Wen | Wu Qingqian
There are many people who influence Xu Fengnian in "The Sword In the Snow", it is Lao Huang who makes him determined to learn martial arts, and it is Xu Longxiang who makes him say that he wants to take over the North Starling, but in fact, there is another person who is also influencing him, that is, Lao Xu tou, who does not appear much but has a subtle effect on Xu Fengqi.
Old Xu Tou, whose name was Xu Yongguan, was a veteran who had followed Xu Xiao, the King of the Northern Starlings, for many years, and was blinded by injuries during the conquest. He didn't start a family, he lived alone, and others called him Lao Xutou. Xu Fengnian had known Lao Xu tou for a long time, and knew that the other party was a veteran of his father's banner, and he followed him when his father was not yet the King of the Northern Starlings. However, old Xu Tou did not know that the other party was Xu Xiao's son, only that Xu Fengnian's surname was Xu, and when they met, they called xu Xiaozi.
Old Xu Tou's title is not high, when he was a soldier, he was the last class of the Fishbone Battalion of the Eighteen Old Character Battalion of the Northern Starling Army Jinzhou, but his consciousness was very high, and he could be loyal to Xu Xiao and beilin, and whoever wanted to call Xu Xiao's name directly was even more anxious, even if it was Xu Xiaozi and the old brother who gave him gifts and condolences every New Year's Festival (Old Xu Tou had never known that the old brother who comforted him was Xu Xiao), and he should be honored as General Xu. If someone dares to scold Xu Xiao, then he must not get along with the other party. Therefore, when Lin Tanhua scolded Xu's father and son in the street, others were watching the hilarity, and only he stepped forward to stop it.
Old Xu Tou was still clever, and he knew that it would not work to deal with a nerd like Lin Tanhua who paid attention to the etiquette of poetry and books, and he had to "treat his body in the way of a man." Lin Tanhua scolded Xu Xiao for teaching his son wufang, scolding Xu Fengnian for being greedy for money and lust, is this not a naked slander, although he did not know Xu Fengnian (at that time, old Xu Tou did not know that Xu Xiaozi was the son of the Northern Starlings), but he believed that his respected General Xu could never teach such a scum son, so he slandered Lin Tanhua in turn by touching porcelain, slandered the other party's carriage and injured his feet, blinded his eyes, and scolded the other party, saying that Xu Xiao had created a peaceful and prosperous world for the common people, and you enjoyed the Taiping prosperous world on the one hand. On the other side, he is cursing people with outstanding merits, too ignorant of good villains. This trick worked very well, Lin Tanhua was busy clarifying that he did not hit anyone, but Lao Xutou was convinced that he had bumped into himself, and the crowd of onlookers all stood on the side of Lao Xutou, shouting to let Lin Tanhua go, Lin Tanhua had to leave, shift his position, and go directly to the palace to find Xu Fengnian.
Lin Tanhua and Old Xu Tou did not know who Xu Fengnian was, and they did not know that when they touched porcelain, Xu Fengnian was at the scene, and it was Xu Fengnian who sent Old Xu Tou home. Although Old Xu Tou was blind, he discerned from his voice that it was Xu Xiaozi who sent him home, and this time he read the Mother's Sutra again and advised Xu Fengnian to learn a craft well and stop living in the sky. Although this kind of words did not work at that time, but it was useful in the future, as his brothers and sisters were sent away by Xu Xiao one by one, Lao Huang and others died one after another, Xu Fengnian finally understood that only when he accepted the Northern Starling and became a different Northern Starling King, could he better protect the people he cared about, so he was no longer idle, worked hard to learn martial arts, and became a qualified successor.
When Xu Fengnian returned from Wudang, it was close to the New Year's Pass, and he did not forget the old Starling who was loyal to the North Pole, and went to see the old Xu Tou with gifts. In front of Old Xu Tou, Xu Fengnian still called his father by his first name as before, and Old Xu Tou was constantly angry and corrected.
At this time, Xu Fengnian's experience was still too little, and he could not understand the old man's respect for Xu Xiao and his reverence for the North Starling. Old Xu Tou followed Xu Xiao from the time Xu Xiao had only six hundred ironclad cavalry, and fought with Xu Xiao until the Taiping Dynasty, and the hardships and hardships during this period were something that Xu Fengnian, who was still living in the ivory tower, could understand. In Lao Xutou's place, without Xu Xiao's leadership, there would be no peace and prosperity, and he and tens of millions of people would not be able to enjoy the quiet years, either they would be hacked to death by random knives in the chaos of war, or they would die of cold death and starvation in the bitter wind and rain, so no one was allowed to say that Xu Xiao was not good, even if it was a name, which was too disrespectful.
However, as Xu Fengnian entered the rivers and lakes several times and saw the sinister hearts of the people and the impermanence of the world, he would become more and more able to understand the good intentions of his Lao Tzu, understand the stakes of bei starling's life and death, and understand why lao Xu tou respected his father so much and feared bei starling so much. When he understood it, Xu Fengnian should regret that he didn't listen to Old Xu Tou's words earlier, and didn't look up to his father like Old Xu Tou did earlier.
Although Xu Xiao is in a high position, he is still good for the veterans who have paid a lot and survived like this, and every year before the New Year, he will personally comfort old Xu Tou, call each other brothers and brothers, and promote a long talk. And he always remembered those veterans who died on the battlefield, and placed their armor in the underground chamber of the Tingchao Pavilion to be enshrined.
However, the blind old Xu Tou did not know that it was Xu Xiao himself who came to see him every year, until the year when Xu Fengnian returned from Wudang, Xu Xiao came to see him because he directly called Xu Xiao's name, which made Old Xu Tou get excited again, and pulled Old Xu Tou, and Old Xu Tou learned from the other party that the old brother in front of him was Xu Xiao. He said that although he was blind, he had remembered General Xu's hand for the rest of his life. When he was injured in the eye, General Xu shook his hand and told him that he must live, and since then he has remembered those hands.
If Lao Huang influenced Xu Fengnian to learn martial arts, and Xu Longxiang and others influenced Xu Fengnian to take over the North Starling, then the people who respected Xu Xiao in the first place were influencing Xu Fengnian's responsibility to the North Starling. And Xu Xiao's kindness to those loyal to Beilin also affected Xu Fengnian, but Xu Fengnian did not realize it in the early years.
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