Chapter 36 There are dogs in the world, who will drive them?
Qin old man quietly sat on the big stone, then smiled, the old man’s smile always looks so calm and gentle, like a long time ago shed a should of intense emotions, there is just insight into the world’s affairs of the calm.
He was wearing a cotton robe and draped in that coat, looking a bit bloated, just that the old man’s body was unusually tall and sturdy, so it didn’t look cumbersome.
“Don’t worry too much.”
The old master held his hands negatively, standing in front of the snowy and watery vegetable field, slightly raising his head, using those eyes that were already a little cloudy to look at the winter moon in the sky that occasionally passed through the night clouds, a trace of a domineering aura that had not been seen in a long time surfaced on his old face.
Qin Heng only knew about the arrangements in the valley last night, and while full of shock, he wasn’t very clear about why his father would suddenly take action against Fan Xian, and as the successor of this generation of the Qin family, rationally speaking, he couldn’t accept it no matter what, the family suddenly messing with such a hard to mess with enemy as Fan Xian for no reason at all, but …… he didn’t oppose it .
Because he believed that his father would be so arranged, must have his reasons. Moreover, he was a son, a son of a military family, used to meeting his father’s orders with the attitude of the military, in the Qin family, the old man was the marshal, and the rest of the people were the generals and officers below.
For orders, one could only accept them without having to explain.
Qin Heng was also a smart person, naturally he knew what the reason was why his father wasn’t worried after the defeat in the valley……. Fan Xian had too many enemies in the imperial court, it seemed that no matter which side of the force, there was a possibility that they could rush to try to snipe Fan Xian before he returned to the capital, whereas the Qin family, amongst all of them, was the least likely to make a move.
Even Qin Heng himself couldn’t figure out why his father wanted to kill Fan Xian, let alone those people in the court who were in charge of the investigation.
Moreover, his own family was the Qin family, so even if His Majesty ended up suspecting something, it would be impossible to ask questions about it without a shred of evidence.
“Out of the five stops of our dynasty’s army, my Qin family accounts for one stop, and the Ye family accounts for one stop.” The old man slowly said, “If you were an emperor, would you allow this phenomenon?”
Qin Heng was silent, looking down at the rotten ground in front of his feet.
The old master said softly, “But His Majesty would allow it, because His Majesty is ambitious, he has waited quietly for more than ten years, just to wait for that bald head in the north, and that idiot in the east to die …… or to grow old, so he allows us, the Qin Ye two families, to preserve them for the time being, because in the future, to conquer the world, there is always a need for the generals The men to charge and kill.”
The old master smiled and said, “My father was also known as a generation of famous generals back then, just that nowadays his age has long been old. Today’s famous generals are naturally led by the Northern Qi’s Uesugi Tiger, and my Daqing also has the Great Hall of Honor and Little B. Although Ye Chong is quite a bit younger than me, he’s not as old as I am. Ye Chong although younger than me quite a bit, but often responsible for the Kyoto guard, has long lost the year’s severe gas. But no one has ever thought …… that the most powerful leading general in this world is not someone else, in fact, it is Your Majesty.”
Qin Heng remained silent, but in his heart, he was very sure of this statement, he was also a soldier. Just like all the soldiers in Qing country’s heart, for His Majesty the Emperor who has been living deep in the inner palace, there is a wave of awe and admiration from the heart, although His Majesty has already had more than ten years of not having led the army, but history has long proved that three times of the Northern Expedition, will be across the continent of the Great Wei beaten to bits and pieces, although has not been united the world, but with the army as God’s this four words, indeed can be used in His Majesty.
“The Ye family can survive until today ……,” the old man slowly closed his eyes, “because there is Ye Liuyun that old thing, and our Qin family, although there is no Ye Liuyun, but still able to survive until today, is why? ”
Qin Heng lowered his head and said, “Because there is father.”
This was an extremely sincere compliment, Elder Qin was silent for a little while and did not object to this statement, his own disciples and friends were all over the dynasty and within the military, if Ye Liuyun was using his supreme martial arts to preserve a living for the Ye family, while the Qin family was happily surviving in the Kingdom of Qing under his own cover.
All of this originated from himself, so he had to live, even though he was so old and his body was sick from time to time, he still had to live.
“I am loyal to His Majesty …… to the Kingdom of Qing.” Elder Qin slowly said, “I have never done anything to apologize to His Majesty, so His Majesty will never apologize to me either.”
Qin Heng’s heart thumped, thinking that the one who sniped Minister Fan Xian …… in the valley during the day today was His Majesty’s illegitimate son, could this not be considered apologizing to His Majesty? It was just that he categorically didn’t dare to ask this sentence out.
Elder Qin’s eyes were leveled in front of him, and a domineering aura that had been cultivated over fifty years of immersion in the military came to life: “You don’t understand why my father chose to strike at this time, and I don’t want to tell you about everything that happened back then, but I just want to teach you what the timing of a strike is.”
“Strike when everyone doesn’t expect you to strike.” Elder Qin looked back at his son, “When everyone might strike, you strike.”
“This water is already muddy enough, don’t care about adding one more of us. No one knows what’s underneath the muddy water, that’s why we’re safe.”
“Although His Majesty is supremely wise, after all, he is deep in the palace and is unable to get first-hand information about many things.” Elder Qin said calmly, “In this world today, the only ones who can guess or know that I have something to do with the matter of the valley are those two people.”
“And amazingly enough, neither of those two people will say anything to His Majesty.”
“So although this operation failed, as long as it was not put on the table, that in itself is a success.”
Qin Heng held back for a long time and finally couldn’t help but ask in a low voice, “Why wouldn’t those two people say anything to His Majesty?”
“Because the old cripple was silent from the very beginning.” The corners of Elder Qin’s lips flared up with a hint of sarcasm, “No matter what reason he was silent for, the sniping in the valley this time had the cooperation of their Supervisory Academy, so how would he explain it in front of His Majesty if he stirred this up now?”
Qin Heng understood, but still did not understand why Lord President Chen would be silent, could it be that he …… also wanted Fan Xian to die? This is something that doesn’t make sense in any way, he said after a moment of silence, “But …… if Lord Dean uncovered the person we buried inside, wouldn’t he be able to state his guess to His Majesty?”
“Guess.” The old master said coldly, “You also know that it’s just a guess, why would His Majesty believe his guess? What’s more, would that person be so easy to uncover?”
“And the other person?”
A hint of redness appeared on Elder Qin’s aged face, as if the struggles he hadn’t been involved in for a long time had rejuvenated his entire being, he softly scoffed, “In the court under His Majesty’s rule, the only ones that I have something to fear are Minister Lin and Dean Chen back then… Minister Lin was forced by His Majesty to resign from his post, and Chen Pingping had other thoughts… …As for the Eldest Princess.”
The old master said with a hint of a sneer, “If the Elder Princess wants to pick a fight, my old Qin family will have problems, can Yan Xiaoyi just stay out of it?”
Qin Heng raised his head in consternation, the matter of Yan Xiaoyi’s son hiding his own subordinates was something that he had only learned about last night, and from his father’s demeanor, he naturally understood that Yan Xiaoyi’s son’s nightly attack on Fan Xian right in front of the valley, and subsequently dragging Fan Xian and his party into the middle of the valley, was actually something that was arranged by the old master!
Thinking about this section, his heart couldn’t help but feel a hint of awe for his father, the old master hadn’t seen anything for many years, and once he struck, he was truly powerful.
“My Qin family has always stood on His Majesty’s side, remaining neutral in the affairs of the dynasty.” Elder Qin said indifferently, “Now that both sides are dragging us down, then it’s a good thing that we’re down, I’ll naturally drag them down as well, so let’s all hug it out and see where we go from here.”
The old man sighed.
Qin Heng, however, thought in his heart, these big shots in the dynasty and the army all have their own minds, if they really want to hold together, then …… will His Majesty not become a loner?
“What did you see in front of the Privy Council today?”
Although the old master had long known the situation from his own intelligence system, he still wanted to hear it again from his son’s mouth. Qin Heng told the situation at that time, focusing on Fan Xian s demeanor and the miserable …… blood man.
The bloody man was the only survivor left in the valley, with both arms broken, one eye blinded, and heavily wounded, dying but not allowed to die.
“That is a good man in my army, can not be insulted by the Supervisory Yuan.”
The old man said coldly.
Qin Heng knew that the group of people responsible for the valley sniping was his own family’s private soldiers secretly trained in Banshanchong, which were not visible at all on the military’s roster, so even if Fan Xian decapitated those two hundred heads, the Qin family didn’t need to worry about anything, and he said hesitantly, “That general is a man of hardness …… ”
What he meant was, since that person wouldn’t betray the Qin family, why would he risk the exposure of his inner circle to silence them?
“People in my army can only live standing up, not on their knees.” The old master said quietly, “Being able to let him die honorably is the only compensation my father can make at this time.”
Qin Heng was silent. A winter moon spilled silver light, reflecting with the snow inside the Qin mansion, dazzling with a slight glitter.
The old man coughed twice and walked towards the inner mansion, saying to his son in conclusion, “In the future, you should be quicker in making decisions and be more prepared.”
Qin Heng bowed his head, knowing that his father was talking about the end of today’s valley sniping, where he had entered the valley with the cavalry of the guard division, only to be restrained by Fan Xian’s careful backhanded arrangement, and was unable to make a final risky attempt at all. He let out a self-deprecating laugh, thinking to himself that if he ran into a seven-pronged man like Fan Xian who trusted no one, what could he do about it?
Early in the morning of the second day, at the back door of Jing Chengzi’s mansion, as he usually did every morning, there came a man who delivered food. The man respectfully carried the dishes in, sniffed the air in the house, did not dare to say anything at all, compensated with a small intention to chat with the house steward for a couple of sentences, and then hurriedly retreated.
From the alley through to the main street, the food delivery man looked up at the black plaque of the Jing Chengzi House, rubbed his nose, thinking that the Yan family is really too low-profile, the neighbors all know that this mansion is His Majesty’s reward to the Yan adults, and now the adults have long since been promoted to the third degree of the earl, and even the little Yan Duke also has a title, but this plaque has not been changed.
The people who delivered the vegetables left, and the baskets were still sitting alone in the open space next to the Yan Mansion’s kitchen.
The steward looked at the surrounding no one, naturally reached out to lift the basket, seems to want to see today’s portion of how, the food delivery person has not deducted catty.
The portion was sufficient, the steward smiled with satisfaction, and put his sleeves into the mouth of his cotton jacket, so as not to be frozen by the cold wind of this winter. Just no one noticed that he had already drawn a gabion from the top ring of that vegetable basket.
To the study, has retired four organizer Yan Ruohai already as in previous years every day that morning, wash up already, is copying a meditation essay.
The steward respectfully served tea, and then intentionally or unintentionally placed the not very long bamboo splint next to the tea bowl.
Yan Ruohai picked up the bamboo gabion, frowned, and with a slight force of his fingers snapped it from it, taking out a small strip of white cloth, then looked at the handwriting on it and fell into deep thought.
His fingers tapped on the desktop for a long time, seemingly lost in thought.
After a long time, the current four organizers, the future successor of the Supervisory Court’s Tishee, Xiao Yan Gongzi, Yan Bingyun, pushed open the door of the study and walked in, then turned back and closed the door very gently.
He sat down across from his father and took the white piece of cloth, looking at the contents on it, his eyebrows, which had always been as cold as frosty branches, couldn’t help but wrinkle.
“That living mouth …… Privy Council does not dare to take over at all, the two sides played half a day of the lawsuit, all know the hot hand is powerful, no one dares to put in their own Yamen, it is afraid that this person suddenly died, the Lord Tisch will go crazy.”
Yan Bingyun worriedly said, “Even if I can think of a method to kill that person to silence him, but …… what if Lord Little Fan knows about it?”
Yan Ruohai sighed and said, “Since the old man has come to the door, this matter always needs to be done.”
Yan Bingyun looked at his father and also sighed, saying, “If …… in the future Lord Tishi knows about the sniping outside the valley …… that we obviously knew about beforehand but didn’t care about it, will he tear down our house and have us father and son chopped up?”
Yan Ruohai was stunned, looked at his son, sighed once again, the sigh was full of helplessness, and said, “What’s the law here? The things handed down by Lord Dean, it is always impossible for us not to do it, and if Little Lord Fan wants to kill us …… we have to suggest that he go and dismantle that wheelchair first before saying anything.”
Yan Bingyun’s always cold face also couldn’t help but have more than a hint of annoyance, and said after a long time, “When did father arrive at the Supervisory Academy from the military?”
“It’s been thirty years.” Yan Ruohai thought about the past and frowned, “Although I wasn’t famous in the army, secretly I was Master Qin’s personal soldier, only buried in the camp, I never played any role.”
Yan Bingyun shook her head and sighed, “No wonder the old master trusts you so much, but father has been in the Supervisory Court until today’s position, I think the old master’s heart must also be very pleased with the arrangement back then.”
Yan Ruohai sighed for the third time and said with a smile on his face, “But the problem is that …… I was already a secret agent of the Supervisory Yuan before I joined the army, so I can only say that …… Master Qin’s luck wasn’t very good. ”
Yan Bingyun bowed his head and said, “The dean of the adult really everything wise and calculating, just I do not understand, obviously can stop things, why have to watch these things happen?”
In the middle of Chen Garden in the outskirts of Kyoto, Chen Pingping sat on top of her wheelchair and yawned, saying to Fei Jie who was full of anger beside her, “What’s your hurry? You want to come to kill me early in the morning? He is your most beloved disciple, is he not my most beloved successor?”
The ghostly fire in Fei Jie’s eyes burned as he said coldly, “What exactly are you going to do? Fan Xian almost died!”
Chen Pingping grunted twice and said in that highly distinctive slightly pointed voice, “Why? Of course it’s for this fact, this established fact …… Everyone says that I’m one of His Majesty’s dogs, but in fact, that old man is His Majesty’s greatest loyal dog …… Without some real blood spurting out, how can a dog’s owner be willing to beat his dog? ”
Chen Pingping clapped her hands and licked her slightly dry lips, “And I’ve always been curious, I drove all of His Majesty’s dogs to bark inside the yard, His Majesty became a loner, what can he do?”