Chapter Seventy-Four: Murder in the Alley

"Ruthless may not be a true hero, how can a poor son not be a husband?" Haitang repeated slowly, and returned to that kind of youthful smile on her face, and led Fan Xian into the wooden door of the small temple.

"Master Fan. The manager gave a salute, and Fan Xian returned the salute with a gentle and distant smile on his face, "When did Miss Si enter Beijing?" ”

"Thanks to the blessing of the adults, I entered Beijing three days ago, and the journey was safe, thank you for remembering. The manager slowly lowered her eyes, she was still wearing the lake green light shirt during the journey, it was hot at this time, and she was naturally not afraid of catching a cold.

Fan Xian whispered a few words to her again.

Begonia watched calmly from the side, but a smile flashed in her eyes, how could the strangeness on the faces of these two people escape her eyes. Fan Xian was also a little strange in his heart at this time, why did Haitang bring himself to the temple where Si Lili lived, and where did those palace mothers who had been serving Si Lili go?

"This is where I live. Haitang explained Fan Xian's doubts, "It's inconvenient for Li Li to enter the palace now, so Your Majesty asked me to take care of it on my behalf." ”

Fan Xian smiled bitterly, and then remembered that the manager had said that the two girls beside him were handkerchiefs in the palace of the Northern Qi Dynasty, and he suddenly thought of one thing, could it be that Kuhe also lived in the palace? Although the temple is remote, Fan Xian is still a little taboo, just a few words, and then said to Haitang: "I'm waiting for the girl outside." Without waiting for Haitang to talk back to the manager, he actually went out and waited in the patio outside.

After he went out, Haitang quietly glanced at the manager. After being silent for a long time, he suddenly said, "I brought him to you to have a look, and you have nothing to say to him?"

The manager raised his head, a trace of confusion flashed on his extremely charming face, and he whispered, "I said it." I don't want to see him, I guess he doesn't want to see me, at this time he is outside the door, and he doesn't know how to complain about you, Begonia, you are too nonsense, even if you are an apprentice of Kuhe, this kind of taboo thing should be done less. ”

Haitang smiled softly and said, "Just look at what you're afraid of, our majesty is not a cautious person." ”

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Another tasteful and clean little room. Wisps of fragrance gradually fill the meditation room, and a few clear teas are mixed with the amber color of the house, which makes people feel very quiet when they look at it.

"Why did you bring me to see the manager?" Fan Xian sat cross-legged on the other side of the coffee table. Frowning, the clean and dusty face finally had some more troubles, about Sean's affairs, he was trying to arrange, but the manager was a hot potato.

"I said Bingyun earlier. Haitang smiled and said, "I want to see if Master Fan is the same as the ordinary turbidity in the world." ”

"The term turbidity is new and absurd. ”

"Lord Fan, haven't you read the Stone Record?" Begonia seemed to be a little surprised.

Fan Xian chuckled in his heart. didn't respond to this sentence, just smiled bitterly and said: "Miss Begonia, did you misunderstand something? Miss Sili is just a key criminal I escorted all the way." It's just a subject matter in the agreement, and I have nothing to do with her. ”

"Your Excellency misunderstood me. Haitang said softly: "Today, I invite adults to come to the cold house to sit for a while, there is really something that needs the help of adults." ”

"What's the matter?" Fan Xian said very directly.

Haitang said with a smile: "Actually, it is what His Majesty was worried about last time when he left Master Fan in the palace. ”

Fan Xian glanced at her, and found that this girl's innocent face was easy to make people feel close, and asked curiously: "Obviously, at that time, Your Majesty didn't want you to know how troubled he was. ”

Begonia gently pulled the sleeve of her right hand with her left hand, and brought a small teacup to her lips with two fingers. He took a sip and said, "Your Majesty really didn't want me to know at first, but his troubles and I have been friends for many years, and in the Great Qi Dynasty, there are not many people who are willing to help him solve this trouble, except for me. ”

"I've always been confused. Fan Xian of course guessed what the young emperor of Northern Qi was worried about at this time, and said with a smile: "Since the government and the opposition have such a big objection to Si Lili's entry into the palace, why does the emperor of your country insist on going his own way? Looking at the current situation, since Si Lili can only temporarily live in the residence of the Begonia girl, the Queen Mother will not allow her to enter the palace. ”

"Master Fan suspects that there is a hidden story behind this matter?"

"Yes, I never believed that there was such a thing as affection in the imperial family. For some reason, Fan Xian was a little faintly unhappy, and his words became much more harsh.

Haitang was stunned, stared at him quietly with his eyes, and said after a while: "The emperor is also a human being, how can you say it accurately about men and women?"

Fan Xian shook his head, thinking of the emperors of the world in the past, maybe Tang Xuanzong was an alternative, but in the end, didn't Yang Guifei still turn into a wisp of incense soul in Ma Weipo?

"Master Fan is already married. Begonia said unintentionally.

Fan Xian was slightly stunned, and immediately remembered his wife at home, remembered the first encounter before the Qingmiao incense case, and couldn't help but smile with happiness rising on the corner of his lips.

Haitang paid attention to his facial expression, sighed in his heart, and said with a smile on his face: "I heard that Lord Fan and his wife have a very good relationship, if someone prevents the two of you from being together, what will you do?"

Fan Xian raised his eyebrows and didn't answer, but if someone in this world really dared to be caught between himself and Wan'er, it must be asking for his own death, and gradually, he seemed to understand the emotions of the young emperor in the palace a little. But thinking that the object of the other party's admiration was the manager, Fan Xian still felt a little strange in his heart. Although the agreement between him and the manager is only a relationship of mutual use.

Haitang's invitation is actually what Fan Xian wants, if the manager can't enter the palace, the only thing that will be lost may be Qingguo's Supervision Yuan. He just couldn't guess why the other party would think of looking for him.

Haitang said: "The government and the opposition, no one is willing to help His Majesty welcome the manager into the palace, and the adults should know that there are some problems with the identity of the manager in the south." After all, I am limited by my identity and have no say in this matter. ”

Fan Xian sneered: "She's working hard for your Northern Qi." Then he asked, "Do I have any right to speak? I am just a foreign minister, and this matter should have nothing to do with me after the fog crosses the river." ”

Haitang smiled and said, "Your Majesty and I just want to use your wisdom, Master Fan. ”

Fan Xian smiled dumbly, gently flattened the flying hair on the top of his head with his fingers, and said, "Miss Begonia is really in love." ”

Haitang said calmly: "Lord Fan was originally a nameless person, but after a year of hard work, he became a generation of poets and immortals who attracted the attention of the world, and the real power of the Southern Dynasty. ”

"I'll think of a way, but I don't know if I can do it. Fan Xian took a few remnants of tea and drank it in one sip, and said coldly: "The key is still the Queen Mother, if the Queen Mother is unwilling, she will not succeed in any way." ”

Haitang stood up and bowed slightly: "Thank you first." ”

"It seems that the relationship between the girl and the manager is really not shallow. Fan Xian bowed and returned the salute, and said quietly: "If there is a turn for help from the girl in the future, I hope the girl will remember the love between you and me today." ”

Haitang replied expressionlessly: "As long as it is not involved in the government of the country, it is all promised." ”

Fan Xian said: "Don't worry, what I want to entrust you to do, maybe it will never happen, if it happens, it will only be an internal problem of our Qingguo, and you don't need to go against the natural way that you have sought in your life." ”

"That's fine. Begonia felt a little more relaxed.

Fan Xian, as the official envoy of the Southern Dynasty, all his actions in Shangjing must be under the supervision of the Northern Qi court, which is the tacit understanding and habit in the diplomatic affairs of the two sides, so it is extremely difficult to have the opportunity to act completely freely, but today is an exception, because Fan Xian is taking a walk with the Begonia girl, and the Begonia girl obviously doesn't like the mice in the brocade guard, so she walks with an umbrella all the way, and seems to be walking leisurely, but she throws off all those dark tips, I believe that those brocade guards don't have the courage to follow the two after Begonia expressed obvious hostility.

After coming out of the wonderful little temple where the two girls lived, Fan Xian stretched his waist, found that there was no familiar brocade guard on the corner of the street, and with a happy smile on his face, he walked into an alley on the corner.

There was no sunny day after the rain, only the breeze brushed his cheeks with the occasional drop of dew falling from the branches.

Thinking of Si Lili and the emperor, Fan Xian still didn't understand, but the topic that Haitang just mentioned made the man who was only seventeen years old return to Kyoto with all his thoughts, and returned to his wife and sister, and the feeling of homesickness began to rise, and a warm feeling began to fill his chest.

There are occasional pedestrians passing by at the entrance of the alley, and some coolies are pushing carts to take a shortcut to the shop where they work. With that beautiful and gentle smile on his face, Fan Xian walked slowly towards the entrance of the alley.

A cart pushed from behind him, and when he passed by, Fan Xian's wrist flipped over, and the black dagger that had been pinched in his palm stabbed horizontally!

There was a muffled pop, and the dagger plunged into the throat of the coolie-clad secret agent, and the cold blade sank into the flesh, and the man died on the ground.

The next moment, Fan Xian had already stepped on the cart that was about to be overturned, and the whole person floated to the end of the alley like a shadow, with a poisonous needle between his fingers, pierced into a person's chest, and his left hand pierced out from under his right armpit very strangely, and three crossbow arrows fired in unison, nailing the other person who was stunned alive.

With a backhand palm, the neck of the man who couldn't move his whole body was smashed, Fan Xian took off his clothes, turned it over, covered his head and face with a rain hat, covered his sunny smile, pulled out a crossbow arrow from the dead man, and walked out of the alley.