Jia Cong was wandering in the imperial garden when the sound of a piano suddenly dazzled his ears. He turned around and saw a man in Tsing Yi sitting by the lotus pond playing the piano, like a ghost whispering. He sighed secretly in his heart, the charm of art. Wait for it.
When the man finished his song, Jia Cong walked very close to him and bowed deeply: "Sir, you are good at playing the piano."
This man was very old and had no beard. He was obviously a eunuch. He put down his harp and was about to kneel down and kowtow. Jia Cong hurriedly shouted: "Goodbye! I am not a noble person. What is your name, sir?"
The man had already knelt down, but before he could kowtow, he had to say: "Old slave, Wang Fu."
Huh? The voice is not sharp. Sure enough, not all eunuchs have sharp voices. Oh, what a vulgar name. It can be seen that the name has nothing to do with the artistic level. Jia Congnai cupped his hands and said: "Uncle Fu, please get up, you are kneeling at your age.
I feel guilty in front of me." Wang Fu then slowly stood up. He asked again, "Are you in charge of playing music in the palace?"
Wang Fudao said: "This old slave is originally from the Jiaofang Department. Because the Queen Mother is still in the palace, he usually only plays the piano for the Queen Mother."
Jia Cong frowned: "The one from Lu?"
"Mother of Saints."
"Ah? Are you kidding me? The little saint's mother?" Jia Cong turned to ask Feng Ziying's men, "Two eldest brothers, isn't the little saint very young? His mother has never been in power, right. Why do you pick people in from outside the palace at will?"
The two men said: "Of course I have to purify myself." "No matter how powerful she is, she is still the Queen Mother. It is not a big deal to get a piano player from the Jiaofang Division."
Jia Cong felt cold all over. Although the people in the Jiaofang Division have been registered for generations, both men and women are in normal health. How many years has it been since the little saint came to power? This old man must be over fifty. He is castrated after a hundred years.
You talk about nonsense dignity, I am afraid that your life is hanging in the sky at any time. Nai shook his head: "This kind of power is too scary. Do you want to leave the palace, old gentleman? With your ability, it is a pity to only play the piano in the deep palace."
Wang Fu smiled bitterly and said: "This old slave is over fifty, so he just thinks he is dead."
Jia Cong advised: "You can't say that. The old gentleman's piano skills are rare in the world. And you have experienced such a catastrophe innocently, but the sound of the piano is distant and clear. There once was another extremely powerful piano player who also had a very miserable life.
It’s just...it’s not her fault that she fell into that situation.” According to Jia Xu’s description, Ding Wangji’s mother’s piano skills are probably still above that of the old piano master. Although this one is a eunuch, she can spread the word
Positive energy. Jia Cong said sternly, "However, the sound of her piano is violent and ferocious, making people angry when they hear it. The old gentleman is many times better than that one. Talents are extremely rare in all walks of life, especially you."
Doing art. Look at Lin Yuantu, who is also an eunuch. Hasn’t he also become a career for a generation? "
Wang Fu still shook his head and said: "I appreciate the kindness of the uncle. The Queen Mother plays the piano. Now that the old slave is here, I can serve for a while. If the old slave is gone, she will definitely find someone else to play the piano for her."
Jia Cong sneered and said: "The palace is poor, and the Empress Dowager has endured eternal infamy by selling her titles in exchange for money to support these people. She doesn't care at all and still raises happy people. She is too ignorant." Wang Fu turned his head and looked away. Jia Cong said with a sneer.
Cong looked at him and said, "Mr. Wang, Wan Sheng promises that the Queen Mother will never harm anyone else. Do you want to go out?"
Wang Fu hesitated for a moment: "Of course I did."
Jia Cong stretched out his hand and said "ok": "You go back and clean up, and we will leave the palace together later." Wang Fu was stunned, as if he didn't believe it. Jia Cong grinned at him and waved away.
Returning to the Palace of the Empress Dowager, Feng Ziying had not yet returned from Dai Quan, so Jia Cong sat outside and waited. Several women in the palace were seen poking their heads, showing off their beauty to some extent, spreading their hands and saying: "I am really... pretty blessed."
Feng Ziying's people laughed and said: "Our Lord just said that if there is anyone you like, just take him away. I'm afraid someone will hear it."
Jia Cong shook his head and said: "What's the use of taking one or two away? There are so many men who can't marry wives, and there are so many women locked up in the palace to waste their youth." Then he sat in the corridor in a daze and stopped talking.
Suddenly Feng and Dai came back, neither looking very good. Jia Cong raised his head and asked, "How is it? Are all those treasures still there?"
Feng Ziying said in a deep voice: "What a coincidence, those father-in-laws who died last night are all gone."
Jia Cong shrugged: "I took it myself." He was secretly wondering. He knew that Shi Li entered the palace through a tunnel, but he didn't know where he found the directory of these eunuch guards. Feng Ziying sighed softly.
Jia Congnai said: "By the way, I was wandering around the Imperial Garden for a while and met an old violinist. He was over fifty years old and his skills were rare. He was originally from the Jiaofang Department, but he was attracted by the Queen Mother.
He got clean and rushed into the palace. I wanted to take him out, but he refused, saying that he was afraid that if he left, the Queen Mother would harm others. Brother Feng, is there any way to prevent the Queen Mother from harming others again? This old gentleman is really
Excellent piano skills."
Feng Ziying frowned when she heard this and glanced at Dai Quan. Dai Quan sighed and said, "But isn't Gao Mengsheng? It's so pitiful that he enters the palace at such an old age so that he can purify his body and risk his old life."
"He said his name was Wang Fu."
"The Queen Mother just changed his name for him."
Jia Cong frowned and said, "How come I even changed my last name?"
"The Queen Mother's surname is Wang."
Jia Cong shook his head repeatedly: "It's a shame that the Empress Dowager is here. If the Empress Dowager who doesn't treat people as human beings is allowed to take charge of the harem, I'm afraid the sky in the Forbidden City will be dark. It's better not to let the little saint teach her.
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Feng Ziying glanced at him with a smile: "Speaking of which, it's time for the Jiaofang Department to conduct a thorough investigation."
"No." Jia Cong said, "There is an unjust case, right? There is no unjust case. Well, hey..." He suddenly closed his mouth and smirked. Who doesn't know that there is no shortage of imperial spies in the Jiaofang Department? Thanks to Feng
Dai Du was an understanding person. Feng Ziying glared at him and ordered someone to go to the Queen Mother's Palace to bring out the man named Wang Fu.
Soon people came, and Wang Fu kowtowed three times to Jia Cong and Feng Ziying with tears in his eyes. Jia Cong took him back, temporarily placed him in Lixiangyuan, and asked him if he wanted to go home. The old man shook his head repeatedly and asked if he wanted to change back.
Regarding the original name, he said: "I have no face to see my ancestors." Jia Cong knew that he had a deep knot in his heart, so he gave up for the time being.
In the evening, Shi Li came over and asked him how he was doing in the palace. Jia Cong said it again and said: "The Empress Dowager, do you still want to stay?"
Shi Li glanced at him and said, "Don't worry about her life, okay? Isn't Mr. Su okay? It would be better if you left that old woman to suffocate to death in the palace. I can tell you that those concubines of the Supreme Emperor were in a hurry when they became monks.
, I didn’t bring anything with me, but the small warehouse is mostly full. Now that we have a tunnel, it’s much easier to move it.”
Jia Cong pursed his lips. He also knew that the Empress Dowager was still alive, and hummed: "That's all, I sent her a dog head for the time being." He then asked, "How did you pick out the treasures of the eunuch guards?
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Shi Li blinked and said, "I didn't leave last night. I was hiding in the Forbidden City. This morning, the Empress Dowager herself told Feng Ziying the list one by one, and I heard it all."
"Say, you are so capable. By the way, who was the person who almost robbed Princess Jian'an last time? Is General Gan Lei back?"
"Nothing." Shi Li turned the tea cup with his hand, and said, "There has been no serious military training for a while, and General Gan led the cat to catch mice for fun, hoping to capture prisoners."
Jia Cong said lazily: "Oh. I wish them a happy time."
The next day, Jia Congte went to see Situ Pan. He said: "Yesterday I followed Brother Feng into the palace and saw that the flowers and trees in the imperial garden were beautifully trimmed. Then I thought of one thing. Are there still people gathering in the palace?
We have all kinds of top craftsmen? Those who grow flowers, comb hair, and cook, what a waste. There are also many young women. How many bachelors in the army cannot marry a wife, what a waste."
Situ Pan glanced at him: "What do you want to say?"
Jia Cong shrugged and said: "There is not much work left in the palace. I heard that there are thousands of eunuchs. They can clean the courtyard and serve the master. Those who are skilled in cooking can go out and open restaurants."
, those who know how to cut clothes will become tailors, and those who know how to prune flowers and trees will go to the Ministry of Industry to help out. Women, if they are willing to leave the palace to get married, why not let them get married? Brother Feng was joking with me in the palace yesterday
, saying that if there is a woman he likes, he can take him away. But guess what? Many women in the Queen Mother's Palace gathered around me and made poses. I am so fat, and I am not a handsome man. They don't know who I am, but they are willing to do it.
Come with me, it shows how much you want to get married."
Situ Pan laughed dumbly: "Even if they don't know who you are, they always know who Feng Ziying is."
Jia Cong shrugged and said, "Anyway, I think it's a waste."
Situ Pan said: "There are not many women left in the palace now. They were all given away in the past two years to save money, and they only cost two or three hundred inside and outside. We have to save some face, right?"
Jia Cong raised his eyebrows: "Who knows this number? If you don't believe it, if you just ask ordinary people on the street, they will definitely think that there are beauties everywhere in the palace. Moreover, the women in the palace are all well-educated. It is more regrettable for them to be widowed than to be a mediocre woman. Your Majesty.
, the population. Two to three hundred well-educated women will not be enough in twenty years, but five or six hundred can be used. If there is a loyal and talented person here, we will all make money. Even if they are all mediocre, they have their own uses in agriculture, industry, and commerce, it is better than
It will only grow moldy if left in vain."
Situ Pan thought for a moment: "Let me think about it again." He then asked, "Who do you think the empress dowager's escaped guards were lured away by?"
Jia Cong thought for a while: "It's hard to say. I think it should be the kings of Jin, Chen, E, and Chu."
"Why?"
"The King of Jin was a sinister man, not a good man. He was afraid of being plotted against, so he wanted to protect him. Concubine Hui, the leading King of Chu were all killed in assassinations, and the leading King of E died in a strange way, so the other three were more...
The prince next to me was even more afraid of assassins, so he thought of recruiting some capable guards."
Situ Pan nodded: "There is some truth." He secretly made some calculations in his mind.
After Jia Cong returned to the house, he saw that Lin Luan had picked up Jia Jue to play with him again. He remembered that the power outside the palace of the Empress Dowager had been disabled by Shi Li, so he could send their two aunts away from the house. The man named Liu often showed off his beauty.
I'm afraid that Chen Ruijin didn't like it, so he discussed it with Lin Luan. Lin Luan lowered his head and said, "Listen to the third master." He glanced secretly into the room from the corner of his eye. Jia Cong knew that Liu Yunxi was hiding, so he didn't bother to pay attention, so he got up and ordered someone to call him.
Come over here.
Two days later, everything was arranged, and the two beauties would move out tomorrow. Around the second watch, they heard a sudden noise at the end of Rongxi Hall, and Chen Ruijin rushed over immediately. Jia Cong didn't sleep either.
Feeling upset, he walked to the courtyard with his hands behind his back and took a look around, then returned to the hall. He sat there for a while and reached out to pour tea.
Wang Fu was also startled at this moment, and silently followed him around twice. Seeing that he wanted to have tea, he suddenly shouted: "Third Master, wait a minute!"
Jia Cong hesitated: "Huh?"
Wang Fu hesitated for a moment and said: "This tea has been brewed for four times. We should use fresh tea leaves to brew another one."
Jia Cong smiled and said: "How can there be so much care? The weather is too hot and dry." Then he continued to sift tea.
He just raised the teacup to bring it to his mouth when Wang Fu said again: "It's already the second watch, and it's hard to sleep well while drinking tea."
Jia Cong glanced at him and said, "Mr. Wang, why do I think you are beating around the bush?" Wang Fu's face froze. "If you have anything to say, just say it directly. I don't understand the roundabout words." Wang Fu then glanced outside.
Jia Cong immediately suspected that someone had put something inappropriate in the tea, so he hurriedly said: "That's all, I don't need to say it if it's inconvenient. I just won't eat the tea." Wang Fu breathed a sigh of relief. Jia Cong became more and more sure.
The tea is not right.
Baba waited for half a day, and Chen Ruijin came back and said, "Nothing happened. The two concubines that the second master took in were trying to get into trouble with each other. They made a big fuss and collapsed a big flower stand in the east yard."
Jia Cong said "Oh". When Wang Fu saw Chen Ruijin coming back, he hurriedly found an excuse to sneak away. Jia Cong felt strange and hurriedly took the teapot over and explained what had just happened. "Look, is there anything wrong with this tea?"
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Chen Ruijin frowned slightly, took the teapot and smelled it, then ordered Jia Cong to hold up the candlestick and shine it carefully for a while, then looked at the tea poured out, and said with a half-smile, "Go, get a cat or dog of any kind."
"Jia Cong saw that she looked weird and asked him twice out of curiosity. She didn't say anything, so he had to go out and fetch the cats and dogs. But he heard Chen Ruijin shouting from inside the house, "Go and do it yourself."
"Yes! Madam." Jia Cong led two boys to play with small animals under lanterns in the middle of the night.
After he walked away, Chen Ruijin got up and walked slowly to the wing where Lin and Liu's two daughters lived. He stood at the door and tilted his head, and crossed his arms.
The two of them were sitting on the Kang at the moment. Lin Luan saw her and stood up quickly: "Sister Chen, please sit down quickly."
Chen Ruijin said calmly: "It must be Aunt Liu who did it?"
Liu Yunxi was confused: "What did Miss Chen say?"
Chen Ruijin said: "I also grew up in the palace. I didn't use these methods because I looked down on it, not because I didn't know. Aunt Liu really thought that if you sprinkled some aphrodisiac into Jia Cong's teapot, he would accept you.
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Liu Yunxi was shocked and embarrassed, her face turned red and hot: "Miss Chen, please don't spit on others!"
"Oh, isn't it you?" She said lazily, leaning against the door, "I heard that Aunt Liu saved Aunt Lin's life in the palace, but is it true?"
Liu Yunxi was stunned and looked at Lin Luan: "When did I save your life?"
Lin Luan stood solemnly and solemnly: "Sister has saved me more than once. Not to mention... Last year on the Dragon Boat Festival, if it hadn't been for my sister, I would have been beaten to death by the Empress Dowager."
Liu Yunxi thought about it for a moment and said, "It's just a trivial thing. If you really think about it, my sister didn't save me."
Chen Ruijin smiled slightly: "I see. Sisters like you can live a good life in the harem where people are killed, and you can actually figure out a lot of ways to save each other's lives. Aunt Lin, I really didn't see it. You are not
Are you one of Master Huan? When did you start targeting Jia Cong?"
Lin Luan was stunned and immediately shook his head: "Whether Miss Chen believes it or not, although I have learned some medicine, I have never taken any... anything... aphrodisiac." She was so ashamed that she covered her face with her sleeves.
Chen Ruijin chuckled and said: "It's just to evade the minor and try to trick others into paying off. There are only three women in this yard, so I can't be the one who did it. This Aunt Liu..." She turned her head and looked at Liu Yunxi, "That's not the case at all.
Your opponent. She has a good appearance. You took her out of the palace as a cover. Even if it was her drug, if you two can succeed, it must be Aunt Lin."
Lin Luan looked at her steadily: "I have no interest in Mr. Cong."
Chen Ruijin glanced at the two of them, turned around and went out: "Whatever." Nai Li smiled softly at the door, "This kind of thing has happened to Jia Cong once. It will save him the trouble of weighing his mouth every day.