Deep Palace past events

The three of them disappeared after walking behind the boat.Yang Fan listened attentively to the movement at the stern, and sure enough, he heard a few people chatting and laughing immediately, and only heard Mrs. Tian laughing: "Brother, we arrived so late, we must have kept you waiting for a long time!"

Another man's voice said politely: "No, my sister and Boss Xiang and Boss Tang have worked hard!"

I only heard Tang Biao say: "Boss Hu, the longer you are fucking, the more plump you are! Could it be that you want to compare with Concubine Yang whose figure is more charming?"

Then I heard Xiang Di laughing and said: "Brother Tang, this is because you are ignorant - Boss Hu lives at the foot of the emperor, how can we country bumpkins compare with him? Boss Hu usually uses water to make tea from The footwashing water flowing from the ditch of the imperial palace is so nourishing, it’s no wonder it doesn’t grow plump!”

One sentence made everyone laugh.Boss Hu smiled awkwardly: "What kind of boss am I? It's just a watchdog raised here by Daojiazhuang! My sister and you two are the real backstage bosses."

It turns out that "Boss Hu"'s real name is Hu Yunzhi, and he was originally a vagrant. Because he was taken in by the old owner Dao Baiqing, he only had a bowl to eat.

Dao Baiqing originally only adopted him as a family boy, but seeing that he is smart and willing to work, he likes him very much, so he simply adopted him as a foster son, so he and Mrs. Tian are godbrothers and sisters.

Since Dao Baiqing started his business as an eunuch, he has deeply felt the difficulty of having no one in the capital—the palace recruits about 4 new eunuchs every time, but there are as many as [-] or [-] candidates who voluntarily purify themselves, that is, It is said that only one person out of every ten from the palace can be selected.If you don't bribe those powerful eunuchs, there is almost no hope of being elected to the palace.

But people in this business are not fools. Everyone is looking for ways to bribe, so gift giving is not easy.It is common to have money but not find a way out, or to spend money but not achieve the goal.

Therefore, Dao Baiqing decided to send a caring and capable person to stay in the capital to take care of all aspects of relations, such as making offerings to those powerful eunuchs during festivals, or inviting them to eat, drink and have fun.

In short, burning incense on a daily basis is more hopeful than holding Buddha's feet temporarily.

Obviously, this is a lucrative job, so many relatives wanted to be sent to take charge of this matter, but Dao Baiqing finally chose his adopted son Hu Yunzhi to stay in the capital.

However, the imperial palace does not select eunuchs every year, but only selects a new batch every few years. It is obviously too wasteful to send people to the capital just to make some connections.So Dao Baiqing spent money to ask Hu Yunzhi to learn the art of castrating eunuchs from an old knife maker who had quit his job.

Every year when eunuchs are selected in the palace, Hu Yunzhi is not only responsible for performing cleansing operations for the children recruited by Daojiazhuang, but also accepts other business of castrating eunuchs.In the year when the eunuch is not elected, he will stay in Beijing to do some other business.

Therefore, Hu Yunzhi is different from other knife makers. Other knife makers are the bosses regardless of the business of their workshops, but Hu Yunzhi is drunk and does not drink alcohol. The superficial boss of the cleansing workshop, but the real behind-the-scenes boss is Daojiazhuang.

After hearing Hu Yunzhi's words, Mrs. Tian coughed twice and said, "Okay, let's go upstairs and talk about business."

So several people left the stern and went upstairs.

After listening to these people's jokes, the children realized that Boss Hu was a purifier, and they were a little nervous.

After everyone sat in the dark for a while, Zhang Xiaomao suddenly said: "What are you afraid of? Anyway, this matter is destined, I think it is better to come early than to be late."

Wei Zhi said: "We're not afraid of being eunuchs, but we're a little afraid of the pain. I heard that that kind of surgery..."

Zhang Xiaomao spat: "You coward, don't talk nonsense here, scare yourself!" I don't know if it was to show off his boldness or to cover up his fear. He sang:

Rice cannot be cooked without firewood in the stove hole.

It is rare to wash clothes in the rain on a rainy day.

The talc board points the winding beans and the work is in vain,

There is a large group of red sweet potatoes planted in glutinous mud.

Young men grow beards and pretend to be old men,

Padfoot wearing flower shoes is really ugly.

This song "Big Truth" is a widely spread folk song of the Tujia people. Zhang Xiaomao is a Tujia native in the countryside of Guizhou, and his family is so poor that they cannot eat three meals of meat all year round.

The year before last, his father unfortunately died of illness, and his mother was unable to bear the heavy pressure of life alone, so she was forced to take Zhang Xiaomao and his two older brothers to remarry an old bachelor from a neighboring village.

The old bachelor was originally poor, and after having four more mouths in the family, the poverty became even poorer, so his temper became very bad, and he often beat his mother after drinking.So Zhang Xiaomao hated his stepfather very much.

At first, he reluctantly endured it, until one time after seeing his mother being beaten to the ground, Zhang Xiaomao felt that it was unbearable, so he took a hatchet and hacked his stepfather to the ground!Then fled home.

After wandering all the way to Hubei Province, he met a Zhuang Ding of Daojiazhuang. After hearing him talk about the benefits of being an eunuch, he agreed without thinking too much.

Gao Zhaohui asked, "What's the name of this song? It's interesting!"

"The name of the song is 'Big Truth', and everyone in our hometown can sing it." I don't know if it aroused nostalgia or other reasons, regardless of the fact that it was late at night, I searched out all the other folk songs I could sing and shouted loudly Sing it:

Look up the empty husks of millet,

Head buried in the millet,

Younger sister chooses a variety of full rice,

Not even superficial goods.

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If you want to eat seafood, you are not afraid of spicy food.

If you want to be in love, you are not afraid of killing,

The knife rests on the bosom,

Eyebrows do not frown and eyes do not blink.

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You matchmaker want to wear shoes,

The birds on the tree can be coaxed.

You matchmaker want to drink,

The monkeys on the mountain can be coaxed away.

A few baskets of rhetoric,

Don't worry about not having money.

The east eats and the west leaves,

It's like my slanderous dog.

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Wash your feet on New Year's Eve,

There are landings everywhere.

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Just as he was singing vigorously, he suddenly heard a Zhuang Ding shouting loudly outside the door: "Who is screaming? Are you too full? Shut up the crow's mouth, or you will be thrown into the river!"

Although Zhang Xiaomao was a child with a bit of a temper, he couldn't beat an adult after all, and he didn't dare to speak back, so he only spat heavily on the ground to express his dissatisfaction.