Chapter 133 – A Son Oversteps the Wall

“Kill!”

A sound of shouting and killing rang out from all sides of the alley, and countless people surged towards Fan Xian standing in the alley. The tide of people surged past, but it was like a big river meeting an impregnable rock, the water splashed in all directions, and the sound of several sharp blades breaking through flesh pierced people’s eardrums, and then the four people who rushed at the very front collapsed like four pieces of wood.

They fell down with their throats covered, blood bubbling out of their hands.

Fan Xian’s hand already had a slender black dagger in it, and there were a few drops of darkened blood on the dagger’s lightless blade.

The deaths of a few people could not possibly repel the onslaught of everyone. Without even a moment’s pause, the onslaught of the officers and soldiers overwhelmed Fan Xian once again.

The black light flashed up once again, and this time, Fan Xian sinisterly chose to work his way downwards, no longer attempting to kill them with a single slash, no longer attempting to slice through the throats of those officers and soldiers, but instead, strangely fast and extremely sinisterly slashing a few times on the thighs and abdomens of the surrounding people.

Several people’s body at the same time more than a few blood drenched mouth, turned over to the blood and flesh sprayed out bright red blood, and the blood water in a few moments later immediately turned into a blackened thing, faint fishy odor spread out.

The alley resounded with several extraordinarily mournful screams, the injured people were not allowed to die for a while, but the poison attached to Fan Xian’s black dagger made them suffer immensely. The screams that followed each other finally sobered up the officials and soldiers surrounding Fan Xian, making these people with long spears and sharp blades remember the legend of Lord Little Fan’s power and viciousness.

The tide of people paused at this point.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Fan Xian, like a wandering spirit, killed the crowd behind the alley, like a shadow, like the wind, traveling past the people’s bodies, occasionally stretching out his devilish palms, gently flicking them over the weak points of those people’s earlobes, fingers, and armpits.

Every time he flicked, he would leave behind screams and injured people who fell to the ground.

In this instant, Fan Xian chose to use small means, which was the most physically efficient way to fight without depleting his true qi. The crowd was surging, and traveling in such a manner was precisely the most appropriate maneuver. With each of his strikes, he no longer intended to cause the officials and soldiers beside him to fall, but rather caused them to cry out in pain and jump up, becoming a leaping forest tree, concealing the cunning beast that he was, as he disappeared toward the rear of the siege in the twilight.

Not far away one of the generals who presided over the siege watched the commotion there with a flash of cold and fear in his eyes.

He had never imagined that someone in this world could turn himself into a wandering spirit, could walk through the crowd of people chasing him in full view of everyone, leaving behind a faintly fishy trail of blood and taking away fresh lives, and yet the person appeared to be so relaxed and casual – as if he was walking through 10,000 pieces of flowers without a single leaf touching his body.

There wasn’t even a single wound on Fan Xian’s body, while he had already picked off more than twenty people dead and wounded, forcing his way through the surroundings of pandemonium and breaking through a distance of ten feet!

“Stop him!” That general looked at the commotion that was getting closer and closer to him, the pupils of his eyes shrunk slightly, and in a hoarse voice, he hissed and shouted, “Execute the rebels!”

A clicking sound of a crossbow’s cocking mechanism rang out, which actually seemed very faint in such a noisy environment, but was extraordinarily terrifying.

Fan Xian, who was in the crowd holding his dagger with three fingers, gently making intimate contact with the muscular striations of the officers and soldiers, paused for a moment with his right hand at the moment the crossbow made a sound outside the encirclement.

His ears accurately caught a familiar sound, so his heart tightened for a moment, thus causing his right hand to pause for a moment and plunge into the chest of a government official who was wincing and lunging at him, while forgetting to pull it out.

Crossbows were strictly forbidden in Kyoto – except for the Supervisory Court, which had been allowed by special decree back then. So when he heard this sound, Fan Xian knew that the Rapunzel’s side had already mobilized the army’s power to infiltrate into Kyoto through either the Qin family or the Ye family. He did not have time to consider the issue of the Thirteen City Gates Division, but subconsciously felt cold, the ten thousand perilous moments during the sniping in the valley had left too deep an impression on him.

This period of thinking was only a split second’s time, in the next instant, he stepped down with a heavy thud on the hard stone floor!

With just one kick, the square piece of hard stone slab cracked from it, warping the corners of the slab in all directions, poking at the officers and soldiers who pounced on him!

When he wandered in the encirclement, it seemed easy and casual, but in reality, it was holding unusually fast speed and strong precise control, that’s why he needed such a strong and domineering kick to stop his body in the state of high-speed transportation.

The stone slab cracked, his person also in a flash, from the extremely fast speed and become unusually static.

The transition between these two extreme states even caused the air around him to make a tearing sound.

The besieging officials and soldiers who had been following him like a wave of water did not follow him in this instant, and fell forward in a sorry state, leaving three feet of empty space in front of Fan Xian.

Tuk tuk breaking wind sound, did not, into the earth, Fan Xian’s feet like a crop, born dozens of eerie and terrible crossbow arrows, narrowly and narrowly did not shoot into his body.

And with his right hand still stabbing flat, the body of the magistrate hanging from the dagger was violently jolted forward by this sudden drop in speed, his flesh slicing through the sharp black dagger, hissing as half of his body was sliced open, falling heavily to the ground and shaking out countless amounts of blood!

And the officers and soldiers behind Fan Xian couldn’t collect their feet and slammed directly into the suddenly stationary him!

He returned his elbow.

With two muffled sounds, the two silhouettes flew up, shattering …… and drawing countless shocking curves in the twilight shrouded sky.

Before the next round of crossbow arrows came, Fan Xian looked at the general at the head of the alley from afar, his toes pointed on the ground, and to everyone’s surprise, along with the two “shattered shadows” that had been shaken off by himself, he flew out over the alley in the opposite direction.

The general received Fan Xian’s cold gaze from afar, and couldn’t help but shiver as he gritted his teeth and said fiercely, “Wolf Battalion, don’t let him get away.”

In mid-air, broken away bones and flesh fell to the ground, snapping.

Immediately afterward, the sound of whooshing and breaking air rose, and a dozen or so military experts tumbled up onto the eaves, chasing after Fan Xian, who was darting across the civil eaves not far away. Not a moment later, the good men of the Kyoto Prefecture and the Ministry of Justice also led the bulk of their subordinates in relentless pursuit along the passageway on the ground.

“I want him dead.”

Inside the Guangxin Palace in the middle of the Imperial Palace. Back behind the layers of gauze tents, that Her Highness, the Eldest Princess, expressionlessly spoke a sentence. The him in her words naturally referred to Fan Xian, who was now playing guerrilla with her in Kyoto. As long as Fan Xian did not die, it would be extremely difficult for the Rapunzel to show a smile on her face.

“There seems to be a problem on Chen Yuan’s side.” The eunuch who was beside the Elder Princess said in a low voice, “The most crucial thing is that there seems to be a problem with the transmission of intelligence from the Dongshan Road side during this time as well, it’s been three days now, and the last news was already three days ago.”

Li Yunrui’s cold and beautiful face suddenly flashed a strange redness, which was like the colorful sunset in the sky, which was attacked by the night wind and immediately disappeared, turning into the last touch of pallor before nightfall.

The corners of her lips curled slightly as she said softly, ”I only want Fan Xian to die. You don’t have to pay any attention to the Supervisory Court side.”

“Yes, Your Highness.” The eunuch respectfully bowed, then raised his head, but it was actually one of Emperor Qing’s close eunuchs back then, Eunuch Hou, who was ranked alongside Eunuch Yao!

The Princess smiled as she looked at Eunuch Hou’s face and said, “The fire in the East Palace, you set it very well, the last fire in this Kyoto, this Palace wants to see how well you set it.”

In the battle of Dadong Mountain, Eunuch Hong did not know if he was dead or alive, and Eunuch Yao must have already returned to heaven with Emperor Qing. In today’s palace, the eunuch with the highest seniority, the most power, and the most trust from the Empress Dowager is this Eunuch Hou. Back then, the Fan family and the Liu family in order to enlist this Hou eunuch, I do not know how much money, but who would have thought that all these money in the vain, it turns out that this person from the beginning, is the Princess’s people.

Emperor Qing and Fan Xian have been guessing who set the fire in the East Palace, but did not think of Eunuch Hou.

Eunuch Hou bowed and respectfully said, “I will ask the Empress Dowager to issue a decree. Only the slave himself to speak not too much power, the empress dowager can at best send a decree to the forbidden army to join the search and arrest ……” He raised his head and carefully glanced at the eldest princess: “Just your highness is also clear, we can move the power are moved. The forbidden army also appeared in the sheep onion alley earlier, but they did not move a bit, the great prince side, obviously have other thoughts.”

The eldest princess calmly said, “We can’t move the forbidden army.”

Eunuch Hou said tentatively, “Although there was a major incident at the Taiji Hall today, and now there are more than forty ministers who have been arrested and sent to prison, the Empress Dowager’s intentions have not changed. Since it has been determined that the Crown Prince will take over the throne …… you see, is it possible to move the position of the Grand Prince?”

“You are asking me to speak with the Empress Mother?” The Eldest Princess said with a slight sneer, “Do not make this plan. Now that the Kyoto guard divisions are all in my hands, the thirteen city gate divisions are still wavering from side to side, and the Qin and Ye family’s armies are only a few days’ travel away from the capital …… If even the commander of the forbidden armies is changed, how can that mother of mine rest assured?”

“As long as Talented Lady Ning is honest in the Hall of Containing Light, the forbidden army is Prince Harmony’s.” The eldest princess said indifferently, “Mother always seeks some balance. Otherwise, isn’t she worried that this palace will destroy this imperial city in the future?”

Eunuch Hou winced inwardly, not daring to say anything else.

“Fan Xian is sick.” The Eldest Princess continued to smile, “With this Palace holding onto his illness, it will be impossible for him to stay away from Kyoto, and he will only be able to simmer in Kyoto. This Palace would like to see, when those dozens of ministers can’t make it, the officials of the Taishang Temple and the Ministry of Ceremonies can’t stand it, and the Crown Prince ascends to the throne in name only, how can he, the evil thief who assassinated the driver, still make it.”

Eunuch Hou looked at the Eldest Princess in awe and said with small intention, “It’s a pity that when the Empress Dowager issued the decree, the concubine carrying the bloodline of young Lord Fan somehow escaped.”

“Not escaped.” The Eldest Princess’s eyes narrowed slightly, her long eyelashes blinking slightly, “It was someone who was protecting him …… However, this palace is curious as to whether or not that person without a master can still protect himself today.”

“Your Highness is divinely calculated.”

“There is nothing to calculate, you have to prepare, perhaps …… in two days, I will leave the palace.” The Eldest Princess said with a smile, but she didn’t know why she chose to leave the palace.

Eunuch Hou smiled ingratiatingly and said, “Then the slave will return to the Hall of Containing Light at this time.”

“Go.” The eldest princess said, “Make mother’s heart stronger.”

“Yes.”

Eunuch Hou followed the order and went, passing through the dead silent palace, listening to the sorrowful voices that vaguely fell on his ears, and returned to the Hall of Containing Light, saying a few words slightly in front of the empress dowager’s body. Looking at the old empress dowager’s white hair, disheveled expression, unbearable spirit, this eunuch sighed in his heart, secretly thought that the empress dowager was also very powerful character, but now can only concentrate on maintaining the peace of the court, but can’t take too much vigor to. I have been following the Princess since many years ago, this is really a very wise choice.

In Guangxin Palace.

After Eunuch Hou left, the Eldest Princess slightly lowered her eyes and softly exchanged a few words of something to her close friend, seemingly to send a message somewhere outside the palace, a few of the words could be vaguely heard, it should be related to the situation outside Kyoto.

Then she sat silent and alone for a while and clapped her palms together. A man and a woman, who had palace maids respectfully ringing their arches or watching over them, walked in from the back of Guangxin Palace and sat down beside her.

The Eldest Princess slightly spread her smile and said softly to the daughter beside her whose eyebrows did not resemble her own, “Chen’er, mother has found Fan Xian.”

Lin Wan’er slightly lowered her head, gently biting her lower lip, not shocked by these words, not even raising her head a bit.

The Eldest Princess’s brows frowned slightly, as if she felt a hint of unexplained anger at her daughter’s emotional reaction, and said in a low voice, “Fan Xian is a mouse, but if he really cares about you, then he will naturally come to the palace.”

Lin Wan’er raised her head with a Huo sound, and those eyes that were usually exceptionally gentle, with watery waves gently swirling around them were all cold and indifferent. She looked at her mother, her eyes were like two knives gouging out her mother’s heart, and said word by word, “You asked me out of the Hall of Containing Light …… thought you still had two points of mother and daughter love, but it turned out …… to be putting your own daughter as bait.”

Lin Wan’er said with a calm face, “But it’s also right, uncle has said many times that you are a madman, and you can’t do things in a normal way …… Don’t worry, I won’t blame you.”

She laughed softly, looking very calm, “For a madman like you, resentment is all a superfluous emotion.”

“Is that so?” Li Yunrui slowly closed his eyes, “You were born to me, of course you have no qualification to resent me …… Si Si that bitchy woman, isn’t she living well outside now? Why did your Fan House only protect her and not you? If you want to complain, you should also go and complain to your Xianggong and your in-laws.”

Lin Wan’er’s legs trembled slightly as she said, “You got one thing wrong. Perhaps it’s just that no one expected that you would lay hands on your own daughter.”

There was a sound of metal clashing under her legs, and it actually seemed like she was shackled with leg irons!

Li Yunrui said calmly, “If Fan Xian dies, everything will be fine.”

“Is that so? It is a pity that you will never be able to kill him. Since he managed to come back alive from the Great Eastern Mountains, he will definitely live well.” A glimmer of confidence surfaced on Lin Wan’er’s face.

The Eldest Princess’s brows furrowed, “Some people’s deaths and lives are out of their control. I’ve never worried about my good son-in-law, even if he’s lived such a glorious life in the world these past two years, I’m still not worried.”

She glanced at her own daughter, then at Dabao, who was sitting beside her daughter, cowering her shoulders in fear, her mouth subconsciously quivering, and a flicker of disgust flashed in her eyes.

“I know that son-in-law of mine too well.” Li Yunrui said indifferently, “As long as you and Dabao are here, what other way out can he have but to die?”

“Oh, I didn t think that mother would think that An Zhi …… would be so sentimental.” Lin Wan’er gazed calmly into her mother’s eyes, “I’m his wife, and don’t even expect him to be stupid enough to give up his life because of your tactics, yet I don’t know where you get your confidence from.”

“You don’t understand, everyone doesn’t understand.” The Rapunzel said calmly, “Fan Xian may be a hypocrite to the bone, but for certain people around him, he blazes to the core instead.”

She paused and said with a smile, “I won’t underestimate him, and I’ll be prepared for him to really turn over a new leaf. A few days later, he might have the chance to turn this palace over …… so I will take you and Dabao out of the palace and let him drill himself into this bucket.”

Lin Wan’er looked at her quietly, “It seems that mother has already grasped the Thirteen City Gates Division, and the armies of the two Qin Ye families can enter the capital at any time.”

The Eldest Princess was slightly stunned, then smiled, “My daughter, she really is somewhat like me, seeing things accurately.”

Lin Wan’er slowly bowed her head, she knew in her heart that Fan Xian would definitely find a way to penetrate deep into the belly of the palace, borrowing the Great Prince’s forbidden army and his inner circle in the palace to turn the tables in one fell swoop, but it did not occur to her that her mother did not care about a single gain or loss in the palace, but instead, she stored up the idea of letting all the hostile forces plunge into the deep palace, and then having the heavy forces counter-attack.

“What exactly do you want?” Lin Wan’er suddenly raised her head and said with a hint of mockery, “Whether the crown prince’s brother or the second brother is the emperor, for you, there is no difference. But what exactly is it that you want?”

“What do I want?” The eldest princess suddenly narrowed her eyes and stared at a certain wall in Guangxin Palace, and after a long moment of silence, she said, “I want everyone in the world to know that in this world, there are some women who, in the absence of a man, can do some extraordinary things.”

She looked back at her daughter and said quietly, “Not having a man is nothing, after Fan Xian’s death, you’ll be just as high and mighty as a county princess, so there’s no need to start grieving ahead of time.”

“I don’t know what will happen to me after my man dies, will it be hard to suppress my grief.”

Lin Wan’er suddenly smiled, holding her big brother’s limp left hand beside her, her head lowered, not even looking at her mother. “But I know, mother, you …… will really go crazy after you don’t have a man, so these teachings are better kept for your own use.”

“Unbridled!” Rapunzel’s beautiful face iced over, “What bastard words!”

“Isn’t it?” Lin Wan’er calmly, mockingly said, “Uncle was the one who tried to strangle you on that wall? Now that uncle is killed by you, are you so pained and stifled in your heart that you can’t wait to scratch your own face?”

“I’m not someone who doesn’t know anything.” Lin Wan’er scoffed, “It’s just that I’m disgusted with these things. So, mother …… you are essentially a poor person who can’t live without a man, so why put on airs?”

After a moment of silence, the Eldest Princess suddenly spoke indifferently, “After all, you are my daughter, and without bringing any favors to the table, by provoking me alone, could it be that I will kill you?”

“But I must admit, your words are very lethal.” She suddenly sighed, gently caressing her daughter’s slightly thin cheeks, saying, “I didn’t spend enough time with you, so I actually didn’t realize that my good daughter, turned out to be such a formidable character as well.”

Lin Wan’er serenely gazed into her eyes and said after a long time, “I’m a person without power, so only words can be used. Perhaps you will succeed, but there is no way you can make me admire you one iota.”

She was calm and proudly confident, her lips closed extremely tight.

Suddenly, Dabao cooed softly at her side, “Sister, you’re squeezing my hand painfully.”

The Eldest Princess laughed, then whispered, “Good daughter, don’t be so angry. I will let Fan Xian die in front of you, and by then, you will be even angrier.”

She gently patted Lin Wan’er’s cold cheek.

Fan Xian found himself caught in a sea of people’s war, and even though 80% of the people of Kyoto believed that they had been wronged, there were still 20% of the people who truly saw themselves as unforgivable assassins and traitors, colluding with foreign nations and heartless traitors.

There are too many people in Kyoto, even if it is only 20%, but it is enough to form a fearful force.

Looking at those people who were banging gongs and drums and shouting for the government officials and soldiers to come to arrest them, Fan Xian who was running in the streets and alleys couldn’t help but want to curse his mother after he laughed bitterly, and couldn’t wait to take a loudspeaker to ask those people of Qing who had worshipped him as a poet in the past years.

If I am really a son of a bitch, then why did I go back to Kyoto?

And he didn’t even imagine that although his own Supervisory Yuan was watched closely by the inner court, those secret agents from one place would always deliberately make some mess to help themselves, but even so, escaping up to this point, he still hadn’t gotten rid of the Princess’s side of the pursuit.

Those dozen or so military experts were really a headache. What was even more troublesome were those Kyoto government officials and Ministry of Justice officials, who had been hanging out in Kyoto for years and were close to the people, and spared no effort in pursuing them, so much so that it was impossible for such a strong person as Fan Xian to remain submerged for more than a quarter of an hour.

Fan Xian leaned under a courtyard wall, squinting at the darkening night under the sky, and seeing the bright moon in the sky, he couldn’t help but wrinkle his brow, and began to curse the heavens and the unusually excellent environmental protection work of this Qing country.

Under the clear light of the bright moon, facing the largest number of people ever mobilized in Kyoto and the most stringent search in the pursuit of the imperial criminals, Fan Xian was not sure that he would be able to disappear into the sea of mansions.

The slightly cool courtyard wall, which percolated into his heart and lungs, calmed him down a little and made him cough twice. His injuries had not yet healed and he had forcefully mobilized his Overbearing True Qi, even though his body was made of iron, he felt a hint of fatigue.

Not far away from the street came the noisy sounds of soldiers and horses and shouts, it should be another which ardent patriotic people were pointing out to the officials the direction in which Fan Xian was fleeing.

If only escape, Fan Xian has enough confidence, he can even in Kyoto and the Princess side to fight half a month of guerrilla, while there is certainty will not be caught, and even he can slowly those important enemies one by one assassination, such as spring dream without trace.

However …… his wife relatives are under house arrest in the palace, outside the palace, he has concerns, must rush time, looking for a calm place, contact their own forces, access to valuable information, according to the recluse trick of the right way and line.

At the moment, the Princess’s persistent pursuit, obviously impossible for him to find a stable temporary residence.

As for the exposure of his whereabouts, Fan Xian’s heart was not without suspicion, but the road was so dangerous and busy that he had no time to think about it.

Outside, the sound of people got closer, and there was also the sound of horses. Fan Xian looked back at the dead end of the alley, his left hand gouged the wall, and with a movement of his true qi, he gouged down a few pieces of gravel, and flicked them towards the wall at the dead end.

With a soft snap, a few more inconspicuous marks appeared on the wall at the dead end, as if someone had crawled through there.

Fan Xian flexed his fingers, and his entire body floated up like a large bird, tumbling toward the side and back of the courtyard wall.

He had already found out clearly that behind this courtyard wall was a nice residence, and judging by the furnishings, it should be an official family. He decided to take a gamble and see if he could find a trusted acquaintance, even if he couldn’t, he still had to try to hide for a while.

Over the courtyard wall, walking through the rockery, up to the second floor, into a room full of books. Outside the courtyard, the sound of soldiers and horses grew louder and louder, Fan Xian could not think as he turned the bookshelf, a black dagger, on a man’s neck.

Naturally, his luck wasn’t that good, and it was impossible for him to find a trusted official acquaintance in the vast sea of people in Kyoto. But his luck wasn’t that bad either, he had thought that this was a study, and the person inside was naturally the master of the house, but he hadn’t thought that under the black dagger was actually a poor girl!

This was not a study, it was a boudoir.