Chapter 77 – Ruo Ruo is getting married!

“Congratulations my ass! Hooligan station! Nonsense!” Fan Xian was so annoyed at the thought of something happening again, that he even learned Chen Pingping’s mantra, and scolded with a laugh, “Those old ladies ate too many salted vegetables and worried too much, and weren’t afraid to tire us out as errand boys.”

Lin Wen was startled, thinking how treacherous this was, and hurriedly explained, “There are court rules for court matters, but there are the palace’s own channels for palace matters, so your honor shouldn’t be too concerned.”

Fan Xian nodded, thinking that although this marriage matter seems to be a bit of nonsense, but seeing that the two courts are in such a hurry, he thought that it is also a situation that everyone would like to see. Just South Qing and North Qi is known as the world’s two strongest countries, if these two countries once the marriage, those hiding in the remote place to laugh at the emperor of the small country only afraid to be happy, of course, the most headache, should still be the four Gu sword a sword guarded by the city of Dongyi is.

“By the way, you just said that I have a happy event?” Fan Xian frowned, wondering how the marriage of the Grand Prince, who was scheduled to return to the capital in early fall, was a happy occasion with himself.

The two brothers, Lin Jing and Lin Wen, glanced at each other and laughed, “Your honor himself will know when he reads the letter from the court.” According to the custom, when a letter comes from the court, if the main envoy is not present, Lin Jing who is the deputy envoy has the power to open it first.

“You guys go ahead.” Fan Xian rubbed his brow, some uneasy feeling coming from nowhere, and it was getting stronger.

“Yes.” Lin Jing answered and said with a smile, “After the marriage of the eldest prince was finalized, the marriage of the second highness was also finalized, and His Majesty has decreed that the marriage between the second prince and the Miss Ye Ling’er of the Ye family of the Kyoto guards is set for next year’s spring time.”

Fan Xian was slightly stunned and let out a hmmm, with some strange feelings in his heart. That little girl who had called herself master at the lakeside was also getting married? He had met the Second Prince and knew that this Second Prince was well read in poetry but had a restless heart. At this time, when he heard that Ye Ling’er was going to marry the second prince, he couldn’t help but be a little worried for Ye Ling’er, and at the same time, his mind was thinking about what that His Majesty the Emperor wanted to do, this marriage would obviously tie the Ye family, which was arching Kyoto, and the second prince to one place, could it be that that Emperor really wanted to …… change the Crown Prince?

Fan Xian’s heart was startled, but his face was unusually calm as he said with a slight sideways glance, “What is the relevance of this to this official?”

Lin Wen grabbed his brother before him and smiled fawningly, “Congratulations to Lord Fan, congratulations to Lord Fan, His Majesty’s decree also mentions that the eldest young lady of your mansion is virtuous and virtuous, and has great understanding of talent, so she is hereby granted a marriage to King Jing’s son, Li Hongcheng …….”

“Your eldest daughter? Fan Xian was a little confused, a little foolish. Which mansion is your mansion? It was only after a long time that he realized that he was talking about Ruo Ruo.

Ruo Ruo’s sister is going to marry Li Hongcheng?

“No!” Surprising everyone, Fan Xian stood up with a flourish and waved his sleeve!

Several close officials beside him had their mouths wide open, wondering why Lord Fan reacted so strongly after hearing about his own sister’s marriage. The people congratulate Lord Fan, congratulate Lord Fan is absolutely from the heart of the statement, think of the Fan family, Sinan Bo Fan Jian for the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of Justice, in charge of money and food in Qing, Fan Xian as the Supervisory Yuan, His Majesty appointed to marry the daughter of the former Prime Minister, that lady also has a everyone knows but do not dare to mention the noble identity, now even the Fan family Miss was His Majesty was promised to the hall of the son of the world Li Hongcheng … … …There really isn’t a second in this dynasty with such holy favor.

Lord Fan s reaction actually …… doesn t work?

Fan Xian lost his temper for a moment, and out of the corner of his eye, he watched the stunned expressions of the crowd, his mind confused. Immediately but woke up, laughed loudly and said, “This can not be, Li Hongcheng this kid every day to visit the green house, do not need a few hundred cans of wine will be my great-uncle accompanied by good, I will not let my sister married to this guy.”

He hid it extremely well, the officials also know that the Fan family and King Jing’s family are good friends, he and King Jing’s son is also an excellent friend, this kind of statement, really is a joke.

The officials laughed and said that Lord Fan was in a good humor, and said that when they returned to the capital, they would surely come up to the residence to bother them. Some even said that they would go with Lord Fan to seek out the Prince of Jing and extort a few pints of wine from him.

Fan Xian was also fluttering his eyebrows and was full of joy as he gossiped with all the officials, like a brother who was overjoyed to hear that his sister was about to get married.

After the crowd dispersed, Fan Xian walked alone to the quiet backyard and stood beside the porch columns, looking at the stars in the southern sky drilling out of the gaps in the dark clouds, speechless for a long time.

My sister is getting married.

The younger sister is getting married!

Fan Xian squinted his eyes, looking at the not-so-bright stars in the sky flickering between the heavy clouds of the night, a palpitation of the heart, his mind full of these words, this matter.

Although he had long known that this was something that was bound to happen, not long after he had arrived in this world, when he had told that little yellow-haired girl about Snow White in Tanyu, Fan Xian had known that the little yellow monkey in front of him was going to marry one day in the future. During the exchange of letters between Tanyu and Kyoto, he had occasionally thought that the little girl on the other side of the letterhead, who was growing up and didn’t know what she looked like, would marry a man in the future.

Later, when he arrived in Kyoto, seeing that girl with a hint of ice and snow hidden between her eyebrows, and a person as intelligent as ice and snow, who regarded herself as a teacher and honored her as a brother, Fan Xian thought with a smile that in the future, if any ordinary man married her, he would surely have a very hard time.

But I don’t know when, perhaps from the day Fan Xian guessed his own life, Fan Xian subconsciously began to refuse to think about Ruo Ruo’s sister marrying in the future.

Even when His Majesty the Emperor, who was on a visit, told his brother and sister at the tea house on the banks of the Liujing River that he would arrange a good marriage for Ruo Ruo in the future, Fan Xian still refused to think about it.

However, things were not always shifted by one’s will, and when Fan Xian himself became married, Fan Ruo Ruo’s marriage naturally became a problem that needed to be solved immediately.

Fan Xian subconsciously gently tapped the porch pillar beside him, his heart confused. Although at first he had talked to his sister about this problem, he had also sworn that he would let his sister find a good family, but when it came down to it, he had always been pretending to be confused, and in fact, his mind was clear, but he was rarely confused, and his mind was like countless threads going back and forth, which made it hard for him to breathe, and he couldn’t think straight.

The sound of palms slapping against the porch pillars echoed softly in the courtyard.

“It’s noisy.” A voice very coldly came from the other end of the corridor.

Fan Xian let out a bitter laugh, his mood shook too much today, so he had forgotten that in the courtyard where he was staying, there was now a bit of the equally indifferent Yan Bingyun living there.

“Your Excellency’s mind seems to be a bit troubled today.” Yan Bingyun wasn’t concerned about him, but was just curious as to why this Supervisory Yuan Tisi, who was accustomed to hiding everything in his mind and only leaving outsiders with a clear and sunny appearance, was so saddened this evening.

Fan Xian withdrew his gaze from the dark night sky canopy and said after some thought, “My sister is getting married.”

“The Fan family’s eldest miss?” Yan Bingyun said quietly, “Kyoto is famous for its talented women, I think it should be His Majesty’s appointed marriage.”

“Not bad, my future brother-in-law is King Jing’s son, Li Hongcheng.”

Yan Bingyun said, “The young people in Kyoto all know that the Seijun likes your sister.”

Fan Xian froze, “Is that so? Why don’t I know.”

“I’ve heard that your lordship is in good terms with Li Hongdao, and now that your mansion is in marriage with King Jing, looking at the southern dynasty, apart from a few royal relatives, there really isn’t any vassal that can compare to the Fan Mansion when it comes to noble relatives alone, so my humble servant would really like to congratulate your lordship.”

Fan Xian always felt that there was always a hint of malice inside Yan Bingyun’s cold congratulations, and he slightly inclined his head and smiled, “Indeed it is a happy event.”

“Since it is a happy event, why is your lordship sad.”

Fan Xian smiled and said, “Hong Cheng is my friend, and I naturally like his disposition. However ……,” he shrugged, “A prodigal prince who frequents the flower boats is going to turn into his own brother-in-law, so I think that whoever it is will be a little worried.”

Yan Bingyun coughed softly twice and said mockingly, “Could it be that Lord Fan has never visited a green house in his life?”

Fan Xian smiled and shook his head, he was in a somewhat strange mood today, so he didn’t want to make a verbal argument with Yan Bingyun. At this time, there were no candles in the room, the stars in the sky were few and far between, and the courtyard was dark. Fan Xian turned back and looked at the indifference on Yan Bingyun’s brow that couldn’t be wiped away even in the midst of the night, and suddenly his mind moved and he blurted out:

“Do you want to marry my sister?”

“Nonsense!” Yan Bingyun rebuked Lord Titus for his absurd question.

Fan Xian shrugged his shoulders and sighed: “That’s right, you’re a man who only loves himself, how do you know how to cherish a woman?” Yan Bingyun lazily ignored him.

Fan Xian looked at him and said, “How did you end things with Ms. Shen? People’s yellow-flower girls were cheated out of their bodies by you, and Shen Chong is not a vegetarian.”

Yan Bingyun’s face was frosty, but the sharp eyed Fan Xian finally managed to find a hint of gloom in the other party’s eyes for the first time, only to hear him say softly, “I’m not a lecher like you, and as for Shen …… I don’t have anything going on with her.”

Fan Xian understood that Yan Bingyun and Miss Shen were destined to spend the rest of their lives on different sides of the sky, looking at each other from afar, although he didn’t know whether or not Yan Bingyun had moved his feelings in the process, but he thought that he would always be apologetic for a woman who was obsessed with him.

His mind turned back to Ruo Ruo’s marriage, a faint sadness surfaced in his heart. In fact, everyone was right, his sister’s marriage to Li Hongcheng was better than marrying those emperors, Fan Xian should be happy, but he couldn’t be happy no matter what.

In fact, in his heart, even he didn’t know what he was thinking, perhaps it was just that certain details, certain initial reactions, such as the head’s long rise before the head, and the grim clapping afterward, gave away the deepest parts of Fan Xian’s heart, those desires that he himself hadn’t even realized.

He said to Yan Bingyun on the other side of the corridor, “Miss Shen naturally doesn’t have the means to marry you, but if …… I mean if, if there was such a possibility, what would you do?”

“I never think about impossible things.” Yan Bingyun replied indifferently.

Fan Xian smiled and left the long corridor. Yan Bingyun looked at his long, lonely back as he disappeared into the darkness and fell into deep thought.