Vol 2 Chapter 74 (1/2)
Chapter 74: The Lawsuit
Si Lili felt as if she were drea In her drea their e After a few rounds of sex, she slooke The first thing she saas an unfamiliar yet handsome cheek
She realized what had happened the previous night The youngMaster Fan She felt somewhat odd Perhaps she had drunk too ht about it, and couldn't help but feel slightly bitterShe knew that she alking a difficult path, but when she recalled so ecstasy, she couldn't help but press her legs together, feeling limp and painful all over
When she noticed the in to move, Si Lili quickly pretended to be asleep
After Fan Xian woke up, he looked at the girl's sleeping face, delicate as a flower Finding it hard to bear, he held her tenderly for a while Pleased by her faint scent, he washed his face, rinsed his mouth, and left
After a little while, Si Lili opened her eyes and began to rearrange the rooht before She didn't knohat she had discovered, but she let out a shamed and doubtful cry
Daylight had yet to break through fully as he left the flower boat The Crown Prince was still sleeping with Yuan Meng in his room, so Fan Xian decided not to call after him The reason he had left so quickly was because he had only just come to the capital It was not proper to visit prostitutes, and furthermore, he presumed that the Guo faot ready to return to Fan Manor and watch the proceeding scene
He had not really done anything with Lili the previous night It was not because he was soically and physically, he had developed an obsession with cleanliness that had ruined the mood He found it difficult to be with a woman who had been touched by another man, and in his previous life, he had seen plenty of notices about preventing sexually trans one There were no condoms in this world, so while theresoers
But this didn’t all happen without a consequence Fan Xian looked at the unsightly bulge in his pants and sighed rets fro had ever developed between hiate of Fan Manor, the three servants and their ate to be opened, and slipped inside, telling the guard at the gate not to say anything When the guard saw Master Teng and the young master from Danzhou, he did not dare intervene, and simply went back to sleep
Fan Xian crawled into bed to catch up on sleep When he woke up, s, he walked to the front courtyard When he heard a loud racket, he guessed what ned a puzzled expression
It was said that thatin his study when he unexpectedly heard the sound of a druans would dare to interrupt his slulect, and so he , he was presented with an accusation
When Mei Zhili read the paper the accusation ritten on, his heart skipped a beat Neither the plaintiff nor the defendant were ordinary people The plaintiff was Guo Baokun, a man of some renown, the only son of Guo You, Director of the Board of Rites and now an editor at the palace The defendant was Fan Xian, son of Fan Jian, assistantGuo Baokun in the street the previous night, starting a fight, and assaulting an official of the court
When he saw their two surnames on the paper, Mei Zhili was rather worried The royal court was divided into two factions One faction supported the Crown Prince; the other faction was secretive, but was secretly headed by the Second Prince Guo You, Director of the Board of Rites, had been the Crown Prince's teacher, so naturally he took the side of the Crown Prince Although Treasury minister Fan Jian did not outwardly pick a side, he had always had good relations with King Jing, and Crown Prince Jing was the Second Prince that the other faction supported
The case was siht provoke the wrath of either the Crown Prince or the Second Prince As he pondered, he secretly cursed Fan Xian, this young un to make a name for himself in the capital; the bureaucrats all kneas the illegitimate son of Count Sinan, raised in Danzhou He spent all this tiets to the capital, he gets into a fight in the street How am I supposed to deal with this?
But the accusation was very clear, with human testimony and material evidence There was no way he could put it off He looked at the paper and frowned He sent off a secretary to Count Sinan's estate to apprehend the defendant, and then secretly sent an attendant to the Treasury to let Minister Fan know as soon as possible
Fan Xian saw that a city bailiff had been dispatched to apprehend hi that the Fan family and the royal household such a close relationshi+p, on what grounds he was being detained So, taking up their clubs, the ot ready to loyally defend their ers on the put-upon bailiffs
At the gate to Fan Manor, the bailiffs were also at their wits' end They argued that it was their master's wish to apprehend the defendant, that the staff of Fan Manor were always so overbearing, and that they had to take the defendant before the court
Fan Xian sot ready to answer to their calls Unexpectedly, he heard the yell of a youngster's voice ”Where did you thugs come froovernment workers, of course, was not any of the servants, but the hot-headed young Fan Sizhe
When the guards heard the young master's words, they bellowed and lifted up their clubs as they valiantly overnment workers, they did not actually beat theround to scare the exasperatedThey kneas best not to provoke their opponents, so they did not bring out iron chains for those crude young men, and instead fled in unexpected and miserable retreat
”What's all this noise?” At that antly out, looked at the bailiffs, and frowned She ordered them to come in and have tea, and looked at Fan Xian uneasily
Fan Xian shrugged his shoulders innocently