mean by that, is it possible that you also regard yourself as a creation of a mechanism?" Kong Fangfang smiled wryly.

"There are more than 200 bones in a living person, the internal organs have their own uses, and the blood flows up and down. In my opinion, these are no different from ingenious creations." Mu Yuan said bluntly.

"What you said sounds really frightening." Kong Yifang sat down on his own: "Could it be possible that someone with a limb can be replaced by a mechanical creation?"

"I'm really trying." When Muyuan said this, Kong Yifang was watching, and it turned to say: "Don't think about it, it's not so easy to succeed. The human body is far more delicate than the mechanical creation."

"That's right, otherwise Master Wen wouldn't have come up with a way to suppress Taotie by transforming into a human body." Kong Yifang sighed, then lightly brushed off his robe, and asked, "By the way, what's going on with that Cheng Sanwu?"

"He sneaked into the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and now he is Lord Zhaoyang, one of Gongchenwei's ten taisui." Mu Yuan flew to the wall, pecked it lightly a few times, and the bricks on the wall receded, revealing a box: "You take this pulse-watching puppet, it can monitor Cheng Sanwu's Qi pulse."

Kong Yifang took out the doll and glanced at it for a while, and praised: "Mr. Hong Ya's creation is really ingenious!"

"Can you check the occasion when you praise someone?" Mu Yuan said in a bad tone.

Kong Yifang smiled and said: "It seems that colleagues are enemies. In life, you Jiang Yan can't compare with Mr. Hong Ya. How about following the example of your predecessors and rebuilding the Twelve Gold Man?"

"I don't have the financial and material resources, why don't you take some out?" Mu Yuan mocked, "You are the richest in Fushifeng, and many things can only be done with your money!"

Kong Yifang blew his beard and stared: "The property I gave you is still short? Especially you Jiang Yan, in the name of guarding against gluttony, asked for all kinds of precious materials. No matter how rich my family is, I can't afford such expenses. Jinshanyin The mountain will also be emptied by you!"

"Don't worry, I found a way recently, so I don't need to bother you." Mu Yuan said.

Kong Yifang frowned: "Are you planning to use the Great Xia court?"

"The old emperor wants to enjoy himself, so I will build palaces for him, make clever machines, and get some benefits from it, isn't it too much?" Mu Yuan chuckled, and one could imagine the smug face of the person behind it.

"If Master Wen finds out about your actions, I'm afraid it will cause trouble for you." Kong Yifang said with a serious expression, "Fu Shifeng should not set foot in court, this is an old rule."

"The rules have been corrupted to the point of worthlessness these days." Mu Yuan complained, "Let's just talk about Master Wen. He suggested that many people join Fu Shifeng. How could there be such a thing in the past? Fu Shifeng has to deal with it." There is only Taotie, so it is better to be smart than to be too many. He has recruited a bunch of new people, and he doesn't take part in dealing with Taotie, so who knows what delusions he has in mind?"

Kong Yifang sighed: "Master Wen is after all a member of the Confucian school, and he cares about the lives of all people. Perhaps in his opinion, Fu Shifeng should not be limited to the identity of Taotie's old enemy. This should be the reason why he transformed Taotie into a human being and let Cheng The reason for walking in the world in threes and fives."

Mu Yuan turned her head to look at Kong Yifang, with a vivid expression and said, "You seem to understand him very well."

"Changing one's face is not only about changing the face and five senses, but about knowing people's hearts." Kong Yifang smiled, and no one could see any disguised changes on his face: "It's the same for making money in business, as long as you can predict it." If you can understand the likes and dislikes in other people's hearts, you can negotiate business smoothly."

"You are so capable, can you figure out the likes and dislikes in Cheng Sanwu's heart?" Mu Yuan asked again.

Kong Yifang was slightly taken aback, and then said, "Isn't it agreed not to show up in front of Cheng Sanwu directly? It's hard for me to judge without a face-to-face meeting."

"Forget about others, you are ever-changing, Cheng Sanwu may not be able to recognize you." Mu Yuan said.

"Don't be joking, Taotie only perceives with his eyes?" Kong Yifang was not moved by these words: "Even if it is Cheng Sanwu, he is still a half body of Taotie, there are some things that cannot be ignored, at least I don't want to do it so soon lost his life."

"If you earn a lot of money, you will really cherish your life and be afraid of death." Mu Yuan said bluntly.

"Well, I admit, I'm afraid of death." Kong Yifang didn't refute, and then asked: "You said just now that you want to build palaces and ingenuities for the emperor, so what's going on?"

Mu Yuan explained: "Before Wu Jingzi found out that the chief of the ten-year-old Yan Fengjun might be the descendant of Donghai Daiyu's lineage, so he wanted to use my way to find out his origin. In order to communicate with the Minister of Internal Affairs and Gongchenwei When I got on the line, I greatly modified the pattern of the "Thousand Machines Dunjia Palace", changing the weapons into various orchestral reeds, which can play music on its own, and also match the singing and dancing rhythmic puppet.

"The old emperor looked at my drawing, and wished that this dance and music palace could be completed in a short time, so he appointed a lot of people to me. In this way, I can justifiably ask for a large amount of danyu and preparation materials. What a coincidence Coincidentally, the Ministry of Internal Affairs has just occupied a danyu mine recently, Eunuch Feng can hide it from other people, but he can't hide it from the emperor's father. Once I come and go, I can communicate with the Ministry of Internal Affairs."

"It's too tortuous." Kong Yifang frowned slightly: "In order to investigate a Yanfengjun, even build a palace of ingenuity?"

"Then you can think of a good way for me!" Mu Yuan scolded, "It's not like you don't know what kind of temperament Wu Minzi is. Shen, I can't even see him without some means!"

"I came to Chang'an this time mainly to take over from Wu Jingzi and be responsible for monitoring Cheng Sanwu." Kong Yifang looked down at the meridian puppet, and found that the meridian brilliance was flowing, and asked: "Cheng Sanwu is performing exercises? "

"It's either practicing martial arts or practicing with your subordinates." Mu Yuan's tone was bored: "Since he took over as Lord Zhaoyang, he has been free. Feng Yuanyi and Lord Yanfeng didn't arrange other errands for him."

Kong Fang was a little puzzled: "The Ministry of Internal Affairs recruited Cheng Sanwu, but didn't let him work? Isn't it reasonable?"

"Could it be that you still plan to find trouble when you have nothing to do?" Mu Yuan said, "Sometimes I think it's good for Cheng Sanwu to stay in Chang'an, at least it can save some trouble."

"The Ministry of Internal Affairs probably won't let him stay idle like this." Kong Yifang shook his head slightly.

"how you said that?"

"I'm in business, and I've heard some rumors." Kong Yiyan said: "Several states in Hebei are worried that the imperial court will use the new policy to push back and increase taxes again. In addition, since the spring of this year, there has been a lot of rain in Hebei. There is a famine."

Mu Yuan asked: "Someone wants to rebel?"

"Scattered chaos is unavoidable, but if it is not complete, someone will take the opportunity to add fuel to the fire." Kong Yi said: "Also, I also heard on the road that the envoys of Heishui Mohe came to Chang'an to meet the emperor, please Please send an official, Chief History."

"Is there any problem?" Mu Yuan didn't hear anything unusual.

Kong Yifang sighed: "There is a Bohai County between Heishuimohe and Daxia. Although it is also a vassal of Daxia in name, the Bohai County has not been peaceful these years. I received news that the Uighur tribes on the grassland We are passing through Mobei Road, traveling to and from Bohai County to buy a large amount of ironware and salt."

Mu Yuan was stunned for a moment: "Hearing what you said, why do I feel that the houses in the north seem to be joining together?"

"For the Great Xia court, this kind of thing is often more credible than credible." Kong Yifang said: "Besides, Heishui Mohe is located far to the northeast, and he is in a hurry to come to Chang'an to ask officials to explain They are facing life and death at this moment, and they must obtain the protection of the Great Xia court."

"Bohai County is going to encroach on Heishui Mohe?" Mu Yuan finally realized this time: "Isn't this just another Goguryeo? You are not small!"

"It's the implementation of the New Deal, and the Bohai County is ready to move. If things really get serious, it will be difficult to deal with it." Kong Yifang fell silent.

Mu Yuan looked at him for a moment: "I didn't realize that you, a miser, actually worry about the country and the people."

"Oh?" Kong Yifang was noncommittal, and then said: "I have dealt with Feng Yuanyi before, he is indeed a virtuous person, and he should be able to detect the hidden crisis now. Instead of waiting for the situation to rot later, let Gong Chenwei Shi Taisui It is perfectly appropriate for a master to cut off hidden dangers as soon as possible."

……

The long sword stabs out like a spirit snake, and the frosty kung fu is coming towards the face with the sword edge. In the air induction, it seems that there is a multi-headed snake attacking from both sides at the same time.

Seeing this situation, Cheng Sanwu didn't panic, he increased the speed of swinging the saber with Yan Feng's energy, and cut several times in a row, and when it offset with Frost's energy, the blade caught the long sword and was about to swing away .

Unexpectedly, a lingering force was born on the sword, following the trend of the blade, drawing a half-circle, stabbing into the shortlist.

Cheng Sanwu didn't choose to withdraw to evade, but raised his body, the wind howled all over his body, and Peng Bai's vigor forced Qin Wangshu, who was stabbing with a sword, as if he was standing in a wall of fire, and hurriedly turned and jumped back.

"Escape?" Cheng Sanwu shouted upon seeing this: "Then I'm going to go!"

As soon as the words fell, Cheng Sanwu stepped forward, raised his knife and slashed, and the flames spread.Seeing this, Qin Wangshu twisted his slender waist, his body flashed to avoid the path of the knife, and stabbed the lower body with the sword while looking for the opening.

Cheng Sanwu hastily withdrew his knife to block back, but Qin Wangshu's move was also a false move, the tip turned to the throat, and the cold light pierced towards the heart.

"Teng Snake Sword Art" is the most tricky and venomous, interpreting "sword slanting forward" vividly, rarely confronting the enemy, but relying on flexible steps and moves, focusing on the gaps and flaws in the enemy's moves.

Coupled with Qin Wangshu's nimble body and strong limbs, even though his martial arts were not as good as Cheng Sanwu's, it did make him fail several times, and the offensive and defensive trends of the two gradually became more balanced.

"Good move!"

Seeing the sword's edge approaching, Cheng Sanwu praised him in his heart, instead of advancing, he retreated and stepped forward to meet him.

Seeing this, Qin Wangshu suddenly withdrew the strength of his moves, and his body and footwork immediately showed a messy appearance, and Cheng Sanwu punched him in the face with an empty hand.

Of course, Cheng Sanwu's punch didn't land, he just took away the strength when he touched the tip of Qin Wangshu's nose. Except for the hot wind blowing his face, Qin Wangshu was not injured.

"Why did you accept the move?" Cheng Sanwu asked, stepping back a few steps and leaning on the ground with the saber.

Qin Wangshu calmed down his breath and replied, "Because we are practicing against each other, not fighting for life and death."

Cheng Sanwu said: "My martial arts are higher than yours, my reaction is faster than yours, and my moves are more stable, so you don't have to worry about getting hurt."

"But you will get hurt!" Qin Wangshu was very confused. Does this man in front of him not take his life seriously?
(End of this chapter)