Chapter 40: Out of the Scabbard

In the past, Fan Xian had not really looked at Si Li Li with his “heart”, and had not even paid much attention to her beautiful appearance, because Fan Xian himself had a very “something” face. But since leaving the capital, this long period of traveling, for some reason, gradually, this woman in Fan Xian’s brain branded some shallow traces.

Perhaps it was because of her pitiful birth, perhaps it was because the methods of the Supervisory Court were too venomous, perhaps it was because as that former organizer of the Seven Divisions had once said after entering the Supervisory Court’s prison for the first time–Fan Xian, this person, the methods may be spicy, but the heart, in fact, was still soft, or at least in every part of the body, still easy to soften up.

He was more and more embarrassed that he didn’t want to be compassionate, but even more so, he felt that Si Li Li was somewhat pathetic. This kind of pity is not pretending, but the natural feeling brought out by the encounter in the world like a duckweed, completely different from that beautiful and unlike the mortal Rapunzel.

These days, Fan Xian took out the drugs he carried with him, and in the wild land of the lakeshore to find a few suitable plants, some woodenly mixing the antidote, this is his commitment to the Si Li Li, since the Si Li Li told him about Chen Pingping’s idea, although I do not know if this idea is true, but he will cure the Si Li Li.

As for the White Sleeve Strike Red Sleeve Strike, neither of them were in Fan Xian’s consideration, he considered things a bit simpler and more straightforward.

After a few days of healing, Si Li Li hadn’t changed much on the surface, but the number of times he went out to pay his respects had increased, and Fan Xian waited quietly on the sidelines, which made the girl a little embarrassed.

The legation caravan gradually turned to the east, traveling around the Great Lake. In two more days, they should be able to reach the Misty River, where troops from the Northern Qi side would come to take over the defense.

“Actually, the Northern Qi people call this lake the North Sea.” Si Li Li stood at the edge of the lake, her fingertips sliding over the slightly rough reeds.

Fan Xian glanced at her and asked, “When did you go to Northern Qi?”

“At a very young age. My parents took me and my brother to run around for our lives, the Procuratorate was chasing us so hard that all of Grandpa’s close friends were pretty much dead, and no one dared to take us in at all.” Si Li Li smiled bitterly, “Actually, I don’t have much of an impression of my grandfather, although I know that he was the most likely Prince to take over the throne back then.”

Fan Xian projected the time, that time should have been several years since the assassination of the Prince of Qing. He couldn’t help but fall silent, and with his remaining light, he watched the clothes on Si Li Li’s body being gently blown by the lake breeze, and smiled slightly, thinking that his own mother had killed this girl’s grandfather.

Si Li Li sighed, will temples by the lake wind blew messed up hair pursed a sip, sad brow said: “because by the Supervisory Yuan chased tight, father died tragically in the big internal guards under the knife, mother with my brother and I was lucky to escape, the big world, there is no place to go, after a few times of thought, had to flee to a foreign country, in the North Qi finally settled down. ”

Fan Xian frowned slightly, his family broke up, his father died tragically, and he went to a foreign country and left his homeland, it was indeed a very bitter day.

Si Li Li looked at the mists that were gradually building up on the surface of the lake and sighed, “Unfortunately, the smooth days could not last after all, somehow, the royal family of Beiqi knew about our identity, so they received us to Shangjing.”

Fan Xian frowned again and said, “The other party definitely does not have good intentions.”

Si Li Li looked back at him with a smile and said, “Could it be that you harbor good intentions? Or do you mean that the Emperor of Qing, the court of Qing will harbor good intentions towards our family?”

Fan Xian was momentarily speechless, smiling to himself before saying, “After all, it is an enemy state.”

“Before father didn …… die, he said the same thing.” Si Li Li did not know what came to mind, slowly closed her eyes, her long eyelashes gently trembling, “Later, my mother also died of illness, leaving only my brother and I with no one to turn to. Since the Northern Qi royal family wanted to capitalize on our birth, they naturally wanted to get a hold of us, so we grew up in the Northern Qi’s palace.”

“That was also when you met the Emperor of Northern Qi?” Fan Xian walked to her side and tightened the cloak outside for her, “Counting up, you and this young emperor are sort of childhood friends.”

Si Li Li smiled, “His surname is War, so where did he look like an emperor at that time? He was the same age as me, but like my younger brother, he was playing around in the palace every day.”

“Then how did you later become willing to act as a secret spy for Northern Qi, and lurked back to Kyoto in Qing?” This was one thing that Fan Xian was very interested in.

“The Emperor of Northern Qi wanted to marry me.” Si Li Li turned and looked at Fan Xian with a smirk, “And since I have a national enmity on me, and I’m at loggerheads with the current imperial family of Qing, I asked to return to my country, and this is a good reason.”

Fan Xian shook his head, “This reason is too insufficient.”

Si Li Li smiled slightly and said, “The main reason is that the Empress Dowager simply would not allow me to marry the Emperor, so she allowed me to return to the country, and allowed the Northern Qi spies to cooperate with me, and built a stronghold on the Liujing River in Kyoto.”

Fan Xian thought of a pile of things and wanted to speak.

Si Li Li guessed what he was thinking, her eyes turned, revealing a hint of fawning, softly explaining, “The Si Ling by my side, as well as those companions, are all experts on the side of Bei Qi, and there are also those who specialize in the use of mesmerizing drugs, and those who entered the scene naturally couldn’t get next to me, so someone else will take their place.”

Fan Xian raised an eyebrow, a hint of needlessness appearing on his clear face, and said with a smile, “Why bother explaining all this to me?”

“You don’t want to hear it?” After all, Si Li Li was a daughter with a crystal clear heart, and had long since seen through some of Fan Xian’s little thoughts, so she didn’t get angry, but instead asked softly.

Fan Xian smiled and said quietly, “At least that night, you didn’t charm me.”

“If I had known that you were Fei Jie’s student, I would have avoided you to hide far away, lest …… I have to be caught in the moment of your ecstasy and that underhanded drug.” Si Li Li’s gaze gouged him out, charming and swirling.

Fan Xian was looked at a little uncomfortable, he laughed, looking back at the girl’s eyes counterattacked: “Then that day up, found himself after being confused, will not be afraid? Will not think of their own daughter’s body is so indiscriminately lost, the heart is not worth it?”

The wind by the lake is not too much warmth of early spring, but some crisp, blowing those reed branches without half a bit of green swaying, the wind blew into the Si Li Li’s face, she felt that the heat on her face seems to fade a bit, but did not know that at this time there are still two red, revealing her shyness.

Only after a long time did Si Li Li gently bite her lower lip and said, “After I woke up that day, naturally I was a little bit squeamish, but thinking about ……” She bravely raised her head and looked at Fan Xian’s extremely handsome face and smiled as she said, “Thinking of being the first night with a pretty little boy like you, it’s worth it.”

Fan Xian categorically could not have imagined that Si Li Li would speak so boldly, so pungently, that he was momentarily at a loss as to how to reply, and only after a while did he say inarticulately, “That …… this.”

“That …… what?” Si Li Li seemed to smile, his eyes softly looking at Fan Xian.

“I always feel that since the girl is after the royal family of the Qing Kingdom, hanging around the flower boat every day is indeed a bit of a risky line. What if the other party isn’t me, but a lecher who is good at using ecstasy?” Fan Xian coughed twice, for some reason, he was somewhat concerned about Si Li Li’s perilous situation back then.

Si Li Li’s expression slightly stagnated, and she said softly, “I never considered myself to be any kind of royal descendant, but just a poor woman who was burdened with a blood feud, but had no idea how to avenge it, Lord Fan don’t misunderstand.”

Into the night, the caravan of the mission set up camp along an elevated area by the lake, the carriages lined up in a semicircle arching out, a few tents in the center had long since extinguished their lights, Si Li Li’s and Fan Xian’s residences were adjacent to each other, and I don’t know if it was because the daytime talks were too draining for this pair of young men and women with odd relationships, so there was no wall to climb over, no rags to rag on, and no darkness in the night for fragrant stories to take place.

Everything was quiet, in the distance there were hidden outposts of black riders who were scouting the slopes, and around the camp, there were also mixed formations of tiger guards and inspectorate spies patrolling the camp.

The white moonlight in the sky shone on every corner of the earth, tonight there were no clouds, no wind and no stars, the silver moonlight was like the gentle brushing hands of a fairy, caressing the people in the camp, urging them to go to sleep quickly in order to cope with tomorrow’s hard journey. Fan Xian would not allow Sean to get out of the car, so he was still sitting in the middle of the extremely airtight carriage. The moonlight shone on the black carriage, reflecting an eerie glow.

The night was deep, and the entire camp seemed to have fallen into a dark and sweet dream. A black shadow like a gust of wind, floated to the side of Sean’s carriage, took out the key on his body, dipped it in the oil-soaked cloth towel, and then inserted it into the keyhole of the door, the key into the hole did not emit a single sound, which shows the care.

The door of the carriage was pushed open, Sean slowly raised his head and stared at the nocturnal man in the doorway, the fine iron shackles that were supposed to bind his hands and feet had long since been unlocked and rested smoothly on the floorboards of the carriage.

Sean exited the carriage, his long white hair draped behind his shoulders, competing with the moonlight in the sky for a silver glow, and glanced around coldly, frowning slightly, knowing that something was terribly wrong. But at this point it was too late to think about it, the old man glanced at the campground where Fan Xian was, and his entire person disappeared into the night by the lake like a black shadow.

Fan Xian should have long been asleep, at this time, but both eyes open, sitting on a chair in the tent, fingers gently fiddling with the tea cup, the tea cup has a very light weight of psychedelic drugs, hibiscus tea seeds, and the tea flavor is mixed, it is extremely difficult to taste out.

Sensing the slight change in breath outside, he began to count.

“One, two, three, four ……”