688 Untitled Again (1/2)

The first two rains of autu a sense of mystery It see's return while the second was to send Chen Pingping away Once everything was concluded on the execution field in front of the Royal Palace, the misty rain ca a tall, light, and clear sky Other than the rainwater left in the streets, alleys, and bricks, everything returned to nor scene, but no one dared to discuss it Silently, they followed the various streets and dispersed The officials in front of the palace gates looked at each other and did not knohat they should do next The Emperor had already returned to the palace, and the little Duke had left carrying the old Director's body The water flowing everywhere on the ground did not gather into an idea, leaving thedou, Fan Xian and the 500 Black Knights had already broken countless Qing laws and Overwatch Council regulations Furtherdou, he had casually killed many court officials Additionally, he caused a disturbance in the execution field in front of the Eivable crimes, but the Emperor did not speak Who could condemn Fan Xian? Who dared to condemn Fan Xian?

Hu the Scholar careeted hihout the entire event He looked at the blood stains on the wooden stage that had become diluted by the rainwater His brows suddenly twitched Turning back, he saw Scholar Shu Wu, who seeed decades in an instant, follow the foot of the palace walls and leave alone He did not greet any of them

Hu the Scholar's heart dimmed He knew he could not become controlled by these emotions Sir He had already entered the palace He had to stay and aze swept slowly across the officials of the six ministries, three temples, and three departments Calates Everything is as usual”

Hearing these words, the officials in front of the Royal Palace couldn't help but let out a big breath They had been frightened about how they would deal with Sir Fan junior It looked like, at least for a short tier and would not give such a dangerous job to his officials to deal with

Hu the Scholar did not care about these officials' reactions He narrowed his eyes There were no Overwatch Councilthe six ministries, three temples, and three departht Overwatch Council bureaus were currently shut up in prison However, it seemed that Sir Yan junior had quietly left earlier

It was not only the Overwatch Council that was controlled through internal and external coordination A heavy expression flashed across Scholar Hu's brows He knew that there were also people in the Royal Palace that had been controlled, such as Lady Ning and King Jing, who had risked death to make a last attempt to ask for mercy They were both under house arrest in the palace Their situations were unclear

The young lady of the Fan faht, sees, he thought of the 10,000 Qing elite troops still stationed outside the Overwatch Council A chill rose in Scholar Hu's heart He knew he had to i to the little Duke who had the powerful and daring to oppose the Royal Palace

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The noon sun shone brilliantly on the Liujing River outside Jingdou The river water was clear and cold It had war froant courtyard separated froray-white walls, yellow ba coldness The sun had reduced the water on the roof tiles into spots of wetness It gave off a sense of war heat at the beginning of autue on the banks of the Liujing River and caate to the courtyard

This courtyard ere Ye Qingmei had once lived, where the Eldest Princess had died, and where Fan Xian had koed to many times across the river After the Ye family incident, it had been absorbed into the royal family's palace treasury and becoh the years, the Emperor rarely came there Additionally, there wasn't a concubine or prince who dared to be so tactless as to ask to live there teo, when the Eldest Princess was planning the Jingdou rebellion, for some unknown reason, she had temporarily lived there for a few days

Since the courtyard was quiet and rarely visited, and because of the cold weight of history that the place sustained, it e to maintain a respectful distance Thus, the internal court's care of this place was not very particular or exacting Only four ularly

Seeing this black carriage disregard the e straight in, the expressions on the guards' faces changed as they walked forward They had no ti before they were subdued with crossbows held by a group of people who had surged out froe They were disarmed and bound

An official of the Overwatch Council walked up and silently pulled open the curtain on the carriage

The sound of footsteps rang out faintly Covered in rain and with a pale face, Fan Xian walked down fro's body The water on his body followed his black underclothing and Overwatch Council robe over the oldnoise

The door of the Taiping Courtyard opened Fan Xian did not glance at the subordinates as he walked in sternly With a squeak, the large door closed tightly behind him The Overwatch Council officials immediately scattered They took control of all the ie and kept a cautious watch all around thehtly hts rode toward the, a thunderous wave of hooves stopped further away It was perhaps either the Jingdou Garrison or ie arrived and stopped right across the bridge An icy-faced official walked down froe He just calmly looked at the Overwatch Council officials outside the courtyard

The Overwatch Council officials who had followed Fan Xian to Taiping Courtyard were mostly officials of the First Bureau There were a few dou With the help of the palace, Yan Bingyun temporarily had control of the situation in the Overwatch Council's square and sinister building He was unable to control the eight bureaus of the Overwatch Council, particularly the First Bureau When Fan Xian had been in the First Bureau, he had been strong and glorious The officials of the First Bureau all treated Fan Xian like their lord Now, once the curtains fell on the show in front of the Royal Palace and not long after Fan Xian had left the execution field holding Chen Pingping's body, officials of the First Bureau cayun narrowed his eyes and looked at his colleagues on the other end of the bridge He was not surprised by Fan Xian's lofty reputation within the Council, particularly within the First Bureau He just found it strange that the Emperor had sent people to keep an eye on the First Bureau Their communications were not sdou, so how did the officials of the First Bureau know? Furthermore, they had just happened to coyun did not know that the young mistress in the Fan manor had already reacted the firstthe E for her husband ahead of time and had maintained contact with the First Bureau the entire time When Fan Xian rode alone into the execution field, the people of the First Bureau had already begun to hts, they had orders fro Courtyard Fan Xian had thought everything through before entering the capital Regardless of whether or not he could rescue the old cripple, he and his people would eventually need to e in silence for a long ti onto the bridge Squeaking endlessly, he finally arrived at the other end Bowing under the alert, hostile, and disdainful gaze of the officials of the First Bureau, he said in a deep voice, ”Yan Bingyun of the Fourth Bureau requests to see the Director”

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Fan Xian did not know that Yan Bingyun had already appeared outside Taiping Courtyard, but he was certain that someone would couess that as he walked stepped by step out of Jingdou, countless people followed behind hi ar Courtyard, waiting for the advising to be successful or not This was all ordered by that Eht?

He did not think about all this and couldn't be bothered to think about it He just felt very tired and exhausted He felt empty inside The zhenqi that usually filled his body in abundance seemed to have all been spewed out with the cry earlier He had spat out the i behind only emptiness

Fan Xian felt that his footsteps had never been as heavy as they were now, and his body had never been so weak The oldheavier and heavier? He was beco so heavy that he alhtly wet hair lay on his forehead He held Chen Pingping as he walked by the grassy plain passed the flowering tree and little lake and caently picked a shrinking and blooently pressed it against the corner of the wall With a squeaking sound, a hold slowly appeared on the ground with stone steps leading down It was not very deep The sunshi+ne in the sky was co stones below

Presu Courtyard were not secret to those old folks Even the er Eldest Princess had once found one in the courtyard After the Ye family incident, the Emperor should have checked the courtyard for the whereabouts of the chest However, he did not find it Since he always held a strange eain

For Fan Xian, this secret passage was very fao, after he had opened the chest, Uncle Wu Zhu had once brought hie to find the bullets necessary for the burning stick

Step by step, he walked down as if entering the netherworld In reality, it was only a secret rooround The room was clean and tidy It did not have any decorations or treasures other than a few chairs and a few coffins

Fan Xian placed a hand on the side of the coffin and lifted open the lid Then, he carefully placed the thin body of the old man in his arms into it He picked up a small porcelain pillow and carefully placed it behind his head Looking at the silk lining inside the coffin, Fan Xian tilted his head slightly but did not close the lid

Chen Pingping's eyes were tightly closed His naked body was only covered by the Overwatch Council robe Fan Xian had taken off Fan Xian stood by the coffin and looked quietly at his thin face and deeply sunken eyes Suddenly, he felt that this entirely black clothing was far more appropriate than those beautiful silks

The black clothing was the uniform of the Overwatch Council It had come from Fan Xian's body, so it was in the style of the Director of the Overwatch Council In Fan Xian's opinion, Chen Pingping's life was difficult to speak of Presumably, he would have liked to die as the Director of the Overwatch Council

Fan Xian stood quietly by the coffin and looked at the deeply sleeping Chen Pingping He thought that on the execution field earlier and in the auturadually drifted away in his arhtly He shouldn't be afraid of anything, right?

Looking at the old and pale face, Fan Xian suddenly res When he was very little, this old s with a woolen blanket, had asked Teacher Fei Jie to come teach hierous and evil world He ulations and structures of the Overwatch Council froe Probably from the day he was born, the old man had already decided to leave the Overwatch Council, which he considered his greatest treasure, to hi It had been in that dark rooh it was the first ti the old cripple on the wheelchair was like seeing an elder he had not seen for a long time A natural sense of closeness twined between the two of theed the thin and weak Chen Pingping He had placed his face next to his just like how he did it now