The sky above Kyoto today is cloudy and sometimes sunny, and it is always impossible to accurately show a smiling or sad face, just like Fan Ruoruo's face at that time. The girl's complexion turns green and white, and her rosy cheeks, which were sweaty and slightly damp at the moment before, have been frightened into a theater after hearing these words, fully acting out that a citizen of Daqing should express his feelings at this time. emotions that come out.
It was clearly a warm spring, but Fan Ruoruo's body seemed to be tortured in an ice cellar. After a while, she trembled and said in a low voice, "I don't know."
This is the most useless answer, and also the most natural answer. Fan Xian has fallen into a black hole and can't extricate himself. If he holds his sister's hand again, at most there will only be one more poor junior who has been torn to pieces. It didn't help.
Fan Xian's heart softened, he gently stroked the top of the girl's head, and said gently: "Don't be scared, it's just that I have nowhere to reason, so I have to talk to you."
After a long time, Fan Ruoruo looked at his elder brother timidly, and said in a mosquito-like voice, "Is it true?"
Fan Xian was silent for a long time, looking at the quiet small courtyard across the river, thinking about the bloody disaster that this small courtyard suffered more than 20 years ago, thinking that perhaps this place was a hell on earth more than 20 years ago, no I don't know how many members of the old Ye family died, but that stunningly talented woman happened to be at the weakest stage in her life.
Because she gave birth to herself.
Moreover, all the people around her that she could rely on had all left her for one or another important reason that could not be turned back. She was so isolated and helpless. This was a surprise attack from the closest place behind her, a violent As for the decisive murderous intent, she must have been quite unwilling and lonely when she left this world, right
Borrow? Fan Xian would not believe this, he knew women too well, even if this woman was his own mother, the unique Ye Qingmei in the world, Fan Xian still did not believe it. If you have no feelings for a man, how could you fall in love with him in your bed? Other women may flirt with men they dislike due to social or family reasons, but does Ye Qingmei need it
Fan Xian stared blankly at the other side, with a sneer on his lips, that man is really cold-blooded.
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A trembling voice pulled Fan Xian back from the cruel scene in the past. Fan Ruoruo clung to her brother's side as if fearing the cold, the wet handkerchief in her hand had already fallen to the grass, her hand tightly clutching Fan Xian's sleeve, she raised her face and said, "...I... used to... have a brother. "
A chill suddenly surged in Fan Xian's heart. He knew what his sister was talking about, because he knew since he was a child that there should be a young master in Sinanbo's mansion. The eldest young master should be about the same age as himself, the child of his father and his first wife, but died at a very young age because of his frailty.
At this time, the younger sister suddenly mentioned the elder brother who had long since disappeared from people's memories. Fan Xian vaguely seemed to have caught something, and his face suddenly changed.
Chen Pingping had reminded Fan Xian more than once to treat Fan Jian better, because the Fan family had paid a lot for his survival. What did the Fan family pay? Could it be that in Taiping Bieyuan, I was able to survive after the incident, and survive until the moment when Uncle Wuzhu came back, because under the fierce attack of the Queen Mother, the Qin family, and the Queen's clan, someone greeted death instead of me
Fan Xian's face turned pale, and he thought silently in his heart, if things had turned out like this, at first the Queen Mother was concealed, and later Si Nanbo raised an illegitimate child in Danzhou, why didn't the palace become suspicious? Could it be that the emperor suppressed the situation and blocked the news after returning to Beijing
His head was aching, and he hadn't figured out some details, but the potentially terrifying picture became clear in his mind. He thought indifferently that he opened his eyes for the first time in this world, and saw his hands like white lotuses of babies. In front of the hands stained with blood on the white lotuses, a newborn baby had already died in his place. suffer.
His baby white lotus hands were not only smeared with the blood of those killed by Uncle Wu Zhu, but also the blood of the real young master of the Fan family!
Fan Xian's body trembled slightly, and Fan Ruoruo obviously sensed his brother's abnormality, and said in a sad low voice, "I don't know how elder brother died, but later I vaguely heard the old mother in the mansion cry and mention a few words, I was suspicious, but I didn't know what went wrong."
Fan Xian gently held his sister's hand, silently without saying a word. He knew that Ruoruo's biological mother died of a lingering illness not long after giving birth to Ruoruo, and it was only later that his father welcomed the Liu family into the mansion.
A lady servant, why has she been depressed because of something? Because her own son didn't deserve to die but died
Fan Ruoruo then lowered her head and said in a low voice, "I heard from the old mother that Mom and Aunt Ye should know each other."
Fan Xian had gradually realized the profound meaning of Chen Pingping's words, but he still couldn't figure it out. If Chen Pingping knew that her father had paid such a high price for her, why would she still refuse to relax her vigilance towards her father in those years
The relationship between Sinanbo Fan Jian and Ye Qingmei is not like the first love that Fan Xian envisioned when he was a teenager. The two people may have more of a brother-sister trust in each other, just like Fan Xian and Fan Ruoruo today. .
Ye Qingmei had just given birth to a son in Taiping Bieyuan, and it was normal for Mrs. Sinanbo to help out in the courtyard. As for what happened afterwards, it might be exactly what Fan Xian guessed.
Much like the plot in ? It turns out that reality is always stranger than reality. To be more precise, reality should be stranger than reality.
Fan Xian held his younger sister's hand tightly, with countless complex emotions in his heart, before his eyes appeared the face of his grandmother who loved him so much, and his father's upright solemnity, who seemed never to get angry, never to be happy, just silent The face of walking in the officialdom.
His heart suddenly ached, and he felt that he really owed the Fan family too much. His heart suddenly turned cold. Too many people died and too much blood was shed back then.
Fan Xian stood up, looked coldly at the Taiping Courtyard across the river, and suddenly said, "Don't tell anyone what you said today."
Although he knew that his sister would definitely not spread this shocking secret, Fan Xian still couldn't help reminding him, and then said in a low voice, "I want to ask my father about this matter in person."
"Brother wants to go back to Danzhou?" Fan Ruoruo stood up and looked at him in surprise.
Fan Xian shook his head and said, "Father is not in Danzhou now."
Fan Jian, who has resigned from the household department, is living in Danzhou for the elderly, which is known to everyone in the world. But Fan Xian said with great certainty that his father was not in Danzhou, because only he knew that his father was helping him with a big event in the northeast, and he was going to ask his father for instructions in person, because he believed that the On the topic, the father also has his own right to speak.
Fan Ruoruo resisted not asking any questions, but just stared blankly at her brother's gloomy face, feeling a little pain in her heart. She knew that what Fan Xian said today would cause much trouble in the future. Today's Fan Xian is not only the second most powerful person in the world, but also possesses too much power in his hands. If he really turns against His Majesty the Emperor and wants to avenge his mother, if there is a big battle between the monarch and his ministers, I am afraid that the whole world will be destroyed. drag in.
"Accompany me to another place." Fan Xian walked up the road deep in the bamboo forest. Fan Ruoruo hummed and followed in small steps.
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The three black carriages left the bamboo forest in the Taiping Courtyard, and came to another place in the outskirts of Beijing that was full of atmosphere. The coolness of this place is different from that of Taiping Bieyuan, and it has a frightening smell—because this is a cemetery.
Many people were buried in the Taiping Courtyard, and many people were also buried here. Fan Xian resigned from his hometown today and came to the place of death. The officials of the Overwatch Council who followed him were a little awe-inspiring, but he didn't know what went wrong.
Under the green hills here, the feng shui is excellent, and the tombs of the unknown soldiers left over from the Qing Kingdom's Southern and Northern Wars are buried. Among them, the latest and largest cemetery was repaired three years ago. In the battle of the Kyoto rebellion, the imperial army suffered heavy casualties, and the Overwatch Council paid a terrible price, especially when they attacked Qin Heng's pioneer camp along the way at Zhengyangmen, and the black cavalry's heroic pursuit in front of the square later made this new city There are more than a thousand graves in the cemetery.
Not long after the traditional April Festival, there are still many traces of worship in the garden, such as incense and unburned paper money, floating among these quiet tombs with the mountain wind.
Fan Xian brought his subordinates and younger sister to the tomb, and bowed deeply to the cemetery. All his subordinates are buried here, all the people who died because of one of his decisions.
Mu Feng'er waited for a group of subordinates to know what Master Tisi wanted to do today, and he was a little moved and moved. His Excellency was about to take over as the head of the Overwatch Council, and he didn't expect to go back to the court to deal with the matter, but he did it as soon as possible. Come to the cemetery to pay homage to the dead brother.
Seeing Mr. Tisi saluting with great sincerity and heart, the eyes of dozens of Overwatch Council officials in Qingshan Garden couldn't help but get wet, and they followed behind him to salute, but they came in a hurry and couldn't arrange things.
Fan Xian took a deep breath and said, "I care about my sincerity, not those around me."
Mu Feng'er answered yes from the side.
After a moment of silence, Fan Xian said: "After you return to Beijing, ask Mu Tie to check the pensions over the years and how the family members of the officials in the court have taken care of them. You should also draw up a dossier for me."
"Yes, my lord."
Mu Feng'er responded without being too alarmed. The follow-up matters of the Overwatch Council's pensions are all handled by one department, and his cousin Mu Tie is the leader of the one department. Today he heard that Mr. Fan wanted to check the accounts, but he was not worried at all. In the entire imperial court, only the Overwatch Council had the highest pension, and the chief minister took good care of the families of his subordinates. Of course, it was thanks to Fan Xian for having such a golden mountain of internal treasury hidden in his sleeve. Secondly, he knew that his uncle would never dare to make mistakes in these matters.
Fan Xian ignored him, and with his hands behind his back, he led Fan Ruoruo out of the cemetery under the green hill, throwing away those loyal subordinates for a while, and didn't turn back until he was about to climb to the waist of the green hill. Looking at the densely packed tombs below him, he sighed and said, "One will be successful and ten thousand bones will be withered."
Fan Ruoruo didn't understand why his brother came here after he had been meditating for a long time in the Taiping Courtyard.
Fan Xian seemed to guess what she was thinking, and explained in a low voice: "I want to use these dead people to remind myself that I am not just me now, and I am responsible for many living and dead people. .I have to use these mounds to remind me to be more awake and calmer."
The two brothers and sisters climbed over the waist of the green hill and turned to the other side. I heard that the feng shui on this side is not as good as that side, but it is also full of dense tombs, where the ancestors of the people in Kyoto are buried. At this time, the air still seems to be smoky.
There are several large tombs on the Qingshan Pass that separates the two sides. The tombs are ordinary in shape, but they look huge, and there are gardens outside the tombs, and there are officers and soldiers guarding them. Several officers and soldiers saw someone Shi Shiran walk in like this, and were about to step forward to reprimand them, but were immediately kicked out by several swordsmen from the Overwatch Council.
The eldest princess, the crown prince, and the second prince are buried in these graves—Fan Xian walked past the grave of the eldest princess and the grave of the prince, his face remained motionless, and finally, unexpectedly, Fan Ruoruo stopped at the second. In front of the prince's grave.
The empress dowager's tomb is far south of Cangshan Mountain, eighty miles away from the capital. It is said that it occupies a huge area and is extremely ornately decorated. It perfectly shows the emperor's benevolence and filial piety. But Fan Xian has never been there.
The Overwatch Council officials scattered in all directions. Fan Xian, brother and sister stood quietly in front of the second prince's grave. After watching for some time, Fan Xian suddenly said, "Actually, I don't like you very much, because I know that you and I are of the same kind." Man, as you said the night before you died, we don't like each other."
"From the first moment I saw you, I saw through that shy smile on your face, and knew your hypocrisy." Fan Xian looked at the grave with a smile, "Of course, you saw that smile on my face. With a shy smile, you know my hypocrisy... But you can't prove this, you are just guessing subconsciously."
"Because I hide it deeper than you, and my smile is more genuine than yours." Fan Xian's voice was not high, but he was extraordinarily determined, "When it comes to acting, no one in this world can compare to me, because I was born From the first day I came down, I was acting."
"A shy smile? To pretend to be a baby, of course you have to learn how a baby smiles." Fan Xian lowered his head slightly, "This has become my natural instinct, I only smile slightly shy... ashamed dead."
He raised his head and said, "Chengze, I will come to see you again when I don't have to smile shyly."
Fan Ruoruo looked at his brother in astonishment, wondering why he was talking nonsense about these things in front of the second prince's grave, what pretending to be a baby
Fan Xian stretched himself in front of the grave. He had already stood up, but when would the shy smile on his face turn into a scowling expression of impatience towards the world
Finally, Fan Ruoruo couldn't help reaching out to touch his forehead to see if his brother had a fever from the shock of the news, but the tentacles were completely cold.
Fan Xian was taken aback by her, and immediately understood what the girl was thinking, and burst out laughing.
Hearing Fan Xian's rare hearty smile, Fan Ruoruo felt relieved and laughed too, but there was still a layer of gloom in his heart. Looking at his brother, he didn't know what kind of hard work and struggle would be in this burst of laughter.
Fan Xian calmed down, and said gently, "I've finished all the things I have to do today, and I've gone crazy. You said earlier that there is something to do in Beijing. What exactly is it?"
After hesitating for a moment, Fan Ruoruo said softly, "Miss Sun's family has come to the house, thanks to the fact that sister-in-law is not here... Everyone is very anxious."
"Sun... Sun...? Sun Jingxiu, his girl?" Fan Xian was stunned for a long time, and then said, "A lady from a great family, why did you make such a fuss?"
This Miss Sun family is naturally the fan who did Fan Xiantian a favor during the Kyoto rebellion. It's just that Fan Xian is very aware of the temperament of this girl's family, even if he is obsessed with Stone, he will not do such a thing that damages the family.
"She came here for her father?" Fan Ruoruo gave him a tentative look, and said, "Something seems to have happened to Mrs. Sun, and I was in a hurry. I think Miss Sun was also forced to come here by her father. "
A gust of wind blew up from the mountain, making Fan Xian's clothes rattle and his brows furrowed. He couldn't help cursing a few words, but the voice was very low. Did not hear clearly.
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(About Fan Xian's shy smile, when I first started writing about celebrating more than one year last year, many people were very disgusted, and expressed their incomprehension in many places, and I have never explained it, because it was originally It just has no aesthetic feeling, no way of writing box office, but I want to stick to it...
At the beginning, I insisted on writing like this because of a very simple reason. Before I wrote about celebrating more than one year, I was thinking about what kind of perverted existence would an adult soul become in a baby's body? But I'm not writing about perverts, so I have to use some minor details to remind everyone that a shy smile is a very important part.
If a twenty-year-old wants to pretend to be a naive baby who doesn't understand anything, how should he smile? How to smile? I have observed many children and found that one kind of smile is the most common among them, and that is a shy smile.
Fan Xian put on a shy smile for a long time, so when he grows up in the world of Qing Kingdom, he must have this habitual action. This is an expression modification that I think is very necessary, a very powerful detail, but it is a pity that it has been understood in other directions.
I really want to shout, how serious I am, I am a bright pearl, dust go away... Shrugged, but everyone knows that I was said to be powerful later, and I didn't hold on to my shy smile , no way, I want to eat.
I am dissatisfied with myself for not being able to stick to my own structure, setting, deduction and description, but I am very happy to find an opportunity to explain it to everyone.
These two chapters have confirmed Fan Xian's heart, and he will not write this content in the future, just do it. There are also graves in Suzaku, and in Qing Yu Nian, because these are very important things.
I haven’t written much recently, and I haven’t written much. This chapter is written in advance and posted regularly, because I have something to do during the day...
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