Vol 2 Chapter 181 (2/2)
At that moment, the heavy doors of the Eastern Palace were pushed open
”Who is it?!” the prince asked angrily
An old eunuch, with his back hunched over, walked in He said respectfully, ”Hong Sixiang, at your service I’ve coer to invite the e expression of fear before she took on a bright sirls, she followed that hunched over eunuch to where the true matriarch of the palace resided
The Crown Prince frowned While he disliked the insolence of that old dog, he knew that eunuch was the closest servant of his grandmother Not even his , so ould he do anything unnecessary?
As the candlelight started to diqian recalled that absurd scene in the Ministry of Justice Inside, he was even ure out why his ht of his young and enchanting aunt, the prince felt a wave of heat rush to his heart While he appeared to be slightly fearful, in his eyes there were faint signs of lust
He walked to the back hall Mo could faintly be heard As he breathed heavily, he wondered why all the beautiful wo in bed
It was spring The floere blossoroup of four—noly-appointed officials—visited Fan Manor, hoping to be graced by Sir Fan’s presence However, Sir Fan was not in thewas that Sir Fan was on official duty, and was to leave for Northern Qi too to the I by usual customs, they could be appointed anywhere With the Board of Civil Office sending an envoy soon, it was unsurprising that the other three—aside from shi+ Chanli—would co this year’s spring exaotten to this point entirely thanks to Fan Xian’s power So naturally, they believed Fan Xian would have the
Fan Xian could not meet with them He left them two letters One was for the three newly-appointed officials who had to leave the capital soon The other was for shi+ Chanli ould return ho exaarding any formalities, they opened up the letters
The letter for the three officials had only two sentences:
”Do your best as a person Do your best as an official”
There was one , don’t be so spineless”
That was an inside joke only Fan Xian understood, so the three new officials focused on the former two sentences While simple, they were very true To be an official, they must first learn to conduct themselves as people
Those two sentences had anotherIt was unclear which one of them realized it—”do your best as a person” did not necessarily ood person, and ”do your best as an official” did not necessarilythat letter, Yang Wanli was curious to see shi+ Chanli’s So far, only shi+ Chanli was rather silent
A bit unsettled, shi+ Chanli opened up his letter Upon seeing what Fan Xian had written for hioing well Life is decided more by fate than by men Do not worry that there will be no friends to share an umbrella with Enjoy your time leisurely ”
The last three characters of the letter hinted that shi+ Chanli should wait for Fan Xian's return, as Fan Xian's name was a homophone for leisure
Currently, Fan Xian was at the estate he had bought Frowning slightly, he ran his fingers across the hollow belt and felt the pills Fei Jie had given hi wrong with his overpowering zhenqi, those few pills were there to save hi to the capital, there hadn’t been any ot about the pills until now So many years had passed, he didn’t know if the pills were still effective
wang Qinian sat across fro his head, he continued, ”The likeness is there With some careful makeup, there shouldn’t be any observable flaws from a distance But the flaws are still there”
”What flaws?” Fan Xian asked ”Didn’t you say the likeness is there? It’s been aQinian answered lightly, ”Sir, to find so those h Even if the appearance were to match, he still has to be able to act out your learned, scholarly dely difficult”
Fan Xian was surprised He jeered, ”You're a real joker Your skill at brown-nosing is getting deadly”