Chapter 69 A chance to survive.

Fan Ruoruo, Lin Wan'er and others at the gate of the courtyard exclaimed, and hurriedly helped Fan Xian up, took out a handkerchief and wiped the blood from the tip of Ye Ling'er's nose.

Ye Ling'er was punched in the nose and tears welled up in her eyes. She gritted her teeth and let Fan Ruoruo wipe her nose.

The two girls worked hard for a long time before they finally calmed Ye Ling'er down, and then they stared at Wang Shisanlang with vicious eyes. Everyone then remembered that although Ye Ling'er had a martial arts cultivation of the seventh rank, and had defeated all her friends in Kyoto with her Da Pi Guan and Liu Yun San Shou, she was still a girl of sixteen or seventeen years old.

After a while, Ye Ling'er stopped crying. Surprisingly, not only did she not blame Wang Shisanlang, but she was very excited and wanted to learn swordsmanship from him. She also said that if she had free time, she would like to fight with Wang Shisanlang more.

This kind of behavior made Fan Ruoruo and Lin Wan'er laugh and cry, and they all said that they were worrying about this girl in vain!
Fan Xian was not unhappy and said that he had gained a lot, which calmed the incident.

"Did I go too easy on you during our usual sparring?" Li An said coldly after understanding the reason for the fight, "Don't you understand that you should stop when you reach the limit, even though I'm a ninth-rank master!"

"We had a blast, we had a blast." Shisan Wang said with an apologetic look on his face. He learned the word "hi" from Li An.

He snorted and said, "Next time I will teach you the 'Zheng Liang Yi Sword Technique'." After saying that, Li An no longer paid attention to Wang Shisanlang who was standing beside him.

"Miss Ruoruo, are you okay? Have you finished your homework recently? Do you have any questions about medicine?" Li An asked Fan Ruoruo, then turned to Lin Wan'er and the others, nodded and greeted them.

Fan Ruoruo blushed slightly when she heard this. She wiped her slightly sweaty face with a handkerchief, bowed and said softly, "How are you, sir? Ruoruo has no questions about her studies and medicine recently. Maybe the sir has been too busy recently and has forgotten about it. It has been a while since he has taught new medical knowledge in the hospital."

"This..." Li An was slightly surprised. Is Fan Ruoruo learning so fast? Then he pretended to be enlightened and assured her, "It's my fault. I have too many classes recently and I have neglected you, Miss Ruoruo. When I am done with this period of time, I will go back to the academy to teach you."

"By the way, Miss Ruoruo, have you thought about what you will do in the future?" Li An did not ask Fan Sizhe, Lin Wan'er, Ye Ling'er and others this question, because he knew what kind of people they were and what kind of ideas they had. But Fan Ruoruo was different, she had her own autonomy, "After getting married, will you take care of your husband and children, embroider and drink tea in your boudoir, and spend your life like this?"

Fan Ruoruo glanced at Fan Xian, her expression darkened slightly, and she said softly, "This is how the world works."

"I've said before that you have a great talent for medicine. You can tell from the fact that you were able to understand and digest the knowledge I taught you in such a short time." Li An paused and suggested a possibility: "Have you ever thought about opening a clinic in the future to save lives? At worst, you can become a teacher at Luming Academy?"

Fan Ruoruo nodded slightly after hearing this, as if thinking about something. After a moment, she turned around, smiled and thanked Li An, then went into the courtyard with the others.

After watching everyone leave, Li An asked Fan Xian, "You will be entering the palace tomorrow. Do you still feel like taking your family out for an outing today?"

"Time is precious, I just want to spend more time with Wan'er and Dabao. Thank you very much for helping Ruoruo find the direction of her life." Fan Xian sighed and said, "I also had a plan for this trip. I went to the villa, but I didn't achieve my goal. Instead, I ran into His Majesty."

Li An laughed and said, "He's waiting for you inside. Then, what do you want to say?"

"Your men are really strong!" Fan Xian said with a flattering smile, "Can you lend them to me?"

Li An asked knowingly, "Tell me what you want to do?"

"Tomorrow is the day to entertain the Northern Qi envoys. In the evening, I have to go do something and I'm short of manpower." Fan Xian smiled and said, "You know, I don't have many trustworthy people under my command. Although I am the director of the Supervisory Council, the only person I can use is Wang Qinian. Although he is excellent in Qinggong, he has a family after all. If I get into trouble, it would be bad to implicate him." "Then you have the nerve to implicate me?" Li An chuckled, his face full of curiosity. "Where is your uncle Wu Zhu?"

"Count my uncle's money in." Fan Xian slapped his thigh and said jokingly, "You are a great master, you have to help me. I don't have many friends in Kyoto."

"How much are you prepared to pay?" Li An reminded, "Forget about Wang Shisanlang. His moves are too obvious. For a top master, he can be figured out after three moves."

"Ah, this money may not be much now. You know, Danbo Bookstore was established too recently and the business has not been fully expanded yet. How about I owe you the money first?" Fan Xian came to his senses and asked, "If he doesn't go, who will? Will you go?"

"Yes." Li An replied with a smile.

After thinking about it, Li An agreed to his request: "It's okay if you don't pay. Just remember, you owe me something and you have to pay it back later."

Seeing that the matter was settled, Fan Xian finally relaxed and started chatting and laughing with Li Ang.

Seeing Fan Xian's carefree look, as if nothing would bother him, Li An sighed and asked, "After this is done, maybe you can get what you want to know. What do you plan to do after that?"

Looking at Li An's strange eyes, Fan Xian understood what Li An knew.

He really calmed down and thought about this question. After a while, he answered: "You know about my mother's affairs. I am not completely troubled by these things. I just want to give her an explanation, and then take Ruoruo Wan'er and Dabao with me, and live a carefree life as a rich man."

Li An shook his head and laughed at Fan Xian's naivety. He was a man of wisdom and force. He had many helpers inside and outside the court, although a large part of them came from his mother's gift. In general, he had the opportunity to change many things.

"Then you will not care about the inner treasury that your mother founded, and the Supervisory Council that she funded?"

Hearing this, Fan Xian defended himself, "Perhaps, rather than letting me inherit these things, Mother would rather see me live a happy life."

Li An drank his tea silently, watching the other disciples busy making dinner, doing homework, or practicing martial arts. He turned around and said, "I know you are best at telling stories, so let me tell you some stories today."

Fan Xian looked puzzled and listened quietly. Li An slowly said, "There is a blacksmith on my farm. He works diligently and never slacks off. He has a wife and two sons. Compared to other people, his life is quite happy. In this war between the two countries, both of his sons went to the battlefield and none of them came back. His wife cried all day and even cried until she went blind."

"There was another farmer, or more precisely, a tenant farmer. He didn't have his own land, but rented the land and paid rent. It was only natural for him to farm and pay rent. But when my disciple found him, his family had already fainted from hunger in their house. If they hadn't been found early, they would still be living on the edge of Kyoto, and they would not be able to survive in this prosperous and wealthy place."

"If the powerful Qing Kingdom is like this, it is conceivable that the situation in Northern Qi will be even worse."

Li An paused for a moment and asked Fan Xian, "Do you know why there are more and more people coming to my farm?"

"I didn't do anything, I just gave them another chance to live."

(End of this chapter)