Chapter 94 Sigh

Far from the capital of the Jiangnan territory, spring has caged the West Lake willow, West Lake on the side of Peng’s manor in the spring is more dense, along the mansion behind a sliver of green trees quickly stretching limbs, greedily sucking in the air of the humidity and one day warmer than one day of sunshine.

However, the master of this manor is not how happy, not to mention the leisure of stretching his waist, he bitter face, the recent days of Kyoto from the courtyard newspaper, and even the court of that lace newspaper are read once, still did not relax up.

At the very end, he whispered and exchanged with Shi Yanli about the news that came through the channels of the Moon Embracing Tower, finally confirming the trajectory of things, just as these intelligence said.

The Eldest Princess had been secluded in the Western City Residence, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince had traveled thousands of miles away to observe the ceremony in the Southern Zhao Kingdom under the Holy Order.

These were the two most immediate results of the incident as it currently appeared, so this young master of the manor couldn’t help but sigh and couldn’t help but shake his head repeatedly.

Shi Yanli looked at him curiously and asked: ”Sir, although I don’t know why His Majesty is angry, after this incident, Her Highness the Eldest Princess will no longer be able to turn against you in the imperial court and in the south of the Yangtze River, wouldn’t that be a great good thing? Why are you still so depressed?”

Fan Xian squinted at him and swallowed his words after a long while, waving his hand in a somewhat bored manner and saying, “Say again, you’d better hurry back to Suzhou to keep an eye on the Moon Embracing House.”

Shi Yanli left with his head full of confusion, and Wang Qinian, who knew the inside story of this matter well, flashed in, standing quietly behind Fan Xian, watching his lordship review all the information coming from Kyoto once again, without uttering a word.

For he knew exactly why Fan Xian was troubled.

“I worked so hard to make such a bureau, and in the end it turned out like this.” Fan Xian said somewhat helplessly, “The risk I took this time was big enough, and as a result …… that woman still survived, why is this?”

Wang Qinian glanced at him from the side, thinking …… that the eldest princess was, after all, the mother in law of the adult, and that this statement could not help but be a bit cold blooded.

To be able to straddle the middle between the Princess and the Emperor, to press down that bomb that Fan Xian had detonated with countless chi, of course, only that old man who had been in the deep palace for a long time, but Fan Xian still had a lot of puzzlement and skepticism about the course of this matter.

“A woman’s benevolence.”

He said with a frown.

These words weren’t just criticizing the emperor for finally calling it quits, they also represented a certain aspect of his suspicions. Why was the Eldest Princess so easily cleaned up by the Emperor’s old man without even making a decent counterattack? Even if he knew that the actions outside the palace were all set up by Lord President Chen himself, but with his knowledge of his mother in law …… she tied her hands so quietly, it really didn’t fit with that crazy name.

“I told you that the eldest princess is fond of His Majesty.” Fan Xian flattened his mouth and said, “It’s just that I didn’t think it would actually be obsessed to such a degree that she wouldn’t actually take the initiative to resist until His Majesty actually made a move and rose to kill …… What kind of world is this?”

Beside him, Wang Qinian’s face was odd. There was no reason for him not to be odd, as a vassal of the Qing Kingdom, even if he was no longer arrogant and rebellious, no one dared to say such treasonous words in his own yard.

Fan Xian had said it, even in front of him, forcing him to listen to it, and it was obvious that this was not the first time he had said this kind of topic.

Wang Qinian coughed twice sadly, he understood that his life, death, wealth and fortune had long been tightly linked to Little Lord Fan. Little Lord Fan was not at all worried that he would betray him, which was why he spoke so freely in front of himself.

Originally, this plan to expose the scandal of the royal family and force His Majesty’s hand was made by Fan Xian and Wang Qinian. The matter was so big that the other members of Qinian’s group did not even get a hint of what was going on, and as for Yan Bingyun, she was even completely kept in the dark.

The good thing is that Jiangnan is far away from the capital, Fan Xian and Wang Qinian set up the first hand in two months before bursting, even if it is a fairy, probably can not guess this thing and the two of them related.

Unless Hong Zhu suddenly had the courage to commit suicide and kill his friends.

“There are a few noteworthy points in the courtyard report.” Although he was doing something ungodly, Wang Qinian still couldn’t get used to talking about ungodly words, somewhat painfully pointing to a few places in the courtyard newspaper, he forcefully changed the topic and reminded, “The arson case of Hui Chun Hall, the patriarch’s fall from the horse, and the eunuch doctor’s horizontal death …… There is something strange about these three things.”

“Oh?” Fan Xian looked back at him, the courtyard report above did not link these three things together, the palace would not allow anyone with a heart to see the entanglements within, the problem was that the two of them knew these three places too well, of course they knew what the root cause of these things was, “Don’t you think that it’s the Princess Crown Prince who killed and killed?”

“That’s just medicine, medicine doesn’t count as any evidence at all.” Wang Qinian forehead wrinkles are extremely deep, “Your Highness the Princess and the Crown Prince are not stupid people, by what right did they make these confusing things while investigating in the palace.”

“This is also what I find strange, we are keeping these alive in preparation for His Majesty’s trial.” Fan Xian pondered, “But obviously His Majesty didn’t try them, so how could he conclude that matter?”

“There’s more.” He pointed to the paper and said seriously, “The palace didn’t investigate, the eldest princess shouldn’t have admitted her own dirt …… on these three Tsubaki cases, who actually did it?”

Fan Xian’s brow wrinkled, at this time in hindsight, these three places alive is indeed better than dead, his own original conception, in this link, there are indeed some problems …… and now he pondered, who helped to make this bureau into an earthly dead, so that His Majesty can not be examined, and only with his own suspicions made the final decision?

When they were still in Kyoto, he and Wang Qinian had vaguely sensed that a force seemed to be doing something similar to themselves, only at that time they were afraid of spooking the snakes and had not dared to investigate in detail.

“It shouldn’t be someone else.” Wang Qinian sighed.

Fan Xian also sighed and shook his head, “There’s no one else besides our one.”

“His Highness the Crown Prince went to Nanzhao ……,” the study did not calm down for long, and Fan Xian voiced the question hovering in his mind, “According to the time inference, by this time, he should have already passed Yingzhou and continued southward. Why do you think His Majesty made this arrangement? The courtiers in the court are definitely still speculating and still can’t figure out why the matter of the Princess would involve the Crown Prince. But you and I surely know clearly that His Majesty will never tolerate a son who disgraces the royal family and inherits the throne. Going to the Southern Zhao to observe the ceremony …… Chengqian can still come back?”

Wang Qinian was silent, not daring to answer this question.

Fan Xian looked at him with a smile and said, “You and I don’t know how many things we’ve done to strain the nine clans, so what’s the harm in discussing it.”

Wang Qinian laughed bitterly, realizing how shameless his lordship’s intentions were in reminding him once again, and shook his head, “I don’t think there should be anything this way. Even if His Majesty already has the intention to abolish the Crown Prince, it’s unlikely that he would choose this time to throw it out.”

“Makes sense.” Fan Xian gently tapped the table, “Just as I thought, this His Majesty of ours, who wants to be wise and valiant and leave a mark on history, is trying every possible means to suppress this matter, and is absolutely unwilling to let people talk about it. This trip to the crown prince to go to Nanzhao, one is to flow him out of Kyoto, slowly planning the abolition of the Crown Prince, the second ……”

He frowned, suddenly thinking of the poisonous mist that pervaded that part of Nanzhao, when Yan Xiaoyi had led his troops in the southern expedition seven or eight years ago, the casualties of the soldiers were basically due to this scourge.

“The miasma invades the body, and the crown prince is gradually getting weaker ……” Wang Qinian uttered these words before he snapped out of it, and his own boldness in speaking is really getting bigger.

Fan Xian bitterly smiled and picked up, “If it’s really you and me thinking like this, your majesty …… is really powerful.”

A complex look flashed across his eyes, only Wang Qinian didn’t notice.

“It’s a pity that it wasn’t fully accomplished.” Fan Xian sighed, “How do you think the eldest princess didn’t die?”

This was the second time today that he was nakedly sorry. Wang Qinian felt that there was something odd, the eldest princess had lost her power, after all, his lordship was the son-in-law of the other party, no matter whether it was in terms of human decency or pro-doctrine, he shouldn’t have said so.

Wang Qinian is not clear, Fan Xian since entering the Kyoto, subconsciously is very afraid of the Princess, because against the other people, you can use intrigue and power to compete, but against a world celebrated its crazy power figure, Fan Xian is difficult to guess the other side will make what kind of crazy reaction.

This uncertainty gave Fan Xian a headache.

Especially with this change in the Kyoto palace palace exams, Fan Xian always found it hard to believe that it would end this way – with the Princess in a place of death, why didn’t those forces of hers make a last-ditch counterattack? What about the military’s great old men? What about Yan Xiaoyi’s attitude? If it was said that things happened too swiftly, the military didn’t have the time to react …… But what about Ye Liuyun?

Fan Xian knew better than anyone that Ye Liuyun’s position as a provider in the Junshan Society, and in Suzhou City, he had also been scared by that broken building with a sword and his soul nearly fell off, even though the Junshan Society was a loose organization, but the eldest princess would definitely not be as untouchable as it seemed to be nowadays.

Earlier, he had analyzed with Wang Qinian about the crazy monstrous love that the eldest princess had for the emperor, but that was just the rhetoric that Fan Xian used to convince himself that he didn’t believe in it.

It was only that there were some things in this human world, and perhaps it was the very things that people did not believe in that were the truest reasons.

Fan Xian sighed and lamented at his desk, still unable to stop his long sighs after Wang Qinian left. Wang Qinian closed the door to his room and subconsciously shook his head, thinking that although the Princess didn’t die, from now on, no one in the court was a rival to Fan Tisi, so the result was already very good, why did Lord Tisi sigh?

In fact, the reason is very simple – Fan Xian is not a loyal courtier, not to mention a pure courtier, what he envisioned is just to watch the tiger and crane fight in Jiangnan, each injured.

He wanted the Princess to fall, but he wouldn’t trust the Emperor’s old man either. What he sighed for was that the Emperor’s tactics seemed to have come faster and stronger than he had imagined, and that the Emperor’s power hadn’t suffered the slightest loss.

Fan Xian sat alone in his study, silently analyzing everything that had happened in Kyoto, and he vaguely sensed that the eldest princess might perhaps be waiting obstinately for the emperor’s thunderous wrath because of her insane affection, and the emperor was clearly holding back. Was it affection? Fan Xian did not believe this.

He turned over the letters under the courtyard newspaper, and after reading them for the second time and meditating for a moment, he began to write a reply. The letters came from his home in Kyoto, one from his father and one from Wan’er, mainly about Si Si and the child in her womb, all safe and sound, not needing to worry too much.

However, in Wan Er’s letter, she naturally mentioned the matter of the Princess, although she didn’t say anything explicitly, but she also seemed to want Fan Xian to say something in the palace.

Fan Xian once again sighed bitterly, he was clear that his wife was a rare intelligent person, of course she knew what kind of irreconcilability was behind everything that was covered up, but she still wrote to let herself talk, which only proved that Wan’er always still had a mother-daughter bond with the Eldest Princess.

This is a very natural thing, the emperor is cold-blooded, Fan Xian is cold-blooded, it doesn’t mean that the people under this sky, the people of the imperial family are all cold-blooded animals.

Fan Xian carefully wrote his reply, to his father’s side, of course, to express his shock and doubt, to Wan Er’s reply to the main persuasion, at the same time greeted Si Si that girl.

Then he began to write the sonata, to the emperor’s secret, in the sonata, although did not directly plead for mercy for the eldest princess, but also vaguely expressed a bit as a son of man should have concern. After he finished writing it, he carefully checked it several times, confirming that this kind of attitude would neither make the emperor think he was hypocritical nor make him angry, so he sealed the fire lacquer and let his subordinates send it out by first class mail.

After all this, Fan Xian only slightly put down his heart, these months in Jiangnan although free, but in fact, the eyes have been staring at the Kyoto place, the mental pressure is very huge.

Though things were not in agreement, but basically according to his idea in progress, he finally relaxed a little, pull open the drawer of the secret room, take out the seven leaves and his own more than a year’s effort to transcribe the three major workshops in the inner library of the process of fuming.

Although this process flow was not the entirety of the inner treasury, Fan Xian knew clearly that if this thing did circulate to Northern Qi, it would really cause horrible consequences.

His eyes narrowed, secretly thinking that this time, although it was himself and Chen Pingping secretly subconsciously joining hands and playing with the Emperor for once, in the end, they were only playing with the details, and as for the big picture, it might be the Emperor who was playing with himself.

“Wang XIII Lang has also been idle for a bit too long.”

Fan Xian thought like this, then got up, packed up everything, and left the manor by the West Lake.