"Shazhou Courtyard's" big tree was unlucky, being used by Fan Xian, wielding the Emperor's Sword, to unleash his kingly aura, shaving off countless layers of bark. The reason for this was simply because our young Imperial Envoy was truly incredibly angry, but he couldn't possibly show a foul face to his wife, nor could he immediately rush to the Northern Qi capital to scold his own sister's teacher, so he had to find a way to vent his anger.

Fan Xian wasn't the type of boring boss who liked to relieve stress by scolding and beating his subordinates. Coincidentally, in his previous life, while lying in bed reading reader submissions, he had read a cloyingly sentimental story that brought tears to his eyes, so in this life, he learned from the male protagonist of that story.

That male protagonist, who loved to pour out foot-washing water, suffered from his wife for years, always sneaking out in the middle of the night to smash trees by the river, seeking a pitiful psychological balance.

Fan Xian didn't smash trees. He used the dignified Si Gu Sword Technique to shave trees, gnashing his teeth in resentment as he did so.

When the tree in the courtyard turned white overnight, its clothes in tatters, exposing its humble and naked body, Fan Xian and his party left in carriages, returning to the Peng Manor by West Lake.

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There were quite a few people waiting by West Lake for the Imperial Envoy and Princess Consort. The two Governors-General of Suzhou City couldn't conveniently come in person, but the Hangzhou Prefect, whom Fan Xian secretly admired, wouldn't be so reserved. He had sealed off a third of the long dike by West Lake to facilitate the entry of the Fan Manor carriages, and led a group of subordinates to attend to their every need, lest these two important figures feel even slightly dissatisfied.

Fan Xian comfortably accepted this flattery. After all, Wan'er's health wasn't good and she truly needed peace and quiet. After everyone reunited at the manor, Si Si and the wife of Teng Dajia naturally attended to Wan'er, helping her to rest. Fan Xian took the time to meet with the Hangzhou Prefect, offering a few words of gentle encouragement, but the next day, he had Hu Wei Gao Da block all the wives of these officials outside the back garden.

The Young Mistress of the Fan Manor wasn't receiving guests.

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Wan'er looked at Fan Xian pitifully, her eyebrows already knitted together like delicate willow leaves in the wind, her eyes filled with pleading: "Good husband, please spare me."

Fan Xian smiled: "Be good, just drink the medicine and you'll be fine, or you'll get a spanking."

Wan'er had no choice but to drink the medicine with great suffering, unable to help but sigh in her heart, wondering why she was so foolish. She had told Fan Xian the reason, and with his personality, of course, he wouldn't allow her to do this. If she had known this, she simply wouldn't have come to Jiangnan and secretly stopped the medication in Kyoto.

Suddenly, she thought with a touch of shyness, if she hadn't come to Jiangnan, even if she had stopped the medication and removed the foreign elements from her body, but... without him, how would she have children?

Fan Xian was wiping the medicine stains from the corners of her lips with a handkerchief. Suddenly, he saw a blush appear on his wife's cheeks. He was slightly stunned, wondering what was going on in that little head, and teased with curiosity, "My wife, why are you so shy?"

Wan'er glared at him and said, "I won't tell you."

She quickly changed the subject. This trip to Jiangnan was partly something that had been planned before the new year, but there was also a rather important matter that she needed to discuss with Fan Xian, something she absolutely didn't trust to be passed on by the servants.

Seeing her seriousness, Fan Xian frowned slightly, leaned in, and listened to his wife speaking softly in his ear. His mood grew heavier, but his face didn't change, remaining calm. He comforted and reassured her, "I thought it was something big, that made you come to Jiangnan so hastily... Those elders in the palace are always fond of gossiping about others. You can't pay too much attention to them."

In their days in Kyoto, the young couple had excellent understanding between them, and they had also made it clear that Wan'er was now a wife and a daughter, in such a complex relationship. Fan Xian cherished her and didn't want her to get too involved in these dark and filthy matters, even though Wan'er could actually help him a lot.

For example, the night the First Prince visited the Fan Manor, the couple had a night talk.

But even so, Wan'er couldn't pretend that nothing was happening around her, nor could she close her eyes and pretend not to see that her husband was at loggerheads with her not-so-close mother.

A girl's thoughts are hard to guess, but in this matter, she always wanted to find a way to protect Fan Xian without pushing both sides into an irrecoverable situation.

However, it was difficult. It was hard for Fan Xian to understand, and it was the same for Wan'er.

So, she had to carefully inquire about the news in Kyoto, analyze the mysteries of women's politics for Fan Xian, and use her extraordinary status and the privilege of unrestricted access to the palace to help Fan Xian, who was far away in Jiangnan, to contact people in the palace and eliminate some obstacles that could be eliminated.

Fan Xian knew all of this, and knew that he couldn't stop her, so he had to let her go. And sometimes, he really needed Wan'er to act as a lubricant, just like the palace visit after the Chun Wei incident.

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Because of Fan Xian's opposition, Wan'er's abilities weren't fully developed, and her natural sense of politics and palace affairs was further suppressed. But that didn't mean that she didn't understand these things, so when she learned of the story in the palace, she resolutely came to Jiangnan.

Contrary to everyone's imagination, the Young Mistress of the Fan Manor came to Jiangnan not to see the Northern Qi Saintess named Duo Duo, but to remind Fan Xian of certain things in person.

"The elders in the palace... can influence a lot." Wan'er looked at Fan Xian with worry, and said softly, "The Empress Dowager is the Empress's own aunt. The relationship between the two can't be broken... The Empress arranged for someone to enter the palace to tell the Empress Dowager the story of *The Story of the Stone*. The hidden dangers in this, you can't be too careless."

Fan Xian fell silent, and a trace of annoyance surged in his heart. When he copied *The Story of the Stone* in Danzhou, it was just to find some games for himself and Si Si, to seek some entertainment for Ruo Ruo, and to satisfy his own literary and artistic thoughts, and he didn't take it too seriously. Because although he knew that Old Cao's writing was indeed a bit taboo, he thought that this was completely a different country and a different world, so it wouldn't be taboo, and he was a little careless.

No one had thought that his own life experience would undergo such a big change in the future. Every word and every sentence in *Dream of the Red Chamber*... seemed to be expressing his own unwillingness and resentment.

Especially that poem about Qiao Jie.

Anyone can write this book, but it can't be himself... But now, everyone in the world believes that this book was written by himself.

The resentment in the book seems to be telling his dissatisfaction with what happened to the Old Ye family back then... The Empress arranged for someone to enter the palace to tell the Old Empress Dowager the book. With the Empress Dowager's sensitive and suspicious head, wouldn't she think that he had ulterior motives?

The royal family is all about the heart. If the heart is suspicious, the person is suspicious. If the heart can be punished, the person can be punished.

Fan Xian thought quietly for a while, and found that this was indeed a problem that he was about to face. If the Empress Dowager really thought that he was unwilling and wanted to redress the old Ye family's case, then the old woman's temporary silence might no longer exist. Now Qing Kingdom govern the country with filial piety, the Emperor need to express himself about whatever the Empress Dowager says.

But... it's not a big problem. Fan Xian has been in Jiangnan for a long time, and his strength has reached a certain level, so these small storms won't make him too alert. He gently patted his wife's hand and said softly, "Don't worry, even if that old woman suspects me... so what? I haven't done anything, and she can't ask His Majesty to dismiss me from my post."

Wan'er gave a bitter smile, couldn't help shaking her head, and poked his brow with her fingers, scolding, "That's my grandmother, and also your grandmother... Why are you calling her old woman, old woman?"

Fan Xian grinned and said, "Come to think of it, when I saw you at the Qing Temple back then, I never guessed that you would actually be my cousin."

"Hmph... I don't know who kept it from me for so long." Lin Wan'er muttered, pouting her lips.

Before Fan Xian could comfort her, Wan'er continued seriously, "Even if this matter doesn't have any harm for the time being, what about the Ming family's affairs? The lawsuit you started in Jiangnan has already spread to Kyoto. Now Song Shi Ren can be considered truly famous. He actually said that the eldest son doesn't have the natural right of inheritance... This has touched the bottom line of many people. Although the lawsuit is being filed by Song Shi Ren to help Xia Qifei, everyone in Kyoto knows that you are their backer, and they can't help but ask in their hearts... What exactly is our little Lord Fan thinking?"

Fan Xian raised an eyebrow and said, "What can I be thinking?"

Lin Wan'er looked at him and said, "As far as it seems on the surface, you want to help Xia Qifei get back the Ming family's property... Wouldn't the Empress Dowager suspect you? What's more, there's also the harm from *The Story of the Stone* before... The two combined, everyone would think that you want to take back the Internal Treasury."

"But who does the Internal Treasury belong to?"

"Who is our eldest son in the palace?"

Lin Wan'er sighed, "The things you've done in Jiangnan have truly put yourself on the opposite side of the Crown Prince, and even on the opposite side of the Empress Dowager."

Fan Xian was silent for a while, and decided to tell his true thoughts, "That's right... but in fact, I'm deliberately creating this atmosphere so that people in the palace think I have ulterior motives."

Lin Wan'er opened her lips slightly in surprise, feeling that such rashness didn't seem to be his character.

"You came a few days late, so you don't know that His Majesty sent a eunuch to announce an imperial decree." Fan Xian smiled, "In a few days, people in Kyoto will know my attitude, I'm on the Third Prince's side."

Lin Wan'er was a little puzzled and nervous, and said softly, "You're going to let the Third Prince go to the arena... but he's still just a child."

"This child is not simple." Fan Xian lowered his head slightly and said with a chuckle, "His ability is not bad, and I have great confidence in my ability to recognize people, and I also have confidence in my level as a teacher. The guy I teach can't be too bad."

"But... you still haven't explained why you want to create this atmosphere." Lin Wan'er frowned. If this situation is allowed to develop, the two sides will gradually lose any chance of reconciliation, and will also force... She suddenly raised her head, looked at Fan Xian in shock, and said slightly startled, "You... are you planning to force them to take action?"

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The bedroom was quiet for a long time, Fan Xian nodded slowly and said softly, "Many people have overlooked the Empress and the Crown Prince, but both they and I know very well that only one of us can survive... Now, while His Majesty still cares about and values ​​me, I will force the hidden dangers to break out in advance."

Lin Wan'er's expression gradually became at a loss, dimmed, although she knew that the struggle of the royal family has always been without any affection, but when she thought that one of her dearest husband and Crown Prince was going to die, she still couldn't help but feel a chill.

Fan Xian's eyes were colder than his wife's thoughts, and he said slowly and indifferently, "I don't want to kill people. But they have killed people decades ago, and now it is impossible for them to let me go, so I will do this thing."

Lin Wan'er was silent for a long time, and said, "Then... what about her?"

The "her" in this sentence is naturally the biggest problem between Fan Xian and his wife, the eldest princess who has never been willing to be content.

Fan Xian lowered his eyes slightly, gently put Wan'er in his arms, and said softly, "His Majesty's thoughts are too deep, I won't pay attention to them, your mother's thoughts are too big, it's not my turn to pay attention to them... This is her war with His Majesty, I just need to beat the drum... I can't guarantee anything else, but I guarantee you that I won't personally do anything to her."

Is this guarantee credible?

"Emperor Uncle has always loved me very much..." Lin Wan'er was like a wounded kitten, lying in Fan Xian's arms, weakly speaking, but her eyes gradually showed a haze of water. If the eldest princess really had the courage to do that thing, then afterwards, even with Fan Xian's strength and status, Lin Wan'er wouldn't be involved, but... her status in the royal family would become awkward and dangerous.

Fan Xian was silent, knowing that Wan'er's sigh was the truth. After getting married, walking in the palace, he clearly felt that his Emperor father-in-law really loved Wan'er, and Wan'er's position in the palace was indeed much higher than that of ordinary county lords... Thinking of this, he couldn't help sighing. The emperor married his most beloved niece to his illegitimate son, which could be regarded as compensation for himself?

"It's okay, it's all the elders' business." He said with a smile, "Let them make trouble."

Although the words were easy, the content was not easy. In the next year, if the dragon chair of the Great Qing Dynasty was not changed, there would be a bloodbath in the royal family, and what would happen to Fan Xian and Wan'er, this young couple? If it was the former, Fan Xian believed that his whole family would be martyred for His Majesty the Emperor, and if it was the latter... how should Wan'er face it?

At that moment, Fan Xian suddenly felt that it was a very boring thing to force the other party to act in advance. Just to protect himself and the people around him, he had to do this.

"Old Limper should think so too, right? I hope he can have some better ways."

Fan Xian gently patted Wan'er's back, looking at the quiet lake, the green hills, the fishing boat, and the willow branches outside the window, and his thoughts drifted to the distant Kyoto.

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In the cool imperial palace of Kyoto, the palace maids and eunuchs walked with bated breath and silence. Occasionally, some young palace maids would make a few giggles, and then be severely reprimanded by the old nannies. The thick spring has ended, and the early summer has arrived. The trees in the palace are in full bloom, but the people in the palace are still not free.

Guangxin Palace was the sleeping palace of the eldest princess. After the eldest princess secretly communicated with Northern Qi and betrayed senior officials of the Overwatch Council, Uncle Wu Zhu revealed the matter with full city of words. After that, the most beautiful woman in the Qing Kingdom's legend silently withdrew from the political scene of Kyoto and went to the deserted Lihouse.

Although she was in Xinyang Lihouse, she could also faintly influence the situation in the palace, but it was not as convenient as being inside Kyoto. Therefore, in the sixth year of Qingli, she finally persuaded the Empress Dowager to move back to Kyoto. At this time, the sensational event of words and paper back then had long since disappeared from people's memories.

It's just that not long after returning to Kyoto, the strength of the Junshan Club in Jiangnan made her annoyed to show it in front of her Emperor brother, so the Emperor ordered her to move into the palace again, in the name of reunion, but in reality for nearby surveillance.

However, the eldest princess has been operating in the palace for a long time, and she is the most beloved little girl of the Empress Dowager. Her relationship with the Empress has always been close, so no one can stop her from entering and leaving the palace, and the tricks she has secretly done have successfully concealed many people.

Of course, in order to reassure the Emperor brother, it is not convenient for her to leave the palace too much and have close contact with the ministers below, so the activity she does most often now is to chat with the Empress Dowager in the palace, and get together with the Empress to study some embroidery such as flowers, birds, insects and water.

What is embroidered is probably not cloth.

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The situation in Jiangnan has been settled. Whether the eldest princess Li Yunrui is convinced or not, admits it or not, or is sad or not, in short, Jiangnan, which she has managed for more than ten years, has been completely taken over by her "promising" son-in-law!

Old Madam Ming died, Master Sanshi died, the Ming family was silent, and under the joint suppression of Fan Xian and Xue Qing, there was not much rebound in the officialdom of Jiangnan. Those cronies she had placed in the three major workshops of the Internal Treasury's Transfer Department were all pulled out by Fan Xian. Although those officials still wrote respectfully in their letters, under Fan Xian's lascivious power, they couldn't move.

The situation of popular grievances and indignation that she finally created disappeared silently. As a result, the petition written in blood by the people and the old Confucian who came to Kyoto to file a lawsuit against the Emperor became unrooted wood and could not pose a threat to the court at all.

"Fine?" The eldest princess Li Yunrui squinted her eyes slightly, and a hint of playfulness flashed in her beautiful phoenix eyes, "You said, is the old Fan family short of this little money?"

Sitting next to her was the dignified and luxurious Empress. The Queen smiled and said, "His Majesty loves their Fan family. Didn't the matter of investigating the Ministry of Household's affairs some time ago also end hastily?"

The eldest princess smiled, her long eyelashes blinking youthfully, which was far from her age. She smiled and said, "Lord Fan is meritorious to the country, how can us women compare?"

She sighed and said, "After all, I don't have any children. I have a daughter, but I'm not very close. What am I doing to manage these matters? I think when autumn comes, I should ask my mother to go back to Xinyang."

The Queen's heart skipped a beat, and she cursed the charming fox for pretending to be tender. She also heard that the other party was retreating to advance... However, in the current situation, if Li Yunrui really leaves, how can herself and the Crown Prince resist the momentum of Fan Xian and the Third Prince? Of course, the Queen is not a fool, and knows that the eldest princess will never give up the power in her hands and leave. The other party said this, but to gain the upper hand in the scene.

The Queen's smile even had a hint of prudence that should never have been there: "Where are you talking, sister? Although I am a mediocre woman who doesn't know state affairs, I also know that sister is the pillar of the country, and has planned so many benefits for our Great Qing Dynasty... If you really go to Xinyang, His Majesty the Emperor will be the first to disagree."

Today's conversation between these two women is still inseparable from that chair, but before it is launched, no one dares to say it too bluntly.

The eldest princess was silent for a while, and slowly said, "Mother is getting old and is always easily deceived."

The Queen nodded and said with a smile, "Take your time."

The two were silent, sipping from their teacups. The Queen suddenly asked tentatively, "I heard... Fan Xian is doing a good job in Jiangnan. It's just that a master suddenly came recently and cut half of the building in Suzhou City?"

The matter of cutting half of the building with one sword cannot be concealed for too long. It was still passed back to Kyoto and into the palace.

The eldest princess knew what the Queen wanted to ask, but she refused to tell the other party the truth. She smiled with a bit of arrogance, "I don't know much about Jianghu affairs."

If a grandmaster is standing behind the eldest princess, then the Queen will have a clearer understanding of her position in the cooperation between the two. Of course, this is also a great strengthening of the Queen's and the Crown Prince's determination.

Seeing that the eldest princess refused to be clear, the Queen cursed inwardly twice and then said goodbye and left.

Looking at the slightly lonely back of the one-country mother, a trace of pity and contempt flashed in the eldest princess's eyes, thinking that such a role also wanted to share a piece of the pie. I really don't know where the confidence came from.

The chief counselor of Xinyang, Huang Yi and Yuan Hongdao, could not enter the palace, so the confidant beside the eldest princess at this time was an eunuch. The eunuch stood aside and whispered the questions in the eldest princess's heart: "Does the Queen not know that this is...?"

"To seek skin with a tiger." The eldest princess said the four words that the confidant was inconvenient to say, and sneered, "This Palace is the tiger, and she has to stand on my side, otherwise, if the Third Prince really comes to power, Fan Xian will avenge Ye Qingmei... Who will help her block it?"

She slowly closed her eyes and said, "I and her have temporarily shelved the question of whether it is Chengqian or the second child... because she knows that if it succeeds, she can't compete with me. She's just seeking a way out."

"What about Jiangnan?"

"Don't worry about it anymore." The eldest princess sighed, "My son-in-law was prepared before he went to Jiangnan. How can those local people in Jiangnan be his opponent?"

She shook her head, and after a while, she said sadly, "Now that I think about it, I really made a big mistake at the beginning. If it weren't for the Niulan Street incident, why would I have gotten to this point with Fan Xian... If he stood by my side, who in this world could fight against us?"

Before the eunuch could answer, she laughed mockingly, "It's really whimsical. If Fan Xian and I didn't have such a deep and irreconcilable feud, how dare my Emperor brother reuse him so much?"

The eunuch stood aside listening, not daring to let out a breath.

"I was wrong from the beginning." A trace of coldness and decisiveness flashed across the eldest princess's beautiful face, "No matter how powerful Fan Xian is, his limbs will be lifted by the threads in the palace. Why should I pay attention to this puppet? What I should pay attention to should have been the person holding the thread."

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In the Hanguang Hall, not far from the Guangxin Palace, the Empress Dowager was half-closing her eyes and feeling sleepy. The old man was getting old after all, and her energy was not as good as it used to be, and her decisiveness was not as good as it used to be.

"Stop, stop." The old woman stopped the palace maid who was telling stories in the palace with disgust, glanced at the book in the palace maid's hand, and did not speak for a long time.

"It's all absurd words. I don't know why so many people in the market like to read it." An old nanny beside her said flatteringly.

The Empress Dowager shook her head, and after a long while, she said softly, "Children... It's normal to be a little unconvinced."

The old nanny dared not say anything more.

A very complicated emotion flashed in the Empress Dowager's eyes. In fact, she knew what the Queen meant by asking her to read *The Story of the Stone*. Although she was indeed very angry with Fan Xian's resentment, she was even more angry with what the Queen did.

No matter how bad Fan Xian's mother was, Fan Xian was still a member of the royal family, which was what the old Empress Dowager valued most.

"How long has Chen'er been gone?" The old Empress Dowager suddenly thought of her favorite granddaughter and asked the people beside her.

"The county lord should already be in Hangzhou."

"Well... I have also been to Jiangnan. The scenery is good there, but the women are too presumptuous." The Empress Dowager frowned and ordered, "Even if the Fan family is well prepared, it is not as good as the things in the palace. You let people prepare some things and send them to Jiangnan."

The old woman thought for a while and said, "Send a letter and ask Chen girl if she is used to living by West Lake. If she doesn't like it, let her move to the summer palace on the mountain."

The old nanny quickly responded.

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In the imperial study, His Majesty the Emperor of the Qing Kingdom, who had just finished the imperial meeting, rubbed his eyebrows tiredly, drank a sip of warm ginseng tea, and looked at the scenery outside the window that seemed to never change, and frowned with some disgust.

"Hong Zhu..." the Emperor called out subconsciously. When he said it, he remembered that Hong Zhu had been transferred to the East Palace for half a year. He smiled self-deprecatingly.

"Your Majesty, what are your orders?" The eunuch leader beside him asked respectfully.

The Emperor shook his head, coughed lightly a few times, and the echo echoed in the imperial study. He couldn't help being stunned, thinking that he was probably really old. Listening to the echo of the cough, he realized that he was so lonely.

"Go and see Xiaolou."

He flicked his dragon robe, straightened his chest and walked out of the door. The eunuch behind him quickly followed, only to hear His Majesty the Emperor's faint sigh: "When will I have time to go to Danzhou again?"

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This year's Qing Kingdom was no different from the usual years. The palace was still lonely and dirty, the palace was still lively, the court was still arguing, the six ministries were still fighting, the Supervisory Council was still silent and hideous, Dean Chen was still appreciating singing and dancing in Chen Garden, and Lord Fan was still busy in the Ministry of Household.

The common people were struggling to survive, and while surviving, they were looking for some happy things to comfort their numb minds.

For example, the Dong family married a girl, the Xi family died an old man, there was no flood in the south this year, there seemed to be a war in the west, little Lord Fan didn't write poetry, and did that Northern Qi Saintess and the Fan family's young mistress meet?

From Kyoto all the way down, Jizhou, where it will merge into the Yangtze River, is a bustling scene on both sides of the river embankment. The people who repaired the river embankment are as hard-working as ants carrying sand and stones. This year, Qing Kingdom is lucky. The spring flood is much smaller than imagined, and the abundance of the national treasury has also brought a lot of confidence to the River Transport Governor Yamen. Although there are layers of deductions, a lot of wages are still paid down, so the motivation for the people to work is also much stronger.

Yang Wanli's face was dark, wearing coarse cloth clothes, his brows furrowed deeply in the bamboo shed. Although the current situation is good, the autumn flood is the most terrifying, and he is responsible for the important task of Master Shi, to supervise the flow of silver secretly transported over, so the mental pressure is extremely huge.

And to rush to repair the river embankment and divide the water, although he doesn't understand these things, he has also put down his posture and personally executed them. The continuous sun exposure has finally washed away the last trace of bookishness on this Fan family student, turning him into a real official.

On the river embankment, several people came from afar, looking like officials who were going to other places to take office.

That group of people started shouting at the bamboo shed from a distance.

Yang Wanli pulled up his hem and wiped the sweat from his face, looking at that side in confusion, finally seeing who the person was, and couldn't help but greet him with joy outside the shed.

"Brother Ji Chang? Brother Jialin? Why are you here?" Yang Wanli greeted him with emotion, and grasped the hands of the comer in one hand.

The comers are Hou Jichang and Cheng Jialin among the four sons of Fan. These two have been working in foreign counties since the Chun Wei, and because of Fan Xian's care, coupled with their own efforts, they have been promoted quite quickly. In just over a year, they have completed several jumps and crossed the first big threshold of the seventh grade.

It's just that the places where these two are officials are far away from Jizhou, so Yang Wanli couldn't help but be a little surprised in addition to the surprise.

Hou Jichang didn't have time to answer his words, just held the pair of calloused hands, looked at Yang Wanli's dark face, and said with emotion, "The Lord came to the letter, only said that you went to the River Transport Governor Yamen, but didn't expect... It would be so bitter."

Cheng Jialin on the side was already a little sighing.

Yang Wanli smiled hehe, not knowing what he was thinking, and said sternly, "In the past, Wanli only talked about politics, but it was not until he came into contact with these people's livelihood affairs that he realized how difficult it is for the people of my Great Qing Dynasty... The teacher let Wanli come to repair the river, it is really the teacher's trust and cultivation of Wanli... Only by personally experiencing this matter can I know that under the teacher's seemingly indifferent face, there is really a heart of worrying about the country and the people."

All three were silent. Hou Jichang broke the silence and said leisurely, "According to rumors, the reason why the Lord was able to subdue that Northern Qi Saintess was all because of the sentence the Lord said in the Northern Qi Imperial Palace."

Speaking of the Northern Qi Saintess Haitang, even though these three are Fan Xian's students, they still couldn't help but laugh.

Yang Wanli endured his laughter and asked, "What words?"

Hou Jichang turned around, looked at the laborers on the embankment at his feet, looked at the roaring big river not far away, and sighed, "Worry about the world's worries before the world worries, and enjoy the world's happiness after the world enjoys... I'm thinking, it seems that we still underestimated the Lord at the beginning."

Worry about the world's worries before the world worries, and enjoy the world's happiness after the world enjoys.

The three of them chewed on this sentence in their hearts, and a sense of respect arose spontaneously.

"The teacher... although he is lazy, he actually has a child's heart." Yang Wanli thought of what he had seen and heard in the past few months, thinking of Fan Xian's emphasis on river transport, thinking of the changes that had taken place in Jiangnan because of Fan Xian's arrival, and couldn't help but praise him.

Beside the bamboo shed on the embankment, there were also other officials from the River Transport Yamen. Hou Jichang noticed that Yang Wanli had been using the word "teacher" all the time, and couldn't help but cough twice to remind him, "In front of outsiders, let's call him 'Lord' to avoid the court saying we're forming a gang."

"A gentleman makes friends but does not gang up, but if he really wants to form a gang, Wanli is willing to be a dog for the teacher." Yang Wanli said with a smile, with a composure that was different from his past, "The world knows our four sons of Fanmen. As long as we are seeking benefits for the people of the world, why bother about what others say?"

Hou Jichang was slightly stunned, and then laughed loudly, "That's right, brother is a little deliberate. It seems that Wanli has indeed made a lot of progress in the past six months. Following the teacher is indeed of great benefit to self-cultivation."

Cheng Jialin also said enviously, "We are officials outside, you are in Jiangnan, who knew that the teacher would go to Jiangnan."

Yang Wanli smiled and said, "I didn't accompany the teacher for a few days, but Shi Chanli that kid... If you go to Suzhou to see, you will know how much he has been changed by the teacher."

Speaking of this, Yang Wanli remembered to ask, "Where are you going?"

Cheng Jialin smiled and replied, "In the past six months, the teacher has rectified the officialdom in Jiangnan and created a lot of vacancies, so the Ministry of Officials transferred me to Suzhou."

Yang Wanli nodded happily, knowing that Cheng Jialin's going to Suzhou would definitely help Fan Xian.

"What about you?"

Hou Jichang smiled and said, "I'm going to Jiaozhou to serve as a Dianli."

Yang Wanli was shocked, thinking that this kind of transfer was a demotion, and didn't understand why Fan Xian would have this kind of arrangement.

Hou Jichang didn't explain anything. He only knew that little Lord Fan let him go to Jiaozhou, there must be his deep meaning, and according to what the teacher said in his letter, among the four of them, only he could barely do that kind of shady aftermath.

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"Worry about the world's worries before the world worries?" In the waters of Jiangnan, on a big boat, Fan Xian was lying on a bamboo chair on the deck, looking at the stars in the sky, couldn't help but sigh, "I came into this world to enjoy happiness, not to worry about the country and the people."

On such a night, the big boat was traveling on the river, having already left Hangzhou.

After spending a month in the summer by West Lake, Fan Xian carefully studied the medicine left by Fei Jie, and was annoyed to find that what Ku He said should be true. It's just that Fei Jie seemed to feel guilty, and didn't say a word to Fan Xian's letter of invitation. I don't know where the old pervert hid.

However, Wan'er's medicine was still being taken, so her body gradually recovered, and Fan Xian's mood improved a lot, and his hatred for Ku He of Northern Qi also decreased a lot. As for having children, he wasn't in a hurry at all. He was not yet twenty, what was he in hurry about?

After all the matters in Jiangnan were settled, he took everyone beside him and boarded the big boat provided by the navy, and began to travel along the waterways of Jiangnan.

The destinations of the tourism were nothing more than Wuzhou, Jiaozhou, and Danzhou.

At this time, it was late at night, and Wan'er and the Third Prince had already fallen asleep. Only Fan Xian and Lin Dabao, who were lying side by side, were on the silent deck. Even the Six Departments swordsmen and Hu Wei, who were always hidden in the dark, were called down by Fan Xian.

Fan Xian couldn't sleep, Dabao slept too much on the boat during the day, so he could last a little longer. The two of them were lying side by side, eating delicious Jiangnan pastries and talking nonsense.

People have always been unclear why Fan Xian's relationship with that idiot brother-in-law is so good. In fact, even Fan Xian himself can't explain it clearly. Perhaps, it's just because talking to Dabao can get unprecedented ease, without thinking about anything or being taboo about anything.

And there is no need to talk about politics, talk about the world, talk about right and wrong, talk about black and white, talk about good and evil, talk about the death of others or