Chapter 70 – Little Words Getting Away

The night rain fell on the foreign land, but it made a familiar dripping sound, Fan Xian sipped a mouthful of tea and said to Wang Qinian beside him, “Go write a secret letter right away, and ask the courtyard to look into Cui’s relationship with Xinyang’s side.”

Wang Qinian glanced at him and said softly, “The Eldest Princess’s side cannot be moved.”

“Of course I know it can’t be moved.” Fan Xian was clear that the things that the Eldest Princess had done actually belonged to His Majesty the Emperor’s acquiescence, but today’s unhappy meeting with Shen Chong had reinforced a certain thought in Fan Xian’s mind, “I just want to find out how much power the Xinyang side actually has in the dynasty.”

“Yes.” After Wang Qinian answered, he continued, “That Cui gongzi is still kneeling outside, my lord …… do you think it’s a good idea to let him get up? After all, the Cui Clan is also a large clan in the capital, and there are very few high officials in the court.”

Fan Xian’s eyes were fixed on the intelligence sent from the courtyard, ignoring Wang Qinian’s words, these angelic corps were in the upper capital, and before Yan Bingyun came back, Fan Xian didn’t dare to use the intelligence system on the Northern Qi side, so the source of intelligence was somewhat shrunken, which bothered him a lot. After a while, he seemed to have heard Wang Qinian say something, and said softly, “Let him kneel, as a Qing national, but being used as a gun by the Beiqi people, I’ll even educate him on behalf of my mother-in-law.”

The rain was gradually getting smaller, dripping down from the eaves of the house, this Buyeo was an old building, so the places where the rain dripped were slightly sunken. Fan Xian put on a piece of clothing and walked to the outside of the house, looking at that Cui gongzi kneeling in front of the stone steps, and did not speak for a long time.

The rest of the people in the mission had long ago avoided this small courtyard, so this room seemed extraordinarily quiet.

“You should know very well what your family should do if they still want to do business in this north.” Fan Xian indifferently looked at the drenched Duke Cui, “I’ll spare your life for today and write a letter to Xinyang myself. As for how the Eldest Princess will punish you, that’s your business, but when I’m in Shangjing, I don’t want to see you sitting with those people from Northern Qi again.”

Duke Cui kowtowed heavily, burying his entire upper body in the standing water on the ground, trembling and not daring to speak.

“To remind you once again, I am the Tisan of the Supervisory Court. Even if the Eldest Princess protects you, if I really want to bring down your Cui Clan, there will be just as many ways to do so.” Fan Xian said, “Although this is a very vulgar threat, I think that for someone as stupid as you, if you don’t make it clear, you will still be used as a knife by the Northern Qi people next time, and that would be very bad.”

Duke Cui was still kneeling miserably. He had woken up then in the backyard of the Shore Mountain Forest, and only then did he realize what a big mistake he had made; regardless of Fan Xian’s Supervisory Court status, which everyone feared, just saying that the other party was the son-in-law of the Eldest Princess, he himself was only a mole cricket in the other party’s eyes at best. Today, he took the initiative to see what kind of business the Supervisory Yuan wanted to do with Northern Qi, and was originally considering the issue from the Princess’s standpoint, but if Fan Xian really wanted to deal with himself, I’m afraid the Princess wouldn’t bother to defend him.

With Fan Xian’s current power, what kind of family, really can’t look at the existence.

“Let’s be frank.” Fan Xian looked at him and said word for word, “You’re working for the Eldest Princess, so naturally I won’t make things difficult for you. But I want to do something right now, so I hope you’ll look at today’s situation clearly.”

“Yes. Lord Fan.” Duke Cui shivered and said in a shivering voice, “I know I’m wrong.”

“We are all subjects of Qing, no matter how we are in the court, but once we are out of the border, we must remember that you and I are both people of Qing, so don’t let outsiders look at us and laugh at us, that’s the point that angers me the most.”

After this little episode, the Xinyang side very deliberately kept their respect for the mission, while the Northern Qi side then truly felt the power of Fan Xian, or to be precise, the power of the Southern Dynasty’s Supervisory Court. Shen Chong has always dealt with Xinyang side, so when Fan Xian through Changning Marquis proposed this deal, he did not attach much importance to it, but look at today’s situation, that rumor seems to be true – if Fan Xian really will be in the hands of the inner treasury in the coming year, the Princess lost power, Shen Chong’s Zhenfu Si and offended Fan Xian, that is really going to cut off a large amount of money.

Beiqi palace also know about this matter, the empress dowager scolded Shen Chong, Shen Chong is full of anxiety, secretly who can expect that the Fan Ti Si is not even bargaining for the opportunity to give themselves, and Cui Gongzi went to the embassy that night kneeling all night news, but also reached the ears of the jinyiwei, Shen Chong know, he must look at Fan Xian this person again.

However, no one could have anticipated that Fan Xian actually didn’t want to talk about this deal with the other party at all. Several times in a row, when Shen Chong sent people to invite Fan Xian, Fan Xian was extremely cold and pushed them away, putting up a front that he did not want to talk anymore.

“My lord, what exactly do you want to do?” Wang Qinian is Fan Xian’s inner circle, there are many things that even the Supervisory Yuan doesn’t know, but Wang Qinian is clear and powerful, he knows that his own family, this adult, secretly did a lot of things to deal with that Princess in Xinyang, just that the Princess doesn’t seem to have realized it yet.

But right now Fan Xian has put up a look of reconciliation with the Elder Princess, which makes Wang Qinian very puzzled.

“I want everyone to not know what I want to do.” Fan Xian straightened his clothes and didn’t turn around, only saying softly, “The Eldest Princess is currently begging for my help, so I naturally want to take advantage of this opportunity to gain some benefits.”

Wang Qinian remained puzzled, and Fan Xian did not explain more.

In the afternoon of that day, a carriage drove directly from the corner gate into the mission’s residence, this carriage looked very shabby, very ordinary and unusual, no matter from the carriage’s decoration or the driver’s appearance, there was nothing unusual about it. But all the people who are responsible for escorting the mission can clearly feel the tension inside the mission, and the shadows outside are all the shadows of Beiqi’s brocade guards.

Fan Xian looked at the carriage, but said something that seemed to have no relevance to this moment, “It seems that Si Li Li has also arrived in Shangjing.”

A young man in a white light shirt pushed open the door of the carriage and slowly moved his feet, standing there, looking at the sky above his head and squinting slightly, then he lowered his head and scanned a circle of the people in the courtyard who were looking at him, he easily sensed the smell of the courtyard from these people, and could not help but have a shallow smile spread across the corners of his lips.

Fan Xian stepped forward, condescendingly holding onto Yan Bingyun’s intact right hand, carefully helping him out of the car, and said softly, “Welcome home.”

For the people of Qing, the place where the mission was located was their homeland. Yan Bingyun was imprisoned for a year, has long had the idea of certain death, although to this day, still can not accept the agreement to exchange Sean for his own, but at this time stepped on the mission’s land, heard Lord Fan this welcome home, the heart can not help but still touch.

In the small courtyard, there are no civil officials from the Honglu Temple system, except for the seven Tiger Guards, all of them are officials from the Supervisory Yuan who are lurking in the mission this time, and all of them look at this young man who has some difficulty in walking, and bow down in unison: “See Lord Yan!”

The voice was not impassioned, nor was it loud, but one could feel the sincerity of the crowd.

Yan Bingyun smiled and didn’t say anything, only whispering, “I’m surprised to have made it out alive.”

Fan Xian held his hand and smiled as well, “I’m also surprised that your fingernails weren’t all pulled out.”

These two future head and deputy of the Supervisory Court spoke in extremely soft voices at this time, so that only each other could hear them.

When Yan Bingyun returned to the mission, half of the mission to Northern Qi was accomplished this time, Fan Xian’s heart was greatly settled, and after saying a few words to Wang Qinian about something, he helped Yan Bingyun into the inner room, and then opened his mouth to say, “Take off your clothes, I didn’t do it gently.”

Obviously, a person like Yan Bingyun would not misunderstand anything, and slowly tore off the white clothes she was wearing, revealing her lean and well-proportioned naked body. Fan Xian raised an eyebrow, thinking of how he felt when he was dressing up at the three Kyoto offices, and realized that the other party was indeed much calmer than himself.

He took out the pill box from the box and picked some with his fingers, then began to evenly smear it on Yan Bingyun’s body. Where his fingers passed, it was all an undulation, and the horror of the wounds was indescribable.

“I always thought that you were just a person with a lot of luck.” Yan Bingyun spoke indifferently, “But Fan Tiji seeing the wounds on my servant’s body and still being so calm, it seems to be quite a bit stronger than I thought.”

Fan Xian’s finger stopped under Yan Bingyun’s left chest, where the bone was obviously rebuilt after being broken, bulging out in a huge chunk, and outside was light red newborn skin that looked very ugly, “That’s because you don’t understand my upbringing.”

“I thought I understood it well.” Yan Bingyun looked indifferently into his eyes, “Lord Fan, I understand your life from birth to the age of twelve very well.”

Fan Xian slightly inclined his head and looked at the other party without saying anything.

Yan Bingyun also fell into silence, seemingly not wanting to continue on that topic, and said after a while, “Thank you, Your Excellency, for healing my servant’s injuries, but I think that in formulating medicine for injuries, my servant should be a bit more skilled than Your Excellency. Later on, please allow my humble servant to write a prescription and have the people from the mission help to grab a few pairs of medicines.”

Fan Xian ignored him, still concentrating on applying the wound medicine while supplementing it with the means of healing that he had learned since childhood.

“Eat it.” Fan Xian nonchalantly stuffed a pill into Yan Bingyun’s mouth and said coldly, “When it comes to curing injuries and detoxifying poisons, there’s no one under the heavens who dares to clamor in front of me except Fei Jie.”