Chapter 13: Alone
Along the way, Fan Xian had arranged for Fuji Zijing to be in this carriage of his, so he did not avoid him with these words, frowning, ”It’s also a bit too coincidental. I just entered Kyoto, how could I not start a conflict with someone, but as a result, Si Zhe followed me all day, and then when the clash at the restaurant took place, Prince Jing happened to be at the restaurant, this kind of coincidence is hard to explain.”
Fuji Zijing smiled and said, “The young master may be brutal, but there is really no bad water in his stomach, this kind of thing, the Second Mistress would never dare to leave it to him.”
He went on to say, “The Second Mistress has only one son, but he can’t read, he can’t learn martial arts, and he only eats and drinks and flaunts around every day, so the Second Mistress despises her own son.”
Fan Xian lips corner floated up a bitter smile, “Precisely because I know that my own son can not help up, so Liu’s will be so poisonous to me …… This when the mother’s, seem to be very stubborn. Liu …… she was trying to make everyone in the outside world think that the Fan family’s illegitimate son was just an incompetent dude.”
Fuji Zijing said, “In fact, you may not know that whenever the young master goes out, he always makes something out of it. That’s why the Second Mistress let him follow you out without arranging anything at all, and naturally it will get you into strife.”
“You mean to say that as long as I follow him outside to flaunt things, I will naturally become a dude in the eyes of the world.”
“Not bad.” Fuji Zijing smiled, “Second Mistress’s idea is simple, but it seems to be working.”
Fan Xian laughed, “This Liu is very somewhat interesting …… actually recognized Si Zhe as a plate of ink, simply the big guys mix a one black, interesting interesting.”
“I just didn’t realize that Prince Jing was also at the restaurant.” Fuji Zijing responded, “Young master previously handled properly, although the words seem to offend some readers, but where the scholar, there is always some loneliness and arrogance, the people in Kyoto may think that the young master is arrogant, it is always better than thinking that the young master is an incompetent person.”
“Is building public opinion really that important?” Fan Xian said with a smile, “Is the Fan family really a meat and potatoes family? Is Liu really as simple-minded as a mere woman?”
He looked at Fuji Zijing and said, “These are all questions, but none of them are actually my questions.”
Fuji Zijing asked curiously, “Young Master, then what is your problem?”
Fan Xian looked sadly at his beautiful face, “My problem is that until today, I still don’t know what my unmarried daughter-in-law looks like and if she’s really sick and dying.”
The carriage stopped at an alleyway on the lateral side of Tianhe Street, and looking into the distance, the government offices of the various ministries were still open for business, with various buildings flying like phoenixes and pointing to the sky, and at the farthest point, a square and featureless house was standing there in a mortar and pestle, and it looked awfully gloomy.
Fan Xian did not allow Fuji Zijing to follow him, although it seemed that the other party had already made up his mind to put his future on himself as the young master, but Fan Xian recognized that he was not Song Qi Li, and did not have the ability to collect people’s hearts and minds like that, after all, he was his father’s personal follower – so there were still some things that he would not let him know.
Confirming the direction of the Inspectorate in front of a stall selling sugar gourds, he bought one, biting it as he walked that way, souring his own teeth to the point of falling out, and calling out that he was enjoying himself.
Passing by a bookstore, he walked in and glanced around, realizing that they were all scriptures, histories, and books that he didn’t know how many times he had read them, beckoned the clerk over, and asked in a lowered voice, “Do you have any Stone Records?”
A weird smile appeared on the clerk’s face, and also replied in a very low voice, “Guests follow me.”
Not really avoiding people, in a small compartment right next to the main hall, the clerk took out a set of books and handed them to Fan Xian. Fan Xian took it and saw that it was exactly the same edition as the one he had bought from the older woman earlier today, nodding his head in satisfaction and handing over the silver.
“Put the books away for now and wait for someone from Fan’s residence to pick them up later.” The previous book had already let his sister bring it back to the residence, and these books were too heavy to put on his body, so Fan Xian was prepared to let the residence’s subordinates pick them up later.
The clerk was puzzled: “Which Fan Mansion is it?”
“Sinanbo’s mansion.” Fan Xian thought to himself, “Are there many other Fan mansions? He really didn’t know that the Fan family was a big family in the capital, and Sinanbo was just a concubine, but in the last decade or so, because of the old lady’s sake, the family has been flourishing, and has only become the most famous family in the Fan family.
The clerk answered respectfully, and wrapped the book and left it at the counter.
Fan Xian casually asked a few questions about how the book was selling, and when he got the answer, he cursed the book pirate in his stomach. The clerk saw that the customer did not leave immediately after buying the book, so he had to chat with the other party with a smile on his face.
During this question-and-answer session, the tip of Fan Xian’s ear twitched imperceptibly.
As he smiled and spoke with the clerk, he slowly utilized his true qi, and his ear power instantly became sharper, and he instantly found the sound he wanted to find in the quiet environment of the bookstore.
Two breathing sounds that were different from the general public.
The breathing sounds were extremely long and distant, and it was obvious that they were characters who possessed true qi. Fan Xian knew that this should be the manpower sent by his father to protect or spy on him, and frowned.
The clerk saw this guest suddenly frown, and although he thought that this beautiful young man frowning was also beautiful, he thought that he had said something wrong and couldn’t help but be a bit jittery.
Passing through the back door of the bookstore, Fan Xian confirmed that the two followers behind him should have been successfully shaken off by himself, and he was a little slightly pleased, thinking that those things he had learned from Fei Jie when he was a young man, in addition to the use of poisons, skills like anti-tracking and the like, had finally come in handy.
Along with the crowd in the Tianhe Street on the green stone road walking, looking at both sides of the street buildings, these buildings ancient color, especially before the building, both sides of the road each side of a gentle flowing water, if you want to go from the road to those government offices, but also need to step over the small wooden bridge above the flowing water.
The flowing water was as smooth as a mirror, reflecting the shadow of the small bridge and the branches of the green trees on the road reaching out to the water, it looked very quiet and beautiful, and occasionally the petals of the peach blossom bushes in the distance blown down by the wind floated on the water, walking slowly.
He walked alongside the road, looking at the foot of the flowing water, the corners of his lips spread a cozy smile, come to Kyoto for a few days, always have to think about some complicated things, and their own taste of life this time the original intention is really too big gap, and the brain is also a little tired. At this time by the Kyoto spring scenery to clear the mind a bit, suddenly feel much better spirit.
Came to the Supervisory Yuan entrance, looked at this building made of green limestone, Fan Xian frowned, felt that this government office is also too ugly a bit, and the surrounding those ancient, flowing eaves and quiet walls of the building is too out of tune – but when he thought of Fei Jie’s face that is really not very good, he helplessly admitted that, it is true that what a person with what a building.
Walking into the building, Fan Xian was a bit surprised to find that the officials and “passers-by” around him were all looking at him, or rather, looking at him in a very strange way.
He carefully looked at himself to make sure that there was nothing that could attract the attention of others, before raising his head – but the curious gazes around him remained unchanged.