Chapter 123 – Killing Yuan Shocked Dreams for Blood
An unlucky bird call rang out in the dark night, the clouds opened up and the moon came out, the occasional black shadow swept out from the top of the tree.
“Go up the mountain.” Fan Xian and Gao Da returned to the carriage, and Fan Xian said to Deng Ziyue, “Be quiet.”
Deng Ziyue nodded, lightly waved the reins, and the horse with the biting eniko pulled the carriage, so it bypassed the courtyard that was dead silent and traveled towards the back of the city. Behind the courtyard was a hill, hidden in the darkness and covered by spring trees, so no one should be able to spot their party from there as they looked down.
In the carriage, Fan Xian silently took off the pair of gloves on his hands, the gloves were as thin as a layer of skin, he used the gloves to carefully wipe the blood on the soft sword once again, confirming that the sword no longer caught a trace of the smell of blood, before he took the soft sword back to his waist and belly, followed by a steady flick of his index finger, some powder popped up on the gloves, and it burned with a bang.
Gao Da glanced at him and took out an iron bucket from under his chair, placing it in front of him. Fan Xian threw the burning glove into the iron bucket, squinted at the gradually diminishing flames, and the flames in his pupils gradually went out.
It didn’t take long for the carriage to drive up the hill.
The courtyard below was still quiet, the people inside were either dead or passed out, so naturally they couldn’t make any noise. No one knew that a murder had occurred inside, and certainly no one would come to see it.
I don’t know what Fan Xian was preparing to see when he stayed on the mountain at the back.
Deng Ziyue gently patted and stroked the back of the horse’s neck, got into the carriage, and sat down in silence.
Fan Xian lifted a corner of the carriage curtain and looked downward, not knowing how long he had been watching, but still nothing had changed.
“By the time the other side realizes what’s going on here, it will only be a long time.” Deng Ziyue looked at the time of day, it should be right in the middle of the night, and advised Fan Xian, “It won’t come so early.”
Fan Xian smiled, knowing that he was indeed a bit anxious, and after softly saying something to Gouda, he leaned back in his chair and closed his eyes to recuperate.
Gouda took out a blanket and covered his body. Gradually, his cold body warmed up, and Fan Xian felt sleepy in the midst of the warmth, so he fell asleep.
Not knowing how long he had slept, Fan Xian opened his eyes and let out a hmmm.
Deng Ziyue lifted the curtain, glanced down, and lowered his voice, “People are coming.”
Fan Xian lifted the blanket and put his head to the window, squinting as he looked down below. He saw that outside the mansion where Yuan Meng had been living in seclusion, a person suddenly came, knocking softly on the door in a familiar manner, the rhythm of the knocking obviously hiding some kind of secret code, and it seemed that he was the connector of the forces in Jiangnan who was in charge of contacting Yuan Meng.
That person was wearing a single cotton coat, with an unusual appearance, knocking at the door of the mansion for half a day, realizing that no one was answering himself, he seemed to be a bit surprised and nervous, and immediately retreated into the darkness.
Fan Xian, who was watching from the mountain, was in no hurry, knowing that the man would surely return.
As expected, that person did not go far away, only after a moment of work, the northwest corner of the courtyard wall above a person’s head furtively peeped out, it is that person is peeping to see what happened in the courtyard.
That person boldly jumped into the courtyard, the three people on the mountain can no longer see what that person saw in the courtyard, only to hear a suppressed very low cry, it should be that person finally found a large number of corpses in the courtyard and a pool of blood in a tragic scene.
The door to the courtyard was immediately pushed open, and the man lowered his head and rushed into the darkness, presumably to report to his masters.
Fan Xian stretched and yawned in the carriage, only then noticing that the sky was already whitening, he couldn’t help but laugh, “It’s almost dawn, the other side will have to hurry up if they want to cover this up.”
Teng Ziyue nodded, “All the mansions have sent people to keep an eye on it, whoever will have received the news this night will be able to have the intelligence summarized tomorrow.”
Fan Xian smiled and said, “Guess, who exactly are the …… people who have come to take care of the aftermath for everyone in Yuan today?”
Deng Ziyue laughed bitterly, “Suzhou House …… is definitely going to send someone. My lord, it’s good to have me to keep an eye on here, you’d better go back to the house and rest first.”
Fan Xian smiled and said nothing more. As soon as Yuan Meng died, the frightened ones were naturally the Jiangnan officials who secretly sheltered her, killing people at night and spying in the morning, but any official who could know the news of Yuan Meng s death in such a short period of time and rush to come to deal with the aftermath …… was, of course, the one who had played a dishonorable role in this matter.
Precisely, Jiangnan Road in the end there are those who are the eldest princess’s close friends, this morning should be able to find out a little.
Fan Xian is also no way, the Supervisory Bureau in Jiangnan manpower shortage, it is impossible to each house are planted deadly nails, had to use the method of split surveillance, kill Yuan shocked dream means, to check on.
Suzhou Prefecture governor adults, recently these days every day busy in the public hall on top of listening to Song Shiren and Chen Bochang debate, waste of political affairs not to mention, the mind is also some of the depletion of too much, each into the night is a deep sleep, and even the most beloved three aunts are seldom go to make out, so this day early in the morning when he was shouted out of the nest, his mood is very angry.
And when he heard that news, it was like a pot of cold water poured from his head to the soles of his feet, all the anger disappeared without a trace in an instant, and incomparable shock and deep worry surged in his mind.
Yuan Meng died? This thing happened too suddenly, how can he explain to the second highness and the world son and …… the eldest princess?
He was in a hurry to get dressed while ordering someone to summon the master of the house to come over. When the master of the division came over, Lord Zhi Zhou’s clothes had already been put on, and said with a slight hint of complaint: “How come over how slow? Yuan Meng is dead!”
But all the division masters are these officials’ confidants, there is nothing they would hide from each other, this division master of course knows about Yuan Meng, said with a bitter smile, “Death is death, since the imperial official has come to Suzhou, that Yuan Da Zhan still refuses to leave, in the end it is still a dead end.”
The governor frowned and said, “Her hiding place is so secretive …… Do you mean to say that it is the Supervisory Yuan that moved?”
“Aside from the Supervisory Authority, what other force in Jiangnan could have killed Yuan Meng silently?” The master analyzed, “Your Excellency must not panic at this time, anyway, Yuan Meng is already dead, so it will be impossible for the Supervisory Court to catch the relationship between us and her …… If you react out of turn at this time, you will instead allow the Supervisory Court to find out about your Excellency’s relationship with this matter.”
Master Shifu’s consideration was indeed prudent enough.
After thinking about it, the governor frowned and said, “But I always feel that there is something odd, if Lord Qinzhi moved, why didn’t he catch Yuan Meng, but instead just killed the person? If Lord Qinzhi wanted to use that matter of the Ministry of Justice’s sea arrest document to move this official, he should not have handled it this way.”
Master also did not think about this point, guessing said: “Yuan Meng is the second highness and the world son of the close people, although the Ministry of Justice issued a sea arrest paperwork, but this is full of officials all over the world no one dares to risk offending the nobility of the capital to capture her, adults do not need to worry too much, everyone is so …… As for why the Supervisory Yuan did not capture …… her alive, I think perhaps Yuan everyone knew that he could not survive the Supervisory Yuan’s punishment, so he killed himself and died.”
“Still have to go and take a look.” The governor made up his mind, “At least know some details.”
The division master categorically discouraged, “Your Excellency can’t go.”
“Hm?” The governor frowned, “Why? This official naturally will not light up the ceremony to go, this is about to dawn, if you do not hurry to clean up, spread the word …… Kyoto Ministry of Penal Affairs side must have something to say, the Supervisory Yuan will also take advantage of the issue, how can I answer His Majesty’s questioning in my small Suzhou Prefecture?”
“If the Supervisory Yuan wanted to take advantage of the question, it would not have made this a dead question today.” The master reminded, “Who knows how many pairs of eyes are watching over there at this time? Your Excellency definitely can’t go, as for the aftermath, I’ll stay in disguise and bring some of my inner circle over there.”
The governor thought, so really much more secure, then agreed to this proposal. This official a master thought that the reaction has been quite cautious, but did not realize that when the master dressed as a morning person outside the appearance of slipping out from the back of the house, hidden in the governor’s yamen outside the alleyway of a secret agent, has long been the scene to see it clearly.
When the Suzhou Prefecture division master rode in a small green-curtained sedan chair to the outskirts of the mansion where Yuan Meng had taken refuge, he found that there were already some strange people on several streets here. His heart was tight, lifted the curtain of the sedan chair to take a look before putting down his heart, to tend to the sedan chair side of the cloth shirt man frowned and said: “In the end, what is going on? How come the person is so dead?”
The cloth shirt man is Suzhou thousand, is also today by Yuan Meng death news from the nest up one of the officials, he should have been stationed outside the city, but the house in the city, so instead of the first to arrive here. Listening to the division master’s question, this thousand chief said in a bad mood, “If you ask me, who am I going to ask?”
The division master was stunned, got off the sedan chair, the two of them took a look at each other’s clothes, and couldn’t help but both sighed and laughed bitterly, a hallowed official division master, this day was forced to wear the clothes of a commoner.
“Is the street clean?” Master Teacher slightly sideways, hiding his face, carefully asked.
The Thousand Master said, “Don’t worry, the children under me have already cleaned it up, there shouldn’t be anyone watching from the side.”
The Master nodded, and then walked side by side with the Thousand Chief towards the courtyard.
Once in the courtyard, looking at those dead bodies all over the ground with the miserable and tragic scene, the master teacher couldn’t help but feel nauseous and vomit, covering his mouth and nose, he said, “Where is Yuan Meng’s body?”
“In the room?”
The master forced to suppress the nausea and fear, walked into the room to take a look, and saw the Yuan Meng Yuan everyone dead dead, went forward to confirm that the other party is dead, the master was a little relieved, sighed: “This really do not know how to explain to the capital.”
“Deal with it cleanly first.” Master Qian said in a hateful voice, “It will soon be dawn, if people see this place, I’m afraid it will soon spread all over Suzhou City, what will we do then?”
“The Ming family didn’t come?”
“Those gangs of treacherous merchants …… are afraid that Lord Qin is watching in the dark, and they are dead and refuse to come out.”
Two people out of the courtyard door, and then meet the follow-up to several people, several people together in a heavy face said, always feel that this thing should be the Supervisory Yuan do, but should not be the Supervisory Yuan to do, discuss to discuss, then stranded, actually do not know how to deal with.
“The wounds above the dead body are poked and rotted, although it can be seen that it should be a sword, but it has been difficult to discover the style of the sword, only know that there is only one person who made the shot, of course, it is an expert.” A character who looked like he was adept at criminal names said in a deep voice, “If it was a murder by the Inspectorate, why would there be a need to cover it up?”
In the end, it was the master of the division representing the Suzhou governor who took the idea and said coldly, “This case is better if it is not solved. We all these people have to retreat, let our men clean up this place, if the Supervisory Yuan doesn t care, bury this matter, if the Supervisory Yuan really puts nails in the heel …… anyway, don t drag us, and when it comes to asking about it, just say that we have received a report, so we come over to look at the case.”
Thousand Chief pooh-poohed and scolded, “I am a military general, how can I come to see the case?”
The Master gave him a blank look and said, “Who told you to rush over here in a hurry?”
There is nothing to argue, several people began to split up, responsible for cleaning up the cleanup, responsible for burying people burying people, responsible for going back to the house to do the paperwork to do the paperwork, as for this matter in the end to report or not, or to see the Lord Chin’s side of the wind is what it looks like.
While these people were busy, they didn’t realize that above the hill in the distance, an all-black carriage slowly drove away like a ghost.
The people were killed by Fan Xian, yet these Jiangnan Road officials were asked to bury them, but he certainly didn’t have any idea of taking advantage of the situation. As for the sword wounds on the corpses in the courtyard, they were all treated by him a second time because he didn’t want the wounds from the Four Guards’ Sword to get out, and since it was impossible to plant the evidence on Dongyi City, there was no point in taking that risk, so he didn’t even let Gouda see his strike.
The key was not to let His Majesty the Emperor in the palace know that he knew the Four Gu Swords.
Otherwise, the emperor will definitely associate the assassin on the hanging temple, the brother of the Four Gu Swords, and the Supervisory Yuan …… that will bring very horrible results.
The carriage traveled slowly, Fan Xian said with a sneer in the car, “After the death of a Yuan Meng, the officials of the Jiangnan Road were shocked like this …… Could it be that all of these officials are dogs raised by the Elder Princess?”
Deng Ziyue glanced at Gao Da and guessed that the Lord of the Tishek was trying to lend Gao Da’s ears to complain to the Emperor in the palace, and smiled as he responded, “The Eldest Princess has been in Jiangnan for a long time, and will always have some beloved ones.”
“Have you looked clearly at all these people who came today?”
“Some of the faces are a bit unfamiliar, but since these people are coming out of the mansion, I think that those scouts below should have seen them clearly, and will be able to have solid news later on.” Teng Ziyue sighed, “It’s just that the Ming family is also honorable, knowing that they can’t get involved in this matter, so they won’t kill anyone.”
Fan Xian was also a bit saddened, as he had thought that even if he couldn’t take advantage of Yuan Meng’s case to dig up a large piece of meat from the Ming family, he would at least make things more difficult for the other side.
The carriage quietly traveled to Hua Yuan, Fan Xian felt a little sleepy, waved his hand to let the two go to rest, and returned to the back of the house himself.
Si Si had been waiting on the table for him to return, and when she saw him enter the house, she hurriedly poured hot water for him to scald his feet.
She knew that the young master didn’t want too many people to know about what happened tonight, so she didn’t feel comfortable ordering the maids to make hot food, so she personally brought him bird’s nest warmed in water and served him with it.
Fan Xian somewhat satisfied with a mouthful of paste in the bowl, scalded his feet, then fell on the bed and fell into a deep sleep.
He didn’t wake up until the afternoon, and didn’t know what kind of changes would happen in Suzhou City because of Yuan Meng’s death during this day, and he didn’t care too much about it.
Knowing that he had woken up, after Si Si’s briefing, Deng Zi Yue walked in somewhat haggardly and handed him the case file in his hand.
Fan Xian took it over and took a brief look at it, and all that was written down on it were all the yamen that had moved in Suzhou City early this morning, and his eyes couldn’t help but narrow, sighing: ”Screw this, this city full of officials …… are all enemies, and still not letting people live their lives anymore? Once Yuan Meng died, they are calm.”
Deng Ziyue laughed bitterly, “The officials are caught in the middle, and it’s not easy for them to live their lives.”
Fan Xian shook his head and laughed coldly, “Since the list is already there, they will have a harder time in the future. Send the list back to Kyoto, let the second office start checking the Jing Nian old scrolls, the person we want to move, we have to dig out his old background, even if …… more than ten years ago he coveted a dozen or so taels of silver, we have to dig it out.”
Deng Ziyue knew that Fan Xian was determined that in the process of moving the Ming family, he would also move these officials along the way, and he didn’t dare to make a sound and answered in a low voice.
Fan Xian saw the end, but also in the eyes of the anger gradually, hate a hand threw the case file on the table, lowered his voice cursed: “Sure enough …… sure enough Xue Qing also know this thing, this adult, on the wall shaking is really joyful!”
Killing Yuan Shocked Dream today, for Fan Xian, any information that the Jiangnan officialdom would reveal as a result would not shock him. The Princess and the Ming family have been operating in Jiangnan for a long time, and of course, the other side’s hands are all over this officialdom.
With Fan Xian’s power and position of authority, he wasn’t too worried about this kind of resistance. What he wants to see clearly, is the Jiangnan Governor Xue Qing, in this matter in the end how to stand!
Xue Qing was a feudal official, even if Fan Xian had the status of an imperial envoy, there was nothing he could do about the other side. Moreover, the governor was also in charge of civil and military affairs, and the power he could control under him was too powerful; if even he stood against Fan Xian, the resistance to Fan Xian’s attempt to collect the Ming family would become exceptionally strong.
Deng Ziyue looked at his slightly angry look, and comforted him with a small intention: ”The Governor’s Office has received the news, but the Governor’s Office has not spoken out, nor has there been a hint of a reaction …… Lord, the other party is, after all, the Governor all the way, and if the officials below have a relationship with the capital, and Yuan dreamed of hiding in the south of the Yangtze River, the matter is certainly not hidden from him. Only he is not willing to offend the adults, surely he is also not willing to offend the imperial prince in the capital, this matter does not mean anything, Governor Xue should still hold the center.”
Fan Xian pondered briefly, and also realized that his reaction seemed to be a bit excessive, perhaps it was the tension hidden underneath his diffidence these past few days that had made him a bit over-sensitive, so he couldn’t help but smile to himself and say, “I accept your good advice, but …… you’d better go and make some arrangements, the day after tomorrow, I… . visit Xue Qing at the door again.”
Deng Ziyue was stunned, as if he had something he wanted to say.
Fan Xian glanced at him and said with a smile, “If you have any ideas, just say them, what are you doing acting like a pussy in front of me?”
Deng Ziyue smiled and said, “I don’t think that your lordship should rush to visit Lord Xue these days.”
“Oh? Why?” Fan Xian asked curiously.
Deng Ziyue analyzed, “After all, Lord Viceroy is still neutral nowadays, and if you go to the residence to pay a visit, I’m afraid that with your temperament, you will immediately force Lord Viceroy to take a stand …… in case Lord Viceroy isn’t as good as you would like him to be, then what should we do? In my humble opinion, it’s best to let Governor Xue maintain his stance of watching the show, we should continue to do what we’re doing, and the Ming family will continue to force – as long as the Governor General hasn’t made up his mind, no one will be able to fight against His Excellency for a single day, then we’ll be able to do things for a little more time.”
He continued, “Your Excellency is trying to make the Governor General make up his mind, but in reality, the slower the Governor General makes up his mind, the more favorable it will be for us instead.”
Fan Xian frowned, “Nowadays, it’s only a small knock against the Ming family, Xue Qing can still watch the show, if I really lay down the gauntlet after the year, Xue Qing can’t continue to watch the show, and at that time, he’ll come back to stand up to …… me with some instability in his heart.”
Deng Ziyue thought about it and said with a smile, “The way I see it, at least we have to wait until you go to Wuzhou.”
Fan Xian immediately understood what he meant, Jiangnan Road Governor Xue Qing …… was the former minister Lin Ruofu’s favorite disciple back in the day, and Lin Ruofu — who was Dabao and Wan’er’s father — was his own old husband! –Even if Xue Qing didn’t have to give face to his old husband nowadays, his old husband was definitely clear about Xue Qing’s bottom line as a person.
“Reasonable.” Fan Xian instantly felt a big chunk of relief in his heart and said with a big smile, “Standing in line and adding weights, although my old father-in-law is shelved and fast rusting, his weight is not light.”
Deng Ziyue laughed twice.
Fan Xian looked at Deng Ziyue’s tired look and said curiously, “You didn’t sleep in the morning?”
Deng Ziyue respectfully responded, “It took some time to confirm the information.”
Fan Xian wanted to persuade him to relax a bit, but when he thought about his previous performance he didn’t seem to have much of a position to convince the other party, he couldn’t help but smile, and suddenly thought of another pile of things, and asked earnestly, “Zi Yue, before you joined the Qiyi Nian group …… you were in the second division, right?”
Deng Ziyue glanced at him in surprise and nodded, not knowing why Lord Tiji would suddenly ask this question.
“Wang Qinian will return to China at the end of summer.” Fan Xian looked at him and said with a smile, “The courtyard is ready to let him take over a place, so that the Northern Qi Shangjing, need a figure that can hold down the scene, you followed me for almost two years, and also saw some scenes …… Have you got the guts to go to the north for a tour?”