Whether Fan Xian is afraid or not, but things have already happened. It's just that in the past few years, maybe the emperor doesn't want to break with his favorite son because of this matter, or maybe the emperor only knows that Fan Xian entered the palace, but he didn't expect the box to be in Fan Xian's hands, so he has been silent. It seems that this is some kind of tacit agreement, not to pursue that thing, in order to express a father's indulgence with his most beloved son.

And Fan Xian is indeed ruthless enough to himself, even when he is facing a desperate situation, he rarely uses that big killing weapon, and the only time he uses it is in the primeval mountains and forests where no one knows, and the key in the dark grid of the Hanguang Hall is still there, so that the emperor guessed something wrong.

Fan Xian frowned and fell into deep thought, thinking of those snow-like flyers, thinking of when he entered the palace to eavesdrop on the conversation between the eldest princess and Zhuang Mohan, his heart suddenly relaxed, and he understood that Emperor Lao Tzu must have thought that he was only targeting the eldest princess and entering the palace to eavesdrop on information, not the key.

But what about the letter? Fan Xian still couldn't figure it out, and sat on the edge of the couch a little tiredly, silent.

In fact, his fear of His Majesty the Emperor, in addition to the possibility that the matter of the box might be exposed, was also because of another Tsubaki's confusion - this is a problem that Fan Xian is quite distressed about at present, because whether he accepts it or not, no matter what, the emperor is always one of his Laozi, although it is certainly not the best one.

Yes, there are three fathers in Fan Xian's heart, among which Fan Shangshu is of course the dearest father, and Chen Pingping is a godfather, just the emperor...... The figure gradually invaded his mind.

Chen Pingping's words interrupted his contemplation: "If you say that you don't enter the palace because you're afraid, then why don't you go back to the Supervision Yuan and don't come to see me? ”

Looking at the old cripple's smiling appearance, Fan Xian sighed in his heart, and secretly said that he was not afraid, but he was afraid that after he saw you, he would not be able to help but ask some questions.

Although he was afraid, he still asked, because since he had the courage to come, he was naturally prepared, and he didn't want to be a poor jumping worm who was kept in the dark for the rest of his life.

"How did Yan Xiaoyi's pro-soldier battalion get to Dadongshan? Why didn't the Supervision Yuan have any information? Why did the situation in Kyoto become so difficult? Why didn't there be a hint of the official movement on Dongshan Road? Why didn't you go back to Kyoto, let the eldest princess and the queen mother toss, and finally toss yourself to death?"

"This is a plan made by His Majesty and me, of course, I have to hide it from the world. Chen Pingping glanced at him indifferently and said, "If you don't show weakness first, how can these people jump out." ”

Fan Xian shook his head: "Don't lie to me...... I know that you can definitely give a good account to His Majesty afterwards, but only you and I know that these people have been forced to go to the opposite side of His Majesty by us...... And you know in your heart that His Majesty seems to be a great success this time, but in fact, he is also walking on a tightrope, and if he is not careful, he will fall into the abyss. Now that you know about it, you must be able to do a better job in this bureau without leaving Kyoto in a state of no return. ”

"Just because Your Majesty trusts you doesn't mean I trust you. Fan Xian stared at Chen Pingping's old face, lowered his voice and said, "This is His Majesty's game, but you have been pushing along his game, although it is only a little bit, it has made the danger faced by Qingguo ten times greater...... Or even a hundred times. Especially in Kyoto, even if you want to get rid of internal troubles, it is impossible to kill so many people...... No matter how ruthless he is, he must not want to see the last situation. ”

"There are dogs in the world, who chases them?" After a long silence, Chen Pingping said: "Naturally, beating dogs is to kill them all, I'm afraid that Your Majesty will be soft-hearted for a while...... Does this explanation make sense?"

"No, it doesn't work. Fan Xian moved in half in his direction, held his thin hand, and said in a deep voice: "Even if the reason makes sense, but Your Majesty's heart will be uncomfortable, especially if you think about it slowly afterwards, there will always be problems." ”

"What could be the problem? This is the plan set by His Majesty, I ...... Just an executor. Chen Pingping naturally withdrew her hand from Fan Xian's hand, and said indifferently: "Don't think too much, there are not too many complicated things in the world." ”

"No?" Fan Xian's heart was full of worry and annoyance, staring into his eyes and saying, "Then you sue me, why did you let the shadow go to the Hanging Temple?"

"Why is there an extra wound on the back of Old Man Qin's corpse!"

Chen Pingping slowly raised her head, frowned at Fan Xian and said, "You went to see the corpse?"

Fan Xian nodded and said, "I know it's a shadow shot...... After a pause, he said with a wry smile: "But since I saw it, there is naturally no wound now." ”

"I didn't expect you to be so attentive. Chen Pingping said: "The shadow shot in the Hanging Temple, it was indeed at my instigation, you can go to your majesty at this time to denounce me...... However, you should know that the shadow originally has two mysterious identities, and no one except you and me knows this, and neither does His Majesty. ”

Fan Xian said angrily: "Even so, you still refuse to say it?"

"Say what?"

"Why did Old Man Qin betray His Majesty?" This is what the eldest princess asked Fan Xian to ask Chen Pingping before she died, and at this time, he finally asked bravely.

"Betrayal never needs a reason. Chen Pingping was as cold as ever.

"You let the shadow kill Qin Ye, are you afraid that I will ask something from his mouth?"

Chen Pingping sneered, didn't bother to answer his words at all, and waved his hand to send off the guest. Fan Xian stared at him coldly, and after a while, his eyes softened helplessly, and he said in a begging tone: "I know that you are afraid of dragging me down, so you have to cut off, but such a big thing...... You have to think about yourself, too. ”

Chen Pingping's heart was gentle, but there was nothing on her face, and she said, "You think too much." ”

Fan Xian was silent, although Chen Pingping had always refused to admit it, but he knew from the other party's attitude that his guess must have been right, the Qin family must have participated in the Taiping Courtyard back then, and the reason for the betrayal was because of his own rise.

What kind of character the old man Qin is, although he is dying of old age, he knows that if His Majesty really wants to use Fan Xian, he must sweep away the things of the year - the Qin family will die, so the Qin family will rebel, this is the truth, but behind this truth, a bloody and bloody fact is revealed.

Fan Xian stood up, looked at Chen Pingping and said after being silent for a long time: "After all, it's my father, my mother, you have been working hard for so many years, you still have to think more about yourself." ”

"I don't have a few years to live, you said. Chen Pingping laughed.

Fan Xian looked at him with some bitterness and said, "No one can deal with him." ”

Chen Pingping was silent.

Fan Xian was about to leave, but suddenly said, "The box is in my hand." ”

Chen Pingping Huo Ran raised her head, but saw that this young man had walked out of the door very resolutely, and couldn't help but shake her head, thinking to herself, even if the box is in your hand, what if this thing can't drag you in.

............ I don't know how long it took, a middle-aged man dressed in regular clothes walked into the room where Chen Pingping was and sat next to him, which was where Fan Xian was sitting before.

"No one can defeat His Majesty. The middle-aged man said in a harmonious voice: "At this point, I have the same idea as An Zhi. ”

This middle-aged man is none other than Fan Xian's father, Fan Jian, the head of the household, I don't know when he also came to Chen Yuan, and I don't know why he talked to Chen Pingping so calmly - the legend above the officialdom is that in the first ten years, Chen Pingping and Fan Jian have always been incompatible, and it was not until Fan Xian entered Beijing that the relationship between the two sides gradually improved.

Chen Pingping closed her eyes and said calmly: "The box is in his hand, do you know?"

Fan Jian smiled slightly and said, "This kid, put that box under the bed, and thought that he could hide it from everyone in the world, which is really cute." ”

Chen Pingping opened her eyes and glanced at him, and said, "In your own house, don't you have the ability to help him keep secrets?"

"I still have the ability to do that. Fan Jianping said peacefully: "Your Majesty put two nails in my house, one person found it early, and another person died early, anyway, this kind of nail doesn't cost money, and His Majesty won't care." ”

"Don't care, if you don't care, this time Dadong Mountain sacrifices to the sky, he won't bring all the tiger guards over, and then give them to the madman of Sigu Sword to chop and play. ”

Chen Pingping looked at him with slight mockery and said: "You are a person, you are only petty in your life, and all your strength is put in those tiger guards, and now these tiger guards are dead, no matter how many people you hide in it, there is not a single one left...... His majesty's hand is really ruthless. ”

"yes, I don't have any strength left. Fan Jian smiled bitterly: "So I had to resign and go home." ”

He looked at Chen Pingping and sneered and said, "How much better can you be than me?" In the battle of Zhengyangmen, thousands of people died in the jīng rui of your supervision yuan, and after two years, they will be mixed with a few handfuls of sand by His Majesty, what else can you do except learn from me to tell the old?"

Chen Pingping sneered and said, "As long as Fan Xian is still alive, His Majesty will not exert any force on the Supervision Yuan, what am I worried about...... However, Lin Ruofu, the old fox, endured it for so long, and finally saw the opportunity and handed over all the people he was hiding in his hands to his precious son-in-law, and the result was ...... I'm afraid that he is vomiting blood in Wuzhou at this time. ”

Fan Jian also laughed and said: "Everyone thought that the officials of the Lin family followed An Zhili to fight against the prince, and they would be rewarded heavily, but they didn't expect that His Majesty had been waiting to see this scene, and saw that Lin Xiangye's last people jumped out, even if it was not easy to do anything now, but where is the possibility of them turning over." ”

"The external enemy and the internal troubles were eliminated, and the arms of the three old fellows were cut in half. Fan Jian sighed: "Your Majesty is really wise and martial, and he has a peerless talent in his chest. ”

"I have to admit it, just like we did many years ago when we started following him. Chen Pingping closed her eyes and said slowly: "He was, is, and will be the most powerful person in the world." ”

............ After a period of deathly silence, Fan Shangshu sighed and said, "I hid in the Jingwang Mansion in Kyoto because I wasn't worried about the situation in Kyoto, and I had already seen that there was something wrong with the Ye family, but I didn't think about it...... It turned out that His Majesty was actually a great master. ”

"His Majesty's unfathomable strength, I guessed some. Chen Pingping said indifferently: "It's just that I didn't expect that Ye Liuyun's old monster suddenly stood on His Majesty's side." ”

"The two of us have only guessed one side of the majesty, if ......" Fan Shangshu suddenly stopped talking.

Chen Pingping knew what this old comrade-in-arms was going to say, and said calmly: "There is no if, because after that incident, you never believed me, and I never believed you...... But I never thought about the person who should be trusted the most, whether there was something wrong. ”

"An Zhi once said a sentence. Fan Shangshu said: "If I trust each other more with you, things may be much easier...... It was at that time that I knew that this son was amazing, and we were so strict about it, but he could still guess it. ”

"He is the son of Xiao Yezi and His Majesty, of course remarkable. Chen Pingping frowned, in his heart, he still had the highest respect and admiration for His Majesty the Emperor.

"When did you guess that His Majesty was the Great Grandmaster?" Fan Shangshu asked casually at this time with an extremely light heart.

"It's been some years. Chen Pingping's brows gradually stretched, thinking of the things of that year, at that time the Great Wei was still standing in the middle of the mainland, the country was extremely powerful, when the Qing Kingdom first started the Northern Expedition, the war was extremely difficult, especially in one battle, the emperor who was still the crown prince at the time, was seriously injured, the whole body was stiff and could not move, and almost died.

This is one of Chen Pingping's most famous deeds, which is as famous as the Qianli raid and the capture of Sean at the cost of a broken leg.

Fan Shangshu frowned and said, "What's the problem with this? We old guys have always thought that it was only after that serious injury that His Majesty lost his martial arts...... He was a fierce general back then. ”

"There's something weird about that injury. Chen Pingping said slowly: "The stiffness of the whole body is definitely not caused by trauma, Ning Cairen and I took care of him all the way, of course, it should be a problem with the meridians, it seems that the meridians are completely broken...... I thought he was going to die, and I cried several times, but who knew that he would come back alive in the end. ”

"I have never seen anyone who is still alive with all the meridians broken. Chen Pingping opened her eyes, looked at Fan Jian, and said slowly: "But I saw a similar guy later...... It's your son. ”

"In the case of the Hanging Temple, Fan Xian's meridians have also suffered a lot of damage, but they are not as terrifying as His Majesty back then, and later in Jiangnan, he should have learned the ability of a bitter old bald head, which gradually improved. Chen Pingping said: "Your Majesty doesn't have Fan Xian's good luck, he didn't learn from Tianyi, how is the injury good?"

"You have spent less time with your majesty than I have over the years. Chen Pingping continued: "Your Majesty can endure again, but some details will always leak some horses' feet, Fei Jie returned Fan Xian's domineering skills from Lanzhou, and said that this domineering true qi may cause the consequences of the strictness, it reminds me of the stiff and useless Majesty of the past. ”

"The hanging temple just wants to force it and see what his hole cards are...... It's a pity that Fan Xian got in the way. ”

Speaking of this, he glared at Fan Shangshu, because it was the father who let his son go to save the driver and make meritorious contributions, but he missed Chen Pingping's plan.

"If you understand everything, then don't talk about it, you have to figure it out a little bit. Fan Jian stood up freely and said, "I want to go back to Lanzhou to retire, if you are empty, you can also come to see me." ”

Chen Pingping was silent, knowing what his old comrades-in-arms thought, no matter whether His Majesty was an invincible person or not, he was Fan Xian's biological father after all. No one knew that Fan Xian was a traverser with a different genus in his soul, and these two elders just thought according to common sense that even if Fan Xian knew the truth, he would be in a dilemma.

The two didn't want Fan Xian to live too much pressure, so they had to figure it out.

Chen Pingping gently rang the brass bell placed next to the table, and after a crisp sound, the old servant who had served him for many years walked in and carried him to the wheelchair.

"I'll send you. Chen Pingping lowered her head and coughed, coughing a little hard, her sleeves were full of spittle stars, and she calmed down after a while, laughing at herself and said: "Now this body is getting worse and worse, and I have been a little poisoned, and I can't cure it for a long time." ”

Fan Jian looked at him quietly, didn't say anything, and went out of the house. The old servant pushed the wheelchair behind, and did not go far, at the front of the construction site, the two stopped very tacitly, glanced at each other, and saluted each other.

"I've figured it out. Chen Pingping said to Fan Jian.

Fan Jian didn't answer immediately, but lowered his head and thought for a moment, not knowing whether this sentence was true or false. He knew why Chen Pingping wanted to send him off, because many years ago, they had been to the coast of the East China Sea, had gathered together in the Taiping Courtyard, and had created a good situation, but as the years passed, some people died, some people changed, and some people wanted to retire - he resigned and returned to Shanzhou, and only Chen Pingping was left in Kyoto to accompany His Majesty, and he must have felt lonely.

As Fan Xian said, in the past ten years, he and Chen Pingping have been suspicious of each other, and their contacts have gradually decreased, but they cannot erase the comradeship.

The wind is always blown away by the rain and wind, and when it is time to withdraw from the stage, he must retreat completely, Lin Ruofu was not a member of the three-person team back then, so he did not retreat thoroughly enough, and Fan Shangshu would not make this mistake, before His Majesty's Tianwei, these people seemed to have no good choice except to retire.

Before Fan Jian left, he frowned and asked the last sentence, and did not avoid the old servant: "Since you were suspicious of me back then, why did you want Wuzhu to take him to Shanzhou?"

Chen Pingping sat in a wheelchair, bowed her head for a moment, and slowly responded: "Because I know that you have paid for it, I want to continue to look at your heart." ”

Fan Jian's lips flashed with a self-deprecating and sad smile, waved his hand, and didn't say anything more.

............ Looking at Fan Jian's departing figure, Chen Pingping gently leaned on the wheelchair, her fingers subconsciously knocked on the armrest of the wheelchair, sighed, and said softly: "It's good, it's good......

Immediately afterwards, the dark leader of Qingguo said to himself gloomily: "After all, it is his biological father, how can I bear to force him." ”

The old servant silently pushed the wheelchair back, and listened to the old dean say tiredly: "You say, why is it so difficult to die alone?"

Chen Pingping has done many earth-shattering things in her life, and she has faced many dangers and difficulties, but she has never been so disappointed as she is today. For the enemy he faced was undoubtedly the most powerful he had ever met in his life. And he couldn't find any weakness at all.

The old servant said in a hoarse voice, "It shouldn't affect the little grandfather." He had already seen the heaviness in his master's heart, so he tried to unravel it.

"Even if His Majesty can find out something, but after the Hanging Temple, in the Little Snow Valley, I have already let An Zhi almost die twice, can this still not sever my relationship with him? An Zhi's luck has always been good, His Majesty will definitely not suspect him, this matter is just that. Chen Pingping was a little afraid and pulled the blanket onto her body.

............ Fan Jian was ready to leave, Chen Pingping gave up, Fan Xian figured it out, the biggest problem in the world seemed to be solved, but these three people knew in their hearts that if there were no major fluctuations in the future, then this pot of boiling oil would be safely covered by the lid of the pot, but once something happened, the oil flowers would pop out and burn cleanly—not to mention the boiling oil in their hearts, which would make people hot and painful.

And just when Qingguo Kyoto was gradually stabilizing, the Northern Qi Shangjing and Dongyi City fell into a gloomy fog.