The desperate Queen Mother didn't say the answer that Fan Xian wanted to know, her lips trembled, and she closed her eyes with difficulty. Fan Xian looked at the wrinkles on her face, and there was not much unusual affection in his heart, he had already guessed this result, but in the middle of the night, to be able to have such a conversation with this old woman who seemed to be kind and kind-eyed, but was actually fierce-minded, was a kind of divine comfort to him, especially when His Majesty was about to return to Beijing.

In fact, the Empress Dowager Qingguo is really not like a snake and scorpion, for decades, she has not used the emperor's filial piety and power in her hands to hurt too many people and do too many things that hurt nature and reason...... Except for Ye Qingmei's incident. However, for some reason, for Fan Xian, this old woman was related to the incident twenty years ago, and it was even more intolerable than trying to kill herself.

What's more, this old woman actually hated him all the time, until after the incident of the Hanging Temple, the emperor recognized Fan Xian's identity, and she pretended to praise some gods in the hall, and sent a string of prayer beads to express her attitude.

For those he admires, those who are difficult to threaten him, Fan Xian can show his generosity and demeanor, but for the queen mother who has the ability to threaten him, he definitely does not appreciate it, and of course he will not show the filial piety and gentleness of a grandson.

After His Majesty returned to Beijing, he knew what happened in Kyoto, no matter whether he could understand Fan Xian's reluctance to break through the palace at night, pointing at the helplessness of the Queen Mother, but Fan Xian would not leave too many fatal gaps for himself, he slowly pushed and held it on the Queen Mother's arms with both hands, and the true qi was sent into her body, helping the pill in her body to gradually speed up, so that her slightest anger gradually spread.

After doing this very carefully, the Queen Mother became a person who could not speak or move again, and even her eyes became dim and dazed at this time, like the old man's dementia before he died.

From the perspective of clean insurance, Fan Xian should let the empress dowager die very naturally before the emperor returned to Beijing, but he didn't dare to take this risk to gamble on the emperor's heart. If the Empress Dowager could survive until the emperor returned to Beijing, Fan Xian would not be responsible for her death, and if the Empress Dowager died in Fan Xian's Liao Liao Shu rì, I am afraid that he would have to meet the emperor's unreasonable anger.

deliberately amplified his voice to persuade a few words, expressing filial piety and apology, and after waiting for a while, Fan Xian walked out of the Hanguang Hall and nodded slightly to the palace maids and grandmothers in the front hall. Under the awe-inspiring gaze of everyone, he walked to the stone steps in front of the hall, glanced at the East Palace in the distance, did not see the firelight, and did not do anything more.

............ At the gate of the brightly lit palace, Fan Xian saw Prince Jing who came in a hurry, this prince finally stopped dressing up as a flower farmer today, but wore the prince's clothes seriously. King Jing's Mansion and Fan's Mansion have always been good friends, and when Kyoto was in turmoil, he relied on the identity of King Jing to successfully hide his father in the mansion.

He knew the reason why this prince, who had always refused to enter the palace, came in a hurry tonight. The news in the palace has been released, and the officials and people of the entire Kyoto know that the queen mother is in a hurry because of the rebellion of the crown prince and the eldest princess, and the imperial city is besieged, she is frightened, and she suffers from wind and cold, and lies on the bed, just afraid that she will not have a few days to live.

Although King Jing pretends to be a flower farmer all the year round and is unwilling to get close to his mother, he is the biological son of the queen mother after all, and when he hears the news, of course he has to rush into the palace. He looked at the handsome-looking junior in front of him, couldn't help but sigh, looked at Fan Xian twice, but didn't say anything.

Fan Xian's expression was calm, he had already clearly told King Jing that the Queen Mother had not been for two days, although everyone knew that the Queen Mother's impatience did not have much to do with the Crown Prince, but he was not worried that King Jing would see what he had done to the Queen Mother. Some side news confirmed that King Jing also knew martial arts, but if he couldn't even hide King Jing tonight, let alone the emperor who was about to return to Beijing?

"Brother Huang...... Are you still alive?" asked King Jing after sighing.

Fan Xian nodded: "At the Taiping Courtyard, I saw the handwritten letter from His Majesty to Her Royal Highness the Eldest Princess." ”

King Jing's facial expression was very complicated, this son of the second generation of the royal family, had never been involved in any political affairs, but he also knew how far-reaching the Kyoto rebellion was involved, and the news that His Majesty was still alive made him guess part of the truth very clearly. He said sarcastically: "Brother Huang is so big-minded and powerful. ”

King Jing immediately thought of someone, frowned slightly and asked, "How is she?"

Fan Xian knew who he was asking, and replied solemnly: "I have passed away, and now I am in the house, I don't know how to deal with it, please ...... the prince."

King Jing's face was slightly mournful, intercepted his words, and said a little weakly: "You are now in prison, and you will be at your disposal." ”

Worried about his mother's condition, he didn't say much to Fan Xian, but just explained Fan Shangshu's situation, and then under the leadership of several eunuchs, he hurried in the direction of Hanguang Palace. Fan Xian learned from the prince that his father had returned to the mansion safely, and his heart was a little settled, and he immediately thought that there was still a big mess of troublesome things in the mansion that needed to be dealt with, and his brows couldn't help frowning.

There are too many officials who have died, His Majesty has not returned, the whole Kyoto is in chaos, the yamen of the various ministries has not yet returned to duty, and the Taichang Temple is even more nowhere to be found, and the follow-up problems of the eldest princess have to be left for later solution.

After Ye Zhong solved the problem of the crown prince, he personally led the troops out of Beijing, met the follow-up troops from Dingzhou on the field, and began to pursue the remnants of the rebel army that had been defeated. Shu Hu and the two scholars were dealing with some urgent official documents in the imperial study, and Fan Xian looked at it, although he was a temporary prisoner, he had become a loner, and he had no one in his hands and could not do anything.

Fortunately, after surrendering to Kyoto, Sun Jingxiu of Kyoto Prefecture resolutely carried out his duties, and with the assistance of the Supervisory Yuan, he is working hard to maintain public order and order in Kyoto.

During the day, the people who fled had already left the city through the Zhengyang Gate of the palace, and the rest of the people who remained in Kyoto began to wait for peace according to the mandate of heaven.

Fan Xian stood on the square in front of the palace gate, looking at the broken stone marks on the bluestone slabs, and the traces of blood that had not yet had time to be washed away, he was slightly stunned, Jing Ge's group of black horsemen, and the secret agents of the Supervision Institute who were ambushed in front of the Zhengyang Gate suffered heavy casualties and were lucky to survive, and at this time they had been sent to the Fangzheng Building of the Supervision Institute for medical treatment.

He believed in the medical level of his brothers in the three divisions, and the Tai Hospital was also in the temporarily requisitioned private houses, bandaging the wounded of the forbidden army and the Dingzhou army, but many people still died.

In the northeast corner of the distance, a sergeant was silently carrying the corpses, piled up in the darkness into a small hill, looking like they were so strong that at this time tonight, there was no time to transport the corpses out of the city for burial.

Fan Xian watched this scene, took out a pill from his arms and put it into his lips, did not drink water, chewed it raw and swallowed it twice, it was not a ephedra pill, but a normal healing medicine. He coughed twice, wiped the blood from his lips with his cuffs, and couldn't help but shake his head.

This was the first time he had experienced a real war, and watching the heroic and bleak scenes happening in front of his eyes, he finally understood that digging graves and appreciating corpses when he was a child could not exercise his nerves to the point of being too ruthless.

He said to himself again in his heart: In this world, there is no good war, no bad peace, and the agreement between Qingli and Begonia in the fifth year, he must continue, even if he will face a powerful enemy that he has never encountered.

"Qingyutang should have been burned to the ground. Fan Xian thought in his heart, in order not to arouse suspicion afterwards, naturally the surrounding houses will also suffer, and after the rebellion, I don't know how many houses in Kyoto will be burned down and looted, presumably not too many people's attention.

At this time, a horse galloped from the northwest direction, alarming the night that had just been quiet, and the people up and down the imperial city were nervous, and the already exhausted forbidden soldiers reluctantly raised their weapons in their hands, until they noticed that the person who came was wearing the official uniform of the Supervision Yuan.

Fan Xian's eyes narrowed, and he looked at the subordinates who galloped in front of him, without saying a word, but there was already a strong sense of inquiry in his eyes - the person who came was a member of the Qi Nian group, a person picked by Wang Qinian, and there was no doubt about his loyalty, so he arranged for this person to secretly watch Fuji Zijing's movements, in case the old shopkeepers of Qingyutang encountered any kind of danger when they left Beijing.

At this time, the subordinate hurried over, obviously something was wrong.

The official of the Supervision Yuan looked at Fan Xian's eyes, lowered his voice and said, "There was some accident." ”

There were no idle people around, Fan Xian said directly: "Say!"

The official glanced around and said carefully: "The ignition is very smooth, and there is no problem with blending in with the fleeing crowd to get out of the city, but the brothers who stayed in place found that they had already alarmed the eyeliner in place, but they didn't know whose eyeliner it was." ”

Of course Fan Xian knew, it must be the eyeliner left by His Majesty the Emperor, the things in the minds of these old shopkeepers were too precious, and there must be a group of special personnel in the palace who were responsible for supervising them, even if there was a rebellion in Kyoto, these people would definitely be lurking.

"I don't have a lot of people on hand. Fan Xian stared at him and said coldly, "I'll give you twenty ...... You can't solve these problems!"

The official lowered his head, not daring to make the slightest excuse, and said: "The other party has a hard hand, and they ran away three times." ”

Fan Xian no longer blamed this official, because he didn't dare to let too many people know about this matter, so it was very obscure, to be precise, he was taking a big risk, and his own plan had many loopholes, and of course it was very unsmooth to execute.

The official glanced up at him and said with a very complicated feeling: "After running three, we later caught up and found more than a dozen dead bodies...... There is also a person who left a message for you. ”

This sentence is a little difficult to understand, it doesn't make sense at all logically, ran three palace eyeliners, how did he find more than a dozen dead corpses, Fan Xian's heart chuckled, and asked, "What words?"

The man said...... There are people waiting at home. ”

............ Someone in the family was waiting for him, of course, Fan Xian rushed home in the first time, and now he stepped into the door of the house for the second time, he ran directly to his father's study in the back garden, the unlooted Fan Mansion is still so beautiful, the light in the study shines through the glass, shining on the rockery and clear water.

As King Jing said, his father had returned home safely, Fan Xian secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and without a report, he directly pushed the door in, and saw that the Liu family was cleaning up.

He swept his gaze and knew that his father's sour syrup had been drunk. In such a situation, his father still has the leisure to drink sour syrup, and Fan Xian can't help but admire his concentration very much.

"Is mother okay?" he bowed very respectfully to the Liu family, who is now the housewife of the Fan Mansion, of course, this is still the first time he got married.

Liu smiled, said a word to comfort his daughter-in-law, and left the study.

Fan Jian, the head of the household who was sitting on the Taishi's chair, raised his head and glanced at his son, his eyes showed relief and a hint of reproach, this older generation of people who had been hiding in Kyoto since the incident in Kyoto finally stopped hiding their thoughts at this moment.

"The eyeliner outside Qingyutang was killed by someone sent by my father. Fan Jian knocked lightly on the desk, thoughtfully, and said in a harmonious voice: "I don't know why you have become so radical, and you dare to carry out such a plan full of mistakes and omissions...... Do you really think Your Majesty can't see it?"

Fan Xian smiled bitterly, his mentality has indeed changed greatly, but courage often means loopholes.

He sat down and said respectfully, "Thank you, Father." He knew that his father secretly trained tiger guards for the royal family, if his father did not hide any strength in secret, it would definitely not be reasonable, those eyeliners in the inner court were killed by his father, and he was not surprised, and the shocking news that His Majesty survived, since he sued Ye Zhong from his mouth, of course his father also knew.

"It's easy to kill someone, but it's the aftermath that makes it complicated. Fan Shangshu thought for a moment and said slowly: "Even if there is chaos in Kyoto, the chaotic army will be killed...... But have you thought about it, did the old shopkeepers of Qingyutang all be burned to death by fire so coincidentally? You put more than a dozen corpses in the fire, just to cover your ears and steal the bell. ”

Fan listened quietly.

"And those eyeliners of the inner court, even if you use the power of the Supervision Yuan to kill them all, how can you guarantee that your subordinates do not have the eyeliner of His Majesty?"

"It's a split action, except for the Qinian group, the rest of the people don't know the inside story. Fan Xian explained.

"Okay, even if the Supervision Yuan is made into a monolith by Chen Pingping, then let me ask you, who will explain to His Majesty afterwards that those inner court eyeliners staring at Qingyutang are actually dead one by one?"

Fan Xian was dumbfounded, and then he figured out that even if he killed people, the death of these inner court eyeliners who should not have died in the hands of the chaotic army would itself arouse His Majesty's suspicions.

"And these old shopkeepers still have families in Kyoto. Fan Jian looked at his son and said in a harmonious voice: "They really want to leave, dare to leave?"

"I only asked Fuji Zijing to send the four old shopkeepers away, Qingyutang must have a living person, it is in line with common sense, understand?"

"Understood. A layer of cold sweat broke out on Fan Xian's forehead.

"As for fighting with the eyeliner of the inner court, the person who is interested in the old shopkeeper of Qingyutang is not you, nor me, but the eldest princess. Fan Jian's eyes became indifferent, and he said, "Those dozen or so corpses are the dead soldiers in Xinyang. ”

"Since you want to convince Your Majesty, you have to make Your Majesty believe. The person who shot has this need. The eldest princess knew the importance of Neiku, of course she would think about fighting for Qingyutang, only she had the ability and this idea. ”

Fan Xianxin was convinced.

At this time, Fan Shangshu suddenly sighed and said, "Anzhi...... I don't know what you think and why you do it, but you have to remember that you are a Qingguo person after all, and a father is also a Qingguo person, no matter what, don't do anything that hurts my Daqing Guoben. ”

Fan Xian's heart was shocked, knowing that his father had seen through his plan at a glance, and he wanted to defend himself, but he really couldn't bear to lie and deceive his father, so he had to be silent helplessly.

Fan Jian looked at his son, sighed again, shook his head and said, "I won't talk about you anymore, this Neiku...... It's your mother's stuff after all. Although I, as a minister of Qingguo, do not want to see certain things happen, but you ...... Do whatever you want. ”

Fan Xian was shocked, he didn't expect his father to make such a decision, of course his father would not deceive himself and hurt himself, but he knew that Neiku was important for Qingguo to dominate the world, why did he still help himself?

"I'm old, and I don't have much strength left. Fan Shangshu didn't know if he knew something, he added a little tiredness and old age to his handsome face, and said slowly: "After His Majesty returns to Beijing, I will resign, I can help you a little in Kyoto, I can help you a little, I can't watch you have an accident." ”

Fan Xian's heart was shocked again, that year, the emperor was openly secret, connived at the attacks of the court officials, and checked the accounts of the household department, just to force his father to resign and return to old age, but his father was not angry, he was silent, and dragged on for two years, why did he suddenly say resignation tonight?