Chapter 70 The collective memory of the people of Qingguo about the Ye family

After officials from the Eighth Department of the Supervision Bureau took away two scholars, Yishishi seemed much silent, but the wine strengthened the literati's courage. After a while, they began to talk about it in a noisy way. What they were talking about was nothing more than the rumors about Fan Tisi's life experience of the Supervision Bureau.

"The Ye family was a serious crime of treason. After the mysterious mistress passed away, all the property was put into the inner treasury." One person said worriedly: "If Lord Xiao Fan is really the orphan of the mistress... I think this matter is troublesome."

"Story of rebellion? Then why are the shopkeepers of Qingyutang so white and fat?" A scholar with very strong eyebrows sarcastically said: "I think the court took advantage of the orphans and no widows to occupy the property. Now, suddenly there was an additional heir from the Ye family. I think the court was afraid that the court would panic."

"What's the panic?"

"Isn't Your Majesty interested in letting Fantisi take charge of the inner treasury? This inner treasury belongs to his family, how can I manage the law?"

"Return to the inner warehouse?" Another snorted coldly: "I think Fanti Si will be in trouble soon."

The shopkeeper came over while wiping his cold sweat and said, "Masters, can you speak softer? If the men of the Supervision Bureau hear it, can I still open a small shop?"

The shopkeeper of Yishiju rarely comes out to see guests on weekdays, but today he comes upstairs. Several familiar guests get up to greet him. The shopkeeper takes care of him everywhere, while supporting his ears and listening to these gossips after drinking. Yishiju is the property of the Cui family. Recently, the Cui family is about to collapse. Suddenly, he heard the rumors of his enemy Fan Tisi...'s life experience. The Cui family couldn't help but feel secretly happy and watched the situation develop.

The young man who claimed in front of him that the court occupied the Ye family's property was indeed bold after drinking and said with a laugh: "Shopkeeper, what are you afraid of? Can the Supervision Bureau really block the world's long mouth? Even if they dare, Your Majesty will not agree. Look at the people who arrested the Supervision Bureau yesterday, didn't they send them back today? They just chatted a few gossips and did not violate Qinglu."

The man beside him was still worried and confused: "Fan Tisi is not easy to deal with now. If he was really the Ye family... descendant, he would probably end his career."

In fact, this has not been said thoroughly. After all, it is not an official, and it is in a restaurant in broad daylight. No one dares to truly judge it. In the hearts of these people, they always think that after the court learned about Fan Xian's life, they would take his official position, and... they would be afraid that they would take his life.

"What should I do with the Fan Mansion?" The man then sighed: "Shangshu Fan has been a famous capable minister in charge of the Ministry of Revenue over the years. Could it be that his family would be destroyed because of his romantic debts that year?"

After the rumors entered Beijing, in addition to speculation about Fan Xian's life experience, the one that the people of Kyoto talked about was Fan Jian, the Minister of Revenue, who deceived the mysterious mistress of the Ye family back then, and how he made the other party's beads secretly get a secret - everyone knows that Fan Shangshu was a romantic master on the Liujing River back then, but he didn't expect that he had such skills and could attract the mistress of the world's number one businessman back then.

However, during the spread of rumors, the ladies and jeans from the family had a completely different feeling about Fan Shangshu. The Ye family committed a serious crime of treason and had a very low official rank at that time. He was able to survive the child he had with that woman. The palace people had not yet discovered that they were willing to take the risk of raising the sky for so many years. This story seems to be enough to re-compile a storybook, which has the potential of popular romance novels.

Until now, people seem to finally understand why Fan Jian left Fan Xian in Danzhou for 16 years and refused to let him enter Beijing.

Judging from the panic appearance of the eight departments of the Supervision Bureau, people knew that this rumor must have extremely high accuracy. However, the Holy Emperor was still in power, Fan Tisi was not Chen Pingping after all. He could not cover up the sky with one hand, nor did he dare to invite all the people who love to chat in Kyoto to have tea. In the end, he could only watch the matter gradually expand.

For example, the person who was caught yesterday was released again today, which is a clear proof.

Therefore, people no longer resented the young Fantisi's act of doing such a taboo Feng Yanlu. Instead, they felt a little sympathy for the young official who had uncertain future and had "living and death are hard to know". After all, Fan Xian has gained a very good reputation in the Qing Kingdom in the past two years. Whether inside or outside the territory, he has earned too much face for the court. When he thought that he was about to be in trouble, the people still had some emotional tendencies, especially when he thought of his mother, it seemed that he had disappeared without a trace because of a false conspiracy.

"Ye family? Which Ye family?"

At this time, a young man suddenly asked in the restaurant foolishly. He had been listening for a long time, but he still didn't know what the Ye family, which was related to Lord Xiao Fan, came from. After all, the incident had passed so long ago, and time was like water, which made too many people in Qingguo forget the golden name.

"Don't the Ye family know?" The older people began to laugh contemptly. It turned out that they were boys with unfinished beards. Even the Ye family, who was famous back then, didn't know about it, and they felt that it was necessary to teach the other party a lesson.

"The Ye family was the number one businessman in the world back then." The middle-aged man said leisurely: "It is the Ye family who made glass to sell it as silver."

Some people expressed their objection, believing that the focus was not clearly stated: "Ye family, it is the Ye family that makes soap and perfume. Oh, the perfume has been discontinued for more than ten years, and you probably have never had a good time."

"It's the only Ye family who can make spirits."

Someone also added: "It was the Ye family who provided a large part of the imperial court's ordnance."

"Do you know the inner treasury? Do you know where do you get the money spent on so much money every year in Daqing Dynasty?" The middle-aged man laughed: "It is the inner treasury that comes from the Northern Qi Dynasty, the Dongyi, and even from the sea. What is the inner treasury? It is the industry of the old Ye family back then!"

The young man who asked the question was dumbfounded, opened his mouth wide and said, "Oh my God, it's so amazing."

The scholar who was the most courageous and pointed directly at the imperial court to seize the property, shook his head and sneered: "If the Ye family were just merchants, how could they have grown to the scale that they were back then? If she were just merchants, how could she be destroyed by...?"

The middle-aged man curiously said, "Oh, may I know what news about my brother?"

"Ye Family..." The scholar shook his head and sighed: "It is said that he has a close relationship with the Supervision Bureau. When the Supervision Bureau was first established, I heard that all the items were provided by the Ye Family. Of course, this is just a legend."

After a middle-aged man pondered for a while, he suddenly had a flash of inspiration in his mind and said to the surroundings: "Everyone, do you remember the stone tablet at the entrance of the Supervision Bureau?"

Everyone nodded, and suddenly their faces changed, and they thought of something. They all exclaimed and said, "Can they say that... the one named Ye Qingmei is the mistress of the Ye family!"

The scholar also changed his expression slightly and sighed: "No wonder, no wonder...No wonder, no wonder...No wonder, Lord Xiao Fan would rather give up Qinggui's reputation and defame himself, and insisted on going to the Supervision Office to do things, for fear that he knew very well. Alas..." He said in surprise: "Mr. Xiao Fan secretly brought the Supervisory Office to the Supervision Office. This matter has always been strange. Did President Chen know it long ago..."

Before he finished speaking, the middle-aged man was extremely anxious and held a wine glass to his mouth, blocking his next words. After the scholar was stunned, he was still afraid of the simple and straightforward style of the people. The people and scholars were not afraid of all officials, nor were they afraid of Lord Xiao Fan, otherwise how could they dare to talk about his gossip in the restaurant, but to the old man sitting in a wheelchair. Everyone was afraid of it like a ghost and dared not talk much.

The restaurant finally became really quiet, and everyone started drinking and eating. I don’t know how long it took, but suddenly I heard a surprise sound from the corner.

Everyone was shocked and turned their heads to look at it. They found that it was the young man who had not known the glorious history of the Ye family before. He stood up. He was extremely excited and said with a chorus: "I remember the Ye family, I remember that the Ye family is the Ye family who made the second kick!"

Everyone laughed and ignored it.

In fact, for most people in Qing State, the Ye family has become a noun in ancient paper piles, and no one will deliberately retain her existence in memory. Even the Shiju Restaurant talks happily. If it were placed two days ago, they might not remember the many changes that the Ye family brought to Qing State. It was just that Fan Tisi was a descendant of the Ye family and entered Beijing. People talked too much, which gradually awakened their sleeping memories, and began to recall the Qing State after the appearance of the Ye family. It seemed that there were too many differences from the Qing State before the appearance of the Ye family...

Maybe it was just a lady in the house who began to miss the smell of perfume, maybe it was just a patron in the city gate who remembered the magical use of soap when taking a bath, maybe it was just a soldier who was staring at the crossbow arrow in his hand, maybe it was a businessman who was in the north who was wiping the glass horse with silk cloth, maybe a poet was filled with endless pleasure in his heart. Maybe it was the old man from the Supervision House who opened the black cloth and looked at everything in the world, maybe it was just a young man who remembered the first firecrackers he set off when he was a child.

In short, because of the rumors about Fan Xian’s life experience, people began to think of the Ye family for one reason or another.

Fan Xian walked out the door and faced the rare warm sun in winter. He stretched his waist and smiled refreshedly. Because of this, it was not convenient for him to go back to Cangshan again. According to his father's wishes, the Fan family pretended that nothing had happened before, and just stared at everything calmly, and welcomed the whispers around him.

Deng Ziyue came over and handed him the information from today's court newspaper and Qi Nian's group privately. Fan Xian took a brief look at the sunshine and asked: "Are there any movements in the officials in the capital about that rumor?"

Deng Ziyue looked at Lord Tisi's calm face with his eyes. He was very impressed. Such a big thing happened and he was so calm. Isn't he afraid that the palace will send someone to arrest you immediately? He didn't know Fan Xian's anxious appearance on Cangshan, and he couldn't help but look higher than his level.

When he first heard this rumor, Deng Ziyue and all the officials in the Supervision Bureau were shocked and incredible as ordinary people. But after a moment of thinking, everyone found that although there was no evidence of the rumor, it was very convincing to the actions of Fan Tisi after entering Beijing. If it were not for the descendants of the Ye family, why would the dean love Tisi so much? If it were not for the descendants of the Ye family, why would Fan Shangshu have been planning to let his son take over the hot cake of Neiku?

"No big news." Deng Ziyue was stunned by the sunshine in the garden, and then woke up from his distraction. After accusing him of guilt, he said: "The news from all the prefectures is very clear. The Censorate has been in secret contact, but last time they suffered a big loss. This time, it seems a little cautious. On the contrary, some officials in other parts began to get ready, but the rumors were rumors, and there was no real evidence, and they dared not write memorials and say anything. Everything was still in secret."

Fan Xian asked, "Is it the East Palace?"

Deng Ziyue shook his head: "The officials who are in good terms with the Eastern Palace are still watching, but... Yesterday, several ministers and wives came to the palace to pay homage to the queen. After they returned to the house, the ministers also met in private. As for what they said, no one knew."

"Queen?" Fan Xian frowned and sighed, thinking that he had not had time to cause trouble for the other party. Could it be that the other party would come to the door on his own initiative? The queen would naturally be furious. What is the Queen Mother's idea?

Until today, he realized the power he could use. Except for Uncle Wu Zhu and the last trump card, the rest were not very safe. Now, even if Chen Pingping and his father's plan were safely overcome by relying on the emperor's trust in him. But what about the future? The situation must always be controlled in his own hands before he can feel at ease.

In the Hanguang Hall of the Imperial Palace, the queen sat on the edge of the empress dowager's bed with tears on her face, holding the old woman's hand in her hand. She said miserably: "Auntie, you have to make the decision for your child."

The Queen Mother sighed and said, "How to be this master?"

The queen gritted her teeth and said, "I used to see Fan Xian a little frightened. Now I finally know that he is the son of the witch! The emperor... The emperor is so cruel. He actually kept it from me for so long, and that witch has descendants!"

The queen touched the queen's messy hair and comforted her, "It's been so long. What else can't be so unhappy? You've seen that boy, and the emperor can't give him any title. If you fight for it, what can you win?"

At this time, Hanguang Hall was quiet. Except for the old eunuch Hong who was sleeping and guarding the door, all the eunuchs and palace maids were very far away from the ground.

"I want to go out?" The queen was about to cry, and wrinkles appeared in the corners of her eyes, "Auntie. Have you forgotten the child's father? That's your brother. Although the emperor has never refused to say it, there is no reason that he can't guess? Isn't it just to kill that witch. He has always held a grudge?"

When the queen heard this, the queen's face suddenly sank, she sat down from the bed and said sternly: "Shut up! In this palace, you should call me my mother, not my aunt! You still have the face to say about the matter back then, you don't know where to eat, but you actually instigated your father to do such things, killing people... The emperor only told the Ai family several months ago that if Fan Jian's family had not learned the opportunity and had sacrificed dozens of lives, you not only wanted to kill that woman, but also killed... Fan Xian!"

The queen mother leaned her face close to the queen and said coldly: "Don't forget that although Fan Xian is the son of that woman, the blood of the emperor is shed in his bones! No matter where he is, he is always the flesh and blood of our Tian family. If you want to kill him, you have to ask what the Ai family means."

The queen shivered in her heart, and she felt endless fear. She looked at the empress dowager's righteous face like dementia, thinking that I wasn't it that you, the old man, had a tacit approval for the first time? Why didn't he admit it at this time?

As if he guessed what the queen was thinking, the queen looked slightly clear and said lightly: "Some things, don't say them if you can't say them, and take them into the soil."

The queen filled her eyes with anger, looked at the queen mother silently, and said extremely rudely: "It turns out... it turns out that the queen mother is also afraid of her son."

The Queen Mother stared at the queen's face with a cold look, saying word by word: "It's not fear, it's love. The Ai family is reluctant to look at the emperor as sad as before, and he is even more reluctant to have another bloody night in Kyoto... The royal family's bloodline is already thin, and the princes and nobles have lost most of them, and they can no longer withstand such trouble."

The queen sat for a while and suddenly started to laugh like a nervousness: "Can't you resist tossing? My poor father, your poor brother, died in vain? Fan Xian is the son of Ye Yaonu... But the court did not give an explanation? Just let the government and the public discuss it like this? What is the Ye family? The Ye family's charges are rebellion... Are you not worried that the royal family will lose all their faces?"

The Empress Dowager said slowly: "You are tired, go and have a rest. As for Fan Xian... who said he is Miss Ye's son? The Ai family doesn't believe it at all. As for the foolish people in the world, if you like, go and go."

The queen finally became desperate. The hands in Baifeng's skirt sleeves were tightly clutching the handkerchief, and forced herself to stand up and salute the queen mother, then turned around and walked out of Hanguang Hall.

When she was about to reach the palace gate, the Queen Mother Han's voice sounded: "I heard that some ministers and wives often came to your palace to sit recently. The New Year is coming soon, and there are more things in the palace. You are the mother of the country who commands the six palaces. Don't always worry about the things outside the palace... Just go."

The queen turned around and bowed again, leaving with a cold smile on her lips.

"Go and look at her. Her temper has become more and more strange over the years." The empress dowager sat on the bed, barely put the silver threads on her hair in her trembling hands, and told the old eunuch Hong in front of her, "Don't let these things bother the emperor's heart."

Old Eunuch Hong responded and left Hanguang Hall like a ghost. The hall gate creaked, and the eunuchs and palace maids who were ordered quickly entered the hall to serve the Empress Dowager.

The palace maid's little hand holding the comb moved slowly and carefully on the piece of silver hair.

The empress dowager suddenly snorted coldly and slapped her palm on the table. The palace maid who combed her hair was shocked by the sound and her hands shook off and pulled off a few strands of silver hair. She looked at the hair on the comb and was so scared that she was so scared that she knelt down without thinking, kowtowing her repeatedly, not daring to say anything.

"Get up." The queen mother closed her eyes halfway and said, "The Ai family is not that old monster that can't tolerate others."

She forcibly suppressed the anger in her heart, but she couldn't calm down for a long time. The emperor came to ask her to suppress the queen because after the bleeding night in Kyoto, the people involved were almost dead. Only the queen knew the real relationship between the girl in the Ye family and the emperor, and only the queen knew Fan Xian's true life experience. If the queen was allowed to do whatever the princes would wake up after they were scared to death.

When she thought of the Ye family, the Queen Mother's temple began to beating and a bitter pain began to spread. The Queen Mother always believed that the woman in the Ye family would have been entangled with a spell that had been entangled with the Qing Dynasty royal family for countless years. Unexpectedly, she actually left a child for the emperor after printing this idea!

The empress dowager had enough ability to deal with this matter, otherwise the Ye family would not have been destroyed back then, and the impression that the old woman had left was bad enough. When she learned the truth from the emperor's mouth, when she thought of Fan Xian's mother's surname Ye, her head began to hurt. So Fan Xian entered the palace several times, but she avoided it because she could not guarantee that she could show the kindness that an empress dowager should have.

When it comes to how to deal with Fan Xian, her ideas and the queen are very different. For the queen, Fan Xian is first of all the sons of the Ye family woman, the enemy of life and death. But in the eyes of the Queen Mother, even if the Ye family woman has many faults, all kinds of sins, and evil deeds of the Chaogang... But the son she gave birth to is the blood of the Tian family and her own grandson.

Late at night, after confirming that the old eunuch Hong had returned to the cottage outside Hanguang Hall, the pale queen bit her lip and gave a wink at the palace maid who was close to her. After a while, the prince of the Eastern Palace who had been relatively calm recently and had never made any mistakes came to her and saluted and greeted her.

I don't know what the queen was saying, but I just listened to her lowered voice getting more and more anxious, but the prince kept shaking his head.

The mother and son were speechless. After a while, the prince comforted softly: "Mother, what can you do if Fan Xian is a descendant of the Ye family? You are just a merchant."

"Merchant?" the queen sneered: "Do you think that woman is an ordinary businessman? She is a demon star!"
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