Chapter 50: Dao Chunqiu at the Hongmen Banquet (III)

The night in Kyoto was always deep, especially in such a cold winter, there weren’t too many pedestrians on the streets after nightfall, no, I should say there weren’t any pedestrians at all.

There were no pedestrians, only nightwalkers.

I don’t know how many night people use the cover of the night in Kyoto’s streets and alleys under the eaves and behind the door, with the noose and the sharp edge of the iron brazier and the chain on the door and the powder in the arms, to catch someone’s neck and cut someone’s throat and tear someone’s body and confuse someone’s eyes.

Blood blinded everyone’s eyes.

Purple Bamboo Court, a black sling hanging down from the gate, a person on the rope is struggling for death, feet helplessly kicking in the cold wind.

The lantern was extremely dark, swaying as slowly as those legs in the cold wind, casting shadows and shimmering light randomly onto the ground. The pale face of Deng Ziyue on the street corner was bright and dark at times, looking like a devil in the night as he stared at the man, confirming the other’s death before turning away.

Gui Li Fang, within a green house, being turned over in red waves, that muscular and powerful master on the bed suddenly had his eyes glaring, blood oozing out from above his white eyes, the prostitute on top of him looked on indifferently, her legs spread extremely wide but tightly choked his waist, her gesture lewd and deadly.

I do not know how long, the whore’s delicate white hands slowly left from the man’s ear, pulling out two very thin small brazier, brazier on the eerie blue light, and the dark color of blood.

Alpine Tower, a noisy pursuit sound rang out, a man panicked and terrified, full of panic, ran towards the tower, his clothes had been chopped into countless strips of cloth, dripping with blood.

A few moments later, he was blocked under the tower by his pursuers, and the black-clothed man chasing him spat a mouthful of blood-tinged saliva and waved his hand. The men in black rushed up and surrounded the man right in the middle. Although this person was highly skilled in martial arts and tried his best to resist, he was still like a whale surrounded by a group of sharks, gradually losing strength.

In the darkness of the night, only the plopping muffled sound of metal penetrating into flesh and the sound of the cold wind whistling could be heard, as the black-clothed people silently stabbed and swung until the person in the center no longer had any reaction, not even a hint of a nervous response, only prostrate on the ground like a piece of rotten meat.

Yan Bingyun sent the return message in his hand to the candle flame to burn it, his hands did not have a single tremor, and his brows no longer continued to frown. Since things had already happened, there couldn’t be a hint of questioning anymore, just as after the crossbow gouge, there was no longer anyone who could make that crossbow arrow that could kill a person disappear out of thin air.

The eight family generals led by the Second Prince himself, totaling six people, had all died under the sniping of the Inspectorate. In different ways, in different locations, they disappeared into the dark night of Kyoto.

From today onwards, the name Eight Family Generals would become a stale word in history, perhaps, not qualified to leave a mark in history at all.

Yan Bingyun looked down at the piece of paper on the table and subconsciously pinched the bridge of her nose to clear her mind. In the middle of the plan, the next step should be carried out immediately, as for the remaining five people to be killed, there has long been a specialized manpower to take care of it.

Plan after plan. Although it was the frantic retaliation of the Inspectorate in response to the valley sniping, Yan Bingyun still had to find a way to keep things under control. The second prince’s eight family generals weren’t officials, they were just the king’s privately stored family generals, and for people like this, as long as the Supervisory Yuan killed them cleanly and left nothing behind, the court simply had no way of taking Fan Xian.

And those five people were different.

Those officials to be arrested next were also different, although those officials were only insignificant figures within the various ministries, but after all, they were the ones who took the court’s salary, and arresting so many overnight would cause what kind of chaos?

Yan Bingyun sighed and notified his subordinates outside through a hidden organ to come in and issue a second order. After issuing the order, he habitually went to the window to look at the corner of the palace wall not far away, thinking in his heart that the dean was right when he said that beneath Fan Xian’s gentle cover on the surface, there was indeed an extremely crazy factor hidden.

Now just a dozen or so close friends died in the valley, Fan Xian has been crazy like this, if it is really as the dean of the Lord said, one day in the future, the dean went to …… Fan Xian will become what kind of horrible person child?

Holding the moon building, Fan Xian’s expression was very mild, very calm, his eyebrows slightly raised upwards, indescribably appropriate, as if he didn’t know at all what was happening outside the building, in the night of Kyoto.

The matter of the valley sniping he has finished speaking, all the ministers on the table, whether they have palpitations or regrets, have expressed their condolences to him. Immediately afterward, he spoke briefly about the matters concerning Jiangnan, about the Ming family, and about the inner treasury. Then he frowned and said, “In fact, I’ve always had one thing that I don’t understand, when I’m in Jiangnan contributing to the court, why is it that there’s always someone who likes to mess around in the capital.”

The people at the table were slightly stunned, thinking, “What on earth is this talking about? Fan Xian Yuan in Jiangnan this year, to say that no one in Kyoto to him trip, that is absolutely impossible, but to say that trip …… three hundred and sixty-five days every day a one, you are talking about which one? The first thing you need to do is to check the Ministry of the Interior. Or to the palace to send the book? And these trips have long been torn apart by those old guys, you are not a thing, howling what funeral here?

Prince also could not help but laugh and scolded a sentence: “Where to so much aggression? To say that there are definitely people who are not in the right place, but to say that there are people who are deliberately dragging you down, you can’t say who.”

Fan Xian also laughed, shook his head, and said, “It’s just that I haven’t been back to Kyoto for a year, and I think that perhaps many people in Kyoto have forgotten what kind of disposition I have.”

The second prince was sipping on his wine glass at this time, and hearing this, a chill somehow grew in his heart. Tonight, the Crown Prince’s behavior was too odd, while Fan Xian’s attitude was too arrogant, so arrogant that it was already out of the ordinary and out of order, and it didn’t do him an ounce of good.

Could it be that he was just blocked because of the matter in the valley?

The Second Prince’s eyebrows wrinkled prettily, thinking that he hadn’t even found out who did that thing yet, so what’s the point of messing around with us here?

Right at this moment, under the Moon Embracing Floor suddenly bustled with activity, listening to the horses’ hooves, there seemed to be quite a few people coming this way.

Sitting in the first place of the Crown Prince frowned, unhappy said: “Who dares to clamor here?”

Everyone at the table frowned and looked out the window.

It seemed that someone was trying to enter the Moon Embracing Building, and had already successfully passed through the double line of defense of the Kyoto guards and the Kyoto Prefectural magistrates, only to be stopped outside the building by the people of the Moon Embracing Building.

Fan Xian glanced at Sang Wen, who understood, lifted the hanging velvet curtain, and flashed past the screen. Within a moment, with a rush of footsteps, Sang Wen led five people up the stairs.

These five people are wearing official uniforms, must be officials in the court, just today is not the place to discuss important matters of the court, but the place of the wind and moon, the seat of the people recognized so-and-so is their own cronies, can not help but baffled, thinking that this play is which one, how to come to find themselves so openly and honestly, is it the capital of the great things happened?

The five officials looked at each other and saw the fear and panic in each other’s hearts, and no longer cared about anything, they first apologized to the nobles at the table, glanced at Fan Xian with fear, and bowed to him, and then, without avoiding gossip, they went to the table to look for the person they were looking for, and spoke into each other’s ears.

Fan Xian smiled as he watched this scene and raised his glass to toast Ren Shao’an, who was beside the Crown Prince’s Grand Prince. The great prince s forbidden army system is obviously trapped in the area of the palace forbidden, and the response is slower, and the crown prince …… seems to have guessed what, today even deliberately cut off his own ears and eyes, and just came to hold the moon building to get drunk.

The eldest prince looked at the tense mold around him, frowned and looked at Fan Xian, seemingly questioning. Fan Xian shook his head, signaling that he wasn’t sure what had happened.

On the seats next to him, those bigwigs who were listening to the reports of their subordinate officials, their faces had gradually turned ugly, especially the second prince, whose clear face gradually turned pale, and then a hint of redness quickly appeared, but after three breaths, it turned into normal.

Fan Xian squinted at this scene, knowing that the other party already knew the news of the eight generals’ deaths, but did not think that the second prince could actually immediately collect his mind, and could not help but feel slightly impressed.

The Grand Prince frowned and asked, “What happened?”

Everyone in the building knew that something had happened, but not everyone knew exactly what had happened. The Second Prince bowed his head slightly, raised his wine glass and took a shallow sip, raised his head and looked at Fan Xian, the smile in his eyes a little strained, and asked word for word:

“Little Lord Fan must be very clear.”

The atmosphere in the arena went cold for a while, and the few lords who had gotten the news from the capital back also each stared at Fan Xian’s face. They already knew at this point that just as their own people were feasting in the Moon Embracing Building, several murders had occurred in Kyoto precipitously, and the second prince’s eight most powerful generals had been sniped clean!

These bigwigs in Kyoto have many eyes and ears, and there are also officials of the Privy Council responsible for the defense of the city, so of course they know how terrible this kind of thing is, especially to kill the eight generals so cleanly, the strength required is not something that ordinary people can have.

Associating this with the fact that Fan Xian was feasting the crowd at the Moon Embracing Building today, naturally all of them vaguely guessed that this matter was the work of the Supervisory Yuan.

Everyone was waiting for Fan Xian’s answer, and the atmosphere on the table was somewhat sternly silent.

Fan Xian asked gently, “What is it?”

The second prince smiled, smile some bitter, deep inside some cold, coiled on the body of the feet some acid numbness, looking at the opposite side of the Supervisory Yuan’s young Tisi, actually seems to be like to see a smiling devil, himself as a prince …… but do not know what kind of reaction should be made immediately.

So he raised his cup, drink, a drink, chest slightly spicy pain.

After a few moments of silence, the Privy Council Qu Xiangdong deputy ambassador Lord stared at Fan Xian’s eyes, said in a chilling voice: “Tonight the murders occurred repeatedly, the second highness of the king’s residence of the six generals at the same time was killed, small Fan Lord may know about this?”

As soon as these words came out, the Grand Prince who didn’t know what had happened looked at Fan Xian in shock, and even His Royal Highness the Crown Prince who had been harboring in the arms of a beautiful woman pretending to be confused let out a cry of alarm and sat up from the beautiful woman’s arms!

His Royal Highness stared blankly at Fan Xian’s calm face, his heart overwhelmed with shock. He was aware that Fan Xian didn’t have any good intentions today, but he really hadn’t expected that Fan Xian’s means of counterattacking would be so simple, direct, and brutal, without reason or fear of consequences.

Then, under the gaze of the crowd, Fan Xian …… inclined his head, and with a hint of doubt and a hint of disdain …… said softly, “Oh? All dead?”

The second prince at this time will put the wine cup down, but listening to Fan Xian’s sentence of doubt, chest emotion a swing, that anger, depression, a hint of incomprehension, a hint of hatred of negative emotions finally can not control, fall cup slightly heavy, wine cup snapped stand in the case, will be next to the cup of wine bottle knocked askew.

Learning that the six generals were really all dead from the faces of the people at the table, Fan Xian’s heart felt as if a sweet spring had flowed through it, and without deliberately hiding his expression, he smiled and said: ”The second prince’s generals, why are you asking about this official? Always heard that the second prince of these family generals in Kyoto walking arrogant ruthless, may have offended what can not afford to offend people.”

This is the first time since the opening of the seat, he called himself this official, as for what person in Kyoto is the eight family generals ever offended, but can not afford to offend people …… obviously, that person surnamed Fan.

Silence at the table, the second prince stared blankly at Fan Xian’s face, and suddenly smiled, knowing that regardless of whether the other party did this thing, but able to have the ability to remove all of their own force in such a short period of time at the banquet, the strength of the Supervisory Yuan, would not be able to confront himself as a prince head on.

He raised his cup to Fan Xian and said sincerely, “Lord Titus has good means …… and good vigor.”

Fan Xian raised his cup to welcome him, and said comfortingly, “Your Highness, I am sorry for your loss, the dead don’t go, the living don’t come, the metabolism, it’s all like this.”

The Privy Council Qu deputy ambassador looked at the upper hand side of the two look quite a bit like the “Prince”, deep inside can not help but rise a ridiculous emotion, by the eye look, His Highness is naturally far from Fan Xian’s rival, but from the name, Fan Xian is, after all, the courtier, where did he come from such a big wild gall?

Qu Xiangdong suddenly felt old and cowardly, but he still couldn’t help but open his mouth to Fan Xian and ask, “Little Lord Fan, you should know about the fact that the Supervisory Court went out this evening and apprehended dozens of court officials, right?”

Fan Xian carefully placed the wine glass back on the case with both hands and raised his head to say, “I’m the supervisory court’s chief officer, and I’ve been ordered by the saint to monitor the rule of the officials in Kyoto, so if I don’t nod my head, who would dare to catch those assholes?”