Chapter 89 – Auspiciousness from Heaven

At the beginning of the sixth year of the Qing calendar, whether it is North Qi or South Qing, the two countries within the borders of the country have occurred a lot of miraculous things, although due to the cold weather, the paddy fields have not yet grown grain, nature is even less the emergence of the double spikes, the river did not appear white fish, the mountains have not been found unicorns, but …… Wujiu when the opening up of the mountain, dug out a pair of copper walls The Shazhou repair of the river embankment, the civil workers surprised to find a huge and incomparable, on the cloud pattern of the decoration of the turtle, the Jiangnan water field, there is a Cang bird, red geese flying in the sky!

Whether it is a copper wall or cloud tortoise pale bird genus, belongs to the auspicious first-class, the officials around the rush to have to table, big pat on the back, but the emperor in Kyoto in that his majesty some disdain.

Because of this auspicious shameless trend is last year in the northern qi within the country, the most previous legend is the western mountains after the first snow, in the mountains there are woodcutters found white deer, white wolf and white fox, thought the auspicious omen, written to the emperor of northern qi.

A generation of master bitter lotus as a sign of heaven and man, that the monarchs appropriate governance, the heart of heaven, so reopen the door, in a temple outside the capital, to accept a female apprentice, the female apprentice is later into the palace of the Secretary Li Li.

Later, this trend has spread to the south, the Qing State also began to appear around this kind of thing. However, the emperor of Qing is obviously a tough man who does not respect the ghosts and gods, until the other day, Chintian Supervision Commissioner trembling voice, ecstatic that Chintian Supervision observed the Jingxing Qingyun, which allows the emperor of Qing to begin to face up to this fact.

Auspiciousness is also known as Fu Rui, so the old people have passed on to each other, and the scriptures often note that it is a small magic that the heaven is satisfied with the earthly administrators to show their satisfaction. This is the transmission of the will of heaven, the people of the earth very much believe, and the auspicious types are also extremely complicated, such as wind and rain, such as rice double ears, such as the ground out of the sweet spring and so on.

Auspiciousness is divided into five grades, except for the unicorn, which can not be found and is categorized in the Jia Rui, the rest of the grades are the Great Rui, the Upper Rui, the Middle Rui, and the Lower Rui.

The white wolf and white fox is the upper Rui, the pale bird, red geese is the lower Rui, and the Qin Tian Supervisor Daxi report of the so-called “Jingxing Qingyun” is the heavenly colorful clouds, which …… is a real big Rui ah, and the name is embedded in the state of Qing, even if the Emperor of Qing is no matter how reserved and suspicious. reserved and suspicious, also seems to begin to float up. After all, the emperor is also human, always like to be patted on the back.

This year must be a good year with good weather.

Since it’s a good year, then naturally there can’t be a war, with auspiciousness as a call, the state exchanges between Northern Qi and Southern Qing started to become closer, especially soon the marriage between the two countries, the grand prince and the Grand Duke Chang of Northern Qi are going to be cavorting, the Northern Qi side sent out quite a large number of envoys.

And let the South Qing people feel shocked and glorious is, North Qi state master bitter lotus, even with the delegation south, to do this big wedding witness!

Bitter lotus grandmaster in the world’s position how transcendent, he is not only one of the top of the grandmaster, but also the heaven of the road is also vaguely influence around the temple, and in the four wilds walking in the asceticism, although the temple has always been not to do the world, but this kind of implicit but not show the prestige, but has long exceeded the influence of a peak of the martial arts way.

In this way, although the Qing people are proud and honorable, but the reception matters to be re-drafted, Ye Liuyun wild crane do not know where, really can reciprocate the reception, but it seems to be only one person left in the Qing emperor, but to the emperor himself, the Qing officials of the Honglu Temple, and did not have such a big nerve.

Finally, the Empress Dowager could not see those officials below panic, stepped in to end the matter, still Zhuang Mo Han everyone rules, please bitter lotus master into the palace, by their own reception work.

Unexpectedly, such as the bitter lotus master to Kyoto, but politely declined this invitation, their own living into the Qing Temple, which is also consistent with his identity.

After all, is a generation of great masters, although the two countries are different, Qing people still showed enough respect, respect is curious, the world have speculated, although the marriage of the two countries is a big thing, but how it is not possible to alarm his old man, right?

Northern Qi mission to the capital a few days later, the bitter lotus personally to the south of the real purpose seems to reveal.

It turns out that the Emperor of Northern Qi personally repair a letter of state, saying that he would like to make amends with the South Qing, the agreement drafted last year will continue for 10,000 years, the two countries to brotherhood, regardless of inferiority or superiority, only to talk about the new friendship, and friendship for generations to come.

Such an important negotiation, of course, the need for bitter lotus personally, the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty handheld the northern colleague’s letter, contemplating for days, finally nodded gently, I’m afraid that is also to see the bitter lotus three thin face.

News, the world rejoiced, Qing people even though martial arts, but ultimately also prefer peaceful days, just the military vaguely some angry emotions, feel that nowadays the court is strong, it is a great opportunity to unify the world, why the whole a few pieces of paper set on their heads? Although it is not heavy, but let breathing always a little bit unsmooth.

On the contrary, the old Qin family that the military leader will see things understand, do not care, only to the closest a few people occasionally said: “Now the speed of recovery of the North Qi is unexpected, a few years is always not good to use the army, this agreement is just a few pieces of paper just, when the time comes to tear will tear, our emperor his majesty did not not have to do this kind of thing?”

And bitter lotus south to Kyoto another purpose, but let all the people of Kyoto officials have fallen through the glasses, he wants to accept the only daughter of Fan Shangshu – Miss Fan family as a disciple!

Bitter Lotus Master’s reason is also sufficient, said the year before and after the yin and yang convergence of several months, the sky fell auspicious, it is the heart of heaven is benevolent feeling, the heaven of the road to abide by the theory of unity of mankind, should be the heart of the sky and pedestrian affairs, choose the earth’s oddballs cultivate, for the people’s well-being, it is the right way. Since it is the act of heaven, of course, not confined to the limits of the country, Northern Qi has auspicious, so collect an apprentice, South Qing auspicious now, they naturally want to collect another apprentice, so they went to Kyoto.

TianDaoDao patriarch bitter lotus re-open the door of the thing, in the last year has been spread all over the world, but the South Qing people never thought that this thing will have anything to do with their own, where to think of TianDaoDao’s closed door female disciple will fall in Kyoto.

As for why the Fan family’s young lady was chosen – it then became a question in everyone’s mind, not too many people would associate it with Fan Xian, who was far away in Jiangnan, after all, no matter how arrogant and powerful Fan Xian was, he wasn’t capable of instructing the Bitter Lotus State Master to come and work for his own benefit.

Bitter Lotus did not explain the criteria for choosing a disciple, but only through some eunuchs responsible for serving spread rumors. People only know, the original bitter lotus state master in Kyoto occasionally travel folk, had in front of the entrance of the Imperial Hospital in silence for half a day, after the event present warm reward, said that the hospital in a woman’s heart is kind and simple, intelligent, really a good material.

On that day, Fan Ruoruo is too hospital “internship”, with the nursing knowledge learned in the past few months and the medical profession, careful care of the hospital’s critically ill, not undress, lips slightly dry, sweat wet winter shirt, very hard.

In this world there is a saying called “civil and military without borders”, North Qi Zhuang Mo Han’s students are in the State of Qing as a big official, North Qi Master Bitter Lotus to accept the Qing people as a disciple, the Qing people will only feel the honor, and will not give birth to other feelings, so the people do not have any great reaction, but some optimism.

Just bitter lotus disciple, originally is a big event, and accept is a official family of young lady, naturally to consult the other side of the family elders, and this thing even Fan Jian do not dare to take the idea, and have to go to the palace to ask his majesty’s decree.

In the middle of the heavy palace, the Qing Emperor sat in the dragon chair frowning slightly, after a long silence, only asked one sentence: “Anzhi so do not like Hongcheng?”

Fan Jian was horrified, not knowing how to speak.

The emperor’s eyes flashed a smile, but also surprised at Fan Xian’s long hands and feet, energy, and feel that the bitter lotus this person is too much love that woman called Haitang, not enough to be a problem, coupled with the fact that he will be Fan Xian banished to the south of the Yangtze River, there is always a little bit of apology, so he waved his hand and allowed the proposal.

Soon after the marriage of the eldest prince, the bitter lotus will throw down the mission, with Fan Ruo Ruo floating away from the capital.

As a result, the marriage between the Fan family and King Jing’s family was postponed indefinitely, just to see which day it would really die out. King Jing’s son, Li Hongcheng, who was currently under house arrest at home, nearly vomited blood when he suddenly heard the bad news. And King Jing know this matter, into the palace made a fuss, finally caused the Empress Dowager to intervene, only to appease down.

But King Jing after returning to the house, was unable to swallow this breath, leading a cadre of the king’s house florist hitman, rushed directly to the generations of friendship Fan Shangshu’s house, regardless of the front or back of the house, a mess of a smashing hard, the entire Fan House smashed into a ragged garbage dump, ruined the Fan Jian treasured for many years of countless pieces of antiques, rushed to the Fan House maids lost their faces. Finally, Prince Jing in a hurry to rush back to the House of Fan Shangshu adults hit a fierce fist on the eye circle, printed a black mark, which only proudly led the troops back to the House, a little to solve the chest of that evil gas.

Jiangnan land, West Lake, early spring without lotus, fine rain like a line.

Fan Xian and his entourage have been living in Hangzhou for nearly a month, although it is called a vacation, but in Jiangnan where spring is approaching, he just stayed, of course, there is a deeper meaning. In these days, the Inspection Yuan’s branch in Jiangnan began to operate in full swing, no longer as in the past, any matters must be handled through Kyoto, but directly to the manor by the West Lake.

This manor, just like in addition to the main court in Kyoto, the Supervisory Yuan second power center.

Regarding the situation of the officials in Jiangnan Road, the Ming family and the salt merchants, as well as the movements of the inner treasury in recent months, all of them were summarized by the four officials sitting in the manor, and then reported to Fan Xian. Without the geographical distance, the upper echelons of the Supervisory Yuan’s control over Jiangnan has further increased, only because the Ming family’s reaction was extremely fast, as early as last fall, it had already begun to make arrangements, and the Ming family itself is a huge local clan, appointing people who are all members of the family, so the level of nails planted in the courtyard is not enough, and did not obtain too much useful information.

On the contrary, in Shazhou ambush Jiangnan water village, at this time began to play a role that Fan Xian unexpected, Xia Qufei this person far-sighted, long thought to take back the Ming family, has been prepared for many years, so for the Ming family’s shipping channels as well as the relevant information, mastered than the Supervisory Yuan is much more detailed.

The Ming family has been strangely quiet, only to hear that there has been a gathering of the upper echelons of the city of Suzhou, obviously aimed at Fan Xian’s arrival, but that gathering was so secretive that the Supervisory Yuan didn’t find out anything about it.

However, given Fan Xian’s status and position, coupled with the fact that he was nominally disciplining the Third Prince, neither the Ming family nor the many officials of the Jiangnan Road had the guts to preemptively ruffle his feathers. As for those people from Yun Zhilan in Dongyi City, they had only come over to play a role in backing up the Ming family, who would have thought that Fan Xian would be so unreasonable as to launch a dog-catching operation.

A deity residing on earth might be able to remain hidden in the city for a long time, but a group of deities couldn’t completely cover their tracks no matter what. The Peng’s Manor, which has not been inhabited for years, has suddenly been inhabited by more people, no matter whether it is the procurement of food and fruits and vegetables, or the entry of those expensive daily necessities into the manor, in the eyes of the people in Hangzhou City who are interested in the city, they can guess the slightest.

So in ten days later, the news that Fan is in Hangzhou has spread, spread throughout the Jiangnan Road, but he hid in the manor to avoid seeing guests. The governor of Hangzhou came to his door once, but was politely and firmly denied by the gatekeeper. Everyone knew that Fan Tiji was still on vacation and didn’t want to be disturbed.

But everyone was also speculating, Fan Xian had been quiet for so long, what exactly was he preparing for? As he was quiet, the people in the official jungle were only forced to be quiet as well. The people who sent gifts to the big boat on the river did not reduce, the Ming family members also extremely obediently moved out of the West Lake side of the other several mansions, for fear of disturbing the Lord Tisch’s purity.

The manor by the West Lake is quiet, but attracted the attention of countless people.

The lake floated a flat boat, two young men look like a scholar is sitting in the boat at the beginning and end of the boat, the center of a short side of the table, the top with light fruits and vegetables and Jiangnan water wine, do very elegant.

Two people are just after the disguise of Fan Xian and Haitang, two people did not put some flour on the face and other things, just by Fan Xian hand picking some eyebrows, and slightly with the glue to the end of the eyebrow up some eyebrows, the change, the appearance of the two people suddenly changed a lot, if it is not familiar with the people, will not be able to recognize them.

At this time the boat is traveling slowly in a remote corner of the West Lake. Today, after the first break of light rain, the air on the lake is very fresh.

Recently these days, Fan Xian often rafted on the lake with Haitang, on the one hand, he loved the scenery of the lake and mountains here, on the other hand, Fan Xian was practicing the heart method of the Heavenly Dao for the first time, and according to Haitang, he had to get close to nature all the time, and repair the meridians in his body that were like rotting coca with the energy of the heaven and earth.

After practicing Tian Dao’s method, Fan Xian no longer contained qi at the snowy mountains, but turned to his dantian, and those drops of qi were like a touch of freshness, slowly moisturizing the walls of his meridians, moistening the dry and broken meridians. Being on top of the West Lake, close to the natural beauty, with the cool water of the lake reflecting the white clouds and blue sky below, and with the faintly sparse mountain forests under the mountain on the side showing their first green colors, the cultivation of his mind was indeed much faster.

Fan Xian believed that Miss Haitang had a point, but he knew that the more crucial reason was that his own circulation of true qi was more than that of ordinary martial arts practitioners, and that the kung fu of circulating from inside and outside the body was too much practiced by himself back then, and in the past, it was only used on top of climbing, and only now did he realize that it would be of great benefit to his mind and soul in sensing the heaven and the earth.

He closed his eyes, half lying on the bow of the boat, his right hand intentionally or unintentionally on the side of the boat above, fingertips and slightly swinging lake surface seems to be touching non-touching, a touch of light to imperceptible true qi, from his fingertips slowly overflowing, and the lake water, and then soft and smooth retrieval, flowing into his body, so that fingertips towards the lake water vibration of the fine ripples.

Haitang gently paddled her oars, a pair of bright lake-like eyes, paying attention to Fan Xian’s fingertips, her brows slightly frowned, secretly sighed, thinking that this young man in front of her is really rare in the world in terms of his enlightenment and chance, like this scene, the true qi leaving the body and returning, tainted with the breath of nature, is obviously already the phenomenon of the third layer of the Heaven’s Way of the Heart, although he himself is known as a genius in the world, but at the time when he realized to such a realm, he also Has been practicing for five long years, and Fan Xian …… this is only ten days!

Although Fan Xian’s realm is now much higher than when she first started, and her comprehension ability is also much stronger, but the progress is so fast, or make Haitang feel a trace of incredulity and fear of the police, Fan Xian is now in the body of the North and the South two great masterpieces of learning, and holds a great deal of power in his hands, favoring in the world of folk reputation and good, such a person, in the future, if …… into the evil way, who can control him? If such a person goes into the evil way in the future, who will be able to control him?

In fact, Fan Xian’s enlightenment in martial arts, far less than Haitang, and the reason why the practice of Tianyi Dao heart method can be so smooth, on the one hand, Haitang in the side of the unselfish teaching, on the one hand, but Fan Xian’s childhood foundation of true qi to play a solid, the third point is the previous mentioned, Fan Xian for the way this true qi went and came back is extremely familiar with the way he is a stingy person, but coincidentally catered to the Tianyi Dao method of cultivation.

Seemingly sensing that Haitang was thinking about something, Fan Xian woke up from his meditation and slowly opened his eyes, looking at Haitang with a seeming smile as he said, “Don’t worry, if I really wanted to break the agreement, I wouldn’t have let that Northern Qi man you brought to Jiangnan be exposed to so many things.”

In his agreement with Haitang, or to be precise, Fan Xian’s agreement with the Beiqi royal family, after the collapse of the eldest princess, the goods smuggled to the north from the inner treasury would still not be reduced, and there would be a great increase in quality and grade, even including certain goods that were strictly forbidden to go out of the country, and Fan Xian agreed to the Beiqi man’s request.

The wonderful thing is, Haitang brought to Jiangnan that the Northern Qi people, is a Northern Qi court officials, as the Ministry of households, but also part of the Ministry of Industry, the Department of the Ministry of the Secretary, at the beginning of the Ministry of the Army has been floating for a period of time, this official in the career has not been up and down, but is versatile and multi-talented people, can calculate, know the structure of the weapons, more proficient in goods inspection. It was a very appropriate choice for Haitang to bring him in and take charge of the dealings with the Nanqing inner treasury.

“I’m a person who is very heavy on promises.” Fan Xian looked at Haitang and said, “I will definitely fulfill what I promised you guys back in the Upper Capital.”

“The same goes for us.” Haitang smiled faintly and loosened the handle of her paddle, letting the canoe straddle the lake without a master, and said, “You should have gotten the news that Teacher has already left Kyoto with Miss Fan.”

Not waiting for Fan Xian to open his mouth, she continued, “Fan Si Zhe has also begun to gradually take over the Cui family’s properties left within our dynasty, and you should know that if it wasn’t for His Majesty’s nod of the head, these should have been put into the treasury instead of becoming your private property.”

Fan Xian shook his head and said, “The Cui family was originally a citizen of my Daqing, even if he was caught committing a crime, of course he should be taken over by us Daqing people.”

Haitang ignored his strong words and continued, “And I also brought the Heart Law to you as promised. With the first part of the agreement, I don’t think there’s anything for either of us to nitpick.”

Fan Xian nodded, this was a deal that was extremely beneficial to both sides, he just didn’t know why he trusted the Northern Qi so much. Haitang also seemed to be puzzled by this, frowning, “Anzhi, you sent both your sister and brother to Shangjing, don’t say you did it unintentionally …… why is this?”

Fan Xian smiled, knowing that the other party had finally sensed something was wrong, but it was impossible to answer her positively, did he want himself to tell a foreigner that he was worried that someday His Majesty the Emperor was suddenly going to make a big move to reshuffle his family, so he was going to keep some backstabbing in some other kingdom in this world?

He waved his hand and said, “What’s wrong with that, as long as our agreement continues to be honored, I believe that whether it’s you, or that …… little Emperor Majesty, will protect my family.”

Haitang raised an eyebrow and said, “If things fall apart, how will you face the people up and down the Qing Kingdom?”

“Face? There’s no face to face at all.” Fan Xian smiled and said, “Although I don’t consider myself a traitor, people will definitely consider me the biggest Qing traitor.”

Haitang laughed, speechless at his man’s frankly gangly nature. Fan Xian then laughed, “Besides, for this world, I don’t mind being an internationalist.”

“The auspiciousness all over Qing Guo, is that your doing?” Haitang asked with his head bowed.

Fan Xian did not deny it, Wuzhou Shazhou and other places, naturally, it was the Supervisory Yuan that did it, as for the Jingxing Qingyun observed by the Qin Tian Supervisor …… don’t forget that the former Qin Tian Supervisor was the second prince’s man, had already been invited by the Supervisory Yuan to have tea on a dark and windy night, and had not been let out until today, nowadays Qin Tian Supervisory Yuan, and Fan Xian’s Nowadays, the Chintian Supervisor’s relationship with Fan Xian is quite elusive.

He thought in his heart, the little emperor of north qi in the north of the top piece of leaf to engage in three white, my side of the snowy mountains on the beasts less, but the whole xiangyun out, always also can press you head, his majesty came in the secret letter, obviously for their own arrangement is quite satisfied, between the lines through a stock of complacency.

“His Majesty …… the Emperor of the Qing State,” Haitang deliberated on the wording: “Although fewer appearances in these years, but the world knows that His Majesty is talented, especially this time the teacher accepted your sister as a closed disciple, it is hard to say that he will not guess what. ”

Fan Xian nodded: “These things could not be hidden from His Majesty, as a subject, I will not hide them, and I have long since written and submitted a secret report on the relevant matters.”

Haitang was slightly surprised and said, “You’re quite open and honest, so what is it that you won’t say?”

Fan Xian frowned and said seriously, “For example, moving the silver from the inner treasury to one’s own home, this kind of thing, of course, is not quite good enough to talk to His Majesty about.”

The boat fell into silence once again above, and the lake was once again silent. Fan Xian looked at Haitang, who was slightly worried, and realized that after half a year, this girl’s heart seemed to have changed a little, perhaps because she was involved in imperial affairs for the first time, which had a slight impact on her state of mind after all.

In the face of Haitang, in fact, Fan Xian some hidden uneasiness, in the last year to today’s days together, he endowed a word of remembering that the principle of the heart, in the relationship as much as possible, open-hearted, sincere, and even say some childish words, on the one hand, is really cherish Haitang this friend, on the other hand, is trying to start from the heart of the influence of this woman, to get a strong helping hand! –The starting point carries interests, which makes him a little ashamed.

The lakeside came a burst of rapid hoofbeats, Fan Xian looked back, only to see a stallion in the lakeside stone road galloped through, squarely sailing to the already many days have not been officials dare to once again boarded the door of Peng’s manor door, a somewhat familiar official rolled over and down, angrily ringing the door.