Chapter 116 – Look, it’s beautiful up there!

Fan’s carriage was traveling on the road out of the city, just out of the western city gate, towards the distant fields that were shrouded in twilight. After entering the palace in the morning, he returned to the palace in the late afternoon, but Fan Xian didn’t delay anything, and directly got into the carriage with Wan’er to go to the fields on the outskirts of the countryside.

Just last night, the palace’s decree came out, and the surveillance of Fan’s residence came to a complete end. People had thought that the cold war between His Majesty and Fan Xian was over, but they didn’t expect that after Fan Xian entered the palace to meet with the Emperor, there was no news of his resumption from the palace, not even a single relevant decree. Not to mention what the officials and forces in the court were speculating about, but the fact that Fan’s carriage just left the door still startled a lot of people.

To many people’s surprise, this Fan Family’s carriage passed the inspection of the Kyoto City Defense Department without any problems, or more accurately, without any inspection at all. Could it be that His Majesty wasn’t worried about little Lord Fan leaving Kyoto in a fit of anger? Although it was said that there were no bridges in the family of the Son of Heaven where a child left home in anger, the scene at the court, as well as the strife over the past few days, had left people a bit puzzled as to Fan Xian’s response.

Many people were worried about whether Fan Xian would leave Kyoto over this, but it was clear that His Majesty the Emperor wasn’t worried, or else he wouldn’t have withdrawn all surveillance forces outside of the Fan Mansion, nor would he have given Fan Xian this kind of freedom.

“My sister is in the palace, His Majesty’s decree has been sent out, and all those subordinate relatives …… who depend on me for their livelihoods are in Kyoto, so how can I leave?” Fan Xian inclined his head, looking at the autumn scenery under the red twilight light outside of Kyoto, and said softly, “Pick up Little Flower and Liangzi, and let’s live a good life in the mansion.”

Lin Wan Er’s heart trembled slightly, not knowing whether Fan Xian’s words came from his heart, or whether he had some other meaning. If it was His Majesty’s will to stay in the Fan residence and be an idler, then Lin Wan’er knew very well why Fan Xian had been forced to accept this will – because when the Fan residence opened today, he had received an extremely bad piece of news.

That day, Lin Wan’er made a decision within the first hour to have Fuji Zijing send the young lady and the young master to the Fan Manor outside of the city, just because she was worried about what would happen behind the scenes, and was prepared to quietly send the children back to Tanyu, however, it was only today that the Tianzhuang handed back the news, and it turned out that the caravan that was sending the children arrived at the Tianzhuang, and there was no way for it to leave again.

It is not that there is an army waiting there, but that there is a eunuch already waiting. In this situation, of course, Fuji Zijing does not dare to act again, if he really secretly sends the young master and young lady back to Tanyuzhou, who knows if something will happen on the way, and whether the court will really tear their faces off and snatch these two small children into the palace.

Just as Fan Ruoruo did.

Fan Xian’s brows furrowed slightly as he said, ”After all, I have underestimated the meticulousness of His Majesty’s mind. Counting now, the day you decided to send the children back to Tanyu, something had just happened in the Imperial Study Hall, and Chen Pingping had just been sent to the Supervisory Court …… At that time, His Majesty was seriously injured, and he actually didn’t forget about our children either.”

A cold smile spread across the corners of his lips as he said, “It’s really imperial grace. Those of us who are subjects should really thank him.”

“It’s because I didn’t make good arrangements, I shouldn’t have gone to the field and waited at that time, I should have thought to just send it directly to Tanyu.” Lin Wan’er’s brows flashed with a hint of gloom, she also hadn’t thought that that emperor’s uncle would actually be so cold and harsh, refusing to let go of even two small children like that.

“You were able to contact at most one place at that time, and my people are all spilling outside of Kyoto, so I can’t even send them to Tanyuzhou.” Fan Xian gently took her somewhat thin shoulders and comforted her, “You’re already tired enough these days, and you’ve worried enough. This has nothing to do with you …… That His Majesty of ours ah, he even dares to utilize the temple, let alone two small children.”

“What exactly did you and Chengping say in the palace?” Lin Wan’er sighed, thinking that the entire household was trapped in Kyoto, and that His Majesty hadn’t shown his lofty face much, but just this faint threat was enough to make Fan Xian and herself not dare to move lightly.

So she changed her tone of voice and continued to ask the previous question, because she also knew about the draft, and as smart as she was, she naturally guessed His Majesty’s meaning, so she wanted to hear some of the reactions in the Shufang Palace from Fan Xian here.

“What can be said?” Fan Xian laughed faintly somewhat unnecessarily, “That little eunuch Hong Zhu has been following around, he has His Majesty’s decree to send me out of the palace, can Chengping and I kick him out?”

There was an ambush in this sentence, but Fan Xian had been keeping this secret extremely tightly for Hong Zhu’s safety, even the Third Prince was not clear about the real relationship between him and Hong Zhu, earlier in the Shufang Palace, the Third Prince was really a bit rude to Hong Zhu.

“But there’s no need to worry too much, after all, Chengping has performed so well over the years, where would His Majesty want to let the court be in turmoil again because of me.” Fan Xian’s eyebrows raised, said, “In front of Hong Zhu, I gave Lao San a good lecture …… anyway …… in the future probably it will be very difficult for me to have the opportunity to enter the palace, hurry up and lecture, it’s best if I can make Chengping really angry with me just like that .”

The carriage was gently bumping along the official road, the slanting sun in the distant western air trailing a long red tail, smearing the hills near by, and then smearing the head of the Cangshan Mountains that were faintly visible further away.

“And who can this be hidden from?” Lin Wan’er leaned into his arms, feeling an unusually heavy heart, and said, “Doing a play to show Hong Zhu, could it be that His Majesty believes it?”

“Regardless of whether His Majesty believes it or not, I won’t meet with Chengping in the future, and the Guo Gong Lane side will have to break off communication …… You’d better enter the palace less often in the future as well.” Fan Xian gently touched her face and said after a moment of silence, “It’s best not to drag others into our own affairs.”

Lin Wan’er sat up straight and looked at him quietly, saying, “What do you want His Majesty to believe? Believe that Chengping has no real affection for you? But don’t you forget that big brother is still in the city of Dongyi, as long as you don’t gather all of you brothers into the palace, His Majesty will not feel at ease for a day, isn’t this matter of the selection very clear?”

“Not bad, it’s just cutting.” Fan Xian looked at his wife and said seriously, “It’s a true severance, even if something happens to me, don’t involve Cheng Ping. Chen Pingping did this back then, and I want to do …… the same thing, except that I’m a relatively visionless person, so I prepared much later.”

Lin Wan’er sighed helplessly and said, “According to you, His Majesty still favors Chengping to succeed the throne, so why is it necessary to select a draft again?”

“Just in case, this kind of thing is good to figure out.” Fan Xian smiled and said, “But it’s not that easy to give birth to a child in October, those showgirls are only fourteen or fifteen years old, so they’ll have to stay up for a few more years to become a little mom.”

Speaking of this, Fan Xian fell into deep thought, thinking of the issue of His Majesty’s virility, if he carefully counted the Emperor’s age, with his Grand Master’s realm body, the matter of men and women shouldn’t have too much difficulty, it’s just that he’s older after all, I’m afraid that his semen will always be a bit sparse.

Regarding the aftereffects of the hegemonic gong skill, Fan Xian knew it better than anyone else, together with the discussion he had with the Four Gu Swords at the end of Dong Yi City, Fan Xian confirmed that His Majesty’s body should no longer have any normal meridians and veins, but rather become like a kind of passageway or container without any stagnation, so that he could hold so much hegemonic true qi within his flesh, and so that he could be able to, at the top of the East Mountain, cross the half-lake with a single finger into the body of Bitter Lotus, which had sustained the death of a Great Grand Master in the process. .

Fan Xian thought of this point, the tip of his eyebrows slightly raised, he proved that his majesty’s physique is the external cold and internal dryness, disturbing the temperament due to the body’s breath, about to take a few more Cold Fragrance Pills to be good.

There is no Cold Fragrance Pills to eat, so eating more celery is also good, garlic and so on? …… Fan Xian slightly bowed his head, secretly thinking about the nuclear break of the Imperial Hospital, praying that the heavens can ensure that the body of the great master and the body of mortals are not different.

Celery garlic soy products, especially the first one, has a strong spermicidal effect, and this knowledge, without a doubt, is only known to Fan Xian. The Imperial Hospital was not aware of it, Hong Zhu did not understand it, and even the Emperor did not know about it. Whether or not Fan Xian’s secret maneuvers would bear fruit in the future depended on whether or not the Heavenly Lord would help.

As long as His Majesty had no more children, then the position of the Third Prince would be as secure as the East Mountain, and this was Fan Xian’s hope.

To make the Emperor’s son childless again might sound like a very poisonous plot, however, Fan Xian didn’t think so, because the Emperor’s son already had three sons, which was already enough, and to have more would only be to create too much trouble for the future of the Qing Kingdom in terms of the seizure of the first son.

At least it didn’t leave the old Li family with a broken son, and when Fan Xian thought of this, he thought of Chen Pingping and couldn’t help but smile.

“There is still a heart to offer celery, but there is no reason to see the bright lord.”

Lin Wan’er was slightly stunned, realizing that Fan Xian was in a rare position to actually make a poem again, but upon a closer look, she realized that the poem was only about the grief of a courtier. She looked at Fan Xian in a daze, thinking to herself, could it be that he was really willing to forget the lynching in front of the Imperial Palace, the bloodshed at the Taiping Farewell House decades ago?

Regarding the Emperor Ye Qingmei Chen Pingping and Fan Jian’s group of old men, Fan Xian had already told Wan Er the whole story, and only then did Lin Wan Er realize that in the shadows of the imperial palace, behind history, there were actually so many desperate and desperate choices and vengeance buried, and so she didn’t dare to hope that Fan Xian would really stay honestly in the mansion as an idler.

And yet, she heard these two lines of poetry.

As she thought about it, the carriage had already arrived at the Fan clan’s farmhouse, and the entire clan, young and old, had already gotten the news in advance and were waiting outside of the farmhouse in good behavior, waiting for the young master and young mistress to arrive. Although Fan Xian no longer held any official position, he was still the backbone of the Fan Clan, and in addition to all the hatred, he also had to carry the burden of those entrusted to him by his father.

The twilight light hit the gate of the field village, Si Si was holding Fan Liang, Shuning was wearing a large flowery peasant dress grasping the crook of her leg, curiously surveying her parents coming down from the carriage, she was already a three year old child, and had no problem remembering people.

Fan Xian took Fan Liang from Si Si’s hand and hugged her, whispered something in her ear, smiled, and told the waiting clansmen to hurry up and disperse, then pulled Shuning’s little hand and walked towards the hall room, asking as he did so, “Has Little Flower behaved herself lately?”

When they arrived at the hall house, the well-behaved Shu Ning let go of her father’s hand and flung herself into Lin Wan’er’s arms, and while Si Si was busy arranging for tonight’s rest, Fan Xian turned his eyes, but saw a eunuch in the hall house.

He nodded to the eunuch, and the eunuch, his face embarrassed and with a whiteness of fear, hurriedly stepped forward and kowtowed to Fan Xian, and left the fieldhouse.

The eunuch’s back disappeared in the doorway before Fuji Zijing walked out on his crutches and spat at that back.

“Pay attention to hygiene.” Fan Xian said with a smile, in the fourth year of the Qingli era, Fuji Zijing was seriously injured in order to protect him, and one of his thighs was broken by an assassin, and although he later got much better under recuperation, he would often still be on crutches when he was at home.

Fuji Zijing looked at him and said in shame, “The subordinate is incompetent, and there is no way to send the young master and young lady away ……” He continued, “I was going to kill that little eunuch, but I was afraid of causing trouble for you, the young master. ”

“Don’t look at it as just a little eunuch who can’t do anything, but he represents his majesty, where is it that you can just kill him?” Fan Xian said unconcernedly, and touched the large flowery garment that Shuning was wearing, asking with a smile, “It’s still bright.”

The daughter-in-law of the Fuji family came out with hot tea, smiled somewhat embarrassedly, and responded, “It’s the third sister-in-law’s family’s youngest daughter’s, and it shouldn’t have been given to the young lady to wear, it’s just ……”

Tou Zi Jing scratched his head and said, “These days there is no way to know about the news from the mansion, the elders of the clan and our family discussed it, thinking that it is not difficult to hide it from that little eunuch, but I’m afraid that there will be an ambush from the court on the way, so I’m planning to disguise the young miss and the young master as countryside children, and if there is something going on, we’ll see if it’s possible to send them away secretly.”

Fan Xian was slightly stunned, and with a twitch of his heart, he knew what the people of the clan were planning to do, and thought of the bloodshed in the Taiping Farewell on the Liujing River back then, where Ruo Ruo’s younger sister’s real mother seemed to be just like the Fuji family’s daughter-in-law in front of him.

He sunk his face and said: “In the future, do not think about this kind of confusion, where to hide it from people? Don’t harm other people’s children for nothing.”

Seeing that Fuji Zijing just casually responded and didn’t take it seriously, Fan Xian sighed in his heart and cursed, “The old men of the clan can be said to be confused, why are you all so confused as well?”

But the good thing is that the Fan House has opened today, Fan Xian rushed over, and nothing happened, there is no need to talk about this at this time, just thinking about the clan members who greeted him at the intersection of the Tianzhuang earlier, indifferent as Fan Xian, he also couldn’t help but be a little moved, and his heart gave birth to a touching feeling, but he fell into a deeper trouble.

A person traveling in the world, from the fast and furious, then the blood will be spilled, the head thrown, but also for a word without regret.

Chen Pingping still needs to send those girls in the garden to Dongyi City, but with so many people around Fan Xian, how many can he send away? In life, it is not easy to have no regrets.

The family didn’t stay much longer in the clan’s fields, they only spent one night, picked up the children, and on the second day, the family of five left the manor, to return to Kyoto. As the emperor had said in the imperial study, as the eldest princess had said to her strategist one day, Fan Xian’s lifeblood was too vital, and as long as he held onto that, where could he escape to even if he had wings? Even if he could escape, would he want to?

If he didn’t escape, he could only face it, but the snowy mountain was so high and cold.

Holding a pair of children in his arms, Fan Xian smiled as he sat in the carriage, but from time to time, his eyes looked through the window to the Cangshan Mountain, which reflected the white light of the east in the early morning. Cangshan Mountain is on the west side of Kyoto, far away from this official road, but it is high and majestic, sticking straight into the clouds and sky, only in the early fall weather, the mountain has long been covered with white snow, adding a touch of coolness to this world.

“Still remember those two years in Cangshan winter?” Fan Xian suddenly asked.

At these words, looks of happiness and reminiscence spread across the faces of both Lin Wan’er and Si Si. In the first year, Si Si was still deliberately left behind in the old mansion in Kyoto by Fan Xian, but she still followed in the second year. For these young people in the Fan Mansion, the snow of Cangshan Mountain could clear their minds and wash their faces; it was a beautiful little world completely isolated from Kyoto, where Fan Xian could fully display emotions or feelings that were different from those of this world.

Whether it was playing mahjong or gossiping, the warm bed in the winter snow was always so reminiscent. The carriage gradually quieted down, Lin Wan Er thought of Ye Ling’er and Zuo Jia who occasionally went up to the mountains, these days the Fan Mansion in Kyoto was besieged, I think Ye Ling’er must be anxious outside, Zuo Jia’s sister, apart from being anxious about the Fan Mansion, she was only afraid that she would also be anxious about Prince Jing’s affairs in the palace.

“How exactly is Prince Jing’s side?” Lin Wan’er asked worriedly.

“When His Majesty’s anger subsides, he will naturally let him return to the palace, even I have not been punished, let alone him.” Fan Xian shook his head, but he thought of his younger brother, Si Zhe, and wondered if he would have any problems in the north knowing the news after so many things happened in Kyoto.

Shuning, who was sitting beside Fan Xian, suddenly looked at the snowy head on Cangshan Mountain, pursed her little lips, and said in a milky voice, “It’s so high.”

It was so high, and it was so hard to get up there. Fan Xian narrowed his eyes slightly, looked at the snowy head of Cangshan Mountain, and took a deep breath. In that snowy mountain, there were his fondest memories in Nanqing, and also the time when Uncle Wuzhu took himself to climb the mountain and lie in the snow, and he knew how difficult it was to climb to the top of that snowy mountain.

With his amazing eyesight, he suddenly saw several eagles circling, endeavoring to fly towards the highest peak of the snowy mountain range of Cangshan, and subconsciously pointed out to Shuning, “Look, if you can really go up there, it’s actually quite beautiful.”