Duan Zifang talked with Hong Juncheng in the library all night, while Qin Yan only stood outside the door and knew nothing about the content of their conversation.
At dawn, Duan Zifang said goodbye and left, and Hong Juncheng ordered someone to take him outside the palace.
The origin of this person is not simple, and Master must be told about this matter.
Qin Yan has to serve Hong Juncheng, so if she wants to take time off to deliver a message, she won't always have the chance.
In this case, it depends on the tacit understanding between Li Quangen, Zhao Jindong, Yue Liusheng and Liu Yupeng.
The tacit understanding with Li Quangen is the most important, because Li Quangen is in charge of the direct palace supervisor, and there are servants in charge of sweeping all over the palace, which is best for conveying information.
According to past practice, Li Quangen would definitely place a handyman near Qin Yan for Qin Yan to dispatch.
But today, Qin Yan couldn't find this person. The several internal servants who were sweeping around were obviously not well-educated from their stature and behavior.
Waiting until noon, the god allowed Qin Yan to go back to his room to rest, and Qin Yan was able to escape.
The letter was already prepared. He stuffed the letter into a yellow fat man, shook the yellow fat left and right twelve times, and then burned a sandalwood incense stick on the top of the yellow fat man's forehead before sending the letter out.
Qin Yan didn't understand Yin Yang at all, so he could only use the magic weapon Yang Wu gave him to send messages.
This method of sending letters is very easy to expose. He is the eunuch in charge of the ceremony, and he is playing with a clay doll like this. If someone discovers it, he will not be able to explain it at all.
According to past practice, Li Quangen was responsible for delivering the letter. Today, Li Quangen was obviously negligent.
This kind of mistake cannot be made again, and this must be explained clearly to him.
Qin Yan went to Zhidian Supervisor to find Li Quangen on the pretext of arranging cleaning, but saw that Li Quangen was so anxious that he was sweating.
"What happened?" Qin Yan asked.
"My disciple was arrested." Li Quangen replied in a low voice.
Today, as before, Li Quangen sent a servant to Qin Yan's side. This servant's name was Luo Songgui.
Except for Yue Liusheng, Li Quangen originally did not accept any disciples. However, Luo Songgui's alert temperament and cautious approach were appreciated by Li Quangen. Li Quangen made an exception and brought him into the first rank. He was also quite talented, and now he has reached the ninth rank.
But Luo Songgui was unlucky today and met Liu Pingsan, the head of the Royal Horse Supervisor, on the way.
Logically speaking, the Zhidian Supervisor has nothing to do with the Royal Horse Supervisor, but this supervisor also has another identity. He is a criminal officer appointed by the God.
There are more than 38,000 eunuchs, big and small, in the Divine Lord's Palace. The Divine Lord has recently appointed more than a thousand criminal officials among the eunuchs.
These criminal officers specialize in detecting the faults of other chamberlains. Once discovered, they will be directly deported to prison.
For criminal officers, there is a reward for arresting other chamberlains. Liu Pingsan arrested a total of twenty-two chamberlains this month, and was promoted from an errand boy cleaning the stables to the head of the Royal Horse Supervisor.
Luo Songgui was unlucky today. His broom dropped a branch on the ground. He didn't notice it himself, but Liu Pingsan found it.
Liu Pingsan believed that the branch was very sharp and was intended to set a trap for the god. He was suspected of assassination and immediately put Luo Songgui in prison.
Luo Songgui was a disciple of Li Quangen, so he naturally wanted to be saved.
But his crime is too big to be rescued.
Qin Yan asked: "Yue Liusheng has just been transferred to take charge of the prison. Xiao Liuzi is one of our own. Can't he think of a way yet?"
"I have tried all the ways I can think of, but Liu Pingsan won't let go, and Xiao Liuzi can't do anything!" Li Quangen scolded, "Liu Pingsan, that bastard, targeted Luo Songgui's assassination. I'm so knowledgeable, so I lost a small piece."
Broomstick, what kind of assassination is this? I have never seen such a shameless beast like Liu Pingsan."
Qin Yan thought for a moment and said: "Leave this matter to me. Liu Pingsan has to give me some face no matter what. As long as he is willing to let go and the prison does not pursue the case, the matter will be over. You and Xiaoliu can communicate with each other again."
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"Just wait!" After a brief interrogation, two chamberlains took Luo Songgui into prison.
The other cells were crowded and dirty, but his cell was quite spacious. When Luo Songgui came in, there was only one old eunuch.
Luo Songgui was a smart man and knew that good conditions meant bad conditions. After the guard left, he asked the old eunuch in a low voice: "Are we going to be beheaded?"
The old eunuch sneered and said: "What are you afraid of? It's not like I'm just going to chop you down. No one in this prison can escape from the knife. It's a blessing that we can enjoy it for a few days."
Luo Songgui puzzled and asked: "They only committed trivial matters, so do they have to be beheaded?"
The old eunuch smiled and said, "Did you commit a serious crime?"
"I was wronged by that bastard Liu Pingsan!"
The old eunuch laughed and said, "Guess what I did? When I was picking up the sedan curtain for the Lord Shen, I accidentally cut a corner. They said I was hiding a sharp weapon and wanted to assassinate him!"
Luo Songgui asked in surprise: "Are you also charged with assassination?"
The old eunuch nodded: "Don't worry about the charges. We all have to die. Those who are in jail will die first, and those who are not in jail will die sooner or later. You don't know what's going on here."
"What on earth is going on?"
The old eunuch sighed: "You are too young. When you reach my age, you will understand everything."
"How old are you?"
The old eunuch smiled and said, "Guess what?"
Luo Songgui looked at the old eunuch, his face was a bit worn, but he was not too old.
"I take it you're not even fifty yet?"
"No more, no more," the old eunuch shook his head and said, "I will be fifty-one when our divine king succeeds to the throne."
Fifty-one when the divine king succeeds to the throne?
The Lord God has been in power for thirty-nine years, and he will be ninety years old at this moment!
You are ninety years old and you are still working in the palace?
This is the first time I heard about it.
Moreover, Luo Songgui had never met the chamberlains during the reign of the late emperor. Even his master Li Quangen only entered the palace after the emperor succeeded to the throne.
Is this man lying? He doesn't look ninety years old.
Just when Luo Songgui was about to expose the other party, he suddenly remembered what Li Quangen had said, adding one level of cultivation would extend your life by 30%.
This old eunuch has a good level of cultivation, and his level is not low, perhaps similar to that of his master.
He spoke a little more politely and asked carefully: "Old senior, which prison cell do you work in?"
"The department sets up the supervisor."
The department set up prisons, ceremonial guards, chariots, and large umbrellas.
What kind of occasion, what kind of formations and tools are used to serve the God King, it is a job with many knowledge and rules.
Luo Songgui asked: "Have you always been an errand beside the Lord God?"
"That's not true," the old eunuch shook his head and said, "When I first entered the palace, I worked as an errand in the Department of Planning and Supervision. I did all kinds of dirty and hard work, but I never met the Divine Lord.
After working as a businessman for more than ten years, I gradually became the chief executive. Palm Print asked me to manage the treasury again, but I still couldn't see the Lord God.
I have been in charge of the warehouse for more than ten years, and I finally got to be the boss. I thought I could get to know the Lord God again, but suddenly the executioner appeared in the palace."
Luo Songgui was surprised: "The late emperor also had executioners at that time?"
"Yes!" the old eunuch sighed, "At first, no one knew what the executioner did. Later, it was discovered that as soon as the executioner took action, people were sent to jail. Once they were in the jail, they could not get out.
I was thinking about how to avoid these executioners. It happened that a villa was built outside the palace. I heard that the Lord Shen was going to live in the villa for a while, and he wanted to send two hundred servants there to serve the Lord.
I gave all the money I earned over the years to the eunuch Zhang Yin. The eunuch Zhang Yin was a good person. He really did a good job after receiving the money. He arranged for me to go to another garden.
I waited in the Bieyuan. After waiting for half a year, the Lord Shen didn't come, so the Bieyuan was abandoned and he transferred us back to the palace.
When I returned to the palace, the old god king passed away and a new god king ascended the throne. As soon as I returned to the palace, I saw what the new god king looked like.
The Lord Shen saw it, but none of the chamberlains I knew were seen.
From the ceremonial supervisor to the direct palace supervisor, all the supervisors in the palace are new people. Guess where the old people went?"
Where did it go?
Luo Songgui couldn't understand either. He just felt chills running down his spine: "He, they should have gone to the Shrine Supervisor, right?"
The Shrine Superintendent was in charge of matters such as sweeping and incense candles in the temples of successive gods, and was responsible for guarding the temple gates for the gods who had passed away before.
The old eunuch shook his head and said: "My child, you are confused. How old is the palace eunuch? Can he hold tens of thousands of servants?"
Luo Songgui said in shock: "Tens of thousands of servants are gone?"
"Everyone is gone. From the palm prints, the writing pen, the chief clerk, to the handymen and errands below, there is no one left. The late emperor left behind only more than two hundred of us."
"Then, they were all sent home?"
The old eunuch smiled and said: "How long have you been in the palace? Don't you understand the rules of our Qiancheng Kingdom?
Have you ever seen a chamberlain sent home? Unless the body can be thrown out on the day you die! Otherwise, you will never have a home in this life.
Let me tell you the truth, when I first returned to the palace, the blood was not wiped off in some places! Broken bones and scum could still be seen in some places, and those old people were all dead!"
Luo Songgui trembled: "Old senior, please don't scare me!"
The old eunuch smiled bitterly and said: "Why should I scare you? The palace is very big, and it is a somewhat remote place. Even late at night, you can still hear the crying and howling of the evil ghost.
I have heard it, many times, and the cry is exactly the same as when they were alive!"
Luo Songgui sat on the ground and couldn't help trembling all over.
The old eunuch sighed and said: "So when the executioner comes, we won't be able to escape the knife, and we will all die!"
"I don't understand," Luo Songgui cried, "if you kill us all, who will serve the Lord God?"
"There are newcomers, and some are newcomers," the old eunuch said with a smile. "The two hundred or so of us who were left here were just to teach the newcomers the rules and crafts. Once we have taught the newcomers clearly, we should die.
Those who came back with me were sent to prison one after another within a year, and they never came out after entering prison."
Luo Songgui was stunned when he heard this: "Old senior, how did you escape this disaster?"
"You ask me how I escaped this disaster?" The old eunuch smiled bitterly, "My child, how can I tell you this? Who told you that I escaped this disaster, hehehehehe..."
The old eunuch lowered his head and kept laughing.
Luo Songgui sat on the ground and moved his body back as hard as he could.
"Hehehehe, wuwuwuwu..." The laughter suddenly turned into crying, and two lines of blood dripped from the old eunuch's cheek.
"This cry is exactly the same as when I was alive. Did you hear it this time?"
"I, I, I..." Under extreme fear, Luo Songgui couldn't speak well and couldn't even shout even if he wanted to.
Two chamberlains guarding the cell were whispering outside the door.
"He is the only one in this room. What is he talking about?"
"Who the hell knows? He must have thought he was going to die and was so scared that he went crazy!"
After writing this chapter, I suddenly felt very cool