The emperor once said in the palace that he wanted to use Yan Xiaoyi, and dared to use Xiao Yanyi, at that time, Fan Xian couldn't wait to stretch out a microphone and ask him, what is your mood? What is his mood? Nong should look at people's hearts, and beware of bleeding from his own eyes.

To this day, Fan Xian only has such a vague feeling for the emperor, it stands to reason that he doesn't need to worry so much about the survival of Qingguo, the life and death of the emperor, but for the future of himself and his relatives, he has to do his best, which is helpless.

The carriage went out of the south city gate, and the four wheels were tossed by the hard ridge in turn, and Fan Xian, who was a little dazed, suddenly woke up, lifted the curtain and walked out, yawning while looking at the official road in the south.

At this time, it was already afternoon, and there were not many people entering the city, and the Seongmen Division in charge of the gate and the soldiers of the Kyoto garrison in charge of defense were carrying out their daily work somewhat boredly, when they suddenly saw a black carriage under the protection of more than a dozen officials of the Supervisory Yuan to the gate of the city, and everyone was shocked.

Looking at the yawning young official under the carriage, everyone immediately guessed his identity, and the general of the Tiannan City Gate Division got the news, and hurriedly ran over, brought a bench to Fan Xian, and served hot tea.

Fan Xian was not polite, holding the tea bowl and gulping.

It didn't take long for a convoy to appear at the end of the official road, along the row of wild trees on the horizon, gradually approaching, and soon came to the city gate.

Fan Xian greeted him.

The convoy stopped, and seven tiger guards including Gundam came down from the carriage, plus a half-kneeling of six swordsmen and saluted him.

Fan Xian waved his hand. Let them get up, naturally, they can't help but have to say a few words of appreciation, but they don't stop at their feet, and directly board the carriage in the middle.

Lift the curtain. I saw Wan'er dozing off with a blue cloth wrap, her long eyelashes lying quietly on Bai Temporary's skin, and a bunch of bangs hanging peacefully under her forehead, covering the girl's tired face.

Fan Xian was stunned and didn't want to wake her up, but just sat beside her, took the blue cloth package in her arms, and glanced at the other side suspiciously.

Sisi, who was sitting opposite, blinked his eyes and whispered, "It's been a long time last night, and I'm not in good spirits today." ”

Fan Xian smiled. He didn't say anything more, motioned for the convoy to enter the city, and just whispered a reminder to Gundam and the others. Be careful when you enter the city gate, don't wake up the person in the carriage.

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The carriage passed through the small half of Kyoto's streets and alleys, came to the quiet long street of Nancheng, and stopped at the main entrance of the Fan Mansion.

The carriage stopped, and Wan'er woke up in a daze. Subconsciously hugged the arm that was not thick but extraordinarily powerful beside him and rubbed it twice, feeling that there was a long-lost warmth back to his side, and drilled into that warmer embrace.

But he woke up immediately.

The girl's family was shocked. Jumping up, he found that Fan Xian, who was already asleep, next to him, put the heart back in his stomach, looked at the familiar face that he hadn't seen for a long time, and couldn't help but smile innocently and stuck out his tongue.

"Bang Bang Bang ......"

A string of extremely lively firecrackers rang out, waking up Fan Xian in his sleep, he muttered a few words in annoyance, but once his arm was empty. I opened my eyes in wonder, but saw my wife cowering in the corner of the chair, looking at herself.

Previously, Wan'er looked at Fan Xian in a daze, but after a while, she found that Sisi was also on the other side, and found that Fan Xian was awakened by firecrackers, and she felt embarrassed for a while, and her face turned red with shame.

Fan Xian looked at his wife and smiled, grabbed the blue cloth package with one hand, and led her out of the carriage with the other, without saying anything in detail, but complained: "Which house marries a new bride? Why is it so lively?"

Wan'er covered her mouth and smiled, pointed to the gate of Fan's Mansion and said, "I also feel strange, it's our family that is firing guns, and I don't know what the happy event is." ”

Sisi also came down with a small package at this time, looking at the lively scene of people coming and going at the main gate of Fan's mansion, red lights hanging high, and firecrackers ringing, she was also taken aback, ouch, and said loudly: "Young master, young grandmother, is this a welcome for us to come back from Jiangnan?"

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The convoy stopped at the gate of Fan's mansion, and Fan's mansion became lively, Fan Xian looked at this scene curiously, and couldn't help but grab Zheng Tuo, a Qingke who went out of the mansion to greet him, and asked, "Mr. Zheng, which one is this?"

Zheng Tuo laughed and said, "Young Master, you have sealed the Duke of Yubo today...... This is a happy event in the world, and there are countless adults in the various ministries and pavilions, who are waiting for you to come back at this time. ”

Fan Xian was stunned for a moment, then he thought that he had become a little grandfather, looked up at the circle of red cloth hanging on the plaque of Fan's mansion, and couldn't help but smile bitterly.

Lin Wan'er glanced at him in surprise and asked, "The prime minister has been crowned?"

Fan Xian nodded.

Lin Wan'er heard this, her eyebrows and eyes were full of joy, even the thoughts beside her could not avoid vulgarity, and she was extremely elated, after all, in this world, she always pays attention to these, and a courtier can be crowned a prince at such a young age as Fan Xian, and where to put it, it is also a particularly glorious thing.

All the way in, there were officials who came to congratulate each other all the way, and Fan was busy returning the salute, so he had to let the daughter-in-law of the vine family come out, and first took Wan'er Sisi and those few maids into the inner house. The servants and servants of Fan's Mansion were even more full of spring breeze, and they knelt down and kowtowed to Fan Xian repeatedly.

"Tip, tip. ”

There are rewards sent out all the way, of course Fan Xian is not distressed, but he feels that he is so happy?

Finally cleaned up the reasons for everything, sent the guests away, the Fan Mansion family gathered in the flower hall in the circle, the Liu family sat next to Fan Jian, and there was a smile between his eyebrows and eyes.

I think back then, in the past, this task was not in charge of the Liu family, which was equivalent to saying that the Fan Mansion had recognized Sisi's status.

Fan Jian's son and daughter-in-law said a few words, and then talked about Sisi's matter, anyway, it has already been done in Shanzhou, and the ancestor nodded, and he, the head of the Fan Mansion, will not say anything more.

After the meal was ready, there were no idle people in the flower hall, and Fan Sizhe, who had been holding back at home, finally ran out, saw his sister-in-law first, and sat next to Fan Xian, begging for benefits with a dead face.

Wan'er was taken aback, thinking to herself that the little uncle was not in Northern Qi, why did he sneak back and run back?

Fan Sizhen shrunk his neck and said, "You don't want it...... How many grandfathers can there be in this world?"

Fan Xian smiled and said: "Then you won't ask me for a reward, you still have less money now?" I think in two years, my father and I will have to reach out to you for money." ”

Fan Sizhen smiled and said: "Silver can't buy the reputation of the eldest brother, you are going to be the prince in the future, when will you find a way to get a knighthood for my younger brother." ”

Fan Xian was stunned for a moment, and then remembered that after the Baoyuelou case occurred last autumn, Si Zhe was issued a sea fishing document by the Criminal Department, and the title of dragoon lieutenant who he had obtained since he was a child was naturally removed.

But when he heard the word prince, Fan Xian still felt a little strange in his heart, he and his father glanced at each other, and they both knew the judgment in each other's hearts.

With Fan Xian's identity, the first-class duke will come to an end, and it is impossible to become a prince, unless...... How and how in the future.

The banquet suddenly fell silent, and Fan Sizhen also knew that there was something wrong with what he said, so he didn't dare to talk nonsense anymore. Wan'er looked at this scene, smiled coquettishly, and said to the little uncle: "Don't be busy leaving when you come back...... After eating, I played a few more laps with my father and mother. ”

Fan Sizhen heard that he wanted to go to mahjong tiles, and it was his sister-in-law's proposal, he suddenly perked up, he had not met an opponent at the Northern Qi card table for more than a year, and he was going to play against his sister-in-law who was the second best player in the world tonight, which was called an excitement.

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In the next few days, it was too peaceful, and there were not too many stories to tell, and the two princes and the beaten people were panicked, and the eldest princess sat in the palace and didn't know what she was thinking. Fan Xian only occasionally thought of the prince's surprising performance on the Baoyue Tower, and he had some doubts, this prince, the rightful successor of the Qingguo Dragon Chair. Naturally, the best way to deal with the chosen land use is ...... But seeing the situation go like this, where does his certainty come from?

Fan Xian couldn't think about this clearly, and Fan Jian didn't think it clearly, the prince dared to watch coldly like this, unless he had a big help at hand, but the eldest princess who originally supported him had already been picked out by Fan Xian and the second prince, why did the prince believe the words of the eldest princess again?

If you don't understand, you don't think about it anymore, because you still have to go back to Jiangnan in the spring of next year, and after the New Year's Festival. There are also places like Chen Yuan, King Jing's Mansion, and the Great Prince's Mansion that must be visited, so in the days before the Chinese New Year, Fan Xian did not go to the Supervision Yuan. didn't enter the palace, but honestly nested in the Fan Mansion, filial piety to his father who hadn't seen him for a year, and disciplined his younger brother who had been in the north for a long time.

The atmosphere of the family reunion is really good, but it is missing Ruoruo and the ancestors of Shanzhou. At one point, Fan Xian once privately told his father that his grandmother had never seen Si Zhe. Do you have to find a time to let Si Zhe go back to Shanzhou?

Fan Jian thought about it, and it was indeed the same reason, so he asked Fan Xian to arrange it.

Just as the situation was developing in a peaceful manner, on the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month, an uninvited guest came to Fan's house.

This guest is the envoy of the Northern Qi Dynasty in Nanqing, and his identity is a little sensitive, but he specially reported in the Honglu Temple and boarded the gate of the Fan Mansion.

Fan Mansion and Mansion all felt strange, but they had no choice but to open the front door to greet each other. This envoy was respectful to Fan Xian, and conveyed his condolences to Fan Xian on behalf of the Northern Qi court, saying that the people of Northern Qi felt the same and were deeply unhappy with Xiao Fan.

After putting down a large pile of gifts, the envoy left the house, leaving only Fan Jianfan and Fan Xian, the two of them, looking at each other stupidly.

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That night, someone came to Nanqing Honglu Temple, and a father-in-law also came to the inner court, explaining to Fan Xian why the envoys from the Northern Qi Dynasty would come to petition.

Originally...... The news of Fan Xian's assassination has reached the Northern Qi Dynasty, and for some reason, the little emperor of the Northern Qi Dynasty actually personally repaired a private letter and entrusted it to His Majesty the Emperor of Qingguo, expressing his concern about Fan Xian's assassination, and also expressed his subtle criticism for the Qingguo court not paying attention to Fan Xian's personal safety.

Hearing this, Fan Xian gasped at the father-in-law and Shaoqing of Honglu Temple, and scolded: "Blow a pool of spring water, him...... Bird thing!"

Shaoqing of Honglu Temple and the father-in-law glanced at each other awkwardly, and comforted him with care: "What are the thoughts of the people of Northern Qi, we all understand, Lord Xiao Fan doesn't need to be too angry, what is the use of such dirty tricks?"

The father-in-law also smiled and said, "If they want to give gifts, you will follow." ”

After sending the two out of the house, Fan Xian hurriedly ran to the study and asked his father, "What do the people of Northern Qi want to do?

Fan Jian smiled bitterly: "There is one thing I have always forgotten to tell you, Your Majesty seems to have forgotten this stubble, when you went to Northern Qi, it was not in the imperial palace of Shangjing, and you promised them the emperor...... When you have time, you will go to their Taixue to give a lecture?"

Fan Xian thought about it seriously, it seemed that he really had such a sentence, but he didn't seem to agree, right?

Fan Jian sighed and said: "When you went to the south of the Yangtze River, the people of Northern Qi sent a document to Honglu Temple, saying that they hired you as a visiting professor of Taixue in Beijing...... Your Majesty just was bored with the little emperor, and he didn't take it seriously, where did he expect that the people of Northern Qi were actually waiting here, and now since you are a visiting professor of Taixue in Beijing, and you were assassinated in Nanqing, they expressed concern and anger, and it seems reasonable to say. ”

Fan Xian said bitterly: "At this time, what good is it for them?"

Fan Jian raised his head, glanced at his son, shook his head and said, "Although it is a very crude method, some people with brains will not believe in this kind of provocation, but ...... After all, you can't hide your dealings with the people of Jiangnan and Northern Qi for the rest of your life, and if you accumulate and destroy them, who knows if your majesty will suspect you in the future? They only need to give some gifts, bring two sentences, and lose some face, and they can take root and stab you in the throat. ”

Fan Xian frowned, feeling angry, and said, "Valley sniping...... The little emperor of Northern Qi was born in a section, and it seems that the imperial court will not continue to investigate. ”

Fan Jian glanced at him and said with a wry smile: "Originally, Your Majesty didn't want to check it, but now that there is such a good reason, how can you be willing not to use it?"

Fan Xian also smiled bitterly, and after a while, he said to his father seriously: "Father, on the first day of junior high school, I want to enter the ancestral hall. ”

Fan Jian was not so surprised, from the moment the emperor officially conferred the title of Duke of Fan Xian, he understood the emperor's thoughts, and just said calmly: "I want to enter the palace to ask about this matter." ”