Hsu Fengnian had seen this pair of beautiful siblings a few times in Mount Qingliang. Different from the elder brother who was already an official and the second sister who was married to Lingzhou, they were lively and naughty. They liked to run up and down the mountain. It was said that they had a good relationship with the young lady that Chen Xiliang brought from Gangnam-do, Huyan Daguan's daughter, and the little green robe that Yu Groom left in the prince's mansion. They often played together. Once, Hsu Fengnian was walking on the long embankment in the middle of the lake alone in the morning. A group of children were squatting by the lake stealthily, fishing for carps with the crude fishing rods they made themselves. There were already four or five fat carps in the small wooden basin. As a result, he bumped into them. He deliberately coughed from afar. Song Yu's youngest son immediately overturned the wooden basin, told everyone to throw the fishing rods into the lake, and then ran away. Hsu Fengnian, who didn't know whether to laugh or cry, could only help these troublemakers retrieve the fishing rods and wooden basins from the lake and stay where they were.
The carps in Tidehark Lake had an extraordinary origin. They came from a natural pond at the top of a mountain in Liaodong. In the eyes of Qi cultivators, these carps were not ordinary creatures. They were born with golden scales and carried the luck of the mortal world. The carps in Tidehark Lake were said to be worth ten gold per tail. They had always been the dream of Beiliang's civil officials. The generals who followed Xu Xiao in the early years were all uncouth and had no interest in these things. Yan Jiexi, who had not betrayed Beiliang and went to Great Peace City at that time, also disdained to ask for them. Only Li Gongde shamelessly asked Xu Xiao for a few. Xu Xiao waved his hand and said that he would catch as many as he could and bring them home. At that time, Li Gongde, who was already the military governor of Feng Province, really went to catch them himself. In the end, he caught seven or eight carps and brought them back to his own pond. It was said that the pond already had a hundred carps. Of course, Hsu Fengnian and Li Hanlin both knew that Li Gongde would smile from ear to ear every time he looked at the pond, not because he liked those carps, but because those carps were all living silver!
When the young scholar heard this conversation, he was shocked. He couldn't believe that the young man in front of him was really the King of Beiliang. He was the one who led the Beiliang cavalry to block the million-strong army of Beimang.
After Hsu Fengnian removed the cold saber from his waist, he gently hung it on a jade hook at the edge of the shelf on the left.
It was unknown whether it was a coincidence or not, but in this way, all six generations of the Xu family's war sabers were gathered.
The young scholar was a little frightened. He quickly bowed and said, "Dai Yuanjie of Fengtang County greets the King."
Hsu Fengnian said in surprise, "Fengtang County of Ji Province? Who is Mister Jiao An to you? Are you the distant grandson of the Dai family? "
Dai Yuanjie was even more surprised. He hadn't expected that a grand vassal king would have heard of his grandfather. Their Dai family had once been a wealthy and influential family of the old Northern Han. For the past three hundred years, the family's descendants had been ranked according to the eight characters, "Indifferent and Clear Aspiration, Tranquil and Distant." When it came to Dai Yuanjie's generation, it just happened to be the "distant" character. However, the Dai family was the same as many other wealthy families of the Spring and Autumn Period. Following the conclusion of that "unjust" battle, the Dai family had fallen into decline. The family's descendants scrupulously followed the rules set by Mister Jiao An, studying but not becoming an official. The Dai family's library, the "Eight Hundred Iron Sword Library," was one of the six great libraries of the Spring and Autumn Period. In particular, it collected over a hundred types of rare books, as well as innumerable copies and copies. After the old Northern Han was destroyed by Xu Xiao's troops, the Dai family's library, which had always been open to outsiders, was no longer open to the public. Even the family's descendants couldn't rashly enter the library to read.
This well-learned young scholar raised his head and replied with a stern expression, "It is my ancestor!"
Hsu Fengnian's expression was somewhat awkward. "Half of the Tide-listening Pavilion's rare books were extorted from the Eight Hundred Iron Sword Library by our Xu family. If you have come to Beiliang to ask for those books, I will have someone organize them and do my best to return them to you."
This was the first time Dai Yuanjie had heard of this secret. His grandfather had never mentioned this matter to him. For a moment, he was even more embarrassed than Hsu Fengnian.
He was just a weak scholar. How could he have the courage to come to Beiliang and settle accounts with this northwestern vassal king?
Hsu Fengnian smiled and said, "The books will only be collecting dust in the Tide-listening Pavilion. It would be better to return them to your Dai family. However, let me say this first. The books can be returned, but the prerequisite is that your Dai family library must not keep them to yourself. You must open them to the descendants of other clans and scholars from other places. You can first discuss this matter with Teacher Jiao An. Of course, this is a presumptuous request. Teacher Jiao An might not agree, but it won't affect your studies at White Horse Academy. You, Dai Yuanjie, can relax. If it really doesn't work out, I will gift those books to White Horse Academy under your Dai family's name. You can also mention this matter to Teacher Jiao An in your family letter. "
After weighing the pros and cons, Dai Yuanjie felt as if a heavy burden had been lifted from his shoulders. He bowed once more and said with great admiration, "Your Highness is magnanimous!"
Hsu Fengnian couldn't help but laugh. He held back some of the words he was about to say. In truth, Xu Xiao had relied on knives to "borrow" the books back then. It was only because the Xu family still had hundreds of thousands of knives that the matter of returning the books had become so "voluminous". In truth, the Xu family was in the wrong in this matter. It was just that Hsu Fengnian didn't want to talk about this with a descendant of the Dai family.
No matter how good a book was, if no one read it, it might seem valuable, but it was actually the least valuable.
However, Hsu Fengnian had also heard many strange words from Huang Longshi from Miss Hehe. This Huang Sanjia had said that the scholars of the future would be too relaxed about studying. They would instead pay less attention to the painstaking efforts of the predecessors. As a result, there would be the helpless sigh of "the ancients have already explained everything".
Hsu Fengnian followed the young scholar into White Horse Academy.
The young scholar glanced back for no reason. That wooden frame.
After the Spring and Autumn Period.
The Six Knives of the Xu family.
Arranged here.
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