Ming Dynasty 1566

Chapter 33

"Yes. The master told you all to come over." The steward hurriedly greeted the four geisha who were still standing there in a daze.

The four geishas walked timidly behind Shen Yishi, held their breath and stopped.

Shen Yishi still didn't look back: "I read a few lines of a poem by an ancient man in vernacular, and whoever can answer which line in which ancient man's poem it is, I will redeem her life."

The four geisha were startled again, they glanced at each other, their eyes lit up, and then they became nervous, all looking at Shen Yishi's back.

Shen Yishi stood at the bow of the boat, his voice became clear, and he began to chant loudly:

Floating over the head of the summer water and heading west,

Looking back, I can't see the gate wall of the old capital.

It's hard for the Huaiyi people to express the sadness of my heart,

I don't know where the road is long.

Take the wind and waves to send me between the rivers and rivers,

The water is boundless, the world is first-class Shang!

The chanting sound was quickly blown away by the river wind, leaving only the sound of the wind and the waves at the bottom of the bow.

The four geishas looked at each other, two of them were dazed, and two of them were really thinking.

"Anyone who knows, hurry up and answer the master." The manager was in a hurry and urged.

"I know. These are Qu Yuan's poems!" The leading geisha exclaimed excitedly.

"Which poem by Qu Yuan?" Shen Yishi turned around abruptly, looking at the geisha with twinkling eyes.

The geisha hesitated and replied, "Is it "Li Sao?"

Shen Yishi's eyes darkened again, and he shook his head: "It's a pity, you've never been good in this life. It's hard for you to guess that it's Qu Yuan's poem, give her 100 taels of silver." With her sleeves fluttering, she looked at the full moon over the distant mountains.

The moon set on the courtyard wall of the backyard of Hangzhou Jiangnan Weaving Bureau, and the sky suddenly brightened.

Four eunuchs, the same four eunuchs who forced Gao Hanwen to write in the piano room, walked in a line from outside the second courtyard.The fat eunuch walked in front with a red gold washbasin filled with hot water.A eunuch walked behind him carrying a silver footbasin that also held hot water.The other two eunuchs followed with one holding an absorbent silk linen face towel and the other holding a Songjiang fine cotton footkerchief.

After looking carefully, I found that the hand holding the washbasin was shaking slightly, and the water was rippling around in the washbasin; the hand holding the footbasin was also shaking slightly, and the water in the footbasin was also rippling around; The hands holding the face towel and footkerchief were also shaking.The four eunuchs looked like they were scared to death.

When they finally reached the door, the four eunuchs looked at the eunuch at the door pitifully with eight eyes, the kind of eyes that wanted to beg for news from his face.

The eunuch at the door was the eunuch who was accompanying Yang Jinshui. He was still covered in dust and dust, and there was no news on his face to tell them. He just shook his head slightly, and then gently pushed the door open.

The four eunuchs were even more uncertain, they all stood outside the door in a daze, not daring to go in.

The eunuch at the door was a little anxious, he stared and shook his jaw.

The four eunuchs had no choice but to walk in trembling.

Sitting on the chair in the middle of the bedroom, Yang Jinshui's face was covered with travel dust, obviously he had just returned, so his body was still covered with dusty luggage, his eyes were rolled up, looking up, his face was as cold as iron.

The four eunuchs stood in a row, struggling to control the disobedient hands and feet.But the hands were still shaking, and the feet were still shaking.

"Who knows that I'm back?" Yang Jinshui looked at the accompanying eunuch at the door and asked coldly.

The four eunuchs trembled.

The accompanying eunuch at the door hurried in: "Godfather, we came in through the back door, and there are only two or three people who know about it."

Yang Jinshui: "Say hello, anyone who reveals that I have returned from Beijing will be killed immediately."

The accompanying eunuch: "Yes!" He replied and walked out quickly.

After some explanation, Yang Jinshui turned his eyes upward again.

The four eunuchs shook again.

"It's so hot." Yang Jinshui suddenly said softly.

Immediately, the four eunuchs seemed to have heard Guanyin Bodhisattva's words, and immediately rushed over, putting the washbasin on the washbasin, and putting the footbasin on the footbasin, rushing to get his hat and take off his shoes.

The thin eunuch held up the two corners of the face towel and waved it in the basin, twisted it lightly, and handed it to the fat eunuch. The fat eunuch took the face towel and shook it, spread it in his palm, and went to wipe Yang Jinshui's forehead.

"Dirty." Yang Jinshui burst out another word.

The fat eunuch's hands immediately froze there.

The eunuch under his feet, who was about to hold Yang Jinshui's feet and put them in the footbath, also froze there.

As soon as the four pairs of eyes met, they immediately began to speculate sharply, and soon understood.

The fat eunuch slowly put the face towel back into the washbasin, and was the first to take out the silver ticket from his pocket.

The other three eunuchs took out their respective bank notes from their pockets.

The four knelt down side by side.

Fat eunuch: "Good dogs don't eat outside. The bank notes given by Boss Shen are just for proof, and they are waiting for their godfather to come back."

"Eating out is poisonous." Yang Jinshui's eyes turned to them at this moment, scanning the past from the first bank note: "It's really rich. One reward is 4000 taels."

The four eunuchs immediately followed the wind and expressed their opinions:
"Don't you have some bad money? Just want to buy us?"

"I don't even think about who made his money."

"Annoyed godfather, kicked him..."

"Eat." Yang Jinshui became impatient.

The four eunuchs stopped talking and looked at each other.

The youngest eunuch was the first to realize this sentence: "God, godfather rewarded us with money..."

After hearing it clearly, the three eunuchs immediately stuffed the bank notes in their respective hands into their mouths and started chewing, and the little eunuch also quickly stuffed the bank notes into his mouth and started chewing.

The banknotes of the Ming Dynasty were printed on paper mixed with hemp. The paper was tough and easy to circulate. It was already very difficult to chew, but it was even more uncomfortable to swallow.The four eunuchs swallowed one by one until their eyeballs bulged out.

"Clean?" Yang Jinshui asked.

"It's clean..." The four of them had to scramble to answer with the silver paper still in their throats. Needless to say, they were uncomfortable, and they couldn't answer fluently.

"Is it really clean?" Yang Jinshui stared at it and asked again.

The four eunuchs were stunned again, not daring to look at each other, each rolling their eyes to figure it out.

This time the fat eunuch was the first to realize: "If you go back to your godfather, as long as it's still in the stomach, it's not clean."

The short eunuch answered immediately: "Pull, pull it out to be clean..."

"Finally understand." Yang Jinshui calmed down, "Ask a few people to help you. It's easy to come out with a spanking on the butt."

"Godfather, spare me!" the four eunuchs howled.

"Howling!" Yang Jinshui was furious.

The four of them stopped talking immediately.

Yang Jinshui: "Has Gao Hanwen touched Yunniang?"

"My God!" The fat eunuch answered immediately, "I haven't even touched my hands."

Yang Jinshui's face became brighter: "Who came up with this idea?"

Fat eunuch: "If you go back to your godfather, Boss Shen should discuss it with Mr. Zheng and Mr. He."

Yang Jinshui: "Whose idea is it to hang the lanterns of the Weaving Bureau on the grain ship to buy fields?"

The four eunuchs were stunned for a moment.

Yang Jinshui: "Say!"

It was still the fat eunuch: "The sons really don't know who came up with the idea. But Master Zheng and Master He were present when the lanterns were hung on the grain boat."

The skinny eunuch: "When Boss Shen goes out, the lantern from the Weaving Bureau is also held in front of the sedan chair."

Yang Jinshui's face turned blue, and he rolled his eyes again: "Okay, okay... Dirty water started to splash on the emperor's face...Okay, okay."

The faces of the four eunuchs froze with fright.

The accompanying eunuch came back after saying hello outside: "Godfather, everyone said hello."

Yang Jinshui: "These four people took them to the yard, and each of them will give you twenty pieces."

The four of them seemed to have regained their composure, but they hadn't recovered completely. They knelt there in a daze, looking at Yang Jinshui.

The accompanying eunuch: "That's enough of a grace. Don't you want to thank me?"

Only then did the four of them regain their senses and kowtow together: "Thank godfather! Thank godfather!"

The accompanying eunuchs begged Yang Jinshui again: "Godfather, we can't mobilize people now, so let them fight the mandarin ducks?"

Yang Jinshui: "These slaves are too cheap."

This is the agreement, and the accompanying eunuchs immediately turned to the four eunuchs: "It's God's favor, let's beat the mandarin ducks, don't you hurry up?"

"Thank godfather! Thank you senior brother." The four kowtowed again, then got up, and retreated like an amnesty.

The accompanying eunuch wrung out a face towel from the red gold washbasin, walked up to Yang Jinshui, wiped his face gently, and said in a low voice, "I just heard that Zheng Michang and He Maocai settled Gao Hanwen, and now they are The magistrate of Chun’an County recommended by King Yu went to kill the victims. While killing people, he bought fields under the brand of the Weaving Bureau.”

Yang Jinshui opened his eyes, and said to the accompanying eunuch, "It can't be delayed. You go immediately, take the survey from the Ministry of War, and use the official letter from the Weaving Bureau to inform the post station to send it directly to the palace at eight hundred miles. I have a letter for the old man. Ancestor."

The accompanying eunuch: "I know."

——The bamboo strips hit the buttocks very loudly, but the person who was beaten did not make a cry——Two wide spring stools were placed in the courtyard, one on the left and the other on the right. On the left stool was a fat eunuch, and on the right There was a tall eunuch lying on the stool, both of them had a stick in their mouths, and their trousers were pulled down to their ankles, revealing two white buttocks.

The little eunuch patted the fat eunuch's buttocks on the left side with the bamboo strip.

The short eunuch patted the tall eunuch's buttocks on the right side with the bamboo strip.

Because they took turns beating each other, the fat eunuch and the tall eunuch had already beaten the little eunuch and the short eunuch first, so the little eunuch and the short eunuch were already enduring the pain and supporting themselves, with one hand supporting their waist and one hand. If you hit someone else with your hand, the strength of your hand will naturally not be strong.

The eunuchs of the Ming Dynasty were all over the world, but the rules were all set by the palace. There were nine types of beatings, eight styles and 72 methods. The most important thing was the ridge of the court stick.The lightest thing is to slap the buttocks with bamboo strips, just like a parent beating a child, it makes you feel the pain.The so-called shooting is relative to pumping.One piece goes down and drags back to pump, one piece goes down and lifts up in time.If it was smoking, the buttocks would be swollen and black in less than half an hour, and I would have to lie on my stomach for half a month and couldn't get out of bed.If it is taken, after half an hour, the buttocks are swollen but not bruised, at most a little blue and red, and they can walk normally after three days. 72 The most merciless beating is the "mandarin duck board".Because you hit me, I hit you again, mandarin beats ducks, ducks beats mandarin ducks, if you are merciful to each other, you will use your tactics with pity, the thunder is loud, but the rain is light, so the eunuch in the palace came up with such an elegant name.This is why the four eunuchs were blamed and thanked for their kindness this time.

If you play slowly, with long intervals in between, the pain will be less.The bamboo strips were still being clapped up and down, and Yun Niang walked slowly through the gate of the outer courtyard.In the four years in the Weaving Bureau, Yunniang was also used to Yang Jinshui beating people, but it was the first time for her to let her watch the eunuch spanking with her own eyes.Yun Niang knew that the thunderstorm would come eventually, so she was very calm, and she walked slowly towards the bedroom door without looking around.

Yang Jinshui was still sitting on the chair, but his feet were already soaked in the foot basin, and he laughed when he saw Yunniang coming in.

Yun Niang stood there and responded with a calm smile.On the contrary, Yang Jinshui was a little surprised, so his smile stopped and he looked at her.

Only then did Yunniang slowly squat down and wash his feet.

"No price." Yang Jinshui stepped on the footbasin like a pillar, "The hand that plays the piano, Jin Gui, don't make it rough."

Yun Niang stood up again, and sat down beside him in a daze.

Yang Jinshui looked at her, and rubbed his feet alternately: "Shen Yishi, Gao Hanwen. You are rich, talented, and elegant. You don't lose my face with them."

Yun Niang stared at the ground and sat in a daze.

Yang Jinshui raised his wet feet and stepped on the edge of the basin: "Like my two feet, it's okay to step on the basin firmly. But if you step on two boats, it will be unstable and you will fall off. Tell me the truth, these two people, who do you want to be with?"

Yun Niang slowly raised her eyes and looked at Yang Jinshui.

There was kindness in Yang Jinshui's eyes: "You and I are fake. Besides, I have been in Hangzhou for a year at most, and I can't bring you to the palace. I should give you a name after serving me all these years." Divided. Just be my daughter."

Yunniang was slightly shocked.

Yang Jinshui: "Come on, wipe your godfather's feet."

Yun Niang stood up again, walked over, took the footkerchief, and wiped Yang Jinshui's feet.

Yang Jinshui: "You haven't answered my question. Which one is better, Shen Yishi or Gao Hanwen?"

Yunniang's hand stopped there again, and so did the person.

Yang Jinshui looked down, only to see a drop of water splashed on the surface of the foot basin, and another drop of water splashed.

It turned out that tears were dripping from Yunniang's cheeks.

"Are you reluctant to part with both?" Yang Jinshui's face became gloomy.

Yun Niang still stood there in a daze.

"Then I'll pick it for you." Yang Jinshui stepped into the water again with his dry feet and stood up, "There is no end for Shen Yishi!"

As soon as the feet were exerted, the water in the basin would flow out.

(End of this chapter)