Please throw away the annotations to the Regulations of the Qingguo Supervisory Yuan, and turn to the last page of Volume 5 of the Supervisory Yuan's internal reference materials.
The fifth volume is a summary of the cases of the Overwatch Council over the years. It transcribes the analysis and summary of various representative cases in recent decades. The process in which the variables are influenced so that the final result is achieved.
The fifth volume contains a lot of cases, and relying on the intelligence system of the Overwatch Council and the relevant evidence found in the incident, it is enough to explain most of the so-called conspiracies in this world and find the real reason for the incident. And the processes in between—because humans are actually far less imaginative than they think they are.
But there is also a class of cases where people can only dig out one or two sides of the matter, but cannot explain everything. This is the three words written on the last page of the fifth volume, which Fan Xian and Chen Pingping are very familiar with. the three words.
"Fairy Bureau".
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The so-called fairy game refers to the occurrence of variables that cannot be judged by common sense in the event, resulting in a situation that even the gods cannot predict.
For example, when Chen Pingping led the black cavalry for thousands of miles to attack, went deep into the border of the Northern Wei Dynasty, and captured Xiao En who secretly returned to his hometown to attend his son's wedding. The Overwatch Council has already calculated all the details, even including paying a heavier price, but at the wedding, Xiao En did not actually drink the fine wine carefully prepared by Mr. Fei Jie. Calm to the point of coldness, he controls what he eats and everything around him.
But when the people of Qingguo thought it was impossible for the conspiracy to continue according to the process, the story took a very unexpected change - Xiao En heard the noise from the new house, became depressed and wanted to drink, Coincidentally, the captain of the personal army who was in charge of guarding the fine wine in his bag couldn't hold back his hunger during the journey, and had already drank all the wine. While drinking, he fainted from panic and directly drank the wine from the wedding ceremony.
So Xiao En was poisoned, so Chen Pingping and Fei Jie succeeded. And it wasn't until a long time later that Chen Pingping and the others realized that the reason Xiao En was so depressed was because his son... was inhumane.
This kind of variable does not exist in the plan, but it has a great impact on the situation.
Another example is that twenty years ago, a salt merchant in the south died suddenly after a birthday banquet. The criminal department never found out the reason for the case, so it handed it over to the Overwatch Council for handling. Unexpectedly, after checking and checking, it was found that 14 people were suspected of committing a crime that night, including the wives, and everyone seemed to want the wealthy businessman to die quickly.
And who is the real murderer
Three years later, a poor old man was caught stealing sesame seed cakes and taken to the government. He probably didn't want to live anymore, and he assumed that the salt merchant three years ago died at his hands. Upon hearing this news, people around the Overwatch Council were ashamed and startled, thinking how could professionals like themselves let go of the real murderer? When they rushed to the place where the crime happened for the first trial, everyone suddenly realized and were extremely embarrassed.
The old man and the salt merchant were neighbors when they were young. They grew up together. Later, the old man went to Wuzhou to live. When he returned to settle down, he saw the salt merchant celebrating his birthday. In the courtyard, he picked up a stone and smashed the drunken salt merchant to death.
The Overwatch Council had noticed the scuff marks on the courtyard wall, but it never expected that an old man who had returned to his hometown to settle down would take great risks and climb into the courtyard to commit murder without being discovered by the family guards.
At that time, Yan Ruohai, who had not yet become the sponsor of the fourth branch, asked the old man curiously: "Later, I transferred the case file, and Baozheng also asked you a question, why are you not nervous at all?"
The old man said: "What's there to be nervous about? At worst, I'll pay him my life."
It was probably the first time for Yan Ruohai to see such a tough person, but he was still very surprised: "Why did you kill him?"
The old man replied confidently: "When I was young, he slapped me."
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The assassination of the Hanging Temple seems to be a fairy game.
Because His Majesty the Emperor gradually became suspicious of the Ye family and feared that the other family had a great master, he thought of such a shameless trick to frame the other party. A small fire was set down. As for the fire, Fan Jian and Chen Pingping are probably well aware of it.
But after the fire broke out, the top floor was a little messy, and the Xihu assassin finally couldn't help but strike when he saw this opportunity. He stayed in the palace for more than ten years, and he couldn't bear it any longer. This kind of uninterrupted life was really uncomfortable. After three years and three years, I don't know when it will end. Xian's judgment of strength was a bit off, so he looked at the emperor who was only a few steps away from him, and decided to make a move!
The guard made a move and gave the swordsman in white another chance.
The swordsman in white made a move. After the prince, the little eunuch who had been hiding for a long time saw the back of the emperor less than a foot away from him, and thought about the dagger hidden in the wooden pillar less than a step away from him—he thought it was An opportunity given to him by the heavens—faced with such a naked temptation, determined to take revenge, and resolutely cut his penis to enter the palace, how could he miss it
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His Majesty's absurd arson began, and all the people hidden in the darkness sensitively sensed that there were too many opportunities to take advantage of in the incident. Of course, the assassins were resolute and brave, although they had never been in touch with each other. But they very smartly chose to look for opportunities one after another. As the saying goes, helping the other party is satisfying themselves. As long as they can kill the emperor of Qing Kingdom, they will not spare their own lives, but they must cherish this opportunity created by accident.
They come from all corners of the country, and they came together for the same goal, and they walked resolutely and tacitly.
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In Guangxin Palace late at night, Fan Xian was lying on the bed, looking at the veil on the bed, but couldn't fall asleep no matter what. After the injury, he was raised in the palace these days, and he slept a lot during the day.
The candlelight in the palace was a little dim. He stared at the thin layer of veil, as if he wanted to use Sakuragi's ultimate skill to tear the layer of veil and see the truth behind it clearly.
Wan'er was already asleep, and was far away from her on the big bed, because she was afraid that when she moved at night, she would touch the wound on her chest and abdomen. Fan Xian turned his head to look at her, and stroked her long black hair protruding from the pillow with some pity. The palace was very quiet, the eunuchs were all asleep, and the maid on duty at night was resting on the square pier. Fan Xian aimed his eyes at the sky again, and began to talk to himself.
It's just that the lips are slightly opened and closed, and there is no sound at all. He was asking himself a question, and at the same time he was sorting out the ins and outs of this matter.
"The assassins of Xihu, the hidden eunuchs, these are the objects who left evidence of death, so there shouldn't be any problem with the judgment of the Overwatch Council." His lips opened and closed silently in the dark night, looking a little Weird, "But what about the shadow? Except for myself, probably no one knows that white-clothed swordsman is the shadow of the leader of the Six Branches who has lived in darkness for many years and no one has ever seen, the most powerful assassin in the Qing Kingdom."
His eyebrows twisted up nicely.
"Immortal bureau? I think this fairy must be a cripple." He sneered, sneering at the empty bed above: "The emperor wants to arrange a bureau to eliminate the influence of the Ye family in the capital and cut off the eldest princess in advance." It is possible to hold hands... Presumably even the emperor felt that I pushed the second child too hard, and he must know what he will do to Xinyang after the next year."
Thinking of this, Fan Xian couldn't help but gasped. He didn't know if it was caused by the pain in the wound, or he was shocked by the thought of the emperor's dirty tricks. He thought to himself: "Your Majesty is really despicable and shameless!"
"Then what do you want to do?" He wondered about Chen Pingping's true intentions, "If I asked you face to face, I think you would just sit in a wheelchair and say something vaguely: In Chen Yuan, I will be with you." You said, I will deal with things like the Holy Family."
"Holy family?"
"After the sudden turn of events, do you still have the leisure to arrange for the shadow to assassinate, and let yourself be the hero?"
"Is it that simple?"
As the number one assassin in the Qing Kingdom, it was not so unimaginable for the shadow to be able to hide from Eunuch Hong's ears. It's just that Fan Xian refused to believe that Shadow's action was purely to set up a trap, allowing himself to save the life of the emperor, thereby saving the wounded and gaining an unshakable holy family. The movement was too much, the results were not rich enough, and it didn't fit Chen Pingping's calculated personality, so she always felt that Chen Pingping was hiding something from herself.
"And you're not afraid that I know it's the shadow." Fan Xian raised his brows, "But if you say you want to assassinate the emperor, it's not justified. Let's not talk about the sudden disloyalty of a loyal dog, but with your strength , If you want to assassinate, you will definitely create a more perfect environment. You want to test those princes on behalf of the emperor? Fuck, you old dog is too much of a nosy, and the emperor probably doesn't want to be so frightened."
After much deliberation, he was entangled in the situation and still couldn't get rid of it, so he could only sigh and slowly fall asleep. But even in his sleep, he still believed that his mother's old comrade-in-arms must have hidden the deepest dark thoughts in his heart very deeply, and he refused to give anyone a chance to peep.
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"There is no real fairy bureau in this world." Sitting in a wheelchair, Chen Pingping said softly to the blindfolded man in the garden: "You also know that the death of the salt merchant mentioned in the fifth volume... So the old man who snatched sesame seed cakes was able to easily kill the salt merchant because the servants and guards in the mansion had already been bribed by those aunts, and they were happy to see someone help them do this."
"And the old man will attack the salt merchant, not because the salt merchant slapped him many years ago."
"The exact reason is that the salt merchant robbed the old man's wife."
"The revenge of killing one's wife is always bigger."
"And don't believe that Yan Ruohai will not be able to find out about this matter. In fact, you and I both know that that time he was fascinated by the fifty thousand taels of silver bills sent by the concubines of the salt merchant."
"So," the old cripple concluded, "there is no such thing as a fairy game. All things are artificially arranged, and even if there are variables that happen to happen, they are still under my control. If I can't control it, Your Majesty will The time should be dead."
Wuzhu said indifferently: "There has never been anything in the world that can be completely controlled."
"I admit that the existence of Xihu Assassin and that little eunuch really almost disrupted my whole plan... But fortunately, it didn't have a fundamental impact on His Majesty's safety."
"From your tone, I can't detect that you are loyal enough to the emperor."
Chen Pingping laughed: "I am loyal to His Majesty, but for His Majesty's true interests, I don't mind if Your Majesty is frightened."
"What is the real benefit? A mature enough successor?" Maybe only when facing an old acquaintance like Chen Pingping, Wu Zhu would talk as much as today.
"Planning." Chen Pingping said sternly: "Politics is a process of planning. If His Majesty wants to drive away the Ye family, it is far from enough to just make a fire."
"Do you think the emperor would believe your explanation if he knew the truth of the matter?" Wu Zhu said indifferently.
Chen Pingping shook her head: "As long as it is good for His Majesty, whether I can be trusted is not an important thing."
Wu Zhu believed that he and Fei Jie were both old perverts, and said softly, "Your emperor almost died."
Chen Pingping is very used to his rebellious address. It has been like this for many years. Wu Zhu will never call his majesty like ordinary mortals, and she is in awe.
"Your Majesty will not die." The old man said with great force, "I absolutely believe in this. Don't forget, His Majesty will never let anyone know his last hole card."
"Whether he dies or not, I don't really care." Wu Zhu suddenly tilted his head, "I only care that he almost died."
The two him represent completely different attitudes of Wuzhu.
Chen Pingping smiled wryly. Of course he knew that Fan Xian's accidental serious injury would turn the fifth child into a terrifying killing machine. The chill oozing out. So he tried to explain: "Fan Xian was worried that the emperor would have some doubts about him because of his rapid rise, so I arranged this matter to resolve his doubts once and for all... Of course, I laid out the beginning of the story, but did not guess the end of it."
He smiled slightly, as if he was very proud that he still remembered Miss' catchphrase back then: "Although this has a lot to do with the shadow, he always wants to fight with you, and you don't give him this chance, so it's rare to have a fight with you." He was really reluctant to have the opportunity to fight with your direct disciple. Of course, if Fan Xian didn't chase him out and suffer such a serious injury, this matter would not have much meaning."
Wuzhu suddenly said abruptly: "You let the shadow come back, and I will give him a chance to fight with me."
This cold joke almost choked Chen Pingping out of breath. After coughing for a long time, she spread her hands and said, "It was just an accident."
Wu Zhu said directly: "If it was just an accident, why did he escape before I came?"
Chen Pingping had a wry smile all over her face, and she calmed down after coughing a lot: "This... is my arrangement, because I'm worried that you will be unhappy and something will happen to him. You must know that there is only such a really handy person around me. The person... If you even kill him, how can I survive with this old bone?"
Wu Zhu didn't speak, only the black cloth fluttering in the night wind was expressing his dissatisfaction.
"After I die, the shadow will be loyal to him." Chen Pingping said her return very seriously.
Wu Zhu tilted his head slightly, as if he was considering whether Fan Xian would accept the compensation. After thinking for a while, based on his judgment, a lustful and power-hungry person like Fan Xian would definitely treat a powerful assassin at the ninth rank. interested.
He was silent for a while, and then said: "You found me in the south and said that there is something interesting to show me in Beijing... Could it be this play?"
"Fan Xian always said that you were playing in the south. I thought he was lying to me." Chen Pingping said, "I didn't expect you to be in the south. It's a coincidence."
Chen Pingping suddenly leaned forward: "I was going to let you watch the show, but it's a pity that I underestimated Fan Xian's strength, and I also underestimated Fan Jian's shamelessness. This old boy knew that His Majesty set the fire, so he was in a hurry Chase Fan Xian upstairs to rescue him..." The old man laughed sharply, "It's a pity I didn't let you see it."
Wu Zhu raised his head slowly: "You want to kill the Queen Mother?"
Chen Pingping shook her head: "After all, the queen mother is Fan Xian's grandmother, and the young lady's incident, although she watched it happen and did not help the Taiping Hospital, after all, she did not personally participate in this incident. … So far, what I've found is not enough to tell anything."
Wu Zhu shook his head, and said indifferently: "If you find something in the future, or I find something, no matter what Fan Xian does... I will do it."
Chen Pingping knew what kind of determination and strength the three words "I will do" represent, but he still shook his head firmly: "Old Wu, although you are the most terrifying person in the world, don't underestimate a country. The true... strength of an imperial palace. And since this old man is the head of the Overwatch Council, he must also consider how to pass on the kingdom of Qing to the world in a stable way."
"Don't forget, this is also Miss' last wish." He said with a smile, "So let me do these boring things."
"Then what are you going to show me?"
Chen Pingping suddenly sighed, her voice seemed a little lonely: "Since this scene has not been staged, don't talk about it now."
Wu Zhu's reaction was not like ordinary people, he seemed not interested in asking questions at all, and turned around cleanly, ready to disappear into the darkness.
"After you took the young master to Danzhou, we haven't seen each other again." Chen Pingping suddenly sighed behind him, "I haven't seen you for seventeen years, and you are leaving so soon?"
Wu Zhu paused, and said two dry words: "Take care."
Then he literally disappeared into the darkness. It's just that with Wuzhu's strength and temperament, it's already a wonderful thing for him to say the word "take care". At least, Chen Pingping felt a little more warmth in her heart.
Chen Yuan's old servant came over and pushed his wheelchair into the room. Chen Pingping didn't know what she was thinking, and suddenly sighed with some satisfaction, and said: "You said, I can successfully lure those two patient guards and little eunuchs to do it... Am I considered a very powerful person? But I want to thank that Xihu assassin, if he watched Fan Xian go upstairs, he continued to lie in ambush knowingly, this matter would be very boring."
The old servant said with a wry smile: "Master Dean has no plans."
Chen Pingping sighed: "I was born to work hard, and I never forget to pull out nails for Your Majesty... How can I count as Your Majesty."
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He lived in the palace for a few more days, until the frost was getting heavier and there was a sign of snow in the sky, under Fan Xiandi's strong request, the Emperor Qing finally allowed him to go home.
After experiencing the incident of rescue in the Hanging Temple, as long as anyone with eyesight can recover from injuries in the palace, His Majesty was furious. Among the many details, it was found that Fan Xian's family not only returned to normal, but even better than usual. After all, using one's own body to stand in front of the killing sword, even if it is an act of inviting favor, is still a favor in exchange for life. Not many people will be jealous, just blindly jealous.
On the day Fan Xian left the palace, all the palaces sent extremely rich gifts, even the queen was no exception, and the second prince's biological mother, Concubine Shu, had a particularly heavy gift. There were rumors in all the palaces, except for Ning Cairen's forthright temperament, Concubine Yigui was very close to the Fan family, so it was not surprising, no empress dared to take this matter lightly.
Even the ancestors of the Empress Dowager gave Fan Xian the evil warding beads that he had been using for more than ten years, how could those women dare to be careless.
Fan Xian was lying halfway in the carriage. Although his chest injury hadn't completely healed, at least turning over a little was no problem. He opened the corner of the curtain of the car window, looked at the extremely round pearl in his hand under the light of the sky, squinted his eyes slightly, and thought to himself, could it be that the genuine grandma finally accepted her existence
Along the way, Lin Wan'er and Ruoruo were the happiest. After staying in the palace for so many days, they were really bored, and Fan Xian's injury got better every day, which made the two sisters-in-law feel relieved.
The carriage arrived at the main gate of Fan Mansion, between the two stone lions, wooden planks had already been laid on the steps, and the middle door of Fan Mansion opened wide, as if welcoming an imperial edict, the carriage was welcomed in carefully.
Generally speaking, it is impossible for a carriage to pass directly through the main entrance to enter the mansion, but since the young master is injured like this, it is natural that arrangements should be made properly.
The carriage drove directly to the back house, and Fujiko Jing and the others carefully lifted Fan Xian off, Sisi carefully guarded her side, she was not eligible to enter the palace, and she was in a hurry at home these days.
Fan Xian looked at her slightly red cheeks, teased a few words, turned his head, and saw his father and Liu Shi.
He looked at the faint concern in his father's eyes that pretended to be calm, his heart warmed, and he said softly: "Father, I'm back."