Chapter 313 (1/2)

There weren'tRoad in the capital, and there were even fewer people occupying thees and receive the details fro Qinian in the north Si Lili's brother and the others were living in these houses, and they kept a study room for Fan Xian when he desired to do business here It was because of this that they did not warht a fire very often

They knew that the commissioner was on his way there that day, which is why now they started a fire to war tiet rid of the chill Fan Xian sat on a wheelchair as he ca his hands He had a wry smile and said, ”Are you people too cheap toZiyue was heating up a plate of ink on a stove, and he called for a subordinate to bring over hot water to thaw the quill, which had frosted over Hearing what Fan Xian said, he gave a wry smile and said, ”Master, you are quite busy these days, and you are still injured, which is why I didn't make preparations for your arrival today”

He had been busy for quite some ti Ziyue as he whisked the ink, using ater to heat the plate, and as if he were grinding a stone against a whetstone, he was finally able to get so

Fan Xian nodded his head in satisfaction His new favorite subordinate's talent was alood as that of the royal doctors He dipped the end of his writing quill into the ink and took to writing upon the snohite paper…

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”What is this crap weather?” Fan Xian was furious He threw his quill on the floor like a burnt incense stick and yelled, ”Why is it not as cold as this back ho wind course through the house With care, he told Fan Xian, ”The ht this house in the beginning, there was no heater here at all Even the stone fra here” Fan Xian looked annoyed He continued, ”You and wang Qinian are both so cheap Back in the day I gave wang Qinian one thousand coins and he only spent one hundred and twenty coins to buy this broken piece of crap house Do you wantZiyue felt pity toith his previous leader as far away in the northern Qi Kingdo spoken ill of by the commissioner every day He nicely explained the location chosen by saying, ”This place is quiet”

”It's not called quiet” Fan Xian looked at him ild eyes and said, ”This is called cheap If there were any other chancellors from the capital who saw this place, they'd assume ere from some useless no-name department”

There were a few important letters he had to write out today, so he didn't care about the issuehis hardest to write with the solidified ink, but he couldn't get it to flow After a while he gave up, and so he s Ziyue spent what alht clothing While he passed it to Fan Xian, he looked at Fan Xian with troubled eyes and spoke, ”This pen is expensive People say even the palace treasury does not have reat care”

Fan Xian snatched it out of his hands with little concern and gave Deng Ziyue a look of disdain He was thinking that it was just a pencil; why he is he being so stingy? He should just go visit a lead nan and more of these pencils could be produced with ease If they did that, Fan Xian would get the palace treasury to gift thes One crate would provide a lifetime supply of pencils, so that one could write freely until their death, the others you could use to play on the street with

The pencil skated across the snohite parch of a woman on an ice rink Only seldo Ziyue knew that he riting a private letter, so he made sure to take a step back In this cold study room, only Fan Xian re steaht

The letters were spooky as well Although it was a secret letter for the Overwatch Council, ritten was so quite important A pencil was used, however, and that meant the words could be quite easily removed This concerned Fan Xian, so he decided to use words that were a bit more abstract and advanced He also y when it ca down ti Qinian What ritten concerned the Cui family Because the fa the second prince and Xinyang generate coin They sdom, but the paths there were not well-established, and the reduced speed of delivery led to a bit of a backlog

The ite the paths and as contained in the northern warehouse was roughly worth 15-20 of the entire Qing Kingdom's income

With an operation of this scale and worth, you could tell that the eldest princess was extre, and with her past ties to the palace treasury, she was a corruptive force of nature

It took a few yun to establish this situation They had been ha the Cui fa for was now upon the the back

In his letter to wang Qinian, the last line read: ”It is time for supper”

Fan Xian rehtly moved his head as he touched the area above his wound on his chest The area rapped up in bandages and it was beginning to itch After he finished writing the letter, his hands were near frozen He suddenly started tohian to feel cold, she would lift them to her chest to warm them up Her breasts were so soft and nice to touch

His heart juain This second letter was addressed to Haitang When he started writing this letter, however, his heart felt at ease The words caue was casual and almost quite crass

Ever since he returned fro rarely stopped He had greatly enjoyed the to-and-froe with his newfound pen pal in the north They were, after all, two prodoms Toto do, and it was so that could be built upon in the future

In the letter that he norote, he spoke of the recent events that had transpired in the Qing Kingdo Temple News of the attempted assassination had spread around the world by now, and the Northern Qi Kingdom had heard of it as well But he was the person as directly involved hat occurred, and so his insight provided a greater, ht into the affair

After that, there was so else hidden in the words It stated his resolve and readiness to strike at the Cui family He wanted to inform her so she could relay the news to the widom so an effort of cooperation could be formed between them At the end of the letter, he wrote a poem as proof that he was as talented as ever

”I co trials are not of proliferous glory The ancient ones are those who did good, but I fear their frozen bones sink beneath the soil of our tattered yards

The old friends of court will long for , and their waistbands wail for an escape Rumours speak of a colder north; how do they live there?”

These were the words of Si Ma Guang; the poe it, and he rubbed his chilled hands He thought that the poem he had just written out was too perfect The words written were each filled with co it would take for Haitang to think about and understand thebehind the ladies a brainstor or left out, and he put it in an envelope and then sealed it with glue All of a sudden his heart ju of dissatisfaction He looked at the envelope and then thought of the woirl He thought he was just facing an old friend, and then he fell into silent contemplation