Chapter 154 – The Same Starry Sky

The big tree of “Shazhou Residence” was in bad luck, Fan Xian took the sword of the Son of Heaven and released the king’s qi, cutting off countless barks of the tree. The reason for this was because our young magistrate was really angry, but he couldn’t put on a bad face in front of his wife, and he couldn’t rush to the capital of Northern Qi to scold his own sister’s teacher, so he had to look for a way to get rid of his anger.

Fan Xian is not the kind of boring BOSS who likes to scold his subordinates to relieve pressure, coincidentally, in his previous life, he was lying in bed reading readers, and he once read a sour story, which brought tears to his eyes, so in this life, he studied the hero of that story.

The hero, who loved to pour foot-washing water, had been suffering from his wife’s anger, and had been enduring it for years, always sneaking out in the middle of the night and smashing trees by the river, in order to seek a pitiful psychological equilibrium.

Fan Xian doesn’t smash trees, he uses the Tang Tang Sigu Sword Technique to chip away at them, gritting his teeth in hatred as he does so.

When the trees in the yard had turned white overnight, and their clothes were shredded, revealing their humble and naked bodies, Fan Xian and his party left in a carriage and returned to Peng’s manor by the West Lake.

In the West Lake waiting for the Lord of the Qin and the county lady of the people are really quite a lot, Suzhou City, the two governors are not convenient to come personally, Fan Xian secretly appreciate the Hangzhou governor but will not be polite, will be the West Lake side of the long embankment are sealed one-third of the convenience of the Fan carriage into the, and led a cadre of subordinates around waiting, afraid of these two big people in the heart of the some dissatisfaction.

For this ass, Fan Xian very comfortable to accept down, after all, Wan Er’s body is not good, really need to be quiet. After all the people in the mansion met, Si Si and the daughter-in-law of the Tou family naturally served Wan Er to rest, Fan Xian took the time to meet that Hangzhou governor, warmly exhorting him for a few moments. But on the second day, he had Tiger Guard Gouda keep all the wives of these dignitaries out of the back garden.

Fan young granny does not see guests.

Wan’er looked pitifully at Fan Xian, a pair of eyebrows had long since knitted into soft willow leaves in the wind, her eyes like sobs, “Good husband, just spare me.”

Fan Xian laughed, “Good boy, just drink the medicine, or else you’ll be spanked.”

Wan’er had no choice but to drink the medicine with bitterness and couldn’t help but sigh inwardly, thinking how could she have been so stupid? Told Fan Xian all the reasons, to his temperament, of course, will not allow himself to do this, if I had known that, I simply do not go down to Jiangnan, secretly in Kyoto to stop the medicine on the good.

Suddenly she slightly shy thought, if you do not go down to Jiangnan, even if you stop the medicine, to go to the body of the isotope, but …… without him, and how to have a child?

Fan Xian is holding a handkerchief for her to wipe off the corners of the lips of the medicine stains, suddenly looked at his wife’s cheeks red halo suddenly appeared, heart slightly stunned, do not know what that little head in the thought, curious teasing: “Mother, how come shy into this?”

Wan Er blankly glanced at him, grunted and said, “Don’t tell you.”

She hurriedly changed the topic, this time she went to Jiangnan, one thing was the thing that was set before the year, another pile was some important things that needed to be discussed with Fan Xian, these things she was not confident in letting her subordinates pass on the news.

Fan Xian saw her seriousness, frowned slightly, attached his ear up, listening to his wife whispering in his ear, his mood became heavier and heavier, but there was no change on his face, it was still quiet. He comforted and enlightened, “I thought it was something so big that you were in such a hurry to go down to Jiangnan …… those elders in the palace are used to discussing people’s rights and wrongs, and couldn’t pay attention to too much.”

In the days of Kyoto, there was an excellent tacit understanding between the young couple, and it had also been singled out – Wan Er was now a wife and a daughter, and in the midst of such a complicated relationship, Fan Xian pities her and is not willing to have her too involved in these shady matters, even if it is the case that Wan Er can actually help him too much.

For example, the nightly conversation between the two families on the day the Grand Prince visited the Fan Mansion.

But having said that, Wan Er couldn’t pretend that nothing was happening around her, and even more so, she couldn’t blindfold herself and pretend not to see her husband’s son-in-law at war with his not-so-close mother.

A girl’s mind was hard to guess, but in this matter, she always wanted to seek a way to protect Fan Xian without putting both sides into an irreparable situation.

Only, it was difficult. Fan Xian had a hard time figuring it out, and Wan Er did the same.

So she had to carefully inquire around in Kyoto, analyze the subtleties of those women’s politics for Fan Xian, and by virtue of her transcendent status and the privilege of being able to enter and leave the palace without hindrance, help Fan Xian, who was far away from Jiangnan, to contact all the people in the palace and eliminate some of the resistance that could be eliminated.

These things Fan Xian is aware of, also know that can not stop her, then had to go with her. And some times, really need Wan Er in the middle as a lubricant, like the chun exam after the palace trip.

Because of Fan Xian’s opposition, Wan Er’s ability is not fully realized, her natural feeling in politics and palace affairs is even more suppressed, but this does not mean that she does not understand these things, so when she knew that story in the palace, she resolutely came to Jiangnan.

Unlike everyone’s imagination, the young grandmother of the Fan House came down to Jiangnan, not to see that Northern Qi saintess called Duo Duo, but only to remind Fan Xian of certain things in person.

“The elders in the palace …… can influence a lot.” Wan’er looked at Fan Xian worriedly and said softly, “The Empress Dowager is the Empress’s own aunt, and the relationship between these two cannot be torn off no matter what …… the Empress arranges for someone to come into the palace to tell the Empress Dowager the story of the Stone Book, and there is a hidden menace in this, so you must not be too careless. ”

Fan Xian fell silent, his heart welled up with a trace of irritation, when he first copied the Stone Records in Tanyu, it was just to find some games for himself and Si Si, to seek some entertainment for Ruo Ruo, and at the same time to satisfy his own literary mind, and didn’t take it too seriously. Because although he was clear that Lao Cao’s writing back then was indeed somewhat forbidden, but once he thought that these were two completely different countries and two worlds, how could they not be forbidden, he was a bit careless.

Who did not expect, their own life, their encounter in the later will change so much, the red chamber dream of a word and a sentence …… seems to be in the lyric of their own unwillingness and resentment.

Especially the rhetoric about Sister Qiao.

Whoever writes this book can be, it can t be himself …… But it is the world today, everyone believes that this book is written by himself.

The resentment in the book is as if it is talking about his own disobedience and indignation to the old Ye family matter of that year …… The Empress arranged for someone to come into the palace to give the old Empress Dowager a book, with the Empress Dowager that sensitive and suspicious head, will not think that she has a dissenting mind?

In the royal family, it is a word of the heart, the heart is suspicious, the person will be suspicious, the heart can be executed, the person can be executed.

Fan Xian quietly thought for a while, and realized that this was indeed a problem he was about to face. If the empress dowager really thought that she had an unsatisfactory heart and wanted to vindicate what happened back then, then the old woman’s temporary silence today might cease to exist. Today’s Qing country rules the world with filial piety, the empress dowager says something, that emperor’s old man of his own always has to show.

But …… it is not a big problem, Fan Xian has been down to Jiangnan for a long time, and his strength has reached a certain level, these small storms and waves will not let him how to police fear. He gently patted his wife’s hand and said gently: ”Don’t worry, even if that old woman suspects me …… so what? It’s not like I’ve done anything, and it’s not like she can just ask His Majesty to cut my officialdom.”

Wan’er let out a bitter laugh and couldn’t help but shake her head, taking her fingertip and gently poking his brow, spitting, “That’s my grandmother, and it’s also your grandmother …… how come you’re just shouting at the old hag old hag.”

Fan Xian said with a cheeky smile, “To put it mildly, when I saw you in the Qing Temple, how could I not guess that you would actually be my cousin.”

“Hmph…… also don’t know who hid it from me for so long.” Lin Wan’er muttered with her lips.

Before Fan Xian could comfort her, Wan Er continued with a straight face, “Even if this is not harmful for the time being, but what about the Ming family’s affairs? The lawsuit you brought in Jiangnan has long since spread to Kyoto. Today’s Song Shiren can be regarded as really out of the big name, actually said that the firstborn son has no natural inheritance rights …… which touches the bottom line of many people. Although the lawsuit is Song Shiren is helping Xia Qufei fight, but everyone in the capital knows that you are their backstage, can not help but ask one more question in the heart of …… our little Fan Ta-Jen, in the end, what is in the mind?”

Fan Xian raised his eyebrows and said, “What can I think about?”

Lin Wan’er looked at him and said, “As for what appears to be on the surface, you are trying to help Xia Qufei get back the Ming family’s estate……. Wouldn’t the Empress Dowager suspect you? What’s more, there is also the previous stone mark that piling bad …… two compartments together, anyone will think, you heart want to take back the inner library.”

“But the inner library is who?”

“Who is the first born son in our palace?”

Lin Wan’er sighed, “All these things you’ve done down in Jiangnan are truly placing yourself on the opposite side of the crown prince’s brother, and even on the opposite side of the empress dowager.”

Fan Xian was silent for a little while before deciding to speak his true thoughts, “That’s right …… but in reality, I deliberately created this atmosphere so that the people in the palace would think that I was dissenting.”

Lin Wan’er opened her lips slightly in surprise, feeling that being so presumptuous did not seem to be his character.

“You came a few days late, so you didn’t know that His Majesty had sent a eunuch to announce the decree.” Fan Xian smiled, “In a few more days, the capital will know my attitude and that I am on Lao San’s side.”

Lin Wan’er was a bit puzzled and nervous, and said softly, “You’re preparing to let Lao San go to the ring …… but he’s still just a child.”

“This child is not simple.” Fan Xian slightly lowered his head and said with a soft smile, “His ability isn’t bad, and I’m extremely confident in my ability to read people, and I’m also confident in my level of being a teacher, and the guy I teach can’t be anywhere near as bad.”

“But …… you still haven’t explained why you want to create this kind of atmosphere today.” Lin Wan’er frowned, if this situation is allowed to develop, the two sides will gradually lose any chance of reconciliation, and will also force …… her to raise her head in a hue and cry, looking at Fan Xian in surprise, slightly shocked, “Are you …… ready to force them to do it?”

The bedroom was quiet for a long time, and Fan Xian slowly nodded his head and said softly, “Many people have overlooked the Empress and the Crown Prince, but they and I know each other very well, and only one side between us can survive …… Now, while His Majesty the Emperor still cares to look up to me, I’m just going to force the hidden scourge to explode out in advance.”

Lin Wan’er’s expression gradually grew bemused and dimmed, although she was clear that the fights in the family of the Emperor had always left no room for mercy, she still couldn’t help but feel a chill when she thought that one of her closest relatives and her brother, the Crown Prince of the Palace, would always have to die.

Fan Xian’s eyes were even colder than his wife’s mind as he said slowly and indifferently, “I don’t want to kill anyone, but they already killed someone decades ago, and it’s unlikely that they’ll let me go now, so since that’s the case, I’m going to finish this.”

Lin Wan Er was silent for a long time and spoke, “Then …… what about her?”

The she in these words was naturally the biggest problem straddling Fan Xian’s couple, the eldest princess who had been refusing to settle down.

Fan Xian’s curtains were slightly lowered as he gently wrapped Wan Er into his arms and said gently, “His Majesty’s thoughts are too deep for me to pay attention to, and your mother’s thoughts are too big for me to pay attention to …… This is a war between her and His Majesty, and I only need to play the sidelines… . nothing else is guaranteed, but I assure you that I will not personally do anything to her.”

Is this assurance credible?

“Emperor uncle has always loved me very much ……” Lin Wan’er was like a wounded kitten, crouching in Fan Xian’s arms, softly and feebly speaking, but her eyes gradually appeared to be watery and misty, if the eldest princess really had the guts to do that thing, then afterward, even by virtue of Fan Xian’s power If the eldest princess really has the guts to do that thing, then afterward, even with Fan Xian’s power and identity, Lin Wan’er won’t be implicated in any way, but …… her identity among the royal family will also become awkward and sinister.

Fan Xian was silent, knowing that Wan Er’s exclamation is the truth, after the marriage, walking in the palace, he clearly felt that his emperor’s old man really loves Wan Er, Wan Er’s position in the palace is really much higher than the general county main …… Thinking of this section, he could not help but sigh, the emperor married his own niece, who he loved the most, to himself, this illegitimate son. This illegitimate son, is also considered to be a compensation for himself, right?

“It’s fine, it’s all about the elders.” He smiled and said, “Let them make a fuss.”

Though the words were lighthearted, the content was not… In the year after, if it was not that the dragon chair of the Daqing dynasty had changed owners, it was that there would be a bloodbath amongst the royal family, and what would happen to the pair of young men and women, Fan Xian and Wan’er? If it was the former, Fan Xian believed that his entire family would be buried for His Majesty the Emperor, and if it was the latter …… how would Wan Er face it?

Just at such a moment, Fan Xian suddenly felt that he was forcing the other party to make an early move, which seemed like a very uninteresting thing to do, only that he had to do it in order to protect himself and the people around him.

“The old cripple should be thinking the same thing, right? I hope he has some better method.”

Fan Xian gently patted Wan Er’s back, looking out the window at the quiet lake, the green mountain, the fishing boat, the willow branch, his thoughts drifted to the distant Kyoto.

In the cool and refreshing palace in Kyoto, palace maids and eunuchs converge and walk quietly, occasionally some young palace maids will let out a few giggles and laughs, and then be severely reprimanded by the old sisters. Dense spring has ended, the first summer has arrived, the palace trees are lush, but the people in the palace are still not allowed a trace of freedom.

Guangxin Palace is the year of the Princess’s bedchamber, when the Princess secretly communicated with the North Qi, betrayed the senior officials of the Supervisory Yuan things were five bamboo uncle full of city speech paper after the revelation of the Qing dynasty legend of the most beautiful woman will be eclipsed out of the political scene in Kyoto, to go to the cold and clear away from the Palace.

Although she was in Xinyang Leaving Palace, she could also vaguely influence the situation in the palace, but after all, it was not as convenient as being inside Kyoto, so in the sixth year of the Qing calendar, she finally persuaded the Empress Dowager to move back to Kyoto. And at this time, that year the sensational speech paper incident, has long disappeared in people’s memories.

Just back to Kyoto not too long, Junshan will in Jiangnan strength will make her very annoyed to show in front of the emperor’s brother, so the emperor ordered her to move into the palace again, the name of the reunion, in fact, close to the surveillance.

However, after all, the eldest princess in the palace operation for a long time, and is the empress dowager’s favorite little girl, and the empress of the relationship between the always close, so she went in and out of the palace or no one can stop, she secretly do those tricks, but also succeeded in concealing a lot of people.

Of course, in order to let the emperor brother to rest assured, she is not convenient to go out of the palace too much, and the following ministers to contact too close, so now she most often do activities, is to accompany the empress dowager to chat, and the empress to get together in a study some of the birds and flowers, insects and water, such as embroidered cloth.

The embroidery is not cloth.

The situation in Jiangnan has been finalized, regardless of the eldest princess Li Yunrui convinced, admit it or not, difficult or not sad, in short, she operated more than ten years of Jiangnan …… has been her son-in-law of the “Chengcheng” all over the past!

Ming Lao Taijun died, three stone master died, the Ming family is silent, Jiangnan officialdom in Fan Xian and Xue Qing’s combined efforts to suppress, there is not much rebound, she inserted in the Treasury Transit Division of the three Square of those close friends, but also all Fan Xian pulled out, those officials, although the letter is still respectfully, but in the Fan Xian under the authority of the obscenity, but there is not much way to move.

It is not easy to make the people’s grievances and anger, but somehow silently scattered. As a result, the letters of blood of ten thousand people that had been sent to Kyoto from thousands of miles away and the old Confucian scholar who had filed a lawsuit against the Imperial Court had also become rootless, and did not pose a single threat to the Imperial Court at all.

“Punish the salary?” Eldest Princess Li Yunrui slightly narrowed her eyes, a hint of teasing flashed in her beautiful phoenix eyes, “You say, their old Fan family is still short of this amount of silver?”

Sitting beside her was the Empress with a dignified and gorgeous face. The Empress smiled and said, “His Majesty loves their Fan family miles, some days ago the matter of clearing the Ministry of Revenue, is not the same hastily closed?”

The Princess smiled, her long eyelashes blinking with a youthfulness that is far from her age, and said with a light laugh, “Fan Shangshu’s service to the country is something that women like us can compare to.”

She sighed and said, “In the end, I don’t have any children, and I don’t care much about having a daughter, so what do I care about these things? I see in the fall, I still ask my mother, go back to Xinyang to live well.”

The empress heart thumped, cursed this fox charming son pretending to be tender, and heard out the other side is in the retreat to advance …… just today’s situation, if Li Yunrui really throws up his hands and does not do it, himself and the crown prince in this regard, how can not withstand Fan Xian and the old three side of the voice. Of course, the Empress wasn’t a fool, knowing that the eldest Princess would never be able to give up the power in her hands and leave it at that. When the other party said this, it was only to gain the upper hand in the scene.

The Empress’ smile even brought a hint of respectability that should never be there: ”What is it that my sister is saying? Although I am a mediocre woman who does not know the affairs of the country, but also know that sister is the pillar of the country, for our Daqing dynasty to seek a lot of benefits …… If you really go to Xinyang, His Majesty the emperor is the first will not agree.”

Today the two women’s conversation, in fact, still can’t leave that chair, just this kind of thing, in the absence of launch before, who have no guts to say too exposed.

The eldest princess was slightly silent for a while and slowly spoke, “Mother is old and always easily fooled by people.”

The Empress nodded and smiled, “Take your time.”

The two were silent, raising their teacups to sip, the Empress suddenly asked tentatively, “I heard that …… Fan Xian is doing well in Jiangnan, that is, he suddenly came to an expert recently, and chopped half a building in Suzhou city?”

It was always impossible to cover up the matter of a sword beheading half a building for too long, and it still traveled back to Kyoto and into the palace.

Rapunzel knew what the Empress wanted to ask, but preferred not to give the other party the truth, said with a slight hint of arrogance and a smile, “The affairs of the jianghu, I am not very clear about it.”

If a great master stood behind the Rapunzel, then the Empress would have a clearer understanding of where she should stand in the cooperation between the two of them, and of course, this would be a great strengthening of the Empress and the Crown Prince’s resolve.

Seeing that the Princess refused to speak clearly, the Empress cursed twice in her heart, and then excused herself.

Looking at that mother of a country’s slightly despondent back, the eyes of the eldest princess flashed a trace of pity and contempt, thinking that such a character, actually also want to share a cup of soup, really do not know where the confidence comes from.

Xinyang chief strategist Huang Yi and Yuan Hongdao are unlikely to enter the palace, so at this time the Princess side of the close confidant is a eunuch, the eunuch stood on the side of the Princess heart of the question said softly: “Empress …… do not know that this is … … …?”

“Seeking skin with a tiger.” The Eldest Princess said the four words that were inconvenient for her cronies to say, and said with a cold smile, “This Palace is a tiger, and she only has to be on my side, otherwise if Lao San really takes the throne, then Fan Xian will want to avenge Ye Light Eyebrow’s revenge …… who will help her block it?”

She slowly closed her eyes and said, “I temporarily set aside with her the question of whether it is Chengqian or the second …… because she knows that if things come to fruition, she can’t compete with me, and only seeks a way to live.”

“Jiangnan side?”

“No need to care anymore.” The Eldest Princess sighed, “My son-in-law, before he went down to Jiangnan, he made preparations. Those natives in Jiangnan, where can they be his match.”

She shook her head and said quietly after a while out of her mind, “Now that I think about it, I really made a big mistake in the beginning, if there was no Niulan Street matter, between Fan Xian and I, why would it come to this …… If he stood by my side, who else in this world could fight against us? ”

Not waiting for that eunuch to reply, she laughed again mockingly, “How whimsical, if I didn’t have such a deep and unresolvable grudge against Fan Xian, how would that emperor brother of mine dare to utilize him so heavily?”

That eunuch listened on the sidelines, not daring to utter a single breath.

“I was wrong from the very beginning.” A trace of indifference and determination flashed across the Princess’ beautiful face, “No matter how powerful Fan Xian is, he still has to have his limbs lifted by the strings in the palace, why do I need to care about this puppet, what I need to care about should have been the one lifting the strings in the first place.”

Not far from the Guangxin Palace in the Hall of Containing Light, the Empress Dowager is half squinting her eyes and getting sleepy. The old man, after all, is old, the spirit has long been inferior to that year, and the killing determination in her heart is also inferior to that year.

“Stop it stop it.” The old woman disgustedly stopped the palace maid who was talking about books, glanced at the book that the maid was holding in her hand, and did not say anything for a long time.

“It’s all ridiculous words, and I don’t know how so many people in the marketplace love to read it.” An old Sister beside her said curtly.

The empress dowager shook her head, and after a long time said softly, “Children are …… always normal to be a little unconvinced.”

Old Sister did not dare to say anything else.

The empress dowager’s eyes flashed through a very complicated emotion, in fact, the empress let herself see the meaning of the stone record, how could she not know, although her heart for Fan Xian’s dislike of the intention is indeed very angry, but even more angry at the empress’s behavior.

Fan Xian’s mother was no more than a thousand things, but Fan Xian was, after all, a descendant of the royal family, and this was the point that the old Empress Dowager valued the most.

“How long has Chen’er been gone?” The old empress dowager suddenly thought of her favorite granddaughter and asked the person beside her.

“The county princess should already be in Hangzhou now.”

“Well …… Jiangnan I’ve also been there, that place has a good view, it’s those women who are too wanton.” The empress dowager frowned and ordered, “Even if the Fan family prepares more attentively, it’s ultimately not as good as what’s in the palace, you have someone go prepare some things to send to Jiangnan.”

The old woman thought for a moment and added, “Go to the letter and ask the morning maid if she’s used to living by the West Lake, if she doesn’t like it, have her move to the palace on the mountain.”

Old Sister hurriedly answered.

Inside the imperial study, His Majesty, the Emperor of Qing, who had just finished the pre-royal conference, tiredly rubbed his brow, took a sip of the warm ginseng tea, and looked at the scenery outside the window that never seemed to change much, and frowned with some disgust.

“Hong Zhu ah ……” the emperor subconsciously shouted, shouting out, only to remember that Hong Zhu had already been transferred to the Eastern Palace by himself for half a year, and couldn’t help but smile to himself.

“Emperor, what are the orders?” The head eunuch beside him asked respectfully.

The emperor shook his head, gently coughed a few times, the echoes echoed in the imperial study, he could not help but be stunned, thinking that perhaps he was really old, listening to the echoes of the coughs, he actually found himself to be so lonely.

“Go to the small building and take a look.”

With a flick of his dragon robe, he straightened his chest and headed for the door, the eunuchs behind him hurried to follow, only coming to hear His Majesty’s hidden sigh, “When will you be free to go to Tanyu State again?”

This year’s Qing Kingdom was no different from the usual years, the palace was still lonely and dirty, outside the palace was still bustling with activity, the court was still arguing, the six ministries were still fighting, the Supervisory Court was still silent and hideous, Old Dean Chen was still enjoying the songs and dances in Chen Garden, and Minister Fan was still busy in the Ministry of Households.

The people are struggling to survive, looking for happy things to comfort their numb hearts and minds.

For example, the east family married a girl, the west family died of an old man, the south did not flood this year, the west seems to be at war again, the little Lord Fan did not write poetry, the North Qi holy woman and the Fan family’s young lady actually face each other or not?

From Kyoto all the way down to Jizhou, where the river will merge into the big river, both sides of the riverbank are a bustling and busy scene. Repair the embankment of the people like ants hard to carry the sand and gravel, this year the Qing Dynasty good luck, spring floods than imagined to be smaller than a lot of the treasury’s abundance also brought a lot of the river Governor Yamen bottom, although the layers of harsh deductions, but ultimately sent a lot of money to go down, so the people work motivation is also a lot of strong.

Yang Wanli full of dark, wearing a rough cloth clothes, frowning deeply locked standing in the bamboo shed, today’s situation is good, but the autumn flood is the most horrible thing, and he is in charge of the important task of the door division, to supervise the silver transported over to the direction of the dark, so the mental pressure is immense.

And to repair the embankment, water diversion, these things he did not understand, but also put down his body, personally executed. Days of sun exposure, finally washed away the last trace of bookishness on the body of the Fan’s disciples, so that he became a real official.

On the riverbank, far away from the line of several people, look at the appearance should be to go to a different place for the official officials.

That line of people from a long distance, began to call out to the bamboo hut.

Yang Wanli pulled up the lower lapel, wiped the sweat on his face, looked over there doubtfully, and finally saw who was coming, and could not help but be surprised to welcome out of the shed.

“Brother Ji Chang? Brother Jia Lin? Why are you guys here?” Yang Wanli was touched and greeted him, shaking his hands.

The people who came were Hou Jichang and Cheng Jialin, who were among the four sons of the Fan family, and who had been placed in the outer counties after the spring exams. Because of Fan Xian’s care, coupled with their own also strive, so the promotion of quite fast, but is more than a year’s time, actually completed a few jumps, stepped over the first seven products of the first big hurdle.

Just this two people appointed officials where, from the land of Ji state is very far, so Yang Wanli in the surprise, but also can not help but some surprise.

Hou Jichang did not have time to answer his words, but just held that pair of calloused hands, looked at Yang Wanli’s dark face, moved to say, “The letter from the adults, just said that you arrived at the River Transportation Governor’s Yamen, but did not think …… that it would be so bitter.”

On the side of Cheng Jialin has been some sighs.

Yang Wanli grinned, do not know what came to mind, said with a straight face: “Usually Wanli will only talk about political affairs, but until the contact with these people’s livelihoods, only to know how difficult it is for the people of my Daqing dynasty to live …… Teacher to let Wanli come to repair the river, is really the trust and cultivation of Wanli …… also only experienced this matter, only know that teacher that looks like diffuse care of the face underneath, the committee really have a worry about the country worry about the people’s heart.”

The three were silent, or Hou Jichang broke the silence, leisurely said, “According to rumors, the reason why your lordship was able to shock the Northern Qi Holy Maiden, all because of the words that your lordship said in the Northern Qi Palace.”

Speaking of the Northern Qi Holy Maiden Haitang, even though these three were all Fan Xian’s students, they still couldn’t stop snickering.

Yang Wanli stifled his laughter and asked, “What words?”

Hou Jichang turned around, looked at the laborers on the embankment at his feet, looked at the roaring river not far away, and sighed tersely, “First the world is worried, then the world’s happiness and joy …… I was thinking that at first, we seemed to have underestimated the adults ah.”

First the world’s worries and worries, after the world’s joy and happiness.

The three people chewed on this sentence in their respective hearts, and a wave of respect arose.

“Teacher …… face is tired and lazy, but actually has a red heart.” Yang Wanli thought about what he had seen and heard in the past few months, Fan Xian’s emphasis on river transportation, and the changes that had occurred in Jiangnan because of Fan Xian’s arrival, and couldn’t help but say in admiration.

Beside the bamboo hut on the dike, there were other officials from the River Transportation Yamen, Hou Jichang noticed that Yang Wanli had been using the word “teacher”, and couldn’t help but cough lowly and reminded, “In front of the outsiders, it’s better to call him “lord”, lest the imperial court say that we’ve formed a clique.”

“A gentleman pals but not parties, but if we really want to form a party, Wanli is willing to be a teacher’s walking dog.” Yang Wanli smiled, and said with a composure that was different from his years, “The world knows that we are the four sons of Fanmen, as long as we are working for the benefit of the people of the world, why should we care about what others say?”

Hou Jichang was slightly stunned, then laughed aloud and said, “This is true, or my brother has been a bit deliberate. Wanli seems to have made a lot of progress in the past half year, following the teacher around is indeed very beneficial to cultivating one’s body and temperament.”

Cheng Jialin also said enviously, “We are outside as an official, you are in Jiangnan, who knew that teacher would go to Jiangnan.”

Yang Wanli laughed: “I can not accompany the teacher for a few days, but it is Shi Yanli that boy …… If you go to Suzhou to see, only to know how much he has been changed by the teacher.”

At this point, Yang Wanli remembered to ask: “Where are you guys going?”

Cheng Jialin smiled and responded, “This half year teacher in Jiangnan to rectify the officials, out of a lot of vacancies, so the Ministry of Officials transferred me to Suzhou.”

Yang Wanli nodded happily, knowing that Cheng Jialin going to Suzhou would definitely be helpful to Fan Xian as well.

“What about you?”

Hou Jichang smiled and said, “I’m going to Jiaozhou, to serve as a magistrate.”

Yang Wanli was startled, thinking that this kind of transfer was considered a relegation, not understanding why Fan Xian had made this arrangement.

Hou Jichang did not explain anything, he only knew that Lord Fan Jr. must have had his deepest intentions in letting himself go to Jiaozhou, and that according to his teacher’s letter, that kind of yin-carved aftermath was really the only thing that he could barely manage to do amongst the four of him.

“First the world to worry?” In the middle of Jiangnan’s watery countryside, on top of a big boat, Fan Xian was lying on a bamboo chair on the board of the boat, looking at the sky full of stars, and couldn’t help but sigh, “I came to this world to enjoy happiness, not to worry about the country and the people.”

On such a night, the big boat traveling on the river, has long left Hangzhou.

Spending the summer months by the West Lake, Fan Xian studied the medicine left behind by Fei Jie with great care, and realized with some annoyance that what Bitter Lotus had said should be true. Just Fei jie seems to have a guilty conscience, for Fan Xian to invite a letter did not say a word, also do not know that old pervert hiding where.

Just Wan Er’s medicine insisted on drinking, so the body gradually returned to the beginning, Fan Xian’s mood is much better, for the Northern Qi bitter lotus hate also reduced a lot, as for the birth of a child this kind of thing, he was not in a hurry, his own less than twenty, anxious azure ah.

After all the things in Jiangnan are done, he took all the people beside him, sat on the big boat provided by the sailor, and began to travel along the waterways of Jiangnan.

The destinations of the tour were Wuzhou, Jiaozhou and Tanyuzhou.

At this time the night is deep, Wan Er and the third prince those people have long been asleep, silent on the board only lying side by side Fan Xian and Lin Dabao two people, even always hidden in the shadows of the six swordsmen and tiger guards have been Fan Xian called down.

Fan Xian was unable to sleep, Dabao was too much sleep on the boat during the day, so he could stay up for a while, and the two of them were lying side by side, eating the delicious pastries of Jiangnan while talking nonsense.

The world has always been unclear, why Fan Xian will be with that idiot brother-in-law feelings will be so good, in fact, even Fan Xian himself can not say that understand, perhaps, just because talking with Dabao, can get unprecedented ease, do not have to think about anything, do not have to be jealous of anything.

And there was no need to talk about politics, about the world, about right and wrong, about black and white, about good and evil, about the death of others or their own deaths, about the White Jade Workshop, about the stinking gutter.

Only need to talk about food and other simple and pleasant things. For example, at this time on top of the big boat that night dome dotted with stars.

River wind, the water waves do not rise, the boat stopped in a nameless lake, surrounded by reeds are still far away, no waterfowl night song annoyance, a silent. The starry sky overhead was lonely and distant, Fan Xian looked at the starry sky overhead and said to Dabao beside him, “What do you say, what are the stars in this sky?”

“It’s sesame seeds.” Dabao gestured with his broad and obese palms, “The moon …… is a burnt cake, and the stars …… are sesame seeds …… Xiao Bao said. ”

Xiaobao is the Lin Er Gongzi who died in the hands of Uncle Wuzhu, Fan Xian’s heart was stunned, and then he smiled faintly and pointed to the stars and the eyebrow moon in the sky, “I don’t know if it’s a baklava or not, all I know is that the starry sky of this Qing country turns out to also have a moon, and also those stars, and …… strangely enough, the daytime There is also a sun.”

The sun comes out in the daytime, and the stars and moon come out at night, this is definitely not called strange, this is common sense that children understand.

However, Dabao nodded his head seriously and said, “Little Xiaoyan, I also think it’s very strange.”

Fan Xian sighed and said, “Yes, it’s too strange, when I was a child I realized that the medium earth …… is still the earth.”