Chapter 151: Sitting in the city without peace of mind

Sweet and sour, it was exactly the flavor of the pill that Fan Xian forced the Empress Dowager to eat. The pills had been stored in a place close to Fan Xian’s body, and even though he had experienced so many life and death battles in the past two years, going into the sea and up into the mountains with wounds all over his body, Fan Xian hadn’t lost these pills because he knew that they were very important to him.

It was more than ten years ago in Tanyu City, when Fan Xian’s teacher Fei Jie solemnly shoved that medicine capsule into his tiny hands, for fear that the overbearing true qi that Fan Xian practiced would burst forth and leave him dead without a burial place.

However, Fan Xian hadn’t taken this medicine in over ten years. After the battle in the Kyoto Palace to kill the second prince beside Xie Bian, followed by a frontal fight with the shadow, the true qi finally burst out of the body and cracked, and he became an invalid …… But even in this situation, he did not eat this medicine.

Because he knew how overbearing this medicine was, this was the medicine that dispersed power!

Fan Xian didn’t want to dissipate his entire body’s cultivation, so he fought hard against the pain of his torn meridians and the stiffness of not being able to move, and insisted on not taking the medicine that Mr. Fei Jie had left behind. Fortunately, later on, Haitang secretly brought the supreme mind method of the Heavenly Dao to Jiangnan, so that his strange and heavy injuries could be slowly healed.

And today he finally sent this pill into the Empress Dowager’s lips. The medicine was strong, and took the path of dispersing work and astringing qi, entering one’s internal organs exceptionally directly and gradually annihilating the vitality of the human body.

Must admit, if Fan Xian did not have Tian Dao heart method, once the true qi burst body, can only use this medicine to dissipate the body is too fierce overbearing true qi and too exuberant vitality.

However, the empress dowager is already old and decrepit, her life is no longer a few years, at this time she has taken this medicine, it is like the residual vitality in her body is gradually being pulled out of her body by the medicine, speeding up the journey of death, the vitality is gradually dimming and becoming disabled, her old body can’t bear it at all, and she has already reached the extreme point of exhaustion and weakness.

Fan Xian had great scruples, of course, did not dare to blatantly use poison on the empress dowager, and this Fei Jie left behind the drug is not poison! No matter if any famous doctor in the world came to diagnose it, they could not find anything fishy.

The empress dowager has no power to speak, immediately after she will feel her body’s burden is getting heavier and heavier, that is, want to lift up the arm can not be done, unless the world again appeared a great master forcibly with the purest true qi to help her reflection back to the light of the moment, the empress dowager can only be very miserable to become a mouth can not speak, the hands can not be moved by the invalid, and then slowly waiting for the death of the arrival of the.

Not Fan Xian heart cruel, not Fan Xian desire for revenge like wildfire burned his rationality, but in the current situation, in Fan Xian’s big hidden worry, he can only use such means to ensure the current security, as well as the future security.

Currently the rebels surrounded the city, the Empress Dowager can be the God’s main card weak rebel attack, the future security and refers to what?

The empress dowager didn’t know what kind of insidious and poisonous drug she ate, only thought it was a dumb pill, but still looked at Fan Xian with resentment. Fan Xian did not meet the Empress Dowager’s bleak and angry gaze, but instead cast his cold eyes on the two forces under the high imperial city. He looked earnestly at Ye Chong beside the second prince, at the short and stout general, the pupils of his eyes shining with a strange light, as if he was constantly pondering something.

The Dingzhou Army had not entered the capital by offering prisoners, and as a rule, there were only a few thousand troops, but today, Ye Chong and the Second Prince had actually led a full ten thousand people into the capital, so it seemed that they had also prepared for this. Just did not find Hong Cheng’s figure in the ranks of the rebels, which made Fan Xian feel a trace of relief.

Watching from afar, the rebel leaders seemed to be arguing about something, but the Crown Prince remained silent, watching the movements above the Imperial City with those sad eyes, mindful of his mother’s and grandmother’s well-being, and mentally cursing Fan Xian’s Grand Prince and Hu Shu’s group of old ministers fiercely.

Fan Xian suddenly narrowed his eyes and saw that the rebel generals had stopped conferring. The sound of horses’ hooves gradually rang out, and Qin Ye and his two families each divided their troops into one genus and pressed forward in the direction of the two flanks. He haughtily turned back to look at the Grand Prince not far away, and only after the Grand Prince nodded to him, signaling that he had been prepared, did he let go of his heart.

It seemed that the rebels’ main direction of attack, apart from the main gate of the Imperial City, still chose the place at Taiping Fang. The palace walls there were slightly shorter, and it was a place where eunuchs and palace maidens lived together, and the gates had always been lax. The great prince has long predicted this point, transferred heavy troops to guard, but also from the western army to cultivate their own loyal generals transferred seven or eight of the past.

Just a little smart, just stalling time, still did not catch that vanish, can change the momentum of ah …… Fan Xian’s brain suddenly once again began to empty, eyes looking at the dense crowd of rebels under the city, but it seems to be looking through their existence, looking farther away, looking to the past, looking to their own heart expects to appear, but the variables that never appeared. Those variables that never appeared.

Thirty thousand against thousands, even if the palace walls are high, even if the rebels are under detention and don’t dare to release arrows, but even if they take people to fill them, they will fill the moat outside the palace, fill them into a human ladder, climb up to the heights, and destroy everything in the palace……. Looking at the busy arrangements in the back of the rebel army, looking at the siege ladder that is gradually towering over the city, the pupils of Fan Xian’s eyes shrunk slightly and At the bottom of his heart, he felt a hint of coldness, and the three ladders produced by Workshop C of the three major workshops in the inner treasury were also finally moved over, and the siege was finally about to begin.

These armaments were all produced by the inner treasury, as the head of the inner treasury, Fan Xian couldn’t help but feel a hint of absurdity, something that he himself had produced was coming to attack him, and he couldn’t find any way to cope with it yet.

His heart began to beat faster, his scalp tingled a little, his brows furrowed extremely tightly, and suddenly he breathed heavily for a few moments, feeling something wrong with his breathing, his chest tightened, and he slowly crouched down against the arrowed opening made of lapis lazuli bricks.

Above the imperial city the crowd was shocked, all rushed over in his direction, the great battle was imminent, if one of the main commanders Fan Xian suddenly had a physical problem, it would undoubtedly be a huge blow to the morale of the forbidden army.

The Third Prince was close to him and held his left arm in fear, shouting, “Sir, what’s wrong?”

Without waiting for more people to gather around him, Fan Xian buried his head and raised his right arm, saying in a tired voice, “I need a quiet place to think about something, you guys go get ready and leave me alone.”

The people could not be reassured at all by what they heard, but seeing as he was stubborn and that the rebels had already begun to prepare for the attack at this point, they could only lead their own orders and run to their own areas of defense. The Grand Prince stood in his position as a marshal and glanced at him from afar, looking at Fan Xian, who had been so fierce earlier, crouching so helplessly under the city wall at this moment, he could not help but feel his heart sinking.

“Senior Hu, please stall for some time.”

Fan Xian lowered his head and spoke softly. Grand Maester Hu glanced at him with concern, sighed, and walked over to the city wall, speaking in a loud voice ……

The Third Prince anxiously guarded his side, wondering just how Fan Xian was doing at this moment.

At this time Fan Xian simply sat on his butt under the wall of the imperial city, buried his head deeply between his legs, breathing with immense difficulty, looking very pitiful, just like the cat that was homeless in the rainy night.

Faintly in his ears came the righteous words of Grand Maester Hu, as if he was having a final exchange with His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, but although these words drifted into Fan Xian’s ears, he wasn’t able to hear a word of them clearly, it was just that he had confidence in Grand Maester Hu, and since it was a matter of dragging out the time, it was always going to be dragging out the time for a while.

And the problem that Fan Xian was facing at this time was that chaos in his mind. After returning to the capital from the Great Eastern Mountains, he did it step by step, exchanging victories and defeats with the Princess, however, even if he was trapped in the beginning of the Imperial City, he was still full of confidence, because the details of many events gave him a vague hint that the Princess and the Crown Prince’s conspiracy to rebel had long since been calculated clearly by Chen Pingping, since this was the case, when things proceeded to the final moment, there was always a chance to turn the tide.

As he thought in the early hours of the morning, there would always be someone who would step on the colorful auspicious clouds to come to his rescue, however, at this moment, the morning clouds had dispersed, the red light was no longer there, and where was the person who would come to his rescue?

Heavy sniper? No, without thinking that matter through, Fan Xian would never use this card.

Something was wrong, Fan Xian closed his eyes tightly, coughing on one side and spinning his head rapidly on the other, but he never caught the point that had passed through his mind like a fleeting flash.

His mind was too depleted, his spirit was too depleted, Fan Xian’s coughing was getting worse and worse, he slowly opened his eyes, and his eyes were actually all a blood red color!

After being injured by Yan Xiaoyi, he had been supporting his entry into the capital, forcing himself to break out of the palace, and laughing and talking about nothing above the imperial city, but in fact, he had already exhausted his energy to the peak, and was only relying on the ephedra pills that were secretly made in the three places to forcibly stimulate his mind and spirit.

Fan Xian breathed heavily a few times, and with a somewhat trembling hand, he took out two ephedra pills with a pungent flavor from his bosom, sent them to his lips, chewed them twice haphazardly, and swallowed them into his abdomen. Knowing full well that this drug is extremely damaging to the body, but when in this critical situation, even if drinking hemlock to quench the thirst, there is only a willingness to take it.

Although Li Chengping didn’t know what his teacher was eating, he had been concerned and had guessed that Fan Xian’s body had reached the point of exhaustion, and his bloodshot eyes represented an extremely ominous omen, so he couldn’t help but nervously and sadly tighten his grip on Fan Xian’s hands in his lap.

The drug effect is very fast, Fan Xian’s chest is much more relaxed, it seems that every breath into the body of the air than in the past several times, coughing naturally also slowed down, just the eyes of the blood more dense, and his slightly haggard but full of heroic face, looks a kind of palpitating sense of charm.

With a snap, Fan Xian, who was sitting on the ground, suddenly pulled his hand out of Li Chengping’s small hands, and like lightning, he probed to the left and held the small feet of the old woman who was set in the gold palace track.

Fan Xian did not turn his head to look, but merely said indifferently, “You didn’t dare to kill yourself when you were in the palace, but at this time you want to stimulate the Crown Prince’s onslaught with a death?”

When he probed his hand like lightning, the pair of small feet of the palace walker was trying to quietly stand on tiptoe, driving the owner’s weakened body to throw itself onto the hard earth beneath the Imperial City.

Li Chengping watched the scene in horror, watching the Empress Dowager being held down hard by Fan Xian’s feet moments before she jumped off the city to commit suicide!

The empress dowager had taken medication and had run out of gas, Fan Xian had not recovered from his serious injuries and had forcefully lifted his power, and had also nearly run out of gas, yet a hostile aura of death to you and death to me still reverberated between these two grandchildren who were both at the end of their tether.

A person to die is always very simple, the empress dowager indifferently and spitefully looked at the side of Fan Xian’s face, looked at his eyes seeped out of the red, the bottom of the heart is actually gradually feel the pleasure, the demoness and the son of the demoness, even if how powerful, in the end, still not allowed to be in the world, this is the destiny of the long ago doomed things, history has long proved this point.

However, after Fan Xian said those words, but unexpectedly fell into silence, his eyes look ahead, gradually frowned, gradually bright eyes, just as the previous moment when looking at Ye Chong, eyes of that bright color, it seems that he finally think clearly about something, to determine a certain idea.

At this very moment, the negotiation between Grandmaster Hu and the Crown Prince has also broken down, the rebels beat the drums of war, and began the first attack on the city. And far to the left rear of the Taiping Square area, is already resounding the sound of shouting and killing.

The war drums were beating, although there was no rain of arrows, there were vectors sweeping through the sky with a whistling sound, countless rebels pushed ladders and tarpaulin-covered carts, bravely braved the giant crossbows and sporadic rain of arrows, and rushed over against the oil and fire stones that fell from the top of the city!

In an instant, the Imperial City was filled with the sounds of misery, the sight of blood flowing, and the pain of fire. The sunrise had long since risen into the slanting sky, mercilessly watching the Kyoto of the Kingdom of Qing, after more than a decade of bloodshed, once again.

Fan Xian slowly stood up, mercilessly looking at the scene before him, not bothering to look at the empress dowager beside him, but saying to the empress dowager beside him, “I’ve figured out a lot of things.”

Yes, as he pressed down on the Empress Dowager’s small feet, he couldn’t help but think of Tanyuu’s grandmother, of the words that she had been sternly commanding him to say-we, the Fan family, don’t need to take sides, for we will always be on His Majesty’s side.

What was this? This was confidence in the Emperor. In this instant, countless images flashed before Fan Xian’s eyes, gliding by like flying fireflies, flickering, reminding him of many things, and firming up the judgments he had gradually arrived at.