Chapter 56 Plum Garden Patient

The Plum Garden was behind Guangxin Palace, with an environment that was incredibly tranquil, and after crossing the Tianxin Terrace, one arrived at the Yinfeng Pavilion, which was where Lord Xiao Fan was recuperating from his injuries at this time. Although it was His Majesty’s special decree to keep him in the palace to heal his wounds, and everyone in the palace knew what a great service Lord Fan had done for the royal family this time, there was always something not quite right about a male courtier staying in the palace for a long time. Fan Xian is also well aware of this, so he just honestly stayed in the Plum Garden, and for the visits from the various palaces, he always used his physical discomfort as a reason to put off.

At this time, a cheerful noblewoman with a bit of naivety, but familiar with the way up to the Yinfeng Pavilion, holding a child, followed by a few court ladies.

Fan Xian was slightly stunned, and when he realized that it was Concubine Yi, he didn’t say anything. Since he woke up, Yi Gui Concubine will bring the third prince to this side every day to sit, one to everyone is originally a relative, the second in the hanging temple on their own to save the old three a life, the other side of this great grace as a reason, their own bad to stop, the third …… Fan Xian is also clear, the intention of the heart of this matron is very real.

“Auntie, didn’t you say you don’t need to come? Why did you even bring something up today?” He said with a smile.

According to the theory of etiquette, he always had to call the other party an empress, but last year, when she first entered the palace, Yi Gui Concubine liked Fan Xian to call herself aunt, and since she liked this kind of affectionate address, Fan Xian no longer insisted on it. Today, the palace maid behind Yi Gui Concubine was carrying a few food boxes, and she didn’t know what was inside.

“Cordyceps simmered soup.” Yi Gui Concubine greeted the two girls around him, pulled a pier over unobtrusively, sat down next to Fan Xian, and said, “It’s not from the palace, it’s something your family boiled up and asked me to send over.”

Fan Xian let out an ooh. He looked at the palace maids who were busy pouring soup on the side, and one of them, whose eyes were very familiar, laughed and said, “The awake child has also come over.”

Qing’er was precisely the little palace maid who had taken him to visit various parts of the palace when he first entered the palace. She didn’t expect this little Lord Fan to remember her, and couldn’t help but blush slightly and yelp in a mosquito-sized voice.

Pour caused all the people to laugh, Yi Gui concubine laughed and scolded: “Injured like this, still do not forget ……”

Suddenly felt that this can not continue to say, then sweet smile stopped mouth. She is not very old, coupled with the nature of the natural stock of naive and beautiful attitude, so very easy to get close to people, turned her head and Wan Er said a few words, and Ruo Ruo chat about things at home, so that they can rest assured that they are in the palace to stay, Fan House has no problem.

Sitting beside her, the third prince, today, however, than in the past to appear a lot more honest, more not hold the moon building in the hostile and horizontal attitude, lowered his head, bitter face, did not say a word, only occasionally will raise his head, sneak a look at the couch patient.

The matter of the Hanging Temple had long since made him dissipate the anger towards Fan Xian in the Moon Embracing Building. After all, at that time, in addition to this “big cousin”, there is no one who cares about his own life and death, including the two biological brothers, all know only to go to the rescue of the Father Emperor …… At that time, if Fan Xian was not present, I am afraid that his own life, has long been killed in the hands of the assassin of the ninth grade, the assassin of the ninth grade. That ninth grade assassin’s hands.

An eight year old child, no matter how precocious he was, was only at an age where he could judge his affinity with good and evil. When the third prince looked at Fan Xian’s pale face, he thought of Fan Xian stopping in front of him at the Hanging Temple, and thought of his heroic behavior, and felt indescribable admiration in his heart.

Wan Er glanced at the Third Prince and asked in surprise, “Old Third, why are you so quiet today?”

The third prince smiled cheekily and said, “Sister Chen, it’s nothing.”

Wan Er was even more puzzled and laughed, “Hun seems to have changed like a different person.”

Yi Gui Concubine gave her son a heartbreaking look and said, “If it weren’t for Fan Xian, this boy would have lost his life, and after being so frightened, he should always be more honest.”

Fan Xian was lying on the couch, so he couldn’t turn his head, and only used his residual light to watch these women and children talk, and slowly drank a bowl of soup made from wormwood under the service of Qing’er. When Jing’er took back the bowl, she very quickly pinched his palm, and the fingertips were incredibly soft and smooth.

Fan Xian was slightly stunned, knowing that this little palace maid would definitely not come to tease himself at this time, and realized that there must be some words that concubine Yi Gui wanted to say to herself in private. He paused and said, “Wan’er, you take the Third Hall down to stroll around this garden……. Sister, you go too.”

The aunt and sister-in-law exchanged glances, knowing that he and Yi Gui Concubine had something to say, so they got up in style, pulling the somewhat reluctant Third Prince towards the depths of the garden, and took away the eunuchs and palace maids serving alongside them on the way.

In Yinfeng Pavilion, only Fan Xian and Yi Gui Concubine were left, but it was always inconvenient for a young courtier to spend time alone with a young lady, so Qing’er consciously stayed behind.

Fan Xian turned his head with some difficulty and glanced at Qing’er.

Yi Gui Concubine understood and said with a smile, “The little girl brought in from home is not afraid.”

“Auntie.” Fan Xian laughed bitterly, “And what is it that you need to be so careful about? My nephew was seriously injured and just woke up not two days ago.”

Yi Gui Concubine waved her handkerchief and said with a smile, “If I don’t come to you, don’t you want to find me?”

There was no hint of ambiguity in this statement, only that she had calculated that Fan Xian also desperately wanted to know news from outside the palace at this time. The matter of the assassination of the Hanging Temple is really a bit strange, not only are all the masters in the palace in their inner anxiety, those courtiers outside the palace are very uneasy, even the people in the capital are talking about it, they all have some deep feeling of its difference, beside the dinner table, in the wine shop, they are loudly cursing the assassin, and guessing the real origin of the assassin in a small voice, and even guessed several hundred kinds of answers. Yi Gui Concubine knew clearly that His Majesty wanted Fan Xian to recuperate from his injuries at ease, so he cut off all his sources of information, and she, herself, could just help him get some.

“Aren’t you afraid that His Majesty will blame Your Highness?” Fan Xian looked at her with a smile.

“It’s this time of year.” Yi Gui Concubine was very direct in her speech, smiling, “It’s not like I have anyone to count on besides you.”

Fan Xian understood what she meant. There were a total of four matrons in the palace who had sons, the Empress was not busy talking about it first, Ning Cailian and Shugui Concubine’s royal sons had all grown up and had their own side of the force, that is, Yi Gui Concubine in front of him, although her family’s origin was noble and there was the Fan House as a force outside of the palace, but the third prince was simply too young.

After a bit of silence, he told the scene of the Hanging Temple at that time.

Although she had already heard it from her son’s mouth, but Yi Gui Concubine still listened to the incomparable fear, her hands clutched her handkerchief, as if she was worried that the assassins hidden in the guards would slice her own son to death with a knife.

After listening, she said in a hateful voice: “How is it possible for an assassin to ambush the guards? The palace’s guards three generations of the old bottom are clearly checked.”

“It shouldn’t be against the old ……” Fan Xian smiled, “It’s okay for me to call the old third, right?”

“You are as a brother, of course as you call.”

“It’s not against Old ……” Fan Xian explained softly, “Maybe that assassin will kill Old Third in passing, but His Majesty is still his true purpose, Auntie don’t worry about it, even though the Crown Prince is a bit nervous about the strength of the family right now, and I’m not on good terms with the Lao Er aren’t on good terms either, but Lao San is still too young and shouldn’t be ranked as their first class target.”

To say this in the palace was indeed a bit bold, and although there were no eavesdroppers around the Yinfeng Pavilion, concubine Yi’s face still changed and she smiled somewhat unnaturally.

She was most worried about whether or not there were people in the palace who didn’t have good intentions for her son, and when she heard Fan Xian share his thoughts, she let go of her heart, and then she began to whisper to Fan Xian about the investigation outside the palace. Fan Xian did not know the progress of the investigation, but because of her mother’s family’s relationship, she had quite a few eyes outside the palace, and basically touched the situation similar to the real situation.

“Gong Dian has been arrested.”

Fan Xian softly hmmm’d, not revealing his inner shock. The fact that Yi Gui Concubine had used the word arrested, that meant that the court had already made up its mind about this matter. However, it wasn’t surprising that as the commander of the forbidden army who was also the head of the chief guards, he wasn’t even by His Majesty’s side when the assassination at the Hanging Temple occurred! This reason alone was enough to stomp that Palace Grand Commander to the ground, plus countless other feet on it, so that he would never be able to turn over a new leaf.

What Fan Xian was more interested in was – what exactly was this Grand Commander, who was confused to the core, doing at the time?

“He was in Luozhou, forty miles south of the capital …… In his own words, he was on an errand by decree.” Yi Gui Concubine said while exuding a puzzled look, even if Gong Dian wanted to exonerate herself, it was impossible to say the word by imperial decree, once this was stabbed to his majesty, it would immediately be punctured.

“But as for what he went to do, the Supervisory Court interrogated him for two days, but he was never able to give a clear account.”

Fan Xian couldn’t help but suck in a breath of cool air and sighed, “I’ve always known that Gong Dian is a straightforward person, but I never expected that he would be so foolish.”

“Hm?”

Fan Xian shook his head and sighed, “Since it wasn’t His Majesty’s decree for him to go to Luozhou on …… business, it must have been that person, but the problem is that there was a case of assassination, so how could he still move that person out as a savior? Even if he moved it out, it’s unlikely that His Majesty would recognize it, and it would only cause him to die faster.”

Yi Gui Concubine was always still somewhat unable to adapt to the direct spirited boldness of Fan Xian’s words, and smiled somewhat bitterly to herself, “Let’s leave these things …… alone.”

“Yes, we’re not qualified to care.” Fan Xian sighed, “The Ye family is going to have bad luck this time, has the identity of the assassin been checked out?”

“The first assassin who struck was the ninth rank expert who died.” Yi Gui Concubine’s eyes flashed with a trace of fear, “I heard that it was an assassin from West Hu’s Zuo Xian Wang’s residence, who has been infiltrating the Qing Kingdom for fourteen years.”

“How is it related to Western Hu again?” Fan Xian dissimulated, “How could a hu man have been working as an errand boy in the palace for so long and not been discovered?”

“This hu man’s origins are somewhat impressive.” Yi Gui Concubine thought for a moment, organized her words, and explained.

Only then did Fan Xian realize that the Hu assassin who died at the hands of Eunuch Hong was the descendant of the “fake princess” who had been sent to Qing when the country was founded to make peace with Western Hu, and that even though many years had passed, she still retained the appearance of a person from Qing – in fact, this time In fact, this peace treaty is very famous, because when Xihu was beaten by Qing, the other party once wanted to beg for peace and submit, and sent a team of descendants of the peace treaty team back to Kyoto, only to be firmly rejected by the people of Qing to submit to the other party.

That team then went back to Xihu very miserably, not realizing that it had left an expert in Kyoto, and then chose this moment to explode.

“How did the other party mix into the palace as a guard? Who did the formalities?”

“The person who did it died long ago.” Yi Gui Concubine frowned, “So it became an unsolved case.”

Fan Xian crossed a finger in his heart, he had finally touched a three-dimensional facet regarding this matter.

“The little eunuch is still alive, and with the means of the Supervisory Court, it should be able to investigate clearly.” He asked in a deep voice.

Yi Gui Concubine nodded: “The investigation is very clear. The little eunuch is the descendant of a princeling who died in that storm in Kyoto …… fifteen years ago, and that year there were too many deaths in Kyoto, so it even let a servant from that princeling’s residence escape with him in his arms, and at that time he was only just born not long afterward, so he wasn’t listed on the roster, and omitted this person… . that servant should have committed suicide, and then that year’s baby was carried by a farmer on the outskirts of the capital, and then later entered the palace by himself.”

“Then how was the dagger hidden in there?” Fan Xian thought that this was the real question, and that the little eunuch should not have been able to construct such a pattern.

Yi Gui Concubine’s next words overturned Fan Xian’s thoughts, “Three years ago, the little eunuch was responsible for cleaning the roof of the Hanging Temple before the Chrysanthemum Appreciation Party, and that’s when the dagger was hidden in, and the Supervisory Court has already found the dagger’s doer and confirmed the time.”

Fan Xian frowned. The little eunuch since is fifteen years ago the bleeding night of the residual parties …… that bleeding night himself clear, is the emperor, Chen Pingping, father in order to avenge his mother and the tactics, at that time, several of the largest princes of the state of Qing were uprooted, Kyoto do not know how many people died, even the empress of the family were cut down a branch and leaves not left, only Left her alone in the palace …… Who knows what implications this little eunuch represents behind her?

Xihu, Wang Gong …… These people do have the motivation and courage to conspire to assassinate the emperor, just …… how did they come together in a pile?

“Does the Ye family have any reaction?” Fan Xian asked seriously.

“What reaction can there be?” Yi Gui concubine shook her head with a smile and said, “Ye Chong even went up eight zhangfu to ask for forgiveness, and even dared not go back to Cangzhou, and honestly stayed in the mansion. Even the palace’s own soldiers were handed over to the Kyoto government to take over, careful and cautious beyond measure, just to see how His Majesty handles it.”

“Your Majesty, huh?” Fan Xian also smiled, “Let’s see if Ye Liuyun returns to Kyoto.”

The two of them were about to say something else, but suddenly they heard the sound of words faintly coming from a corner of the Plum Garden, so they fell silent and began to talk about something else. Fan Xian first apologized for the harm that had been done to the House of Yi on the matter of the Moon Embracing House, while Yi Gui Concubine, on behalf of the side of the House of the State Duke, thanked Fan Xian for not avoiding his affinity, for his courage in disciplining the little children, and for powerfully stopping the future of the House of the State Duke from sliding towards an unforeseen abyss.

The hosts and guests talked merrily before bidding their farewells.

“What was said?” Wan’er looked at Yi Gui Concubine’s figure as she led Lao San toward the outside of the garden and asked curiously, “This matron has always been at peace in the palace with her naive joy, why does she look a bit nervous today?”

Fan Xian laughed, “The child has grown up, how can a mother still be like before? When we have a child in the future, you’ll understand.”

Lin Wan Er was embarrassed, and thought that her stomach seemed to be still, but now that her husband was injured, she couldn’t say anything more, so she forced a smile and changed the topic, “How is it outside? Is it a big mess?”

Fan Xian softly said the news brought by Yi Gui Concubine, glanced at the eunuchs and court ladies not far away, and said, “The wind is a bit cool, let’s go back to the house.”

Knowing that some words were inconvenient to say in front of the palace’s subordinates, Wan Er and Ruo Ruo nodded and made those eunuchs come over to carry the soft couch.

After returning to the house, lying on top of that big bed, Fan Xian opened his eyes and looked at the top of the bed, not knowing what he was thinking about, and after a long time, he finally said, “What do you think will happen to the Ye family this time?”

No one was in the room at this time, so he didn’t need to be afraid of anything, and said directly, “Gong Dian must have gotten a decree to go to Luozhou …… and it must not be His Majesty’s decree, or else if Gong Dian cries out for wrongdoing, even His Majesty won’t be able to put an end to it.”

The coldness in his eyes was great, “This move is a bit absurd, but it works. The Empress Dowager’s secret decree ordered Gong Dian to go to Luo Zhou to do some work, and as the commander of the forbidden army, of course he had to go, and there was an assassin on the Hanging Temple! If the time of the trial, Gong Dian still have to force to say is the empress dowager secret order to let him out of the capital, then it is tantamount to declare to the world, is the empress dowager want to kill the emperor? …… If Palace Dignity doesn’t want to be implicated in nine clans, then this kind of words have to be buried inside the stomach and eat such a big boring loss.”

Lin Wan’er and Ruo Ruo were both smart people, of course they would not think that it was really the Empress Dowager who arranged the matter of the Hanging Temple. Wan’er said with a saddened face, “Are you saying that the Palace Ceremony’s trip to Luozhou was arranged by Grandmother together with His Majesty?”

Fan Xian hmmmed.

Ruo Ruo frowned, “Why did you do that?”

Fan Xian sneered, “Gong Dian is the commander of the forbidden army and Ye Chong’s senior brother, so if he is unlucky this time, the Ye family will naturally follow.”

Wan’er was worried about her best friend Ye Ling’er and sighed, “The Ye family has always been loyal, why does His Majesty want ……”

The words were not finished, everyone could hear them. Fan Xian sighed and said, “If His Majesty didn’t suspect the loyalty of the Ye family, of course he wouldn’t choose to do so, but now since he is already suspicious, he has to choose to let the Ye family step aside, at least the important places in Kyoto, it’s not possible to let the two brothers and sisters of their masters and masters guard …… The most crucial thing about the problem is that there is yet another member of the Ye family. The only great master in the open in our Qing country, as long as Ye Liuyun doesn’t die for a day, then the general reason, simply can’t move the Ye family.”

“That’s why such a shady, big loss of royal decency move was used.” Fan Xian sighed, “And you’re not afraid of chilling the hearts of your subjects?”

“Why would …… His Majesty be suspicious of the Ye family?”

“It’s simple.” Fan Xian explained, “His Majesty appointed the second prince to marry Ye Ling’er ……If Ye Chong saw it accurately enough, he should have refused the marriage at that time, and even if he approved of the marriage, he should have resigned from his position as Kyoto guardian in the first place, not to mention returning to his old age, even if he was transferred to the border line, it would have put His Majesty’s mind at ease. ”

“And he did neither of these things, so ……”

Lin Wan’er and Ruo Ruo nodded grimly, and Ruo Ruo couldn’t help but open her mouth, “There are really a lot of twists and turns here.”

“When I was in Northern Qi, I guessed that there would be such a day.” Fan Xian said, “I just didn’t expect that His Majesty would use such petty tactics.”

Wan Er suddenly said, “So it seems that the assassination at the Hanging Temple that day was originally something His Majesty had intended?”

Fan Xian looked at her and nodded, “I just don’t know if everything was in the calculation, or if His Majesty had originally arranged only one of them.”

Lin Wan’er looked back into his eyes and slowly said, “His Majesty doesn’t like to take risks in this life, so …… he would have set a fire at best.”

The husband and wife looked at each other in silence for a long time, and both seemed to have some second thoughts. If the fire at the Hanging Temple was arranged to be set by His Majesty, then who had arranged the chain of several strikes behind it?

Fan Xian slowly closed his eyes and said softly, “The assassin’s bureau was arranged too opportunistically, so opportunistically that, I simply don’t believe that this was a single plan that an organization, or rather several organizations, could arrange.”

“It was just coincidence.” He continued, “It’s just that the assassins of several parties buried in the palace suddenly realized that the situation on the Hanging Temple was very suitable for their sudden outburst, and so, without any need for consultation or premeditation, a series of assassinations broke out in such a precipitous manner.”

Finally, he said to himself, “Obviously, this is a divine setup, a divine setup completely unexpected by His Majesty.”

In the middle of the gloomy building that was not very far away from the imperial palace, Chen Pingping was sitting on top of her wheelchair, not saying a word, and the seven chiefs underneath were also silent, not knowing what to say. The emperor was assassinated, in addition to the forbidden army to bear the greatest responsibility, the Supervisory Yuan also have to bear great consequences.

If not at this time lying in the Palace of the Lord Tisch, save that situation, perhaps the Supervisory Yuan is only the same as the Ye family, waiting for the Palace to knead their own. Already formally served as the head of four words Bingyun indifferently opened his mouth, breaking the silence in the chamber: “West Hu buried in the guards of the assassins, fifteen years ago the blood of the night remnants of the small eunuchs, the younger brother of the legendary four Gu sword, it is simply not possible for these people to come together to plan such a situation …… and that Who actually set the fire, so far did not find out. According to the news coming from various places, the Northern Qi Brocade Guards are currently in the midst of a great chaos, and there is simply no time left to plan this matter, and Dongyi City does not have any signs of planning this matter either.”

The acting head of the Sixth Division also coldly opened his mouth, “And the Four Gu Swords have a younger brother, this is only a matter of legend …… no one knows if this person really exists.”

The second division of the Supervisory Yuan is responsible for intelligence summarization and analysis, the head of the face with a pleading color, shamefully said, “A little intelligence are not, although it is subordinate dereliction of duty, but subordinate thought, to plan such a killing, intelligence to and from essential, will always be caught by us some threads, but a threads are not! …… I can only think that between those parties who plotted to assassinate, there was no real contact, and even, I would like to boldly judge that between those several assassins, they do not know each other!”

Sitting on the wheelchair, Chen Pingping slowly opened his eyes and looked at his subordinates with a somewhat cloudy gaze, thinking that the fire that His Majesty called out to be set, of course it cannot be caught by you, as for that assassin from Xihu, the bold little eunuch, the devil knows where he came from, His Majesty and Lao Fu are not real immortals.

“It’s a fairy bureau.” The old man yawned, “It’s just a coincidence, there’s not that much to think about.”