Chapter 68: Unwelcomed Leads to Unwelcomed

Fan Xian certainly did not have the means to dress up as an unhygienic citizen in front of the clan house for eighteen days, and he only came with Wang Qinian to confirm that the hidden line was indeed as they calculated, and that they did not have the idea of checking down along this line.

And he is clear in his heart, today is the seventh day, twenty and Hongzhu confirmed that they will leave Kyoto in early February and then go to Jiangnan …… the time in between is really too little, there is no way to really catch what the law, the only thing you can rely on is the hand of Wang Qinian that unpredictable tracking kung fu.

After confirming their target, the two of them left the entrance of the clan residence and returned to the back door of the courtyard of that old city. Although Fan Xian was extremely interested in seeing Wang Qinian’s daily life, these days were really a bit tense and he didn’t have much time to enjoy life, so he waved his hand and got into the carriage.

He left all of his equipment on this black carriage, took off his outside clothes, and after checking his sleeve crossbow and medicine bag, he took out a vanity box and carefully applied it to his face, and then used the special glue from the Supervisory Yuan to stick the corners of his eyebrows downwards.

All of a sudden his eye spacing and eyebrow image changed, and added an inconspicuous small mole under his jaw, the fluttering gentleman suddenly turned into a not-so-eye-catching passerby.

The carriage stopped outside of Lotus Pond Place in the western city, while Fan Xian’s people had already gotten off the carriage and merged into the complicated crowd in the western city.

Compared to other cities, the western city of Kyoto was not large enough to be affluent, quiet, or expensive, especially since the area around Hechi Square was an entire slum, and the primary concern of the people who lived here was to stay alive all day long. There is food in the family coffers, people will consider the etiquette and morality and other things, so the people in the workshop do not because of the name of the lotus pond workshop, there will be a few more points of the turbid world and the temperament, on the contrary, it is a mixture of dragons and snakes, what can not be seen in the light of the sale of all have.

Passerby Fan Xian used the rain hat on the back of his coat to cover the small snowflakes under the sky, his face full of gloom stepping on the mud in the streets and alleys toward the depths of the Lotus Pond Place, his expression in the Lotus Pond Place does not appear to be how striking, the people along the street and the shopkeepers in the stores do not even bother to look at him a little more than a glance.

Square in this kind of gloomy face, like a dead father like too many characters, because here on the road brothers are too much, not every day to go to collect accounts can be recovered, not every time the Kyoto government to arrest the brothers they can run away, the road brothers righteousness and ferocity, the road brothers emotions are also very grumpy, so it is very normal to be down.

Through a narrow alley sticking out of the ragged rain eaves, Fan Xian fell into those standing prostitutes surrounded, good at this time the day is still early, dedicated prostitutes although out to stand, but the face of the poor quality of the powder and yawns explains their combat effectiveness of the low, Fan Xian was able to get out of the light, drilled into a back street of the small wooden building, looking for their own destinations.

The wooden room was filled with an unpleasant odor. Fan Xian couldn’t help but rub his nose as soon as he entered, but he didn’t lift the hat on his head and sat directly on the edge of the bed, taking a token out of his pocket and handing it to the alert paralyzed man on the bed.

The paralyzed man, whose hand was still able to move, watched the uninvited guest with a face full of nervousness, and took the token and looked at it carefully for half a day before he lowered his voice and said, “Since you’re one of us, why did you come up here so presumptuously?”

Fan Xian didn’t have time to bullshit him about this and said directly, “What good things have come out of it lately?”

That paralyzed man’s face changed, not knowing what kind of person in the gang this abomination in front of him was that he would ask so directly, but since the other party knew about this matter of wanting a head, he must have been a close confidant of the gang master or something like that.

He felt around in that bed full of stinky quilt for half a day and fished out countless boxes. Fan Xian lifted them one by one and looked at them carefully, his face still had that deadpan expression, and it was obvious that he was quite dissatisfied.

The paralyzed man looked at his face and shook his head, digging into the porcelain pillow under his neck for half a day, finally pulling out half of a jade jade pennant and handing it over.

Fan Xian took over the jade pennant and carefully examined it, the jade’s quality and color was excellent, warm and glistening, it was really a good object, and the cloud pattern system carved on it was obviously a royal tool. He nodded with satisfaction, “Not bad, this kind of good stuff, the more the better.”

The paralyzed man smiled smugly. Fan Xian smiled in his heart as well, of course he knew very well that the paralyzed man in front of him was not as pitiful as he appeared.

Kyoto was the place where the world’s wealth of the world converged and accumulated, especially the imperial palace, from ancient times to the present day, all the people of the world provided for the emperor as well as all the nobles, and the eunuchs and palace maidens who served the emperor and the nobles would sneak around and steal these things to feed the members of the world’s people in the darkness.

The palace is so, the big house is also so, and too much silver money and jewelry need to be cleaned up, for the state and county deeds, and do this kind of thing, naturally, can only be the bottom of those professionals.

The yakuza is this kind of professionals, so the whole world really have some strength of the gang, will stay in Kyoto a small branch. These people do not dare to go against the court, but do do the court’s sewer, earn some fractions of silver to spend but will not be polite.

It’s also amazing to say, just because these people are exceptionally peaceful, so far there is nothing to call the name of the road in Kyoto. The River Luo Gang is a very inconspicuous one of these gangs responsible for taking over the palace’s stolen goods. Fan Xian in Hangzhou and Xia Qufei talk more, for these forces in the dark to understand, only to know, the original He Luo gang even in the palace has a fixed channel, can not help but some respect, will also have a line of today’s Lotus Pond Square.

This paralyzed, is specifically responsible for the River Luo Gang in Kyoto to sell stolen goods the first link of the matter, these people do is full of things, naturally very careful, a ring and a ring is not connected, the receiver changes from time to time, which gave Fan Xian an opportunity to take advantage of.

As for that token, it was naturally prepared by the Supervisory Yuan many years ago.

The paralyzed man looked at his satisfied smile and said smugly, “It’s said that this was a piece given to the Empress Dowager’s mother’s family by the late Emperor’s master, only that something happened later, and somehow it’s now back in the Eastern Palace, which took a lot of effort.”

Fan Xian’s heart stirred and laughed, “Where do the nobles care about these small things, casually resting in the treasury, but a few decades can’t think of using it.”

The paralyzed man sighed and said, “Yes, if the price of this piece of jade is put into the south of the river to sell, and then go to the north of the river to buy land, I’m afraid that you can buy thousands of acres.”

Fan Xian didn’t want to accompany him to lament and said, “It’s the first time I’ve made a connection, I don’t know the rules.”

He was very direct, but the paralyzed man was not suspicious, and took out a ledger from the quilt, pointing to the space where it said Grade A Wine, and said, “Here it is.”

Fan Xian laughed, “You paralyzed man, you can hide things under the covers.”

The paralyzed man mumbled a few words, seemingly reminiscing about the past, how he had followed the gang leader to fight and kill in all directions, and was paralyzed by a hammer, and the gang leader took pity on him and allowed him to come to Kyoto to preside over these things.

Fan Xian didn’t know too much about the story of the He Luo Gang, so naturally he didn’t dare to chime in, and after signing on it in altered handwriting, he handed over a silver ticket from his pocket and said, “The first installment is 30%, right, so don’t charge me more than you have to.”

The paralyzed man nodded as he looked at the one thousand taels of silver bills, “Pretty much. Although this jade is definitely more than this price, but after all, it is something that is taboo, so I can only sell it at a discount.”

After finishing all this, Fan Xian carefully put the jade pennant away, said nothing more, and walked out of this gloomy room.

Walking through the sludge-strewn streets of Lotus Pond Place, the sky was still overcast, while Fan Xian’s mood, which had been tossed around in gloom for a long time by that incident, relaxed, and he had already figured out how the whole thing should be maneuvered. Although this plan was indeed a bit tiresome in its complexity and circumlocution, Fan Xian had no choice, in order to safeguard Hong Zhu’s safety, in order to keep himself hidden behind the scenes, there was always a need to approach the truth with so many twists and turns and to expose it.

Now that he had a plan in mind, although he didn’t know if anything would go wrong, it was much better than the other day when he was faced with a pot of braised elbows but couldn’t find a place to put his mouth.

All the procedures were clearly thought out, and all that remained was for Hong Zhu to organize them, and, of course, for His Majesty to be as sensitive and suspicious and full of imagination and wisdom as Fan Xian had expected him to be.

Just as the Princess and Fan Xian had always thought, the Emperor of Qing was indeed a sensitive and suspicious person, and those who had stood at the top of politics for a long time would always imagine the worst in all conspiracies and utilize their own wisdom. So the more Fan Xian thought about it, the more relaxed he became, and the more he felt that the Emperor’s son was going to be played well by himself this time.

Be able to Yin people, and not let himself into it, Fan Xian is very rare to give birth to a few silk complacency, although he is now the ninth grade master, the power of the power of the people, but he has always maintained the tranquility of the heart and mind, but today this child complacency is how to not be able to suppress.

Probably because …… since entering the Supervisory Yuan, he is always weak in this aspect of intrigue, in the past, there is Yan Bingyun to help, so do not see what the problem, but like the Jiaozhou after the incident, Chen Pingping in the letter to him scolded him, for his ability to weave intrigue is very disdainful — so today Fan Xian is really very proud. -So today Fan Xian was really pleased, the more he thought about it, the more pleased he was.

When he was so pleased, he saw a disillusioned person under the exit plaque of Lotus Pond Square.

Fan Xian looked at the person under the plaque who had a blue cloth case and was yelling loudly about business in the snow, and couldn’t help but freeze up, stopping his steps and hiding behind the crowd for a few moments to take a closer look.

That was a litigator, who was vociferously soliciting business behind the blue cloth case, his face a little pale, as if something had gone wrong with his body, so much so that his voice seemed a little weak afterward.

Fan Xian slightly lowered his head, letting his rain hat cover most of his face, squinted at that face, and an inexplicable feeling arose in his heart.

The lawyer’s business was very bad, not to mention the lawsuit people came forward to inquire, even the people who asked him to write a lawsuit on their behalf did not have a single person, and some of the people who seemed to vaguely know the inside story were even far away from the blue cloth case, as if they were afraid of getting involved in some kind of bad luck.

Fan Xian frowned, then left the Lotus Pond.

About half an hour later, right in the elegant room of a very unusual restaurant, Fan Xian was all smiles as he pushed a plate of food in his hand across the room and said, “Eat slowly, chat slowly, why have you become like this now?”

Sitting across from him was the very same litigator from Lotus Pond Place, the very same Song Shiren who had fought Fan Xian’s first lawsuit in Kyoto back in the day, and who had later been kidnapped by Fan Xian to Jiangnan, and who had made a great effort on his behalf in the Ming family’s lawsuit.

Song Shiren had a bandit’s name called “Rich Mouth”, also known as the world’s first lawyer, has always been less than walking in the government offices, how come he has fallen to the point where he is now selling stalls along the street? Fan Xian was shocked when he saw him on the street, and only later did he ask his subordinates to invite him over, but he didn’t dare to go to the Moon House.

He narrowed his eyes and looked at the disheveled-looking litigator, and although he guessed something in his heart, he still couldn’t help but open his mouth and ask about the other party’s recent situation.

Song Shiren didn’t eat the food, but just took a sip of white wine with a zip and looked deeply at Fan Xian. Immediately, he let out a sigh and laughed bitterly three times, but without a single word.

“Say, is it related to me?” Fan Xian asked.

Song Shiren sighed again and said after a long time of silence, “Since your honor guessed it, I’m not afraid to make a fool of myself… After I came back from Jiangnan, my fellow neighbors and those adults who knew about the scenery I had in Jiangnan looked up to me and knew that I was working for you, your honor, and all of them nodded their heads and bowed their heads to me … … just later is the wind for a change, I do not know why, not only no one dares to ask me to fight the lawsuit, that is, ordinary friends in the friendship have also left me far away.”

“I don’t know why?” Fan Xian sighed, “You and I both know why.”

Song Shiren laughed bitterly, “Even if I did know, would I have dared to go around crying out for justice?”

Fan Xian fell silent, listening to Song Shiren’s sorrowful account, and realized that in the last few months, the original world’s number one litigator had been living such a miserable life.

Not only was it a matter of not being able to earn silver, but it seemed that in an instant, the entire bureaucracy of the Kingdom of Qing had begun to target Song Shiren. Kyoto, the Ministry of Justice, and even the Ministry of Rites and the Taishang Temple all came to find him in trouble, a variety of excuses used a lot, anyway, will be his family property such as the wind and rain in general all stripped – Song Shiren how articulate, and how to beat the court’s unreasonably engaged in the law, but also he used to be acquainted with the powerful and noble people are now more He didn’t say a word, and seemed to be afraid of the person behind the scenes who was fixing Song Shiren.

Now Song Shiren could only bring his family and rent a place like Lotus Pond, and his life could be described as miserable.

Fan Xian and him looked at each other and shook their heads at the same time, both of them knew in their hearts what the source of all this was.

Song Shiren fought the Ming family lawsuit in Jiangnan for Fan Xian, not to mention how much it helped Fan Xian, the key is through the mouth of Song Shiren, Fan Xian s proposed natural inviolability of the right of inheritance of the first born son …… this sacred rule that does not see the Qing law but enters the hearts of the people to hit the seven pieces of pieces of pieces of pieces of pieces of pieces of pieces of pieces of pieces of pieces of pieces of pieces of pieces of pieces of pieces of pieces of pieces of pieces.

This is a big taboo in the palace, that empress dowager gently said a word, naturally there are countless people want to find a way to make Song Shiren shut up.

This was a very profound lesson.

“At least the people are fine.” Song Shiren touched his neck somewhat fearfully afterward and said, “It’s already God’s mercy that he survived.”

Fan Xian understood in his heart that Song Shiren had not been killed, it was entirely because the nobles in the palace had given themselves a few more points, he could not help but laugh at himself and said, “Even if no one dares to help you …… why don’t you come to me? In the end, this matter is also I hurt you, you come to me to help, I always have to do some heart.”

Song Shiren smiled bitterly and said, “After fighting a lawsuit on behalf of your honor, my family almost died, so I don’t dare to give your honor any more trouble.”

Fan Xian knew that this man’s heart was not in the right place, and that he was afraid that begging for help from his own door would cause more trouble. He looked at Song Shiren and smiled, saying, “Don’t worry about anything.”

He pulled out the silver ticket from his pocket and handed it over. Song Shiren raised his eyes and looked at the top one with a very scary share written on it, and couldn’t help but bluff for a moment, although he was also someone who had seen the world, but the fact that it was so much silver at once really made him somewhat afraid to take it.

Fan Xian said, “I will immediately arrange for your whole family to leave the capital, the safety issue does not need to worry about, these money you first take with, is considered to be one of my compensation to you.”

Song Shiren was silent for half a day without answering.

Fan Xian looked at him twice and said, “Don’t worry, this official wants to kill you to get rid of the disaster, as early as Jiangnan cut, you know that I have always been unafraid to kill a few people’s …… You have to understand my temperament, but where someone has helped me, I will definitely protect him and give him adequate compensation. ”

“The resentment in the palace will fade in a couple days.” Fan Xian said if he had a point: “At that time, as long as I protect you, who will dare to touch you?”

The tenth day of the first lunar month, also known as the end of the tenth child in the folk of the country of Qing, is considered to be one of the more important days in the New Year Festival, although it is not like the seventh day of the first seven that ten thousand people traveled, but the streets are also lively. Fan Xian, who has drawn up all the things, seems particularly relaxed, taking Wan Er in a carriage, strolling in Kyoto for half a day, before his wife and Fuji Zijing’s incessant urging to change the route, and drove directly to the Prince of Heping’s Mansion, which is not far away from the Imperial City.

Prince He’s mansion’s gate is wide open today, but there are not many guests, the great prince is now standing on the stone steps waiting for Fan’s carriage.

When the carriage stopped at the entrance of the residence, the Grand Prince looked at Fan Xian and said with a cold smile, “Coming so late, don’t slip away first.”