Yin Darong was finally picked up by the servants and carried back to the small courtyard where he lived.
Zhou Jun went to visit later and saw Yin Darong lying on the couch, looking pale and weak.
Hearing that Zhou Jun was coming, he struggled to get up, but ultimately failed.
Walking to the bed, Zhou Jun said to Yin Darong: "Mr. Yin, please rest in peace and recover."
Yin Darong smiled and said in a low voice: "I don't know if my life is too easy. The old habits that I haven't had for more than ten years have become more and more serious recently."
Zhou Jun asked: "When did it start?"
Yin Darong: "A few months ago... there was a period of time when my heart was always filled with panic, and I couldn't sleep well at night. I often woke up in the middle of the night, and the symptoms became more and more serious after that."
Zhou Jun: "Does the doctor prescribe any medicine?"
Yin Darong: "Yes, the imperial doctor from the palace came to see it and said it was a heart disease. Common herbs can only treat it, but they cannot cure it."
Zhou Jun asked: "Heart disease?"
Yin Darong sighed, looked at the roof, and said quietly: "Our family grew up in a theater troupe. We followed the troupe leader to travel around and make a living. Once, the theater troupe passed through Nangong County and set up a stage to perform a special opera."
Zhou Jun listened to Yin Darong's words and knew that this past incident was probably related to his heart disease.
Yin Darong: "That day, a young girl came into the auditorium. She was very refined. I looked at it twice more, but unexpectedly, I didn't pay attention. I ruined the performance and was beaten by the class leader. The next day
, I thought I could no longer see the girl, but she came again. Later, I learned from others that the girl was the daughter of the county magistrate, named Zhang Qiniang."
Zhou Jun was a little surprised. After thinking about it, he asked Yin Darong: "Did Duke Yin know Zhang Qiniang before he entered the palace?"
Yin Darong smiled and nodded: "I haven't mentioned this matter to anyone, but now that I have said it, I feel much better."
Zhou Jun thought about it, could it be that Yin Darong did not hesitate to harm himself, entered the palace and became a chamberlain, and gave up his position in the palace just to meet Zhang Qiniang?
A few days later, Zhou Jun packed his luggage and said goodbye to everyone in the garden one by one, planning to go home to Chang'an City.
Before leaving, at Bachuan Villa, Zhou Jun met a long-lost guest - the chamberlain Fan Jinian.
In the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Fan Jinian was originally an eighth-rank imperial minister. His current status was only possible because of Yin Darong's cultivation.
I heard that Yin Darong's old illness had relapsed, so I naturally wanted to come over and visit him.
After leaving Yin Darong's courtyard, Fan Jinnian had a sad face. After seeing Zhou Jun, he cupped his hands and said, "Yin Gong had a knot in his heart many years ago, but now it has never been resolved."
Zhou Jun: "Then the old disease has not recurred for a long time, but for some reason it has become serious again in the past few months?"
Fan Jinian: "I just had a conversation with Mr. Yin, and our family heard some clues. I am afraid that Mr. Yin's hysteria is related to the death of Zhang Meiren."
Zhou Jun also had this idea and couldn't help but nodded.
Fan Jinian did not want to say anything more on this matter, and said to Zhou Jun: "I originally wanted to stay in Bachuan for a few more days, but I'm afraid it won't work this time. Our family will rush back to Chang'an today."
Zhou Jun heard this and said he wanted to go back.
Fan Jinian was overjoyed when he heard this and said to Zhou Jun: "Since Erlang is leaving too, it's better to go with him."
Zhou Jun agreed.
Sitting in Fan Jinian's carriage, heading towards Chang'an City.
Zhou Jun asked: "Why is it so urgent? Do you need Mr. Fan to rush back in such a hurry?"
Fan Jinian said helplessly: "Erlang, do you still remember that our family once told you that the palace will dismiss maids, female workers and maidservants every year?"
Zhou Jun nodded and said: "Fan Gong once said that there are almost three thousand people in the palace every year who need to be resettled and dismissed."
Fan Jinian sighed: "In previous years, most of these dismissed palace officials would be arranged to guard mausoleums, offices, or state government offices. But this year, more than 3,000 people from the Yeting Bureau are in urgent need of resettlement, and the offices and state offices have responded.
"We really can't arrange it. Our family has no choice but to pay everyone some severance pay so that they can fend for themselves."
Seeing Fan Jinian's solemn expression, Zhou Jun asked, "But what happened during the demobilization process?"
Fan Jinnian: "There were more than forty palace maids and servants, thinking that there was no way out of the palace, so they hanged themselves in their dormitories."
Zhou Jun was shocked when he heard this and asked quickly: "Why do you want to commit suicide?"
Fan Jinian: "Those palace maids and maidservants entered the palace when they were young. The oldest ones are now in their forties. Although they learned some skills in nuns, washrooms, and sangong in the Yeting Bureau, they have not been out of the palace for a long time.
, have long been unable to live outside. Instead of going out and struggling to survive, they naturally want to live the rest of their lives safely in the palace."
Zhou Jun: "Now that they have skills, these palace people should be able to find a living even if they go out."
Fan Jinian smiled bitterly and said: "Things are not as simple as Erlang said. These palace maids are not young anymore. Because they have been working late for a long time, their eyesight and physical strength are not as good as before. If the official and private workshops in the state government accept these palace ladies
, Firstly, we have to provide rations, and secondly, we have to pay wages. After thinking about it, it is better to hire those young ladies or miscellaneous workers to do the work."
Zhou Jun: "Then they can go find relatives or find a good family to marry."
Fan Jinian: "I have lived in the palace for decades. When I leave the palace, most of my original parents and elders have passed away. The remaining brothers and sisters have already had their own families. Who is willing to accept those who have been dismissed from the palace?"
Where’s the oil bottle?”
"As for finding a family to marry, it is even more difficult. Firstly, he is already old, and secondly, he has been dismissed from the palace. Ordinary men who want to marry are very taboo about these two points. They would rather find a foreign girl than a Tibetan woman.
Marry the palace maid as your wife."
When Zhou Jun heard this, he also understood Fan Jinian's current difficulty.
The dismissed palace maid was indeed a hot potato to him.
Zhou Jun thought for a while and said to Fan Jinian: "If possible, Jun would like to help Mr. Fan find a way to solve the problem of dismissing the palace people."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Fan Jinian was stunned at first when he heard this, and then he was overjoyed: "Erlang has a way to solve the problem of disbanding the palace people? If he succeeds, it will be a first achievement, and he will be rewarded in a good year."
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Zhou Jun didn't want to speak too fully: "Jun is not completely sure. He just plans to follow Mr. Fan to understand the situation first and then make a decision."
Fan Jinian nodded and said, "This is natural."
Zhou Jun: "It's just that everyone in the palace is in the Yeting Bureau. Jun is not a chamberlain, so how to enter..."
Fan Jinian waved his hand and said, "It's okay. Our family will ask someone to open the side door of Guangyun Gate. There is a foreigner's house outside the Yeting Bureau. Erlang can follow me there to do business."
Zhou Jun nodded in agreement.
Next, Fan Jinian's carriage took Zhou Jun, first into Chang'an City through Chunming Gate, then into the Imperial City through Anshang Gate, and finally followed the inner road of the Imperial City to the shasuo outside Yeting Bureau.
Fan Jinian found several eunuchs on duty from the Yeting Bureau, cleaned up a room, and followed Zhou Jun's request to get the list of dismissed palace residents and the records.
After Zhou Jun looked through it, he discovered that the maids, female workers and maidservants who had been dismissed from the palace had a variety of job functions, including food, work, clothing and gifts.
In terms of age, among the more than 3,000 palace residents who were dismissed this time: "elderly" people over forty years old accounted for only two-fifths; people around thirty years old also accounted for two-fifths;
The remaining one-fifth are only in their twenties.
Zhou Jun shook his head while looking at it, sighing secretly in his heart, this is a huge waste of human resources.
After repeatedly looking through the roster, Zhou Jun found several palace servants with special skills and made a request to Fan Jinian, wanting to talk to them.
As soon as these words came out, the eunuch on duty carefully reminded Fan Jinian: "Mr. Fan, this move is inconsistent with the etiquette system."
Fan Jinian stared and yelled: "It's not like I'm going to the Forbidden Garden, I'm just meeting some dismissed palace people, how can I talk about etiquette?!"
Seeing Fan Jinian getting angry, the eunuchs were obedient and did not dare to say anything.
Not long after, a eunuch brought three palace servants.
The first one is the kitchen maid in Xi Neiyuan. She is thirty-one years old this year. She was once responsible for the palace meals for the concubines and was very good at cooking. Later, due to the reduction of kitchen staff, she had no choice but to be dismissed from the palace.
The second one is a female official who serves as Shang Gong (Shanggong) in Fanglin Garden. She is thirty-seven years old this year. She is mainly responsible for making palace supplies and repairing treasures. Because she was accidentally burned by a fire in autumn.
Arm, so he was included in the list of deportees this year.
The last one, whose surname is Peng, is forty-two years old. No one knows her original name. She is called Peng Po in the palace. Peng Po was born in a famous weaver and dyer in Jiangnan East Road. When she was young, her family was involved in a palace fight and her family was expropriated.
She joined the Yeting Bureau, and because of her amazing skills in weaving, bleaching and dyeing, she became a female official in fine clothes.
Looking at the three palace servants in front of him, Zhou Jun secretly thought to himself that for these more than 3,000 palace maids who needed to be dismissed, he was afraid that he would have to return to Nu Yalang's old business and try his best to make a fortune in the Tang Dynasty.
A contract unprecedented in history.
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