In the autumn of the twelfth year of the Qingli year, the leaves on both sides of the official road gradually become wider and rounder all the way to the south, but they also turn yellow, and the scenery along the way changes with the climate clearly depicts the landform of this world.

A horse-drawn carriage drove smoothly on the official road. Fan Xian, who has been missing in this world for more than half a year, has finally returned to this world, and those who eagerly hope for him to die, or hope that he will live, do not know the news that he has returned.

After crossing the snowfield again after hardship, the group of four quietly infiltrated the human world, without sending a clear signal to any force. Haitang and Wang Shisanlang knew the heaviness of Fan Xian's heart, and Wuzhu, who still didn't have a trace of human flavor, just sat silently at the back of the carriage, presumably this person must not understand the bad things in the world, and he wouldn't care about those bad things.

In the capital of Northern Qi Yaoya County, the carriage stopped outside an inn. After a while, Fan Xian walked out of the inn alone and walked towards the most prosperous Qinglou in the city, and behind him, Wuzhu, who was covered with black cloth, followed not far away. Coming out with Uncle Wuzhu was not what Fan Xian meant, but he didn't understand it, obviously Uncle Wuzhu didn't remember anything, he didn't know anything, but why did he keep following him.

In a secret room in the branch of Baoyue Building, Fan Xian saw Shi Xianli, who had been waiting for four months, as well as Wang Qinian and Deng Ziyue, in today's world, under the strong pressure of Emperor Qing and the palace, there are not many loyal subordinates who are still standing bravely beside him, except for these three in the secret room, only Xia Qifei, who is struggling in Jiangnan.

Seeing the living Fan Xian, these three loyal subordinates all showed a look of surprise in disbelief, because now the whole world knows that Fan Xian went to the temple, but in fact, everyone in the world, whether it is Fan Xian's friend or enemy, thinks that Fan Xian will definitely die in the temple, who knows that he will be able to come back alive!

After some excitement, Fan Xian smiled and asked everyone to sit down, naturally there was no temple time to talk about this unpleasant journey, and even he had some inexplicable journeys.

Wang Qinian squatted on the side and smoked the pot, and Deng Ziyue put all the important information in the world in the past half a year in front of Fan Xian. Fan Xian glanced at it a few times, and the worry in his pupils became stronger and stronger.

Shi Yanli glanced at the blind young man next to the secret room, and felt a little chill in his heart for some reason, and he didn't know who this person was, and he could go to such an important place with the door master. He swallowed his saliva and said, "I was in Daqing and the northern camp, and I pulled out the camp on the third day of the first month of June, and the first contact between the two sides was after seven days. ”

"Why is the Northern Qi side so defeated?" Fan Xian's expression became heavy, and he looked at him and asked, "And in Yaoya County, I don't feel too much fear from the Northern Qi people." ”

"The Northern Qi side retreated three hundred miles in a row, and it is very strange that according to the investigation, the Uesugi Tiger was not on the frontal battlefield, but chose to stick to the Song Guozhou City. Deng Ziyue stepped forward to answer a sentence, then spread the map on the table, pointed to the battlefield there and said in a deep voice: "This position is in the waist bone, if my Daqing border army directly invades the north, the Uesugi Tiger will take advantage of the situation and hit the waist and abdomen...... Although this famous player chose to be on the defensive, he was also extremely dangerous. ”

"This is the state city that the Uesugi Tiger grabbed after the war in the north last year, and it turns out that this seed finally fell in this place. Fan Xian smiled slightly, he didn't expect that he would explore the temple in the north, the mountains don't know the years, the situation on this continent has already undergone earth-shaking changes, just when their group returned from the snow field to the south, the Nanqing Iron Cavalry finally started the Northern Expedition!

"Since His Majesty has made up his mind to raise the strength of the whole country to march north, Beidaying is just a pioneer. Under the invasion of such a killing aura, if you are as strong as a Uesugi Tiger, you can only choose to be on the defensive, which is due to national strength and has nothing to do with the genius of individual generals. ”

After all, Deng Ziyue was born as an official of the Supervision Yuan, and compared with Shi Xianli, he had a clearer assessment of the war situation between the two major forces in the north and the south in the recent period, and looked at Fan Xian worriedly and said: "The northern camp went out of Cangzhou, and the Northern Qi side retreated three hundred miles in a row, but what the blade pointed out was, after all, there was a big battle in the wasteland. The Beida Battalion is now temporarily suspended for consolidation, but the troops in Yanjing City are frequently transferred, and it seems that the second attack is imminent...... Although the Uesugi Tiger occupies a favorable position by virtue of that state city, if Yanjing and Beidaying attack the western side, the Uesugi Tiger will have to be dragged into the field battle. ”

"I don't know how to fight, but I know that if Your Majesty really makes up her mind, no matter how talented Uesugi Tiger is, it will only end up being slowly consumed after all. ”

Fan Xian lowered his head, looked at the silent cities on the map, and said slowly: "Obviously, although the Northern Qi side has been preparing for this war for many years, after all, in terms of military affairs, they are not our opponents in Nanqing, and they only hope to consume and consume until my Daqing is tired...... At the moment, it seems that the Uesugi Tiger consumes energy, but His Majesty is unwilling to accompany him, even if it is consumed, His Majesty is the final winner. ”

Deng Ziyue and Shi Xianli glanced at Fan Xian, the worry in their eyes was full of worry, they were betrayers of Qingguo, but after all, they were Qingren, and they belonged to the third-party forces in the world, at this time, the war between the two sides had begun, their position and identity were really embarrassing, and they didn't know what Fan Xian thought about this matter, so for more than a month, the forces belonging to Fan Xian have not moved.

Fan Xian frowned slightly, and lightly tapped the location of the nameless state city with his fingers, thinking that the Uesugi Tiger was only afraid that he was preparing in the state city that nominally belonged to the Song State at the moment, and suddenly felt a strong uneasiness in his heart, and said: "If I am His Majesty, if I really want to snatch time and not accompany the Shangshan Tiger, the easiest way is to advance together with the two strong armies, and then choose one to go around the back of the Song State, and then the Uesugi Tiger wants to hide the knife in the sheath......"

"But if you want to go around to the back of the Song Kingdom, then wait until you want to borrow the road from Dongyi City, although now nominally Dongyi City is my Daqing subordinate, but the army is going to enter the territory of Dongyi City......" Deng Ziyue glanced at Fan Xian and said: "His Royal Highness and the Black Cavalry are not in Dongyi City now, but on the border between Xiaoliang State and Song State, if my Daqing army wants to borrow the road, they are afraid that they will usher in a sudden blow." ”

This sentence is actually not clear, because everyone in the secret room here knows that Dongyi City now belongs to Fan Xian, in such a big war involving the world, what kind of attitude will Dongyi City show, Emperor Qingguo, will he send troops to Dongyi City, after all, it is still a matter between Emperor Xià and Fan Xian, a father and son.

"If His Majesty didn't send troops to attack Dongyi City at the beginning, it means that he knows that I haven't died yet, then he won't choose this path in the future. Fan Xian sighed and rubbed his somewhat depressed eyebrows, "Don't talk about this, it's not something I can handle after all, I only care about the situation in Kyoto and Jiangnan." ”

Regarding these situations, they are all in the case files submitted by Deng Ziyue, but there are too many contents, and Fan Xian has no time to read them one by one.

"Jiangnan is stable, the imperial court has withdrawn the new rules of the inner library bidding, and the opening of the inner library bid, as expected by the adults, the salt merchants have also been added, but fortunately, the Ming family still occupies a part of the share, of course, it is much more miserable than in previous years. ”

"Xia Qifei's people are okay, right?"

"After the assassination last year, the imperial court did not take the next step against Mingyuan, and Governor Xue Qing was only suppressing Xia Qifei, but at the moment, it seems that no direct action will be carried out. ”

Fan Xian fell into deep thought, it seems that the emperor still kept the promise in the palace after all, after all, the life gate of the inner library is in his own hands, and His Majesty wants to be eternal, and he can only take a step back before his threat.

"After Sun Jingxiu was dismissed, he originally planned to flow three thousand, but for some reason, the palace suddenly issued a decree to forgive his sins, and Miss Sun was released the night before entering the workshop...... Now the rìzi of the Sun Mansion is having a very difficult time, but the people of the He faction have been killed very badly, so no one will fall into the well. ”

Speaking of this section, a smile appeared on the corner of Deng Ziyue's lips, although he did not participate in the affairs of Kyoto, but the Supervision Yuan slaughtered all sides in Kyoto, and the officials of the He faction were bleeding, which really made this abandoned minister of the Supervision Yuan feel extremely happy.

"It's just that all the people in the courtyard have withdrawn from Kyoto according to the instructions of the adults, so they can't help. ”

Fan Xian nodded, but he felt more and more that things were a little strange in his heart...... When did he become such a merciful monarch, just to keep his bet with himself?

"Is the family okay?" he shook his head, put aside the things he couldn't guess in his heart for the time being, looked at Wang Qinian and asked.

Wang Qinian coughed twice, smiled and whispered: "It's so good that it can't be better, everyone in the world looks stupid, Lord Chen and Miss Chen enter the palace every day to talk to His Majesty, and the young master and Miss are also in good health." ”

The situation in Kyoto really made the whole world stupid, Fan Xian is now a traitor of Qingguo, but the emperor Xià has no intention of asking Fan about the crime at all, that is, those women who should have been implicated now have a higher status in Nanqing Kyoto than before the assassination of the palace.

After Fan Xian heard the news, he couldn't help but be stunned.

Deng Ziyue suddenly said at this time: "According to the results of the investigation in Yingzhou, it was the border army that withdrew from the South Road and the mountain bandits who attacked Wenmao. ”

Fan Xian's eyes flickered slightly, and he quickly asked, "What about people?"

In the end, Wenmao's body was found, which was covered by the snow at that time. Deng Ziyue slowly closed his eyes and said, "At that time, he was missing an arm on his body, and the old family in the courtyard searched for a long time but did not find it. ”

"I'm going back to Kyoto. After being silent for a long time, Fan Xian raised his head, looked at the three closest subordinates around him, smiled very reluctantly, and said, "You guys immediately withdraw to Dongyi City, and don't get together again in the future, otherwise if someone catches me, where will I cry?"

Hearing that Fan Xian was returning to Nanqing Kyoto, Wang Qinian and the three of them were shocked. Wang Qinian and Fan Xian have been together for the longest time, and they also know Fan Xian's thoughts the most, and they are the least particular in their speech, and they hissed and persuaded him: "Although His Majesty has not been purged, your lordship, you also know that if you appear in Kyoto, he will definitely kill you at any cost." ”

"I know. ”

"Your current life is involved in that gambling contract, and more importantly, as long as you live, your majesty will be jealous...... Your life will affect the life and death of many people. ”

"I know it all. Fan Xian lowered his eyes slightly and said: "But Kyoto always has to go back, because things always need to be solved, even if I hide in Dongyi City for a lifetime, there is no way to solve it." ”

There was another deathly silence, and a bright light suddenly flashed in Fan Xian's mind, staring at Wang Qinian and asking, "As discussed before, Beidaying and Yanjing can obviously be consumed with the Uesugi Tiger, but His Majesty obviously means that he doesn't want to consume, why is this?"

Wang Qinian was silent for a moment and then said, "There is news in the palace, Your Majesty's body is ...... There seems to be a problem. ”

As soon as these words came out, Deng Ziyue and Shi Yanli's faces changed drastically, of course they knew that the health of His Majesty the Emperor was the most important thing in the world, the problem was that one of them was responsible for the intelligence work of the former subordinates of the Supervision Yuan, and the other was responsible for the intelligence system of Baoyuelou all over the world, but they had never heard any rumors related to His Majesty's health, but at this time, Wang Qinian said it so true, which made them really a little unbelievable.

Fan Xian stared at Wang Qinian's eyes, and nodded slowly after a long time, he knew where Wang Qinian's news came from, Hong Zhu's storage, even if Chen Pingping didn't know it when she was alive, but Fan Xian handed it over to Wang Qinian, obviously, this news came from Hong Zhu.

There was silence in the secret room for a long, long time, and the three of them knew that no one in this world could stop Fan Xian's actions, Shi Yanli smiled extremely hard, and said, "Your Excellency, don't you tell us the story of this journey? ”

"It's just a ruined temple, what's there to talk about. Fan Xian smiled, knowing that everyone was actually very curious about that ethereal place, but his mood was heavy at this time, and he really had no interest in speaking, he just glanced at Uncle Wuzhu at the door of the secret room, thinking to himself when would the blind uncle wake up?

............ In Yaoya County, the trio of young and strong men who entered the Snow Mountain Temple broke up, and Wang Shisanlang wanted to rush to Dongyi City as quickly as possible, and inform His Highness and the people in the Sword House of the news that Fan Xian was alive and Fan Xian's arrangements as soon as possible. And Begonia's departure is also expected by Fan Xian, now the world war has begun, although the Northern Qi has the strength to fight, but after all, the situation is dangerous, Begonia as the saint of the Northern Qi Dynasty, naturally can not stay out of the matter, she must rush back to the capital, rush back to the side of the Emperor of the Northern Qi, with her Qingshan Tianyi head of the identity, to help her country resist the foreign invaders.

It's just that when they broke up, the look in Haitang's tired eyes made Fan Xian feel some inexplicable pity, he didn't know how long the Northern Qi side could support in the strong heart of Emperor Qing and the war to unify the world, and he didn't know if the Qing army really broke through the capital on the day, whether the beautiful palace would be burned to ashes, and in those flames, there would be Begonia, Li Li and his emperor woman.

Whether it is from a personal view of history, as well as a situation, as well as all aspects, Fan Xian can only have an attitude towards the iron-blooded war that slowly opens the curtain, he must stop this qiē, but he did not promise anything to Haitang, expressed anything, just blindly silent, with Uncle Wuzhu, walking lonely towards the south.

I don't know the depth of autumn, or yellow or red leaves, under the clear sky, Fan Xian and Wuzhu walked south in silence, I don't know how long they walked, but Wuzhu still didn't say a word. Fan Xian's mood was very heavy, he didn't know what he could do after returning to Kyoto, but the intuition in the dark, as well as the news that His Majesty the Emperor might be seriously ill, for some reason urged him to keep going.

The most successful praise after Wang Qinian, Su Wenmao, died, that autumn, the old cripple died early, and in earlier years, Ye Qingmei also died. Originally, after experiencing the joys and sorrows of human beings in the temple, Fan Xian should have looked at life and death more indifferently, but what is unknown is that once he stepped into the world, there were more worldly thoughts in people's hearts.

It was still a black carriage, Fan Xian sat in the carriage, looking at Uncle Wuzhu who was sitting next to the coachman's position, and was not surprised to find that Uncle Wuzhu's side face was still so delicate, and the black cloth was still like that in the autumn wind, a qiē was actually very similar to the scene from Kyoto to Lanzhou more than 20 years ago.

The dissimilarity is actually Wuzhu, this peerless powerhouse who seems to have lost his soul, he doesn't say a word, he doesn't do anything, and his indifferent face can't be revealed, whether he is curious about the strange and familiar one in this world.

Fan Xian felt faintly sad, gently lowered the car curtain, and immediately laughed at himself, Uncle Wuzhu was just a blind man back then, but now he is good, and he has become a mute again, what did his mother do back then? What should he do?

The carriage did not move forward when it arrived in Nanling County, to be precise, the coachman refused to drive further, although the Northern Qi court has been trying to downplay the war in the south, but the war is not as easy to cover up as the scandal of the royal family, everyone in the world knows what is happening in the middle of the mainland, and hundreds of millions of people are nervously waiting for the result with indifferent eyes, and the coachman is naturally reluctant to enter the battlefield.

Took out the silver to buy the carriage, Fan Xian acted as a coachman, and continued to travel south with Uncle Wuzhu, on the way back from the ice field, those full of heaven and earth vitality had successfully healed Fan Xian's injuries, although he knew that he still had no way to touch the boundary between human beings and the heavenly dome, but he believed that no one in this world could threaten him except for Emperor Laozi.

After a dozen more walks, passing through the simple wooden sheds and numb refugees on both sides of the official road, the uncle and nephew in the carriage seemed to be walking in a barren area similar to the snowfields of the far north.

The crowd gradually thinned out, and the occasional light snow fell, but it could not hide the dead silence on both sides of the road. Occasionally, a few bodies are about to decompose on the roadside, and villages burned to ruins can be seen in the distant cols.

This was originally a fertile land, even if it was blown by the wind of the North Sea, the fertile land still supported many people, but now there is only a desolation, most of the people have withdrawn to the rear of the Northern Qi Dynasty, and the people who have not been able to avoid the war have become victims of the obsession of dominating the world.

As for the burned villages and the people who were slashed and killed by the roadside, whether it was done by the invading Qing army or the scattered Northern Qi soldiers, Fan Xian did not delve into it, war is the original sin of mankind, and in this world, where can there be any good war and bad peace.

The dead official road, the air was dry and with the smell of blood, surrounding the black carriage, Fan Xian drove the restless horses with a blank expression, and did not look back at the expression of Uncle Wuzhu beside him.

He knew that the army between the two countries was now gathering in the Beichong Plain of Yanjing City in the southwest, and after the victory of the camp in Nanqingbei, because of the fear of the Uesugi Tiger who had been sinking his troops, he temporarily returned to the camp to rest, and the silence here was relatively safe. However, the traces of the previous battle were already so shocking, it was hard for him to imagine what kind of Shura killing field this world would turn once the Nanqing Iron Cavalry broke through the Song Guozhou City, where the Uesugi Tiger was located, and went north with all his might.

In the whole world, there seemed to be only the sound of carriages rolling on the road, Fan Xian squinted his eyes, waved his horsewhip, and dodged a Qingguo cavalry squad on the other side of the river that was patrolling, and entered the border of Qingguo.

At this moment, Wuzhu, who had been silent since leaving the temple, suddenly spoke, "The world outside the temple is not very good. ”

"The outside world is already very helpless, but with a little effort, maybe it will get better. The corners of Fan Xian's lips flashed with a complicated smile, and the horsewhip was gently waved down again.