Chapter 25 The Little Flower

Chen Pingping gently folded down a small pink flower and carefully pinned it on her hair, looking at the flower trembling and ready to fall, Fan Xian hurriedly pursed the old man’s hair temples with his fingertips to make the flower insertion more stable.

Chen Pingping laughed very happily and gently patted Fan Xian’s hand, saying, “After 16 or 17 years of tossing and turning, you finally entered the capital and finally grew up, so I’m counting on your mother.”

Fan Xian had always been curious about the story of that year, and couldn’t help but ask, “How many of you were there back then?” This question was naturally about the powerful people who followed their mother and wanted to change this world.

“Count them yourself.”

Fan Xian flexed his fingers and smiled, “Six.”

“Well, your mother is an amazing character.” Chen Pingping smiled faintly, “It seems that you’re still smart as well.”

“Regarding the previous sentence, when I was very young, Mr. Feisuke had already said it.”

“I guess he didn’t say that we actually both miss your mother, and in some ways, she was my leading light.”

“Somewhat surprising.” Fan Xian smiled, “But one can guess a little.”

“Show some respect to Uncle Sinan and be kind to the Fan family.” Chen Pingping suddenly said gravely, “They’ve paid a lot for you.”

Fan Xian slightly lowered his eyes, back then, he was able to keep his life as a tiny infant in that kind of weird and severe situation, and he was able to make the people in the palace believe that he was dead, without asking …… his father, he must have paid a lot. He said: “Who is the enemy I really need to guard against? It can’t be that crazy person of the eldest princess, back then she was still very young.”

“The eldest princess is just a poor woman. For the people of the royal family, the luster of the young lady is too eye-catching, she has lived under the shadow of your mother all her life, she boasts that she is intelligent and capable, and she has achieved no small benefit for the country of Qing, but she has always been in the heart of his majesty and can’t compare to your mother’s position, so some of them are mad because of their cynicism. As for enemies …… there are no enemies, no enemies.” Chen Pingping repeated softly, as if trying to convince herself.

“First ruling the Supervisory Yuan, then taking charge of the inner treasury, I think there will always be some people who will notice that something is wrong.” Fan Xian smiled and said, “What exactly do you want me to do?”

Chen Pingping said softly, “Don’t you want to be a minister of power?”

Fan Xian looked serenely into Chen Pingping’s eyes and suddenly spoke, “I think I know what you want to do.”

Chen Pingping’s expression remained unchanged as she smiled and said, “I hope you’re going to keep pretending that you don’t know what I’m going to do.”

Fan Xian frowned, “Even though I don’t have any blood ties to them, I still don’t want to see too many people bleed.”

“It’s still early.” Chen Pingping said softly, “And with things like bloodshed, it’s often the case that stupid people are the first to pull out their knives, trying to slice through other people’s necks, only to accidentally slice into their own.”

Fan Xian smiled faintly, although he respected and trusted this old man, but one has to eat by oneself, one has to walk by oneself, although after entering the capital, he had been maintaining a non-meeting but tacit cooperation with this President of the Supervisory Yuan, and the other party had done a lot of things for him, but if there was really something in the future that led to the two of them thinking differently, Fan Xian would choose to respect his own wishes first.

Chen Pingping waved her hand and said with a frown, ”You should learn to liberalize your vision a bit in the future, don’t always stare at a department or a division, a district official, this district of Kyoto. You need to learn to stand taller ……”

Fan Xian smiled and looked at the response, “Do you want to set your sights on the world?”

Chen Pingping smiled, “Maybe a little higher.”

Fan Xian was silently puzzled.

“You go, be careful on this trip to Northern Qi.” Chen Pingping coughed twice, removed the small pink flower on her temples, gently rubbed it with her fingers, and said softly, “Sean is going to die, and of course, you have to ensure your own safety first and foremost. Other than that, you do those three tasks at your own discretion, and if the situation permits, you can try to find out where exactly the temple is, after all, in this world, currently, only the Northern Qi’s State Master, Bitter Lotus, has ever been in contact with the temple.”

Fan Xian frowned, “The divine temple …… is too sudden, I don’t seem to have much confidence in it, even though I kinda like adventurous things like this in my bones.”

Chen Pingping nodded, “Your mother also loved adventures back then. However, I really rarely worry about your life and death, if the Five Elders have taught you for so many years and you still can’t climb back from Beiqi alive, then I will express my disappointment in you at your funeral.”

The old man smiled, spilling the crushed petals between his fingers onto the ground in a pink and colorful mess, thinking to himself that the real one, the enemy, would not be something that a young man like you could handle?

After bidding farewell to his mother’s closest old comrade-in-arms, Fan Xian returned to the building, met with Yan Ruohai, and took some of the dossiers to prepare to return to his house for a good study. Beiqi side is another exceptionally complicated situation, originally even if Chen Pingping wants to use this matter to let Fan Xian really control the Supervisory Yuan, but if Fan Xian is not willing, think no one can force him to go to that strange country ……

But Fan Xian really wanted to go.

In his previous life, he was imprisoned in a sickly body and was not allowed to be autonomous; in this life, he was imprisoned in a bizarre body and was not allowed to be autonomous. Rarely this time to go on a mission to Northern Qi, can sky high let the chicken fly, the sea is wide by shrimp crawl, Fan Xian how willing to let go of this kind of opportunity to let loose a time. So he earnestly asked Yan Ruohai for advice on what he should pay attention to on this mission, and inquired about the people he needed to pay attention to on the Beiqi side.

Yan Ruohai shook his head and looked at this young Tiji, seemingly wondering why Fan Xian was so keen on this matter, and said, ”Northern Qi has always been unstable, the empress dowager is too young, and the emperor is too young, but it seems that their capital has stabilized a lot after that war last year. There should be three parties that Lord Tiji needs to pay attention to, one is Daoist He, one is Uesugi Tiger, and one, naturally, is the Bitter Lotus State Master who is rarely seen.”

“Daoist He?” Fan Xian frowned looking at his eyebrows, there was no Taoism in this world, so why would it be called Daoist He?

Yan Ruohai didn’t know what was going on in his mind, so he didn’t explain and continued, “Daoist He is a master of the Latter Party, and the Cheng Jushu that Fan Ti Si killed last year was his disciple. Uesugi Tiger is a rare tiger general of Northern Qi, he has been fighting against the barbarians in the snowy north, I heard that after the defeat of Northern Qi last year, he was transferred back to Kyoto by the young emperor, Lord Tiji must pay attention to him during this trip to Northern Qi, as the courtyard has always suspected his master. As for Master Bitter Lotus, as one of the four great masters of the world, he should not be involved in these worldly matters, but ……”

He frowned tightly and said, “Bitter Lotus has taken in a closed disciple and officially entered the world to cultivate this year. Lord Tiji is famous throughout the world, so we still need to be careful about the other party coming to cause trouble.”

Fan Xian was stunned, and for no apparent reason, remembering those prostitute sects that were common in novels in his previous life, he asked with a bitter smile, “It won’t be a woman, will it?”

Yan Ruohai said expressionlessly, “I don’t know if it’s a man or a woman, but I only know that in the past three months, this Great Master’s closed disciple has traveled around the entire territory of Northern Qi, picking off countless top-grade experts. There are even rumors that the other party is the legendary Heavenly Vein Man.” He glanced at Fan Xian and asked softly, “Lord Tiji knows about the Heavenly Veiners, right?”

Fan Xian felt that this word seemed somewhat familiar, and suddenly a flash of light flashed through his mind, thinking that when he was a child, Teacher Fei Jie had mentioned it once, and later, on the Eldest Princess’s Guangxin Palace, when he eavesdropped on a conversation between her and Zhuang Mo Han’s great family, he had also heard it once before.

After listening to Yan Ruohai’s explanation, Fan Xian frowned: “A genius figure that only comes out one in five hundred years, a bloodline from heaven, and not a leek planted in the ground, chopping up a crop and then another one, I don’t believe it.”

Yan Ruohai nodded and said, “The courtyard’s analysis is that it is estimated that the Northern Qi side needs to portray an image of a supreme young powerhouse to boost national confidence because of the consecutive years of defeat.”

Fan Xian smiled, “This is more likely. It’s like the courtyard has been molding the image of me, the tishee, during this period of time in general……. What’s that person’s name?”

“Haitang.”

Fan Xian had a bit of a headache, “I hope it’s a sissy, but it mustn’t really be a sissy.”

The two of them casually spoke a few more words, and finally, Yan Ruohai calmly looked at Fan Xian, the crow’s feet at the corners of his eyes wrinkled extremely feebly, and said softly, “I’ll be troubling Lord Tiji with the matter of the youngest child.”

“I said so at the gate of the Ministry of Justice.” Fan Xian replied very seriously, “I will bring Lord Yan back to Qing Guo safely.”

After exiting the room in all directions, Wang Qinian, who had been waiting outside, hurried over and picked up the pile of case files in Fan Xian’s hands. Fan Xian’s eyes looked ahead, but his mouth whispered to his “beloved”, “I will definitely take you with me when I go to Northern Qi.”

“Thank you, Your Honor, for your trust.” Wang Qinian replied with a smile. This trip to Northern Qi, if there was no other arrangement, it was really a gold-plated trip, a free trip, no country in the world dared to lay hands on the mission.

Fan Xian shook his head and said, “You’re taking you there because you’re one of the fastest runners in the Supervisory Court, except for Zong Chou, of course.”

Wang Qinian smiled bitterly and didn’t say anything, he had even run to Zong Chou earlier to catch up for half a day. He and Zong chase two people back then and called the Supervisory Yuan wings, just later Wang Qinian settled in the literary affairs, so the position gradually become ordinary, Zong chase has been depressed, now Wang Qinian became Fan Xian Fan Ti Si’s beloved, Zong chase again feel that year old friend now finally back to some light, very happy.

The head of the three departments, the cold senior brother has long been waiting in the secret room door, saw Fan Xian came, also not much greeting, feel very cold. Pushing open the door of the secret room to go in, there was a fresh breeze coming from his face, but the wind speed was not swift, Fan Xian raised an eyebrow, immediately knowing that this kind of air circulation must have nothing to do with the place where the poison was refined.

Cold Leader glanced at Junior Brother and suddenly grinned, saying, “Nice figure.”

Fan Xian glanced at his own senior brother, who he had just recognized, and shivered, thinking, …… No way! Immediately listening to his senior brother’s next words again, the cold-headed man shouted towards the inner room, “Standard!”

Fan Xian was stunned, and after a short while, he saw five or six people in the inner room launching a large table, on which were placed several boxes and a garment made of some odd materials. The five or six people glanced at Fan Xian, their faces expressionless, perhaps because they had spent so much time in such a bizarre department as the Third Division, they all looked a bit mute. But after carefully scrutinizing them, a few of them still couldn’t help but show a look of appreciation, and said to Fan Ti Si repeatedly, “The figure is really good.”