Smuggling Daming

Today is the tenth day of the Lunar New Year. After the New Year, the city of Beijing has once again returned to its former prosperity. However, compared to the prosperity of the streets, the Forbidden City, the political center of Ming Dynasty, seems much deserted. Especially last night, there was a heavy snowfall. The entire Forbidden City is covered with a layer of white, and it looks extremely holy from a distance. The concubines in the palace felt the cold outside, so they reduced their going out. Naturally, the maids and eunuchs were happy and leisurely, shrinking in the room one by one. , The huge Forbidden City immediately became much empty.

However, other people can rest in this kind of snowy day, but there is one kind of people who cannot rest, that is, the eunuchs of Zhidian Supervisor, they are responsible for cleaning the palace, so after the heavy wind and heavy snow, it is their busiest time.

Fengtian Hall, also known as the Hall of Supreme Harmony in later generations, is also commonly known as the Jinluan Hall by the people. It is located on the central axis of the entire imperial city and ranks first among the three major halls. The emperor of the Ming Dynasty will hold celebrations here when he enthrones, gets married or celebrates festivals. Activity.Folks believe that the emperor also holds court meetings in Fengtian Hall, but this is not the case. The venues of court meetings are Fengtianmen and Qianqingmen, which are called "Yumen Listening to Government". When encountering particularly urgent government affairs, the emperor may also be there. The palace summoned ministers, but definitely not in Fengtian Palace.

In other words, Fengtian Temple is actually a place for grand celebrations, and it is not used a few times throughout the year.However, because Fengtian Temple is too important, the cleaning here must not be sloppy. It needs to be cleaned almost every day. In addition, Fengtian Temple has a large area, and there are many buildings and decorations inside and outside. For the eunuchs.Being assigned to Fengtian Temple to clean is really hard work.

Today, the square in front of Fengtian Temple is also covered with thick snow. A team of more than a dozen eunuchs are piling the snow on the ground into snowdrifts, and then pulling the snow to the Taiye pool there.

"Zhang Rui, what are you dawdling about there? If you don't hurry up and work in the area assigned to you, you won't even think about eating at noon today!" A sharp voice suddenly sounded from among the working eunuchs, immediately Attracted everyone's attention.I saw that the talking eunuch looked to be in his 40s, and his long sharp-mouthed monkey cheeks looked like a big horse monkey, which was a coincidence.This eunuch's surname is really Hou, and his name is Hou San. He is the head eunuch who manages the cleaning of Fengtian Hall.

As the head eunuch, Hou San naturally didn't have to work. He only had to supervise the work of the other eunuchs. Now he was yelling at a young eunuch.Because of offending Zhou Zhong, this eunuch was suddenly demoted from the admiral of Dongchang to the supervisor of Zhidian cleaning Zhang Rui, but now Zhang Rui glared at Hou San, obviously very dissatisfied.

"Oh~, you still dare to stare at me, do you really think you are still the governor of the East Factory? Tell you. Now you are just a low-level cleaning eunuch, and you are here at the Sajia. Everything has to be obeyed by the Sajia!" Hou San Seeing that Zhang Rui dared to stare at him, he immediately scolded sharply again.

"Eunuch Hou, I dare not stare at you. It's just a dozen of us cleaning the square. Why is the cleaning area they are assigned to be so small, while the area I have to clean is more than three times that of others, such a big place. Don't It's noon, and I can't finish sweeping even at night!" Although Zhang Rui was furious.But under the eaves, he dared not really contradict Hou San no matter what, so he could only suppress his anger and reason with the other party in a low voice.

The snow-sweeping eunuchs each clean an area, and whoever finishes sweeping first can go to rest, and these areas are also divided by Hou San, and now Zhang Rui has to sweep three times the area of ​​others, it is obvious that Hou San is in trouble Him, that's why he was so angry.

Hearing Zhang Rui's reasoning with himself, Hou San snorted coldly and said, "Zhang Rui, how you work is up to you, but how to distribute it is up to the Sa family. , there is no need for others to teach you how to allocate work! It’s still the same sentence, you are not allowed to eat if you can’t finish your work at noon, don’t think that you are still the powerful governor of the East Factory!”

Eunuchs are not humane, and their psychology is more distorted than ordinary people, so the strife between eunuchs is also extremely serious, and it is common for high-level eunuchs to bully low-level eunuchs.Especially when Zhang Rui mentioned Zhang Yong's knowledge at a young age and became the admiral eunuch of the East Factory, this made most of the eunuchs in the palace very jealous, especially Hou San who was older than Zhang Rui After decades, he can only be a eunuch who cleans the heads of eunuchs in Zhidian Supervisor, and he is even more jealous of Zhang Rui in his heart. Now that Zhang Rui is in his hands, he will naturally find a way to punish him. It will give Hou San a greater sense of accomplishment.

Seeing Hou San's tough attitude, and repeatedly mentioning that he used to be the governor of the East Factory, Zhang Rui was even more furious, and he wanted to punch the opponent's hateful face.However, Zhang Rui didn't dare, because the eunuchs in the palace are strict in rank, and the following crimes are serious crimes, and they may even be executed privately. At that time, San will just make up a reason for his accidental death. If you turn a blind eye and close your eyes, no one will pity him at all.

Thinking of the serious consequences of hitting the boss, Zhang Rui had no choice but to let go of the clenched fist in his sleeve quietly, and at the same time lowered his head to admit his mistake: "Thank you for your father-in-law's teaching, I know I'm wrong, I'll go clean it now!"

Seeing Zhang Rui bowing his head to admit his mistake, Hou San sneered again, thinking that even if he is an ordinary governor of Dongchang, so what, isn't he going to bow his head to himself now?This gave him an unprecedented sense of satisfaction. In addition, he also wanted to see how Zhang Rui was starving because he couldn't finish his work. It must be very interesting!

However, Hou San, who was immersed in satisfaction, did not notice that the moment Zhang Rui turned around to work, a hideous expression flashed across his face, and the veins on both sides of his clenched teeth burst out, which looked like A wolf that chooses and devours.

Zhang Rui's heart is full of hatred now, he hates Hou San, Zhou Zhong, Gu Dayong, and even Zhang Yong who promoted him before but then abandoned him.Thinking that he used to be a dignified person, but because of some accidents, he entered the palace and became a eunuch. Later, he tried his best to curry favor with Zhang Yong, and finally got the seat of eunuch admiral of Dongchang, but only because he offended Zhou Zhong. Zhang Rui couldn't accept that he was knocked out of the dust all of a sudden, and fell into the current situation of being bullied by others, so he hated everyone now, and even if he had the chance, he would like to Kill everyone!

But no matter how much hatred Zhang Rui had in his heart, there was no way to help him complete today's snow-sweeping task in the end. By noon, others had swept away the snow, but only Zhang Rui's area was half-swept. As a result, he was scolded by Hou San again, and naturally there was no lunch.

When Zhang Rui swept until dusk, he finally cleared the snow in his area, but instead of being satisfied, Hou San scolded him for not doing other work in the afternoon, and finally asked someone else to do it for him , so he doesn't want to eat dinner tonight.

At night, Zhang Rui endured hunger and dragged his heavy body back to his residence.When he was the admiral eunuch of Dongchang, he not only had his own private house, but also had several junior eunuchs to serve him, but since he lost his position as governor, that kind of treatment has disappeared, and now he and a group of the lowest Handymen and eunuchs crowded together on a big bunk.

"Yo~, our admiral eunuch is back, how is it, are you hungry, do you want me to cook some dishes for you?" Zhang Rui just came in, and immediately heard a yin and yang voice saying, his tone was also full of sarcasm .

Without raising his head, Zhang Rui also knew that the eunuch named Liu Xi must be the one who spoke. This eunuch also worked as the Zhidian supervisor, but he was in charge of cleaning the leopard room where His Majesty lived, so it was easier to see His Majesty and some people in the palace. The chief eunuch, this also gave him more chances to stand out, so among the low-level eunuchs, his status was considered relatively high, at least in the house where he lived, except for him, all the eunuchs were headed by Liu Xi.

Regarding Liu Xi's sarcasm, Zhang Rui didn't bother to talk to him lazily at all. Besides, he had been working all day and hadn't eaten two meals. Walking to the bed where he lived, he fell on the bed and didn't want to get up.The bed that Zhang Rui lives in is closest to the door. Whenever the wind blows, the cold wind from outside squeezes in through the crack of the door, often waking him up from his sleep. It can be said that it is the worst bed in the whole house.

Seeing Zhang Rui ignoring him, Liu Xi not only didn't give up, but annoyed him, because in his opinion, Zhang Rui ignored him, in other words, he didn't bother to talk to him, which made Liu Xi feel uncomfortable. He was insulted, and he also had a hot temper, so he strode to Zhang Rui's bed and kicked Zhang Rui when he went up.

Seeing Liu Xi's attack, other people in the room not only did not stop, but started to applaud loudly.Zhang Rui also sat up angrily, but when he saw Liu Xi and other people in the room, he lay down silently again, and no matter how Liu Xi beat him, he would not fight back, because Zhang Rui He knew that if he dared to fight back, he might immediately let other people beat him together.

Seeing that Zhang Rui was motionless like a dead person, Liu Xi felt that it was meaningless after he hit him a few times. He spit at Zhang Rui, cursed and went back to his bed to rest, while the others went to sleep together. He scolded Zhang Rui for being a coward and a coward, and then moved to Liu Xi's side and started chatting about the interesting things that happened today.

When Zhang Rui's room was bustling, suddenly there was a sound of footsteps coming from outside the room, and then a little eunuch entered the room, looked at the people in the room, and then said: "Who is Zhang Rui?" Rui, come with our house!" (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations and monthly tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation.)