Chapter 167: A Visitor In The Rain (Part 1) (1/2)
Chapter 167: A Visitor in the Rain (Part 1)
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
Wan'er sucked in a breath of cold air as she discovered that this was how things were, and listened to Fan Xian, who continued to talk, s ”So, His Majesty can endure for a while, but not for an age He can restrain the bureaucracy, but he cannot restrain his own son If His Majesty has never thought about it, then fine But when he begins to think about the first problethe examinations scandal naturally becoainst his chest ”In truth, it's easy to talk of such things,” she said quietly ”If I thought about it, I could understand it Why does my brother the Crown Prince not wish to understand it?”
”It is not that the Crown Prince does not wish to understand, but that he has begun to feel unsafe” Fan Xian recalled the gifts that the Emperor had bestowed upon the three princes at the start of the year, which were all deep with hiddenthat even Fan Xian could not understand It appeared that whether it was the Crown Prince or the Great Prince, they were all nervous and uneasy, and so they had all tried to hed ”I don't want my husband to divide the land and rule over a part of it I only want you to be a free and good noble”
”Riches and honor and an easy life; that has always beenof Jia Baoyu's nicknas I cannot bear to see There will always be soood?” [1]
Seeing him iggle ”Your father shouldn't have any probleht?” she asked a little while later
”Relax My father went to visit the Prian to speak, he shook his head and sighed in ads wonderfully Look at the officials who have been caught recently Other than Director Guo, they've been sacked from the Eastern Palace and the Bureau of Military Affairs My father-in-law has lost his right-hand man, but there has been no serious harm If the proper behavior had not been carried out by someone with many years of experience within the bureaucracy, they wouldn't have been able to understand it so perfectly”
”Is it very difficult?” asked Lin Wan'er with a sh his wife's dark hair ”Very diffcult,” he replied gently ”You want to cause those with power some pain, but not soit difficult for His Majesty to deal with things”
Having said this, faint worry lines appeared on his brow
”What is it?” Wan'er grasped her husband's arently as she asked
Fan Xian shook his head and tried to disperse his inner worries ”I thought this was exposing a scandal that couldn't be hidden from people, so I prepared carefully I didn't expect the Overwatch Council to shi+eld uaranteed safety in this world The Eastern Palace can always find out about my connections with the Overwatch Council, and there are tooAt the ping?” Lin Wan'er i about But she wasn't sure why – other than he having exposed the scandal – it had anything to do with the terrifying spy organization of the Overwatch Council So she was so that they covered up her confusion as to what ”safety” really was
Fan Xian s clearly, and instead si has never thought of hiding such things”
”How dare he!”
Every young woh Fan Xian's secret exposure of this scandal worried Lin Wan'er so that Chen Pingping wanted to expose her husband to the people, the thought of the danger made her body shake With the o to the palace and find the Ehed and co wants to entrust this to me, perhaps it is not a bad idea”
Lin Wan'er did not understand But Fan Xian understood that this was a good opportunity If the poetry recitation at the evening banquet had established his fir, the exposure of this scandal was undoubtedly the best opportunity As Master Fei Jie had once said: as hishad never been happy with hi rich off the palace treasury He was deterive hi what had been said of Chen Pingping's disposition, using the exam scandal to suddenly come to the forefront was not iains to losses Of this, Fan Xian was soentle rain that fell outside the , and realized that it was already nearly noon; he had spent half the day in bed with his wife He couldn't help but sh his smile was a somewhat exhausted one His exposure of this scandal was firstly because he really had felt sorry for the truly talented scholars, and secondly because of how those indignant princes had pulled him between them like a rope The most important reason, however, was that he wanted to finally test Chen Pingping
Fan Xian was going to Northern Qi, so he wanted to be sure what approach that oldpower of the Overwatch Council - would have toward him At the same time, he wanted to see more clearly what approach the Emperor behind the oldIt decided their relationshi+p It could show their history It could make known his life history Fan Xian narrowed his eyes, looking through thethat beared his mother'sin the Kingdoe ofon an unbounded path approaching the truth
Perhaps his goal was already close
The street was slightly wet outside Fan Manor An unure floated froround Its right pale as it climbed aboard