Fu Song

Chapter 5 The Old Butler

When entering the gate of Xiao Mansion, the sun was already in the west.

How did the family know that his father did not come back after he placed the value today, but was invited by Bao Guogong to have a drink. Xiao Cheng couldn't help but feel sadness in his heart.

I'm afraid that what was taught by Master Cen in the clan today could not be concealed from his father. After he came back, he would at least be scolded. If he drank too much, he might be offended again.

Xiao Cheng is a free and easy person.Since it is destined to have this catastrophe, it is only in vain to hurt the spring and the autumn at this time, and it will only make the mood worse.

Turning around the screen, I saw some people in the spacious courtyard in front of the lobby who were wielding their fists and arms, and my mood suddenly improved.

Unlike the servants of other families, the servants of the Xiao family are mostly disabled.

These disabled people are not born, but retired after being injured on the battlefield.Most of the people like this in the past were left over from the old man's era. Most of these people have long since passed away. Now these people are basically injured and homeless people after fighting with the eldest young master Xiao Ding in Beijiang.

The sound of a feather arrow breaking out of the string sounded in my ear, and with a slam, there was already a feather arrow between the eyebrows of a human-shaped marker fifty paces away.

Xiao Cheng immediately applauded.

Amidst the applause, the whistling sound of the feather arrows kept going. From the first arrow between the eyebrows, down to the navel of the humanoid target, a feather arrow was inserted every three inches or so. .

It's like being measured by a ruler.

This level is unusual.

If you see the appearance of the archer, it will be even more staggering.

Because the archers are not standing on the ground with the feet of their right palms, but with two iron plates, about a foot long and three inches wide.

This is a man who has lost both of his calves.

"Brother Wei, your archery skills have improved again." Xiao Cheng walked to the target with a smile, looked at the target, and was amazed.

"Erlang is here to make fun of me again." Wei Wu held a bow in one hand and a quiver in the other, and walked steadily to Xiao Cheng's side.

"Really, even in the Fourth Army, you can't find a few sharpshooters like you!" Xiao Cheng said earnestly, "Brother Wei, do you have any idea of ​​going to the Fourth Army to find a position as an archery instructor? If my father goes and speaks, there will be no problem."

Wei Wu shook his head again and again: "I don't have that thought anymore, Erlang, as long as the Xiao family doesn't dislike me, I will stay at the Xiao family's nursing home."

"How can you dislike it? You can't even invite an expert like you!" Xiao Cheng squatted down, lifted up Wei Wu's somewhat empty trousers, looked at the iron ring over his knee, reached out and touched it, Said: "Brother Wei, are you completely used to it now?"

Wei Wu laughed and slammed his bow on the iron feet, "It's like a tiger with wings, Erlang, you are optimistic about Luo!"

With a slight gesture, Wei Wu took a step forward, ran forward a few steps, and suddenly squatted with his feet on the ground. In Xiao Cheng's eyes, he saw the flat iron bar bend slightly, but then quickly He bounced back, but Wei Wu already jumped up with the force of a bounce, and when he stretched out his hand, he was already on top of the high eaves, and then rolled around, and he was already on the roof.Kneeling down on one knee, standing upright on one foot, with a bow in hand, pulling the string in a gesture.

"Beautiful!" Xiao Cheng admired from the bottom of his heart, just by looking at Wei Wu's appearance, he knew how much hard work he had put in.

"Wei San, get down!" A low voice rang out, Xiao Cheng turned his head, an old man with a black eye mask walked out of the lobby with a sullen face: "Why climb so high? Don't you see? Want to make trouble for the master?"

Seeing this hunched old man, Wei San stuck his tongue out on the roof, an inverted bead curtain rolled down, and walked over honestly.

"Butler Xu."

"Grandpa Xu!" Xiao Cheng also owed his body.

The identity of the person who came here is extraordinary. In the Xiao family compound, the only remaining person left from the generation of the old man, and now he is still the leader of the Xiao family nursing home.Not only is he responsible for taking care of the Xiao family's home and nursing home, but he also takes care of some things under the Xiao family's table. Even Xiao Cheng's father, Xiao Yu, doesn't look down on him. Many of the Xiao family's affairs, Xiao Cheng may not know, but this old man is absolutely clear.

People like Wei Wu, who have not been in the mansion for a long time, are a typical junior compared to Xu Wuyan, who has stayed in the Xiao mansion for decades and is almost integrated with the Xiao family.Even if Xu Wuyan couldn't lift his shoulders or hunch his back now, a look in his eyes was enough to make Wei Wu tremble.

Xu Wuyan waved at Wei Wu, wanting to chase away a little bug, Wei Wu immediately picked up his tail and greeted some of the remaining people in the yard to leave quickly.

"Grandpa Xu, Wei Wu is a person with a good temperament and toughness. You should be nice to him." Xiao Cheng reached out to hold Xu Wuyan's hand and said with a smile.

Xu Wuyan squinted at Wei Wu's back with one eye, but said, "Erlang, Wei Wu has been in the manor for nearly three years. Since Erlang you gave him such a pair of iron feet, he has indeed put in a lot of hard work. It is true that he can stand on his own now, but when it comes to xinxing, it is still too far away and needs to be tempered. His temperament is too detached. Or after experiencing some things, he will become more mature. "

"He's broken two calves, isn't he still a major event?" Xiao Cheng said dumbfounded.

"What kind of big deal is this? There is no big deal other than life and death." Xu Wuyan rolled his eyes with one eye. "After the experience, Wei Wu is indeed a character."

"Then Grandpa Xu, don't you think my temperament is also very free?" Xiao Cheng laughed.

Xu Wuyan turned to look at Xiao Cheng, the faint look in his eyes made Xiao Cheng's heart skip a beat, after a long while, after Xiao Cheng's smile was a little reluctant, Xu Wuyan sighed: "Erlang, don't stay there. I pretended in front of me, if your temper is out of your way, there will be no calm people in this world."

Xiao Cheng's body froze, and the smile on his face slowly disappeared. The two walked silently through the corridor and entered the yard of Erjin, where Xiao Cheng lived.Dongkuayuan is the residence of Xiao Ding, the elder of the Xiao family, but now only the eldest sister-in-law lives with her three-year-old nephew.

"Looking back, I'm going to tell my master and my wife to tell Wei Wu a daughter-in-law. Wan'er in my wife's room is in her early twenties and should have been released." Xu Wuyan said. "Wei Wu is a fierce horse, and he needs to be bridled."

"Wan'er is the big girl next to her mother, she has always been arrogant and good-looking. Wei Wu is disabled, will Wan'er be willing? If she is unwilling, Wei San is also a high-spirited girl. At that time, it will become a puppet, but it will not be beautiful." Xiao Cheng stretched out his hand to support Xu Wuyan, helped him cross the threshold of the study, and walked inside.

Xu Wuyan sneered: "Erlang, sometimes this old slave really doesn't know what you think? No matter how arrogant and arrogant Miss Wan'er is, where is her identity. As you said earlier, Wei Wu is also a capable person. Although he lives in Xiao’s house, he is still a freelancer. Marrying Wei Wu, how could she be wronged? Could it be that she would be happy if she was given an outside Zhuangtouer?”

Xiao Cheng took a long breath and nodded helplessly.

"Wei Wu's temperament has been tempered, and he is tied to a bridle. In the future, if he has one man and half a woman, he will truly belong to the Xiao family, and he will be able to use it greatly in the future." Xu Wuyan said. "In the future, if the old man is dead, he will let Xu Shen come back to manage the affairs of the mansion, and then let Wei Wu go out to take over the stall outside, and the situation will be maintained."

"Grandpa Xu is in good health!" Xiao Cheng said sincerely: "The mansion cannot be separated from you, Grandpa Xu."

Xu Shen is Xu Wuyan's son, and is now the housekeeper in charge of the outside of the Xiao residence.

"No way!" Xu Wuyan thumped his legs, "It's getting more and more useless every day. When I reach the age of this old slave, I may fall asleep that day and I will never wake up again. Some things have to be Prepare in advance."

"Why did Grandpa Xu say such depressing words? You came out of a mountain of corpses and blood, and you are not comparable to ordinary people." Holding Xu Wuyan to sit down, Xiao Cheng said earnestly.

"It is precisely because the old slave has seen many lives and deaths, so he does not hesitate to say this. Compared with those brothers who were so dead on the battlefield back then, the old slave will be able to die on the bed in the future. It has been cultivated in a previous life. Blessed." Xu Wuyan said indifferently: "In the past, there were many things that I couldn't let go of, and I have to mention it. In the past few years, seeing Erlang, I feel that many things are settled. Breath, it gradually let out."

"Grandpa Xu, I can't afford it. It's not my fault that you say this?" Xiao Cheng said.

"There is a successor to the Xiao family, the old man has great consolation!" Xu Wuyan smiled: "Although Erlang is only sixteen years old, he already has the style of a general back then. He is much stronger than your master and Dalang."

The general in Xu Wuyan's mouth was Xiao Cheng's grandfather, Xiao Ding.

"Grandpa Xu said that, I can't afford it. My father is a high-ranking member of the dynasty, and my eldest brother is also a giant in the frontier of Megatron. What am I?" Xiao Cheng said with a smile.

"Master is naturally good, but after all, Master is a young man who grew up during the Taiping Festival. Although he has also practiced hammering in the army, it is a little less interesting. Dalang is indeed a rare general in the world, and it is beneficial to the country. , but the Yu family may not be able to do the same thing." Xu Wuyan sighed: "How fierce the generals were back then, the emperor Song established the country for three hundred years, and as a military general, he was able to sign the Privy Council affairs and end all the way. The scholar of the Ming Palace, the dignified minister of the two palaces, is the only general. Erlang, don’t you think that the general only relied on military exploits back then?”

Xiao Cheng smiled slightly. In front of others, he might pretend to be extremely innocent, like a harmless lamb, but in front of the old man in front of him, no amount of disguise would be stripped naked. Escape.

Of course, if it wasn't for the usual day and night, Xiao Cheng believed that he could hide it from the other party, but after getting along for more than ten years, he was a little careless before. When he was startled, it was too late.

I can't hide it from people.

"With Erlang you, I can really entrust many things." Xu Wuyan whispered: "Otherwise, I can only leave it to Xu Shen, but Erlang, even if Xu Shen is my son, I will not Don't worry, if something else happens and I die, how can I go to see the general?"

(End of this chapter)