After the officials of the Eight Divisions of the Supervision Yuan took away the two scholars, Yishi seemed to be silent a lot in the middle, but after a while, he began to talk about it again, and what he was talking about was nothing more than the rumors about the life experience of Fan Tisi of the Supervision Yuan.

"The Ye family was a great crime of rebellion back then, and after the death of the mysterious hostess, all the family property was included in the inner treasury. One of them said worriedly: "If Master Xiao Fan is really the orphan of the hostess...... I think this is a problem. ”

"Rebellion, then why are the shopkeepers of Qingyutang still so white and fat?" A scholar with extremely thick eyebrows mocked: "I think it is the imperial court that took advantage of the orphans and widows to occupy people's property, this is good, suddenly the Ye family has an extra heir, I think the imperial court is afraid of panicking." ”

"What's the panic?"

"Isn't Your Majesty interested in letting Fan Tisi take charge of the Inner Treasury? This Inner Treasury is his family's, how can this be managed?"

"Still Neku?" the other snorted coldly, "I think it's almost as bad luck as Fan Tisima is going to be." ”

The shopkeeper wiped his cold sweat and came over and said, "A few masters, can you make a little quieter? If the masters of the Supervision Institute listen to it, I won't be able to open this small shop?"

The shopkeeper of a stone house rarely comes out to see guests on weekdays, but today he went upstairs, several familiar guests got up and greeted him, the shopkeeper took care of all around, and listened to these drunken gossip into his ears while supporting his ears, a stone house is the property of the Cui family, and the Cui family has been on the verge of collapse recently, and suddenly heard the big enemy Fan Tisi...... 's life story rumors, everyone in the Cui family couldn't help but be secretly happy. Hot eyes on the development of events.

The young man who claimed to be the imperial court who had seized the Ye family's property in front of him was really drunk and bold, and said with a laugh: "What are you afraid of, shopkeeper? Look at the people who were arrested yesterday and brought back to the Supervision Yard. Didn't you send it back today? I just chatted a few words, and I didn't break the rules of Qing. ”

The man beside him was still worried: "Fan Tisi is not easy to do now, if he is really the Ye family...... Posterity, it is estimated that his career will end here. ”

In fact, this has not been said thoroughly, after all, it is not an official body, and it is in a restaurant in broad daylight, no one dares to say the real judgment in their hearts, in the hearts of these people, they always think that after the court learns about Fan Xian's life experience, it is to seize his office. Two...... I'm afraid I'm going to kill him.

"What about the Fan Mansion?" the man then sighed: "Fan Shangshu has been taking care of the household department all these years, and he is a famous capable minister, is it because of the romantic debts of the year. Do you want your family to be ruined?"

After the rumors entered Beijing, in addition to the speculation about Fan Xian's life experience, the most talked about by the people of Kyoto was how Fan Jian, the head of the household, deceived the mysterious hostess of the Ye family. How did he make the other party's pearl tire secretly knotted - they all knew that Fan Shangshu was a merry master on the Liujing River back then, but he didn't expect that he still had such a ability to attract the hostess of the world's first merchant back then.

But in the process of spreading rumors. Those ladies and girls from small families have a completely different feeling for Fan Shangshu. At that time, the Ye family committed the crime of rebellion, and Fan Jian, who had a very low official rank at that time, was able to have a child with that woman and survived, and he didn't let the people in the palace find out that he had been raised for so many years, and this story seemed to be enough to remake a story. It has the potential to be a popular romance novel.

Until now, people seem to finally understand why Fan Jian would keep Fan Xian in Lanzhou for 16 years and refuse to let him enter Beijing.

Looking at the panicked appearance of the eight places in the Supervision Yuan, people know that this rumor must be extremely accurate. It's just that the Son of Heaven is in power, Fan Tisi is not Chen Pingping after all, he can't cover the sky with one hand, and he doesn't dare to invite all the people who love to chat in Kyoto to drink tea in eight places, after all, he can only watch in amazement and watch things gradually expand.

For example, the fact that someone who was arrested yesterday is released back today, and this is the proof of this.

As a result, people no longer resented the young Fan Tisi for making such a taboo thing, but felt a trace of sympathy for this young official whose future was uncertain and "life and death is unknown", after all, Fan Xian has gained an excellent reputation in Qingguo in the past two years, both inside and outside the territory, and has also earned too much face for the imperial court.

"Ye family, which Ye family?"

At this time, in the restaurant, a young man suddenly asked stupidly, he had been listening for a long time, but he still didn't know what the origin of the Ye family related to Master Xiao Fan was. After all, too long has passed since the events of that year, and time is like water, so that too many people in Qingguo have almost forgotten the golden name.

"The Ye family doesn't know?" The older people began to laugh contemptuously, sure enough, they were some children who didn't have a full beard, and even the famous Ye family didn't know about it, and they all felt the need to teach each other a lesson.

"The Ye family was the first businessman in the world that year. The middle-aged man said leisurely: "It's the Ye family who made glass to sell as silver." ”

Some people objected, thinking that this focus was not made clear: "The Ye family, the Ye family that makes soap and perfume, oh, the perfume has been discontinued for more than ten years, and it is estimated that you have not been blessed with it." ”

"It's the only Ye family that can make spirits. ”

Someone else added: "It is the Ye family that provided a large part of the ordnance of the imperial court back then." ”

"Do you know that Neku doesn't know where we get so much silver that our Daqing Dynasty spends every year?" The middle-aged man sneered: "It was Neiku who earned it from the Northern Qi, from Dongyi, and even from the sea." And what is the inner library? Isn't it the industry of the old Ye family back then!"

The young man who asked the question was dumbfounded, opened his mouth wide and said, "Oh my God, it's so powerful." ”

The scholar who was the most daring and pointed directly at the imperial court to seize the family property shook his head and sneered: "If the Ye family is just a businessman, how can it develop to the scale it was back then? If she is just a businessman. And how can it be ...... Extinguished?"

The middle-aged man was curious: "Oh, what news does Brother Fei Tai know?"

"The Ye family......" The scholar shook his head and sighed: "It is said that it has a lot to do with the Supervision Yuan, when the Supervision Yuan was first established, I heard that all the inputs were provided by the Ye family. Of course, this is just a legend.

After the middle-aged man pondered for a while, a flash of inspiration suddenly flashed in his mind, and he said around: "Everyone, do you remember the stone tablet at the gate of the Supervision Yuan?"

Everyone nodded, and suddenly their faces changed, and they thought of something, and they all exclaimed in surprise, and said, "Could it be that paragraph...... The one named Ye Qingmei is the hostess of the Ye family!"

The scholar's face also changed slightly. sighed: "No wonder, no wonder...... No wonder Lord Xiao Fan would rather give up his noble literary name and not hesitate to defile his body. I want to go to the Supervision Yuan to do things, but I'm afraid that he knows this matter very well. "Oh ......" He was surprised: "Lord Dong Fan was secretly the director of the Supervision Yuan at first, and this matter has always been very strange, could it be that Dean Chen already knew about it......"

Before he finished speaking, the middle-aged man was already anxious and stuffed a wine glass into his mouth. Blocked his next words. After the scholar was stunned for a moment, he was still afraid. The customs of the Qing people are simple and straightforward, and the people and scholars are not very afraid of the officials. I wasn't very afraid of Lord Xiao Fan, otherwise how would he dare to talk about his gossip in the restaurant, but for the old man in a wheelchair, everyone was afraid of him and didn't dare to talk about it.

The restaurant finally became truly quiet, and everyone began to drink and eat, and I don't know how long it took, when suddenly they heard a sound of surprise from the corner.

Everyone was startled and turned their heads to look. found that it was the young brother who didn't know the glorious history of the Ye family before, only to see him stand up, extremely excited, dancing and saying: "I think of the Ye family, I think of it, the Ye family, is the Ye family who did the second kick!"

Everyone laughed and ignored it.

In fact, for most of the people in Qingguo, the Ye family has become a noun in an ancient pile of papers, and no one will deliberately retain her existence in their memory, even the people who are talking eloquently in this stone restaurant, if they were placed two days ago, they may not remember the many changes that the Ye family brought to Qingguo. It's just that after the rumor that Fan Tisi was a descendant of the Ye family entered Beijing, everyone talked too much, which gradually awakened their sleeping memories, and they began to recall the Qingguo after the Ye family appeared, which seemed to be too different from the Qingguo before the Ye family appeared......

Maybe it's just a young lady in the house who began to miss the smell of perfume, maybe it's just that the city gate guard remembered the wonderful use of soap when he took a bath, maybe it was just a soldier looking at the crossbow arrow in his hand in a daze, maybe a merchant in the north was going to Beijing carefully wiping the glass horse with a silk cloth, maybe a poet poured strong wine in his heart and gave birth to infinite happiness, maybe it was the old man in the prison who lifted the black cloth and looked at everything in the world, maybe it was just a young man who remembered the first firecracker he set off as a child.

All in all, because of the rumors about Fan Xian's background, people began to think of the Ye family for one reason or another.

Fan Xian walked out of the door, facing the rare warm sun in winter, stretched his waist, and a refreshing smile appeared on his face. Because of this incident, it was inconvenient for him to go back to Cangshan, according to his father's wishes, Fan Fu pretended that nothing had happened, so he watched everything indifferently, and greeted the whispers around him.

Deng Ziyue walked over and handed him today's hospital newspaper and the private information of the Qi Nian team. Fan Xian glanced at the sunlight and asked, "Regarding that rumor, is there any movement among the hundred officials in Beijing?" ”

Deng Ziyue peeked at the calm face of Lord Tisi with his spare eyes, and admired in his heart, such a big thing happened, and he was still so calm, isn't the adult afraid that the palace will send someone to arrest you immediately? He didn't know Fan Xian's anxious appearance on the Cangshan Mountain, and he couldn't help but look at the adult at a higher level.

When they first heard this rumor, Deng Ziyue and all the officials in the Supervision Yuan were just as shocked and incredible as the ordinary people, but after a little thought, everyone found that although there was no evidence for this rumor, it was very convincing to what Fan Tisi had done after entering Beijing—if it wasn't for the descendants of the Ye family, why would the dean love Tisi so much? If it wasn't for the descendants of the Ye family, why would Fan Shangshu plan to let his son take over the hot food of Neiku?

"There's nothing big going on. Deng Ziyue was blinded by the sunlight on the circle, and only then woke up from his wandering. After accusing the crime, he said: "The news from the various prefectures is very clear, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate has been secretly contacting, but last time they suffered a big loss, and this time they seem to be a little cautious." Instead, it's among the others. Some officials began to make a move, but rumors are rumors after all, and there is no real evidence, and they do not dare to write a chapter to say anything, everything is still in secret. ”

Fan Xian asked, "Is it the East Palace?"

Deng Ziyue shook his head: "The officials who are good friends with the East Palace are still waiting, but ...... Yesterday, several ministers' wives entered the palace to meet the queen, and after they returned to the palace, the ministers also met in private, and as for what they said, no one knows. ”

"Empress?" Fan Xian frowned. sighed, thinking that he didn't have time to trouble the other party, would the other party take the initiative to come to the door? What does the Queen Mother think?

It wasn't until today that he realized that the power he could use at hand, except for Uncle Wuzhu and the last hole card, the rest were not very safe. Now this is the situation. Even if Chen Pingping and her father's plan survived safely by relying on the emperor's trust in her, what about the future? will rest assured.

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In the Hanguang Hall of the Imperial Palace, the queen sat on the edge of the queen mother's bed with tears on her face, holding the old woman's hand in her hand, and said miserably: "Auntie, you have to be the master of the child." ”

The Queen Mother sighed and said, "How to do this master?"

The queen gritted her teeth and said: "I used to look at Fan Xian with some shock, but now I finally know that he is the son of that demon girl......! The emperor is so ruthless, he actually hid it from me for so long. That demon girl still has descendants!"

The Queen Mother touched the queen's messy hair, and said comfortingly: "It's been so long, what else can't you think about? You have also seen that kid, and it is impossible for the emperor to give him any title, you are fighting for it, what can you fight for?"

At this time, there was silence in the Hanguang Palace, except for the old eunuch Hong who seemed to be sleeping at the door, all the eunuchs and palace maids were very far away from this palace.

"Want to open it?" the queen was about to cry, and wrinkles appeared at the corners of her eyes, "Auntie, have you forgotten the child's father? That's your brother, although the emperor has always refused to say it, but how can he not guess the reason? Isn't it because he has always held a grudge for killing that demon girl back then?"

As soon as she heard the queen say this, the queen mother's face sank suddenly, and she reluctantly sat down from the bed, and said sharply: "Shut up! In this palace, you should call me the queen mother, not your aunt! You still have the face to say what happened back then, you don't know what kind of flying vinegar to eat, and you actually instigated your father to do such a thing, killing people...... The emperor only told the mourning family a few months ago that if it weren't for Fan Jian's family's quick knowledge and sacrificing dozens of lives, you would not only kill the woman, but also ...... Fan Xian is killed!"

The Queen Mother leaned her face closer to the queen and said coldly: "Don't forget, although Fan Xian is the son of that woman, what he has in his bones is the emperor's blood! No matter where he is, he is always the flesh and blood of our heavenly family, if you want to kill him, you have to ask the mourning family what it means." ”

The queen shuddered in her heart, and poured out infinite fear, looking at the queen mother's righteous and awe-inspiring face in a demented manner, thinking that when she entered the Taiping Courtyard, wasn't it your old man's acquiescence? Why did you refuse to admit it at this time?

As if guessing what the queen was thinking, the queen was a little pale, and said lightly: "There are some things that you can't say, don't say it, take it into the soil." ”

The queen's eyes filled with anger, she looked at the queen mother silently, and said extremely rudely: "It turns out ...... It turned out that the queen mother was also afraid of her son. ”

The Queen Mother stared at the queen's face with cold eyes, and said word by word: "It's not fear, it's love, the mourning family is reluctant to look at the emperor as grief-stricken as he was back then, and he is even more unwilling to have another bloody night in Kyoto...... The royal bloodline is already thin, and the princes and nobles have lost most of it, and they can no longer afford this kind of toss. ”

The queen sat for a long time, and suddenly became nervous and laughed: "Can't afford to toss? My poor father, your poor brother, died in vain?" Fan Xian is the son of the Ye Demon Girl...... But the imperial court didn't give an explanation? Just let the government and the opposition talk about it? What is the Ye family? The Ye family's crime is treason...... Aren't you worried about losing all the royal face?"

The Queen Mother said slowly: "You are tired, go and rest, as for Fan Xian...... Who said that he was Miss Ye's son? The mourning family didn't believe it at all, as for the foolish people in this world, if you like to say it, just say it. ”

The queen finally despaired, the hands in the sleeves of Baifeng's skirt tightly grasped the handkerchief, stood up and saluted the queen mother, and then turned around and walked outside the Hanguang Palace.

When she was about to walk to the palace gate, the Queen Mother's sympathetic voice sounded: "I heard that some ministers' wives have often come to your palace to sit recently...... That's all, go for it. ”

The queen reflexively saluted again, and with a cold smile on the corner of her lips, she said goodbye.

"Look at her, her temper has become more and more strange over the years. The Queen Mother sat on the bed, her trembling hands barely put the silver threads on her hair together, and instructed the old eunuch Hong in front of her, "Don't let these things bother the emperor's heart." ”

The old eunuch Hong answered yes and left the Hanguang Hall like a ghost. The door of the palace squeaked, and the eunuchs and palace maids who had been ordered hurriedly entered the palace to wait for the old lady of the queen mother.

The palace maid's little hand holding the comb moved slowly and carefully across the silver hair.

The Queen Mother suddenly snorted coldly and slapped her palm on the table. The combing palace maid shook her hand when she was startled by this voice, and tore off a few strands of silver hair, she looked at the hair on the comb, and was frightened, and knelt down without thinking about it, kowtowing again and again, not daring to say anything.

"Get up. The Queen Mother half-closed her eyes and said, "The mourning family is not the kind of old monster who can't tolerate people. ”

She forcibly suppressed the anger in her heart, but she couldn't calm down for a long time. The emperor came to ask her to suppress the empress, because after the bloody night in Kyoto, the relevant people were almost dead, only the empress knew the real relationship between the girl of the Ye family and the emperor back then, and only the empress knew Fan Xian's true life experience, if the empress was allowed to mess around, I don't know what those princes would do next after they woke up and came back after they were scared to death.

As soon as she thought of the Ye family, the queen mother's temples began to beat one by one, and a spicy pain began to dye - the queen mother always thought that the woman of the Ye family back then was a spell that would entangle the royal family of Qingguo for countless years, but she didn't expect that if this idea was printed, she actually left a child for the emperor!

The Queen Mother has enough ability to deal with this matter, otherwise the Ye family would not have been destroyed back then, and the impression left on the old woman by the events of that year was bad enough, when she learned the truth from the emperor's mouth, when she thought of Fan Xian's mother's surname Ye, her head began to hurt hotly, so Fan Xian entered the palace several times, but she avoided it, because she could not guarantee that she could show the kindness that a queen mother should have.

For the queen, Fan Xian is first of all the son of a woman of the Ye family and an enemy of life and death, but in the eyes of the queen mother, even if the woman of the Ye family is not a thousand things, all kinds of sins, and evil to the dynasty...... But the son she gave birth to, after all, is the blood of the heavenly family and her own grandson.

Late at night, after confirming that the old eunuch Hong had returned to the hut outside the Hanguang Palace, the pale queen bit her lip and glanced at the palace maid who was close to her.

I don't know what the queen is talking about, I just listen to her lowered voice getting more and more urgent, but the prince keeps shaking his head.

The mother and son were relatively speechless, and after a while, the prince comforted softly: "Queen Mother, even if Fan Xian is a descendant of the Ye family, what can he do? ”

"Merchant?" the queen sneered, "Do you think that woman is an ordinary businessman?

The queen stared at the crown prince and said in a cold voice: "Fan Xian, it is your father's son." ”