Vol 2 Chapter 294 (2/2)
”Yes” Fan Xian responded ”Father has given e and proceed hat I have planned After ive to you one thousand coins as a capital invest, I will also call for a trusted ally of mine to look after you Aside from this, however, I will not provide you with any other help If you are able to take this satchel of one thousand coins and turn it into ten thousand coins over the course of the next five e it as prof of your own true value Furthermore…”
”Increase the sum by ten?!” He did not wait for Fan Xian to finish, and blurted out in shock ”I am no God”
”Well, in that case, that is your own problem”
”1,000 coins is far too little to accept as capital” Fan Sizhe was embarrassed and annoyed, he continued, ”with this !”
”What crap are you going on about? Enough with the nonsense! Back in the day, e only owned Dan Bo bookstore, how much did that cost us?”
”Humph! For o right ahead and write more chapters for Dream of the Red Chamber, so that I may sell theuarantee you I will make that one thousand coins become ten thousand coins”
”That won’t happen The person named Cao was already driven insane the last time I forced him to handwrite and hand-in ato produce and distribute that book now”
The brothers continued their talks as if nothing had changed The athtened up considerably, and they were happy Fan Xian observed his little brother’s chubby face and could not help but sigh He then told hierous out there Father told me that I can’t look over your shoulder that much Whatever happens to you out there happens; you need to exercise a great deal of caution”
Fan Sizhe went silent and si Brother, you once said that I aenius of business Do not worry I will succeed”
Fan Xian replied, ”I hope you won’t beyou out of the capital”
Fan Sizhe just shook his head, and did not say another word
Fan Xian understood the confliction he must have felt within his heart He frowned and told him, ”What you said to me earlier, when you told me why you were to be exiled, it was not true”
Fan Sizhe raised his head with a visible confusion
Fan Xian quietly said, ”Eve if you were to stay in the capital, there would be nothing to be afraid of You think I cannot protect just one person? Just going to hide anywhere else and waiting until this all cools off would be fine And I know for a fact that the second prince won’t do anything to ate the Bao Yue house, it’s not as if they could march into our manor and take you away that easily”
”The second reason, when you said it was
it was because I desired to punish you, that was mostly correct” Fan Xian looked at the prostitute from the Bao Yue house as still sound asleep, then he calmly said, ”On your journey to the north, I do not doubt you will co the way But compared to the misdeeds you have truly committed, what you meet ill not be equal in coht have been expected, I can only surs would turn out worse there”
Fan Sizhe was a little scared, hearing all this He squeezed hian to ache painfully once more He did not speak of this, but in his heart, he pondered the question, Why must you send me to the north?
Fan Xian squinted and told his brother, ”I never thought you would do so so reckless as this What you have done, even if you did not know it, is wretched and cruel If you re things that areto me or our father In times like this, you may fall into the darkest pits of our society As such, I think it would be best for you to see more of this world For your maturity, exploration and the occasional hardshi+ps of the road onders”
He all of a sudden gave Fan Sizhe a cold look and said, ”By doing business, we have to do things either by hook or by crook But you rip, and learn the difference between thes Take your tis are prone to backfire And furthermore, you only live once; it is therefore best for you to spend that tiht side of life, little brother”
Fan Sizhe always felt that what had occurred to hi his acquisition and loss of the Bao Yue House to be unfair He saw its establishh s and horrid affairs tainted the soil of its prosperity, it was not soe seats and said, ”What you just said has a lot of justice to it If people did not know you, and heard you say all this, they would never believe you to be a member of the Overwatch Council They would think of you to be soe”
Fan Sizhe’s words were quite taunting, but Fan Xian did not let that bother him; he only raised his eyebrows in response As the commissioner for the Overwatch Council, the spies he had under his com foul deeds under the guise of shadow It was just a brothel, and no matter the amount of iron control and unbendable will an owner of such an establishement of the Bao Yue house and the same could be said for Fan Xian and the Overwatch Council Not thinking of it this way, it was no wonder why his brother did not think fondly of his speech
Fan Xian s these high- ridiculous?”
Fan Sizhe saw his big brother s, but his eyes rolled twice This was an obvious indicator that he thought it was ridiculous
”I aood person” Fan Xian continued, ”even an executor, he who is responsible for the deaths of manyabout People ork like us, even though ays carry the stench of blood, we still desire for our brothers to be free of such a smell We want them to be clear Perhaps it is because we face the evil in this world on your behalf, and we do so in the hope that our siblings may never need to themselves; it is our duty”
Fan Sizhe heard his brother repeat the word ”we”, and wondered itshis brother about Xiao En and Zhuang Mo Han With a s his tale, ”I do not kno many people Xiao En had killed in the duration of his lifetime, nor do I know just how many wretched deeds he may have also committed But still, he alanted his brothers to become proud officers of the court And in this desire, he succeeded; for Zhuang Mo Han did not disappoint hiht he died, I adh I a this, I want to replicate such success as well”
It seemed as if Fan Xian wanted to convince his brother, but it also see hiood person And I want to be a good person”
Fan Sizhe now heard of this crazy secret for the first tiape, he remained silent for quite some time After a while, with a voice that tre wrote, andbrother, if I were to become a scholar, it would be an arduous road”
Fan Xian found hishumorous, and replied, ”With a brain like yours, of course you cannot study”
Fan
you cannot study”
Fan Sizhe had no prepared response for this, but instead, asked Fan Xian about his earlier tale He said, ”That story you spoke of…”
”Just try your best to conduct business Strive to becoo down in the history books” Fan Xian encouraged hi a merchant does not have to be as everyone s everyday In this world, there are perfectly successful merchants that conduct their business entirely by the book”
Fan Sizhe harbored a look of weary confusion and responded, ”To become a merchant, all that is required of us is to turn a profit How a this business on the straight-and-narrow? Even if they have it reedy, corrupt officers of the government to cos right, no harave his brother a gentle look and said, ”Did you forget about the Ye fashan The sole reason for your fervent desire to conduct business ever since you were young was because when you were small, Father always told you tales of the Ye fauarantee you that no governdom in this entire world would threaten them”
Fan Sizhe, with eyes wide open, momentarily froze He said with unease, ”The business of a brothel can generate extreme amounts of money It produces more profit than any other venture” His little brother still did not see the value or i one’s reputation in the field of trade; he still thought that the sis is all that mattered
Fan Xian syu Hall, and he told me that the Ye fa except that which was illegal At first, of course it was because the leader of the fa illicit trades But also, it was because evil was and still is evil No matter how e the fact that doing so water, trapped between the banks of a s, but never does the opportunity towaves co to hang around these small rivers will not yield to you the success that you so crave”
Fan Xian hi to talk and talk with greater excite sentence Perhaps it was because the possible fate of his brother was touching the innerh he said, ”It is not easy to live your life You reatest potential To be ain the reales, and you cannot be satisfied with being one of little renown either You may not even be satisfied as a royal merchant For utter satisfaction, you must become a merchant of the whole world The wealth of one individual can be enough to change the fate of an entire kingdom For this, everyone would admire you and know your na was so siive Fan Sizhe a headache He aardly looked towards his big brother and told him, ”The Ye family dealt with ardodom The northern people weren’t very fond of that family because ofit As to how I conducted my business in the Bao Yue house, I only co only killed a small number of prostitutes, but as for the mistress of the Ye fa brother, what you’re saying is…”
Fan Xian did not know to respond properly, he si Fan Sizhe to the Ye faardless, it is not very nice to become a bully and author of murder”
Fan Sizhe looked worried, and told Fan Xian, ”but Big Brother, I really do not wish to leave the capital,” and continued, ”Both Mother and Father will re after them? For me, please?” He knew that after what had happened with Bao Yue, the only thing that could be done to ease tensions was to leave The excuse for the second prince to attack Fan’s fah Fan Xian would not adht of his father’s resolve within all of this that er and trouble he had placed his family in
After the speeches iven the appropriate deterht to himself, if I live my life and become just like the mistress of the Ye family back in the day, what a wondrous achievement that would be!
Fan Xian nodded and leaned closer Into his ear, he whispered to hi
Fan Sizhe heard what his brother truly desired and his heart froze The palace treasury… se su this?