chapter 92 is to go is the female Taoist that faction
Wang Qinian received the order, is ready to go out to arrange, at the same time to discuss with Lin Wen Lin Jing two people, after all, this time back to the mission, but also with a status of the noble princess, but listened to Fan Xian suddenly said: “to come on the road we prepared those horses, Wang Qinian you have to deal with the clean, don’t give those farmers to bring other trouble.”
Yan Bingyun hadn’t participated in the most previous plan, so she couldn’t quite hear it.
Wang Qinian glanced at Fan Xian. Fan Xian waved his hand, so he pushed the door and left. Yan Bingyun’s eyebrows raised.
Three people, making three movements, had their own meanings within. Fan Xian smiled and said, “In front of me, why do you have to endure so much?”
Yan Bingyun didn’t laugh, but just somewhat slowly raised the teacup in front of him and took a sip, saying with a point of respect that a subordinate should have, “Since Lord Titus doesn’t want me to know, there’s no need for me to ask questions even if I’m curious.”
Fan Xian didn’t think too much about it and said directly, “This was just the initial plan, and since it’s been thrown away and not used, of course I have to wipe my ass clean.” He then explained to Yan Bingyun in very simple terms that Fan Xian had searched for a young official of the Supervisory Yuan in Kyoto who looked somewhat similar to himself since the beginning of spring, and had been keeping her in his “boudoir”.
In the original plan, this pretender was supposed to play a role in the journey back from Northern Qi, allowing him to impersonate Fan Xian and accompany the delegation southward, while covering for the real Fan Xian to stay in Shangjing and take care of the things that needed to be taken care of.
“You were initially prepared to stay in Shangjing alone?” Yan Bingyun frowned, “What matters are you going to deal with?”
Fan Xian glanced at him and said, “Chen Pingping wants Sean dead, so I’m going to stay in Shangjing to kill him and then rush to the national border to meet up with the mission. Lest after Xiao En’s death, the Northern Qi people play a big trick and slaughter our embassy.”
Yan Bingyun asked, “The horses along the route you were just talking to Lord Wang about?”
Fan Xian smiled and explained, “Before the legation left in Kyoto, I had already asked the people in the courtyard and certain figures in the inner treasury to help raise some good horses along this southward road; of course, these horses were secretly raised in horse preservation households, so I thought I wouldn’t alert the officials in Northern Qi.”
“You are prepared to change horses all the way to the borderline as fast as you can after killing Sean in Shangjing?” The corners of Yan Bingyun’s lips flared with a hint of mockery.
“A thousand miles on a single horse, is there anything wrong with that?”
Yan Bingyun sighed before saying, “This is the real world, not a novel. If you killed Sean according to the initial plan, the Northern Qi side would definitely shut down the Upper Capital, and all the state garrisons would close the road south. How could you possibly return to the south alone?”
Fan Xian laughed and said, “Chen Pingping was able to kill her way back to the south back then with so many people, what can’t I do alone?”
“The bravery may be there, but the ploy was always a bit foolish.” Yan Bingyun shook her head, “Your honor is the Tisan of the courtyard, you should value your life and your body. And in this plan, even if the Northern Qi side let their guard down due to the departure of the envoys, it would be impossible for you to assassinate Sean in this hidden dragon and crouching tiger of the Upper Capital.”
Fan Xian naturally would not tell this frosty man about the heavy sniper. After all, now that Uncle Wuzhu had disappeared, the chest had disappeared, the eldest princess had colluded with the Uesugi Tiger, and Xiao Xiaoyao had reaped the benefits of the fisherman, things had changed again and again, and the plan had turned into what it was today.
Tomorrow is the day after tomorrow. Of course this is a nonsense.
The beautiful Yuquan River in the capital city is surrounded by green trees, and occasional egrets fly up from the north. Here is already the upper reaches of the river, near the palace, so the program is strictly prohibited, the people of the capital simply do not have a way to land on these stone roads. Fan Xian and Haitang walk side by side in the river, have a hitch to talk nonsense, feel not too depressed, continuous several days of gloomy mood, at this time seems to be in the company of the village girl to be much better.
Strange to say, Haitang this girl was not very beautiful, not very graceful, temperament like a village girl, but this feeling makes Fan Xian feel a bit at ease.
After a few sentences of nonsense, the topic immediately turned to the main topic, Haitang slightly frowned, asked: “The empress dowager has not been relieved, can you actually come up with any method?”
Fan Xian sighed before saying, “Your emperor wants a wife, but he’s favoring me to help.” He suddenly looked over at Haitang, a hint of displeasure caught in the serenity of his eyes, “Since you’re a close friend of Si Li Li, you should certainly know certain things. Don’t you think that asking me for help would make her uncomfortable in her mind?”
Haitang stuck her hands in her big pockets, dragging one foot on the green stone ground by the river, her eyes looking serenely at the slightly drooping willow tree in front of her, and said, “If Si Li Li wanted what you wanted, you would have been able to do it, then she wouldn’t have come to Shangjing. Since you are a heartless person, why do you have to be so sympathetic? Her entry into the palace is also something you would like to see, after all, from now on, even if you are far away in the south, you will have someone to talk to in this Northern Qi palace.”
Fan Xian never expected that she would say everything thoroughly, not giving himself a chance to cover up, his heart was slightly flabbergasted and embarrassed, and he felt that the thin singlet on his body seemed to have been stripped bare in this instant, revealing the selfishness and heartlessness within. After a long time of silence, he said with a bitter smile, “I am just a courtier, and do not have enough ability to change everything.”
“So you just acquiesced to this matter.” Haitang spoke in a tone that wasn’t aggressive, but that brightness had an oppressive feel to it for no reason, “If that’s the case, why bother to say anything more.”
Fan Xian shook his head and said, “Once you enter the palace gate, you and Si Li Li are sisters, how can you bear to see her enter the palace?”
“His Majesty is a good man.” Haitang smiled, “And after all, Lili Lili is from Nanqing, if she wants to live in Shangjing, it seems that only the palace is able to shield her from the wind and rain.”
Suddenly, Haitang turned her head, and Fan Xian again saw from her eyes that piece of divine splendor that was brighter than the light of the lake, in Fan Xian’s experience in this life, the brightest vision was that of Ye Ling’er and Haitang, but Ye Ling’er was a piece of innocent brightness, and the brightness of Haitang’s eyes had more points of insight into the world’s situation after the bright and lighthearted.
“Lord Fan, doesn’t it make you tired to live a life of calculating intrigue all day long like you do?”
Fan Xian slightly bowed his head, and after a moment firmly tilted his head up, put his hands behind his back, his upper body didn’t move, and his lower body slightly moved, and the begonias generally shook and shook on the verdant stone path along the river, and somewhat abruptly opened his mouth to say, “Not everyone in this world can be free and easy like you, because each of us has our own different purposes. You may just want to plant a few beds of good vegetables and tend three gardens, but I must think for myself, for those around me, and consider the present for the future.”
After saying these words, he took out a letter from his pocket and handed it to Haitang, saying, “I am not a person with great wisdom, at best I have some small intelligence, so see if these methods can work.”
Haitang opened the envelope and read it carefully by the light of the sky, after a long period of silence, she took a deep breath, her bright eyes looked at Fan Xian, with one more minute of strangeness in her eyes, “Will the empress dowager believe it?”
“If the empress dowager doesn’t want to turn her back on the emperor over this matter, then all she needs is face and a step, whether she believes it or not, these two things can bring enough persuasion.”
The ploy Fan Xian offered was actually very simple, in that world’s history, the bridge where Emperor Wu of Han was seduced by Lady Gouge, he had always remembered it very clearly.
At that time, Emperor Wu was on a tour to Hezha, when suddenly a magician claimed that there were auspicious clouds and affluence in this place, showing that there must be a strange woman growing there. Upon hearing this, Emperor Wu immediately ordered to search the place and found this beautiful girl.
However, despite her beauty, she had been sick since she was a child and had eaten very little, and her hands were so tightly clenched into fists that no one could make her stretch them. Emperor Wu was so impressed by her beauty that he tried to break her fists himself. A miracle occurred: the hands were easily restored to their healthy form, and even more strangely, a small jade hook was held tightly in the heart of the right hand.
Emperor Wu was very happy, and immediately brought her into the palace, named “Lady Boxing”, which is the later Mrs. Gouge.
“Who is this emperor you are talking about?” Haitang asked.
Fan Xian smiled, “This is a story I made up myself.” He said after a pause, “This matter is naturally false, that Emperor Wu of Han isn’t stupid, so maybe it’s just a bridge he came up with.”
Haitang looked a bit childishly stupid when it came to matters of men and women, and asked hesitantly, “Then what should we do?”
Fan Xian shook his head in a good-natured manner and reminded, “Who are you?”
Haitang subconsciously fell into silence, and Fan Xian was stunned in his heart, thinking that this girl who wanted to study the way of heaven and man would not be brought into philosophical questions by herself, right? Hurrying to cough a few times, he said, “You are the disciple of Bitter Lotus, Mr. Bitter Lotus is the state master, if Bitter Lotus says that there are auspicious clouds in the west of the capital, and there is a strange woman underneath the clouds, this persuasive power, naturally, will be much stronger.”
Haitang laughed bitterly, “How could Master fool around with me?”
Fan Xian grunted in his heart, thinking that your teacher, who even dared to eat human flesh, has always favored you the most as a little disciple, and it’s not too much to fool around after you.
Haitang then asked, “But …… Lili’s identity, the entire nobility of Shangjing everyone knows, it is always impossible to hide.”
Fan Xian smiled and said, “First, take Miss Si inside the Qi Temple for a few months, and it’s best to let her become a monk.”
“What does becoming a monk mean?”
“To devote oneself to the temple and not think of marriage.”
“And then?”
“When things lighten up, go dark and send her to the palace, where she’ll be cooked raw and carved into a large ship from hardwood.”
“That will do?”
“There are some more details inside the letter, so keep your eyes peeled. Of course, if you can convince the State Master to take Miss Si as his disciple, that would be even better.”
“These proposals of Lord Fan may seem absurd and ridiculous, but in detail, they do have a few feasible points.” Haitang gave a slight blessing and thanked Fan Xian.
Fan Xian had no reason to smile, this was the successful experience summarized by the two beauties Wu Zetian and Yang Guifei in his previous life, naturally it was feasible, of course it was feasible. However, his heart still had big questions, why must the Emperor want Siriri to enter the palace? Why must the Empress Dowager not let Siriri enter the palace? Haitang must know the secret of it, but certainly would not tell himself, an official of the foreign dynasty.
Suddenly, Fan Xian’s heart stirred, thinking of the young emperor’s demeanor that he had seen several times when he entered the palace, and he couldn’t help but have an extremely absurd, yet extremely bold idea.