Chapter 152 – This is not about the wind and moon
The spring breeze is not about the wind and the moon, and the summer breeze is not about the wind and the moon, it’s just those airs that are either humid or clear or sultry that are engaged in incessant self-rubbing, yet the people who are in the air will give birth to some responsive emotions due to the rubbing of the heaven and the earth.
“Even if it’s made clear, so what? Could it be that His Majesty the Emperor of Qing will believe your statement?” Haitang was wearing a light green colored singlet with two large pockets sewn uninspiredly onto her garment, and with her hands uninspiredly inserted into her pockets, she looked at Fan Xian and said with a smirk.
Fan Xian slightly inclined his head, knowing what she meant by that, letting Eunuch Yao transmit the scene by scene of Jiangnan back to Kyoto, letting all the people in the court know that he chose the oldest, this kind of snatching at the emperor’s choice before he took a stand, if it were in the past, Fan Xian would not have committed this taboo.
But today is different, Fan Xian has too much power in his hands, so he wants to make a statement to the emperor that he is not interested in that chair at all.
But the question was just as Haitang had said, on what basis did the emperor trust himself? On the basis of Lao San? After all, Lao San was still a child, and when the emperor was a hundred years old, if Fan Xian embraced Lao San’s rise to power, with the power in his hands and the background behind him, he could empty Lao San at any time, regent, drape or whatever.
“His Majesty is in good health, and his spring and fall are in full bloom.” Fan Xian lowered his head and said softly, “The future is too long, I can’t keep going on like this lone minister and lone, and since Lao San is the one he put on my side, I’ll just go along with what he wants as far as …… what consequences will it cause?”
His eyes narrowed, looking at this thin lake in front of him, looking at the faint mist on the lake, and said softly, “I have been thinking about a problem.”
Haitang yawned and covered her mouth as she asked, “What question.”
“Another thought I had when I came forward this time was that I wanted to put some pressure on those two imperial brothers in the capital.” Fan Xian said with a smile, the two royal brothers he was talking about were naturally the Crown Prince and the Second Prince, “I really want to force them to jump over the wall, otherwise they keep dawdling so much. My mother in law doesn’t know exactly how high it is, if it’s actually as high as a few floors ……”
He shook his head, “Always don’t want to wait any longer.”
Haitang’s heart moved slightly, looking at him sideways, “Really planning to showdown ah ……”
Fan Xian smiled and said, “The question hasn’t been finished yet. I’m trying to force those two brothers to jump over the wall, but what about His Majesty? He let Lao San follow me down to Jiangnan, so he must have thought that the situation would develop like this in the future …… Lao San got involved again, and his attitude is so ambiguous, how can the Crown Prince be better off? The second prince now can’t go up, can’t go down, and can’t possibly let it go …… Could it be that our Emperor’s Majesty, too, is trying to force his own son to rebel?”
Explaining this doubt, the coldness in his heart slightly soothed a bit, along with a sigh exhaled out of his lips.
Haitang bowed her head and said, “Even if an emperor’s family is heartless, but after all, he is a father, so why would he toy with his own son like this?”
Fan Xian nodded, “This is what I don’t understand.”
“Congratulations.” Haitang suddenly spoke.
Fan Xian wondered, “What is there to congratulate?”
“Since your thoughts are so similar to those of your emperor, that bureau …… in a year from now will naturally be a win for you.” Haitang said softly.
Fan Xian thought for a while and said softly, “It seems that your confidence in that emperor of my family is even a bit more than my confidence in him.”
“Because you are a Southerner.” Haitang said indifferently, “Because the Emperor of Qing has been acting somewhat silent since you entered the capital, so you haven’t felt his fearsome nature. Back then when he was still the crown prince, he led the army in three northern expeditions, and with a remote Qing Kingdom, he broke the hallowed Wei into pieces and silenced all the countries in the world……. This kind of tactics, this kind of terror, I stand in your position to consider, naturally, I have extreme confidence in him.”
“Your country’s monarch is a generation of majestic monarchs.” Haitang was very direct in praising the emperor of a foreign country, “In these two years, the male lion is not napping, he is just squinting his eyes and digesting the food in his belly, but if anyone really dares to slightly try to touch his position, his eyes will open and he will mercilessly tear his enemy into countless pieces.”
Fan Xian fell silent, “Actually …… I understand. That’s why this matter is something I want me to do, and don’t want him to do it.”
“In the end, you’re still a mercurial person.” Haitang looked at him with a smile, “Although you habitually like to hide your compassion under the guise of selfishness, you are still a sentimental person. If the Emperor of Qing finally strikes out in a rage, there will definitely be bloodshed, and you don’t want to see this situation, so you want to do …… it yourself to minimize the destructive power of this matter.”
Fan Xian lowered his head and acquiesced to this statement, no matter how much enmity he had with the eldest princess of Xinyang with the crown prince and the second prince, but the eldest princess was, after all, Wan’er’s real mother, and that lovely Ye Ling’er had become the second imperial consort……. The war about that chair, once it broke out, would surely be a scourge to the family, and Fan Xian, who was in many ways a cold and heartless person,hollister. But he also didn’t want to let thousands of heads hang on the walls of Kyoto and let the filthy blood dampen the walls.
That Second Highness, who was extremely similar to himself, smiled that shyly, would he still be able to smile like that after turning into a human head?
If it was the Emperor who won with himself, what about the Ye family? What about Ye Ling’er?
To Fan Xian, this was all a problem, while to that Emperor, His Majesty, none of this was a problem. So Fan Xian strongly desired to gain the initiative to solve this problem, but ……
Haitang said softly, ”You should also understand that you alone cannot solve this problem, those enemies of yours, there are still many forces that can exceed your response. Against those people, the Emperor of Qing has his own arrangements, there is no need to let you do it for him, in the final analysis, nowadays you are just the sharpest sword in his hand, but he is the hand that holds the sword.”
Fan Close knew she was talking about the Junshan Society and nodded somberly.
“And the Empress Dowager.” Haitang smiled.
Fan Closure, however, detected a hint of gloom in the smile in her eyes and couldn’t help but grunt, “Both empress dowagers are troublesome.”
Haitang obviously didn’t want to continue that unresolved topic, and her gaze intentionally or unintentionally fell on the ancient sword at his waist.
“Wang Qinian sent it.” Fan Xian met her gaze and explained, “I heard that it was the sword of the last emperor of Wei back then.”
Haitang did not look different, seeming to have known the origin of the sword for a long time, her voice clear and cold as she said, “Beware of causing too much discussion.”
Fan Xian smiled, “Thanks for reminding me, I had thought that not many people would recognize it.”
Haitang lowered her head, not knowing what she was thinking, and only after a long time did she say quietly, “It’s only been about thirty years since Wei’s demise. Although Xiao En and Zhuang Mo Han, the two last spiritual symbols of Wei, have already passed away, but after all, the years are not long, and nowadays, there are not a few people in the world who remember the personnel at that time.”
Fan Xian did not know why the girl’s mood was different, and a feeling of absurdity welled up in his heart. Now the world can be called peaceful, around can be called prosperous, who can think, but more than twenty years ago, this world is still a big battlefield, when the big war constantly, countless dead, a big country destroyed, two big countries born, green mountains bleeding, yellow waves pile of corpses, hundreds of thousands of white bones pile, now leading the world trend of the big people were born in this way.
The two people fell silent, looking at the thin lake in front of the dumb.
This thin lake is not the thin lake in Kyoto hold the moon building, is Suzhou hold the moon building behind the road lake. Last month, Fan Si Zhe letter to let this pedestrian started digging the lake in Jiangnan, requisitioned a lot of civilian laborers, it is hard to expand the area of the thin lake doubled again. Now if you hold the moon building from the back to look, the beautiful scenery is even better than then.
Just hold the moon building but by that sword chopped in half, this time is still busy repair, so Fan Xian and Haitang two people just stand in the lake cold, watching the fog on the surface of the lake and scattered, scattered and gathered, as life and the world is as unpredictable.
“Your family’s green house is being repaired extremely slowly.” Haitang seemed to have unintentionally mentioned a sentence.
“It’s always embarrassing to be too exaggerated with your Northern Qi’s silver in front of you.” Fan Xian laughed, then whirled around to explain, “There’s no rush to repair the building. I’ve transferred some professionals from the capital to carefully examine the sword marks in the building.”
The so-called professionals were naturally those guys from the second and third divisions; now that the Moon Embracing Remnant Building was Ye Liuyun’s first crime scene, Fan Xian was looking forward to being able to dig out some of the Grand Master’s true methods of striking out from between those sword marks and scents for the future.
Haitang said, “I went to see it.”
“Oh?” Fan Xian’s eyes lit up, knowing that this girl’s discerning insight into martial arts was quite a bit higher than his own, thinking that she must have found something.
“Eight corridor pillars, chopped off at the same time.” Haitang recalled the fine traces in the building and couldn’t help but sigh, “The rest of the cracks are just sword intent infested …… You and I can barely do it if we want to behead the pillars, but that kind of control over the momentum, I don’t know when and how we will be able to touch that kind of realm.”
Fan Xian lowered his head and said, “In your opinion, like this kind of shocking chop, how many swords can Ye Liuyun make?”
“Three swords.”
Haitang said very directly, “That’s under normal conditions. If that old man put his life on the line, who knows what miracles will happen.”
Indeed, it was a miracle that with the power of a human being, he was able to perform means that were as powerful as heaven and earth.
“You really won’t follow me?” Fan Xian faced the lake and exhaled a deep breath of turbid air.
“Suzhou always has to keep someone.” Haitang smiled and said, “Besides, you shamelessly let the eight offices publicize your and my private affairs in the end, so if you really go to Hangzhou, how do you ask me to live with myself? Even if you are a shameless person, always sympathize with me.”
A very direct grudge, although said with a smile, but let Fan Xian simply can not resist.
He smiled and said, “Then I’ll leave.”
Haitang owed her body slightly and said softly, “I won’t see you off.”
In the early morning of Suzhou City, the wind and fog on the lake met the daylight and dispersed swiftly and inexorably. This pair of young men and women no longer said a word more, just like this naturally split up and walked along the lake, traveling in different directions.
Leaving Suzhou did not take much time, Fan Xian originally prepared in Jiangnan should be living in Hangzhou by the West Lake, just because the Ming family’s matter is unexpectedly tricky, and many more unexpected stories, which stayed until now. Knowing that they were going to move to Hangzhou, the subordinates had long prepared everything, and even the maids in the Hua Yuan, led by Si Si, were ready to move.
Fan Xian did not return the Hua Yuan to the salt merchant, after all, Haitang also want to stay in Suzhou, keep an eye on the large amount of silver in the internal treasury transit department and investment money bank, so always give the girl a place to live, he also very carefully left a few general appearance, do things well little maid.
Yang Jimei naturally will not be distressed by this garden, but is happy ruthless.
Parting banquet, Yang Jimei farting to sit at the bottom, for the upper two officials said something did not listen to it, only feel that their graves are smoking, actually can and Qinzhi adult table dinner!
The meal did not take much time, the governor of Jiangnan Xue Qing, usually rarely seen governor, now being investigated by the Supervisory Board of Suzhou governor, these officials have come to see Fan Xian off, just because of the dragon head that day in the bamboo hut in the ruthless game, so that large and small Jiangnan officials do not dare to send any gift.
It was only Xue Qing, who unashamedly prepared extremely expensive gifts, and the weight of that gift list made Fan Xian’s jaw drop.
After the banquet, Fan Xian and Xue Qing two people in the garden walking casually, Fan Xian said with a smile: “adults, you so spoiled juniors …… one can not afford, two how can I after how good to train these officials in Jiangnan Road?”
Words with puns.
Xue Qing, however, laughed and scolded, “It’s not a gift to you, you have to take it even if you don’t.”
Fan Xian was puzzled.
Xue Qing said in a loud voice, “Half of it is for Miss Lin, no, it should be Mrs. Fan. She came to Hangzhou for the first time and definitely didn’t have enough things with her, so this is for her to have in advance.”
He then said, “The other half, is for the teacher’s filial piety, the student has been busy with his official duties in Suzhou, and was unable to go and personally pay his filial piety, I still hope that little Lord Fan will bring this token of affection for this official.”
Fan Xian smiled, he had already notified Xue Qing of his trip to Wuzhou the other day, and had written it in his letter to His Majesty, and then he remembered that no matter what, Xue Qing would have to back up his gift.
Having figured this out, Fan Xian said softly, “I’m in Hangzhou. If you have any orders, please feel free to write.”
“I don’t dare.” Xue Qing smiled and said, “You’re also an imperial official, so I wouldn’t dare to command you, but there’s always trouble.”
Fan Xian casually responded, knowing that Xue Qing had been looking forward to his departure from Suzhou for a long time, and didn’t point out this matter.
When they were about to part ways, Xue Qing suddenly asked, “Little Lord Fan, there is one thing that this official has not been able to find an answer to.”
“Your Honor, please speak.” Fan Xian said with a straight face.
Xue Qing said after a moment of contemplation, “Just how …… old is your lordship this year?”
With the identity of the Governor of Jiangnan, instead of saying something like your geng and other platitudes, he directly asked in the tone of an elder. Fan Xian laughed and said, “Nineteen.”
Xue Qing was slightly stunned, and with the rumors printed true, instead, he was a bit disbelieving, and couldn’t help but shake his head and laugh bitterly, “Indeed, a hero is a young man.”
As Lord Qinzhi left the city, Hua Yuan was suddenly much quieter. The city of Suzhou, which had been under the strong pressure of the Supervisory Board and Fan Xian, seemed to have come to life in a day, and after confirming that the black carriage team of the Fan Mansion had already exited the city gates, the citizens of Suzhou began to run around, in tears, that the great traitor had finally left, and some people even began to set off firecrackers.
That night, the Jiangnan Road, especially in Suzhou Province officials also began to celebrate, celebrate each other no longer have to be invited by the Supervisory Board to drink tea suffering, as for those who have fallen officials, naturally, no one to look at more than one glance.
Suzhou and Hangzhou are close to each other, but Fan Xian could not have heard the firecrackers of those Suzhou citizens to send the god of the plague, and then the spy of the Supervisory Yuan although there is a report to come, but he just laughed it off.
A group of people in Hangzhou West Lake Peng’s manor stayed down, back to the first time to Jiangnan in the time. Fan Xian, however, had not yet touched the ground with his buttocks when he asked, “Where has the Lady arrived?”
A subordinate reported, “There seems to be some sort of obstruction, still in Shazhou.”
Fan Xian was slightly stunned, an uneasiness welled up in his heart, and after thinking for a moment, he did not say much, and led the seven tiger guards to go to Shazhou on horseback.
The twilight will be to the sand state, Fan idle because of the heart worried about Wan Er, give up the habitual carriage, directly riding to, into the sand state city, feel the body seems to be scattered generally.
The subordinates and tiger guards behind him were even more pale, nearly collapsed in this day of speeding.
A dozen horses crushed the quiet of the night in Shazhou, and came directly to a manor house before, this manor house is when Jiangnan Shuihan in Shazhou’s rudder, and now naturally has long been the Supervisory Yuan requisitioned, after a little repair, it became Fan Xian’s nominal private residence.
Fan Xian rolled over and dismounted from his horse, ignoring the greetings of his subordinates at the door, and barged straight into the courtyard.
Before he entered the stone steps of the inner house, he saw a familiar person, precisely the daughter-in-law of the Fuji family. Fan Xian frowned and asked, “What’s wrong?”
“Young master?” A trace of joy flashed in the eyes of the daughter-in-law of Mr. Fuji’s family, “Why are you here? Young granny is fine, just resting in the house.”
Fan Xian, however, did not believe her, according to reason, Wan’er should have arrived in Hangzhou today, and was delayed only because she was afraid that something had gone wrong physically. He hurriedly pushed the door and swept in like a gust of wind to the bedside, and with a backhanded palm wind, he closed the wooden door tightly.
He looked at the girl family lying on the bed, looking at the trace of fatigue on that familiar clear face, he couldn’t help but feel distressed and said, “If your body isn’t well, walk slowly.”
Lin Wan’er looked at him with a smile and said, “Walk slower …… and you’ll have more time to live fast?”
Fan Xian was stunned and laughed, “Where did all the wisecracks come from?” As he spoke, his fingers gently rested on his wife’s white jade wrist and began to check her pulse.
Fan Xian was most worried about Wan’er’s body, after all, she had been suffering from lung disease for several years, although she had been carefully adjusting her body for the past two years, and there were medicines prepared by Mr. Fei Jie, but after all, Wan’er’s body was weak, and she was afraid that she couldn’t withstand the wind and cold on the road.
Fingers gently resting on Wan’er’s wrist, Fan Xian’s face gradually cautious, especially the feeling at his hand, let his heart slightly alarmed – Wan’er how thin into this?
“You stopped taking the medicine?” Feeling a difference in his pulse, Fan Xian retracted his fingers as if he had been electrocuted and looked at his wife in surprise, his eyes full of care and disbelief.
Lin Wan’er slowly retracted her hand, coughed gently twice, and looked at Fan Xian as she quietly spoke with a hint of perseverance and joy, “Yes, I stopped taking the medicine. …… Before Ruoruo left, she brought Master Bitter Lotus to the mansion to sit down for a while, and Master Bitter Lotus said that Mr. Fei’s medicine was too overbearing, and that if Wan’er wanted to have a child, she had to take this medicine stopped.”