Chapter 59: The Mission is a Fighting Group

At this time, at the entrance of the courtyard, Lin Jing, the deputy envoy who had been a little anxious, and Lin Wen, the official who was based in Shangjing, were relieved to see that the main envoy Fan Xian had returned, and slipped along the roots of the courtyard wall in front of the crowd, explaining, “I don’t know who it was who revealed part of the agreement between the two countries this time around, and the people of Shangjing knew that this time, Beiqi was going to cede land, and the public was furious, and although the ordinary people didn’t dare to do anything, but those young princes and nobles came to the door, saying that they wanted to find us southerners to compete in martial arts, to wipe out the shame of the sands.”

Fan Xian was stunned, thinking that the agreement of exchanging prisoners and ceding land would certainly not be made known to the world by the court of Northern Qi, and who would have stirred this up? It seemed that the young emperor in the palace was not having a good time. But at this time he could not care about his “number one fan”, headache looked at the ground those small knife, said: “these things you deal with it, I’ll be going to their Ministry of Rites Yamen a trip.”

Although there were relevant subordinates working on things like prisoner exchange and painting circles, exchanging letters of state and such, Yan Bingyun’s piece, Fan Xian insisted on handling it by himself.

“My lord, you can’t leave.” Lin Wen Lin Jing two brothers are typical civil ministers, the most forceful tiger guards in the mission of course followed Fan Xian, those masters of the Supervisory Yuan who used various identities to disguise themselves, also only listen to the orders of Fan Tisi, so the two of them were in the middle of the heart of the enemy country, looking at the small knives flying across the front of the courtyard, they had long since been scared to death, and at this time, when they heard that Fan Xian wanted to leave, they were afraid that those young powerful men of the Northern Qi might come to cause trouble again.

Fan Xian frowned, gave the two a somewhat disgusted look, and said: ”As an official of the Qing State, it is better to stabilize your mind and soul, so don’t lose the face of the court. As for those troublemakers, naturally there are guards arranged by the Northern Qi court to block them, do they still dare to let those people into the other courtyard?”

“The key is …… “Lin Jing was more familiar with Fan Xian among the two brothers, and didn’t care that Fan Xian’s expression wasn’t right, and said in a nebulous voice, “Those people are all here to see you, Lord Fan. If you turn a blind eye, I’m afraid you’ll make these northerners think we’re weak in Qing.”

These words were a bit old-fashioned, and Fan Xian smiled and scolded him twice, saying, “Even if they come to trouble me, they’re probably just some literati, and Lord Lin was also a scholar at the time, so it’s just a matter of tossing around a few words.”

Suddenly, he realized that not far behind him, those imperial guards in charge of escorting the mission had a look of inexplicability on their faces, while the tiger guard behind him, Gouda, had coldly gripped the handle of the long sword behind him.

Fan Xian turned around and realized that another group had come to the entrance of the mission. At the head of the group was a teenage dignitary with his eyes gazing into the sky. Since Fan Xian had signaled, naturally no one was going to stop this group, so that teenager walked directly in front of Fan Xian and then punched his fist.

This fist was fat and powerless, very annoying.

Fan Xian nonchalantly slapped back, the overbearing true qi in his body was one of the most extraordinary in the world, and under the education of the Five Bamboos, his judgment of timing was even more world-class, and when he slapped out his palm, the wind was like a knife, breaking through the air, and slapping the fist fiercely and wonderfully on the fist.

Don’t look at Fan Xian in front of Miss Haitang, when it comes to fighting, he doesn’t even dare to let out one more fart, that’s because Haitang is too fierce. When it came to martial arts cultivation, Fan Xian’s standard was considered to be one of the best amongst the younger generation in the world. It was only for the sake of the other party’s young age that he wasn’t going to let the other party get hurt this time.

The teenager, who was estimated to be only ten years old, sat down on his butt and ouched in pain. He probably didn’t expect this seemingly weak scholar to be able to push himself down at once, and looked at Fan Xian and cursed bitterly, “Fuck you, the southern barbarians have gone crazy.”

Fan Xian, who was about to enter the courtyard, stopped in his tracks.

He smiled and walked back to the place, holding the teenager’s wrist in a gesture of goodwill. Although those family members beside the teenager were a bit nervous about Fan Xian’s movements, they saw that he was only holding his own young master and thought that this young man was probably a follower of the Southern Qing legation, so they didn’t take it to heart and instead cursed and said something.

Only to hear a sound of joints crunching, a cry of pain and misery, countless angry shouts rose!

“If mom hears you say that, I’m afraid she’ll tear you apart.” Fan Xian thought in his heart, loosened his hand, looked at the teenager who fell to the ground, in his heart, he was judging the other party’s identity, to be able to make the imperial guards of Beiqi not dare to make a move to impede, it seems that his family must be an extremely important figure.

A large number of people gathered around, apparently the boy’s family servants and companions, this group of people watched their own young master holding his disheveled and powerless wrist in a wail, only then did they realize that Fan Xian had actually poisoned and pinched the young master’s wrist off! The crowd could not help but become angry and furious, standing up one after another, ready to teach Fan Xian a lesson.

Seeing that things were about to get out of hand, the imperial guards rushed up and separated the two sides, while saying something to the people on the other side. Those people kept cursing and swearing, spouting obscenities like “southern barbarians” and so on, without stopping.

Fan Xian pulled Lin Jing over and asked, “Whose family is that little kid from?”

“The young son of the Marquis of Chang’an’s family.” Lin Wen was naturally very clear about the officialdom of the Northern Qi’s upper capital and answered ahead of him.

Fan Xian was slightly stunned, hearing the words Chang’an Marquis, he thought of the Changning Marquis who had once sparred with him, and said with a twitch of his heart, “Could it be that he is also the Empress Dowager’s own brother? Is it the one who was locked up at home after the defeat last year? Marquis Changning’s younger brother?”

Lin Wen nodded and said, “The Changning Marquis was the one who had his power taken away because of last year’s defeat, but this year, the Empress Dowager issued a decree to re-instate him, and gradually returned to the arrogance of previous years. It is estimated that this young gentleman is watching all the people in the upper capital want to come to the mission to cause trouble, so he took the opportunity to avenge his master to come.”

“Stupid little brat.” Fan Xian shook his head and without even looking at the field, he prepared to walk into the mansion where the legation was located.

“You want to leave after hitting someone!” Someone behind him shouted angrily, “Daring to beat up the young master of our marquis family, you’ve really eaten leopard’s gall.”

Originally, that commander of the imperial forest army had already taken control of the situation, but he didn’t realize that Fan Xian was going to enter the mansion without even saying a word about the scene, appearing to be unreasonable to the extreme, and this commander couldn’t help but feel angry in his heart, thinking that you Nanqing have not been too arrogant.

Fan Xian slowly turned around, looked at the field of these Northern Qi people said: “Gentlemen, this many pairs of eyes watching, your son sneak attacked this envoy, this envoy and do not know that he is a small child, so hit a little heavier, later naturally someone will go to the mansion to send the medicine fee, noisy what noisy?”

The problem was that Fan Xian was the official envoy of the Qing State, while the little boy he injured was the authentic Northern Qi dude, so the people were not willing to comply.

Fan Xian raised an eyebrow and lowered his voice to the commander of the imperial forest army at the bottom of the stone steps, “Commander Wei, could it be that you want to watch the envoys and the people of Beiqi fight, and have another melee between the two countries?”

The commander surnamed Wei’s heart chilled, although he knew that things were not going to develop that outrageously, but if he really let Fan Xian be surrounded by the crowd and turned into a diplomatic incident, it would be really hard for him to escape the blame, and he hurriedly went down to stop the people from Chang’an Marquis Wei’s residence outside. With a flash, Fan Xian entered the courtyard and closed the door tightly.

At this point, the crowd finally realized that the young man who had poisoned them was the main envoy of the Southern Barbarians’ mission. Seeing Fan Xian hide inside, for a while, only to hear the envoy surrounded by curses, obscenities sprang out like arrows, Fan Xian’s ancestors pitifully acted as a target.

After a short while, the courtyard door suddenly creaked and was pushed open. The people outside the trouble suddenly quieted down, and when they saw clearly that the one who came out was not the beautiful young man, they shouted and surged forward to let the Southern Qing Mission hand Fan Xian over.

The official who went out was Wang Qinian, who smiled faintly and bowed his hand to the four directions. The crowd froze, putting down the bricks and whatnot in their hands, ready to hear what this visitor from the Southern Dynasties had to say. A moment later, they only saw Wang Qinian waving his hand around and whispering a single word: “Fight.”

Only to see that from behind him, like a tiger, more than a dozen people surged out, with mops, wooden sticks and the like in their hands, and rushed in towards the crowd at the bottom of the field. Once the words fell, the imperial guards that Wei commander knew that things are bad, is ready to go up to say something, I did not expect Wang Qinian has been cordial and unparalleled to hold his arm, said that in the future there is free, but also ask Wei commander to lead the way to the various flower alleys to live fast.

He was so pulled, Wei commander can not send orders, those imperial guards are also stupid, their duty is to protect the safety of the South Qing mission, where thought this mission is so strange, holding a stick to rush out – then their own in the end is to protect which side it?

After such a delay, the open space before the mission’s compound began to resound with a burst of pig-killing howls, sticks dancing in the air, evil slaves sobbing on the ground, so lively.

Commander Wei angrily said, “Lord Wang, could it be that you want to make things worse?”

“Nonsense, is this something I want to make a big deal out of?” Wang Qinian said angrily, “I’m ready to have a superfriendly relationship with Lord Titus’ mother, even though it’s just a little brat, I’d like to ask, on the first day of the mission’s entry into Shangjing, so many people came to make trouble, what does your Northern Qi court want to do?”

The one-sided beating between the field is still continuing, although the dozen people who rushed out didn’t hold swords, but except for the four tiger guards, the rest of them are all good hands in the Supervisory Court, beating the family slaves of these powerful and noble families is really a very unskilled thing.

“It’s okay to curse the Fan family’s ancestors.” Fan Xian and Gao Da both walked out from the courtyard, looking at the scene before them and thinking to themselves, “It’s absolutely impermissible to curse my Tanyuu’s grandmother and my old mother.”