Chapter 82: The Wind Rises

Many years later, when the Procuratorate began to reorganize the events of the early fall of the 10th year of the Qing Dynasty, there were still a lot of questions that hadn’t been explained clearly. When Dean Fan Xian returned to the capital from Dongyi City, was the raid by the Dongyi volunteers he encountered along the way a deliberate release of information by someone in the court, or was it just a coincidence?

After all, it seemed that those who could grasp the young lord’s whereabouts could only be senior officials within the Supervisory Academy.

And the old dean’s journey back to his hometown to retire in Dazhou, but it happened to be at that time to become brightly lit and become killing intent, is this a coincidence or is it …… the will of heaven? Perhaps the latter, but at that time the sky had long changed color, the intelligence officials of the second division of the Supervisory Yuan then did not meticulously pursue the matter.

But at least in Dazhou City for official business of the Ministry of Justice officials, did not know that at that time outside the night city, there is a long line of black Supervisory Yuan convoy, and even more so, no one knows that all the court officials regarded as ghosts, fear of the old President Chen is in the convoy.

They only received a secret order from their superiors, and spent more than a year in pursuit of a criminal. As for the name of this criminal, no one knows, all they have all the clues, is that the criminal’s martial arts habits, once used the face, as for these three years, this criminal actually become what appearance, no one knows.

Perhaps it is the will of God, so that Chen Pingping met this roundup in Dazhouli. It is also because Chen Pingping realize the will of heaven, which is in Dazhou city stopped his way back, back to the Kyoto he should have stayed in a lifetime.

Everything about Dazhou started more than a month ago, and not only about Dazhou.

At that time of the year, Fan Xian was still at the seashore meditating on the will imparted by the Four Gu Swords, the pamphlet left behind by Master Bitter Lotus, savoring the nature of the hegemonic true qi in his body, and speculating on whether His Majesty’s cultivation of the hegemonic gong skills to the extreme would or wouldn’t place an unbearable burden on his body. He was looking at the waves of life and death, thinking that everything in the world was like yesterday, that the spring flowers had bloomed, that the autumn moon was just empty, that he was the second person in the world, and that he was being complacent, thinking that everything was not a difficulty and that everything could be solved.

However, things had changed subtly at that time.

That day was a day in the beginning of July, the entire continent was enveloped by the hottest sun of the year, and the Kyoto of the Kingdom of Qing was no exception. The third prince Li Chengze was holding a book with both hands and looking at it carefully, beads of sweat dripping down from his clean face, the youngest owner of the green house in the world back then, after experiencing the palace change as well as countless bloodshed, he finally transformed that unconcealable hostility into a steadiness and perseverance that was inappropriate for his age.

Third Prince Li Chengze has become a teenager, a teenager who treats people with courtesy, filial piety and fraternal duty, a teenager that no one can find too many faults with. The two people who had made him change so much in these five or six short years were his father and his emperor, and his teacher and elder brother, Fan Xian.

When facing His Majesty the Emperor, the Third Prince was careful to never make a wrong move. The deaths of his brother, the Crown Prince, and his second brother had made it clear to Li Chengze that his father was a horrible being, and even though these two older brothers had tried to get him killed at a later stage, and their deaths had been a great blessing to Li Chengze, he still couldn’t help but feel a chill in his heart when he faced his father and his emperor.

Because he was afraid, he was respectful, so he would never make a mistake. In these three years, Li Chengze even met with Fan Xian less, just shut himself in the palace, and occasionally only through his mother’s side, he could know what Mr. did.

Li Chengze was also afraid of Fan Xian, the older brother who could not be publicized. Because during the most critical days of his adolescence, he had been following Fan Xian, watching how Fan Xian, as a courtier, had started a war with the powerful nobles in Kyoto in Jiangnan, and had won in the end. The whip in Fan Xian’s hand and his cold gaze made him not dare to make a mistake.

Fan Xian’s real influence on the third prince was that he let the third prince know what he would do and what he would become in the future, thus truly turning his temperament around.

Third Prince Li Chengze will definitely be the one who will become the Emperor of Qing in the future, and the whole world will be his own, so he will have to be a little better to this world, and no longer spend so much obscure thoughts to take it over for some silver, for some realistic and short-lived benefits as he did back then.

The world is mine, will be mine, so why should I even bother to toss him? This was the creed that Fan Xian had taught the Third Prince, and that the Third Prince deeply believed in.

The palace maid wake up child years has gradually older, when the green little girl gradually unfolded eyebrows, give birth to a moving beauty. At this time, wake up the child in the side for his highness playing fan, frowning at his highness sweating, still keep reading, can not help but feel some pity in the heart.

Yi Gui Concubine is gossiping in Ning Fei’s palace, there are not too many idle people in the whole Shufang Palace. Shing Er looked at the handsome appearance of His Highness’s young man, and her gaze gradually became mesmerized.

Li Chengze obviously felt this gaze, the corners of his lips slightly curled up and smiled, but did not make any reaction, just gently put his hand behind his back and pinched the tip of Qing’er’s finger.

This smile of his was really similar to Fan Xian.

“Do you want to rest first?” Awake’er’s cheeks blushed slightly as she said softly, “It’s not like His Majesty is going to come …… on this hot day.”

Li Chengze shook his head seriously and said softly, “These are all the book lists that mister made, most of them are are the classics that he dragged back from Northern Qi back then, I have to finish reading them within this year, and I also have to write notes for him to review.”

He said with a bitter smile, “If I don’t pass, mother will beat me again.”

Awakening child bit her lower lip and said, “The young lord is now in Eastern Barbarians, where does he care so much.”

After the rebellion in Kyoto, although His Majesty did not remove Fan Xian’s identity as a gentleman, Fan Xian rarely went to see the Third Prince alone, and the Third Prince no longer often fooled around in the palace, the two brothers knew that the Third Prince was the true Crown Prince of the Kingdom of Qing, and that the Emperor would not be willing to let the Crown Prince grow up under Fan Xian’s education, but preferred to be coached by his own hand, and the two of them had no choice but to minimize their meetings in order to avoid this taboo. Meetings.

Although Fan Xian seldom came to Shufang Palace, but his training for the third prince’s schoolwork and cultivation still did not stop. During his time in Jiangnan, Fan Xian had already told the Third Prince many stories, and in the past three years, he had still opened many book lists, requiring the Third Prince to read through them.

On weekdays when he was busy with his official duties, Fan Xian would also find time to review the third prince’s reading notes. For him, this was also a top priority. If the future of Qing Kingdom was placed on Li Chengze, he certainly hoped that Li Chengze would become a benevolent ruler who, even if he did not have any ambitions, could at least look after his family business well.

Every year during the annual festival, Fan Xian’s family would enter the palace, and that was the time of year when he would scrutinize the third prince’s homework, and regularly, the sound of whips whistling and the sound of the third prince enduring pain would be heard in the Shufang Palace.

There was something unusual about the courtesan’s demeanor, Awakening Er, and it was clear that she had become Li Cheng Ze’s first woman in his adult life, and of course, Li Cheng Ze was also her first man. As soon as she heard Lord Little Fan’s name, there was some intolerance in the eyes of Awakening Er, and she said in an uneven manner, “Lord Little Fan is also like that, he doesn’t move his hands, and he doesn’t have the slightest sense of propriety.”

When Fan Xian first entered the palace, she was the one who took Fan Xian around, around to worship, all these years together, the courtesan wake up child didn’t think that outside the palace is incredibly powerful little Fan Lord what is scary, only think that guy is still the same year’s clean young man, so the words are not how to be respectful.

Li Chengze was afraid of Fan Xian, and said bitterly, “He dared to talk back to Father, and Mother is on his side, so what can I do.”

Although he said so, but he did not have any hateful feelings, instead, he sighed and sighed, “I haven’t been out of the palace for a long time, and I don’t know how Mr. Dongyi City is doing.”

Speaking of this section, even the face of the awake child could not help but glow with some radiance, said with a smile, “Little Lord Fan is on the scene, where there will be things that can’t be done properly. These days the palace is spreading the word that the matter of Dongyi City has been finalized, and that the Great Hall will lead the troops there right away.”

The Third Prince naturally knew the top priority in the court today, and thinking that Mr. Mister had made such an unparalleled achievement for the court, his heart couldn’t help but feel a little bit of honor and glory, nodding his head and saying, “It would be good if I also went along.”

The young man’s face suddenly scattered a feeling of longing, said: “I have the most happy days in this life, in fact, is two days outside the palace, one is with the Si Zhe that boy to do the embracing the moon building, the second is that year was carried by Mr. Jiangnan to go to the South …… I do not know when I can go out of the palace again. ”

Anyone in the process of his growth, will always subconsciously look for a powerful same sex as their own struggle and imitation, even born in the palace of the royal sons are no exception, only their maturity to be much earlier than the folk of the teenagers.

Li Chengze in the initial stage of puberty, in front of the near future there are two mountains need to look up to him, one is the father emperor, one is Fan Xian, however, His Majesty the Emperor of the Kingdom of Qing’s powerful, but with a stranger do not get close to the relatives also do not get close to the indifference, but Fan Xian’s powerful, is really some fireworks, with an insistent, simple and direct proximity.

So the third prince misses Fan Xian.

Voices came from outside the Shufang Palace, and before it was too late to pass on the message, a chief eunuch had already ricked his way into the inner hall. Wakeful frowned at that chief eunuch and gently made a blessing behind the Third Prince, not daring to lose his manners.

The person who came was Eunuch Yao, now the chief eunuch in the palace, a close minister who was deeply trusted by His Majesty. Li Chengze narrowed his eyes and glanced at him, feeling something strange in his heart, not knowing what matter required this person to come here personally, and asked, “Eunuch Yao, what is it?”

Eunuch Yao is a person who extremely knows his place, although he is a close confidant of his majesty, he knows that the third prince he is facing is one of the only two men in the palace nowadays, and is his future majesty, so he made a big bow in a regular manner before he said in a harmonious voice: “There is a Tsubaki old case being investigated in the inner court, and there are some things that are related to your highness, so I had no choice but to come to annoy your highness. ”

The pupils of Li Chengze’s eyes shrunk slightly, there was no doubt that he was a smart man, probing too much information from these words. A stale case? Related to himself? He had lived in the deep palace for years, what kind of case could there be that could truly rub off on him? And what kind of case would actually disturb him?

The Moon House? Impossible, back then, when Fan Xian crippled the second prince with this matter, it was with His Majesty’s approval, and it was naturally impossible to rehash the old story now, not to mention that with his own status today, no one would have the guts to pull that story.

Li Chengze’s eyes slightly converged, knowing what the inner court was investigating – three years ago, when Kyoto plotted a rebellion, the palace was in chaos, the third prince and concubine Ning were under house arrest in the Hall of Containing Light, and at such a tense juncture, there were people in the palace who wanted to assassinate Li Chengze, and if he didn’t have the poisoned dagger hand-made by Fan Xian in his hands, he would have already died. If he hadn’t had the poisoned dagger in his hand, he would have died.

Afterwards, people inside and outside the palace were puzzled about this matter, because at that time, the Crown Prince had already controlled the situation inside the palace, why would he do such a unreasonable thing? People again thought that it was the second prince who did it, but in the investigation afterward, the connection was not found.

Li Chengze himself had a particularly deep memory of that incident, and of course he wanted to find out exactly who had tried to kill him, only the Supervisory Yuan had investigated for a long time and could not find any clues.

And Fan Xian had once said to him privately that the matter should not be investigated, so the third prince had held back his anger and stopped paying attention to it, because he knew that Mr. must have smelled something on the wind, and only then would he not help himself to investigate.

And …… the inner court will actually check this matter now?

Concern for his own safety, anger at his would-be murderer, and trust in Fan Xian struggled in the Third Prince’s mind for a moment before he made up his mind and shook his head, “I was so frightened that day that I can’t remember anything.”

“Please ask your highness to accompany the old slave to draw a portrait, will you?” After those two eunuchs were killed by Li Chengze, their corpses were quickly burned in the chaos, there were too many eunuchs that died in the palace mutiny that day, so much so that even today, no one still knows who the assassin who assassinated the Third Prince actually was. Eunuch Yao glanced at the Third Prince and said respectfully.

Li Chengze’s brows frowned, smelling a hint of oddness, and said, “I still have to read a book, so this kind of small matter, since I’m fine, I’ll just ignore it.”

“How can that be? Your Highness is a noble member of the heavenly family, but someone dares to have an insubordinate heart towards Your Highness……. His Majesty is furious and has decreed a thorough investigation into this matter.”

Li Chengze narrowed his eyes and looked at Eunuch Yao, thinking to himself, what is Father Emperor trying to do again? If he was really furious, then what had he been doing for the past three years?

On that day in early July, Third Prince Li Chengze began to recall the palace mutiny and the appearance of the two eunuchs who had tried to kill him.

Miss Sun of the Kyoto House was lost in thought that night, looking at the two stars getting closer and closer in the sky, she knew that her father’s recent days had been much better, with the help of the young lord, no one in the court dared to target the Kyoto House anymore, even that great red man under the door of the middle secretary, Lord He Zongwei, in the past few months, did not have the same ruthless look as in the beginning, and was just stoic.

Thinking of Little Lord Fan, she couldn’t help but think of that condition that Little Lord Fan had promised himself in the Kyoto mutiny, a light smile gradually floated up to the corner of her lips.

The Chen Garden was bustling with activity, Chen Pingping was making preparations to return to her hometown. All the beautiful concubines in the Chen Garden, none of them were willing to leave as he expected, but cried and shouted that they wanted to return to their hometowns with him and see him off. The old cripple, while wondering helplessly, couldn’t help but think that perhaps when they looked at Fan Xian back then, they weren’t looking at cucumbers, but rather they had cucumbers long ago.

In the Fan Mansion in the south of Kyoto, Lin Wan’er and Si Si are holding a pair of children and feeding them, a few sisters and maids are gossiping beside them, the daughter-in-laws of the Fuji family are in front of the steps to report the harvest of this year’s Fan Clan Manor, and in one of the three studies in the back garden, the accountants of the Hangzhou Association are waiting to report to the master’s mother on the amount of silver spent this year to provide relief for people’s livelihoods along the north and south of the Jiangnan River.

Lin Wan’er handed the bowl of congee over to her grandmother, gave Xiao Hua and Fan Liang a kiss on each of their cheeks, and walked to the door to stretch her legs. This demeanor really didn’t seem like a great young grandmother, it was just that Fan Xian spoiled her, and she was used to spoiling her freedom.

She looked at the stars in the sky and thought of Fan Xian, who was far away on the shores of the East Sea, and couldn’t help but slightly incline her head, thinking that everything was on track, and in the future, if she wanted to leave Kyoto to go on a free life, where should she choose? Tanyu or Dongyi City? She suddenly thought that she hadn’t been to Dongyi City yet, and couldn’t help but feel a little yearning for it.

Just as she was thinking, Fan Ruoruo, dressed as a healer and carrying a medical box, pushed open the door to the courtyard and walked in, followed by a few servants who were in a hurry to take over the heavy loads, panicked and in a state of disarray. Fan Ruo Ruo had returned from the countryside, and looking at her little sister-in-law standing at the door, she couldn’t help but smile and snicker a few times.

In the distant Beiqi palace, the little Emperor of Beiqi was sitting on top of the jade platform in the main hall, looking at the white sand in the pool beside the platform, the pair of fish lying on the sand, her ghostly eyes were lost in thought. Her hands placed a few points of the zhangzhang, said the four Gu sword when the death of the situation, as well as the Dongyi City and the South Qing agreement between the inside information.

The secrets of this agreement were not something that the Beiqi Brocade Guards could reasonably know about, and it was obvious that the man was purposely letting the wind out of his own sails.

The eyes of the young Emperor of Northern Qi narrowed, and for the first time in his life, he appeared confused. He did not know what would happen to his kingdom, and his future. The situation right now seemed to be clear, and there was no opportunity for the conflict between Fan Xian and Emperor Qing to erupt, so how should Da Qi conduct itself?

If it were in previous years, perhaps he would have already made up his mind to make Fan Xian and Emperor Qing turn over at all costs, even if he had to pay half of the treasury’s revenue and countless other costs. However, nowadays, his mind had changed, for he knew the power of the words that Fan Xian had once spoken.

It was that day in early July, or that day in early July, that people on the continent had experienced something unusual or unusual. And a certain inflection point in history, a certain event that caused the details of history to shift, did not happen in Kyoto, nor in Shangjing, but in a remote state and county in the Kingdom of Qing.

It was supposed to be just a routine law and order inspection, and the magistrates were somewhat bored as they walked slowly under the blazing sun, occasionally ducking into the shadows of the stores along the street to take a rest.

At that moment, Gao Da, who had been in disguise and incognito for three years, was busy at a noodle stall on the corner of the street. His face with a hint of healthy redness, no longer like back then as the face of determination, but full of contentment and satisfaction, in the past tightly gripping the long knife hand, now easily holding a long chopsticks, extremely skillful and dexterous from the pot to pick up the noodles, put into a bowl, sprinkled with green coriander, the aroma of the steaming.

After escaping from the Great Eastern Mountains, Gao Da wandered through the various states and counties of the Kingdom of Qing. The strict household registration system and the system of customs clearance paperwork of the Qing Kingdom had really made him suffer a lot. Although no one had discovered his identity, it still seemed as difficult as ever for him to land a smooth life.

He is the royal tiger guard, and did not experience too many affairs, and for the folk bottom of the jianghu, is not the slightest knowledge, so this hall tiger guard, once swimming in the shallows, actually become so hard.

Later a coincidence, he fell in Dazhou, but also finally have a brand new identity, on this street above the open a noodle stall, every day in the sun, under the noodles, actually also sun back a wife, a son.

This may be the real happiness, wife and child hot bed, every day Gao Da closes the stall to go home, hugging the wife that makes people hot, will have this feeling, he even felt that his sword even if he did not use it, there is no pity.

Of course he remained vigilant, although he had learned over the years that the court had probably decided that all the Tiger Guards were dead, he still didn’t dare to let the court know of his existence, especially the inner court. As a tiger guard of the inner court, he knew clearly that his escape in private was a great crime of deceiving the king, and once caught, he would be beheaded.

He still kept an eye on Fan Xian’s movements, and it was good to know that Fan Xian was the most famous one in Qing, and the talk in the city was always about Fan Xian, so he learned that the Lord of the Tishek had had a good time in the past three years, and that he had done a lot of work for Qing, and that there was even a possibility that he might have included the city of Dongyi in his territory recently.

Gao Da was very happy and drank several glasses of wine, thinking that young Lord Fan was really powerful. It was just that he still hadn’t thought about going to look for Fan Xian and find a way to get off the charges against him.

Because he felt that he was doing well now, there was no need to change anything.

That was until the magistrates sat down at his noodle stall and then looked at his lady with lust.