Chapter 25: How about studying abroad?

The sound of mahjong came from the distant lakeside, and the two old guys looked at each other and shook their heads.

“Fan Xian’s view is correct, the oldest two don’t have much of a chance, and it’s just that most of the people in this dynasty can’t see clearly yet.” King Jing waved his hand and said, “That son of mine is different from me, always unwilling to follow my example of harboring like this, I’m a bit worried.”

Fan Jian glanced at him and said, “Hongcheng and Second Highness are indeed getting too close.”

King Jing sneered and did not continue this topic, “I think the second is reading pedantically, fuck him, Wan’er her mom is a crazy bitch, actually tossing around with her, how can something not happen? My son is also a stupid …… fuck him!”

Fan Jian said with a slight smile, “You can’t fuck the oldest two’s mother, Shu Guifei is His Majesty’s woman. As for the mother of the world’s son …… you do it in name only, this I will not stop you.”

King Jing laughed out loud and scolded, “Hongcheng his mother died how many years, but estimated that she is waiting for me underground …… You old boy, finally willing to open the yellow accent, when every day in the brothel bubble, I also when you now turned sex.”

He gently clapped chair hand, turned his head to look around the familiar scenery, turned to say: “Remember this mansion? When the Cheng Wang Fu, when we were young, all three of us grew up in this mansion, mom hugged my brother, and hugged me, but couldn’t care less about you as my own son, what kind of dirt was on you at that time.”

Fan Jian recalled his early childhood, at that time King Cheng was now His Majesty’s own father, in fact, it was far worse than the current King Jing, just a young prince with neither power nor ambition. Although his own family was a partial branch of the great Fan clan, but his mother came to the king’s house to do the thing of bringing up children, still fell in the status, I do not know how many cold words of the clan I have endured.

“No one could have imagined that the situation would later turn out like this.” Fan Jian smiled and said, “I think mother should also be very proud in Tanyu now, having hugged and grown up so many people.”

“When the three of us fought, you and I always beat our brother together, but we could never beat him.” King Jing said coldly, “Even though it was when he was a child, you should be well aware of the viciousness of his hands.”

Fan Jian didn’t answer, King Jing dared to say his brother’s faults, but he didn’t dare to say anything bad about His Majesty, he smiled and said, “Who let Chen Pingping always help His Majesty at that time, His Majesty is older than you, Chen Pingping is stronger than me, so naturally we couldn’t beat them.”

King Jing shook his head and said, “Yes, that’s why I don’t want to fight at all, I just want peace and quiet, and I also want peace for my children and grandchildren. Like this time, Fan Xian’s heart is actually clear about the matter of checking on Lao Er, it’s just that His Majesty is short of money to use, yet he lets his children go charging into battle, his heart is too hard.”

Fan Jian was the Minister of the Household. Of course, he knows the situation in the national treasury nowadays, and said with a bitter smile, “I don’t blame His Majesty, it’s really the lack of money that’s so bad. The Empress Dowager is in power, and His Majesty can’t push the Princess too hard. Since Fan Xian is willing to be the sword, I think he should also have some certainty. Although Chen Pingping is getting more and more eccentric, she won’t let Fan Xian suffer, so let’s leave these things alone.”

King Jing gave him a look, and only after a long time did he gasp and say, “You, it’s still the same as before, you bury everything in your mind, and you won’t even tell me the truth.”

Fan Jian laughed and didn’t say anything.

After King Jing’s birthday banquet was over, Fan’s family members returned to the mansion in several carriages. Fan Xian led his wife and sister to his own mansion, and was a bit annoyed in his heart, “Where did he go again? If you are sisters-in-law and sisters-in-law, can you keep an eye on him?”

Lin Wan’er spat out her tongue, she was happy to study mahjong with Fan Si Zhe, but to take care of the child? She herself hadn’t completely lost her childishness. However, when she heard Fan Xian’s words, she couldn’t help but quietly touch her belly, thinking how could it be that after so long, there was no movement?

Ruo Ruo is two months younger than Wan Er, but her eyes and temperament are a bit more calm, and she has always been in charge of Fan Si Zhe’s discipline, but a few months ago, after the news of the marriage came out of the palace, she began to have a deer in the bow and arrow in her heart, and she was nervous, and she went to work on preparing for the warping of the family. Hearing her elder brother’s tone of voice, she knew that he was talking about himself, so she couldn’t help but respond with an aggravated, “I know.”

Fan Xian also felt that his temper was unreasonable, where there is a sixteen year old girl who acts as a nanny every day, and hurriedly comforted, “Don’t be angry, I am just saying.”

The three entered the house, the little maid hurriedly served tea, Fan Xian picked a small white porcelain cup and drank it, and curiously asked, “Where are Si Si and Si Qi?”

Wan Er smiled and said, “The two of them went to the royal residence with us, so we had to let them rest first.”

Fan Xian laughed and said, “In the end, they are big maids, more reserved than the general family’s big misses.”

Wan’er heard him say this, suddenly thought of a pile of things, dainty and naive asked, “That attacker …… is Sisi, right?”

Fan Xian spewed out a mouthful of tea and waved his hands, “Where is this coming from?”

Ruo Ruo frowned at the side and thought, “Si Si’s temperament is like Qing Wen’s, and she’s sashaying and pleasing to the eye.”

Fan Xian was silent, thinking that he hadn’t copied out the seventy-seventh edition of the Red Mansion yet, but this Qingwen would not have a good ending. In fact, on the issue of Si Si and Si Qi, he is also quite difficult – according to reason, Si Si should have long been included in the room is right, he and Si Si since childhood all the way to grow up, the feelings of the general master and servant to be a bit deeper – just to accept Si Si, Wan Er brought over the big girl Si Qi also have to This was something Wan Er had insisted on!

Whenever he thought about this, Fan Xian couldn’t help but feel some happy absurdity of worry.

But …… he and Si Si may still have some emotional foundation, and with Si Qi …… mother, that is, when the night to explore the courtyard, the sky sky incense friendship, how is it also difficult to imagine and that girl in a bed to go.

Just Si Si is now also older, and then do not make a decision, I am afraid that the future are not good to marry.

Looking at Lin Wan Er’s confused face, Fan Xian painfully pinched her cheeks, the soft touch was very good. Not considering this matter for now, he gave her a wink. Wan’er understood, knowing that the brother and sister duo had some things to talk about, so she got up and left the room, dismissing the subordinates serving under the hall.

“Do you know what I admire most about you?” Fan Xian himself poured a cup of tea for his sister with his own hands and said with a smile.

Fan Ruo Ruo slightly inclined her head, and with a flip of her alabaster-like palm, she gently and incomparably removed the hairpin from her head, loosened and revitalized her scalp, and gently shook her head, her black waterfall of hair cascading down onto the white dress on her shoulders all at once.

She reached into her teacup and dipped her fingers into some tea, placing it on her brow and rubbing it, saying bitterly, “Brother, I’m dying of worry. Don’t you make fun of me anymore.”

Dipping tea and rubbing his brow to clear his mind and tranquilize his heart was Fan Xian’s habitual little gesture, and now Ruo Ruo had also developed this habit. It was just that Fan Xian preferred cold residual tea, while Ruo Ruo preferred warm and slightly hot fresh tea, and there was not much difference between the two siblings.

“Not poking fun at you.” Fan Xian sighed and said, “Sister, you are really calm, like today, when the two adults in King Jing’s mansion were talking about marriage, it was already difficult for me to act as if nothing had happened, but you are the one involved, and you can still keep your face unchanged and your heart unchanged, so it’s really remarkable.”

Ruo Ruo had a light nature, but the reason why she was able to remain calm in matters involving her future was another reason. She looked at her elder brother with a slight smile and said, “When brother is not at home there is some panic, when brother is at home there is no panic, everything has brother.”

The three voices of her brother were like three mountains pressing down on Fan Xian, making this man not want to shake his hand and not care. Fan Xian said with a sad face, “His majesty appointed the marriage, the king is happy, father is happy, the world’s son is the best young man in the capital even though he has some flowery name, it’s really not easy to return this marriage, my sister trusts me so much, it really puts me under some pressure.”

Ruo Ruo pursed her lips and said, “Anyway …… I listen to my brother all the time.”

After Fan Xian thought about it, he said very seriously, “You should remember this person, Si Li Li, right?”

Fan Ruo Ruo looked at her brother’s expression and nodded with some surprise, “That woman who tried to kill you.”

Fan Xian smiled, “Not bad, I always felt that she was a bit different from the women of this world, regardless of whether or not what she did was correct, but at least she dared to think what she wanted and do what she wished to do……. On the day that she left Beiqi to go to the capital this time, I had asked her why this was so, and Si Ruoruo said, perhaps It’s because her family was broken since she was young, and she had no choice but to flee the world and be displaced, so she has traveled more than the average woman in the world, and experienced more things.”

Fan Ruo Ruo nodded slightly and said softly, “Brother once said that traveling ten thousand miles and reading ten thousand books are both extremely beneficial things in life.”

“Not bad, that is why I am willing to go on a mission to Northern Qi. It’s just that you can read books whenever you want,” Fan Xian looked at his sister’s warm and pure eyes and said gently, “But to walk around in this world and see a different kind of scenic life is an extremely rare thing. Especially for you official ladies of Kyoto.”

Fan Ruoruo slightly scoffed to herself and said, “In addition to living in Tanyu state for a year when I was a child, in my sister’s life, the furthest I’ve traveled is only Cangshan Mountain, like what brother said about the Misty Duo River, the characters of Beiqi, and the scenery of the meadows, naturally, I don’t have the blessing to see it.”

“Want to see?”

Fan Ruo Ruo hesitated slightly and nodded heavily after a moment.

Her upbringing had always been characterized by Fan Xian’s teaching of “Destroying People Without Tiring”, so she was very different from the average government lady, and every time she thought about the scenery and life that her brother had once described, her heart became a bit stirred. Today’s Qing women, before getting married may still be able to stroll around Kyoto, after getting married, is long locked in the house, even if the trip, is not free. So confined life …… she thought of her own may also be so muddled through life, the heart is the boss of the reluctance, the boss of the unwillingness.

Fan Xian sighed in the depths of his heart, since he had opened a window in his sister’s heart from a young age, letting her see the outside scenery, he had the responsibility to open a door for her and help her go out.

“Before you marry Shizi, I will find a way to send you away.” Fan Xian narrowed his eyes and said, “Everything is being planned, and today, watching King Jing and Father’s reactions, I realized that this matter is indeed feasible, and not as impossible as I initially thought myself to be.”

Ruo Ruo was a talented girl from Kyoto, ice smart, immediately guessed what her elder brother meant, and said in astonishment, “Could it be that …… brother wants me to worship under Master Bitter Lotus!”

Fan Xian gently patted her head, the tip of his hair drifting through tenderness, and said with a smile, “Finally woke up?”

Ruo Ruo’s mouth opened wide, full of incredulity and shock, mumbling for a long time before organizing her words, “How is this possible?”

“Why is it impossible?” Fan Xian raised his eyebrows and said, “Bitter Lotus opened the mountain to accept disciples, what kind of big deal is that? Since he has used the trick of heavenly auspiciousness, and does not limit himself to the boundaries, and my sister is a famous talented woman, being his disciple is a favor to him, how dare he not accept her?”

Ruo Ruo knows this is a stubborn joke, lowered his head and said, “I don …… t know martial arts.”

“All paths are connected.” Fan Xian cheered her up, “A talented woman not only knows how to write poems, but also learns to fight just as fast, Bitter Lotus is a great master of the Heavenly Dao, so of course she understands this.”

Fan Ruoruo suddenly raised her head and looked at him with a smile on her face, “What about that heavenly auspiciousness?”

Fan Xian smiled and shook his head, “Leave it to me, there’s no such thing as auspiciousness in the world, just catch a fish in the kitchen and stuff a note in it some day.”

Fan Ruo Ruo’s face still carries that faint smile, forcing the question, “This thing …… is only afraid of brother pre-arranged it?”

Fan Xian froze, half a long time before he bitterly smiled and spoke out, “I’m not hiding from you, in Beiqi when I started to arrange this thing, just think if you are willing to marry Hong Cheng, this thing will not be necessary to continue, if you are not willing, have to do so.”

“North Qi?” Fan Ruo Ruo looked at him with a smile, “It seems that the Haitang girl’s relationship …… with her brother is really good.”

This matter Fan Xian no longer had the possibility to argue, to be able to let a generation of masters re-open the mountain to accept disciples, this relationship is shallow, of course it can’t be done. It was just that Fan Xian had paid other great prices for this matter, otherwise how could he make a great master who was comparable to the emperor’s dignity cooperate with his acting? It was just that he didn’t want to worry his sister, so he didn’t make it clear.

“Do you want to go to Northern Qi to read and travel? Studying abroad is very comfortable.” Fan Xian asked his sister very directly.

Fan Ruo Ruo looked down and thought for a long, long time, as if considering something important, and never nodded her head.