Chapter 4: Father and Son

Today's Qingguo world is known as the prosperous era, with ten years of smooth wind and rain, the people are rich and at ease, there are many titles of the so-called first Ming Jun in the ages, and the first ruler in the ages, but the wonderful thing is that with it, there is also a corrupt officialdom known as the first in the ages, and the first traitor in the ages.

This traitor is the prime minister Lin Ruofu. Lin Ruofu was born in poverty, not a child of a high-ranking family, passed the imperial examination to enter the officialdom, started from Suzhou to evaluate affairs, and was immediately transferred to Beijing as the chief secretary of the Zhan Mansion, and then transferred to the rank of the 12th Wei Division of the Southern Ya, and then entered the old capital procuratorate to serve as the palm seal to the matter, and then entered the Hanlin Academy Bachelor, in the last new policy, transferred to the six ministries to be responsible for specific affairs, for the Ministry of Officials, Shangshu, until the current head of the civil officials - under one person, above 10,000 prime ministers.

People carefully observed the official positions that the prime minister once held, only to find that he had done civilian positions, military positions, and the duties of ministers, and supervisors.

It is rumored that Lin Ruofu has no reliance in the inner palace, nor does he have an intertwined background relationship, but he can rise and fall in the complex officialdom of Qingguo, and never fall, which makes many people feel very surprised.

This prime minister is clear on the surface, but insidious and vicious on the inside, and has accepted countless bribes. In addition, he offended many people in the civil service system and the princes and nobles, so he fell into the image of the powerful and the people who were not loved.

It's just that his decades of hard work have already given birth to countless branches in Qingguo's civil and official system, and the big tree has always been standing. There are often impeachment of the prime minister in the imperial history, but there has been no evidence, so I have to give up. The Qingming people in Kyoto hate them to the bone and want to eat their flesh raw, but above the official face, no one dares to provoke him in person.

In the entire Qingguo, except for His Majesty the Emperor, who can ask for the life and power of the prime minister, no one else can, this is the consensus of all officials. In the entire Qingguo, except for the dean of the Supervision Yuan, who can spit on the prime minister's face in person, no one else has that much courage, which is the unanimous opinion of the owner.

And the dean's spitting on the prime minister's saliva in the street still paid the price of three years, and this punishment was personally given by His Majesty.

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When it was discovered that His Majesty the Emperor's trust in the prime minister had never weakened, the self-proclaimed officials and scholars began to despair. At this time, no one expected that the newspaper would publish the news that Prime Minister Lin Ruofu actually had an illegitimate daughter!

It is normal for the head of the family to marry several concubines, and if there is only one woman in your backyard, I'm sorry, I'm really embarrassed to go to the party. But the world's style is the most important bloodline etiquette, like the prime minister, although everyone knows that he is cunning and ruthless, but after all, he has always been pretentious, and he actually has an illegitimate daughter outside, which is a loss of virtue. And that daughter is already a teenager, and she hasn't been taken back to the house, leaving her to live alone, as a father, it can be regarded as evidence that she has no benevolence.

Because the news was released from the Imperial Palace, it caused a small earthquake in the Kyoto officialdom, and people speculated whether His Majesty the Emperor was tired of seeing the prime minister and was ready to replace him.

To everyone's surprise, His Majesty the Emperor personally stepped forward to suppress the matter. Things gradually subsided, but the illegitimate daughter of the prime minister became the center of attention.

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Fan Xian smiled bitterly, he never imagined that the woman he was about to marry would be so profound, and so similar to his own life experience. At this moment, the movement outside became louder, and the brother and sister knew that the man had returned home, so they looked at each other and said nothing more. Fan Xian just asked his sister to take him out for a walk when he was free, and Fan Ruoruo nodded slightly.

The candle was lit, but it wasn't completely dark outside, so the candle flame looked very dim.

There was a table of sumptuous dishes in the hall, and there were five people seated, and many maids and subordinates were serving. Fan Xian noticed that the Liu family did not wait for the head of the family to eat first like the aunt of ordinary people, but sat next to the middle-aged man with a calm demeanor.

That middle-aged man is his father? Thinking of this, Fan Xian's brows involuntarily furrowed slightly, and a very beautiful little fold wrinkled between his eyebrows.

Si Nanbo has a solemn face, upright facial features, and a four-inch beautiful hair that people like to keep most of the time on his chin, so he seems to know that he has a serious temperament and does not smile.

After eating quietly, Si Nanbo walked in front, Fan Xian followed, all the way to the study.

This is the first time Fan Xian has been alone with this "father", he smiled, not very excited, because deep in his heart, he has never really regarded the other party as his own flesh and blood relatives.

Si Nanbo looked at the young man in front of him, looked at the young man's delicate face floating out of the dust, thoughtfully, and sighed softly after a while: "The true resemblance to your mother." ”

Fan Xian didn't say anything, because he hadn't seen what his mother looked like. But for the father in front of him, he had countless questions in his heart, but he knew that it was not his turn to ask first.

"How have you been in Lanzhou all these years?" Si Nanbo looked at him, and his eyebrows seemed to be a little tired, but he still couldn't hide the traces of his handsomeness when he was in his prime.

"It's done. ”

"On the way here, I believe that with your character, you should have found the reason why I am in a hurry to let you enter Beijing this time from Fujiko Jing's mouth. ”

"Yes. ”

"Won't you feel aggrieved? ”

"No, it won't. Fan Xian replied with a smile: "I just took a ride to Kyoto, and I didn't say that I had to marry that Miss Lin family." ”

As soon as these words came out, the study suddenly fell into a deathly silence. After a while, Si Nanbo said coldly: "Do you know what it means to marry the other party?"

"It means that in addition to the saints who have been declining, Fan Fu can also hug a thigh that is too thick to be thick in the court?"

Fan Xian replied sarcastically, originally he didn't have any feelings for the middle-aged man in front of him, logically speaking, he should be able to keep the calm of the bystanders - but when he thought that the other party was his father after all, he actually regarded the marriage of his children as a political marriage, although he clearly accepted it, it did not mean that he was not angry - it was just that this anger had been well hidden by him in the past few days.