Hsu Fengnian smiled, retracted his steps, and sat back down on the stool. Deng Mao and Yelu Dongbed were finally able to climb up the steps and come under the eaves. It wasn't that Deng Mao didn't have the ability, but since he didn't have the heart to fight to the death, Deng Mao wasn't the kind of person who would look for trouble. As for Yelu Dongbed, against the current Hsu Fengnian, if the latter wanted to make him unable to take a single step closer to the restaurant, he, as a member of the Beimang royal family, really didn't have the ability. The soles of Yelu Dongbed's shoes scraped the edge of the steps, scraping away a thick layer of dirt, before he sat down next to Hsu Fengnian. Deng Mao didn't sit down, because the restaurant only had one stool available.
Yelu Dongbed lowered his voice and asked, "Did you really fight with Tuoba Bodhisattva? What was the result? I want to hear the truth. "
Hsu Fengnian said to this overly familiar fellow, "Is Xu Ying well?"
Yelu Dongbed was stunned. "Xu Ying? Who? "
Hsu Fengnian finally smiled a little, and said softly, "The girl who likes to wear red robes by Luo Yang's side."
Yelu Dongbed said, "Oh, she's just like that. In the past, she was neither human nor ghost. Later, she went crazy and cut off her own face. Now, she looks like a normal girl. But when she has nothing to do, she still likes to wander around there by herself. That red robe can go around for almost an hour in one breath. Anyways, it makes my eyes dizzy and my heart tired."
Hsu Fengnian didn't say anything.
Yelu Dongchuang was startled, "What, you like this kind of thing?!"
Hsu Fengnian didn't turn his head to look at this blabbermouth young man. He only asked indifferently, "You're not afraid of dying here?"
Yelu Dongbed rolled his eyes.
In the next moment, Yelu Dongbed didn't even dare to breathe loudly.
The people under the eaves did not notice that at that moment, the handsome young master with the twin sabers had swayed a little. The middle-aged man with an ordinary appearance had already left the eaves to soak himself in the rain, and then returned to the eaves to stand still. They were just wondering how the man with his back to the restaurant had unknowingly turned to face them.
Hsu Fengnian whispered, "There won't be a next time."
Yelu Dongchuang smiled bitterly, "I've only heard that you're quite humorous, and you don't seem like someone who can't take a joke. It seems that as long as a person becomes an expert, he will put on airs. "
Hsu Fengnian shook his head and said, "If you change your identity and go there one day, you will know the reason."
It wasn't clear whether Yelu Dongbed truly understood or was just pretending to understand. "I understand."
Hsu Fengnian waved his hand and asked the waiter for a pot of tea and three cups. The astute waiter glanced at the short man squatting in the latrine and refused with a straight face. He said that he had to buy two pots of tea, but he could also lend him a small stool. Hsu Fengnian smiled and agreed. He directly pinched out a piece of broken silver from his money pouch. It was about sixty copper coins. Besides, in this world, silver was always expensive and copper was cheap. Only then did the waiter grin. This brother, he knew the rules! Later, Deng Mao finally had the opportunity to sit down. If the truth of this spread to the jianghu, this waiter would probably be the most arrogant man in the world. He haggled with Hsu Fengnian, the King of Beiliang, rolled his eyes at Yelu Dongbed, and rewarded Deng Mao with a stool! Hsu Fengnian poured a cup of tea for each of the Beimang men on his left and right. He asked, "What business do you have in Beiliang?"
Yelu Dongbed didn't keep him in suspense. "Luo Yang told me to tell you that other than Cao Changqing and Duke Yansheng, who helped persuade Emperor Liyang, there is no need to call off the three-year agreement."
Yelu Dongbed took a sip of the tasteless tea and continued, "Also, I wanted to see you. I wanted to know if there was a possibility that we could do something together."
Hsu Fengnian was a bit absent-minded. He looked at the light curtain of rain outside the eaves and took a deep breath. He calmly said, "Tell me."
Yelu Dongbed said self-deprecatingly, "In my family, many relatives around my age have died in recent years. Of course, most of them have the same surname as me. As for that … well, those who have my aunt's surname, most of them are women, like that fat girl Murong Longshui. So to tell the truth, I still have a chance. Even if it's not big, it's still there. The reason I snuck out, to tell you the truth, is to avoid that Chess and Sword Music School boss who's making a comeback. There's no other way. That old man was actually chased out of Liyang by my grandfather. This time, he's come back for a surprise attack. Of course, it's not as simple as just giving me a hard time. The old man values my older brother more. The reason is that he would find a dog to guard a house, not a wolf cub. I know that the current situation of Liang Mang's stalemate is ultimately the idea of two people: the old man and Fatty Dong. Not everyone thinks so. "
Hsu Fengnian said with a half-smile, "Show some sincerity, okay?"
Yelu Dongbed laughed, his voice was even softer as he slowly said, "At the very least, I know that six out of the eight Governors and twelve Great Generals are firmly against it. As for Helian Wuwei and the others, it's up to them to fight Liang Mang. It's hard to say that they're fence-sitters. In any case, they're just going with the flow. Of course, my parents died a long time ago, but my grandfather is still alive. Although he's not a Great General or Governor, he's still comparable to a Great General and a Governor, right? "
Hsu Fengnian was familiar with the inside story of the Beimang Royal Court. He shook his head and said, "That's not all."
Yelu Dongbed turned his head and stared at the side of the young King's face. He asked, "Do you want to do this deal?"
Hsu Fengnian asked back, "Other than wanting me to defeat Dong Zhuo and the Governor of Taiping's momentum, what else do you want me to do?"
Yelu Dongbed laughed foolishly, "First of all, you have to kill Tuoba Bodhisattva. Secondly, you have to do your best to protect the main force of the Hong Jingyan Rouran Cavalry on the battlefield. "
Hsu Fengnian said mockingly, "You should really go to the battlefield and see. Then you wouldn't have to make it sound so easy."
Yelu Dongbed laughed, "If it were anyone else, I wouldn't even mention this, but you, you can. That's why I'm sitting here today, drinking twenty copper coins for a pot of … good tea. "
Hsu Fengnian asked, "You want to be the Emperor that much?"
Yelu Dongbed asked back, "You don't want to?"
Hsu Fengnian laughed it off.
Yelu Dongbed quietly waited for him to continue.
Hsu Fengnian finally said, "I can only promise you that we'll take it one step at a time."
Yelu Dongbed slapped his thigh, "That's enough!"
Yelu Dongbed placed the teacup by his feet. As he bent down and stood up, he said softly, "If the two of us can reach that step, I can also promise you one thing. Half of the Southern Dynasty can be considered as me, Yelu Dongbed, returning the money for your tea. Once both sides of Liang Mang are done, and if you still have the intention of heading south to the Central Plains, I can even lend you the entire eastern front for three years. I can help you suppress the Liyang Border Army for three years. "
Hsu Fengnian watched the two of them leave.
The tea had cooled.
After Yelu Dongbed and Deng Mao had walked more than ten li, Yelu Dongbed asked, "Do you think he'll agree?"
Deng Mao said expressionlessly, "Why wouldn't he agree? Other than the matter of Hong Jingyan's Rouran Cavalry, everything else is something Hsu Fengnian should do. As long as Dong Zhuo and the Taiping Magistrate are still working together to control the court, Liang Mang is a dead end, and the chances of Hsu Fengnian's Beiliang winning are too small. "
Yelu Dongbed crossed his arms behind his head and sighed, "That's right. It seems like he can only accompany me in this gamble, and can only help me once. Rather than fighting to the death with my million-strong army without any chance of victory, it's better to do everything in his power to ruin Dong Zhuo and the Taiping Magistrate's reputation. At the very least, it'll be relatively easier. As long as I can force these two fellows to weaken in one spurt of energy, I won't even need to exhaust myself. It'll be equivalent to winning an opportunity for me. When the time comes, it'll depend on my ability and destiny. "
Deng Mao hesitated for a moment, then asked, "If you really succeed?"
Dividing the world between the north and the south?
The dwarf's lips cracked into a soundless smile, revealing a savagery and bloodthirstiness that had not been seen in the last twenty years of the Yelu surname.
And under the eaves of that restaurant, Hsu Fengnian's lips twitched.
Hsu Fengnian stood up and walked down the steps, beginning to step onto the Northern Divine Path of Mount Wudang.
So what if such a person became the Emperor of Beimang?
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