Chapter 95 The Pit

At the West Lake in Hangzhou, near the end of the day, the lake and mountains were all blended into the golden light, which was indescribably beautiful. In this twilight, Fan Xian, who was single, came to the top of a hill by the lake, looked at the young man holding a green streamer, inclined his head, and said, “I heard that you have recently been telling fortunes in Hangzhou city, and have gained the favor of some big ladies?”

The young man holding the green streamer was naturally the shut-in disciple of the Four Gu Swords of Dongyi City, the ninth rank expert who had helped Fan Xian kill Yan Shenduo. Regarding this person’s existence, and the help he gave himself afterward, Fan Xian had always found it a bit absurd, like those pioneer dramas he had heard of in his previous life, which left a bad taste in his mouth no matter how one savored it.

Four Gu Jian that idiot although it seems to think clearly, but in fact, Fan Xian always feel that this matter is too nonsense, although the world is not many people know the relationship between Wang Xulang and Four Gu Jian, but if Fan Xian turned his face away from the account, Four Gu Jian how to explain to the Princess or Yan Xiaoyi side?

Wang Thirteen Lang’s face was facing towards the direction of the West Lake, and the faint golden light reflected against his handsome facial favor, gilded with a layer of delightful radiance that was extremely gentle.

“Nowadays, the entire Jiangnan knows that I am your personal expert, my lord.” The young man smiled amiably and said, “Naturally those officials will also give me a few points. This fortune-telling business, of course, can’t be any worse.”

A light wind came from the lake, up along the hairy green tree under the hill, only slightly driving the corner of the green streamer in Thirteen Lang’s hand, but it happened to reveal the word Iron Phase.

After experiencing the fiasco of the Merchants’ Bank encroaching on the Ming family’s shares, those who had been in the Ming Garden at that time had already guessed that this young man standing behind the Merchants’ Bank’s treasurer must be the expert that Lord Xiao Fan used to monitor the Bank.

The heart of the Lord of the Chinatrust, naturally mixing well in the Jiangnan area.

“It’s a good thing you don’t have the habit of scourging good girls.” Fan Xian laughed and stood to his side, inclining his head to look at him, a wave of complex emotions flooding his heart.

A green hill on the shore of the lake, the lake reflecting golden light and moisturizing his face with light. This scene made Fan Xian think of the man closest to him in the world on the cliffs of Tanyu many years ago, who also seemed to be surrounded by a bright cloud of light.

The man covered in a black cloth seemed to be saying goodbye to somewhere, so where was Thirteen Lang? Fan Xian subconsciously shook his head, not understanding why he always had the habit of associating this man with that blind uncle.

He missed Five Bamboos. Especially in such a peaceful situation in Jiangnan, he didn’t know if Uncle Five Bamboo’s injuries had actually recovered, and even Chen Pingping didn’t know exactly where Five Bamboo was hiding to recuperate from his injuries.

And what kind of injury actually took more than a year to recuperate?

Fan Xian’s brows furrowed.

Wang Xulang gave him a curious look and asked, “Lord Fan, you have something on your mind?”

“Yes.” Fan Xian did not hesitate and said directly, “I have something I need your help with.”

“What is it?”

“The Crown Prince of my dynasty is heading towards Nanzhao, and with the poisonous fog and treacherous roads along the way, I’m a little worried about his health.” Fan Xian said with a calm face.

Wang XIII Lang frowned slightly, his breathing slightly heavier, and after pondering for a long time, he slowly said, “The forbidden army, the Supervisory Court plus the Tiger Guards of Qing, how tight this defense is, even if I die, I don’t see how I can get close to him.”

Fan Xian laughed, “You misunderstand me.”

Wang Thirteen Lang looked at him, not saying a word.

“Bring him the antidote pills for me.” Fan Xian bowed his head slightly, as if he was avoiding the golden light that was getting thicker on the lake, “Protect him secretly for me, and make sure he’s safe along the way.”

Wang Thirteen Lang’s brows furrowed even tighter, completely unable to understand why Fan Xian suddenly threw out this task, after hesitating for a little while, he said softly, “Why? With my understanding of the situation in Kyoto, Qing, the eldest princess is in seclusion, the crown prince is obviously going to lose power as well, and under the Emperor of Qing, there’s no one else who can stand up to you.”

Fan Xian smiled, not knowing how to explain, so he simply did not.

“What exactly happened in Kyoto?” Wang XIII Lang asked curiously like a child, “This matter wouldn’t have anything to do with you, would it?”

He subconsciously used the honorific you. Fan Xian, however, puked and said in a bad mood, “I’m in Jiangnan, so I can’t reach out to Kyoto even if I have a long hand.”

Wang Thirteen Lang thought for a moment and recognized this explanation of his, scratching his head before saying, “But …… as the Crown Prince has traveled all the way south, it seems as though your majesty has something in mind. Lord Fan, you want me to protect him, could it be that you guessed something? But if my guess is right …… you are like this, aren’t you going against your majesty? Nowadays, I have long become a secret known to all, so openly opposing your majesty like this, isn’t your honor worried?”

“Spare me, don’t make any wild guesses.” Fan Xian sighed, “This has nothing to do with His Majesty, it is purely a request from Wan’er’s letter, I am after all, falsely, half a son of the royal family, so I always have to give something.”

Wang Thirteen Lang laughed, knowing that he was telling a lie, but not revealing it.

Fan Xian frowned at him and said, “Don’t smile like a rabbit, at this point it seems that you’re not a dumbass ……”

Wang Thirteen Lang spread his hands and said, “When have I ever been stupid?”

“When I killed Brother Little Arrow.” At this time, Fan Xian, had long since learned from Thirteen Lang’s mouth, the specific process at that time during the night attack on Yuan Tai’s camp, knowing that Thirteen Lang’s bravery that day, had sent countless exclamations, and at this time repeated once again, “Fierce warriors …… die very easily.”

Wang Thirteen Lang scoffed to himself, “I’m probably only used to this way of sparring.”

Somehow, Fan Xian suddenly thought of Lin Qingxia’s performance as Brother Fierce, and ridiculously laughed to himself, then gently patted Wang Thirteen Lang on the shoulder in his bewildered gaze, “Your master asked you to follow me, I think it must be for something that will happen many years from now……. Since that’s the case, it’s better to be sparing of some lives …… Nanzhao that line, you secretly follow on good, can not out of course the best.”

He said after a moment of silence, “I’m not trying to coerce you, it’s just that the Ming family is now in my hands, and the power of the inner treasury line east road is also in my hands, you should be clear that in the past two months, I’ve cooperated well with your master, so please help me with this small favor.”

Watching the green streamer disappear into the golden willows along the lake, Fan Xian fell silent and squatted down, sitting on his butt on the green hill, looking at the beautiful West Lake and the broken bridge that didn’t exist and never existed in a daze.

If Wang Qinian, who knew the inside story, knew about this arrangement of his. He would have been scared half to death, thinking that he was suffering from insanity. However, Fan Xian was clear that he was not crazy.

Previously, he wanted to bring down the crown prince because if the crown prince succeeded to the throne, he would not have a good life. At this time, he wanted to save the crown prince’s life, but he wanted to create trouble for the Qing Emperor – because once the Princess and the crown prince were completely hiccuped, there was no buffer between him and the Emperor, and the reduction of power was something that was coming soon. Fan Xian was more worried about the safety of Chen Pingping and Fan Jian.

Fan Xian knew in his heart that Emperor Qing was a person who wanted fame, which could be fully observed from this palace incident. A royal scandal, the emperor in order to cover up this matter, not hesitate to kill hundreds of people in the palace, but also has been suppressed under the case for a long time in the East China Sea island slaughter thing, betrayal of the details of the speech Bingyun are thrown out.

In this way, the collapse of the eldest princess will have a very real reason, but the emperor has to go around so many corners, indicating that he does not want his reputation to suffer the slightest damage, this is not a scandal of the royal family, this is the scandal of the eldest princess, that’s all.

And for the arrangement of the crown prince also explains this point, the emperor must be very headache in how to abolish the crown prince, he is not willing to slap his own slap, the crown prince in the last two years show so pure and peaceful, the emperor can find what excuse?

Many things were sure to happen during the Nanzhao trip, and Fan Xian had sent Wang Thirteen Lang, a variable, over to digest some of those things.

Fan Xian was not so stupid as to bail the crown prince out again, he just wanted to create some small trouble for the emperor, so that the emperor would not notice himself so early on, notice the Merchants’ Money Bank, and have thoughts about the two old men behind him.

He missed Uncle Wuzhu, and he knew clearly that there were many people he cared about in this world of Qing Guo, and for the sake of those people, he had to stay here. If it was just Fan Xian himself, he really wasn’t afraid or worried about anything, even if he broke with the Emperor’s old man, he could still be very arrogant, very pretentious and give the middle finger on the Imperial City.

In the eyes of the Second Prince and many smart people, everything around Fan Xian was actually some paper power that was simply unbeatable. He himself is also clear that the people of this world have an innate worship of imperial power, not to mention the Supervisory Yuan, even his Qiyan group, Duke Xiaoyan, who sits far away from Kyoto in the courtyard, might stand in opposition to himself because of a decree.

Yet even if everything around him was all taken away by a single decree of the Emperor, he would not be afraid, would not be caught in the words of the Elder Words.

Because he had the heart of a modern man who had stopped for a long time, he had never had the slightest reverence for such things as imperial power, because he had the ability to discuss with Seven Leaves with each other and put together a copy of the inner treasury’s craftsmanship, and because he himself was a Ninth Grade expert who was good at killing people.

He also had the box, the Emperor’s Concubine of Northern Qi, and Uncle Five Bamboo.

Fan Xian sat silently on the green hill by the West Lake, squinting at the reddish twilight clouds in the distance, and thinking in his heart, if one day he was forced to give the middle finger to that imperial city, what a spectacular scene it would be!

Qing country is the first powerful country in the world, the eldest princess Li Yunrui in the past this decade or so, hidden behind the emperor of Qing country, did many things, secretly Yin the other two parties of the big power countless benefits, such as the excuse of the assassins of Beiqi and Dongyi city to murder the illegitimate son of the minister Fan, and then start the war provocation, captured a large part of the territory of Beiqi, such as backhandedly sold the Yan Bingyun with the north of Beiqi in exchange for Sean to return to the north, but disturbed the north of Beiqi court for a period of chaos. The two parties of the emperor and the queen are in conflict again.

But it is very amazing, the eldest princess and the north qi empress dowager, between the east yi city four gu sword, has always still maintain a good relationship, even about the inner treasury, there is a lot of cooperation.

It was also unknown what those people from foreign countries actually thought.

But no matter how one thinks about it, the sudden seclusion of the Princess brought a violent shock to many parts of the world, causing many people to begin to think about things that are and are not there, such as Fan Xian who began to shift his strategic center of gravity to that Son of Heaven.

As for the two places, Bei Qi and Dong Yi City, those people who were high up in the world would naturally give their own judgment.

That great master in Dongyi City had sent his most pleased shut-in disciple to Fan Xian’s side, not realizing that this shut-in disciple had been sent as a bodyguard by Fan Xian again. Of course, he wasn’t concerned about that right now, he was only concerned about the matter of the Eldest Princess being secluded.

Spring is thick, spring is thick, Dongyi City which is located on the coast of the sea is full of salty and wet flavor, the warm wind trend of the sea blows gently like this all year round, so the people in the city don’t have too much gratitude for this spring.

Dongyi City in the middle, is the city master’s residence, covers an extremely wide area, the city master is responsible for leading the city should be specific political affairs, this to commercial prosperity of the city, the so-called political affairs, in fact, is the business, law and order and other issues rarely appear, because there is no what Jiang Yang Daobao dared to in the whole world of the ninth grade masters of the most places to take a shot.

Except for Wang Qinian who was still young back then.

Everyone knows, really guides the direction of Dongyi City, decide the survival of Dongyi City place, not in the City Lord’s mansion, but outside the city that stretches a hut in the grass.

Grass hut around a concave shape, and it is very strange, the opening is not to the road, on the contrary, is in the back against the mountain. If someone wants to enter this hut, they need to go around to the back of the mountain, along the mountain road and down.

Legend has it that this is the easiest way for the Four Gu Swords to test visitors.

In the middle of the concave-shaped grass hut is a large pit, which is piled up with sword branches left behind by masters who once came to challenge the Four Gu Swords and ask for advice, like a chaotic forest, stabbing towards the sky.

Beginning out of the hut as a great master was not that good.

The good thing is that this kind of challenge trend in that big pit gradually full, finally ended, no one will be stupid enough to challenge four gu sword again, as for those who really have so stupid …… has died in the hut.

This is the world of martial arts practitioners worship and admiration to read and forget the heart of the holy land …… sword hut.

Some people also call it the sword mound.

Very beautiful, very realm of the name.

However, the Four Gu Swords would only use one name to describe the holy ground next to their residence – the Sword Pit.

“This is a pit.” A mocking voice came out from within the grass hut, and the owner of the voice seemed to be very young, “That bastard Emperor Qing, and that crazy bitch Li Yunrui, do you really think I’m an idiot?”

And outside the grass hut, the renowned generation of sword art master Yun Zhilan honestly knelt at the bottom of the stone steps, listening to this somewhat young voice.