Chapter 65 Summer Solstice

Yuan Hongdao frowned, and listened to the chancellor softly said, “I have been in the dynasty for too long, I do not know how many people I have offended, two sons and a daughter at my knees, I originally hoped that Gong’er would be able to become a success, but I did not expect it to be such a terrible disaster, and now there is only Dabao and Chen’er …… always have to make arrangements for them before it is appropriate. ”

Yuan Hongdao once again frowned: “Just such a transformation, seems to come a bit drastically.”

Lin Ruofu’s gaze suddenly became gentle, “As a human father, there is no need to be too protective of your body. If we are talking about the matter of seizing the throne, His Majesty is in his prime, I’m afraid that you and I will be long dead by then, so why worry about it so much.” He then asked, “Confirmed that it was the Four Gu Swords that did this?”

Yuan Hongdao nodded, “Yes.”

Lin Ruofu took a deep breath of cool air, “Sometimes it turns out that the power in your hands can’t be exchanged for anything …… But since the Fan family and the Supervisory Yuan have secretly communicated with each other for so many years, I think that if you add Lao Fu, they shouldn’t refuse either.”

Yuan Hongdao smiled and said, “Servant Fan, relying on his love with His Majesty, has made every effort to facilitate this marriage, so I think that he has been hoping for the oldest man for a long time.”

Lin Ruofu smiled and said, “In a few days, I will take a look at that Fan Xian with my own eyes to see if he is worthy of my daughter or not.”

Yuan Hongdao added, “Then on the side of the Princess …….”

Obviously knowing that the unnatural death of the prime minister’s second son had an inescapable relationship with the Elder Princess’s plan, so Mourning Hongdao was careful to mention her name.

“Li Yunrui’s plan to have Wu Bo’an raise the first assassination was a three-for-one plan. By killing Fan Xian, she could regain the power of the inner treasury. By talking Gong’er into it, she could use this as a rope to tie my Siangfu firmly to her. Only she didn’t think that Fan Xian wasn’t so good to kill, while Wu Boan, this bitch, died with my child …….” Lin Ruofu’s eyes exploded with two cold auras, “However, she still has the most important link, that is, she calculated His Majesty’s mind, in the beginning, even if Cheng Jushu and his party could escape from Kyoto, I’m afraid that they would also be falsely passed on by her to my order, so that Fang Huo could be killed in Cangzhou, thus realizing that the Northern Qi killed people.”

Yuan Hongdao frowned, “So, the Eldest Princess guessed that His Majesty wanted to make a big move.”

Lin Ruofu shook his head, “His Majesty’s Northern Expedition back then, which was not fully accomplished, has always been nagging at him, and the Eldest Princess has now gifted him such a good excuse. Even if His Majesty doesn’t like her self-initiative, he still has to accept this favor from her. Only back then the peace treaty matter was too complicated, at best, His Majesty will seize a few small countries this time to give Northern Qi a little color.”

Yuan Hongdao sighed, “The Eldest Princess is incredibly resourceful and is really difficult to deal with.”

Lin Ruofu slowly closed his eyes and said, “I have never thought of dealing with her …… Leave it to the later generations.”

“Yes, my lord.”

Right at this moment, a noise came from outside the study, on this late night I don’t know who dared to make such a racket, but looking at the looks of the Chancellor and Yuan Hongdao, it was obvious that they knew who was outside. The door was pushed open, a big fat man in his twenties walked in, behind a few old moms and subordinates actually did not drag, hurriedly stood outside the study to the prime minister. The rules of the prime minister’s residence are big, without the prime minister’s permission, whoever enters the study privately will be severely punished. Lin Ruofu waved his hand, signaling that he knew, and then looked at that big fat man with a gentle face and said softly, “Dabao, how come you’re not good again?”

This big fat guy who was called Dabao had a wide space between his eyebrows, his eyes were a bit straight, and he looked as if he had some problems with his brain development. But when he heard Lin Ruofu speak, he immediately quieted down and said shyly, “Dabao is well-behaved, it’s just that his younger brother hasn’t come back yet.”

This is Lin Ruofu’s eldest son, who had a disease when he was young, and as a result, he became what he is today, and has always only had the IQ of a three or four year old, so he rarely goes out. The people in Kyoto sympathized with what happened to the Sangha, and didn’t mention this matter much. Dabao is usually closest to Lin Gong, but in the past two days, he has not seen his brother, so he has become irritable.

Lin Ruofu’s heart was mournful, like a knife twisting like pain, covered his chest, stabilized for half a day before softly persuading: “Erbao went out, will be back in a few days, Dabao is good, quickly go to sleep.”

Dabao finally quieted down, with a somewhat naive smile on his face, he was led to the backyard by the old maids to sleep.

After a moment of silence, Lin Ruofu coldly said, “I only have one son and one daughter, and Dabao is in this mold, brother Yuan, what do you think I should do?”

Yuan Hongdao frowned: “If for the sake of the Grand Duke, it’s not a very good idea for Miss Chen to marry Fan Xian, after all, it seems that it’s hard for Duke Fan to escape from political tilting, and it’s extremely difficult to stabilize his life in the future, so it’s not too convenient if you entrust the Grand Duke to Miss Chen in the future.”

Lin Ruofu shook his head, his words bringing out a chill, “As long as his surname is Fan, he is destined to not be able to escape these nets, so I would rather him be a ruthless person, so that I can protect Chen’er and her big brother for a lifetime of safety ……”

After saying this, he immediately returned to his calmness, walked behind the bookcase, pulled back the layer of sandy curtain, looked at the map of the world’s situation behind the curtain, and began to frown in silence. His eyes occasionally swept over the direction of Dongyi City, but more often than not, they remained in the north of the Qing Kingdom, those intricate little vassal states between the Qing Kingdom and Northern Qi.

After a long time, Lin Ruofu frowned and said, “We have to come up with a strategy right away, even though it doesn’t have to be a big battle, and the two sides probably won’t come into direct contact with each other, if the northern counties want to transport grain and horses to those small countries, they all have to be prepared in advance.”

Yuan Hongdao answered, and then he heard Lord Chancellor start coughing, coughing so rapidly that he seemed to earn some watery light from the corners of his eyes. The Chancellor stood with his hands in front of the map, frowning and planning, as if he had not lost one of his own sons today. Yuan Hongdao looked at his back, sighed in his heart, slightly touched and apologetic, thinking about Ruofu this life, although rich and powerful, but there is no comfortable days, can be said to be a see the princess mistaken life.

All these things, are concentrated in a day’s time, no one knows these undercurrents under the deal or quarrel means. The meeting between Sinanbo Fan Jian and Chen Pingping, and the private meeting between Lord Chancellor and the Princess, up and down the court, the people who knew about these two things would not be more than ten fingers of Fan Xian.

So Fan Xian didn’t know that his future had been arranged on a golden path.

If these few months after entering the capital were like the darkness before dawn, thick and black like sticky ink pasted over his five senses, making him feel pressurized and unable to relax, then these latter days were suddenly like the God of Heaven had brought a basin of fresh water and splashed it on his face, which made him feel immensely refreshed and at ease, and also made him immensely lucid.

These days, he has been hypnotizing himself, the second uncle’s death and their own not a relationship, the only way to face their most difficult to face Lin Wan Er. Lin Wan’er’s spirit was a bit low since she knew that her second brother had died, and although the siblings had not met several times, they were connected by blood and bone, so she was a bit sad after all. Fan Xian took all of this in, and felt a little bad in his heart as well, even though that second uncle was the one behind the attempt to kill himself-he sometimes felt a little cold-bloodedly morbid, because if he had heard that Fan Sicheng in Kyoto had died when he was in Tanyuzhou, perhaps he wouldn’t have been the slightest bit saddened.

Of course, the situation now was different again; Liu seemed to have acquiesced to the current situation, and the Liu family in Kyoto had sniffed out something unusual and given Liu enough information for reference, so Liu was unusually peaceful and no longer prevented Fan Si Zhe from following Fan Xian around in Kyoto.

What made Fan Xian most at ease was that no one seemed to suspect that the death of the second son of the Chancellor’s family had anything to do with himself, including Lord Chancellor. In fact, this matter was a bit of overthinking on his part and King Jing’s part; Wu Bo’an and Lin Gong hid so stealthily that even the Supervisory Court couldn’t find out for a while, so who else could find out besides the four patriarchs of the world? As long as no one knew about Fan Xian’s relationship with the Five Bamboos, no one would think that Fan Xian would be connected to Lin Gong’s death.

What is even more unexpected to Fan Xian is that, after multiple messages, he vaguely received the news from the Xiangfu that the Chancellor had expressed some degree of approval for the marriage in October, and just as Fan Xian kept guessing whether the old man was really disillusioned with the idea of sending someone away in vain, the wily and cunning Sinan Bo Fan Jian was the first to understand the reason behind the matter than anyone else in the dynasty and the countryside: the Chancellor had a grudge against the Donggong Palace or the Eldest Princess. I do not know for what reason there is a suspicion, this is Lin Ruofu is looking for a new investment direction, perhaps it is the phase of the political center of gravity began to shift to the second prince of a sign.

The two assassinations one after the other were like two spring thunders that shook the sky of Kyoto, but after the spring thunders there was no rain remaining, and gradually things faded away, except that Lord Chancellor seemed to be saddened by the death of his son, and became a little disheartened, and very rarely attended the court on account of his illness. The crippled President Chen also did not go to court much, just stayed in the courtyard and occasionally issued a few orders. Thinking about this matter, Fan Xian was always a little puzzled as to why Chen Pingping had not summoned himself after returning to the capital, and he did not know at this time that in the middle of the heavenly prison, that old cripple had already played peeping tom. More puzzling is, obviously Chen Pingping has returned to the capital, where did Fei Jie go?

In any case, the various forces in the dynasty had paid the price of a few lives and reconstructed a somewhat fragile balance after this short but tragic encounter. Some accepted the changes that had to be accepted, such as the change of control of the inner treasury after a few years, while others began to look for another path to preserve themselves as well as their families, such as the chancellor. All of these changes were undoubtedly extremely favorable to Fan Xian, and at least he did not have to worry too much about his personal safety.

Only at this point did he write a letter to his grandmother, who was far away in Tanyu, telling the old man that he was doing quite well in Kyoto, and asking her not to worry too much.

Spring is followed by summer, although this is a nonsense, but for Fan Xian, who finally established himself in Kyoto after a long time of hard work, his life was finally less rainy and more bright and sunny, and it seemed that the days of happiness began to beckon to him slowly.

Summer had come, would the fall wedding day be far away?