Father-in-law is hanging up

Chapter 6: The Palace Banquet

The clouds in the sky turned from white to orange, and then from orange to red. The rare warm wind in early spring blew on his body, and there was a dreamy glow in front of his eyes, but Ge Wanxiao felt a little chilly in his heart.

The little dumb girl who was still alive last night had turned into a cold corpse and was hidden in the abandoned latrine.

His gray face, his bloodshot eyes staring at the sky, his mouth opened like a dried-out fish, his hands firmly holding his thighs, instead of lifting them up like ordinary people who were strangled to death, he dared not touch them until he died. The assailant.

Ge Wanxiao's tone was calm: "Thank you, Eunuch Chen."

"You're welcome." Xiao Luzi, Fatty Chen's apprentice who brought him to collect the body, looked at Su Yingge's body and said, "It's a blessing for this girl to meet you, and she almost threw it in the stove and burned it."

"The emperor did it himself?"

"That's right, the emperor didn't go to bed until midnight last night, and he was called up just after he lay down, making him very angry." Xiao Luzi said.

Ge Hunxiao only felt irony, and sneered: "Wasn't Wang Ji Wanggong the one who called him up, didn't he get slapped?"

"This..." Xiaoluzi hesitated, squeezed his sleeves, and said in a low voice, "The prince is not favored, and he replied outside the house without seeing the emperor."

The eunuch's eyes narrowed slightly: "Is this dumb man blessed to enter the emperor's bedroom?"

"It went in, and it was carried out after half an hour."

"What did you ask?"

Little Luzi wondered: "Elder-in-law, you know the rules, there are some things that you can't spread outside."

"Forget it then." Ge Hunxiao looked at the little mute's dead body, and sighed, "I will be sent out of the palace for burial, and the money will be paid from the Fushou Palace account."

"Don't dare to trouble you to spend money, I will take care of the small storage for you." Xiao Luzi responded with a smile.

They are all slaves, the dead are dead, and the living must live.

Ge Wanxiao waited for Zhang Huan to fall asleep before taking the risk to take a look—for fear that Su Yingge would not die.

After all, those things in Su Yingge's body really exist, the little mute has no one to teach, it's just a normal thing, but the person who caught her may not tell her the difference between a eunuch and a man.

Ge Hunxiao is unwilling to have many hidden dangers in vain.

It doesn't matter if the emperor kills him, even Han Wei's mouth is blocked, and if a mere court lady takes the risk of sending her to be buried outside the palace, Xiao Hanzi has to be grateful to his master.

Ge Hunxiaomu had a face that was always pale and morbid, and walked over the small road in the imperial garden. The flowers that had been coated with a layer of golden light by the sun had faded from their gorgeous colors, and the slightly raised flower branches were still facing the setting sun. , but gave birth to the depression of "it's only near dusk".

Han Wei, who had just received the news and rushed over from Fushou Palace, stepped forward and said in a hoarse voice, "If Aunt Su is gone, she will be gone. Master, please pay attention to yourself."

After Ge Wanxiao left in the morning, he calmed down.Without Su Yingge, he would still be Han Wei, a well-known eunuch in the palace, but without his master Ge Wanxiao, he would be nothing.

The big eunuch turned his eyes to the camphor tree and stood behind a small yellow door, listening to the corner.He deliberately said coldly: "Su Yingge is dead."

Han Wei staggered: "So fast?"

"It's a good thing soon, it's good for her and us."

The muscles on Han Wei's face twitched, and he laughed like he was crying. He hurriedly lowered his head so that no one could see him, and said in a shy voice, "Master said so."

"Hey, life and death are determined by fate, wealth and honor, and it's the same sooner or later." The eunuch seemed to be unable to stand, and took the initiative to support his hand, sighing quietly, "I don't have many days to live, and the emperor still remembers it." , I have to find you a good job. You stay with me for a long time, and I’m afraid it won’t work with other eunuchs. I was thinking about releasing you from the palace. If they can convince the emperor, you have a good place to go."

Feeling the weight on his arm, Han Wei felt sore in his heart, and tremblingly said: "Master..."

"How many times have I said it, a man, don't act like a daughter." Ge Wanxiao covered her lips and coughed twice, and said with a wry smile, "I know you blame me for not being motivated, don't deny it, I am indeed not being motivated. But I don't want to, and I don't want to. I don't want my apprentice to live with his arms around his back like other slaves! Cough cough cough..."

Han Wei's eyes were already red, and he stared at him blankly.

"I have bought a lot of property outside the palace and raised a lot of children, but those little dolls are just a cover-up, and they are given to other people's weaknesses. If you really want to say that the children who grew up by my side, their surname is not Ge, but Han."

Ge Wanxiao's tone was always calm, but his words were extremely emotional, cold on the outside and hot on the inside, making them even more touching.

Back then, Han Wei was dark and ugly. He had just been sold into the palace by his parents. The country boy was in a daze before he woke up. He was assigned by the eunuch in charge to serve beside the equally hopeless Ge Wanxiao.He had never seen the world, and Ge Wanxiao was not a strict person. He thought that being a servant in the palace was the same as being a slave in a big family. Huangmen bullied him.

Han Wei felt that the eunuch he was with was incompetent, which caused him to be bullied, and secretly tried to change his course.Later, he found out that Xiao Huangmen, who bullied him, was full of injuries and had lost several pounds in a few days. He secretly asked someone to find out how many eunuchs like Ge Wanxiao, who never beat him or scolded him, and took care of three meals a day, were common.

Han Wei recalled that the eunuch taught him how to read and write, and he couldn't help it. He quickly covered his face with his sleeve, and said in a hoarse voice: "Stop talking, little Hanzi...Little Hanzi has nothing to repay... "

The palace has regulations on the appearance of eunuchs and maids, and he dare not let people see him cry.

Ge Wanxiao didn't climb up by himself, and he didn't give his subordinates the chance to climb up. Han Wei often resented him for this.But today, listening to the master's words, he actually raised himself as a serious son, so he didn't want to bow down to others all day long, and would rather stay by his side and not show his head.He couldn't bear this importance alone.

"Master..." Han Wei covered his face with his sleeves, panted for a while before recovering, and said with red eyes, "Hurry up and go back to Fengtian Palace, the emperor might get angry if he doesn't see you when he wakes up."

"Okay. I'm afraid people are watching Fushou Palace recently, so be careful."

Ge Hunxiao shook his arm heavily, his bony body was exceptionally tall and strong.

……

Fengtian Palace is brightly lit. From the bottom of the steps of the main hall to the front of the throne, there is a bronze candlestick with hundreds of beasts every ten steps, and a waiter in indigo brocade clothes stands under the candlestick. The clothes, hats and rings are all priceless, which is even more luxurious in the prosperous age.

Ge Hunxiao sneaked into the palace from behind the big pillar, and saw Zhang Huan wearing a vermilion tunic and a black silk dragon robe, leaning halfway on the throne, with his eyes narrowed, shaking a white porcelain wine bottle in his hand, looking at it boredly. With His Royal Highness singing and dancing.

His face is resolute and his outline is sharp. Such a half-drunk and half-awake posture has faded away from the violent and violent body. Against the black and golden palace, he really looks like a dragon and a phoenix, and looks like a king.

Not a while after Ge Wanxiao came in, a little eunuch came to salute, and said anxiously: "Eunuch, you are here, the emperor woke up and didn't see that you almost beat up Eunuch Chen."

"What excuse did Fatty Chen give me?"

The little eunuch wanted to help Fatty Chen sell well, but when he saw Ge Wanxiao's aloof and arrogant appearance, he couldn't help being a little embarrassed: "He said you had a cold occasionally, and the emperor didn't have an attack."

Nine times out of ten, he guessed what Ge Wanxiao was doing, so he didn't need to think about it.

"Why is there a banquet again?" I didn't give an order in the morning, and it will be ready in the evening. I don't know how many people are in a hurry due to the excitement of the hall.

"The emperor woke up feeling bored, so Eunuch Chen said, today is Wang Jieyu's birthday, and it happened to be lively and lively."

Ge Hunxiao followed the little eunuch's instructions, and sure enough, he saw a beauty in a blue shirt sitting in a different position from the other concubines.

The beauty has bright eyes and white teeth, and her complexion is as white as snow. At this time, the corners of her eyes and brows are full of joy, like a little peacock with its tail open, proudly looking down on all the beauty in the palace.

"It looks good." Ge Wanxiao asked, "What background?"

"The third prince's mother's family, Concubine Kang's cousin."

The third prince is nine years old this year, the son of Concubine Kang, it is said that he is intelligent and studious, and he is quite optimistic about the candidate for the crown prince.

Ge Hunxiao pondered: "The Wang family... what kind of background is this?"

The little eunuch looked at him in surprise, one of the ten eunuchs didn't even know about such important matters: "Eunuch, the Wang family is full of widows, and no one is an official."

The two were talking, when they suddenly heard a crisp sound, which overwhelmed the sound of strings and bamboos in the hall!

——Because it was the white porcelain wine bottle in Zhang Wang's hand that hit the ground!

The singing and dancing stopped, the dancers knelt on the ground and trembled, and the concubines and waiters also shut up, waiting for the emperor's order.

In the silence, the sound of the pipa was particularly piercing.

The musician was immersed in the music and realized something was wrong a moment later, he was extremely frightened, immediately dropped the pipa and lay on the ground, and said in a stacked voice: "The emperor spares my life, my majesty spares my life!"

The emperor's eyes full of violence have been opened, and he said casually, "You played well."

The musician's voice stopped abruptly, and there was a little joy in his eyes, could it be...

Zhang Wang saw it, and said with a sneer, "Chop off his hand and present it."

The guards in the hall quickly pressed the musician to the ground, stuffed his mouth with a cloth, pulled out his waist knife and chopped off his hand.A little eunuch had long been waiting with a tray, and the two bloody severed hands were placed on the bright yellow satin, and Fatty Chen carried them to Zhang Huang.

The whole process was as clean and neat as if it had been rehearsed countless times.

Scarlet blood spilled from the broken arm of the musician as he struggled, and fell on the dark floor tiles, like a tragic splash-ink painting, a powerless accusation against the tyrant on the throne.

Zhang Wang casually glanced at those hands that were not yet stiff, nodded, and Fatty Chen hurriedly handed the plate to Xiao Huangmen.

"Wait, put it on the table." Looking at the drink.

Fatty Chen trembled, and almost snatched the tray from Xiao Huangmen's hand, and tremblingly placed it on the table full of delicacies.

Just as he was about to retreat, he seemed to suddenly remember, and said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, Eunuch Ge is back."

In the main hall, there was only the sound of the unlucky musician being pinned to the ground and sobbing, and Fatty Chen's words could be heard clearly by Ge Wanxiao from a long distance away.He raised his eyebrows slightly, and sure enough, the next moment he heard Zhang Huang slapping the table: "Old sick ghost, get out!"

"Your Majesty." Ge Hunxiao came out from behind the pillar, walked to the throne with small steps, and bowed in salute.

Zhang Huang sat up, looked at him for a while, saw that he was still calm and calm, and his expression was slightly shaky: "Come here, pour wine for me."

Ge Wanxiao was also terrified by the severed hand on the table, so he didn't show any timidity when he hung up the phone.The brown-red rhinoceros horn cup filled with clear wine was held in a pair of big, well-articulated hands, without shaking or trembling at all, just like the owner of those hands, stable and reliable.

Zhang Huang secretly swallowed, took the wine glass and drank it down.

Ge Hunxiao was dazzled by his constantly fluctuating favorability, and couldn't figure out why this person had gone crazy.Fortunately, his body can move on his own when he hangs up the phone, so he just concentrates on studying the bird and animal patterns on the rhinoceros horn cup.

The emperor drank five cups in a row like this, Ge Wanxiao poured him five cups, and it was only after the sixth cup that there were some other sounds around him.

"Your Majesty, drinking too much will hurt your health."

Ge Hunxiao paused while toasting, and glanced out of the corner of his eye, it was Wang Jieyu, whose birthday was today.

Entering the palace for the first time, I don't know the rules.

Unexpectedly, when he was distracted, he covered the back of his hand with another hand, which was thick and piercing.

Zhang Wang seemed to be unintentional, and while holding the wine glass, he pressed four fingers on the back of Ge Wanxiao's hand, and with his hand, he drank the sixth glass: "I'm so old, talk about whether it hurts or not. , Disappointment!"

Ge Wanxiao could almost feel the hot breath he exhaled while drinking!

As soon as he noticed that Zhang Huang's palm was slightly loose, the eunuch quickly withdrew his hand. Looking at Zhang Huang again, he still looked carefree, irritable and decadent, as if he hadn't noticed the mistake just now.

This is not right.A normal person holds someone else's hand unintentionally, and should at least look at him in surprise, but Zhang Huang did it so naturally that he didn't even move his eyeballs, instead leaving marks.

Ge Hunxiao lowered his head, took a slow and deep breath, then lifted the flagon steadily, and continued to pour wine for Zhang Huang.

"What are you doing in a daze, drag this person out and continue dancing!"

The musician was taken down, and there was still a big pool of blood on the ground, and the dancers stood on the blood and danced.

The exquisite embroidered shoes were stained with blood, and dark red flowers were stepped on the ground.The musicians were so nervous that they lost their tune and were immediately replaced by the stewards. In the end, even the apprentices who hadn't been trained as teachers were hired. The newborn calves were so anxious that the emperor would cut off his hands again.The concubines, who were ready to compete for splendor, didn't dare to speak anymore, and sat on their seats with their shoulders hunched, listless.

Fortunately, after a pair of severed hands were adjusted, the emperor seemed to be in a better mood, and he just sat there drinking a glass of wine, and did not have another attack.

Maybe the banquet was just a cover, what he wanted was blood, the innocent blood shed because of his casual words.

Zhang Wang enjoys the throne he won through hard work, bears the fearful eyes of others, and likes to easily take away the most important things from others to prove his strength.

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