Chapter 69 – Lord Fang’s bolt from the blue

Marquis Jingnan was there? As well as with Fang Qingxue there was also the Imperial Historian, this alarmed Fang Qingxue, wouldn’t it be that the Imperial Historian should also know about this?

Since the founding of the country, not only the court officials are not allowed to be intimate with prostitutes, even the children of prostitutes are also in the impeachment of the list. Although the playwright is not a prostitute, this is to do the article then, is also able to do up ah! Not to mention the Fang family is so strict rules of the family! Being so a discussion, hurt the family style, Fang Qingxue is absolutely can not forgive the Fang drainage!

Then Xu Chong is picking today to act?

She said, “Have you reminded Fang Que?”

“Yes, I told Fang Que earlier that Xu Chong was watching him and told him to be careful, he said he wasn’t afraid of him and said to let him come over!”

“This stupid ass!”

Zhao Su at this moment were a bit skeptical of whether this surnamed Fang was worth his hand to save a hand. Surname Xu has already settled on this, do you think he still doesn’t dare to come over?

“By the way, I just heard from the guards that the imperial historian who was having tea with Fang Qingxue is surnamed Tian!”

“Tian OCT?”

“I’m not sure if it’s him, but I heard that there was also He Shangshu present.”

Zhao Su didn’t know much about the Imperial Medicine Division, she didn’t know the exact relationship between this He Sheng, Fang Qing Xue and OCT, but she felt that this information couldn’t be ignored, at least Empress Dowager Lu’s judgment could be trusted that there was something fishy behind this surname Tian.

After thinking about it, she tucked the dagger Hua Huanyong had given her into her sleeve, “Let’s take a look!”

“Where to look?”

“Wherever Fang Qingxue is, we’ll go!”

……

A teahouse in the north of the city, located on the banks of the river, was bustling with activity at this time.

In the elegant room on the second floor facing the water, it was even quieter.

There were four people sitting around the table, at the top was He Sheng, on He Sheng’s left was Fang Qingxue, on his right was Orange China, and opposite him was Marquis Jingnan.

Fang Qingxue was dragged here by He Sheng.

Today, there was no need for an early morning court, he had originally planned to go to the Ministry of Revenue to find some evidence and go to the palace to see the Empress Dowager, but he didn’t expect that before he even left the house, He Sheng came to his home and invited him to participate in such a bureau, he couldn’t even push it!

When he arrived at the place and saw the presence of OCT, he knew that he shouldn’t have come to this dinner party. Ever since OCT was recommended several times to fill up the vacancy, and the Emperor had left it at that, he had a vague feeling that it wasn’t that simple.

His own talent was average, but his family had been officials for generations, and he had more or less practiced the ways of survival in the official world. Although the Emperor was young, and had been in office for three years, he had not seen any thunderous measures, and he was humble and courteous to the court veterans, and even He Sheng had played a trick on the Emperor in front of him at the Qianqing Palace, and the Emperor didn’t say anything about that either.

But he still felt that the imposing Qin Wang had recognized this younger brother as the crown prince back then, so the emperor would never be any kind of gentle and kind person. Even this patience of his was even more indicative of a man with a city.

Right now, with the presence of OCT, he was not that eager to stay.

But how could he leave the table when all the people here were of higher status than him?

He had a family and a career, he couldn’t just ignore it.

“Why isn’t Lord Fang drinking? Is this wine and food not to your liking?”

Across the table, Tian OCT greeted him attentively.

This table of wine and food was created by OCT. Fang Qingxue arched his hand and said, “I am not capable of drinking, I hope you all will forgive me.”

He Sheng laughed, “Qingxue is somewhat not giving Lord Tian face.”

“Could it be because little brother has not entertained Lord Fang? Come, Little Brother toasts to Your Excellency!”

OCT raised the cup.

Fang Qingxue held his hand on the cup, but hesitated to raise it.

He knew in his heart that the reason why OCT was courting him was the same as why Marquis Qingyun was looking for him, it was because he happened to be in charge of the Internal Affairs Bureau’s accounts, and the Royal Medicines Department had recently had a problem, and some people were implicated in it.

Of course, OCT’s official position was not higher than his, so it was normal for him to have a lower stance, but he dared not mess with the people behind him, and even if OCT was just a dog, he couldn’t pretend that he couldn’t see it.

“Lord Fang?”

The smile on Tian OCT’s face deepened, but his eyes showed some unhappiness.

Fang Qingxue gritted his teeth and raised his cup up.

When Zhao Su reached the bottom of the teahouse, the guards who had gone upstairs to spy happened to come downstairs, and upon seeing her, they first opened their mouths and spoke up, “Back to you, just now Xu Chong’s men have already let their subordinates lure them away, and Fang Qing Xue is still upstairs. This is a banquet hosted by OCT’s officers, originally for Marquis Jingnan, accompanied by He Sheng and Fang Qingxue, what they are looking for from Marquis Jingnan is still unknown.”

Although Zhao Su did not yet know what kind of trickery He Sheng and Fang Qingxue had with OCT, the fact that OCT was there, as well as He Sheng and Marquis Jingnan, was not normal at first glance, so he said, “Where did you find out about this?”

“The roof.”

“Can you take me up?”

The guard looked at him and shook his head.

Zhao Su’s neck snapped, “Back then, the Empress Dowager was even secretly taken up to the Forbidden City by the late Emperor!”

It wasn’t a big secret that when the body of the novel was written to the part about fixing the country, the empress dowager didn’t let the late emperor fly around with her. The point was that Empress Dowager Lu didn’t know martial arts either, so why could she and not herself?

The guard held his tongue for a while, “Because the empress dowager was brought up by the late emperor.”

“……”

Come on, you might as well just say because Mary Sue has a male lead to add to it!

Zhao Su was helpless: “Then you go back up to the roof and stay there!”

The guards slipped away.

At this time, Hua Qianrong hurried over, “Xu Chong’s boy has already put out a message at the street entrance! There’s a lot of people in this area, it’ll soon reach the teahouse!”

Zhao Su couldn’t help but be a little serious, at first it was indeed because Fang Dui helped tear Xu Chong down at that time, and the Fang family had been righteous in the matter of fixing the country back then, that’s why he was thinking of fishing for Fang Dui and the Fang family. However, now that Fang Qingxue’s bureau also includes OCT, she can’t just help out out of moral righteousness!

Was Fang Qingxue entangled with OCT’s interests, or did she have no choice but to get involved? If it was the former, not only would she not be able to help, but she should also add fuel to Xu Chong’s fire. If it was the latter, then Fang Qingxue definitely had something worth getting involved in, why did OCT pull him in? She had to figure that out as well.

And if the Xu family had built things up, she wouldn’t be able to know!

Thinking of this she crossed her heart, “Little Flower! You have someone go and knock Fang Ditch unconscious and get him out, remember not to let the Xu family find out! Then you go in and find Fang Qingxue and find a way to get him out without alerting anyone!”

Hua Huanyong said “Yes” and immediately went.

Zhao Su looked at the color of the sky, the sun had climbed into the sky, it wasn’t very early, after seeing Fang Qingxue, he should be able to go directly to the palace.

Then she turned around and recruited the other two guards, “You guys draw someone back to the mansion to find Xiaolan, bring over all those snacks and drinks I just made, and remember to keep them warm.”

This year’s heat preservation method is to take cotton wool wrapped, although not as effective as modern, so one or two hours is not a problem.

The first chapter of this book is the “Hongmen Banquet”.