The eunuch Li Buren, the leader of the imperial prison, once again came to Pu Bucheng's residence in fear, knelt on the ground and kowtowed.
"You call the younger one..."
Pu Bucheng stood up angrily and walked to him.
A loud slap in the face caused the other party's nose to bleed and his ears to ring and make him dizzy.
There was another slap, causing the opponent's strong body to fall to the ground.
"Lord Steward..."
"Who asked you to let this person out?" Pu Bucheng stepped on Li Buren's face, bent down and glared. He pointed at a name on the roster with his finger and growled in a low voice.
When Li Buren saw the name, his face showed even more panic, and he said, "Manager, she...she has reached her age. She is over fifty, and she has a nephew outside the palace. Naturally, she is
It needs to be released!"
"You bastard!" Pu Bucheng slashed at the other person's face several times. As the other person screamed, he said angrily, "Didn't the Zajia tell you that this person should be careful? Huh?" He said,
He sneered, "How much did you charge her?"
"No...no..." Li Buren begged for mercy.
"Don't tell me!" Pu Bucheng pulled back his feet and sneered, "You may have forgotten, the methods of the Za family!" He said to the door, "Someone, pull this guy out, he will make a fool of himself!"
"General Manager! Ancestor Pu!" Li Buren, his head covered with blood, hugged Pu Bucheng's thigh, "The villain said, the villain said!"
As he spoke, he lowered his head and said fearfully, "The villain took her two hundred silver coins and added her name to the release list. But the villain, the villain doesn't know that you don't allow her to go out! If she is a villain,
People know your thoughts, even if you kill the villain, you won’t dare to let him out of the palace!”
"I don't know?" Pu Bucheng sneered, "I think you have stiff wings!" He said, his eyes turned, "You get up first and go do the errands we asked you to do. Let's talk about letting people go privately later!"
"
Li Buren was horrified, but when he suddenly heard what Pu Bucheng said, he felt as if he was being pardoned. He kowtowed and stood up, "The villain will definitely do it properly, and there will never be any mistakes!"
Then seeing him crawling away, Pu Bucheng snorted and stretched out his hand to call the little eunuch outside the door.
"Take this!" Pu Bucheng tore off a page from the roster and handed it to the young eunuch. "According to the address written above, take someone to check. If you want to see the person alive, you want to see the body if you die!" As he said, he took another hand from his waist.
He took out a waist tag and said, "Take this with you and go to Jinyiwei Town Fusi to ask for help."
"Yes!" the little eunuch responded and ran quickly.
After everything was explained, Pu Bucheng sat down again and stared at the hourglass in the room that recorded time. However, the hourglass leaked extremely slowly.
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Boom - boom! Boom! Boom!
The sound of clappers, one slow and three fast, sounded in the palace.
It is already the fourth watch, and the long night is about to pass.
But during the period before the long night passes, the sky is darkest and people are the most tired and sleepy.
There were sparse lights and shadows, and figures flickered in the cold palace with mottled palace walls and overgrown grass.
There is no such thing as a cold palace in the Forbidden City, but the elderly palace residents must have a place to live. Therefore, several courtyards were specially opened in the area where the central inner court and the east and west palaces were.
It is a remote and deliberately forgotten corner, and these elderly slaves live in it. How can it be remotely popular? It is dilapidated and desolate.
Li Buren sat on a stone pier, covering the wound on his face with a towel with one hand, and clenched his other hand into a fist due to pain.
Zhang Buyi stepped on the weeds in front and came over, one foot deep and one shallow, "It can be done, forty-two people, forty-two sacks!"
"Good brother, have you checked carefully?" Li Buren said, "Don't miss anything. If one of them escapes, it will be the end for us two!"
"You are worried about the miscellaneous family affairs!" Zhang Buyi smiled, then looked around, "Hey, brother, why do you think this suddenly happened? I feel uneasy!"
"We shouldn't ask, let's not ask!" Li Buren also whispered, "In recent years, how many people in the palace have left without knowing anything? If it's far away, let's just talk about the East Palace...
...." After saying that, he quickly shut up and said, "This is what we two brothers said in private. We are slaves, so we just have to know what we are doing!"
When he said this, he seemed to be involved in a wound, and he suddenly grinned.
"How did you offend Mr. Park and beat you like this?" Zhang Buyi asked.
Li Buren thought about it, "It's also the Zajia who talks too much and asked you the same thing!"
Suddenly, Zhang Buyi felt a little scared, "Hey, I thought that we became the foreman eunuch because we got ahead of ourselves, but now it seems...Hey!"
Suddenly, there was light footsteps coming from the side.
A eunuch from the Jingsi Room appeared not far away, "Eunuch Zhang, the people from the army in front of the palace are here, waiting for you!"
"Here comes the coolie pulling the sacks!" Zhang Buyi smiled, "Brother, you sit down, I'll be back soon!"
"Be more prompt, I'm just sitting here and I'm terrified!" Li Buren said.
Immediately, there were voices of voices in the distance and dark lanterns. Listening to the footsteps, it seemed that a dozen people were coming.
After waiting for a long time and no one came back, Li Buren felt agitated.
"Is the matter of letting people out privately considered a thing of the past? Or did Manager Park write it down and deal with it later?" He was upset because of this. He, as an internal official, was a fat man, and he was getting older these days.
He made a lot of money out of the palace maids, nuns, and elderly eunuchs he released.
Not to mention anything else, all of his brothers in the countryside are now landlords, and their lives are no worse than those of officials.
But he also knew that if the head eunuch was fucked, he would be nothing in the palace.
While I was thinking wildly in my mind, I heard slight footsteps behind me.
Li Buren covered his face and turned around, "Who...uh...?"
Suddenly, a piece of wire suddenly strangled his throat.
He wanted to scream, but no sound came out. His feet were kicking wildly on the ground, and his body was twisting and struggling like a dying fish.
But everything was in vain, he struggled twistedly and fell into the grass.
Then the person who was strangling him sat directly on him and hooked his hands hard.
"Uh!" Li Buren made such a sound, his eyes protruding.
There was a click, as if the neck bone was broken. The thin wire was loosened and thrown into the grass casually.
The man riding Li Buren stood up, took out the sack from his belt, put it in neatly, and then carried it away.
On the other side, Zhang Buyi yawned and looked at the sacks being piled on the carts. Then, he said to the stern-faced and unsmiling military captain in front of the palace, "Forty-two, one is not enough?"
"I don't care how much you pay?" the captain said coldly, "how much do you pay, how much do I pull?"
Zhang Buyi got a nail and looked a little unhappy.
At this time, I suddenly saw an unfamiliar eunuch carrying a sack and threw it heavily on the car.
"Who are you?" Zhang Buyi asked doubtfully.
"From the Internal Affairs Bureau, there was one beside you just now. I'll bring it to you!"
"That's not possible, the Za family's investigation is really serious!" He said, starting from the beginning again.
"Don't waste your time! We are waiting for the next shift to go back to bed!" The military academy lieutenant in front of the palace was impatient and waved his hand, "Let's go out from the west!"
Seeing these figures walking away, Zhang Buyi froze on the spot, his face full of confusion.
Then he led the eunuch who followed him towards the direction he came from, "Brother! It's done! Brother!"
I walked to the stone bench and shouted several times, but Li Buren was nowhere to be seen.
Only the white towel Li Buren used to cover his wounds was found on the ground.
"It's weird, where is he? Did you go back first?" Zhang Buyi picked up the towel and looked around in the light, "He didn't even wait for me, he just left without saying a word!"
As he spoke, he suddenly became stunned.
Because he saw a shocking bloody handprint on the stone bench.
And in his mind, he instantly remembered the last sack just now.
Not forty-two, but forty-three.
With a splash, Zhang Buyi fell down in fright, as if he had seen a ghost.
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At dawn, the palace began to be busy again.
Pu Bucheng paced anxiously outside the door, and did not stop until he saw his eunuch running back, sweating profusely.
"How's it going?" Pu Bucheng asked anxiously.
"Fake!" the little eunuch gasped, "ancestor, the relatives of the nun who was released are fake, and the place where they live has been changed to someone else. Jin Yiwei is tracking down the original owner, but according to Shuntian Mansion
In the file, the house was bought and sold several times before, but it was not registered at all!"