Chapter 151: The pastoral land is about to become poor and will not return (Part 2)

In the autumn of the 12th year of Qingli, the leaves on both sides of the official road gradually became wide and round all the way south, but also yellow. The scenery along the way, which changed with the climate, clearly depicted the landform of the world.

A carriage was driving smoothly on the official road. Fan Xian, who had been missing in this world for more than half a year, finally returned to this world. Those who were eagerly looking forward to his death or were hoping that he would be alive did not know that he had returned.

After experiencing hardships and crossing the snowfield again, the group of four quietly sneaked into the world without sending a clear signal to any force. Haitang and Wang Shisanlang knew that Fan Xian was heavy, and Wu Zhu, who still had no humanity, just sat silently behind the carriage. I guess this person must not understand the broken things in the world, nor would he care about the broken things.

In the county capital of Langya County, Northern Qi, the carriage stopped outside an inn. After a while, Fan Xian left the inn alone and walked towards the most prosperous brothel in the city. Behind him, Wu Zhu, covered with black cloth, followed him not far and near. It was not Fan Xian's intention to come out with Uncle Wu Zhu, but he didn't understand. Uncle Wu Zhu didn't remember anything or know anything, but why did he keep following him.

In a secret room in the branch of the Baoyue Tower, Fan Xian saw Shi Chanli who had been waiting for four months, as well as Wang Qinian and Deng Ziyue. Now, under the strong pressure of Emperor Qing and the Palace, there are not many loyal subordinates who are still brave enough to stand beside him. Apart from these three in the secret room, there are only Xia Qifei, who is struggling to survive in Jiangnan.

Seeing the living Fan Xian, these three loyal subordinates all showed unbelievable surprise on their faces, because now everyone in the world knows that Fan Xian has gone to the temple, but in fact, people all over the world, whether they are Fan Xian’s friends or enemies, think Fan Xian will definitely die in the temple, but who knows that he can come back alive!

After being excited, Fan Xian smiled and let everyone sit down. Naturally, there was no temple time to talk about this journey that was not very pleasant, and even he was a little confused.

Wang Qinian squatted aside and smoked a pot. Deng Ziyue placed all the important information in the world in the past six months in front of Fan Xian. Fan Xian took a brief look. The worry in his pupils became stronger and stronger.

Shi Chanli glanced at the blind boy next to the secret room. For some reason, he felt a little cold in his heart. He didn't know who this person was, and he could go to such an important place with the sect master. He swallowed and said, "I, Daqingbei Camp, set off the camp on the third day of the sixth month. The first contact between the two sides was seven days later."

"Why is the Northern Qi so defeated?" Fan Xian's expression became heavy. He looked at him and asked, "And in Langya County, I didn't feel too many people in Northern Qi's fear."

"The Northern Qi side retreated 300 miles in a row. It is strange that according to the investigation, Uesugi Tiger did not stand on the front battlefield. Instead, he chose to defend Song Guozhou City." Deng Ziyue stepped forward and responded, then spread the map on the table, pointed to the battlefield and said in a deep voice: "This position is in the waist and bones. If my Daqing border army directly invades North, Uesugi Tiger takes advantage of the momentum and hits his waist and abdomen... Although this famous general chose the defensive, he was also extremely dangerous."

"This is the city that Uesugi robbed by Uesugi after the war in the north last year. It turned out that this son finally landed in this place." Fan Xian smiled slightly. He did not expect that he would explore the temple in the north. In the mountains, the situation on this continent had already undergone earth-shaking changes. Just when they returned from the snow field to the south, the Nanqing Iron Cavalry finally started the Northern Expedition!

"Since Your Majesty has made up his mind to fight the north with the whole country, Beidaying is just a vanguard. Under the invasion of such a killing aura, he is as powerful as Uesugi, and he can only choose to defend. This is due to national strength and has nothing to do with the genius of individual generals."

Deng Ziyue was an official from the Supervision Bureau after all. Compared with Shi Chanli, he had to evaluate the war situation between the two major forces in the north and the south in recent times, and looked at Fan Xian with concern and said: "Bei Daying left Cangzhou. The Northern Qi side retreated 300 miles in a row, but the blade pointed out that it was still a battle in the wasteland. Beidaying is temporarily suspended, but the troops are frequently transferred in Yanjing City. It seems that the second attack is close to us... Although Uesugi Tiger has occupied the geographical advantage with that prefecture city, if Yanjing and Beidaying jointly attack on the western side, Uesugi Tiger will probably have to be dragged into the field."

"I don't know how to fight, but I know that if Your Majesty really makes up his mind, no matter how talented Uesugi Tsuki is, he will only be slowly exhausted from the scene."

Fan Xian lowered his head, looked at the silent cities on the map, and said slowly: "It is obvious that although the Northern Qi side has prepared for this war for many years, after all, in terms of military affairs, they are not our Nan Qing's opponents. They only hope to consume it, which can consume my Daqing's fatigue... It seems that Uesugi Tiger is not willing to spend it with him. Even if it is consumed, His Majesty is the final winner."

Deng Ziyue and Shi Chanli glanced at Fan Xian, with a look of worry in their eyes. They were betrayers of Qing Kingdom, but they were Qing people after all, and they belonged to the third party in the world. At this time, the war between the two sides had begun. Their position and identity were really awkward. Moreover, they had never known what Fan Xian thought about this matter, so in the past month, the forces belonging to Fan Xian had never taken action.

Fan Xian frowned slightly and gently hit the location of the unknown prefecture city with his fingers. Thinking of Uesugi Hu's fear of being prepared in the prefecture city that belongs to the Song State at this moment, a strong uneasiness suddenly surged in his heart and said, "If I am your majesty, if I really want to grab time and not accompany Uesugi Hu's waste, the easiest way is to advance both strong troops together, and then choose one to go around the back of Song State. Uesugi Hu wants to hide the knife in the sheath..."

"But if you want to go around the back of Song State, then wait to borrow from Dongyi City. Although Dongyi City is now a member of Daqing, the army is going to enter Dongyi City..." Deng Ziyue glanced at Fan Xian and said, "Your Highness and the Black Cavalry are not in Dongyi City now, but on the border between Xiaoliang and Song State. If my Daqing army wants to borrow from Daqing, they will only face a sudden blow."

This sentence actually does not explain clearly, because everyone in this secret room knows that Dongyi City now belongs to Fan Xian. What attitude will Dongyi City show in such a war involving the world? Will His Majesty the Emperor of Qing forcefully send troops to Dongyi City? After all, it is still the matter between His Majesty the Emperor and Fan Xian, the father and son.

"If His Majesty did not send troops to attack Dongyi City at the beginning, it would mean that he knew I was not dead yet. Then he would not choose this path in the future." Fan Xian sighed and rubbed his eyebrows with a little depressed look. "If you don't talk about these, it's not something I can handle after all. I only care about the situation in Kyoto and Jiangnan."

Regarding these situations, they are all in the case files submitted by Deng Ziyue, but there is too much content, and Fan Xian doesn’t have time to read them carefully.

"The Jiangnan has stabilized. The court withdrew the new rules of the inner treasury bidding. As expected by the adults, the salt merchants also added it. Fortunately, the Ming family still occupied a part of the share. Of course, it seemed much more miserable than in previous years."

"Is the Xiaqi Enclave people okay?"

"After the assassination last year, the court did not take the next move to Mingyuan. Governor Xue Qing was just suppressing Xia Qifei, but it seems that he will not take direct actions at the moment."

Fan Xian fell into deep thought. It seemed that His Majesty the Emperor had finally kept the promise in the palace. After all, the life gate of the inner treasury is in his own hands. His Majesty wants to go all the way, and he can only take a step back before his threat.

"After Sun Jingxiu was dismissed from office, he originally planned to Liu Sanqian, but for some reason, the palace suddenly issued an order to forgive his crimes. Miss Sun's family was released the night before entering the sect... Now the life of the Sun Mansion is very difficult, but the people from the He Sect were killed very badly, so no one would take the blame."

Speaking of this section, a smile appeared on the corner of Deng Ziyue's lips. Although he did not participate in the matter in Kyoto, the Supervision Bureau was in full swing in Kyoto. The officials of the He Sect were about to bleed. This abandoned minister of the Supervision Bureau felt extremely happy.

"It's just that all the people in the yard have withdrawn from Kyoto according to the instructions of the adults. So they can't help."

Fan Xian nodded, but felt more and more that things were strange in his heart. His Majesty... When did he become such a kind monarch? Just to keep the bet with him?

"Is it okay at home?" He shook his head, let go of the things that he couldn't guess clearly in his heart for the time being, and asked at Wang Qinian.

Wang Qinian coughed twice and replied softly with a smile: "It's so good that it can't be better. Everyone in the world is stunned. Princess Chen and the lady come to the palace every day to talk to the Majesty. The young master and the lady are also in good health."

The situation in Kyoto really made the whole world stupid. Fan Xian is now a traitor to Qing Kingdom, but His Majesty the Emperor has no intention of slandering Fan. That is, the women who should have been implicated have a higher status in Kyoto Nanqing, even vaguely before the assassination of the palace.

After hearing the news, Fan Xian couldn't help but be stunned in the distance.

Deng Ziyue suddenly spoke at this time: "The investigation in Yingzhou has been found. The attack on Wenmao was the border troops withdrawn from the South Road and the bandits pretending to be."

Fan Xian's eyes were slightly cold and he asked quickly: "Where is the person?"

"In the end, Wen Mao's body was found, covered by the snow at that time." Deng Ziyue slowly closed his eyes and said, "At that time, an arm was missing from his body. The old family in the yard had been searching for a long time, but he couldn't find it."

"I want to go back to Kyoto." After a long silence, Fan Xian raised his head, looked at the three closest subordinates beside him, and smiled reluctantly, saying, "You retreat to Dongyi City immediately and never get together again, otherwise if you are caught in one go, where will I cry?"

When Wang Qinian and the other two were shocked when they heard Fan Xian return to Kyoto in Nanqing. Wang Qinian and Fan Xian have been together for the longest time, and they also know Fan Xian’s thoughts best, and they speak the least carefully. They persuaded him with a voice: "Although your Majesty has not cleaned it, you also know that if you appear in Kyoto, he will definitely kill you at all costs."

"I know."

"Your life now involves that bet. What's more important is that as long as you live, Your Majesty will be afraid... Your life will affect the life and death of many people."

"I know everything." Fan Xian lowered his eyes and said, "But Kyoto always wants to go back, because things always need to be solved. Even if I hide in Dongyi City for the rest of my life, there is no way to solve it."

There was another death-like silence. A light suddenly flashed in Fan Xian's mind. He stared at Wang Qinian and asked: "I have discussed before that Beidaying and Yanjing can obviously be consumed with Uesugi Hu, but His Majesty's meaning is that he doesn't want to consume. Why is this?"

After a moment of silence, Wang Qinian said, "There is news in the palace, and His Majesty's body... seems to be in trouble."

As soon as this statement was made, the expressions of Deng Ziyue and Shi Chanli changed drastically. Of course, they knew that the health of His Majesty the Emperor was the most important thing in the world. The problem was that one of them was responsible for the intelligence work of the former subordinates of the Supervision Institute and the other was responsible for the Baoyue Tower intelligence system all over the world, but they had never heard any rumors related to His Majesty's health. At this time, Wang Qinian said so indeed that they really couldn't believe it.

Fan Xian stared at Wang Qinian's eyes and nodded slowly after a long time. He knew where Wang Qinian's news came from, and even if Chen Pingping didn't know about Hong Zhu's existence, it was obvious that Fan Xian handed it over to Wang Qinian. This news came from Hong Zhu.

The secret room was silent for a long time. The three of them knew that no one in the world could stop Fan Xian's actions. Shi Chanli smiled with great difficulty and said, "Will you tell us the story of this journey? Since Master Kuhe, you are the first person who can return from the temple alive."

"It's just a dilapidated temple, what's there to say?" Fan Xian smiled, knowing that everyone was actually very curious about the vague place. However, he was in a heavy mood at this moment and did not have any interest in speaking. He just glanced at Uncle Wuzhu at the door of the secret room and wondered when will Uncle Blind be awake?

Then in Yanya County, the three young strong men who entered the Snow Mountain Temple broke up. Wang Shisanlang wanted to rush to Dongyi City as quickly as possible, arrange the news of Fan Xian's life and Fan Xian's land, and notify the Grand Highness who was alone in Dongyi City and the people in Jianlu as soon as possible. Haitang's departure was also expected by Fan Xian. The world war has begun. Although Beiqi has the power to fight, the situation is dangerous in the end. As the saint of Northern Qi, Haitang naturally cannot stay out of the matter. She must rush back to Shangjing City and rush back to the Emperor of Northern Qi, and help her country resist foreign invaders as the head of Qingshan Tianyidao.

But when the breakup was about to break up, the expression in Haitang's tired eyes made Fan Xian feel inexplicably pity. He didn't know how long the Northern Qi side could last in the strong will of Emperor Qing and the war to unify the world. He didn't know if the Qing army really broke through the capital, the beautiful palace would be burned to ashes, and whether there would be Haitang, Li Li and his own emperor's woman figure in those flames.

Whether from his personal view of history, temperament, and all aspects, Fan Xian could only have an attitude towards the slow opening of the subway bloody war, and he had to stop all this. However, he did not promise or express anything to Haitang. He just kept silent and walked towards the south alone with Uncle Wu Zhu.

I don’t know the depth of autumn, yellow or red leaves, and under the clear sky, Fan Xian and Wuzhu walked south silently, not knowing how long they had walked, but Wuzhu still didn’t say a word. Fan Xian was in a heavy mood. He didn’t know what he could do after returning to Kyoto, but his intuition and the news that His Majesty the Emperor might be seriously ill were urging him to keep his pace.

Su Wenmao, the most successful supporting actor after Wang Qinian, died. That autumn, the old lame man died long ago, and even earlier years, Ye Qingmei also died. After experiencing the great joys and sorrows of human beings in the temple, Fan Xian should have seen life and death more indifferently, but he didn't understand why, once he stepped into the world, the worldly thoughts in people's hearts became more common, remembering life and death, and still paying life and death. How could he smile?

It was still a black carriage. Fan Xian sat in the carriage. Looking at Uncle Wuzhu sitting next to the coachman's position, he did not unexpectedly find that Uncle Wuzhu's side face was still so pretty, and the black cloth was still so ecstatic in the autumn wind. Everything was actually very similar to the scene from Kyoto to Danzhou more than 20 years ago.

The one that is not similar is actually Wu Zhu. This peerless powerful man who seems to have lost his soul, said nothing and did nothing, and his indifferent face could not be revealed. Was he curious about everything that is strange and familiar to this world?

Fan Xian felt a little sad, gently put down the curtain of the car, and then sneered and laughed at himself. Uncle Wu Zhu was just a blind man, but now he has become a mute again. What did my mother do back then? What should she do?

When the carriage arrived at Nanling County, it stopped moving forward. To be precise, the coachman refused to drive forward. Although the Northern Qi court has been trying to downplay the war in the south, the war was not as easy to be covered up as the scandal of the royal family. Everyone in the world knew what happened in the middle hinterland of the mainland. Billions of people were waiting nervously for the result with indifferent and vigilant eyes. The coachman was naturally unwilling to enter the battlefield.

Taking out the silver to buy the carriage, Fan Xian acted as the coachman and continued to travel south with Uncle Wu Zhu. On the way back from Bingyuan, the depressed heaven and earth energy had successfully cured Fan Xian's injuries. Although he knew that he still could not touch the boundary between humans and the sky, he believed that no one in this world could threaten him except the emperor.

After traveling for more than ten days, they passed through the simple wooden sheds on both sides of the official road and the numb refugee group. The uncle and nephew on the carriage seemed to be walking in a deserted area similar to the snowy field in the extreme north.

The population is gradually becoming less and there is occasionally a light snow falling, but it cannot cover the silence on both sides of the road. Occasionally, a few corpses about to rot can be seen by the road, and a village burned into ruins can be seen in the valley in the distance.

This was originally a fertile land. Even if it was blown by the north wind of the North Sea, the fertile land still feeds many people, but now there is only a desolate situation. Most of the people have retreated to the rear of Northern Qi, and those who have not been able to avoid the war have become victims of the obsession of unifying the world.

As for the burned villages and the people who were chopped by the road, whether the invading Qing army or the dispersed Northern Qi soldiers, Fan Xian did not go into delving into the fact that war was originally the original sin of mankind. In this world, there could be any good war or bad peace.

The dead official road, with a dry and bloody smell in the air, surrounding the black carriage, Fan Xian drove away the uneasy horses with a blank expression, and did not look back at Uncle Wuzhu beside him.

He knew that the army between the two countries was gathering in the north rush plain of Yanjing City in the southwest. After winning the victory, Nanqingbei Camp, fearing Uesugi, who had been silent, temporarily returned to the camp to rest. The silence here was safer. However, the traces of the previous battle were already so shocking. It was hard for him to imagine what kind of Shura killing scene would be turned into once the Nanqing cavalry broke through the Song Guozhou City where Uesugi was and went north with all his might.

In the whole world, there seemed to be only the sound of carriages rolling on the road. Fan Xian narrowed his eyes, waved his whip, and avoided a Qing Kingdom cavalry team on the other side of the river, entering the border of Qing Kingdom.

At this moment, Wu Zhu, who had been silent since leaving the temple, suddenly spoke, "The world outside the temple is not very good."
Chapter completed!