Chapter 145 – The Shadow of Chen Pingping on the Run and the Child

One of Yan Bingyun’s hands was broken, hanging helplessly at the side of his waist. He looked at the Eldest Princess, his gaze looking a little bleak. The dull pain in his chest let him know that he had suffered internal injuries from the previous touch. These Junshan Society experts beside the Eldest Princess were not something he could resist.

At this time, the Thirteen City Gate Division was already heavily surrounded by soldiers, and the spears were directed at Xiao Yan. Two of the several Junshan Society experts beside the Eldest Princess were separated and approached rapidly towards Yan Bingyun, the sharp blades held in his hands emitted a deathly silence-like flavor that enveloped his entire person.

“If your majesty had listened to An Zhi’s words back then, it would have been good if the Junshan Association had been swept clean ……” At the time of his death, Yan Bingyun couldn’t help but give birth to such a thought. He knew that he was no match for these jianghu experts, and he didn’t have the luxury of begging the Divine Temple of Heaven to be able to give him a chance to get away, he just sank his face and touched something in his bosom.

It was a token arrow, and since there was a change at the City Gate Division, he had to rush to inform Fan Xian in the palace, before he died, of Zhang Deqing’s fatal betrayal.

Yan Bingyun’s index finger gouged the ring cord of the token arrow, looking at the two black sword shadows that were getting closer and closer, his pupils shrunk slightly, exhaling a mouthful of turbid air, his lips pursed tightly, and he gave a forceful tug.

With a snort, the token arrow flared up, but did not rise into the air, as a small force hit his wrist and a slightly hot liquid spilled onto the back of his hand, causing his heart to tremble. This token arrow flew out diagonally and did not fly far before it shot into the chest of a City Gate Division soldier, exploding slightly with a poof.

Yan Bingyun did not lower his head, and his afterglow also caught a glimpse of his hand covered in blood that was clattering.

When his index finger reached into the ring rope, a look of fear appeared in the eyes of the closest Junshan Guild expert, as if he had seen something exceptionally terrifying, and then a thin line of blood appeared on this expert’s neck.

The line of blood swiftly expanded in a split second, turning into a large bloody mouth, where the expert’s white throat bones, unusually disgusting trachea esophagus and blurred flesh could be seen.

With a cackling sound, that expert rushed in front of Yan Bingyun, and with a snap, he fell to his knees, shaken by the force of this impact, his half cut throat was powerless to tie his head, his head was centered on the vertebrae at the back of his neck, and he tumbled disheveledly and powerlessly over to his back.

The inverted pale dead face stared with huge eyes at the Eldest Princess and Zhang Deqing who were protected by layers of experts and soldiers.

Blood spurted out from his throat like a fountain, striking Yan Bingyun’s hand, painting his entire hand a bright red, and also extremely coincidentally keeping that token arrow from rising into the sky.

As for the other Junshan Society expert who swept over, the fate he faced was even more miserable. He didn’t even make it to Yan Bingyun’s face, his eyes only caught a faint shadow reflected by the torchlight passing in front of him, and then he felt a coldness at his throat.

A showy and lusterless sword stabbed from his right rear, unusually steady and mercilessly in high speed, piercing through his neck and reaching out from the other side.

With a snorting sound, the tip of the sword retracted in a single probe like a viper’s letter, leaving his neck in a lightning fast manner. And the true qi and life in this expert’s body also left his body along with the sword that left his neck, his eyes stared like a dead fish, and he intended to cover his neck with one hand, but he realized that he was no longer able to control any of the muscles in his body.

His legs began to weaken, his eyes began to go black, he began to become incontinent, and his entire body collapsed and rolled on the ground like a gourd, until it rolled past Yan Bingyun’s stiffly standing body and touched the high threshold of the City Gate Department’s Yamen Hall before it came to a stop.

The blood was in full bloom, and the foul odor was coming out from his body.

A sword that was like a sword sticking out from hell, in a flash of lightning, dismembered two Junshan Association experts with extremely ghastly means. No one could even react to what was going on, even Yan Bingyun, who had his life saved, couldn’t react and stood in shock.

Then he felt his entire body lighten, and in the next moment, he was already being lifted by the neck by a black shadow and swept above the City Gate Division’s court hall, along the shadows under the high city wall, and disappeared towards the darkness in Kyoto.

The pre-dawn darkness grew thicker and thicker.

In the eyes of those who intended to surround and kill Yan Bingyun, what they saw was an even more horrifying scene, a black shadow appeared in the crowd seemingly silently, lightly and unusually swiftly killed two masters, carried Yan Bingyun like a broken sack, and then in the middle of so many people’s siege, easily escaped and left.

Because of its ease, it was terrifying, snapping three times, Yan Bingyun had already been rescued by this person, and the officials and soldiers of the City Gate Division didn’t even have time to raise the bows and arrows in their hands.

Who exactly was this black shadow that actually possessed such terrifying strength!

The Eldest Princess who was guarded by the experts and soldiers at the very back, her face was slightly white, she waved her hand to disperse the subordinates in front of her, and walked out from the crowd, looking at the direction where that black shadow fled, she didn’t know how she felt, she could only see that her eyes were getting brighter and brighter.

“The Inspectorate …… is indeed terrifying.”

This mastermind of the Kyoto rebellion thought in his heart, but there wasn’t much frustration. Since the one who came today was this world’s number one assassin, with this person’s reputation of being the most skilled at killing people, using this skill to save Yan Bingyun, there was no way to stop himself.

However, it shouldn’t affect anything.

Li Yunrui thought like this and squinted his eyes at the soldiers at the city gates. At this time, the sky was already gradually getting brighter, the sun under the horizon, began to release countless small silver fish children, letting them shyly reflect their own light, gradually driving away the thick blackness of Kyoto’s night.

The torches already seemed less bright, and the dim morning light struck everyone’s body, reflecting a shadow on the ground.

Of course, the Supervisory Board is terrible, the eight departments of hidden dragons and crouching tigers, I do not know how many heroes and heroines are willing to cover their faces, give up their former glory, to devote themselves to the great cause of the country’s secret service. The power that can be exerted when these forces are twisted together is such that even His Majesty, the most powerful emperor of Qing, has always been a bit wary of it.

Although the Supervisory Yuan is nominally a secret service organization under the direct control of the Emperor of Qing, everyone knows clearly that the Supervisory Yuan’s ability to attract so many good people to work for it, and its ability to exist in Qing for more than thirty years, is all because of that old cripple sitting in a wheelchair.

Nowadays, there are only a thousand or so officials of the Supervisory Yuan in Kyoto, but they have already appeared to be so terrifying, breaking into the palace, suppressing the Ministry of Justice, forcing open the Heavenly Prison, and conquering the Kyoto Mansion, turning the whole Kyoto into a heavenly place in a single night.

Fan Xian had planned well, and Yan Bingyun had executed well, but the fact that he could achieve such an effect still relied on the strong organizational strength and iron-blooded obedience of the officials of the Supervisory Yuan. These unique qualities of the Supervisory Yuan were all cast into the soul of the Supervisory Yuan bit by bit by Chen Pingping, the old cripple, and the first generation of the heads of the eight divisions who had spent decades of their lives in the Supervisory Yuan.

So the most powerful thing in the Supervisory Yuan was not the Black Riders, not Fan Xian, and not that world’s number one assassin, but rather Chen Pingping as a person, and what that person represented.

But it was amazing that the Crown Prince and the Princess had plotted the assassination of the Great Eastern Mountain, and the Princess was well aware of the power of the Supervisory Yuan, but it seemed that the attention bet on the Supervisory Yuan was still a little too little. At least in the view of the Prince who is full of anxiety, if he wants to ascend to the throne, without first controlling Chen Pingping, who dares to go to sit on that dragon chair?

Fortunately, Chen Pingping was poisoned and isolated from Kyoto.

The crown prince had thought that this was a single-handed operation by his aunt, but no one knew that this matter didn’t have an ounce of relationship with Li Yunrui.

Li Yunrui had never thought of dealing with the Chen Garden and the old man in the wheelchair outside of Kyoto from the very beginning, not because she didn’t value Chen Pingping, and not because she thought that Chen Pingping was an old monster that could never be wiped out, but because she had a secret.

The secret was just one person’s secret, and the rest of the people in the plan were not aware of it. After the news of Chen Pingping being drugged down by that master poisoner from Dongyi came into Kyoto, everyone was shocked in their hearts, thinking that this old cripple was disguising something, but when the news of the assassination of the Holy Driver of the Great Eastern Mountain also came in, and the Empress Dowager ordered Chen Pingping to go to the palace right away, Chen Pingping still stayed in the Garden of Chen …… Everyone began to speculate on what.

Is Chen Pingping really poisoned? So there is an old man who has been dealing with Chen Pingping for decades, and began to move his heart and mind. This old man on Chen Pingping has always had a secret police fear, not to kill him, the heart is absolutely uneasy, and now the situation is great, the so-called take his life while he is sick, not to take advantage of this time to take Chen Pingping’s life, the old man feels sorry for himself.

So planting cabbage Qin old man in leaving Kyoto to regain control of the army, after his son reclaimed the authority of the Kyoto guard division, the first order given is …… to slaughter the Chen Garden.

Today’s Chen Yuan has become barren land.

In Fan Xian’s eyes, than the Jiangnan Ming family garden is more luxurious and luxurious Chen Yuan, at this time has turned into countless black and gray pieces of debris. Those gorgeous and elegant gardens have been burned into black soil, those exquisite atmospheric houses have been turned into countless half-cut stone walls, and there is still smoke coming out from all over the place, but there is no longer that kind of scorching temperature, and it looks unusually bleak.

If Fan Xian saw this scene, he was afraid that his heart would ache to death, cursing those who didn’t know how to cherish. However, from ancient times to the present day, the military was the existence that needed the least artistic aesthetic, so when an army of the Qin family attacked the Chen Garden with lightning speed, it was only right that a fire was set.

The reason for this fire was not similar to that of the Eight-Nation Alliance Army. These bandits of the Eight Nation Alliance Army were of the opinion that there was too much stuff to move, so they simply burned it and didn t leave it to the people of the country, whereas the Qin family s army set …… the fire because they hadn t looted anything and hadn t captured anyone!

Outside the Chen Garden those trap mechanisms that had once made Fan Xian’s heart tremble still existed, and the Qin family’s army had died more than three hundred people before they burst into the Chen Garden. However, in the middle of the Chen Garden, they did not find a single living person.

What greeted them was an empty garden. It was rumored that the poisoned bedridden President Chen was not in the garden, his beautiful concubines were not in the garden, the servants were not in the garden, all the people seemed to have been withdrawn a long time ago, and withdrawn unusually clean, even those books and paintings hanging on the walls of Chen Garden were taken down.

Chen Pingping liked those books and paintings.

This army controlled by the Qin family is mainly composed of the Kyoto guard division, and the leader is a general from the second generation of the Qin family, who is a cousin with Qin Heng. He looked at the empty Chen Garden in anger, thinking that he had led the army to attack and died so many people, but only ended up occupying an empty garden, somewhat unable to help but spit out blood.

Under great anger, this General Qin set a fire.

In the midst of the blazing flames, he ordered a fast horse to report back to the Yuan Tai camp, while he himself did not dare to lead the army back, because Master Qin gave a death order, since he had moved against Chen Yuan, he must kill Chen Pingping before he could return to the army.

There was nothing he could do but wipe off his usual pride and respectfully seek advice from the man in black beside him. This man in black was sent here by the old master to help him, and on the way to the army attack, he had said that Chen Yuan must be empty at this time.

At that time, this General Qin was still a bit unconvinced, however, at this time, he had to believe it, and sighed in his heart, after all, he was a patriarch in the Supervisory Yuan, and was much clearer about Chen Pingping’s power and calculations.

The masked Yan Ruohai, riding his horse, stood next to General Qin and said, “Since the dean is gone, then the general should be mentally prepared …… for a short period of time, you should not think of catching him.”

General Qin froze.

Yan Ruohai glanced at him and sneered, “Don’t forget, he is Chen Pingping.”

After saying these words, he gave a tug on his horse’s head and marched out of the Chen Garden, unable to bear to look at the blazing fire in the Chen Garden behind him one more time, thinking that this general who set fire to the Chen Garden would not know what shape of human stick he would be cut into by Lord Dean in the future.

He is a member of the Qin family, this secret seems to be known only to the Qin family, the Crown Prince and the Princess side is not clear. However, he is a member of the Supervisory Yuan, this secret is really only known to the Supervisory Yuan, of course the Qin family is not clear.

Kyoto gradually become the capital of the crisis, the various counties have Zhangzhang into the capital, Kyoto, but there is no decree out. Good in this era of information exchange is inconvenient, everyone is used to the slow beat rhythm, so even if the Kyoto peripheral counties feel a little strange, but also did not because of the crisis in Kyoto, and the people are on tenterhooks.

At least in these few days, the whole country of Qing, except for Kyoto and Dongshan Road, should be peaceful as usual.

The morning in Weizhou was no different from the morning in Kyoto. Lord Chen Pingping, the President of the Supervisory Yuan, who was supposed to be in Kyoto to deal with the matter of the imperial throne or should be in the Chen Garden to cure the poison, lifted his eyes to look at the light of the sky above the courtyard patio, frowned, and began to lift his chopsticks to eat the porridge and buns.

In the past, in the Chen Garden, the old man also liked to eat these two things.

When the Empress Dowager’s decree reached the Chen Garden, this old ancestor of the Qing State’s secret service, he immediately ordered his subordinates to prepare a carriage and pack his luggage, and then …… instead of returning to the capital, he slipped away unusually quickly …….

Fan Xian and the eldest prince stood on the imperial city and thought about falling away with a sad face, not realizing that their closest elders, in this regard, than they did much more dry and sharp.

After a line of carriages came out of Chen Yuan, they circled around the countryside south of Kyoto. And behind the caravan that Qin family’s army was still persistently searching for the whereabouts of this caravan with the intention of pouncing on it with one force.

However, Chen Pingping was not in a hurry, and the convoy did not accelerate, and did not even deliberately cover their tracks, but only seduced the army, circling behind their own ass.

The caravan had made three circles in the south of Kyoto, and that army had followed it in three circles, and the reason why they had never bumped into each other, apart from the powerful intelligence system and stash ability of the Supervisory Authority’s folk outside of Kyoto, was of course because that army possessed a very good guide helper.

Yan Ruohai led the Qin family to chase after Chen Pingping, with the buttocks to think can also know, as long as Chen Pingping is not happy, then they will never be able to chase.

The caravan that fled like a tourist finally stopped at an estate somewhere outside the city of Weizhou, the number one state south of Kyoto. It was because Chen Pingping estimated that it was about time.

Chen Pingping was drinking congee, his teeth were quite good and he wasn’t leaning against the wall. However, the few old men of the Supervisory Yuan sitting beside him, looking at the dean’s eyes, always felt that he was a bit shameless.

Kyoto is in such a mess, your two sons and nephews are being born to die, how can you bear to run away yourself?

There were three people sitting around Chen Pingping’s breakfast table, one was an old servant who had served him for decades in Chen Garden, one was the bald guy who was the former organizer of the seven divisions that Fan Xian had once met in the Heavenly Prison of the Supervisory Yuan back then, and one was one of the wings of the Supervisory Yuan, Zong Chou, who was known as the same name as Wang Qinian.

The sounds of wonderful concubines getting up and washing and joking came faintly from the back of the manor, and these women didn’t realize that they were fleeing in this line.

The faces of the three Supervisory Yuan Elders weren’t that pretty. Zongchou pursed his lips, moistened his lips that were parched from nervousness, and said, “The pursuers are already close, the dean …… had better make some plans.”

“Immediately they are going to transfer troops back. There is no hurry in this matter.” Chen Pingping put down her chopsticks, wiped her mouth in a good manner and said, “You guys go out and make arrangements.”

“Yes.” Zong Chou and that bald Seven Division organizer led the way.

Only Chen Pingping and that old servant were left in the courtyard. Right at this moment, Chen Pingping suddenly coughed and coughed very hard, the old man’s face became blood red and swiftly turned pale, a trace of blood seeped out from the corner of his lips.

The old servant cried, “Master, we have to call Lord Fei back, otherwise what about this poison?”

It turned out that Chen Pingping was actually really poisoned! He smiled to himself as he sat in his wheelchair and said, “The poison doesn’t kill, it’s just a little hard to bear.”

“Master …… there are some dangers in the capital, are you really not worried about little Lord Fan?” The old servant glanced at Chen Pingping and asked carefully.

On Chen Pingping’s aged face, the wrinkles suddenly became more numerous, and after a long time he sighed and said, “How can I not worry? But even if the matter fails, I think he will be able to live, as long as he lives, everything is a done deal.”

The old servant thought to himself, the matter involves the battle for the throne, if young Lord Fan really loses, how can he survive? And if the Crown Prince is allowed to really succeed the throne, I’m only afraid that this caravan of his own will never find any shelter in this vast land of Qing.

The old servant suddenly thought of something and said with great joy, “Yes, there is still Minister Fan and Prince Jing who have never made a move.”

These days, Chen Pingping often discussed the situation in Kyoto with those old men under her, and the old servant had been listening on the sidelines, and had an extremely clear understanding of the contrast in strength in Kyoto. If the thirteen city gates division really lost its hold, and the armies of the Ye Qin two families entered Kyoto, where would the Supervisory Yuan be able to resist? Unless Fan Jian and Prince Jing had power in their hands that could turn the heavens upside down, only then did Dean Chen dare to sit peacefully in his wheelchair and not worry for Fan Xian.

“King Jing is just like old Qin Tou, he only loses his temper with the land.” Chen Pingping said with a slight sneer, “Fan Jian’s victory in this life is in his patience, but he also loses in one of the patience, where does he have enough power at hand to change the current situation? Fear of the palace suspecting him, over the years, our Fan Shangshu has held back enough, this is good, he himself has also held back.”

After saying this, Chen Pingping fell silent, he knew where Fan Jian’s most powerful force was, but the problem was that His Majesty’s trip to sacrifice to the heavens had actually taken that group of people without a single one left, and it was not known if any of those people would survive.

Snapping, several white pigeons flew into the courtyard drop in the direction of the morning light. The old servant went forward and caught one, holding it in front of Chen Pingping.

Chen Pingping untied the thin tube on the pigeon’s feet and looked at the text on it, her brows gradually frowned, and after a long time, she summoned the subordinates of the Supervisory Court and ordered in a deep voice, “According to the order of the day before yesterday, all of us should act, and continue to block off any news of the Dongshan Road, the team of the imperial court that is going to pick up the spirit is about to arrive.”

“Yes.”

It was only after a long time that Chen Pingping woke up from a state of disorientation. Until now, this most powerful conspirator of the Qing Kingdom finally felt a trace of powerlessness. Perhaps it was the power of the poison, perhaps it was the power of old age that made him feel a hint of exhaustion and …… faint disappointment.

“Fan Xian won’t die so easily.” Not knowing whether to comfort the old servant or herself, Chen Pingping said calmly, “At least I’ve drawn six thousand troops for this kid, so he’ll be under a lot less pressure.”

“You have to realize that it’s not easy to make a person die.”

Chen Pingping pushed her wheelchair towards the backyard, and the old servant hurriedly pushed. When traveling past a flower bed, looking at the small white flowers shivering in the altar in the beginning of autumn, Chen Pingping’s face remained unchanged, but she stopped and watched for a long time, yet slowly ricked down and picked one, carefully pinning it on her ear.

The old servant smiled and pushed him into a compartment in the backyard. As he entered the compartment, Chen Pingping suddenly said to him, “Fan Xian would definitely learn to value his life more if he knew he had become a father.”

The light in the compartment was not too bright, but one could clearly see a woman around twenty years old, looking at the baby in her arms with a face full of compassion. This woman with a face full of maternal luster was none other than that Si Si who had disappeared from the Fan Manor outside of Kyoto. Then the baby in her arms ……

Chen Pingping pushed her wheelchair forward, and with a face full of love, she took the newborn not long ago baby from her hands, looking at the redness on the baby’s face and her tightly closed eyes, flicking her tongue in her lips, cooing twice and teasingly said, “The little girl is so good, when your father sees it, he must especially like it.”

Si Si sweetly laughed at this scene, suddenly saw the small white flower on Chen Pingping’s forehead, and curiously asked, “Lord Dean, how do you insert a flower?”

“Last time I hugged this child she cried, it seems that I am too ugly to grow, today don’t have a flower …… to see, she really did not cry.”

Chen Pingping face wrinkles smile into a chrysanthemum, that kind of love color is how to do not do false, I’m afraid that he is really will be in the arms of the little girl, as their granddaughter general like.

The first production soon Si Si, physical strength is not very good, looking at Chen Pingping suddenly sad said: “Just …… also do not know when the young master back.”

Being picked up by Chen Pingping, Si Si was also startled, the production of Wan Er and Fan House in the acquaintances are not around, there is only Chen Pingping arranged the delivery of the Sisters, this girl’s heart and mind really suffered a lot of torture.

However, she knew that President Chen must not have any malicious intent, she just didn’t understand why she had to give birth outside of the mansion, and she couldn’t help but actually think of certain big family secrets, and her mood had been a bit low.

“In a few days, Fan Xian will be back.” Chen Pingping smiled and comforted, “The most important thing for a woman in labor is to be in a happy mood, that’s why he asked me to bring you out for a walk.”

This reason was obviously a bit far-fetched, but Si Si’s brain was obviously not working well after giving birth to the baby, so she actually believed it.

“You rest first.” Chen Pingping actually liked it so much that she refused to let go of the little baby girl for a moment, and said to Si Si, “I’ll carry the child out for a walk.”

Si Si said, “But you can’t blow the wind.”

Chen Pingping nodded her head, in front of a mother, robbing other people’s small children to play, always have to be better behaved.

Chen Pingping teased the baby girl all the way to another room and said to the man in the room, “Let me show you, Fan Xian’s daughter.”

The man was bound to death with a disturbed and sad face, when he heard these words he suddenly became joyful and said, “Dean, has the young lady taken a name yet?”

He suddenly saw the small white flower by Chen Pingping’s hair, and said with a bright idea, “Let’s call it Fan Xiaohua, he’ll love it, my lord.”

The one who took the name with the style of a joke is naturally Wang Qinian, a close friend of Fan Xian, and I don’t know how this person escaped from the Dadong Mountain, and I don’t know why he was tied up in Chen Pingping’s room!

Chen Pingping glared at him and said, “What a load of shit.”

Wang Qinian had obviously lost a large amount of weight, it seemed that he didn’t know how much torture he had endured on the road after escaping from Dadong Mountain. He looked at the little baby girl held in the dean’s arms, and while he was joyful, he suddenly thought of his own family’s daughter in the capital, and Fan Xian, who was in the center of the storm, and somehow, his nose soured, and he said, “I don’t know if His Excellency will be able to see his own daughter.”

He cried and said, “What on earth is going on here, how can I not understand.”

Chen Pingping had a calm face and said, “I don’t understand what will happen in Kyoto either, but I know that something will …… definitely happen in Kyoto.”

Fan Xian stood on the wall of the Imperial City, looking at the rising sun in the east, the reddish expanse of the sky, but his brows gradually furrowed and he sighed. Until this moment, the whereabouts of Wan’er and Dabao had not been found, but fortunately, word had come back from the side of the Jing Wang Mansion, that both father and Aunt Liu were safe and well, and were coming over in the direction of the Imperial Palace.

Fingers counted, Si Si’s production period also arrived, do not know the strange disappearance of the girl, now good, the child is male or female?

Among all the relatives, he was least worried about Si Si who was about to give birth, because since the palace had defaulted on this matter, the one who picked up Si Si couldn’t be someone else, it must be the old cripple who was lonely until he died in the Chen Garden.

What he was worried about at the moment was Yan Bingyun. After Yan Bingyun had entered the City Gate Department, no news had been sent back, and there was no sign of the person from the Supervisory Court who was responsible for returning the news, all of which signaled that something had gone wrong. Fan Xian notified the Grand Prince to start making arrangements, but he was only a little puzzled as to why Yan Bingyun had not sent out the order.

As the sunrise jumped out of the horizon, Fan Xian suddenly felt a stirring in his heart, as if he sensed that some beautiful things were happening in the world.

These beauties certainly did not exist within Kyoto. Kyoto was in danger, so Fan Xian had to reassure himself – in the most dangerous of times, someone would surely come riding on a five-colored colored cloud to come to his rescue.