Chapter 41 – Big Brother Don’t Talk About Second Brother

Fan Xian was smiling bitterly as he held his sword.

Then when his father-sama entered the room, he immediately replaced it with his most sincere smile and said, “Father-sama, back so early?”

Fan Jian nodded, sat down in front of the bed, and said, “There hasn’t been much going on in the Ministry of Households lately, so naturally I don’t need to stay there all the time.” After saying this, he handed over an oil paper bag and said, “New Wind Pavilion’s buns …… The Third Highness is meditating on the book for the past two days, the old man thought that he stayed outside for a year and watched closely, although he knew that you were injured, but he couldn’t come out for a while, he just remembered that you love to eat the buns of the New Wind Pavilion, so he let someone bought them and sent them over to you.”

Fan Xian took the still warm paper bag, took out one from it and carefully bit into it, realizing that the oil soup in the big bag wasn’t very hot anymore. Fan Jian couldn’t help but frown and shake his head as he watched his son in this state.

Fan Xian took a bite, then set the paper bag down on the table, subconsciously twisting his head to look at the snow on the windowsill, a hint of envy showing in his eyes.

“Don’t think about going out again.” Fan Jian could see what was on his son’s mind, and said with cold severity, “The day before yesterday, I let you sneak out and go to the Chen Garden, so you’re satisfied, but now that the roads in Kyoto are snowy and slippery, and you’re injured like this, you don’t know to be more peaceful.”

Fan Xian laughed to himself, “Am I really that popular? It’s not possible for everyone to want to stab me, not to mention the fact that no one in Kyoto really dares to do anything about it.”

Fan Jian said with a cold smile, “Inside and outside of Kyoto, it’s only a dozen miles or so, how much difference do you think there is?”

After a moment of silence, he said softly, “In this matter, you’d better calm down for the time being, His Majesty will naturally seek justice for you.”

Fan Xian respectfully answered with his mouth, but in his heart, he was thinking something else entirely. Chen Pingping and Fan Jian seemed to be looking at the emperor’s attitude, and the two old men were naturally making moves in private, but they were hiding them from Fan Xian, not wanting him to get involved too deeply. However, Fan Xian was clear that he was the one who was hurt, and the one who bore the brunt of it was also himself, and it was really quite inconsistent with his own principles of behavior to keep holding back.

As for what the emperor would do next, through the conversation with Chen Pingping, Fan Xian could vaguely guess a little, but the blood change in the courtroom didn’t seem to have much relevance to himself.

After waiting for his father to leave the house, Fan Xian’s eyes rolled twice, stretched, and tried, realizing that the wound on his back was almost healed. His own medical skills as well as this perverted physique were indeed very suitable for a life of dancing on the tips of swords in general.

He got out of bed and put on his clothes and shoes, trying to be as quiet as possible so as not to startle the maid serving him in the outer room. Sitting on the round stool beside the table, he frowned and thought for a while, thinking that it should be safe to leave the box like that. There are a lot of smart people under the sky, but anyone who is too smart for his own good will never think that he would be that foolish.

Thoughts settled everything, he gently pushed open the innermost cotton curtain, the outside of the incense burner a hot air came to the face, he crushed a pill between his fingers, the fragrance gradually diffuse.

The maid with bleary eyes was already sleepy beside the furnace, and she was shocked to see the young master come out, but when she smelled the fragrance, she immediately fell back into her dream. Fan Xian inclined his head slightly, and couldn’t help but laugh at the maid’s naive demeanor. This girl, Siqi, it seems that this life is the life of his own fans, Wan Er went to Hangzhou thinking that the road is far, so did not bring this girl, did not expect his return to the capital or have to send her to sleep.

Wrapped in a thick cloak, Fan Xian carefully sneaked along the corridor to the back door. Nowadays, in the mansion, the two families of the Fuji family are not in, the control of the subordinates is a bit loose, this snowy day, the master does not command, those servants girls also like to hide in the house laziness, so it is very coincidental that along the way there is no one to find Fan Xian skipped the behavior of the family.

Of course, when he was approaching the iron gate, there were always guards there, but when Fan Xian glared, the guards could only pretend to be mute, and the young masters were all masters, so offending any one of them was not an option.

After leaving the residence and getting into the ordinary carriage, Mu Feng’er carefully helped him into the carriage and carefully sealed the cotton curtains at the windows. Fan Xian shook his head and said, “I just want to see some scenery, what if you seal it all up?”

Mu Feng’er laughed and didn’t dare to say anything else, putting on a rain raincoat to cover the Inspectorate Lotus Clothes inside, and with a flick of her wrist, the horsewhip turned a few corners in the air, bringing down a few snowflakes, and the carriage slowly drove off.

The dark six sword hand followed, there are some disguised as passers-by of the Supervisory Yuan spies also merged into the not many Kyoto pedestrians.

The carriage traveled to a lively place in Kyoto, carefully avoiding the pedestrians.

Fan Xian lifted a corner of the curtain and looked out, only to see that the stores on both sides of the street were still open, and those vendors making snacks were holding large umbrellas and using the heat in their pots to resist the cold winter temperature, which was no different from what he had seen a year ago.

He could not help but smile. The assassination of the Lord of the Qinzhi, for the court, is indeed an important event, for these people, it must also be the most enjoyable after-dinner pastime these days, just things can not affect too much, the small business is still to do small business, the headache of the headache of the family still have to headache, their own assassination, more is to make the court is not peaceful, for 10,000 years of the ordinary life as usual and did not change too much.

Suddenly, his heart shook, staring at the neighboring street a few people, half a long time did not shift his eyes. Those few people who were obviously expert-looking were vigilantly arching over a teenage male, who had obviously disguised himself and dressed up, but where could he hide his eyes from Fan Xian.

“Follow him.” Watching that pedestrian buy some things and get into his carriage, Fan Xian sharply ordered.

Mu Erfeng gave a hmm, lightly lifted the horse’s reins, and followed.

The two carriages bypassed the busy street one after the other, turning towards a relatively quiet and also relatively luxurious neighborhood. At this time it is early in the day, a winter recreational life has not yet begun, so this street building are a little quiet, only the best location in the middle of the street, the red lights of the green house is already hanging high, the cotton curtains are heavy to cover the wind, within the color of spring, attracting male creatures in the miserable winds and bitter snow in the outside world.

It was the most famous moon building in Kyoto.

Fan Xian watched the pedestrian get off the carriage and walk into the building, wrinkled his brow and thought to himself, could it be that his eyes are really blurred after the injury? With his head full of lawsuits, he let Mu Feng’er drive the carriage from a side road into the inner courtyard of the Moon Embracing Building without even thinking about it, and stopped outside the lakeside gate at the back of the building.

He was the real boss of the Moon Embracing Building, and the Sister waiting at the back door was shocked when she saw him get down from the carriage, thinking to herself, “Isn’t this master seriously injured? How can he still have the leisure to come to the building to inspect? However, she didn’t dare to say anything more, and on the one hand hurriedly sent someone to notify the second treasurer, Shi Qing’er, while on the other hand carefully welcoming Fan Xian to the prettiest small independent courtyard by the lake.

Fan Xian shook his head, thinking in his heart about the person he had seen earlier, and walked directly through the snow along the lakeshore, slowly heading towards the Moon Embracing Building. Going up to the third floor and arriving outside the room that was exclusively the proprietor’s, Fan Xian settled his mind slightly, listening to the soft words coming from inside, and couldn’t help but smile as the corners of his lips curled up slightly.

That old Sister was behind him, not daring to say anything, not daring to even cough, having sent someone earlier to notify the second shopkeeper, there was no way to do so, just full of hope that the people inside the room would be careful with what they said.

After listening quietly for a long time, Fan Xian pushed the door open.

“Who?”

With a hissing sound, the sound of a scimitar being sheathed rang out, and a chilling knife intent pounced on his face. Fan Xian, on the other hand, did not dodge or avoid it, walking forward with an ugly face.

The person who made the knife was wearing ordinary clothes, but his eyebrows were full of vigilance and calmness, the knife came out without a return, but he looked at the young nobleman-like character in front of him, but he did not avoid it, and he knew that there was something different, and he pulled the knife back hard, and his true qi rushed against him, and his face turned red.

Mu Feng’er, who was following Fan Xian, also entered the room, turned back and closed the door, and then smiled gently at the swordsman, thinking that he seemed to be a colleague in the future.

At the same time, the pedestrians who had entered the room first had already risen abruptly and surrounded Fan Xian, who was the first to walk in the room.

With that, there were two crisp blatting sounds, the tea bowls in the hands of a woman and a young boy fell to the ground at the same time, and these two looked at Fan Xian dumbfounded, unable to speak for a long time.

“Both put down your swords!” The teenager snapped out of it first and cursed angrily at his entourage, “Looking for death?”

The attendants looked at each other in disbelief, wondering who the visitor was and how he had gotten the big boss so agitated.

Fan Xian, however, was not agitated, and walked up to the teenager, and with two fingers slightly flexed, he knocked down hard, and with a burst of sound, the teenager’s slightly chubby cheeks were suddenly covered with a red bag.

“Looking for death!” Fan Xian cursed angrily, “Who told you to come back?”

The teenager deflated his mouth and said in an aggravated and incomparable manner, “Brother, I’m homesick ……”

After daring everyone out of the room, even Shi Qing’er, who wanted to defend the teenager, was driven out by Fan Xian, he sat down on the chair in the center of the room, looking at the respectful teenager in front of him, and didn’t say anything for a long time.

After a long period of silence, Fan Xian smiled coldly and opened his mouth to say, “The big boss is now so big and powerful …… that all he brings around him are experts from Northern Qi as bodyguards, so it seems that this older brother of mine doesn’t have much of a sense of existence anymore.”

The young man in front of him is of course not someone else, it is more than a year ago Fan Xian was driven to the North Qi, and now fully accepted the Cui family’s industrial route, in the North Qi royal family and Jiangnan Fan Xian between the management of smuggling affairs business genius, the second son of the Fan House, the face is always with a tiresome little bit of …… Fan Sicheng.

Fan Si Zhe came to the front of his brother, carefully rubbed his bladder for him, whispered and laughed: “There is money. …… What kind of masters can not be invited?”

Fan Xian was furious and angrily rebuked, “Why did you sneak back like this? Don’t you know that the sea arrest paperwork is still hanging all over the world?”

Fan Si Zhe laughed, “That’s just a piece of scrap paper, I took a look at it at the Cangzhou city gate, it’s long since been drenched by the rain, so where can I still see what I look like.”

Fan Xian couldn’t help but scold, “Don’t be so playful! Tell me what’s going on. Why did you sneak back here? Why didn’t you tell me beforehand?”

Fan Si Zhe was momentarily speechless, and after scratching his head for half a day, he said, “In a few days, it’ll be father’s birthday ……”

Fan Xian was stunned, and only then did he remember this. He looked at his younger brother’s face, which was obviously much thinner than a year ago, and couldn’t help but sigh, thinking that he stayed alone in Beiqi for more than a year, and had to deal with so many complicated things at such a young age, which was also pitiful, and his heart softened, and he couldn’t bear to reprimand him any more, and said with a shake of his head, “Go back to your father’s birthday, and you should always say so in advance.”

Fan Si Zhe aggrieved and said, “I want to say it …… first you certainly do not agree.”

Fan Xian suddenly thought of a problem. Frowning, he said, “Where is Old Wang? He’s watching you in the Upper Capital …… How come he didn’t inform me when you left?”

He snorted coldly and looked at his brother without saying anything.

Fan Si Zhe’s eyes turned around twice, a little anxious, after a long time hesitantly said, “Isn’t Lord Wang also back? I followed him all the way into the pass …… this, brother, you can not blame him.”

Fan Xian slapped the desktop and roared, “This old cheeky guy also arrived early? How come you didn’t inform me either? You guys have really gone against the grain! Daring to hide everything from me.”

Fan Si Zhe trembled and did not dare to say more, but he is clear that this elder brother to be really angry, beating people …… is really willing to use the foot to kick!

“Since back, why not go home?” Fan Xian said with a frown.

Fan Si Zhe was slightly stunned, and then a trace of ruthless flavor emerged on his face, “Brother, I heard about that matter as soon as I entered the capital yesterday, and I am afraid that I will go home at this time to cause trouble for you …… In addition, hasn’t the imperial court not been able to find out? I thought to see if there was any news from the side of the Moon Embracing House, so I stayed here first to see if I could help you.”

These words, in fact, Fan Xian in the room outside the eavesdropping, this time listening to his brother personally say out, is even more touched, gently patted his head, sighed: “Fear what trouble? His Majesty doesn’t know about you, so who would dare to do anything? Stay home with me. As for the news of the Moon Embracing Mansion, if I need it, I will naturally have someone come and ask, you, a proper merchant, don’t get involved in these matters.”

He couldn’t help but glare at his brother again and said, “Don’t think I don’t know what’s in your winter melon head …… afraid that I’ll have to admonish you if you go straight home, so I want to fix something to make me happy. Don’t play this set with me, use this mind on mom and dad to go, more than a year no see, also don’t think about Aunt Liu want you to think of how bitter, actually still tolerate to stay outside, this thing if say up, see how your mom pack you, I but won’t plead for mercy.”

Fan Si Zhe aggrieved nodded his head, thinking that it is still not under your accumulated authority, his own near-house feelings of cowardice, did not dare to knock on the door.

“You’ve grown taller.” Fan Xian looked at him with a smile, patted his shoulder, a year has not seen, the heart since also excited and happy, “but also stronger …… seems to have had a good time in Beiqi.”

Fan Si Zhe is ready to complain some bitterness, play that future sister-in-law’s small report, but heard the door outside the sound of knocking. This knocking was extremely gentle, extremely small-minded, like a sob, like a complaint, and as painful as the loss of a father.

Fan Xian let out a cold laugh, “Get lost and come in, don’t pretend to be sad here when you’re a croupier.”