Fan Zhongming could fully understand Yu Zizhen on this point, so he did not have any emotions about Yu Zizhen's prior words.
To prevent someone from not understanding the situation and causing trouble for others, Fan Zhongming solemnly warned his family after returning home:
"I've asked a friend to take you out of Beijing, and he'll send someone to pick you up tomorrow."
"On the way, you must listen to the escort. If they say go, you must follow. If they say stop, you must stop. Don't question, don't make trouble, and don't complain about the hardship."
"If you need to sacrifice your wealth to save your life, don't be reluctant to give up the little wealth you have. Staying alive is the most important thing."
Fan Tingwan never expected that his grandson would show such great energy at the critical moment, allowing the elderly, the weak, women and children in the family to escape. Of course, he did not want them to die with him in the political struggle.
He asked Fan Zhongming, "Is your friend confident that he can handle the soldiers outside the palace?"
There are so many people, and all of them are well-armed and wearing bright armor. How can ordinary people deal with them?
Fan Zhongming glanced at his grandfather. "Since he promised, he will definitely do it. He never says anything he is not sure of."
After a pause, he continued, "He also asked me to ask my grandfather and father if they would like to return home with my grandmother and the others."
Deep down, he hoped that his grandfather and father would not be so stubborn, but he also knew that as the head of the Fan family, Fan Ting would definitely not leave with the elderly, the weak, the women and the children in his family.
He couldn't retreat, because as soon as he did, the Lu family would definitely convict him as a "fugitive" and then target the entire Lu family.
There was no way Fan Ting would give them the opportunity to attack his own family members, so after Fan Zhongming finished speaking, he smiled faintly and slowly shook his head at his old wife who was looking at him expectantly.
"Your father and I can't leave," he said.
Mrs. Fan's last bit of hope was shattered, and she couldn't help but shed tears, but she forced herself not to cry out loud.
As the head of the Fan family, Mrs. Fan understood why her husband and son could not leave.
Her son was the so-called "mastermind" exposed by the assassins, and her husband was a cabinet minister of the current dynasty and one of the regent ministers appointed by the late emperor himself. Unless they had the emperor's edict, any of them who left the capital would be giving others a handle.
"From now on, the Fan family will be handed over to you." Fan Ting looked at his eldest grandson with a loving face. "You are even more outstanding than I imagined. With a grandson like you, I can smile at my grave even after my death."
Fan Zhongming was startled, "You, you are..."
Fan Ting nodded and said, "I plan to let you go with your grandmother and the others."
This is the successor he has carefully cultivated, and the future patriarch of the Fan family whom he has long designated. If there is any chance to help him escape from trouble, Fan Ting will of course seize the opportunity to send him away.
Even if he had known that Fan Zhongming had the ability to walk out of the Fan Mansion on his own, he would not have let Fan Zhongming foolishly come back and fall into the trap.
In his heart, the contribution that his grandson can make to the family is much greater than that of all the other children and grandchildren in his family combined.
Don't blame him for being cold-blooded. He actually puts the "lives" of his blood relatives on the other side of "value" in terms of weight. As a qualified head of a noble family, he simply puts the continuation of the family before the love of his children.
Fan Ting handed the seal of the Fan clan leader to Fan Zhongming, "From this moment on, you are the clan leader of the Fan clan. From now on, whether it's your uncle or the elders from the side branches, you will only be responsible for managing and dispatching them as the clan leader."
This is not an easy job, especially since his grandson is not even twenty years old yet. There are dozens of elders in the clan who are older than him, Fan Ting, and they are still alive. His grandson has to call all these old bones his great-grandfathers.
This is the problem among clan members. The clan leader is the head of the clan, but those guys who rely on blood relationship and seniority to bully others cannot be treated with any face at all by even a clan leader who holds a high position, not to mention that his grandson is just a young man without an official position.
Fan Ting could almost foresee that without him and his eldest son to support Fan Zhongming, Fan Zhongming would definitely face many difficulties after returning home.
However, he was not worried that Fan Zhongming would not be able to cope with it. Not to mention that his wife was still alive, Fan Zhongming's mother was also a descendant of a powerful aristocratic family.
As for his second son and eldest daughter, I think they will also be able to give Fan Zhongming some help.
With the support of his maternal grandparents, great-grandparents, uncles and aunts, Fan Zhongming would at most suffer some hardships.
Fan Zhongming couldn't stand this at all. He had never considered himself to be among those who left from the beginning.
The handsome young man, who hadn't cried for more than ten years, knelt on the ground, hugging his grandfather's knees, his face covered with tears.
After listening to the baby-voiced system's retelling, Yu Zizhen tutted, "Master Fan is too pedantic. Lu Tong and Xiao Lu have clearly decided not to resort to cultured tactics like verbal battles and intrigue. Why is he still stubbornly waiting for the outcome of the Jingzhao Prefecture trial?"
In Yu Zizhen's opinion, the most taboo thing in life is to stick to the rules and remain unchanged. If she were to replace Fan Ting, she would never use the same set of standards to deal with her enemies.
If the enemy is a gentleman, she may not necessarily fight back with gentlemanly standards, but if the enemy is a villain, she will definitely follow the villain's path and leave the villain with no way out.
Yes, she doesn't mind lowering her moral standards to deal with despicable people.
According to her observation, although the aristocratic families did not hold military power, not all the soldiers around the capital were controlled by the Lu family.
Those military generals who have not been killed or recruited by the Lu family must be in the same difficult situation as the Fan family.
Yu Zizhen felt that instead of waiting to be defeated one by one, it would be better for them to join hands and kill the Lu family first.
What she didn't know was that people from aristocratic families were naturally arrogant. They even looked down on the Lu family, who were actually a powerful and noble family but were regarded as "peasants" by them because of their shallow background. How could they look down on those warriors who were indeed "peasants" and only knew how to fight and kill?
As for those who control the military, they have always avoided the aristocratic families as much as possible.
Not to mention that others look down on them, they will not approach them and cause trouble. Just say that if someone from a noble family really comes up to them and tries to get close to them, then they will consider that there must be something wrong when things are unusual, and they will definitely suspect that the other party has some bad intentions, wants to plot against them and still remember the other party's kindness.
All I can say is that the gap between the gentry and the common people that has accumulated over hundreds of years is not so easy to eliminate.
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