After greeting the shopkeeper who looked frightened and a few waiters who were like headless flies, Zhang Shou moved from the table in the corner to a large round table by the window. After Zhang Shou and the others sat down together, he once again comforted Lin Lao Hu to stay calm, then he leisurely picked up two raisins and ate them, and then looked down from a high position.
The man who was beating the gong did not go far away, but walked back and forth in this area, shouting the news that the eunuch in charge of the Imperial Household Department had been dismissed. When someone pulled him aside to ask more questions, he could not say a word.
After a few times, Zhang Shou realized that the man beating the gong was not being ambiguous, but was simply not mentally normal. Apart from a few over and over again sentences, he seemed unable to speak anything else.
But just because of his commotion, the people who gathered from all directions made up all kinds of details in their own minds, especially some scholars, who were showing off by discussing and analyzing. When ordinary people came over out of curiosity, the sound of their loud discussions spread directly to the second floor of the Xinglong Tea House, and Zhang Shou and others who were sitting by the window could hear it clearly.
"The head of the Imperial Household Department, Chu Kuan, has always abused his power. Although he is a eunuch, he keeps concubines and maids at home, and has adopted a bunch of godchildren and grandchildren. He eats silk and satin, delicacies from land and sea every day, all of which are the fat of the people! If there were no upright gentlemen in the court who could not stand it and impeached him regardless of their lives and future, how could this powerful eunuch be brought down!"
"Those two scribes of the Imperial Household Department are not good people either! I heard that their nephews and nephews took advantage of their status to bully others and forcefully married the daughters of scholars..."
"My dear friends, this is hearsay, right? The eunuchs in the Imperial Household Department don't recognize their relatives, they are disloyal and unfilial, they don't recognize their parents at all, how can they have nephews and nephews? The children they raise at home are not their children or grandchildren, nor are they their slaves. They are secretly raised to suck their bones and marrow! The history books also say that these eunuchs who have lost their masculinity are used to cannibalism!"
As the arguments became more and more distorted and bizarre, Lin Lao Hu's face turned pale. He had realized that there was something fishy behind this matter. It was possible that some big boss was planning to take advantage of this opportunity to attack the fallen officials of the Imperial Household Department and wipe out the root of the problem. However, as the head of the criminal department, he avoided such a chaotic situation because he was really afraid of being held accountable later.
But he had also scolded him when he was down there just now, but it was not as intimidating as when Zhang Shou's identity was revealed before. Not only did the person beating the gong continue to beat it, but the bystanders also didn't listen to him at all...
Some people even took advantage of the chaos to shout, not only to overthrow the powerful eunuchs, but also to exterminate the eunuch party. If Ah Liu had not pulled him out of the crowd, he even wondered if he would be labeled as a eunuch party member by those guys who were instigating the riot!
Seeing Lin Lao Hu's panic, Zhang Shou was about to comfort him when he heard Ah Liu's voice. After hearing it clearly, he smiled and said, "The people from the South City Military Command are here!"
Hearing Zhang Shou's words, not only Lin Lao Hu, but even Zou Ming, Ye Mengqiu and others couldn't help but look out the window. They saw a group of people appearing at the intersection on both sides of the Xinglong Tea House almost at the same time. Several burly men directly pulled the rope to block the intersection, and then the sound of drums, which was louder and more rhythmic than the previous chaotic gong sound, suddenly sounded.