Vol 2 Chapter 318 (1/2)

Chapter 318: Great Grandmasters, Black Market, Riddles

The snoas still falling when Fan Sizhe finally finished pushi+ng thehard, pain was everywhere, and he felt he couldn't possible straighten his back ever againThe sweat on his face evaporated and turned white as it

”Wipe it off and then change into dry clothesOtherwise, you'll freeze” Haitang handed him a stack of neatly folded clothes

Fan Sizhe shook his head bitterly and walked inside to changeA moment later he

came out and yelled, ”There isn't even a place to hat do I do about the shed, ”It's the s your brother”

Fan Sizhe couldn't help but shake his head again and”My brother sent me north… but not for you to torturecut and polished,” Haitang replied with a placid expression”I re in the Royal Palace and Fan Xian said soht made a lot of sense”

”What did he say?” Fan Sizhe asked curiously

”'When Heaven is about to confer a great responsibility upon a , his sinews and bones with toil, his body with hunger, and subject him to extreme povertyHeaven will fill his journey with setbacks and troubles so as to stihen his natureThis will eventually fill his incompetence and prepare him for the task'”

Actually, when Fan Xian had recited Mencius' words, he was thinking of the shore of the North Sea, and the reeds in the Haitang SpringHowever, Fan Sizhe and Haitang could not know a person's true thoughtsWhen Fan Sizhe heard this passage, he only felt a gust of cold air on his head and asked in a treht?”

Haitang sht”

As she spoke, a person outside added, very respectfully, ”Second Young Master, tonight, I a you to dinner”

Fan Sizhe was surprised the person joined the conversation so naturallyHe turned around and saw that it ang QinianSuddenly seeing someone from home made him think of all the hardshi+ps he had endured recently, and how he ht be able to leave this placeFan Sizhe becaely and rushed to the outside of the fence

”You're cohtly threw out this coh the wind and snow and buried itself in Fan Sizhe's ears; it made him shi+ver and filled him with endless disappointment

Only when he reached the fence did he turn around and yell cruelly, ”I ca tohad already returned to the chaise lounge and said expressionlessly, ”How easy do you think it is to turn 1000 liang into 10,000 liang? I think Fan Xian has pushed you too hardDon't forget, your ht now”

Outside the fence, wang Qinian gave Fan Sizhe a look to reer Miss DuoduoEven Sir Fan wasn't able to protect hi with her—what chance did he have?

Fan Sizhe sneered angrily and pushed open the gate

wang Qinian s now”

Haitang gazed at him and suddenly quieted downHalf a , are you really in such a rush for hi Qinian's heart skipped and he could not understand how she could know about Commissioner Fan's planHe wasn't sure howthere was between Fan Xian and Haitang; he could only s?”

Of course Haitang was very knowledgeable about the plans concerning Fan SizheShe s more; she simply advised, ”The move has just started, don't be in such a rush”

wang Qinian had his servants fetch a hat and cloak for Fan Sizhe to wearIt was to partially block the wind and snow and was partially to conceal his appearanceHe then saluted Haitang again and readied himself to leave this piece of land next to the Royal Palace

”Have you read thein the chairShe s Qinian

wang Qinian paused

weakly and said, ”I have business at hand, forgivePlease write a feords for me in your letter, ask that MrCo chuckled and thought that this Honglu Te Qinian, was indeed an interesting person

The noises outside the yard quietedHaitang closed her eyes and drifted off to sleepToday, the snow and hirled around each other in Shangjing; each sound pulled at the soul and the cold threatened with every passing howlThe peasant girl slept soundly in this cold and cruel environment; there was even the trace of a s cultivation, she did not care about the cold seeping into her bodyOn the contrary, it was easier for her to be closer with the environ or the cold severity of winter

Snow drifted down piece by piece, dancing in the skyUnder the eaves, the girl wearing the flowered coat slept comfortably

After an indeter slowed opened her eyesHer eyes, bright beyond co ice near the eavesInvoluntarily, a thread of joy and satisfaction flashed through them

”Master, you have come”

The stone path on the banks of the Yuquan River outside of the yard had long been covered in a thick layer of snowAt this moment, a person approached slowly across the snowThe wind and snow seemed to have vanished in an instant and the only sound that could be heard was the person's footsteps

The person wore no shoes and walked with bare feet on the snow, determined and sincereIn barely a moment, they had reached the front of the yard and extended a hand to lightly push open the gateThey approached the eaves and reached out a hand to gently stroke the delighted Haitang's head”I'm here to visit you”

One of the Four Great Grandmasters, the one as viewed by the people as a God—Imperial Advisor Ku He!

If Fan Xian were to see this he would definitely ridicule Ku He's normal appearanceHe couldn't co as Ye LiuyunEspecially after he took off his hat and revealed his big, bald headHe see—he was only a very si and bare feet announced his identity as an asceticfro bowed deeply towards the teacher in utmost respect, and then invited this most extraordinary person into the rooround, her face full of naivety like a little girl'sIt was only in front of this Great Grand submitted so naturally

Ku He's face was clear, with very thin lips, and extreaze was very distant with a trace of tender love as he looked at his last discipleHe shtly and said, ”I have coed and she asked in alarm, ”Did you find Sir Xiao En's body?”

Ku He slowly put down the tea cup in his handWith the hint of a smile in his eyes, he said, ”I found the bones of my old friend in a cave on a precipice”

”A precipice in Xi Mountain?”

After Ku He had returned froo outSouessed that this Great Grandainst in that terrifying final battle in a place no one knewSouessed Ye LiuyunSo Kingdoht that Ku He and Wu Zhu would both suffer heavy injuries

After Ku He recovered and rejoined the world, his first priority was to carefully investigate Xiao En's h this Great Grandreements between the Emperor and his mother, Tianyi Dao took orders from the temple and rarely interfered with politics, and so could not say muchHowever, for this Great Grandmaster, for whoreat importance on the life and death of Xiao En

The precipice of the Xi Mountain

Mountain had been searched multiple timesThey did not find a body anywhere on the hest thorn in the side of Northern QiIf that oldShanhu, as under house arrest, could beco, since senior brother disciple Lang Tiao swore that Xiao En could not have survived after being stabbed by a scimitar, she believed hiement of his first disciple

Untold a the mountain and they left no stone unturned, yet they still did not find a trace of either Xiao En or that mysterious personNorthern Qi could not understand how there could be someone in this world who could scale the secko

Finally, Irily stopped searchingThey didn't expect for this Great Grandmaster to put aside his status and personally searchWho kne much effort it took for Ku He to finally, in this snow and wind, find Xiao En's body in a cave on the precipice?