One person's sadness cannot make the whole Chen Yuan down, especially the sadness on Fan Xian's face always makes people feel a bit narrow and mocking. Sitting in a wheelchair, Chen Pingping couldn't help laughing as she looked at the young man in front of her.
It has been five years since Fan Xian saw Chen Pingping for the first time. During these five years, he saw Chen Pingping getting old and silent, and experienced the horror of this elder, but he never realized that Chen Pingping's smile would one day turn into a smile. It looks so pure, as pure as a child.
The dark aura that used to hang over the wheelchair has long since disappeared for some reason. Today, Chen Pingping looks like a believer who has been a vegetarian for a lifetime. All are transparent.
Fan Xian stared blankly at his face, knowing that love came from his heart, but he didn't know what kind of mental journey made Chen Pingping what he is today. The old man's eyes were a little pale, but they were not ruthless indifference, just steady. He looked at Fan Xian indifferently, and said slowly, "What else is there besides the poison?"
"There are many more. We've talked about it before." Fan Xian sighed, staring into Chen Pingping's eyes, and said, "You asked Mr. Fei to pass by Dongyi City, and tried your best to save Si Gu Jian's life..."
Starting with this sentence, Fan Xian no longer used an inquiring tone, but began to utter every word as if explaining the facts.
"Ku He tried every means to prolong your life because his eyes can see clearly. As long as you live longer, the chances of falling out between you and His Majesty are greater." Fan Xian continued with his head lowered: " The reason why you let Si Gu Jian live for a long time is because you have already planned to let the sword hut kill the identity of the shadow, so as to force His Majesty to do something to you."
"Forced?" Chen Pingping laughed, as if she heard a very interesting word.
Fan Xian was not moved by the old man's smile, sighed, and said, "About your poisoning three years ago, of course it seems very clear now. You took this opportunity not to go to Beijing, and let the eldest princess and the queen mother go blind in the capital." The tossing is nominally to obey His Majesty's secret decree and let the dog into the hospital, but in fact it has a bigger idea."
He laughed at himself and said: "At that time, my situation was more critical, so I didn't think about it for a while. I realized later that Yuan Hongdao, the chief counselor of the eldest princess, and Ruo Hai, the most trusted Overwatch Council member of the Qin family, were all Your confidant, although you are in the four fields, you are very clear about the situation of the rebellion, there are two people who are helping you secretly, if you want to control the situation for His Majesty, you will definitely not let the capital become like that."
Chen Pingping laughed, her voice was a bit sharp: "Then tell me, why didn't I control the situation?"
"You originally wanted the situation to be more chaotic, and you wished that everyone in the palace would die." Fan Xian lowered his head and said quietly, "Your Majesty set a fire, but you let the fire burn too hot... burnt to death." There are too many people. You had hoped that the world would be completely white in the end, and only the boss and I would be left to clean up the mess."
"The question is: there is one thing you haven't explained clearly. Why should I betray His Majesty? Do I have the ability to make the entire capital, leaving only you and the prince?"
"I have never doubted that you have this ability. If His Majesty really dies in Dadongshan... Yuan Hongdao and Yan Ruohai haven't played their full roles at all, so you just dumped Yuan Hongdao." Fan Xian looked Looking at Chen Pingping, she felt a strange taste in her mouth, a little bitter and a little sour, "As for why you betrayed His Majesty, you and I know very well."
Chen Pingping laughed, and patted the armrest of the wheelchair, like a diabolo in the wind, making a buzzing sound. After being silent for a long time, he fixedly stared into Fan Xian's eyes, as if staring at the same young man many years ago, and said darkly, "Shouldn't it be?"
Fan Xian was silent, he didn't know how to answer this sentence at all, as a son of man, he certainly couldn't say no, he was even shocked by Chen Pingping's deep-seated nostalgia for Ye Qingmei and the desire for revenge that could burn everything.
Chen Pingping is the emperor's closest minister, and she also served in Prince Cheng's mansion since she was a child. He met Ye Qingmei very late, and the time they spent together probably would not be too long. But it was because of this woman who was like a passer-by in her life, the darkest spy chief in the whole world, that she hid a dagger in her heart for more than twenty years, stabbing his heart and everyone's heart .
Chen Pingping suddenly lay back on the wheelchair wearily, and said, "You don't understand the past, you don't understand."
Fan Xian didn't personally participate in the events of that year, so naturally he didn't dare to explain easily. He just kept silent, calculated, endured, and didn't know how to deal with it. If the relationship between people was just hatred, maybe the world would be much simpler, but the relationship between people is always so complicated.
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"I also want to understand the second reason why you took poison." Fan Xian looked at Chen Pingping's Gujing Wubo's eyes, and suddenly felt a sharp pain in his heart. I thought that His Majesty would never come back from Dadongshan again, and you ruined his country again, you have been a monarch and minister for the first time, so you go to Huangquan Road to accompany him for a while, which is considered to be the righteousness of a monarch and minister."
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 very well. He is a person who is very afraid of being alone. I am worried that he will be afraid of being alone on the road to the underworld, so I want to go Accompany him."
"Accompany him?" Fan Xian's voice became sharper, "He has killed enough people, and there will be many people accompanying him on the road to Huangquan. 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 never underestimate Your Majesty, so I'm planning to do something. Before, in my actions, I was always extremely cautious, and I made all predictions about failure, and even if I failed, I would not leave any excuses, let alone drag you down."
Fan Xian looked at Chen Pingping, and suddenly felt a strong sense of admiration in his heart. He was very familiar with this old cripple, and the other party had never kept secrets from him about many things, so he knew what Chen Pingping had done better than the emperor in the palace. What.
In this world, Chen Pingping is probably the only person who can secretly plan to deal with His Majesty, but can hide it from His Majesty. The founder of the Overwatch Council was so capable of conspiracies, so strong that he didn't deliberately weave anything, but just followed the general trend of the world, occasionally smearing a few thick black colors, and once put His Majesty and Qingguo together Trapped in a potentially irreversible situation.
It's just that the emperor himself is too powerful, so powerful that he can easily tear apart all conspiracies and schemes. However, Chen Pingping is really powerful. Even so, he still did not reveal any subtle loopholes, and even arranged a retreat many years ago.
Chen Pingping doesn't care about life and death, what he cares about is the safety of Fan Xian after his death, so after the shadow accidentally stabbed Fan Xian from the Hanging Temple, he began to arrange all these, including the sniper killing in the valley, and even The incident in the palace was all about breaking up with Fan Xian.
Even if something happened in the future, these things hidden in the depths would become a rift between Chen Pingping and Fan Xian. In the face of the hard-earned evidence, the emperor would naturally believe that Chen Pingping wanted to kill Fan Xian. Of course, Xian has nothing to do with Chen Pingping's affairs.
As for why Chen Pingping wanted to kill Fan Xian, that was a question for the emperor to think about. Fan Xian was seriously injured in the Hanging Temple incident and nearly died, and the valley was extremely dangerous. These two pieces of evidence are too strong.
Fan Xian could feel Chen Pingping's painstaking efforts. Looking at his old face, feeling the fresh breath emerging from his heart, he was moved, but he didn't know what to say.
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Chen Pingping's face was extremely calm, and she said: "These things should be something you have already figured out three years ago. You said similar things before Chen Yuan was restored that day. Why do you have to do it again today?"
"Your Majesty will always be suspicious, especially when you played such a trick in Dongyi City." Fan Xian said, "I have only come to clarify these things with you."
"Dongyi City was arranged three years ago. Since I promised you to let go, I have already let go." Chen Pingping said with a smile.
"I don't care. Since you want to let go, do it thoroughly." Fan Xian said, "Your Majesty has made me the head of the Overwatch Council, so you can retire completely."
"Retirement? That's no different than living now."
Fan Xian laughed strangely, and said, "Say this in front of me? If you don't want to, even if I serve as the head of the Overwatch Council for another ten years, the Overwatch Council will still belong to you."
"Oh, no." Chen Pingping also laughed, and said, "The Overwatch Council belongs to His Majesty."
"Oh, no." Fan Xian imitated his tone and sighed, "Twenty percent of the Overwatch Council belongs to His Majesty, and thirty percent belongs to me, but the other half belongs to you, and it will always be yours."
After working in the Overwatch Council for so long, Fan Xian certainly knows how shockingly the old lame man's control over the Overwatch Council has reached. The so-called His Majesty's private secret service agency has long since become a reality under Chen Pingping's old hands. The person's private institution. On the one hand, this is because the emperor Laozi has never doubted the loyal dog around him, and on the other hand, it is also because Chen Pingping's prestige in the Overwatch Council is too high, and there are too many officials who swear their allegiance to the death.
Fan Xian didn't even doubt one thing, if the palace issued an order to deal with Chen Pingping, people like Yan Ruohai, the bald heads of the Seventh Department, would not even think about it, and would stand behind Chen Pingping.
All for the Qing Dynasty? In the minds of ordinary Overwatch Council officials, Qing Guo may be His Majesty the Emperor, but in the minds of those middle-level officials who can really hold power, there is no one else except Chen Pingping.
"Well... what exactly do you want to do?" Chen Pingping looked at Fan Xian and asked with admiration. alternately.
Fan Xian suddenly felt a little dejected, and said, "I met Yan Bingyun before I came today, and I asked him to start preparing to gather the Eight Divisions of the Overwatch Council, as well as the branch offices in all counties, and kill you." All the possibilities in the courtyard... But I know that if you don't stop yourself, Yan Bingyun and I really have no good way."
"Let Yan Bingyun deal with his old man?" Chen Pingping laughed and said, "This move is not bad, although he must deal with many more old men than he imagined."
The old man mentioned in this sentence naturally refers to the upper-level officials of the Overwatch Council who are loyal to Chen Pingping.
Fan Xian sat forward, gently held Chen Pingping's wrinkled hands, and said, "Let go."
"Let's go, what are you still holding my hand for?" Chen Pingping said with a smile: "You can try to cut off my hand stretching out to the courtyard, but I can assure you, the old men are much smarter than you think. strength."
Nonsense, those old men were the first eggs laid by the Overwatch Council at the beginning of the Dragon Banner, and there were countless disciples and grandchildren in the yard. It was of course extremely difficult to sweep these old men away. Fan Xian cursed in his heart, and said angrily, "You said that our father and son have gotten along well these years, and there is no difference between father and son. As for fighting with me at this time?"
"The key question is, you haven't convinced me yet, why should I let go." Chen Pingping's eyes were extremely interesting.
After a moment of silence, Fan Xian said: "Your Majesty has already started to investigate the matter of the valley shooting and the Xuankong Temple. One day he will suspect you. Even if he can't get any evidence, But this thing is always a little dangerous... And you also know that His Majesty, since so many people died in the palace, his temperament has changed a lot. Thunder means, but he has never acted like this."
It is true that the Overwatch Council is one of the most important forces the emperor relies on, and his trust in Chen Pingping is also an anomaly in the world. If he finds out that Chen Pingping has something else in his heart, if he were replaced by the emperor back then, he might already be furious .
"We have discussed this topic before." Chen Pingping nodded, and said, "Your Majesty always has some affection for me. Even if he becomes suspicious, he is not willing to take action directly. He would rather...wait for me to die of old age."
"Yeah, the problem is that you don't always die." Fan Xian laughed and said, "It's fine if you don't die, but you won't die if you were born, so I have no choice but to ask you to leave the capital and go back to your hometown to find your first love."
Chen Pingping cursed with a smile, then suddenly asked, "If I don't retreat, what will you do?"
"I'll start to fight." Fan Xian said after a moment of silence: "Even if it's going to make the Overwatch Council miserable, I'll beat you down."
"For what reason?"
"Of course it's because I found the shadow of Dean Chen behind the assassination in the valley. As the prince and the next dean of the Overwatch Council, I acted with hatred and wanted to put you to death." Fan Xian said with his head down. "Regardless of whether I can win or not in the end, Your Majesty will always think that I found out about this matter myself, so I watched me fight, and finally issued a decree to drive you out of Beijing. On the one hand, my wish was fulfilled." , to fill my grievances, on the one hand, to save your life, and to complete the love between you."
Chen Pingping raised her gray eyebrows, and said, "I guess, you are also using this to convince Yan Bingyun?"
Fan Xian nodded.
"Use a non-existent enmity to cover up the real danger inside." Chen Pingping thought for a long time, then 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 had begun to investigate the valley, so I thought of taking advantage of this."
Chen Pingping smiled wearily. He knew what Fan Xian was worried about and why he had to go through so much trouble and force himself to leave the capital. Just like Fan Xian's heart was moved before, this lonely spy chief suddenly felt that his heart became much warmer.
"I promise you, I will leave the capital." Chen Pingping patted Fan Xian's hand lightly.
Fan Xian was overjoyed, he laughed, and then said: "This matter should be no problem, once in the Hanging Temple, once in the valley, and twice I almost died at your hands. No matter what the inner court finds out, it will only Be a footnote for your sad departure from Kyoto."
"Thinking about that time, you rushed into Chen Yuan in a wheelchair and yelled at me, which is also interesting." 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. It was only after being fully awakened by the eldest princess that he finally understood what Chen Pingping wanted to do, and why she had been carefully preparing to completely separate herself from herself. .
"Qin Ye was responsible for the massacre in Taiping Hospital back then." Fan Xian suddenly said something.
Chen Pingping glanced at him, and said lightly, "Qin Ye is just a dog of His Majesty."
Fan Xian was silent for a long time, and then said: "The Qin family will rebel in the end, just because of my existence?"
"Of course, you are Ye Qingmei's son." Chen Pingping laughed: "That old dog Qin Ye has been concealed by His Majesty for so many years, but he understands His Majesty's intentions too well. If His Majesty intends to use you all the time, then he must It's impossible for you to know the story back then... Qin Ye is the only loophole in that story that survived."
"Your Majesty wants to help you to the throne, and if you want to preserve the relationship between your father and son, you must silence your words, and Qin Ye must die." Chen Pingping said calmly, "So Qin Ye has to rebel."
In the past, Chen Pingping had always insisted on refusing to speak clearly to Fan Xian, but now, if she kept covering up, and didn't want to drag Fan Xian into the sewage of the past, there was no need for that insistence.
"As expected." 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 Chen Pingping said It was confirmed that it was still uncontrollable and began to burn.
"Three years ago, you asked why the Qin family rebelled." Chen Pingping suddenly looked at him with great interest, and asked, "With your eyes, you shouldn't be able to see so far. Who reminded you? Fan Jian? "
"Father never said such things to me." Fan Xian smiled wryly, and said, "It's the eldest princess."
The name came out of Fan Xian's lips, and Chen Pingping also became quieter. Looking at the green trees outside the window, she said indifferently: "This crazy girl is also a remarkable person. She doesn't know what happened back then, but It’s amazing to guess the past just from these details.”
"During the rebellion in Kyoto, were you in contact with the eldest princess?" Fan Xian asked a question that had been hidden for a long time, because the reaction of the Overwatch Council at that time was really weird. Out of the instability in the capital, Chen Pingping's countermeasures were too weird, especially on the side of the eldest princess, who seemed to have never deliberately paid attention to the direction of the Overwatch Council.
"No." Chen Pingping closed her eyes and said, "There are many things that don't need to be connected. You just need to guess each other's intentions and goals. The most wonderful plan in the world is just a sudden inspiration without warning. It's in one place... once it lands on paper, it's down."
"About these things, you have to study hard with 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, then said, "I don't know."
Chen Pingping sighed slightly disappointed.
"Is there any evidence?" Fan Xian's voice trembled slightly, "Even if it's a little bit of evidence."
"Many things in the world don't need evidence, they only need a heart. It was only a few years ago that I confirmed that person's heart and strengthened my heart."
Chen Pingping's words have a lot in common with Si Gu Jian's swordsmanship: "That day when the army marched westward, His Majesty was near Dingzhou, and your father was also in the army. However, the Northern Qi army suddenly went south. I led the Overwatch Council to go north to Yanjing. …”
"Ye Zhong was also transferred to the rear team of the Western Expeditionary Army." Chen Pingping just stated the fact indifferently, "The most important thing is that your mother just gave birth to you at that time, and it was the time when she was weak after giving birth."
Fan Xian's eyebrows gradually frowned, and he asked, "Where's Uncle Wu Zhu? I never understood why he left mother's side at that time."
"Someone is coming from the temple." Chen Pingping smiled slightly and said, "The envoy appeared on the mainland... Although I have never been clear where your mother came from, I can guess that she and Wuzhu and the temple have always been together." They are all related, and Wu Zhu has always been afraid of anything related to the temple."
"People came to the temple more than once, at least twice, as far as I know." Chen Pingping sighed, and said, "Come once, kill Wuzhu once, in the world at that time, people who could threaten your mother, It seems that there are only people from the temple, and Wuzhu doesn't allow those temple visitors to come within a hundred miles of your mother."
"So Wu Zhu left."
"But your mother is still dead."
"Death at the hands of... my own people."
Chen Pingping laughed strangely, and the pronunciation of the word "self" was particularly heavy.
Fan Xian also laughed, very attentively, then stood up, patted Chen Pingping on the shoulder, and said, "I've guessed these things a long time ago, but only after hearing from you, I realized that the feeling is so It’s true, well, don’t think about these things any more.”
Chen Pingping asked with a smile: "The box should still be in your hand, right? Where is Wuzhu?"
Fan Xian smiled bitterly, and said after a while: "The box is not here, Uncle Wu Zhu has something to leave."
Chen Pingping hummed, once again not hiding her slight disappointment in front of Fan Xian.
Fan Xian suddenly asked slightly, "You know...the box is in my hand?"
"Your father knows too." Chen Pingping said, "That's why your father doesn't know."
Fan Xian was slightly moved, and it took him a long time to digest the shock in his heart. Thinking of how many things his old father had done for him in secret, he couldn't help feeling a little nostalgic in his heart. He patted Chen Pingping's thin shoulder again and smiled. He said: "You asked me to learn from the dead eldest princess, but I think you should learn from my father who is still alive. If you should let it go, you should let it go, and if you should retreat, you should retreat."
He put both hands on Chen Pingping's shoulders, exerted a little force, and said, "Leave the rest to me."
Chen Pingping smiled, didn't say anything, just thinking in her heart, with this child's temperament, I'm afraid I will continue to watch and endure, but I don't know when I will see it or when I will endure it. There are many miserable lovers in the world, but Fan Xian's background is undoubtedly the most miserable one.
Thinking of this, Chen Pingping suddenly felt that the painstaking efforts of herself and Fan Xian over the past twenty years had not been in vain. At least Fan Xian had grown up healthily, and the growth was so fast... It seemed that it only took one night.
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(About Fan Xian, I was really in a lot of pain writing. I was doing replacements a lot of the time. If I were Fan Xian, how would I deal with it? But I couldn’t find the answer at all. Although the outline has been set a long time ago, I still have to write it down. It is so difficult, I will try harder to think again, and think again.
Regarding the outbreak of canvassing, I don’t have the ability to explode, ah, I will write less tomorrow than today, and even less in the next few days, because... I am really busy at home, I am really sorry. Turning his eyes, he shouted like a profiteer: I change 35,000 a day! Where is the monthly pass in your hand? ... Uh, it turns out that people can be as shameless as me. ) (, if you want to know what happens next, please log in, there are more chapters, support the author, support the genuine version!)