NOVEL NEXT Chapter 67: Fan Quan
When Lu Songli arrived at the main courtyard, she told her father her guess.
"Fan Quan?" Lu Desheng slapped his thigh, fearing that this was it!
"The Emperor knows about this Fan Quan." At that time, he didn't pay much attention to this matter, but now it seems that he was still careless.
Lu Songli raised her eyebrows, Fan Quan, did he go to Heaven to listen so quickly?
Mrs. Jiang listened for a while and saw that the father and daughter were discussing business in the hall. Instead of moving to the study, he sat outside the door with a bamboo basket, doing some needlework, and guarded the door for them to prevent eavesdropping.
It was winter at this time, and the winter in Chang'an City was already very cold. The corridors of several residential courtyards of the Lu family were hung with straw curtains to block the wind. In addition, there was a fire cage at her feet, so she didn't feel very cold sitting at the door.
At this moment, Chen Rong sent in the collected information.
Money can make the world go round, and what Lu Songli ordered is not difficult. In addition, this is a debate arena that is held in full view of the public. As the winner of four consecutive debates, Fan Quan's words and deeds have attracted the most attention among everyone. His speeches were brilliant and his angles were novel, so naturally some people would record his words and deeds. It would take some time to compile it into a volume, but Lu Songli and his daughter did not mind looking at the original manuscript.
The more Lu Desheng looked, the more he frowned.
Lu Songli read it faster than her father. She quickly read it the first time and then the second time. By the time she finished it, she could basically see the problems here.
"Dad, look, does Fan Quan's defense have the style of your early years?"
Her father is a sophist. When impeaching others, no matter the angle or direction of the attack, he is very weird. The angle is unexpected, and he wins by being right and surprising. Fan Quan is like a junior version of Lu Desheng.
"Yes, that's it. Let me tell you, something doesn't look right about this defense." He also felt something was wrong when he first looked at it. After his daughter reminded him, he realized that it was the familiar feeling that came over him.
His own family knew about his own affairs, if he hadn't really confiscated his disciples himself. Fan Quan had the same taunting style as him, and he thought he was his disciple. In fact, it is not that no one has come to submit over the years, but Lu Desheng didn't know why, but subconsciously didn't want to accept it. At first, he thought he was afraid that the disciples of the church would starve to death for the master. Later, his daughter analyzed with him the simplest and most effective way to bring him down, and he came back to his senses as to why he resisted accepting disciples in the first place, because if he accepted disciples and taught them out, he would be seeking his own death.
"Dad, something is really wrong with this Fan Quan. Our guess should be correct."
Lu Desheng felt the same way.
That Fan Quan could perform like this in the debate arena at Hongsheng Restaurant, whether it was imitating or stealing from him, at least showed that Fan Quan knew her father very well. And if you want to imitate her father, you must have a template. You must know that it is difficult to collect information about her father, and the time span is large. Fan Quan's ancestral home is Longquan, which is a small town outside Chang'an. He is not even from Chang'an, and the Fan family is an ordinary gentry family. You shouldn't be able to do that.
These information really confirmed her suspicions. Fan Quan, Xiangzhuang, dances with the sword because her father, Peigong, is the reason.
Lu Desheng and Lu Songli were about to continue their discussion when Lu Mingzhi came in.
"Mom, dad, second sister, I'm back."
Lu Songli asked him to sit down, and then asked him, "Mingzhi, do you know your senior brother named Fan Quan?"
Lu Mingzhi blurted out, "He is smart and knowledgeable, has strong critical thinking ability, good eloquence and profound knowledge."
"Any more?"
"His ancestral home is in Longquan Town, and his family is quite famous in the local area."
The information collected by Chen Rong also mentioned this.
"By the way, dad, second sister, Senior Brother Fan said he wanted to come visit dad." When Lu Mingzhi found that his father and second sister both looked towards him after hearing this, he was startled and said quickly, "But I refused. "
You big gasp!
The father and daughter looked at each other, and sure enough, this was one step closer to their guess.
"Mingzhi, don't you admire your senior brother Fan very much? Why did you refuse when he wanted to visit?"
Lu Songli could clearly feel that Lu Mingzhi clearly admired his senior brother Fan Quan before going to the appointment. Logically speaking, his request is not too much, and her brother should agree to it. But he didn't, so she got a little curious.
He didn't know how to answer his second sister's question. In fact, it is very common for senior brothers to communicate with each other and visit each other's homes or be guests. But Lu Mingzhi couldn't explain why, but he was very resistant in his heart. However, the other party kept pestering him, making insinuations and asking questions several times, and others started to make noises. He became anxious and asked, "Why?" and then the two parties broke up unhappy. But there’s no need to say the rest, it’s embarrassing.
In fact, he doesn't have a good temper. He is very serious about certain issues. He is restrained in front of his family and rarely wrongs himself outside.
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After listening to her brother's inner thoughts, Lu Songli sighed that her brother had inherited her father's beast-like intuition. She peeled off the cocoons and relied on her calm mind to analyze what was wrong with Fan Quan and Na Hongsheng Restaurant. Her brother, on the other hand, relies on intuition to avoid danger. This inheritance is quite powerful.
What Lu Songli didn't know was that later in the original work, after the original owner died, Lu Desheng realized that something was wrong. When he was collecting information and planning to avenge her, this Fan Quan also appeared. Her brother Lu Mingzhi admired Fan Quan very much, and Fan Quan also said that he admired Lu Yushi very much and wanted to visit him, so her brother introduced him to his father.
In the original novel, Lv Mingzhi was not so sharp. This can only be called the butterfly effect.
The father and daughter continued to discuss. Lv Mingzhi did not leave, but sat on the side. The two did not say anything, letting him participate, even if it was just to listen, would be good.
At this time, the father and daughter speculated on the next actions of the Xie and Zhao families based on the method she had given to get rid of her father's political enemy before.
The two families were so angry that Lv Songli estimated that the preparations were almost done and they were very close to making a move.
According to what she had reminded her father before, her father had reached a preliminary consensus with Emperor Kang Cheng in private that he would not be promoted and would keep him in the position of the fifth-rank censor.
In fact, if Emperor Kang Cheng really wanted to promote her father, it was not impossible. The position of the Censor-in-Chief of the Censorate was very good. He was still a censor, but the rank was raised by one level.
If Zhou Chengzhong knew, he would definitely shout, who did he offend with this move? The position under his buttocks would be unstable.
She thought so, but Lu Songli felt that Emperor Kangcheng would not do so. The Imperial Censor was the head of the Imperial Censorate, and Emperor Kangcheng knew what kind of person her father was. It was enough for the court to have one such censor. If there were more, I'm afraid the emperor would have a headache.
Then, the other party's plan to remove her father from the position of censor would not work. Now they had to solve the problem of getting rid of Fan Quan, the "knife" prepared by the Xie and Zhao families. They passed this level.