Chapter 60: I remember being young at that time

Only some snow pieces remained on the pavilion opposite the lake, which were divided into countless white pieces in a gentle and tender manner, just like a lot of patches on the dark pavilion. The Kyoto snow stopped at the 29th day of the 11th lunar month. Within three days, the servants in Prince Jing's mansion had already swept the snow on the grass on the lake.

It was just that the weather was cold and the ground was frozen, so there were naturally no fresh and tender grass tips on the grass. There were only white grasses that were stiff after death, but no one took care of them. They looked a little desolate.

Fan Xian followed Prince Jing quietly and walked deep into the garden, but his eyes looked at Prince Jing's slightly hunched back.

After entering the palace, Shangshu Fan came forward and blocked Prince Jing's dirty offensive and became lively. However, before Lian Roujia and Hongchengdu saw it, Prince Jing suddenly proposed to let Fan Xian go with him. Although Fan Xian didn't know what the prince's proposal was intended, seeing that his father nodded secretly, he also went with him.

Along the way, there were not many scenery in the garden. Even the vegetable fields that Prince Jing served day and night were just a few pools of mud. Prince Jing was standing in front of him without saying anything, so Fan Xian had to follow him silently, while looking at the prince's back, his thoughts had already floated to another place.

This prince is unusual and has seen such a ridiculous prince who is self-disciplined and even defamatory in history books. However, as this Prince Jing does so simply, it is rare to have a powerful person who does not have a slight desire for power.

Especially with this old look, I don’t know what kind of mental blow I experienced back then.

The old and the young stopped by the vegetable field. Prince Jing said in a voice: "The first time I saw you was in this vegetable garden."

Fan Xian thought of that poetry gathering, thinking of the miserable autumn of thousands of miles away, thinking of the woman in white who was smiling in the vegetable field at that time, but saw a farmer... and couldn't help laughing and responded: "The prince always likes to play with the younger generation."

"I am not the only one in this Beijing growing vegetables." Prince Jing said.

Fan Xian was stunned and thought that this was not a nonsense. Although Kyoto was rich, there were still many poor people. It was very common for these people to clean up some vegetable fields under the corner wall of the courtyard and supplement their daily diet. However, since King Jing said so, there was naturally his subsequent text, so he listened quietly.

"The old guy in the Qin family also likes to grow vegetables, but he only grows cabbage and radish." Prince Jing said with a hint of sarcasm at the corner of his lips: "The guys in the military only know how to fill their stomachs, but they don't know that growing vegetables is also an art."

Fan Xian was shocked and savored these two sentences of the prince carefully, but he didn't know how to answer for a moment.

Prince Jing walked into the muddy vegetable field, with his hands on his waist. Looking at the deserted scenery around him, he was silent for a while and said, "Did you find out who did the sniper in the valley?"

Fan Xian closed his mouth tightly. Now he knew that the sniping in the valley was arranged by the old killing god Qin, the military. The problem is that this is the biggest secret of Qing Kingdom now. Apart from Chen Pingping and himself, few people think that know about it. Prince Jing first talked about Mr. Qin's vegetable cultivation, and then talked about the sniping in the valley. Is it implying something?

However... Prince Jing never cared about political affairs all year round and did not have any deep contacts with the civil and military officials of the court. Why did he dare to say that the sniping in the valley was done by the old Qin family?

But King Jing did not explain, Fan Xian didn't know if his guess was correct, and he could not tell the other party about the Qin family because it involved the deepest death. He could only smile bitterly and said, "The court has been investigating, and the court has also investigated, but he only knew that it must be related to the military, but the witness was dead and there was no clue at all."

Prince Jing looked back at him, as if he was surprised by his indifference. He thought the boy didn't understand his meaning, and snorted in annoyance: "Idiot!"

Fan Xian smiled bitterly and thought to himself that such a thing is not allowed to pretend to be stupid?

"The city guard crossbow belongs to the Ye family." Prince Jing stared at Fan Xian's eyes, "But don't forget the Qin family."

The prince said this too directly. Fan Xian couldn't pretend anymore even if he wanted to pretend. He was particularly moved by suspicion. This old guy was too kind to him and frowned and asked, "I have no grudges with the Qin family."

The prince snorted twice, without further ado, and walked out of the mud and vegetable field, and then walked deeper into the garden.

Fan Xian looked at his back and vaguely guessed that the reason why the prince dared to infer that the Qin family would take action must be because the local affairs were inferred that year, it was just the connection between the Qin family and the Taiping Villa's bloody case back then... This is a secret that my father didn't know. Even Chen Pingping found the problem after that for more than ten years.

Why does the prince know?

Thinking of this festival, Fan Xian's heart was filled with passion and no longer cared about that much. He rushed forward and grabbed Prince Jing's sleeve.

Prince Jing was stunned and slowly turned around.

Fan Xian looked at him and said sincerely: "What happened back then? Why isn't anyone in the world knowing that the Qin family is involved? Why is this incident not exposed during the bloody night in Kyoto."

"You have asked too much." Prince Jing sighed and said, "Although I am just a idle prince who is not doing my job, remember, I am also a member of the royal family after all... As for why I know something that the two old guys behind you don't know, the reason is very simple, because I was still young and followed my mother."

The prince's eyebrows trembled twice, showing a very cramped smile: "I am young and I always like to hide and hide everywhere, so sometimes it is easy to hear something. As for what I eavesdropped on, no one else knows it for so many years."

Fan Xian smiled bitterly, but he stopped talking. The prince was willing to point out that the Qin family was considered to be extremely caring for him. However, if that matter involved the empress dowager, he was the prince's biological mother, how could he continue to talk about it?

"Yun Rui was young at that time, and this matter had nothing to do with her." Prince Jing suddenly said after a while, "I still want to explain this to you clearly. You have learned a lot from Fan Jian and the Supervision Bureau since you were young, but there are many things that have become ridiculous."

At this time, the young and old stood on the cold ridges. Not far away was the wall of Prince Jing's mansion, and outside the wall was the unchanging cold sky of Kyoto. Fan Xian's heart was extremely warm when he listened to the prince beside him.

"What's the matter?"

"Whether it is Chen Pingping's old dog or your father, they are masters who play conspiracy, so they always like to make things complicated, and... the most important thing is that they don't believe anyone, and the least trust each other." Prince Jing sneered: "This is the stupidest thing. Chen Pingping even suspected Yun Rui before, but she didn't think about how old Yun Rui was at that time."

Fan Xian smiled bitterly. His father and Chen Pingping were suspicious and guarding each other, and they have been around since his mother died. They have become deeper and deeper until they get better after entering Beijing.

"I have swallowed the affairs of the Old Qin family for so long. Today I will tell you that I am not asking you to take revenge." Prince Jing said calmly: "I just think you have offended the military enough, and our Qing Kingdom was originally the place where the country was established by the army. If you don't know who your real enemy is in the army, I'm worried that you will die at will."

The word "death casually" was very heavy. Prince Jing said it very much. He no longer wanted anyone to die like this.

Fan Xian bowed to the ground, then stood up and asked a question he was most concerned about.

"Prince, why are you so kind to me?"

Prince Jing was stunned when he heard this. After a long time, he suddenly laughed. The laughter became louder and louder, and he became more and more shrill. He laughed so hard that his stomach hurt. He squatted on the ridge of the fields, covered his lower abdomen, and couldn't raise his head for a long time.

Fan Xian was slightly confused and stood aside with a little bit of silence, looking at the prince beside him, watching the gray hair on his head that was completely inconsistent with his actual age fluttering in the cold wind. He looked at the tears squeezed out from the corner of his eyes because of his smile.

After a long time, Prince Jing straightened up, frowned and thought for a long time and said, "I don't know either."

Then he walked down the ridge.

Fan Xian still followed him silently.

"Your Majesty and I are both carried by my mother." Prince Jing said calmly. His face had already returned to his usual vicissitudes and tranquility. "At that time, Prince Dicheng's mansion was not very prominent and had no status in Kyoto, so the emperor and I could still play around. Your father also followed us every day and added the palace... Chen Pingping, a companion invited by the Dukezhong, was mixed together every day. I was the youngest and of course the most bullied."

"Later, the emperor's brother Fan Jian and Chen Pingping went to Danzhou, Mu's hometown, to play. After returning, he said happily that he met a very interesting girl there." Prince Jing laughed: "Not long after, the girl arrived in Kyoto and found Prince Cheng's Mansion."

Fan Xian also smiled: "That's my mother."

"Yes." Prince Jing thought about the past leisurely, "I remember that I was young at that time, and I pestered your mother every day to play. Well, I called her Sister Ye Zi at that time... Your mother loved me very much, so my brother would never let Chen Pingping bully me again. It's great."

The old and the young were talking and walking, and soon came outside a study room. Although Fan Xian was determined to listen to the prince telling more old things, he still focused on the study room, because there were obviously few people coming to this study room, and the prince liked to grow vegetables every day, so he naturally did not like reading.

Prince Jing pushed the door and said with a hissing: "Sit."

Fan Xian didn't even rub the dust on his seat and sat down peacefully.

Prince Jing rummaged through the bookcase for a long time, finally found a thick book, then handed it to Fan Xian, and said, "Look."

Fan Xian was stunned, took it with both hands, and looked at the cover. It was an agronomic lecture. He couldn't help but look at the prince in a dull manner.

Prince Jing was silent for a moment and said, "I don't have much to say about your mother. You ask me why I am so good to you... Actually, it's not right. I am not good to you enough. At least I have been hiding it by them for nearly twenty years."

The prince slowly walked out of the study room and looked at Fan Xian with a slightly hunched back, his voice a little depressed: "I always thought she had no descendants."

Fan Xian sat on a chair covered in dust, flipping through the thick agronomic lecture, but was thinking in his heart what Prince Jing said before. In fact, he could vaguely capture King Jing's thoughts, the touch of green and bitterness that could not be spoken of. But he remembered his lifelong thoughts.

When a young man starts to romance and has a gentle, beautiful, omnipotent and omnipotent sister next to him, this kind of story will inevitably happen.

When I was reborn in this world, I was already a mature soul, but in my previous life, I had never had such experiences. Who among all men had such experiences? It’s just that normal people in the world will always have truly sweet fruits to fill their spiritual world after they grow up.

The normal growth experience of King Jing was obviously interrupted by the great history of the Kingdom of Qing. The Ye family was destroyed overnight, but King Jing could not be angry and had nowhere to be angry, so he had a bright hair early. His figure was slightly hunched, and he only respected the countryside and did not respect the palace.

Fan Xian's fingers flipped the slightly yellowed pages, and suddenly his fingers stiffened.

He saw a few pieces of thin paper, sandwiched in a thick book, and his heart moved. He quickly flipped backwards and took out a few more pieces of thin paper.

The handwriting on the paper is very unfamiliar and familiar, and the brushes of the human land are obviously not used well enough. The strokes are straight and blank, like matchsticks building blocks.

The content on the paper was not beyond Fan Xian's expectations. It recorded some suggestions from someone to someone, such as the Supervision Office, such as merchant affairs, and a few notes, which were about what you want to eat today. Where do you plan to play tomorrow...

Fan Xian smiled and said to himself to the sheets of paper: "The other things you wrote were probably burned out by the people of the world. I didn't expect that the little boy from that year would have left a few more pictures."

He turned his head and said, "But your writing is not as good as I do. And I put it all in the big place but not small place. I can't use a brush. So I'll use a geese brush. By the way, I made a small shop in the inner warehouse. I specialize in making pencils. In these things, I'm much smarter than you..."

After a moment of silence, Fan Xian thought about it and put these pieces of paper into his arms. It seems that Prince Jing also needs this kind of relief. He stood up, walked out of the study with a quiet smile on his face.

Prince Jing was not outside the study. Fan Xian of the royal family had been here many times, and he didn't need a maid to lead the way. He held his hands and shook them, and then he went outside a row of large rooms. The row of rooms formed an independent courtyard, and there was a large copper lock hanging on the gate.

Fan Xian couldn't help laughing at the lock, walked up the steps and knocked hard on the door, shouting: "If you don't come and open the door, I'll leave."

"Don't leave! Don't leave!"

A series of rapid shouts came from the courtyard, and someone ran over quickly. The big wooden door made a sound of touching, thinking that the person was hitting the door, so you could imagine that he was urgent to see this person.

A small slit was opened at the gate. Fan Xian squinted his eyes and looked inside. He was shocked and found that there was an eye on the opposite side looking outside. There were obviously a few eye poops in the corner of the man's eyes, and his hair was tied randomly, looking haggard.

"Damn!" Fan Xian spat.

"You are the ghost!" Li Hongcheng, the prince of Prince Jing who was locked in the room, cursed: "Why don't you catch me out quickly!"

Fan Xian looked at him and couldn't help but sigh. He just didn't finish his sighing, and then laughed again and cursed: "Your Majesty forbids your feet, how can I catch you?"

"You plead for the old man!" Li Hongcheng was almost imprisoned. At this time, he finally saw a guy who was not afraid of his father. He was reluctant to miss it and scolded: "You boy, do you still have a conscience? You are humble and swearing me in dirty words. I admit it... But I have been imprisoned for so long, but you don't have any sympathy? I remember when you first entered Kyoto, I was so bad to you? The brothel took you there, and the girl let you take a meal..."

Fan Xian blocked his ears and listened to Li Hongcheng's repeated curses. He knew that this guy was too miserable and said with a wry smile: "Your Majesty is also keeping you for your own good. Otherwise, if you go out and have to struggle with those brothers, you may not have a good ending until the end."

"If you die, you will die!" Li Hongcheng sneered: "It's better than being suffocated to death."

Fan Xian took a few steps back, looked at the layout of the yard, and couldn't help but say dumbfounded: "God... Isn't it? You've been locked in this yard for a year, right?"

Li Hongcheng was stunned and scolded: "That's going crazy early. He just doesn't let him leave the mansion on weekdays. Although he is always in prison, the prison cell of the royal palace is always bigger."

Fan Xian rubbed his nose and nodded and exclaimed: "If you use the royal palace as a prison, your heart will not be free. This sentence of the prince is indeed philosophical."

Li Hongcheng lamented, "Don't irritate me, kid... It was good for me to listen to the opera in the palace, but as soon as you returned to Beijing, you were assassinated and killed people. The old man in my family immediately locked me back into the courtyard without saying a word. Who do you think I'll provoke whom?"

Fan Xian looked at Hongcheng's pitiful appearance through the crack of the door, and he couldn't help but feel sympathy and guilt. Of course, he knew why Prince Jing's mansion did this. It wasn't that Prince Jing didn't want his son to get involved in those things. Once he returned to Beijing, he would fight against the second prince. If Li Hongcheng was still tied to the second prince, who would know how he would deal with him?

"Dede." Fan Xian looked at the surroundings and whispered: "I'll get you out and take you to Xiaoyao Xiaoyao, but you have to promise me not to meet those guys."

Li Hongcheng was overjoyed and nodded repeatedly, saying suspiciously: "Don't break this lock. If you want to escape from prison, I don't know how to fight."

Fan Xian took out a key from his belt and said sarcastically: "Don't forget, I'm the place where the Supervisory Office came out."

The big copper lock was opened with a click, and was locked in the courtyard without seeing the light of heaven and earth. Li Hongcheng, the prince of Prince Jing, finally saw the light of heaven. He took a big step forward, looked at the open environment around him, took a deep breath, and patted Fan Xian's shoulder heavily: "You kid still have nostalgia for you."

In fact, there was no way the servants in the palace knew about such a big disturbance. But since the person in charge was Lord Xiao Fan and the one who saved his own prince, no one dared to stop him.

At this moment, a clear and bright voice suddenly sounded, a little anxious and a little panic-like.

"Brother! Why did you run out by yourself?" Not far from the lower left of the stone steps was a noble lady wearing a big apricot coat. Her little face turned red in an anxious manner: "Be careful, daddy beats you to death."

Fan Xian turned around in a daze and looked at the lady. He saw that the lady still looked weak and gentle, but there were a few more beautiful and graceful smiles between her eyebrows and eyes than in previous years. He couldn't help but be shocked, thinking that after only one year of not seeing her, how could the little loli become such a pure and lovely girl?

The lady also saw Fan Xian's face clearly, was shocked, and covered her lips. After the surprise in her eyes, she suddenly seemed to think of something, and a trace of mist immediately appeared, and she was about to cry.

Fan Xian was so scared that he was most afraid of Kyoto, in addition to the emperor in the palace, was the little girl who had deep love for him in front of him. I remember that the girl was young and tangled around him every day. Fortunately, the dust has been settled and he is her... his cousin, so he felt a lot more relaxed, but today he suddenly saw the girl's sad appearance at home, and he felt a little uncomfortable.

The girl's house finally calmed down, walked to Fan Xian and blessed her with a little blessing, and said in a mosquito-like voice: "I've seen Brother Xian."
Chapter completed!