The passerby who doesn't have a word in the book

Chapter 31 31

Xie Fanghan stood in front of the Huameng Tower, and he was a little discouraged when he heard the noise of playfulness coming from inside.

Isn't today the fifteenth day of the first lunar month?

Why are there still so many people here, and they don't go home?

but……

The dude might not care about the fifteenth and sixteenth of the first lunar month, and her father is the biggest "dandy" in Xijing.

If you want to find him, you can only take the initiative to go to this place.

These days she is making such a big fuss in Xijing, her cheap father will not know, the dark guard told her that in the whole Xijing, the only ones who can compete with them are the secret agents and Huameng who are directly under the emperor building.

Naturally, she didn't dare to take the initiative to provoke the Ouchi side, but Huamenglou's spies were good at hiding, so she was really not sure if the two sides had ever fought.

Just to be on the safe side, I still have to talk to him.

As soon as he crossed the threshold, Xie Fanghan saw Sister Ling standing at the door with a magnificent posture and making fun of the regular customers around her.

She smiled stiffly and called out to her: "Sister Ling."

"Oh, young master Xie is here!" Sister Ling approached her side with an exaggerated tone.

"It's been a long time, Young Master Xie. You must stay here for a while today!" Sister Ling took her arm very naturally, and led her upstairs with natural steps.

Xie Fanghan maintained the smile on his face, and followed step by step, but he was not surprised when he saw her appear. Sister Ling... No, her cheap father should know that she is coming to him.

"Xie Xiaogong, please wait here for a while." Sister Ling took her into a room, gave her a calm look, and then withdrew.

Not long after, the door was opened again, and a young girl walked in from the outside.

Xie Fanghan looked at the visitor calmly, secretly wary.

Maybe it's a wrong move, so don't startle the snake first.

She was thinking about how to invite her out, but the woman said first: "Young Master Xie, don't worry too much, it was Sister Ling who asked me to take you to see the landlord."

It turned out to be one of our own.

Xie Fanghan breathed a sigh of relief, and nodded to her: "I'm sorry to trouble you."

The woman stopped talking, walked into the inner room, gently turned a mechanism, a secret door appeared, and the woman raised her hand as a gesture of invitation.

"plz follow me."

Xie Fanghan followed the woman and followed her into the secret passage.

She once again refreshed her views on Huamenglou. This kind of exquisite dark building design cannot be completed overnight. Xie Mingyuan is really a person who cannot be underestimated.

"Here we are." The woman said as she pushed open the wooden door in front of her.

It was still the study room last time, Xie Mingyuan sat on the teacher's chair and concentrated on what he was looking at.

"Lord, the young master has arrived." The woman said.

Xie Fanghan looked at her back and raised his eyebrows.

This girl looks to be about the same age as her, why does she also use the word "little" when addressing her, is her seniority so low?

Xie Mingyuan raised his head when he heard the voice, as if he had just realized that someone had entered the room, looked at them and said, "Here you come? Xiao Hua, go down first."

"Yes." The woman responded, turned around and backed out.

"Her name is Xiaohua?" Xie Fanghan couldn't help asking.

Who named it so casually?She complained in her heart.

"Well, yes." Xie Mingyuan nodded solemnly: "She is an orphan, she was abandoned at the door when she was still a baby, isn't this Huamenglou, I named her Xiaohua."

Oh, you started the co-authorship.

Xie Fanghan slandered in his heart. Fortunately, her mother gave her the name, which would make Xie Mingyuan...

Xie Mingyuan looked at Xie Fanghan with a disheveled look on his face, thinking that she was looking down on Xiao Hua, he quickly put down the letter in his hand and said to her: "Don't underestimate Xiao Hua, she is also one of the best experts in the building, you may not be able to beat her. "

"So powerful?!" Xie Fanghan never thought of this, looking so weak, it's really unbelievable.

Xie Mingyuan boasted proudly: "That is! This is the person I specially prepared for you."

...?

Although she knew that she had misunderstood, Xie Mingyuan's words still made her a little concerned.

Seeing her doubts, Xie Mingyuan looked at her softly and said: "I know your mother left you a lot of things, and I prepared this Huamenglou for you. If you don't like staying here, you can leave it to Xiaohua in the future." Never mind, you don't have to show up."

Xie Fanghan was a little surprised when he heard the words, but also felt sour.

She suppressed the strangeness in her heart and talked to him about the business.

"What did you say? The Xie family is collaborating with the enemy and betraying the country?" Xie Mingyuan looked at her in surprise. This was the first time she saw Xie Mingyuan with such an exaggerated expression.

It seems he doesn't know.

Xie Mingyuan paced around the room with a sullen face, while Xie Fanghan stood where he was, quietly waiting for him to sort out the information.

"Is the news reliable?" Xie Mingyuan suddenly turned to look at her.

"Reliable!" She nodded emphatically, "Grand Master Xie and Da Yue have colluded, and the collusion has been going on for a long time. I also discovered it by accident, but although I discovered it, I haven't found out the way they pass the news. .”

She couldn't tell Xie Mingyuan the truth, so she had to change her words and try to convey to him what she knew.

She watched Xie Mingyuan's expression gradually become serious, and it took a long time before she heard him speak again.

"It's a very important matter. Don't tell other people about this matter, including Old General Wei. The Xie Mansion still has to keep an eye on it. I will arrange people to be with your people. If it is true, many things must be done in advance. get ready."

Xie Fanghan nodded. This is also one of the purposes of her visit today. She hesitated for a long time before deciding to tell Xie Mingyuan about it. The hidden guards in her hand could not find out the way Xie Mansion delivered the message. It was so secretive. It was no longer something she could solve by herself.

But after listening to what she just said, it also confirmed her guess about Xie Mingyuan.

"Father...do you have a bad relationship with the Xie family?" She asked cautiously.

Hearing such a big thing about collaborating with the enemy and treason in his family, his first reaction was to plan to "destroy relatives with righteousness", which is almost like a stranger.

Xie Mingyuan was stunned for a moment, the title "Father" was too unfamiliar to him, and he was really not used to it for a while.

"Xie's family..." Xie Mingyuan frowned after saying two words, and it took him a long time to look at Xie Fanghan and continue: "I know you may have guessed something, some things you know now don't mean much to you, wait wait."

He kept silent again.

The sudden estrangement between Xie Mingyuan and the Xie Mansion was after her mother passed away, so is this also related to her mother?

All the problems come back to those two people.

Xie Fanghan stopped asking questions, and continued to say to him: "A few days ago, I had someone do what happened in Xijing. You must have known about what happened at the palace banquet. The First Prince attacked the Northern Army. This is an opportunity."

Xie Mingyuan looked at her with a surprised face: "I know everything, I just don't understand why you want to participate in this matter, the fifth princess is just a pretext for trouble, after all, it has nothing to do with her, or do you want to support someone A prince, so you took the opportunity to attack the eldest prince?"

"Tch." She sneered, and said rather disgustingly: "Support the prince? Just these few, none of them are successful. Why do you help them up?"

"Then what are you?" Xie Mingyuan was completely confused by her.

Xie Fanghan didn't answer, and the room fell into a long silence.

She couldn't tell Xie Mingyuan that Dayan was going to destroy the country in a few years, and the princes were the culprits for accelerating the destruction of the country. She just helped Dayan survive for a while in advance.

"It's fine if you don't want to say it, and I won't force you to ask." Xie Mingyuan waved his hand and sat down on his chair again, "You can do whatever you want, there is a father for everything... and me."

She couldn't bear to hear Xie Mingyuan's dejected tone at the end, and before going out, she turned her head and said to him: "Father, the Lantern Festival is happy."

……

Xie Fanghan sat at the appointed place, looked up at the moon and lost his mind, the night was just right, and the street not far away was full of people.

Today is the Lantern Festival, she misses her original parents a little bit, and doesn't know if they are doing well now...

"What are you thinking?" Yan Yutang's voice came suddenly.

Xie Fanghan withdrew his gaze and turned to look at the person who came.

Today is the Lantern Festival, princes and princesses can go out of the palace, that's why she chose to go out today.

"What's wrong?" Yan Yutang looked at the silent Xie Fanghan and asked.

"It's okay." She replied, getting up and wrapping her shawl around her.

Yan Yutang looked at Xie Fanghan, keenly aware that something was wrong with her, and fixed her eyes on her.

Xie Fanghan twitched the corners of his mouth, his eyes were a little lonely: "I just went to see my father."

"Xie Mingyuan?" Yan Yutang didn't know what to think of, and stepped forward to her side to sniff.

"You father and son are interesting, do you always meet in the brothel?"

Xie Fanghan heard that she was teasing him, and joked with a smile: "Maybe it's because there are cute young ladies in the building."

"Oh? Is that so?" Yan Yutang raised her eyebrows with an exceptionally gentle tone.

Xie Fanghan felt cold behind his back, he didn't dare to continue to "make mistakes" and quickly changed the subject: "The street is busy today, do you want to go for a walk together?"

Yan Yutang glanced at the brightly lit street not far away, then at Xie Fanghan, who was smiling gently, and nodded.

"Okay."

"Is that why you came out by yourself?" The two walked unhurriedly on the street, casually looking at the scenery along the way.

Yan Yutang's eyes lingered on the various lanterns, and he replied very indifferently: "There are hidden guards following, it's okay."

Seeing her curiously looking at the lanterns along the street, Xie Fanghan glanced at a shop in front of him out of the corner of his eye, and had an idea in his heart.

"Shall I give you one?" She said, "What kind do you like?"

Yan Yutang was not polite to her either: "I think it's all pretty good."

"Then come with me." She said, holding Yan Yutang's hand very naturally.

Yan Yutang was startled, and subconsciously wanted to shake it off, but for some reason, she remembered the look on her face when she was looking at the moon in the pavilion just now.

Sad and lonely.

Yan Yutang hesitated for a moment, whether she didn't shake her off, and let her pull her.

She didn't know if it was her illusion, but she felt that Xie Fanghan's hands were soft and warm, if it wasn't for the thin layer of calluses on the palms, it would have looked like a woman's hands.

"Come on, pick one!"

Hearing Xie Fanghan's voice suddenly, Yan Yutang came back to her senses. She was attracted by the lanterns in this shop, and she forgot the doubt just now.

Different from other houses on the street, the lanterns of this house are more transparent in color, and some of them are printed inside.

"Can this be printed inside?" She looked curiously at the old craftsman who was making lanterns.

The master smiled kindly: "Okay, what do you want to print, write it down, and I will print it for you."

Yan Yutang turned her head to look at Xie Fanghan when she heard the words: "Fang Han's writing is brilliant, am I lucky enough to watch another masterpiece today?"

Xie Fanghan looked at her bright eyes, smiled and borrowed a pen and paper from the store, and said to her while writing a poem: "If you want me to give you a poem, just say it, you don't feel sour even if you are polite. "

Yan Yutang reproached her and patted her on the back lightly, expressing her dissatisfaction, and then immediately leaned forward to read what Xie Fanghan wrote.

But Xie Fanghan was determined not to let her see, he opened his cloak to cover it tightly.

She stopped writing and returned the pen and paper to the shopkeeper. The teacher took the paper in Xie Fanghan's hand, read it quickly, and couldn't stop nodding and praising: "Young man is so talented!"

After speaking, she turned her head to look at Yan Yutang, and said with a smile, "Young lady, let's pick a lamp."

Yan Yutang became more curious when he heard the master's praise, and patiently picked out a lamp and handed it to the master.

The master said to wait a moment, and then began to mention the words.

While waiting, the two briefly exchanged information.

"Have you read my letter?" Xie Fanghan asked.

Yan Yutang nodded slightly and was very rude to her: "Look, there is a change in the beam?"

"Not sure yet, just some speculation." She replied.

"Well... I also sent someone to watch it. I believe you will not be indiscriminate. What about the news from my side?"

"It's nothing important, it's just that the First Prince has been confirmed to be in contact with the Zhenbei Army." Xie Fanghan didn't tell her about the Xie Mansion, it was too dangerous and the timing was not ripe.

"Is Old General Wei leaving Beijing to deal with this matter?" Yan Yutang asked again.

"No, he went to the hot spring."

"Ah?" The answer was too unexpected, Yan Yutang looked at Xie Fanghan in surprise.

Xie Fanghan nodded helplessly: "I don't know the details. The old man left without telling me. I set up this stage."

Yan Yutang reacted quickly, and her expression immediately returned to normal: "It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter who builds it, as long as there is a platform."

Xie Fanghan looked at her profile and saw that her eyes were full of planning, so he couldn't help but soften his tone: "You still have to be careful in the palace. If you are not sure about anything, you can discuss it with me."

Yan Yutang also turned to look at her when she heard the words, and when she saw the way Xie Fanghan looked at her, her brows and eyes became gentle, "I thought you would be angry with me."

Xie Fanghan smiled and said nothing, and shook his head lightly after a while: "I was very angry at first, but now I am not very angry. Maybe you will still not tell me anything in the future, and then you may still be angry when I find out. would be angry..."

"But as soon as I see you again, my anger will disappear. Who made me like you?"

Yan Yutang opened her lips slightly, trying to say something, but in the end she just curled the corners of her mouth silently.

It turns out that there will really be people who don't do what he asks and treat her well. Is this what I like...

"Okay." The old master's words caught the attention of the two of them.

Yan Yutang reached out to take the lantern handed over by the master, and looked at the words mentioned above impatiently.

"Dongfeng puts flowers and trees at night, and blows down, and the stars are like rain. BMW carved cars are fragrant all over the road. The phoenix flute sounds, the jade pot turns light, and the fish and dragon dance overnight."

"Fang Han is really good at writing!" Yan Yutang praised him generously.

Xie Fanghan smiled, looked up at the bright moon gradually covered by dark clouds, and said softly, "It's just as long as you like it."