Chapter 34: Since ancient times, the tortoise is a young man
The Kyoto government was constrained by the second prince’s warning, and also knew that the proprietor of the Moon Palace had a close relationship with the famous villains in Kyoto, so it always turned a blind eye to the Moon Palace, while the Supervisory Yuan did not have this concern, although they did not have the power to investigate the civil affairs of Kyoto, but under the pretext of investigating the malfeasance of the Kyoto government, it had found a great deal of relevant information from various aspects.
Fan Xian sat in his study, looking at the case files in front of him, and couldn’t help but frown deeply. There were a total of two proprietors of Moon House, so mysterious and ruthless that basically not many people had seen them. As for the behavior of the Moon Embracing Building, it is really bold and acted pungently and ruthlessly. This spring only opened the building, only with a few months time, in the force and silver money under the double channel, knocked out the side of the building business, forcibly robbed a lot of famous red herdsmen into the building, the prestige of a sudden big show.
The line of holding the moon building, Fan Xian from those details can be seen, the owner of the building must be a good business master, but in those general means of merchants and businessmen, can not be covered by a dark approach – Mu Tie said is not wrong, just one month, there are four not very obedient prostitutes disappeared, think long dead, and hold the moon building secretly dirty things more. There were even more dirty deeds going on in the shadows of Moon House, with all kinds of child prostitutes and perverts taking over the business.
Fan Xian’s frown grew deeper and deeper, and his heart grew colder and colder. Whether in his past life or in this life, the world had always been filthy, but in the sky of Kyoto, this kind of filth was more easily brought to the surface. Powerful people rely on their own hands of power position, for the world of the common people, always in the non-stop exploitation and oppression, like holding the moon building this kind of thing, in fact, in the Kyoto officialdom, is not a special case, more is not the first case, but all of the dignitaries have been accustomed to the means of enrichment.
For the world’s poor, the lowly, the injustice …… before, Fan Xian is more just to be a bystander, cold-eyed look at the world’s ugly slowly happen, or subconsciously do not think about these injustice and darkness – because he is not the Goddess of Mercy, he is not to save the suffering of the people. Because he is not the Bodhisattva who saves people from suffering, he himself has gained enough benefits and enjoyment from this position of power and nobility, and as a person with vested interests, as a member of the ranks of the powerful and the noble, he rightly chooses to remain silent and accept.
Silence and acceptance, does not mean he can get used to, even though he has been in this sewage tank long enough, but still can not get used to.
A mere Moon Embracing Mansion was also not enough to make him change his philosophy. He might do something good within his power, redeeming Sang Wen, suppressing the Clasp the Moon House, making those powerful and noble people do things a little softer, and moderating the conflict between the classes, but he would not try to make a thunderous reaction.
Because a thunderous reaction would mean denying everything that Moon Hugging House stood for, it would mean going against the entire world. And this kind of heaven defying thing, only Ye Qingmei seemed to have tried to do it before. And his mother, it seemed, had failed in the end.
But the Moonlight House seemed to be more than just a simple greenhouse. Fan Xian had already smelled the uneasiness hidden inside, and gradually some ominous judgments and an evil fire came out from no reason within himself!
So he wanted to personally go to the Moon Palace again to confirm whether his judgment was correct or not.
A sunny, crisp autumn afternoon, as the head of the Kai Nian group Deng Ziyue once again came to hold the moon building.
As soon as they saw his deathly pale face, all of Moon Embracing House’s know-it-all fighters swarmed up, ready to beat him to a pulp on the spot, but as soon as they saw his deathly pale clothes, all of them retreated half a step back in silence, as if they were afraid of the sinister smell that seeped out of the clothes he was wearing.
Deng Ziyue was wearing the official uniform of the Supervisory Court today, so his identity was different. Hugging the Moon Building thought that it also had the Supervisory Yuan as a backer behind it, so it naturally wouldn’t do anything that would cause the Dragon King’s Temple to be overwhelmed by the water, and immediately changed a person with status to come out and respectfully welcomed him into a quiet room on the third floor.
There was a curtain in the room, and it was not clear what was inside.
Outside the curtain is a round table made of green state stone, looks noble exceptionally, Shi Qing’er with a smile on her face will Deng Ziyue welcome to the table and sit down, charmingly said: “The original adult is actually the hospital’s adults, last night is really reckless, early to know is the hospital’s adults, that Sang Wen hands to send on that is, where else would I dare to receive your silver ticket?”
Speaking, her eyes intentionally or unintentionally to the curtain looked, but there is no action to take out the silver ticket.
Teng Ziyue knew that there must be someone behind the curtain, perhaps the mysterious boss of the Moonlight Tower. He had been in the Supervisory Yuan for eight years, and had never done any business that relied on power to bully businessmen, but Fan Xian had forced him to take back the 10,000 taels of silver today, so he had to go through the process again. After a little bit of deliberation, he said with a cold smile, “Miss Shi is so polite, just last night when I went out of the building, I bumped into a couple of puppies, today I came, just to ask, is this dog raised by your building?”
Shi Qing’er face unchanged, the heart is some hidden worry, last night just thought the other side is the thirteen Yamen people, how to think that it is actually and the Supervisory Yuan has a relationship with the second east of the small brothers in the past days across Kyoto, how to know that last night was the other side of the beat a mess! Today, the other side even came to the door again, sharp words good nonchalant, it seems to be very difficult to make good, just a pity that time is too tight, actually did not find out the other side of the bottom line.
Because of a certain aspect of the reason, hold the moon floor itself is categorically can not think of that Chen Gongzi is Fan Tisi, but she is still not very that mysterious Chen Gongzi in the eyes, not to mention will not be this 10,000 two silver ticket spit out again, because behind the curtain sits the person, gave her enough confidence.
Shi Qing’er’s face chilled as she said with a cold smile, ”This lord is really funny in his words, when did the Supervisory Yuan also control the sale of green houses? Shouldn’t this be a matter for the Kyoto Prefecture? If your honor was bitten by a dog, beware of getting sick, why don’t you hurry home to rest and come to the building to take care of our business?” She winks and laughs, “Your Excellency is really fierce.”
Deng Ziyue said sternly, “Cut the crap here! If you don’t give an explanation for what happened yesterday, I’m afraid I’ll tear down this broken building of yours!” He was ordered to come and shake hard, his heart was really a bit twisted, but the long years of work in the Supervisory Yuan made his words naturally flow with a chilling meaning and a sense of oppression.
Someone inside the curtain coughed twice.
Shi Qing’er sunk her face, slapped her palm on top of the stone table in Qingzhou, and scolded fiercely: ”I don’t know where to come from, but I don’t know where to come from, but I don’t know where to come from, but I don’t know where to come from! I don’t know where he came from, but he dared to come to our Moonlight House to squeeze money out of us! It is clearly written in the contract, you forcefully bought Sang Wen, don’t you know enough? If you still refuse to leave, I’ll strip you naked and drive you out the door, so that the whole of Kyoto can see how ugly you are.”
Teng Zi Yue stared at her eyes with a fierce aura, but his ears listened to the movements within the curtain, and said in a chilling voice, “It seems that your building is really ready to make an enemy of my Supervisory Yuan.”
A mere green house, where is the qualification to be an enemy with the huge and terrifying Supervisory Court, but Shi Qing’er was surprisingly unperturbed, narrowing her eyes and smiling coldly, “Don’t use the Supervisory Court to frighten people, the six ministries and three divisions eat this set of words, but I, the Moon Embracing House, don’t eat this set of words!”
Teng Zi Yue laughed loudly, “Have guts.” Standing up, cold eyes looked at the curtain, a brush of the sleeve is ready to leave.
“Stop right there!”
Has been quiet, only two coughs were heard within the curtain, finally someone spoke, voice tender, but contains a disdain and the flavor of a high position of power. The green curtain slowly pulled open, has been mysterious, never seen outsiders hold the moon building proprietor, finally appeared in front of the world.
Teng Ziyue looked back in shock, his pupils shrinking violently. He truly hadn’t thought of the other party’s identity! Even more so, he did not expect that the other party would actually meet with him!
He looked at the young man dressed in pale yellow clothing within the curtain, and felt an incomparable sense of absurdity deep within his heart! Holding the moon building – Kyoto’s largest and reddest and blackest greenhouse, ushering in and sending away johns every day, night after night of lustful voices of the brothel, its boss is actually a …… little boy less than ten years old!
Teng Ziyue looked at this little boy wearing yellow clothes with his jaw dropped and suddenly frowned. Although this little boy’s identity was extraordinary, but suddenly becoming the boss of the Moon Embracing House was really also a great shock to him.
After a long period of silence, he finally half-bent his knees and saluted in a deep voice, “Deng Ziyue, the direct chief bookkeeper of the Supervisory Court, meet the Third Highness!”
Third Highness?
His Majesty’s youngest son was actually the proprietor of Moon Embracing House!
Seeing this Supervisory Court official, who had been putting on a ruthless and cool expression, give in and kneel in front of the second proprietor, Shi Qing’er’s lips curled up and let out two contemptuous sneers. So what if the Supervisory Court was even more powerful? It’s still not a dog of His Majesty the Emperor, this building of his own looks unusual, but behind it is His Majesty’s youngest son!
“This …… Lord Deng, do you have anything else to say?” Shi Qing’er was filled with a light-hearted smile.
Out of Shi Qing’er’s expectation, after Deng Ziyue knelt, not waiting for that less than ten year old heavenly dignitary to open his mouth, he has naturally stood up, full of seriousness and said, “This official is ordered by the adults to come and ask, the girl has not yet answered, go back, I will naturally report back as much as I can, and as for the future how to do, naturally there is an adult in the courtyard responsible for it.”
The third prince is the emperor’s youngest son of Qing, his birth mother is the palace is extremely favored Yi Gui concubine, children’s family, actually opened up a greenhouse! This fact is absurd, but it is in front of us, Teng Zi Yue’s temples jumped twice, forced down the emotions in his heart, holding a salute and said: “The next official to leave.”
The Third Prince’s face was still childish, and as he watched this young official try to leave like this, a wave of annoyance rushed into his brain, and a tea bowl was thrown over. Although Fan Xian at the city gates to see that the third prince of a small age, the chest is quite calculating, but after all, it is still a child, did not get the expected respect, naturally burst into a rage.
The third prince came forward and pointed at Deng Ziyue’s nose, scolding: ”Why do you just want to leave? Why don’t you check it out? Didn’t you want me to return ten thousand taels of silver to you!”
Deng Ziyue smiled bitterly, the Supervisory Office is no longer powerful, but it is impossible to fight with a prince for the silver ticket, but according to His Majesty’s style, the Supervisory Office doesn’t really sell the prince’s account, and last night, Fan Xian instructed him to be very serious, so Deng Ziyue, as a close associate of the Tishek, he didn’t dare to fall down in front of the prince, and so he maintained his courtesy, saying, “The matter of the silver ticket, naturally, there’s my family’s lord to come and talk about it, but Your Third Highness, you’re just the third emperor, and you want to leave. Explain, just the third highness, this kind of sound and color place or less involved is.”
Shi Qing’er froze in the side listening, thinking that the Supervisory Yuan is really as domineering as the legend, actually even the face of the Emperor’s son is not sold!
The third prince is only eight or nine years old, but born in the imperial family, the little boy was born with a force of authority, the mind is not simple, sneered and said: “When did the Supervisory Yuan become a beggar, actually asking for money everywhere? Actually dare not sell the account of this palace …… cousin, do you know who this person is?”
Between the words, the half drawn curtains were all pulled open, and there was actually a group of thugs ambushed inside. Look at the look of these beaters, Deng Ziyue looked aghast, feeling the strength of the other side, far from the general gangster can be compared.
The front of these fighters also stood two teenagers, a teenager full of vicious color, right hand was bandaged solid, hidden blood oozing out, it is last night by Fan Xian a crossbow arrow shot through the palm of the person.
Deng Ziyue’s eyelids jumped twice, knowing that it was extremely difficult to make good today, but he looked at the one next to the teenager who was shot through the palm of his hand, and his face looked even more extremely ugly, even more shocked than earlier when he found out that the proprietor of Holding the Moon House was the third prince of a young …… man!
He frowned and looked at the eye-catching pockmark on the left cheek of that slightly chubby teenager, and asked after a little silence, “Young master, could it be that you are also the proprietor of the Moon Embracing Building?”
This chubby teenager was no one else but Fan Xian’s younger brother, Fan Si Zhe!
Deng Ziyue had never imagined that the Moon Embracing House that Lord Titus wanted to investigate was actually owned by his own brother!
Compared with the arrogant attitude of the Third Prince, compared with the room of those who are eager to try, want to Deng Ziyue on the spot to teach a lesson of the beaters, Fan Si Zhe’s face looks particularly ugly, pale and incomparably, pupils of the eyes in addition to the occasional exposure of the vicious color of the extermination, but more is from the depths of the heart of the fear.
He looked at the Third Prince with great anger and said, “You fool! Do you know who he is?”
The third prince was stunned, thinking, “Even if you are my cousin, why are you scolding me? Furious, he scolded back, “You dare to scold me!”
Fan Si Zhe clenched his teeth tightly and sucked in a breath of cool air. Last night s matter he is aware of, so today specially bring people to see, these dare to cut off their own financial way of the official grandson, is the thirteen Yamen which do not long for the eyes of the small role, but did not think …… to come is actually the people of the Supervisory Yuan!
He closed his eyes, breathed extremely deeply twice, looked at the third prince shook his head and said bitterly, “You made out a good thing!” His heart fluttered, knowing that someone must be deliberately hiding something from him.
The third prince and Fan Si Zhe is a cousin, since the beginning of the year to listen to people persuaded to pick up after the partnership opened the hold the moon building, has always been smooth, well aware of their own cousin is really a bit of business on the road of the genius character, but do not understand why the other side today is a big departure from the norm, even if it is the Supervisory Yuan of the people and afraid of what? He is a son of the Emperor, your own brother is the Supervisory Yuan’s most powerful Tisi!
His young face was confused.
Fan Si Zhe in the bottom of the heart sighed, followed by a hopeful look to Teng Zi Yue, asked: “…… last night that Chen Gongzi, is not …… it?”
Teng Zi Yue calmly looked at this teenager, deep inside somehow but for Fan Tishe adults feel a little sad, nodded.
Fan Sithe face is wooden, seems to be stunned, but the heart is extremely fast in the calculation, should this Deng Ziyue in front of him to extinguish the mouth, and then he hurriedly get out of the holding the moon building, or let his brother know, what will happen to him?