Snake Tale

It was four o'clock at this time, but the Huan Mansion was brightly lit, the banquet was in full swing, the bells and drums were melodious, the dancers were dancing, and the servants came and went to serve like flowing water, showing the luxurious atmosphere of the Zhongming Dingshi House.

Washed off the blood, applied wound medicine, changed into fine clothes, leaning on the guest seat, Shen Yuzhu took a break from the chopsticks, raised the wine glass to his lips but refused to drink, a pair of clear black eyes looked at the people in the court with great interest. The beautiful kabuki dance with willow waists and lingering sleeves.

"Mr. Shen, how does my eight-legged music and dance compare to Luo Mansion?"

It was Huan Guo, the current patriarch of the Huan family, who was asking the question.I saw that he was about fifty years old, with a leopard head and a lion's beard, and a pair of tiger eyes looking around like sharp arrows in a bag, showing his sharpness.Shen Yuzhu raised his glass to salute, and said with a smile: "Why are you so arrogantly belittling yourself? The Luo family is just a barbarian who lives in a miscellaneous, smelly and vulgar place. How can he be compared with a gentleman! According to me, even the current Marquis of Jin, It may not be possible to enjoy your spectacle."

These words were very useful to Huan Guo, he laughed and drank the contents of the cup in one gulp.

After three years of living as a slave who ate dross and slept with firewood, suddenly faced with delicacies and beauties like clouds, Shen Yuzhu was still calm and complacent, and his demeanor was not messed up at all, which made Ping Feiyu who was sitting opposite secretly admire him.He had recommended Shen Yuzhu many times in front of Huan Guo before, and after drinking for three rounds, he naturally complimented him again: "Master, I don't know something, and not everyone in this world can afford my adoptive father's blue eyes." You are as talented as the sea, and you are the direct disciple of the head of the Qingyan Prefecture, so you are naturally worthy of such courtesy. Your foster father accepts talents, respects the virtuous and corporal, and he is afraid of being neglected; on the other hand, Luo Yi, not only does not treat you I reused it, but treated you like a slave who advocates excellence! I didn’t hear it with my own ears, I just... I can’t believe that Luo Yi humiliated you like this! Uncle, is it tolerable, which one can’t bear it?"

Shen Yuzhu heaved a long sigh, and said, "Why didn't I ever think that one day I will return all the humiliation he bestowed on me to him? It's just that Luo changed his position to a high authority, and Luo's mansion was heavily fortified. Revenge is no different from an idiot's dream!"

The bruises on Shen Yuzhu's face are still there, and the bloodstains are grim. The injury is certainly horrifying, but the worry and resentment knotted on the brows is even more real.Ping Feiyu and Huan Guo looked at each other, and said tentatively: "Master, if someone can help you..."

Shen Yuzhu flicked his sleeves to attend, facing the chief seat from a distance, bowed suddenly and bowed: "Lord Huan!" He gritted his teeth and said in a hateful voice: "I have been thinking about it day and night for the past three years, and I only hope that one day I can avenge my shame! If you don't give up, I will plan with all my heart to help you eradicate the Luo family in one fell swoop!"

Huan Guo was overjoyed, Ping Feiyu turned to Huan Guo and said with a smile: "Father, what do you have to worry about if you can get what your uncle said?"

Huan Guo Nianxu laughed and said: "Yu'er, why don't you help your uncle up?" In fact, he didn't need to say, Ping Feiyu had already jumped out of the table, and briskly helped Shen Yuzhu onto the guest seat.

"Yu'er has already told me all about Mr. Shen's fate." Huan Guo pointed to Ping Feiyu who was sitting under the hall, with a very proud expression on his face: "Although my adopted son is young, he really has a lot of ambitions." Cai. The Luo family has grown in strength in recent years, and it has become a big problem for my Huan family. Recently, Yu'er volunteered to sneak into Luo's mansion to get a treasure for me. I thought he would fetch it The legendary..."

Ping Feiyu coughed lightly, Huan Guo suddenly stopped talking, and said with a smile: "Who would have thought that he brought Mr. Shen for me!"

Ping Feiyu smiled and said: "Yu'er did not break his promise. Mr. Shen is very talented and knows the Luo family's inside story, how can he say that he is not the treasure to destroy the Luo family?"

Huan Guo laughed loudly: "What you said is true! Mr. Shen, you drink this cup with me! After I break through the Luo family, I will definitely capture Luo Yi in front of Mr. Shen with my own hands, and let you vomit all the uselessness of these years gas!"

Shen Yuzhu smiled slightly: "Master Huan keeps his word! Then please fulfill this promise in three days."

Now not only Huan Guo, but even Ping Feiyu couldn't help being dumbfounded: "Three, three days?" Ping Feiyu hesitated: "I know you are eager to revenge and want to serve your adoptive father, but...the Luo clan is strong and strong, it is by no means unbearable A one-hit one. If you attack rashly, you will only scare the snake. Besides, you are still injured, so you might as well wait for the treatment to take care of it, and then think about it in the long run, how about it?"

These are very sincere words, but Shen Yuzhu slowly drank the wine in the bottle, turned his face and smiled at the two of them: "I said three days, it is not empty words." He said calmly: "I don't know if you all know that the Luo family... established an heir The real inside story?"

Huan Guo and Ping Feiyu looked at each other, then listened to Shen Yuzhu's eloquence: "Luo Yi has a pair of blue eyes, which is rare even among the Luo clan who are mixed with barbarians. In fact, there is such an anecdote..."

It turns out that the Luo family's custom of establishing an heir is different from that of the Central Plains officials, and they often establish virtuous men rather than elders.But because Luo Yi was born of a concubine of a foreign race, he was not even considered a concubine, and was raised in a separate house all year round. Before the age of 14, even Luo's family members rarely knew each other.After Luo Jian became seriously ill, he only came to her, and he only did some work like serving decoctions and servants.However, he has always had a scheming heart, and he is unwilling to hide it. He secretly practiced martial arts and studied very hard.Luo Jian knew that the end was approaching, so one day, she summoned her sons and said to them: "You are all my close relatives, but there is only one head of the family, so it is really difficult to choose. How about this, I will bury Luo's precious treasures in the Chang Shan, whoever among you can find out, is the head of the Luo family."

The sons of the Luo family rushed to Changshan in a car, some of them opened up the dense forest, some dug the canal, and some dug the cave, but they couldn't find them all, so they had to return empty-handed.In the end, Luo Yi, who had been waiting on his father's sickbed, suddenly left without saying goodbye, and went to Changshan alone.

Three days later, the travel-worn young man rode a horse and returned with a scroll he had drawn himself.Kneeling in front of Luo Jian's sick bed, he unfolded the scroll, which marked the dangerous terrain of Changshan, with the territory of the Luo family to the south and the territory of the Yididai family to the north.The densely marked on the scroll are the rich and fertile land of the Dai family, the strong and good horses, and the large undeveloped rich mining areas rich in copper and iron.

"By relying on Changshan, the Dai family can easily get it." Luo Yi said. "This is Luo's greatest treasure."

Luo Jian was amazed and sighed, and then she began to pay attention to this illegitimate son who she had never paid attention to, and asked him about his strategy, and the answers were fluent; his martial arts were tested, and he was much better than the pampered sons.Luo Jian no longer had any doubts, and tried her best to make Luo Yi his son.Two years later, Luo Jian died of illness, Luo Yi inherited the title, and became the head of the Luo clan logically.

"Lord Huan," Shen Yuzhu slapped the white jade wine bottle lightly on several cases, and said in a decisive tone: "The Luo family has been coveting the Dai family for a long time. Ever since Luo Jian, they have been deliberately planning to annex the Dai country. The purpose of marrying off the women in the clan is to lower Dai's vigilance—and Luo Yi carefully planned that the family banquet that Dai's will be invited to in Changshan two days later is a death feast that Dai's will never return to!"

"You mean, Luo Yi will assassinate the head of the Dai clan at the banquet?"

"That's right. If your lord doesn't believe it, you might as well send someone tomorrow to find out if Luo Yi has ordered elite soldiers to accompany him, then you can understand his real intentions."

Huan Guo was still puzzled, but Ping Feiyu reacted first, cupped his hands and said with a loud smile to Huan Guo who was sitting in the chair: "Congratulations to foster father!"

"Where does the joy come from?"

Ping Feiyu smiled and said: "When two tigers fight, one must be wounded. This is a god-sent opportunity for us to wipe out the Luo family in one fell swoop! Yifu, please deploy your troops as soon as possible and ambush them in Changshan. Wait until Luo Yi and the barbarians kill you , When both sides are hurting, rushing out, it only takes a little effort to get rid of the thorn in Luo Yi's side. If the Marquis of Jin asks about it in the future, we can still excuse it and say that the barbarians of the Dai clan did it, wouldn't it be perfect!"

Huan Guo suddenly realized, raised his cup and laughed loudly: "It's really a clever plan! It's really a clever plan! Yu'er, Mr. Shen, I would like to offer you a toast! If you can really get rid of Luo Yi, you will be the first major contribution to this old man, and I will be very grateful!"

He raised his glass to Shen Yuzhu again and said with a smile: "I once heard that Qingyan Mansion is full of talented people, and I thought it was just a compliment from a good person. Later, I got the help of Yu'er, and I saw Mr. Shen again today. I know the rumors are true. Xu. If I can get you two to advise me, the Huan family will be like a tiger with wings added, and the power will shock the nations!"

In this magnificent vision, the host and guest toasted and drank together, feeling very happy.Shen Yuzhu filled another glass of wine and said to Huan Guo: "Lord Huan avenged me, I should toast you a glass!" , he pretended to be friends with Fuzi and others, and secretly sowed dissension, forcing Fuzi to lose his reputation and go into exile in Yue. After being tortured to death, he married his young niece non-stop. Thinking that I, Shen Yuzhu, had never had any enmity with him, he imprisoned me, made me a slave, and even more lusted after him, driving me like a horse, a pig, and a dog. His heart is detestable, his deeds are hateful, if the sky has eyes, the sky should kill him!" Thinking of Luo Yi's torture and insult to him over the years, he was so angry that he punched the table case so hard that it was on the table. Turn chopsticks down, a mess.

Mei Ji, who was serving beside her, was startled, she accidentally knocked over the wine cup, and poured all the wine on Shen Yuzhu's lapel.The dancer girl was so frightened that Huarong turned pale, and Huan Guo felt that she was slapped in the face, and said angrily: "Mr. Thirty sticks!"

If the slender and weak are subjected to such torture, how can they survive?Meiji was terrified, knelt down and kowtowed again and again: "Yingqi knows it's wrong! Yingqi knows it's wrong! Please forgive me! Please forgive me!"

Shen Yuzhu couldn't bear it, and hurriedly got up and said: "Lord Huan, this maidservant just made an unintentional mistake, why should I care about it? Our decisive victory is imminent, so we don't need to disturb our interest because of trivial things. It's Shen who was thinking about his previous mistakes and lost his composure for a while. Please forgive me, Lord Huan."

Huan Guo twisted his beard and smiled and said: "This is human nature, Mr. Shen doesn't need to worry about it." Huan Guo no longer had any doubts in his heart, and said with a smile: "Since Mr. Shen begged for this maidservant, let her be spared. The widow has a What a good way to get her to redeem her crimes, how about sending this maid to Mr. Shen as a concubine to serve the left and right?"

Shen Yuzhu was startled, and thanked him: "Shen has not yet avenged his great revenge, and he has no intention of accepting the beauty's favor..."

Huan Guo waved his hand and said, "Hey, what's the problem! A beautiful man is a perfect match. You don't have to refuse anymore, sir!"

But it was disrespectful, Shen Yuzhu was inconvenient to refuse, so he simply bowed his head and thanked Huan Guo.Seeing that Shen Yuzhu was being treated with courtesy by Huan Guo, the dancing girl had no reason to be unwilling, she immediately put away those pitiful tearful eyes, and leaned affectionately by his side pouring wine and vegetables, showing great hospitality.Huan Guo was very excited, and ordered someone to bring out the fine wine in the cellar to drink with the two, while discussing the matter of sending troops to Changshan.The guests and the host had a good time, until they talked about the Oriental Weibai.

After the banquet, Huan Guo and his retainers went to dispatch troops and generals. Ping Feiyu hugged the wine urn and bid farewell to Shen Yuzhu by the side of the hall: "Uncle Shen, you have avenged your past, just around the corner. Please get rid of your worries and wait for the good news. Good!" He pointed at Meiji beside Shen Yuzhu, winked and said, "You might as well embrace the beauty and get drunk for two days. When the adoptive father returns from victory, you and I, the master and the apprentice, will work together to make it even more exciting." Don’t you think Hongtu Dazhan’s deeds?”

When Ping Feiyu was drunk, and thought of the imminent victory, he was overwhelmed with complacency, and the last sentence was completely joking with his peers.Shen Yuzhu couldn't help being funny.But he was peaceful by nature, and laughed it off, only to make the servants send the drunken Ping Feiyu back to the room, and he wanted to go back to the room himself.

However, he only took one step, but almost staggered.It turned out that he hadn't recovered from his injuries, and he drank a lot of strong wine, and he was five or six points drunk.Meiji next to her was gentle and understanding, and gently embraced his arm.Just as Shen Yuzhu wanted to thank him, he felt a cold blade tightly pressed against his waist!

"Shen Yuzhu," Meiji whispered close to his ear, her voice was as gentle as an oriole coming out of the valley, but it was clear and cold, with her own killing intent:

"I just want to ask you a question, it's about your wealth and life, please be careful!"