Chapter 34 Guangxin Palace

Zhuang Mo Han said with a slight smile: “I framed him today, really is a bet on the old man seventy planted clear name, once the bet is lost, I am naturally willing to bear the results, I just do not understand, that Fan Gongzi is really a poem in the banishment of the fairy-like characters, if the princess early on foreign ministers, I will not be humiliated.”

The Princess sighed and said: “I also did not expect that little child outside of poetry, but also has such a crazy heart.”

Zhuang Mo Han closed his eyes, a feeling of regret welled up on his face, and after a long time he said, “What I regret is not anything else, but I just sigh that I have been clear for half of my life, and in my old age, I have done such ugly things. If that Duke Fan had not written all three hundred poems on earth in one night, perhaps the scholars and people of this whole world would really have decided that Duke Fan was a shameless man who plagiarized because of the old man’s words.”

The old man opened his eyes, his eyes have returned to plain clarity, smiled and said, “That’s good.”

“Good?” The eldest princess’s bare feet gently slid on the edge of the soft couch, her sandalwood lips lightly biting, and she said with a grudge, “Zhuang zhong zhong, mother has always respected your talent and virtue, that’s why she invited you to live in the palace. The things I promised you have already been done, what about the things you promised me? Could it be that you thought that the agreement between the two countries had been signed, and that your own brother would soon be welcomed back to his country, so Fan Xian would be able to keep his reputation, and you, the old fox who pretends to honor talent, would instead be able to have peace of mind?”

Zhuang Mo Han smiled and said, “A mistake is a mistake, I was so concerned about my family that I fell into the Princess’s trap and came to Qing. My brother, has half a life to kill countless people, if the Princess wants to back out, I have no way, only to return to Northern Qi, pray for him, may he in your country Supervisory Yuan prison, can live more comfortable.”

The Eldest Princess smiled breathlessly, “I sold Yan Bingyun to that student emperor of yours, the only way you can exchange Sean back to Northern Qi. This deal, is not a deal between you and me, but a deal between that emperor of yours and me, only that I have already fulfilled my promise, but you have not done what you promised me. Tonight on the temple, if you are not pretending to spit that blood to admit defeat, but a bite Fan Xian that poem is copied, things are not yet known. So …… Zhuang everyone, after you return to your country, remember to bring a message to your emperor’s student that you, Northern Qi, owe me a favor from Guangxin Palace.”

Zhuang Mo Han smiled and said, “Duke Fan has great talent, poetic power is really beyond the reach of human power, I think the eldest princess can also guess that this Duke Fan is probably a celestial chakra person who has not appeared on earth for a long time. I’m curious, if there’s a Heavenly Chakra Master in the Qing Dynasty, why don’t you rush to protect him and get rid of him instead? What’s more, even if one were to identify Duke Fan for the plagiarism, what kind of harm could be done to him?”

The Eldest Princess said indifferently, “I’ve never believed in the nonsense of any Heavenly Chakra person, and since you, Mr. Zhuang, are well-versed in the scriptures, you should know the words of the sages. If Fan Xian is some kind of laborious Heavenly Veins person, if his abilities are only above chanting poems and composing such trivialities, what good is it to the Qing court. As for why I would deal with him, that is none of Old Sir’s business.”

Zhuang Mo Han had gambled decades of his life and his supreme position in the hearts of the world’s scholars to trample Fan Xian underfoot, and it turned out to be all at the behest of the eldest princess. It was just that he was unaware of the complicated relationships in the official circles of Qing, and he was also unaware of the fact that the Eldest Princess and Fan Xian would become mother-in-law and son-in-law in the near future.

But Fan Xian was clear about why the eldest princess wanted to deal with him.

He half-kneeled on the eaves of the roof of the hall, his three fingers standing on the tiles a little cold, looking at the charming princess in her early thirties below the bright tiles, the coldness in his eyes gradually rising. When Guo Baokun spoke in the temple, Fan Xian knew that it was the nobleman in the palace who had teamed up with this Zhuang Mo Han to drive himself out of Kyoto.

The plagiarism thing, look seems to be only a small thing, but it involves the so-called “character”, think if the temple himself is not chatting poetry crazy, will all the temple ruler and ministers shocked, I’m afraid that everyone will believe in Zhuang Mo Han’s statement. He became a literary thief, although he will not be punished, how the career can be discussed again, just with Wan Er’s marriage, but may be blown – the Empress Dowager dislikes what, the Princess is certainly clearer than himself.

What makes Fan Xian more chilling is that the original private agreement between the two countries in the former Northern Wei secret spy chief Sean, is actually Zhuang Mo Han’s older brother! In order to persuade Zhuang Mo Han to come to Qing to suppress himself, the Princess even went so far as to sell Qing’s head of secret spies in North Qi, the son of a minister in the court, Yan Bing Yun, to the enemy.

Her guts are also too big! Acting so insidious, how else can the emperor in this palace tolerate his own sister, doing this kind of harm to the state!

The summer night breeze blew through the eaves of Guangxin Palace, making Fan Xian, who was frowning and peeping, a little calmer, and he knew that even if he heard about these secrets, it was impossible to threaten the other party with this matter. She was the emperor’s sister, the empress dowager’s most beloved youngest daughter, these two identities alone were enough to allow her to run amok in this Qing country, selling her subjects for personal gain.

Fan Xian looked at the woman’s dark hair on the couch below him and felt a wave of nausea for no reason.

This woman was indeed not only crazy, but also perverted.

By this point, Fan Xian seemed to have seen the whole conspiracy in its entirety. The agreement between the Princess and the Beiqi Emperor was to betray Yan Bingyun, the head of the secret spies of the Supervisory Office who had been lurking in Beiqi for four years, so that the other party could use this to exchange for Sean and Siri, while the price offered by the Beiqi side was to invite the world-famous Generation of Great Men, Zhuang Mohan, to come to the Kyoto of Qing, and to utilize his mouth to destroy himself. At the same time, he could also use this matter to teach a lesson to the Supervisory Yuan system that had never been very obedient to the Princess’s support.

I just don’t know what else was included in the agreement between her and the Emperor of Northern Qi. Fan Xian guessed that by selling the head of Qing’s secret spies in Northern Qi, the Eldest Princess must have gained more than just that, but something even more terrifying.

–Did the emperor actually know what his own sister was doing?

He touched the hard key at his waist, his eyes flashed with two cold auras, formulated his response, adjusted his breathing in the night breeze at the top of the palace, and then began to retreat. The inside of the palace was too dangerous, and there was no telling how long one’s good fortune could last.

Just as he stepped down from the column, he noticed two people holding palace lamps at the end of the long corridor slowly walking over, Fan Xian’s heart flinched, carefully hiding his body in the shadows of the columns, moving his feet subtly as the lights changed as they approached, keeping his body and the shadows in the same area at all times.

He secretly prayed that this courtesan would also be like the courtesan who had brushed past him earlier and would not notice him.

The palace maid had already walked past the large pillar, and Fan Xian had also moved to the other side of the pillar. Suddenly the palace maid stopped in her tracks, and this palace maid, who seemed to have some status in Guangxin Palace, softly said something to the little girl who was following her, and that little girl sweetly and softly responded and left, and this middle-aged palace maid stood and waited.

The distance between her and Fan Xian was just a wooden pillar.

Fan Xian carefully regulated his breathing with his true qi, gradually aligning himself with the palace maid’s breathing behind the pillar. At the same time, he heard with some peace of mind that the courtesan’s breathing hadn’t changed much either, so he thought that she had just happened to stop here, rather than discovering herself.

There was still a wooden pillar between the two of them.

Suddenly, a cold aura flashed through Fan Xian’s eyes that were exposed outside the black cloth, and his entire body forcibly twisted a few inches to the left, this innate sense of danger allowing him to escape!

In the original position of his body, a sharp sword tip silently pierced through the wooden pillar!

Because the wooden pillar was so large, the tip of the sword only stretched out a little bit, and the lovely yet fury told Fan Xian that if he hadn’t twisted so much earlier, the tip of the sword would have been in his own waistbone at this point.

Fan Xian coldly bypassed the long pillar, like a loach, accurately and incomparably locking his hand in front of him, pinching the middle-aged courtesan’s left lower arm, reacting differently from any ordinary martial artist, not bothering with the other party’s sword-drawing maneuver.

The effect was really good, that courtesan failed to sneak attack, afraid of the assassin to stop himself from drawing his sword, so all of his true qi was concentrated on his right arm, the defense of his left arm appeared to be much weaker.

Like the sound of a piece of paper being torn apart, the courtesan drew her long sword from the wooden pillar and opened her mouth to cry out!

Fan Xian’s eyebrows twisted, and his body’s domineering true qi poured into the other party’s left arm in a majestic manner! The courtesan was already at the seventh rank, but she had never encountered this kind of strange true qi in the assassin’s body, and her meridians stung like countless small knives were scraping the tender walls of her tubes, and this kind of pain caused the courtesan’s chest to tighten, so that she swallowed her warning voice, and let out a strange soft sound in her throat.

Fan Xian instantly recognized that this palace maid was the one who welcomed him into Guangxin Palace, with extremely long and distinctive eyebrows.

The courtesan’s eyebrows trembled dramatically, and she mobilized her body’s true qi to try to fight with him, but she didn’t know that the other party’s hand that held her arm suddenly had a weak true qi, so that the true qi that she had transported out of her body all fell in the air, and she was in a trance, so it was not sad. The whole person’s body, also because of this sudden imbalance, the right side of the body looks slightly stagnant.

In this flash of lightning, the right side of her neck was slightly numb, and then she immediately felt that her entire body was slightly stiff.

Fan Xian frowned and withdrew his two fingers from her neck, knowing that the poison on the needle couldn’t really seal her throat with blood, he immediately flipped his square palm and printed it on the upper part of the courtesan’s abdomen, where the ribs were connected.

With a muffled sound, the courtesan’s chest collapsed, her five senses bled, and she died.