Chapter 80: The Biggest Ship of Thieves in Qing Kingdom

Hearing the other party easily call out her name, the female bandit Sister Guan was creeped out, a pair of eyes like knives gouging out Fan Xian, her left hand strangling the wound at her severed hand with a deadly grip as she said fiercely, “I planted myself in Your Excellency’s hands today, I don’t know Your Excellency’s honorable name.”

Fan Xian sat back in his chair and pulled out his ears, as if he hadn’t felt the other party’s spiteful gaze, and said with a smile, “I’m the Lord, you’re the thief, what qualifications do you have to ask me about my origins?”

Guan Charming only felt an unbearable throbbing pain in her right hand, and looking at her wrist, which had broken off a stump, her face turned pale, knowing that she had hit an iron plate today, and said with her teeth still clenched, “Please also draw a path.”

Fan Xian gave her an amused look, thinking that this matter is really a bit ridiculous, his own line of people just have something to delay, I did not expect this boat scented like this, but a day’s work, will attract the famous female bandits in Yingzhou, and in front of this female bandit was caught by himself, not only not afraid, but instead, let himself row the road.

“Row what road?” Fan Xian reached out and dipped his finger into some cold tea, and delicately applied it to his brow, and said with the end of his brow raised, “Yin Yang Dao, humane ghost Dao?”

Behind her, the curtains of the boat moved slightly, and Si Si, who was draped in a large cotton dress, rubbed her eyes and came out in a daze, mumbling, “Young master, why did you get up?” She was shaken by the light in the hall, and only after half a moment did she see the scene in the hall clearly, and when her gaze landed on Sister Guan’s severed hand, she couldn’t help but be horrified by the horrific bloody scene and screamed shrilly.

The scream was only half loud when Fan Xian had already covered his hand over her mouth and scoffed, “Trying to wake up the entire city of Yingzhou?”

Si Si had traveled from Tanyu to Kyoto, and the bloodiest scene she had ever seen was the time the Fan family’s second youngest brother, Si Zhe, had been subjected to the Great Mana, so how had she ever seen a severed hand or foot, and she was so horrified that she shivered, unable to calm down for a long time. Fan Xian pinched her on the waist and blustered, “Go back to sleep, in the middle of business.”

Si Si couldn’t help but take another look at Guan Charming. With a hmm, she turned around and prepared to go back to the house.

“Is he awake yet?”

“Nope.” Si Si continued, “Mr. Shi doesn’t seem to be awake either.”

“When Xiao Shi sleeps, he is like a pig, when young master I made a big mess …… of that place, he only knew to hug the flower girl and sleep, how to know what is going on outside.”

Guan Charming at this time painful lip twitching, face green, but the ears will be above the young man and his maid conversation heard clearly, more and more feel odd and appalling. What kind of people were on this ship? After being attacked by the mountain bandits at night, but still so calm and composed, actually still have time to chat with the spirit – if not the other party has extremely strong self-confidence, then it is the other party is a bit stupid – of course, she now thinks that it is the former possibility of the majority, just don’t know She just didn’t know what the other party would do with her people.

After driving Si Si to the guest cabin, the smile on Fan Xian’s face suddenly faded, and he said softly, “Guan Feminine, a native of Ezhou on the Jiangbei Road. Father, Guan Heshan, mother Xia, since childhood life in distress, sold into brothels, and then turned into Ezhou, a chief concubine, because unbearable humiliation of the master mother, angry murder, prison, strange escape. Subsequently for a cottage pressure cottage wife, and then after the cottage destroyed, and then after …… you will be in the area of Yingzhou.”

Guan Charming heart shocked incomparable, actually even the pain of the broken hand have forgotten the general, opposite this young man how to put their own bottom line so clear, is the other party is specifically set up this bureau to entrap themselves? She hissed, said fiercely: “Who are you! How do you know me so well.”

Fan Xian shook his head and said, “I have a better memory, but this information isn’t considered very clear because you aren’t an important person either.”

Guan Feminine’s life was bizarre, and she was also considered a famous bandit on the Great River, but she did not expect to be captured today without a fight, and the other party also showed disdain for herself in their words, a fact that made her feel a hint of humiliation, and on the other hand, the tone of the young man sitting in the chair and the temperament the other party exuded forced her to admit that the other party really did not put herself in their eyes.

“Since you know who I am, you should have guessed that there is someone behind this girl …… Unless you kill all of us, you will not want to settle this matter.” Guan Charming, in pain, began to foolishly threaten the other party, hoping that the other party would show some mercy when disposing of her people.

The cruel reality shattered her fantasies. Fan Xian smiled and said, “What the girl said is exactly what I want to do.”

Guan Charming was stunned, and suddenly felt an infinite chill surging up her back as she turned her head sharply.

The sound of countless sharp blades cutting through throat tubes rang out, very unpleasant, as if the large kitchen behind the One Stone Residence was slaughtering countless old hens at the same time.

The dozen or so mountain thieves who followed Guan Charming onto the boat, had their throats slit by Fan Xian’s personal guards with a single sword, and after confirming their deaths, they were thrown into the river, in a simple and professional manner, so much so that they didn’t even shed any blood on the deck, and the sound of the clattering river blossomed, and then returned to calmness after a few moments, incorporating all those corpses and blood into the broad stream of water.

He killed ten people without even blinking, so ruthless!

Guan Feminine’s eyes finally became fearful, looking at the style of the other party’s hand, she knew that the other party must be accustomed to doing this kind of thing. Turning back only to see that young man retracting the gesture of issuing orders, she couldn’t help but say in a trembling voice, “Don’t kill me …… Gegegegegegegegegegegegege ……”

Her teeth kept striking and making strange noises, she swallowed a mouthful of saliva and forced herself to calm down, since the other party didn’t kill herself at the same time, it meant that she still had a chance to live.

“Please give my family’s chief face.” Guan Charming paralyzed to the ground in shock, begging Fan Xian for mercy.

“Your family chief?”

When Guan Charming thought of the gongzi’s strength, some hope rose in her heart, “Seeing that the gongzi’s subordinates are acting in a great martial style, I think they must also be fellow travelers. My family’s leader is the head of Jiangnan’s water fortress, with hundreds of ships under his command and countless capable people. If you want to come to Jiangnan to seek great things, you will be able to meet and talk with my family’s leader.”

Fan Xian did not pay attention to this female bandit’s improper use of words, but heard that the other party was begging for forgiveness, but in fact, he was threatening himself with the so-called lord of the Jiangnan water fortress, and couldn’t help but smile and shake his head, thinking that this trip to Jiangnan was really interesting.

“Chief?” He said mildly, “The girl is talking about the Seventh Master Ming, right? The seventh prince of the Ming family, the one who has never really been in the family. I heard that this male son’s birth mother died many years ago, and after Elder Ming died, Young Master Ming, who took over the family business, sent people around to hunt down this illegitimate son who had brought shame to their family, in reality, it was because the Elder Ming’s will had given too many favors to this seventh male son. The seventh son of Ming had nowhere to hide, so he simply threw himself into the underworld, changed his name to anonymity, abstained from killing in secret, and in the past five or six years, it finally allowed him to make something of a name for himself.”

“Tang Tang Jiangnan water fortress leader Xia Qufei …… poor bastard son of Ming Qi Gongzi …… that year, how to mix into such a way now?” Fan Xian frowned slightly, seemed to feel that that character who had some status in Jiangnan was too far away from his own imagination, “Actually letting his subordinates go around robbing silver, the technique is too underhanded. Could it be that he is poor in silver recently?”

Jiangnan has always been affluent, and then the inner treasury was built there, it has created countless rich people, but in addition to those salt merchants and sea merchants, the two most famous families are the Cui family and the Ming family. These two families have been in-laws for generations, and climbed the road of the Princess, do not know rely on the inner library of the wealth. Cui’s family is responsible for the smuggling line to the north, while the Ming family, according to the investigation of the Supervisory Yuan, should be responsible for the smuggling of the inner treasury to the city of Dongyi, as well as the overseas part of the business.

Fan Xian went to Jiangnan to collect the inner treasury, now Cui’s has fallen, the brunt is to shock the Ming family, of course, did enough homework before leaving the capital, and the small talk of the son of the all-night long talk, has long been set up the strategy.

He said slowly in this room, kneeling on the ground Guan Charming listening to is really scared to death, since his master has been driven away from the Ming family, these years have been trying to retake the industry, but his true identity is the most secretive thing, Jiangnan water fortress in the big leaders do not know their own family members, even after the rich family, and the Ming family of those rich merchants have been hidden in a drum, and even secretly with the water fortress of Jiangnan also has some The Ming family’s wealthy merchants were also kept in the dark, and even secretly had some business dealings with the Jiangnan Water Village.

In addition to his own and the Ming seventh son has so a layer of outsiders do not know the relationship between relatives, and thus know this secret, guan charming simply do not believe that there are other people know now Jiangnan water fort big leader Xia Qufei’s real life, where to expect the opposite of this young son is a mouth to say that broken!

Fan Xian suddenly thought of a pile of things and laughed happily: “I figured it out, the Cui family has collapsed, the Ming family, although heartbroken, is more than happy to be able to take over the Cui family’s share of the pie, and I’m sure that the seventh son of Ming will not miss the opportunity to enter the shopping malls and play opposite to the Ming family. In March, the inner treasury side is going to rehang the tender, Jiangnan Water Village wants to clear its name, the seventh son of Ming wants to take revenge, and wants to grab the inner treasury’s marketing paperwork, all of this requires money, no wonder he’s monkeying around with such an ugly appearance.”

Guan Feminine looked at Fan Xian in horror, thinking to herself, “Where is this soft-faced young man from, and how can he know so many things? The matter of the inner treasury was an imperial court secret, and the other party had guessed the true thoughts of the eunuch in a matter of moments-at this point, when she looked again at the warm smile hanging at the corners of Fan Xian’s lips, she was unable to move as if she were freezing.

“Duke Ming Qi’s eating isn’t very pretty, and a few hundred taels of silver isn’t too small.” Fan Xian sighed, before he came to Jiangnan, he originally had some curiosity about the seventh son of Ming who was secretly found out by the Supervisory Court, after all, the other party’s life seemed to have some resemblance to his own, at this time he found out that the other party’s methods were not very smart, so he could not help but be a little disappointed.

He sighed to himself, only once he looked down did he pay attention to Guan Charming who had already scowled and was speechless, he smiled apologetically and said, “This person of mine likes to talk to himself sometimes, don’t worry girl, I’ll stop the bleeding for you later.”

Guan Charming asked, “Why don’t you kill me?”

Fan Xian thought for a moment before saying, “I’m not a person who likes to kill, not to mention that I still have to talk business with your family’s son, and by killing his cousin, I’m afraid that he’ll be too bloodthirsty and not rational enough to jeopardize the business between us.”

Guan Charming has been surprised to be a little numb this night, since the other party is able to find out the true identity of the male son, of course, able to find out the relationship between himself and the male son, just the other party said …… business? She hoped to be reborn and said with difficulty, “This gongzi, my home chief is downstream.”

At this time, she guessed in her heart that Fan Xian might also be the agent of which huge power in Kyoto, that’s why he has so many expert guards and knows so many secret stories, and said through clenched teeth, “Tonight is a loss for our side, and we will definitely have compensation to send to you in the future.”

Listening to the front of the speech, she had thought that the other party would let himself go, I did not expect that the young male was actually in deep thought, half a long time without words, not to despair and said, “Prince, everyone walks in the jianghu, you have already killed more than a dozen of my men, is it not possible to quell your anger?”

“Jianghu? Is there really a jianghu in this world?” Fan Xian smiled and said, “And killing isn’t about calming your anger, it’s just a maneuver to deal with business, I won’t let you leave this ship, at least not until I need you to, lest the girl’s momentary tongue leaks out my identity and brings unnecessary trouble to Jiangnan.”

Guan Charming did not understand his words, but at least heard the powerful confidence in the other party’s words, and hissed in despair, “Jianghu matters Jianghu. What exactly do you want to do?”

The cabin was quiet, and after a long time Fan Xian laughed softly, “The girl is mistaken, I am not a jianghu person.” He propped up his jaw and looked at Guan Charming’s pale face with considerable interest, “I don’t have the free time to pay attention to such scuffles in the Jianghu.”

Guan Charming felt more and more that the other party was mysterious, and couldn’t help but ask, “Who exactly are you …… you …… are?”

“Me?” Fan Xian thought very seriously, “I’m a useless second-generation ancestor who sits around and waits for death. Of course, it’s also possible that I’m one of the biggest second-generation ancestors in Qing.”

When she thought about her pedestrian’s guesses before she boarded the ship, Guan Charming nearly didn’t spit out a mouthful of blood.

“You’re a thief.” Fan Xian stared into her eyes and said word by word, “And I’m a big thief, since you’ve boarded my ship of thieves, of course I, the master, will have to take care of you, and of course, that Seventh Prince of your family will soon board my ship of thieves as well, and he won’t want to go down there again for the rest of his life.”

Guan Feminine finally heard and understood that the other party did not want to do business with the seventh prince at all, but rather wanted to take the prince as her own! She cursed hatefully, “Delusional! Just by virtue of you …… are only worthy of wiping the boots of my family’s male son …… cough …… cough ……! ”

Fan Xian is not annoyed, laughed away from the chair, took out the gold needle in her elbow a few times, for her to stop the blood, would like to say a few words what, and then suddenly feel unnecessary, thinking that your family that the seventh son in a few days will be afraid to sincerely want to shine my shoes, I just hope that you will not be too surprised at that time on the good.

After everything is done, the sailors who had been on the lower deck, lifted a big bucket of river water from the river to rinse the blood stains, although only one person, Charming, spilled blood on the boat, but the blood flowed from the severed hand was too much, and it was a lot of work.

After cleaning, the night wind rose again, everyone yawned and went to sleep again, the boat returned to the calm, as if this little incident did not happen earlier.

“Go to sleep, someone else is on duty for the second half of the night.” Fan Xian glanced at Gao Da and said. The official rules of the Qing Kingdom, personal guards were always divided into two shifts, only Fan Xian hardened himself and changed it into three shifts, although the number of people in each shift was to be less, but he believed that the capitalist in that world who exploited the workers to divide them into three shifts must have had his reasoning, and thought that the efficiency could surely be ensured in a more effective way.

Lift up the thick curtains, along the two sides of the cabin passageway to go in, until the end, Fan Xian stopped his footsteps, twisted his head to look at Shi Hanyan Li’s room, this scholar really sleeps solidly, but Su Wenmao has already woken up a long time ago, full of tired face guarding the door, at this time the night is deep, the two people did not say anything.

Walked to his room opposite, Fan Xian said a few words to the tiger guards guarding the door, gently pushed the door into the room, straight to the bedside to sit down, looking at the little boy in the quilt, for a long time speechless.

The third prince’s features were straight, and he was quite a bit clean-cut at his young age, but Fan Xian knew that this boy was much stronger than his real age. The boat gently rocked, he pulled the bed quilt upwards, covering the other shoulder, the wind on the river is cold, if it freezes, it’s not good.

Right at this moment, the Third Prince’s tightly closed eyes moved slightly within.

Fan Xian laughed silently, this child has long been awake, just pretending to sleep. He immediately thought, eight or nine years old child, even than Shi Elan Li to wake up, I’m afraid that the burden on the heart is not light, think of this section, his heart can not help but quietly sighed, in the emperor’s family, is indeed easy to be the dirt and power to raise some freaks, this little boy sometimes hateful, may not not not be pitiful.

He is also too lazy to poke at the little tricks of the children’s family, just occasionally lost in thought, thinking of Wan Er reminded of that thing, but there are some completely different ideas in his heart, just can not make up his mind at the moment.

Qing Yu Tang’s shopkeepers were not on the southbound ship. Fan Xian since it is a private Jiangnan, to Tanyu State direction of the family visit procession made extremely real, in the middle of the Wei River, that impostor Tisi adults have led the caravan to the east to start, along the way there is a black cavalry to protect, and led those shopkeepers, think of the court of all people will think, at this time they are in the caravan, and no one thought that they have come to the Wei River and the confluence of the great river.

Although taking the waterway, can’t by the black cavalry to provide the fastest and strongest support, but Fan Xian is not worried about the safety problem, the boat has seven tiger guards, and six places of the swordsman, so many masters of the assassins set in a boat, as long as not a great master in person, where in the world someone can touch their own a finger.

His warm palm gently patted the back of the third prince in the center, but his face looked at the other side, seemingly lost in thought. Currently the most valuable character on board, in fact, is this prince, there is such a talisman at his side, in the future, even if he wants to move the privilege to mobilize the government army state armor, it seems to be able to find an excellent reason.

The scene at this moment is actually a bit unorthodox, but Fan Xian is originally a bold person, not to mention how to scruple the dignity of the royal family, at this time, barely the third prince as a student brother with, is already to give enough face to the emperor and Yi Gui Concubine.

After confirming that everything was as usual, Guan Charming, who had broken her arm, was escorted into a simple cell on the lower level, Fan Xian then relaxed completely, rubbed his somewhat swollen temples, and returned to his own bedroom. When he looked up, he saw Si Si half leaning on the edge of the bed, leaning on the edge of the bed, with one hand on her jaw, her whole body swaying with the gentle rocking of the ship, the little ninny was funny, but she couldn’t fall down like this.

Fan Xian laughed, knowing that the other party must wait for himself to rest before he is willing to sleep. He didn’t dare to make too much noise, and tiptoed over, one hand passing through Si Si’s armpit, one hand holding the crook of her leg, the girl was wearing a reddish-green semi-olden goblin, round and rolled up in a big pile, and it was like he was hugging a big furry bear.

Carefully moving Si Si to the bed, not wanting to disturb her dream, unexpectedly she still still woke up with her eyes open, the confusion in her eyes instantly disappeared, forcing herself to struggle up, smiling, “I’ll lay the quilt for young master.”

Fan Xian laughed softly and scolded, “You had a nap earlier, why are you still laying blankets? You’re all sleepy and confused, why don’t you hurry up and go to sleep.”

Si Si covered her mouth with a smile and said, “The bedding is cold again, young master hated cold bedding when he was young, didn’t he always let me warm it up first?”

Hearing these words, Fan Xian was slightly stunned, looking at the girl in front of him, he couldn’t help but think of the days when the two of them were in the old mansion in Tanyuzhou some years ago. In a flash two years passed, he was busy fighting for power and profit, married and went on a mission, intentionally or unintentionally and Si Si was a little bit separated, but fortunately Si Si was still so attentive to herself, in his heart he could not help but feel faint warmth welling up, and laughed and said, “Do you want to warm the bed for me this day?”

This is a little light, but the two mansions know, Si Si one day is to open face into the room of the big maid, she herself has been prepared mentally, suddenly heard this, face slightly shy a red, but did not as in the past as refreshingly back to a few sentences, just will be outside of the goblin a strip, the whole person will be shrunk into the bedding.

After shrinking into the young master’s bedding, only a head of black silk was left exposed outside the snow-white head of the bedding, tantalizingly incomparable.

Fan Xian froze slightly, and after a moment, he took off his clothes and burrowed into the comforter. In fact, the two of them in Tanshou, since childhood grew up together, also not less in the same bed, in a quilt hanging out, in addition to the last moment, any intimate things have long been done all over.

The lights in the cabin were still on. Fan Xian wrapped his arms around his eldest girl from behind, his hands ringing her body in front of her holding her slightly cold hands, his chest pressed against her back, listening to a burst of her breathing in front of him, subconsciously hugging her a little tighter.

“I’m twenty, Young Master.”

Si Si said softly biting her lower lip, her words carrying a bit of aggression and resentment.

Fan Xian did not say anything, sniffing the faint fragrance coming from Si Si’s head, feeling the bouncing moist body in his arms, very simply letting his mind return to the situation he was in back in Tanyu, and the whole person felt incomparably relaxed and at ease.