Chapter 35: Comedy inside and outside the public hall

The official elder brother interrupted the duo’s comic performance and laughed bitterly, “This can’t be preempted, that Guo family’s pleadings were clearly written, and it was precisely because of that piling matter that Eunuch Fan harbored a grudge, and that’s why he stopped the street in the middle of the night to commit murder.”

Liu asked Fan Xian, “What was the final outcome at the restaurant?”

“I broke the nose of one of his guards.” Fan Xian blamed himself and said.

“Are you alright?”

“How could I be fine? Everyone in the restaurant saw it at the time, and I’m a person who refuses to suffer.”

Liu sighed and turned to the officer, “Listen, the one who holds a grudge is naturally the one who suffers, our young master took a great advantage, would he still hold a grudge?”

The police officer has always listened to the litigators in the public hall, which has not seen the first self-defense before the court, early dumbfounded, do not know what to say good. Liu’s no smoke and fire to stretch out a finger, the hands of the police officer will be more a silver ticket, a look, two eyes shine.

Liu has returned to a lady should be reserved and noble, said lightly: “this Yamen, we will go, we have to go to see what the Guo family play. But we can’t go at this time, you go back and tell Lord Mei, when that Guo Gongzi goes to the public court, our family will go to the public court to confront him.”

A servant thought that this is out of order ah, where there is to come to take people but took a handful of money back to the reason, was about to speak, but was the small chief stopped, answered yes, then hurriedly withdrew from the Fan Mansion.

Fan House finally returned to the quiet, in addition to Liu’s and Fan Xian in the flower hall there is no one else. Fan Xian smiled and looked at Liu, thinking in his heart, if this is not his own enemy how good, he saw the other side of the means today, for no reason to give birth to a point of appreciation, although the Fan House family is big, but by the Guo family to make a sudden attack, the father is not in the house, Liu was able to deal with the clear, not to fall on the scene is a small matter, the key is to fight for a lot of time in order to deal with it.

As expected, Liu took a sip of tea and faintly asked, “What exactly are you doing to make such a scene?”

Fan Xian smiled and said, “Father has always hoped that I would quickly become famous in Kyoto, I thought about it and realized that writing poems and essays is really not very interesting, if I could fight a lawsuit against the family of the current minister, I would definitely become famous much faster.” This is naturally a joke.

“You fight then fight, but also have to show your identity to fight, seems to be afraid of not too much trouble.” There was a hint of anger in Liu’s words.

Fan Xian respectfully replied, “I just want to get out of breath, if I don’t let the person being beaten know that I did it, how can I get out of this breath?”

Liu glanced at him, thinking that this handsome boy in front of her was many times more accomplished than her own son, and although he seemed to be doing some rampant things on the surface, but looking at the demeanor and steadiness, she knew that he naturally had a number in his mind, and she couldn’t help but sigh, her heart a little lost.

Fan Xian did not know what she was thinking, and asked with a slight curious smile, “Auntie, why did you help me earlier?”

Liu slowly raised her head, some fine lines already forming on the edges of her brows and eyes, she seemed a bit surprised that the teenager would speak so directly, and after thinking for a while she answered quietly, “Although my surname is Liu, I am a member of the Fan family.”

Fan Xian stared into her eyes, knowing that this woman’s words were not to be trusted, not to be believed in their entirety, but not knowing how he should respond.

The flower hall was so quiet that even a pin falling on the floor could be heard.

“Lord Mei is my father’s protégé, and I have already sent someone to fetch the letter. Your father should have gotten the news by now as well, I believe that nothing will happen, at most they will be compensated a few taels of silver.” Liu closed her eyes, seemingly a bit tired, “Let the housekeeper accompany you to the Kyoto Mansion in the afternoon, Tou Zi Jing who followed you last night, don’t follow him to the Mansion today, lest it be too ostentatious.”

Fan Xian looked at Liu’s still beautiful cheeks with some curiosity, and really couldn’t figure out why such a woman whose family had both a background and was so capable herself would willingly marry her father as a concubine.

After noon, the Fan family had already prepared everything properly, the place that should be taken care of had been taken care of, the doorway that should be taken care of had also been informed in advance, and the subordinate had been sent to inquire clearly, Guo Baokun had already been carried to the public court on a stretcher, only then did Liu’s methodically arrange for the carriage, send some manpower, and surrounded Fan Xian, and drove towards the government office like a victorious general.

Sitting on the carriage, Fan Xian didn’t really care about this trip to the public court. He had beaten Guo Baokun for the sake of anger, and had wanted to do so the first time he realized that the other party was looking at Ruo Ruo’s eyes in a wrong way, and being verbally insulted by the other party at the poetry meeting at the King of Jing’s residence had increased his determination to do so. Just his first entry into Kyoto, made such a big commotion, although he also left some means, but still afraid to stay difficult to end.

But he still wants to fight, beating people is the means, the key is to see what kind of effect can be achieved by beating people. The reason why Fan Xian want to beat Guo Baokun is based on three reasons: First, want to take a look at the father in Kyoto in the officialdom in the end hidden what kind of strength, so as to make arrangements for the future, the father in these aspects of him is always covered up, if the direct question is certainly not possible to get a clear answer, and at the same time can be printed Fan Xian hidden in the deepest part of the heart of a doubt. The second is to splash some dirty water on his own body, in any case, in the public court, it seems to be the image of Fan Xian’s overbearing and unreasonable playboy, and this is exactly what Fan Xian hopes, because he is carefully controlling a certain degree, “the palace” on his favor – – although at the request of his father, to establish himself as a good person, and to make him a better person. -He is carefully controlling a certain degree, the favorability of the “palace” towards him – although at the request of his father, he is establishing himself as a talented man, but he is always planning to become so infamous that the “palace” will voluntarily withdraw from the marriage – all for the sake of his younger sister, the chicken legged sister.

The third reason is very simple: Guo Baokun really owes a beating.

Arrived outside the yamen, Fan Xian bluffed a big jump, looking at the red wooden fence outside the door outside the crowd of excited people, wondering immense, in a few houseguests to open the way to help, it is very difficult to squeeze in. Standing in the public hall on the cool stone, looking at the public case behind the painting of the red sun out of the East China Sea wall, around the eerie standing torture stick, he secretly screamed a good, thinking that he came to the Beijing Municipal Higher People’s Court, it is not a vain trip.

Turning back, he found that the people of Kyoto were even more excited than he was, desperately squeezing forward to occupy a better position, and a few of the naked men who specialized in watching the scene were about to sit on the red fence.

Fan Xian curiously asked Liu sent to follow his own Qing guest Zheng Tuo, this Mr. Zheng many years ago was a famous criminal master in the Jiangnan area, seems to have a host-guest friendship with today’s Kyoto prefects, so Liu sent him the most appropriate.

Zheng Tuo smiled and explained: “People in Kyoto are bold, don t look at a ragged han, maybe it is some poor relative of the State Duke, so no one will be afraid of anyone, like today …… the Shangshu and the Squire’s family to fight a lawsuit, it is indeed rare, this kind of hilarity surely no one is willing to miss. ”

Fan Xian thought to himself are you guys here to see a blockbuster? Some headache shook his head. Zheng Tuo asked softly from the sidelines, “Young master, even though you’ve already been right in the mansion earlier, I’m going to ask one last time, was this matter moved by you or not? Naturally, I can’t admit it in front of the prefectural magistrate, but if you tell me the truth, I’ll be able to talk about it later.”

Fan Xian said with a face full of sincerity, “Mr. Zheng, I don’t dare to hide this from you, I really didn’t hit that what’s-his-name Guo Gongzi.” Zheng Tuo looked at the handsome teenager’s gracious and honest face and smiled, gently patting his shoulder in appreciation.

After a while, Fan Xian’s long-curious shouts of authority finally rang out, and the Prefectural Yin Lord, Mei Zhili, came around from the back hall with his frame in place and sat down with a large horse. After another while, a mummy, also sitting in a wheelchair, was pushed out from the back hall, followed by a scholar, who was lightly shaking a paper fan. Fan Xian took a look at the mummy, and couldn’t help but laugh bitterly, thinking that he had not been so heavy-handed, and that the hall of the Shangshu House was actually also playing this kind of sympathetic little trick.

The mummy is naturally confused beat up Guo Baokun son, he is now all over the body pain, especially the nose that, actually still incomparable pain, the doctor’s treatment did not play too big a role, he did not know, Fan Xian last hit that punch sent some dark energy into the body of Fan Xian in the body of the true qi and the world is different from the common true qi, overbearing ferocious and where is a moment to be able to get well.

When Guo Baokun saw Fan Xian standing in the courtroom as if nothing had happened, his eyes outside the gauze showed a ferocious look, as if he wanted to devour someone. Fan Xian pretended not to see this, looking at the fan shaking lawyer, whispered to ask Zheng Tuo, only to know that the other side is the capital’s famous lawyer Song Shiren, character has always been bad, only for the family of the officials to do things, so there is a name, called “rich mouth”.

Sitting high in the Kyoto prefect Mei Zhili will be in the hands of the shock wood a clap, snap a sound clear and bright, inside and outside the public hall of the noisy voice suddenly quiet, those lying on the red fence on the spectators become silent, after all, no one is willing to miss a good show.

“Who is under the hall?” Mei Zhili slowly asked, he has long been informed by both sides, the heart has a number, but these surface work naturally still have to follow the rules of a set of slow to do, official authority swept the public hall of these characters.

No matter who you are, but in this Kyoto government office inside, have to listen to me.