Three anecdotes

Shang Chengbi said that he treats Cardinal Jin as a slave, but who dares to really order him.In fact, although Cardinal Jin's reputation is not good, he is very good to those around him.Shang Chengbi was moody, and the servants in front of the imperial court were really like companions to the king, especially those little eunuchs who were not very powerful.Cardinal Jin persuaded them several times, and saved many people. Although he didn't point to these slaves to remember his benefits, everyone has benefited a lot from him over the years, and even the rewards are doubled.He was kicked out of bed by Shang Chengbi, so he sat on the ground with his knees hugged to watch the night. Wang Chuanxi's apprentice Xiao Shunzi hugged a blanket to cover the ground thickly for him.

Cardinal Jin nodded slightly, "Thank you, Master, for caring about you."

Xiao Shunzi lowered his voice, "Master said, don't dare."

Cardinal Jin hugged the blanket and sat down. The night was as cold as water and it was half autumn, so he was still afraid of the cold.

Xiao Shunzi took out a heater from among the blankets, and because Shang Chengbi was asleep, he didn't dare to talk much, so he held it to Cardinal Jin and walked out.

Shang Chengbi's chest and back were all injured, and he couldn't sleep well, but he woke up as soon as Xiao Shunzi went out, and said in a cold voice, "My servants are good to you."

Cardinal Jin hugged the hand stove, "I don't have many days left, if I live one more day, they will be less involved." He put down the hand stove and stood up, "Is it hurting a lot? Tell me to bring some soothing soup, and sleep for a while." It's time to go to court."

After all, Shang Chengbi was the emperor, and he hated the people who served him the most for making friends with foreign ministers. He deliberately snubbed Cardinal Jin and wanted to teach him some lessons, but he didn't see any complaints from him after ordering him around for half a day.He didn't let him go to bed, so he kept watch on the ground, Shang Chengbi couldn't sleep half the night, and when the night breeze picked up, he felt him hugging his shoulders and shivering, but he felt sorry for him catching a cold.Chonghua has always been afraid of the cold, he thought several times whether to ask him to come up, but he deeply hated that this person manipulated him and simply let him suffer from exhaustion and cold.But after a while, Xiao Shunzi brought a blanket, and he felt at ease at first, but thinking of these slaves who always worship high and low, they dare not look down on him. Could it be that he can't let him go in the eyes of the slaves?He tried his best to curry favor even when he lost power, and Shang Chengbi was unhappy again.

Cardinal Jin didn't want to pay attention to his thoughts, so he just put on a blanket and went to give instructions, before he could take two steps, he listened to Shang Chengbi, "Slow down!"

Cardinal Jin stopped and moved a candle over, "What's the matter?"

"There are no rules at all. You exhale so loudly that I can't sleep." Shang Chengbi tightened the quilt, it was really too cold.

Cardinal Jin said, "Really? You never said that before. I'll call someone else in." He put down the candle and was about to go out.

Shang Chengbi was looking for trouble when he had nothing to do, Mr. Chonghua breathed like blue, and the breathing sound was loud, but Cardinal Jin didn't explain a word, Shang Chengbi didn't expect that he really left, and he was furious with hatred, " You are not allowed to put on a blanket, just stand outside under the window."

"Yes." There was a vent under the window. Although it was summer, it was night, and I was always afraid of the cold. Cardinal Jin knew that this was a toss.

He stood leaning against the bed with his shoulders in his arms. This is a small canal built by Shang Chengbi, which leads to the stream and is hidden by bamboo all the way. At that time, he felt that the palace of the emperor was too small, but it is interesting to look at it now.Cardinal Jin had no internal strength, and his heart arteries were damaged, so he couldn't work hard to adjust his breath.It's just that he suffered a lot, but he didn't feel anything.But it was Shang Chengbi who couldn't sleep after tossing and turning, and couldn't sleep even more now, but it was hard for the eunuch who was on duty at night, holding a candle all the time.

Shang Chengbi looked at the shadow of Cardinal Jin reflected on the window through the candlelight, and he felt a burst of pleasure when he saw that he sometimes folded his shoulders and sometimes rubbed his hands.But when he heard him cough twice in a low voice, he couldn't help feeling distressed again.As he said just now, he doesn't have many days left.There are not many days, what is going on?Shang Chengbi was in a hurry, "Tell the imperial physician."

The little eunuch on duty hurriedly agreed, but Shang Chengbi called again, "Come back!"

The little eunuch came back again, and Shang Chengbi was half lying on the bed, emptying his chest and abdomen, but he saw the shadow of Cardinal Jin rubbing his face again.It's only September, is it that cold?It must be on purpose, he must know that I am looking at him.Jin Chonghua, I've had enough of your bitter tricks, so I turned off the lights and went to sleep.But before he could lie down for a while, he suddenly heard cicadas chirping, and Shang Chengbi knocked over the copper lamp by the bed. The little eunuch was startled, and quickly kowtowed, "Damn you, damn you. You're going to kill me now. cicada."

"Tell him to catch him! Don't sleep if you can't finish it!" Shang Chengbi lost his temper, but forgot that he had no intention of letting Cardinal Jin sleep in the first place.

"He?" The little eunuch was stunned for a moment, and immediately understood, "Yes, this servant will tell Young Master Jin."

"Slap your mouth!" Shang Chengbi was angry, "What kind of son is he! I told you, he will be just a slave in the future! Just treat him as the lowest-rank servant outside the palace."

"Yes." The little eunuch led the order to go out, but he was thinking in his heart. The eunuchs in this dynasty are divided into nine ranks, but the lowest servants in front of the emperor are deacons and eunuchs of the eighth rank. Come on, the emperor wants to humiliate him, just don't give him a rank, what does it mean to add a rank nine.

The little eunuch went out and gave the order, but Cardinal Jin thought it was funny, waiter outside the hall?He really became a eunuch if he didn't purify himself.If you think about it, you want to be demoted to the lowest level, forgetting that the lowest eunuch has no rank.Cardinal Jin did some calculations, and it was true. Although he was a Marquis in the past, he didn't see his salary, but now he can still get a few hundred dollars a month, which is quite good.The geese rise up late, the reed flowers are late, and the cicadas sing rice leaves in autumn.The loneliness hurts Chu Zou, and Qin Duan weeps sadly.It seems that it is God's will for people who have lost their country to play the cicada song again.

Cardinal Jin caught the cicadas all night, but Shang Chengbi also stayed up all night. The next morning, he finally couldn't help asking him to come in to serve.Cardinal Jin said, isn't it an attendant outside the palace? Why is he entering the palace again?He watched with cold eyes the inner eunuchs coming and going to help Shang Chengbi wash and change clothes, etc. Shang Chengbi threw the jade pendant on his face, "Slave without winks!"

The eunuch Si Yi quickly picked another pendant and handed it to Cardinal Jin with both hands. Cardinal Jin squatted down to hang it for him, and Shang Chengbi pressed him on his shoulder, "Kneel down!"

When waiting to eat, he was told to hold this and that, and then refused to eat, just like an angry child.Cardinal Jin suffered from the wind and cold last night, and because he endured the meal all the time, his face was swollen and red.Shang Chengbi ate a few mouthfuls of porridge casually, and hurried to the court, but when he reached the door, he told Wang Chuanxi, "When will you wash the floor in the morning?"

Wang Chuanxi said, "It's almost five o'clock."

"Let him do it too! Every day in Xifeng Pavilion, clean the blankets." Shang Chengbi ordered, and after he went out, he added, "Don't treat him preferentially! He will eat whatever other people eat Use those."

"Yes." Wang Chuanxi agreed, winked at the little apprentice, and served Shang Chengbi himself to go to court.

Xiao Shunzi took Cardinal Jin to Chengye Office, "Mr. Wronged, this is the place. You should have been in front of the imperial court all along, and you can't live here. My master ordered to make a clean room for you occasionally. Come and take a breath."

Cardinal Jin walked through more than half of the palace and saw his new residence. It seemed that it had been cleaned, and even the bedding and other things were new.It is estimated that the servants outside the hall of the ninth rank will not be able to live in such a good place. It must be Wang Chuanxi who ordered, "Thank you for your reminder, master."

"Hmph!" Xiao Shunzi came with Cardinal Jin, and the eunuch, who was not very good at dealing with Wang Chuanxi, gave him a look of embarrassment, "He is already the same person as us, why do you want to show the prince's profile?"

Xiao Shunzi inherited his master's tact and was very polite to the eunuch, "My lord, I'm not on duty today."

"Your master did all the clever things, and we won't curry favor with our concubines." The prince was annoyed.

Xiao Shunzi stopped talking, put down the curtain, and said in a low voice, "Young Master, don't worry, Eunuch Wang and Eunuch Cheng Kangcheng are from the same village."

Naturally, Cardinal Jin would not care about this kind of person, he just casually looked around in the room, and then slipped a bank note into Xiao Shunzi's hand, Xiao Shunzi was startled, and was about to refuse, Cardinal Jin said , "It's not for you. The people I used to be sent out of the palace thanks to your master's turnover. He also needs money for up and down management. Although I am down and down today, there is no shortage of money. You don't need to refuse, your master will naturally know."

After hearing what he said, Xiao Shunzi accepted it.In fact, Yun Shu and the others were sent out of the palace by Hualuo and Wang Chuanxi.At first they refused to leave, but Hua Luo's identity was not disclosed at the time, saying that it was the young master's order that she was left alone in the palace, so Yun Shu and the others left and placed them outside the palace, waiting for Cardinal Jin to make further arrangements.

"It's the blessing of the servants that you care so much about the subordinates." Xiao Shunzi said.

Cardinal Jin smiled, "Your master taught you to be very smart, and you will be blessed in the future."

"It's nothing more than a slave. I only serve the master, and I hope that my brother can leave a family." Xiao Shunzi said this, and suddenly knelt down, "The slave brother offended someone, and Yushi complained The relatives of the eunuch rely on their power to bring disaster to the village, the servants are rootless people, and there is only one seedling left in the family—"

Cardinal Jin smiled, "You are clever. Did your master tell you to beg me?"

Xiao Shunzi said, "I dare not tell Master. Master said earlier that he wants to restrain the family members. I'm afraid I won't be able to bear it if I say so."

Cardinal Jin said, "I think so too."

Xiao Shunzi just kowtowed.

Cardinal Jin said, "Get up first, the wall has ears, this is not a place to talk."

Xiao Shunzi didn't get up.

Cardinal Jin said, "I am in trouble today, and you and your master have taken care of me. Since you have asked me, it is not difficult. I know your thoughts, and I will never let your family die. Get up."

Xiao Shunzi kowtowed again, "Regardless of whether it will be successful in the end, if you have a word from the young master, the slave will definitely be a cow and a horse in the next life."

Cardinal Jin said, "Since I have complied, it will be done. What will happen in this life is uncertain, so why bother to be a cow or a horse in the next life. Tell your master in advance if you have anything in the future, and then experience it."

Xiao Shunzi was a very transparent person, Cardinal Jin only said one word, and he knew he was pointing him out.Since I entered the palace, I have followed Master, and now that something happened at home, bypassing Master and begging someone else directly, I am afraid that Master will feel uncomfortable.Thinking about how talented Mr. Chonghua is, today he is willing to teach himself a slave, and he is even more grateful, but remembering the lesson just now, he didn't dare to thank you blindly, he just said yes.

Later, Xiao Shunzi learned this from Wang Chuanxi, and Wang Chuanxi pointed him out, "You think Hou Ye is a genius if he writes good poems and articles. He is famous in Sanjiang at the age of 13. If others experience his humiliation, He must be devastated, but he has survived to this day with the strength of one person, in the whole world, except for the emperor, who else can give him anger, this is the ability."

Xiao Shunzi echoed, "I really didn't expect that he, a mere surrender, would be so important. The imperial censor Pei is known as the iron-faced imperial censor, and he was obsessed with the matter of his brother occupying other people's land this time. The eunuch forms a clique and connives at the family members to do their best, so please the emperor judge and punish the eunuch vigorously. But Mr. Jin just wrote a note and made him shut up willingly."

Wang Chuanxi said, "If you can't think of it, you monkey, can you go around me and ask him first?" Wang Chuanxi sighed, "Others can't understand the affairs of the inner court, but we as slaves know best. Why is Chudi exempted from tax year after year? Why doesn't your majesty send troops anymore? This marquis of Linyuan controls most of the imperial court, and those who oppose him openly may not be secretly with him. Things in the court are changing rapidly and intertwined. Pity that Xihe Empress, I only thought that Marquis Linyuan could control the situation simply by relying on the emperor's favor, hmph, if only by relying on a little favor, can he survive for five years? Women's vision is indeed shallow. It’s going to end like this.”

"It's still master who sees deeply. I knew that this Young Master Jin is not someone in the pool. Cheng Kang has been fighting with you for so long, and you used his hand—" Wang Chuanxi's eyes moved slightly, and Xiao Shunzi stopped immediately They are slaves, it is inevitable to fight each other, but it is hard to say that they are beaten by the master's hand.

Wang Chuanxi said, "Keep your mouth shut. Marquis Linyuan is in such a good mood to teach you to talk less. Can't you remember?"

Xiao Shunzi hurriedly knelt down to answer, and then added some hot water for Master to rub his feet, "I just don't have skills, Lin Yuanhou said, let me ask Master about everything. You don't need to be skilled, as long as you Listen to the master in everything, and you will naturally flourish."

Wang Chuanxi shook his head lightly, "Prosperity depends on ability and opportunity. Master can't guarantee your success, but as long as you follow the rules in everything, I will definitely keep you safe."

"Yes." Xiao Shunzi replied, but there was something else going on in his heart.Wang Chuanxi also saw that this apprentice was not a law-abiding person, and now that he was promoted to Cardinal Jin, he would not be satisfied with just being a little eunuch who only served the emperor to wash and change clothes.It's just that people have their own aspirations, and he doesn't point them out.Castrated people like them have nothing to look forward to. If they can't get rich and honor after suffering the knife, it will be a waste of all the hardships they suffered back then.Cardinal Jin is a good master, but following a good master may not lead to a good future. It's just that he would never believe this kind of reasoning when told to his disciples. Sighing, he took his feet out of the hot water.

But Xiao Shunzi didn't understand Master's thoughts. He wiped Master's feet neatly with his hands, thinking about who to find to wash the blankets for the young master. The carpets in Qifeng Pavilion are not easy to clean. How can I do this.

The author has something to say: slaves also have slave thoughts, this chapter is not idle writing, it is a foreshadowing for the future

Xiao Jin is not a simple person. He has planted an introduction in the court all these years, and what he uncovered now is only the tip of the iceberg.If Mr. Chonghua just relied on his beauty to get some benefits for his hometown, then he is not worthy of being called Jin Chonghua.