Chapter 34: The Old Man Who Grows Cabbage
"Impossible."
Fan Xian lay on the bed, shook his head and said three words, but immediately coughed, it seemed that he even knew about his internal injuries, he couldn't fully trust his own 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, since he was a child, he followed Mr. Fei to learn the introduction and lectures of biological poisons, learned the rules and regulations and department composition of the Supervision Yuan, and learned 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 knows that Fan Anzhi of Lanzhou Shidi has a very mature soul, so he has long understood that his future life will definitely be closely linked with the Supervision Yuan.
After entering Beijing, the appearance of the waist card made Fan Xian understand the good intentions of those 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, more precisely, 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, all of which may be due to his experience in two lives, countless poems and lyrics written by former sages, and his own perseverance, but he knows in his heart that all these are just foreign objects, 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 I rely on the power of the local supervision institute.
No matter from which aspect, the Supervision Yuan is the foundation and foundation of Fan Xian's existence in this world.
The sniper in the snow valley is different from the assassination in the hanging temple, after the hanging high is seriously injured, it is completely an accident, the shadow shot is completely under the control of Chen Pingping, if it is not for the fact that his domineering volume training reached the bottleneck at that time.
But sniping in the snow valley, that is, to kill yourself, once it is launched, there is no possibility of stopping......
If it is really as his father said about his conjecture, this foundation is suddenly loosened, and Fan Xian may be depressed and quit at any time.
"Impossible."
Fan Xian repeated these three words again in a heavy tone.
He is the director of the Supervision Yuan, after these two years Chen Pingping deliberately let go and support, he has already settled his own manpower in the eight major departments, and the Qi Nian group has also become a special department, one has its own, there are Yan Bingyun everywhere, and there are Fei Jie in three places......
Now that Di Fan Xian is no longer the lonely man he was at the beginning, the entire resources of the Supervision Institute have long been firmly held in his hands, and he really can't figure it out. Even if there is a traitor in the courtyard, it is impossible to completely keep himself in the dark and cooperate with his own enemies.
Unless it's him.
It is in the valley that he thinks about him.
But he ...... He was so kind to himself, his hands were so stable on the wool blanket, and his 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.
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"There is no such thing as impossibility in this world." Fan Jian said coldly: "How was your mother compared to you now? She is also the left-handed superintendent, the right-hand inner library, and there is the fifth child behind her, not to mention that she has a few more of us, and there is a Quanzhou water master in the south?...... But in the end?"
Fan Xian was silent, and suddenly faintly felt that the things in the valley were only related to the events many years ago.
"The queen's father, I cut off my head with a knife." Fan Jian looked down at his slender fingers and said with a smile: "But...... Who knows if it's time to chop off all the heads?"
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 it was his father who killed the queen's father!
He knew what his father meant when he said the land, 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 to take advantage 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...... Even if the culprit still exists, it is not surprising.
It's just that...... Fan Xian broke the silence, with a determined look on his face, and said gently: "Father, don't say it, I believe in the dean."
Fan Jian sighed.
Fan Xian continued to say gently: "You speak, in fact, he once said it to me...... I've also 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 are all vigilant in your hearts, but just as I believe in you unconditionally, I also believe in him unconditionally."
He coughed lightly twice and continued: "Being suspicious 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."
"I'm not going to do that." Fan Xian said in an accentuated tone: "I believe in my own feelings, only feelings will not deceive myself."
He looked out the window.
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After a long time, Fan Jian laughed and comforted: "It seems that you still have confidence in human nature...... It's a lot like your mother."
Fan Xian also laughed and said, "It's just for a few people."
Fan Jian then asked calmly, "What are you going to do with this matter?"
"I'll wait and see how His Majesty handles it." After Fan Xian was silent for a while, he continued: "I'm afraid that the investigation won't come up with anything, and the other party has invested such a large amount of money in it.
He sneered: "Sometimes I don't know where His Majesty's confidence comes from, and some people in this military have begun to stir, 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."
"I'm afraid that even the city guard crossbow is transferred from elsewhere, and it's not good to find the wrong person."
"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...... It's just that for some reason, it happened to be on your way back to Beijing after the delivery time."
"Dingzhou?" Fan Xian frowned, "The Ye family wants to be a scapegoat again, can Your Majesty be ruthless?"
"Of course Your Majesty knows that this matter is strange." Fan Jian said: "It's just ...... What if the Ye family did this on purpose?"
"So we need some other evidence." 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 when you dealt with the second prince, sending the witness to the other party's yamen."
Fan Jian's face was slightly quiet, and he 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."
"Oh?" Fan Xian frowned and said, "What do they do with the land?"
Fan Jian smiled slightly and said: "They confessed that person 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.
Fan Xian was slightly stunned.
Fan Jian continued to laugh and said: "But you threw it on the Privy Council, and the Supervisory Yuan naturally refused to accept it, and let people drag it back to the Privy Council...... The Privy Council, these rough men, really learned to pull this man back to the Privy Council."
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 take it."
Although Fan Xian was a little heavy in the face of an ambush today, he still couldn't help laughing when he heard his father's words, as if he had seen this afternoon...... That good man in the army, I'm afraid that he has never thought about it in his life, he will have this kind of treatment.
"What do you do with the land in the end?"
"In the end, it was the palace that spoke, and the Supervision Yuan was imprisoned."
Fan Xian sighed: "I didn't expect that after sleeping all afternoon, so many things would happen in Kyoto."
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 if 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."
Fan Xian was silent.
"Do you really want 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."
Fan Jian nodded and said, "You handle it yourself, it's just ...... Don't offend the whole military."
"I'm measured."
Fan Jian stood up, left his bedroom, and finally said, "You must live."
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On this night, there were countless people, sitting in the secluded room, 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 of the retreating court, His Majesty was quite calm after hearing the news, and immediately ordered His Royal Highness, the commander of the forbidden army, to go out of the palace to inspect, and ordered Shuhu two university scholars to comfort the Son of Heaven.
But according to Gonggong Yao in the palace, after His Majesty returned to the imperial study, Shengsheng smashed a porcelain teacup from an official kiln and was silent for a long time.
All the people 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 with a ghost and a little uneasy, planned in their respective mansions.
Since these people dared to kill people on the outskirts of Kyoto, they were naturally ready to meet His Majesty's wrath and the Imperial Court to retaliate...... Fan Xian didn't die!
"He's not dead!"
His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of the East Palace gritted his teeth and said, grabbing the embroidered cloth on the couch beside him with one hand, and grabbed the soft embroidered cloth into countless ugly flowers.
The queen mother frowned slightly, sat opposite him indifferently and precisely, and said coldly: "Pay attention to your identity, pay attention to your words, Fan Xian is the minister of the court, if he does not die, as a prince, you should be pleased, how can you be so disappointed?"
The prince sneered twice: "This is the East Palace, and everyone knows that only one of them can survive between the palace and his Fan Xian, but I'm afraid that everyone is guessing that the affairs 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 doubt you, because ...... We don't have that kind of strength in the first place."
The crown 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.
He smiled bitterly: "I didn't expect it to become a good thing now, the queen mother is right, there is no way for this palace to mobilize the army to kill."
"It's just ......" a hint of jealousy flashed in the prince's eyes, "It would be nice if Fan Xian died."
What do you think you want, this palace is not clear? The queen mother is not clear? The queen mother is already starting to get angry...... The prince sneered, and was very grateful to that unknown local 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.
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There are many people who speculate on this night which force is so bold and reckless that dares 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 royal palace in Kyoto, the most powerful and beautiful woman in Keikoku was lying lazily on a low couch with a fire cage at the foot of the couch.
Li Yunrui's eyes narrowed slightly, and her eyes were full of laziness. She looked at the second prince who was sitting at the bottom of the square and smiled and said: "But this matter has nothing to do with this palace, this palace is not stupid to such a point, to deal with Fan Xian, there is a simple way."
The second prince was slightly stunned, in fact, from the time he heard the news of the sniper in the valley, he thought that the eldest princess was doing the land, 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 been acquiesced by the Queen Mother's grandmother.
Unexpectedly, I heard that the eldest princess denied it very bluntly.
"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 and the ground, but opened up incomparably strongly.Every time she squinted her eyes, every time she turned her wrist, a romantic smell naturally revealed, and she sighed: "It would be good if I could kill my son-in-law, sniping in the valley.Simple, rough, direct, and military style...... I like it."
Her words suddenly stopped, and the second prince didn't know what to say, and the room was full of speechless 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 ...... It's really a monster, it's so lucky that it can't be a good monster, or rather, everyone still underestimates the strength of his land when they attach so much importance to him today.The details of the sniper place in the valley have already reached the desk of these nobles, and in that situation, Fan Xian not only returned to Kyoto alive, but also killed all the snipers and caught a live mouth.All the forces were extremely shocked.
There is even a faint hint of fear.
The eldest princess was not afraid, but thought faintly, if, just if, there was no such thing as Niulan Street back then, how wonderful this world would be.
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"Continue to have a good relationship with Donggong." The eldest princess taught the second prince like her own child." We need him to convince the Queen Mother."
The second prince nodded, and finally couldn't help but have strong doubts in his heart, and asked, "Who did it?" It can't be that Dean Chen suddenly suffered from madness."
"The numbers of the five crossbows have been checked." The eldest princess looked at the second prince mockingly, "It's your little wife's maiden thing."
The second prince shook his head firmly: "The power of Yejiadi 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."
"Above the court, it never cares whether it is absurd or not." The eldest princess sneered: "Your Majesty and the Supervision Yuan want to vent their anger, if they can't find an exit place, the Ye family will inevitably become this punching bag."
After pondering for a while, the second prince said calmly: "Please aunt take action."
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.
"I'm not a god." The eldest princess said calmly: "The anger of the Son of Heaven, how can these women in the palace be settled with a few words?"
She looked at the second prince quietly, and said, "Don't talk about the Ye family, you should also prepare yourself.I know my emperor brother, he will be very angry this time, and if he can't find the root cause of the matter in the end, maybe he will bring grace and make everyone unhappy."
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?" Auntie...... It's a very important matter, don't hide it from the child."
The eldest princess's eyes were still calm, but the corners of her lips curled up beautifully and slightly mockingly.
"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 he wants 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 matter is very clear."
"Why don't you deal with the third child, just want to kill Fan Xian?"
"That means the sniper has nothing to do with the chair."
"It's only about Fan Xian himself."
"And something related to Fan Xian is enough to induce a certain big man in the military to do it, except for that chair, only the woman in the land back then."
"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 they know something, they're going to end their family for that woman."
"So it seems that the military bigwig must have something to do with the death of that woman."
There is 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, "The people who participated in the affairs of the Ye family are not 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 magistrate had been able to live with great glory until now, I am 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."
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 true, 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...... Hearing the news, on Fan Xian's way back to Beijing, the prince of the Metropolitan Governor once shot an arrow."
The eldest princess chuckled: "You also know that although the military dignitary hides in the mansion every day, his hand is stretched outside, and Yan Xiaoyidi's son has been hiding under him, this time it seems that ...... This big man is also afraid that His Majesty will really find out about him, and he wants to drag us into the water."
The second prince sighed and said, "In this way, it seems that all the people in the land want Fan Xian to die, I really don't know what my father will do."
"Thank you, Earth 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 the same is true of the military big man 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 that he has a fatal weakness."
The second prince didn't dare to answer.
"He's too suspicious." The eldest princess smiled: "Those who are suspicious will be defeated."
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There is no doubt that the eldest princess has wisdom that is unattainable in the world for judging the political situation and collecting 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 sniper kill themselves don't know.
A quiet mansion in Kyoto City, which occupies half of the street, is large and luxurious, and is made according to the royal mansion, and all kinds of trees are mixed 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 wearing a cotton robe, is watering the vegetable field in front of his own courtyard, the old man is wearing a pair of cotton shoes, the tail of the shoes has been a little worn.
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 fields at home.
But he doesn't grow, he only grows cabbage and radish, the two vegetables most commonly eaten in the army.