"Am I a fool?" King Jing Shizi looked at Fan Xian's eyes very seriously, "Trouble you sue me, I'm really a fool." ”

Fan Xian said very seriously as he asked: "I think in some ways, you are really a fool. ”

What Li Hongcheng said was Fan Xian's fingertips pointing to the sky. What Fan Xian said was that the other party had to participate in the war for power among the princes.

The autumn grass in the palace is neat, and there is no poignant feeling, but like a yellowish felt, spread out on both sides of the road. Fan Xian knew that this was the hard work of King Jing, who liked gardening, and pointed to the grass and said, "Look, this is life." ”

Li Hongcheng smiled and said: "If you are willing to serve the garden at home every day, I will ask the second child to give you thousands of acres of land in the Jiangnan circle." ”

Fan Xian shook his head bitterly: "I said, these things are not my idea recently, and you don't believe it." ”

Li Hongcheng has a warm and sunny face, but at this time, his eyebrows, who were finally shocked by this news, gradually wrinkled, if the recent movement of Chaozhong is not Fan Xian's ruthlessness, but His Majesty's secret idea, then this matter is inevitably a little bad, is it not as good as His Majesty's love for the second child?

Fan Xian glanced at him and said, "Of course, I am also selfish, you should know very well that I don't have a good impression of the second child." ”

Li Hongcheng frowned and said: "Since you entered Beijing, my second brother and I have been polite to you, of course, I dare not say that I am wholehearted, but at least I have to be closer than the East Palace." ”

Fan Xian sneered and didn't say anything.

The two walked side by side to the palace, and did not go directly to the back garden, and King Jing's birthday banquet had not yet begun. Walking into the secret study of the prince, Fan Xian sat at the table, with a hint of chill between his eyebrows, staring at Li Hongcheng.

The servant who delivered the tea retreated, and only the two of them were left in the study.

"You're polite, and it's polite to let the Metropolitan Procuratorate make a move on me?"

Li Hongcheng was slightly stunned, and said with a wry smile: "The Metropolitan Procuratorate...... That's what my aunt meant, in fact, you can understand why, who asked you to start secretly investigating the things between your aunt and the second child as soon as you returned to Beijing. ”

Fan Xian didn't make the matter of Niulanshan clear, but shook his head and said, "As I said before, I have selfish intentions. The reason why I want to investigate the matter between the eldest princess and the second child, you should also understand that the money in the inner treasury was taken by the two of them, and you let me take over the empty shell next year?"

Li Hongcheng said: "How can I say it, you are also the son-in-law of the eldest princess, she is such a girl, will she really force you to a dead end? ”

"It's okay to take a step back. Fan Xian looked at him and said very seriously: "I'm just a little worried about you." I know that the reason why you stand on the side of the second child is that you must think that if he becomes the emperor in the future, he will definitely be more prosperous than the one in the East Palace, he seems to be gentle and kind, and you think that the palace will be more comfortable after he takes over the throne. But have you ever thought about it, you and I are screaming like this today, and if he really becomes the emperor, he won't remember this?"

Li Hongcheng smiled: "The loss came out of your mouth, otherwise others would have thought it was a very clumsy provocation." ”

Fan Xian waved his hand and said, "This is serious, you will be troublesome to me...... Chūn told you on the banks of the Crystal River that you should not get involved in these things. He looked at Li Hongcheng's eyes, "I know what you have done, but you are hindered by the identity of King Jing, even if you have thousands of fat powder under your command, but there is not a single soldier, not to say arrogant, the strength in your hands is not as good as mine, how can you travel between these princes?"

Without waiting for Li Hongcheng to reply, Fan Xian stood up and said seriously: "When I say these words, I actually have a bit of a taste of narcissism, maybe you will laugh at me secretly in your heart, but since your majesty has already moved your heart, I don't think the second child will have too many good times in the future, if you can keep some distance, just keep some." ”

He patted Li Hongcheng on the shoulder and said very earnestly: "I said this not for anything else, just for Ruoruo." ”

Li Hongcheng was silent, although his face was expressionless, he was a little touched in his heart, and said quietly after a while: "You don't know the second child, he is actually forced, besides, I invite him to be here here, and I always can't let go." ”

Fan Xian shook his head and didn't say anything.

—————————————————————— King Jing's birthday banquet opened, a big flower round table with all kinds of expensive dishes, King Jing sat in the first place, his long beard was slightly fluttering, dressed as a rich businessman, not like the prince, not like the flower farmer, but a little like those salt merchants and imperial merchants in the south of the Yangtze River who were bored and rich and worried.

Seeing his son walking in side by side with Fan Xian, King Jing smiled and waved Fan Xian over: "You give Lao Tzu and I will sit next to me." ”

Fan Xian was most afraid of King Jing and swearing, so he sat down with a bitter face, and turned his head to find that Wan'er was looking at him with a grin, while his sister was sitting quietly next to Wan'er. Thinking that he had shamelessly used Ruoruo's name to temporarily appease Li Hongcheng's heart, Fan Xian despised himself in the depths of his bones, picked up his wine glass and toasted King Jing, and then toasted his father and Liu who were sitting opposite, and then he was punished for being late.

There is no one else at the birthday banquet, it is Li Fan's family, but the elders are at the table, whether it is the prince or Fan Xian, they can't help but be a little restrained, and a sumptuous banquet is actually eaten without any taste.

After three rounds of drinking, King Jing was a little unhappy, put the wine jug at one end, and said to Fan Jian: "How do you take care of your children at home? Why are you here, Fan Xian and the others dare not speak." ”

Fan Jian chewed the tail of the silk deer, and said unhurriedly: "It's better than you, at least this official won't swear in front of his children." ”

"I'll fuck you!" King Jing wiped the wine on his chin and scolded, "Don't speak ill of me in front of my daughter!"

Princess Jing died early, and now there are still several side rooms in the house, but she is not qualified to serve at the wine table. Sitting in the lower hand seat were the lord of Roujia and the prince Li Hongcheng, Roujia listened to her father's swearing, and the little girl secretly glanced up at Fan Xian, feeling ashamed and angry in her heart, feeling embarrassed.

Hearing this, Fan Jian's face darkened, and he scolded: "Go with your own palm." ”

After Wan'er married into the Fan family, it was the first time she saw the two families sitting together, looking at the two elders seemed inappropriate, she hurriedly pulled Fan Xian's sleeve, and listened to her father-in-law actually let a dignified county king slap his mouth, and couldn't help but gasp.

Fan Xian is used to it, and he doesn't care much, strange to say, his father has always been upright, that is, in front of King Jing, he will reveal the graceful and dashing spirit of lying in the Qinglou on Chinese New Year's Eve.

King Jing heard that Fan Jian was going to slap his mouth, and was about to scold something, when he suddenly thought of what he said, he couldn't help but sigh, smiled bitterly, and actually raised his right hand and slapped it lightly on his face, but the snap was a little clear.

Fan Jian still didn't give up, pointed at his nose with chopsticks and scolded: "My son is about to marry a daughter-in-law, and I don't want to talk about cultivating your morals!"

King Jing said with a shy face: "Gaffe." He glared at the juniors and said viciously, "No one heard what I said just now. Then he coughed twice in embarrassment, and then asked Fan Xian beside him: "Fan Xian, how is my mother doing in Shanzhou?"

Lin Wan'er lowered her head and couldn't help laughing, and then she remembered why Fan Shangshu dared to let the prince slap his own face and fuck your mother?

Fan Xian had a bitter face, thinking that you old people are quarrelling, why should you involve yourself, and said a little bit about the recent situation of nǎinǎi, nothing more than physical health and the like, his eyes rolled, and said, "Lord Wang, drink and drink." By the way, you're fine in Kyoto anyway, and Hongcheng is just idle in Beijing, otherwise we can find a time next year and go back to Lanzhou for a few days? ”

King Jing glanced at Fan Xian, knew what he meant, and liked it more and more in his heart, and said with a smile: "This is a good idea, I will go to the palace and talk to the emperor tomorrow...... But you can't go, you have to go to Jiangnan next year. ”

Li Hongcheng, who had been listening with his ears pricked up, was shocked, thinking that Fan Xian, you are really amazing in this move!

Fan Xian said: "Why do you want to go to Jiangnan?"

King Jing scolded: "You kid looks very smart, even the second kid has suffered a lot of losses at your hands, why are you confused at this time? Next year you want to take over the inner library, how can you take it over if you don't go to Jiangnan?"

Fan Xian touched his head, a little confused: "Take over Neiku, why do you want to go to Jiangnan?"

King Jing glanced at Fan Jian, his eyes widened and said, "I said Fan Jian, is your son pretending to be stupid or is he really stupid?"

Fan Jian glared at Fan Xian and said, "I thought that although this kid didn't have great wisdom, he was always a little smart, but now I realized that he didn't even have a little cleverness." ”

Lin Wan'er pouted and said, "Xianggong doesn't know that the three major squares of the inner library are all in Jiangnan...... Uncle, what do you say about drinking your wine?"

King Jing almost choked, and said with a smile: "Girls are outgoing, sure enough, no matter how I am also your own uncle, how can I talk to their Fan family after getting married?"

Lin Wan'er said with a smile: "I see that uncle, you also love my father-in-law, why do you keep talking about me." ”

Li Hongcheng, who was sitting at the bottom of his hand, nodded and sighed again and again, looking at Fan Xian sitting next to his father, looking at his father looking at Fan Xian's smiling eyes, he was jealous in his heart, he was like the Second Highness, he was unhappy, and he thought to himself Why did his father like Fan Xian so much?

——————————————————————— the banquet tossed to the end, several juniors toasted and celebrated his birthday, and finally made King Jing happy, and his speech became more and more ridiculous, for a while he said that after the marriage of the two families, he had to give birth to a doll quickly, and then said that when Roujia was two years older, he would simply marry Fan Xian, so as not to cheapen others in vain.

Ruoruo nervously grabbed his sleeve and didn't dare to reply. Li Hongcheng's face was quiet, with a hint of affection in his eyes, and he glanced at his fiancée a few times.

Fan Xian was the most nervous, and hurriedly replied: "What is Roujia's identity, how can you be a little for me, Lord Wang, you really drank too much wine." ”

The little girl Roujia glanced at her idle brother with great resentment.

King Jing was so drunk that he scolded: "This Wang Ba of the water in Kyoto, can I rest assured that I am married to someone else? What is my identity? Isn't it my daughter, is it not worthy of you?"

Lin Wan'er replied with a smile: "I don't have any opinion, as long as you can talk about the Queen Mother, uncle, this matter will be settled." ”

As soon as King Jing heard the words Queen Mother, he was only half awake from the wine, and remembered that the queen mother must not allow Fan Xian to marry his two granddaughters at the same time, so he couldn't help but scold and said: "I have to think of a way to do this, Roujia's child is too weak...... Fuck it, don't you marry Fan Xian? Wouldn't it be okay to give this son to the woman in the north, it's not cost-effective, Fan Xian is so beautiful, and it's really not cost-effective to cheapen the tigress in the north. ”

He looked at Fan Jian drunkenly and said, "What's the name of that woman in the north?"

Fan Jian obviously drank too much, burped, and said with a hint of self-sufficiency: "Begonia, the saint-like horn sè in the north, the closed disciple of the Kuhe National Teacher, I don't know why I fell in love with my untalented son. ”

said that he couldn't be talented, but obviously the old guy was very proud.

As soon as these words came out, everyone at the table laughed, and even Liu, who had been silent, couldn't help but cover his mouth, but Fan Sizhen and Li Hongcheng laughed the most exaggeratedly. Fan Xian was the saddest person at the table, he really didn't expect that after his father was drunk, he would be such a profligate person, and he didn't expect that his father would also remember the name of Begonia in his heart.

There was a slight pain on his forearm, Fan Xian's face remained unchanged, he gently grabbed Wan'er's hand, raised his glass with his left hand, and said with a gentle smile: "Drink and drink." ”

There was another burst of laughter at the table, and even Ruoruo, who had been a little inexplicably uneasy, laughed softly.

............ "That begonia ......" King Jing suddenly said: "I'm afraid it's not the closed disciple of Kuhe." ”

Fan Xianben was a little nervous about the word begonia, but after listening to the latter sentence, he knew that the things he had arranged had finally begun, and the news had begun to spread to Kyoto.

Fan Jian nodded, revealing a puzzled sè: "It's really strange to say, that begonia girl." He glanced at his son and continued: "According to the fax, she is the youngest master of the Nine Rank in history, and the people of Northern Qi have always said that she is the Heavenly Veiner...... There is such an apprentice, what is Kuhe not satisfied with, he actually wants to reopen the mountain to accept disciples. ”

The prince Li Hongcheng also knew about this, frowned and said, "Isn't it the yīn plot of Northern Qi?"

King Jing scolded: "It's a trick to take in apprentices, it's a plot to take apprentices, isn't it a plot to eat a meal with bitter lotus, don't you think about these things every day, beware of being tired and distracted! ”

Li Hongcheng made a fortune in a muffled voice, and Fan Sizhen touched a glass with him with deep affection on the side.

Fan Jian couldn't bear to look at King Jing Xunzi, and said, "Although it can't be a yīn scheme, it's really strange...... After a few months of retreat, Kuhe suddenly said that he had realized the will of heaven and wanted to re-admit two female disciples, and said that the heavens were auspicious...... It's weird. ”

King Jing slowly drank a glass of wine, and said with a cautious expression: "The four great masters, that is the top person in the world, among the three we know, Ye Liuyun is a free and easy person who does not accept apprentices, although there are few apprentices who look around the sword, but the sword is wide open, which has created many nine-grade masters in Dongyi City." In the past, Kuhe Guoshi has accepted four apprentices, and each of them is amazingly talented. ”

Fan Xian thought of the soul-devouring scimitar of the wolf peach, and couldn't help but nod slightly.

King Jing continued to frown and said: "But these three great masters have not opened the mountain gate for many years, at this time, Kuhe suddenly wants to accept apprentices, it is really a major event in the world, although we don't care, but for the world's martial arts practitioners, this is really a good opportunity, if you can worship under the Kuhe Gate, martial arts jīng jin, you can also form a good relationship with the heavens......" He sighed and said:" If you can get closer to the bitter lotus lineage through the matter of accepting apprentices, I think these monarchs in the world are very willing. ”

Fan Xian showed curiosity on his face and asked: "After all, Kuhe is the national teacher of Northern Qi, and if you want to accept apprentices, you are also looking for people within the scope of Northern Qi, what does this have to do with our Qingguo?"

Fan Jian glanced at his son and said, "This time, the Kuhe National Master opened the mountain gate widely, and everyone has a chance. Although he is the national teacher of the Northern Qi Dynasty, but the status of the great grandmaster is so transcendent, if any of our people in Qingguo has the opportunity to worship under him, I think His Majesty will also be happy to see it. ”

Fan Xian nodded, indicating that he understood, but he was thinking about something else in his heart - I don't know how Begonia persuaded that great grandmaster, it seems that this girl's family is really more powerful than he imagined.

After the —————————————————————————— banquet was dispersed, Liu went to the back house to talk to the women. The young people went to the lake to drink in the wind, but Fan Sizhen disappeared without a sound.

In the garden that King Jing took care of himself, he and Fan Shangshu were lying on bamboo chairs, squinting and silent.

"Fan Xian recently ...... It's too hard, you press him. King Jing's eyes were clear, and Fan Shangshu looked calm, like two old drunkards on the wine table.

Fan Jian hummed lightly and said, "This kid said after he entered Beijing that I can't completely control him. ”

King Jing snorted coldly and said: "You and I don't control it, do you want to leave it to that old cripple to control?" That old cripple has bad water in his stomach, and the ghost knows what he is playing. ”

Fan Jian said with a smile: "The old cripple was also an old man who went out of your mansion at the beginning, otherwise how could Your Majesty believe him so much." ”

King Jing sneered: "It's up to you to toss, anyway, after that incident, my heart will be discussed." He then closed his eyes and said: "Fan Xian, this kid, his heart is really good, I am only worried that His Majesty will squeeze him too much, and it will always be difficult to clean up in the future." ”

Fan Jian sighed and said, "You also know that I have no say in this matter. ”

King Jing shook his head and sighed, "Just let these boys play, my brother probably likes to watch this kind of drama." ”