Chapter 2: Negotiation with Mother’s Family

That said, Fan Xian and his party have long left Hangzhou, came to Wuzhou almost half a month time, just this thing, in addition to the emperor reported a preparedness, and did not disclose, so the people of Wuzhou does not know this thing.

But there is no absolute secret in the world, especially like this kind of things back home to visit relatives, more impossible to hide from everyone to go, so the northern qi master of the first disciple, the first master of the palace wolf peach adults know Fan Xian’s traces, is not something unimaginable things.

And Wolf Peach’s journey south involved an exceptionally interesting issue.

Starting from the spring of the sixth year of the Qingli calendar, when the Holy Maiden of Northern Qi, Hai Tang Duo Duo, went down to the south of the Yangtze River single-handedly to meet with Fan Xian, the story of the past few months had long been spreading all over the Yangtze River, and, especially with Fan Xian’s deliberate arrangement and the spreading of the rumor mill, all the people believed that there was such a layer of indefinable, ambiguous and ambiguous relationship between Fan Xian, the minister of the Qin Dynasty of the Southern Dynasty, and Hai Tang, the Holy Maiden of Northern Qi.

Just as Fan Xian was in that bed, under that big quilt with Haitang two people worried about the similar situation, such a romantic story between a man and a woman, not very surprisingly touched the hearts of too many people, South Qing this aspect has not had any reaction, the North Qi side can not afford to be calm.

Haitang is Bitter Lotus’s favorite disciple, the closest little sister-in-law of the Emperor of Northern Qi, and the most beloved junior of the Empress Dowager of Northern Qi.

Such an outstanding woman, such a strange woman who is responsible for carrying the essence of the subjects of Beiqi and raising the morale of the country in the image of the Heavenly Chakra person, in the legend is …… to be married to South Qing!

This fact made the people of Beiqi angry, and also made the royal family of Beiqi anxious, and those people in the upper position, naturally know Fan Xian’s position in Nanqing, and also know Fan Xian’s dishonorable role in that incident at the beginning – the Emperor of Beiqi is extremely appreciative of Fan Xian, and at least is a fan of the Stone Records, or stone powder for short, falsely speaking. How come the Empress Dowager, though not very old, was somewhat stubborn in nature, and she would not allow this to happen.

On the issue of Shen Chong, on the issue of Uesugi Tiger, on the issue of the Commander of the Jin Yi Wei Zhenfu Division, that young Emperor of Northern Qi has successfully forced his mother to make concessions, but in this kind of issue involving marriage, involving face, the Imperial Empress Dowager of Northern Qi to say a word, still full of power, and the young Emperor of Northern Qi can not be hard to hold on.

What’s more, in that kind of extremely deep and profound thought abyss, Beiqi little emperor also don’t see want Haitang to marry into Fan House.

For one thing, it was the issue of those millions of taels of huge silver, and secondly, it was the issue of the little emperor’s mind.

So the little emperor kept silent on this issue, while the main thing, but the empress dowager.

The empress dowager’s opinion was very simple, how could the holy maiden of a country be involved in those filthy rumors, and how could her own most beloved Duo Duo be married to Fan Xian, that scoundrel, in such a nameless manner.

So she sent a group of people led by Wolf Peach to invite Haitang back to Beiqi, and at the same time, she also made a seemingly suitable marriage for Haitang within the country’s borders.

In short, no matter what, Haitang could not be allowed to marry Fan Xian.

This was what Beiqi’s entire nation thought.

Regarding Haitang’s marriage, the empress dowager is the son of Changning Marquis, her own nephew, the chief of the Brocade Guards, Lord Wei Hua, the two are close in age, Wei Hua is really a capable minister, high status, is indeed a good match.

But Wei Hua is not a fool, firstly, he absolutely does not want to marry a woman who is more powerful than himself into the family; secondly, he absolutely does not want to offend Fan Xian on this issue, the world knows that Fan Xian inherited one of Chen Pingping’s quirks, that is, he is absolutely protective of the shortcomings of the absolute, and absolutely hold grudges.

Taking someone’s wife, what kind of hatred is that? Whenever Wei Hua thought about the things that Fan Xian had done in Northern Qi, even if he was surrounded by all the guards of the Brocade Guards, he was still a bit chilled.

However, regardless of Wei Hua want to marry, there is no courage to defy the will of the Empress Dowager, so he had to send his own handwritten letter to the south of the Supervisory Yuan through the secret letter of the brocade clothes, explaining the matter to Fan Xian, at the same time reminding of this matter, and take himself off the hook first.

However, the people from the south still came, there was that oily Wolf Peach, and Wolf Peach’s female disciple, Wei Hua’s sister Wei Yingning.

Wei Yingning was fond of Haitang, just like all the women in Northern Qi that way, she always thought that the southern one, the Tisan of the Supervisory Academy, had used some unseemly means to keep Haitang in Suzhou, and when she learned that the Empress Dowager had the decree to make Master Aunt Haitang her own sister-in-law, she was the one who was the happiest, and so after she came to the Qing Kingdom she became the angriest of the angry ones.

From another point of view, what Fan Xian had done and said was an intolerable humiliation for Haitang’s future husband’s family, that Marquis Changning’s family, which was why Wei Yingning had acted so impulsively.

Just because she was impulsive did not mean that her master, Wolf Peach, would be impulsive as well.

Wolf Peach is the first disciple of the Bitter Lotus, the world’s most powerful character, of course, knows what the Empress Dowager let her own line of people to go on a mission to Nanqing, so after passing through the Misty River, all the way to the south, but stopped in Wuzhou, and did not go directly to Suzhou to pick up Haitang to return to the country.

Whether Haitang returned or not was not just a matter of Haitang’s senior sister, but also a matter of the young man in front of him.

Wolf Peach looked at Fan Xian’s beautiful face and couldn’t help but sigh, if they went to Suzhou to take Haitang back to her country, regardless of whether she was willing or not, but without Fan Xian’s permission, this feud would definitely be made.

Nowadays, the whole world knew that Little Lord Fan of Southern Qing and Holy Maiden Haitang of Northern Qi were a match made in heaven.

Proud as Wolf Peach was, he didn’t dare to irritate Fan Xian too much on this issue, and without Fan Xian’s permission, if they wanted to take Haitang back to Northern Qi, they would face the pursuit and siege of the Southern Qing army, so he had his party stop at Wuzhou, wanting to meet with Fan Xian to inform him of this matter.

But …… Fan Xian clearly knew that these people were in Wuzhou, but he kept avoiding them.

This was normal, if one knew that his wife’s mother’s family had sent someone to make his wife marry someone else, who had that Beiqi time to pay attention? Did not send troops to kill each other is good.

This is the background and prelude to the series of conflicts in the restaurant.

Beiqi people in the restaurant, listening to Fan Xian that frivolous words, especially what aunty aunty …… can not help but feel angry, thinking that the people of the South China Sea is really shameless, such as Fan Xian and other talents can not be out of the ordinary, acting every lowly wind, which has no parents’ orders, the words of the matchmakers, will talk about men and women’s affairs?

Wolf Peach, who understood Fan Xian, gave a bitter smile and said, “You know this is impossible, why are you so persistent?”

Fan Xian rubbed his nose, as if he was sniffing something that didn’t smell very good in there, and said with a cold smile, “Eldest Senior Brother, I don’t know what kind of matter you’re talking about.”

Wolf Peach is Haitang’s eldest senior brother, Fan Xian because of this reason, so the words are still relatively respectful, just that these words fell into Wei Yingning’s ears can not help but be a little irritated, he is really …… the other party’s niece.

Wolf Peach thought about it, smiled, and clapped his hands, letting his disciples exit the restaurant to go.

Fan Xian also smiled, lifted his front flap, and naturally sat directly across from the other party. There was a subordinate of the Supervisory Yuan who served tea, and the two of them sat opposite each other at the table, relatively speechless.

Half a moment later, Wolf Peach said mildly, “You are always avoiding me, I always have to go down to Suzhou.”

Fan Xian nodded and said with a smile, “Suzhou has a nice view, Duo Duo and I often go shopping and both enjoy it.”

Wolf Peach’s gaze condensed slightly, and he turned to say, “There are many things that are not what you want them to be.”

Fan Xian avoided answering and said directly, “That said, in my life, there hasn’t been anything I’ve wanted to do that I couldn’t do.”

As the saying goes, half a sentence is more than half a sentence, Wolf Peach’s eyebrows wrinkled, not knowing what to do with this scoundrel in front of him, he was able to guess some of Haitang’s thoughts, so he felt more and more that this task issued by the Empress Dowager was a bit tricky.

Fan Xian glanced at him and said with a light smile, “The Empress Dowager of Northern Qi asked you to go to Suzhou, so you go well …… As for whether you can pick up the people, what does it have to do with you?”

Wolf Peach listened to these words and thought for a while, but instead smiled, a hint of inscrutability in his smile, “Are you so confident that you’ve concluded that Duo Duo won’t return with me?”

Fan Xian was silent and did not say anything. In this matter, Haitang’s will occupied an absolutely important position, and no one could change anything, whether it was the country of Northern Qi or himself, they were all just deluded enough to be able to influence her choice.

Wolf Peach said in a warm voice, “Perhaps you thought about it a little wrong, I came to Wuzhou to see you, and I don’t need you to help me to persuade her …… I just want you to know that we’re prepared to take her back, and that this is a matter of etiquette, and not a matter of asking for your permission.”

Fan Xian’s teeth were slightly clenched, and he said in a cold voice, “Isn’t her problem my problem.”

“I’m only afraid …… that she doesn’t think so.” Wolf Peach looked at her with a smile, “I am the eldest brother who has watched her grow up since childhood, although you are now friends with her, but what she really thinks, I’m only afraid that I still have to be a little clearer …… She is a proud person, think about it, will she stay in Suzhou all the time?”

Fan Xian was silent again, he knew that what Wolf Peach said was right, Duo Duo looked like a village girl and acted gently, but in her bones she had cultivated a strong confidence …… and pride because of her own powerful abilities, and it was indeed a bit difficult to let such a woman wither away waiting for herself in Suzhou.

The most crucial thing is …… Fan Xian asked himself so far, and can not promise anything to the other party.

This is the story of love, this is the story of the stallion, in fact, this is just a story between people, some gloomy, some helpless.

“She is from Northern Qi,” Wolf Peach stared into Fan Xian’s eyes and said softly, “This is not a concept imposed on her by anyone, but an understanding that she has formed since she was a child, and you should be able to guess how she will choose when her own course clashes with the interests of the ten thousand people of the imperial court.”

Fan Xian suddenly opened his mouth and frowned, “And how have you ever respected her opinion.”

“No,” Wolf Peach retorted very directly, “It’s just …… that you’ve been influencing her opinion.”

Fan Xian became somewhat enraged and said with a slap on the table, “You people are also this unreasonable.”

Wolf Peach looked at him and didn’t say a word for a long time before breaking the silence and saying with a cold smile, “What can you give my senior sister? I don’t care how the empress dowager thinks, how the master thinks …… If you can marry her, I will be on your side!”

These words were spoken with a loud, resounding voice that dared not be questioned.

Fan Xian responded, “I have labored ten thousand times to make this situation, for the sake of naturally marrying her later.”

Wolf Peach said with a wry smile, “How are you going to marry her? Repudiate your current wife?”

This is in Wuzhou, Lin Ruofu’s hometown, Fan Xian is the aunt of Wuzhou, Wan’er’s hometown …… Whether it is Lin Wan’er or Haitang, it can’t be the role of a concubine for someone, and Fan Xian himself has no solution in this problem. A long time ago, he had laughed at the eldest princess, thinking that the other party’s gaze had limitations because the other party had ass limitations, and only now did he grimly realize his own limitations.

He was not as good as Ye Qingmei, not as good as that old mother, and he had sat on his ass in this world, but for the time being, he had no method to break through the resistance of the world.

Looking at Fan Xian s expression, Wolf Peach smiled faintly: “Come to Wuzhou, just in the spirit of courtesy to notify you, after all, among the South Qing, counts you and our relationship is the most intimate, these things are not good to hide from you to do …… not hide from you, if we arrive in Suzhou, Duo Duo is sure to go with us. ”

Fan Xian was silent, thinking about Duo Duo’s heart and disposition, knowing that Wolf Peach’s words were good, Duo Duo this person ah …… too smart, so too stupid, too compassionate, so too cruel to himself ……

“You guys go to Suzhou.”

Fan Xian didn’t know if he had figured something out, smiled and said.

At this moment, it was instead Wolf Peach’s turn to freeze.

Fan Xian said gently, “I’ve figured it out, it’s always bad to be too selfish in this matter, and it’s also bad to let her take on the pressure of a country …… Just go back, it’s like going back to your mother’s house.”

Wolf Peach smelled a hint of uncertainty in his words.

Fan Xian continued with a smile, “So what if I go back to Northern Qi? You know your senior sister …… how she could possibly marry Wei Hua …… Your family’s empress dowager thinks too simply.”

Wolf Peach stifled a grunt.

Fan Xian closed his eyes slightly, a mocking smile spreading at the corners of his lips, “Even if you had invited the Bitter Lotus State Master to come out and Haitang was forced to marry …… but ……”

“But what?”

“But …… under this sky, who else dares to marry her?”

Fan Xian stared at Wolf Peach’s eyes and uttered the most arrogant sentence he had ever uttered since he was reborn, he sneered, sneered coldly, and slowly said, “Everyone in the world knows that she is my woman …… who dares to offend me to marry her? Wei Hua does he have that guts?”

A dead silence between the restaurant, the breeze outside the building, blowing the sweat on the two people. Wolf Peach was silent for a little while, tasting the jade and stone in Fan Xian’s words, and couldn’t help but laugh, “Really can’t see why you this person …… has to make this matter so horrible.”

Fan Xian shook his head and said, “There are many things that seem small to you, but seem big to me.”

Wolf Peach was silent again, and after a long time said with a bitter smile, “What a stubborn joke.”

Indeed, it was a persistent joke, what the two of them were talking about was not a side issue, it was just something that involved that woman.

Wolf Peach looked at Fan Xian’s tranquil eyes and said with a light laugh, “In this Wuzhou city, discussing such things …… are you not afraid that Minister Lin is not comfortable in his heart, and the county princess is not happy?”

This is Fan Xian’s fatal wound, the reason why Wolf Peach dared to use words to block him earlier, relying on this point, he expected that Fan Xian did not dare to say certain things with a straight face.

Fan Xian was slightly stunned, not paying attention to him, only a cold smile: “Today’s meeting has already seen, you still do not go to Suzhou to do what? Do you still want me to accompany you?”

Wolf Peach also ignored this sentence, suddenly a little distracted, mildly asked, “There is a sentence to ask …… last year in the west mountain before the stone wall, the man in black, is it you?”

The words came so steeply and suddenly that Fan Xian also had some trouble reacting, but the training he had received since childhood was really solid, and with a stunned face, he responded, “What man in black?”

About the west mountain, about Sean, about the temple things, Fan Xian has long ago confessed to Haitang, but also from Haitang’s mouth, know that the Bitter Lotus State Master has long ago discovered the problem …… but this kind of thing is killed can not be admitted, can be topped for a moment is a moment.

Fan Xian believed Haitang, she will not betray herself on such a critical issue.

As expected, Wolf Peach no longer pursued the question, just said softly, “In that case, then no more words, I go to Suzhou, you in Wuzhou, just hope that there will not be any problems in the future.”

There will definitely be problems.

Fan Xian calmly, said softly, “There will be problems, if you dare to disregard her intentions …… no matter who, even if your master steps in, if you force her to marry, believe me …… really, please believe me. ”

Very gentle words, wolf peach’s heart but some cold, has to nine products on the realm of his, naturally, has long seen Fan Xian although in this half year in the progress of abnormal, but still less than their own old and spicy, but listening to this gentle words, but still can not stop the heart cold up.

“Believe you what?”

Fan Xian smiled and said, “If you dare to force my second wife to marry, I will definitely find a way to destroy your Northern Qi.”

Wolf Peach was silent, regardless of whether or not Fan Xian’s threat would materialize, but given the other party’s relationship with Northern Qi, it would still be a loss that no one could afford if such an important person were to be strongly invested in the Iron Blood Faction of Southern Qing.

“Believe me,” so Wolf Peach said gently as well, “I will not let my senior sister marry someone she doesn’t want to marry.”

Fan Xian thought for a moment, smiled, and reached out his hand to shake Wolf Peach’s broad, strong grip, “This is a man’s promise.”

Wolf Peach’s eyes suddenly flashed with a hint of laughter, “Perhaps it’s not just a man’s.”

Fan Xian was slightly stunned, no longer paying attention, just said, “To answer that question you asked earlier …… about Duo Duo’s matter, I’m just following my father-in-law’s opinion, no matter if I can marry her or not, at least …… I can’t let anyone else marry her. ”

Fan Xian’s father-in-law is naturally Lin Ruofu, Lin Wan’er’s own father, and I didn’t expect that this old man would actually set up such a rule for Fan Xian, which I’m afraid no one would have expected.