Wan'er took a breath, and realized that this was indeed the case, and then she heard Fan Xian continue to smile and said, "So, your Majesty can bear it for a while but not for a lifetime, can bear hundreds of officials, but can't bear his own son. It’s fine if you don’t want to, but as soon as you start thinking about the first question, you will doubt a lot of things uncontrollably, so rectifying the fraud case in the examination room has become a natural thing.”
Lin Wan'er leaned her head into his arms, and said softly: "Actually, these things are easy to say, if I want to think about it, I can understand it. Why can't the prince brother and the others understand it?"
"It's not that I don't understand, it's just that the prince himself has started to feel insecure." Fan Xian thought of the deep meaning contained in the rewards His Majesty gave to the three adult princes at the beginning of the year. Even Fan Xian couldn't quite understand it. Whether it is the crown prince or the eldest prince, they are all a little terrified and uneasy, that's why they stretched out their hands so long in the examination room.
Lin Wan'er sighed and said, "I don't ask my lord to be king, but I just want to be a free and unrestrained prince. These things are always very troublesome."
"A wealthy and idle person, I have my wish." Fan Xian replied with a smile, thinking of Jia Baoyu's nickname, and continued: "It's just that there are some things that I don't like, and I will always be suspected. Who told me and my father? The names are not very good."
Seeing him making jokes about the family, Lin Wan'er couldn't help but burst out laughing, paused and asked, "Father should have no problem."
"Don't worry, father went to the prime minister's mansion that night." Fan Xian said back to the first few words, shook his head and said in admiration, "That's why I said earlier that the Overwatch Council did a good job. Look at the recent arrest." In addition to Guo Shangshu, some of these officials, including those in the East Palace and the Privy Council, were sacked. Although Yuezhang also captured a right servant, he was not injured after all. It is absolutely impossible to master it with such proficiency.”
"Is this difficult?" Lin Wan'er asked with a smile.
Fan Xian brushed his wife's black hair lightly with his fingers, and replied softly, "It's very difficult. It's hard to make those forces suffer, but not let them die, lest Your Majesty have trouble handling it."
After saying this, there was a hint of worry in his brows.
"What's the matter?" Wan'er, who was as careful as a hair, held her husband's arm tightly and asked with concern.
Fan Xian shook his head, wanting to shake off the hidden worry in his heart: "I originally thought that the fraud case would not be hidden from the world, so I was ready to fight a tough battle, but I didn't expect the Overwatch Council to cover me up very well. , but you are right, there is no concrete wall in this world, and the Eastern Palace will always know about my relationship with the Overwatch Council. And...there are too many lunatics in Qing Kingdom, and I am worried about that crippled lunatic right now."
"Chen Pingping?" Lin Wan'er immediately knew who he was referring to, but she didn't know what kind of connection Mr. Xiang had with that terrifying intelligence agency of the Overwatch Council besides reporting the fraud, so she was a little puzzled, and this doubt was too strong. It even concealed the three unknown words of the cement wall.
Fan Xian smiled, and didn't fully explain the matter, but said softly: "I'm worried that Chen Pingping never thought of hiding this from the beginning."
"He dares!"
Every girl likes her husband as a hero with a sense of justice, so Fan Xian secretly reported the fraud this time. Although Lin Wan'er was a little worried, her heart was full of satisfaction and pride. At this moment, hearing that Chen Pingping was about to push Xianggong to the public, when she thought of the danger, her delicate body trembled, and the princess became angry, and said: "I will go to the palace tomorrow to find the queen mother!"
Fan Xian laughed loudly, and comforted him, "Even if Chen Pingping entrusts me, I'm afraid it's not a bad idea."
Lin Wan'er couldn't understand, but Fan Xian knew that this was a good opportunity. After the night banquet and poetry meeting, if he wanted to firmly establish his status and reputation among the people of the Qing Kingdom, this exposure of the fraud case was undoubtedly the best opportunity. . According to what Teacher Fei Jie once said, since Comrade Chen Pingping, mother's close comrade-in-arms, has always been unwilling to be a rich man in the internal treasury and insisted on letting herself be in charge of the Overwatch Council, then according to the character of Chen Pingping in the legend, taking advantage of the Chunwei scandal, It is not impossible to let oneself suddenly leap out of all living beings.
The problem is, what is the ratio of gains to losses? Fan Xian is still a little uncertain about this.
He got up from the bed and looked at the drizzle outside the window, only to realize that it was almost noon, and he and his wife had been lingering in bed for most of the day, so he couldn't help but smile sweetly, but the smile was a little tired. The reason for exposing the fraud this time was because he really felt sorry for those talented scholars, and secondly, he was not angry with those princes who were pulling him like a rope. The most important reason was because he wanted to try Chen Pingping one last time.
Fan Xian was about to go to Northern Qi, so he had to know exactly what kind of attitude that formidable old man of the Overwatch Council had towards him. At the same time, he wanted to see clearly what kind of attitude was that that Ninety-Five Supreme Being hiding behind the old man towards him.
Attitude determines everything, attitude determines relationship, attitude can reveal history, can reveal... life experience. Fan Xian squinted his eyes slightly, looking at the dark clouds in the sky through the glass window imprinted with his mother's breath, and felt that everything in the Qing Dynasty was like an interesting brain teaser, and he seemed to be walking on the road infinitely closer to the truth.
Perhaps, the goal is already very close.
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On the wet long street outside Fan's residence, an unmarked carriage was parked there quietly. Suddenly, a figure floated out from inside like a fallen leaf. In the last ride, the whole person had already got into the carriage.
"Let's go." Fan Xian spoke as soon as he sat down on the chair.
Fujikokyo looked back at the young master from the position of the master, and said with a wry smile: "Master, if the master knows that you are still going out at this time, he will teach you a lesson."
Fan Xian laughed even harder: "If you don't hurry up, not only the master will beat me, an unfilial son, with a stick, but even your gentle young mistress will tie me up with a rope."
At this time, when people in Beijing were really panicking, the news that Guo Youzhi, Minister of Rites, was arrested and imprisoned spread throughout the capital in just an hour, but all the officials related to Chunwei stayed at home restlessly, for fear that after a while , Overwatch Council's spies would knock on the door, and politely invite him to drink tea.
As Fan Xian was a key figure in the fraud case, Master Sinanbo Fan Jian and Princess Chen who knew the inside story did not dare to let him out, so he had to sneak out and sighed, "Master Teng, thanks to the young master, I There is still your confidant in Beijing, otherwise it would not be easy to go out."
Wang Qinian, who had been sitting quietly beside him, obviously changed his smile to the most bitter one, and said with a sad face, "My lord, I have always wanted to be your confidant."
Fan Xian laughed, and teased, "Wang Qinian, you should talk about cross talk."
With a sound of the whip, the black carriage moved forward slowly. The wheels ran over the puddles on the street, and the surrounding green trees were washed by the rain, making them more green and tender. Behind the carriage, there were a few spies from the Overwatch Council wearing various rain gear, and they followed the carriage from a distance. The people in the team are responsible for the safety of Fan Tisi.
"What if there are officials in the court who retaliate? I'm a little short of manpower here." Wang Qinian knew what Fan Tisi and the court had done, and was a little worried.
Fan Xian smiled slightly, and a chill appeared in his eyes: "Now is not the beginning, and the place we are going to is not Niu Lan Street. I would like to see, except for that crazy woman, who else dares to be in the capital under the eyelids of the Holy Majesty?" Assassinate me below."
"Where are you going?" Fujiko Kyung asked in a low voice without looking back.
Fan Xian glanced at Wang Qinian, Wang Qinian said a place name in a young voice, and then explained: "Coincidentally, those students that your lord has taken a fancy to live in an inn."
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The carriage stopped outside Dieyi Lane, and the light rain was still falling in the sky. After Fan Xian got out of the car, he and Teng Zijing walked in with paper umbrellas. Wang Qinian had already disappeared into the crowd.
This Dieyi Lane is a place where Juzi from other counties come to Beijing to live together. Today, another fraud case broke out in Beijing, so it is still full of voices and crowded. Fan Xian held up the umbrella and walked carefully from the side of the street. The surface of the umbrella was slightly tilted outwards, so that the rainwater on the umbrella would not fall into the peddler's pot under the street eaves.
"Excuse me, excuse me." A thin scholar shouted eagerly, holding two jugs of wine in his hand, brushed past Fan Xian and the two, and rushed forward, defying the rain that fell from the sky, It's just that when this person passed by, he looked back at Fan Xian.
Fan Xian held up his umbrella, looked at the person who disappeared into the rain, shook his head and smiled, "How much does this look like the group of lunatics when they graduated? As soon as the exam is over, you have to get drunk." He smacked his lips. , some regret that I was unable to attend the school's graduation banquet due to physical reasons.
Fujiko Jing didn't understand very well, but still explained respectfully: "It is estimated that Guo Youzhi's downfall made these students so excited."
"Does Guo Shangshu have a bad reputation?" Fan Xian walked forward casually, looking like a young man who likes to walk in the rain.
Fujiko Jing said with a smile: "There are not many officials in Beijing who are well-respected. There is a saying in the Zhuang that if the officials of the six ministries line up and have their heads chopped off, it is estimated that one of them will be wronged."
Fan Xian laughed, thinking that there were such jokes in his previous life, and joked, "Then do you think my father was the one who was wronged?"
Everyone knows that Si Nan Bo Fan Jian was first the Minister of the Household Department and later the Minister of Finance. He did not know how much money he made from the treasury. If it is a big corrupt official, Fan Xian's father-in-law might not be able to escape the top three. But Teng Zijing dared to say such words. Hearing the young master's question, cold sweat began to creep down his back, and said with a wry smile: "Young master, I'm a little slip of the tongue, please don't mind."
"What are corrupt officials afraid of? People in the world don't suffer from official corruption, but they suffer from official corruption and are incompetent."
"Young master, that's not right."
Suddenly, someone unceremoniously sneaked into Fan Xian's umbrella to shelter from the rain, holding a paper-wrapped roast chicken in his hand, the slightly charred smell of the roast chicken couldn't hide even the rain.