Chapter 68 – The Best Time

The content of Haitang’s letter is very simple, and the use of words and phrases is not ancient, walking is the school of present-day literature, Fan Anzhi’s light style, the full text is copied and read as follows.

“Anzhi can be safe?”

“The previous letter has been received, your country postal route is really convenient, a month’s journey, actually ten days time to. Fingers back to count, you said to write a letter when the first snow in Kyoto, in that day here in Shangjing has fallen several snow, and actually has not stopped, the weather cold let a person good not tired.”

“I have a pile of this person has a strange temper, the next person may be easy to sleepy in the spring and fall, I am in the winter like sleepy, not for anything else, just outside the snow, a should be green color all by the boring snow white cover, no beautiful scenery can entertain the eyes, no branches can be folded down for the ring, there is no small flowers can be close to a sniff, although there are a few plums in the garden, but this year, Daqi cold than the past days, the few Waxing red bones bloomed miserably and colorfully, and being frozen by the ice and snow, there was not a few spirits at all, and I could not move my heart to enjoy them.”

“You have seen that donkey has been sold, don’t worry, the stone mill still has a little guy in the help in pulling, anyway, there are not a lot of soybeans, a day is also only used to turn fifty turns on the good. With the money from the sale of the donkey, I went to buy some bamboo charcoal, you said that if the ventilation in the house is not good, it will be easy to be poisoned, so I made a chimney according to the drawing you sent, not to mention, the air in the house is really much better.”

“The chickens have grown up a long time ago, but still don’t worry about them freezing, so they are all kept in the house, the smell is naturally a bit not so good, but you know, I have a subordinate nowadays, so I clean and wash it every day, and it’s quite passable.”

“Lord Wang did come to the garden a few times and said that he wanted to invite me for dinner, but you said that he can’t drink wine, so after thinking about it I refused. After all, as you know, I am fond of watching people drink, and especially fond of watching people get drunk.”

“Half a year ago, at the Pine Residence Tavern, you hummed that little song when you were drunk that I liked very much, it’s the judgment above the Stone Book, Stay Yu Qing. The other day I sang this judgment to my teacher, who also liked it very much, and said that Qiao Sister’s child’s life was pitiful, and that there were hidden curiosities in between that were sufficiently elusive. That day, the wind and snow outside the house was very heavy, the coldness invaded the house, I sat with my teacher and drank tea, laughing about the gentleman, it was also quite cozy. Somehow, it will think of a few months ago with you in the Beijing tour of the same day, the same piece of nature, the feeling is extremely beautiful, as if you see you see that round of the bright moon, that small temple, that ridge, you from the ridge in the woeful run to the outside of the ridge.”

“By the way, there is a piece of news that surprised me, I heard that Lord Sean’s remains were found among the western mountain walls, and now, although they have been buried, but thinking that you once traveled with this oldest man to the north, I still told you about it so that your heart would be at peace.”

When Fan Xian saw this, he still just felt some strange feeling, as if that village girl was hiding many hidden words in her words, but he was just shocked by his brother’s pitiful life of being a cow and a horse, lost his smile and was speechless, and didn’t notice it. Immediately after that, was again Haitang that sentence made surprise, is the other party really willing to pass on the heart of the Heavenly Dao to himself?

Thus, he had not guessed the real message that Haitang wanted to pass over at this time, but he tasted it again and finally sniffed out the inauspicious feeling from the words Sean’s body was found, Bitter Lotus talking about himself, and guessing riddles.

Especially the line, “The child Qiao Sister has a pitiful life and a hidden curiosity!”

He frowned and reread it, finally landing his eyes on the sentence above the bright moon small temple field ridge, the appearance of this sentence was really a bit abrupt, and the preceding and following texts did not really match. This sentence is about Fan Xian in this life is the most lousy that shot, he was in the aphrodisiac, some tossing and turning, carrying pants to that small temple outside to run, its time frogs sound gusting, field mud wet wet.

This …… should be what Begonia is trying to tell himself.

“Running from inside the field to outside the field?”

Fan Xian frowned, and with a flash of light in his mind, he ticked off the three useless waste words before the Temple of the Bright Moon and after the wine, and only looked at the last sentence. To Fan Xian, this kind of anagram seemed simple enough, ran out of the field, that was naturally an ancient character.

No, it was the word for leaf!

The leaf of the lotus leaf, the leaf of the lotus …… leaf light eyebrow!

Fan Xian’s face was filled with shock, and his fingers that were pinching the letter paper were slightly trembling, and when he thought about those cryptic words in the letter, his life and so on, he immediately understood what exactly Haitang was trying to tell him.

Bitter Lotus knew that he was a descendant of the Ye family!

He took a deep breath and rubbed his somewhat stiff cheeks, forcing himself to calm down and not let this sudden news mess up his mind.

The meaning in Haitang’s letter was clear enough, and since she was secretly tipping herself off, it meant that Bitter Lotus, who had already grasped the mystery of his birth, already had a plan to release this news, and that’s why she was in a hurry to tell herself, so that she could make plans earlier.

At this time, it was too late to guess where that great master had gotten his divine wonders from to be able to judge his own relationship with the Ye family, and the primary question in front of Fan Xian was: how he should face the next situation!

Judging from the time, when the Northern Qi side released the news that he was a descendant of the Ye family, the rumors would take wing and fly, at most a few days slower than the intelligence lines of the Supervisory Board would be, within ten days at the latest, it was thought that the streets of Kyoto would begin to circulate the news, and all the people would be behind their backs with their mouths open wide, expressing their shock.

Originally, according to reason, no one would be able to get any real evidence, no one would be able to point out that Fan Xian was a descendant of the Ye family, and the Northern Qi side would at most just put out some rumors. But Fan Xian himself knew that rumors were extremely lethal, and once something happened, people would deliberately and extremely dig into the strange aspects of his entry into the capital because of the rumors, thus gradually believing in this fact.

What’s more, this was originally the truth.

The human heart was a wonderful thing, before anyone thought of something, naturally they would not link Fan Xian with the Ye family for no reason, but once someone started this, this seed of suspicion would be planted in the heart, gradually taking root and occupying all of the heart’s chambers, thus transforming a rumor into a perception that was recognized by the world, only that nobody dared to say it out loud.

And for those people back then, those people in the palace, those people who have conflict of interest with themselves …… the fact that they are the descendants of the Ye family, will definitely make them come to a sudden realization, giving birth to the feeling of clouds opening up to the moon, they are the ones who believe in this matter the most.

I just don’t know how my own birth will be utilized by the other side.

Fan Xian’s lips were a little dry, so he turned back to the table and picked up the teapot and grunted and poured two mouthfuls. The tea was refilled by Shi Yanli later, so it was a bit hot, and he shivered, and after a moment’s stunned silence, he fiercely threw the teapot to the ground, and cursed a few times under his breath.

Bang, porcelain teapot fell to the ground shattered, porcelain pieces splashed around.

He was not without thought that his secretive life, there will always be revealed that day, and about this half of the Ye family, he is full of hope that one day he will be in front of the face of the whole world to say out loud – he is the son of Ye Qingmei.

However, it shouldn’t be this situation.

Before Fan Xian had any thought or action at all to prepare himself, this shocking news would spread all over Kyoto, thus bringing unpredictable dangers and strong shocks to himself, and no one could know what would happen. Fan Xian detested this feeling of passivity, and was more than slightly terrified that for the first time, events were out of his complete control.

That was why he felt helplessly angry.

His feet stepped over the broken pieces of porcelain, and with a wooden expression, he walked over to the open glass window and looked out at the cold snow and wind, remaining silent for a long time. I don’t know how many times he took a deep breath, but he finally calmed down and began to prepare to face this unexpected situation.

And at this moment, the maids who had heard the voices in his room hurried over, startled by his ugly face, too scared to enter the room to clean up.

Fan Xian shook his head, waved his hand to signal the maids to retreat, picked up the stack of letters again, ready to destroy all of them, in accordance with the usual habit of closing both palms together, wanting to knead the letter paper into crumbs, but unexpectedly, the letter paper was kneaded into a flower scroll, but did not break.

He was slightly stunned, the corners of his lips floated up a bitter smile, the shock of Haitang’s letter was so great that it made him forget the pitiful situation of having no true qi in his body.

Bypassing the corridor, he came to the quietest room in the manor house, Fan Xian did not knock on the door, directly pushed the door in, no real power but brute force, the doorpost broke with a thumping sound.

Fei Jie, who was mixing pills in a small way inside the room, lifted his somewhat tired cheeks and looked at the student and coughed, “…… What happened, so panicked.”

Fan Xian glanced at his teacher and said directly, “Sir, something big is going to happen.”

Fei Jie was startled, thinking what would make even this little monster so panicked? When Fan Xian told the news from Hai Tang’s adventures, Fei Jie also immediately panicked, rubbing his hands covered in medicinal powder, his stray hair twisting against himself, unable to say anything for a long time.

Fan Xian looked at this scene, could not help but secretly sighed, knowing that he came to find his teacher in a hurry, it really is not a good idea, Fei Suai refining poison to kill that is the realm of the masters, but to say that the decision-making and intrigue against the enemy, is really not his strong point.

“I will immediately go down the mountain.”

“I will immediately go down the mountain.”

The master and disciple duo opened their mouths at the same time, glancing at each other, immediately understanding each other’s meaning. Fei Jie narrowed his eyes, killing intent in his brown eyes, “I’ll go to Chen Yuan, you go to Lord Shangshu, split up.”

Yes, when the situation evolved into this situation, both master and disciple thought of the two old foxes in Kyoto at the same time. With a bow that gave Fan Xian a bit of a headache, he turned around and ordered his subordinates to arrange for a carriage.

Just as he was about to leave, Fei Jie suddenly said, “Don’t be afraid.”

Fan Xian looked back in shock.

Fei Jie said in a sharp voice, seemingly smiling but not smiling miserably, “Don’t be afraid, little guy, what happened more than ten years ago won’t happen again, we master and disciple poisoned a few tens of thousands of people to death, and then we killed our way out of Kyoto, so who can stop us?”

Fan Xian shivered, thinking that his teacher was indeed bent towards himself, but he was only afraid that he was not as ruthless as he was.

It was too late to greet the girls in the manor house, and only greeted Si Si who was embroidering, Fan Xian and Fei Jie took two carriages and traveled along the difficult snowy mountain road to Cang Mountain, the wheels crushing countless cold ice and rolling up a few strands of cold mud along the way.

The guards in charge of escorting were divided into two groups, half of the swordmen of the six divisions went down the mountain with these two men, while the tiger guards of Gouda’s group were left on the mountain by Fan Xian with extreme care.

In the evening, the carriage that Fei Jie rode in, under tight defense, entered the manor on the outskirts of the capital that was even more ornate and noble than the royal palace.

“Elder Fei?” The old servant guarding the gate watched Lord Fei get out of the carriage with a chilly face, and in his heart, he could not help but feel a bit puzzled, not sure what had happened.

Not long after, the lights in the garden were brightly lit, Fei Jie and Chen Pingping on the wheelchair went out of the garden gate with a sullen face, and got into the carriage under the escort of the attendants.

“Enter the palace.” Chen Pingping said in a cold voice, just as soon as he finished this sentence, his face suddenly became softer, and said softly, “I thought it was something so big that it was worth for you two to be so panicked.”

Fei Jie rubbed his hands in shock and said, “This is not a big deal, then what is a big deal?”

Chen Pingping gently stroked the smooth wheelchair handle and scoffed, “You old man soaked in medicine every day, a moment to think not to understand it would be fine, Fan Xian is letting the old man greatly disappointed, as long as a little attention, will know that this matter is not in the way of the …… strike strike strike, small children, this thing in his heart presses too long, one day was revealed, inevitably there will be some uncovered, it’s inevitable that he’ll be a bit terrified.”

Carriage click click click click to Kyoto City, not a moment’s effort into the city gates, the city gates at this time has not yet closed, of course, even if it has been closed, the President of the Supervisory Board of the Lord to enter the capital, even the Kyoto guard Qin family is not dare to stop.

When the carriage was about to arrive at the palace, Chen Pingping only opened her eyes to recuperate her mind and said faintly, “This is not a bad thing, it is a good thing.”

Fei Jie shook his head, “I don’t care, I’m going to the courtyard to get the people from the eight departments ready.”

The sound of starting the key came from the palace gate, Chen Pingping possessed the sole right to enter the palace straight into the palace to narrate regardless of the hour, her status was supreme. The old man listened sideways to this familiar voice and said expressionlessly, “After the news reaches Kyoto, first let them press for two days, at least this kind of surface work should be done to let people see. As for Fan Xian’s life …… is going to be revealed one day, and now this time is the best time.”

Inside the study of the Fan Mansion, Fan Jian, the Minister of the Household Department of the Qing State, was slurping sour syrup while looking at Fan Xian in front of him, a hint of a mocking smile appearing at the corner of his lips, “And finally, I have watched you in a hurry, for my father always used to think that your heart was made of ice and snow.”

Fan Xian laughed bitterly, “Father, why are you still joking at this time of the year, when the news reaches Kyoto, what exactly should we do?” He looked into his father’s eyes and said quietly after a long moment of silence, “Since I’ve been hiding this from the world for so many years, I think there must be someone who doesn’t want me to show up.”

Fan Jian gazed at his son with a clear gaze and said softly, “But the reality is that you have appeared, and appeared very beautifully. Your relationship with the Ye family, in the end, it is impossible to keep hiding it, if you have to choose a time to reveal it, my father thought that the present …… time is the best time.”