Joy of Life: I'm really not a saint

"What if I really love money?" Li An said with a smile.

Emperor Qing shook his head and said, "Let's talk about your martial arts. When I first met you, you were still hiding something. At such a young age, your cultivation level is above the ninth rank. It's really shocking!"

Li An cupped his hands and said, "It doesn't matter what level of cultivation I have. I'm just a physiognomist and I have a few tricks to protect myself."

Surprisingly, Emperor Qing seemed to agree with Li An's words.

"You are from the Far North!?"

Facing Emperor Qing's sudden question, a professional smile appeared on Li An's lips again. Silence was the imperial study today.

Looking at Li An's mysterious expression, Emperor Qing became more certain of his own judgment: "Since you said you are a pure fortune teller, then answer a few more questions for me."

"Your Majesty, please speak."

"Tell me what my purpose is. Tell me from beginning to end."

"From the beginning to the end? That's a long time."

Emperor Qing waved his hand and told Eunuch Hou to serve tea. He smiled and said in a gentle tone, "It's okay, sit down and talk slowly, I have plenty of time."

Li An was not polite either. He sat on a stool brought by a guard, looking like a storyteller about to start. After bowing to Emperor Qing to thank him, he started telling the story from the beginning.

"Let's first confirm the first point. This Fujiko Kyo is your Majesty's man, right?"

Emperor Qing nodded upon hearing this, raised his teacup and started drinking.

"This man is good at using hidden weapons and poisons, but he is chivalrous and kind-hearted. His Majesty then placed him in the Overwatch Council and asked him to wait for an order, an order to go to Danzhou and assassinate Fan Xian."

Li An also took the teacup and took a sip. He found that the tea was indeed good. He smacked his lips and continued, "Let's not worry about who issued this order or whether His Majesty was there. After Fujiko Kyo received the order and went to Danzhou, he naturally couldn't poison Fan Xian, who was trained by Fei Jie. So he used a marriage contract to force Fan Xian to come here. The reason for this is nothing more than some political struggles."

"And Fan Xian, in order to investigate the truth and because of the engagement, naturally has no choice but to follow His Majesty's wishes."

"Interesting, go on." Emperor Qing looked pleased, as if he had met a soulmate.

"After arriving in Beijing, the action arranged by the eldest princess to slander Fan Xian's reputation was something Your Majesty had not expected, and it also made Your Majesty furious." Li An continued.

Emperor Qing became interested: "Oh? Why should I be angry?"

Li An shook his head: "This move will damage the reputation of the royal family, and it will also disrupt His Majesty's plan to let Fan Xian show his talents."

"Fan Xian's talent? Why should I let him display his talent?" Emperor Qing pretended to be stupid and showed a puzzled expression.

Li An explained: "Even the princess knows that the book "Red Mansion" was written by Fan Xian. Your Majesty can find out the details of even the common people, so he naturally knows Fan Xian's true talent. After that, Fan Xian participated in the poetry meeting and became famous, so it was natural for him to enter the officialdom."

Li An paused for a moment and added, "Of course, even if there was no poetry gathering, Your Majesty would have other ways to make Fan Xian famous."

"However, Your Majesty did not expect that Fan Xian would be very resistant to this marriage, which led to the case of Fan Xian's night attack on Guo Baokun, in order to discredit himself and cancel the engagement. However, Your Majesty's two princes were not easy to deal with. The Crown Prince took the opportunity to make trouble for Fan Xian. Seeing that the situation was hopeless, Your Majesty stepped forward to help Fan Xian resolve the crisis in the government office."

At this time, the smile on Emperor Qing's face no longer existed.

Eunuch Hou, who was listening to the conversation between the two, wanted to bury his head in the ground, he was terrified.

Li Anke didn't care what Emperor Qing looked like, and kept saying, "Letting Fan Xian come to the capital was a bait prepared by your majesty for the nobles in the capital. After all, the position of the inner treasury is something that people envy. Afterwards, although things had some twists and turns, they still ended up on the track set by your majesty."

"Finally, there is the Niulan Street assassination case. If Your Majesty really wanted Fan Xian to stay out of it, why would he let a person without any official position to track down and arrest Northern Qi spy Si Lili? Your Majesty wants to see how capable Fan Xian is at handling matters."

"Moreover, this assassination also provides His Majesty with a very useful excuse."

"That's right." Emperor Qing exhaled, looked at the lake outside the door, and sighed: "This assassination case gave me an excuse. There must be a reason for the war between two countries. This is the reason I prepared for Northern Qi!"

"But, excuses are easy to find. Why would I have to make so many arrangements and come up with such a roundabout reason to send troops? Sir, can you tell me why you must let Fan Xian enter the officialdom?"

Emperor Qing found the key to the matter. All these events were arranged with Fan Xian as the center.

As he waited for the answer from the person in front of him, Emperor Qing felt a tightness in his heart.

When he heard his further question, Li An's face turned dark and he was speechless.

The two looked at each other, feeling a little nervous.

Li An did not rush to answer, but turned his head to look at the eunuch Hou who was standing next to the armor and the guards. His meaning was self-evident.

Although Li An did not answer him, Emperor Qing already got the answer he wanted.

He really knew! Fan Xian was his child!

The hand holding the teacup tightened slightly, and Emperor Qing was deep in thought.

"Sir, have you ever calculated whether you can walk out of the palace after saying these words, regardless of whether they are right or wrong?"

The voice faintly entered Li An's ears, making him slightly angry.

Come on, let’s show our cards! Brother Crow is in power, so he wants to overturn the table, right?

"Of course it can."

Chapter 43 What if I don’t give it to you?

Time went back to a moment ago. When Fan Xian came out of the imperial study, he met the crown prince and the second prince outside the door.

When Li Chengqian saw Fan Xian leaving, he didn't want to pay any attention to him. He shouted coldly, turned around and left.

Li Chengze hurriedly stepped forward and apologized to Fan Xian, saying that the assassination had absolutely nothing to do with him.

Fan Xian smiled slightly, making it impossible to tell what he was thinking. He only said, "This matter has nothing to do with Your Highness. When the incident happened, didn't Your Highness send Xie Bian to help?"

Li Chengze breathed a sigh of relief and said, "No matter what, I invited you to the appointment. If this happened, everyone would suspect that I was the one who did it. Now, I am very lucky to be able to clarify this matter with you. I guess, Brother Fan, you already have someone to suspect."

Here, Li Chengze almost said the prince's name directly.

"This matter is still under investigation, so we can't jump to conclusions. To be honest, Your Highness, I am under the order of His Majesty to go out of the city and hunt down the courtesan Si Lili. This..."

Li Chengze nodded: "Of course, father's order must be carried out first, and I dare not delay. In this case, I will not bother you anymore. After the matter is settled, I will set up a wine to apologize to Brother Fan!" After saying that, he bowed and saluted!

If it were an ordinary person, they would have been impressed by the Second Prince's magnanimity and put aside their grudges. But Fan Xian just shook his head, bowed in return, and left the palace to look for Wang Qinian.

The Second Prince, on the other hand, looked at Fan Xian's departing back with an unclear expression, wondering how to calm the matter down.

At this time, Fan Xian found Wang Qinian and explained the tracking plan to him. Then the two of them went their separate ways. Wang Qinian went back to get the items he needed for the tracking and waited at the city gate. Fan Xian took some time to say goodbye to his "chicken leg" girl.

Afterwards, they came to the city gate and met up with Wang Qinian. The two followed the horse hoof prints and left the city.

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Kyoto, inside the Imperial Palace.

Facing Li An's confident answer, Emperor Qing laughed loudly and said, "Of course I believe you, sir. After all, you didn't make a mistake in your calculations."

At this moment, the entrance to the imperial study was guarded by Gong Dian, who had just entered the ninth rank from the eighth rank, and outside the gate facing the lake, if I was not mistaken, Hong Sixiang should be silently guarding it! Not to mention Yan Xiaoyi who was squatting on some rooftop!

Li An thought to himself, analyzing the situation in front of him. The three ninth-grade warriors looked around, some were tanky and some were damage-dealers, and some could fight both long-range and close-range. And there was also the most powerful Grandmaster in front of him, the Emperor Qing, who was hiding the deepest!

This sword of mine is extremely dangerous. If Emperor Qing is determined to get rid of me, then I can only see whether this ultimate Wind God Leg is just a false reputation!

Fortunately, Emperor Qing’s suspicious character saved Li An again!

In his heart, he had already confirmed that Li Ang came out of the temple and must have his own mission.

And judging from the fact that as long as a price is paid, it seems that all questions can be answered from Ang Lee, it seems that the secret and location of the temple can be found not only from Sean.

"Sir, do you have any plans to serve as an official in the court?" Emperor Qing extended an olive branch.

Li An shook his head: "I am a greedy person who only wants to tell fortunes and read faces. If I become an official in the court, I will be tempted by wealth and I will not be able to control my hands." His reason is very tenable and true. If there is a job worth millions of taels in front of him one day, he will definitely pack up and flee to Qi.

Li An went on to say, "Besides, I have already accepted more than a dozen disciples and I don't have any free time. I am afraid that I will fail your Majesty's kindness!"

As soon as these words came out, Emperor Qing's eyes lit up, and he found a breakthrough point: "In this case, I will appoint you as a university bachelor, and order someone to build a college for you, and appoint you as the college's chief priest. I hope you won't refuse!"

"This..." Li An was about to refuse, but was interrupted by Emperor Qing, whose reason left him speechless: "The poem "Ode to the Willow" shows your talent. Just now you declined the offer to be an official in the court, so don't refuse the position of university scholar and academy chief priest again!"

Well, you have the final say, no need to ask me!

With a sigh, Li An bowed his hands and thanked: "I, your humble servant, thank you, Your Majesty."

Emperor Qing laughed and said, "Now that the business is done, let's chat casually. Scholar, don't be nervous."

If you take this seriously, you will lose! Li An thought.

"I wonder what you would like to ask this time, Your Majesty?"

Emperor Qing stood up, turned his hands slightly, brushed his long sleeves, walked out of the imperial study, and came to the pavilion in front of the lake outside the room. Li An saw this and followed closely.

When he walked out of the door and turned around, he saw, as expected, Hong Sixiang was standing outside the door. When he saw Li An looking at him, he lowered his head slightly and said nothing.

After the two of them sat down in the pavilion, Emperor Qing asked, "When I was in Qing, I started a newspaper to enlighten the people, set up the Supervisory Council to supervise all officials, controlled the inner treasury to gather the wealth of the world, and commanded hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses, allowing Qing to grow from a small border country to what it is today."

You are really good, did you do all this? Wasn't it all done by Ye Qingmei?

He immediately saluted and said, "Your Majesty is wise and wise, and your contribution will be remembered for generations to come!"

As if seeing through Li An's perfunctory response, Emperor Qing didn't care whether he was sincere or not, and continued: "I did all this just to ask the scholar, when will I be able to unify the world and achieve that unparalleled feat?"

"Today, Qing is indeed the most powerful empire in the world. However, it is not so easy to unify Northern Qi and Dongyi City, or even the Western Hu and the barbarians further north." Li An shook his head. The Qing might be able to expand its territory and gain a city or a piece of land, but it is unlikely to completely swallow up Qi.

They could only rely on the strategy of nibbling away at the enemy to weaken Northern Qi.

"I am aware of the difficulty involved. You just need to answer me: Can I achieve my wish in my lifetime?"

"No!" Li An said firmly. Not to mention you, even your son couldn't do it.

Emperor Qing was not disappointed when he heard this, he just asked: "What if we add the things there?"

Isn't this complete nonsense? You have to be able to control the temple too!

"Naturally."

Emperor Qing's eyes gradually became sharp as he looked straight into Li An's eyes. The majesty of an emperor mixed with the aura of a grandmaster swept over him!

"You know what's in there, right?"

Although it was a question, Emperor Qing's tone was very firm and full of affirmation. His aura also reached its peak at this moment! His clothes were bulging and fluttering!

Is this the gap between us?

"Know!"

Emperor Qing nodded, and gradually lost his momentum: "Master, can you help me achieve my mission?"

"Your Majesty, I have answered many questions since I entered the palace today. For this part, I hope Your Majesty will pay me the reward later." Li An did not answer Emperor Qing's question directly, but abruptly asked for payment.

Sure enough, Hong Sixiang, who was at the door of the imperial study, raised his aura and locked onto Li An.

As this energy flowed, a sharp arrow came from afar, aiming at his body.

"Haha, hahaha, you are the first person in this world who dares to ask for something from me in person!" Emperor Qing's face was full of surprise, as if he had not expected Li An to answer in this way, but there was a hint of admiration in his tone.

"What if I don't give it?"

Chapter 44 The Secret of the Temple.

Ang Lee recalled a movie called "A City Full of Chrysanthemums" in which Jay Chou starred in his previous life.

Among them, Fa Ge said this line: This world belongs to me. It is yours only when I give it to you. If I don’t give it to you, you can’t snatch it away!

I sighed slightly, thinking that I had killed the conversation again, but you can't just give me an official position and let me have it for free, right?

He drove away the thoughts in his mind and replied loudly: "If Your Majesty doesn't give it to me, I naturally can't take it away." After a pause, Li An organized his words and thought that it was still relatively tactful and appropriate: "But, I will find something else to make up for what I got in return."

The tone is sincere and touching!

Calling the system in his heart, Li An was ready to take action for the second time today.

Emperor Qing was also gradually developing murderous intent at this time, but he still appeared to be kind on the surface and nothing could be seen.

"My dear minister, you have solved my doubts, so of course you will be rewarded! Later, I will issue an order to reward you generously. How about fertile land, beautiful concubines, gold, silver, and jewelry? Everything you need! Now, my dear minister, can you tell me?"

"Your Majesty, I only want gold and silver, preferably silver notes!"

Even though he was Emperor Qing, his mind had already reached the highest level, his mentality was calm, and he was a peerless figure who remained calm even when faced with a mountain collapse. After hearing Li Ang's words, the corners of his mouth twitched slightly, with a hint of anger.

"allow!"

Li An bowed and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Then he straightened his clothes and said in a serious tone, "I believe Your Majesty has already had some understanding of the location of the temple after our first meeting."

Li An pointed to the door of the imperial study and gestured, "But the door of this temple cannot be touched by ordinary people." Then, he repeated to Emperor Qing what Sean said to Fan Xian in the original work.

"Then, can you enter it?"

"Of course you can. But this is my secret."

Emperor Qing nodded: "Continue."