Chapter 151: The Field Will Be Turned Over and Hu Will Not Return (Next)

In the fall of the twelfth year of Qingli, the leaves on both sides of the official road gradually became broad and round all the way to the south, but also withered and yellowed, and the scenery along the way that changed with the climate very clearly depicted the landscape of this world.

A carriage traveled smoothly on top of the official road. Fan Xian, who had been missing from this world for half a year, had finally returned to this world, and those who had eagerly hoped for his death or wished for him to live did not yet know that he had returned.

After traversing the snowy plains again through hardships, their group of four had infiltrated the human world silently, without sending a clear signal to any forces. Haitang and Wang Xulang knew the heaviness in Fan Xian’s heart, while that Five Bamboo, who still didn’t have an ounce of human flavor, just sat silently at the back of the carriage, thinking that this person must not understand the shit in the human world, nor would he care about that shit.

At the county capital of North Qi Ya County, the carriage stopped outside an inn. After a while, Fan Xian went out of the inn alone and headed towards the busiest green house in the city, and behind him, the black-clothed Five Bamboos followed not far behind. It wasn’t Fan Xian’s intention to come out with Uncle Five Bamboo, it was just that he was also a little confused as to why he kept following him when it was clear that Uncle Five Bamboo didn’t remember or know anything.

In a secret room in the branch of the Moon Building, Fan Xian saw Shi Yanli, who had been waiting for four months, as well as Wang Qinian and Deng Ziyue. Nowadays, there are not many loyal subordinates in the world who are still bravely standing beside him under the strong pressure of Emperor Qing and the palace, except for the three in the secret room, and then there is only Xia Qifei, who is having a hard time surviving in the south of the Yangtze River.

Seeing the living Fan Xian, these three loyal subordinates all had a look of unbelievable surprise on their faces, because now the whole world knew that Fan Xian had gone to the temple, but in fact, everyone in the world, no matter whether they were Fan Xian’s friends or foes, thought that Fan Xian would surely die in the temple, but who would have known that he would be able to come back alive!

After some excitement, Fan Xian smiled and made the crowd sit down, naturally not having much temple time to talk about this journey that wasn’t very pleasant, and which even he couldn’t quite put his finger on.

Wang Qinian squatted to the side smoking pot, and Deng Ziyue placed all the important information from the heavens in the past half year in front of Fan Xian. Fan Xian glanced at it briefly for a few moments, and the apprehension in the pupils of his eyes grew thicker and thicker.

Shi Yanli glanced at the blind teenager next to the secret room, and for some reason felt some chills in his heart, and wondered who this one actually was, that he could actually go to such an important place with the Sect Master. He swallowed a mouthful of saliva and said, “My Daqing Northern Battalion, pulled out of camp on the third day of the sixth month, and the first contact between the two sides was seven days later.”

“Why is the Northern Qi side so routed?” Fan Xian’s expression heaved as he looked at him and asked, “And in Ea County, I didn’t feel too much fear from the Northern Qi people.”

“The Northern Qi side retreated three hundred miles in a row, and strangely enough, according to the investigation, Uesugi Hu was not on top of the frontal battlefield, but chose to hold on to the Song state capital.” Deng Ziyue went up and answered, then spread the map on top of the desktop, pointing to the sandy field there and said in a deep voice: “This position is in the middle of the waist and bone, if my Daqing border army commits a direct offense into the north, Uesugi Tiger takes advantage of the situation and comes out, striking directly at the waist and abdomen……. This famous general, although he chose to hold the position, however, the guarding is also exceptionally Fierce.”

“This is the state city that Uesugi Tiger robbed after that war in the north last year, and it turns out that this penny ended up in this place.” Fan Xian smiled faintly, he did not think that he had explored the temple in the north, not knowing the years in the mountains, the situation on this continent had long since changed drastically, and just as their group returned south from the snowy plains, the Southern Qing Iron Cavalry had finally begun its Northern Expedition!

“Since his majesty has made up his mind to raise the whole country’s strength for the Northern Expedition, the Northern Battalion is nothing more than a vanguard, and under the encroachment of this murderous aura, even as strong as the Uesugi Tiger, it can only choose to stand guard, this is a result of the country’s strength, and it has nothing to do with the talents of the individual generals.”

After all, Deng Ziyue is an official of the Supervisory Yuan, compared to Shi Yanli, he has to assess the war situation between the two major forces of the north and the south more clearly in recent times, he worriedly looked at Fan Xian and said, “The Northern Battalion went out of Cangzhou, and the Northern Qi side retreated for three hundred miles, however, the blade was pointed at, and after all, there was still a big battle on the barren plains. The Northern Battalion is now temporarily closing down and resting, but Yanjing city is frequently deploying troops, and it looks like the second strike is near at hand …… Although Uesugi Tiger occupies the geographical advantage by virtue of that state city, if Yanjing and the Northern Battalion combine their attacks on the west side, Uesugi Tiger is only afraid that he will also have to be dragged into the field.”

“I don’t know how to fight, but I know that if His Majesty is truly determined, no matter how talented Uesugi Tiger is, he will only end up being slowly exhausted.”

Fan Xian lowered his head, looked at the silent cities on the map, and said slowly, “Obviously, although the Northern Qi side has been preparing for this war for many years, but after all, militarily, they are no match for our Southern Qing, and they also only hope to consume, and to be able to consume until I am exhausted in Daqing……. Right now, it seems that Uesugi tiger can consume, but your majesty is not willing to accompany him to consume, even if consumed, your majesty is the final victor.”

Deng Ziyue and Shi Yanli glanced at Fan Xian, the color of worry in their eyes was full of worry, they were the betrayers of Qing, but after all, they were Qing people, belonging to the third party forces in the world, at this time, the great war between the two sides had already begun, their position and identity was really a bit awkward, and they had never known exactly what Fan Xian’s opinion on this matter was, so in this more than a month’s time, the forces that belonged to Fan Xian had never made a move.

Fan Xian frowned slightly, gently striking the location of that nameless state city with his fingertips, thinking that Uesugi Hu was only afraid to be preparing in that state city that nominally belonged to Song at this moment, a strong uneasiness suddenly surged in his heart, saying: ”If I were your majesty, and if I really wanted to snatch up the time, and not to accompany Uesugi Hu, there is no simpler way than that, the two strong armies would advance in tandem, and then choose a part of them Around to the back of Song, Uesugi tiger then want to hide the sword in the sheath ……”

“But if you want to go around to the back of Song, that would be like borrowing a road from Dongyi City, although now nominally Dongyi City is a part of my Daqing, but the army will have to enter Dongyi City’s territory ……” Deng Ziyue glanced at Fan Xian and said:” Neither the Great Hall nor the Black Riders are in Dongyi City today, but are on the borderline between the Xiao Liang Kingdom and the Song Kingdom, so if my Daqing army were to borrow the road, they would only be greeted with a sudden blow.”

This sentence actually did not make it clear, because all the people within this chamber knew clearly that Dongyi City belonged to Fan Xian nowadays, and in such a great war involving the whole world, what kind of attitude Dongyi City would show, and whether His Majesty, the Emperor of the Kingdom of Qing, would forcefully send out his troops to Dongyi City would ultimately still be between His Majesty, the Emperor, and Fan Xian, a pair of fathers and sons.

“If His Majesty didn’t send troops to attack Dongyi City in the beginning, it means that he knows that I’m not dead yet, then he won’t choose this path in the future.” Fan Xian sighed and rubbed his somewhat depressed brow, “Let’s not talk about this, it’s ultimately not something I can deal with, I’m only concerned about how things are going over in Kyoto and Jiangnan.”

Regarding these situations, they were all in those case files presented by Deng Ziyue, just that there were too many contents, Fan Xian didn’t have the time to look at them one by one.

“Jiangnan stabilized, the court withdrew the new rules of the inner treasury bidding, the inner treasury bidding matter, as your honor expected, the salt merchants also added in, good thing that the Ming family still occupies a part of the share, of course, than in previous years to seem a lot of misery.”

“Are Xia Qufei’s people all right?”

“After that assassination last year, the court didn’t make any next moves against the Ming Garden, Governor Xue Qing is just suppressing Xia Qufei, but right now, it seems that it won’t carry out any direct actions.”

Fan Xian fell into deep thought, it seemed that His Majesty had kept that promise from the palace after all, after all, the lifeblood of the inner treasury was in his own hands, and if His Majesty wanted a thousand generations, he could only take a step back for now before the threat of his own.

“After Sun Jingxiu was dismissed from office, it was originally proposed that he be exiled for three thousand, but for some reason, the palace suddenly sent down a decree that pardoned his sins, and the Sun family’s young lady was released the night before she was admitted to the teaching house …… Nowadays, the Sun family’s life is very difficult, but He Pai’s people have been killed extremely tragically, so there is no one who will fall into the well.”

Speaking of this section, Deng Ziyue’s lips spread a smile, although the matter of Kyoto he did not participate in, but the Supervisory Yuan in Kyoto to kill the four directions, the He faction officials will bleed to death, really let this Supervisory Yuan’s abandoned ministers feel incomparably pleased.

“It’s just that the people in the institution have all withdrawn from the Kyoto area in accordance with Your Excellency’s instructions, so they can’t help either.”

Fan Xian nodded, but in his heart he felt more and more that things were a bit fishy, when did His Majesty …… become such a lenient monarch? Just to honor the bet with himself?

“Is everything alright at home?” He shook his head, letting go of those things in his heart that he couldn’t guess clearly for the time being, and looked at Wang Qinian and asked.

Wang Qinian coughed twice, smiled and answered softly, “It’s too good to be true, the whole world is looking silly, County Master Chen and Miss went into the palace every day to talk with His Majesty, and Young Master and Miss are also in good health.”

The situation in Kyoto had indeed made the entire world look foolish, Fan Xian was now a traitor to the Qing nation, yet His Majesty had no intention of asking for punishment for the Fan lineage at all, and it was the women who were supposed to be implicated that were now in a position in Southern Qing Kyoto that was even vaguely a bit higher than it had been prior to the assassination at the Imperial Palace.

When Fan Xian heard this news, he couldn’t help but be stunned in place.

Deng Ziyue suddenly opened his mouth at this time and said, “The results of the investigation in Yingzhou have come out, and the people who attacked Wenmao were the border troops that were withdrawn from the south road, posing as bandits.”

Fan Xian’s eyes were slightly chilled as he quickly asked, “Where are the people?”

“Finally, Wenmao’s body was found, covered by the snow at the time.” Deng Ziyue slowly closed his eyes and said, “At that time, an arm was missing from his body, and the old members of the courtyard searched for a long time without finding it.”

“I’m going back to Kyoto.” After a long period of silence, Fan Xian raised his head, looked at the three closest subordinates by his side, smiled extremely reluctantly, and said, “You all withdraw to Dongyi City at once, and never get together again, or if you’re fished out in a single net, where will I go to cry?”

Hearing that Fan Xian was returning to Southern Qing Kyoto, Wang Qinian’s three faces were shocked. Wang Qinian had been with Fan Xian for the longest time and understood his mind the most, and spoke the least, hissing his voice and persuading, “Although His Majesty has not carried out a purge, but you, my lord, know that if you show up in Kyoto, he will definitely kill you at all costs.”

“I know.”

“Your life now involves that bet, and more critically, as long as you live, His Majesty has scruples …… Your life will affect the life and death of many people.”

“I know all that.” Fan Xian slightly lowered his eyes and said, “But Kyoto always has to be returned to, because things always need to be resolved, and I would be hiding in Dongyi City for the rest of my life, but there is no way to resolve it.”

There was another deathly silence. A bright light suddenly flashed in Fan Xian’s mind as he stared at Wang Qinian and asked, “As discussed earlier, the northern camp and Yanjing can clearly be consumed with the Uesugi tiger, but His Majesty clearly means that he does not want to consume it, why is that?”

Wang Qinian said after a moment of silence, “There is news from the palace that His Majesty’s body …… seems to have problems.”

When these words came out, Deng Ziyue and Shi Yanli’s face changed dramatically, of course they knew clearly that His Majesty’s health was the most important thing in the world, the problem was that one of them was in charge of the old intelligence work of the Supervisory Academy, and one of them was in charge of the intelligence system of the Moon Embracing House which was spread all over the world, but they had never heard of any rumors related to His Majesty’s health, but at this time, Wang Qinian said it so truly, so that they were a bit unbelievable.

Fan Xian stared at Wang Qinian’s eyes and slowly nodded after a long time. He knew where Wang Qinian’s information came from, Hong Zhu’s existence, even when Chen Pingping was alive back then, was unknown, but Fan Xian had given it to Wang Qinian, so it was obvious that this information came from Hong Zhu.

There was silence in the chamber for a long, long time, and the three of them knew that no one in this world could stop Fan Xian’s actions. Shi Yanli smiled with extreme difficulty and said, ”Your Excellency will not tell us the story of this journey? Since Master Bitter Lotus, you are the first person to be able to return from the temple alive.”

“It’s just a broken temple, what’s there to tell.” Fan Xian smiled, knowing that all of them were actually very curious about that ethereal place, however, he was in a heavy mood at the moment, and really had little interest in talking, he just glanced faintly at Uncle Wuzhu at the entrance of the secret room, and thought to himself, “When on earth is Uncle Blind going to wake up?

Right in ea county, into the snow mountain temple of the young strong man group of three group hand, wang thirteen lang is to use the fastest speed to rush to the east yi city, will fan idle alive news as well as fan idle arrangement, in the first time to inform the lone east yi city of the great hall of fame as well as the sword hut of the people, and haitang’s departure is also in the fan idle’s expectations, right now the world war has begun, north qi, although the power to have a battle, but ultimately the situation is perilous, haitang as a Beiqi holy maiden, naturally can not stay out of the matter, she must rush back to the upper capital, rush back to the side of the emperor of Beiqi, with her identity as the head of the Qing Shan Tian Dao, to help their own country to resist the foreign invaders.

Just when they parted, the look in Haitang’s tired eyes made Fan Xian feel some inexplicable pity, he didn’t know just how long the Northern Qi side could be sustained in the midst of Emperor Qing’s strong heart and the war to unify the world, and he also didn’t know that if there was a day when the Qing army really did break through the Upper Capital City, would that beautiful palace be burned down to ashes, and in those embers would there be Haitang, Lili, as well as his own Emperor’s female figures.

Whether it was from his personal view of history, and temperament, and all aspects of it, for the irony of the war that was slowly drawing to a close, Fan Xian could only have one attitude, he had to stop it all, however, he did not promise anything to Haitang, expressed anything, but just remained silent, and took Uncle Wuzhu with him as he traveled towards the south in solitude.

Not knowing the depth of autumn, or yellow or red leaves, under the clear open sky, Fan Xian and Five Bamboo walked south in silence, not knowing how long they had been walking, yet Five Bamboo still hadn’t said a word. Fan Xian’s mood was heavy, he didn’t know what he could do when he returned to Kyoto, but a meditative intuition, as well as the news that His Majesty the Emperor might be gravely ill, somehow urged him to keep on walking without stopping.

The most successful comic after Wang Qinian, Su Wenmao, had died that fall, the old cripple had died earlier, and even earlier in the year, Ye Qingmei had also died. Originally, after experiencing the scene in the temple, Fan Xian should have looked at life and death more lightly, but it is not clear why, once stepping into the world, the worldly thoughts of the human heart will be more and more, remembering life, remembering death, but also life and death, how can we just laugh it off?

Still a black carriage, Fan Xian sat in the carriage, looking at the five bamboo uncle sitting next to the driver’s position, not surprisingly found that the five bamboo uncle’s side face is still so beautiful, the black cloth in the autumn wind is still so soulful, everything, in fact, and more than twenty years ago from Kyoto to Tanyu state scene is very similar.

What was not similar was in fact still the Five Bamboo, this overwhelmingly powerful man who seemed to have lost his soul, not saying a word, not doing a thing, and that cold face could not reveal whether or not he was actually curious about everything that was unfamiliar and yet familiar in this world.

Fan Xian felt faint sadness, gently put down the car curtains, then slightly ironic self-deprecating smile, back then the five bamboo uncle is just a blind man, now it is good, and has become a mute, old mom in the year in the end how to do? What should I do?

Carriage to Nanling County will no longer forward, accurately said the driver refused to drive forward again, although the court of Northern Qi has been trying to play down the war in the south, but the war is not a royal scandal as easy to be covered up, everyone under the sky knows what happened in the middle of the continent’s hinterland, hundreds of millions of people are with indifferent and vigilant eyes, nervously waiting for the results, the driver naturally reluctant to enter the sands on top of it.

Shelling out silver for the carriage, Fan Xian acted as the driver and took Uncle Wu Zhu to continue traveling south. On the way back from the ice field, the rich heaven and earth energy had successfully healed Fan Xian’s injuries, and although he was clear that he still had no way to touch the boundary that stretched between mankind and the vault of heaven, he believed that no one in the world other than the emperor could ever threaten him again. Another ten days, through the official road on both sides of the simple wooden shacks and numbness of the refugees, uncle and nephew on the carriage seems to walk in a similar to the far north of the snowy plains in general in the barren area.

People gradually sparse, occasionally a small snow drifting down, but can not cover the road on both sides of the dead flavor, the road occasionally see a few corpses will be rotting, the distant depression can be seen vaguely burned into the ruins of the village.

This was originally a fertile land, even by the north sea of the north wind, fertile land still feeds many people, but now there is only a desolate, most of the people have been withdrawn to the back of the north qi, and did not manage to avoid the fire of war, but became a victim of the obsession of unification of the world.

As for those villages that were burned, the people who were hacked to death on the side of the road, whether it is the invasion of the Qing army, or was dispersed by the Beiqi stragglers, Fan Xian did not go deeper, the war is originally the original sin of mankind, this world, where there can be what good war, bad peace.

The dead silence of the official road, the air is dry and with the smell of blood, surrounded by the black carriage, Fan Xian expression wooden driving the uneasy horses, also did not look back to see beside the five bamboo uncle’s look.

He knew that nowadays the armies between the two countries were gathering in the southwestern direction of Yanjing City’s north rushing plains, and that after the victory of Nanqing’s northern battalion, due to the fear of Uesugi Tiger, who had been sinking his troops, he had temporarily returned to his battalion for rest and recuperation, and that the deathly silence of this place was on the contrary safer. However, the traces of the previous battle were already so shocking that he could hardly imagine what kind of Shura killing ground this earth would be turned into once the Southern Qing iron cavalry broke through the Song state city where Uesugi Tiger was located and went north with all their might.

In the entire heaven and earth, there seemed to be only the sound of a carriage crushing the road, and Fan Xian squinted his eyes as he swung his horse whip down, dodging a squad of Qing cavalry that was patrolling on the other side of the river, and entering within the boundaries of the Kingdom of Qing.

It was at this instant that Five Bamboo, who had been silent since leaving the temple, suddenly spoke, “The world outside the temple, it’s not very good.”

“The world outside is inherently hopeless, but try a little harder and it might get better.” A complicated smile spread across the corners of Fan Xian’s lips as the horsewhip gently swung down again.