Chapter 111 (2/2)
So views ”And what of the risk? We were lucky to save our own lives, and we have lived happily enough these past few years”
”There is not that much risk to it After all, over the past years, I presume that opinion in the palace has softened toward us We have never left the capital, and our lives remain in the hands of the royal court” Another man shook his head ”We are merely merchants We cannot rebel, so what is there to fear? Alas, how I long to take charge of such ine it We have had so little to boast of for sous who had the most to boast about”
This utterance seemed to have stirred up beautiful hed ”The Lady always did say you liked to blow your own horn,” scolded one of them
”I a bubbles at the soapworks”
Big Ye s chatter ”Does anyone have anything to add?” he asked
The first person who had raised objections stopped laughing ”First I wish to confirm whether this is authorized by the palace,” he said coolly ”Then I shall go along with it Although we all wish to go back to the way things were for our house, our safety is still our first priority The Lady once said that as long as we had our health, then ould be fine”
Big Ye frowned ”Fan Manor had a great relationshi+p with the Ye family at that time Over the years, the Overwatch Council and Count Sinan have continued to take care of us I presume that Count Sinan does not wish to deceive us”
The cold-faced councillor spoke ”Do not forget; the Li fareat relationshi+p with us at that time Were we not also deceived by the dynasty The House of Li was the royal house When he said it, the hidden rooyu Hall went silent, and the faces of the men around the table all took on uneasy expressions
Convening the elders of the House of Ye was a risky matter, so Fan Xian had only made a small step toward it, and had done it under the pretense of hiring a tutor for Fan Sizhe It was assumed that not many people would take note of such ait would be before he took control of the treasury Before taking control, he had to make sure that he had the power to do so Before he couldwith His Majesty's co control of the royal purse were simple—whoever married Lin Wan'er would take control of the treasury He did not knohy the Emperor loved his fiancée so dearly, but as he had chosen to accept the le that cale to face
Functionary of Taichang Temple was a ceremonial post, siant official title upon the future son-in-law of the Ehth-rank h At first, the custo was to confer upon them a sixth-rank position as a cha, but they later discovered that many sons-in-law of the E poetry, so the custoranted the position of a functionary In the previous dynasty, functionaries had been called ”functionary-sergeants” When it cae of a temple, the imperial household presumed that sons-in-law of the Emperor would always be unable to compose poetry, and it would be fine if they could simply hum a few bars of a tune, so the rule was thusly set
Although it was a cere Terue and hurried to the entrace to Taichang Te Tereet hiance made Fan Xian feel overwhelmed by favor froe to affectionately greet the official After exchanging pleasantries with the officials of Taichang Temple, he finally entered the office, and sat in a s to the officials explain his duties to hireeted him had been hand-picked by the Prime Minister, so his warmth toward Fan Xian was understandable But this official, and a number of other bureaucrats in the royal court, still could not understand sohter of the Priiti done according to palace customs?
Perhaps His Majesty was too fond of the Lin and Fan families, but in the eyes of many officials, the Emperor had acted far too willfully, and those who knew of Miss Lin's true identity would say nothing of the inally presumed that he was tone-deaf and would inevitably coined that when he sat idly about one , his belly full of warues werea couple of newspapers issued fro sohed, and learned that the others also took a newspaper with theossip, talking about how Chen Pingping had returned to the capital The palace editors did not dare say a word about the story of the Director and his first love Hiking up his pants as he left the latrine, he unthinkingly stuffed the newspaper in his underwear, and suddenly realized sohter This was a habit of stealing newspapers that he'd gotten into as he'd grown up in Danzhou Thein cash
He was returning to drinkfrom inside the roodo!”
His heart skipped a beat He realized that in the struggle between the idom of Northern Qi, with the i throughout sodoms, it was possible that sodom's power