705 A Sorrowful Song Of Defeat In Western Hu (1/2)
”The advice that should be given has already been given by many people There is no need to say 'er's shoulder with a ss between the two of the'er did not raise her brows as was her habit On the contrary, the expression on her face di into s, father is very angry about what's happening in the North” She looked at Fan Xian and hesitated After apeople”
Fan Xian nodded his head and didn't say anything, but his shtly bitter After the yi 'er and passed on his orders, the unrest in the snited This allowed for a way to oppose the court's edict and the Great Prince to stay in Dongyi
Northern Qi's reaction had been wildly out of Fan Xian's expectations Given the ti Thewas not to have Northern Qi send out its army He just asked for the Eyi a hand
There were many ways to help What Northern Qi did ithout a doubt, the most just and honorable Yet, it was also one that put Fan Xian in the hts As he held the coal, he quietly chatted with Ye Ling'er, trying to understand whether or not there was anything going on with the Bureau of Military affairs from the scraps of conversations in the Ye manor
The Emperor's reaction toward the battle in the North was too indifferent It er However, he did not knohere this danger would land
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A few days after the Winter Solstice, the Fan manor put on another family feast The family feast this time was not like the one at the Prince's eneration of the royal family invited It was purely just a fauests were Fan Xian's four disciples
Yang Wanli had been banished from his position as vice director of the Ministry of Works to prison and had suffered torture while held there After his sentence was pronounced that day in the Supreme Court, he had been taken home by Fan Xian to recover Until now, his movements were still li scattered with the wind He just sat peacefully to Fan Xian's right
The one that had cli Jialin He had already made it to Suzhou's Zhizhou, but he had been iically The twoprostitutes and invading toht back to the capital Fan Xian had run around for hi himself physically and mentally In the end, he had preserved for him his life but he had to lose his post to end matters It looked like his prospects had co Wanli and sighed endlessly
There were two tables in the Flower Hall The wo Wanli, and Cheng Jialin sat at the table outside They did not touch their chopsticks Instead, they aiting for soently fell in the garden of the Fanbefore a person, walking against the wind and snow, entered the Flower Hall guided by a servant It was shi+ Chanli, who had been away frodoone everywhere under heaven to unify the brothel business
shi+ Chanli entered the hall Before he even brushed away the snow on his clothes, he bowed deeply to Fan Xian in the main seat and then turned toward the screen and bowed to the h bitterly toward Yang Wanli and Cheng Jialin He then went forward to hug the friends he had not seen in a long tiether, so he are of ic encounters these two friends had run into these fewexpressed all the separation and coet up” shi+ Chanli had conscientiously sat below Cheng Jialin and spoken across the table to Yang Wanli, who had been trying to get up to speak Although he was now a notable ure wherever he went, the habits he for the holy books had still not changed The gliret in the deepest reaches of his heartJialin, and Hou Jichang He also thought that his status as aWanli and Cheng Jialin looked at each other and se the pedantic guy Instead, they chatted leisurely No one talked about their tragic encounters these few months, and no one expressed criticism of the court's laws They did not want their teacher, Fan Xian, to be worried because of these er, but no one else caroard and uncohtly solemn expression and muttered, ”Perhaps the snow is heavy and he has been delayed”
Yang Wanli pressed his lips together tightly and sighed Picking up the wine cup in front of hilanced at Fan Xian with confusion and said, ”According toshould have returned to the capital seven days ago However, the court has not pinned any cri”
Fan Xian raised his brows and smiled ”It's near the end of the year, so officials and colleagues have many banquet invitations It is not unusual to not have time”
Be that as ithad been back in the capital for a number of days but had not come to visit the Fan manor The spies of the court had also noticed It see him What all of this stated was clear
In a country such as this, betraying one's teacher for glory was not unheard of Having it happen to hiaze sloept across the faces of the three people Complicated emotions rose in his heart shi+ Chanli should have been in the Song Kingdom He had taken a risk to return to the capital to see hi Wanli To speak of Cheng Jialin, Fan Xian had always thought that this character was slightly weak and did not trust him too much Unexpectedly, this man would rather have his position stripped than turn his back on hi had unexpectedly not co a banquet at his manor today,” shi+ Chanli said with an uncomfortable expression ”Before you entered the capital, the two of thedou talents and were once friends”
Yang Wanli gritted his teeth and said, with dark anger, ”What ais! He's quite quick to renounce the dark and seek the light When I see him another day, I must praise hi Jialin just shed and said, ”To think that back in Tongfu Tavern, Brother Jichang had once said to us that even when Sir Fan junior walked along the street, he would take care to not allow the rain on his umbrella to land in the oil in the pots of stall-keepers Such a people-loving person was one that we should eht that he would now… Ah…”
It was just a sigh, but Fan Xian s ”Each person has their own a in court now If Jichang wants to work for the people, it et closer to Scholar He”
He spoke calmly, so no one was able to see the coldness in his heart Fan Xian knew that of the four disciples, he had favored Hou Jichang However, the affairs of the world were strange Who knehether soements or if it had been a proble Wanli contributed greatly to the repair of the riverbanks His reputation had shaken the world Cheng Jialin had reached the position of Suzhou Zhizhou at a very young age and had also been one of the Seven Gentlemen of the new policies that the Eh shi+ Chanli had not entered officialdoloith splendor
Yet, it was Hou Jichang who still lived in Jiaozhou unable to express his ambitions Now that Fan Xian had completely lost power, Sir Hou probably felt dissatisfied and was forced to search out a different solution It was not that Fan Xian could not understand this, but he was unhappy, particularly toward Scholar He, as also hosting a banquet
After three rounds of drinks, they talked about the stuff they had each done in their positions these years Yang Wanli talked about how all the silver turned into the giant rocks and dirt on either side of the Great River Cheng Jialing talked about how he protected the people as Zhizhou and hoith Sir Fan junior's help, he had dealt with the royal salt ether zhou Conference, and how it helped so many poor commoners shi+ Chanli spoke with a shtly better days that the wretched brothel girls now lived He also told an a anecdote Rumors said that in the back of some Baoyue Brothels, they worshi+pped a statue of Sir Fan junior because he had protected the lives and safety of so irls With these words, everyone, other than shi+ Chanli, sprayed out the alcohol in theirabout their own s related to Fan Xian They spoke of the things Fan Xian had done in his life that were for the country and the people Fan Xian was not a saint, only a htly happier He looked at these three with a s in the dou Jialin, your family is still in Suzhou You may as well move into the manor”
The moment their teacher spoke, the three of them fell silent at the sa at hiements for your family in Suzhou You don't have to worry,” Fan Xian said warh this period I've called you here today because I orried that you would have resentment in your heart toward the court and hed bitterly and said, ”Of course, now it looks like I don't need to worry about Jichang As you know, I've never deht words Even if the court wants to find evidence ofwill have his own considerations, but I trust that he will notand betray me” Fan Xian's expression calmed ”The four of you followedtimes of peace So, you had to put in effort Presently, the world is not very peaceful, so you need to endure in silence I know you all want to help ues in secret In the future, do not do this Mythat officials in court can resolve”
Cheng Jialing smiled bitterly and accepted it They all reave theood official
”Now that you cannot be an official, you must be honest men” There was a hidden pain between Fan Xian's brows The Eht down everyone around hiht It left hiht This move was truly overly ruthless
After the fa went by thearden to rest Fan Xian kept shi+ Chanli back Naturally, he had not just summoned shi+ Chanli back to the capital across thousands of li for so as simple as a meal There were just the two of the and angrily cursed out Hou Jichang
Fan Xian shook his head and said, ”In the end, Jichang is only a scholar and an official Even if he just learned how to curry favor, how does he know he reat mistake?”
shi+ Chanli's heart chilled He knew too many of his teacher's secrets Naturally, he knew that he was not just simply a powerful official His teacher's poas outside the authority of an official position Hou Jichang's betrayal had actually angered a ruler of the darkness