Chapter 106 – Wash Your Hands and Get Rid of the Officials

Fan Xian washed his hands very carefully, changing a total of three pots of water before he washed the blood off his hands. The servants then poured the blood into the tree roots and mud next to the stone lion at the main entrance of the Fan Mansion, not knowing if it would raise any vicious spirits. His body clothes are still full of blood stains, do not care to take off, replaced by a fresh coat, the shirt slightly swinging in the early fall night wind.

All of this dramatic scene was completed at the main entrance of the Fan Mansion, where Sun Jingxiu, the prefect of Kyoto, the chief official of the Ministry of Justice, and the inner court eunuchs who had rushed to the palace on hearing the news, all saw it all clearly and distinctly.

Fan Xian’s hands that were exposed outside his sleeves were still trembling a little, after all, the loss of six or seven days in a row was too great to be recovered from a single night’s sleep, coupled with the fact that earlier, under the cover of the darkness of the night, he had taken the sword in his hand and had reaped the lives of those responsible for surveillance outside of the mansion like a demon, another great loss that had caused his face to turn a little slightly white.

Yingxiu’s slightly white face, paired with that sword on the ground, and the smell of blood all around him made Fan Xian at this moment look particularly terrifying.

He was the current President of the Supervisory Academy, the Supervisory Academy had spent twenty years to cultivate the God of Killing in the dark night, only that in the past, people were always blinded by his identity, his title, his position of power, and his luster, and could not have imagined that Fan Xian, the person, the most powerful place was still in his ability to kill people.

Of course, the palace sent out to monitor the eyes of the Fan House was not killed by him all, but all can grab in Fan Xian hands before the escape, or show the identity of the people, are just by his charm to the ground, as for those from the Fan House exceptionally close to the scope of a street and alley, disguised as a variety of citizens and tradesmen look like the eyes of the people, there is no negotiation to show the weakness of the opportunity, will become his hands on the blade of the blade with a strand of ghosts.

Waking up from that nightmare, with his eyes free from the cold stimulation of the snowy mountain, Fan Xian launched a counterattack within the first hour, only this counterattack inevitably appeared to be a bit too bloody and unjustified.

Fan Xian wasn’t a person who was eager to kill, and he also knew that those eyes outside the Fan Mansion were people sent by His Majesty the Emperor and the important ministers in the imperial court, who were not clear about Fan Xian’s psychological condition at this time, and naturally needed to be on guard. However, he had to kill, because the first accurate judgment he made after opening his eyes was that the Emperor was definitely going to cut his own power, and was going to tightly control the connection between himself and those loyal to his Ministry of Supervision.

Although Yan Bingyun, with the help of the palace and the suppression of the military forces, had nominally taken control of that square and gloomy building, everyone knew that after Chen Pingping’s tragic death in front of the palace, there was only one master left in this gloomy courtyard, and that was Fan Xian, and as long as Fan Xian was able to re-construct his inextricable connection with the Supervisory Yuan, then even His Majesty the Emperor could no longer prevent Fan Xian from successfully gathering the Supervisory Yuan’s The Emperor will not be able to stop Fan Xian from gathering the power of the Supervisory Yuan.

At least for a short period of time, the Emperor would not allow Fan Xian to have the help of the Supervisory Yuan again. With Ye Chong leading his troops to invite Fan Xian back to the capital, and with so many eyes planted outside of his residence, it was clear that the Emperor wanted to put Fan Xian under house arrest for the time being.

Fan Xian can’t give the emperor this kind of time to gradually arrange, once Fan Xian and the Supervisory Yuan are out of contact for too long, the court will naturally gradually break down the composition of the Supervisory Yuan’s internal personnel, and invite those officials loyal to Chen Pingping and Fan Xian out one by one, and then desperately mix the sand into it, just like two years ago, letting the Duzha Academy mix the sand into the Supervisory Yuan.

Fan Xian must rush before the Supervisory Yuan is out of his control, and proactively, hierarchically, and preparedly allow those forces that belong to him to return to the darkness, to the calm, and wait for the time when he needs them again, and all of this is based on the fact that Fan Xian must reach out to them, and reach out to the most loyal …… Qiyan group .

The eyes outside the Fan Mansion must die, and Fan Xian would not risk this dangerous endeavor with someone following him. Under the suppression of His Majesty the Emperor’s authority, the only way to reveal gaps in the surveillance outside the Fan Mansion was through the horrors of blood and death; there was no other way.

The earlier news that a crow had risked his life to deliver into the Fan Mansion had further chilled Fan Xian’s heart and strengthened his hand on the sword.

There were two officials of the Procuratorate who had already been hanged in prison, not the heads of the Eight Divisions, and it appeared that Yan Bingyun was still desperately trying to preserve the viable forces of the Procuratorate, yet he had never been able to keep those two officials.

Those two officials were the very people who had tried to force their way out and save the old dean when Chen Pingping had been sent to the Heavenly Prison of the Supervisory Academy the night before, His Majesty the Emperor would certainly not allow the existence of officials who dared to defy his will, so they died a clean death.

For Fan Xian, this was a danger signal, a danger signal that His Majesty the Emperor was beginning to cleanse the Supervisory Academy, so he too took action, without utilizing any insufficient power or using any subordinates at his disposal, he simply stepped out of the high threshold of the Fan Mansion himself, drew the cold long sword behind him, and walked through the darkness of the night, killing fourteen people.

The lanterns at the main entrance of the Fan Mansion were hanging high, and the torches were gathered in the long streets of the southern city, illuminating them as if they were daytime. Several officials looked at the bloody corpses that were carried out from the streets and alleys in all directions, looking at each other with chills in their hearts and pale faces, not knowing how to speak. They had always known deep down that this Little Lord Fan was not a powerful character who played by the rules, but they still couldn’t figure out why Little Lord Fan had to risk His Majesty’s wrath and have him arrested and imprisoned, killing so many people in front of so many people.

Yes, the officials knew very well that those dead bodies piled up in the carriage were all powerful scouts sent out from the palace as well as from their own magistracies, and the target was this young lord in the Fan residence, so it was no wonder that the young lord was so angry. However, the follow-up means of anger is such brutal killing?

From the inner court, to the Supervisory Yuan, to the Ministry of Criminal Affairs …… of the Qing dynasty above the court of various government offices, I am afraid that have been accustomed to send scouts to listen to their own needs of news and intelligence, especially the first two terrible existence, but also don’t know in the major princes and dukes of Kyoto, ministers of the house inserted how many spies, the Supervisory Yuan is more of this kind of thing to do the veteran, according to the rumor that, one of the current situation is now in the palace of the king, ministers house. Rumor has it that a place has now achieved the level of inserting spikes in the residence of every capital official above the sixth rank.

About the nail thing, in the officialdom in Kyoto is not a secret, the officials have been accustomed to this point, even if the officials one day because of some strange things, found in the house of the palace or the inspectorate of spies, they still only stupidly pretend not to know, if it is really can not pretend to go on, but also have to be a good offer, and then in the words of the other party to remind a few times, and politely send the other party out of the house, send back to the other side of the government office. The officials know very well that these spies are not the only ones in the government, but they are the only ones who have the right to be there.

Because the officials were clear that these secret agent spikes represented the eyes of His Majesty, the majesty of the court, they had never thought that an official would be like today’s Little Lord Fan, extremely cold and arrogant, killing all of these spikes.

The vice minister of the Ministry of Justice glanced at the embarrassed Sun Jingxiu and lowered his voice, “Lord Sun, how exactly did this come back today, you’ll have to ask the young lord.”

Killing a man in the street is a capital offense in the Qing law, even if Fan Xian is now both honorable and noble, and has entered the scope of the Eight Discussions, he can be exempted from capital punishment, but it is still difficult to forgive the crime of living, not to mention that all the people he killed today are still members of the imperial court in the bottom of the dark. Fan Xian just like that in the firelight surrounded by washing the bloody hands, in front of the face of all the officials to change the bloody clothes, face cold and calm, who dares to go up to catch him?

At this time among the officials, the only Kyoto prefect Sun Jingxiu should manage this matter, and it is well known that the Sun House and the young master’s relationship with the proximity of the young master, a few months ago, the young master also for the Sun Jingxiu’s future and the door under the Chinese Minister of the He University of the great kill a big fight, killed the He University of the face, so all the officials of the eyes fell on the Sun Jingxiu’s face.

Sun Jingxiu’s heart is like eating a bitter yellow fever, he knows what these colleagues are afraid of, just these days he is even more difficult, first of all, the Supervisory Yuan had a big event, as a result of the old President Chen was brutally lynched, and that day he watched Little Lord Fan single rider killed into the court, but also scared cold, he did not know Little Lord Fan in the future of the courtroom will play a role in what kind of role, is it just sink, or will be His Majesty’s severe punishment! ……

If Fan Xian collapsed and lost his power, Sun Jingxiu naturally didn’t have a good ending, so he had been waiting in fear for His Majesty’s decree to take over the government in Kyoto Mansion for the whole day, and he didn’t expect that, in the end, before His Majesty’s decree arrived, his own backer, Little Lord Fan, had done such a shocking and treasonous thing again.

He ricketyly walked to the main entrance of the Fan Mansion and extremely solemnly and solemnly bowed deeply to Fan Xian, then softly asked a few questions.

Fan Xian was sitting wearily on a bench at the moment, with the Great Wei Heavenly Son Sword thrown at his feet, and wasn’t too surprised to see Sun Jingxiu come forward, responding coldly with a few words.

Those officials fear not dare to go forward, also do not know what these two actually said, had to wait patiently. After Sun Jingxiu walked down from the stone steps, the Ministry of Justice frowned and said: “How did the little lord say? This is not a small matter, killing someone in the street, even if it goes to the Taishang Temple, there has to be an explanation.”

Let the Ministry of Justice thirteen Yamen manpower into the Fan House to arrest people, the minister of the Lord does not have the courage, but the Qing law is strict, these officials watched the scene, can not be treated as nothing to see.

I don’t know what Fan Xian and Sun Jingxiu said earlier, this Kyoto prefect didn’t have too much trepidation, and said calmly, “The young lord said, recently Kyoto is not peaceful, the inspector general’s office found that some people’s mothers-in-law came into the capital to abduct children, and you also know that there are two little grandparents in the Fan Mansion, so the young lord Fan naturally had some nervousness, and so he took a walk in the streets and lanes outside the mansion after the meal earlier and saw some eye-catching characters, and he saw some people who had been arrested. I saw some eye-catching characters, a look is not serious people, so I interrogated a few, I did not expect that those people are dog courage, actually took out the murder weapon to the little lord murder, the little lord of course will not be polite with these traitors.”

This word out, surrounded by the center of these officials sucked in a breath of cold air, have seen shameless and venomous power, but have not seen such shameless and venomous power, fourteen lives ah, say kill kill, but also hard planted the other side of a person suspected of granny, this is self-defense, it seems to say that, just say the Fan House of the young master single-handedly went to ask the whereabouts of the human granny, and the result is fourteen guys chased and killed, this word said the sky to go! , no one would believe it either.

“This official naturally doesn’t believe it, but this official doesn’t have any evidence either. Of course, it’s also possible to ask the young lord to go back to the Yamen to ask questions and record a confession or something, it’s just that the night is already late at this time, and this official doesn’t have this interest.” Sun Jingxiu’s waist suddenly straightened up, looked at the side of a few colleagues indifferently said, “All of you adults on the Yamen also have such rights, if you are willing to take over this case, as much as you can make your own way …… However, this official would like to remind all of you, basically all the dead are the people in the palace, the palace has not issued a word, we all It is best not to act rashly.”

This is a big piece of nonsense, who all know what kind of people died outside the Fan House today, this is originally between His Majesty the Emperor and the young lord, give these officials a few guts they don’t dare to intervene, it’s just that Fan Xian has gone too far today, and the matter is about to be transmitted into the palace, if these officials themselves don’t react in advance, who knows what the palace thinks of them?

Sun Jingxiu finished this sentence, will take the Kyoto government officials left, no longer lazy to care about these things, earlier and Fan Xian simple a few words of conversation, he ate a pill, although the taste of this pill is not very good, but at least the young master said, as long as he does not die, Sun House will be fine, the words have been said to this, Sun Jingxiu don’t have any grudges, everything is with the fate of the bar.

Watching the people of the Kyoto government left the main gate of the Fan House, Fan Xian stood up from the bench, coldly glanced at the officials under the stone steps, from the feet of the pick up that the world regarded as a treasure of the Great Wei Son of Heaven sword, like picking up a mop with water, casually in the head of the stone lions snapped two times.

This style is like a shameless and life-threatening Shui San’er, but it is the little Lord Fan who did it, a strong contrast, so that the faces of those officials have changed.

When he entered the mansion, a maid came forward and handed him a thick robe. Only then did Fan Xian feel warmer, and while tightening his robe, he walked towards the back of the mansion, casually asking: ”Has the water from the reed root boiled up yet? If it’s boiled, hurry up and send it over.”

The maid answered and went to the kitchen to keep an eye on it. Fan Xian walked alone to the back of the house, sat down on the edge of the bed, and whispered to his wife, Lin Wan’er, who was at the table, “Fourteen were killed, and twenty-eight might be coming tomorrow.”

“In fact, those are also just court subordinates, subject to the orders of the palace and the various ministries and offices, why do you suffer ……,” Lin Wan’er’s face showed a trace of intolerance, said, “Besides, even if you are not happy in your heart, and want to avenge the deaths in prison of the two subordinates of the Procuratorate, it’s not as if you’re spreading fire on those people.”

“You don’t understand, His Majesty is trying to keep me under house arrest in this mansion, but he knows full well that unless he personally goes out of the palace to keep an eye on me, it’s impossible to block my contact with the outside world, even if Ye Chong comes.” Fan Xian wiped a handful of cold sweat from his forehead, feeling that his body was still a bit weak, and said in a sandy voice, “His Majesty has a lot of work to do in the day, so how could he possibly keep an eye on me personally, so he only had to cast a large net, a net that was outside of this mansion of ours.”

“I must tear this net apart, or else I will become a frog in a pot of warm water and die without knowing how I died.” A palpitating chill rose between Fan Xian’s brows.

“But you also said that today you killed fourteen people, tomorrow there might be twenty-eight, His Majesty is the Lord of the Qing Kingdom, and the subjects under the heavens are all tools in his hands, so how can he not kill them all?” Lin Wan’er looked at him with a worried face.

“Killing more will naturally be frightening.” Fan Xian slightly bowed his head and said, “The imperial power is certainly deeply rooted in the hearts of the people and is irresistible, but the fear of death, I think it will also make those officials who are pulling the net of the eyes, will subconsciously leak out some mouths.”

Hearing these words, the worry on Lin Wan’er’s face did not fade, and her watery eyes were filled with care and unease for Fan Xian as she said softly, “But if His Majesty wants to corral you, there are still many ways to do so.”

Fan Xian’s hands were propped up on either side of his body, and after lowering his head and pondering for a moment, he said quietly, “He left my sister in the palace, and this is forcing me not to dare to leave the capital, but if he wants to subdue me, then he will have to lock me up in the palace by his side, and I don’t think His Majesty will take that risk.”

Speaking here, he raised his head to look at his wife’s worried face, and said gently, “Shuning and Liangzi have already left the city, and you have done extremely well in this matter, or else we, who are parents in the capital, would really be somewhat unable to let go.”

“Si Si and the others should have already arrived at the clan’s manor, but I think there must be news from the palace as well.” Lin Wan’er sighed and walked over to his side, gently leaning her head on his shoulder, “I don’t care what you’re going to do, it’s just that you have to think about it, my sister is still in the palace, and those two little ones haven’t traveled far yet either.”

“That’s why I need to get in touch with my people.” Fan Xian compassionately gently stroked his wife’s slightly slimmer cheeks, “Si Si, this girl is usually inconspicuous, but is actually a very opinionated and capable of suffering, Fuji Zijing is old-fashioned in his work, so I’m sure he won’t let the palace catch the head or tail, if I can contact the people in Qinian’s group, I will naturally have a way to return them to Tanyuzhou.”

“As for my sister still in the palace …… should be unhindered.” Fan Xian’s voice suddenly chilled, “I’m challenging His Majesty’s majesty head on today, so I want to see just how far he wants to go.”

“Are you really not afraid that the Emperor’s uncle will punish you severely?” Lin Wan’er sat up straight and looked at him apprehensively, she deeply knew how cold-blooded and ruthless that relative sitting on the dragon chair was, once he realized that Fan Xian was no longer that illegitimate son that he could control, how would he react? Lin Wan’er always thought that Fan Xian’s initiatives nowadays seemed a bit too aggressive and risky.

“Any of His Majesty’s moves have nothing to do with affection, nothing to do with feelings, and only have to do with interests.” Fan Xian closed his eyes and said, “If we recognize this benchmark, we can try to analyze it; His Majesty may be angry, but he won’t push me to the brink.”

“Whether it’s the children I’m preparing to send to Tanyu, or Ruo Ruo in the palace, or …… you.” Fan Xian opened his eyes, looked at his wife, and slowly said, “These are all my bottom line, and if His Majesty breaks it, it will only force us to completely turn our backs on each other in advance.”

Lin Wan’er looked at him with some confusion.

Fan Xian said, “I never underestimate any of my enemies, but I also never underestimate myself, and whether His Majesty forces me to turn against him or kills me, it will only bring him, and the Daqing Dynasty, consequences he can hardly bear, and chaos he can hardly clean up.”

“If I die, what will happen on the side of Dongyi City? Could it be that the disciples and grandchildren of the Four Gu Swords will still honor that unwritten agreement? Although the 10,000 elite soldiers in the hands of the Grand Palace have sand mixed by the court, the movement of the forbidden army three years ago has already shown the ability of this big brother of ours to take charge of the army, and he is completely capable of, in a short time, mastering this strong army …… Chen Pingping died, and if I die again, my big brother will definitely not listen to me anymore, and even if he doesn’t lead the army and fight his way back to Kyoto, he will at least stay in the Dongyi City to coldly look at that father in Kyoto …… Your Majesty had better not use Aunt Ning to threaten him, from your description, after the incident in the Imperial Study Room, Aunt Ning already has the will to die, with her strong and hot blooded nature, if Your Majesty uses her life to threaten Big Brother to return to Kyoto, I am only afraid that she will die in front of Your Majesty immediately. ”

“Yun Zhilan is even less of a fool, if I were to die, Big Brother’s mind he would definitely be able to guess, and with such a strong support for no reason, he would definitely give his full assistance, thus maintaining Dong Yi City’s independent status.”

“If I die, what will be the reaction of Hong Cheng who is still in Dingzhou at this time?”

“If I die, what kind of turmoil will be the end of Jiangnan, which I have been operating for five years? Even if Xia Qufei betrayed me, but I still have enough methods to make the entire Jiangnan in chaos.”

“Not to mention the Supervisory Court, nowadays the Supervisory Court is keeping silent, on one hand, it’s those large armies outside the court, and the more important reason is that all the officials are secretly watching me, they want to know what I want to do, if I die as well, the Supervisory Court will also fall apart.”

“Look, if His Majesty really forced me to rebel or killed me outright, it would bring about so much turmoil.” The corners of Fan Xian’s lips spread into an odd smile as he said quietly, “How can he spare it? How …… dare he?”

In fact, Fan Xian still had a lot of chips hidden behind him that he didn’t say, for one thing, there was no need for that, and for another, he didn’t have much confidence in himself regarding the chips in the north. However talking about it to this point, the last four words he indifferently said out were still as firm and confident as ever.

Inheriting his mother’s legacy, under the care of countless elders, including the Emperor’s old man’s favor and trust over the years, coupled with those old monsters’ explicit or implicit hopes and support, Fan Xian finally lived up to his expectations and became the only big shot in the world today who could look at His Majesty, the mighty Emperor of Qing Dynasty, in the eye, without needing to back down.

Perhaps no one usually noticed this, yet it was only once people bet their eyes on it that they would be shocked to realize that the storms of the Qing Kingdom and the world over the years had created such a monstrous existence as Fan Xian.

“Your Majesty,” Lin Wan’er said softly after a long period of silence, “Perhaps for the sake of the Kingdom of Qing, for the sake of the world, he will tolerate your great disrespect, but this is definitely not only based on his scorn for the things you can influence, but also includes many other things, perhaps some subtle things. Once he realizes that you really don’t have any favored affection for him, he’ll be sure to obliterate you quite directly.”

“The best way to wipe out a person is to wipe out his physical body.” Lin Wan’er stared at Fan Xian in a daze, “Do you think that if His Majesty is truly willing to kill you, he would still care about the return of Dongyi City to rebellion? Would he still care about Li Hongcheng’s power in Dingzhou? Would he still care about how much hunger and suffering the people of Jiangnan would suffer?”

“If he really had the heart to kill you, how would he care about anything else in the world? Your Majesty, even if the entire world has turned its back on him, he still has the courage and strength to fight his way back to a new world, not to mention that at best, you will only cause his world to have a few more sores that will be extremely difficult to mend.”

Lin Wan’er gently caressed his haggard and pale face and sighed, “Don’t think about me, don’t think about your children, whatever you do, think more about yourself.”

Fan Xian fell silent, he must admit that although he had always been the person in the world who knew the emperor’s oldest son the most deeply, but in these aspects regarding emotional thinking inertia, his wife, who had grown up at the emperor’s knee since childhood, had to grasp it a little more clearly.

“Let’s not talk about that, later on, when the rehmannia soup comes, you have to drink it while it’s hot.” Fan Xian reluctantly smiled. Over the years, Wan’er’s condition had been extremely stable, and apart from Mr. Fei’s and Fan Xian’s medicines, the biggest contributor was the soup made from these reeds produced in the North Sea.

As soon as the words came out of his mouth, Fan Xian suddenly thought of the North Sea, thought of those reed leaves that pricked one’s skin to the point of slight pain, thought of the woman he hadn’t seen for a long time and hadn’t thought of for a long time, and wondered if she was doing well in Xihu now. The reason why he suddenly thought of Begonia Duo at this time was because after that earlier conversation, Fan Xian judged more clearly what he should do.

Wan’er was right, the best way to destroy a person was to destroy his physical body. Fan Xian closed his eyes in silence, thinking about how he could melt away the great snow mountain that had not disappeared for ten thousand years. How can I defeat a great master? Haitang? Or Thirteen Lang? Or …… himself? Or was there no one else in this world who could do it?

Fan Xian began to miss Uncle Wuzhu, but not because he missed the brazier by his side, but just subconsciously missed his closest relatives at a time of the year when his heart and mind were slightly bleak.

On the second day, the main gate of Fan’s residence was wide open, and the eyes sent by the imperial court had re-covered the shadows around this street in the southern city. It seems that His Majesty, the Emperor in the palace, knew very well what his illegitimate son was thinking and testing, and he just sat stoically in the imperial study, responding to all changes with no change, killing Fan Xian’s time, gradually raising the temperature of the water in the pot a bit.

The large piece of firewood stuffed underneath the pot was His Majesty’s decree delivered by Eunuch Dai of the inner court in the morning today.

Listening to the familiar Yuyao accent, Fan Xian knelt in the center of the main hall in his black official uniform, his eyes flickering with the calm light that everything was expected.

“By the grace of heaven, the emperor decrees that …… removes Fan Xian from the position of dean of the Supervisory Academy, and orders him to return to his home to meditate on his faults, be prudent, be prudent!”