Chen Pingping pushed her wheelchair to the window, and gently lifted the corner of the black curtain as she had done in previous years, feeling the heat outside being cut off by thick glass. He looked at the golden eaves of the palace, half-closed his godless eyes, and shrunk his whole body into a wheelchair.

"I'll let Yan Bingyun come over. ”

Fei Jie was not surprised to hear this, knowing that the dean always chooses to arrange the back road before he wants to do something big...... Not his own back road, but the back road of the Inspectorate.

There was a gentle knock on the door outside the secret room, Chen Pingping listened for a while, her face showed an approving look, the person who knocked on the door was still so unhurried and not dry, as far as his heart was concerned, it was indeed much more suitable than Fan Xian, and he gently knocked twice on the armrest of the wheelchair with the fingers of his right hand.

got permission, and the person outside the door pushed the door in, not a bystander, it was the current leader of the four places, Yan Bingyun, who Chen Pingping had also discussed before, Xiao Yan Gongzi.

Yan Bingyun has been rescued back to China for nearly a year, and he has already taken care of the scars he fell all over his body, restored his frosty appearance, and kept everything in order, which is more aggressive than when his father Yan Ruohai was in power, and for a while, Xiao Yan Gongzi has also become a faintly important figure in the Qingguo court.

It's just that the work done by the Supervision Yuan has never seen much light, so Yan Bingyun's popularity is not very high, but this does not affect the high-ranking officials and magnates in the DPRK who know the inside story to send their daughters to Yanfu desperately...... Anyone wants it.

After Yan Bingyun entered the house, he first saluted Chen Pingping, and reported on the work of these recent supervision institutes, and now Chen Pingping is in Chen Yuan, Fan Xian is far away from the sea, and the rì of the supervision institute often work, and it is this young man who is presiding.

Chen Pingping listened with her eyes closed for a long time, and suddenly asked, "Did Fan Xian contact you beforehand?"

Yan Bingyun shook his head: "Time is too tight, the courtyard is only responsible for passing on the meaning of the palace to Lord Tisi, how to deal with it specifically, the two places don't have time to come up with a strategy, and Master Tisi is all in charge alone." ”

Chen Pingping nodded, and suddenly laughed: "What about your marriage? Your father came to Chen Yuan to ask me for advice a few days ago...... It's just that it's not easy. ”

Yan Bingyun was silent, the elders in the courtyard knew about Miss Shen's matter, but they had never broken it, but today's marriage problem had a meaning from the palace, which made him a little difficult.

Few people in Kyoto know about Miss Shen's matter, and this involves the matter that Jiangnan Fan Xian did, so it has been covered up very strictly. Even if this matter was exposed, for the sake of the good relationship between Nanqing and Northern Qi, Yan Bingyun would not be able to marry Miss Shen into the mansion openly.

"Drag it off for a while. Chen Pingping said with half-closed eyes: "In this matter, you go and ask the prince's family what it means, and let her help drag it out." ”

The one in the prince's family is naturally the eldest princess, the eldest princess who married from the Northern Qi Dynasty, since the eldest princess married into Nanqing, she is gentle and virtuous, quite popular with everyone, and is very liked by the queen mother in the palace, which is completely different from the discrimination suffered by the eldest prince.

Yan Bingyun's face was still calm, but deep down he was a little moved, the old dean was afraid that he wouldn't even bother to take care of the affairs of Jiaozhou, but he was willing to come up with ideas for the marriage of a person like himself, this kind of care for his subordinates was really ...... "Wait for Fan Xian to return to Beijing and see how he handles it." Chen Pingping suddenly laughed sharply: "This kid is a matchmaker and a broken marriage...... Very experienced. ”

Indeed, in recent years, there have been a total of four marriages in the palace, two of which are related to Fan's mansion...... Let his sister escape from the marriage.

Every time she thinks about this, even Chen Pingping can't help but feel a little admiration for that kid - he is really a nonsense and stubborn person.

Yan Bingyun only took the time to salute Fei Jie at this time, and at the same time expressed his gratitude, Fei Jie still helped him a lot in the healing of this year.

Chen Pingping finally said indifferently: "The original plan was to let you and Fan Xian swap things, and let you deal with it first, but look at the recent situation...... You have to be mentally prepared. ”

Yan Bingyun was slightly startled, not knowing what to prepare.

Fan Xian...... Don't be dragged down too much by hospital affairs. Chen Pingping said lightly: "After Wang Qinian returns to Beijing, he will either be in one place, or he will stick to Fan Xian's side in vain, and you will find a competent person everywhere to take your place." ”

Yan Bingyun vaguely guessed something, but he was not excited, he just nodded.

"I'll step back, you have to help Fan Xian sit firmly. Chen Pingping's voice looked a little tired, as if he was entrusting Gu, "Even if he becomes the dean, I'm afraid that he won't be impatient to do these small things, and when you become a Tisi, you must help him deal with it." ”

Yan Bingyun knelt down on one knee in silence, clenched his fists and said, "Yes." ”

Chen Pingping looked at him, Fei Jie also looked at him from the side, and after a while, the old cripple said softly: "Everyone in the world thinks ...... Fan Xian is the first Tisi since the establishment of the hospital, but your Yan family has been working in the courtyard, of course, you know that there was one before, and you ...... It will be the third person to be appointed since the establishment of the Supervisory Yuan, and bearing in mind that, this is a glorious and dangerous position. ”

Yan Bingyun felt a pressure pressing on his shoulders, making him unable to move.

"That day will come soon, and I want you to listen carefully to what is going on. ”

"Yes. ”

"The first priest of our hospital appeared to supervise me. Chen Pingping said indifferently, without any displeasure, "Of course, he has that ability, so his status as a priest is the most detached, and he doesn't take care of things very much, but although he doesn't care about the affairs of the hospital now, if he has the opportunity to see him later...... Whatever he commands, you do it. ”

Yan Bingyun did not respond directly at this time, but after being silent for a long time, he said, "...... Even if it is contrary to the will?"

Chen Pingping opened his eyes, the light in his eyes was as sharp as an eagle on a stone cliff, and after a long time, he said coldly: "Yes." ”

............ Yan Bingyun took two deep breaths, suppressed the trace of doubt and uneasiness in his heart, calmed himself down as much as possible, and asked, "How do I know who he is?" ”

Chen Pingping laughed: "We all call him the Big Five...... Of course, some people call him the fifth child, but you don't have the right to call him that. As long as he is in front of you, you naturally know that he is him, which is a very simple question. ”

When I saw him, I knew that he was him, which was a very awkward and mysterious statement, but Yan Bingyun understood it smartly.

"His existence is the biggest secret of the Supervisory Yuan. Chen Pingping said indifferently: "Your Majesty has issued a strict order on this point, so you must know how to keep it secret...... As long as the five big people are in one day, even if the situation after the rì changes greatly, at least our broken yard, this deformed existence, can survive for a long time. ”

Yan Bingyun bowed his head and knelt, understanding what the dean meant, the Supervision Yuan is a secret agency of His Majesty, but it is not limited to this, this is a sharp sword that lies in one of the officialdoms of the Qingguo Imperial Court, and His Majesty is the hand that holds the sword, if that hand suddenly disappears...... The sword of the Supervision Yuan will definitely become the target of everyone's eagerness, but it is just ...... I don't know who the five big people are, and they can have a deterrent power similar to that of His Majesty.

Chen Pingping raised a second finger and said indifferently: "Fan Xian, he is the second secretary of this court, but you also know his identity, so the supervision yuan can only be a section of his journey, and it is impossible to limit him to this forever." ”

"And you, who will be the third Titan of this Academy, will do something different from the previous two. ”

Chen Pingping sighed tiredly and said, "Your task is...... If one day I die and Fan Xian goes crazy, you have to endure it regardless of it, even if it is to endure humiliation and steal life, and seek satisfaction with grievances, you must keep this courtyard, even if you can't keep it on the surface, but those networks that we have been hiding in the dark, you have to keep it. ”

............ Yan Bingyun finally couldn't pretend to be calm anymore, and he looked at the old man in the wheelchair with a shocked face, because the old man's statement about the three Tisi was clearly a little contradictory, especially the five great people and his own mission...... If the five major people hadn't died, the Supervision Yuan wouldn't have fallen, and they would ...... What's more, the old man said it was so strict and sad...... There is only one possibility, and that is that the Dean predicts that in the near future, either the five great people will die, or a force that the Supervisory Yuan is far from being able to compete with will fall from the sky.

For example, the hand that holds the sword...... It was easy to let go, and let the sword of the Supervision Yuan fall into the yellow mud.

It's just that...... Why did His Majesty deal with the Supervisory Yuan?

Why does the dean seem to be holding the orphans?

Yan Bingyun has always been smart and calm, but at this time, he couldn't help but be confused, he didn't dare to think deeply about this issue, and he didn't dare to ask further questions, he didn't know what the old man in the wheelchair would do, and he didn't know what kind of big things would happen, and how that incident would affect everyone's lives.

"You say, why is there a Supervision Yuan in the world?" Chen Pingping's words seemed to ask Yan Bingyun and herself.

Yan Bingyun's brows furrowed extremely tightly, his mind was actually still in the previous shock, no one had ever doubted the dean's loyalty to His Majesty, and His Majesty's favor to the dean was almost an unprecedented honor...... Why? Why?

"For His Majesty's ......" Yan Bingyun subconsciously said, but immediately closed his mouth.

"I hope that the people of Qingguo will become unruly people. When you are mistreated by others, you will not give in, you will not be frustrated when you are attacked by evil, you will not be afraid to correct when you do something wrong, and you will not flatter ...... jackal."

Chen Pingping suddenly laughed.

Yan Bingyun is too familiar with this passage, and all the officials of the Supervision Yuan have grown up watching this passage. Because this passage has been engraved on the stone tablet in front of the Supervision Yuan, the golden light has not faded over the years, and the place where the payment is made is three words - Ye Qingmei.

And now the world already knows that Ye Qingmei was the hostess of the Ye family and the biological mother of Lord Xiao Fan.

In fact, there are two more sentences after this paragraph. Chen Pingping closed her eyes and said slowly: "It's just that no one dares to mention it again since she died, you go home and ask Ruohai, he will tell you, what are these two sentences." ”

"Yes. ”

Even though Yan Bingyun had a thousand words in his heart, he only turned into this one word.

――――――――――――――――――――――――――― Xiaoyan Gongzi sat in a carriage and hurried back to Yanfu, along the way, I don't know if the weather was too hot, or because he was too scared in his heart, sweat soaked his permanent white shirt.

Walking through the not very wide back garden, and not paying much attention to the greetings of those subordinates all the way, he entered the study with a solemn face.

In the study, Lord Yan Ruohai, who has retired, is sitting opposite a girl's house playing chess at this time. The chess pieces landed on the stone floor and did not make too many noises, but the matte chess pieces revealed a fierce killing intention.

Seeing Yan Bingyun enter the house, he noticed that his son's mind was a little strange today, Yan Ruohai smiled gently at the other side and said, "Miss Shen's mind is not on chess today. ”

The only surviving daughter of Shen Chong, the former commander of the Northern Qi Jinyi Guard, Miss Shen, who fled to Nanqing, smiled embarrassedly, got up and saluted Yan Ruohai, glanced at Yan Bingyun with concern, slowly walked out of the study, and when she went out, she carefully closed the door.

Yan Ruohai looked at his son and said softly, "What's wrong?"

After Yan Bingyun was silent for a moment, he repeated the instructions of Dean Chen in the Supervision Yuan today.

"Lord Xiao Fan is definitely going to be the dean. Yan Ruohai glanced at his son lovingly, "His jīng force rì queen should be placed in the court, and the specific affairs of the hospital must be taken care of." You have endured a lot of hardships over the years, and you have done a lot for the imperial court, although in my opinion, you are still a little younger, but ...... Lord Xiao Fan trusts you so much, you are the chief of the hospital, but you have to help him well. ”

For these old people, Fan Xian's arrangements for the Supervision Yuan are all very clear, Fan Xian in the Supervision Yuan, in addition to his own Qi Nian group, the most trusted person in the Supervision Yuan is Yan Bingyun, and his arrangement of Yan Bingyun is not very surprising.

"But......" Yan Ruohai changed his tone and sighed, "Why is it Tisi? Your qualifications, your abilities...... It's still a long way off. ”

He sneered and said, "You're not one of the five majors. ”

"You know that...... What are the big five?" said Yan Bingyun sadly.

"My father's years in the courtyard are not shallow. Yan Ruohai smiled and said, "Anyway, this is also a good thing...... There is light on the lintel, why are you so sad?"

That paragraph...... What are the last two sentences?" Yan Bingyun said worriedly.

"Oh. Yan Ruohai said lightly: "Those are two very rebellious words...... Whoever says it will die. ”

Yan Ruohai smiled and said: "Someone once said that sentence back then, so even she ...... Also dead. ”

............ "Don't overthink it. Yan Ruohai sighed and said: "There is no need to doubt the dean's loyalty to His Majesty, I think what his old man is worried about is only after His Majesty." The so-called forbearance and humiliation naturally refers to preserving one's strength in the event of impossibility, so as to wait for the future. ”

He stared into his son's eyes and asked word by word, "Perhaps...... You are going to become a thief who sells for glory, a shameless person who is scolded by thousands of people, are you mentally prepared for this?"

Yan Bingyun didn't answer his father's words, but asked unusually calmly: "Father, what if...... I mean, if you were given a choice between the palace and the courtyard, what would you choose? ”

What was the choice?

Yan Ruohai looked at his son with a funny eye, and sighed: "Silly boy, I will naturally choose the courtyard...... If the old dean didn't have this confidence in me, how could he say so much to you? ”

Yan Bingyun smiled bitterly, he didn't expect his father to answer so simply and clearly, he was silent for a while and said very calmly: "I am your son, so ...... I'm ready for that. ”

"I've wronged you, kid. ”

Yan Ruohai suddenly said such a sentence without a head or a brain.

―――――――――――――――――――――――――― "Over the years, he has indeed been wronged. ”

In the imperial palace of Qingguo, there is an inky night, and the layers of eaves exude a cold and strange smell. Emperor Qingguo wore a thin clothes, stood in the night breeze in front of the Taiji Palace, looked indifferently at the square in front of the palace, and enjoyed the rare coolness.

In the corners of the Taiji Palace, the eunuchs and palace maids who served the emperor were quietly sheltered here, and the guards in charge of security were careful to keep their distance to ensure that they would not hear the conversation between the emperor and the people around him.

Chen Pingping sat in a wheelchair, gently stroked the woolen blanket on her lap, and sighed: "Take your time, the resentment in the child's heart...... I think it's healed a lot over the years. ”

The emperor smiled and said, "Actually, it's in the small building...... That kid should have forgiven me...... It's just that I always feel a little indebted. ”

Chen Pingping responded with a smile in a slightly sharp voice: "Among the princes, he is now the most powerful...... What should be given to him has already been given to him, although he twists some of it, he is not a stupid person, of course he can know His Majesty's thoughts. ”

But the fear is that he doesn't care about these things. A smile welled up between the emperor's eyebrows, "At the end of the year, he has to go to the ancestral hall of the Fan clan, isn't this showing his resentment to me?"

The emperor didn't wait for Chen Pingping to speak, and continued: "I ...... You can give him a name, but ...... Not now. You tell him this on my behalf. ”

Chen Pingping knew what the emperor meant, the queen mother was still alive, and the emperor always had to take a look at the old man's face, but from these words, what Fan Xian had done in the past two years, Lone Chen dared to be, and the emperor had enough trust in him.

"Your Majesty has a heart. Chen Pingping said with a smile, in fact, words like Youxin can never be used on a generation of kings, but he and the emperor have grown up together since childhood, and many matters after rì make the relationship between monarchs and ministers too unusual.

"I'm just one thing. The emperor shook his head slowly, "The key is that this kid has a heart, and he has the ability...... The affairs of the Northern Qi Dynasty, the affairs of the south of the Yangtze River, and the affairs of Jiaozhou have made the imperial court gain face and lining, and it is really rare that this child is not greedy for money and fame. ”

Chen Pingping was silent for a moment and said, "Do you want to transfer him back?" ”

"Don't panic. The emperor said lightly: "The Ming family still has a tail that has not been cut off, and the Junshan meeting you talked about when you entered the palace a few days ago will ...... Let Anzhi sweep again in Jiangnan. ”

"Yes, Your Majesty. ”

The emperor suddenly grabbed the wheelchair with his backhand, pushed the wheelchair up, and walked along the corridor in front of the Taiji Palace, pushing it while saying with a smile: "You are not very old, but you are old all these years, why are you still covered with wool blankets in this hot weather, and you are not too hot to panic, has the old boy Fei Jie given you medicine?"

"It's the one who is going to die, what are you going to do with that medicine money?" Chen Pingping's gray hair flew sideways in the wheelchair, "Your Majesty, let it go, the old slave can't afford it." ”

Only when the two are alone against each other, Chen Pingping will call herself an old slave.

"If I say you can afford it, you can afford it. The emperor said calmly, "I think when I was in King Cheng's mansion, you were a little eunuch from the palace, and you served me every day at that time." Now that we're all old, you've broken your leg while you're serving me. I'll give you a push, so what?"

Chen Pingping shrunk and sighed after a while: "Sometimes when I think about it, it seems that all kinds of things from yesterday are still in front of me. The slave still seems to be accompanying His Majesty, fighting with King Jing and Fan Shangshu......"

The Emperor was silent for a moment, then sighed, "Yes...... A few years ago, I was still thinking about when I could go back to Lanzhou to have a look. ”

............ The emperor went on patrol, where is such a simple matter, so Chen Pingping didn't think about it, and said directly: "No." ”

The emperor smiled and said, "What are you worried about?"

Chen Pingping knew that there must be some big move behind the emperor's going to Shanzhou, so he hissed and said slowly: "Have you made up your mind?"

After thinking for a while, the emperor shook his head and said, "Not yet. ”

Without waiting for Chen Pingping to speak, the most powerful person in the world said coldly: "I and you, the people who both crawled out of the pile of dead people back then, are now these clowns who are making a little fuss...... It's not enough for me to clean up, but sometimes I'm also greedy, if Yun Rui really has the ability to move those two old immortals...... Wouldn't it be wonderful to use this matter to accomplish the thing that our monarchs and ministers have always wanted to accomplish?"

"It's too dangerous. Chen Pingping sighed, but she was thinking in her heart about how to make Her Majesty's heart more resolute.

The emperor smiled and said, "Isn't this world just in danger?"

The palace maids and eunuchs in the distance watched this scene from a distance, watching His Majesty personally push the wheelchair for Dean Chen, they couldn't help but be shocked in their hearts, and they were also extremely warm.