Chapter 9 A play in the governor’s mansion

Unsurprisingly, inside the Governor’s Mansion, which had already become incredibly quiet, it became even quieter at this time, the seat full of officials looked at Fan Xian at the door with their jaws agape, and those few generals of the Marine Division even subconsciously pursed their lips, sniffing the flavor of the coming storm, and the entire field was plunged into an inexplicable silence and hidden atmosphere of confrontation.

The depth of the confrontation was actually the fear of those generals, because everyone in the world knew Fan Xian’s identity and what the Supervisory Yuan did. If the General of the Supervisory Yuan was ordered to go to the county of remote sailors to investigate a case, he could think with his buttocks that the case would not be too small.

Sailor generals cover the worry in their eyes, quietly look at each other, are guessing …… is not the incident on the East China Sea.

And with these generals and officials are different, those who were reprimanded to the side of the kabuki dancers are eyes glowing, staring at Fan Xian that handsome face to see, a small Fan adults this kind of fairy-like figure is not so easy to see, in fact, everyone is clear, this small Fan adults now is the line of leaders, if the big man in the eye … … …the future days can be beautiful ……

But the girls are not stupid, feeling the strange atmosphere in the hall, naturally know that today there is no opportunity to play the beauty plan.

The generals and officials finally woke up after a slight stare, and that Vice Admiral of the navy, Dang Snapdragon, who had vaguely become the spokesman for the navy side in the absence of Chang Tiduk, smiled faintly and rose to greet him, standing side-by-side with the Governor of Jiaozhou, and bowed to Fan Xian.

All the officials and generals didn’t dare to sit in their seats any longer and stood up somewhat fearfully, saluting Fan Xian.

“Greetings, Lord Titus.”

“Greetings, Lord Chinaman.”

Due to the differences in civil and military affairs and their minds, the sailors and the Jiaozhou governor’s side addressed Fan Xian differently.

“Be excused.”

Fan Xian’s jaw moved slightly, nodded his head, and without looking askance, he walked upwards amidst the officials’ arches, then sat his butt …… on the chair that had belonged to Chang Kun, the governor of the Marine Division!

Those eight officials of the Supervisory Yuan behind him also followed, standing behind him, holding the hilt of the sword in their hands, staring intently at all the officials in the hall.

A bit arrogant, but he had the qualifications.

When Dang Primrose Bo saw this big shot making a gesture, his face was slightly unsettled, but in his heart, he was secretly happy. But any such domineering person can be much better dealt with, it seems that the rumors of Little Lord Fan’s shady carving and deep secrets are not always true.

He coughed lightly, arched his hand and asked: ”My humble servant has met the Lord of the Tisch. I don’t know what case your lordship has come to Jiaozhou for this time.”

“You’re the Vice Admiral of the Marine Division, so even if I need manpower to handle a case in my institution, I can’t possibly ask you to transfer it.” Fan Xian said calmly, turning to the governor of Jiaozhou, “I’ve been ordered to handle a case today, and I don’t have enough men with me, so I’d like to ask Lord Wu to transfer a battalion of state troops to me.”

Jiaozhou governor’s name is Wu Gefei, is the old government in the three a, also once walked through the door of the Lin Xiang and Fan House, today suddenly heard a small Fan actually know what his surname, heart a hot, feel comfortable all over the body, smiled and answered: “Please do as you please adults command.”

This Lord Wu has a pile of benefits, that is, the greedy silver will certainly be greedy, but do not dare to move the mind must not move, for the most “honest and proper”, anyway, Jiaozhou, this broken place, everywhere by the naval division of the people suppressed, many political affairs not to say, that is, what is the big benefits can not be his turn, but fell a clean.

Wu Ge Fei has long wanted to transfer to other Fuzhou to go, just in Kyoto did not have any say in the big man to help, this day listening to the small Fan adults in the tone of cordiality, has long been happy to forget their mother’s surname, but also forget the Supervisory Yuan, if you need to transfer troops in the hospital and the Privy Council’s warrant, then directly to the master said a few what. That master led the order and go, also not ambiguous.

The navy vice admiral party primrose wave at the side of the cold eyes, heart slightly shocked, secretly thought the Lord of the Division first arrived in Jiaozhou, what points have not been stated, they want to borrow troops from the Jiaozhou place, this is ready to do what? But after thinking about it, he immediately a little peace of mind, Jiaozhou local officials are weak, even if the state army is only a few hundred people, and has always been very poorly trained, where is the opponent of the naval division, if the Supervisory Yuan is really looking for the Jiaozhou naval division trouble, Fan Tisi could not have brought seven or eight people in, and could not be in front of their own face to transfer the state army is.

So the party primrose wave is not very afraid, just some doubts, the Supervisory Yuan today …… exactly want to do what?

“Where is Lord Governor? The saint has a decree, why hasn’t he come to follow it?” Fan Xian frowned and inquired.

Dang primrose wave face embarrassed, also self-conscious strange, outside such a big movement, how the Lord Titus has not noticed? Even if your old man is playing with women in the back, you should come out at this time of the year, if you really offend Fan Xian, no one will have a good time.

He smiled bitterly and explained a few words to Fan Xian, and with a wink, he asked the Governor’s personal soldiers to enter the back garden to inform the Governor.

Fan Xian watched this scene with cold eyes, but in his heart, he was secretly calculating the time.

Three breaths later, an extremely mournful scream rang out from within the governor’s residence, the sound directly breaking through the quiet night sky of Jiaozhou and spreading far and wide.

The people in the hall were shocked, they didn’t have time to say anything, they drew their weapons under the table and ran to the back of the garden. Although no one dared to believe that something would happen within the hall of Jiaozhou Governor’s residence, but that mournful scream was not fake.

Dang Snapdragon’s eyes were a bit strange, and he didn’t walk away, but just stared oddly at Fan Xian.

Fan Xian, however, didn’t even look at him, and a trace of extremely heavy worry welled up in his wrinkled brow as he said, “Could it be that it’s too late?”

When he said this, he had already grabbed the screaming Jiaozhou governor Wu Gefei, and with a flutter of his body, he arrived in the back garden along with the anxious navy generals.

A pool of blood in the back garden.

Seven or eight of the Governor’s personal soldiers lying in the blood, some of the body head separated, some of the chest blood hole.

Those Jiaozhou civil officials see this scene, can not help but scared legs soft.

While the generals of the navy were staring at a man in black behind the pool of blood with an expression of excitement. It seemed that they could not wait to rush up and tear the other party into pieces and eat them, but they were just terrified and angry, but they did not dare to make a single move at all.

Because in the hands of that masked man in black, he was carrying the body of Lord Chang Kun, the Governor of the Jiaozhou Maritime Division!

A blood slowly flowed down from Chang Kun’s body, dripping on the ground, while the Jiaozhou emperor’s head is lowered, do not know whether it is alive or dead.

Looking at the garden full of dead corpses and the body of Lord Titus who’s life and death are unknown, the eyes of the sailors’ generals are cracking and have long been red, where did these tough generals who have been killing people on the sea for many years think that there would be an assassin who dares to commit an assassination in Jiaozhou, who dares to kill so many brothers in front of so many of their own people!

“Put down your lord!”

“You son of a bitch, put down your sword!”

The generals roared and surrounded the man in black, but the so-called throwbacks naturally did not dare to move.

Fan Xian indifferently put down Wu Ge Fei, the governor of Jiaozhou, and looked at the black-clothed man in the grounds, seemingly saying to himself, “Sure enough, he arrived earlier than me.”

After his shock, Dang Snapdragon had woken up, and he deeply felt that there was something odd in this matter. Why would Mr. Tisi of the Supervisory Yuan personally come to Jiaozhou? Why would he come straight to the birthday banquet instead of secretly handling the case? Why did Fan Xian’s earlier expression seem to indicate that he knew that someone was coming to assassinate Lord Titus? Why did Fan Xian say that the other party had arrived earlier than he had?

His mind was spinning rapidly, knowing that this matter must have something to do with that small island in the East China Sea, except that he wasn’t Chang Kun, he didn’t know about the existence of the Junshan Society, and was only vaguely aware that his Lord Governor was working for a certain organization, and so, listening to Fan Xian’s words that were deliberately made to sound like words, he couldn’t help but be caught up in an absurd imagination.

Dang Snapdragon stared somewhat anxiously at the man in black, looking at the Lord Governor in his hands, his temples somewhat red hot and painful, secretly thinking …… Could it be that the court wanted to investigate that organization, so that organization wanted to kill the Lord Governor to silence him, and that’s what drew young Lord Fan to condescend to come personally? Otherwise, why was Fan Xian in such a hurry earlier? Just this idea was not enough to move him, and he had a trace of doubt in his heart about the Supervisory Yuan, so he couldn’t help but sneak a glance at Fan Xian at this moment.

Fan Xian’s brows were locked, looking at the black-clothed man in a pool of blood, with indescribable worry and concern, and a sense of heaviness lingering.

“Don’t even come over, whoever comes over, I’ll kill him.” The man in black hissed and said, with a hint of harshness and confidence in his words.

Sailor Governor, this is a party of great officials, his life and death is bound to alarm the imperial court, and it will affect all the characters of the Jiaozhou sailors. So at this time in the garden a cadre of sailor generals, although anxious, but do not dare to move, for fear that the black-clothed man’s hand slightly shaking, Lord Chang’s head will be cut off.

Governor’s residence outside the navy officers and soldiers have long been surrounded, occupying the heights of the courtyard wall, have opened the bow, aiming at the man in black in the garden.

Surrounded by the army, how else could the black-clothed man escape?

Just that no one dared to order an attack either, the generals of the navy didn’t dare to take the responsibility, and looked at the Governor of Jiaozhou with extreme annoyance and caution.

At least nominally, this was an incident that happened in Jiaozhou city, and should be handled by the Jiaozhou governor.

Jiaozhou governor was shocked by these fervent gazes, woke up from his earlier fear and trepidation, and began to curse in his heart, thinking that you motherfucking sailors, you usually look down on yourselves, and when something big happens at this time, you want to push yourself to the front to block the arrows, and you won’t do it.

Jiaozhou governor biting his lip, at this time the highest status in the garden, naturally that just broke into the birthday banquet of the Supervisory Board, the Lord Fan Xian.

So all the people are looking at Fan Xian with bated breath, but the navy generals are a little afraid, this little Lord Fan is notorious for not loving life, quite valuing the face of the court, if he lets the navy sons and daughters release their arrows …… the Governor Lord may not survive.

Fan Xian, however, was still frowning, took a step forward, stared at the man in black and said: ”I don’t care what you are, but assassinating a court official is already a capital offense of copying and destroying a family …… My name is Fan Xian, you should know my identity, even if I let you go today, but I can still find out who you are …… Please believe me, as long as you let me know who you are, your parents, your wife and children, your friends, your companions when you were young, your townspeople, and even the townswoman who gave you a cup of water to drink on the road …… I will find out. ”

A gentle smile spread across his lips, “And I will kill them all.”

The field was quiet, only the rapid breathing of the officials could be vaguely heard, with the sound of the archers’ fingers rubbing the bowstring above the courtyard wall.

One of the navy generals was horrified, thinking that the most important thing was to save the governor, what could be the consequences of Fan Xian’s intimidation, and was about to open his mouth to say something when he was signaled to shut up by Dang Snapdragon with a frown.

Dang Snapdragon looked at Fan Xian’s silhouette with a strange look, knowing that Fan Xian’s words were an attack on his heart.

Fan Xian looked at the man in black and slowly said, “Put down Lord Titus and give a clear account of the person who directed him, and I …… will kill only you.”

“You can also kill Lord Titus, and then I will kill you, and at the same time kill those people who said that earlier.” Fan Xian stared at him and said, “Anyone in this world who is related to you, I will kill one by one.”

Dang Snapdragon’s heart settled a little, knowing that this method of Lord Tiji’s was one that had no choice in a desperate situation, depending on whether or not that assassin’s heart and defenses would be loosened.

“Little Lord Fan?” The man in black hissed and laughed, “I really didn’t expect you to come to Jiaozhou, this time there was some miscalculation.”

“It has nothing to do with me, even if I wasn’t here, you wouldn’t be able to escape.” Fan Xian said indifferently, “Rather, this official did not expect that you would actually strike so soon.”

The man in black paused and suddenly said with a cold smile, “Don’t try to set me up, I’m only here to kill, I don’t know why I want to kill this Lord Governor.”

“Is that so?” Fan Xian took a few more steps forward and said with a smile, “What do you and Mr. Yun call yourself?”

Everyone Yun? Dongyi City’s sword master Yun Zhilan? The first disciple of the Four Gu Swords? The people in the garden looked at each other, how did they not expect this sentence from Fan Xian, especially the generals of the navy were shocked beyond words, the Jiaozhou navy has always had some unclear relationship with Dongyi City, why would Dongyi City do such a thing today?

However, to be able to break into the Governor’s residence under heavy defense outside the residence, and not far from the main hall to kill so many people, indeed only those of the ninth grade of the assassins of the East Barbarians can do it.

The generals glared angrily at the man in black, but they didn’t dare to curse anything at all due to the presence of Fan Xian and the people from the Supervisory Court.

Dang Snapdragon still didn’t trust that judgment in his subconscious, still didn’t believe that the man in black was from Dong Yi City.

As expected, that man in black coldly said, “I am not someone from Dong Yi City, Yun Zhilan and I have nothing to do with each other, as for that old dog, the Four Gu Swords, don’t even mention it in front of me.”

Even if the other party wanted to conceal their identity, if they were truly from the Four Gu Swords lineage of Dong Yi City, it would be impossible for them to call the Four Gu Swords an old dog in front of the crowd. Hearing these words, the crowd knew that Fan Xian’s judgment was wrong, and that this man in black must have come from another source.

Fan Xian’s frown tightened, as if he couldn’t imagine that the man in black wasn’t from Dong Yi City, and he softly mocked to himself, “It seems that there are quite a few people who are stealing business from me.”

The man in black indifferently hissed, “Let go of a road and prepare three horses with three days’ worth of food and water three miles outside of the city, and I’ll put down the person in my hand.”

“How do I know if the person in your hand is dead or alive.” Fan Xian spoke in a colder tone than he did, appearing to care even less about Chang Kun’s death or life.

The man in black froze, perhaps realizing that he was no match for the Supervisory Court in terms of words or negotiation, and simply shut his mouth.

“You’re not afraid that I’ll poison the drinking water?” Fan Xian continued indifferently, “And the earlier threat, it seems like you really don’t care.”

“I won’t let you go.”

“If you want to kill Lord Titus, go ahead, what does it have to do with me?”

Although he knew that Fan Xian was attacking his heart, Dang Snapdragon looked at the Lord Governor in the black-clothed man’s hands and was still frightened by the words, while the sailor generals were even more anxious and screaming in a chaotic manner.

The man in black looked around and said with a cold smile, “You don’t care, some people do, and as for what you said earlier …… I’m an orphan, and no one in this world has ever been kind to me, so I don’t care if you kill everyone in this world afterward.”

Fan Xian bowed his head slightly, a strong sense of absurdity welling up in his heart. The man in black across the street was naturally Shadow, but it was just that this negotiation seemed to be playing out more and more like the real thing.

“Little white boy, make your decision quickly.” Seeing that the people in the garden were unable to deal with themselves, the man in black indifferently gave his final notice, the cold sword in his hand pressed against the back of Changkun’s neck in his hand.

“You say those three words again?” Fan Xian’s eyes narrowed slightly as a cold light shot past, one finger pointing coldly and murderously at the man in black’s face.

The man in black opened his lips and was about to say something.

Fan Xian’s finger in the air trembled slightly, and a black crossbow in his sleeve turned into black light and stabbed noiselessly!

The man in black let out a strange cry, not even having time to use Chang Kun to block his body, the entire person leaned back, his figure flickering twice in an extremely strange manner, dodging this shot of the dark crossbow.

And in this flash of lightning, Fan Xian had already bullied his way forward, flicking his finger right above his pulse, and with a flip of his wrist, he gripped the black-clothed man’s wrist.

Fling!

Using the momentum of a large split coffin to perform the reality of a small trick, Fan Xian himself was very satisfied with this move, and with a shake of his right arm, he pulled Chang Kun’s body back, followed by a point of his toes, entangling himself with the man in black into a single spot.

But a few moments of work, the two people will kill from the garden to the wall, transformed into two terrifying black shadows, with strange speed to kill, the sword out of no wind, fists out of no sound, but the power overflowed, will be the wall that the archer shook open a gap.

Inside the wall party primrose wave has long pounced over, catch the water division governor chang kun’s body, the eight officials of the supervision institute also do not go to help fan idle, but tense immensely blocked in front of the party primrose wave, afraid of a few more assassins will be killed by the lord chang, that kind of urgency, is very obvious.

Party primrose wave looked at the two black lights on the wall, shouted in fear: “Lord Fan retreat, release arrows release arrows!”

Not to mention the fact that Fan Xian had only just saved the governor of the navy, but in terms of Fan Xian’s own identity alone, there were some of the sergeants of this Qing dynasty who dared to release arrows at him.

With a bellow from the wall, Fan Xian was hit in the shoulder and a mouthful of blood sprayed out, while at the same time, his body shrank and the black dagger in his boot was sheathed, plunging directly into the chest of that black-clothed man!

And at this time, those archers were strangely in a messy formation, as if someone was messing around inside, making that gap a little bigger.

The severely injured man in black covered his chest and quickly swept through, waving his sword to behead several people, and then disappeared into the dark night.

A few sailor generals were about to lead their troops to chase after him, but they realized that the dark night was deep in Jiaozhou, and there was no trace of the assassin anywhere.

Fan Xian covered his left shoulder, somewhat annoyed that the shadow actually hit so hard, coughed twice, coughed out some blood, glanced around with a stern look and said, “All come back, don’t chase.”

At this time the navy generals are a little uneasy, some fear, but all look at the party primrose wave.

Party primrose wave eyes flickered, frowned and said: “The Lord of the Tisch has an order, who dares to disobey?”

Hearing this, the navy generals stopped their pursuit and hurried over to look at Lord Chang Kun’s injuries.

Fan Xian naturally also walked over, looked down, only to see chang kun chest wound some wide, do not want to know, the shadow moved certainly will be left by their own wounds covered extremely well, at this time chang kun has long been moribund, there is no air in and out of the air, seems to be at any time may be dead, just don’t know why, but not yet dead through.

“All get out of the way.” Fan Xian gave these generals a disgusted look and walked over.

Dang Snapdragon looked at his old superior’s miserable state and was at a loss as to what to do, but then he suddenly thought that young Lord Fan also had the status of being a divine doctor, so his heart instantly had a few more points of hope.

Fan Xian took a look, took a pulse, and finally shook his head, “Still alive, can’t be saved.” In fact, where need to take a pulse, people are his own kill, the last hanging life is also his own hanging, Chang Kun’s situation he is the most clear but.

The field of the generals such as a thunderclap, but know that the small Fan Lord will not say false, can not help but look at each other, simply do not know what to do next.

Dang Snapdragon’s body shook, his face pale, barely stabilized his body, but silently summoned a follower, whispered a few words in his ear, so that the follower rushed out of the city, transferring officers and soldiers in the naval division camp to come.

At this time the scene is unusually strange, although the party primrose wave also very grateful to the help of the Supervisory Yuan, but still feel that there is something odd about the matter, strong spirit, to Fan Xian salute: “Lord thousand gold body, the next official sense Pei inexplicable ……”

Before he could finish his words, Fan Xian had already intercepted, “What happened when the assassin fled earlier?”

Dang Snapdragon’s heart was startled, thinking, “Could it be that there was an assassin’s mole within the navy?

Fan Xian turned to the stunned Wu Ge Fei and said coldly, “Where are the state troops you were told to deploy? Immediately close the city gates and demand the murderer, at the same time, surround the mansion, all the navy soldiers will bow down and wait for the trial, no one is allowed to go out of the mansion door!”

“My lord!”

Two voices rang out at the same time, Wu Gefei was quick to accept this task willingly, whereas Dang Snapdragon felt great uneasiness from Fan Xian’s words and wanted to speak out against it.