Chapter 34: The Old Man Who Grows Cabbage
"No way. โ
Fan Xian lay on the bed, shook his head and said three words, but immediately coughed, it seemed that he even knew his internal injuries, he couldn't fully trust his judgment, and under the agitation of the mood, it was inevitable that there would be some reactions.
However, Fan Xian still felt that it was impossible, he had followed Mr. Fei since he was a child to learn the introduction and lectures of biological poisons, learn the rules and regulations and department composition of the Supervision Yuan, and learn the unique handling methods and killing skills of the Supervision Yuan.
In the eyes of others, he is a child, at most a child with some genius temperament. But he knew that Fan Anzhi was quite mature in his soul when he was in Shanzhou, so he had long understood that his future life would definitely be closely linked to the Supervision Yuan.
After entering Beijing, the appearance of the waist card made Fan Xian understand the good intentions of the old people in the Supervision Yuan, and the other party wanted to hand over the Supervision Yuan to himself, or to return it to himself, or to return it to himself, or to be more precise, to return it to the woman back then.
Today, Fan Xian has countless wealth, has a well-known reputation in the world, and has a very high status, this qiฤ may be based on his experience in two lives, countless poems and lyrics of former sages, and his perseverance in his own practice, but he knows in his heart that this qiฤ is just a foreign object, difficult to tie, and may be lost anytime and anywhere.
And the reason why I can still have these things to this day is because of the power of the Supervision Yuan.
In any respect, the Supervision Yuan is the foundation and foundation of Fan Xian's existence in this world.
The sniping in Snow Valley is different from the assassination of the Hanging Temple, the serious injury suffered after the Hanging High is completely an accident, and the shadow's shot is completely under Chen Pingping's control, if it weren't for the fact that his domineering volume training reached the bottleneck at that time, and it happened that the meridians were broken, he would not have been so seriously injured in the end.
But the sniping in the snow valley is to kill yourself, and once it is launched, there is no possibility of stopping...... If it is really as his father said and guessed, this foundation is suddenly loosened, and Fan Xian may retire in despair at any time. For this conjecture, whether intellectually or emotionally, Fan Xian is unwilling to accept it, and it is impossible to accept it.
"No way. โ
Fan Xian repeated these three words again in a heavy tone.
He is the director of the Supervision Yuan, after Chen Pingping's deliberate letting go and supporting in the past two years, he has already installed his own manpower in the eight major departments, and the Qi Nian team has also become a special department, one has himself, there are Yan Bingyun everywhere, three places have Fei Jie, five places have black horses without intention, and now there is Jing Ge, and there are shadows in six places...... After all the calculations, Fan Xian is no longer the lonely man he was at the beginning, and the resources of the entire Supervision Yuan have long been firmly held in his hands, he really can't understand that even if there is a traitor in the courtyard, it is impossible to completely keep himself in the dark and cooperate with his enemies.
Unless it's him.
It's what he thinks about in the valley.
But he ...... He was so kind to himself, the hands that had been placed on the wool blanket were so steady, and the thin disabled body seemed so reliable, no matter where he was, he always felt that he was his biggest supporter, so that no matter what he did, he had no fear.
............ "There is nothing impossible in this world. Fan Jian said coldly: "How was your mother compared to you now? She is also the left-handed supervision institute, the right-hand inner library, and there is the fifth child behind her, not to mention that she has more of us, and there is a Quanzhou sailor in the south, how is it better than you now?...... But in the end?"
Fan Xian was silent, and suddenly faintly felt that the things in the valley were only related to the incident many years ago.
"The queen's father was beheaded by me with a knife. Fan Jian looked down at his slender fingers and said with a smile: "But...... Who knows if all the heads that should be cut off have been chopped off?"
When Fan Xian first heard this, he was shocked, and he looked at his father speechless for a long time, and he didn't know until today that the queen's father was actually killed by his father!
He knew what his father meant, the bloody night in Kyoto was a great revenge for the overthrow of the Ye family, but the Ye family had a deep foundation back then, and it was subverted overnight, although it was because of the emperor's westward expedition...... However, I don't know how many powerful families in Kyoto are involved in this matter, and some of them have slipped through the net...... It is not surprising that even the culprit still exists.
It's just that...... Fan Xian broke the silence, his face showed a firm expression, and said gently: "Father, don't say it, I believe in the dean." โ
Fan Jian sighed.
Fan Xian continued to say gently: "Your words, in fact, he also said to me...... I've been thinking about the problems of the past, and I found that before I entered Kyoto, you and Dean Chen were very indifferent to each other, not at all what they are now, and I understand that you all have jวng ti in your hearts, but just as I believe in you unconditionally, I also believe in him unconditionally. โ
He coughed lightly twice and continued: "Suspicion of your companion is a terrible thing, perhaps, some people have been deliberately hiding something, just to make you and Dean Chen suspicious of each other. โ
"I wouldn't do that. Fan Xian said in an accentuated tone: "I believe in my feelings, only feelings will not deceive me." โ
His eyes looked out the window.
............ After a long time, Fan Jian laughed and comforted: "It seems that you still have confidence in people...... This is very similar to your mother. โ
Fan Xian also laughed and said, "It's just for a few specific people." โ
Fan Jian then asked calmly, "What are you going to do with this matter?"
"I'll wait and see the results of His Majesty's handling first. Fan Xian was silent for a while, and then continued: "I'm afraid that the investigation won't reveal anything, and the other party has invested such a large amount of money in it, so he naturally has thought of a way to deal with the aftermath." โ
He sneered, "Sometimes I don't know where His Majesty's confidence comes from, and some people in this military have started to move, but is he still not as worried as before?"
"Check, you can always find something. Fan Jian looked at his son, knowing that the young man was not carried away by the blood, and smiled with relief: "The crossbows guarding the city are all numbered. โ
"I'm afraid that even the city guard crossbow was transferred from elsewhere, and it's not good to find the wrong person. โ
"You're right. A strange smile appeared on the corner of Fan Jian's lips, "Your Majesty was furious, the case was investigated very quickly, and the news was obtained in the afternoon." There are a total of five city-guarding crossbows in the valley, which have just left the factory in Neiku Bingfang, and should have been sent to the direction of Dingzhou along the road...... It's just that for some reason, it happened to be on your way back to Beijing after the delivery time. โ
"Dingzhou?" Fan Xian frowned, "The Ye family wants to be a scapegoat again?
"Of course Your Majesty knows what's going on in this matter. Fan Jian said: "It's just ...... What if the Ye family did it on purpose?"
"So other evidence is needed. Fan Xian asked softly, "Is there any value in the live mouth I sent to the Privy Council?"
"Yes. Fan Jian laughed strangely again, and said, "Your trick is still the same as the trick you used to deal with the second prince back then, sending the witness to the other party's yamen." โ
Fan Jianmian was slightly quiet, and said: "It's just a method, it's best not to use it twice, at least this time the Privy Council won't be fooled by you." โ
"Oh?" Fan Xian frowned and said, "How did they deal with it?"
Fan Jian smiled slightly and said: "They confessed that alive like an ancestor, for fear that he would die of blood loss and would not be able to deal with His Majesty's questioning, and then they sent this person to the Supervision Yuan under the pretext that this matter must be investigated by the Supervision Yuan, and the military should avoid suspicion. โ
Fan Xian was slightly stunned.
Fan Jian continued to laugh and said: "But you threw the person in the Privy Council, and the Supervisory Yuan naturally refused to accept it, and let people drag it back to the Privy Council...... The rough men of the Privy Council, who are in the army, have really learned to be peggy this time, and they have dragged this person back to the Privy Council. โ
The always solemn Hubu Shangshu shook his head with a smile: "This afternoon, the two courtyards are competing on this living mouth, you give it to me, I give it to you, just like this person is a hot potato, no one will accept it." โ
Although Fan Xian was in a heavy mood when he encountered an ambush today, he still couldn't help laughing when he heard his father's words, as if he saw this afternoon, on Tianhe Road, where the power center of the Qingguo Imperial Court was located, the two yamen were dragging pork like pork, you come and go...... That good man in the army, I'm afraid that he has never thought that he will have this kind of treatment in his life.
"What did you do in the end?"
In the end, it was the palace that spoke, and the Supervision Yuan was imprisoned. โ
Fan Xian sighed: "I didn't expect so many things to happen in Kyoto after sleeping all afternoon. โ
Fan Jian looked at his son quietly, and said slowly after a while: "You were ambushed by the army, this is the biggest thing after the bloody night in Kyoto...... And when you come back alive, I don't know how many people will no longer be able to sit in the house, and I don't know how many people will not be able to sleep this night. โ
Fan Xian was silent.
"Are you really going to do it?"
"I'm not going to be automatic. Fan Xian said softly: "But I want to make them hurt, it hurts to the bones." โ
Fan Jian nodded and said, "You handle it yourself, it's just ...... Don't offend the entire military. โ
"I'm measured. โ
Fan Jian stood up, left his bedroom, and finally said, "You must live." โ
โโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโ this night, there were countless people sitting in secluded rooms, restless and silent.
The news of Fan Xian's assassination has already spread throughout Kyoto, and today's routine court meeting came to an abrupt end because of this sudden incident, according to the private discussion of the ministers who retreated from the court, after hearing the news, His Majesty was quite calm, and immediately ordered His Royal Highness, the commander of the forbidden army, to go out of the palace to inspect, and ordered Shuhu and the two scholars to comfort the Son of Heaven.
But according to Gonggong Yao in the palace, after His Majesty returned to the imperial study, he smashed a porcelain teacup from an official kiln and was silent for a long time.
Everyone knew that the emperor was in a wrath, but not everyone was afraid, and those who presided over the affairs of the valley, or secretly helped the affairs of the valley, each had a ghost and a disturbing plan in their respective mansions.
Since these people dared to kill people on the outskirts of Kyoto, they were naturally prepared to meet His Majesty's wrath and the retaliation of the Supervision Yuan, but they just didn't expect that after using such a powerful force and making such thorough preparations...... Fan Xian didn't die!
"He's not dead!"
His Royal Highness the Crown Prince in the East Palace gritted his teeth and said, grabbing the embroidered cloth on the couch beside him with one hand, and grasping the soft embroidered cloth into countless ugly flowers.
The queen mother frowned slightly, sat opposite him indifferently and preciously, and said in a cold voice: "Pay attention to your identity, pay attention to your words, Fan Xian is the minister of the court, if he doesn't die, you, as the prince, should be pleased, how can you be so disappointed?"
The prince sneered twice: "This is the East Palace, and everyone knows that only one person can survive between the palace and his Fan Xian, but I'm afraid that everyone is guessing that the things in the valley are arranged by the palace, in this case, why should I pretend to be that kind of benevolence?"
The queen looked at him quietly, and after a while, she said, "Don't worry, Your Majesty will not suspect you, because ...... We don't have that kind of strength in the first place. โ
The prince was dumbfounded, and it was only at this time that he realized that among these forces in the court, his own strength was the weakest, on the one hand, because of the struggle of the second child over the years, on the other hand, because he had lost the strong help of the eldest princess, and there was also a reason for Fan Xian's survival.
He smiled bitterly: "I didn't expect it to be a good thing now, the queen mother is right, there is no way for this palace to mobilize the army to kill." โ
"It's just ......" a hint of jealousy flashed in the prince's eyes, "It would be nice if Fan Xian died." โ
What do you think you think, the palace is not clear? The queen mother is not clear? The queen mother is already angry...... The crown prince sneered, and he was very grateful to that unknown force for daring to snipe Fan Xian head-on in such a situation, and helping many people in Kyoto to do what they wanted to do but did not dare to do.
............ Many people speculated on this night about which force was so bold and reckless that he dared to defy the condemnation of the world and murder the favored retainer of the Son of Heaven in the suburbs of Kyoto.
Everyone's eyes were on the eldest princess, because it seemed that only this noble person had such madness, such courage, and such strength.
"It's a shame it didn't work out this time. "In a quiet palace in Kyoto, the most powerful and beautiful woman in Qingguo was lying lazily on a low couch with a fire cage at the foot of the couch and the heating was rising.
Li Yunrui's eyes narrowed slightly, her eyes were full of laziness, she looked at the second prince sitting on the lower hand side and smiled and said: "But this matter has nothing to do with this palace, this palace is not stupid to this point, to deal with Fan Xian, there are simple methods." โ
The second prince was slightly stunned, in fact, when he heard the news of the sniper in the valley, he thought that the eldest princess did it, and after all, she was the only one who had such courage to dare not look at His Majesty's face, and even he was faintly doubting whether this matter had the acquiescence of the queen mother's grandmother.
Unexpectedly, I heard the eldest princess's straightforward denial.
"Of course, Hongu is grateful to that person. Li Yunrui said with a smile, the woman in her thirties did not have the slightest taste of flowers, but was extremely charming, every squint, every turn of the wrist, a romantic smell naturally revealed, she sighed: "It would be good if I could kill my son-in-law, sniping in the valley, simple, rough, direct, with a military style...... I like it. โ
Her words suddenly stopped, and the second prince didn't know what to say, and the room was full of wordless sighs.
After a long time, the eldest princess slowly shook her head and said, "You can't kill him like this...... Was he lucky, or what?"
The second prince and the eldest princess glanced at each other, and they both saw the uneasiness and self-deprecation in each other's eyes, Fan Xian ...... What a monster, a monster who couldn't have been more lucky, or rather, everyone still underestimated his strength when they valued him so much. The details of the snipers in the valley have long been on the desks of these nobles, and all the forces are extremely shocked that in that situation, Fan Xian not only returned to Kyoto alive, but also killed all the snipers and caught a live mouth.
There was even a hint of fear.
The eldest princess was not afraid, but thought lightly, if, just if, there was no incident in Niulan Street back then, how wonderful this world would be.
............ "Continue to have a good relationship with Donggong." The eldest princess taught the second prince like her own child, "We need his name to convince the queen mother." โ
The second prince nodded, and finally couldn't help the strong doubts in his heart, and asked, "Who did it?" It can't be that Dean Chen suddenly suffered from madness. โ
"The numbers of the five city crossbows have been checked. The eldest princess looked at the second prince mockingly, "It's your little wife's mother's thing." โ
The second prince shook his head firmly: "The power of the Ye family is far away in Dingzhou, even if the two hundred strong people raid overnight, it is impossible not to completely alarm the Kyoto Garrison and Supervision Yuan, as for these five crossbows guarding the city, it is even more ...... Ridiculous. โ
"Above the court, it never cares whether it is absurd or not. The eldest princess said mockingly: "Your Majesty and the Supervision Yuan want to vent their anger, and if they can't find an outlet, the Ye family will inevitably become this punching bag." โ
After pondering for a while, the second prince said calmly: "Please ask my aunt to make a move." โ
Although the Ye family is far away in Dingzhou, they have been repeatedly suppressed because of the Hanging Temple, but after all, they are still powerful figures in the army, and now they have become a family with the second prince.
"I'm not a god. The eldest princess said calmly: "The anger of the Son of Heaven, how can these women in the palace settle it with a few words?"
She looked at the second prince quietly and said, "Don't talk about the Ye family, you should prepare yourself, I know my emperor brother, he will definitely be very angry this time, and if he can't find the root of the matter in the end, maybe he will be graceful and make everyone unhappy." โ
The second prince bowed his head, knowing that many people were going to be unlucky, but he wasn't too worried, anyway, the matter had nothing to do with him, and he still insisted on asking, "Who is it?" aunt...... This matter is very important, don't hide it from the child. โ
The eldest princess's eyes were still calm, but the corners of her lips curled up with a beautiful, slightly mocking curve.
"Everyone knows that I am not on the right path with Fan Xian, because I want to protect you, and Fan Xian has already made it clear in Jiangnan that the carriage and horses want to protect the third child. The eldest princess smiled and said, "But you and I both know that the things in the valley are not done by us, so this thing is very clear." โ
"Why don't you deal with the third child and just want to kill Fan Xian?"
"This means that this sniping has nothing to do with the chair. โ
"It's only about Fan Xian himself. โ
And the things related to Fan Xian are enough to attract a certain big man in the military to do it, except for the chair, there is only the woman back then. โ
"Why did that military bigwig kill Fan Xian because of that woman?"
"It must be because he knows that if Fan Xian really takes the position in the future, he will help the third child to take the position...... Once something is known, it will definitely end their family for that woman. โ
In this way, the big man in the military must have something to do with the death of the woman back then. โ
There was no need to peel off the cocoon, the eldest princess just said slowly sentence by sentence, as if she was talking about family life, and she got very close to the original truth of the matter.
"But...... Bloody night in Kyoto?" the second prince frowned and said, "Aren't the people who have participated in the affairs of the Ye family dead?"
The eldest princess smiled, and said after a while: "The queen mother, the queen mother, is she dead?"
A hint of fanaticism suddenly appeared between her eyebrows, "And if I hadn't gone crazy, since that military bigwig could live a glorious life until now, I'm afraid that the death of that woman back then was not so simple...... Oh, I admire him more and more, more than when I was a kid. โ
The second prince's lips were dry, he knew who his aunt admired, and deep down he was extremely shocked by his aunt's inference, if the truth of the matter was really like this, it could only be said that his aunt's heart was too allergic and terrible.
It's just that he can't be sure of this, and after a while, he frowned and said, "But...... Listening to the news, on Fan Xian's way back to Beijing, the prince of the metropolitan governor once shรจ an arrow. โ
The eldest princess chuckled: "You also know that although the military bigwig hides in the mansion every day, his hand is stretched outside, and Yan Xiaoyi's son has been hiding under him, this time it seems that ...... This big man was also afraid that His Majesty would really find out about him, so he wanted to drag us into the water. โ
The second prince sighed and said, "In this way, it seems that everyone wants Fan Xian to die, and I really don't know what my father will do." โ
"Thank you, Father. The eldest princess smiled and said: "He turned Fan Xian into a lonely minister, but at the same time, he consciously or unconsciously pushed everyone to our side, the Ye family is like this, and so is the big man in the military today, oh my God, I was taken away by him and handed over to my good son-in-law, and he gave me some better things the same, how can this world be so cute?"
Neku, the Cui family, the Ming family, and even their own daughters...... The eldest princess slowly clenched her fists, maintaining a gentle smile on her face, but there was a hint of mockery in her words.
"I have always feared him, but I also know very well that he has a fatal weakness. โ
The second prince did not dare to answer.
"He's too suspicious. The eldest princess smiled: "Those who are suspicious will be defeated." โ
There is no doubt โโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโ that the eldest princess has wisdom that is difficult for the world to achieve in terms of judging the political situation and the net in Vanity Fair, but for the sniping in the valley, she has only guessed the superficial part, and as for the deepest reason, I am afraid that no one except one person is clear.
Even the military bigwigs who presided over this valley sniping were not clear to themselves.
A quiet mansion in Kyoto City, which occupies half a street, is large and luxurious, and is made according to the royal palace, and all kinds of trees are overgrown inside and outside the courtyard, and in this dark night it looks like the unkempt long hair of giants, piercing the lonely and lonely sky.
An old man in a cotton robe was watering the vegetable patch in front of his courtyard, and the old man was wearing a pair of cotton shoes, which were already a little worn out behind the tails. Wearing cotton robes and cotton shoes, simple and simple, this is the xรฌng love forged by countless years of military career.
He loves to grow vegetables, especially when he is old, he rarely goes to work in the yard, and prefers to toss a few vegetable plots at home.
But he doesn't grow them, he only grows cabbage and turnips, the two most common dishes eaten in the army. He is different from the confused King Jing, he doesn't rely on the pastoral to express his sadness, he is just used to it, used to growing vegetables, and used to being simple and direct.