Chapter 38 Old Wheelchair, New Wheelchair
Old fox, little fox, old wheelchair, new wheelchair.
Chen Yuan had Ji not dare to approach, the laughter gradually rose and subsided.
The old and the young had an extremely tacit understanding to simultaneously collect their laughter and return to calm, Fan Xian moved the wheelchair underneath him forward, his own knees seeming to lean against the old man’s knees, a gesture that seemed incomparably intimate.
Chen Pingping pointed at him, and gently patted the handle of his own wheelchair, making a hollow sound like the belly of an empty bamboo, and asked, “Are you used to sitting in a wheelchair?”
“There’s nothing I’m not used to, with so many injuries on my body, it’s always impossible to run on a horse to see you.” Fan Xian said mockingly, and after a pause, added, “Besides, it’s not the first time I’ve been in a wheelchair, more than a year ago in the Hanging Temple, I was stabbed, and didn’t I sit in a wheelchair for a month afterwards? The so-called habit becomes nature.”
Although the words were soft, but there was the meaning of a sword within, Chen Pingping gently coughed twice, naturally knowing that the young man in front of him was telling himself that he had already understood certain things.
The Hanging Temple was indeed a fairy bureau, but Chen Pingping was a person with both feet inside and outside the bureau, and the shadow was sent by him to the temple, while the sword that Fan Xian received, though accidental, was really a close call.
As for the valley sniping the day before, Fan Xian was also nearly unable to return.
The so-called habit becomes nature, Fan Xian was obviously telling Chen Pingping forcefully not to take this kind of thing as a habit, not to always joke about his life, and never …… take it as a natural thing.
Chen Pingping slightly inclined her head, and seemed to be at a loss as to how she should explain, frowning, raising her elbow, and pointing at Fan Xian’s back.
Fan Xian shook his head, “It can t die …… but you know what I came here for today, so please let s just be direct.”
“You speak first, I’ll listen first.” Chen Pingping said with a smile, smoothing the slightly wrinkled wool blanket on her lap a bit more, letting the wrinkles on it fade away like water waves.
Looking at the old cripple’s slightly lowered head, looking at the other party’s deep wrinkles and somewhat waxy complexion, Fan Xian said after a little silence, “Twice in a wheelchair, the first time I was in a wheelchair because of the assassination of the Hanging Temple, but having gained His Majesty’s absolute trust, I think there are still benefits, and I am able to accept them. Then what’s with me being in a wheelchair this time? I dislike this feeling of being manipulated by you in everything, and I think you know me well, I’m a person who is most afraid of death, so I want you to know that in the future, please don’t try to do this kind of thing, I’ll really go crazy, and I nearly did this time.”
Fan Xian stretched out two fingers and stared into Chen Pingping’s eyes, saying word for word, “It’s already happened twice, I don’t want there to be a third time.”
The cold winter air beneath the stone steps of Chen Yuan was quiet for a long time.
“The matter of the Hanging Temple was an accident, and you know this very well.” Chen Pingping said faintly, “As for this sniping in the valley, it really has nothing to do with me …… I am not a fool, a bureau must always be able to control before it is a bureau, at that time, the valley even the guarding crossbow was moved to the valley, and you may send your life at any time, and if you really die, even if this matter will bring any benefits …… you won’t be able to enjoy it, then this is not called a bureau, but called stupidity.”
Chen Pingping said with a hint of sarcasm, “Do you think I’m a stupid person?”
Fan Xian looked back into his eyes and said with the same sneer, “Of course you are not stupid, I am just afraid that you are sometimes too smart for your own good and have a little too much faith in me.”
Chen Pingping’s withered old palm resting on the woolen blanket on his lap moved slightly, then he smiled and said, “Isn’t it a very good thing to have confidence in you? I should be one of the few people under this sky who know your strength the best. You have always been able to act, the number of times you have struck out in front of the crowd is only a few, especially after entering the ninth product, that is, you have fought with the shadow head on, the people in the world know that you are an expert, but they do not know how high you are, and especially they do not know those secrets …… hidden in your body, and I am not the same, I know all of this. ”
“Spill the beans.” Fan Xian said grimly, “Old man …… that was an ambush! It was in a valley outside of Kyoto, and the other side had over two hundred crossbows! That’s totally enough to go to Dong Yi City and kill the Four Gu Swords, aren’t you the least bit afraid that I’ll die?”
“If the Four Gu Swords are so easy to kill, then things are much simpler.” Chen Pingping grunted, “I’ve said that this matter has nothing to do with me.”
“Don’t you forget, I’m falsely also a Tisan of the Supervisory Court!” Fan Xian said furiously, “If you’re not stupid, am I? Do you think that in the past two days I’ve been lying in bed and haven’t looked into what’s going on in my courtyard? If there were no people in the courtyard to help cover up the news, could those crossbows have been moved to the hills on the outskirts of the capital in a dignified manner? If there is no one in the courtyard to cooperate with those bastards, can they snipe into place so easily?”
Chen Pingping coughed twice, “Maybe there’s a problem in the Kyoto guard.”
Fan Xian stared at him and said, “Can the Kyoto guards know the information flow of the Supervisory Yuan? Even if the military can find out the exact time I returned to Kyoto, what happened to the safe returns from the scouts in the valley? The Black Riders left not long ago and the other side just happened to calculate this section?”
Chen Pingping scoffed, “Since the other party wants to kill you …… naturally have to be well prepared, if they can’t even consider these details before coming to kill you, they are a bit too confused.”
Fan Xian sneered, “Pretend, continue to pretend, even if the ambush in those valleys is not you sent a double sided crow to secretly help a hand, but things happen in the process and even after the end, you always can not get rid of the suspicion of indulgence …… Who are you? My great Qing dynasty the most powerful character, is not there such a big plan in Kyoto, you can not hear a little wind? How come you didn’t think to give me the air, report or something? Could it be that …… you also feel that I am in the courtyard every day to seize the class and seize power, some of them are in the way of your eyes, so you simply slaughter me by hand, so as not to be upset …… But you don’t need to forget, this courtyard was in the beginning, but you begged me to come in, and I have nothing to do with it. ”
Chen Pingping listened to this, finally couldn’t help but raise her head and blankly glanced at him, frowning and reprimanding, “You brat, you obviously don’t think this way in your heart, and you also know that I don’t think this way, but you still want to say this, thinking that this can’t be how?”
“What can’t be done?” Fan Xian directly intercepted, “You have shaded me twice, causing me to nearly lose my life twice, you have to give me justice.”
“Said it has nothing to do with me.” Chen Pingping said grimly, not bothering to pay attention, pushing her wheelchair and traveling down the stone steps to the garden on her left hand side.
An evil fire was burning in Fan Xian’s heart, where could he let this old cripple just run away, pushing his hands hard at his side, he also followed.
Knowing that the two most powerful people in the Supervisory Yuan were going to have a very secretive conversation today, the Chen Garden had already been arranged, and the beauties who used to babble in the garden and didn’t even fear the cold winds were all locked up in their own houses and not allowed to come out, while the servants were also hiding in their own areas, and even the old servant had quietly left after pushing Fan Xian to this room.
So, there is only Chen Pingping and Fan Xian these two poor people in wheelchairs, at this time Chen Pingping in the front, Fan Xian in the back, the old man in the front pushing the wheelchair fast, Fan Xian in the back of the chase, in a few moments, is actually around the mansion of the stone steps around a big circle, the scene, look at it, only that kind of funny.
To be honest, Chen Pingping really does not want to face Fan Xian who has not finished the evil fire in his chest today, so he simply does not want to talk about it, pushing his wheelchair in front of him, this big man of Qing Guo has been sitting in a wheelchair for so many years, of course, he is much more used to it than Fan Xian, coupled with the fact that Fan Xian has suffered from a serious injury, he was not much better, so after two wheelchairs circling around the mansion, Fan Xian has already been thrown away from a couple of “chair seats”.
Fortunately, Chen Pingping couldn’t possibly play wheelchair recluse in his own home, just stopping at the side of a small pool on the right hand side of the mansion, Fan Xian panted and spun his wheelchair to catch up, stopping beside him, and looking back, the two of them circled around the mansion counterclockwise but were about to go back to the origin, which was a bit boring.
“I’m a patient.” Fan Xian grumbled, “Even if my question embarrassed you, it’s not like you have to be like this.”
“It’s not embarrassing.” Chen Pingping suddenly sighed and said, “It’s just that you came to me for justice, and I really don’t know how to give it to you.”
Fan Xian lowered his head, looking at the stubble of ice in the pond and the black lotus branches that had frozen to death, and couldn’t help but frown, puffing two mouthfuls of hot mist onto his hands and rubbing them gently as he listened to the old man beside him.
“Don’t look into the matter in the courtyard, there is no mole.” Chen Pingping slowly said, “I admit, this time, the sniping in the valley, I do know some of the rumors, and it is true that there are people in the courtyard who are helping that side, or else it would not be possible to make you so miserable.”
“Since you didn’t let me investigate, that mole must have also been a hand you deliberately revealed.” Fan Xian said in silence, “You also know that I’m miserable this time, so I don’t understand …… the Hanging Temple is a rescue, and this time his majesty is not on my carriage, so why do I have to pay so much.”
“Do you believe me?” Chen Pingping sighed.
Fan Xian thought for a long time and slowly nodded.
“Don’t ask me yet.” Chen Pingping said quietly, “You will naturally understand later.”
“I don’t understand.” Fan Xian said calmly, “But I don’t need to understand either, but I need to know who actually laid hands on me, and who that double face in the courtyard is.”
Chen Pingping looked at him quietly and said after a long time, “You don’t have any evidence in your hand, you can’t help the other side.”
“But you have it in your hand.”
“I don’t have it either.” Chen Pingping said indifferently, “Even if there is, it is impossible to hand it over to his majesty …… For one thing, I don’t want his majesty to remove this courtyard of ours under the wrath of his majesty, and for another, it is too early to hand it over at this time.”
There was so much hidden in these words that it was enough for Fan Xian to digest for too long, but Fan Xian didn’t pay much attention to it and asked directly to the point of the matter, “I still want to know who tried to kill me.”
“All the people in this Kyoto, except for those you trust, want to kill you.” Chen Pingping said calmly, “As for who the main party is this time, I don’t think I can hide it from you, but I just hope that you can be patient and not spoil the big picture.”
Fan Xian fell silent.
“It’s the Qin family.” Chen Pingping said faintly, “It’s just that it’s useless for you to cry even if you go to the palace and hug His Majesty’s thighs, you don’t have any evidence, and there’s no way that I can spare that pawn and pull it out for you to use as evidence …… Even if His Majesty suspects the Qin family because of what happened to you, but for the sake of the military, there’s no way that he can just because of a few words from you take the Old Master drugged to take it out on you.”
Fan Xian couldn’t help but shake his head.
Chen Pingping gave him a somewhat curious look, “You’re not surprised at all.”
Fan Xian carefully stretched his back for fear of affecting the injuries on his back and said with a smile, “Still, I’m a smart person, since you’re not trying to get credit for me this time, you’re definitely dragging someone into the water, and nowadays the only major power in the court that hasn’t gone into the water yet is the Qin family, so this matter isn’t hard to guess.”
The Elder Princess was inferring the Qin family’s involvement easily from another direction, while Fan Xian’s direction of inference was different from the Elder Princess’s, but the answers he came up with were all so concise and clear.
Chen Pingping nodded appreciatively and said, “Now you understand, in the absence of evidence, His Majesty will not easily move the number one high gate in the military like this, or else the heart of the military will be unstable, and how can this court be at peace with itself?”
“I’m only afraid that if there is evidence, but the timing is not good, His Majesty will not move either.” Fan Xian sneered, “It’s just that I don’t understand, you dragged the old Qin family into the water, and thought that when necessary, you would naturally let His Majesty know about it……. Last year, you were in Kyoto, and I was in Jiangnan, and both of them were hard pressed to force the Crown Prince, the second son, and the Princess to jump over the wall, and now they haven’t jumped yet, and you’re adding a weight to the other side Add a weight of the Qin family …… Are you really so confident in His Majesty?”
Chen Pingping smiled and nodded, “I have always had confidence in His Majesty, just as I do in you.”
As soon as the words left their mouths, the two people in wheelchairs fell silent, just like many previous conversations, both of them were extremely intelligent people, many things didn’t need to be said to be understood, each other’s attitudes were determined in those mere words, just as Fan Xian had guessed about his own life, just as every careful approach between the two sides – it was the real proximity of mind.
“I’m curious, why aren’t you curious that I’m going to drag the Qin family into this? Even if I have confidence in His Majesty …… but if there is one less person jumping over the wall, it will always be better to deal with.” Chen Pingping looked into Fan Xian’s eyes with a gentle smile.
Fan Xian bowed his head slightly and said after a long time, “I don’t think it’s a big deal …… except that you’re trying to use this battle to clear out all of my enemies in the future, and the old Qin family and I have always had a good relationship and haven’t gotten involved in the dragon chair fight, so I guess… . this Old Qin Family is related to a story from many years ago.”
“I have indeed not misjudged you.” Chen Pingping said appreciatively, “It’s enough that you can judge so much.”
Fan Xian was silent, a faint sadness welled up in his heart – there was still one more judgment he had not said – the old man in the wheelchair in front of him was in poor health, and did not have two years left to live, the old man himself was of course aware of this situation, so he had to rush to his death to put an end to all the That’s why he had to rush to put an end to everything before he died, and that’s why he made such an arrangement.
Once he thought about this, the trace of agitation in Fan Xian’s heart had faded a lot, but he still couldn’t help but ask, “What if …… I really die in the valley?”
“How could you die?” Chen Pingping looked at him seriously, “You have to live all the time.”
Fan Xian laughed, how similar these words were to his father’s words that day.
He inclined his head in amusement and asked, “Why won’t I die? The situation in the valley, you’re not very clear …… about what kind of clan the old Qin family is, if they don’t make a move then forget it, once they make a move it’s bound to be a thunderbolt, even if I’m lucky …… but I don’t see that I’m lucky enough to ensure that I’ll live through these snipes. ”
Chen Pingping said in a sharp and gloomy voice after being silent for a little while, “For the Qin family’s arrangement, I have a sense of proportion, but this time it is indeed too risky because I didn’t count on three things.”
“I didn’t think that Old Five’s injuries hadn’t healed yet.” Chen Pingping said indifferently, “That old fool of the Qin family doesn’t know that you have such a god of killing by your side, if Old Five is on the side, who in this world can hurt you?”
Fan Xian nodded, this was the first reason, yet it still wasn’t enough to explain why Chen Pingping was so unconcerned about her own safety.
“The second thing that wasn’t counted on was.” Chen Pingping looked at Fan Xian with a wry smile, “When you were truly facing death, you actually managed to hold back from taking out that box.”
Fan Xian said with a bitter smile, “Although I don’t know exactly what the chest you’ve been thinking about is, but I don’t have it, so where can I steal it?”
Although he was shocked, his expression and words still showed no hint of horseplay.
The box, that black, narrow, long shaped box, the box that entered Kyoto along with a young girl and a blind servant back then, played a role only once in the history of Qing, but it was a role that changed the world.
In addition to Ye Qingmei Fan Xian mother and son and five bamboo, no one has seen the true face of that box, and no one knows how that box is used, but the old people who know the truth of the death of the two princes of Qingguo that year, but they know that the box of the terrible, especially because they do not know the specifics, but instead of that box has produced a strange sense of mystery and awe.
Existence beyond this world was always evocative and infinitely awe-inspiring.
Even Chen Pingping and the Emperor were no exception, so when Fan Xian’s childhood was in Tanyu, Fei Jie had gone to ask the Five Bamboos about it, and when Fan Xian entered the capital, he was faced with this problem more than once.
So Chen Pingping has never figured out why Fan Xian …… still refuses to move the box when the valley sniping has reached such a dangerous moment.
As for Fan Xian’s nonsense about the chest not being in his hands, as old and spicy as Chen Pingping, she naturally refused to believe it.