Fan Xian's face remained unchanged, he had long expected this one. Today's trip to Silk Street, in fact, the ostensible purpose is secondary, the key is to see how Neku is doing in the north, so when he heard this boss Sheng call himself uncle, he was not surprised at all, Neku is still under the care of the eldest princess after all, and there will always be some cronies of the eldest princess, lurking in Northern Qi.

I don't know why, Fan Xian is very confident that the eldest princess will take the initiative to send someone to find her, the envoy of the mission. This is not only intuition, but also a judgment of Qingguo people, whether they are virtuous or stupid, have some confidence and pride that are almost paranoid in their bones. The eldest prince wants to let Sean go, there must be another secret, if it is not related to the secret of the temple, then it must be related to the Uesugi Tiger who lives in Shangjing. Now that Sean has been sent to the Northern Qi Kingdom, the eldest princess wants to save Sean out, so she will naturally contact her son-in-law, who is the envoy of the mission.

However, the word "uncle" still made Fan Xian feel a little ridiculous, and it seemed impossible for his mother-in-law to like it the more he looked at his son-in-law.

Since Sheng Huairen dares to call his uncle, he must be the henchman of the eldest princess. Fan Xian looked at him and nodded, and said, "What do you have to say to the elders?"

Sheng Huairen didn't say anything, just handed him a letter.

............ Sitting on the carriage, Fan Xian pinched the envelope in his sleeve, he hadn't had time to read it yet, but he had already begun to feel the weight of the letter. After today's matter is done, he must deal with it well, Wang Qinian next to him is good at tracking, and the force of Gundam is amazing, but there is one less person to help him judge the situation and analyze intelligence.

He couldn't help but think of the students he had taken in when he was in chūn, those guys should have been delegated by now, but these people might be able to be officials, and engaging in these yīn schemes is not their forte, even if they want to cultivate Shi Xuan, they won't have time. Fan Xian's heart suddenly moved, if he could get Yan Bingyun out quickly, he believed that it would be of great help to the imperial court's plan.

At this time, Wang Qinian respectfully handed over a piece of tissue paper, Fan Xian raised his eyes slightly and glanced at it, and found that it was a silver ticket of five hundred taels, and frowned: "What is this?"

"The kickback given by the owner of the glass shop. ”

Fan Xian glanced at it again, and said with a smile: "There are also kickbacks for playing white strips...... You and Gundam have divided it, and by the way, leave some for those Tiger Guards. ”

Five hundred taels of silver is already a huge amount, but Fan Xian rewarded it without raising his eyes, and only a rich family like the Fan family can cultivate such a habit, and now Fan Sizhen is a rich man with an annual income of 10,000 taels, and he will not care about these amounts.

Lin Jing said with a smile on the side: "Master Fan regards money as dung, and the lower officials admire it. ”

Fan Xian knew that he didn't really admire the breeze on his sleeves, but he was afraid that he admired the golden breeze in his house, so he smiled and didn't say anything. Speechless all the way, the carriage passed through the quiet and beautiful streets of Shangjing, and finally came to the area where the dignitaries lived, and stopped at the gate of the Changning Marquis's Mansion.

There is a resemblance to the southern castle of Nanqing Kyoto, where the chūn wind gently blows the branches of the trees that stretch out from each prefecture, and the sky is covered by the large trees overhead, and the clear water spreads out. Fan Xian stood beside the carriage, looking at the street, looking at the stone lions beside the magnificent façade, and somehow he thought of the situation when he first arrived in Kyoto from Shanzhou.

The carriage stopped in front of the Changning Marquis Mansion, and there was the protection of the Imperial Forest Army, and there was a lot of movement, and some people had already begun to peep in the dark. The concierge in front of the Hou Mansion looked at the carriage in front of his house and was a little at a loss, not knowing whether to go down to greet him, or to hurry into the mansion to inform the master.

These subordinates can see that the clothes of the comer are very clear, and they are actually envoys from Nanqing! How can anyone in this world ever heard of the fact that the envoys came to the palaces of the ministers of other countries by themselves! If it is really a trip allowed by the two countries, then the Changning Marquis Mansion is afraid that it has already begun to prepare, where can it be so quiet and silent?

The porter swallowed, wondering what kind of play was this? Could it be that these envoys didn't know the rules at all?

The mission was not doing official business today, and Fan Xian threw away the accompanying officials of Honglu Temple very recklessly, so only the Wei commander around him was a person from Northern Qi. Seeing that Fan Xian and the four of them were about to break into the Marquis of Changning, Commander Wei was also anxious, and stepped forward to stop: "Lord Fan, this must not be, without the permission of the imperial court, the envoys cannot interact with the courtiers without permission, if Lord Fan and the Marquis of Changning really have a good relationship, then they can't go in like this, what if they bring trouble to the Marquis of Changning?"

Marquis Changning is the brother of Empress Dowager Wei, what trouble can there be? Fan Xian muttered in his heart, it is best to bring him trouble, who told his son to hide from him all day today, but said with a smile on his face: "You might as well tell Your Majesty in the palace in the morning, Your Majesty has no opinion, who are you afraid of breaking your mouth?"

This Emperor of Northern Qi was about to be moved out, and Commander Wei couldn't help but be stunned, did he really go to the palace to verify this matter?

At this time, Fan Xian had already walked to the door of Changning Hou with three subordinates, and the porter hurriedly came up to ask for a greeting, the etiquette was thoughtful, and the words were clear, Fan Xian secretly praised, and it was indeed worthy of the Gaomen family, and said: "Please report it, just say that the drinking friend of the Southern Dynasty is here." ”

With such self-cooked skills, Fan Xian finally learned a few traces of jīng in this year's training in the officialdom wine field. The porter was stunned for a moment, thinking that the Hou Ye had indeed sent an envoy to Nanqing last year, and I heard that he had been drunk in the south for a long time, could it be the young envoy in front of him?

But he didn't dare to spread the word immediately, after all, the foreign minister entered the house, and the matter was very high. When he was in distress, he suddenly heard a knock on the corner door, and a person came out, bowed to Fan Xian, and said, "Master Hou is invited." ”

............ Fan Xian didn't expect this Hou Mansion to be so easy to enter, entered the hall, looked at the middle-aged man on the chair, laughed, walked over and hugged him very warmly, and said: "I haven't seen you for a year, and the Hou Ye's demeanor is better than at the beginning." In fact, in Kyoto last year, he and the envoy of the Northern Qi Dynasty only met a few times, and finally drank bitterly in the palace, but he vaguely remembered the other party's appearance.

The Marquis of Changning is the emperor's brother, and his status is extremely noble, where has he ever encountered such a "warm" meeting gift, coughed twice, and said with a headache: "I haven't seen you for a year, Lord Xiao Fan's reputation is better than at the beginning, why do you want to come to this mansion to sit now?"

"Yesterday I just entered Shangjing, and today I chatted with His Majesty for a while in the morning, no, I thought that there were no acquaintances among the juniors in Shangjing, of course I had to visit Hou Ye. ”

This Changning Hou was born with a white face and swollen eyes, and at the age of forty or fifty, the traces of excessive wine could not be eliminated. Fan Xian was close, and he could clearly smell the smell of wine on the other party's body, and it seemed that he drank all night last night. Fan Xian was secretly happy in his heart, thinking that the gift he bought was the right way.

Changning Hou is not only good at wine, but also really a mediocre person. The Queen Mother has a total of two brothers, among which the Marquis of Chang'an can still lead the troops into battle, although he is a defeated general, but he is always stronger than him, this Hou Ye has been for many years, and he only dares to nest in the capital, that is, such a dull person, and relying on the sister Queen Mother as a backer, he dared to welcome Fan Xian, who was an envoy of Nanqing, into the house so unscrupulously.

Fan Xian came to the door today, first of all, he wanted to get closer to the queen mother's brother, and secondly, he wanted to figure out that Changning Hou would force that Wei Shaoqing out.

Sure enough, looking at the wine brought up by the elders, the eyes of the Marquis of Changning narrowed, although he did not have a noble identity on the face, but the name of the queen mother's brother was enough to make him look down on everyone in the world, even if Fan Xian was now the master of the Southern Dynasty Supervision Yuan, how could he fall into his eyes. He just listened to the report of the porter, and remembered that young and beautiful guy who could drink very well, after returning to Northern Qi, he had never forgotten his "defeat", so he let Fan Xian enter the mansion.

At this time, when he saw the wine jīng bottle, Hou Ye became more and more happy, thinking that he really had the wisdom to know people, and this little Fan Xian was really a person who knew and was interested.

............ In the intelligence of the Supervision Yuan, this Marquis of Changning is a native of the border village, although he once studied in Zhuang Mohan, but in fact he was very unsatisfactory in the court of the Northern Qi Dynasty, and was always thought by the officials of the Northern Qi Dynasty that he relied on the nepotism of the Queen Mother to get up, so not many people looked down on him, and his reputation in the court was even inferior to his son Wei Hua. That's why this marquis will be in love with the wine. In this broad daylight, a large table of good dishes was immediately prepared in the Hou Mansion, and the Marquis of Changning pulled a few foreign envoys and began to drink bitterly.

Fan Xian squinted slightly, took a drink, looked at the greedy appearance of the old man's smacking mouth, smiled and said, "Master Hou, when you enter the door first, Commander Wei said that it may cause you some inconvenience. ”

"I'm afraid!" Changning Hou scolded and said: "When the guests come to the door, do you still want Ben Hou to close the door to thank the guests? Last year in Kyoto, you and Xin Qiwu Xin Lord, but you accompanied Ben Hou well, and now this Rì Ben Hou accompanies you, who has the courage to say anything?"

Fan Xianxin said that this is good. After three rounds of drinking, watching Changning Hou's pale face gradually appear red, his eyes were a little sloppy, knowing that the other party had drunk a little too much, Fan Xian took the opportunity to say what he wanted to ask. Hearing his words, Changning Hou was slightly stunned and said, "Master Fan, do you want to see Lord Shen, the commander of the Zhenfu Division?"