Chapter 39: Three Men, Three Thoughts

Of course Chen Pingping didn’t believe it, the old people back then knew that the box was in Miss Ye’s hands, but when Miss Ye was killed, she didn’t move the box, indicating that the box wasn’t in Taiping Buyeon at that time, and the detailed investigation carried out by Chen Pingping on Taiping Buyeon after the incident didn’t find any trace of the box either.

It was naturally impossible for such a transcendent thing to just be lost.

Then only Five Bamboo knew the whereabouts of the chest, and as Fan Xian gradually grew up and survived in such a treacherous environment in Kyoto, Five Bamboo, if he was not by Fan Xian’s side due to his injuries, would surely have given the chest to Fan Xian to carry at all times, in order to avoid the dangers that might come at any time.

This was Chen Pingping’s deduction, and the gap between his deduction and the truth wasn’t that big.

He was just wrong about one thing, because neither he nor the Emperor had ever seen the chest with their own eyes, so they had no idea of its volume and size.

It was true that Fan Xian did have the box with him, it was just that there was really no way for that box to be hidden from the eyes and ears of the crowd and carried with him, and when Fan Xian suffered a sniping attack in the valley due to his own carelessness, that box was still floating on the weak waters of who knows where.

Meeting the old cripple’s teasing gaze, Fan Xian said with a sincere spread of his hands, “I really don’t know anything about a chest.”

This secret he must keep, even if this old man in front of him could guess what it was, he couldn’t admit it, otherwise if he let the emperor know that the chest was in his hands, as a generation of monarchs, he certainly wouldn’t allow a magic treasure that could mysteriously and unquestionably kill an expert to remain by his son’s side.

The emperor would ask for it, so Fan Xian wouldn’t admit it from the start.

Chen Pingping shook her head and didn’t bother to pursue the matter, knowing that the little guy always had to keep some protective magic treasures for himself.

Fan Xian smiled and changed the topic, “Uncle Wuzhu, that inexplicable chest, those are the two things you didn’t calculate, so what’s the third one?”

Chen Pingping sneered at him, “The third thing is very simple, I didn’t calculate that, the carriage in the courtyard can obviously block for you for a while, with your and the shadow’s ability, into the snow forest single escape is not a difficult thing, even if it will be hurt some, it is not to this point nowadays……. You’ve been in the courtyard for long days Of course know, master and assassin is not a field of existence at all, want to snipe a master simple, want to snipe an assassin is extremely difficult …… but in addition to the people in the courtyard, there are not a few people know that you are a bit of the ninth grade assassin.”

“The so-called not thinking about it is not thinking that you would be so stupid.” Chen Pingping had a face of slight anger.

Fan Xian was slightly stunned, then said with a cold smile, “You mean I killed my way into the snowy forest to remove those crossbows? Is that stupid? Even if I can escape …… what about my men? Don’t forget, this time in the valley, I died a total of nearly twenty of my men, I didn’t scold you for being cold-blooded, but you scolded me for being stupid.”

“Cold blooded?” Chen Pingping looked at Fan Xian with a smirk, “Have you forgotten that what we need most in the Supervisory Court is cold blood? Where has your past indifference and ruthlessness gone?”

Fan Xian clenched his fists slightly and said in a low voice, “Those are my people.”

“It’s only your subordinate that you can’t even sacrifice, so what will you do in the future if you’re asked to sacrifice someone more important? This action of yours easily punctures your cold exterior and reveals your cowardice, this is what is called stupidity. A strong person is not only strong in body, but also in mind and spirit, an emotion such as cowardice will only lead you to death in the future.” Chen Pingping narrowed her eyes, and a cold light came through.

“That’s not cowardice!” Fan Xian retorted without hesitation, “That’s something I have to do.”

“Can’t care too much.” Chen Pingping yawned and said, “Don’t care too much about what you must do. I just feel that your mother-in-law thinks she’ll be very happy to finally know where your destiny lies.”

Fan Xian’s heart trembled, feeling a hint of inauspiciousness, and then he frowned and said, “I only care about the people I care about, and the rest of how many more people …… die in front of me, I won’t move an eyelash.”

“Your mother cares about everyone in the world.” Chen Pingping closed her eyes and said, “In this regard, you are smarter and stronger than her, but it’s still not enough, you can at best only live a few more days than her.”

Fan Xian clapped his hands and said mildly, “There’s nothing more to say about these things, anyway, it’s best for all of us to live a long life.”

He swung his wheelchair around in a flowery turn, the front disk cocked up, and made a half-circle around Chen Pingping.

Chen Pingping looked at this scene and couldn’t help but laugh, saying, “Is this fun?”

“Very funny.” Fan Xian said seriously, “You’ve been sitting in a wheelchair for so many years, and you don’t think about how to develop some games to break the boredom, it shows that you’re really boring as a person, and you’re immersed in the world of blackness all day long, so what’s the point of living your whole life like this?”

According to Fan Xian’s thoughts, it would be best for Chen Pingping to stay out of it, and in the last few years of her life, she would go to some bigger mountains, and spend her honeymoon with the wonderful concubines around her, which would be better than dedicating her whole life to the uninteresting business of political intrigue.

However, he was also clear that for Chen Pingping, calculating these things was perhaps not just work in itself, but also a kind of enjoyment, a kind of art, so he did not say much.

“After I die,” Chen Pingping raised his withered hand and casually waved it in the air of this garden, “this garden will be given to you, and these women inside, if you want to keep them, you can keep them, and if you don’t want to keep them, you can disperse them.”

Fan Xian understood that this old man naturally wouldn’t do anything because of the lives of these beauties, it was just that after years of living together, there must always be a few threads of affection, so he nodded naturally.

“What about the Qin family’s problem?” Fan Xian suddenly opened his mouth and asked, although Chen Pingping told himself to focus on the big picture and not to show his sword and spear now, he always needed to give something back.

Chen Pingping shook her head and said, “Everyone wants you dead, the Qin family isn’t particularly good or bad, if you move now, you’ll spoil the big picture for me, so bear with it for the time being, and watch how their family will all perish in the future, which in itself will be a happy thing.”

Fan Xian frowned slightly, more than a hint of helplessness on his good-looking face, “Endure again?”

“You need to learn from your father in this regard.” Chen Pingping said with a wry smile, “All the people in this whole world have died out, I see your father can still live …… Don’t say that this isn’t a skill, being able to live is in itself already the greatest skill.”

Fan Xian suddenly tipped his eyebrows like a sword all the way and said slowly, “I am a young man after all, and I have to make myself known in this matter, or else a random dog or cat will dare to try and kill me for a while, which is always inconvenient.”

Chen Pingping looked at him.

Fan Xian didn’t seem to feel the old man’s cold gaze, smiled and said, “I’ll give you face, I won’t move the Qin family, I’ll help you cover it up and wait for the moment of the big bang, but the rest of the people, I’ll always have to kill a few of them to accompany the burial of my subordinates.”

The wrinkles on Chen Pingping’s face got deeper and deeper as she sighed, “What do the rest of the people have to do with this valley sniping?”

“Didn’t you say that? All of them want me dead?” Fan Xian smiled and said, “In that case, whether they have anything to do with this sniping or not, I’ll snatch a few and kill them first to set an example, so I’m sure His Majesty won’t blame me too much.”

Chen Pingping shook her head disapprovingly, “Yan Xiaoyi didn’t intervene in this matter in the first place, why do you need to form a deadly feud with him?”

Fan Xian sneered, “What about Yan Xiaoyi’s son? Half a year ago you only said that he had a son who was very powerful, but you didn’t tell me that Sanshi was also killed by him, nor did you tell me that this little arrow brother was staying in the Kyoto guard.”

Chen Pingping was silent, on this matter he had not told Fan Xian all about it, he thought that Fan Xian had found it out with his own power, and he was not in a position to say anything more, he just said slowly, “If you want to retaliate …… and it’s inconvenient to move the old Qin family, are you prepared to kill a bunch of people indiscriminately? ”

“The old Qin family has already been pushed to the side of the Elder Princess by you.” Fan Xian nonchalantly reminded, “What’s the problem with me slashing my mother-in-law and letting them take some of the wrath for the old Qin family?”

“There’s no problem.” Chen Pingping said in a somber voice, “It’s just that your screwing …… up is a bit unreasonable.”

Fan Xian snorted and said, “I don’t want to bother with words when I meet a too reasonable one like you, don’t you know that our young people are used to being unreasonable?”

Kyoto’s winter, a cold, although not yet to the coldest days of the year, but the agar snow embraces the people’s houses, the jade fence intercepts the vermilion wall, the sky snow falls a few bursts from time to time, the whole Kyoto is shrouded in cold, and the broad vermilion wall of the imperial palace are wet with snow, appearing to be a little black.

Just as the color of the big red palace wall changed, the whole court knew that His Majesty the Emperor of Daqing’s mood was also a bit gloomy, a bit depressed and black.

The news of Fan Xian’s assassination had long shaken Kyoto, and everyone gradually learned the details of the matter, and guessed that there must be powerful figures in the military involved in this matter, and every time they thought that His Majesty’s most tightly-controlled army was having problems, the civil and military officials were all silently vigilant, and didn’t dare to say more than a word.

In the next few days, the most talked about matter in the small court was the assassination of Fan Xian, in addition to all the political matters. Investigation led by the Supervisory Yuan, in collaboration with the Da Lisi and the Privy Council has long been launched, just that the two hundred heads after several drawings of Suo right, but can not find out a clue, and the Supervisory Yuan captured that live has long been dying, just hanging life, for the time being there is no way to ask questions.

In addition to the five city crossbows and clothing and other clues, the investigation of the assassination of the Lord of the Qinzhi is not half progress.

Although His Majesty’s face was still calm, the ministers who were fortunate enough to participate in the court meeting could feel His Majesty’s eyes hiding a growing fire of anger, but they didn’t know when this fire would spew out and burn these ministers to ashes.

In fact, all of them knew clearly that Lord Fan was appointed as the Plenipotentiary Commissioner of the Jiangnan Road last year, and why he left the capital in a hurry.

That was because of the rumors coming from the Northern Qi side, which directly exposed the hidden relationship between His Majesty and Lord Fan Jr. In order to prevent the situation in Kyoto from becoming volatile, as well as in order to allow the royal family’s face to be preserved, and even more so, in order to allow the Qing dynasty to get rid of this somewhat embarrassing secret story …… His Majesty had banished Lord Fan Jr. to the south of the Yangtze River in disguise.

But who did not expect, Fan Xian a Jiangnan, actually did so many things, rectify the internal treasury, presided over the tender, strong support for river engineering, less than half a year, turn over his hand between clouds and rain, will plague the Qing country a few years of treasury emptiness problem solved, and at the end of the home village to take the opportunity to save their relatives, will be the nest of rats in the Jiaozhou end of a clean.

Jiaozhou sailor general party primrose wave has long been escorted back to Kyoto, take the confession, done into an iron case, in the fall was executed. Jiangnan’s treasury silver has also been transferred back to Kyoto, the court finally had the courage to start repairing the river dykes, disaster relief and tax reduction, and this sum of money is all Fan Xian’s contribution to the court of Qing Dynasty.

The ministers were all thinking that such a character, of course, could not always be placed in Jiangnan to stay, I’m afraid that after all, it is necessary to return to the capital, and his majesty must have thought that after a year, that the news would have long since faded, and that those forces in Kyoto should have learned to accept the situation, and that the illegitimate son of the banishment in Jiangnan would finally be able to stand up to the court in a legitimate manner.

But no one could have imagined that right on the way of Little Lord Fan’s return to the capital to report on his duties, he would be sniped!

This is not just the sniping of Lord Qin, nor is it just the sniping of a Dragon Seed, but this matter has touched the bottom line of the court, and if the matter cannot be investigated clearly this time, then it only shows that His Majesty’s control over the Kingdom of Qing is far less than it was back then.

And in the inheritance of the great system gradually surfaced today, this signal, undoubtedly like a huge whale in the sea water wounds through a touch of blood red, enough to attract countless sharks to come to greedily seize food!

But the case has always been like a fog, long time to see the inner look, if delayed for some more days, I’m afraid that under the wrath of His Majesty, regardless of the consequences, cast a heavenly thunderbolt of severe punishment.

Those ministers in the court, who are the most afraid of this situation, are worried that His Majesty, because of his heartache for Fan Xian and his love for face, will attack and punish him without any evidence, and expand this matter to a point that Qing can’t bear.

“Please think twice, Your Majesty!”

An old minister who stood in the queue of civil officials stepped out and knelt under the dragon chair, saying sorrowfully.