Imperial City

At this time, most of the eunuchs had already been on duty, only two people were left on duty overnight, and now they were resting in the Tantan which was built alone not far from the opposite door.

The children shouted with all their strength, since Wei Qi received the teachings of a gentleman when he was four years old, he behaved well and never lost his temper.

In the past few days, a lot has changed, he was anxious, and he shouted hoarsely with everyone before he finally heard the sound coming from outside the door.

A small eunuch, wearing a loose cotton robe and holding a paper lantern, staggered towards this side, cursing and yelling, "It's a ghost! You little bastards! Even eunuchs can't live without eunuchs!"

He was woken up from his sleep, and the companion living in the room also heard the sound and pushed him to have a look. The two fought for a while, and he lost with a punch, so he had to resign himself to his fate and get up from the warm blanket.

It was deep at night and the wind was strong outside, and the people were trembling all over, the little eunuch shivered violently in the wind, and he woke up, he was not in a good mood at the moment.

He spat on the ground, unlocked the lock with the key in his hand, walked in slowly and cursed angrily: "Let me wake up in such a cold night, if you only bother me with those shits today, I will kill you bastards!" The little eunuch gritted his teeth and his voice was harsh.

"Back to Eunuch, we don't want to disturb your rest, but it's really urgent." Wu Jiacai repeatedly apologized.

"Someone in our house has a high fever. It's very severe. If you don't get medical treatment in time, you may lose your life. Please help me!" , I had no choice but to bow my hands to show respect, and pointed to Wang Pingan's place, hoping that he would be kind enough to take a look.

The little eunuch held the lantern and approached the collapsed edge from the darkness, stretched out his hand to touch it slightly, everyone thought they were saved and were overjoyed, but unexpectedly it was just a show.

"What's the big deal with me? It's just a fever. There are boys in this palace who are sent in every month. There is no one with a high fever. If they are all like you today, do you still want to be an errand?"

It's not good for everyone to hear his tone: "But..."

"But what's the matter." The eunuch interrupted: "It's up to you whether you can survive it or not, if the king of Hades wants him to leave in the third watch, then we can't stay, yes or no?"

The eunuch cast a glance at them, his eyes indifferent: "It's you bastards, if you dare to quarrel with me again, you won't be able to sleep tonight! My father will play with you."

Several people feel uncomfortable, but they also know that now that they enter the palace, their fate is beyond their control, and if they can't take care of themselves, how can they protect others.

It's just a pity that Wang Anping is only six years old, who would have the heart to let him die in this cold palace at such a young age?

However, this kind of thing is really common in the Forbidden City. The little eunuchs are all good people, and they will never leave without holding the ingot in front of them.In such a cold weather, who would go to fetch medicine and boil medicine for this child?

Furthermore, countless people in the palace died due to this castration every year. As long as it was passable, the higher-ups would turn a blind eye and close their eyes, and no one would blame them.

The little eunuch stretched out his hand and rubbed his fingers together, begging for a favor.

Wei Qi was ignorant, but the rest of them knew, but their family was already poor, so where would they find money to take care of the servants?

If it weren't for this, I wouldn't be in this dark and smelly room at this moment.Several people glanced at each other, shook their heads, showed embarrassment, and said nothing more.

Seeing this, the little eunuch sneered, and wandered away carrying the paper lantern.

The door lock slammed, echoing in the quiet night, it was extremely loud, and it made people tremble.

The room fell into darkness again, and Wang Anping's babblings gradually disappeared. It is unknown who could not hold back the sobs first, and the voice was full of helplessness and despair.

Everyone was infected, and for a moment the dark and cold room was filled with sorrow, and Wei Qi lay on the side, crying silently, his face wet with tears, but silently.

No matter how humble and insignificant the world is unwilling to struggle in this world of mortals, they cannot resist power and fate after all.

The next day, Wang Anping's high fever persisted and he began to dehydrate, his complexion was gray and lifeless.

The eunuch was afraid that he would infect others, so he ordered his subordinates to carry him out of the house and send him to Yeting.

The children could only watch helplessly as Wang Pingan taught the two young eunuchs to carry them out.

The eunuch passed by Wei Qi's shop, he endured the severe pain in his head and got up to stop him, but tried his best to stretch out his arms to pull, but he couldn't reach it, and in the end he only touched a corner of the cold brocade cuff.

Everyone knows that there is no possibility that the child will come back after he left. After that, there was no more laughter in Wei Qiwu.

Several days passed like this, the wounds on the lower body gradually scabbed, and several people were able to get out of bed and walk a little and eat as usual.

The children have been silent since the sound of playing the board in the morning, one by one slowly put on the blue-gray eunuch clothes and blue feathers, and just after cleansing, a little eunuch shouted outside to let them have breakfast.

The servants in the palace all eat twice a day, breakfast and dinner.Breakfast is at Yin time, dinner is at noon, and there are two snacks in between. Although the snacks are small, they will never make people hungry. It is much better than starving outside.

Wei Qi and the others ate hastily, and soon there was a message that the little eunuch came steadily, bowed to the eunuch in charge and said, "Master, Master Zhang, who is in charge of rituals, has just led the people to the front corridor, and he will arrive soon." Here we go." The manager was too listening and asked everyone to stand in a row and stand upright.

After a while, a servant with white hair on a clear plume branch was surrounded by several young eunuchs and approached through the hanging flower gate.

When the eunuch in charge saw this, he rushed forward with all his subordinates to salute, and called repeatedly: "Master Zhang! I have seen Master Zhang! Master Zhang, why are you here today! Please come inside!"

The eunuch in charge smiled obsequiously, as if a hibiscus flower was about to bloom on his face, his bent waist wished he could get down to people's feet.

The ranks of eunuchs and servants in the palace are clearly divided into more than [-] grades.

The second rank is in charge of the father-in-law, the leader of the second rank is in charge of the father-in-law, the third rank is in charge of the father-in-law, the third rank is in charge of the father-in-law, the fourth rank is serving the father-in-law, and the fourth rank is the grand prince.

Under the fifth rank, the fifth rank father-in-law, from the fifth rank chief eunuch, from the sixth rank imperial eunuch, from the seventh rank chief eunuch, from the seventh rank in charge of the eunuch, from the eighth rank leading eunuch, from the eighth rank eunuch, on the ninth rank chief eunuch, from the eighth rank Ninth grade eunuch.

You can see the difference in height from the blue feather color on the top of the head and wearing it on the body.

The second-rank eunuchs with official ranks have red feathers, third-rank blue, fourth-rank dark blue, fifth-rank white, sixth-rank gray, seventh-rank gold, and eighth-rank golden embroidered longevity characters.

In addition, you can also see the ranks of the birds from the seams on the front and back of the jacket. The product is quail.

The sent eunuchs wore purple silk and satin clothes, and stabbed dragons or bats with coiled tails on the front and back chests.Low-level eunuchs wear blue-gray or purple cloth clothes without breasts.

Because there is nothing underneath, eunuchs like to be called masters, but they are taboo to be called eunuchs.

People like Wei Qi who don't even have a rank need to be respectfully called father-in-law no matter who they see.

The eunuch who was in charge of this world before was only a seventh rank, but when he saw Bai's fifth rank, he was naturally eager to curry favor.

The little eunuch moved the chair and invited the chief eunuch to take a seat. He was wearing a dark purple embroidered green egret eunuch uniform, his waist and back were not like ordinary little eunuchs who were bent over to salute all year round.

His back is straight, his face is upright, his eyes are looking straight ahead, and he regards the people in this room as nothing.

The chief eunuch opened his cloak and sat down, while the little yellow gate beside him served warm tea.

Eunuch Zhang took the teacup, opened it and took a sip, holding the tea lid in his hand and only waved his head slightly.

The little eunuch who was accompanying him asked the father-in-law, "How is it?" in the same arrogant tone as the master.

The eunuch in charge didn't get angry, and still had a smile on his face, he turned his head and said to Eunuch Zhang: "If you go back to Mr. Zhang, except for one child who died, the rest are very good, and they will probably be delivered to you tomorrow or the day after tomorrow." Learn the rules from the Supervisor of Rituals."

Eunuch Zhang frowned slightly, and asked, "Why did one die, but he can be dismissed properly so don't teach his family to talk about the masters indiscriminately."

"Returning to Master Zhang, it's time to send it away! It's time to send it away! The child was castrated only at a young age, and it didn't take long for him to do anything.

The younger one has sent someone to carry the body out to return to his parents, and gave him a few slings of copper coins.You don't know that person's parents are ruthless, and they don't want to redeem the thing. They are happy to take the money and pick up the corpse, until our master is generous! "

"Come on, come on, our family just asks, you don't stop talking." Eunuch Zhang picked out his ears, his voice was high-pitched, and he spoke slowly and with a proper accent.

He asked this question every month, but it was just a routine, but every time the eunuch in charge still tried his best to flatter him.

When Wu Jiacai and others heard that Wang Ping'an was gone, they felt great grief for a moment, and they were even more distressed when they heard that his parents had not redeemed the thing.

When the eunuch is getting older, when he leaves the palace, he must go to the purifying master who entered the palace that day to redeem the thing. If the master is not there, he will go to his apprentice.

If you can't find it, you will not be a complete person. If you leave in the future, you will not be able to enter the ancestral grave. If you break the rules and enter the ancestral grave, you will be pointed at the grave and abused by future generations.

Now that Wang Anping's parents haven't redeemed the thing, he must not be buried in the ancestral grave, maybe let them throw it somewhere and bury it at will.

Eunuch Zhang ordered the eunuch in charge to take these boys to the ceremonial supervisor tomorrow to learn the rules.

The eunuch in charge responded repeatedly, with a flattering look as if seeing his own parents.

All the servants bowed down and saluted to send Eunuch Zhang away respectfully. The eunuch in charge only gave a few instructions and went back to rest in his own room.

Wei Qi and the others returned to the room, but no one said anything. After a while, Chen Agou squatted in the corner with his head in his arms, sobbing.

"According to what the father-in-law said, Anping may not be able to enter the ancestral grave, so he can only be buried in a mass grave in the south of the city." Wu Jiacai sighed.

"Why?" Wei Qi was puzzled and murmured.

"His parents have never redeemed the object, and Anping is already a person with incomplete six senses. People like us cannot be buried in the ancestral grave if the body in the museum is incomplete after death." Wu Jiacai saw that he was unclear, Make things clear to him.

These words aroused the sadness of everyone in the room for a moment, and the sighs and cries of the children lingered in the air for a long time.

Wei Qi stood in this damp and cold room thinking, since this day, he finally understands where he is now.

The Forbidden City is majestic and magnificent, the people outside yearn for it, the people inside struggle a lot, and all beings are in various states, but without exception, they all have a cold face.

He is indeed no longer Xiaoyi, the son-in-law of the second master of the Chen family in the Chen family, but Wei Qi in the Forbidden City.