Chapter 31: Duke Zhou as Teacher

Fan Xian and Wei Hua, the two world’s biggest secret agent, like two pure-hearted students hand in hand pleasantries, admiration, immediately hand in hand into the seat, wine, remembering the year outside the capital, whispering smuggling, happy place laugh, feeling really think a lot ……

Such a sincere performance, so that the Song accompanying officials as well as the Ministry of Rites of the two sides of the North Qi South Qing officials, attendants and escorts all look silly, thinking that this two are not good feelings to this extent? But immediately everyone will figure out the reason, great admiration admiration, thinking in the end is the top secret agent head, so shameless hypocrisy, really is a good man, chess rival, sympathy, can not help it.

The maidservants also retired after serving the food, and the most luxurious single room in the Moon Embracing Building was suddenly plunged into silence. Fan Xian did not go to the table, but sat down on a carved wooden chair on the side, his eyes very calm as he looked at Wei Hua and said, “You guys arrived yesterday, and you came to my door today, and you really refused to give me a chance to catch my breath.”

Wei Hua smiled, picked up the hot towel on the table and wiped his face, walked over to Fan Xian and sat down beside him, and after pondering for a few moments, he said softly, “Although the whole world can guess that young Lord Fan will definitely come in person, but if I don’t see it with my own eyes, how can the millions of people of my Da Qi, be at ease?”

Fan Xian’s eyes narrowed slightly and said with a smile, “What? Is this to seek justice from me on behalf of your Da Qi people?”

Last year, the Supervisory Yuan launched an offensive in Xiliang, killing countless spies who had infiltrated the two states of Ding and Qing and colluded with the Hu people. This matter attracted the Beiqi court’s anger after a great shock, and the surface peace that the Beiqi young emperor and Fan Xian had always tried their best to maintain was finally torn open by a large avenue.

At this time, there is no one else in the hall, Fan Xian and Wei Hua naturally will not chat about how to talk about the weather, talking is the voice are light and cold. Wei Hua glanced at him and said in a chilling voice, “Little Lord Fan, back then, you and I cooperated and trusted each other, but last year, you made such a mess, and didn’t inform us beforehand, so aren’t you overdoing it a bit?”

Fan Xian raised his eyebrows and said, “You colluded with the Hu people to kill my people in Daqing, do I still have to inform you beforehand? Who do you think you are?”

Wei Hua’s heart flinched slightly, realizing that the Fan Xian of today had long since ceased to be the gentle and amiable young man who had made his debut in the Upper Capital City back then.

He was silent for a moment and said, “Don’t mention the old things, just this trip to Dong Yi City to participate in the Lodge Opening Ceremony, I don’t know what exactly is on young Lord Fan’s mind.”

“Silly, isn’t it?” Fan Xian said with a slight sneer, “I am Daqing Tanyu Gong, what I seek in this trip to Dongyi is naturally the interests of my Daqing, you are not unaware of this, so why do you need to ask this question?”

Wei Hua frowned, some chills in his heart, thinking that although his majesty is gifted with talent, and will take good care of the government, however, now the world’s power is here, Qing is as strong as it was yesterday, this trip to the East Barbarians, if you want to say to move the sword lodges and the city’s masters on both sides, and not to be overpowered by the Qing’s strength, it’s really a very difficult task, especially this time, the Southern Qing sent to Fan Xian, a counterpart of the Southern Dynasties that he has never been able to see clearly, he was really drumming, and didn’t have a clear idea of his own heart, and he didn’t have a clear idea of his own heart. He was really a bit worried, and didn’t have a lot of confidence.

“Someone asked me to ask you a question.” Wei Hua sat beside Fan Xian and lowered his voice, “The agreement at the restaurant back then, does it still count?”

At these words, Fan Xian’s face changed slightly, and a trace of elusive self-deprecation came through his eyes as he said softly, “Where is there any agreement?”

Wei Hua’s expression remained unchanged, only his brow furrowed a little deeper, probably even he didn’t know what the agreement His Majesty had asked him to ask about actually consisted of, and with a slightly dry throat, he asked, “The young lord is prepared to break his promise?”

Fan Xian frowned slightly when he heard these words, stood up and said, “Firstly, there was never any agreement, and secondly, should you be the one to speak to me about such things?”

Although Wei Hua was the Commanding Officer of the Northern Qi Brocade Guards, and was also deeply trusted by the Emperor of Northern Qi, his status and position in the country was far less than Fan Xian’s, especially when it came to certain major events, and Fan Xian was even more certain that the other party did not have the qualifications to come and negotiate with himself.

“Dongyi City is a nice big piece of venison.” Fan Xian turned to look at him and said, “The one who has the ability to get it, I will not let it go.”

Wei Hua got up and calmly responded, “I, Da Qi, naturally refuse to let it go as well.”

The atmosphere in the hall condensed, slowing the release of swords, and the coldness rose up, freezing all those steaming precious dishes on the table so much that they didn’t dare to exhale. Fan Xian, however, just laughed, and sat down on the table, holding chopsticks and holding the food with one hand, while casually saying, “The Four Gu Swords were invited, and of course, you are not the only one from Beiqi, so I’m very curious as to who is the person who is really in charge of your affairs.”

This question Wei Hua naturally would not answer, but the chill in his heart grew thicker, looking at the handsome young official of the Southern Dynasty in front of him, giving birth to great scorn. In today’s world, it was clear to everyone that Fan Xian, with one hand controlling the Supervisory Yuan and the other controlling the internal treasury, was His Majesty the Emperor of Qing, and if he wanted to weaken Qing, being able to kill this person would of course be a wonderful choice.

However, Wei Hua could not make this decision, nor was he qualified to do so. After the two recent incidents, the court of Northern Qi had realized the power of Fan Xian, and for this kind of person, it was good to be able to kill him, but if he could not be killed, there would be a lot of trouble to come.

And who in this world could kill Fan Xian? The Eldest Princess back then couldn’t, nor could the sniping that the Qin family had set up in the valley, could it be based on the Jin Yi Guards of Northern Qi, or the Ninth Grade Assassins of the Dong Yi City Sword Lodge on this journey?

Wei Hua collected his mind and sat down again, trying his best to stabilize his emotions, accompanying Fan Xian, who had regained his composure, with dishes and food and gossip.

Southern Qing and Northern Qi were the two most powerful forces in the world, and the two missions that went to Dongyi City to observe the ceremony of opening the hut actually met each other so coincidentally at the beginning of entering the control area of Dongyi City. This fact, let a lot of people feel frightened and uneasy, especially the east barbaric city sword hut guide disciple, the lord’s mansion of the ceremony officials, is more vigilant, for fear that the two red-eyed and anxious, after the fight will be up.

Both sides of the mission together, there are five hundred people, happen to live in the neighboring two houses, every time in and out, both sides of the officials across the street on both sides, under the hostile confrontation, it looks a little scary. A thousand eyes were killing people with their gaze, no one would feel too good if they were in such an environment.

Wei Hua was worried, but behaved quite calmly. The one who was truly calm was Fan Xian, who wasn’t at all worried about the dangers he would encounter on this trip, and unless the Four Gu Swords had already made a crazy decision at this point, no one in the entire Dongyi City would dare to risk the Qing Emperor’s wrath and lay their hands on the Southern Qing’s envoys.

The officials and princes of Song didn’t dare to offend either side, and used the highest level of etiquette and the most luxurious usage to show their sincerity, especially for the Southern Qing Tanya Duke Fan Xian, who was even more humble to the extreme.

It was a good thing that the first close contact between the missions of both sides in the territory of Dongyi was only maintained for one day, Wei Hua did not get any information from Fan Xian’s side that could be of any comfort to him, and the uneasiness in his heart grew heavier and heavier, so he had little spirit to continue to test the conditions that Nanqing would give to Dongyi City, and left the Song State in advance.

The Song officials and the receptionists from Dong Yi City watched this scene and let out a sigh of relief. However, on the afternoon of the same day that the Northern Qi delegation left, Fan Xian gave an order and the Southern Qing delegation followed.

This following lasted for three days, and Fan Xian was just having spring fever on the carriage, seemingly not worried about what would happen on the other side of Dongyi City. It was just that the officials of the Ministry of Ceremonies of the Kingdom of Qing knew that the delegation of Northern Qi was in front of them, so they also pressed down the speed of their own team and did not make contact with the other side again.

Spring sleep does not realize the dawn, the great dream who knows first. After Fan Xian slept for a few days with incomparable lethargy, he finally discovered some problems from the team’s traveling speed, and he asked with a frown, “According to the original schedule, we should be at Longshan by now, why are we only entering Huai Shang?”

Shi Hanyan Li also found it a bit strange, and asked the members of the Inspection Yuan Qi Nian team in front of him, before he realized the reason, and reported back to the car, “The Northern Qi’s mission is too slow, and I don’t know if that Lord Wei, who was unwilling to go to Dongyi City to meet the failure, so he deliberately went slow.”

These words were uttered with a smile, but Fan Xian did not laugh, and Shi Yanli stopped his mouth, thinking, could it be that slower speeds are also a big problem?

Fan Xian scratched his head and asked with a frown, “If …… someone from Northern Qi left from the Upper Capital, how many days would it take for the information to reach my carriage?”

“It will take at least eight days.”

“That is to say, if someone left Beiqi’s Shangjing five days ago, and I have no way of knowing about it?” Fan Xian shook his head and said, “If it was really that woman who came, the news must have been well concealed. If she really came to Dongyi City, I’m only afraid that she entered the Sword Lodge in just these two days.”

His brows furrowed as he said, “And we are still on our way.”

Shi Yanli’s heart was slightly in shock as he said softly, “Even if Miss Haitang went to Dongyi City ahead of time, it wouldn’t affect anything.”

Fan Xian smiled and did not say anything, but in his heart, he was thinking that Wei Hua’s kid, actually using this kind of tactic that could not be put on the stage, to give Beiqi’s lobbyist the time to meet with the Four Gu Swords alone, was really interesting.

However, what was interesting to Northern Qi was quite uninteresting to Fan Xian nowadays, so when the delegation’s vast caravan had just entered Longshan City, he summoned the delegation’s officials and the Ministry of Supervision to make a decision that made his subordinates’ jaws drop.

However, no one dared to oppose Fan Xian’s decision.

Another year of spring came, willow flakes floating in the sky, fluttering millions of miles, like snowflakes in the warm wind, waving, rocking up, covering the city outline, cover the sea, making pedestrians cover their faces and walk quickly, as a collective grief, which is not a half enjoyable feeling.

The two merchants wearing hats and hats, standing in the midst of the sky of flotsam. Obviously this is two strangers from abroad, do not hate this annoying willow, but some intoxicated, standing beside the carriage to appreciate more than.

“Really the best view on earth, just a pity to cover this world’s most majestic city, can’t see clearly the mold …… A finished!” The younger hat guest sneezed greatly, immediately destroyed his interest in enjoying the spring.

Next to him, the older hat guest did not have any reaction, just staring blankly at the air willow flakes, half a long time before waking up, said faintly: “So big a city, closer to the nature to see clearly, these willow flakes when I was a child often see, only two days of work will be dispersed, the young master you are good luck … … …But when it comes to the most beautiful scenery on earth, these days when the car passes through the spring road, you are sleeping, I don’t see that you are a good person to enjoy the scenery.”

The young hatter raised the brim of his hat, squinting at the shuttling pedestrians and merchants, as well as the city that could not be seen clearly in the distance, revealing that unusual and upright face, a hint of a smile flashing in his eyes.

This person was not someone else, it was Nanqing Fan Xian, for some reason, he took the risk of breaking away from the large group of the envoys, only bringing the person beside him, and came to the front of Dongyi City.

Although Dongyi City shouldn’t make a move against Fan Xian at this time, who knows what kind of arrangements the Northern Qi people have laid down in this place, Fan Xian shouldn’t have taken such a risk, it’s just that he had a complicated premonition, it seemed that he had to come early, or else the Four Guards Sword might fall back to the north.

And in terms of safety, he wasn’t worried about it much, even though there were a lot of ninth rank experts in Dongyi City, but he was now a top powerhouse on the ninth rank, and with this world’s number one assassin by his side, he couldn’t beat anyone, but escaping shouldn’t be difficult.

Carrying Shadow beside him was like carrying half of the six divisions of the Supervisory Court.

Fan Xian looked back at the shadow and couldn’t help but smile slightly, he traveled to Eastern Barbarians this time, letting the shadow show up and follow him right beside him, those enemies under the sky who knew themselves beyond measure must have never guessed.

Fan Xian knew exactly why Shadow was displaying very different sentiments than usual at this moment, and why he had suddenly become so talkative.

Uncle Wuzhu’s words had gotten more and more frequent even before he left, and so had the words of Shadow, who was his number one admirer, which in Fan Xian’s opinion was a very good thing.

“Could it be that you haven’t come back in all these years?” Fan Xian suddenly thought of something and asked in surprise.

The shadow pressed the brim of his hat down, blocking the flying flakes that fell from the sky and covering his face, and said indifferently, “I couldn’t kill him, so what did I come back for?”

Fan Xian laughed and did not say anything else, the tragic case of the extermination of Dong Yi City back then was too strange, except for explaining it with the Four Gu Swords going crazy and idiotic, it did not make a lot of sense at all, it was just that the Four Gu Swords as a great master, no one dared to ask him anything, even if Fan Xian wanted to help Shadow solve the tragic past that had affected his whole life, he couldn’t find any clues.

“That idiot big brother of yours is going to die soon.” He patted Shadow’s shoulder and sighed, “A man’s death is like a lamp going out, so ask again in the future when the family is reunited on the Yellow Springs Road.”

Shadow’s shoulders stiffened as he said, “He must die by my hand.”

Fan Xian’s mood tightened, somewhat unsure whether he had done the right thing or the wrong thing by bringing Shadow back to Dong Yi City.

Although the shadow has not returned to Dongyi City for a long time, but after all, before the teenager, are in this big city to grow up, for those street directions still remember clearly, about the willow exposition is not wrong, when the two of them walked to Dongyi City near, the sky of the flotsam will have entered the soil, can no longer be found to fly traces.

Fan Xian jumped down from the carriage, looking at the surrounding lively marketplace and hurried merchants, lamented: “It is really a mall, just go to the flotsam, but there is no sense of a majestic city, it is really a little disappointed.”

He was indeed disappointed, the world rumor, Dongyi City is the world’s first big city, did not expect to be Fan Xian really see this city, but found that this so-called first big city, there is no city wall, just countless market buildings spliced together!

“Dong Yi City was built extremely late.” Shadow said in a cold voice from the side, “There were no city walls repaired from the very beginning.”

Fan Xian looked at the gray buildings that stuffed his vision, with the layered streets, and was secretly shocked, the size of this Dongyi City was really a bit scary, and after listening to Shadow’s explanation, he frowned and said, “But with such a large city, and no walls, wouldn’t it not be easier to be invaded by foreign enemies?”

“Initially within the Dong Yi City, there were all good profit merchants and foolish people, there was nothing that could resist foreign enemies, even if countless amounts of money were spent to build up a heavenly wall, it would not be possible to resist the armies of the Northern Qi or the Southern Qing, with or without a wall, it does not have much of an impact on the Dong Yi City.”

The shadow paused for a moment before saying, “Some people say that big brother is the wall of Dongyi City, if he lives, Dongyi City does not have a wall, and no foreign enemy dares to come to invade it, if he dies, even if Dongyi City has a thousand-foot wall, it will still be the end of the country.”

Fan Xian was silent for a long time, understanding the hidden meaning of Dongyi City’s failure to repair its high walls, and his gaze was cast towards a certain location on the outskirts of the great city of Dongyi, secretly wondering what choices that person, who was hidden in his sword hut, would make before collapsing the walls of Dongyi City? And had that person, already in the sword hut, begun to try to mend the gaps in the heart of this city wall?