Chapter 69 – Knowing Mother is Like Knowing Father

“The best time?” Fan Xian looked at his father in confusion, but for some reason, seeing his father-sama so calm relaxed him, no longer as anxious as he had been in the mountains, and with a self-deprecating smile, he threw the crutches under his armpits out of the way and sat down in the chair.

“Be careful of your wounds.” Fan Jian shook his head in disapproval.

Fan Xian laughed and gently rubbed the underside of his chest, there was some vague pain within, but with Mr. Fei’s wonderful hands on the side recently, it was almost healed.

“Tell me, what exactly are you afraid of.” Fan Jian lightly aid his long flowing beard under his jaw, the always square and serious Lord Shangshu, at this moment finally revealed a hint of the dashing feeling of being a success.

Fan Xian froze, frowned and thought for half a day, only then realized that he was indeed a bit over panicked, what exactly was he afraid of? Sorting out his hidden worries in his mind, he said sincerely, “If this news spreads, the world’s discussion will naturally be unusually turbulent, and when the palace learns of my birth, it is not yet known how it will be handled.”

“How will it be handled?” Fan Jian laughed coldly, “Could it be that you think the palace did not know of your birth until today?”

Fan Xian fell silent, knowing that his father was right, the matter that he was a descendant of the Ye family, the emperor was of course clearer than anyone else, and as for the Empress Dowager’s side,…… looking at the look on her face at the last winter solstice mutton feast, it was estimated that that old man was also clear as early as possible, only that this pair of mothers and sons were hiding it from the world.

“They want to hide from the world, now they can’t hide, there will always be some changes in the development of things.” Fan Xian said calmly, “Moreover, the Empress knows that I am a descendant of the Ye family, what will she think? According to what father said, there is a feud between the Ye family and her that cannot be dissolved.”

Fan Jian shook his head and said coldly, “There is no need to consider the Empress there, this woman is the weakest Empress ever, what you need to consider is only whether the Crown Prince of the Eastern Palace will be persuaded by her to deal with you.”

The Empress’s family forces, as early as the night of the Kyoto bloodshed more than ten years ago, had already been cleared by the Emperor of Qing, and Fan Jian, who had always been unassuming, played the biggest role in it, so of course he was clear that the Empress couldn’t turn over any movement at all.

“Crown Prince.” The corners of Fan Jian’s lips spread into a faint smile, “He’s a smart man, with your current position of power, he’s only asking for you to be able to maintain a balance, where else would he come to take the initiative to ruffle your feathers because of what happened back then.”

Fan Xian slightly lowered his head, and after a long time uttered a few words, “Where is the eldest princess?”

As the world knew, the Ye family’s estate was pocketed by the Qing royal family and became the current inner treasury. Back then, when the world’s number one merchant was forcibly expropriated, the name used was naturally of a very scary kind, such as treason and the like. And now there is suddenly an additional legendary Ye family orphan, so whether or not to check the posthumous crimes of that year?

Even if you don’t check, in the eyes of many people, the descendants of the Ye family is also the object of the royal family must be eliminated. This was the rule of history, and no one would be able to avoid it.

After the news that Fan Xian was a descendant of the Ye family spread, the eldest princess would surely utilize this matter to make a big deal out of it, forcing the palace to react accordingly. Going back to the incident of the Ye family’s industry being taken away, according to the royal family’s usual way of doing things, it would be good if Fan Xian was not killed in secret, not to mention soaring to great heights.

Of course, the other half of Fan Xian’s life is also marvelous, so he doesn’t have to worry about that pair of mothers and sons in the palace will kill themselves, and even the other side won’t treat themselves as objects that need to be watched out for, but the annoyance is annoyed at the fact that the world doesn’t know about this fact!

If that pair of mother and son in the palace want to hide from the world for a long time, they can only treat Fan Xian as a simple descendant of the Ye family, and under the pressure of public opinion, let Fan Xian and the inner treasury …… or even the Supervisory Yuan get out of hand. And for Fan Xian, who had already made countless enemies, losing the power in his hands was really quite dangerous.

“Eldest Princess?” Fan Jian said with no emotion on his face, “If she was smart enough, she would have stood by this time and not made a move.”

“Why?”

“Because of His Majesty’s mind.”

Fan Xian pondered, gradually realizing what his father meant by that. His Majesty was of course the one who knew of his own life, and although he didn’t know how the Emperor would arrange things in the future, at least for the moment, he had no intention of lifting the flannel off the table. Knowing this, it was thought that the Emperor, like his own reaction, should feel a hint of anger and mania after the shock.

The Emperor and Fan Xian, both of them were very much people who liked to be in control of everything, so they were very jealous of this kind of out-of-control thing happening. Therefore, His Majesty would definitely be very indignant, and his first thought would be to find out the person who leaked the information, whereas if the Princess took this opportunity to attack Fan Xian in a big way at this time in a good way, the Emperor would instead vigorously defend Fan Xian, and alienate the Princess one point deeper in his heart.

Fan Jian faintly said: ”You are now the supervisory authority, and through your actions over the past half year, you have enough power in your hands. From Tanyu State up to Kyoto, whether it is my father, or President Chen, everything we have done is to build the cornerstone under your feet a little stronger …… Nowadays, you are already a party of heavy stones, how would you be afraid of those winds blowing on your face? Don’t worry, those winds can’t blow you anymore.”

Fan Xian was silent, with something else worrying in his heart.

“Naturally, there are heavenly astral winds on this earth as well.” Fan Jian said mockingly, “What you fear is nothing more than the attitude of the palace. But the Empress Dowager and His Majesty both know about this, at most, they will be in the way of the material discussion temporarily cold you for two days. How this matter develops will ultimately depend on His Majesty’s attitude.”

In the end, this resourceful Minister of the Ministry of the Interior said, “And after the assassination of the Hanging Temple, His Majesty is convinced of your loyalty, and will of course favor you …… Now that you are not yet recovered from your injuries, His Majesty will always remember your merits, and at this time, when your life is revealed, His Majesty will try to consider for you, no matter whether it is the Imperial family interests, the Empress Crown Prince, and even the pressure from the Eldest Princess Empress ……”

“Compared to the sword you blocked for His Majesty, even if the two cancel out.” Fan Jian said with a cold smile, “That’s why this is the best time. These things in the palace, I don’t say you are also clear, perhaps after some more years, His Majesty’s sentiment of cherishing your rescue fades, and it will be difficult for you to utilize it again. Reveal the body can only be in these days, earlier can not, later …… also can not.”

The best time.

Fan Xian savored the chill in these words in his heart, and a bitter smile surfaced on his face, “I’m just worried about what trouble this matter will bring to the family.”

The Fan family had taken in the orphans of the Ye family back then? Although this was the emperor’s arrangement, but after making a big deal out of it, the emperor would definitely not recognize it, and the one who would be unlucky would only be the Fan family.

Fan Jian slowly closed his eyes, the corner of his lips pleased smile appeared and disappeared, slowly said: “Silly child, if even you will not move, how will move for father? If the court moves against me, won’t it confirm that you are a descendant of the Ye family?”

Fan Xian’s eyes widened, and after a long time, he said, “You mean, no matter how it is rumored outside, we can’t recognize it in death?”

“Of course.” Fan Jian said with a smile, “Who can have proof?”

Fan Xian sighed, “What a pity, I had thought that since there were no repercussions, I could take the opportunity to ……”

“Take the opportunity to overturn the case for the Ye family?” Fan Jian laughed loudly, “No wonder you were as nervous as you were earlier, it turns out that you were harboring big thoughts. You child, why must the cases in this world be overturned in the open? His Majesty had already overturned one for the Ye family more than ten years ago, and now these are just the aftermath.”

Fan Xian shook his head, lowered his voice and said: “Ye family descendants of this matter, in fact, really can not scare the child, just ……” he was ready to say, worried about being the eldest princess and people from this matter, guessed that he carries the royal bloodline, but the words are out of the mouth of the When, suddenly realized, stop talking.

Fan Xian and his father had never spoken positively about his relationship with the emperor, and both father and son had been very wise not to break the ice, trying to maintain the current scene of harmony.

Fan Jian understood what his son was trying to say and fell silent. Only after a long time did he sigh, “That thing …… you’d better hide it in your heart. As for whether others can guess or not, what does it matter? For …… the sake of my father’s explicit words, President Chen has only been waiting with joy for this matter to happen. When the rumor comes to Kyoto, he will definitely use the power in his hands to strongly suppress the rumor, thus confirming the rumor, and then wait for the people of the world to gradually guess your birth, or at least make the people of the world accustomed to …… the rumor of your birth.”

Fan Xian was silent, knowing that his father’s projection was extremely reasonable. The old cripple’s approach could be thought of with his buttocks, strongly suppressing the rumors of the Ye family’s descendants in order to make the people of Qing believe in the rumors, this was precisely the extremely clever technique, as for the matter of himself being the emperor’s illegitimate son ……

“What exactly is Chen Pingping trying to do?” Fan Xian’s mood suddenly became very tired, and he feebly asked his father.

“My father is not sure.” This Lord Shangshu, who had never shown any overwhelming strength or wisdom, slowly said, “You should have guessed that I have never thought the same way as President Chen, and I have fought him for many years on the issue of you. And I’m not in the habit of trusting him, and it’s marvelous that he doesn’t seem to trust me all the same. On the contrary, he and I rather trust you as a child a little more.”

He glanced at his son and scoffed to himself, “In the end it seems he won and managed to drag you into this mess.” He then said indifferently, “I even doubt that this matter was not made up by him, otherwise how could the Northern Qi people know that Little Leaf is your mother. Of course, right now you don’t need to worry too much, the first and last of this matter, I think that Dean Chen has already started to enter the palace at this time to plan for you.”

Father and son fell silent, and after a long time, Fan Xian suddenly said without a clue, “I’m sorry, father.”

A very unreasonable apology, not knowing what he was apologizing for. Was he apologizing for the fact that he had finally taken over the Supervisory Court in terms of the choice of the road ahead, thus forcing himself to embark on the path of power struggles, and not choosing to live a more peaceful life as his father had wanted to do? Or is it to apologize for the unknown dangers that his own bizarre life has brought to the Fan family? Or is it to express the most sincere apology to “father” on behalf of mother?

Or …… I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I would like to be your real son, but mom did not give me this opportunity.

Fan Shangshu is guessing whether Chen Pingping used Fan Xian to save the driver from serious injury – the best time to reveal his identity as a descendant of the Ye family. At the same time, Chen Pingping, in the heavy deep palace, also kept guessing, who suddenly tossed such a thing out.

Political figures, didn’t really care about those nominal things, so these two old foxes, who only wanted Fan Xian to live a happy life and hold power in his hands, didn’t think that Fan Xian must return to the lintel of the Ye family in name only.

“The only ones who know about this matter are me, Fan Jian, Old Lady Fan, His Majesty, and Fei Jie.” Chen Pingping sat in her wheelchair, her dry and slightly shrill voice rang out in the imperial study, “Your Majesty said earlier that the Empress Dowager noticed this matter after the Chun Exams, so there are only six people in total, and in my opinion, it is impossible for any of these six to have leaked it out.”

The emperor slowly turned around, the pair of eyes that used to be clear and clear eyes are burning with anger today, such as eagle sharp and ruthless, said word by word: “It is impossible to leak out? Then how did the Northern Qi people know!”

After the spring exams, Fan Xian Supervisory Yuan’s identity was exposed, thus becoming the most scenic figure in the young officials of Qing, especially soon to be in charge of the inner treasury, this kind of power is really a bit smoky. General characters can not guess what, but the deep palace that the empress dowager, a long time in the affairs of state, accustomed to see the obscene, political sense of smell is really some sharp, in her strong forced to ask, the emperor finally admitted to his mother, Fan Xian is his own illegitimate son.

The empress dowager was shocked, finally accepted this fact, after all, the old man no matter how much he hated that year’s “demoness”, but for the royal bloodline there is always a degree of tolerance.

“Maybe, maybe the Northern Qi people guessed it.” Chen Pingping whispered to herself, not realizing that she had guessed the answer that was closest to the truth.

The emperor sneered, “What kind of character is Bitter Lotus? Does the Northern Qi State Master dare to jump to conclusions with mere guesses?”

Chen Pingping was silent for a long time before speaking, “The eldest princess, is the most suspected.”

If Fan Xian had been eavesdropping at this moment, he would have exclaimed a word of praise! What was this? This was the legend of the great ingenuity, the elephant’s scarce voice, and the naked framing ah!

The empress dowager knows that Fan Xian is the descendant of the Ye family, the eldest princess is the empress dowager’s most pained daughter, once backhandedly sold Yan Bingyun to the North Qi, but also once with the North Qi everyone Zhuang Mo Han had a private deal, she and the North Qi empress dowager have private correspondence, she to the North Qi smuggling line let the North Qi ruler and people do not know how much silver to save, she …… she she, because the The relationship of the inner treasury to move the right to Fan Xian hated to the bone, and even began to use the assassin means, only to fail.

These are facts that the Emperor knows very well. As long as one analyzes it carefully, one will find that the eldest princess possesses the greatest possibility of knowing about this matter, possesses the best way to turn her hand to exposure through the Northern Qi side, and most crucially, she possesses the greatest motivation.

Chen Pingping’s previous sentence is also extremely elaborate, if he is incoherent secretly pointed out that someone in the palace has good relations with Northern Qi, thus letting the emperor himself think of his sister who is far away in Xinyang – and not dare to be so treacherous, directly pointing to the center of the name of the eldest princess, the emperor will also be a little doubtful about his intentions.

And he so directly and frankly said the name of the eldest princess, bluntly said that the other party is the most suspicious, is the performance of pure loyalty of the minister, only care about their own opinion will be useful to his majesty, and not afraid of whether it will make his majesty suspect himself – such a performance, always shrewd emperor, of course, extremely used.

The emperor fell silent, but his face looked a little ugly, and only said after a long time, “It seems that …… Yunrui doesn’t know Fan, doesn’t know that Anzhi is my flesh and blood.”

If the Empress Dowager had told the Elder Princess about this matter as well, then the Elder Princess would definitely not reveal Fan Xian’s birth, because then it would no longer be targeting Fan Xian, but rather targeting His Majesty.

Chen Pingping nodded slightly, knowing from His Majesty’s words that His Majesty already believed that the Eldest Princess was the source of this rumor.

A moment later, the Emperor said coldly, “Wait for the news, and see if Yun Rui will come with a letter.”

Fan Xian was a descendant of the Ye family, if the eldest princess wrote to the palace and used this as an opportunity to persuade his majesty to be wary of this matter, or if she directly persuaded her imperial brother to kill Fan Xian and exterminate the Fan family, then the emperor would truly look down on his brother and sister’s love.

“How to deal with it next?” Chen Pingping coughed twice, due to the haste of entering the palace, his florid white hair was not tied too tightly and was a bit disheveled, showing more and more of his old age.

The emperor glanced at him, suddenly sighed with a bitter smile, “I this life, also count the scenery, did not expect to be in the prime of life, but became a real widow, in addition to you and Jiange’er, actually can not find a completely trusting person.”

Chen Pingping was slightly stunned, was about to say something, the emperor sighed and waved his hand and said, “Do you remember, when the empress dowager expropriated the Ye family with what name?”

“Rebellion.”

“Hmm.” The emperor said expressionlessly, “Back then, the two of you were also in favor of this proposal. After all, what Little Leaf left behind cannot be messed up or put away, and after her departure, only the imperial family will have this ability to collect and protect these industries of the Ye family to continue to run down.”

“Not bad.” Chen Pingping calmly said, “At first, I thought that since the person has already gone, to plant any crime, I think she wouldn’t mind, but I just didn’t expect that after seventeen years, it has become a bit tricky instead.”

The emperor coldly said: “What is so tricky, the decree from my mouth, I will vindicate the Ye family, who dares to say anything in this world?”

“No.” Chen Pingping answered decisively, seemingly out of His Majesty’s expectation, “Your Majesty has a sense of pity for that child, but this matter must not …… be taken into consideration After all, Your Majesty, you have to consider the feelings of the old man.” The old cripple heart like a mirror, the emperor this move although no name, but the last time to test.

The emperor knew that he was talking about the empress dowager, after thinking for a little while nodded, and said: “It seems that you have already made up your mind.”

Chen Pingping smiled bitterly and replied, “It happened suddenly, and His Majesty had not made a decree, so I did not prepare a plan.” The meaning of this was very clear, the emperor had always wanted Fan Xian’s life to be hidden at all times, and of course the courtyard had not thought about this matter.

He turned his words around and continued, “But there’s no big problem, if a letter comes from Xinyang, please ask your majesty to severely reprimand him, your majesty will then instruct a few of the emperors for a few sentences, and Fan Xian’s side will let him be dead in the water, and even though the hundred officials are doubtful, I’m sure that no one will dare to put up anything on the rootless rumors.”

“An Zhi can’t help but be embarrassed, how can he conduct himself in the court?”

“As soon as the year turns, he will go far away to Jiangnan on official business, just so he can avoid this discussion.” Chen Pingping smiled in a thin voice and said, “Your Majesty, although this matter is troublesome, the timing is not bad as it has exploded at this time. Let Fan Xian stay away from the important places in Kyoto, and drag it out like this for two years, and things will naturally fade away.”

“Can it fade?” The emperor narrowed his eyes and said.

“Si Li Li is on the River of Flowing Crystal, and people are saying that she is the descendant of a certain Prince back then, and the rumor is spreading around, so there’s no major problem except for making that flower boat’s business a little better. As for Fan Xian’s life ……,” Chen Pingping sighed, “let the world have one more piece of harmless gossipy news.”

The emperor pondered for a long time and hmmm’d from his nose.

“The newspapers can still take this matter as a lace.” Chen Pingping continued.

The Emperor smiled back.

“Just be on guard against that one.” Chen Pingping glanced at His Majesty and said with a hint of sadness.

“At the Empress’ place, I’ll ask Mother to step in.” The Emperor nodded and said with a sigh, “Not being able to give him a name, I already can’t afford this son.”

Half a month later, the streets and alleys of Kyoto all began to circulate a piece of news, which said that the young Lord Fan who was now justly popular in the dynasty, that Supervisory Court Tisch, was actually a descendant of the old Ye family back then!

Ye family was seized for treason, nearly twenty years ago, did not think that the original surprisingly have descendants, and is actually the Kyoto people talked about the little Lord Fan, this rumor makes the people of Kyoto shocked after the beginning of excitement, they have to talk to each other to pass the gossip, less than two days, the whole of Kyoto are aware of this rumor.

If the rumor was true, the Fan House, which harbored the court’s most wanted criminal, would be in bad luck. The officials in the court, who had been offended by Fan Xian, began to plan their offense excitedly, but of course, without the word from the palace, these officials did not dare to act on their own, after all, it was just a rumor, without any evidence.

Associated with Fan Xian into the capital after rather than give up a generation of literary fame, but also to enter the Supervisory Yuan, but also to take over the inner treasury is full of the smell of copper, the people of Kyoto officials are not in the heart of none of the muttering, for the rumors of the real degree is believed a few points.

Out of everyone’s expectation, the palace kept quiet, as if they had not heard of this matter in general. But the Supervisory Yuan began to take action, at the risk of being scolded by the speech officials three generations of ancestors, eight began to arrest those who dared to spread rumors of the people in the restaurants and teahouses.

Late afternoon of a stone residence, the building of the drinkers look at each other, they are some status of people, but did not expect the Procuratorate eight officials, was not reasonable, will be previously being sprayed spittle two scribes arrested!

From the reaction of the Supervisory Yuan, people are more and more convinced that Fan Tis …… and the Ye family of that year must have a relationship!

Inside the Supervisory Court, Chen Pingping, who had a wool blanket on her knees, lifted the corner of the black curtain and watched the silent pedestrians walk by on the street, a strange smile floating out of the corner of her lips.

“Knowing who your mom is and not knowing who your dad is, what are you afraid of?”