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Chapter 1225 Crocodile Tears

Just as the brothers were chatting and greeting each other, Eunuch Qian immediately came trotting over and read out Emperor Qing's oral order, ordering the royal brothers to immediately go to the palace to meet the emperor. Of course, the main male protagonist Fan Xian was indispensable.

You have to know that Emperor Qing's feelings towards Fan Xian are extremely complex and varied. He has always treated him as his own son, but he still mainly uses Fan Xian. The little bit of guilt he feels is only fleeting. Besides, crocodile tears are worthless.

While Emperor Qing's sons were rushing towards the palace, the second prince Li Chengze was the most nervous one. He kept looking at Su Ning and Fan Xian with a nervous heart, because he was really feeling guilty.

Although the news that Fan Wujiu brought back did make him feel relieved, he was still worried that Suning and Fan Xian would break their promise and take it back, because he had no idea how much evidence Suning and Fan Xian had obtained in Northern Qi.

What's even more terrible is that Shen Zhong, the former commander of the Jinyiwei of Northern Qi, has disappeared. No one can say for sure whether Shen Zhong has fallen into the hands of Su Ning and Fan Xian. Especially this time, Fan Xian, who came back, has a strange feeling, as if he no longer has the desperate and reckless spirit as before.

The Second Prince suddenly approached Suning with a forced smile, his expression truly shameless. "Hey, Sixth Brother, it was Second Brother who spoke with the wrong tone just now. Second Brother, I apologize to you."

"Second brother, I really don't understand why you act so arrogantly and then so respectfully. Do you know what you are doing every day?" At this moment, Su Ning looked at the second prince in front of him with an unhappy face and questioned him.

"Sixth brother, please don't speak so harshly. I am your second brother after all." The proud second prince naturally couldn't stand Su Ning's sarcasm.

"Second brother, if you can't sleep one day, you'd better think about how we get along as brothers. Are you always the one who stirs up trouble and creates trouble out of nothing?"

"I……"

"Second brother, I, Li Chengning, am a lazy and unrestrained person. I don't care about the disturbances in the outside world, but if someone really gives me trouble, I don't mind giving them a good slap in the face."

"..." At this time, the second prince Li Chengze's face naturally turned pale and blue. He had never been humiliated like this before.

However, Suning no longer paid attention to the Second Prince with a colorful expression. The Crown Prince and the First Prince, who were riding not far away, also showed thoughtful expressions. They all realized that Suning definitely had something on the Second Prince Li Chengze.

Soon the brothers arrived at the imperial palace. Since Fan Xian did not make any fake death farce this time, Emperor Qing did not need to prepare any special treatment for Fan Xian, so this special "family dinner" started immediately.

However, Emperor Qing was still looking forward to Fan Xian doing something, after all, this time there was news about the temple that he was most concerned about.

However, Emperor Qing waited for a long time but did not see Fan Xian attack, and he could not help but realize that Fan Xian was influenced by Suning.

As expected, Emperor Qing looked at the well-behaved Fan Xian with a look of displeasure and asked, "Fan Xian, I asked you to go on a diplomatic mission to Northern Qi, but why are you so listless after coming back?"

"Your Majesty, I have been doing fine recently, but I have been through some things, so I can't be as reckless as before." Fan Xian quickly put down the chopsticks in his hand and responded to Emperor Qing's questioning in a polite manner.

However, Emperor Qing looked back and forth curiously between Su Ning and Fan Xian. "How strange! Is Old Six poisonous? Why do I find you and him becoming more and more alike? Have you been influenced by this guy?"

"..." Fan Xian naturally understood that he couldn't respond to this sentence.

"..." At this time, Suning, who was eating heartily on the side, felt offended.

"Okay! Then tell me about your trip to Northern Qi. I heard that your delegation encountered an attack this time?" As expected, Emperor Qing still asked about the specific matters of the mission to Northern Qi, and by the way, he also inquired about the strange border attack.

"Your Majesty, the so-called border attack was nothing more than a farce. The enemy came with such force but withdrew inexplicably. As for arriving in the Northern Qi capital, I exploited the discord between the ruler and his ministers to make Shen Zhong, the commander of the Northern Qi Embroidered Uniform Guard, a pariah. Nothing else happened."

Emperor Qing then turned on Fan Xian and Su Ning. "Hmph! I instructed you to kill Sean along the way. How come not only did you allow him to return to Northern Qi without any problems, but you also allowed him to successfully advance to Grandmaster?"

"I am guilty! I am terrified."

However, Emperor Qing put down his chopsticks and looked at Su Ning beside him. Su Ning's outsider attitude was really infuriating. "Sixth Brother, you are the mastermind of this mission to Northern Qi. I want to hear your explanation now."

Su Ning then put down his chopsticks, stood up, and saluted before replying, "Father, this trip to Northern Qi was inherently fraught with uncertainty. It's only natural for some unexpected situations to arise. Furthermore, although we didn't successfully kill Sean, Fan Xian did manage to extract the location of the temple from him."

"Oh? Where is the temple?" As expected, Emperor Qing's eyes flashed and he asked urgently.

"A bitterly cold place in the far north."

"It seems that Northern Qi no longer has any reason to exist. I will not allow Northern Qi to block my path to the temple."

"Father, the temple only exists in legends after all. Although it has been preliminarily proved that the temple does exist, it may not be a good thing for us to contact them without authorization." However, Suning reminded him pessimistically. Who knows how the civilization of the last era perished.

"Sixth Brother, what do you mean?" Sure enough, Su Ning's reminder made Emperor Qing stunned.

“Father, the relationship between us and the temple is like that between a novice and a grandmaster. The gap between us cannot be crossed.

Because we were newcomers, we knew nothing about the mysterious temple.

What if I get into trouble that I can't handle, will it only bring disaster upon myself?
After all, we rulers only need to think about how to rule.

Being exposed to too many things is not good for us.”

"Sixth Brother, do you know something about the temple?"

"I don't know! But according to what Fan Xian told me after he came back, I realized that Xiao En himself was also confused. That's why I feel that the unknown is often the most dangerous."

"The matter has been decided! Sixth Brother, don't say anything more." Although Emperor Qing also thought that what Su Ning said was very reasonable, he still made the decision stubbornly.

"Yes! Father."

"Also, since your mission to Northern Qi was ineffective this time, I will not reward you. Go back to your previous positions and do your work properly."

"Yes! Father." "Yes! Your Majesty."

However, at this moment, the eldest prince beside him said something disapproving, mainly because he was thinking about himself, "Father, the Grand Princess of Northern Qi was able to travel safely to Kyoto this time. Sixth brother and Fan Xian have certainly made great contributions to our great celebration. I feel it would be inappropriate not to reward them."

Emperor Qing first looked at his eldest son meaningfully, then nodded earnestly and announced his reward for Fan Xian. "Alright! Then I'll confer the title of Baron on Fan Xian. As the instigator, Sixth Brother needs to bear the primary responsibility, so there will be no reward."

"Yes! Father," "Thank you, Your Majesty."

This time, Fan Xian did not attack the second prince Li Chengze. After all, Su Ning had already explained the interests to him clearly. No matter how much he said, it was not more important than taking direct action. Besides, there were some things that were not suitable for him to do.

...After this strange family dinner was over, Suning and Fan Xian couldn't wait to leave the palace because they both had their own things to do.

After leaving the palace, Fan Xian looked at Su Ning doubtfully and asked, "Your Highness, are you going back to Taiping Villa next?"

"No! I'm going to cause trouble." However, Suning said with a sneer on his face.

"Huh?" Fan Xian naturally understood how Suning was causing trouble. His only goal was to quickly eradicate the cancer that was Baoyue Tower.

So at this time Fan Xian rushed towards the Fan Mansion in panic, but he didn't expect that Su Ning would act like this, as still as a mountain and as agile as a rabbit, leaving no one any chance to react.

Si Nanbo Fan Jian, who was about to go out to look for Fan Xian, looked at Fan Xian in surprise, "Fan Xian, you're finally back. I thought you would go to the Inspection Institute first."

"Father, something terrible has happened. Where is Versace?" However, Fan Xian looked at Fan Jian anxiously and asked.

"He's settling accounts in the inner house! I heard he made a lot of money recently." Fan Jian responded to Fan Xian in a daze.

"Father, don't say anything now. I've already asked the Inspection Bureau to send people everywhere to get that bastard Versace out as soon as possible."

"What? What happened?"

“Father, if you want Versace to have his head chopped off, I don’t mind explaining everything to you right now.”

"Uh……"

Then Fan Xian immediately ran into the inner house of the Fan Mansion in a hurry. When he saw the happy-looking Versace, he beat him up violently. In the end, he beat the confused Versace half to death.

Liu Ruyu questioned Fan Xian distressedly, "Fan Xian, what are you doing? Why did you beat up your brother as soon as you got back?"

"Hmph! That bastard Versace has committed a capital crime." Fan Xian naturally did not have a good face at this moment.

"what?"

"..."

At this time, everyone in the Fan family understood the urgency of the situation and also felt the oppressive feeling of impending storm, so they no longer tried to stop or question Fan Xian's behavior.

Soon, more than ten experts were sent from all over the Inspection Institute, who dragged Versace, who was like a dead dog, into a carriage, and finally drove the carriage away from Kyoto Prefecture without saying a word.

Only then did Fan Jian step forward and look at Fan Xian and ask, "Fan Xian, what exactly is going on? How did Fan Sizhe commit a capital crime?"

"Kyoto is no longer peaceful, and I have broken my promise." However, Fan Xian felt heartbroken at this moment. He finally broke his faith for the sake of his family.

"..."

Soon the Fan family knew what had happened. The main reason was that the incident was too big. It was simply a powerful fuel-air bomb that was directly released.

……

At this time, Suning naturally went straight to his own territory, the Kyoto government office, and then summoned all the yamen runners and constables, as well as Shen Zhong and others wearing masks, and went straight to Baoyue Tower.

"The governor of Kyoto has issued an order to arrest those responsible for forcing women into prostitution and abusing civilians. Anyone who resists will be killed without mercy."

"what……"

These words from the Kyoto government official undoubtedly ignited the powder keg. Chaos immediately broke out in Baoyue Tower, and both men and women tried to escape in all directions.

Then, the Kyoto yamen runners, like wolves and tigers, pounced on Baoyue Tower and quickly took control of all the people inside. Any thugs they saw would be hacked to death by masked warriors such as Shen Zhong.

Yuan Meng, the courtesan in charge of Baoyue Tower, was naturally terrified, but she pretended to be calm and looked at Su Ning in front of her, saying, "Sir, we are all kind-hearted people."

"Yuan Meng, your crime has been exposed. I advise you to confess all your crimes, otherwise you will suffer all kinds of torture." Su Ning was too lazy to pay attention to this cruel whore and warned her directly that she had better know the situation.

"Ah? Sir, do you know who the owner of Baoyue Tower is? Aren't you afraid of causing trouble that you shouldn't?" The panicked Yuan Meng's first thought was to use his power to suppress others, but he didn't know that the time had come for this group of people.

"Yuan Meng, I hope you can still be so arrogant after enjoying all the torture."

"what……"

Then the runners from the Kyoto government office brought all the people from Baoyue Tower back to the government office, including of course the good people who were kidnapped and imprisoned, as well as all the account details of Baoyue Tower in the past few months. Finally, the runners put a seal on the Baoyue Tower, which was once the most famous building.

……

The second prince Li Chengze was naturally surprised when he received the news, but he did not feel panic at all, thinking that this matter had nothing to do with him.

The main reason is that what he did was too insidious. He originally did this to coerce Su Ning and Fan Xian. After all, Su Ning is the future son-in-law of the Fan family. It can be said that this is a vicious plan that kills two birds with one stone.

The Second Prince, Li Chengze, suddenly burst into laughter, thinking that Suning's actions were equivalent to self-destruction. "Haha, I didn't expect that this old man would do such a heroic act as soon as he came back."

"Your Highness, will the incident at Baoyue Tower implicate us?" However, Fan Wujiu on the side looked at the second prince Li Chengze worriedly and asked.

"No! Don't forget that we have been hiding in the dark, and all of them are their own people." The second prince Li Chengze shook his head confidently, forgetting that sometimes there is no need for so-called hard evidence.

"Your Highness is right! But Sixth Prince's actions are too strange."

"Hmph! There's no point in overthinking! Since Lao Liu has already made his move, I'll follow suit."

……

(End of this chapter)