One person's sadness can't make the entire Chen Yuan down, especially the sadness on Fan Xian's face always makes people feel a little narrow-minded and mocking. Chen Pingping sat in a wheelchair, looked at the young man in front of her, and couldn't help laughing.

It has been five years since Fan Xian first saw Chen Pingping, in the past five years, he has seen Chen Pingping aging and silent, and has experienced the horror of this elder, but he has never found that Chen Pingping's smile will one day seem so pure, as pure as a child.

The dark aura that usually shrouds the wheelchair, for some reason, has long been gone, and today's Chen Pingping looks like a believer who has eaten a vegetarian all her life, with a fresh and pleasant breath all over her body, as if it is transparent from the inside to the outside.

Fan Xian looked at his face in a daze, knowing that it was born from his heart, but he didn't know what kind of mental journey made Chen Pingping what she is today. The old man's eyes were a little indifferent, but they were not ruthlessly indifferent, just steady, looking at Fan Xian lightly, and slowly said, "What else is there besides that poison?"

"And many more, we've talked about them before. Fan Xian sighed, stared at Chen Pingping's eyes, and said, "You let Mr. Fei pass by Dongyi City and try his best to save Sigu Jian's life......"

At the beginning of this sentence, Fan Xian no longer used an inquiring tone, but began to speak word by word as if he were expounding facts.

"Kuhe did everything he could to prolong your life because his eyes saw clearly that the longer you lived, the more likely it was that you and His Majesty would turn against each other. Fan Xian lowered his head and continued: "You let Sigu Sword live for a long time because you have already thought about letting the sword Lu kill the identity of the shadow, so as to force Your Majesty to do something to you." ”

"Force?" Chen Pingping laughed. Seems to hear a very interesting word.

Fan Xian was not moved by the old man's smile, sighed, and said, "About your poisoning three years ago. Now it seems, of course, it is also clear. You took this opportunity not to enter Beijing, and let the eldest princess and the queen mother toss around blindly in Kyoto, nominally to obey His Majesty's secret decree and let the dog enter the hospital, but in fact you have a bigger idea. ”

He laughed at himself: "At that time, my situation was relatively critical, and I didn't think deeply about it for a while. Later, I figured out that Yuan Hongdao, the chief strategist of the eldest princess, said treacherous words in the supervision courtyard that the old man of the Qin family trusted, and these are all your cronies. Although you are in Shino, you are extremely clear about the situation of the rebellion, and there are such two people who are secretly helping you, if you want to control the situation for Your Majesty, you will definitely not let Kyoto become like that. ”

Chen Pingping laughed, her voice a little sharp: "Then you say." Why am I not in control?"

"You wanted the situation to be chaotic, and you wanted to let everyone in the palace die. Fan Xian lowered his head and said quietly: "Your Majesty set a fire, but you let this fire burn too strong...... Too many people were burned. You were hoping that in the end, the world would be white, and in the end, the boss and I would be left to clean up the mess. ”

"Here's the thing: there's one more thing you haven't explained. Why should I betray Your Majesty? Am I capable of leaving only you and Prince He in the whole of Kyoto?"

"You have this ability, I have never doubted this, if Your Majesty really died in the Dadong Mountains...... The roles of Yuan Hongdao and Yan Ruohai were not fully played at all, so you directly threw Yuan Hongdao. Fan Xian looked at Chen Pingping and felt a strange taste in his mouth, a little bitter and a little sour, "As for why you betrayed Your Majesty." You and I know that. ”

Chen Pingping laughed and patted the armrest of the wheelchair. It's like patting the air embroidery full of strength in the wind. Buzzing. After he was silent for a long time, he stared at Fan Xian's eyes. It's like staring at the same young person many years ago, Yin Yin said, "Shouldn't it?"

Fan Xian was silent, he didn't know how to answer this sentence at all, as a son of man, of course he couldn't say that he shouldn't, he was even shocked by Chen Pingping's deep nostalgia for Ye Qingmei and the kind of revenge that was enough to burn everything.

Chen Pingping is the emperor's closest minister, and he has also served in King Cheng's mansion since he was a child, he met Ye Qingmei very late, and the time they spent together must not be too long. But because of such a passer-by woman in her life, the leader of the darkest secret service in the whole world, she hid a dagger in her heart, and she hid it for more than 20 years, stabbing his heart and stabbing all people's hearts.

Chen Pingping suddenly lay back on the wheelchair tiredly and said, "You don't understand back then, you don't understand." ”

Regarding the events of that year, Fan Xian did not participate in it personally, so he naturally did not dare to understand it easily. He was just silent, calculating, forbearing, and didn't know how to deal with it at all, if there was only a relationship of hatred between people, maybe the world would be much simpler, but the relationship between people is always so complicated.

......

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"The second reason why you take poison, I also figured it out. Fan Xian looked at Chen Pingping's Gujing Wubo's eyes, and suddenly his heart throbbed, and he felt that the things in the world were indeed a little hurtful, and said: "You thought that Your Majesty would never be able to come back from Dadong Mountain again, and you ruined his land and country. ”

Chen Pingping closed her eyes and said: "After all, I watched His Majesty grow from a child to a generation of emperors, I know him too well, he is a person who is very afraid of loneliness, I am worried that he is afraid of being alone on the road of the underworld, so I want to accompany him." ”

"Accompany him?" Fan Xian's voice became sharp, "He has killed enough people, and there will be no fewer people accompanying him on Huangquan Road, do you need this?"

He calmed down his emotions and said in a deep voice: "What's more, he didn't die." ”

"It's always hard to die alone. Chen Pingping sighed and said this sentence in front of Fan Xian for the first time, looked at him and said leisurely: "I will never underestimate Your Majesty, so before planning things, I am always extremely cautious in my actions, and I have made all the predictions of failure, even if I fail, I will not leave any handle, let alone drag you down." ”

Fan Xian looked at Chen Pingping, and suddenly a strong feeling of admiration arose in his heart, he was too familiar with this old cripple, and there were many things. The other party didn't hide it from him, so he knew better than the emperor Lao Tzu in the palace what Chen Pingping had done.

In this world, it is possible to secretly plot against His Majesty. But the person who can hide from His Majesty is probably only Chen Pingping. The founder of the Supervisory Yuan is so strong in terms of conspiracy that he doesn't deliberately weave anything at all, but just follows the general trend of the world, occasionally smearing a few thick black colors, and once put His Majesty and Qingguo into a situation from which he may never recover.

It's just that the strength of the emperor himself is too strong, so strong that he can easily tear apart all conspiracies. However, Chen Pingping is really powerful, even so, he still did not reveal any subtle loopholes, and even arranged a way out from many years ago.

Chen Pingping doesn't care about life and death. The way he cares about is Fan Xian's safety after his death, so after the shadow accidentally stabbed Fan Xian from the Hanging Temple, he began to arrange all this, including the sniper in the valley, and even the matter in the palace, he was cutting off from Fan Xian.

Even if it happens in the future. These things hidden in the depths will become a split between Chen Pingping and Fan Xian, and in the face of the evidence that has been painstakingly investigated, the emperor will naturally believe that Chen Pingping is thinking

wants to kill Fan Xian, Fan Xian naturally has nothing to do with Chen Pingping's affairs.

As for why Chen Pingping killed Fan Xian, that is a question that the emperor needs to think about. Fan Xian was seriously injured in the Hanging Temple. Almost died, and the valley was also extremely dangerous, these two pieces of evidence are too strong.

Fan Xian could feel Chen Pingping's painstaking efforts, looking at his old face, and experiencing the fresh breath of the other party emerging from his heart, his heart was moved, but he didn't know what to say.

Chen Pingping's face was extremely calm. said: "These things should have been figured out by you three years ago. Chen Yuan did not recover that day. You've said something similar, so why do you have to do it again today?"

"Your Majesty will always be suspicious. Especially if you played such a hand again over there in Dongyi City. Fan Xian said: "I only have to come to find out these things with you." ”

"Dongyi City's side was arranged three years ago, and I have let it go since I promised you to let it go. Chen Pingping said with a smile.

"I don't care, since you want to let go, be thorough. Fan Xian said: "Your Majesty has made me the president of the Supervision Yuan, and you can retire completely." ”

"Retirement? That's no different from life now. ”

Fan Xian laughed weirdly and said, "If you still say this in front of me, if you don't want to, even if I become the president of the Supervision Yuan for another ten years, this Supervision Yuan will still be yours." ”

"Oh, no. Chen Pingping also laughed and said, "The Supervision Yuan is Your Majesty's land. ”

"Oh, no. Fan Xian learned his tone and sighed: "Twenty percent of the Supervision Yuan belongs to His Majesty, thirty percent is mine, but the other half is yours, and it will always be yours." ”

After working in the Supervision Yuan for so long, Fan Xian certainly knows how thrilling the control of the old cripple in front of him has reached the Supervision Yuan, the so-called His Majesty's private spy agency, under Chen Pingping's old palm, has already become this person's private agency. On the one hand, this is because the emperor Lao Tzu has never doubted the loyal dogs around him, and on the other hand, it is also because Chen Pingping's prestige in the supervision court is too high, and there are too many officials who swear allegiance to the death.

Fan Xian didn't even doubt one thing, if the palace issued an order to deal with Chen Pingping, like Yan Ruohai, the bald head of the seven places would not think about it at all, and they would stand behind Chen Pingping.

In the hearts of ordinary officials of the Supervision Yuan, Qingguo may be His Majesty the Emperor, but in the hearts of those middle-level officials who can really hold power, there is no one else except Chen Pingping.

"Hmm...... What exactly do you want to do?" Chen Pingping looked at Fan Xian with admiration on her face and asked, this seemed to be a very ordinary question, and it seemed to be some kind of alternation between the two presidents of the Supervision Yuan.

Fan Xian suddenly hung his head a little dejected, and said: "I have already met Yan Bingyun before I came today, and I asked him to start preparing to bring the eight major departments of the Supervision Yuan, as well as the branches of the four counties into his hands, and cut off all the possibilities that you can reach out to the courtyard...... It's just that I know that if you don't stop yourself, just rely on me and Yan Bingyun, there is really no good way. ”

"Let Yan Bingyun deal with his old man?" Chen Pingping laughed and said, "This trick is not bad, although the old man he has to deal with must be much more than he imagined." ”

The old man mentioned in this sentence naturally refers to those people who are loyal to Chen Pingping among the upper-level officials of the Supervision Yuan.

Fan Xian sat forward. Gently held Chen Pingping's wrinkled hands and said, "Let it go." ”

"What are you still holding my hand for?" Chen Pingping said with a smile, "You can try to cut off my hand reaching out to the courtyard, but I can promise you." The old men are more powerful than you think. ”

Nonsense, those old men were the first nest of eggs under the supervision courtyard at the beginning of the Dragon Banner, and I don't know how many apprentices and grandchildren there are in the courtyard, and it is of course extremely difficult to sweep these old men clean. Fan Xian scolded in his heart, and said with annoyance on his face: "You said that our grandfather and son have been doing well over the years, and there is no difference between father and son, as for fighting with me at this time?"

"The key problem is, you haven't convinced me yet. Why should I let it go. "Chen Pingping's vision is extremely interesting.

Fan Xian was silent for a moment and then said, "Your Majesty has already started to investigate the matter of the sniping in the valley, and also started to investigate the matter of the Hanging Temple, one day he will suspect you." Even if he couldn't get any evidence, it was always a bit sinister...... And you also know, Your Majesty, since so many people have died in the palace. Temperament has changed a lot. If it were changed to previous years, he was afraid that he would start using thunder methods if he was a little suspicious in his heart, but he never did so. ”

Indeed, the Supervision Yuan is one of the most relied on forces of the emperor, and his trust in Chen Pingping is also an outlier in the world. If he found out, Chen Pingping had something else in his heart, and if he was the emperor of the year, he was afraid that he would already be angry.

"We've talked about this topic before. Chen Pingping nodded and said, "Your Majesty always has some affection for me, even if he is a little suspicious, he is not willing to do it directly, he is more willing to ...... Waiting for me to die of old age. ”

"yes. The problem is that you always don't die. Fan Xian laughed and said, "It's okay if you don't die." Your heart will not die. So I have no choice but to ask you to leave Kyoto and go back to your hometown to find your first love. ”

Chen Pingping scolded with a smile. Suddenly asked, "What will you do if I don't retreat?" ”

"I'll start doing it. Fan Xian was silent for a moment and then said, "Even if you want to make the trouble in the Supervision Yuan very unbearable, I will beat you down." ”

"On what grounds?"

"Of course, it's because I found out that behind the sniping in the valley, there is the shadow of Dean Chen, as a prince and the underground president of the Supervision Yuan, I made a move with hatred and wanted to put you to death. Fan Xian lowered his head and said: "No matter whether I can win in the end or not, Your Majesty will always think, it turns out that I have found out about this matter myself, so I watched me fight, and finally sent a will to drive you out of Beijing, on the one hand, I fulfilled my will, filled my grievances, and on the other hand, I saved your life and fulfilled the love between you." ”

Chen Pingping's pale eyebrows were raised, and she said, "Come to think of it, you also used this matter to persuade Yan Bingyun?"

Fan Xian nodded.

"Use a grudge that doesn't exist to cover up the real danger inside. Chen Pingping thought for a long time and nodded: "You have improved a lot now than before." ”

Fan Xian smiled and said, "I thought about it for a month, and I knew that the inner court began to investigate the affairs of the valley, so I thought of taking advantage of this. ”

Chen Pingping smiled a little tiredly, he knew what Fan Xian was worried about, why did he have to go through so many troubles to force himself to leave Kyoto. Just as Fan Xian was moved in his heart before, this spy leader, who had been lonely all his life, suddenly felt that his heart had become much warmer.

"I promise you, I will leave Kyoto. Chen Pingping gently patted Fan Xian's hand.

Fan Xian was overjoyed, laughed, and then said: "This matter should be no problem, once in the Hanging Temple, once in the valley, I almost died at your hands twice, no matter what the inner court finds out, it will only become a footnote for you to leave Kyoto gloomily." ”

"Thinking about that time, it was also funny that you rushed into Chen Yuan in a wheelchair and yelled at me. Chen Pingping said with a smile.

Fan Xian smiled and shook his head, at that time he really didn't understand why Chen Pingping did these things, but he was completely awakened by the eldest princess later

, he knew what Chen Pingping wanted to do, and why she had been carefully preparing to completely cut off from herself.

"The bloody case of the Taiping Courtyard back then was done by Qin Ye. Fan Xian suddenly opened his mouth and said a word.

Chen Pingping glanced at him and said lightly: "Qin Ye is just a dog in His Majesty's land. ”

Fan Xian was silent for a long time, and then said, "The Qin family wants to rebel in the end, just because of my existence?"

"Of course, you are Ye Qingmei's son. Chen Pingping laughed: "Qin Ye's old dog has been covered by His Majesty for so many years. But he also understands His Majesty's intentions too well. If Your Majesty intends to reuse you all the time, it must be impossible for you to know the story of that place...... Qin Ye is the only surviving loophole in that story. ”

"Your Majesty wants to help you ascend to the throne, and I want to preserve the relationship between your father and son. must be extinguished, and Qin Ye must die. Chen Pingping said calmly: "So Qin Ye has to rebel." ”

In the past, Chen Pingping has always insisted on refusing to explain these things to Fan Xian, but it has come to this day, and if she covers it up again, she no longer wants to drag Fan Xian into the sewage of the year, and there is no need to insist on it.

And so it was. Fan Xian took a deep breath, the warm breath of spring entered his lungs, but it burned his chest, although he had already guessed these things. But today, listening to Chen Pingping's personal confirmation, it is still difficult to help but start to burn.

"Three years ago, you asked the Qin family why they were opposed. Chen Pingping suddenly looked at him with great interest and asked, "With your gaze, you shouldn't be able to see such a far-reaching, who reminded you?" Fan Jian?"

"My father would never say that to me. Fan Xian smiled bitterly and said, "It's the eldest princess." ”

The name spat out from Fan Xian's lips. Chen Pingping also became quieter, looked at the green trees outside the window, and said lightly: "This crazy girl is also a great character, she doesn't know what happened back then, but she just guessed the past from these details, which is really amazing." ”

"When there was a rebellion in Kyoto. Are you in touch with the eldest princess?" Fan Xian asked a question that had been hidden for a long time, because the reaction of the Supervision Yuan at that time was really a little strange, even if His Majesty the Emperor was planning to let Chen Pingping lure out the unstable factors in Kyoto, but Chen Pingping's response was too strange, especially on the eldest princess's side, it seemed that she had not deliberately paid attention to the direction of the Supervision Yuan.

"Nope. Chen Pingping closed her eyes and said: "There are many things that do not need to be contacted, you only need to guess each other's minds." each other's purposes. The best plan in the world is just a flash of inspiration. There was no warning. Each other's hearts are in one place...... Once it falls on paper, it falls down. ”

"About these things. You're going to have to learn a little bit from your dead mother-in-law. Chen Pingping opened her eyes and said with a smile.

Fan Xian smiled slightly and nodded.

At this time, Chen Pingping suddenly asked softly: "Now that you know enough, what are you going to do in the future?"

Fan Xian was silent for a long time, and then said, "I don't know. ”

Chen Pingping sighed slightly disappointed.

"Is there any evidence?" Fan Xian's voice trembled slightly: "Even a little bit of evidence." ”

"Many things in the world don't need evidence, only the mind, and I only confirmed the mind that person had moved a few years ago, and strengthened my mind. ”

Chen Pingping's words have a lot in common with the sword of Sigu Jian: "On the day of the westward expedition of the army, Your Majesty was near Dingzhou, and your father was also in the army, and the Northern Qi army suddenly went south, and I led the Supervision Yuan north to Yanjing......"

Ye Zhong was also transferred to the rear team of the Western Expeditionary Army. Chen Pingping just stated a fact indifferently, "The most important thing is that your mother had just given birth to you at that time, and it was the time when she was weak after giving birth. ”

Fan Xian's two eyebrows gradually furrowed, and he asked, "What about Uncle Wuzhu? I never understood why he left his mother's side at that time. ”

"The temple is here. Chen Pingping smiled slightly and said, "The envoy appeared on the mainland...... I don't know exactly where your mother came from, but I can guess that she has always had something to do with Wuxiu and the temple, and Wuzhu has always been afraid of anything related to the temple. ”

"The temple has been visited more than once, at least twice, and I know of it twice. Chen Pingping sighed and said: "Come once, kill Wuzhu once, at that time, in the world, it seems that the only people who can threaten your mother are from the temple, and Wuzhu does not allow those people from the temple to come within a hundred miles of your mother." ”

So Wuzhu left. ”

"But your mother is still dead. ”

"Dead in...... In the hands of their own people. ”

Chen Pingping laughed strangely, and the pronunciation of her three words was particularly heavy.

Fan Xian also laughed, laughing very hard, then stood up, patted Chen Pingping's shoulder, and said: "I have guessed these things a long time ago, but after hearing them from your mouth, I realized that the feeling is so real, okay, don't think about these things anymore." ”

Chen Pingping smiled and asked, "The box should still be in your hand, right?"

Fan Xian smiled a little bitterly, and said after a while: "The box is not here, Uncle Wuzhu has something to leave." ”

Chen Pingping snorted, and once again did not hide her faint disappointment in front of Fan Xian.

Fan Xian suddenly asked slightly, "Do you know...... The box is in my hand?"

"Your daddy knows, too. Chen Pingping said: "So your dad doesn't know." ”

Fan Xian was slightly moved, and it took a long time to digest the shock in his heart, thinking that his father, who had returned to the old age, was secretly in secret, and he didn't know how many things he had done for himself, he couldn't help but feel a trace of nostalgia in his heart, and patted Chen Pingping's thin shoulder again, and said with a smile: "You asked me to learn from the eldest princess who died, I think you should learn from my father who is still alive. ”

He put his two hands on Chen Pingping's shoulders, strained slightly, and said, "Leave the matter to me in the future." ”

Chen Pingping smiled and didn't say anything, just thinking in her heart, with this child's temperament, I'm afraid that I will continue to watch and stay up, but I don't know when I want to see it and how long I will stay up. There are many bitter lovers in the world, and Fan Xian's life experience is undoubtedly the most bitter kind of person.

As soon as she thought of this, Chen Pingping suddenly felt that her and Fan Xian's hard work in the past 20 years had not been in vain, at least Fan Xian had grown up healthily, and he had grown up so fast...... It seems to have only taken one night.