Not to mention Wang's mother and son, Zhu Yunxi came out of the East Palace angrily. He did not go to the concubine's palace or the old man's place, but went straight back to Lezhizhai on the edge of the imperial garden.
Just as he crossed the threshold, Zhu Yunxi suddenly stopped, looked back and asked the bastard behind him, "How much did you know about Concubine Hu in the palace back then?"
Concubine Hu was the biological mother of Chu King Zhu Zhen. When the old man wanted her to die, he even killed many maids and eunuchs in his rage. Moreover, it had been regarded as a taboo in the palace over the years and no one ever talked about it. At that time, Zhu Yunxi was still young.
I don’t know many things either.
The bastard took two steps back and said, "I don't know, I don't know. I have been serving in the East Palace since I entered the palace. I don't know anything about the outside world." As he said this, he felt Zhu Yunxi's eyes looking at him coldly, and his heart became more and more intense.
Uneasy, he continued in a low voice, "I am the master's servant, and I only have the master in my heart. I should know everything I say. But I really don't know anything about Concubine Hu. At that time, I was just an ordinary palace servant in the East Palace. However, if Your Highness,
I want to know, but I think there is someone who should know!"
"Who?" Zhu Yunxi asked.
"Eunuch Gou Bao, the head eunuch of the former Jingshi Room!" the bastard said in a low voice.
Zhu Yunxi thought about it, "Ask him to come, don't make any noise!"
"yes!"
Half an hour later, after Zhu Yunxi drank a cup of tea, the bastard came with an old eunuch who was so old that he had to walk with a crutch.
"My servant Gou Bao, I wish your Highness a thousand years old!" Gou Bao said in a leaky manner, almost all of his teeth fell out.
This man was a little old, which surprised Zhu Yunxi. He looked at it a few times and said softly, "I asked you to come here. I have something to ask you!" After saying that, he paused and said, "How much did you know about Concubine Hu back then?"
Suddenly, Gou Bao staggered and fell down with a thud.
Lying on the ground, he kept kowtowing and said in horror, "I don't know anything. I deserve to die. I don't know anything!"
The more he is like this, the more he knows the inside story. Otherwise, he wouldn't be so frightened.
Zhu Yunxi said with a sullen face, "I know you know, if you don't tell me, I will have you kicked out of the palace!"
Gou Bao's kowtow movement suddenly stopped.
An old eunuch like him can only linger in the cold palace of the deep palace. When he dies, someone will restrain himself and give him a place to bury himself. But if he is really kicked out by his master, he can only die in the street and his body will be killed by the guards.
Throw it into a mass grave.
When you are alive, you are a disabled person. When you are old, all you want is to live out the rest of your days in peace, and then be able to rest in peace and be reincarnated as a human being.
"Slave" Gou Bao was trembling and speechless.
"Say it, I won't treat you badly!" Zhu Yunxi whispered.
Gou Bao's turbid eyes showed a bit of sadness, and he slowly spoke, "Since His Highness asked, I don't dare to hide my secret!"
"Concubine Hu is the biological mother of King Chu, a native of Haozhou. She was a widow before joining the emperor. At that time, the emperor had not occupied Yingtian and was still leading the army in Huaixi. The emperor once thought of taking her as a concubine.
But the Hu family didn’t know what was going on, so they moved out of Haozhou overnight and fled to Huai’an!”
"Later, Zhao Junyong, the leader of the Red Scarf Army in Huai'an, heard about this, and in order to please the emperor, he sent Concubine Hu's family to the emperor's army. From then on, she followed the emperor!"
"Widow?" Zhu Yunxi was stunned. This widow was so good-looking that the old man wanted to marry her by force.
"One year!" Gou Bao continued, "An abortion was found in the inner river of the harem. The slave was the foreman of the service room. The servants in the harem were tortured and some people confessed that it was Concubine Hu who threw it away!"
"What!" Zhu Yunxi was immediately shocked.
How could there be an abortion in a deep palace? Such things are simply appalling.
"Is it hers?" Zhu Yunxi asked in a serious voice.
"I don't know, but the servants identified it, so that's it!" Gou Bao continued tremblingly, "So, Concubine Hu was sentenced to death, and all the eunuchs and maids in the palace were also executed with canes!"
Unexpectedly, there are such secrets in the palace!
"No more?" Zhu Yunxi asked.
"No more!" Gou Bao said, "Everyone who knew about it back then is dead. Because this slave is the foreman of the service room and has always been loyal to her master, that's why she has managed to survive until now."
Zhu Yunxi sighed silently, "Go down!" He said, saying shamefully to the bastard, "Remember, from now on, his food expenses will be a little more relaxed, don't be harsh!"
"I am a dying man, and I dare not ask for such things." Gou Bao said bravely, "In the past, before the emperor founded the country, I served the prince to study. Therefore, I beg your highness. In the future, I will die."
, give this slave a place to bury himself!"
It turned out that he was also the one who served the late prince Zhu Biao, no wonder he was able to survive.
No wonder Zhu Biao didn't help King Chu on this matter, otherwise King Chu wouldn't have cried and vomited blood, and he couldn't find his biological mother's body, so he could only go back with a white silk tied around his neck by his mother.
Zhu Yunxi thought for a moment and said, "I know, you can go ahead!"
Gou Bao followed the bastard out, and Zhu Yunxi closed his eyes and meditated.
Some things, let them go. Since they have been hidden, don't dig them out again. Since ancient times, this deep palace has been full of these dirty things, and it is hard to get over them.
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But Gou Bao, leaning on a cane, followed Wang Bashi slowly out of Lezhizhai and walked in the corridor of the garden.
"Manager Wang!" Gou Bao suddenly said, "Tell me, His Highness has said that he will give the Za family a favor, will he give it to him?"
The bastard smiled sarcastically, "Brother, everything His Highness said does not count, so don't worry!"
Gou Bao nodded, "His Royal Highness is different from the Crown Prince. When the Za family used to serve the Crown Prince, the Crown Prince always smiled no matter who he met and had a temperament like the Queen. Now His Royal Highness, the Emperor's Grandson, has a sullen face and looks very similar.
emperor!"
"Brother, you can't talk nonsense!" The bastard frowned and said, "We are slaves, we can't talk nonsense!"
"Today, the Za family has already spoken!" Gou Bao smiled bitterly and sighed, "Back then, the prince was merciful and spared the life of a dog from the Za family. Now, after living for so many years, I am satisfied!"
The bastard frowned shamefully and looked at Gou Bao with an unkind expression.
"You are better than the Zajia family. You became the chief eunuch of the East Palace at such a young age. In the future, you will be the great steward of the palace. One person is less than ten thousand people! When the Zajia family was serving the prince's studies, they had such extravagant hopes. But the Zajia family's fate
No, hey! I don’t have this life!”
Listening to his ramble, the bastard felt soft in his heart.
In the eyes of the master, the eunuch is not a human being, but he is still a human being. Even human beings have utilitarian aspirations. Who doesn’t want to live with dignity?
Especially for eunuchs, if they cannot climb up in this palace, they may not end up like Gou Bao when they get old. At least, they will still have a place to eat and sleep.
"Brother, I told you, watch your step, the Za family will send you back!" the bastard said shamefully.
"No need, Zajia will go on his own, he knows the way!"
Gou Bao refused the bastard shame and walked forward slowly and with difficulty. As soon as he left the imperial garden, he saw a man sitting in the pavilion by the lake, seemingly waiting for him.
The man also had an old face, but his gestures were not comparable to that of a down-and-out eunuch. The man was sitting in the pavilion, with a pot of wine and a few side dishes on the stone table at hand.
"Brother Park!" Gou Bao walked over and said calmly.
"I haven't seen you for a while. How are you?" That person was Pu Bucheng who was beside the old man.
"You also saw it, it's impossible!" Gou Bao shook the crutch in his hand and said with a smile, "There is no tomorrow until today!"
"I haven't had a drink with you for a few years, so come here and have a few drinks!" Pu Bucheng sat and smiled, "They are all your favorite side dishes, such as meat skin jelly and donkey meat stuffing, perfect for drinking!"
Gou Bao smiled, his wrinkles piled up, and walked over with a stoop, picked up the wine glass and drank it all in one gulp, then stuffed a piece of donkey meat into his mouth.
Pu Bucheng didn't say anything and filled him up again silently.
"What else do you want to eat? I'll ask someone to prepare it!" Pu Bucheng said calmly.
"I can't eat anymore, I don't want to eat, and I don't dare to eat!" Gou Bao sighed, "They say people have to poop after they die. We don't want to poop after death!"
Pu Bucheng nodded, "Yes, you are a clean person! Back then, among us brothers, you were the cleanest. Otherwise, the empress would not choose you to serve the prince while studying!"
"What a pity, the prince died too early!" Gou Bao burst into tears.
Pu Bucheng didn't speak, just watched quietly. After a while, he spoke again, "The prince is gone, but the other masters are still there!"
"I was confused and said the wrong thing!" Gou Bao wiped his tears and said with a smile, "Just now, His Highness gave me a grace and gave me a place to stay!"
Pu Bu Chengdao said, "At Zhongguan Temple in Nancheng, there is a clean and peaceful place next to the temple's vegetable garden!"
"That's good!" Gou Bao laughed out loud, "When I was a child, I loved following my mother and working in the vegetable garden!" As he said this, he took the wine bottle and poured it into his mouth.
Then, the empty wine bottle was slowly placed on the table.
Gou Bao wiped off the stains on the table with his sleeves, wiped his mouth and face, threw away his crutch, and wandered to the lake.
"Brother Park, goodbye!"
"Hey, walk slowly!"
With a pop, Gou Bao rolled over from the corridor and fell into the lake, causing waves to appear.
The calm water surface at night, after a moment of turbulence, returned to calm again.
Pu Bucheng stood up slowly while holding his waist, and pointed at the shadow in the distance, "Fetch it out before dawn!" Then, while walking, he said, "Tomorrow, ask someone to pump the water out of the lake, and then bring in living water. Xiao
Your Highness, I used to like to look at the goldfish inside, but the water is dirty!"
