The big bed in the back house of Fan's Mansion is still so soft, and the pair of children are being offered like little ancestors, and at this time, they are also sleeping quietly under the careful care of the grandmothers, and no one will make noise about the people in the main room. However, Fan Xian was really sleepy, and after only a few words with Wan'er, he fell asleep, and his feet were even soaked in hot water. Lin Wan'er sighed, got up and put on a single coat, and began to continue the follow-up work.

In the middle of the night in Kyoto, there is a tranquility, most of the people have entered the hometown of Hei Tian, only our diligent and not ordinary emperor Xià, is still reviewing the recitals sent by the county of Qilu Prefecture, although these recitals have been written twice by the door, but the emperor is used to examining the world in great detail, so the workload is still very large.

The light in the study did not flicker, but the door trembled. Eunuch Yao led another eunuch with a simple face, and walked directly into the imperial study without asking for instructions.

The emperor glanced up at the two of them, frowned, and said, "What did you find?"

The old eunuch Hong died on Dadong Mountain, and Gonggong Hou died in the Kyoto Sudden Palace operation, and now the eunuchs of the inner court are all in the hands of Eunuch Yao. Although the power of the inner court is not strong, due to its special status, its ability should not be underestimated. In addition to the defense of the palace, one of the most important duties of this department was to secretly control the bridge of the Imperial Majesty's supervision.

This was the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which was a headache for the officials of the Supervisory Yuan back then.

It's just that because of Chen Pingping's existence, the eyes of the inner court in the Supervision Yuan are relatively humble and can't play a big role, and later the emperor asked the Imperial Court to start fighting with the Supervision Yuan, so many people began to forget that the inner court also has such a function.

Eunuch Yao didn't dare to say anything, and directly took the two files from the simple-looking eunuch and placed them on the desk in front of His Majesty. The dossier was very thin, and there was definitely not much content in it, and the emperor glanced at it lightly, his face changed slightly, and he immediately returned to his usual appearance.

But it is such a subtle change, but it makes Eunuch Yao's heart fall into the ice and snow, and His Majesty is the East Mountain Collapse in front of him and does not change his face, under the siege of the two great grandmasters, he still talks and laughs freely, but he is moved because of this thin piece of paper, it is conceivable that the content of it has caused a great impact on His Majesty's mind.

The content on the paper has nothing to do with the assassination of the Hanging Temple, and even if it does, it is only the later part. The content that the inner court has begun to investigate in the past two years is the whereabouts of several city-guarding crossbows produced by Neiku Bingfang that winter.

Those few city-guarding crossbows, in the valley on the outskirts of Kyoto, almost left Fan idle dead without a place to be buried. Later, the emperor and Fan Xian found out that the sniping was done by the Qin family, but these crossbows defending the city were numbered in the name of the Dingzhou army.

The emperor took his eyes back from the case file, and was silent for a long time without saying a word, as if he couldn't understand this matter. When Rì Fan Xian was assassinated in the suburbs of Beijing, as a king, a father could not suppress his anger, but this investigation came and went, but he never found any specific matters.

The emperor was shocked, but he didn't know, even a person like him couldn't understand why the old dog would do such a thing at that time.

And An Zhi obviously didn't know about this matter, otherwise he wouldn't have made so many detours tonight, and he would have to find a glorious and comfortable retreat for the old dog. The emperor rubbed his slightly tightened eyebrows, coughed lightly twice, picked up another scroll, glanced at it twice, and asked, "The one from Northern Qi also went to Dongyi?"

"Yes. The simple-looking investigator of the inner court said respectfully: "The Duke of Tangbo kidnapped the Emperor of Northern Qi into the palace, and afterwards had a private meeting at the seaside, as for what he said, his subordinates couldn't find out. ”

Fan Xian did not tell the emperor about this matter, the emperor looked at the piece of paper, looked at Fan Xian's every move recorded on it in Dongyi, his eyebrows became a little sunken, and after a while, he said, "What else?"

"The knife that appeared in Qingzhou City was indeed produced by Neiku Bingfang, but this is a trial model and has not yet been allocated to the military, so it is impossible for it to flow out of the military. The simple-looking eunuch continued: "There were three of those knives, and in the end we only got one, and according to His Majesty's orders, this knife was sent to Lord Xiao Fan, giving him a wake-up call. ”

"Judging from the future, it should be the one on the grassland who took away the other two knives, and it seems that he is covering up something for the Duke of Yubo. ”

"Xia Mingji and the second young master of the Fan family have been staring at the cross-border goods, they are all some livelihood supplies, these knives should not have gone out from this channel. ”

Although Eunuch Yao is nominally the head eunuch of the Inner Court, in fact, the external investigation of the Inner Court is directly responsible to His Majesty, so it is the first time he has heard these seemingly vague, but actually frightening news, his face is a little pale, knowing that if His Majesty really believes the investigation report of the Inner Court, he is afraid that Lord Xiao Fan will be unlucky, and the old man in a wheelchair will not have too many good things.

To the surprise of Eunuch Yao, the emperor sneered at this time: "With only three knives, you want to separate the monarchs and ministers of Daqing and alienate the righteousness of my father and son?"

As soon as these words came out, Eunuch Yao and the simple-looking eunuch quietly glanced at each other, and they both saw the panic in each other's hearts. Everyone in the world knows that Lord Xiao Fan is the illegitimate son of His Majesty, but it is impossible for everyone in the world to say this fact in front of His Majesty.

"That little guy in the capital is very interesting. The emperor smiled slightly, "Taking advantage of An Zhi's little compassion, he actually thought of such a thing." ”

The eunuch swallowed his saliva and said cautiously: "Your Majesty, do you want to continue to investigate?"

"The matter of the sniper in the valley continues to be investigated, and the matter of the Hanging Temple...... You can also look it up. The emperor closed his eyes a little tiredly, and said, "Don't check on Anzhi's side, as long as anything is found to him in the future, let it go." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty. ”

The emperor closed his eyes and was silent for a long time, he didn't understand what role Chen Pingping had played in secret. He suddenly moved in his heart, and thought that maybe Fan Xian, the son of Chen Pingping, played the role of Sè, knew something, so he was so anxious to pretend to seize power.

He believed in Fan Xian's loyalty, just like everyone in the world, from the perspective of interests, morality, and heart, it was impossible for Fan Xian to betray him. The Emperor had this confidence, and even if one day this son knew what had happened many years ago, he would at most exert a sad anger on himself and would not betray the kingdom.

―――――――――――――――――― the next day there was rain in Kyoto, and it rained again. Fan Xian was dressed in a black sè lotus robe, walking forward in the rain, followed by the three members of the Qi Nian group, plus a group of six talisman swordsmen, silently entered an alley, and after going out of the alley, he walked around, and saw the door of the mansion that was not spacious.

Every time he came to Yanfu, it seemed to be raining, and perhaps God knew that the father and son living in this mansion were among the most powerful instructive walkers in the world, maintaining their alienation from secular society in the style of darkness and light, and some sympathy for them.

Jingchengzi Mansion is still Jingchengzi Mansion, so many years have passed, and Yanfu is still so low-key, His Majesty's reward, and the favor of the imperial court are not on the face.

Fan Xian took off his wet raincoat at the gatehouse, and without waiting for the report, he walked directly to the backyard, and after a while, he saw the big rockery blocking the view of the backyard.

When he first entered the Yan Mansion, Fan Xian had paid attention to this big rockery, although the building did pay attention to a routine of covering the door and hiding the scene, but this big rockery was inevitably too big, too fake, too abrupt, and too ugly.

Today is the tenth holiday, and the busy and inseparable little Yan Gongzi in Pingrì is rarely stealing half of his leisure and is playing checkers with his wife. He and Miss Shen have been married for a while, but there is still no movement in Miss Shen's stomach, but Yan Bingyun is not in a hurry, depending on the situation, the entire Yan Mansion is not in a hurry.

Seeing Fan Xian's arrival, Yan Bingyun's face obviously flashed a trace of surprise, he knew that Fan Xian had returned to Beijing last night, but he always thought that Lord Yi Tisi's laziness was either playing chūn in the house today, or going to fight with the prince and the prince's mansion to fight for wine, but he didn't expect that the other party would find his own mansion.

Xiao Yan Gongzi was in Kyoto when he was a teenager, and later when he disguised himself in the capital, he was a famous talent, and he was all famous and talented, but in front of Fan Xian, he was not willing to show his talent and ink taste at all, like Fang Bing, strictly observing the distinction between superiors and subordinates, so Fan Xian was generally unwilling to engage in entertainment activities outside of business with this guy, whenever Fan Xian entered the Yan Mansion, it was the Supervision Yuan...... Something big is about to happen.

"I'm in a lot of interest today. Fan said with a smile.

Miss Shen gave a hasty blessing to her boss, and then retreated to the back house. This heavy daughter has always been the identity of a female fugitive from Northern Qi, she lived in the Fan Mansion for a long time in the past few years, and had a good relationship with the women in the Fan Mansion, but in front of Fan Xian, there are always some very complicated feelings in her heart, and she naturally doesn't know how to get along.

Although no one has ever said anything, Miss Shen knows that the death of her father and the destruction of the family are not only the connivance of the Northern Qi royal family and the killing intent of the Uesugi Tiger, but also have a great relationship with this young leader of the Nanqing Supervision Yuan.

Looking at the figure of the woman who had hidden in the room, Fan Xian's feelings fell, and he suddenly said, "How about what I told you last time? If you want, I can let her get rid of the identity of a fugitive from Northern Qi." ”

Yan Bingyun stood up, stood under the corridor as if watching the rain, as if thinking, and said in a cold voice after a while: "Don't think that no one in the world knows about your little affair with the people of Northern Qi. It didn't matter before, but what is the situation now? Once the two sides go to war, you will be the behavior of the enemy...... If you don't get rid of it quickly, you still want to use this relationship to ask for some benefits, don't think that if you have a special status, no one will suspect you of treason. ”

"Betrayal. Fan Xian scolded with a smile: "Am I also in a hurry to earn silver? Besides, I haven't spent most of the silver myself, and in previous years, I hit the accounts of the Hangzhou Association and the Hegong Yamen, and you have also passed the eye." ”

"I don't understand this, anyway, you gave this silver to the imperial court, why do you have to make a detour in the middle? The most important thing is that the secondary tax is avoided in the middle, and the imperial court gets less silver. ”

"If you don't have a procedure, you will have a bad experience of being skinned by officialdom. Fan Xian said: "And I like to master these things by myself." ”

"The palace must know these things, His Majesty has been silent, and you know why, don't go too far. Yan Bingyun couldn't help but remind.

"The eldest princess can catch it, but I can't catch it?" Fan Xian said: "The monk can touch it, and I can touch it...... Why did you change the subject again, do you want to do what I said earlier? If you want to do it, I have to go to the capital to write a letter quickly. ”

"Her family is dead, and she won't go back to Northern Qi anyway, what do you care about that?" Yan Bingyun shook his head.

"There is always a day to go back to your homeland. Fan Xian smiled, patted him on the shoulder, and said, "Find a quiet place, there are some important things to discuss with you." ”

Yan Bingyun's expression suddenly became solemn, and he said, "It's here, no one in my mansion dares to eavesdrop on anything." ”

Fan Xian was silent for a moment, recognizing the other party's self-confidence, Yan Ruohai is a spy who has been planted in the military by the Supervision Yuan for decades, and Yan Bingyun is also one of the most successful spies in the history of Qingguo.

"I'm going to take over as dean soon. Fan Xian looked at the rain sliding down in front of the porch and said softly.

Yan Bingyun's face did not show any surprise, Chen Pingping has long since stopped looking at things, and there is no difference between Fan Xian and the dean himself. As for whether he would take over the position of Tisi immediately, he didn't care much about this matter, but since Fan Xian opened his mouth, he was silent for a moment, and then said, "Congratulations." ”

Fan Xian lowered his head and said softly: "So I need you to hurry up and draw up a plan, I want to be the real dean." ”

Yan Bingyun's eyes froze, staring at him quietly, as if he wanted to distinguish the true meaning of the other party from his words.

"Including your father, the bald head host in the seven places, and even the old servant next to the old cripple, in fact, the control of the courtyard is far beyond our imagination. Fan Xian didn't seem to feel his gaze, and said indifferently: "If I want to be the real dean, I will let the old comrades rest completely, and these people must be isolated from the affairs of the academy." ”

"Do you mean to say that Dean Chen will completely get rid of the Supervision Yuan, and even if he wants to reach out, he can't reach out?"

That's what it means. ”

Rao Yiyan Bingyun's calmness, at this time, he couldn't help but feel infinite consternation, he looked at Fan Xian in a daze, he didn't know why the other party suddenly had this idea, and after a while, he laughed angrily and said, "You want me to deal with my own father." ”

"Metabolism. Fan Xian laughed, "It has nothing to do with dealing with it, it's just a separation." ”

"I need a reason. ”

After Fan Xian was silent for a moment, he said, "I'll tell you a story, a story about the wind and snow in the valley. ”

After the story was finished, Fan Xian looked at Yan Bingyun, "I don't understand." Yan Bingyun's face was quite ugly, "The old dean values and loves him so much, how can he do those things." ”

"I don't believe it either. Fan Xian lowered his head a little painfully, "But His Majesty seems to have found something, if he really believes this, if the old cripple really wants to kill me, what kind of ending do you think this will be?"

"His Majesty once summoned you to the palace, you are one of the seven gentlemen in his heart, Qin Heng is dead, but there are still six of you young people. Do me this favor and let the Inspectorate really fall into my hands. ”

............ Sitting in the carriage out of the city, Fan Xian began to laugh proudly again, he deceived the emperor Lao Tzu once last night, and today he relied on his excellent acting skills to deceive Yan Bingyun.

There is the shadow of the Supervision Yuan behind the sniping in the valley, if it was not for Yan Ruohai to inherit Chen Pingping's intentions and cooperate with the Qin family, relying only on the private soldiers of Qin Jiakun Shan Chong and the cover of Qin Heng's Kyoto garrison, it would be impossible to calculate the forward route of Fan Xian's convoy from Jiangnan, let alone launch such a fierce offensive.

If Chen Pingping wants to kill Fan Xian, this alone is enough, Fan Xian also used this story to persuade Yan Bingyun to believe in his sincerity, and let Yan Bingyun believe that he had no intention of revenge, but just wanted to follow the old example of attacking the second prince, and take the lead to let the old dean retire peacefully.

The reason why he wanted to make such a detour was because about the shadow and Ye Qingmei, Fan Xian didn't dare to tell anyone if he was killed, Yan Bingyun couldn't say it, even his wife couldn't say it.

"How many people in the world do you know that you once thought about killing me. Fan Xian smiled and sat in Chen Yuan's quiet room, listening to the babbling of distant relatives, and looked at Chen Pingping, who was old and old beside him.

Chen Pingping's face was calm, she glanced at him coldly, and said: "In order to force me to leave Kyoto, you are willing to do it, that thing was done by Yan Ruohai, can it be that Yan Bingyun will investigate?"

"I don't expect to check, I just expect you to hurry back to your hometown to find your first love. Fan Xian laughed and said: "You must know that since Ming'er, I am the president of the Supervision Yuan, you are just a lonely old man who has retreated, what do you use to fight with me?"

As soon as these words came out, Fan Xian suddenly fell silent, and said extremely heavily: "You promised me to let go, saying that you wanted to open, but you didn't, so I had to force you to leave." ”

"You little bastard!" Chen Pingping coughed and scolded: "Lao Tzu doesn't care about anything, don't you worry?"

"Don't worry?" Fan Xian said with some sadness: "Don't worry, you won't do these things, sue me...... Why did you poison yourself three years ago?"