Imperial City

The rules in the palace are really cumbersome, what Wei Qi and the others learned the first day was how to greet them.

There are also several types of bowing greetings. If you are greeting the masters and replying, you need to kneel on both legs. When kneeling, you need to kneel first with the left leg and then the right leg. It's your master, and the master's master can't escape the crime of lax governance.

If you get a reward from your master, you need to kneel down three times and knock nine times, and you have to hit your head on the ground to make a sound, that is, kowtow.

For masters with lower ranks and slaves with higher ranks than themselves, they have to kneel down on one leg.

Greetings are the most basic palace rules, how to greet and what to say when greeting are very particular.

Wei Qi and the others studied for several days, until their knees were bruised and they finally figured out who they should greet when they see someone.

In addition to asking for greetings, there are also rules for passing orders. When your superiors give orders, you must listen carefully and listen carefully. You can understand them after listening for a while. When retreating, you must back up slowly, and you must not point your butt at people.

To address the emperor must be holy, not everyone can call the master son, the empress dowager should call the ancestor, and the concubines in the palace should call the master, you must not mention his name, and you must pay attention to the pronunciation, if you mention it, it is a crime Holy taboo, this is a serious crime requiring beheading.

It's over, it's dead, it's not good, these kinds of words are unlucky, don't talk nonsense, let alone say it in front of the masters, otherwise you will be punished.

There are too many rules and regulations in the palace, even the most lively and unrestrained people have to be bound by these etiquette to become a fool and a puppet.

Tonight is Wei Qi's fourth night in the Supervisor of Rituals, and the supervisor's house is much better than the clean room.

A Datong shop for three people, there are tables, chairs and a candlestick in the room.The wooden door is also very strong. Although there is no charcoal basin in the house, as long as the door is closed, the room is very warm, unlike the clean room where the wind blows at night and the broken wooden door rattles, disturbing people's sleep.

Wei Qi has been tortured a lot in the past few days, and every time he comes back after learning the rules, he feels that his arms and legs are numb and numb.

Every day as soon as I got back to the house, I dragged myself to lie on the bed and fell asleep without washing my face, so I didn't have any problems with the young master.

Only now did he realize that he was grateful to his father for forcing him to learn some simple boxing and kicking exercises with his family's martial artist, otherwise he would have to be sent to Yeyou Court with a kid next door on the first day here.

Wu Jiacai and Chen Agou can still withstand it. In fact, as long as they have enough food and clothing, this idea is not a problem for them.

After dinner in the evening, Wei Qi sat by the bed and thought about the days, and today is very likely to be Wang Anping's first seven days.

He thought about it left and right and finally discussed with Wu Jiacai and Chen Agou to find a way to worship the child.

The two of Wu Jiacai were taken aback when they heard Wei Qi's words, they never thought that Wei Qi looked cold and unkind, but turned out to be a person who was cold on the outside and hot on the inside.

These days everyone is tortured by palace rules, if he hadn't mentioned it, both Wu and Chen would have forgotten that today might be Wang Anping's first seven.

"It is not allowed in the palace to set fire to paper money without permission. This is bad luck, and the nobles don't like it the most." Chen Agou said hesitantly and cautiously.

Wu Jiacai suggested: "Why don't we just burn two ingots in this room."

Wei Qi naturally agreed, he looked at Chen Agou, and all three people in the room had to agree to the matter before it could be done.

Chen Agou thought for a while: "This method is feasible, let's do it."

After a few people discussed it, they began to find a few pieces of toilet paper to fold ingots.

Wei Qi doesn't know how to fold this thing, so he can only follow them clumsily, and it took him a long time to fold a decent one, which is considered a wish.

The three of them folded a total of ten ingots, fearing that the fire would burn too big and attract the night attendants, so they put one by one next to the candle and burned them slowly, then threw them into a copper basin and rinsed them with water.

Wu Jiacai burned the ingots, Chen Agou watched the whistle at the door, and Wei Qi recited Buddhist scriptures for Wang Anping. It took a full cup of tea to burn a dozen or so ingots.

When people die and the lights go out, the intention has been reached, there is only so much that a few children can do, and there is nothing else they can do.

Wei Qi originally just thought that Wang Anping would not be able to enter the ancestral grave, and his parents might have been buried in a mass grave. If he didn't burn paper money for him, he might become a lonely ghost with no leader.

That's why today he was thinking about worshiping, and now it's over. Wei Qi finally felt at ease, climbed into bed and closed his eyes to fall asleep.

From that day on, Wu and Chen began to get close to Wei Qi.

Wei Qi and others stayed here for more than [-] days. Eunuch Zhang praised them as smart and said that they would be able to achieve something in a few days. The future is bright.

He laughed and praised people, as if he had forgotten that there were 35 children in this group when they entered the Prison, but now there are only 24 children left, and the next group came in with a total of [-] children. Less than six days later, he left five.

The lives of the servants in the palace are the least valuable, and the new servants are even more worthless, no matter who they are, they can step on your head.

The old eunuchs don't have anything, and after a long time, their minds become dirty. Seeing the handsome children, they can't help but want to go over and play secretly.

Several children died because of this, the strange thing is that Wei Qi's appearance was not affected by anyone, presumably someone was protecting him from above.

Among them, some were killed with sticks because they violated taboos by not being strict with their mouths.

Wei Qi watched from the sidelines, at first he was very angry, but later he felt that it was ridiculous, and gradually became numb after a long time.

He learned to listen in silence, with his head bowed, his body erect, his arms hanging close to his sides, motionless, and his mouth shut.

Another four days, one month has passed since the day of cleansing, and the day after tomorrow is waiting for the masters to choose someone.Wei Qi and the others were finally able to remove the small corn tube inserted at the opening of the urethra today.

Since the day when he purified himself, Wei Qi hadn't looked at his own place carefully, but now he has to face this scar.

He nestled under the quilt and took off his underpants, pulling out the corn stalk with trembling hands, using a little force with his fingers, even though the wound had already scabbed over, it was still painful to pull like this.

Wei Qi gritted his teeth and exerted force, and after a slight pop, the corn tube broke away from the wound.After enduring the pain, Wei Qi lifted a corner of the quilt and looked inside bit by bit.

The lower abdomen was smooth, and it was no different from the woman's except for a small protrusion in the middle. The wound was about the size of a copper coin, and a layer of brown-black scab formed.

Wei Qi dropped the corn tube in his hand and stared at it firmly. He shook his hand to touch it, and it was flat.

This was the first time he touched it since then, it was really flat, no more, no more, Wei Qi murmured blankly, as if he had suddenly awakened and finally accepted this cruel fact.

"Ah! Ah!" He raised his head, bit his wrist and whimpered, his face was full of tears, and his voice was shrill and helpless, like a cub lost its mother and had nowhere to go.

I'm a monster! I've become a monster! Neither male nor female, androgynous, a eunuch!

His eyes gradually became crazy, and his fingers pressed hard to pinch the ugly scab.

Tear it, tear it, maybe it will grow.I am the eldest son of the Chen family, and I promised my father that he would gain fame and fame in the future, and ride a horse through Chang'an Street, to glorify the lintel of the Chen family. I am not an eunuch in the Forbidden City. I should stand in front of the Golden Luan Hall. Why are I here? Why are I here?

The scab on the wound couldn't stand the toss, it broke away from the fragile tender flesh, and the blood gradually flowed out, revealing the hideous and terrifying wound, which was very painful, but Wei Qi couldn't feel it.

His hair was disheveled, his nose and tears were smeared on his face, and the long hair sticking to his cheeks covered his desperate eyes.

The backlog of depression and despair over the past month, together with the most ugly wounds, crushed him, and the attack was so fierce that the precious son who had been raised in the sun was finally unable to bear it.

"Wei Qi!"

Wu Jiacai rushed over, he just opened the door and saw this horrible scene, he was frightened out of his wits.

"What are you doing!" He pulled out Wei Qi's hand hidden under the quilt, the fingers were covered with blood, and there were still black scabs stuck to them.

"Wei Qi! Wei Qi!" Tremblingly, Wu Jiacai lifted the quilt on his abdomen. Under the quilt, the skin and flesh turned out, and the flesh and blood were confused.

Wu Jiacai lost his voice: "Yesterday, didn't you feel fine yesterday? What's the matter?" He carefully pulled out the wrist Wei Qi was biting in his mouth, hugged Wei Qi tightly, and buried it in his arms , kept stroking his long hair.