Vol 2 Chapter 247 (1/2)

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Chapter 247: Far the Futu

Naturally, Fan Xian could not tell her of his conjecture He simply took in an involuntary breath of cold air, as if he had a toothache Haitang looked at hi the Yuquan River After a short walk, they caate There was a well on one side of the courtyard, and a stone table under the shade on the west side Yellow, fuzzy-feathered chicks pecked silently at the ground

This here Haitang planted her vegetables

Fan Xian couldn't help but shake his head ”You can't coive the i close to nature But when you coant place as this to those stinking pigpens in the countryside, I've finally realized that planting vegetables and rearing chickens is soh Fan Xian appeared to be praising her, he was actually disparaging her All Haitang could do was laugh ”Did you think I would be satisfied hanging around Shangjing? I have commands from my master and dearden for hed ”I'ive you soetables just to cause trouble for the local gentry”

”I don't know about that,” said Haitang, ”and I've no way to find out” She spoke cal he adure in Northern Qi, and yet she didn't rigidly put on this fairy-like manner She wasn't bitter, she wasn't dry, and she didn't take pains to re She sier's birthday banquet, it was difficult to carve out soloomy mood of the past few days He pulled up his sleeves, rolled up his pant legs, took his tools fro turn the soil After dividing the fine yellow earth in two, he took up a bowl of ily sprinkled the grains onto the ground, leaving the chicks chirping away, running behind hi crouched down and attended to the fruit trees She saze was drawn to his left leg

Fan Xian had tired hi rather warm He took up a bucket of water froulp fro out of the corner of his eye and found that she was indeed proficient in tending to her garden He presumed that this had been her livelihood for many years

Ever since Fan Xian had left Danzhou, he hadn't worked the soil Holding a hoe in his hand wasn't quite as coer When he watered the plants, he wasn't as efficient at it as he was at sprinkling poison powder In all his clumsiness, he was eventually reduced to the position of spectator Even so, he was still tired and drenched with sweat, stea from the top of his head

The sun rose to its peak atchairs and put the fro out the sunlight completely

Fan Xian exhaled a breath of war the iced tea that Haitang offered hiave a creak He closed his eyes and began to take an afternoon rest, relaxing just as he would at ho looked at him and smiled She wiped away her sith the cloth she tied around her head, and then lay down too

The two bamboo chairs sat under a canopy, and a cool breeze

pair

After so suddenly broke the silence ”You're an odd one, you know”

”You're pretty weird yourself,” said Fan Xian, his eyes still closed ”Up until now, I couldn't figure you out”

They had already dispensed with all the for felt rather ure people out? And what does 'figuring sos that people do for clear, defined goals” Fan Xian's lips curled into a slight soal?” Haitang fanned herself with her patterned head-covering ”Why does living need to have a goal?”

Fan Xian closed his eyes, stretched out his fingers and shook his head ”Life doesn't have to have a goal, but all the things that we do, all the goals that ish to achieve, are done in order that we can live”

”I'

”Oh, I' out his entire body ”I like talking nonsense with you It makes oal of staying alive”

”You're still talking nonsense,” said Haitang diss” After he'd said it, he couldn't stop hi ”People like you and I who have no friends alant to find somebody to talk to”

”Master Fan, your talent is unparalleled and you are known throughout the land How can you have no friends?” For so him as ”Master Fan”

Fan Xian was silent for a moment ”I really don't have any friends, and you're beloved all throughout Qi I'm in the middle of the enemy camp, and yet I feel like you could be my friend After all, you haven't been able to kill lance This handsome southern official was a rascal indeed ”You are from a rich fas have gone easily for you You've had no setbacks in your career, and the leaders of two nations both think highly of you Who wouldn't be satisfied with that kind of life?”

”It's lonely” Fan Xian didn't seem to think that his response was pretentious in any way

Haitang laughed, htly ”You have soyun under your command, Master Fan You are a powerful official of the Overwatch Council of the south You have a beloved wife at home, your sister is a woh position, and for now you have various friends in high places How can you say that you are lonely?”

”My father is my father, yun is led themselves up withsoto be lonely or in despair, then fine To sum it up, I can never relax as an official I'ht as the sunlight ”Do you want to be my friend, Master Fan?”

”Let's not talk of friendshi+p for the ti,” said Fan Xian ”At least, when I'm with you, I feel at ease It's hard forelse of you?”

”You wouldn't try,” Fan Xian answered confidently

”You seeotten the enmity that exists between us”

”No ht now, you'll help me out” The audacious nature that Fan Xian had hidden for so long had finally slipped out

”Master Fan, I've always been curious about just why exactly you wanted to cohed and looked at him The affairs of the southern bureaucracy were not exactly a secret in the north, so of course she knew of the goings on involving the Ehed ”I can't tell you”

Haitang sighed Fan Xian got up frory”

”There's rice in the house, there's water in the well, and there are vegetables in the garden,” replied Haitang ”Help yourself”

Fan Xian sighed ”When a ry to any woman who's not his wife, what he 's nified restaurant was the Century Pine Inn Today, it had a distinguished guest The visitor was rich, so the proprietor of the Century Pine Inn aiting outside, having respectfully asked all of the restaurant's patrons to depart, leaving behind three quiet and empty floors