A eunuch broke into the harem

Concubine Xiao Shu hurriedly replied: "Eunuch Li, please get up quickly, I never thought that Eunuch Li was the supervisor of the imperial dining room, so it is disrespectful!"

Li Xiaomin wanted to wait for her to help him, and touched his jade hand by the way, but thinking that she was a concubine, there was no reason to help a eunuch, so he stood up awkwardly, and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, this is also a trust. Became the master Hong Fu, and was rewarded with the position of the sixth rank, it is not really any ability."

After hearing this, Princess Qing Ling couldn't help being curious, she sized up Li Xiaomin with a pair of beautiful eyes, and said with a smile: "Eunuch Li is still in charge of the imperial kitchen at such a young age, he must have extraordinary abilities, why bother to be too modest?"

The little eunuch next to him interjected: "Princess is right. This Eunuch Li is courageous and possesses unique skills. The day before yesterday, he bravely broke into the ghost palace and snatched back the Pluto Pearl from the hands of the evil spirits, saving Princess Changping's life." The palace has already heard about it, and the empress and princess must have heard of it too, right?"

Concubine Xiao Shu and Qingling were startled, they stared at Li Xiaomin, they never thought that he was the eunuch of the legendary brave superman.

After a while, Concubine Xiao Shu sighed and said: "It's not about age, Eunuch Li is indeed a young talent, which is admirable."

After the initial surprise passed, Qingling looked at Li Xiaomin with great interest, with a faint smile on her lips, and said softly: "It's already noon, Eunuch Li hasn't eaten yet, right? If you don't mind, please come here After dinner, Qingling will also ask Eunuch about the day's affairs."

Li Xiaomin said in embarrassment that he ate his stomach first before he remembered to bring someone to deliver food to them, and he also wanted to stay with the beauties for a while, so he winked at the little eunuch and sent him back .

The little eunuch stayed in the palace for a long time, he watched his face, how could he dare to disobey the wishes of his immediate superiors, hurriedly said goodbye, and left in a hurry.

Concubine Xiao Shu asked Li Xiaomin to come in and sit down for a while. Li Xiaomin went in and put down the food box. Looking up, the setting in the room was really simple and simple, but the bookshelf in the corner was full of books. middle.

Inside the room, there were three or four court ladies who came to see the ceremony together.Seeing them old and young, Li Xiaomin secretly sighed that those who fell out of favor were ignored, and those who were sent to serve were also those who had no strength to work.

The three of them sat down around the table, Li Xiaomin took a few dishes from the bottom of the big food box, and gave them to the maids to eat in another room, and he put the dishes on the table in the room, and invited Concubine Xiao Shu and Qingling graciously move chopsticks.

Concubine Xiao Shu smiled and invited Li Xiaomin to have a meal together, but Qing Ling was curiously asking about what happened that day, the three of them ate and talked, and the atmosphere was quite harmonious.

Li Xiaomin casually said that he practiced immortality since he was a child. Even after entering the palace, he did not stop. He was able to resist the attack of ghosts. There were ghosts coming to invade, but fortunately I ran fast, so I was not caught and eaten.Speaking of the dangerous place, the two women couldn't help showing worried expressions. When they heard that he had escaped, they breathed lightly, feeling grateful for him.

Li Xiaomin has been in the palace for so long, and he has never met a master who is willing to eat with the eunuch. Of course, Concubine Chen regards herself as her man, so drinking and having fun with her is different.I couldn't help being grateful for this approachable second daughter, so even though I was already full, I reluctantly ate some with them.

Chatting while eating, when it came to the end, the meal was almost over.Li Xiaomin looked up at the thread-bound books on the bookshelf, and smiled slightly.

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He smiled and said, "Ma'am, are these the books you usually read?"

Concubine Xiao Shu shook her head and said with a smile: "These are Qing Ling's books. She likes reading and writing the most on weekdays."

Li Xiaomin put down his chopsticks, walked to the bookshelf, flipped through the books, and saw that they were all poems, and suddenly his heart moved: "I came to this world, I must learn some poems, lest people say that I am crude and uneducated. In the past In the world, I have studied for a few years anyway, learning these poems should not be difficult, right?"

Thinking of this, he turned around and bowed to the second daughter.

Concubine Xiao Shu was shocked, she hurriedly stood up, she wanted to go forward to help him up, but she didn't dare to break the rules, so she had to avoid it, and said: "Please Eunuch Li, get up quickly, if you have anything to say, just say it."

Li Xiaomin squeezed out a few tears, and sobbed: "The villain was poor since he was a child. Although he learned the ancestral magic, but no one taught the villain poetry and books. It has always been a pity. When I saw the princess's book today, I felt something in my heart." Feeling so touched, I just ask Her Royal Highness to agree to teach the villain poems and songs, and the villain is willing to be a cow and a horse to repay the princess' great kindness!"

Qing Ling is also a person who is eager to learn, and she has stood aside at this time, avoiding his prostration, seeing that he is willing to bow down to study in order to study poetry and books, she does not feel sorry for each other, and said softly: "Qing Ling usually has no leisure time. If Eunuch Li wants to learn poetry and calligraphy, Qingling will definitely help him."

Concubine Xiao Shu also smiled and said: "Eunuch Li doesn't have to be like this. Qing Ling likes people who are eager to learn. If Eunuch wants to learn poetry, he can come here when he has nothing to do on weekdays. Qing Ling will definitely give it to him. Eunuch is welcome rest assured."

Li Xiaomin was overjoyed and bowed again, saying: "Thank you, Madam, thank you princess! Please don't call me a villain 'Eunuch Li' anymore, Madam and princess, just call me a little man, and that's fine!"

The second daughter couldn't help smiling, so she had to call Xiaominzi, and Li Xiaomin was willing to get up, and thanked him deeply.

Several maids came to clear the table, Li Xiaomin bowed deeply to Qingling, asking her to teach him poetry.

Seeing that he was so eager to study, Qingling couldn't bear to refuse him, so she took a few poetry books and roughly talked about the development of poetry in the past dynasties.

Li Xiaomin was secretly surprised when he heard it all the way.After the "Book of Songs" and "Li Sao" in ancient times, poetry has evolved several times. After experiencing ancient poetry, parallel prose and other poetic forms, it has evolved into popular Ci. Many Ci cards were created in recent years. The lyricist wrote it down, matched it with the melody, and let the musicians play it, and it was a wonderful song.

After listening for a long time, Li Xiaomin couldn't help asking: "Is there no Tang poetry?"

Qing Ling asked in surprise, "Tang Poems? I am a scholar of the Tang Dynasty, most of them like to write lyrics now, and very few people write poems!"

It was only then that Li Xiaomin remembered that there was no such dynasty as the Tang Dynasty in the past, only the Southern Tang Dynasty he was in now was the first dynasty named after Tang, and naturally there were no Tang poems from the past.In this way, those Tang poems that have been handed down through the ages will no longer be written.

Under the insinuation of Qing Ling, this conjecture was confirmed, and Li Xiaomin couldn't help but secretly sighed that so many wonderful Tang poems were lost before they were written, which is really a great loss for Chinese literature.

Fortunately, in addition to memorizing cross talk tongue twisters, Li Xiaomin also memorized a few Tang poems in the past, and now he made up his mind to write down the Tang poems he memorized if he had the opportunity, and must save the national treasure from the desperate situation.

But compared to saving national literature, Li Xiaomin prefers to stay with Qingling.Concubine Xiao Shu smiled elegantly at the side, quietly watching her daughter teaching the little eunuch how to read, looking at their handsome men and beautiful women, they looked like a couple, she couldn't help but sigh in her heart, this little man is so studious and smart, if he is not The eunuch is really a good match for his daughter.

But in the royal family, even he has little say in who his daughter marries.And he has long since fallen out of favor, and his family has long since fallen, so there may not be a prince who is willing to marry his daughter.Thinking of what will happen to her daughter's fate in the future, Concubine Xiao Shu couldn't help feeling a little sad.

Episode 6 Chapter [-] Murder

In order to open the restaurant, Li Xiaomin stayed overnight in Concubine Chen's room. The next morning, when Concubine Chen was overwhelmed by the storm and fell asleep with a sweet smile, Li Xiaomin had already received almost all of her private money, and was satisfied with her clothes. leave.

Concubine Chen introduced her natal cousin Chen Dexiu to help him with business, and Li Xiaomin went out of the palace to meet him in the name of buying vegetables.When Chen Dexiu saw his cousin's letter, he couldn't believe it, and flattered his father-in-law endlessly.

In the operation of the restaurant, Li Xiaomin is in charge of selling the technology stocks, Concubine Chen is contributing the money, and her cousin is contributing, planning to open a restaurant in Jinling with Chen Dexiu as the shopkeeper, striving to become famous as soon as possible and earn the first pot of gold.

Chen Dexiu is a young man in his early twenties, he always smiles when he sees people, and he is originally a smooth-faced person.In the family, he was born in a collateral line, although he was capable, he was not appreciated by the elders of the family.Fortunately, his cousin knew about his business talent, so she took out her private money to open a restaurant and invited him to cook, she couldn't help being excited, she just wanted to do this job well and show off her talent.

That night, Li Xiaomin slipped out of the palace, changed into casual clothes, called Chen Dexiu, and asked him to take him around Jinling City to see if there were any better houses that could be sold as restaurants.

Chen Dexiu was taken aback by his audacity, but Li Xiaomin didn't care, and said a few words that he had backers in the court and the palace, which frightened Chen Dexiu and made him dare not ask more questions.

In fact, with Chen Dexiu's shrewdness, he would not have believed him easily, but seeing him leave the heavily guarded palace so easily, without a backer and without a handout to leave the palace, it was impossible to do it.Moreover, the little man's father-in-law showed his power in the ghost hall, broke into the ghost hall, and got back the Pluto bead. Such a big event has long been spread outside the palace. Chen Dexiu has also heard his name for a long time, and he was secretly startled. Taking a high look, he didn't dare to underestimate him at all.

Walking on the street, while chatting with Chen Dexiu, Li Xiaomin talked about the ways to get rich that he had been thinking about these days inspired by Qingling's books, and asked Chen Dexiu to find some printing craftsmen to engrave movable type, Based on copper and iron movable type, he opened a printing bureau to print some best-selling novels and poems and sell them to make money.

It turned out that after thinking hard, Li Xiaomin found that those alternate historical novels are not all deceptive, at least a few plots can be used directly.Although I don't know the formula of gunpowder, and I don't know how to make paper, I can't make money by making guns and selling paper. Fortunately, although no one has invented gunpowder in this era, there has been well-made paper. As long as I make copper movable type It is still possible to set up a publishing house, and it will not cost too much money.As for the novels I have read before, I can take out a few paragraphs and tell them casually, and I can print them into novels to make money.

In order to make up the story, he specifically told Chen Dexiu to hire more scholars who can write fast and make up stories, and write out the stories he told, and someone would definitely buy them.

Although Chen Dexiu didn't dare to believe it, but Xiaominzi's father-in-law was the big boss, of course he had to listen to his words, so he obediently agreed.

The two were walking and talking on the night-shrouded street, and saw that the shops and houses on the street had hung up lanterns, and the entire Jinling City was getting less and less crowded at night.

Li Xiaomin remembered that the last time he went to the Qinhuai River, he was blocked by the prince's warriors before he got into the flower boat on the river, so he couldn't enjoy himself, so he called Chen Dexiu and asked him to accompany him to the flower boat.

Chen Dexiu was secretly surprised that the eunuch also wanted to prostitute, but he felt relieved after thinking about it: young people always have a playful nature, and it is easy to understand if they want to go to the famous flower boat on the upper reaches of the Qinhuai River. It is a pity that he is so handsome, but he is an eunuch. Unable to really go to the flower boat to ecstasy with those beautiful girls, he couldn't help being filled with sympathy, and agreed with him wholeheartedly, leading him to the direction of the Qinhuai River.

Walking and walking, gradually came to a secluded place.There are not many pedestrians on the road, only the two of them are still walking and talking leisurely, sketching the blueprint of their future business empire.

Suddenly, there was a scream in front of him, Li Xiaomin was startled, and walked over quickly, only to see an old man lying on the ground, bleeding from his mouth, unable to move.A young girl was lying on top of him, crying loudly, while standing next to him was a young man in gorgeous clothes, leading more than a dozen house slaves, pointing at the old man and yelling at him.

Li Xiaomin hurriedly stepped forward, bent down, and tried to hold the old man's pulse, but he felt that the pulse had stopped, and the old man's soul had already been taken away by impermanence.

Li Xiaomin scolded inwardly: "This group of impermanent soul-hunters, why did they attack so quickly? I heard the screams just now, and I couldn't see the souls when I ran over. Could it be that they were afraid that I would rob the souls and go back, so they doubled their actions?" Is it quick? Bah! If I want to rob, I can only rob the soul of a beautiful woman, what do I want this old man's soul for!"

The girl was in so much pain that she hugged the old man's body and cried loudly. In the sobs, she could barely hear the words "Grandpa, you died so badly".

Li Xiaomin looked up at the young gentleman, stood up, cupped his hands and said, "Young master, can I ask what happened here?"

The man was not ugly or handsome, but he had a savage face, seeing Li Xiaomin dressed in civilian clothes, he was impatient, pointed at him and shouted: "What are you, you also meddle in my Lord Wan's business! Get out of here quickly, don't cause trouble!"

Li Xiaomin just asked a question, but unexpectedly, he was cursed and threatened, and he couldn't help being startled.