After the Giant Immortal Palace in Dunhuang City was forcibly split into two, the court ladies and eunuchs sent to Yeting Palace were like being thrown into the cold palace, and they were not welcome. There were also some powerful people who hoped to gain status through speculation, and took the initiative to transfer from Zijin Palace to Yeting Palace. Later, when they saw that the new master, who had seen the head and tail, showed no signs of moving in, they immediately felt cold and rushed to the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Stuffing money and handing out red envelopes, the grass on the wall fell back to the Zijin Palace. Now less than a hundred people are left to guard the empty two palaces and four halls, plus a beautiful imperial garden, and they just do some chores of gardening flowers and plants, sweeping and sweeping, there is no hope of riding a dragon, and there is no oil or water. In the sky, there is also a female official who was accidentally harmed by the little commander of the Jinwu Guard cavalry, and she dared not say anything. If it hadn't been for the commander who is known throughout the city to have body odor, she made a slip of the tongue after drinking and spread it to the owner of the Zijin Palace, beheading the public. Otherwise, he might be ruined several times.
The Yujing Garden was built in imitation of the imperial gardens of the Central Plains. The Dunhuang City was built on top of the yellow sand. This garden cost tens of thousands of dollars just for water supply. It is conceivable how much pressure the devil Luoyang put on the Dunhuang City. However, for the little eunuch, whether it is the new owner of the Zijin Palace or the chief devil of Beimang who has never shown up in the Yeting Palace, they are all terrifying big men who are out of reach, and I hope that I will never get rid of them for the rest of my life. It's good to meet. The little boy was surnamed Tong, twelve or thirteen years old, handsome and thin. When he entered the palace the winter before last, he recognized an old eunuch as his master. He changed his name to Dongshou. His family was extremely poor. Starved to death, poor children have long been home, but have no land and no skills, even if they are beggars, how much food can they beg for home
At that time, the nine-year-old child gritted his teeth, and according to the method he overheard, he whitened his body, blood dripping from pain, and passed out in the snow outside the north gate of Jizo Yuanyuan. To intercede with the Ministry of Internal Affairs, to put it bluntly, it took all the favors carefully accumulated all his life to bring this poor child into the palace as a little eunuch. He was taken to the punishment room to cleanse again. The child almost couldn't survive that winter. Fortunately, the old eunuch had some spare money and spent it on the child's birth. This saved his life. The child knows how to be grateful and has no Suspense worshiped the old eunuch as his master, which was the beginning of Dongshou. However, the old eunuch has no power, no power and no cliques, and he was already doing odd jobs in the Zijin Palace Yujing Garden. Naturally, Dongshou couldn't go to the Zijin Palace to earn lucrative jobs, but fortunately, the palace's expenses are not large, and some monthly salary can be given away If it is given to the family outside the palace, it will naturally be deducted by the eunuch who changed hands during this period. The little eunuch Dongshou is also content and will not complain. I heard that the family still sold a younger sister, but his salary will be enough to support the whole family. , Dongshou is just a little guilty, thinking about his future prospects, staying for five or six years to be a small boss, and then saving money to redeem his sister.
The older eunuchs in Ye Ting Palace like to co-operate with him to make fun of him. The rules in the palace are strict, and there are not many eunuchs. Apart from working hard, there is no fun to speak of. He was about to be killed with a stick, and besides, the Yeting Palace was sparsely populated, like a stepmother's rearing, and it was extremely lifeless. The naughty little eunuch would play the helpless winter life as a joke from time to time, and did not dare to be upright. It was like today that he shouted to the shadow of Yujingyuan, stripped his pants, and stomped on him, but he didn't dare to stomp to death. If he caused a death, he would have to pay for his life.
Five or six little eunuchs laughed and left. Dongshou put on his pants silently, brushed off the dust, and panted for pain against the rockery. The rockery behind him is called Duichun Mountain. The master said that it was made of stones found in Chunshen Lake in the East Yue Dynasty. There are precious trees planted on the mountain that are perennial spring, so it is called Duichun Mountain. The stone path at the foot is inlaid with pebbles of various colors. Spreading out the three characters of Fu Lu Shou, he only knows those three characters now, and he probably will be like this in his life, at most adding the character Dong in his name, he wanted to ask the teacher how about the child character in his surname Writing, the old eunuch said coldly, don't remember these useless things when you enter the palace. After that, Dongshou gave up his heart and began to completely regard himself as a palace man.
Dongshou walked a few steps, couldn't bear the pain, and bent down to rest for a while, thinking that he would secretly cut and water a piece of flowers and trees for his master, so he endured the pain and moved away, stopped suddenly, and saw the pile of flowers in front of him. Standing on the entrance of Chunshan Mountain was a handsome man in purple clothes. He looked more vigorous than the Jinwu Guards. As for the robe, it was unimaginably beautiful and extravagant. Dongshou hurriedly knelt down to pay his respects.
Xu Fengnian looked at this little eunuch, this was the second time he met him, the first time he was sitting on a tree admiring the scenery, and saw the young man sneaking in the garden to the top of Duichun Mountain, looking outside the palace, secretly tears.
Xu Fengnian said flatly: "Stop kneeling, I'm not from the palace."
The little eunuch was stunned for a moment, his face was pale, he quickly got up and grabbed the man's cuff, and said nervously: "Hurry up, you will be beheaded if you are caught!"
Xu Fengnian asked with a smile, "Why didn't you call someone to arrest me?"
Dongshou seemed to be confused too, he hesitated for a while, but shook his head, realizing that one of his hands might have dirty the man's sleeve, he quickly withdrew his hand, still flustered, and begged in a low voice, "Run away, It will be too late to be discovered, and I will be beheaded!"
Xu Fengnian said: "Don't worry, I'm a mason from Yujingyuan, and I'm in charge of repairing Duichun Mountain. It's the rockery behind me."
Dongshou stared at him for a while, not like lying, but relieved.
Xu Fengnian asked, "Why were you beaten?"
Dongshou became nervous again, and stammered instinctively: "No, no, just playing with friends."
Xu Fengnian sarcastically said: "Friends? Little eunuch, do you also talk about friends?"
Dongshou blushed, then turned pale, at a loss.
Xu Fengnian shook his head slightly, and asked, "Your name is Dongshou? The senior eunuchs in the palace gave you a tattered name, but I guess your master is also a fool waiting to die."
Dongshou became annoyed for the first time, but still stammered: "You are not allowed to say that about my master!"
Xu Fengnian squinted and said: "That's it, what can you do? Hit me? I'm a stonemason invited to work in the palace. Can you afford to provoke me? Believe it or not, even your master was thrown out of the palace and starved to death together? Then don't you Call it Dongshou, or 'Xia Shi'."
Dongshou burst into tears, knelt down with a plop, stopped stammering, and kowtowed vigorously, "It was Dongshou who was ignorant and offended Mr. Mason. You hit me, don't hurt my master..."
The little eunuch soon licked blood on the cobblestone floor, which happened to be the word "Shou".
Out of the corner of his eye, Xu Fengnian saw Sweet Potato approaching, waved his hand to signal her not to approach, and said slowly, "Get up, I'm here to do something, I don't have the same knowledge as you."
The little eunuch still didn't dare to get up, and continued to kowtow: "Master Mason has a lot of people, just beat me up to vent his anger, only the young ones dare to get up when they have vented enough."
Xu Fengnian said angrily: "Get up!"
Not to mention the little eunuch, even the sweet potato in the distance was startled.
Dongshou timidly stood up, not daring to wipe off the blood, which flowed down between his eyebrows, and then slid down his cheeks.
Xu Fengnian reached out to wipe his cuff, the little eunuch stepped back, seeing him frowning, he didn't dare to hide anymore, for fear that all his previous efforts would be wasted and he would anger the master stonemason again.
After wiping off the blood and stains, one big and one small, they were relatively silent for a while.
Xu Fengnian tried his best to be as pleasant as possible and said, "Go do your work."
The little eunuch left tremblingly, walked away, turned around quietly, and saw the mason in purple again, Xu Fengnian smiled and said: "I'll take a look, don't worry about me."
Next, Dongshou went to prune those flowers and plants that were worth much more than his life. When he accidentally saw Mr. Mason picking a flower, he held back the fear in his heart and cried that it was a great crime of beheading. Then the adults said that he was a mason, it didn't matter. So Dongshou cried no less than six times after working for an hour. Fortunately, Yujing Garden occupies a large area, and no one paid attention to the situation of this flower garden. Dongshou felt that his courage was broken, his upper and lower teeth were chattering, but he didn't have the courage to call for someone to take this big man in purple away. He said it lightly, but he felt that if he was caught committing such a crime, he would definitely be taken to be beheaded for public display. In the past two years, every time he saw a dying chick falling from the tree's nest, he felt very sad. For a long time, how can I have the heart to kill a living person.
Then Dongshou was hit by five thunders at the scene in his eyes, and the master stonemason walked up to a woman in brocade clothes whose face could not be seen clearly in the distance, talking and laughing.
Fornicating a female official in the palace is a capital crime!
Dongshou closed his eyes and muttered: "I didn't see anything, nothing..."
Xu Fengnian walked back to the little eunuch and said with a smile, "What was your last name before entering the palace?"
Dongshou hesitated to speak.
Xu Fengnian waited quietly.
Dongshou bowed his head and said softly: "Tong Guan, always the one who is always rich."
Xu Fengnian nodded and smiled, "The name is very good."
Dongshou raised his head quickly, with a radiant look, and asked, "Really?"
Xu Fengnian said solemnly: "Really, there was an exterminated Southern Tang Dynasty in Liyang. There used to be a great eunuch named Tong Guan, who had a lot of background and became a prostitute."
Dongshou looked puzzled.
Xu Fengnian sat on the grass near the lake, with colorful flowers behind him, and explained: "Ordinary men, after they become the first and assistant prime ministers, are called Gongxiang. In fact, it is generally not such an unnecessary thing to say. I can't stand that Tong Guan who has the same name and surname as you is too powerful. As an eunuch, you have the power not to lose to the prime minister, so you have a female minister and a relative public minister."
The teenager grinned secretly, proudly.
Xu Fengnian changed the subject and asked, "Do you know that Duichun Mountain is the place where the Lord of Dunhuang ascended on the Double Ninth Festival?"
The little eunuch said blankly, "I haven't heard from Master."
Xu Fengnian smiled and said: "In the future, if I feel homesick, I will go there and look outside the palace."
The little eunuch blushed.
Xu Fengnian asked: "If one day you became a great eunuch, what would you do?"
Dongshou said shyly, "Send a lot of money to parents and sister outside the palace."
"anything else?"
"Honor Master."
"Gone?"
"It's gone."
"to be honest."
"Kill those eunuchs who make fun of my master!"
"Those who bullied you?"
"Kill them together, it's better to peel and cramp."
Unknowingly confiding in his heart, remembering the teaching of the master, the little eunuch was suddenly horrified and remorseful, and dared not say another word.
Xu Fengnian looked at the lake, and wrote lightly: "Don't be afraid, this is what a man should say and do. I don't have time to feel sorry for you, a little eunuch."
Dongshou lowered his head and said, "Am I a man?"
Xu Fengnian smiled and said, "You just need to know."
The clouds are calm and the wind is light.
Sweet potatoes never bothered them.
In the next few days, Xu Fengnian, in addition to reading pens and other matters related to Dunhuang City recorded by the official historian, went to Yujingyuan to breathe and chat with the little eunuch when he had free time. There is no limit to people chatting.
"A woman's good or bad temper is directly linked to the size of her tits. If you don't believe me, think about the situation of the ladies and sisters around you. Is this the truth?"
"Hey, it seems to be true!"
"Then which lady-in-waiting sister do you think has the heaviest breasts?"
"Of course it's sister Qixue, the female officer. She has a pretty face. Those Jin Wuqi who are on duty keep their eyes straight every time. Hey, I am similar, but I just think about it. Well, there is also a poem about Cheng Ruidian's servants. Sister Yu may have bigger breasts, but she is not as good-looking as Qi Xue."
"Then you like big ones?"
"No, I think it's not good to be too big. It's better to be smaller. They are so heavy that they will tear their clothes. I feel tired for them. The face is the most important thing."
"You are still young and don't understand."
"Master Mason, you understand, tell me?"
"You little eunuch know what to do."
"well."
"Very sad?"
"I don't think about the things between men and women when I eat and drink. I don't think about it. In fact, I know that there are eunuchs and sisters in the palace who are opposite to each other. They are all very pitiful."
"I'm sorry for you?"
"well."
"Dongshou, you know it."
"Hey, I don't know much, I don't know what to say, there's nothing I can do about it."
The last time we met was very short, at dusk, Xu Fengnian said: "I'm done with my work, let's get out of the palace."
The little eunuch didn't want to cry but couldn't hold back, and soon burst into tears. Then he told him to wait a while, and ran in a hurry. When he came back, he handed Xu Fengnian a money bag and begged him to give it to his family outside the palace.
Xu Fengnian asked: "Aren't you afraid that I will be greedy?"
The little eunuch shook his head and said, "I know Mr. Mason is not such a person!"
Xu Fengnian threw back the purse, smashed it on his face, and cursed: "You know what! What if it was embezzled or I accidentally forgot, your family will go hungry for a month?"
Dongshou picked up the money bag, feeling aggrieved and dazed, and began to choke up again.
Xu Fengnian patted his head, and said softly: "Don't trust anyone easily in the future, but there is one thing to be sure of, and you have to do it well. Give me the money bag, and I promise to deliver it to you."
Dongshou wiped away his tears, handed out the money bag, and smiled very happily.
Xu Fengnian turned around and left, after thinking about it, he turned around and ordered: "Go and pick a flower branch."
The little eunuch was at war with heaven and man, and finally he had the courage to break a branch. Xu Fengnian squatted on the ground and took the branch to write two words on the ground, then raised his head.
Dongshou trembled excitedly, and asked cautiously, "Tong Guan?"
After Xu Fengnian got up, he pinched off the flower branches one by one, threw them into the lake, and rubbed the little eunuch's head vigorously.
The teenager cried and laughed.
Xu Fengnian walked straight away, and when he reached the corner, he saw slim sweet potatoes.
Sweet Potato asked softly: "Arrange a safe Qingshui Yamen for the little guy, or throw it in the oil pan and fry it?"
Xu Fengnian shook his head and said: "Don't worry, wait for another two years. If his temper doesn't turn bad, find someone to teach him how to read, and then send him to the Buddhist scriptures pavilion, and let him read the secret books. Don't pay too much attention, it will only encourage the growth of the seedlings. Next, just read He made it himself."
Sweet Potato nodded.
By the lake, the little eunuch picked up some branches facing the lake, stuffed them into his sleeves, and prepared to throw them into the bottomless narrow holes in Duichun Mountain.
Going back to the word "Tongguan", I squatted down and read it over and over again, remembering it in my mind. When I was about to wipe it off, I was still reluctant. After thinking about it, I took out a thorny flower branch and put it in the palm of my hand. The two small characters are stabbed deeply.
He squatted there in a daze, and it took him a long time to come back to his senses and say, "If I knew it earlier, I would have begged my benefactor to teach me how to write Dongzi."
The little eunuch slapped himself hard on the face, "Don't be dissatisfied!"
He stood up, clenched his fists, his eyes determined.
The boy let go of his fist, looked down, and murmured, "Tong Guan!"