Chapter 65 – Oh, Tears

The Qing royal family on the eunuchs management has always been very strict, many rules, there is a dead order is not allowed to eunuchs in the palace outside the purchase of residence, which on the one hand is to ensure the privacy of the nobles in the palace city security, to facilitate the forbidden army guards control, on the other hand, is also to prevent the conditions of the purchase of residence in the eunuchs and the ministers in the court of collusion up.

However, those who have the status of the eunuchs, the hand will not lack of silver, since it can not be purchased outside of the House to buy a yard, they have to live in today’s place to work. So, in this seemingly slum area of Rumplestiltskin Place, you can still find more than a dozen very conspicuous mansions.

The eunuchs of the small courtyard, calmly and proudly in the bustling and chaotic Wunyi Fang.

The night is already late, Hong Zhu arranged the East Palace things, respectively to the Empress and the Crown Prince kneeling resignation, then led a few close small eunuchs to the Raccoon Factory.

Out of the inner palace not far, those small eunuchs do not know where to carry out a bamboo sedan chair, please he sat up.

In the inner palace, Hong Zhu did not have the courage to pose, but out of the inner palace, this kind of enjoyment of things he will not refuse. Just tonight sitting on the rickety bamboo sedan chair, his face is not very good, those little red bumps that are a bit harsh in the cold wind shrinking, his mood is also a bit bleak.

He forcibly hid the trace of fear and uneasiness in his eyes, and the small eunuchs around him said a few words, and cursed a few times, so that they must serve those two in the East Palace, the fear in his heart was eliminated because of the curses, which made him feel slightly more at ease.

Into his own small courtyard, he mumbled a few words of what, then went into the house, sat on the circle chair next to the kang, the style of this circle chair is exactly the same as the old eunuch Hong sunbathing outside the Hall of Contained Lights, he specially hired someone to do.

Every time a eunuch who came to the courtyard to do some work, when they saw this circle chair, they would associate it with the relationship between Eunuch Hong Jr. and that old eunuch, and be wary and respectful.

Hong Zhu was very proud of his own hand, sitting on the chair, holding a pot of hot tea in his left hand slowly sipping, a thirteen or fourteen year old eunuch respectfully kneeled down, took off his shoes for him, and called hot water to scald his feet.

Feeling that pair of small hands in the wooden basin rubbing his feet, Hong Zhu gave birth to a very strange feeling, some satisfaction, some complacency, and some sadness – his family back then was also a scholar-gentleman family, produced a few jinshi of a large family, only by that official even the end of the family, which made his later life into the present appearance, if the If there is not such a tragedy – Hong Zhu thought to himself at his own age, probably should also pass the Chun Exam, began to embark on the career path is right.

Every time he thought about this, he could not help but be gloomy, then angry, and then give birth to the most sincere gratitude to that little Lord Fan outside the palace.

Hong Zhu is not an ungrateful person, the so-called scholar for a friend dies, he has always thought to himself, although the crotch does not have that thing thing, but his heart …… is still a scholar.

His fingers slowly rubbed the grains on the surface of the alabaster pot, his mind is not in this wonderful touch, he thought about his own risk to tell the small Fan adults of that thing, I do not know what kind of woe this thing will bring to himself …… He has been afraid of it, afraid of it for many days, until the small Fan adults returned to the capital, he just slightly felt some Bottom line, such a terrible thing will be handed over to Little Fan Ta-Jen to deal with it, perhaps he will obtain certain benefits from it, and he himself will be counted as repaying the kindness, as long as …… the incident is not implicated in himself.

Hong Zhu s fingertips suddenly trembled for a moment, sticking out his tongue to moisturize his own lips that were dry because of nervousness, hissing dryly, he said, “You go out, I am a little tired, don t come to disturb me if nothing is wrong.”

That thirteen or fourteen year old little eunuch with beautiful eyebrows, took out a dry rag to wipe his feet clean for little Eunuch Hong, and then said with a cheeky smile, “Eunuch, do you want to go and call out Xiu’er to pinch it for you?”

Hong Zhu listening to this slightly stunned, immediately thought of the palace girl’s soft body and fragrant wet tongue, a hot current in the abdomen, but it is not the place where it should go, not from the color of the face slightly dark, coupled with the fear that this is the house of that person heard, angrily scolded: “Scram! What show child awake child.”

The little eunuch did not know why the eunuch was angry, crying and out of the room, carefully the courtyard door and room door are closed, since go to the side compartment to sleep.

“Wake up child …… that is Yi Gui concubine’s close palace maid, you actually even dare to hit the idea.” Fan Xian walked out from the inner room and scolded with a smile, “Look at your little life, more comfortable than me, the guts are also gradually bigger ah.”

Hong Zhu cried and said, “Master don’t shame me, this guts is really not big ……,” he tried to look at Fan Xian, said with a smile, “Besides that wake up girl, isn’t it master’s person?”

Fan Xian bluffed and rebuked in a low voice, “To hell with it! How dare you say such absurd words.”

Hong Zhu smiled and shut his mouth.

This small courtyard was on the southwest side of the Raccoon House, the terrain was relatively quiet, Fan Xian had listened earlier with all his true qi, there shouldn’t be any eavesdroppers around, it was safer and easier to talk, he was afraid that Hong Zhu would be too alarmed by the incident, so once he opened his mouth, he first told a few naughty jokes.

He sat at the foot of the kang, and it was impossible for the lamps in the house to map his shadow outside from this angle.

Hong Zhu carefully looked around and lowered his voice, “Master, knowing that you stayed in the former city today, I guessed that it was just …… not safe here either, so it’s better to hurry.”

Fan Xian nodded, looked at him twice, and asked in a low voice, “Confirmation?”

Hong Zhu’s face immediately changed, his lips trembled for half a day, and with some fear he glanced around again, nodding after a long time.

“Keep this stuffed in your heart, no one can say anything.” Although Fan Xian knew that Hong Zhu wasn’t stupid like that, he still worriedly reminded, frowning, “Even if it’s muffled, don’t talk too much …… when you sleep, it’s best not to have anyone around …… that Xiu’er can’t be either .”

Hong Zhu winced, thinking to himself, fuck, this is also too desperate, who can control this kind of thing of talking in your sleep.

In fact, Fan Xian at this time is also some annoyed, how to turn this hot potato into a beating stone, the middle of the things to consider is too much, he tonight night visit Hongzhu, mainly to confirm this matter face to face, the subsequent arrangements, but can not be immediately made haphazardly.

After he was silent for a little while, he said in a low voice: “No matter what will be done next, but there is one thing that you have to remember, first of all, you have to take yourself out of this matter …… can’t let anyone perceive that you are related to this matter.”

“This is the first condition.” Fan Xian said seriously, “But where there is the slightest possibility that you are involved, then you will not be moved.”

Hong Zhu nodded in silence, he had known in his heart for a long time that he had sold this information to Lord Fan, Lord Fan would definitely want to make use of it, and he would definitely become an important part of the other side’s actions – from the very beginning, he had handed over this little life of his own to Fan Xian, and the kindness of dozens of lives in his clan, which he spelled out with his own life, was nothing to pay back – from the very beginning, he had handed his little life over to Fan Xian. The favor of dozens of lives in the clan, the favor of spelling out his own life, was nothing – he was more and more touched in his heart as he listened to Fan Xian’s concern for his own safety at this time.

The candlelight in the room shook for a moment, and the light and shadows were somewhat disoriented.

Fan Xian invited Hong Zhu to his side and whispered something into his ear. The more Hong Zhu listened, the brighter his eyes became, but in that bright color there was still a fear and panic that he couldn’t hide, only this fear and panic couldn’t beat the future reward.

Just like the ministers in the court, the eunuchs in the palace also naturally want to press the banker in the dark bottom, especially like Hong Zhu this kind of big eunuch who has already climbed to a certain level.

Since a year ago, because of Fan Xian’s secret moves, Hong Zhu already had no choice but to press him in Shufang Palace.

“You and I are having trouble contacting each other now, so we must always find a way.” Fan Xian finished explaining some things, frowned and said, “But I can’t go through the middleman, there are still some details, I have to go back and ponder over them, before I go back to Jiangnan, we have to see each other again, in the first month, which day can you leave the palace?”

“Twenty-two.” Hong Zhu swallowed a mouthful of water, and said with a lowered head, “The empress didn’t like the kind of embroidery colors that Jiangnan paid tribute to last autumn, and asked for a decree to order a batch of them from the city of Dongyi, it’s a trade that earns oil and water, and the empress rewarded me for it, so I can go out on that day.”

Fan Xian nodded, confirming the time of the next joint, but a thought flashed through his mind, realizing that the Empress was really doting on Hong Zhu, the eunuch – he looked at the pimple on Hong Zhu’s forehead and subconsciously glanced towards his crotch, and immediately laughed silently in self-deprecation, having seen too much of the filth in this dreary palace, he couldn’t help but want to go to the next level. I can’t help but think about the next three ways.

However, this was impossible, the inspection of purifying oneself to enter the palace was too strict, in the land of Qing, it was impossible for the kind of story of Wei Xiaobao to appear.

Fan Xian didn’t dare to stay in Hongzhu courtyard for much longer, and with a few last careful words of advice, he left.

Only long after he left did Hong Zhu save his mind, looking at the empty kang corner, looking at the lamps in the room, confused in his heart, the door to the room and the courtyard door were not open, how did little Lord Fan leave?

“Hey, it’s really god.”

Hong Zhu slapped his thigh and secretly marveled. The boulder that had been weighing on his heart all these days had, for some reason, suddenly become much lighter after Fan Xian’s arrival; perhaps it was because he had told this heavenly secret to another person and split it in half, or perhaps it was because he felt that a godly figure like Little Lord Fan would be able to deal with this matter.

His confidence in Fan Xian was so high that he felt he could finally get a good night’s sleep today, and with a face full of relaxation, he blew out the lamp, stripped off his clothes, and burrowed into the thick quilt, and even though Xiu’er’s youthful and beautiful carcass was missing from the quilt, young Lord Hong still felt very peaceful and happy.

However, Fan Xian’s confidence in Hong Zhu was not very full.

For the control of Hong Zhu means three, he on the one hand is to help his family vengeance, on the other hand to give him Jiaozhou brother countless benefits, and really used to detain Hong Zhu, or a love word. People are all different in this world, some can be bought with money, some don’t have the slightest ability to resist in front of a beautiful woman, and Fan Xian confirmed that Hong Zhu was a very special little eunuch, quite the style of dutifulness and chivalry, otherwise he wouldn’t have been willing to become a nail in his own hand because of repayment of favors, and he couldn’t possibly have pleased the old eunuch Hong once in a while… …

However, the character of the person’s personality will always change with the environment he is in, now Hong Zhu has long been not that in the mountains and fields to escape the bitter child, is no longer in the palace to be bullied by the small eunuch, he is the chief eunuch of the East Palace, but also won the Empress’s favor, His Majesty’s favorite, the eunuchs in the palace palace palace girls to please – residence to move the body, to raise the gas, vanity The vanity can be sold bone, the desire can be smoked, who knows in the future he will not be able to resist the temptation of interest, quietly fell to the other side.

No one knew that Hong Zhu was his man, so it would be very easy for other factions to accept him. If he was playing the infernal, of course Fan Xian was happy with this state of affairs, but if Hong Zhu was really how he was, there was nothing he could do.

It was good to have such a secret. Fan Xian was thankful for this secret, and regardless of whether or not it could do him any good in the future, at least this shared secret would make it so that Hong Zhu would never be able to leave him again, at least until the collapse of the Eldest Princess and the Crown Prince.

Returning to his residence in the front corner of the Imperial City, in the darkness, Fan Xian carefully made sure that the small mechanism he had set up when he left had not been broken, and it seemed that no one had come to disturb him in this short hour, reaching out with his fingers to hook off the black hair, and entering, he wiped something on the end of the noses of the two eunuchs who had been sleeping sweetly.

Then he sat down on the bed, took out from his bosom a bottle of imperial wine that he had touched in passing on the way, sprinkled a little of it on the bedside, and after sitting and fuming for a while, he fell back to sleep.

Sitting on the carriage, Fan Xian couldn’t help but look back at the thick vermillion palace wall, subconsciously wanting to get as far away from this palace as possible. He had been to the palace too many times, but every time he entered the palace, like the first time he entered the palace to visit the ladies, he could feel the cool flavor.

It s not about the weather, it s just cool …… thin and cool.

He hated this smell in the palace, so he hated to stay in the palace all the time, he sympathized with the emperor’s old man who had been locked up in the palace all the time, and by the same token, he really did not want to be the emperor, this is not pretentious, but the truth.

A post on a forum in his previous life had recounted the inhuman suffering of the emperor’s profession, so Fan Xian wanted to retain his right to choose his own career, which was probably the biggest conflict between him and Chen Pingping.

The days of having a hundred thousand coins in his pocket, riding down the south of the Yangtze River on horseback, carrying the Emperor’s sword on his back, and controlling the power of the world remotely, might be good.

Of the four great masters, it was actually Ye Liuyun who had the most restful life, except that he still needed the silver and unrivaled service of the Junshan Club.

But Fan Xian didn’t need it.

Immersed in his beautiful imagination, Fan Xian inclined his head to look at his wife, gently stroked the hair on her head lovingly, and said, “In a few years, the world will be at peace.”

“A few years?” Wan Er tugged at the corners of her own lips and said with a forced smile, “I hope so.”

“How’s your talk with mother going?” Lin Wan’er’s eyes gazed out the car window at the Kyoto street scene, and suddenly asked these words.

Fan Xian was slightly stunned, and said mildly, “A small chat for a while, nothing substantial, you looked sluggish yesterday and went to bed so early, so it was not good for me to stay longer.”

“I was pretending to sleep.” Lin Wan’er said calmly, “If I didn’t sleep, it wouldn’t be convenient for the two of you to say anything to each other.”

Fan Xian was silent for a long time, and he realized that his wife was giving herself a chance to negotiate with her mother, a chance to see if she could compromise, only …… there was already too much blood in the hands of both sides, and it was difficult to wash them clean for a second handshake.

Feeling the silence of her husband beside her, Lin Wan’er suddenly felt a little weak in spirit, her body a little weak, and said softly, “What can we do about this?”

Fan Xian was silent as he gently gathered his wife into his arms, not knowing how to speak.

Wan’er did not refuse his embrace, inclining her head to lean tenderly against his chest, a touch of indifference and despair between her brows appeared and disappeared, and tears began to slide down, like pearls, strung in a line, wetting Fan Xian’s clothes.

Fan Xian has not not considered the question of what to do, just the situation has long been into, he can try to knock off the ambition of the second prince, but there is no trace of hope to persuade the eldest princess to withdraw from the world’s stage.

Either you die, or I die struggle.

And in the middle of it, Wan Er, naturally, is the most pitiful person, Fan Xian knows this clearly, but can not change anything, he tightly embraced his wife in his arms, for some reason, his heart also began to sour.

A year ago, Wan’er had reminded him that his mother might rejoin the Crown Prince.

At this time, looking back, Fan Xian can not help but sigh at his wife’s sharp intuition, knowing that Wan Er is not do not understand the peace and prosperity of the country under the surging undercurrent, and she is just sandwiched in the middle of it, can only be silent.

Silence all the time, so silent that it seemed to disappear.

Because of this, Fan Xian felt more and more guilty and sorry for his wife, because he couldn’t say anything, not even a promise could be given.

The wife in his arms was crying silently.

Fan Xian gently used his thumb to wipe away the tears on her face.

Looking up at the street scene outside the window, he thought to himself that even if a person had two lives, there were still many things that could not be changed and many wishes that could not be fulfilled.

Ye Qingmei was like this, and so was he himself.