Angry Banana
Chapter 493 The Ups and Downs of Life, Steps Hard to Retrace
The matters concerning Fang Qifo and Fang Baihua have come to an end, but the ripples of the event have not yet subsided. Search: \(Complete Book God Station\) to read high-quality literature for free. In the following two or three days, several chief constables from the Ministry of Justice came to negotiate with Ning Yi every day, discussing the matter of demanding the head, and sometimes bringing nearby officials.
Zhu Biao was not interested in such wrangling, but he was responsible for Ning Yi's safety. Sometimes he followed inside and out, and he could also witness the negotiation process between the two sides. Every time this happened, Zhu Biao couldn't help but admire Ning Yi's eloquence and patience. No matter how the other party forced him with power, threatened him with reason, or oppressed him with position, or acted unreasonably, Ning Yi was always able to calmly and quietly refute them one by one. In the end, although several chief constables were furious and broke up unhappily, Ning Yi could always quietly watch the matter end.
In the following time, the Secret Intelligence Division was still collecting various information and clues from the surrounding area. Such intelligence collection played a role on the third day - Ning Yi mentioned something in his negotiations with Tie Tianying and others.
"Fang Baihua rescued Fang Qifo with hundreds of people, but they never succeeded from beginning to end. When it came to the point, when they were at their weakest, Fang Qifo was rescued by an internal traitor. I have checked your past achievements in the Ministry of Justice, and Chief Constable Tie, you are definitely not the kind of person who relaxes his vigilance at the moment before success... I don't have a result on how the internal traitor came out, but I would like to discuss it with you..."
The true inside story of this matter may not be fully revealed in a short time, but after having questions, there is a basis for discussion. Tie Tianying and others didn't want to talk about this matter, but Ning Yi would naturally not let it go. After chatting for most of the morning, the Ministry of Justice finally chose to back down and decided to acknowledge the assistance provided by the Secret Intelligence Division in this operation in the form of a formal written statement.
This news could be formalized in a formal written statement, and the problems of the Secret Intelligence Division could be swept away. Ning Yi more or less directed the spearhead towards Si Kongnan, Lin Echan and others, but he didn't expect the Ministry of Justice to turn against them because of this - in fact, that was impossible - Si Kongnan and Lin Echan must be attached to a large family at this time, and even if the three chief constables wanted to turn against them, they didn't have the ability. As long as they were provoked a little and made them take a step back, it would be enough.
It would take a few more days for the official documents to go through the process and finalize the matter, so Ning Yi temporarily continued to stay in the town near Sipinggang.
That night, someone came.
*****************
On one side of the courtyard, what happened first was a fight that didn't last long. After the intruder was discovered, he exchanged a few blows and turned around and fled far away. The Secret Intelligence Division didn't have many people. After chasing for a little while, they were finally escaped.
It was almost midnight when Zhu Biao quietly led a figure in. Ning Yi was sitting at the round table in the room reading a book. He glanced at it, waved his hand, and waited for Zhu Biao to go out and the door to close before he stood up.
He walked to the tea table by the window, added water, and made tea. The room was quiet. The figure who came in stood by the door and didn't move. Ning Yi brought the teacup back before speaking.
"You see, the defense here is pretty good now. If you don't plan to kill me with a knife, don't make too much noise later." His tone was calm. "Right now, only Zhu Biao knows the relationship between me and you. If others see you here, it will be difficult for me to explain in the future."
The person who came was Chen Fan: "If I want to kill you, I don't need a knife."
"If I don't let you in, you can't kill me either. Sit down." Ning Yi spread his hands. "The formation here is used to defend against Si Kongnan and Lin Echan. You haven't seen a lot of things yet. I haven't tested the effect too much, but I guarantee you won't want to see it."
"Xigua is dead." (Xigua = Watermelon, name of a person)
"..."
With a simple voice, Ning Yi's movements froze there. He looked at Chen Fan. The two confronted each other for a while before Ning Yi slowly shook his head, and then shook his head more forcefully: "She... has no reason to die, don't lie to me..."
Chen Fan pointed at Ning Yi, gritted his teeth, and said word by word: "You killed my master! You know he is like a birth father to me!"
"I had to kill him." Ning Yi shook his head, his eyes not showing weakness. "To save your life!"
"No one wants you to save us in this matter!"
"I just want to save people, it's none of your business!"
"The hatred of killing my father is irreconcilable! I have to kill you!"
"Humph!"
Ning Yi snorted coldly, picked up the teacup on the table and threw it at Chen Fan. Chen Fan vibrated his arm, and his figure suddenly crossed a distance of more than two zhang. The teacup suddenly pressed on the table, and then the entire teacup was pressed into the wood. His palm swept across the table, his eyes fierce. Ning Yi looked at the large area pressed down on the table, spread his hands and sneered: "Your martial arts are very powerful, can you beat Si Kongnan? Can you beat Lin Echan? Can you save your master?"
Chen Fan's palm stopped, but the wood was still creaking. He maintained that posture for a long time before his expression recovered. He took a deep breath and sat on the chair next to him.
"Do you know that when I came over, Xigua had just woken up from a coma. The first thing she said to me was: You go and take revenge, I won't stop you... She thought I was here to kill you."
Ning Yi nodded, then stretched out his fingers and rubbed his eyes, which had become tired from reading: "I can imagine that."
"I want my master's head."
"No way." Ning Yi shook his head. "It's already been given to the Ministry of Justice... Your master's life is extinguished like a lamp after death! Let this matter pass peacefully, okay! It would be fine if your rebellion succeeded, but now that the rebellion has failed, hundreds of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people have died, and the superiors want an explanation. You definitely can't get the head back! Do you have to die here!?"
The official documents had not been finalized, and the head was actually still in Ning Yi's hands at this time, but he didn't mind lying. After saying these words through gritted teeth, he glared at Chen Fan, and Chen Fan also glared back at him. After a long while, he heard Chen Fan say: "Okay, I want something else..."
"Speak."
"The cannon that can launch fireballs and explode that day."
Ning Yi looked at Chen Fan again. This time, his expression was different from before, but after a while, he walked to the desk on one side of the room and found something from it: "No way, the elm cannon cannot be given to you for the time being, I can give you something else."
The moment Chen Fan made the request, Ning Yi understood that, in a sense, Chen Fan had turned his hatred towards the entire Wu Dynasty, which was an excuse to let him off the hook. Whether it was jianghu righteousness or human ethics, Chen Fan had to avenge the killing of his father. To replace this hatred, he could only turn the target of hatred to something bigger. It was a pity that he could only refuse. Chen Fan frowned:
"Why?"
"The elm cannon has already appeared in my hands, if I give it to you, I won't be able to explain it. And its original arrangement was to temporarily equip it to the imperial army... Don't do anything yet. The wooden cannon tube has inaccurate data and poor safety. It is troublesome to load. Although it has a certain power, it is only a semi-finished product. The real finished cannon still needs research, including a lot of data calculation, and launch formulas, which require a lot of practice."
Ning Yi threw the booklet in his hand on the table. Chen Fan picked it up and flipped through it: "In a few years, the Wu Dynasty and the Jin people will definitely have a big battle. We can't win, but I don't want to lose. This is my reason for going to the capital. Equipping the elm cannon to the army can play a certain role. After this matter is over, I will consider giving you the new cannon. At that time, I can't control how you toss it."
He was a little tired, and paused: "The things in this booklet are called earth furnaces. The current iron is too hard and easily explodes, making it unsuitable for cannon tubes. It can only guarantee safety after it is softened. The steel yield of earth furnaces is not high. You can find some craftsmen to study it... There is also a copy of this booklet in Lvliang Mountain. If there is any progress, the two sides can actually communicate. When there is progress in the cannon, you will be the first to have the materials and be able to make it. Anyway, I have written all these things on it..."
Chen Fan closed the booklet that he couldn't understand.
"Do you know? I can't figure out what you want to do..."
"What?"
"You know what we are going to do in the future. You said that you are going to the capital to resist the Jin and protect the Wu Dynasty, but one day we will rebel. After you protect the Wu Dynasty, what have you done if we smash it again?"
Ning Yi smiled: "A cunning rabbit has three burrows. I am doing business, it's normal to invest everywhere."
Chen Fan didn't speak. After a while, Ning Yi shook his head: "You don't know, my initial goal was just to find a peaceful place with my wife, at most with concubines and children, and live a stable life - that's what I'm thinking now too. However, people are such things, some things they can do within their power. I don't like the Wu Dynasty, but I don't want it to be destroyed by the Jin people, that would be very troublesome... You and Xigua and the others, you have to rebel, and I can't stop you. Either you win, and everything is fine. Or you lose, and I hope you give up and can live a little longer."
He sighed and walked to the desk to sort out a stack of drafts on it.
"I wasn't originally this kind of nagging character, but now I have become like this, and I don't like it very much. Some troublesome things, I used to want to avoid, I'm really tired of it, but this world is like this, everything eventually rolls bigger and bigger like a snowball. Now there are more than twenty people guarding outside, and they still have to defend against revenge and assassination. A bunch of idiots still come to me here to play intrigue all day long. Next, I'm afraid there will be even more troublesome things, more troublesome than doing business before. It's not easy to advance or retreat. This morning I ate tofu pudding, and it was actually salty. Tsk... tofu pudding, how can it be salty..."
He sorted out the things, but his tone was always calm, and he even had some smiles on his face, like self-deprecation. At this time, he sorted out a stack of drafts and put them aside. After a while, he nodded and smiled and joked.
"Damn it, one day I'll get annoyed and kill all the bastards I don't like..." After thinking about it, he shrugged and shook his head, "Tch, salty tofu pudding..."
The room was quiet for a long time. Some of the things Ning Yi said were half true and half false. At least some of them were chilling, but because his expression was too casual, it was difficult to tell. After a long time, Chen Fan hesitated and said: "Actually..."
He took the booklet on soil method steelmaking, hesitated whether to say it or not, but finally said it: "Actually, salty tofu pudding... is nothing, right..."
Ning Yi leaned on the table, frowned and looked at him, tilted his head.
After a moment of confrontation, Chen Fan shook his head and sighed: "You madman..."
Support (Complete Book God Station) share this site with those little friends who need it! If you can't find a book, please leave a message!