The prince, Li Chengqian, has a cowardly temperament and a weak body. This is Fan Xian's current understanding of the prince. After saluting, he raised his head in a somewhat impolite manner, and looked at the prince with a smile. Although the other party was of high status, Fan Xian always thought that he and His Majesty had both had tea and chatted. will be too nervous.
He didn't want to come out to face the prince, but Ye Ling'er, who had no choice but to talk too much, broke his fantasy.
When Fan Xian looked at the prince, the prince also looked at him with great interest. For the crown prince, the name Fan Xian has been famous in Jinghua in just a few months. The prince who is the master of the East Palace naturally knows it very well.
If the eldest princess's aunt loses the management right of the internal treasury, and the enemy takes over later, I'm afraid that the bad debts of the past will be revealed to the world. This is the most worrying issue of the prince at present. Fortunately, it will take another two years for Neiku to transfer hands, so it is not urgent, but the Fan family and Prince Jing are good friends, Prince Jing's son Li Hongcheng has an inseparable relationship with... the second brother, the prince frowned slightly, and looked at the beautiful woman under the carriage. The younger generation, forgot to speak for a moment.
The staff in the Eastern Palace are now divided into two groups of opinions. Whether to fight or pull the Fan family is still under consideration. If it was an ordinary mansion, the crown prince would not care too much about it, but the Fan family was different. The grandmother of the young boy in front of him was the nanny of the emperor's father. With such a relationship, the crown prince would not like to do anything to the Fan mansion.
"You... are Fan Xian?" The prince finally realized that he was a little absent-minded, and after being slightly startled, he asked with a smile.
"My subject, Fan Xian, I have met His Highness the Crown Prince." Fan Xian bowed again with great respect, "I didn't know that the Crown Prince was driving here, so I didn't get out of the car before. Please forgive me, Your Highness."
"Yeah." Looking at Fan Xian's clean and dusty face, for some reason, the prince's original bad feeling towards him subsided a lot, so he decided to take a look at it for a while, and said quietly: "Those who don't know are not guilty. It's just that My little sister Wan'er is weak and sick, you have to pay more attention, don't be like those boys in Kyoto who just want to have fun for a while."
"I'm terrified." Fan Xian heard that the prince didn't seem to be planning to deal with him today, and he replied softly with a little peace of mind.
"Don't be too cautious. After your wedding in October, you will be regarded as a foreign relative. You will always have to go to the palace from time to time, so you should take it easy." The prince taught.
Fan Xian smiled and said yes. Unexpectedly, what the prince said next surprised him a little.
"The missions from Dongyi City and Northern Qi will come to Beijing soon. Because the matter of Niulan Street is related to you, the imperial court has decided that you will be the deputy envoy, and will be used temporarily. I will let you know in advance and make some preparations. , don't panic temporarily." The prince said lightly, thinking that he had betrayed the other party without knowing it.
Fan Xian was taken aback, and after a little deliberation, he said, "I am the coordinator of Taichang Temple. I'm afraid it's inappropriate to participate in state affairs negotiations."
The prince snorted coldly: "If you don't have some political achievements, how will you deal with yourself in the court in the future?"
Fan Xian could hear that the other party was a little angry, so he quickly answered yes. Thanks to the prince again, he turned to get out of the way.
The crown prince waved the horsewhip with black silk and gold thread in his hand, nodded in satisfaction, then turned to Lin Wan'er and said gently: "You should go to the palace more often, aunt misses you very much." He paused for a while, then Said: "My aunt often has a headache recently." The prince's voice was normal and his expression was normal and gentle, but Fan Xian still found a trace of uneasiness in the prince's cowardly eyes in a strange way.
Lin Wan'er smiled and said nothing.
"Prince, start driving." With a shout, the motorcade of the prince started to move, and walked slowly towards the summer resort. Fan Xian didn't dare to move. It wasn't until the prince's motorcade disappeared at the end of the road that he breathed a sigh of relief, stretched his stiff waist, smiled wryly and shook his head: "It's hard to be a courtier."
"Could it be possible that you still dare to be disobedient?" Ye Linger taunted him, catching on to his speech impediment.
"Ling'er, don't talk nonsense!" The so-called one thing falls one thing, Sizhe is afraid of Ruoruo, Ye Linger is afraid of the little tiger, when Lin Waner gets angry, Ye Linger immediately jumps back into the carriage.
Lin Wan'er walked to Fan Xian's side, seeing him still looking thoughtfully at the direction where the carriage disappeared, she couldn't help but sighed and said, "I know what you are worried about, but my three brothers are not easy to get along with, I think You'd better not take sides."
Fan Xian always recognized Lin Waner's political wisdom cultivated in the deep palace, and nodded solemnly, then suddenly thought of something and asked, "Where is the youngest prince? Could it be that he is also a difficult master?"
"Wen Yun is only eight years old, so how can he understand these things?" Lin Wan'er continued to comfort him, "The vacant son-in-law of Taichang Temple has joined the etiquette negotiation. There has been such a precedent before. It may not be that the East Palace really wants to win you over. You And take it easy."
Fan Xian smiled, thinking that his heart was wide enough, but he still pretended to sigh and said, "It's just that seeing the Prince of the Eastern Palace, our future master of the Kingdom of Qing, still can't help being nervous." The highest official rank I met before my illness was just a principal who learned skills, but after my rebirth, maybe because I was born in an official family, I would not be so nervous when I saw a big man, even when I saw His Majesty the Emperor a few days ago, I could hide it. Well done.
Lin Wan'er couldn't help laughing, she pulled his sleeve and said, "Didn't you hear what the prince said? You have to go to the palace to meet the ladies before the big wedding. If the old ancestor is happy, it is not impossible to see you." things. If you go down a dozen palaces, even if you are nervous, you will become numb.”
"Old ancestor?" Fan Xian knew that Lin Wan'er was referring to the empress dowager who lived deep in the palace, so for some reason, he shuddered.
"Let's go, Your Highness is so far away, why are you still standing there looking at the ass?" Fan Sizhe, who had been bored for a long time, finally couldn't help shouting in the front carriage, and Dabao in the middle carriage was also happy when he heard someone shouting. Ooh cried out.
Fan Xian smiled, brushed off his sleeves, and put all these things behind him.
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In Fan Xian's cognition, since he was lucky enough to live another life, he had to make a living, beauties, money, power, don't be too little. But after entering Beijing, he couldn't help feeling a little annoyed seeing the muddy water.
Now Tanbo Bookstore's business is good, and the last few chapters of Stones are ready to be printed. Seeing the money pouring in, even if they take over the internal treasury in the future, they will find a way to throw it to Qing Yutang and Fan Sizhe. As for matters in the court, naturally, my father and Chen Pingping, my mother's comrades-in-arms from back then, stand in front of me. For the danger coming from the dark, Uncle Wu Zhu was the bodyguard. Even if Uncle Wu Zhu cherished his facial skin and didn't want to see the sun like the time in Niulan Street, Fan Xian still felt that he had the ability to protect himself.
So all of a sudden, he felt that he seemed to have the potential to become a free and easy rich man.
This is still just a fantasy, he, and the people around him are very aware of this. Gently snapping his fingers, Fan Xian looked calmly at the loess road outside the car window, and said, "It's a coincidence, there are a total of thirteen royal residences in the capital, including two palaces, a hunting ground, and The identity of His Royal Highness is available, so why did you come to the Summer Resort today? The Summer Resort is far away from the capital and quiet, so we chose this place in advance."
After returning to the road, he and Wang Qinian were alone in a carriage, so they spoke directly. Wang Qinian also frowned: "If someone deliberately asked the prince to come to the Summer Palace so that we could have a conflict with the prince, this kind of arrangement is too complicated, and it may not be effective."
Fan Xian shook his head, with a slight chill in his eyes: "As long as there are people around the prince, it is not difficult to slightly influence the destination of the prince's travel. Besides, my reputation in the capital has always been inseparable from the word "arrogant". I guess those arrangements Those of us who met the prince by chance would never have imagined that the prince would not be angry when he saw me who robbed him of money, and I was so peaceful."
"I just don't know the rules in the palace. How long does it usually take for the prince to go out for a small tour of Beijing? We came to the summer resort yesterday. If the prince confirmed that he would come here a few days ago, we can confirm that this is a coincidence. , rather than an arrangement by someone with a heart." Wang Qinian analyzed.
Fan Xian shook his head again: "I have already asked the Princess when I got on the bus, as long as the crown prince travels within twenty-eight miles of the capital, he only needs to report to the palace. It will take about a day to make preparations. .Looking at the time we met, it was probably this morning when the crown prince left the palace."
Wang Qinian glanced at Fan Xian worriedly, and said in a low voice, "What good will the person who arranged this matter do?"
Fan Xian laughed: "There are many benefits. If the Crown Prince really humiliates me, we, the old Fan family, will have no choice but to carry the flag and brighten the camp."
"The second prince?" Wang Qinian asked tentatively.
Fan Xian thought to himself, it was a coincidence during the period after entering Beijing that the second prince summoned him many times, but he had never met him before. He would not judge all this arbitrarily, and said softly: "Who knows? The people in the palace are all like spirits, so I don't bother to pay attention."
It was false to say that he ignored it, but he still arranged for Wang Qinian to get off the car to see if someone was following his convoy. He believed that with Wang Qinian's ability, if someone really wanted to spy on him on the official road, he would be able to catch him. If there is no one to monitor the convoy waiting for him, so as to facilitate that chance encounter on the official road, it can only show that he is too sensitive and paranoid.
Fan Xian smiled wryly and leaned on the cushion of the carriage, wishing that he was really too careless.