Fan Xian washed his hands very seriously, and changed a total of three basins of water before washing the blood on his hands. The servants plucked the blood into the muddy ground of the tree roots next to the stone lion at the main entrance of the Fan Mansion, and they didn't know if they would raise any kind of vicious spirits. His clothes were still covered with blood, and he took them off carelessly, and changed into a refreshing coat, which swayed slightly in the early autumn night breeze.

All these dramatic scenes were completed at the main gate of the Fan Mansion, and Yin Sun Jingxiu of the Kyoto Prefecture who rushed to hear the news, the chief official of the Criminal Department, and the eunuchs of the inner court who rushed to the palace all saw all this clearly.

Fan Xianlu's hands outside his sleeves were still a little trembling, after all, the loss of six or seven days in a row was too great, and it was not something that could be recovered by sleeping at all, plus under the cover of the night before, he took the sword in his hand and harvested the lives of those who were in charge of monitoring outside the mansion like a demon, which was another big loss, which made his face slightly pale.

Yingxiu's slightly pale face, with the sword on the ground, and the smell of blood around him, made Fan Xian look particularly terrifying at this time.

He is the current president of the Supervision Yuan, and he is the killing god in the dark night that the Supervision Yuan has spent twenty years cultivating, but in the past, people are always blinded by his identity, his title, his position, and his brilliance, and they can't imagine that Fan Xian is the most powerful thing about his ability to kill.

Of course, the eyeliner sent by the palace to monitor Fan Fu was not all killed by him, but anyone who could escape before Fan Xian made a move, or reveal his identity. They were just fascinated by him and fell to the ground, and as for those that were extremely close to Fan's mansion, within a street and alley. Disguised as all kinds of citizens and merchants, he didn't have any chance to show weakness in negotiations, and turned into a wisp of ghost on the blade of the sword in his hand.

Waking up from that nightmare, his eyes free from the cold and excitement of the snowy mountains, Fan Xian launched a counterattack in the first place, but this counterattack inevitably seemed a little too bloody and unreasonable.

Fan Xian is not a murderous person, he also knows that the eyeliner outside the Fan Mansion is all people sent by His Majesty the Emperor and the important ministers of the court, and these people do not know Fan Xian's psychological condition at this time. Naturally, we need to be on guard. However, he had to kill, because the first accurate judgment after opening his eyes was that the emperor would definitely cut his power. Moreover, it is necessary to strictly control the contact between oneself and those subordinates of the Supervision Yuan who are loyal to him.

Although Yan Bingyun, with the help of the palace and the suppression of the military forces, nominally controlled the square and gloomy building, everyone knew that after Chen Pingping died tragically in the palace, there was only one owner left in this gloomy courtyard, that is, Fan Xian, as long as Fan Xian could rebuild an inextricable connection with the Supervision Yuan, then it would be His Majesty the Emperor. It was no longer possible to prevent Fan Xian from successfully gathering the power of the Supervision Yuan.

At least for a short time, the emperor will not allow Fan Xian to have the help of the Supervision Yuan again, Ye Zhong led his troops to "invite" Fan Xian to return to Beijing, and there were so many eyeliners buried outside the mansion, it was obvious. The emperor wanted to put Fan Xian under house arrest temporarily.

Fan Xian can't give the emperor this kind of gradual arrangement, once Fan Xian is out of touch with the Supervision Yuan for too long, the imperial court will naturally gradually break down the personnel composition within the Supervision Yuan, invite those officials loyal to Chen Pingping and Fan Xian out one by one, and then desperately mix sand inside. It's like asking the Metropolitan Procuratorate to mix sand with the Supervision Yuan two years ago.

Fan Xian had to rush before the Supervision Yuan was out of his control. Actively, hierarchically, and preparedly, let those forces that belong to them return to darkness and peace. Waiting for the time when he needs them again, and all of this is based on the fact that Fan Xian must contact them, contact the most loyal ...... Initiation Group.

Fan's eyeliner outside the mansion must die, and Fan Xian will not risk doing this dangerous work when someone is following him. Under the authority of His Majesty the Emperor, the only way to expose the gaps in the surveillance outside the Fan Mansion was the horror of blood and death, and there was no other way.

And the news that a crow risked death to pass on the news of entering Fan's mansion made Fan Xian cold his heart and strengthen his hand holding the sword.

There are four officials of the Supervision Yuan who have been hanged in prison, not the leaders of the Eight Great Places, it seems that Yan Bingyun is still desperately trying to preserve the vitality of the Supervision Yuan, but he has never kept those two officials.

Those four officials were the people who tried to forcibly intervene to save the old dean when Chen Pingping was sent to the prison of the Supervision Yuan the night before, and His Majesty the Emperor would definitely not allow officials who dared to disobey their will to exist, so they died, and they died cleanly.

For Fan Xian, this was a dangerous signal, a danger signal that His Majesty the Emperor had begun to purge the Supervision Yuan, so he also did it, without using any insignificant power, nor using any subordinates that he could use, he just personally stepped out of the high threshold of Fan Mansion, pulled out the cold long sword behind him, walked around in the dark night, and killed fourteen people.

The lanterns at the main entrance of Fan's Mansion are hung high, and the torches are gathered in the long streets of the southern city, shining like day. Several officials looked at the bloody corpses that were carried out from the streets and alleys, looked at each other, felt cold, their faces were pale, and they didn't know how to speak, they always knew that this little Fan was not a powerful character who played cards according to common sense, but they still couldn't understand why Xiao Fan wanted to risk His Majesty's wrath and risk being arrested and imprisoned, killing so many people in front of so many people.

Yes, the officials are very clear that the corpses piled up in the carriage are all powerful spies sent by the palace and themselves, the yamen, and the target is the little grandfather in the Fan Mansion, no wonder the little grandfather is so angry, but is the follow-up of the anger such a brutal killing?

From the Inner Court, to the Supervision Yuan, to the Criminal Department...... The yamen of the court above the Qingguo court are afraid that they are all used to sending spies to inquire about the news and intelligence they need, especially the first two terrible existences, and they don't know the major princely mansions in Kyoto. How many secret agents have been planted in the minister's house, and the Supervision Yuan is even more experienced in doing this kind of thing, according to rumors. One has now achieved the level of planting nails in every Beijing official mansion above the sixth grade.

The matter of nails is not a secret in the officialdom of Kyoto, and the officials have become accustomed to this, even if the officials find out that there are spies in the palace or the supervision house one day because of some strange things, they still only stupidly pretend not to know the difference, and if they really can't pretend, they have to make a good offer. Then verbally reminded the other party a few times, and politely sent the other party out of the mansion and back to the other party's yamen.

Because the officials are clear. These spy nails represent His Majesty's eyes, the majesty of the imperial court, and they never imagined that an official would kill all these nails with extreme ruthlessness and arrogance like today's Xiao Fan.

The deputy waiter of the Criminal Department glanced at Sun Jingxiu, who looked embarrassed, and said in a low voice: "Lord Sun, what is going on with this matter today, you have to ask the little grandfather." ”

Killing people on the street is already a violation of the capital crime in Qinglu, even if Fan Xian is now both honorable and noble. If he enters the scope of the Eight Discussions, he can avoid the death penalty, but the living crime is still unforgivable, not to mention that the people he killed today still have the identity of members of the court secretly. It's just that Fan Xian was washing his bloody hands in the firelight. Changing into bloody clothes in front of all the officials, his face was cold and calm, who would dare to come forward to arrest him?

At this time, among the officials, only the Kyoto Prefecture Yin Sun Jingxiu should be in charge of this matter, and it is well known. The relationship between Sun Fu and the little grandfather is close. A few months ago, the little grandfather also fought a big fight for Sun Jingxiu's future and the scholar He who was a scholar in the middle school. The scholar who killed Dihe University was disgraced, so the eyes of all the officials fell on Sun Jingxiu's face.

Sun Jingxiu's heart was as bitter as eating a yellow lotus, he knew what these colleagues were afraid of, but he was even more unhappy these days, first there was a big incident in the Supervision Yuan, and as a result, Old Dean Chen was miserable, and that day he saw Lord Xiao Fan riding into the court alone, and he was even more frightened, he didn't know what role Lord Xiao Fan would play in the court in the future, whether he would sink or be severely punished by His Majesty......

If Fan Xian collapses and loses power, Sun Jingxiu will naturally have no good end, so he has been waiting in Kyoto all day in fear for His Majesty's will to seize the office, but he didn't expect that in the end, before His Majesty's will arrived, his backer Xiao Fan, did such a shocking and rebellious thing.

He walked to the main entrance of Fan Mansion, bowed deeply to Fan Xian very solemnly, and then asked a few words softly.

Fan Xian sat on the bench tiredly at this time, the Great Wei Tianzi Sword was thrown at his feet, and he was not very surprised to see Sun Jingxiu step forward, and responded with a cold face.

Those officials were afraid to step forward, and they didn't know what the two people were talking about, so they had to wait patiently, and after Sun Jingxiu walked down the stone steps, the waiter of the criminal department frowned and said: "What did the little grandfather say? This is not a trivial matter, killing people in the street, even if you go to Taichang Temple, you have to give an explanation." ”

Let the thirteen yamen of the Criminal Department send people into the Fan Mansion to arrest people, this squire does not have the courage, but the Qing law is strict, and these officials can't treat it as if they didn't see anything when they saw this scene.

I don't know what Fan Xian said to Sun Jingxiu before, this Kyoto Mansion Yin didn't have much panic, and said calmly: " The little grandfather said, Kyoto has not been peaceful recently, and the Supervision Yuan has found that some people's mothers-in-law have come to Beijing to abduct children, you also know, there are two little ancestors in Fan's house, and Xiao Fan is naturally a little nervous, so after the meal, he walked around the streets and alleys outside the house, and looked at some dazzling characters, and he was not a serious person at a glance, so he interrogated a few words, but he didn't expect those people to be guts, and actually took out the murder weapon to commit murder to the little grandfather, of course the little grandfather will not be polite to these traitors. ”

As soon as these words came out, the officials around the middle gasped, they had seen shameless and vicious magnates, but they had never seen such shameless and vicious magnates, fourteen lives, they said that they would be killed, and they also planted the other party on the suspicion of a mother-in-law, this is self-defense, it seems to be reasonable, but it is just that the little grandfather in the Fan Mansion single-handedly went to ask about the whereabouts of his mother-in-law, and was chased and killed by fourteen guys. "The official naturally doesn't believe it, but the official doesn't have any evidence, of course, you can also ask the little grandfather to go back to the yagong to ask and record a confession or something, but at this time the night is already late. The official has no such interest. Sun Jingxiu's waist suddenly straightened, looked at several colleagues around him and said indifferently: "Your Excellency also has such rights, if you are willing to take over this case." Feel free to do your own thing...... However, this official would like to remind you that the dead are basically people from the palace, and there is no speech in the palace, so it is best not to act rashly. ”

This is a big nonsense, everyone knows who died outside the Fan Mansion today, this was originally a matter between His Majesty the Emperor and the little grandfather, and they didn't dare to interfere if these officials had a few guts, but Fan Xian did too much today. The matter is about to enter the palace, if these officials don't react in advance, who knows what the palace thinks of them?

Sun Jingxiu finished speaking. Then he took the officials of Kyoto Mansion and left, no longer bothering to pay attention to these things, a few simple words of conversation with Fan Xian before, he took a reassuring pill, although the taste of this pill is not very good, but at least the little grandfather said, as long as he does not die, Sun Mansion will be fine, the words have been said to this, Sun Jingxiu has nothing to complain about. Let it be.

Watching the people of Kyoto Mansion leave the main gate of Fan Mansion, Fan Xian stood up from the bench, glanced coldly at the officials under the stone steps, and picked up the Great Wei Tianzi Sword that was regarded as a treasure by the world from his feet, just like picking up a mop with water. casually slapped the stone lion's head twice.

This style is like a shameless and lifeless splash San'er, but it was made by Lord Xiao Fan, and the strong contrast made the faces of those officials change. A thick robe. Fan Xian felt that his body was warmer. One side tightens the placket, and the other side walks towards the back house. He casually asked, "Is the water from the reed root boiled?" ”

The girl answered, and went to the boy's room to keep an eye on it. Fan Xian walked to the back house alone, sat on the edge of the bed, and whispered to his wife Lin Wan'er at the table: "Kill fourteen, maybe twenty-eight will come tomorrow." ”

"Actually, those are only members of the imperial court, and they are under the orders of the palace and various ministries, so why ......bother" Lin Wan'er's face showed a trace of unbearability, and said: "Besides, even if you are not happy in your heart and want to avenge the two subordinates of the Supervision Yuan who died in prison, you will not spread the fire on those people." ”

"You don't understand, Your Majesty wants me to put me under house arrest in this mansion, but he knows that unless he personally goes out of the palace to keep an eye on me, even if Ye Chonglai comes, it is impossible to block my contact with the outside world. Fan Xian wiped the cold sweat on his forehead, felt that his body was still a little weak, and said in a sand voice: "Your Majesty has a lot of opportunities, how can he keep an eye on me personally, so he can only cast a big net, and the net is outside our house." ”

"I've got to tear this net apart, or I'll become a frog in a pot of warm water, and I won't know how I'm dead when I die. Fan Xian's eyebrows flashed with a palpitating chill.

"But you also said that if you kill fourteen people today, there may be twenty-eight people tomorrow, and Your Majesty is the lord of Qingguo, and the subjects of the world are all tools in his hands, and he can kill them inexhaustibly. Lin Wan'er looked at him with a worried face.

"If you kill too much, it will naturally be scary. Fan Xian bowed his head slightly and said: "Although the imperial power is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people and is irresistible, the fear of death must also make the eyes of those officials who pull the net subconsciously leak some holes." ”

Hearing these words, the melancholy on Lin Wan'er's face did not fade, and her watery eyes were full of concern and anxiety for Fan Xian, and she said softly: "But if Your Majesty wants to ambush you, there are many ways. ”

Fan Xian's hands were propped up on his sides, and after thinking for a moment, he lowered his head and said quietly: "He left his sister in the palace, which is forcing me not to dare to leave Beijing, but if he wants to ambush me, he must lock me up in the palace and by his side, I don't think Your Majesty will take this risk." ”

Speaking of this, he raised his head to look at his wife's worried face, and said gently: "Shuning and Liangzi have both left the city, you have done a very good job in this matter, otherwise we, as parents, will really be a little unable to let go of our hands and feet in Beijing." ”

"Sisi, they should have arrived at the clan village, but I think there must be news in the palace. Lin Wan'er sighed, walked to his side, and gently rested her head on his shoulder, "I don't care what you're going to do, but you have to think about it, my sister is still in the palace, and those two little ones haven't gone far yet." ”

"So I'm going to get in touch with my locals. Fan Xian gently stroked his wife's slightly emaciated cheeks with pity, "Sisi, this girl is usually inconspicuous. In fact, he is a very assertive and hard-working person, and Fujikojing is an old man. Presumably, I won't let the palace catch the beginning, if I can contact the local people in the Qi Nian group, there will naturally be a way to send them back to Shanzhou. ”

"As for my sister, she is still in the palace...... It should be fine. Fan Xian's voice suddenly became cold, "I am challenging His Majesty's majesty head-on today just to see what step he wants to take. ”

"You really don't dare that the emperor's uncle will punish you severely?" Lin Wan'er sat up straight and looked at him worriedly, she knew deeply how cold-blooded and ruthless the relative sitting on the dragon chair was, once he found out that Fan Xian was no longer the illegitimate child he could control. What kind of response will she make? Lin Wan'er always thinks that Fan Xian's current measures seem too radical and too risky.

"Any move by His Majesty has nothing to do with family affection, and has nothing to do with feelings. It's just about the benefits. Fan Xian closed his eyes and said, "If we agree with this benchmark, we can try to analyze it, Your Majesty may be angry, but he will not push me into a corner." ”

"Whether it's the children I'm going to send to the city, or Ruoruo in the palace, or ...... You. Fan Xian opened his eyes, looked at his wife, and said slowly: "This is my bottom line, if Your Majesty breaks this bottom line, then we can only force us to completely turn our faces in advance." ”

Lin Wan'er looked at him with some incomprehension.

Fan Xian said: "I never underestimate any of my enemies. But I will never underestimate myself, no matter whether His Majesty forces me to rebel or kills me, it will only give him and bring consequences to the Daqing Dynasty that he cannot bear. A mess that is hard to clean up. ”

"If I die, what will I do over there in Dongyi City? Will the disciples and grandchildren of the Sigu Sword still abide by that unwritten agreement? Although the 10,000 elite soldiers in the hands of His Royal Highness have the sand mixed with the imperial court, the movement of the forbidden army three years ago has already shown that our eldest brother is capable of commanding the army, and he can completely control this strong army in a short time...... Chen Pingping died. I'm dead again. My eldest brother will definitely not listen to me again, even if he does not lead the troops back to Kyoto. But at least he will stay in Dongyi City and look at the father in Kyoto coldly...... Your Majesty had better not use Aunt Ning to threaten him, judging from your description, after the incident in the Imperial Study, Aunt Ning has the will to die, with her strong and hot-blooded temperament, if Your Majesty uses her life to threaten the eldest brother to return to Beijing, I am afraid that she will die in front of Your Majesty immediately. ”

"Yun Zhilan is not a fool, if I die, he will definitely be able to guess the thoughts of the eldest brother, for no reason there is such a strong reinforcement, he will definitely do his best to assist, so as to maintain the independent status of Dongyi City. ”

"If I die, how will Hongcheng, who is still in Dingzhou at this time, react?"

"If I die, what kind of turmoil will happen to Jiangnan after I have been running for five years? Even if Xia Qifei betrays me, I have enough ways to make the whole Jiangnan chaotic. ”

"Not to mention the Supervisory Yuan, which is silent now, on the one hand, the army outside the Supervisory Yuan, and more importantly, all the officials are secretly watching me, they want to know what I want to do, and if I also die, the Supervisory Yuan will be dispersed. ”

"You see, if His Majesty really forced me to rebel, or killed me directly, it would bring so much turmoil. The corners of Fan Xian's lips flashed with a strange smile, and he said quietly: "How can he be reluctant......? Dare?"

In fact, Fan Xian still has a lot of chips hidden behind him that he has not said, one is not that necessary, and the other is that he himself does not have much confidence in the chips in the north. However, at this point, the last four words he said indifferently were so firm and confident.

Inheriting his mother's legacy, the care of countless elders, including the grace and trust of Emperor Lao Tzu over the years, coupled with the bright or dark hopes and support of those old monsters, Fan Xian finally lived up to expectations and became the only big man in the world who can look at His Majesty the powerful Emperor of Qingguo without giving in.

Maybe no one usually notices this, but once people focus on this, they will be shocked to find that the wind and rain in Qingguo and the world in these years have created such a deformed existence as Fan Xian. Under. Lin Wan'er was silent for a long time and said softly: "Maybe for the sake of Qingguo and the world, he will tolerate your great disrespect, but this is definitely not just based on his jealousy of the things you can influence, but also includes many other things, maybe some subtle things." Once he finds out that you really don't have any affection for him, he will definitely erase you very directly. ”

"The best way to destroy a person is to destroy his physical body. Lin Wan'er looked at Fan Xian in a daze, "Do you think that if Your Majesty is really willing to kill you, he will still care about the return of Dongyi City and rebel?

"If he really can't bear to kill you, how can he care about anything else in the world? Your Majesty the Emperor, even if the whole world has turned his back on him, he still has the courage and strength to fight the world again, not to mention that you can only make his world have some more scars that are extremely difficult to repair. ”

Lin Wan'er gently stroked his haggard and pale face, sighed and said, "Don't think about me, don't think about your children, no matter what you do, think more about yourself." ”

Fan Xian was silent, he had to admit that although he had always been the person who knew the emperor Lao Tzu the most in the world, but in terms of emotional thinking inertia, his wife, who grew up in front of the emperor's knee since childhood, had to grasp it more clearly.

"Don't talk about that, wait a while, the reed root soup will come, you have to drink it while it's hot. Fan Xian smiled reluctantly. Wan'er's condition has been extremely stable over the years, and in addition to the medicines of Mr. Fei and Fan Xian, the biggest contributor is the soup made from these reed roots from the North Sea.

As soon as the words came out, Fan Xian suddenly thought of Beihai, thought of the reed leaves that stabbed people's skin with slight pain, and thought of the woman he hadn't seen for a long time, and hadn't remembered for a long time, I don't know if she was okay in Xihu now? The reason why he suddenly thought of Begonia Blossom at this time was because after the previous conversation, Fan Xian judged more clearly what he should do.

Wan'er is right, the best way to destroy a person is to destroy his physical body. Fan Xian closed his eyes and was silent, thinking about how to melt the Great Snow Mountain that had lasted for thousands of years, how to defeat a great grandmaster, Begonia, or Thirteen Lang, or ...... Yourself, or is there no one else in the world who can do it?

Fan Xian began to miss Uncle Wuzhu, but not because he missed the iron drill beside him, but just in the season when his heart was slightly gloomy, he subconsciously missed his dearest relatives. The eyeliner sent by the court re-covered the shadows around the street in Nancheng, and it seemed that His Majesty the Emperor in the palace knew very well what his illegitimate son was thinking and trying something, he just sat calmly in the imperial study, and gradually increased the temperature of the water in the pot in order to respond to all changes without changing the time.

A large piece of wood stuffed under this pot is His Majesty's will from Father-in-law Dai in the inner court this morning.

Listening to the familiar Yuyao accent, Fan Xian knelt in the main hall in a black official uniform, his eyes flashing with a calm light that everything was expected.

"Fengtian carrier, the emperor said...... In addition to the position of the president of the Fan Xian Supervision Yuan, let the return to the mansion think about his mistakes, be cautious, be cautious!"