chapter 28 the play to winter

“Things like killing, you do it with your mouth, but I do it with my hands.” Fan Xian stood up, glanced at him, and said, “Think carefully, if I kill you, will His Majesty make me pay for your life.”

At these words, He Zongwei fell silent, and after a few moments, he took a deep breath, and a flushed red of shame gradually appeared on his slightly dark face.

Since entering the dynasty, he has been smooth sailing all the way, extremely trusted by his majesty’s favor, subordinates and colleagues of the respect, but is the face of the young lord in front of him, but is much taunted, unbearable to difficult to accommodate.

Now he has been walking under the door of the minister, the dynasty and the field, in addition to Fan Xian, who dares to use this tone of voice to speak to him, dare to nakedly threaten him with life and death. However, He Zongwei also knew that there was nothing he could do in the face of Fan Xian, not to mention the holy favor and other nonsense, but the blood relationship between the other party and his majesty, which was something that his own minister could never reach.

He Zongwei just don’t understand, why small Fan adults have such a strong hostility to himself, the whole dynasty are some don’t understand, if it is said to be the collapse of the minister of the year Lin, but that is the Princess of manipulation, at that time, He Zongwei is just a small piece, has not yet entered the dynasty, and after the fact are clear, these are His Majesty’s will, how to blame to their own head?

He couldn’t help but wonder how Lord Fan’s hostility towards himself came about. Sometimes, when He Zongwei dreamed in the middle of the night, he would feel cold and wet under the blanket. He was having a good time in the imperial court, but he knew that Fan Xian had been looking at him coldly behind his back, and it was not a good feeling to be watched by such a cold and powerful minister.

According to the theory, if He Zongwei knew that Fan Xian loathed him, he should not have any more thoughts about Miss Fan, but he always thought that His Majesty’s will was more important than anything else, and he also wanted to take advantage of this marriage to express his feelings to Fan Xian, and at the same time be able to ease the relationship between each other, so that if he really became the younger brother-in-law of Little Fan, he would not have to worry about that pair of cold gazes behind his back at all times, would he?

But the most important reason for He Zongwei’s courage to pursue this marriage is that he has always had a longing for Fan Ruo Ruo, and this thought started five or six years ago and has continued to this day without weakening a bit.

That’s why he’s been single and unmarried all these years, just like Shizi Hongcheng. In fact, the reason why the two men haven’t married is exactly the same.

However, in the end, he did not understand Fan Xian, did not know that the reason why Fan Xian loathed him was because he saw the man’s fervent eyes towards Ruo Ruo under the One Stone Residence back then.

It was a pitiful sin without a cause. The little bit of longing in his heart was finally shattered into a glass heart by Fan Xian’s very direct words today.

Fan Xian said, “You should not come to the medical center anymore.”

He Zongwei’s heart touched and jumped, it was really difficult to get him to give up Miss Fan. Although this man’s character was average, he was deeply rooted in love and somewhat obsessive when it came to the word love.

“Understand what young lord means.” He Zongwei stood up, forcibly suppressing the anger in his heart, and said as calmly as he could, “Tomorrow, I will enter the palace, report to His Majesty, and push back this marriage.”

Fan Xian looked at him and shook his head, saying, “The palace’s decree for the marriage has not yet come out, so where is the need for you to push it? Don’t try to hide your little thoughts from me, go and cry in front of His Majesty, and condescend to say that you’re not worthy of the Fan family’s young lady, and you won’t say a single bad word about me. But as soon as His Majesty takes one look at you, he’ll know that I’ve bullied you again.”

“Whoever I, Fan Xian, bully will be red, that’s the situation today.” He looked at He Zongwei and said with a self-deprecating smile, “Trying to use this incident to make His Majesty pity your loyalty even more?”

He Zongwei finally couldn’t suppress the anger in his heart and looked at Fan Xian coldly, saying, “What exactly does Your Excellency want me to do? Not this, not that, do you have to force a minister to death before you’re satisfied.”

“That’s what you said yourself.” Fan Xian looked at him with slight irony, “The night before last, Grand Maester Hu personally came to the mansion to make peace for you, and last night, former Jixian Pavilion Grand Maester Zeng Wenxiang, your private tutor back in the day, along with Grand Maester Pan Ling, also came to advocate on your behalf. He adults are now in full bloom, three university professors came out to protect the matchmaking, I district a Supervisory Yuan, how dare I force you.”

Hearing this salty, mean-spirited remark, He Zongwei had trouble suppressing his anger and said in a deep voice, “Dare I ask the young lord, what have I done wrong that offended you?”

Fan Xian smiled slightly and said, “It’s your fault that I don’t treat you well.”

“Little Lord Fan, Zongwei is His Majesty’s subject.” He Zongwei laughed back in anger and said coldly, “Even though you are powerful, you are only His Majesty’s subject. Threatening court officials in the street and not taking His Majesty into consideration, aren’t you afraid that His Majesty will come down with a decree and take away your title? You must know that one should be cautious and not act arrogantly.”

Fan Xian didn’t get angry, but just stood quietly opposite him and said softly, “Everyone understands this. Three years ago, the Second Prince once said exactly the same thing as you in the tea store at the Moon Embracing House. But don’t forget that nowadays, he’s lying in his grave while I’m outside.”

After saying these words, Fan Xian left the restaurant. The words he should say to He Zongwei, the attitude he should show to this person, he had already done his part, and whether the other party was willing to accept it or not was the other party’s problem.

Returning to the Fan Mansion, he indeed saw that Ruo Ruo was surrounded by Wan Er and Ye Ling Er, softly saying something, with a greatly unnatural look, while Li Hong Cheng, who had snatched her back to the mansion, had left for some unknown reason and was not in the mansion.

Looking at Fan Xian back, Lin Wan Er looked at him and made a wink, hopelessly shook her head, probably also for the marriage of the younger sister-in-law, made a storm in the city, feel helpless. And Ye Ling’er just glanced at Fan Xian, but not as Fan Xian expected, rushed forward, questioned him as an elder brother, how even this little thing can not be done.

It seems that love is really tender ah …… Fan Xian didn’t ask where Wang Thirteen Lang was, and couldn’t help but smile, beckoning to his sister as the brother and sister duo entered the middle of the second study.

“Is Hong Cheng afraid that I’ll beat him up, so he ran away first?” Fan Xian and his sister both sat opposite each other and asked softly.

Fan Ruo Ruo’s face blushed slightly, after all, riding with a young man on the street was indeed an extremely humiliating thing. After calming down for a few moments, she said softly, “There is something going on at the royal residence, he left first.”

Fan Xian secretly nodded in his heart, originally worried that his sister was angry at Hongcheng’s Mengwang behavior, but it seems to be okay, so it seems that Li Hongcheng’s soldiering tactics, but it doesn’t have to be a bad thing.

Fan Ruo Ruo suddenly came to her senses, looked at Fan Xian in a daze and said, “Brother was there just now?”

Fan Xian choked and laughed, “This matter has spread fast, all of Kyoto knows that the son has returned to the capital and is stealing his daughter-in-law from Lord He, of course I know.”

“Hongcheng also did all the nonsense.” Fan Ruo Ruo looked slightly angry and said, “There are still so many patients waiting to be treated at the medical center.”

“We’ll talk about those things later, it’s impossible to cut off the patients in the world, and you can’t save them all day and night.” Fan Xian looked at his sister and asked seriously, “I know that He Zongwei has been going to the medical center from time to time these days, and I’m going to ask you one thing, what exactly is your attitude towards His Majesty’s appointed marriage.”

Fan Ruo Ruo said calmly without thinking, “My sister doesn’t want to marry yet.”

He Zongwei had been going to the medical center for non-demonstration meditation for the past few days, showing enough gentleness and sincerity. Fan Ruo Ruo is not a woman living in a vacuum, of course, also know that recently there are gossip about themselves, but also know that the elder brother is being annoyed by this matter, naturally, will speak clearly with He Zongwei. Just He Zongwei is still unyielding, playing the spirit of a dead pig that is not afraid of scalding, and wearing a sincere mask, Fan Ruoruo is not good enough to learn to carry a broom like Si Zhe and drive people away.

“Good, if you don’t want to marry then don’t.” The calmness on Fan Xian’s face wasn’t feigned either, “You know that this elder brother of mine appears to be gentle, but is actually a bit overbearing. I don’t like He Zongwei as a person, and even if you agree to marry her, I’ll still have to beat up the lovebirds.”

Fan Ruoruo couldn’t help but glare at him and mumbled in a low voice, back then when she was a child she still talked about freedom of love, but now she only knows how to be overbearing.

But she did not know that during the time when the two of them were telling ghost stories at a young age, Fan Xian, whose real age was more than a dozen years older than hers, had long since naturally felt the need to bring up his daughters.

The daughter of his own daughter to marry, which when the father will believe in what freedom of love nonsense – the Qing country does not, that world does not, the entire universe does not.

After a speech, Fan Ruoruo silent, two hands clenched the corner of the coat rubbing hard, nervous and complex emotions, so that she and the world beside the woman is not different. After a long time, she suddenly sighed and looked at Fan Xian and said quietly, “Brother, am I not very capricious?”

If placed in another powerful mansion, or even in any other place in the world, Fan Ruoruo’s choice of marriage and love in her own life would have seemed exceptionally different. She had first refused the marriage request of the Jing Royal House, fled Kyoto and studied under Bitter Lotus for several years, and now she had refused His Majesty the Emperor’s second marriage appointment.

Resisting an order to refuse a marriage, in a society of feudal imperial power, would of course bring a lot of danger and inconvenience to one’s family, and to put one’s family in a precarious situation for the sake of one’s own life, would only be considered by all as an extremely capricious and irresponsible move.

But Fan Xian was not anyone in this world, he was the only one in this world, the only one who was a volkswagen, a man who had seen the politics of sex, so he never thought that his sister’s decision had the slightest need for criticism.

Many years ago that woman surnamed Ye might have seen it as well, but she had left after all, so now Fan Xian was the only one who stood very strongly in the world of men, in a way that supported his sister’s capriciousness, in order to reminisce, or rather, to memorialize, that wonderful world in which one didn’t need to be named by one’s elders in order to get married, that wonderful world in which one was at least a little bit more egalitarian in some ways.

“Are you stupid?” Fan Xian’s face went cold as he said sternly, “I’ve taught you since you were a child that your own happiness is greater than anything else, and that nothing is worth making any sacrifices or concessions for, except for what we sincerely want. The ways of loyalty and filial piety are to be taught, but neither is worth mentioning in the face of your own happiness or mine.”

“But isn’t that a very selfish thing to do?” Fan Ruo Ruo was not deterred by her elder brother’s icy face, and tilted her face up to say very seriously, “Because of my matter, the house is not at peace, and the whole of Kyoto is in an uproar ……”

Her words had not finished, Fan Xian was already waving his hand to stop, frowning and said, “You are the girl I brought up, although the time with me is not as long as that of Si Si’s several big girls, but you know that I have high hopes for you …… I just hope that you will be able to become a different person from the average woman in this world. of people.”

“What is capricious?” Fan Xian narrowed his eyes and said, “Father and grandmother are both in Tanyuzhou now, and I’m the only one in the capital who makes decisions for you, so what’s there to be afraid of if you’re a bit capricious? As for selfishness, I’m an extremely selfish person by nature, especially when it comes to my family’s loved ones, you should know this very well.”

Fan Ruoruo bowed her head and was speechless, but her eyes gradually became wet. Only she, who was in the middle of the matter, knew how long her brother had been worrying about his marriage since he entered the capital, and that year, in order to reject the marriage proposal from the Jing royal family, he had even gone so far as to reach an agreement with the Northern Qi people, and also exchanged himself for an apprenticeship under the Bitter Lotus Sect.

Seemingly simple, Fan Xian actually paid too much effort and price for this. Whenever she thought about this, Fan Ruo Ruo always felt that her own willfulness had caused her elder brother too much worry. The more guilty she felt, the more she could feel her brother’s love for her. A girl’s heart is full of all sorts of feelings, which can’t be explained in words.

A few days later, Fan Xian seems to have forgotten about the marriage in the palace, and just sank in the Supervisory Yuan to arrange matters in Dongyi City with Yan Bingyun. West Hu’s matter has laid a good foundation, even if Shan Yu Speed and the alias of Songzhi immortal order of Haitang DuoDuo again have the ability, but Dingzhou Qingzhou two places of spies has been the Supervisory Yuan to beat all clean, coupled with the grassland because of the violent death of ZuoXianKing and fall into a state of instability, the western frontier of the State of Qing can finally breathe a sigh of relief.

Nowadays, all the affairs of the Supervisory Yuan were actually handled by Yan Bingyun. Every time he thought about this, Fan Xian couldn’t help but feel lucky for his decision to go deeper into the capital to save Prince Yan. His ability lay in surprise attacks, decisive killings, and judging the general situation, while Yan Bingyun was the right person to plan and execute the plan.

Without the help of Yan Bingyun, there was no way for Fan Xian to control such a huge system of the Supervisory Court.

Things had long since proven this. When Fan Xian entered the capital, this little Yan Gongzi, whose white clothes were distinct from the black official uniform of the Supervisory Yuan, was actually the author of the several major actions of the Supervisory Yuan. The only time Fan Xian decided on his own plan was to clear the Jiaozhou navy, an action that was criticized by Chen Pingping afterward, and was full of blood and guts.

So after Fan Xian told Yan Bingyun about His Majesty’s and his intentions, he stopped worrying about Dongyi City and just took Wang X3 Lang quietly into the palace once.

Although Fan Xian and the Emperor were still engaged in a cold war because of Ruo Ruo’s marriage, but when it came to matters of dynastic affairs, neither father nor son would choose to gamble, and since the Emperor was already secretly aware of Wang XIII Lang’s existence, Fan Xian would not make a big mistake in these small matters.

Regarding the arranged marriage, although the task of fighting with His Majesty has now been handed over to the Jing Wang family, Fan Xian is still watching from the sidelines with concern.

Fan Ruo Ruo still went to the medical center every day to take care of the patients, but the world son Hong Cheng was cold face, standing outside the medical center, this world son master may be for the palace to designate the news of the marriage of the great anger, that face gloomy to the extreme, to come to the medical center of the patients, all can not help but be afraid of the spirit of fear, to feel this nobleman on the body of the coldness.

Li Hongcheng is now the number one person in the Dingzhou military, three years to return to the capital once in a while to report duty, but willingly stood outside a medical center as a bodyguard. The fact that a great general had come to serve as a doormat made all parties in Kyoto feel a chill, and even Grand Maester Hu stopped saying more nonsense to Fan Xian.

He Zongwei didn’t give up on the idea in his mind just because of Fan Xian’s intimidation, but he went to the medical center a few times, only to be coldly kicked out by Li Hongcheng. The small medical hall, actually became a minister and general’s wrestling field, just He Zongwei is after all a civil minister, how can he defeat Hongcheng put on the appearance of a martial artist.

There is a medical center …… has become a scene in Kyoto.

Fan Xian heard about this, could not help but sigh, thinking Lu old man said right, words are always less powerful than fists, smile for He Zongwei sad, hall a door under the Chinese Minister, but encountered himself and Hongcheng such two unreasonable, but the noble imperial descendants, in the end, only to eat the part of the defeat.

In fact, in these days, He Zongwei once entered the palace, probably also expressed the meaning of politely refused to marry. This did not come as a surprise to Fan Xian, and with He Zongwei’s stern mind, he certainly would not miss such an opportunity to strike Fan Xian, and even though Fan Xian had once reminded him of this, he still did not give up.

As expected, as soon as His Majesty the Emperor saw He Zongwei’s gloomy appearance, he guessed that Fan Xian had secretly intimidated his own ministers inhumanly, and his dragon face was furious, so he hurriedly summoned Fan Xian into the palace, and reprimanded him in the imperial study.

Fan Xian, however, just listened with an expressionless face, rebelling with silence as always. The arranged marriage was only a small matter, but His Majesty’s intention to use this matter to completely crush his defenses and make him a foolishly loyal subject who only knew how to be afraid, was an arrangement that he absolutely could not accept.

He wasn’t too afraid of His Majesty’s displeasure, because times were different nowadays, nowadays Fan Xian’s hands of the Supervisory Yuan and the inner treasury provided the most important order and monetary support for the healthy development and maintenance of Qing’s court, and even the Emperor was well aware of this, and knew that he couldn’t get away from this pleased illegitimate son more and more.

For Emperor Qing, the more he admired Fan Xian, the more he hoped that Fan Xian would reveal all his thoughts to him and follow all his arrangements. Because he always felt that An Zhi, this child, was sometimes a bit screwed up, a bit too detached, and even had the vague feeling of wanting to jump out of his control.

This kind of feeling was not a very comfortable feeling for a powerful king, so he wanted Fan Xian to give in.

Entering the winter month, Fan Xian still didn’t give in, and he still carried on fighting between King Jing’s House and the palace. The matter of the marriage between the two He Fan families, after making a scene for a while, gradually calmed down, as there was no subsequent decree from the palace. And the Shizi Men Shen remained at the medical center indifferently looking at all the medical patients coming in, and those poor poor sick people, if there was any surname He, would take a fake name and ask for medical consultation again.

The only one under the sky who is not afraid of His Majesty the Emperor is probably Prince Jing, after all, when he was a child, he fought with his elder brother many times, even if he did not win a few fights, but his fists at least tasted the taste of dragon meat, once close, there will be less respect and fear, not to mention that no desire is just, King Jing’s whole life is about the flowers and the grass and the dirt, never interfering in the imperial government, His Majesty for the only younger brother, there are probably always a few moments of apology for his heart, so in addition to the Frowning in addition to, it is not possible to come up with more punitive means to.

Li Hongcheng in Dingzhou three years of leading the army, the first soldier, blood to kill the enemy, even if there is no merit but also have hard work, he made clear the frame, and He Zongwei to grab daughter-in-law, His Majesty and how? Just in the way of the son of God, a team of horses, plus face on the face can not pass, will insist on their own opinions.

The first snow fell in Kyoto, Fan Xian puffed out a mouthful of white mist, stood beside the carriage, and said to Wang XIII Lang beside him, “Everything that needs to be said has already been said, on the side of the City Lord’s Office, I, Daqing, can put some pressure, but I can’t do much about the disagreements within your Sword Lodge, and I’m sure that you’re not willing to let me intervene either.”

Today Wang Thirteen Lang will be leaving the country of Qing, returning to Dong Yi City in the Sword Lodge, accompanying his mentor to finish the last part of his life’s journey, Fan Xian deliberately took the time to come to see him off, the two of them were isolated in the snow, having a conversation, of course, most of the words were said by Fan Xian.

“I’ll wait for you at the Sword Lodge.” Wang Thirteen Lang carried his parcel on his back, holding the green streamer tightly in his hand as he looked at Fan Xian and smiled gently, “Come early.”

Fan Xian also smiled, the matter on the side of Dongyi City, after Wang Xulang entered the palace, his majesty finally nodded and gave full authority to himself, the initiative was finally confirmed to be held in his hands, he was really in a good mood.

“Thank you.” Fan Xian gave a slight beat, then said, “I hope I don’t have to thank you in the future.”

Wang Thirteen Lang was stunned before he realized what he was aiming at with the word thank you, shook his head, and walked into the snow and wind.