What's wrong with the binding eunuch system?

Mu Yuanyong and Kong Ji had only walked ten miles during the day, and just after they left the capital, they sneezed suddenly.

He rubbed his nose: "I always feel that someone is talking."

Kong Ji glanced at him.

Mu Yuanyong smiled at him: "Maybe it was the cool breeze blowing last night, let's go."

A bird song came from nowhere, and the two followed the sound, and saw a group of egrets slanting across the setting sun, drawing a long trail.

This scene was unparalleled for a while.

After a while, Mu Yuanyong sneered.

"It's a good sign."

-

On Taihang Mountain, there is only a thatched cottage.

The people in the house were also wearing ordinary linen clothes, and were chopping the firewood piled up in the yard with an axe.

He cut it for half a ten-day period, and the firewood behind him was piled up half a person's height.

Forget about myself for a moment, he stopped chopping and chopping suddenly, stood still and sighed: "The secluded green hills are winding and rugged... What happened to this woman who came out of here... Scary to death."

The little boy next to him laughed and said, "Master Ku is writing this sour poem again."

"I don't understand, master Ku, tell me, what's winding and rugged."

"You children, what do you know?" the man spat at the little boy.

He threw the axe: "Go, go, go back to your parents' place at the foot of the mountain, what's the matter with coming to me all the time."

"My parents said it." One of the little boys spoke eloquently: "If Master Ku is willing to accept me today, they will immediately take me to the town to eat the banquet of delicacies from mountains and seas."

"Wow—" the girl with pigtails on the other side exclaimed enviously: "But that Baquan delicacies from mountains and seas feast is full of rare treasures from all directions."

"That's not."

"Then don't look for Master Ku, he has never eaten anything like that in his life, why not find me."

"What's the use of looking for you?"

"You don't know." The girl opened her eyes: "Master Ku has already accepted me as an apprentice, all in one..."

The man known as the bitter master stretched out his hand and grabbed the girl by the collar: "You're kidding."

The girl smiled resentfully: "Hey, Master."

"Did I recognize you?"

"This worship of Master requires your recognition, but I haven't worshiped yet?"

"You didn't worship, why do you call me Master?"

"I didn't worship, but I accepted you as my master. Hey, I can call naturally."

"Oh, that's strange. I only heard people say about accepting apprentices, but I've never heard of anyone accepting masters." Master Ku put down the girl: "You are really bold."

"If you don't mind, I can actually..." The girl bit her lip and smiled shyly.

"What's the matter, you still want to be my master?" Master Ku's eyes widened.

"...Actually, if you don't mind." The girl blushed, and her big eyes sparkled.

"Can I not mind?" Master Ku laughed.

He stretched out his hand and rubbed the girl's hair: "Okay, it's getting late, let's go home."

He then stretched his waist, muttering: "That woman did the same thing back then... she was very courageous."

"Tsk, I haven't seen you in decades, the sky is about to be pierced by her."

Just as he was sighing, the girl jumped out from nowhere.

"Master! You haven't asked your apprentice's name yet?"

He snorted, "What's your name?"

"Baby spirit! Master, don't forget!"

-

The inn has been deserted for a few days, and the shopkeeper is sitting in front of the door, holding an abacus over and over again.

The waiter next to him said, "Don't count it, you won't get much out of it any more."

The shopkeeper waved: "Go, go. Are you free to do?"

Xiao Er flicked his sleeves: "I don't have any customers, what should I do?"

"Has the floor been swept? Has the table been wiped? And... and..." He pointed at his abacus sharply, and stuffed his hand into the slit: "Look, it's all dust."

Xiao Er let out a "huh" and reached out to grab the shopkeeper's abacus.

The shopkeeper: "What are you doing? Grabbing things, rebellion?"

Xiao Er took the rag from his shoulder and wiped it along the abacus, and then returned it to the shopkeeper: "You hold the abacus all day like a baby, why didn't you see you wipe it?"

Shopkeeper: "..."

He sighed: "Little Li, back then you..."

"I was about to starve to death back then, but thanks to your kindness, you gave me a bite of food." Xiao Er, who was called Xiao Li, snorted, "Have you said enough?"

Shopkeeper: "..."

Seeing that the situation was not going well, the waiter got short, avoided the shopkeeper's calculations, and then jumped behind the table with a brisk stride: "You beat me to death, you beat me to death, can you still find the waiter?"

At this moment, a group of people were neatly dressed, and at the head was a girl dressed in men's clothing. She had bright eyes and sharp teeth, but there seemed to be a cold light in her eyes. She looked over and the shopkeeper, who was still jumping in a hurry, didn't dare to move for a moment.

"Is there a shopkeeper?" Xiangcha said.

"Ah." The shopkeeper hurriedly hid the abacus behind his back, and squeezed out a smile: "Here, this is the shopkeeper. Miss... no, how many guests are there?"

"How many?" Xiangcha paused, then looked behind her.

The shopkeeper followed her gaze, and saw two youthful-looking teenagers, one of whom glanced at him with a half-smile.

"Shopkeeper, we have a lot of people, I'm afraid you don't have enough rooms..."

Hearing this, the shopkeeper immediately blushed: "Enough! Enough! How can it not be enough, 100 people can live!"

The little boy next to him let out a "hum".

The shopkeeper threw the knife over in an instant.

Xiangcha: "Is this Xiao Er?"

The shopkeeper clicked his tongue, and then changed into a smiling face: "My distant cousin, his head is not clear, guest officer, don't know him."

Then he sternly said, "What are you still standing there for? Come here and entertain the guests! Do you want me to remind you of this little thing?"

The little girl walked forward wearily: "Guest officer, do you want to follow me to see the house?"

Xiangcha sized him up, then exchanged glances with Mu Yuanyong and Kong Ji.

Several people remained calm, and finally Xiangcha said: "Let's have a look."

The shopkeeper winked at Xiao Er, but this Xiao Er just acted ignorant.

After walking upstairs, Xiangcha asked curiously: "I heard you arguing with the shopkeeper outside the door. Is it because business is not good recently?"

"Business is good, how could it be bad." The little girl said with a sneer: "This place is close to the capital, and it is a lively place. Most of the scholars rushing to take the exam, businessmen who come to Beijing to do business, and local officials who go to the capital will all come to us. Come to the inn."

"Can……"

"But something happened recently. It's really evil. There are no birds at the door of Nuo Da's inn. There used to be a dozen guys like me here, but now they're all gone, and I'm the only one who can't leave."

The waiter glanced left and right, as if to see if the shopkeeper was eavesdropping behind him.

"Guest officer, I kindly advise you to go ten miles further to Shiquan Town, and you can rest in the town."

Xiangcha thought it was funny: "Your shopkeeper is worried about business, and finally you have a visitor, why are you still rushing out?"

"Sigh." Xiao Er sighed: "I'm also kind, listen to what I say, if you really don't feel scared, then I will follow you."

"You talk about it."

Xiao Er glanced at them, quite a bit like a group of people looking for death.

"Not long ago, there was a death in our inn."

"It was late at night, the guys were all asleep, and the shopkeeper had to get up in the middle of the night to settle accounts. He was greedy, and asked me to cook him a bowl of meat soup at night.

At that time, I just brought the meat soup to the shopkeeper, and I looked out the window.

We can see the guest rooms from the window of the place where we live, which is also intentionally made this way for convenience.

In this way, we can know whether the guests are asleep or not. Usually, we can sleep after the lights of the guests are turned off.

Take a look at that night..."

Xiao Er was leaning on the window, and the shopkeeper at the side just took a bite of the meat soup, seeing him looking outside, he said impatiently: "What are you looking at?"

Xiao Er wondered: "Strange, didn't the lights go out before we went to bed?"

"Yes." The shopkeeper put down the meat soup: "You can see it when you look up. Could it be that you still misread it?"

He felt something was wrong, so he got up from the chair and walked over, looked up: "Hey! It's strange, what are you doing without sleeping in the middle of the night?"

Xiao Er scratched his head: "How do I know?"

"Should I go up and ask, maybe I'm hungry?"

Xiaoer took a look at the shopkeeper, and felt that what he said was quite reasonable. Doesn't the person in front of him get hungry at night?

He hesitated: "How about I go up..."

The shopkeeper said again: "Wait, let me see which room the light is on...bring me my book to make sure."

Xiao Er went to fetch it for him again.

The two were right for a long time.

The shopkeeper: "It's weird, I didn't register this room during the day, could it be that I missed it?"

Xiaoer: "Impossible, I wasn't busy yesterday, there were only a dozen or so people, and it wasn't the first day, so could it still be missed?"

The shopkeeper hummed: "It makes sense."

Then the two looked at each other.

Xiao Er's voice was a little tense: "Could it be that we have thieves here?"

The shopkeeper was a little puzzled: "What are the thieves doing in the guest's room instead of visiting the cashier's room?"

"Anyway, it's not a good thing." Xiao Er was somewhat repelled and went up to watch: "I won't go alone."

The shopkeeper also felt something was wrong.

He put down the account book in his hand: "Call someone."

-

"At that time we woke up all the fellas who had fallen asleep..." The little boy told the story vividly and vividly, making people feel like they were on the scene.

Xiangcha couldn't help asking, "What's wrong?"

Xiao Er said, "We went up. The room was still lit. I knocked on the door, but no one answered. Then several people came up together and knocked the door open..."

"Xiao Li!!" A scream interrupted Xiao Er's narration: "I asked you to show the house to the guests, what are you talking about?"

I saw the shopkeeper rushing over from behind cursing, knocking Xiaoer aside: "I'm afraid you don't want to do it anymore."

Xiao Er closed his mouth and didn't make a sound.

Then the shopkeeper turned around again, with a playful smile: "Guest officer, don't listen to his nonsense, he has gone crazy and spread rumors to me all day long."