Taking a deep breath, before late autumn, in the deep palace imperial study, the stove in the deep palace had begun to exude warmth, and the air was slightly dry, from the mouth and nose straight into the lungs, there was a faint pain. Fan Xian looked at the face of the emperor in front of him, and suddenly thought of a lot of things, many people.

The storm in Qingguo began decades ago, and the dust gradually fell, and the only one who is still in the eye of the storm is probably this father and son.

Fan Xian's attitude towards the emperor was actually elusive, and even he himself could not explain it clearly. From Lanzhou to Kyoto, Qingmiao rubbed shoulders, met for the first time in the bamboo tea shop next to the Taiping Courtyard, and then went to the Supervision Yuan, knowing the portrait in the palace, in fact, Fan Xian guessed his true life experience earlier than anyone guessed.

Whether it was Fan Shen in the previous life or Fan Xian in this life, they were actually fatherless and motherless people, but when they fell into Qingguo, they had an extra mother named Ye Qingmei, and later found out that there was still a father - it was just the inheritance of this bloodline body, so that Fan Xian really regarded this emperor as his father, in fact, it was something he couldn't do at that time.

At that time, Fan Xian had been acting, and he acted very beautifully, because no one knew that he had a completely different soul inside, so he could hide it from anyone, even the emperor in front of him.

Time slowly developed, Fan Xian gradually began to have doubts about the Chun bloody case in the Taiping Courtyard, and naturally he had a little more jǐng timidity and even fear for the emperor Lao Tzu on the dragon chair, so he acted more calmly and cautiously.

But after all, after so many years, if Ye Qingmei is Fan Xian, he is the soul that has been hidden in history, a being who has a natural sense of intimacy, and a person who reminds himself with the breath of everything around him, so that he gradually really integrates with the image of his mother. Then His Majesty the Emperor used so many years of getting along, favor, trust, means, and realm to get closer to Fan Xian's life step by step, so that he began to wander.

I have to admit that the emperor has invested in Fan Xian's trust and tolerance that is extremely difficult to show in his life, in the very beginning of the battle for succession, perhaps the emperor is just watching his illegitimate son gradually become stronger, and Cheng Dù is still using him, but gradually, the emperor's attitude towards Fan Xian has changed, especially after the Kyoto rebellion in the seventh year of Qingli, Fan Xian can have the status and strength of the people in Qingguo, I have to say that the emperor's favor for him has far exceeded the level of the crown prince or the second prince back then.

This pair of monarchs and ministers often discuss matters in the palace and talk in the imperial study, Fan Xian has something to hide, so he is still acting, but in addition to acting, he can clearly feel what kind of attitude the emperor has towards him.

So in the past three years, in the three years after knowing the truth about the Taiping Courtyard, Fan Xian has been suffering hard, although he has been making preparations in some aspects, but he has not been able to really settle down. On the one hand, he knew that His Majesty was like the snow-capped mountain in his dreams, and it was impossible for him to be overturned lightly, and on the other hand, he asked himself every night in the middle of the night, what kind of light would be revealed in this gap where he was located, and how should he choose?

He wanted to choose a third path that would not necessarily bleed, so he had been working hard to pioneer for the king, running around for the court of this Daqing, busy, completely contrary to his original cāo, he only hoped that everything could have a more gentle and bright ending.

He wanted Chen Pingping and her father to be able to return to old age safely.

As a result, this qiē became a phantom.

Fan Xian was very disappointed, even a little desperate, a little sad, a little tired, and he didn't want to act.

............ After reading the files on the case very carefully, Fan Xian coughed lightly twice, thinking about the previous deep breath and forcibly suppressing the restraint in his heart, which had caused his unhealed lung lobe to regenerate a certain pain.

His Majesty the Emperor looked at him silently, and coughed lightly twice, this strange father and son have recognition of each other's strength, and there are also that complex emotions, that is, even the injuries have been made up in one place, to tell the two of them, in fact, the two of them are really two people who are very similar.

According to Chen Pingping's calculations, maybe Fan Xian should have revealed a look of disbelief at this time, trembling, angry and confused, and then yelled at the emperor's majesty, I don't believe it, I don't believe that this was done by the old dean, why did he do this? Then His Majesty the Emperor would gently and coldly explain to him, what kind of purpose Chen Pingping lived for in the last decades of his life, what kind of unforgettable hatred he had for the Li royal family, this old black dog's kindness to you in the past was actually just a hypocrisy, he wanted to destroy Qingguo in turmoil, and destroy it in the disaster caused by the turn of father and son.

Then Fan Xian would still be unbelievable, and even angrily reprimanded the emperor, this qiē is all forged by you, Chen Pingping is not that kind of person, and then angrily left the imperial study, returned to the mansion, pondered a lot of rìzi, and really understood the emperor's painstaking efforts, Chen Pingping's yīn poison, and so on, and so on, and so on...... This is the formal court drama, this is the dramatists need a big turn, the conflict on the love after all because of the iron-like facts, and succumbed to the mutual trust between the emperor and the minister, the father and son have since released the previous suspicions, the curtain opened, the silk bamboo yellow bell rang, and the brilliant Celestial Empire appeared on the stage of history.

However.

Fan Xian didn't have any expression, he just put those files back on the case, lowered his head slightly, didn't say a word, seemed to be thinking about something extremely important, and seemed to be just too tired, so tired that entering the palace today had exhausted all his jīng strength.

The Emperor looked at him quietly, his eyes narrowing at an extremely slow pace, his eyes gradually brightened and darkened, and disappointment appeared, and then turned to a calmness or indifference.

"Original...... You've always known this. The emperor looked at his favorite illegitimate child, and said indifferently: "I have always been a little strange, the shadow has been following you, this kind of thing should not be hidden from you, you should have known that the matter of the Hanging Temple was done by that old dog." I have also been thinking about it, if you really follow the things presented in these files, once you ask Chen Pingping why she betrayed me, I really don't know how to speak. ”

Fan Xian's fingertips trembled slightly, and he was keenly aware that Emperor Laozi's state of mind had changed greatly at this time, but his expression did not change in the slightest, he raised his head, looked directly at the other party, and said in a slightly sandy voice: "I actually knew it all along." ”

The emperor looked at him with a slight squint, and a cold light appeared in his eyes.

Fan Xian pursed his lips that were a little dry, suppressed the ups and downs of his heart as much as possible, and said calmly: "And I have been working hard, trying not to let the blood of the past swallow up the things that are already existing now, from the moment I made this decision, I knew that this was a naïve and naïve choice." It's just that I fought with Yan Xiaoyi to the death three years ago, and I figured it out, in life, I always have to work hard to do something, even if I am laughed at and naïve, I have to try it silently. ”

"Of course, naïve things are always easy to fail. But ......" he looked at the emperor and said, "Isn't any great thing, at the very beginning, extraordinarily idealistic, naïve to the point of being laughable?

The emperor still looked at him silently, his eyes became brighter and brighter, from the moment Fan Xian opened his mouth to say that he knew, and said that he worked hard, he clearly knew what kind of goal he wanted to achieve over the years, for some reason, the emperor, who was used to the cold, suddenly felt a trace of warmth in his heart, maybe it was a good thing, but this warmth often disappeared too quickly.

"He's gone, he doesn't think about what happened back then, why are you ......" Fan Xian looked at the emperor a little blankly, and said in a sloppy voice: "Why do you have to ...... Do you want him to die?"

This sentence is naturally Chen Pingping, Fan Xian did not shout, did not reprimand angrily, but was full of sadness and helplessness, as well as resentment that had not been hidden, he looked at the emperor's eyes blankly, and the emperor also looked at him calmly, after being silent for a long time, the emperor smiled, his smile was a little cold, a little disappointed, and a little sharp.

"Hehe......" The emperor squinted his eyes and said, "I killed him?"

The emperor slapped his palm on the desk next to him, not smashing the wooden case into pieces, but the force was enough to make the paper on the desk fly, he looked at Fan Xian, and reprimanded in a low anger: "This is what I am most angry about, I gave him a way to live, if he doesn't come back from Dazhou, I may treat it as if what happened before has not happened, but...... He finally came back alone. ”

"He forced me to kill him. The emperor's eyes were as cold as snowy mountains, "I had no choice but to do as he wanted." I have stood in the world for decades, I have never been gullible, I have believed in him, I even thought that I might be able to see him as a friend, and I even gave him a chance until the end, but ...... But he didn't give me a chance. ”

His Majesty the Emperor took a deep breath, his calm tone filled with palpitating indifference, "A slave is a slave after all. ”

Hearing the word slave in this sentence, as well as the resentment and contempt that could not be concealed, Fan Xian's eyes suddenly seemed to appear The old cripple sitting in a black wheelchair, he stared at the emperor, his voice was as cold as a knife, gritted his teeth and said: "The fault in the world is all others, of course, Your Majesty is wise and martial, but the minister has never been clear, my poor mother back then...... How exactly did he die? ”

The emperor had a cold face, and did not react to Fan Xian's words at all, but just squinted slightly and looked at him with disdain, and said: "Including that old dog, all my enemies in Daqing are probably looking forward to this scene in the imperial study today, you ...... I didn't disappoint them, I just let me down a little, stupid as you are, unteachable. ”

Fan Xian closed his eyes, then opened them, his eyes had returned to calm, and said: "It's just that there are many things that the minister still can't understand. ”

"If you don't understand something, don't think about it. The emperor's tone was indifferent, but it was obvious that he was a little disappointed with Fan Xian's appearance today, and as for the last sentence asking Ye Qingmei about the cause of his death, he was subconsciously pressed by His Majesty in the deepest part of the ocean of consciousness, not letting it flood. He looked at Fan Xian and said indifferently: "In front of me, you are always a minister, if you think too much, I will naturally not let you continue to think about it." ”

This is not a threat, just a very simple statement of facts, just like the eldest princess's evaluation of Fan Xian back then, Fan Xian seems to be cold and cold, but in fact he is affectionate, and there are too many lives to catch, but when Kyoto rebelled, the eldest princess's wish was fulfilled, and she didn't bother to catch Fan Xian's life at all, and now in Kyoto, it is not a very difficult thing for the emperor to pinch Fan Xian to death.

Hearing these cold and harsh words, Fan Xian stood up straight, and said with a direct attitude that had never been shown in front of Emperor Lao Tzu: "Your Majesty has treated his ministers very well these years, and the ministers know ...... well."

In the imperial study today, the father and son are not acting, and they are all saying what they want to say the most. Especially Fan Xian, for the first time, stood up straight firmly, and slowly talked about the relationship between him and His Majesty over the years, one by one, speaking of seriousness, the stove in the imperial study seemed to sigh, and the cigarette was twisted, as if he couldn't bear to see the break between father and son.

Emperor Qing's kindness to Fan Xian, only Fan Xian himself knows, if it is the crown prince, the second prince, or the son of the Li family who stands in front of Emperor Qing today and says this, I am afraid that he will already be dead, but Fan Xian is still alive. Maybe Emperor Qing himself is a ruthless and unrighteous person, and he doesn't necessarily treat Fan Xian with affection, but relatively speaking, he gives Fan Xian the most emotion.

Listening to Fan Xian's calm recollection, the emperor gradually sat up straight, and then waved a little tiredly and said, "I won't kill you, it's not that I can't bear to kill you." ”

The emperor closed his eyes, was silent for a moment, and then said, "I don't want to explain anything in front of you, a junior, about what happened back then. But I thought that those people might have been watching me from heaven, and you were the son of me and your mother, and maybe you were like the eyes they had left on this earth...... I don't kill you, I just want to prove it to you, and to those who care about you, I ...... That's right. ”

He opened his eyes and said indifferently: "And they're all wrong." ”

Fan Xian bowed, bowed deeply, and responded: "The ministers will honestly be in Kyoto, watching the majestic deeds of His Majesty. ”

He didn't thank the emperor for not killing, because he didn't need to thank him. Since the emperor let him live, he will naturally live well, with these eyes open, for Ye Qingmei, for Chen Pingping, and for many people back then.

"Will you be honest?" The emperor looked at his son, and suddenly laughed out loud, and said coldly: "I don't believe it, and you won't believe it, but I never think that your dishonesty is a shortcoming, I just hope that you won't be so dishonest that I can't bother to tolerate Cheng Dù." ”

"Just stay in Kyoto. The emperor glanced at him, and suddenly said a little tiredly: "It's also good to teach in Taixue, don't touch the affairs of the Supervision Yuan and the Inner Library anymore, I don't want to spend too much time on you." ”

Speaking of which, it can't be said more thoroughly, the emperor gave Fan Xian one last chance to live, if ...... He's honest with him. Even though this was a threat to his life, Fan Xian somehow felt a trace of confusion in his heart, because he didn't expect that Emperor Lao Tzu would finally make such a decision.

The emperor looked at Fan Xian's complicated eyes, and suddenly his heart darkened, remembering the father and emperor that Fan Xian blurted out on the beach in Shanzhou, and said after a moment of silence: "In the future, if you have nothing to do, you can still enter the palace to ask for peace, and when you are alone, I ...... Allow you to be called ...... Father. ”

At this time, there was no one else in the imperial study, it was quiet, Fan Xian's body stiffened slightly, and he responded seriously: "Yes, Your Majesty." ”

............ No one knew what was said between the emperor and Fan Xian in the imperial study, but at least when Fan Xian walked out of the imperial study, his body was intact and did not become a ghost, a fact that made most people in the palace breathe a sigh of relief.

His Majesty also issued a decree to restore Fan Xianguan to his position, not even some vague hints of rewards, but at almost the same time when Fan Xian just walked out of the imperial study, several decrees that had already been prepared were issued, and the imperial court joined forces by the six ministries and three temples to continue to strengthen the cleaning of the Supervision Yuan and the Inner Library, and summoned Suzhou Zhizhou Cheng Jialin, Jiaozhou General Judge Hou Jichang, and the Inner Treasury Transfer Division Su Wenmao to enter Beijing to take up his post, also sent out, and at the same time sealed Bingyun as the will of the President of the Supervision Yuan, and took the first step out of the palace.

Obviously, this is the inner court has been prepared for a long time, and His Majesty the emperor sees Fan Xian's son too thoroughly, even if he refuses to kill him, he has enough ways to trap Fan Xian in Kyoto, dare not move lightly, and don't be too dishonest.

As for whether the information sent by Fan Xiantong's group can be used as a bargaining chip with the emperor in the end, it depends on whether the emperor has this kind of sensitivity and strong action in advance.

And in fact, regarding these two points, there should be no one in this world stronger than His Majesty the Emperor.

Fan Xian walked outside the palace with a calm face, and Hong Zhu, who sent him out of the palace, was cautious and followed him with a slight sense of fear.