That night, he returned to the manor and learned that Yang Wanli and the others had come. Fan Xian did not think much of it. In any case, he had already said what he wanted to say in the inn. As long as they were good officials, loved the people, and rose higher and higher official positions, it would be fine. Although Fan Xian was not a great hero who worked for the country and the people, he would be happy if a few of his students came up. As for the dirty things he might arrange for them to do in the future, he would think about it in the future.
When he was about to leave, he couldn't help but hold hands with Ruoruo and look at her sister. He was speechless and choked. He carefully warned Sizhe about the problem of earning money, bowed to his father, and saluted Lady Liu. Only then did he return to his bedroom. He was about to take off his clothes and go to bed to comfort his poor little wife when he found his brother-in-law, the silly Da Bao, was in the room.
Fan Xian smiled slightly and said a few words to Da Bao. Lin Wan'er watched from the side and felt it was strange. The relationship between her husband and her brother was truly strange. She didn't know how the two of them had so much to talk about, and she didn't know why Fan Xian was so patient.
After a long time, Fan Xian and Da Bao giggled and placed their right hands on each other's shoulders. They shouted something like a slogan before allowing the servants to lead Da Bao out.
"What are you talking about with Da Bao?" Lin Wan'er pitifully hugged the thin blanket and looked at him. She pouted as if she was jealous of her brother. Her bare feet were exposed outside the edge of the blanket. Her snow-white feet were exceptionally beautiful under the yellow blanket.
Fan Xian smiled slightly and sat on the side of the bed. He stretched out his hand and gently stroked his wife's feet. His fingers playfully tickled the soles of her feet. He replied, "He promised little Xianxian that if little Xianxian doesn't stay in the capital to play with him, he will be good."
Lin Wan'er felt the soles of her feet go numb. Hearing this flirtatious double entendre, her snow-white face suddenly reddened. Even the tips of her ears were a bit red. She looked very cute. She quickly pulled back her feet and said shyly, "It's still early."
Fan Xian teased, "Not early, not early. We leave tomorrow. We have to do it as soon as possible."
"Right, did father have you go during the day?" Lin Wan'er bumped into her husband, who was gentle and refined in front of others, but shameless and lewd in private. She really didn't know what to do, so she could only play a diversion.
But she had played this trick too many times, and Fan Xian had long become immune to it. "Father-in-law scolded me. First, he scolded me about the exam, and then he scolded me about the mission to Northern Qi. I refused to listen to my father and his arrangements." In fact, when he entered the Prime Minister's manor that day, Fan Xian could clearly see his father-in-law's concern, but he didn't know where the old Prime Minister's concern came from.
As he replied, his hands dishonestly moved up his wife's bare feet. In a moment, he went through the quilt, pulled out his five fingers, and grabbed her soft feet. Wan'er let out a cry of surprise.
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As the husband and wife talked at night, they couldn't help but recall the situation in the Temple of Qing. Just as the sweetness was like a date, Fan Xian's heart thumped. He thought of Ku He, the Great Grandmaster of Northern Qi. He thought of the illusory Temple. For some reason, his heart gradually grew heavy.
Feeling his strangeness, Lin Wan'er propped herself up and lazily rested her head on his chest. She smiled and said, "You are leaving tomorrow. What are you thinking about?"
Feeling his wife's hair slide across his bare chest, he felt a slight itch. Fan Xian smiled and chased all those useless things out of his mind. His shifty eyes rolled around. His gaze passed through his wife's black hair and the color of the night and landed greedily on Wan'er's mostly exposed chest.
Wan'er looked into his eyes, and felt that her husband's clear eyes seemed to speak. His gentle gaze was purer than most girls'. One moment it seemed to say that he was thinking of her, and the next moment it seemed to say that he couldn't bear to leave, and the next moment it seemed to say that he would come back soon … Wait, why did it seem like he was saying something very vulgar?
She followed Fan Xian's gaze and found that her undergarments had long since slipped down to her waist. Her upper body was completely bare. She was extremely embarrassed, and with a soft cry, she quickly burrowed into the thin quilt.
There was nothing else to look at. Fan Xian was angry at Wang Dong. He pretended to be angry and said, "You are an old married couple. Why are you still hiding?"
Half of Lin Wan'er's face peeked out from the thin quilt. She looked at her husband timidly, but there was a bashful smile in her watery eyes. Her covered lips whispered something.
Fan Xian didn't understand. Lin Wan 'er's bare, white feet kicked lightly on the bed. She poked her face out of the thin blanket again, revealing her soft, tender lips. A lock of black hair fell on the side of her lips. She said shyly, "Didn't you say in the past … to maintain … that … sense of mystery?"
Fan Xian had long since been stunned by this sexy scene. How could he still maintain a sense of mystery at this time? Only a ghost would have a sense of mystery. He lifted the blanket, pulled his wife's soft body into his arms, and went with her to Mount Wu to view the scenery.
After a long time, when the wind and rain had stopped and everyone was tired, Lin Wan'er opened her lake-like eyes and said sleepily, "We have to come back soon."
Fan Xian half-closed his eyes. There was a trace of a satisfied smile at the corners of his lips. His fingers tangled with his wife's hair. In a quiet voice, he said, "Don't worry, my luck in this life has been off the charts. Everything has been smooth sailing and nothing has happened."
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The next day, outside the Overwatch Council prison, the head of the prison that Fan Xian had seen once before, one of the former heads of the Overwatch Council, stood expressionlessly outside the iron gate. Fan Xian narrowed his eyes and looked at the former head of the Seventh Bureau. He was shocked to find that there was a trace of unease in his eyes.
The surroundings had long been filled with Overwatch Council spies and swordsmen of the Sixth Bureau. A few carriages were parked outside the gate. Fan Xian stood about ten steps away from the carriages. He found that all of his colleagues in the Overwatch Council seemed unreasonably nervous. These carriages were all specially made. The walls of the carriages were lined with iron plates. Perhaps the horses were tired or nervous, but they kept snorting.
In such a tense atmosphere, Fan Xian couldn't help but frown. He thought of the rumors about the important figure who was about to be transferred out of prison.
Xiao En, the head of Northern Wei's spies. Back in the day, he had countless riders under his command. He swept across the world, planting spies in every country. He was an expert at manipulating people's minds, and was skilled at using poison. He had toppled the royal families of many small countries, and the number of people who had died at his hands, directly or indirectly, was enough to form a mountain of bones. Most frightening of all was that this once illustrious head of spies had an extremely brilliant mind and methods. Who knew how many times he had evaded assassination attempts from enemy countries?
Back in the day, the King of Wei most relied on civil official Zhuang Mohan, and the military official he most relied on was Zhan Qingfeng. But the true pillar of the country was Xiao En, who had always been hidden in the shadows.
At that time, the world was in chaos, and it was thanks to Xiao En's ruthlessness that he had eliminated some of the countries surrounding the Kingdom of Qing. Not only did he bring Northern Wei territory, he also indirectly helped the Kingdom of Qing stabilize its situation.
But as the Kingdom of Qing gradually rose, Xiao En's dark hand naturally reached south. In those years, the bureaucracy of the capital was in chaos. Before and after the death of the founding emperor, the two princes were at loggerheads, like fire and water. Behind this, of course, was Xiao En's instigation. Northern Wei's tens of thousands of riders had long been waiting for the two princes to fight for the throne. Then they would march south and swallow the Kingdom of Qing into the Kingdom of Wei.
Coincidentally, at this moment, no one knew that a woman called Ye Qingmei had brought a blind young servant into the capital of the Kingdom of Qing. The servant carried a black chest on his back.
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Thus, the two princes died mysteriously. Now that His Majesty's father, the previously peaceful Prince Cheng, had ascended to the throne, the Kingdom of Qing did not suffer any real losses. The capital gradually settled down, and Northern Wei lost its best opportunity to invade.
It was at this time that a man called Chen Pingping gradually appeared on the stage of history. Chen Pingping had originally been a servant in King Cheng's manor, but for some reason, he had gained the trust of King Cheng's crown prince, and had followed him his entire life. And when the Overwatch Council, a strange and unconventional organization, was established, Chen Pingping became the head of the Council, and remained so until today.
At first, people did not know what the Overwatch Council did, nor did they know that the shadow of the mistress of the Ye family was still behind the Council. They only knew that Chen Pingping's ruthlessness was gradually revealed, and that his talent for manipulating the dark night was also gradually revealed.
The two most terrifying secret organizations in the world were subordinate to the two most powerful countries. As the situation between Northern Wei and the Kingdom of Qing grew more and more tense, they began to secretly attack each other.
One year, the Kingdom of Qing finally took the risk of carrying out its first northern expedition. This action of smashing a rock with an egg finally failed miserably in front of Northern Wei, the most powerful country in the world.
In front of Zhan Qingfeng's cavalry and Xiao En's heavy spy network, the Crown Prince, who was now the Emperor, was repeatedly defeated, and finally almost died in the mountains and rivers of the north. It was Chen Pingping who led a group of Black Knights through the treacherous battlefield that saved the Crown Prince's life. At the same time, he ordered the spies of the Overwatch Council hidden in Shangjing of Northern Wei to begin spreading rumors, bribing high-ranking officials, and framing General Zhan Qingfeng. After a number of sacrifices, a crack finally appeared in the battlefield in the mountains of the north.
The road back to the kingdom was long and dangerous. Many times, when the troops were in desperate straits and ran out of food and water, Chen Pingping, who was not as old as he was now, expressionlessly left all the food for the Crown Prince and his subordinates, while he drank horse urine and ate grass. In the end, only a tenth of the Black Knights made it back to the capital.
On the way back, he relied on a female prisoner of Dongyi to serve the Crown Prince, who was heavily injured, and recovered. This female prisoner of Dongyi was the mother of the Great Prince of Qing, Lady Ning of the palace.
Even after a long time, people were still guessing what kind of plot Chen Pingping had used to make a great general like Zhan Qing Feng lose the trust of the Northern Wei royal family. But no one had a real answer, not even the Empress Dowager of the Kingdom of Qing. Only some people vaguely knew that it was related to the secret affairs of the Empress of Northern Wei.
From that day on, Chen Pingping gained the absolute trust of the Emperor and the Crown Prince. At the same time, a phrase began to spread throughout the world.
In the north was Xiao En, in the south was Chen Pingping.
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