After the idyllic snowstorm.
The fragrance of tea still exists in the room, floating in the quiet space. After a long time, Haitang said softly: "I understand."
Ku He didn't look at her face, and said with a smile, "Didn't Fan Xian's letter ask you for a way to ask for heaven? Give it to him."
give him? The two words were very clean and neat, but Haitang looked up in shock, wondering if the teacher was joking, or suffering from insanity - Tianyi's supreme mentality? That is a secret that cannot be passed on. Could it be easily given to the powerful ministers of the Southern Dynasty
Ku He smiled and said: "This is something his mother gave me, and it is only natural for me to give it back to him... Besides, for me, Da Qi, the stronger Fan Xian is, the more headaches the royal family in the Southern Dynasty will have. Satisfying the wish of being a teacher and benefiting the country, so why not do something that has the best of both worlds?"
Haitang opened her lips slightly, and was speechless for a while, she knew what the teacher's real intention was, and a chill came into her heart.
The master and apprentice only guessed the relationship between Fan Xian and the Ye family, but they didn't know Fan Xian's other identity, so they unilaterally thought that Fan Xian, after his identity was exposed, could only be a fierce tiger within Qing Kingdom. The Ye family was reduced to smoke and smoke, and the royal family of the Qing Dynasty always had to bear the greatest responsibility. In the eyes of the Northern Qi people, the stronger Fan Xian was, the more troublesome the Qing Dynasty would be, and the safer their own country would be.
"Teacher, if Fan Xian can't stand it this time, what should we do?"
All the properties of the Ye family were taken over by the Qing royal family. It stands to reason that once the news spread that Fan Xian was a descendant of the Ye family, the Qing royal family would definitely kill him in the shortest possible time.
But Ku He shook his head and sighed quietly: "Those princes who overthrew the Ye family seemed to have died in the bloody night in Kyoto more than ten years ago. As a teacher, I really can't guess that things will develop later. What does it look like. Ye family, is there any enemy still lurking in the southern palace? Perhaps that blind man also wants to use this incident to force those people to show up."
As the Northern Qi State Teacher, of course Ku He's first consideration is the interests of Northern Qi. The situation of the mother and child in the palace, as for the predicament Fan Xian will face, is not in his consideration. The old man smiled and said, "Even if Fan Xian can't face the coming impact, and there is a blind man standing firmly behind him, even if he fails, it's not an easy thing to want to die."
It's too risky to use Tianyi's mentality to exchange for such a powerful enemy, not to mention that what the teacher said explained a very terrifying thing—Tianyi's mentality was actually Fan Xian's mother. For the teacher!
"Miss Ye Jia... what kind of person is she?" Haitang looked shocked.
Ku He frowned slightly, and after thinking hard for a long time, he said softly: "At the beginning, I thought she was a little fairy who didn't touch the world of mortals. But I found out later that this is not the case..."
"Tianmai?"
"It's not Tianmai." Ku He continued to smile and said, "Miss Ye Jia is a miraculous woman who is far beyond ordinary geniuses."
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After a long time, Haitang respectfully sent Imperial Master Ku He out of the room. Seeing the teacher's bare feet stepping on the snow, the girl said softly, "Teacher, Mr. Xiao En?"
In the snow, Ku He's figure paused for a moment, and said softly after a while: "We are with Master Zhuang. These two brothers were strangers in life, but walking together after death is not bad."
Haitang lowered her head and said nothing to hide her surprise. She didn't know about this until today.
"This is a matter for the older generation. You young people have your own world. The mind must... be handed over to Fan Xian." After Ku He finished speaking, he walked into the wind and snow and disappeared. Turned over, covering the old and smooth head.
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In the depression of Cangshan Mountain in Qingguo, there is a mist rising from the white snow. Dozens of beautiful red-crowned cranes are dancing with their wings spread out. They are only a few meters away from the ground before falling down again. They are afraid and timid, tentatively reaching out their long With long feet, step on the hot springs surrounded by cedar trees under the mist.
The hot spring water temperature is very suitable, a little hot. Fan Xian closed his eyes, and his upper body was naked, soaking in the hot spring, with his neck leaned back, resting on the hard and wet black stone beside the spring. Most of his body was submerged in the water, and the exposed skin was stained with a reddish layer. He was not thick, but he felt very powerful arms spread out on the stone.
Two thin fingers rested steadily on his right wrist. Fei Jie closed his eyes, his eyebrows flickered, and his messy hair became smoother than ever because it was soaked in spring water.
After being recalled to Beijing, Fei Jie found out that Fan Xian led his family into Cangshan Mountain to spend the winter, so he rushed over. Today, the master and the apprentice soaked in the hot spring surrounded by cedar trees. This kind of enjoyment is really a bit extravagant.
"You have a pretty good figure." Fei Jie slowly opened his eyes, and withdrew his hand to check the pulse. The ominous brown color in his eyes became darker and darker, "It's hard to tell when you wear clothes normally."
Fan Xian also opened his eyes, and said with a smile, "Brothers in the third place have already admired my figure." He paused, and then asked, "Teacher, is there any way?"
Fei Jie took off the white towel from the back of his neck, and after wetting it in the hot spring water, he vigorously wiped the already loose skin on his face, and did not speak for a long while.
Fan Xian sighed. Looking at the teacher's appearance, he knew that he had no good way to deal with the explosion of zhenqi in his body before it disappeared.
"You don't want to take the medicine I left for you." Fei Jie sighed worriedly, "Why bother to be brave? If you take it, at most you will lose your true energy, at least it won't explode."
Fan Xian shook his head: "To me, what's the difference between a loss of true energy and no true energy?"
"The difference is huge, at least you still have the power to protect yourself."
Fan Xian laughed, his delicate face was full of confidence: "I still have many ways to save my life... As you know, I have never been a barbarian who relied on martial arts to conquer the world since I was a child. The method is to fight with Haitang, and even though my true energy is gone now, I don't think that if something happens to me, I will have to hang my hands and wait to die."
Fei Jie stared into his eyes for a long time before sighing: "What a little monster. For a warrior, the importance of true energy is self-evident. Even if you have tiger guards guarding you, there are six places to watch. But you should always show some sadness and disappointment."
"That's a superfluous emotion." Uncle Wuzhu's childhood teachings emerged in Fan Xian's mind, and he said quietly: "If it can't be cured, then I have to accept this reality, and sighing will not help to change the situation. .”
Fan Xian in Cangshan Hot Spring didn't know that in the far north, the unpredictable pair of master and apprentice had already identified his identity in a playful way, and wanted to use this identity to disturb the court of the Qing Kingdom and detain him. Push it to the opposite of the royal family of the Qing Dynasty.
Regardless of whether Haitang will delay the occurrence of this matter, but the two countries are far apart, no matter how quickly the rumors enclave, at least it has not been possible to spread to Qing Kingdom, so the background of the descendants of the Ye family has nothing to do with it. For Fan Xian who knew him well, it wasn't his biggest danger or headache at this time. Now he just wants to restore the true qi in his body and heal the walls of the meridian vessels that are riddled with holes.
"Let's take care of it first." Fei Jie said after pondering for a long time, "I will prescribe a method, you take the medicine according to the prescription, and don't throw away those medicines that were left for you when you were young. They are still useful."
Fan Xian was slightly surprised, thinking that his true qi had already dissipated, why would he still be taking that dispersing medicine? In fact, Fei Jie didn't know what else it was useful for. He just mentioned it in passing, but he didn't expect that Fan Xian would really use it after a long time.
"I stayed in Cangshan for half a month, so I don't know what's going on in the capital." Fan Xian patted the slightly hot hot spring water lightly, and said with a smile, "You're from the capital, tell the students."
Fei Jie scolded: "You have to receive at least a dozen reports every day, and you still come to ask me, old man?"
Fan Xian chuckled.
Fei Jie said coldly: "You hid in Cangshan Mountain under the pretext of recovering from your injuries, but the courtyard attacked the Cui family... There was already a commotion in the capital, hundreds of people were arrested in the north, and millions of taels were swallowed up." Good thing, the accusation you gave to Cui Jiaan is true, it looks like a big family is going to be overthrown from now on, and your kid is really dark enough to attack."
Fan Xian explained with a smile: "It's all needed by the court."
The Overwatch Council's declaration of war against Xinyang came extremely violently and suddenly, and its actions were extremely vicious. The spies all over the world had already strangled the Cui family's smuggling route to the north, and Yan Bingyun led them to attack everywhere. , Without giving Xinyang any time to react, it has already controlled most of the people, goods and money.
After all, Fan Xian was seriously injured, and everyone in Kyoto knew that he was recuperating in Cangshan Mountain. Who knew that the chief minister would strike so abruptly and ruthlessly while he was ill. This plan has been planned since Xia Tian until now, and only after obtaining His Majesty's acquiescence, did it start quietly. With intentional calculations and unintentional calculations, even though Xinyang has the strength in the various counties, it still suffered a huge loss.
The most important thing is that Fan Xian has been hiding his thoughts deeply enough. The Eldest Princess Li Yunrui obviously underestimated his son-in-law.
"You really offended the Eldest Princess this time." Fei Jie shook his head and sighed, "The Cui family is the Eldest Princess's hand. You cut off her hand. Aren't you afraid of her..."
Before he finished speaking, Fan Xian understood what the teacher meant, and after thinking for a while, he said softly: "At first, I was also worried, but after fighting with the Second Highness, I suddenly realized that I don't seem to have anything to worry about. There is something to worry about. With His Majesty's secret nod, and the great strength of the Overwatch Council... Who else in this world can compete with me?"
Fei Jie knew that Fan Xian was not a smug and mediocre person, so he quietly listened to the students' next words.
"The resources in my hands are too powerful." Fan Xian sighed: "Whether it is the princes or the ministers in the court, they are no longer my opponents. The dean once told me to set my sights higher. Only now do I understand that this not only represents the direction of the future, but also requires me to cultivate this kind of self-confidence...even the pride of being the chief inspector of the Overwatch Council."
"In the court today, there are very few people who can compete with me." Fan Xian analyzed himself expressionlessly: "The court is a violent institution in the final analysis. Except for the army, there is no yamen that can be compared with the Overwatch Council. His Majesty has been holding on to the military very closely. Driving the Ye family out of the capital this time is a clear signal. Although the eldest princess has her own power in the army, it's just that as early as the beginning of spring, her majesty sent Yan Xiaoyi away. Transferred away from Kyoto, how can Xinyang compete with me?"
It took only two years from Danzhou to Kyoto, and following the changes of the times, with the hard work of Chen Pingping and Fan Jian...the mothers and comrades in arms of those years, and the acquiescence of Emperor Qing, that young and beautiful son-in-law, in a very short period of time. Within a short period of time, he possessed unimaginable power. Even he himself didn't really feel this kind of power. It wasn't until he easily defeated the Second Highness in the capital that he suddenly realized that he seemed to have underestimated himself too much in the past.
As long as the emperor's holy family never fades, as long as the old woman in the palace still thinks that the young people are of royal blood after all, as long as Chen Pingping stays in Chenyuan for the elderly as she is now, and throws all the power of the Overwatch Council to If he went to play... Fan Xian, he would stand firmly on the court of the Qing Kingdom, and he didn't need to worry about any problems.
Fei Jie suddenly said, "Yan Xiaoyi is in the north, did he not make a move this time?"
"Zhengbei camp is far outside Cangzhou, and there are countless strong generals in the camp, one hundred thousand soldiers..." Fan Xian laughed, "But he couldn't react at all. But the elders of the Cui family should have fled to the camp. There is a line, and there is no way to completely strangle it."
Fei Jie looked at him, and suddenly laughed: "Not bad, really good."
Fan Xian finally became humble: "I'm just a person who makes up my mind. It's all thanks to Yan Bingyun that I can do things so beautifully."
Fei Jie said with a smile: "In just half a year, you will be able to pull Ruohai's precious son into your camp and let him devote all his energy to planning for you. You... are really good."
Fan Xian was silent, and suddenly thought of that Miss Shen, who should be playing mahjong with Wan'er and the others in Cangshan Villa at this time, wondering if he should invite Young Master Xiaoyan to come to the mountain to spend the winter after the Cui family's affairs are over. ? Thinking of Zhuangzi who was half a mountain away from the hot spring, his mood suddenly improved, and he begged Fei Jie, "Teacher, please think about what you said yesterday."
Fei Jie frowned, coughed twice, and said, "A girl as beautiful as a flower, you let her study medicine with me...wouldn't it be too pitiful? Even if I promise you, Master Shangshu will not allow it. "
"Father, I'll talk about it." Fan Xian begged, "My sister really likes medical skills, teacher, please take care of me."
Fei Jie scolded, "My name is Fei Jie, and I'm not called Fei Xin."
Fan Xian smiled, knowing that the teacher lost his temper, it was Yun.
After a long time, a trace of worry suddenly flashed across Fei Jie's brows, and he said, "But have you ever thought about it, the dean and I are both old, and there will be a day when we will go."
Fan Xian was silent, and after a while he suddenly said, "I think the dean should have told you about my guess about my background."
Fei Jie nodded expressionlessly: "At least so far, Your Majesty... has treated you well enough."
Fan Xian did not deny this point. For an illegitimate child, the emperor was able to "generously" hand over both the Overwatch Council and the Internal Treasury to him. This kind of power that even princes can hardly have, in the hearts of ordinary people, is enough to make up for the so-called Name issue.
But the problem is that Fan Xian was not from this world in the first place. What he asked for was actually simpler. Looking at the problem, it would be simpler—these two huge institutions belonged to my mother, not your Qingguo. For the royal family, if you give me what you should, if you don't give me, then you are shameless.
Fei Jie didn't know his naked thoughts, so he sighed and said, "When you were in Danzhou, you said you wanted to be a doctor or a chef. It is always necessary for you to inherit. But now seeing that you are about to inherit everything from her, I am a little bit afraid, I don’t know if you will regret it in the future. "
Fan Xian understood that what the teacher was worried about was that one day, the emperor suddenly felt that his strength was too strong, posing a threat to the future prince, what should he do? He smiled and comforted Fei Jie: "Don't worry, at least in a few years, I think His Majesty will trust my loyalty."
He touched the scar on his chest. The scar was still a little itchy. After soaking in the hot spring today, it looked even more rosy and hideous.
"Don't forget, she is the queen mother's most beloved daughter." Fei Jie warned: "And she is a lunatic. You are not your opponent on the frontal battlefield, and there will be some crazy methods, just like in previous years on Niulan Street. "
Fan Xian fell silent suddenly, and said after a long while: "There is Wan'er in the other courtyard, so naturally she won't do anything. As for the capital... even if she wants to go crazy, she still needs to be afraid of His Majesty. If she really wants to vent her anger, The best chance is to kill me when I am injured and I am not under the eyes of the emperor in Kyoto."
Fei Jie sighed, "It's good that you understand this."
Fan Xian smiled and said, "The me I am today is not so easy to kill."
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With a snort, it was like a book boy took a knife and carefully cut a piece of rice paper.
One mile behind Cangshan Hot Spring, on the white and crystal-clear snow in the pine forest, a bright red liquid suddenly floated, fell on the ground, dyed and soaked quickly, and the color was hard to erase.
An assassin clutched his throat, hooting, and fell dead on the snow with a muffled sound.
The swordsmen from the sixth division of the Overwatch Council slowly withdrew the cold sword from behind the tree, saluted the Gundam who was about ten meters away, and disappeared into the snow again.
"The seventh one." Gao Da said with a calm face, still carrying the long knife behind his back, "I will carry it to the back mountain and burn it later."
"yes."
Gundam was silent. In recent days, more and more assassins sneaked into Cangshan Mountain intending to assassinate Fan Tisi. He also knew where these assassins came from. Xinyang was indeed a little crazy. Obviously underestimated the defense force around Fan Tisi.
The seven Tiger Guards were His Majesty's personal bodyguards for Fan Xian.
But in this small war of assassination and anti-sniper killing, the truly terrifying ones were the swordsmen from the Sixth Division of the Overwatch Council. The profession of these swordsmen is assassination. They are the official assassins of the Qing Kingdom. Now in the snowy mountains, they are facing the assassins sent by Xinyang. He had already killed seven assassins, but he was unharmed.
Gao Da looked at the blood red on the white snow and sighed. He is the emperor's bodyguard in the palace, but he didn't know until today that these tiger guards of his own are extremely powerful when used to attack the enemy head-on and intercept them. A little worse.
As the leader of the Tiger Guard, he certainly knew that if these six swordsmen confronted him head-on, none of them would be his single-handed enemy, but the problem was that assassins... would never fight head-on.
Gao Da thought silently, if the head assassin of the Sixth Division came to assassinate him, he should have no chance of surviving.
After Fan Xian was injured, the defense level around him had been raised by several levels, especially after Chen Pingping got angry once, the Sixth Office of the Overwatch Council finally reacted out of shame, and directly attacked Fan Xian's body. Twelve swordsmen were arranged - this kind of specification was only available to His Majesty when traveling in the past. After His Majesty often used Tiger Guards, only Chen Yuan in the whole world was able to take such strict precautions.
After Fan Xian found out about this, he didn't give any instructions. He just ordered most of the Qi Nian team to withdraw, and no one from one area was allowed to follow him into the mountain. Liaison duty. Regarding Chen Pingping's "outrage", he took it as a joke - you old cripple called someone to stab me, and now you come to scold your subordinates for not protecting themselves, it is really shameless.
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When Gundam secretly marveled at the strength of the Overwatch Council, there were people who thought the same as him. The leader of the assassins sent by Xinyang to Cangshan Mountain was wearing white clothes, hiding in the snow, watching everything on the mountain cautiously. scenery.
He is a dead soldier in Xinyang, and he has already given his life to His Royal Highness the Princess, but when he saw the previous scene, he couldn't help but feel a little chilled. It has been three full days, not to mention the assassination of Fan Xian, the Xinyang assassins can't even see Fan Xian's face! The successive silent deaths of his subordinates made the leader of the assassins think of retiring for the first time.
Even if His Majesty's Tiger Guards were defending Fan Xian, he was confident enough to try it out. Xinyang guessed that Fan Xian was injured in a strange way, and he probably wouldn't recover in a while.
But the problem is that the Overwatch Council, the Sixth Office, and the official assassins are too powerful. They seem to be able to instinctively smell every trace of strange smell in the snow-capped mountains, and they can find all lurking dangerous factors. With such a group of people protecting Fan Xian, it would be impossible to kill him unless Xinyang sent an army up the mountain!
The assassin leader frowned, decided to slide down the tree trunk, and report back to Xinyang to report the details of the failure. He was quite confident in his martial arts, as long as he made detailed arrangements for the Sixth Office of the Overwatch Council, he would definitely be able to kill Fan Xian next time.
His body moved slightly, a grain of snow penetrated into his neck, it was slightly cold, and then extremely cold.
A black iron chisel accurately pierced his neck through the thick snow.