Sun Mao'er sat in the side hall awkwardly. She was sitting very neatly, wearing a water-blue dress, so fresh and elegant that she didn't look like a guest, and she was a little too cautious. In the morning, she had already come to Fan's mansion, and her mind was already in a mess. She was ashamed at her own daughter's house, and she came to the mansion by herself to ask for an audience regardless of shame, and she was thinking about it for a while. The father at home seemed to be sighing and sighing, and his heart was extremely anxious. But in her heart, the most flustered corner was occupied by Fan Xian's appearance.
It has been three years since I saw Mrs. Xiao Fan, although the maids often heard rumors from the outside, and then talked in the room, Sun Yaner knew that the other party had a very good life in the past three years, gave birth to a pair of children, the family was harmonious, and the relationship between the court and the court was harmonious. There is no problem in the body, and my heart is comforted to the extreme. Sun Yan'er wanted to see Fan Xian in her heart, but she also knew that if she really met Master Xiao Fan, it would be extremely impolite. On the one hand, he hopes that the other party is really not in the mansion, so he can go back quietly.
The tea on the long table was slightly cold, and another maid came up to change it. This is the fourth tea that has been changed. From sitting in the morning to this time, the Fan family has not treated this young lady of the Sun family coldly. After returning from the medical clinic, he began to be a little respectful, and then chatted with her very calmly. After talking for several hours, the words in this woman's mouth were not the same.
Sun Yan'er knew that this woman was the woman in charge of Fan's mansion, so she didn't dare to treat her lightly, but she was relieved to hear that Princess Chen was not in the mansion. Everyone knows that the princess in the little grandpa's house is the most gentle and amiable, she never expresses any opinions on external affairs, she just presides over the Hangzhou meeting, seeks some benefits for the poor people in the Qing Kingdom, benevolent A kind heart is admired by everyone. It's just that Sun Yan'er knew the rumors in Beijing, so she was always a little scared.
After waiting for a long time, the Teng family only said that the princess went to the palace, and the father-in-law went on an errand, he was not in the mansion, and there was no host to entertain him, please be considerate of Miss Sun. But Sun Yan'er had already watched the officials with sharp eyes, coming in and out from the edge of the garden, and had already guessed that Mrs. Fan was probably hiding in the back garden and refused to see her. She was faintly disappointed, so she wanted to get up and leave. He didn't take her word for it.
While Sun Yan'er was slightly startled, she also guessed that something was being discussed about her arrival in the back garden, so she sat down calmly.
Not long after, Fan Ruoruo walked into the side hall, Sun Yaner hurriedly got up and saluted, the two women looked at each other, and said something softly, Fan Ruoruo then whispered what Fan Xian had confessed.
Sun Yan'er was full of joy, thinking that if Mrs. Fan would come someday, it would be great, so she quickly thanked each other, said a few more polite words to each other, and then wanted to leave.
Fan Ruoruo saw clearly the slight melancholy of this girl's joy, and couldn't help sighing in her heart, thinking that her brother's debts were really too much, so she couldn't help but whispered: "Brother will be here later." It's just that men and women are different, so it's not easy to come out to meet each other, please understand his painstaking efforts."
Sun Yan'er was startled, and found some other meanings from the words suddenly added by Miss Fan's family. It seemed that she vaguely grasped Mr. Fan's difficulties and pity for herself, her cheeks were slightly red, and her heart Thank you so much, I went with a deep blessing.
Looking at the girl's back, Fan Ruoruo couldn't help but gave a wry smile. Turning her head, she saw Fan Xian's sneaky look, and said with a smile, "Everyone is gone, what are you looking at?" He said again: "But she understands what you mean, she looks very grateful."
Speaking of this episode, she couldn't help giving Fan Xian a rare look, and said, "You, can you not be so careful? You seem to be thinking for Miss Sun, but I don't know how to get her into it."
As soon as these words came out, Ruoruo realized that there seemed to be a breath of air in her words, she was startled, and quickly covered her smile and said: "There is something I forgot to tell you, we all heard it wrong before."
Fan Xian didn't pay attention to this sentence, and just sighed with a wry smile: "When did being a good person become a bad thing?"
After successfully avoiding Miss Sun's family and comforting his younger sister, Fan Xian took a leisurely break again, crossing his legs, reading the letter from Shi Chanli and Su Wenmao while humming softly. The mission in Dongyi City was still dawdling. Si Gujian reckoned that he could survive for another two days. He was not in a hurry. It was okay to stay in the capital for another six or seven days. It had been a long time since he had dealt with his personal affairs carefully. Business, just use your heart.
Su Wenmao's position in the three major workshops of the Neiku in northern Fujian has become more and more stable. With the help of Ren Shaoan's clansman, coupled with the close cooperation between the Overwatch Council and the Neiku Transshipment Department, the No. 2 fan of the year has now become Of course, this was mainly because he represented Fan Xian's will.
Shi Chanli is still traveling around the world. Five years have passed. The scholar back then has accepted his fate of not having an official career, half helplessly and half casually. If he is really willing, Fan Xian will actually arrange for him to be an official. Part-time work is not difficult. It's just that Shi Chanli knows that in the mind of the master, he is different from the other three sons, and the things he has to do are more obscure and more important. Something very important to help your own master.
Of course, today's owner of Baoyuelou walks in the world, and no one dares to disrespect him. Shi Chanli, a businessman, is actually much more chic than officials like Ji Chang and Wan Li. Today, even if Fan Xian intends to let Shi Chanli re-entered the official position, the owner of the brothel had to think about it.
In fact, he still doesn't know Fan Xian as well as Sang Wen. Fan Xian built Baoyue Towers all over the world. His starting point was actually to feel pity for those poor women whose fate is not in his hands, and try to use Baoyue Tower to influence the most ancient and modern people. The profession at the bottom does not seek absolute justice, but at least it must be more formal.
After Fan Xian finished reading Shi Chanli's letter, he couldn't help laughing. Looking at the faltering words in the letter, I'm afraid that Shi Chanli and Sang Wen could not help but work together for many years and get along with each other in the end. Still gave birth to some faint feelings.
Shi Chanli wanted to ask Fan Xian to make the decision, but he didn't dare to say so. Fan Xian thought this was really fun, but he never thought of sending these two into a pile, because from the very beginning, he knew that beside Sang Wen, there was a lonely quack who wanted to be a nurse. Messenger Flower doesn't know what's going on around Sang Wen now.
Sang Wen's gentleness, Sang Wen's lips, and Sang Wen's carefulness and low-keyness are all characteristics of Fan Xian's joy, otherwise he would not have taken her out of the building back then. Now that she and Shi Chanli are both older, it seems that it is time to consider these things.
While thinking this way, Fan Xian crumpled the letter in his hand into snowflakes, tilted his head, and sat on the chair in a daze. He has calculated the power in his hands many times, but he has never thought about it with such a clear purpose as today-the Overwatch Council's internal treasury is naturally the two most powerful weapons in his hands, but if His Majesty makes a decree, it is estimated that there will be at most two people in the Overwatch Council. Thirty percent of the characters will stand firmly behind Fan Xian.
"That lump of ice will probably stand in the middle. It will definitely not resist the order, but it probably won't deal with me either." Fan Xian thought silently, could the friendship with Yan Bingyun stand the test in the future? Then he thought in his heart, the entire Overwatch Council, one place, three places, four places, his own control is the strongest, and the only ones who can really follow him through the mountains of swords and seas of fire are those in the Qi Nian group.
On the inner treasury, Fan Xian has been playing tricks since a few years ago. He believes that if the situation changes in the future, he will definitely have a way to make a strong response. He is not a mouse, and the inner treasury is now what Fan Xian can use to fight against Tianwei. Artifact.
The loyalty of Shi Chanli and Su Wenmao is absolutely trustworthy. Coupled with Deng Ziyue who is now in Xiliang, Fan Xian suddenly realized that the power in his hands was indeed great, and there was a faint tendency to break away from His Majesty's control.
No wonder the emperor began to experiment with future government arrangements.
A smile appeared on the corners of Fan Xian's lips, thinking that His Majesty still hadn't noticed the most critical point after all. If he went to fight him in the ring in the future and confirmed and protected the power in his hands, he should be able to support him for a few more years.
Just like what he and Haitang once said, this world belongs to those old people, it is also theirs, and in the end it will be theirs.
All they need is time.
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One day at the end of April, the spring flowers were not damaged by the summer wind, but were scattered to the ground by a sudden spring rain. The flowers and trees of various courtyards protruding from the long street in Nancheng, Kyoto, watched helplessly as their clothes were torn into strands by the seemingly gentle, but in fact ruthless spring wind, and fell to the stone floor outside the courtyard wall, trampled by pedestrians in a hurry Then, it sank deeply into the mud, only showing some pink edges.
The mansion of Mr. Sun Jingxiu, the governor of Kyoto Prefecture, is on the main street of Nancheng. Not far from this mansion, there is the Yamen of Kyoto Prefecture, but the entrance of the Yamen is on the other side. Power and wealth and tranquility depend on each other. But do not interfere with each other.
Today is not Sun Jingxiu's birthday, but his old mother's 80th birthday. It is indeed an important day. What Fan Ruoruo said the day before was wrong, which is what he meant. The old matriarch of the Sun family is also a person who has orders, and Sun Jingxiu seldom does anything, so when various posts are posted, the officials always come to socialize.
Although there were no red-ribbon lanterns hung at the entrance of the Sun Mansion today, it was deliberately added some festive meaning. There were many people giving gifts to and from the entrance, but there were not many carriages coming. On the long street, the servants of the butlers were just Sending the gift list and gift box into the mansion in a very normal way, and saying a few words of apology for his master, he left the Sun mansion.
Some lower-level officials who didn't know the inside story couldn't help being a little surprised by this scene, thinking that the majestic Governor of Kyoto's birthday celebration will not be so deserted, which is far from the lively scene when ordinary dignitaries' mansions are doing business.
The Kyoto Prefecture is in charge of the public security and people's livelihood in the entire capital, and most of the people who deal with it are various ministries, princes, and adults. Therefore, it is difficult to do errands in the Kyoto Prefecture, but the status of the Kyoto Prefecture is also high. It is because of great efforts in Kyoto Prefecture, so generally speaking, no official would be so disrespectful to Kyoto Prefecture.
Today's scene is really surprising. The people around the corner gate were whispering, they didn't know what they were talking about, but people occasionally thought of the rumors about Sun Jingxiu, the governor of the capital, in the officialdom, and they thought it was a natural thing.
Sun Jingxiu was without a doubt the luckiest person in the official circles of the Qing Dynasty. He was not an official Juren, but a scrivener. Even for half his life, with his background and no background, in such a critical place, he might not be able to be promoted to the post of Governor of Kyoto if he lived in another three lifetimes.
However, during the past six or seven years of the Qing Dynasty, the crown prince and the second prince fought for the heir apparent. After Mr. Fan entered the capital, there was a chaos of war. The capital city, which is located in an important place, became the main point of contention among the various forces. The governor of Kyoto is not like the governors of all walks of life. The magistrates of various places are far away from the emperor. He can protect himself wisely and not lean on any prince. The government is in Kyoto, and no force will let them go. .
As a result, Mei Zhili was forced to leave, and the governor of Kyoto who was supported by the second prince was forced to step down by Fan Xian. In just five or six years, several governors of the Kyoto government fell down, and there was no official. Dare to have the courage to forcefully seek this official position, so Sun Jingxiu, the editor of the Kyoto Prefecture, sat on the position of the Governor of the Kyoto Prefecture by coincidence.
In the past, the governor of Kyoto must have held the position of a scholar in the imperial court, but after Mei Zhili, this rule became chaotic. When Sun Jingxiu was there, he was a bachelor governor of Kyoto, without any title.
So in the officialdom, all the officials commented with a hint of jealousy and disdain. Sun Jingxiu is the luckiest governor of Kyoto in history, but also the governor of Kyoto with the least power. Who knows when he will be ousted from power.
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However, Sun Jingxiu also has his strengths. Years of copywriting work have made him not good at communicating with officials, and he is not used to flattering those senior scholars in Zhongshu under his door. , Never take outside rumors to heart.
It was also this kind of character that made him, who did not see the so-called emperor's edict in the autumn of the seventh year of Qingli, accept the Queen Mother's order, and tried his best to arrest Fan Xian in the capital.
The world is unpredictable, the world is unpredictable, who knows that His Majesty the Emperor is not dead? Who knew Mr. Xiao Fan was actually a loyal minister! Every time Sun Jingxiu thinks about this matter, he can't help feeling terrified. It's also thanks to him raising a good girl that he found a backer for the first time in the court.
And it is the highest backer in the court.
As a result, the officials became even more jealous. The rumors of selling girls for glory had been circulating for some time, and finally subsided under Fan Xian's strong suppression. Three years later, the officials discovered that the relationship between the Fan Mansion and the Kyoto Mansion was not close. Only then did I believe that the legend in the boudoir was just a legend, and there was no follow-up story.
It was precisely because he believed that Mr. Fan had no male-female connection with the Kyoto Prefecture, that the front of the Sun Residence looked so deserted today, even more deserted than the flowers and trees on the street.
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The stewards in the various mansions who had given gifts left the Sun Mansion, but did not leave Nancheng. Instead, they wisely chose a teahouse at the end of the street to rest for a while. Before noon, this luxuriously decorated teahouse became lively. Those stewards who had known each other in the past greeted each other with a smile, and invited them to sit together. In a short time, half of the teahouse was filled.
The smiles of the stewards were very strange, they all showed a tacit interest, and there was a touch of disdain for the Kyoto Prefecture. The masters of these stewards are either the hall officials in the six departments, or the adults in the three temples, and some are dignitaries on the Guogong Lane. They all just gave gifts today, but people didn't come in person.
These stewards gathered in the teahouse and did not return to the mansion immediately, which also showed that these princes and officials knew very well what the Sun Mansion's birthday today represented.
Sun Jingxiu is confused... This is the common thought of all civil and military officials. Since the scholar He Daxue, who is under the school, has already got the wind, it is naturally the one in the palace who has the idea. What kind of birthday party are you having here
Want to see the attitude of the palace? Want to see what's going on in the officialdom? Still want to see something
It's just that these powerful officials didn't want to do things too extreme, so they asked the stewards to keep an eye on the Sun's mansion after delivering the gifts, because they didn't know what would happen. Some fear that the rumor that has been quiet for nearly two years is true.
They didn't know whether Fan Xian, Dan Bo Gong, would come in person today. Logically speaking, in Fan Xian's capacity, he should not be disturbed by the affairs of the capital, but the officials are all cunning, so we still need to make a final confirmation.
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"Whose family's sedan chair is that?" A steward who was talking about romance suddenly narrowed his eyes and saw a large sedan chair passing by the door of the Sun Mansion. Looking at the number of people and the curtain decorations, the grade should not be low, and asked curiously. .
The replacement of the Governor of Kyoto is still in the stage of debriefing, but all the officials know that this is the first time that the popular Lord He Zongwei has independently completed a personnel transfer with great influence with the support of His Majesty, so the various ministries The officials were extremely clever and stood behind He Zongwei. No one would stand in front of Mr. He at this season.
Today's birthday banquet is a good time to stand in line. Everyone is willing to get closer to the young and gentle Scholar He, so the entrance of the Sun Mansion is deserted. Dazzling sedan chair.
The steward of the official servant's family laughed and scolded: "I guess it's a mansion that doesn't participate in political affairs."
The Minister of the Ministry of Officials had a very good relationship with He Zongwei, and he was well aware of the inside story of this matter, so he never thought of coming, and even the tone of the steward was slightly mocking.
Unexpectedly, a steward shook his head and said, "It's not right, it looks like Duke Liu's residence."
As soon as this remark came out, the stewards who came to give gifts from Guogong Lane hurried to the railing, looked at it for a while, their expressions gradually changed, but they didn't say anything to the people around them, they looked at each other nervously, taking advantage of The rest of the stewards did not react and sneaked downstairs.
The rest of the stewards in the teahouse didn't notice the movement here, but were just curious, how could Liu Guogong, who has never been involved in political affairs, condescend to show respect to Sun's parents
Immediately afterwards, another large sedan chair with eight lifts came slowly from the direction of Beicheng, and landed at the gate of the Sun Mansion. It could be seen from a distance that Sun Jingxiu, the governor of the capital, had just brought the Duke into the mansion. It crawled out in a bumpy manner, almost falling to the ground in shock.
A steward in the teahouse screamed, "It's Old Prince Jing!"
As soon as these words came out, a strange and quiet atmosphere enveloped the previously noisy teahouse, all the stewards stopped talking, and began to quickly calculate in their minds, estimating the shocking scene in front of them, What exactly does it mean.
Some smart people, already thinking of Liu Guogong and Prince Jing, two noble figures who would never appear in the capital, thought of another big man, their faces suddenly turned pale, and they quietly went out of the teahouse.
And the rest of the stewards were still nervously staring at the door of the Sun Mansion, as if they couldn't believe their own eyes, and didn't believe that Sun Jingxiu, an old lonely man, could invite these two people to come out to give him a boost.
At this moment, two unremarkable black carriages drove steadily along the streets of Nancheng, passed the teahouse, and stopped in front of the Sun Residence.
The black carriage is inconspicuous and dazzling. The faces of everyone in the teahouse turned pale. They watched the young father-in-law get off the carriage, and it was even more embarrassing to see the princess in a beautiful dress slowly going up the steps with the help of the father-in-law...
In an instant, the teahouse became extremely quiet, and all the stewards rushed downstairs with lightning speed and rushed towards their own houses.
They must notify their masters that Mr. Fan is here, Princess Chen is here, Prince Jing is here, Duke Liu is here...Who are you? Hurry up! Even if Mr. Tan Bo just wants to slap He Zongwei's face, you still have to look at it with a smile on your face, don't you
All of a sudden, the official mansions in the southern part of the capital were in chaos. Those who were looking for clothes were looking for clothes, those who tipped off the news, and those who re-prepared their ceremonies. But all the officials have only one goal, and that is the Sun Mansion.
Most of the officials who have nothing to do with themselves have vaguely guessed why the young man went to the Sun Mansion. Apart from being horrified in their hearts, they couldn't help being a little excited. This capital has been peaceful for too long. Let's see what Master Xiao Fan is doing Bullying the bachelors and the lords of the ministries is also a good show.
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