Chapter 44: Tokyo's Bianliang City

  For over a dozen days, Yue Fei and his brothers all stayed in Han Xiaowei's Dayue Hall. Anyway, the food and lodging at Dayue Hall were both excellent. They might as well take a break halfway and rest for a while, relaxing and unwinding.

  Yang Zai Xing's injury healed in just three days. Mount Hua's Sleeping Dream Therapy - "Earth Immortal Three Hands" is indeed extraordinary.

  During this time, Yue Fei taught the three-style Heaven and Earth Stance Method: "Top of the Sky, Stand on the Ground", "Hate the Ground without a Ring" and "Hate the Sky without a Handle" to Yang Zaixing, Luo Yanqing and several other brothers. The brothers were overjoyed. Only Niu Gao had practiced this stance method before, so he didn't gain anything from it this time, and was unhappy in his heart, muttering to himself on the side.

  Yue Fei saw this and asked Han Shizhong for a few agile farmhands to train Cowherd's "Thousand Buddha Hands".

  The so-called training was just letting the strong men hit Cow's body with big sticks, and Cow could only resist and dodge, not fight back. After a few days, Cow was beaten until his eyes were black and blue, and he was in misery. Only by begging for mercy from Yue Fei did they stop.

  So many people died in front of the Dayu Tang Mountain Villa, and the incident spread quickly. The county government sent someone over a few days later to make a show of investigating and asking questions. Everyone knew what was going on, but they didn't get along, so they hastily closed the case.

  Han Xiao petitioned the imperial court and impeached the magistrate of Anyang. The magistrate of Anyang was soon demoted and transferred to another place. This is a later story.

  Yue Fei stayed for so many days mainly because Yang Zai's big gun was cut off by Yue Fei and had to be taken to a distant blacksmith shop for re-forging. The imperial court repeatedly issued strict orders prohibiting private manufacture of weapons, so the iron shops that could forge weapons were generally located in very remote areas, secretly and stealthily, like salt smugglers, and few people knew about them.

  On the fifteenth day, the large iron spear was returned. Yang Zai Xing picked it up and examined it carefully, his face filled with disappointment. The smelting technology of the Great Song Dynasty had indeed become worse over the years.

  Yue Fei hastily came over to comfort him and told him that on Mount Qilin, there was a skilled craftsman who could ensure the large iron spear would be as good as new. Only then did Yang Zaixing put his mind at ease.

  Now that the matter of Dayu Temple has been settled, Yue Fei bid farewell to Han Shizhong. Han Shizhong let out a long sigh and said: "Yue, you are talented and intelligent, with both wisdom and bravery, and should be the mainstay of our great Song dynasty. But now, the court is dominated by treacherous officials, just as Zhuge Kongming once said: 'In the imperial court, rotten wood holds office, in the palace, beasts devour salaries; those with wolfish hearts and dog-like behavior are everywhere, while sycophants and flatterers hold power.' You have a strong personality, and it's likely that you won't be tolerated by the court."

  Han Xiao stopped for a moment, letting Yue Fei wait, and went back to the room to take out three letters. He instructed: "Now in the imperial court, there are only three adults who have the ability and dare to say no to Cai Jing's flow - Prime Minister Wu Min, Taichang Shaoqing Li Gang, and Shangshu Zuo Pushe Zhao Ding. These three adults were also promoted by my father back then. This is a letter of recommendation I wrote for you to these three adults, whether it can help you or not, just follow the will of heaven."

  Yue Fei bowed deeply and said: "The kindness of uncle's guidance, Yue Fei will never forget even if his teeth fall out."

  Han Xiao took out another package and handed it to Yue Fei, saying: "In today's world, money can open one's eyes. There are thirty taels of gold here. I hope it can help you, young Master Yue."

  Yue Fei took the gold and thanked him repeatedly. Then he returned to his room, packed up his luggage, and set off with his brothers and Yang Zaixing, Luo Yanqing towards Bianjing (the capital city).

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  The capital was originally very close to Anyang County, and Yue Fei's party rode quickly, arriving at the foot of Bianliang City in just a few days.

  Yue Fei and others looked up, but saw the towering walls, the wall was dense and strict; on top of the city wall, colorful flags were flying, among which a huge Song character flag stood upright above the city gate. Indeed, it is worthy of being the place where the capital is located, with a poem praising:

  The province is named after Bian River, and the prefecture is called Kaifeng. It borders Wu and Chu to the south, and stretches to connect with Qi and Lu to the north.

  The mountains and rivers are shaped like a victorious shape, with water and land converging. Yu painted it as the state of Yu, and Zhou sealed it as the territory of Zheng.

  The trend of layered cow sleeping, pressing the upper boundary of Wu and Ji in the center;

  Chui Wei's shape is like a crouching tiger, resembling the twenty-eight mansions of the celestial sphere.

  Jinming Pool has three springs of willows, Xiaoyuan City has four seasons of flowers.

  A land of ten thousand miles where fish and dragons change, a place with four hundred military states converging.

  Auspicious clouds surround the purple pavilion, auspicious aura shines on the towers and terraces.

  Yue Fei and his brothers were about to enter the city gate, but the gatekeeper's soldiers came forward to interrogate them. Seven burly men, tall and majestic, holding long and short weapons, were naturally the objects of interrogation. Everyone showed their documents and entered Kaifeng City smoothly.

  As soon as Yue Fei and his brothers entered the city, they led their horses to walk on the main street, looking around at this first-class metropolis under the emperor's feet. Indeed, it was just like what people had heard: wealthy merchants gathered together, high gates and official residences stood opposite each other. People came and went, bustling about. Various colors of clothing, brocade clothes and flower hats, were densely packed. There were also large and small wine buildings, various snack food stalls, different kinds of shops, gambling dens and even places for prostitution...

  This Bianliang City is really big, Yue Fei and others walked while asking, after half an hour, they finally arrived in front of a shop door. Yue Fei looked up and saw that this inn was quite large in scale, with elegant decorations and clean surroundings. On the door hung a signboard with seven golden lacquer characters "Jiang Zhenzi Anju Guest House", the strokes were thin, hard, smooth and elegant, it was unknown whose famous handwriting it was.

  The shopkeeper inside saw that there were guests arriving, and hurried out to greet them. He called the second-in-command to take the luggage of the seven guests upstairs, led the horses into the backyard stable, and fed them fodder. He himself came over to sit with the seven gentlemen and have tea. After asking their names and where they came from, he notified Boss Jiang Zhenzi to come downstairs to entertain the guests while preparing wine and food for the reception.

  Before long, Jiang Zhenzi came down from the guest room upstairs. He was a big fat man with a round face and a very affable look. He would greet everyone he met with a few words, just like a living treasure.

  Jiang Zhenzi saw Yue Fei and others, with a smile on his face. After reading the letter handed over by Yue Fei, he shouted loudly: "It turned out to be the son-in-law of Wen Shu Lao Da who rode the dragon quickly, which made us anxious. Hurry up and change the wine and dishes, and change them to high-grade wine and dishes."

  Ladies and gentlemen: It turns out that Yue Fei's father-in-law was named Li Wen Shu. In those years, he had also stirred up a storm in Dongjing Bianliang, but I will not elaborate on this here.

  Yue Fei and others were drinking and chatting with Jiang Dabaozi when two more people walked into the store.

  One was a man in his sixties, with an unusual appearance, two clusters of white eyebrows, sparse and scattered, lips with white mustaches drooping to the left and right, sunken cheeks, but a broad forehead, as if containing great wisdom, while his slender eyes were devoid of luster, devoid of emotion, as if he never thought, only accepted life through his senses, taking action based on reaction.

  And another one was a barbarian, with red hair and beard, green eyes, hooked nose, big mouth and long face. Although he wore Han Chinese clothes, the aura of a foreign barbarian was not reduced at all.

  The two weirdos, as soon as they entered the store, immediately attracted the attention of everyone in the store. The two weirdos didn't care at all and walked to the empty table next to Yue Fei's side and sat down.

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