Chapter 289 Questioning
Xuanmiao said: "If you can get one of the two, I will let you go."

Pan Yun felt that there was no problem with this and immediately agreed loudly.

Xuanmiao said with a straight face: "You should go to the mountain temple."

Pan Yun agreed, picked up her things, and saw the red fox basking in the sun in the yard, so she went to flirt with her, "Hongyan, are you going to the mountain temple to play?"

Hongyan raised her head, then slowly lay back down. She was now in her original form and spoke in human language: "That's a temple. I won't go there."

Pan Yun: "That is my master's temple. My master is a crane. He has no prejudice against animals becoming spirits. You see, you can enter the Sanqing Temple."

Hongyan raised her head and asked, "Is your master also a demon?"

Pan Yun paused and said, "The mountain god... should be a god, but he is indeed a crane."

Hongyan stood up quickly, shook her fiery red tail behind her, raised her little head and said, "What are you waiting for? Let's go."

Pan Yun led her down the mountain and said, "Please tuck in your tail. Just leave one piece exposed."

Hongyan shook her tail and said, "Tails are trimmed for people to see."

"In the eyes of humans, a fox with one tail is an animal, but if it has more than two, it is a monster," Pan Yun said. "People are either afraid of the unknown or greedy. Some people have both."

"Their fear and greed can't help you practice, so why bother to stir up trouble?" She said, "It's better to hide and pretend to be a pig to eat the tiger."

Hongyan: "Pretend to be a pig and eat the tiger?"

"Yes," Pan Jun gave an example, "You are so beautiful. If someone is greedy for you and wants to catch you, you can show your magical power and show your second tail to hit him in the face. How cool is that."

Hongyan: "This is not good for my practice, right?"

"It's not beneficial, but this is your normal form. Walking around in the world is your right and freedom. If someone doesn't even give you this most basic freedom, you should resist."

Hongyan said bluntly: "I don't understand, say something the fox can understand."

"If you are caught with one tail, you can beat him yourself; if you are caught with three tails, you can call for reinforcements before taking action."

Hongyan: "You mean when I have three tails, I can't beat the people who come to catch me?"

Pan Yun: "When I see a fox with three tails, I avoid it when I feel I can't beat it; I will only try to catch you if I think I can beat you."

Hongyan was thoughtful and learned a trick, "Is this trick called pretending to be a pig and eating the tiger?"

Pan Yun nodded, "Not bad."

She asked Hongyan curiously, "If you were captured, would you hate humans?"

Hongyan said nonchalantly, "No, it's natural for humans to like catching me and for me to like catching chickens. We can't control it."

So she doesn't hate humans. She was caught because she was not skilled enough; but she was able to fight back because the other party was not skilled enough.

Pan Jun was stunned for a moment, then burst into laughter, "You're right, I think too much."

Hongyan listened to Pan Jun and put away her two tails, then she followed her down the mountain, wagging her tail and skipping.

The trick of pretending to be a pig and eating the tiger is very good, she likes it.

As soon as she arrived at the mountain temple, Pan Jun burned incense and worshipped, then took out writing materials from the spiritual realm and began to write a letter to her father.

The fox was right, some people's greed cannot be suppressed, and they are destined to be enemies.

The other party will not let them go just because they become weak.

However, after becoming weak, the opponent's attention and strength will definitely weaken due to cost issues.

Hongyan: No, I didn’t say that.

Pan Yun wrote a letter to her father, telling him that she had made a breakthrough and was now extremely strong. "Father, please tell me the truth about what happened back then. I will look for people related to the case. At the latest in two years, I will go to the capital to prepare for overturning the case."

To solve a case, even in the 26th century, it would take a long time of preparation and investigation, let alone in the Ming Dynasty.

The transmission of information is slow, and finding people and investigating can take as short as three months or as long as an indefinite period.

Pan Hong’s case back then was not complicated, but the people involved were either dead or exiled, and no one knows how many of their family members are still alive.

Pan Yun was young at the time, and was devoted to cultivation. She only knew that her father came home later and later for a while, and the light in the study was always on all night. Sometimes he came home from get off work with uncontrollable anger;

She only knew that the case was related to the Jinyiwei and the eunuch Wang Zhen, and she didn't know anything more.

It happened suddenly.

Before her father was imprisoned, the case he was in charge of had been closed three months ago, but it was suddenly revealed to be a wrongful case, involving Wang Zhen, the Embroidered Uniform Guards, the Censorate and the Dali Temple.

Pan Hong was arrested and imprisoned in the government office. Her eldest brother got the news from somewhere and ran home from the academy. He hid her name in the servants' room, then asked his second uncle to set up a tablet for her. He also took her household registration page out of the register and burned it on the spot, and forged an official red-lettered comment on the page for the head of household and crossed out her name.

Her second uncle went out that day with a large bag of money, used his connections, and arranged for her to be deregistered, and also moved her date of death forward to winter or spring.

Before Pan Yun could find out what had happened, the Embroidered Uniform Guards rushed into the Pan family's home, arrested all the Pan family members and wanted to put them in jail. It was only after his second uncle angrily rebuked them, quoted a lot from the "Great Ming Law", and brought out the "Great Edict" that his second uncle's family and servants were saved.

Oh, because her father earned too little, he felt guilty towards his younger brother's family, so the servants in the family were registered under the name of Uncle Pan, and the family's land and shops were also basically under the name of Uncle Pan.

Pan Yun has always been skeptical about her father's words. She felt that her father had a premonition that he would not have a good ending in the future when he became an official, so he separated from her second uncle early. Except for the ancestral home and sacrificial fields, basically all the property was registered under her second uncle's name.

The imperial court had an order that confiscation of property generally did not include ancestral property and sacrificial fields. So when the Jinyiwei searched the house that day, apart from losing some of the more valuable items and gold and silver cash in the house, they did not suffer any other losses.

Pan Hongqiong and Pan Tao were not extravagant people. The most valuable thing in the homes of these two scholars was books, but the Jinyiwei looked down on them...

Anyway, they were very angry when they left that day.

Only then could Pan Yun ask his second uncle what had happened.

However, everyone treated her as a child, and a weak child at that, so she only said, "A case your father closed three months ago was determined to be an unjust case. The court said that your father accepted bribes and colluded with Xue Xuan, the junior official of the Dali Temple, to exonerate the murderer. Not only did he accept bribes, he was also suspected of forming a clique to frame Wang Zhen. Your father, Xue Xuan, and a director of the Ministry of Justice and a director of the Dali Temple who were affected by this case were all imprisoned."

Then, the incident developed extremely quickly. Before Uncle Pan could find his connections to investigate whether the case was a wrongful one, the court quickly made a judgment.

Xue Xuan was executed immediately, Pan Hong was exiled, and the two leaders were dismissed from their posts.

Xue Xuan did not die on the day of his execution because Wang Zhen suddenly pleaded with the emperor, and many ministers in the court opposed sentencing Xue Xuan to death, so the emperor stopped the execution.

The emperor dismissed Xue Xuan from office and sent him home, and forbade him to set foot in the capital again in his life.

So, in the end, the people who were most hurt were her father and her family.

Wang Zhen didn't know what was wrong with him, but he suddenly felt guilty and let Xue Xuan go, but he vented his anger on their family, making the already difficult life of the Pan family even worse.

In the past, Pan Yun knew that they were wronged and they were standing on the opposite side of Wang Zhen. Given Wang Zhen's personality and style of doing things, if she wanted to overturn the case, she would have to use power to suppress power. Only by suppressing Wang Zhen or becoming equal to him in power could she overturn the case.

Before becoming the first marquis, Pan Yun had no confidence.

But now, she has.

Pan Yun was confident that as long as she went to the capital to meet the young emperor, she would be able to replace Wang Zhen and become a treacherous eunuch, oh no, a powerful eunuch.

By then, she can overturn her father's verdict.

However, before overturning the verdict, we still need to know what the specific case is.

After writing the letter, Pan Yun checked it carefully. Finding no problems, he blew the ink dry. Then he took out a blank booklet, calmed down for a moment, and began to copy the martial arts secrets from memory.

This martial arts secret book is called Bafangpo, it is a sword manual and a hard skill book.

They are now serving in the military camp, and their weapons are swords. She has carefully looked at it and found that Bafangpo is not only powerful in single combat, but also can be used in pairs, three people and five people in formation, which is just suitable for the army.

In addition to Eight Directions Break, Pan Yun also found them a relatively simple internal energy technique. It had no name, but was a very common breathing technique in the martial arts world.

Based on his own understanding and the practice of Xincheng Zhenfa, Pan Yun readjusted his breathing method.

Unlike Zhang Liuzhen's radical mental method, the biggest advantage of Pan Yun's mental method is that it is stable and easy to get started.

The disadvantage is that it is slow.

The speed of cultivating internal strength will be very slow in the early stage, but this set of mental methods is very suitable for Bafangpo.

Pan Yun did not write them separately, but combined them into one book, writing the inner strength skills at the front and the sword techniques and illustrations at the back.

It was definitely her. She was a master of formations and talismans, and she was best at drawing lines. Otherwise, even if she could practice the Eight Directions Breaking Technique, she wouldn't be able to draw it.

Pan Jun was immersed in his painting skills, while Hongyan was walking around the mountain temple, wagging her tail.

After walking around, she squatted at the doorstep and looked up at the statue of the mountain god.

She discovered that the statue was indeed divine, indicating that it identified with the mountain temple.

So...she can really wander around the mountain temple freely without being driven away.

Hongyan ran and jumped happily in the house.

Pan Yun couldn't help but look up at her during the break, "Are you so happy?"

Hongyan: "I have been to many Taoist temples and Buddhist temples. Except for the land temple, other Taoist temples and Buddhist temples would not let me in. Some people even wanted to catch me when they saw me."

Pan Yun: "The great love of the land god."

Hongyan nodded and said, "The Earth God and Earth Goddess are really good. I like them very much."

When Pan Jun heard this, he became curious and asked, "Have you seen them?"

"I haven't seen them," Hongyan said, "but I know they are there."

A man and a fox were chatting happily. A villager carrying a basket was holding onto the door frame and almost collapsed. "Xiao, Xiao Pan, were you talking to the fox just now?"

Pan Yun turned around and saw her, his eyes lit up, and he nodded immediately, "Yes, Aunt Wang, are you here to burn incense? I was born with the ability to talk to animals, not only foxes, but also chickens, ducks, and geese."

Aunt Wang: ...

Her legs and hands stopped shaking immediately. She straightened her back and stood up by holding onto the door frame. She even sorted out the things in the basket, stepped over the high threshold and walked in, changing the subject: "This fox is pretty. Who brought it back?"

Alas, after not seeing you for more than half a year, the young Taoist priest is still so naive and romantic, but what he says is becoming more and more ridiculous.

　I decided to adjust my schedule and go to bed early today, so there is only one update. I will make up for the remaining update tomorrow.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)