Vol 2 Chapter 298 (1/2)
Chapter 298: The Greetings Outside the Capital Governovernment, Mei Zhili, was a student of Liu shi+’s father He alatched over the Fan manor He was quite helpful with the Guo Baokun case And when the assassination was atteovernh he was allowed to maintain his job, his pay was suspended for a year and he was heavily investigated No one would have expected that in the following year, the case of the spring exam would unfurl After all this trouble, Mei Zhili was then removed from his position and sent out of the capital to return to his hometown
On certain occasions, the Fan e letters Fan Xian had learnt that Mei Zhili was soovernment
Inside the court, there were many disheveled, visibly impoverished persons They were on their knees before the court, crying loudly These people were family members of the murdered prostitutes of the Bao Yue brothel In tears, they were cursing the Fan fa to God for justice and for punishment to be handed down to theovernhteousness The corners of his lips twitched and the frame of his eyes et It seemed as if he was extre and saying their bit He i forth the suspects who perpetrated the crimes, froation of the scene now With stern sincerity, he pledged to the people that he would aid them He told the the wretched Fan Sizhe here No as spoken of Yuan Meng and her people
Fan Xian was still concealed within the crowd, coldly watching He could see Tian Jinght that he must have been aware that the three ards to the cursing and tear-drenched plights of sorrow fro of them After the Bao Yue brothel murdered a few prostitutes, he and his brother were only told off The gravity of the situation was not properly acknowledged Right now, he could only wonder whether the people on their knees were sincere or if it was a scene that had been set up by the second prince The Overwatch Council’s investigation had yet to yield results, but he could not stand here and do nothing
The capital govern This scene had probably been watched countless tih these civilians were enjoying the show, Fan Xian’s mind had already wandered off The reason why he ca suspicion that so was to occur soon
The reason why his father-in-law, the generation’s evil prime minister Lin Ruofuo, was forced to quit his job was primarily because his ascent to fame was too quick This was caused by the Emperor Under the surface, however, you could see that the true reason was because of Wu Boan, who died beneath the grape shelf and because Shandong Road’s Peng Tingsheng conceived the idea to tarnish and bring ruin to the Wu fah the death of Wu Boan’s son Wu Boan’sthen went to the capital and raise a complaint with the Emperor An assassination was attempted on her way there by people from the prime minister’s manor Fortunately, she was saved by the second prince and Li Hongcheng Today, was the second prince going to raise awareness to this?
In regards to his father-in-law’s retirement, Fan Xian did not plan to retaliate over it, but he remembered the methods the second prince had used Normally, a professional conspiracist would never repeat their h the second prince Although he enjoyed sitting on a chair, trying to feign the appearance of someone holly unpredictable, it only took Fan Xian a few days to notice his immature and twisted side
Aside from the scary power of the Overwatch Council, the reason why Fan Xian had a greater advantage over the second prince was because, although he was younger than the second prince in this life, the true years of experience he had was greater
Not long after, the capital governer of the Bao Yue brothel, Si Qing’er There were others who reate and discover what they could around the Skinny Lake They had yet to find the bodies, and the lack of witnesses ly difficult
Fan Xian, seeing this woman as on her knees on the blue stone floor, wondered how she would react to the entire situation He wondered if she would be intimidated by Fan Xian into honesty, or whether or not she would lose co the entire situation to be unfair And in regards to the bodies buried beneath the Bao Yue brothel, the Overwatch Council were co-operating with Si Chanli a while ago to dig up the bones one dark night and provide them a fairer burial out in the countryside They wanted to wait until the case was over before finding a way to contact the relatives of the deceased and tell the’er si a word in court, and whenever the judge asked sole, short sentences, ones that were preceded by lengthy pauses In her heart, it see Before she ca she could and could not say
Fortunately, the owner did not ask forwretched, neither was she told to hide anything about the secondwithout hesitation, foregoing the need for an interrogation by the government She told the court who the first oas and what they had done, and did so clearly But in regards to the ho, as currently in hiding due to the APB issued by the Ministry of Punishment She also said that the oare of all of this, but had played no part in these overnment’s prefect was satisfied by the siven on her knees But after a while of hearing her talk, it see to help clear the muddied name of the second master, at least somewhat But the second prince had said to the prefect earlier that the ho of this, his face darkened and he threw a stick on the floor, saying ”this woovernan torturing Si Qing’er Si Qinger bit
her teeth to resist the pain, knowing that so She had already received no aid from the third prince, so she knew that she would have to accept as happening and later lean on the Fan fa a word; she did, however, screah the pain what she was feeling, and a raging fire of hatred burned within her eyes An aura of spite then perhtfeel sorry for her
Fan Xian atching this unfold froer he could see in her eyes
After the torture, Si Qing’er continued to repeat the sa to issue another command for further torture, the servant ent in search of Fan Sizhe returned, dusty and with a disheartened look on his face
A group of people went to the Fan manor to capture Fan Sizhe They used their authority to den to scavenge and search for the person they sought Unfortunately for thezhou by now He washow difficult it was for hiovernment officers to find him When they were in the Fan iven the opportunity to ask a single question, Liu shi+ appeared before theroup of servants armed with broo of the subordinates’ huovernment did not look mad at all He was secretly happy, actually He raised his voice and yelled, ”Hoould these dignitaries be as reckless as to hide wanted fugitives!?” In hisit before the Eht of how the Fan fa, but he was in no particular rush, for he trusted Liu shi+ with guarding of the manor He knew that this woyun’s conspiracy was trusted as well Back in the day, he had played the whole of the Northern Qi Kingdole cri with
As expected, the people outside watching the show split in half upon the arrival of i was partnered with Fan Xian the first tiovernment He was the Fan overn was famous, so there was no need for him to kneel before the prefect; heis ridiculous Everyone in the capital knows that the Fan fa They wouldn’t be harboring fugitives And in regards to what criate them carefully They won’t deny their occurrence”
The capital governmu, knew that the famous entertainer in front of him was also a fa shi+ren, and he was renowned shyster The fact that the Fan fa cast such as thisdown and they were determined to clear their name The prefect’s face darkened once more and spoke, ”If you are not in cahoots with the Fan fa forth the cri shi+ren fluttered his fan andsuspects is a task for the capital government Since when has this duty been pushed onto others?”
Tian Jinghed and said, ”Your secondhim forth If you choose not to hand hi a cri, plain to see So why don’t you shut yourshi+ren paid no heed to what he said He sdom’s law does say it clearly that it is the family of the criminal in question that has to hand him over But the second ht days ago; where can we expect to find hihed maniacally He spoke aloud, ”Hahaha! This is a ridiculous excuse!”
Song shi+ren bore a bitter face, and responded, ”I do hope that the Master Prefect is aware of this It is no excuse A few days ago, the Fan manor already reported that the second master conored that fact They also said that the second o after hi with pain, ”Despite their desire to do so, Minister Fan and Fan Xian haven’t severed their ties to the second master yet So, tell mu pounded the wooden table and madly yelled, ”When did the Fan family come here to report this!? And when did they report Fan Sizhe was ?! How can I not have beento fool et out of this”
”Is there not a report? Please, go take a look at the reportsshi+ren clasped his hands together and bowed
Tian Jingmu’s heart shi+vered in shock He remembered that he had not told his servants to check the reports on that day He thought of an excuse to pause the trial, and he and his master quickly fled to the study room They looked into the reports that had been made in the past few days He found a report from the Fan manor about the second master’s quick departure The prefect was so mad he almost fainted
This had never happened before! How could there be one overlooked yet vital report be there?
The capital governht Even if the Overwatch Council had planted the report there, it would have been nearly i so like this? How could they secretly plant this report there? Tian Jing of a snitch that overn he could do about it right now Was it the vice-prefect, or was it those who filed and organized the docuhteousness on his face was no more Despite what he had loudly yelled, the reports had indeed beentheanizers were beside hi the document, but there was no way he could have done so without anyone noticing
Even though Fan Sizhe was undoubtedly guilty, the Fanforth with the criards to the secondthey had to hide, either If this was to continue, it would be impossible to tarnish the reputation of the Fan fa the declaration that they the their own They could be stripped of their nobility and lose their income No matter as to happen, it was impossible for the second prince’s desires to be fulfilled
The capital government’s prefect had a headache, but he did not want to lose He darkened his face and battled with the strong team of lawyers that stood in support of the Fan faoverns Fan Xian understood that what needed to be done was alitive; a criminal who ran off to escape the law While it was a disht, Fan Xian’s resolve was to wait until some time in the future, when his power had increased even further, to find a way to allow him to come home That way, the Fan ards to the so-called owner of the Bao Yue brothel, Si Chanli, he had accepted ownershi+p of the establishan No overnment could be, there was no way they could arrest hi the case with a big man who had also co lead by the Yamen servants to the back of the Yamen for so e of the rain canopy he stood beneath, and saw a curious fellow there who looked to be a study man
The prostitutes’ families looked dismayed as they came into the street As they went, and had just about disappeared fro ht swords and approached the fa their weaponry at them Cruelly, they attempted to butcher the faht incited terrified screams and panic froathered to watch the court proceedings broke up with ghastly wails, with people fleeing in allbeneath a tree, observing the scene There was no fear in his heart He thought he had underesti sied earlier in the day But the way the second prince had constructed this slaughter was ed and botched as a result The last time he had successfully fra what the Emperor had said to It was done in secret and not exposed for all to see Today, with hi like this, was the second prince not afraid of the E it so nakedly?
For the lives of the families, Fan Xian shared no concern, and as expected, there was a nuht that had erupted down the street Leaping into the fray, they quickly grabbed and placed the family members behind their backs for safety and approached their would-be killers
It was the passers-by again; Fan Xian’s favorite passers-by
The passers-by were not in possession of armaments They only held a special spike that was constructed by the Overwatch Council With little effort, they broke the would-be assassins assault It was done both quickly and cleanly, si that Master Wuzhu would have done
Fan Xian’s eyebrows raised This was because he knew this counter was enacted by the Sixth Bureau, and the shadoas a fan of Master Wuzhu
The assassins that had been sent by the second prince were pretty talented, but they were no hters of the Sixth Bureau After a short battle, the men holly beaten They atteots attached to their bones, prohibiting their flight
Dong! Dong!
The sounds erupted
This sudden battle was brought to an end Theon the floor, and on their bodies were the presence of several wounds oozing blood everywhere Fan Xian who had been watching the scene in secret nodded He was satisfied with Yan Bingyun’s arrangements It did not matter if they were dead or alive, but they could not be allowed to escape under the ht that the assassinsthe stamp of the Overwatch Council, so that the second prince could fraht and subsequent result had ended very much how he expected The maskedto sacrifice theiven moment They were accounted for as part-time assassins When they met the professionals of the Sixth Bureau, they did not stand a chance
But at this ed
The study man as still stood under the canopy on the corner of the street all of a sudden caht He drew his sword like a professional and the power of the airborne steel was berzerk, and with insane force, the puddles of water raised into the air and took to the for one of the family members with holes He was killed
This was a display of extreme swordskill, and yet it came from someone who took on the appearance of a weak study man The swordsmen of the Sixth Bureau, who made themselves look like simple passers-by, could not react in tiht with this man who could manipulate water like so They turned to dash and use the pikes concealed within their sleeves to slon the study !
The pikes only pierced the study man’s robes, which tore certain parts of his clothes into shreds It did not stop his sword, however, and all that could be heard next was ”poof” The Wuhua longsword struck into another faant of the second prince’s eight guardians was Xie Bian He once said he would end Fan Xian in a single blow, and that he had never nized the identity of the study man when he was stood under the canopy; it was him He did not expect hio kill innocent people, those ere the fas had been settled at court, however; what could their deaths possibly change?
He thought Xie Bian had merely accepted an order to cos, and did not expect hiantly As such, Fan Xian’s reactions were a little slow
The moment when Xie Bian drew his sword, he ell aware that the members of the Sixth Bureau were present This h he was currently in a frenzy, even he wasn’t confident in his ability to kill the assassins of the Sixth Bureau, here in the daylight on a public street Especially since the Sixth Bureau assassins were trained to perforht
Still, he wanted to engage and draw his sword because he felt that it was unfair He saw his men be killed by these passers-by, and despite the fear of the fahters of the Sixth Bureau had not incurred a single injury This total failure ry, and he drew his sword irrationally
It felt good to kill one of the victims’ family members, and at least it would make the second prince look better in his feud with Fan Xian Besides, even if just one of those fa, hard ti carasped the handle of his blade, he felt a fa He knew that the tip of the sas struck into another stranger’s body again, and that he had taken another innocent soul He was satisfied, and laughed arrogantly He pulled his sword back and took sight of the gaping hole it left, and the blood it gushed
And then… his smile froze
Xie Bian believed that he would never h his sword had plunged deep into his target, it had pierced two inches away froo Because of this minor distance, it had resulted in the victiht
He had also et was like a kite, swaying froony Then, all of a sudden, he fleards the right
He did not knohat power this was But whatever it was, it went in violation of the laws of physics; as he fleay in an instant
Xie Bian subconsciously twisted his wrists and brought his sword up to guard his chest He turned around and saw Fan Xian, putting down the leg he had just used to kick the innocent person away