After eating three big bowls of white rice in one go, and cleaning up the four dishes like wind and clouds, Fang Xie leaned back and burped comfortably, stroking his slightly bulging stomach and moaning in satisfaction. After the catastrophe, he survived the catastrophe and then ate until he was full, which made Fang Jie feel very happy.
"Drink the medicine in a while."
Shen Qingfan put the decocted medicine aside and said: "Mr. boiled it by himself. She has worked harder than anyone these two days. Last night, I searched through the classics in the library all night, trying to find the cure for you." Ways. I always think about how you are born with good luck. There is no shortage of people around you who can help you, and most of them are women."
Fang Jie chuckled and said, "What do you make Big Dog and Qilin think?"
Shen Qingfan smiled and said, "Now I have something serious to discuss with you."
"What's up?"
"Should I stay here, or go back to the shop?"
Shen Qingfan asked, with a little expectation in his eyes. But Fang Xie's answer after pondering for a while disappointed her, and then she glanced at Fang Xie resentfully.
"Let's go back to the shop."
Fang Jie thought for a while and said, "Anyway, I have already made an agreement with my husband. From now on, I will go back to live in the shop every day. I will live in the Martial Arts Academy. If anything happens, I can't leave. It's easy for you to stay outside. Get away."
"Fang Jie, you always plan things for the worst outcome?"
She couldn't help asking.
Fang Jie nodded and said, "I'm not an optimistic person. Now that I've stepped into the muddy water with one foot, it's not that easy to get out. The emperor pushed me in with a word, and I can't pull you in too." I have already told Mr. Zhuo, and asked him to help tell Xiao Yao that she should not enter Chang'an City immediately after returning from the northwest, and find a place to live outside. Dagou and Qilin have gone to Jiangnan, so I feel relieved."
He sighed and said: "Who knows what kind of turmoil will be in Chang'an City after a while, I can't let our entire army be wiped out because of other people's affairs, I'm betting on my own future, but I can't involve your lives. If You and I both live in the Martial Arts Academy, and we can’t leave even if we want to.”
Shen Qingshan frowned slightly and said, "You can't even trust the people in the yard?"
"Except for our own people."
Fang Jie shook his head and said, "I can't trust anyone."
Shen Qingshan hummed and said: "In this case, I will live in the shop. But do you think Xiao Yao will listen to you and live outside the city and not come back?"
Fang Jie was startled, then shook his head: "Her temper..."
"Fang Jie... do you think the matter of Prince Yi is difficult to solve? Or have you discovered something that makes you have to plan for the future? Prince Yi... really dare to have that thought?"
Fang Jie said: "Now I can't see clearly. I don't know whether he wants to fight for power or something else. The emperor's wisdom is not comparable to that of ordinary people. I don't think Prince Yi can succeed if he dares to have that kind of thought. His What is the bargaining chip? What will I use to compete with the emperor who owns the world? Just because I don’t know his bargaining chip, I am more worried. The emperor is smart, and Prince Yi is not an idiot. Can?"
Shen Qingfan said: "Then let's go, okay? Ignore these right and wrong."
Fang Jie smiled and said, "Not good... there is something I must do."
"What's up?"
Shen Qing fan asked.
"Fan Gu's blood debt of 2,000 people and 800 frontier troops, I must pay back. Now I doubt whether Li Yuanshan's purpose of massacring the city is related to Prince Yi, maybe there is Prince Yi hiding behind. This is why I am willing to promise the emperor to be close to Prince Yi. I am not a good person, but I remember people who are kind to me. Two thousand and eight hundred ghosts are standing behind me, waiting for me to bring justice back for them. Killers pay for their lives , debtors pay back the money... I don't have the ability to kill Li Xiaozong and Li Yuanshan now, so I have to climb up."
Fang Xie breathed a long sigh of relief, this was the first time he had said these words to others, so he felt a little relieved.
"I'll be with you."
Shen Qingfan said: "Although I haven't seen those soldiers and folks, since you have decided, I will accompany you."
Fang Jie took her hand and asked her to sit down on his lap: "When I first came to Chang'an City, what I thought in my heart was to live in peace and stability. For a while, I even thought that if I could not die, I would Such a waste wood that can’t practice can find a place to farm and become a farmer. After arriving in Chang’an City, everything did not develop as I expected, and I realized how weak I am, even if I wanted to find a place Can it be done by farming? No, because now I don’t even have the right to control which direction I go.”
"Then I'll fight for it, at least to get back my right to do whatever I want."
He paused and said: "I always feel that Li Yuanshan is inseparable from Prince Yi's confidence. But Li Yuanshan is just a general of the first guard, so what if his troops are elite? He wanted to kill my eunuch, why would he do it to such an insignificant person like me? Speaking of which, he used to be the eunuch of the Yushufang Bingbi, how could he personally do it because of a pawn of Fan Gu's frontier army? What is the relationship between him and Li Yuanshan? ?”
"He died in Fan Gu, and Li Xiaozong killed him himself."
Fang Jie frowned: "The eunuch's companions are all dead... At first I thought that Li Yuanshan slaughtered the city to cover up the fact that Li Xiaozong wanted to kill me, and to erase the stain for Li Xiaozong. But now I just I understand, I take myself too seriously. Li Yuanshan is not even interested in killing me, so how could he slaughter the entire Fangu City people because of me? I was thinking... the truth that he wanted to bury in the massacre of the city , could it be the eunuch's death?"
"Because I was involved in it, I took everything into consideration, thinking that Li Xiaozong was targeting me, and Li Yuanshan was targeting me. The reason why I didn't die was because I was lucky. I met the proprietress and met the red-sleeved trick. My lame master, the later I became clearer, I was just an ant in the eyes of Li Yuanshan at that time, how could he go to war because of me?"
"After thinking of this, I thought of that eunuch."
Fang Jie thought for a while and continued: "What is it that made Li Yuanshan kill a once powerful eunuch Bingbi at the cost of massacring the city? You must know that Wu Peisheng is the closest eunuch to the emperor. Influence the emperor's thinking. Killing Wu Peisheng, once the matter is exposed, is a serious crime that will implicate the entire family. Li Yuanshan is not afraid? This can only show... Li Yuanshan killed Wu Peisheng because of a crime that was even greater than the crime of killing the eunuch Bingbi .”
"What could be a greater crime than such a felony?"
he asks.
Shen Qingshan was silent for a while and then softly uttered two words: "Conspiracy."
Fang Jie nodded and said, "I later wondered whether Wu Peisheng had discovered some secret about Li Yuanshan, so that Li Yuanshan had to kill him. At that time, Wu Peisheng deliberately went away with Li Yuanshan in order to conceal what secret he knew. We got close, and even lowered our status to personally come to Fan Gu to kill me. He just wanted to paralyze Li Yuanshan. But my status was really insignificant at the time, and I died as soon as I died. But Wu Peisheng probably didn't expect what he found Li Yuanshan already knew about the matter, so he set up a killing plan in Fan Gu, and the killing plan was originally aimed at Wu Peisheng, not me."
"The reason why Wu Peisheng didn't run away immediately was because he didn't know that Li Yuanshan had seen through him. Or, he wanted to find more things."
Fang Jie said in a deep voice: "I wouldn't have figured out these things until I had experienced so many conspiracies and tricks after Chang'an City. Because people are always self-centered and think that everything happens because of themselves. In fact, Otherwise, in fact, I was an outsider at the time. What I can't figure out now is, what exactly is Li Yuanshan trying to hide? Is what he is hiding the biggest bargaining chip for Prince Yi?"
"So...you have to become Prince Yi's confidant first."
He paused, and said in a solemn tone: "I am even thinking now, is the reason why the emperor entrusted me with this matter because he also suspected that Wu Peisheng's death was not simple, and I am the only one in Fangucheng. Live, he knows I'd be willing to get to the bottom of it."
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Prince Yi's Mansion.
Upstairs on board.
Prince Yi looked at the koi swimming in the pool and sighed: "In order to keep them alive in the middle of winter, I spent a lot of money to keep the water in the pool warm. They also have self-knowledge and dare not Swim out of the pool. Even these humble creatures know that they cannot live without the orphan, why do some people always think that they can live without the orphan?"
Qin Liuqi knew who he was talking about, thought for a while and replied: "Maybe Li Yuanshan feels that the prince's back hand is in his hand, so he will inevitably become proud and complacent, thinking that the prince can't do without him now. .”
"Such a person is the most shameful."
Prince Yi snorted coldly and said: "Insatiable greed... Their Li family is just a prominent family in a remote place in Longyou. There is no loneliness. It is not easy for their Li family to really make a fortune? Li Yuanshan has already forgotten his identity. It's getting more and more disgusting."
He threw the letter in his hand into the stove.
"He dared to speak to Gu in such a tone, he really regarded himself as a big shot."
Qin Liuqi hesitated for a moment and said, "Should I send someone to beat and beat?"
"No need."
Prince Yi waved his hand and said: "Didn't he think that he couldn't be separated from him? Let him feel that way... The more he is like this, the more dedicated he will be, because he will treat everything as his own manage."
"The subordinates are worried, will they lose control?"
Qin Liuqi asked.
Prince Yi smiled and said: "He is not the only one in the Northwest. Li Yuanshan is a lonely person. He thought that he would send heavy soldiers to guard the secret so that others would not be able to snatch it away. He was too naive. He Feige sent a letter and said that he would release it after a while." Opening the line of defense to let the Mengyuan people kill back to the Mandu Banner, His Majesty will be furious at that time, as long as this matter is done cleverly, Yang Kai will not be able to stay in the northwest. But Li Yuanshan forgot, Gu can also use this to get rid of Drop him."
"Fornicating with a Mengyuan man, this is a knife hanging over his head at any time."
"Also... tell Li Xiaozong to continue to keep an eye on Li Yuanshan."
Qin Liuqi nodded and said, "Li Xiaozong's secret letter said that he suspected that Li Yuanshan had discovered something, and he has been ostracizing him for a while."
"Gu likes to deal with young people the most. From the very beginning, Gu has been close to the upstarts of the Academy of Martial Arts. The top three in the last session, the top five in the previous session, Gu has tried his best to pull them over. This time Fang Jie, Yu Xiao, Pei Chuxing, Xie Fuyao, and Gu also wanted to pull them over, because Gu knew that the future of the Sui Dynasty depended on these young people. Gu originally thought that Li Xiaozong was just a small, dispensable character, but now Li Yuanshan Since we are going farther and farther, Gu is willing to praise Li Xiaozong."
Prince Yi smiled and said: "Gu is just an idle prince with no real power, so Gu interacts with those young talents, but it's just to talk about romance, everyone thinks so. What a wonderful thing... No one would have thought that the emperor had been preparing for ten years for the obsession of conquering Meng Yuan, and Gu had also prepared for more than ten years for this matter."
"My lord is far-sighted, so others will naturally not understand."
Qin Liuqi lowered his head and said.
Prince Yi laughed and said: "Now Gu makes everyone feel that Gu really wants to go to the northwest to grab military power... But who would have guessed that it doesn't make any difference to Gu whether he goes to the northwest or not. If His Majesty really lets Gu went, but took a long way around... Gu likes Chang'an City, so I don't go anywhere."
He turned around and glanced at Qin Liuqi and said, "Let those people in the imperial court go and blow the wind again, and the voice of suggesting that Gu go to the northwest to preside over military affairs should be louder. Gu knows that fourth brother Gu too well... The more this is the case, the more he will I will not let Gu go to the northwest. The fourth brother thinks that he understands everything, but in fact he does not understand anything! Li Yuanshan also thinks that he understands everything, but in fact he is just a dispensable pawn. With him, Gu is more at ease, without him... would Gu just do nothing?"
Qin Liuqi said in a low voice: "The eighth day of February, good luck. It is said that the day for dispatching troops has been fixed."
Prince Yi smiled and said: "Once you are lucky, there will be a second time, and a third time..."