Chapter 97 – The Emperor Gossiped Too

“Mother is fond of quiet.” The young emperor leaned on top of the soft couch, took a sip of the bird’s nest served up by the eunuchs to rinse his mouth, frowned, and waved his hand for all the palace maids and eunuchs to retreat, and this hall of the palace was suddenly quiet.

Fan Xian slightly curtsied and said, “I don’t know what Your Majesty’s orders are.”

Looking at the formal demeanor of this Southern envoy, a hint of a smile flashed across the eyes of the Emperor of Northern Qi as he opened his mouth and said, “Minister Fan, the day after tomorrow you will be departing for your home country, so you must serve the Grand Princess well along the way.”

Fan Xian’s heart was slightly startled, and only then did he remember that he had actually been paying no attention to this heavenly matter. To welcome the princess back to the country to marry, this was such a big event, and on the way, there could not be any mistakes. These days he has long known from Yan Bingyun that, this Northern Qi big princess has been raised in the deep palace, and in front of the emperor is half-siblings, his mother has long been unknown to die in which the cold palace, the big princess has not been loved by the empress dowager, so only to let her become a sacrifice in the political marriage.

I do not know what the emperor suddenly said to the big princess is the meaning of, according to reason, the emperor should be with that sister does not have too deep love is right.

But looking at the faint sadness between the emperor’s thin brows, Fan Xian knew that he had guessed wrong. As expected, the emperor sighed and said, “The Grand Princess has never left the palace, and this time she married far away from the Southern Dynasties, although I am the Son of Heaven, I can’t do much to protect her.”

Fan Xian said sincerely, “Your Majesty, don’t worry, the great prince is our country’s hero of the world, the most people’s admiration, the great princess and the great prince in the future must be the harmony of the qin and sepulchre, white head to old age. The court officials will definitely treat the princess with courtesy, and will not dare to be half-hearted.”

The emperor let out a cold laugh, “What’s the use of that?” He suddenly stared at Fan Xian’s eyes and said, “Fan Qing, I regard you as a friend …… I also hope that you in Nanjing city, to the big princess more mention, be sure to ensure that she can live a happy life.”

Fan Xian was surprised again, he and this emperor only met four times in total, how dare he be the friend of the son of heaven?

Seemingly guessing what he was thinking, the emperor smiled and said, “Fan Xian, when we first met, I said that I liked your poetry and recited it from time to time, and that those words and phrases were as if you were speaking, and that since I had been speaking with you for a year, it would not be surprising to see you as a friend of mine.”

Fan Xian was really flattered and ashamed. Just as he was about to kowtow his thanks for the holy grace and cry out in fear, he heard the clear and faint voice of the Emperor of Northern Qi come through again, only there was more than a hint of rancor in that voice.

“But Fan Qing but seems to be more distant from me, not to mention that these days refused to enter the palace more to talk with me …… ” the Emperor of Northern Qi suddenly looked at his eyes and said: “Even in many things, but also to hide from me ah. ”

Fan Xian was sad and explained, “There are many matters, busy doing things on both sides of the Honglu Temple and the Taichang Temple, I dare not enter the palace to disturb your majesty’s rest.”

The Emperor of Beiqi glanced at Haitang, who had been silent all this time, and suddenly said with a smile, “Is that so? I thought that the most you did these days was to accompany your little sister-in-law around shopping …… and drinking wine.”

With these words, even Haitang could not continue to sit comfortably, and returned with a slight hint of uneasiness, “Duo Duo has benefited greatly from the teachings of Lord Fan on the ways of the heavens and the humans from time to time.”

His Majesty shook his head, looked at Fan Xian and said, “Then how long is Minister Fan still prepared to keep that matter, hidden?”

A drop of cold sweat emerged from Fan Xian’s hair, but refused to slide off the corner of his forehead, revealing his inner cowardice, only to be contained and moisturized in his long, ebony-black hair. Fan Xian’s first thought was – could it be that the matter of Siriri had been exposed? If that was the case, even if the emperor in front of him didn’t like women, but that kind of power exclusivity of the son of heaven, I’m afraid that he wouldn’t let himself leave Beiqi alive again!

The remaining light from the corner of his eye flew, but he saw that Haitang’s calm face was at peace, without the slightest bit of fear or uneasiness, so his heart felt a little bit more at ease, coughed twice, and respectfully asked, “I don’t know what kind of thing Your Majesty is talking about?”

No one knew about Sean’s matter, except for Haitang who might have guessed a little, and as long as it wasn’t Si Li Li’s matter, Fan Xian wouldn’t feel the slightest bit of guilt or fear when facing this Emperor of the North. Unexpectedly the next question from the Emperor of Northern Qi, but nearly let Fan Xian fell from the chair, this night in the palace pouring talk, but shock came in succession!

“I’ve come to ask you, how exactly is your sister Lin?” The Emperor of Northern Qi looked at Fan Xian and said coldly.

Just like a shocking thunder struck the deep palace, just like that girl in the night of the thunderstorm cried out for heaven, Fan Xian was dumbfounded, his body a little stiff, and for a moment he didn’t know how to answer – how could this emperor know that Wan’er was his cousin! This was tantamount to saying that he knew his true birth!

This is impossible! This was impossible! There were definitely no more than five people in the entire world who knew of his real life, and it was impossible for those five people to divulge this shocking secret.

But the question is, the Emperor of Northern Qi as a party of the Emperor, under the capable people countless, could he really discover this matter from certain traces and piles of yellow paper? Otherwise, how could he he ask …… his own wife, his own Lin sister!

Emperor Beiqi coldly looked at him, looked at his panicked expression, violently slapped the armrests of the soft couch, painfully reprimanded: “Say!”

Say your mother’s say!

The expression on Fan Xian’s face was mostly feigned, and in his heart, he still maintained a strong calmness, his left little finger slightly hooked, but suddenly remembered that because he was afraid that Haitang would find out about his relationship with the cliffside affair, he had not been carrying the black dagger on his left leg these days.

Fight? One could not beat Haitang; escape? As long as the Northern Qi side uncovered his birth, wouldn’t those princes, the Grand Emperor and the Second Emperor, immediately turn into a bunch of hungry tigers? And those ladies in the deep palace ……

Fan Xian coughed twice and his smile resurfaced, the other party even said it to his face, so naturally he was ready to threaten himself, so he was ready to play dumb and listen to the other party’s terms first: “Your Majesty, what are you talking about?”

The Emperor of Northern Qi stood up, stepping on the soft boots, not bothering to put them back on, and walked straight towards Fan Xian, the expression on his face gradually becoming more and more refined, turning from the slight anger from earlier into a faint smile, and within that smile, there was also some excitement and anticipation hidden.

Seeing this expression, Fan Xian was stunned, confirming even more that the emperor’s younger brother was a little pervert.

A pair of hands gripped Fan Xian’s shoulders, and the Emperor of Northern Qi shook Fan Xian’s shoulders somewhat out of character, and laughed aloud with a fluttering brow, “Fan Qing, Fan Qing, you’ve hidden so much pain from me, and you’ve hidden so much pain from the people of this world.”

“Ah?” Fan Xian at this time has long eliminated the idea of restraining the Emperor of Northern Qi to the end of the world, some stupidly looked at the face that was close to his own, and realized that this Emperor’s growth was really good, the Son of Heaven bathed every day, and the body’s body odor was also considered fresh. Haitang looked at His Majesty’s frenzied look from the side, and couldn’t help but laugh at Fan Xian’s silly foolish look.

“Cao Gong!” The Emperor of Northern Qi shook him two more times with force, making Fan Xian a little dizzy, “Cao Gong! Quickly tell me, did Sister Lin actually end up with Bao Yu or not ……”

Finally understood what was going on, although he did not know how the Emperor of Northern Qi guessed this, but Fan Xian finally could no longer withstand this kind of tossing and turning between surprise and delight, sat on his butt in the chair, also not as good as more to say anything else, first picked up the side of the cup of tea cooed and drank two mouthfuls of it.

The emperor looked at him with a smile, “If you don’t finish telling me about the Stone Records today, I will never be able to allow you to leave the palace.”

Fan Xian sighed, “How did Your Majesty know that the Stone Records came from the pen of a foreign minister?”

The emperor glanced at Haitang, who smiled faintly and said, “The book was only published by Tanyu Bookstore, and that Mr. Cao has always been a recluse, so apart from Tanyu Bookstore, no one else can know who he really is. The book “Stone Records” is popular all over the world, so I don’t know how many people are guessing who he really is, but the day before yesterday when we were drinking, Lord Fan seemed to be talking a bit more, so naturally I guessed a little bit, and today when His Majesty is again deceiving me, and Lord Fan confessed to it, it’s also considered to be Duo Duo I guessed it correctly.”

Fan Xian smiled bitterly, not knowing what to say, in fact, he does not need the reputation of the author of the Stone Records, see the Emperor of Northern Qi earlier Cao Gong Cao Gong shouted affectionately, almost let himself mistake him for Guo Jia, I think he is also a Stone Records obsessed.

Confirming that Fan Xian was the author of the Stone Records, the Emperor of Northern Qi was very happy, and said, “Secretary, tell us how many girls Baoyu took in the end.”

Fan Xian lost his smile, thinking that his majesty was a lover of harem literature, and waved his hands to plead for mercy, “Your majesty, the foreign minister has only written more than sixty chapters in a haphazard manner, and I really haven’t thought about the latter.” As he said this, he thought of the problems of saving, updating, and eunuchs that he thought of when Ruo Ruo asked for his own text back in Tanyu, it’s really a troublesome matter ah.

The Emperor of Beiqi sighed at the words, his brows were worried, he glanced at Haitang who was recuperating on the side, and suddenly came to Fan Xian’s ear and lowered his voice, “What is the connection between the Begonia Poetry Society …… in the thirty-seventh time and the Little Master’s Aunt?”

Fan Xian’s afterglow glimpsed the corner of Miss Haitang’s eyes softening slightly, knowing that this girlie was eavesdropping, so he smiled faintly and boldly responded, “Your Majesty, the writer of the book can’t explain himself, so I’m sorry that it’s inconvenient for the foreign ministers to say more.”

His Majesty revealed a hint of ambiguity and said, “Then Fan Qing quickly return to his journey, and when he has produced a chapter, he will remember to send a chapter to where I am driving.”

Fan Xian answered the order in fear, not daring to say more.