Yunnan Silver Mine Tax Supervisor Qiu Chengyun is in his forties. He has a sharp nose and a sharp mouth, and a dull face. His two slender eyes are often squinted. Squinting does not mean that he is smiling, but that he is angry. Qiu Chengyun always has inexplicable behavior.
Furious, at this time, he was sitting on the eight-step bed in the cabin of the lost ship, squinting his eyes and breathing heavily, tossing his concubine. The red ringed gold curtain was trembling, and the swaying brocade ribbon and silver hook were illuminated by the Yunnan silk lamp.
There was a silver light shining underneath, as if it was shaken by the gasps of the eunuch and the concubine on the bed. After a long time, the concubine finally couldn't bear it anymore and cried out: "Master, please spare me, it hurts so much."
"One" and then his mouth seemed to be blocked, and he could only breathe through his nose and kept humming.
After a while, there was a "thumping" sound, as if someone was lying down heavily on his back, and then there was the sound of Eunuch Qiu breathing heavily, as if he was very relaxed, and just now he was holding back his energy and said, "Go and tell us to prepare water.
We need to take a bath at home, but you bitch has made our family sweat all over." Eunuch Qiu seemed to be in a good mood, and he patted the woman's flesh with his hands, making a crispy sound.
A pretty woman in her twenties, with messy buns, emerged from the red curtain. She stood naked on the eight-step bed with a skirt tied around her breasts. Her breasts and thighs were covered with scratches, and the scratches oozed out.
There was blood, and there were traces of teeth bites. Anyway, he was covered in bruises...
Soon, the big bathtub was brought in. The water steam in the bucket was steaming, and the fu man said: "Sir, you can wash yourself."
Eunuch Qiu climbed into the bathtub in his small clothes, sat in the water, and said to the woman: "You come and wash together." The woman had scratches all over her body and begged for mercy: "Master, my body hurts.
If you can't wash it off, you have to rest for two or three days to get better."
Eunuch Qiu shouted: "Wash if I ask you to."
The woman had no choice but to take off her clothes and shakily stepped into the bathtub. The moment she squatted down, the scars all over her body were soaked by the hot water, as if countless small knives were cutting her body. Her face was twisted in pain and "hissing"
"After taking a breath, Eunuch Qiu looked at Lu with a smile on his face. He was in a happy mood. He nodded and said: "I will reward you with ten taels of silver and two pieces of Shu brocade.
There was a brief pain from the knife, but then he became numb from the pain. The woman forced a smile and said, "Thank you for the gift." She ordered the eunuch to take a bath, dry himself and rest.
At the beginning of the night, Qiu Chengyun led a fleet of 500 people in nine large boats to arrive at Hangzhou Hushu Pier. Officials from Zhejiang Chief Secretary Yamen and Hangzhou Fu Yamen had already followed them, asking Eunuch Qiu to go to the city to rest at the hotel.
, Qiu Chengyun said: "It's too late today so I won't go into the city. I'll go back to the city to pay homage to you all in the afternoon tomorrow."
After successfully arriving in Hangzhou, Eunuch Qiu felt at ease and had evil fire. He tormented a concubine at night, scratching and biting her all over her body until she was covered in sweat. Only then did the evil fire subside. The concubine had to be tired and sick for several days.
The eunuch had three concubines who took turns to work for him. One morning, eunuch Qiu said that he was tired and wanted to rest on the boat. He did not see any guests or go into the city. The eunuchs were all weird-tempered, so the officials in Hangzhou naturally let him go.
More than a hundred loads of wine and food were sent on board.
At three o'clock, the attendants came to report that Mr. Qiu had arrived. The eunuch of high status in the palace was respectfully called Mr. Qiu by his servants. Of course, Mr. Qiu's father was the old man.
Eunuch Qiu ordered: "Help him in."
After a while, Old Man Qiu got on the ship with the help of his two sons. When he entered the cabin, Eunuch Qiu just bowed and said, "Daddy is here, sit down." He even ignored his two brothers.
Look, his two brothers were smiling and saying some affectionate and flattering words.
Eunuch Qiu was the fifth in the family. Old man Qiu had many sons. When his family was poor and could not support him, he castrated one of his younger sons and had him taken to the capital. With good luck, he entered the palace smoothly and became a distinguished eunuch in the past twenty years.
The Qiu family, which was originally so poor that they could compete with the chief envoy, also became prosperous. Eunuch Qiu had mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, he wanted to see his family become rich and generous, but on the other hand, he was worried about his own castration.
, thinking that the Qiu family's prosperity was all due to him cutting off his crotch, which really made him angry, so he felt embarrassed every time he saw his brothers, nephews, but some things had to be entrusted to his family to be more reliable~
Eunuch Qiu said: "Dad, our family came from Yunnan this time and brought some local products to Dad. Dad asked people to move them home. Don't rush to use them now. After three or five years, we can slowly buy land.
, buy a house, buy a shop”
When Old Man Qiu heard this, he knew that his son had really framed someone else for fifty thousand taels. Although Old Man Qiu loved money, he grew up in the countryside and was quite simple. Old people are always more cautious, so he said: "What a bad dog!"
"Dad," Eunuch Qiu said displeased: "We have told you a long time ago not to call me a bad dog again. You will get angry when you bring up old things when you come to our house. You said that besides giving me a life and an ugly little boy,
Name, what else did you give me!"
Old man Qiu said hurriedly: "Okay, don't mention that name, don't mention that name." He thought to himself: "That time I called you by your nickname and you spared me from hitting me before we recognized each other. Later, you didn't let me do this.
Bark, you bad dog, my dad can’t figure out your intentions now.,…
"Son," Old Man Qiu changed his title, and told the story about the Confucian scholar named Qin who came to the door a few days ago with several strange-looking natives to pray for him. Finally, he said: "Son, the natives are vicious, we still
Don't mess with others, be kind to others in everything...
Eunuch Qiu's face was extremely ugly, and he thought to himself: "They all say that the local people are difficult to deal with, but as expected, they actually tracked the Qiu family in Lou Yuhang." Feeling irritable, he waved his hands and said: "Okay, okay, you go back first, tomorrow."
I’ll see you at our house tomorrow.”
Old man Qiu didn't dare to say anything more, so he stood up and left the cabin. Eunuch Qiu's two brothers laughed and asked: "Fifth brother, where is the native product of Yunnan? Let someone move it off the boat." Eunuch Qiu was furious and said sternly.
"What kind of local products, not a penny, get off the ship quickly!" The two brothers of the Qiu family hurriedly exited the cabin, secretly complaining about the fifth brother Shai Gou. The two brothers agreed that even after Shai Gou died, they were not allowed to set up a memorial tablet in the ancestral hall.
The eunuch has no face to see his ancestors, and he was so rude to his family and brothers during his lifetime...
Eunuch Qiu sat alone in the cabin and sulked. Hearing his father's words, he didn't dare to ask for the money given to him. He was afraid of the natives' revenge. Eunuch Qiu sneered and said to himself: "What are we afraid of? You don't dare to ask for it. Then
I will take them to the capital to buy real estate and a beautiful concubine. If I have money, don’t you know how to spend it!" Although I thought this way, I always felt uncomfortable in my heart.
The attendant came in and handed over the greeting card. When Eunuch Qiu saw it, it was Zhong Benhua, the weaving eunuch from Hangzhou, who invited him to visit the West Lake tomorrow to listen to Nan opera. Eunuch Qiu felt a little happier. Watching opera and listening to opera was his biggest hobby. Eunuch Zhong was originally in the palace.
The young eunuch of one of the twelve eunuchs, the internal official eunuch, was a member of one of the eight bureaus of the silver bureau. At that time, Zhong Benhua's status was still above him, but now everyone is an eunuch, and their status is quite equal. Eunuch Qiu said:
"To reward the visitor, I told him that our family will definitely go to the Weaving Department to visit Eunuch Zhong tomorrow." In the afternoon, Eunuch Qiu entered the city, and all the heads of the three departments, including the commanding envoy, the administrative envoy, and the administrative envoy, hosted a banquet for him. Eunuch Zhong of the Weaving Department also
When the eunuch came, he saw Tai'an. It was like meeting an old friend in a foreign country. The two sat side by side, drinking and chatting in a harmonious manner. Eunuch Zhong said: "Eunuch Qiu must pay homage to you tomorrow. Our family has prepared a boat in the West Lake."
, we invited a troupe of singers to perform a good show while touring the lake. Our family will specially invite Eunuch Qiu tomorrow."
Eunuch Qiu said happily: "Then I'm sorry. Tomorrow our family will go to the Weaving Bureau to visit Eunuch Zhong, and then we will go to the lake to watch the opera together. They all say that the Southern Opera is really exciting, and we want to see it." Early on the 30th, Qiu
The eunuch led a team of guards from Hushu Pier to the Weaving Bureau outside Yongjinmen, and carried the gift box in. There were Yunnan jade, jadeite, tooth carvings, silverware, as well as Panax notoginseng, Poria cocos and other precious medicinal materials, which were worth thousands of gold. The eunuch said happily:
"How dare you pay for Eunuch Ye's generous gift? Our family will surely give you something in return." I thought that Qiu Chengyun was uneducated before, but now that he has been abroad for many years, his interactions with local officials and gentry must have become more refined, so he said: "Eunuch Qiu,
Please come to our study and have a look. We have some nice gifts for you." The two eunuchs came to the study in the inner courtyard of the Weaving Office arm in arm. When Eunuch Qiu took a look, he saw a boy of sixteen or seventeen years old in the study.
Looking at several jades and bronzes inside, Eunuch Qiu thought at first that this was a junior eunuch from the Weaving Bureau, but he immediately felt something was wrong. This young boy was dressed in a young scholar's attire, and his brows did not have the groveling look of a lowly, low-key eunuch.
If the eunuch dares to behave like this in front of the big eunuch, isn't he asking for a beating? "Who is this?" Eunuch Qiu looked at the young scholar and asked Eunuch Zhong.
Eunuch Zhong said with a smile: "This Mr. Zhang is a long-time friend of our family. He is a descendant of the Zhang family in Shanyin. His ancestor was the number one scholar in the Longqing Dynasty. Mr. Zhang was only sixteen years old. He took the scientific examination for the first time this month and passed the county examination.
First of all, there is a young and talented young man with a bright future. This is Eunuch Qiu, who has won the trust of Lord Long Live.
Zhang Yuan stood up and crossed his hands and said: "Shan Yin Zhang Yuan pays homage to Eunuch Qiu." When Eunuch Qiu saw Eunuch Zhong praising the young man, he naturally smiled at him and followed up with a few words of praise. Then Eunuch Zhong said: "This Eunuch Zhang is a fine man.
For appreciation, our family invites him to come and see if the desk memorials and famous paintings and calligraphy collected by our family are of high quality, and Eunuch Ye will also take a look together." Zhang Yuan picked up a jade carving of Maitreya and said: "Eunuch Qiu, please
Look, this is the jade Buddha carved by Lu Zigang, a famous jade master in Wuzhong. The workmanship is exquisite and lifelike." Eunuch Qiu didn't know about Lu Zigang, so he nodded and said: "It's good jade, and it's well carved."
Zhang Yuan picked up another Xuande stove and said: "Xuande stoves are divided into five grades. The color of Tibetan scripture paper is the best. The Xuande stove collected by Eunuch Zhong is the Tibetan scripture paper. The eunuch said: "Not bad, not bad, this straight-legged stove
Sturdy and easy to use.”
Eunuch Zhong saw that Eunuch Qiu didn't seem to be interested in these, so he said: "Let's take a look at the paintings of the two famous masters of the world, the masterpieces of Chen Meigong and Dong Hanlin. This is Dong Hanlin's "Lonely Smoke and Distant Village". What do Eunuch Qiu think?"
Eunuch Qiu looked at it and said: "We recognize Dong Hanlin. He can write well and draw well." In order to show that he was knowledgeable, he added: "It's just that there is too much blank space at the top of this painting. Let's add another three heroes battle."
Lu Bu is the best."
Eunuch Zhong and Zhang Yuan looked at each other, speechless for a moment.