Chapter 127 – The Beginning of Autumn

After a few autumn rains, the autumn spirit outside the window was thick, and the mismatched Kyoto noble houses were lightly bathed in dampness.

Fan Xian clenched his fist to his lips, coughed twice, withdrew his gaze from the window, panted heavily several times, and then slowly sat down on the bed.

This inn was able to see the beautiful scenery of the southern city, so it was naturally very classy. The mattress on this bed was not thick, but it felt extremely good to the touch, and he subconsciously slid his palm over the fabric with a sigh in his heart. After experiencing the killings at Dadong Mountain, the sniping of Yan Xiaoyi all the way to the north, and escaping from death countless times, at this moment, looking at the familiar streetscape of Kyoto again, he couldn’t help but feel something like a lifetime ago.

After killing Yan Xiaoyi with a heavy sniper, he was seriously injured, in the meadow for two days to recuperate from his injuries, before accumulating enough strength and spirit to walk towards the unknown path surrounded by mountains.

Through difficulties that are hard to describe, Fan Xian crossed the path that Uncle Wu Zhu had told him about, and entered the state of Song under the patronage of Dongyi City. Within that vassal state, he dared not act rashly because his wounds had not yet healed, and he only dared to ask the shopkeeper to go to the store to get some medicine.

He himself is Fei Jie’s students, a medical skill is not the world’s first-class, but spent in the treatment of knife wounds and poisonous aspects of the effort is very much, grab the right medicine, coupled with his body hegemony of true qi as the bottom, Tianyi a natural flow of breath self-healing, so this gradual gradual walking, injuries are actually gradually better.

But Yan Xiaoyi’s arrow was too powerful, although it didn’t hit his heart, but it also shocked his heart vein, the injury was not yet finished, the heart vein was damaged, so the coughing could not be suppressed.

Fan Xian was very clear about his own physical state, at most 60% of his strength in his peak state.

After leaving Song, he swept through the southern part of Yanjing, and even though he later hired a carriage to enter the country, it was a big detour, and by the time Fan Xian entered Kyoto pretending to be a soybean oil merchant, he was already some days later than the person who had reported the news to him, and with the grueling thousands of miles of traveling, his gradual healing was beginning to linger.

Along the way, Fan Xian was very careful not to contact the ministry of the Supervisory Yuan, but in these two years, the silver scattered in the embracing moon building finally got rewarded, after entering the border of the Qing Dynasty, the things that happened in Kyoto, some of the most initial reaction, were supported by the intelligence.

The reason why he hadn’t been in contact with the subordinates of the Supervisory Court was because there was some concern in Fan Xian’s mind. If the nobles in Kyoto really put that black pot on their own heads, even if they were the Supervisory Yuan’s Tishis, but who would dare to serve a regicide rebel?

Fan Xian was not willing to test human nature, even the human nature of the subordinates of the Procuratorate.

That afternoon, he went out and walked around the streets of Kyoto, confirming many things. He was careful not to go to the Medicine Hall, but instead directly entered a hidden storehouse in the Third Division and retrieved the medicines he needed. The three divisions need a large amount of drugs for years, and most of the personnel in the divisions are eccentric people who only know how to bury their heads in the drugs, as a supervisory institute tisan, he is very clear about these distributions, and took them unknowingly, believing that he would not let anyone find out any clues.

Back in the inn, putting on the wound medicine and soaking his feet in the cold well water, Fan Xian lowered his head and said nothing.

During the day, he had gone to many places after disguising himself, but most of the key places had been controlled by the forbidden army and the Kyoto Prefecture, especially in the neighborhood of his home, where he sensed the presence of many masters and didn’t dare to risk getting in touch with the people in the Prefecture.

He also went to the outskirts of the Supervisory Court and the Privy Council. The Supervisory Court seemed to have no problems, but he knew very well that that courtyard was also under the surveillance of the inner court at all times. As for the Privy Council, it was also extremely busy, and he had a very detailed understanding of the military’s procedures, and after spending half an hour, he confirmed that the old empress dowager in the palace was still in control of everything, and very wisely chose to mobilize the border army at this current dangerous juncture, and began to apply pressure in all directions.

After all, he served as the Supervisory Board Secretary has been a long time, there are too many eyes in Kyoto subordinates, and there are holding the moon building and the tentacles on the rivers and lakes, although not dare to contact too many people, but to figure out the current situation in Kyoto, and is not a very difficult thing.

And at this time he thought of the most things in his mind, is …… Fan Xian raised his head, took a towel and wiped his feet haphazardly, lying on the bed, looking at the top of the beams above him to daze – the emperor is really dead?

His mood was very complicated, some shock, some depression, some disappointment, some oddity. If His Majesty is really dead, what should he do next?

Touching His Majesty’s handwritten letter and that side of the jade seal, which he had kept close to his bosom, Fan Xian closed his eyes and rested, storing up his spirit for the night’s action, but he could not enter into quietness for a long time. The next situation was really too dangerous, at this time in front of him, there are two choices, and no matter which choice, in fact, is a kind of gambling.

If he wanted to stop the crown prince from ascending to the throne, he must find a way to enter the palace and hand over his majesty’s handwritten letter and jade seal to the empress dowager face to face. But …… Fan Xian understood that if the emperor really died, with the empress dowager’s mentality, for the sake of the stability of the Qing Kingdom, perhaps that old empress dowager would directly destroy the epistle!

Both the crown prince and himself were the grandchildren of the empress dowager, but the empress dowager had never liked herself, and had even been wary of herself because of Ye Qingmei’s past. Who knew what the Empress Dowager would decide? If she really decided to keep the truth of His Majesty’s assassination hidden, then Fan Xian and everyone around him would naturally become the first set of sacrificial pigs and dogs on the Crown Prince’s path to the throne.

There was another option, Fan Xian could contact all of his helpers in Kyoto and reveal the whole truth about the Da Dong Shan assassination plot, both sides would light up their armies and fight ruthlessly head on, and whoever won in the end would naturally have the qualifications to set the course of the history books.

This choice will die a lot of people, but it looks like, for Fan Xian himself to be safer. But the problem right now is …… Fan Xian can not contact his father, nor can he contact Chen Pingping, it is said that the dean of the Lord had mistakenly taken medicine due to wind chill some time ago, and was poisoned, and has been lingering on the couch.

Fan Xian does not know whether Chen Pingping is in disguise, or how, but he peeped at the branch office of the intelligence said clearly, the person who poisoned, is the big man in Dongyi City – the world’s three poisonous big man, Sean is dead, Mr. Fei has gone, the most powerful is that person, if it is really a big man shot, Chen Pingping poisoned, and it is not a very If it is really that great person’s hand, Chen Pingping’s poisoning is not a very unimaginable thing.

All the movements after the assassination of his majesty were pointing to one thing – although the palace had not recognized Fan Xian as the real culprit of the assassination of the emperor, and had not allowed the court to send out the arrest papers, but secretly he had already been taken as the primary target, once Fan Xian appeared in Kyoto, what would greet him would be an endless pursuit.

The most unfavorable thing for Fan Xian now was that the news of Yan Xiaoyi’s failure and his own survival should also reach Kyoto within the next two days. Regardless of whether the Empress Dowager believed Fan Xian or not, once Fan Xian survived, she would want to get a hold of this grandson before she took one look at the future of the Kingdom of Qing and single-handedly decided whether Fan Xian would live or die.

Wan Er and Si Si were in the palace, and her father was under house arrest in the mansion.

Calmly lying on the bed, Fan Xian’s mind turned rapidly, and he finally made the decision not to return to the Fan Mansion at night, but to go directly to the palace. Even if he couldn’t convince the Empress Dowager, he believed that he could still seek some sort of benefit, after all, in the palace, he had a lot of helpers, and many of them, even for their own benefit, would stand very firmly on his side.

As for the side of the Fan House, the forbidden army was led by the Grand Prince, so it shouldn’t be too much of a threat to his father.

After thinking about all of this, the day in Kyoto had come to an end again, and the faint twilight seeped into the windows, causing the inn room to glow with a touch of warm color. Fan Xian opened his eyes, his eyes filled with strong confidence and persistence – as long as he washed away the charge of conspiracy on his own, with the Supervisory Board in his hands, with the Grand Prince’s forbidden army, outside the palace with the energy of his father’s State Duke’s House, in the palace with the help of Yi Gui Concubine Ning Talent, and with the little eunuch Hong Zhu, who was said to have been at the side of the Empress Dowager.

As long as Ye Qin’s two family armies can’t enter the capital, this whole Kyoto, who can be more powerful than himself?

“The decree has been entered into the camp of the Western Conquest Army, the 5,000 soldiers who sacrificed their prisoners have already pulled out their camps and returned to the west, and after about ten days, they will start to launch the war.” In the palace, a dying old general sat on top of a soft stool and respectfully said to the empress dowager, “The lord of the southern imperial state is still young, so it shouldn’t be able to start too much of a mess. As for the two northeastern directions, the northern army is holding the momentum of the new victory, Yan Da Dudu should be able to suppress the Shangsugihu, Yanjing west camp bordering the Song, straight stabbing into the country does not need three days, Dongyi city does not dare to have a different movement.”

The Empress Dowager slowly nodded her head. The news of the Emperor’s death had already spread throughout Kyoto, only that it had been barely suppressed, but the news was eventually going to spread throughout the world, and no one knew if those forces under the heavens would take advantage of the death of the leader of the lions, and the new Lion King had not yet appeared, to greedily seek out some kind of advantage – so at the beginning of dealing with the matters of the kingdom’s throne, the first thing that the subjects of the kingdom of Qing thing to do was to deter those people’s ambitions with a strong military power.

“Not enough.” The empress dowager indifferently glanced at the old general and said, “Transmit the will of the mourning family, so that the Privy Council to draw up a combat strategy out, within half a month, the three armies must be raided outward, to the limit of one hundred miles, more land, we do not want, but if the fight is less than a mile, let Ye Chong Yan Xiaoyi Wang Zhikun, these three guys cut off their own heads.”

“Empress Dowager is wise.” Elder Qin sighed, as the first important minister of the military, he naturally understood why at this time, Qing instead wants to use troops in a big way externally, but remained doubtful and said, “It’s just that if we send out troops suddenly, I’m afraid that we won’t be able to keep up with the food and grass.”

“Fighting back, north qi east barbarians inside and not a desert, to grab what can not be grabbed? Only half a month of offense, do not need to consider so much.” The empress dowager indifferently said, “At this time, my Daqing dynasty can not be chaotic, so …… must kill more, rob some, let other places are chaotic.”