[Xianze] Danbo Bookstore Jiangnan Branch

At night Xu, Fan Xian politely declined the night clothes and weapons sent by the housekeeper of Prince Jing's residence, and simply entered the gloomy second prince's residence through the main entrance.He folded his hands to prepare to enter, and raised his head to ask the silent man in black veil who was leaning against the wall.

"Don't go in?"

"Mmm...mm." Li Chengze shook his head with a wry smile.

Fan Xian said: "You are also interesting. You can deal with people who are cruel to you with a hidden smile. But you are timid to face people who treat you sincerely."

Li Chengze didn't respond to his aggressive general, but just said: "Wait a little longer. Let me think about... what to say to him."

Fan Xian smiled and said, "I grew up in Danzhou when I was young, and I was blessed by my grandma. At first, I had to pretend to be estranged from her to avoid the crisis. Do you know how I express my gratitude when I leave?"

"You said."

Fan Xian put his hand into Li Chengze's black veil, and tapped his forehead with his finger.The other party seemed to be hurt and covered his forehead.

"I kissed her, here. It's not in line with etiquette? But I wanted to do it at the time, and I didn't bother to think about any concerns. In this life, there are no shortage of detours, but the most important thing is to speak out. I just want to tell her: I I am very grateful, and I know her painstaking efforts, and I love her very much."

Li Chengze lifted a corner of the black veil, revealing half of his face, but his eyes were somewhat complicated: "You are lucky to do things without thinking about the consequences."

"You can do it too, brother Fan Yun. You don't need to write poems in seven steps. From now on, you can say whatever you think in your heart. Even if the consequences are dire, someone Xian will go with you." Fan Xian said handsomely Raising his hand, he said, "I'll go first, you'll be in the rear."

Li Chengze nodded. Fan Xian was about to push open the gate of the mansion, but after thinking about it, he turned around and added.

"Um... not to encourage you to really kiss him."

"…………I know."

Fan Xian pushed open the door, patted the dust off his hands, and shouted loudly to the empty courtyard with his hands behind his back, "Why didn't anyone come out to say hello?"

The owner of the courtyard died of poisoning, and there was no one to take care of it all year round. It has long been defeated.Fan Xian often saw the second prince in the city court, and he never cared about his mansion. He could only vaguely see from the collapsed and dilapidated wood and dead trees that in the past there were pavilions, pine trees, and floating trees. floral.Once poetic and picturesque, it has already become a handful of loess.

He walked forward another dozen steps, walked through the corridor to the main room, there was still no sound around, only the fallen leaves on the dead trees rustled, it really looked like a secluded cemetery.

He used his true energy to detect, and it was easy to feel the aura of a person in the side room. This person was not deep in martial arts, so he probably was Li Hongcheng.As for the other person in the room, I'm afraid he has already lost his breath, waiting for an opportunity...

Just as Fan Xian was thinking, a sword that was like a cold light breaking through the ice was already stabbing towards his neck swiftly and violently.He tilted his head back, but a few strands of his hair had been shaved.At this time, the sword edge deflected, and cut at his overturned right arm at an extremely fast speed. The speed of the sword was so fast that warriors below the seventh rank might not be able to clearly see the direction of the sword in the air.

Fan Xian cracked it back and forth a few more times, but kept copying it behind his back. Perhaps he felt bored, so he began to strike up a conversation during the interval of dodging: "Hey, your swordsmanship has improved again. It used to be SF Express, but now Hurry up...SF Express is here."

The person who came didn't speak a word, and still attacked his vitals with swords and swords. It seemed that he was just a tool that didn't understand emotions and only knew how to kill, unless his master could stop him and arrange for him to complete the next task.

Fan Xian finally got annoyed, leaned back, and the blade brushed against his nose, and he said again: "You tied Li Hongcheng and refused to let go, isn't it just to lure me out. Tell me, you want to take revenge on me." ——Do you still want to ask me something?”

As soon as the voice fell, the sword of the comer stopped attacking.Fan Xian twisted his back and forth, heaved a sigh of relief and looked at the person in front of him.

The swordsman sheathed his sword.He was still wearing the same attire as before, with an expressionless face, but under that immobile iceberg face, there was an almost tragic depth hidden.

"The son said that His Royal Highness is still alive, but is it true?" Xie Bi'an asked.

Fan Xian pouted: "'Second Highness' is indeed dead, I think you must have visited his tomb."

Xie Bi'an dropped his hand holding the hilt of the sword: "Your Highness is ruthless in dealing with things, especially with yourself. I didn't have any hope."

Fan Xian was about to ask cleverly, "Do you know who Fan Jun is?", but Xie Bian still said seriously:

"I'm not taking revenge on you, or asking you anything. Instead, I want to tell you something."

"Things," Fan Xian was a little curious, "About the Second Highness?"

"exactly."

"What other story does he have that I don't know?"

Xie Bi'an snorted softly, held the sword in his chest, and said, "He has deep emotions, how could he reveal them at will."

Li Chengze was born in an emperor's family who walked on thin ice. On the surface, he was lazy and free, but in reality he was cautious in every way, for fear of leaving a handle for others to manipulate.He is good at controlling emotions, even Xie Bi'an has only seen him lose control twice, and both of these times were related to Fan Xian.

The first time when Li Chengze and Fan Xian met at a poetry meeting, they chatted vaguely about state affairs, and Fengyue didn't have time to talk about it.On the way back to the mansion, Li Chengze read "Red Mansion" in his arms without saying a word, but when he entered the study room of the mansion, he immediately took off the burden on his feet, walked back and forth on the carpet with bare feet, and flipped through the books on the bookcase , spread out around.This is a bad habit he developed in Concubine Shu's palace. Once he gets too excited, he has to run to the study.

"Boundless fallen trees are rustling, and the endless Yangtze River is rolling... Xiao Xiao, rolling... the Yangtze River is endless."

Li Chengze kept walking with his chin in his hands, rubbing his lower lip back and forth with his fingertips.Xie Bi'an waited quietly by the side with his sword in his arms, only the light footsteps of Li Chengze's intermittently reciting poems were left in the study.

After a while, Li Chengze's pacing movements suddenly froze, and then he squatted down abruptly, rubbing his hands on the spine of a copy of "Red Mansion" at his feet, and suddenly recited:

"Wanli's sad autumn is often a guest, and he has been sick for a hundred years, and he is on the stage alone... Wanli, for a hundred years, is on the stage alone." When he recited this, he even started to chuckle, and then raised his head and asked, "Bian, have you heard such a poem—— Ever seen such a person?"

Xie Bi'an moved his head slightly. He watched Li Chengze grow up, but he was rarely so excited at this moment. He said as usual: "Fan Xian is a man of many talents, and the crown prince is also secretly wooing him."

These words seemed to dampen Li Chengze's enthusiasm. He put away his smile, stood up slowly, and said, "I know. If this person cannot be under my command, he must... die."

He pronounced the word "death" softly and hard, as if he was just biting the grape with his teeth and peeling the skin carefully.

But after thinking about it, he put his hand on his chest again, started pacing back and forth again, and said: "But, but! Bian, you have seen such a wonderful poem, it is not enough to describe it through the ages - there is such a person ? I just met him for the first time, and I can feel his talent, decisiveness, and his uniqueness."

Li Chengze turned around, couldn't help raising his voice a little, and said with a smile: "We met for the first time, but I knew that if we became friends, talking about poetry, talking about country, talking about romance...wouldn't it be wonderful? He and I are I will be one of the few people who can understand him." At this point, the corners of his mouth trembled, and he said softly, "And he can understand me, too."

"—Your Highness." Xie Bi'an reminded him aloud, indicating that walls have ears, and that he should not expose too many personal emotions under the eyes and ears of the prince in the house.

Li Chengze seemed to have just woken up from a dream. He looked at the "Red Mansion" in his hand, casually threw it on the bookshelf, and returned to his usual lazy and heartless appearance.

"This matter needs to be resolved quickly, and we cannot linger on it." He said coldly, after thinking for a while, finally handed a sealed letter in "Red Mansion" to Xie Bi'an, and ordered, "You take this letter to the palace. In the hands of the woman in the middle, tell her that the future troubles must be resolved as soon as possible."

Xie Bi'an took the order, and was about to take the letter from Li Chengze's hand, but felt the strength in his hand stagnate slightly.

It turned out that His Royal Highness the Second Prince was still clutching the corner of the envelope tightly and refused to let it go, even in his own eyes it was a little unbelievable.It seems that among his seven souls and six souls, one has betrayed his current identity and is resisting his fate with weak strength - out of pity for talents and out of rebellion.This stubbornness from the depths of the soul, which has not been corroded by the cold shell, is making the final resistance.

"Your Highness." Xie Bi'an said again.He wanted to say that if His Highness is not willing to discuss it for now.But Li Chengze quickly let go of his hand, letting the letter fall into Xie Bi'an's palm.He withdrew his hand as if it was hot, picked up the "Red Mansion" on the cabinet again, raised his head and muttered.

"It's tough and bitter, I hate the frosty temples, I'm down and out... a dirty wine glass."

As for Li Chengze's second loss of control, it was after he deliberately set up a pavilion to send Fan Xian to Beiyi.His intentions were obvious, and Fan Xian must have understood it—they could always think of one place to go.After leaving this pavilion and returning to Nanqing, they should be the enemies who tear their skins apart and fight to the death.

Li Chengze dropped his wine glass, demolished the new pavilion, and watched Fan Xian's back go away.His foreshadowing was already in place, he sent people to search for Fei Jie's whereabouts, and also ordered people to secretly monitor Fan Sizhe and Teng Zijing's son.The next plan is also being carried out step by step, but on the way back to the house, his expression became more and more serious.

On the way, Xie Bi'an was entrusted by Li Chengze to enter the palace, apparently to send a letter to Concubine Shu, but in fact, he was exchanging orders from the second prince with some of the eldest princess's remaining forces in the palace.He presented the latest update of "Red Mansion" to Concubine Shu, who was still immersed in reading, and heard her ask about Li Chengze's recent situation rarely.

Concubine Shu had no desire to compete for favor, but Emperor Qing also valued her indifference to study. She lived quietly in the palace with few disputes.Xie Bi'an then told the truth, talking about Li Chengze's recent movements, and also talking about Fan Xian.

"The last time Fan Xian entered the palace, I met him." Concubine Shu turned a page of the book and said, "I don't care about other people's appearance, but I can also feel that Cheng Ze is keen to get close to him for a reason. .”

Xie Bi'an waited for her to explain slowly: "Chengze inherited some of His Majesty's strategy and city government, but he is still like me. We are all crazy, crazy. I am obsessed with books, and he is not only books."

"I know Chengze's temperament. He is thoughtful, guarded, and self-respecting, but in the end he just lives too soberly. I love reading very much, and I can still soothe my worries; but if he loves deeply, he will definitely go crazy forever. If others love with their heart, he will use his life."

Speaking of this, Concubine Shu turned another page of the book, but said softly: "If he was born in an ordinary family, he would be much happier."

This is actually the most heartfelt sigh that a deep palace concubine can say to her own flesh and blood.

Xie Bi'an reported: "Your Highness is cautious in handling things, from the point of view of his subordinates, he has never been tempted by anyone."

Concubine Shu put down the scroll in her hand, and asked softly, "What book is he reading?"

"The Red Chamber."

"Whose poem are you reading again?"

"Master Fan Xian."

"Who have you seen recently?"

"..."

"Who do you talk about most often?"

Concubine Shu didn't wait for Xie Bi'an's answer, picked up the scroll again, and finally said: "Tell him, you can fight if you want to fight, don't take me as a worry. I have books to accompany me, and I will not be lonely in the palace or in the cold palace. He gave a piece of advice: People are not sages, and it is difficult to break love, this is a common thing, there is no need to hide it."

Xie Bi'an led the order back to the Second Prince's Mansion, but he heard that Li Chengze had gone to Prince Jing's Mansion in a sedan chair, and he rarely went out alone without Xie Bi'an's protection.Xie Bi'an rushed there immediately, but Shizi was not at home, he searched half a circle, and saw a man in dark green simple clothes standing in the pavilion by the river bank, standing with his hands behind his back, as if he was waiting for someone.

It was here that he met Fan Xian for the first time.

Xie Bi'an walked into the gazebo, Li Chengze remained motionless, but said: "When he comes back, we will be enemies.

The swordsman didn't speak, Li Chengze went on to say: "I still remember that day when he was drinking and composing poems in the palace, saying that he didn't see the ancients in the past, and he didn't see the comers in the future. He came to my side drunk, his face flushed ridiculously, and said to me:

"There are lovers in the world, this matter has nothing to do with the wind and the moon."

Li Chengze chewed this line carefully, and then smiled, "I thought about it, and I think this line is very good. There are few great writers in Nanqing, but there is a little Mr. Fan. I often think, what kind of person is this?" Can write such a poem, and what kind of person... can resist him?"

Li Chengze turned around slowly, just like when he met Fan Xian for the first time, he raised his head proudly, looking at the visitor from Danzhou who just wrote a peerless poem at the poetry conference.Xie Bi'an couldn't see any wavering from his expression, he could only catch a glimpse of the lake behind Li Chengze turbulent in the wind, trembling and sparkling.

"Unfortunately, even if everything starts over again, he stands here again guessing who I am, and if I try to win him over and force him in the future, my decision to kill him will not change. Bian, do you know why?"

Without waiting for Xie Bi'an's answer, Li Chengze grabbed a bunch of grapes on the case and answered with a smile, "Because——my surname is Li!"

He laughed tremblingly all over, grabbed the grapes and strode away from the gazebo, but the choked laughter didn't stop, the voice was so weird that it made people feel chills down the spine.Xie Bi'an immediately followed behind him, but suddenly remembered something and looked back.

There is a copy of "Red Mansion" on the desk.The cover page was torn and shabby, and now it was swaying gently in the breeze, and it was thrown in this lonely gazebo.

"So you tied Li Hongcheng because you wanted to tell me something?" No matter how Fan Xian thought about it, Xie Bi'an's logic seemed strange.

"I stay in His Highness's house to protect his relics and collection of books. I will not allow His Highness to break in. I will detain him privately, and I will plead guilty to him in the future."

"No, if you want to see me, why don't you just come to Jiangnan to find me?" Fan Xian complained, "As for making a detour, why did you tie up that silly persimmon?" Maybe you will run into your family on the streets of Hangzhou eating wildly. Master who eats madly...

Xie Bi'an shook his head proudly: "I have been serving His Highness the Second Highness since I was 15 years old, and never stayed away. Now that the Second Highness is dead, I will guard his mansion and will not travel far."

Fan Xiansuan accepted his explanation and asked, "What do you want to tell me?"

Xie Bi'an asked seriously: "What do you think of His Royal Highness the Second Prince?"

"what?"

"Your Highness Li Chengze, what do you think of him?"

Didn't you tell me something, why did it suddenly become a quick question and answer session? !And looking at Xie Bi'an's posture of holding the sword tightly, I am afraid that if he says something bad about Li Chengze's "revenge" and "too edible", this guy will immediately draw his sword and have another round of the Olympic competition where you cut me and hide...

But suddenly asked Fan Xian to say how about Li Chengze—not to mention that Li Chengze himself might be eavesdropping outside the door, Fan Xian was stunned for a moment.Some fragments of getting along with Li Chengze flashed across my mind, some confrontational, heart-to-heart talks on a boat under the moon, and fragility after a late night nightmare... But in the end, it was fixed on Li Chengze stretching after eating steamed buns and not being beaten. on screen.Fan Xian thought for a moment, and could only follow the first word that came out of his heart.

"Him? He's quite thin. Er... Fat and thin, don't think about it."

Xie Bi'an was a little confused: "What else can you think?"

"It's nothing."

"Then do you know what His Highness thinks of you?"

Fan Xian touched his ears and frowned.During this period of time, he only felt that without state affairs and disputes, getting along with Li Chengze was too comfortable, but sometimes he wanted to see more of his foolishness when he was happy eating steamed buns.As for how Li Chengze thought of him, Fan Xian could only recall that under the moonlight, Li Chengze said gloomy nonsense like "I wanted to tie you up and only give birth to me" under the moonlight.

Fan Xian shuddered, and said, "Since you are the one who wants to tell me, you can tell me, what does Li Chengze think of me?"

Xie Bi'an sighed deeply, moved his lips a few times, and finally made up his mind: "As a guard, I shouldn't talk too much about my master. It's just that I have been guarding this mansion for half a year, and after thinking about it several times, I think I should tell you, You should know too.

"His Royal Highness is naturally intelligent, even excessively intelligent. But in this matter, I am afraid that even he himself has not noticed it—or cannot face it directly.

Your Highness the Second Prince, he has been treating you—"

"Be safe."

The third voice echoed in the dilapidated Prince's Mansion.The voice was a little hoarse, but the tone of the call was so calm and familiar, as if he had called it countless times before, turning it into a spell, engraved in Xie Bi'an's mind, and making his body move involuntarily.

The beloved sword, which was rarely released from his hand, fell to the ground with a bang, splashing flying dust all over the ground.The swordsman turned around in disbelief, his mind was blank, he had already forgotten what he wanted to tell Fan Xian.A slender figure with a black gauze hat covering his face was reflected in his pupils.

The visitor first lifted a corner of the black gauze, and then simply took off the entire hat to the ground.He still habitually raised his chin halfway, his reserved brows were slightly frowned, and the pair of eyes that had been sly since childhood looked at him flickeringly.

"I'm here." Li Chengze said.

TBC