Chapter 71: Life Cannot Be Bothered …… fragrance
“His Majesty likes to see people planting flowers and plants and enjoying the scenery.”
“Oh? Wouldn’t that be similar to Uncle King’s hobby?”
“He is very lazy, just looking at it, where does anyone dare to let him do it himself?”
“I heard that …… that Haitang girl likes to get close to the fields?”
A cold scene.
“Your Majesty ah …… is a very interesting person miles.”
“His Majesty …… actually often does a lot of interesting things …… It’s just that since he was young he has been lifted up by his mother’s ears to learn the way to rule the country, and those of us who are here can rarely see him.”
Inside the flower hall, the words of the Grand Princess with a faint smile rang out from time to time, and Fan Xian stood outside the door quietly listening, knowing that what the woman said was not false. Beiqi royal family in more than ten years ago also once appeared in a turmoil, do not know how many princes and nobles involved, including now hiding in the words of the House of that Miss Shen’s real father Shen Chong, that year also because of this thing and came to prominence.
The Empress Dowager of Northern Qi has only one son, the current Emperor of Northern Qi, and the rest of the princesses were born to the rest of the consorts of the former Emperor of Northern Qi. Married to the South Qing this big princess, although quite respected by the Queen Dowager of Northern Qi Emperor mother and son, but after all, is not biological, the middle is always separated from some, and after the tragic experience of the year to hold the son of the birth of the Queen Dowager of Northern Qi for the other children of the royal family of course, will be vigilant plus.
These people in Nanqing, for the little emperor of Northern Qi have a few curiosity, at this time inquired more than, but the Wangfei can not say what details, just vague said interesting and interesting.
Ye Ling’er saw him eavesdropping outside the door and gave him a curious look.
Fan Xian smiled and pushed the door open.
The great Wangfei who was frowning and in trouble saw the two of them come in, breathed a sigh of relief and said: ”You guys better not ask me, I really can’t guess about that His Majesty of ours, it’s also rare to see him once in the palace on weekdays, when he was a child the empress dowager kept him under extremely strict control, and when he was older he was busy with affairs of state……. On the contrary, it’s Fan Xian He has traveled with His Majesty several times in Northern Qi, and His Majesty has always been extremely fond of him, so if you want to ask about anything interesting, why not ask him.”
At this time, Fan Xian and Ye Ling’er returned to their seats. Ye Ling’er came over to Lin Wan’er, her face agitated as she lowered her voice to tell of her longing after parting, not paying much attention to the rest of the conversation. Fan Xian and the Second Prince looked at each other and smiled helplessly, instead not noticing that someone had mentioned his name.
It was only when the crowd heard the words of the Grand Princess that they remembered that besides the Princess, the only person at the table who had seen that little Emperor of Northern Qi was Fan Xian, and it was known to the world that that little Emperor held Fan Xian’s poetic talents in the highest regard.
His son Li Hongcheng hiccupped and looked at Fan Xian and said, “Anzhi, what kind of person is the Emperor of Northern Qi?”
Fan Xian froze, snapped out of it, and said, “The ruler of a country, where is it for me, a foreign minister, to discuss.”
It was only after these words came out that the people in the hall felt a little embarrassed, in front of the Grand Princess, presuming to discuss the right and wrong gossip of the Emperor of Northern Qi was indeed not a very proper thing to do, it was just that human curiosity was always hard to suppress, including the Second Prince, all of them urged Fan Xian to say more.
Fan Xian scratched his head and asked, “Why are you all so interested in the Emperor of Northern Qi?”
The men in the flower hall suddenly fell silent, their faces embarrassed, and only the whispers of the three girls rustled like ants gnawing on leaves.
The Grand Princess smiled and shook her head, slightly lifting the hem of her skirt, her face with a serene color went out of the flower hall, saying that she was going to see how the arrangements for the luncheon were going to be.
With the status of the Crown Princess, why would she need to personally worry about these chores, no doubt wanting to give these clansmen and nobles of Qing a convenient occasion to open their mouths. As expected, when the crown princess walked away from the flower hall, the eldest prince shook his head and opened his mouth, “By having to be concerned, that little emperor of northern qi has always been mysterious and ruthless, no matter whether it’s the monitoring institute or the military in the intelligence there is no detailed description, his disposition, hobbies, likes and dislikes are like a fan in general.”
“So what? As an emperor, it’s natural to remain mysterious in front of his people.” Fan Xian smiled and responded.
The eldest prince said seriously, “But he’s the king of a foreign country, and the more mysterious he is in front of us, the more terrifying he becomes.”
Fan Xian frowned and said, “It’s just a teenage boy, how do you bring up scary?” When he first met the Emperor of Northern Qi in the capital city of Northern Qi, he thought that the other party was a young man of similar age to himself, and only after returning to his country did he seriously examine the information and realize that the young emperor was even two years younger than himself.
In the Jiangnan season, every time he thought of the North Qi Emperor’s far-sightedness, immovable, full of vigor to use the internal inventory of silver mixed into the internal affairs of the South Qing, Fan Xian also palpitation, just this matter involves his greatest privacy, categorically do not dare to say will be out in the flower hall.
The Second Prince put down the fruit in his hands and sighed, “Being terrible has nothing to do with age.” He glanced at Fan Xian, meaning that when you first entered Kyoto, you were only a sixteen or seventeen teenager, but it was horrible, then smiled and said, “You should be clear about the matter of Shen Chong of the Northern Qi Brocade Guards, and in the end, let Wei Hua be the commanding officer of …… Shen Chong died a miserable death, and on the other hand, the little emperor cleverly waved his hand and The whole thing rounded back, both so that the Uesugi tiger trapped in Kyoto can not come out, but also smoothly take over the strength of the party after the …… Wei Hua now even the Empress Dowager’s meaning are not very listen to the Bitter Lotus masters also remain silent …… so young a king, from the How did he manage to convince so many people to stand up to him? How was he able to convince so many people to stand on his side?”
The second prince aggravated tone said: “North Qi emperor and queen of the dispute, if it evolves into a fierce situation, that is my blessing of Daqing …… We had thought that the emperor’s pro-government initial, always not as good as the North Qi empress dowager operated for a long time, and finally to the young man’s violent disposition, I am afraid that it will be a big chaos in the court of North Qi, who knows that this little emperor actually will not say a word. Emperor actually took back the power without saying a word, this kind of means, really …… terrible.”
Fan Xian was silent, Shen Chong was killed, he was clear about the inside of it, and even this thing was originally proposed by him through Haitang’s mouth to the Emperor of Beiqi to do.
At this time the atmosphere in the flower hall is slightly tense, the three girls know that the men are talking about national affairs, very smartly shut up and do not say anything.
Shizi Li Hongcheng at this time also no longer have excess alcohol in his eyes, frowned and said: ”The Emperor of Northern Qi is the head of a country, he is not good at women’s colors, and does not have any bad hobbies, and his mind is sober and self-supporting …… This kind of person is the most frightening. In the future, if my Daqing wants to wield an army to the north, the primary consideration is not how the strength of Northern Qi is, but how the heart of the Lord of Northern Qi is, and if the Emperor of Northern Qi does not mess up himself, there is no good way on our side.”
At these words, the First Prince and Second Prince nodded their heads.
Fan Xian’s heart was slightly shocked as he watched this scene feeling a bit surprised, being shocked by the seriousness of the three imperial sons, half unable to speak for a long time. At this moment, he realized that for himself, Northern Qi was just a partner, but for the younger generation of powerful nobles in Qing, Northern Qi was an object destined to be swept away and annexed by the Great Qing Dynasty.
South Qing good martial arts, the previous generation of people have already fought a large large rivers and mountains, now the world left to the new generation of people, is the big but not rigid North Qi. This is a kind of deep-rooted in the blood of the open side of the fanaticism, whether it is the eldest prince or Li Hongcheng, can not get rid of this kind of fanaticism, even if it is the second prince of this kind of warm and solemn role, for the attack on the northern Qi, is still unforgettable.
South Qing power is prevalent, thirty years has maintained the momentum of the attack, for the South Qing people, this has been a problem that does not need to be considered, need to consider just when to go to attack North Qi …… so what kind of person is the Emperor of North Qi, for the hall of these three royal children, it is a very important thing.
It was clear from looking at the second prince’s deeply thoughtful expression that being able to unify the world was the ultimate goal of all the Southern Qing people, and it could even suppress his anxiety about that dragon chair for the time being.
“It is said that the Emperor of Northern Qi is not fond of women’s colors, but on the other hand, last time he specifically wanted to change Si Li Li back to Northern Qi …… Anzhi, you were the ambassador last time, in the Upper Capital can be found in what details?” The Grand Prince asked seriously.
Fan Xian said slowly after a long time, “Not being close to women is true, there are only a few side consorts in the huge palace, and in order to prevent the regeneration of the power of the foreign relatives, that little emperor hardened himself against the pressure of the big families in the Upper Capital, and selected consorts who were all of commoner origin, and it is wonderful that the Empress Dowager did not seem to object to this kind of arrangement either.”
The second prince frowned and said, “Even if it’s to prevent the foreign relatives from becoming powerful, this arrangement is not a good idea for appeasing the courtiers, this is not a good move.”
Fan Xian nodded and said with feigned apprehension, “As His Highness said earlier, that His Majesty is really a bit impenetrable, obviously close at hand, yet he always feels that there is a very skillful disguise about him.”
Li Hongcheng laughed, “Come on, that emperor is considered very truthful to you, earlier you said that you are a foreign minister, I don’t think that the Northern Qi people consider you as a foreign minister, otherwise after sniping, why would they send a letter of state to the capital to protest?”
The Grand Prince shook his head in annoyance, “The people of Northern Qi have bullied me too much, and actually played such a hard game.”
Fan Xian laughed bitterly, “Great Imperial Prince, this matter has nothing to do with me.”
When it came to the sniping matter, the Second Prince was not too embarrassed, and with a look of selflessness, he teased Fan Xian, saying, “Of course it has nothing to do with you. Not to mention that you’re from Southern Qing, this Northern Qi is just trying to provoke, even if that little emperor likes you again and pulls you to Northern Qi, could he still marry his own sister to you?”
Ye Ling’er interjected at this time, “I think it’s really possible that …… Fan Xian was born with a good skin, and that little emperor of North Qi is his fanatic lover.”
With these words, the serious discussion turned into a naughty joke.
Fan Xian curled his lips and smiled, calmly watching these men and women talk, they said some anecdotes in the palace back then, Fan Xian is not clear, gradually even gave birth to a kind of exclusion in the aura outside the illusion. To put it mildly, before he entered Kyoto, these men and women in the flower hall are since childhood to watch each other grow up, between the young generation of the royal family of the state of Qing, the feelings have always been good, he …… would have been an outsider.
However, Fan Xian did not indulge in this emotion too much, because of the earlier discussion about the young emperor of Beiqi, he fell into deep thought, vaguely feeling as if he was about to catch something very subtle.
He in his mind will be in the capital city in the meeting with the emperor of northern qi situation in detail over again, and carefully review a year and a half of time, he and the other side of the tacit understanding of the cooperation, and then supplemented with the emperor of northern qi’s aesthetic interests and small details of life, and gradually in the brain there is a bright light is about to be rushed out.
It just couldn’t come out all the time.
Amidst the faint fragrance, Fan Xian had been in a daze, so much so that he hadn’t realized that the people beside him had quieted down and looked at him.
Fan Xian suddenly realized that he had lost his temper, smiled awkwardly, and subconsciously said, “It smells good.”
Good fragrance!
A light fragrance filled the flower hall, Fan Xian slightly lost his concentration, the end of his nose as if there was some kind of magic in making him lose his concentration again, this fragrance was actually extremely light and elegant, but for him, it was so rich and thrilling!
When he turned around, he saw that the Great Princess had long since gone and returned, and had already changed her clothes. Fan Xian forced a smile and asked, “Where did the scent come from?”
The Great Wangfei was slightly stunned, then smiled, “I didn’t expect you to be more than just icy smart, your mind and nose are both generally delicate, this scent capsule has been worn on me for a year now, and the king has never smelled it, but today, as soon as I put it on, you smelled it.”
The crowd looked at Fan Xian curiously, Ye Ling’er even twitched her nose, and didn’t smell any special aroma, just the lavender burning in the flower hall was swept away by the cold wind on the lake, and was extremely bland.
“Not lavender?” Ye Ling’er asked curiously.
The princess laughed, “Of course it’s not lavender.” She took out an extremely delicate and small scented bag from her waist and said, “Brought it from the Upper Capital.”
Fan Xian had an extremely strong impulse to hold that scent bag in his hand and smell it carefully, but the scent bag was a woman’s personal item that meant a lot, so it was impossible to make this request.
Hearing the words of the princess, his face has calmed down, smiled and asked: “They have not been to northern qi, of course they can not smell this faint fragrance, I have been there, no wonder I can smell it.”
Wangfei smiled and shook her head, “I bet you haven’t sniffed …… the palace in the capital city either have you been there, have you been up to the back of the mountain?”
Fan Xian nodded.
Wangfei said, “The golden osmanthus flower is sandwiched in this scented bag, and the golden osmanthus flower is in the mountains, and there should be just that one plant in the entire world……. This golden osmanthus flower has an extremely faint scent, and if you don’t pay attention to it, you won’t be able to sniff it out in any way.”
Fan Xian laughed: “I went up the mountain and only stayed for a short while between the pavilions along the stream, but I didn’t see this rare golden osmanthus flower.”
“It grows at the top of the mountain.” The Great Princess smiled and said, “It is the lone species that the State Master personally transplanted from the Northland back then, plus the fragrance is not very heavy, so there has been no one to collect its stamens as a balm …… so I dare say that little Lord Fan, even if you have stayed in the palace, you have never smelled its odor. ”
Fan Xian was surprised and asked, “Then, Wangfei, you have this scent bag ……”
The crowd was a bit puzzled as to why Fan Xian couldn’t get enough of this scent sac, and pursued the question at all times. Fan Xian was also afraid of revealing his footsteps, and explained with a smile, “I like this scent, and want to pick up a whole one for Wan Er.”
Lin Wan’er smiled slightly, knowing that her husband definitely thought otherwise. But the bystanders were not clear, the Grand Prince disapproved and said, “Big man, how can you put all your thoughts on these daughterly things.”
The Grand Princess glared at him and said, “Being able to mount a horse and embroider flowers is what makes a man truly good.”
The Grand Prince immediately shut his mouth.
The Great Wangfei turned to Fan Xian and laughed, “You want to pick up a whole one for County Lord Chen only not easy …… No, it may not be easy for the next person in this world, but you have a chance …… You yourself repair a letter to ask His Majesty to go. ”
This His Majesty, naturally, is that His Majesty of Northern Qi.
Fan Xian mildly laughed: “Could it be that this one on the princess is also given by your majesty?”
“Yes.” A little bit of homesickness appeared in the eyes of the princess, and she said faintly, “In the past, in the upper capital, His Majesty was the only one who wore the golden osmanthus flower’s scented pouch, and he said that he liked this kind of light and extremely refreshing flavor. The night before I left the capital, his majesty gave me his personalized scented pouch, so that I could remember the flavor of my homeland even in the south.”
The atmosphere in the flower hall became a bit sentimental by the princess’s few faint words.
Fan Xian’s eyes glanced at the scent bag and smiled, saying nothing more.
After the meal in the royal residence, it was already twilight, during which, under the arrangement of the eldest prince, Fan Xian and the second prince had another deep talk in the study. Just hold the moon upstairs two people have talked enough in-depth, now the second prince behind the Ye family and a great master to do support, is definitely not willing to retreat half a step, and Fan Xian although he knows his situation is also as the second prince said, seems to be as heavy as a mountain, but in fact, the danger is like a pile of eggs, but people in the world, body can not help it, he just want to withdraw, but also did not have that possibility.
At least the Emperor of Qing will not allow.
After the second prince finally gave him a deep look, he slowly said: ”Anzhi ah, there is something I must remind you of …… There is no doubt that you are the biggest troublemaker in the Qing Kingdom in these two years …… And the things of that year are clear to you as well , why did Father let you keep living and growing up in Tanyou instead of more simply clearing all the trouble away?”
Fan Xian bowed his head slightly, thinking to himself that the second prince was indeed an extremely persuasive and powerful character, and if one did not take into account the threat that Uncle Wuzhu posed to the emperor, the fact that the Emperor of Qing secretly protected his own upbringing could only mean one thing, that even though the king was ruthless, he always had a third degree of compassion for his own offspring.
“Father will not allow us to do anything too drastic between our brothers.” The Second Prince looked at him and said quietly, “But for you, if things can’t intensify, you can only sit back and watch the flowing water go east, and the situation gets worse by the day, and that’s where your problem lies.”
Fan Xian smiled slightly, thinking that the situation was about to intensify, and that if he wanted to keep all that he currently had, he would inevitably need the others to bear an unbearable price.
“Life and death regardless.” Fan Xian looked at the second prince and said seriously.
There were two meanings to life and death, one being that life and death must be separated, and the other being that it was only about the struggle, not about each other’s lives and deaths.
The second prince raised his hand and gently clapped with Fan Xian.
In the afternoon, the Supervisory Board suddenly had a message over, saying that there is a movement on the side of the Western Hu, military intelligence has been sent into the Privy Council, the palace summoned Fan Xian to meet. The eldest prince, as the commander of the forbidden army, had no choice but to leave, while the second prince and Li Hongcheng could still remain in the royal residence.
Fan Xian let his wife and Ye Ling’er talk for a while, his own single person out of the royal residence, got on his own carriage, and did not wait for the eldest prince, so he ordered the carriage along the streets of Kyoto after the snow slowly walking up.
The matter of West Hu is not how urgent, the two places news back and forth need at least a month, this time rush into the palace is not necessary, Fan Xian needs time to digest the things encountered today.
The black carriage turned around a few times in the streets of Kyoto, and drove onto a relatively lonely street, sitting in the driver’s seat of the Fuji Zijing vigilantly watching the surroundings, the carriage before and after the left and right some inconspicuous camouflage secret agents to protect Fan Xian’s safety.
Fan Xian closed his eyes and leaned against the back of the chair in the car, his face a little pale, the corners of his lips a little dry.
That faint fragrance of golden osmanthus …… turned out to be the fragrance of golden osmanthus that night. He was a little perplexed thinking about that night, that temple, that field, and that belt that he didn t have time to tie. But it is obviously the Sili …… is the Sili …… just that fragrance before waking up, that pair of hands rubbing on his own temples?
His thin lips trembled twice, and he cursed a few swear words quickly in a low voice, and subconsciously slapped a palm on the car plate beside him.
With a loud boom, Fan Xian slammed his palm heavily in his rage, and the overbearing true qi that was abundant in his body surged out, and when the palm wind touched it, it was indestructible, and in just an instant, the quiet street was filled with the sound of wood shattering.
The black carriage was like papier-mâché, half of it was collapsed by this palm, the wheels were broken, the carriage overturned, the horses were frightened, and they plowed their hooves. Tou Zi Jing was shocked and barely stood still.
As the dust subsided, Fan Xian, dressed in his black official uniform, stood lost in thought amongst the wood and gravel that covered the ground.
By his side, Tiger Guard Gundam’s longsword was half-sheathed, and his eyes were glittering, trying to find the assassin’s trail. Seven or eight Six Division swordsmen were spread around, gripping the braziers around their waists and aiming the crossbows in their left hands at the periphery.
Fan Xian looked down and thought for a long time, and couldn’t help but think of the two words in the letter that his mother had left in the chest, and couldn’t help but pull his lips slightly, revealing a smile that mocked himself to the extreme, sighing sadly, “Retribution ah ……”