Chapter 57: The Immortals Behind the Immortal Bureau

Please throw away the annotations of the regulations of the Gyeonggook Procuratorate and turn to the last page of the fifth book of the internal reference materials of the Procuratorate.

The fifth book is a summary of the cases of the Procuratorate over the years, transcribing the analysis and summarization of the representative cases in recent decades, for all kinds of cases, detailing the origins of the events at the beginning of the planning, the process of brewing, the influence of the variables therein, and even the final outcome.

The fifth book contains a lot of cases, and with the intelligence system of the Supervisor’s Office and the relevant evidence found in the events, it is enough to discuss most of the so-called conspiracies in this world, and to find out the real reason why things happen, and the process of the arrangement in between – because human beings are far less imaginative than they think they are. imaginative.

But there was also a category of cases where one could only ever dig into one or two sides of the matter, without being able to explain all of it, and that was those three words written on the last page of Book 5, those three words that Fan Xian and Chen Pingping were both very familiar with.

“Divine Immortal Bureau”.

The so-called Divine Immortal Bureau referred to the emergence of variables that could not be judged by common sense in the midst of an event, thus leading to a situation that could not be predicted even by the Divine Immortals.

For example, back then, Chen Pingping led the Black Riders in a 1,000-mile raid, penetrating deep into the territory of Northern Wei and capturing Sean, who had secretly returned to his hometown to attend his son’s wedding. The Supervisory Board had already calculated all the details, even paying a heavier price, but Sean, at the wedding, did not actually drink the fine wine that Lord Fei Jie had carefully prepared, and this head of the Northern Wei secret spies used a level of calmness to the point of callousness to control his own food and drink and everything around him.

But when the people of Qing thought that this conspiracy could not possibly follow the flow any further, the story took a very unimaginable turn – Sean, listening to the noises coming from the new room, began to get depressed and started to want to drink mulled wine, and coincidentally, the captain of his own soldiers, who was responsible for looking after the wine in the leather bag for him, had not been able to hold back the craving for wine on the journey and had already drunk all the wine, so this irresponsible captain of the personal soldiers, when Lord Sean asked for wine, fainted in fear, and directly poured the wine used in the bag for the wedding.

So Sean was poisoned, so Chen Pingping and Fei Jie succeeded. And it wasn t until much later that Chen Pingping and the others realized that the reason why Sean was so depressed was because his son …… could not be humane.

This kind of variable, which does not exist in the plan, has a great impact on the situation.

Another example is that twenty years ago, a salt merchant in the south suddenly died violently after a birthday banquet, the Ministry of Justice has not been able to find out the cause of the case, so it was transferred to the Supervisory Yuan to deal with around. Who knew that the investigation had turned up fourteen people suspected of committing the crime that night, including the aunts, and it seemed that everyone wanted that rich and powerful businessman to die in a hurry.

And who was the real murderer?

After another three years, a poor old man was caught stealing baklava and was brought to the government office, he about didn’t want to live anymore, and the salt merchant who had tamboured three years ago died at his hands. When they got this news, the people around the inspectorate were ashamed and shocked, thinking how could they, the professionals, let the real murder suspect go? Rushed to the place of the crime a trial, the people only suddenly realized, embarrassed.

That old man and the salt merchant is a childhood neighbor, since childhood grew up together, and then the old man went to live in Wuzhou, returned to settle in his hometown when he saw that the salt merchant to make a big birthday, I do not know what is the evil, actually climbed into the courtyard, picked up a stone, will be drunken salt merchant life smashed to death.

The Supervisory Board had paid attention to the scuff marks on the courtyard wall, but it was never expected that an old man who had returned to his hometown to settle down would risk a great deal, climb into the courtyard to commit murder, and not be discovered by the household guards.

At that time has not yet become the four organizers of the speech Ruohai curiously asked the old man: “Later I have transferred the case file, Baozheng also asked you, why are you not nervous at all?”

The old man said, “What’s there to be nervous about? The big deal is to lose a life to him.”

Yan Ruohai had seen this kind of tough character for the first time, but was still very strange: “Why did you kill him?”

The old man answered with a straight face, “When I was a child, he slapped me.”

The assassination incident at the Hanging Temple also seemed to be a divine game.

His Majesty the Emperor, because of his gradual suspicion of the Ye family and his fear that the other party had a great master in his family, thought of such a shameless trick to trap the other party, on the one hand, he borrowed the name of the Harem to transfer the Gong Din, on the other hand, he set a small fire just below the Hanging Temple. As for this fire, it was estimated that both Fan Jian and Chen Pingping knew it well.

And after the fire started, the top floor was slightly disorganized, and that assassin from Xihu finally couldn’t help but strike when he saw this opportunity. He had stayed in the palace for more than ten years, he really couldn’t stay up any longer, this kind of infernal days was really hard to bear, three years after another three years, I don’t know when it will end – at that time, Eunuch Hong escorted the empress dowager to go down the stairs, and his judgment of Fan Xian’s strong strength was again a bit biased, so he looked at the emperor, who was only a few paces away from him, and decided to strike out!

The guards struck, giving the white-clothed swordsman another chance.

The white-clothed swordsman shot, after that princes, hidden for a long time the little eunuch, saw the emperor less than a foot away from his back, thinking that less than a step away from himself, hidden in the wooden column dagger – he thought this is the heavens to give themselves a chance – in the face of this kind of In the face of such naked temptation, he, who was determined to take revenge and resolutely cut off his penis to enter the palace, how could he miss it?

His Majesty’s ridiculous arson began, all the people hidden in the darkness, sensitive to smell the event there are too many opportunities to take advantage of, of course, the assassins are some determined to be brave, although they have never been connected to each other, but unusually beautifully chose to successively look for an opportunity to strike, as the saying goes, to help each other is to satisfy themselves, as long as they can kill the Emperor of Qing, they do not hesitate to kill their own bodies, but they have to cherish the opportunity created by chance and misfortune. As long as they can kill the Emperor of Qing, they do not hesitate to take their own lives, but even more to cherish this opportunity created by mistake.

They come from all over the world, in order to the same goal, came together, walking extraordinarily determined and tacit understanding.

Late at night in Guangxin Palace, Fan Xian was lying on the bed, looking at the mantle of the bed, how could he not sleep. After the injury these days in the palace to recuperate, the daytime sleep is really more.

The candlelight in the palace was a bit dim. His eyes were staring at the thin layer of mantle, as if he wanted to use Sakuragi’s Jedi technique to tear this layer of mantle apart and see the truth behind it.

Wan Er was already asleep, far away from herself on the large bed, being afraid that when she moved during the night, she would touch the wounds on her chest and abdomen. Fan Xian twisted his head to look at her, somewhat compassionately stroking her long black hair exposed outside the pillow with his gaze. The palace was quiet, the eunuchs were all asleep, and the palace maid on night duty was lying on her back on top of the square pier taking a nap. Fan Xian again directed his gaze to the sky, began to talk to himself.

Just lips slightly open and close, and did not make the slightest sound. He was asking himself a question, and at the same time combing through the ins and outs of the matter.

“The assassin from Xihu, the hidden little eunuch, these are all objects that left dead evidence and living evidence, so the judgment of the Supervisory Court shouldn’t go wrong.” His lips opened and closed noiselessly in the darkness of the night, looking a little strange, “But what about the shadow? No one but himself probably knows that the white-clad swordsman is the head of the Sixth Office who has lived in darkness for years and has never been seen by anyone, the Shadow, the most powerful assassin in the Kingdom of Qing.”

His eyebrows twisted up somewhat nicely.

“The Immortal Bureau? I’d say this fairy must be a cripple.” He sneered, smiling scornfully at the empty side of the bed, “The Emperor wants to arrange a bureau to weed out the Ye family’s power in Kyoto, and cut off the hand that the Eldest Princess is likely to be holding in advance …… I think even the Emperor feels that I’ve pushed the oldest two too far, and he must know his own moves against the Xinyang side after the year is up .”

Fan Xian couldn’t help but suck in a breath of cool air when he thought of this, not knowing if it was caused by the pain in his wound or if he was startled by the thought of the emperor’s dirty tricks, thinking, “His Majesty is truly despicable and shameless!”

“Then what are you trying to do?” He guessed at Chen Pingping’s true intentions, “If I asked you face to face, I think you would just sit in your wheelchair and say without any shade: in the Chen Garden, I told you that I would deal with things like this regarding the holy favor.”

“Sacred favor?”

“After things have changed sideways, you still have this leisure to arrange for Shadow to carry out an assassination, and then allow yourself to be the hero of this?”

“Are things that simple?”

As the number one assassin in Qing, it wasn’t such an inconceivable thing for Shadow to be able to conceal himself from Eunuch Hong’s ears. It was just that Fan Xian refused to believe that the Shadow’s strike was simply just to set up a trap so that he could save the Emperor’s life, thus saving the Emperor from being wounded and gaining unshakable holy favor. The movement was too big and the result was not rich enough, not in line with Chen Pingping’s character of calculating to the bone, so he always felt that Chen Pingping was hiding something from himself.

“And you’re not afraid that I’ll know that it was Shadow who struck.” Fan Xian raised an eyebrow, “But if you say that you were trying to assassinate the emperor, that doesn’t make sense. Leaving aside the issue of a loyal dog suddenly being unfaithful, it’s just that with your power, if you wanted to plot an assassination, you would have created a more perfect environment. You want to test those imperial princes on behalf of the Emperor? Fuck me, you old dog is too meddlesome, and the emperor probably doesn’t want to be so frightened.”

Thinking about it, he was so entangled in the situation that he was never able to get out of it, so he could only sigh and slowly fall asleep. But even in his sleep, he still believed that his mother’s old comrade-in-arms, must have hidden the deepest darkest thoughts of his heart extremely deeply, and refused to give anyone half a chance to peek at it.

“There is no real Divine Bureau in this world.” Chen Pingping sat on the wheelchair and said softly to the blindfolded man in the garden forest, “As you know, the death of the salt merchant mentioned above in the five books …… The reason why that old man who robbed the bakery was able to easily kill the salt merchant is because the house guards in the mansion have long been bought by those aunts had, and they were happy to see someone help them do it.”

“And the reason that old man would lay his hands on the salt merchant wasn’t as simple as the fact that many years ago, the salt merchant slapped him in the face.”

“The exact reason is that that salt merchant robbed that old man’s daughter-in-law back then.”

“The revenge of killing his wife, well, it’s always bigger.”

“And don’t believe that Yan Ruohai would not be able to find out about this matter, in fact, you and I both know that he was mesmerized by the fifty thousand taels of silver checks sent by the salt merchant’s concubines that time.”

“So,” the old cripple concluded, “there is no such thing as a divine bureau. All things are artificially arranged, and even if there are coincidental variables among them, they are still under my control. If it was beyond my control, His Majesty would have died by this time.”

Five Bamboo said indifferently, “There is never anything in the world that is completely under control.”

“I admit that the existence of the Xihu assassin and that little eunuch did come close to disrupting my entire plan …… However, fortunately, it did not fundamentally affect His Majesty’s well-being.”

“From your tone, I cannot detect that you are sufficiently loyal to the Emperor.”

Chen Pingping smiled, “I am loyal to His Majesty, but for the sake of His Majesty’s true interests, I don’t mind if His Majesty suffers some fright.”

“What is the true interest? A mature enough successor?” Perhaps it was only when facing Chen Pingping, an old acquaintance, that Five Bamboo’s words would be as numerous as they were today.

“Scheming.” Chen Pingping said with a straight face, “Politics is a process of scheming, if His Majesty wants to drive out the Ye family, just a handful of fires, that’s not enough.”

“Do you think that emperor would believe in an explanation like yours if he knew the truth of the matter?” Five Bamboo spoke indifferently.

Chen Pingping shook his head, “As long as it is beneficial to His Majesty, whether I can be believed or not is not an important thing.”

Five Bamboo believed that both he and Fei Jie were such old perverts and said softly, “That emperor of yours nearly died.”

Chen Pingping was very used to this kind of treacherous name calling from him, from many years ago it was like this, Five Bamboos would never call His Majesty by his mouth like a normal mortal with a reverent heart.

“Your Majesty will not die.” The old man spoke with power, “This is what I absolutely believe. Don’t forget that His Majesty will never let anyone know his last card.”

“Whether he dies or not, I don’t really care.” Five Bamboo suddenly tilted his head, “All I care about is that he almost died.”

The two he’s represented Five Bamboo’s very different attitudes.

Chen Pingping let out a bitter smile, of course he knew clearly that Fan Xian’s accidental serious injury would turn Old Five into what kind of horrible killing machine, even if he was as old and treacherous and sinister as he was, there was still a chill that penetrated deep in his heart when he faced the indifferent Five Bamboo. So he tried to explain, “Fan Xian was worried about whether the emperor would have certain suspicions about him because his rise was too rapid, so I arranged this matter to resolve his doubts once and for all……. Of course, I laid out the beginning of the story, but I didn’t guess the end of the story. ”

He smiled slightly, seemingly pleased that he still remembered the young lady’s catchphrase from back then, “Though that has a lot to do with Shadow as well, he’s always thinking of fighting you and you don’t give him that chance, so the rare chance to fight your own disciple is really a bit of a giveaway for him. Of course, if Fan Xian hadn’t chased him out and gotten so badly injured, this matter wouldn’t have made much sense.”

Five Bamboos suddenly said quite abruptly, “You have Shadow come back, and I’ll give him the chance to fight me.”

This cold joke nearly choked Chen Pingping over the edge, and after coughing for half a day, she spread her hands and said, “It was just an accident.”

Five Bamboos said very directly, “If it was just an accident, why did he escape before I came?”

Chen Pingping’s face was full of bitter smiles in the folds, and he coughed many times before calming down, “This …… is my arrangement, because I am worried that you are not happy and let him have any accidents. You know that I have only this one really good person …… around me If you even kill him, how can this old bone of mine still live?”

Five Bamboos didn’t say anything, only the black cloth that fluttered in the night wind was expressing his dissatisfaction.

“After I die, the shadow will be loyal to him.” Chen Pingping stated her return very seriously and earnestly.

Five Bamboos inclined his head slightly, as if he was considering whether Fan Xian would accept this compensation, and after thinking for a while, based on his judgment that a lustful and powerful person like Fan Xian would definitely be interested in a superb assassin on the ninth rank.

He was silent for a while and then said, “You found me in the south and said that there was something fun to show me in the capital …… Could it be this play?”

“Fan Xian always said that you were playing in the south, and I originally thought that he was lying to me.” Chen Pingping said, “I didn’t realize that you were really in the south, it’s a coincidence.”

Chen Pingping suddenly ricked forward, “I was prepared to let you watch the show, it’s just a pity that I underestimated Fan Xian’s strength, and also underestimated Fan Jian’s impudence, this old boy, knowing that the fire was set by his majesty, was in a hurry to rush Fan Xian upstairs to save his life ……,” the old man pointedly laughed, “It’s a shame you didn’t get to see it.”

Five Bamboos slowly raised his head, “You wanted to kill the Empress Dowager?”

Chen Pingping shook her head, “After all, the Empress Dowager is Fan Xian’s own grandmother, and that incident with the young lady, although she watched it happen from the sidelines and didn’t lend a helping hand to the Taiping Buyeon, she didn’t personally get involved in it after all …… So far, what I’ve found out isn’t enough to explain anything .”

Five Bamboo shook his head and said indifferently, “If you find out something in the future, or if I find out something, no matter what Fan Xian does …… I will do it.”

Chen Pingping knew what kind of determination and strength the three words “I will do it” represented, but he still shook his head firmly: “Old Five, although you are the most terrifying person under the sky, still don’t underestimate the true power of a country and a palace… …strength. Moreover, since I am the head of the Supervisory Academy, I must also consider how the world of the Qing Kingdom can be passed on peacefully.”

“Don’t forget that this is also Miss’s dying wish.” He smiled as he spoke, “So it’s better for me to do these rather uninteresting things.”

“Then what exactly were you originally planning to show me?”

Chen Pingping suddenly sighed, her voice seeming a bit forlorn, “Since this play is not on, let’s not talk about it at this time.”

Five Bamboos reacted in an uncharacteristic manner, seeming to have no interest at all in pursuing the matter, turning cleanly around and preparing to disappear into the darkness.

“We haven’t seen each other since you took the young master to Tanyuzhou.” Chen Pingping suddenly sighed behind him, “Seventeen years of not seeing each other, and you’re leaving so soon?”

Five Bamboo paused and uttered two dry words, “Take care.”

Then he really disappeared into the darkness. Just with Five Bamboo’s strength and disposition, it was already a marvelous thing to have him say the two words, “Take care,” at least, Chen Pingping felt that there was that much more warmth in her heart.

Chen Yuan’s old servant came over and pushed his wheelchair towards the room. Chen Pingping did not know what he was thinking, suddenly sighed with some satisfaction and said, ”You say, being able to successfully induce those two extremely patient guards and little eunuchs to do it …… Do I count myself as a very powerful person? But thanks to that Xihu assassin, if he had watched Fan Xian go up the stairs and knowingly continued his ambush, this would have been very uninteresting.”

The old servant smiled bitterly and said, “Lord Abbot’s calculations are nothing short of brilliant.”

Chen Pingping sighed, “Born with a life of labor, always forgetting to pull nails for His Majesty …… Where can he calculate His Majesty.”

In the palace and lived some days, until the frost and cold gradually heavier, the sky hidden signs of flying snow, in Fan Xian’s strong request, the Emperor of Qing finally allowed him to go home.

Experienced the hanging temple rescue thing, as long as there are eyes of the people, can through the palace to recuperate, his majesty anger this many details, found Fan Xian holy favor more than just return to the beginning, it is better than usual. After all, take his own body, block in front of the life-threatening sword, even if it is to invite favor, but also to take the life back in favor, not too many people will be red in the eyes, just a jealousy.

Fan Xian out of the palace on the day, the palace have sent a very generous gifts, even the Queen is no exception, and the second prince’s biological mother Shuji Fei’s gift is particularly heavy. All the palace are through the wind, in addition to the Ning Cailian temperament, Yi Gui Concubine and Fan family affinity, not much in the accident, no which mother dares to take this matter lightly.

Even the Empress Dowager, the old ancestor, had rewarded Fan Xian with her own beads that had been used for more than ten years, so those ladies did not dare to be careless.

Fan Xian was half lying in the carriage, and although his chest injury was still not fully healed, he at least had no problem turning over a little. He lifted a corner of the curtain of the carriage window, and through the light of the sky outside, he looked at the incredibly round pearl in his hand, squinted slightly, and thought to himself, could it be that the rightful grandmother is finally willing to accept her existence?

Along the way, Lin Wan Er and Ruo Ruo were most happy, after staying in the palace for so many days, they were really a bit bored, and Fan Xian’s injury was getting better and better every day, which made the aunt and sister-in-law feel a lot more at ease.

When the carriage arrived at the main gate of Fan Mansion, between the two stone lions, the wooden boards had already been laid on the steps, and the middle gate of Fan Mansion was wide open, as if welcoming the holy decree, carefully welcoming the carriage in.

Generally speaking, it is impossible for a carriage to enter the mansion directly through the main gate, but with the young master injured like this, it is only natural that proper arrangements should be made.

The carriage drove directly to the side of the back residence, a few people from Tou Zi Jing carefully carried Fan Xian down, Si Si carefully guarded beside her, she was not qualified to enter the palace, she was anxious at home these days.

Fan Xian looked at her slightly red cheeks and teased a few times, turning his head, he saw his father and Liu’s duo.

He looked at the faint care in his father’s eyes under the pretense of calmness, his heart warmed, and he said softly, “Father, I’m back.”