Hearing this, Chen Yan became alert and his tone was unprecedentedly serious: "You are possessed by a demon."
Fang Shan's lips moved, but before she could speak, she heard his cold rejection: "It is absolutely impossible for me to place a woman who doesn't know her true identity next to the prince."
"You know the basics," Fang Shan still smiled playfully, but this time, he pointed at himself.
Chen Yan was very angry and laughed back: "Does Doctor Zhang want to go into battle personally?"
Fang Shan rolled his eyes, and his smile looked more like ill-intentioned than cunning: "General, wait for me here."
While Chen Yan frowned, Fang Shan had already walked out of the alley and entered a clothing store opposite. Chen Yan couldn't wait for a long time. He was worried that someone had escaped. He wanted to go in and check it out in person, but he saw a cute little girl walking over.
Between the mottled walls, a girl walks alone into a deep dark alley with the light behind her back. This scene is undoubtedly out of place.
As he got closer, Chen Yan finally saw the other person's face clearly.
At first glance, it looks like a willow tree, weak and pitiful, but it is definitely more than just a willow tree. The girl's skin is too fair, and the most attractive thing is her lips, which are slightly raised, as if she will smile at any time. The whole person exudes a kind of morbid beauty in its slenderness.
Chen Yan was slightly startled: "This girl..."
The girl said softly: "What do you think, General?"
With completely different voices, Chen Yan tried to find the similarities between her and Fang Shan, but in the end, even their outlines were covered by the loose black hair, leaving no clue at all.
Fang Shan saw Chen Yan's pupils dilated slightly and said with a smile: "This is not disguise, it's just makeup."
Chen Yan's understanding of makeup was limited to women applying makeup and powder to their faces. He never imagined that it could have such a great effect.
Fang Shan saw his plan and said: "It's a small trick, but it can sometimes be very useful in a military camp. It can even be used to save lives in emergency situations."
Chen Yan: "What do you want me to give in exchange?"
Fang Shan: "It's still the same request as before, I want an identity."
Chen Yan remained silent, only his frown showed that he was thinking.
"Mediocre people will disturb themselves." Fang Shan: "If I really have evil intentions, I don't have to tell the general my identity openly, not to mention that I had other plans at the beginning."
Chen Yan grasped the key point: "What's your plan?"
Fang Shan: "The Liu family has basically regarded the Crown Princess as something in their pocket." After saying this, he sneered, as if mocking the other party's self-confidence: "For me, Liu Wenjing must be prevented from participating in the flower viewing banquet due to some situation. It’s not difficult, the Liu family doesn’t want to lose the crown princess, so they can only think of other ways.”
Chen Yan vaguely had an idea: "The Minister of the Ministry of Finance attaches great importance to etiquette, and it is impossible to send a concubine to the banquet."
Fang Shan smiled: "At that time, I just need to use some tricks and hints to let them fabricate a legitimate daughter who has been recovering from illness since childhood."
Chen Yan: "This is a serious crime of deceiving the emperor."
"Wealth can be found in danger. I understand this principle, and so does Liu Shangshu."
Chen Yan did not ask Fang Shan how to persuade Liu Shangshu to send him to the palace. He thought there was always a way, but what really made him curious was another point: "Since we have already made a plan, why change it again?"
Fang Shan: "Please note that the general has a temperament that everything must be traced back to the source. If it is not easy to do something from you, it is better to use my strength."
Chen Yan frowned and raised his eyes just in time to see Fang Shan staring straight at him, his eyes full of calculation.
After weighing it, he gave a reply: "I can give you my identity, but if you can deceive others, you may not be able to deceive your majesty."
Fang Shan: "I've already found an excuse for the general. All I have to do is reply accordingly."
Spreading a message can take a long or short time. If the protagonist of the message has a large number of troops, it will not take more than a day to cause uproar in the city.
Soon, almost everyone in the imperial city knew that General Chen had brought back a younger sister. This younger sister had been fostered in Shuiyue Nunnery due to poor health in her early years. She was brought back after she recovered.
Emperor Chengyuan also heard the news and thought it was a rumor at first. It was not until the storm became more and more serious that he summoned Chen Yan to the palace.
The pile of questions he had planned for him immediately disappeared when he saw Fang Shan following Chen Yan, and his first sentence was: "Why is it you again?"
Fang Shan: "I happened to be in the middle of treating the general when I suddenly withdrew the injection and was worried that it would have other effects, so I followed him all the way."
Emperor Chengyuan frowned and said to Chen Yan, "I can afford to wait for a while."
Chen Yan looked at him with a cold face. Fortunately, Emperor Chengyuan was used to his boring attitude and didn't care.
After sighing, he asked about business: "Why didn't I know you had a sister?"
Chen Yan deadpanned and recited Fang Shan's words: "My sister has been weak since she was a child. When my parents were still alive, I called doctors in many ways to no avail. I heard that raising her in a temple can protect her body from evil things..."
At this point, he shook his head and returned to his previous sentence: "Several requests for doctors were fruitless. One day, a wandering Taoist priest passed by my door..."
Fang Shan was sweating while listening to it. He just said he was reciting the words, but he actually forgot the words and turned back halfway. He secretly glanced at Emperor Chengyuan's face, which was already ashen.
Chen Yan is a very rigorous person. Under such circumstances, he still insisted on memorizing the entire text.
Emperor Chengyuan took a deep breath and warned himself that the war at the frontier was not over yet and that nothing could happen to Chen Yan at this juncture. He also kept reminding himself of the gratitude for generations of Chen family, so he did not kick him out on the spot.
After reading the last word, Chen Yanwan and Fang Shan took a quick look at Emperor Chengyuan's face.
Emperor Chengyuan pressed his hand firmly between his eyebrows. Fang Shan had seen the same action from Wei Sushen many times before, so he expected that Emperor Chengyuan's patience was about to reach its limit. I don’t know if Chen Yan was lucky or if he had good control, but he stopped right on the edge of stepping on the line.
"Tell the truth." Emperor Chengyuan asked in a deep voice before his patience was about to collapse.
Chen Yan: "I suspect that there are thieves from Yuexiu State who have sneaked into the imperial city. I am worried that they will control the minister's daughter to achieve the purpose of attacking the prince."
Emperor Chengyuan's face turned ugly: "Is the news true?"
"It's just suspicion," Chen Yan said, "but the Yuexiu country has great ambitions, so we must be on guard against it."
While Emperor Chengyuan was meditating, Fang Shan looked at Chen Yan carefully and suddenly realized something that he had ignored -
In this world, people who seem dull and taciturn are the most deceptive people when they tell lies.
Even a suspicious emperor did not become suspicious after hearing this. Instead, he said: "Just cancel the flower viewing banquet."
Chen Yan: "The spies lost their traces after entering the city. If the plan fails, they are afraid of another one."
Emperor Chengyuan: "Ling the snake out of its hole?"
Chen Yan did not answer immediately. He thought for a moment and said, "Canceling the flower-viewing banquet will easily frighten the enemy."
Emperor Chengyuan: "That's all, let's go as you arranged."
When Fang Shan and Chen Yan exited the hall, they couldn't help but clicked their tongues and looked at him with an unexpected look.
Chen Yan: "There are indeed spies from the Yuexiu Kingdom sneaking into the city. As for trying to control the minister's daughter, it is just a random guess."
Fang Shan: "It's unlikely that this guess will come true."
To put it bluntly, Emperor Chengyuan was in his prime, and it was not easy to have a son. If Yuexiu attacked the prince, it would only lead to disaster.
Chen Yan's expression remained unchanged: "Your Majesty thinks it is a hidden worry, then it is a hidden worry."
After a moment, he said again: "I can give you the identity you want, but there is one thing. If there is no equivalent reward in the future..."
Fang Shan interrupted him with a smile: "General, don't worry, within three years, I guarantee that Yuexiu will truly surrender."
After hearing his promise, Chen Yan felt uneasy in his heart. This uneasiness did not come from the worry that the other party was exaggerating his medical skills. In fact, there was no way to deal with the witch doctor, but the identity he asked for.
Fang Shan didn't seem to see this hidden worry, or in other words, he saw it clearly but turned a blind eye, and started talking about what clothes he should wear at the flower viewing party.
Chen Yan's eyes twitched when he heard this, and he emphasized again and again: "You must never let His Majesty see your identity."
Fang Shan: "No one will notice."
Chen Yan thought that his women's clothing that day was indeed very clever.
The two of them didn't say anything more. Fang Shan only said that he would leave the palace to find him the day before the flower viewing party and enter the palace as Chen Yan's sister.
Chen Yan sneered: "How many days have you disappeared, aren't you afraid that the hospital will become suspicious?"
Fang Shan: "I follow the prince all day long, or go out of the palace to diagnose and treat you. They will find it strange if I suddenly go back."
Chen Yan looked at him with very complicated eyes: "It turns out you had planned it early."
Fang Shan left a message saying "please cooperate" and turned towards the direction of the East Palace.
The palace maids and eunuchs who were coming and going were not surprised to see Fang Shan. The windows in the palace were open to the south. As Fang Shan walked along, he happened to see Wei Sushen standing by the window to get some air.
Following his line of sight, the chirping birds on the tree stopped temporarily, then flew away again not long after.
Fang Shan walked over: "What's so good about sparrows?"
Wei Sushen: "A few days ago, there was often a golden cicada crawling on this tree."
Fang Shan raised his eyebrows: "Don't you think it's noisy?"
Wei Sushen: "It's very dull and doesn't bark at all, so I think it's strange."
Fang Shan covered up the strange light in his eyes and talked about Chen Yan.
Wei Sushen suddenly interrupted: "Do you have other plans?"
Fang Shan had just the right amount of doubt.
Wei Sushen turned around at the table: "With Shining here, it will only take a day or two to solve the hidden disease."
Fang Shan used the excuse he had thought up for a long time: "It's not that I deliberately delayed the time to make it easier to leave the palace."
It was very convincing, and Wei Sushen believed it for the time being. After all, with Fang Shan's out-of-touch temperament, it was a bit unrealistic to stay in the palace for a long time.
The night before the flower viewing banquet, Fang Shan came out of the palace and came to Chen Yan's house. He didn't leave empty-handed, a big bag was stuffed with rouge and gouache.
The smell of powder could be smelled from a distance. Chen Yan turned his face away in disgust, feeling that he had overlooked a crucial point.
"The red one is unrestrained, the green one is demure," Fang Shan took out two skirts and compared them: "Which one does the general think is better?"
At this moment, Chen Yan suddenly thought of something and asked in a deep voice: "Does the prince know that you are doing this?"
Fang Shan's fingers holding the clothes stiffened for a moment, and then he said with a smile, "He doesn't need to know."
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