"The old and old disabled person knows that he spends money outside all day long and does not touch his family at all! He is shameless and eats and lives for nothing, how can he live for nothing!" The woman's loud voice was unbearable, while shaking the sweat beads on her arms.

The man squatted on the threshold of his own house, smoking inferior cigarettes. Although in the fourth year of Chongzhen, His Majesty the Emperor explicitly ordered a ban on smoking, everyone felt that the emperor was in charge of heaven and earth, and he could not even care about the trivial matter of farting when eating. Beijing is so big, can smoking a few mouthfuls of cigarettes still smoke into the palace?

Besides, this tobacco is so good! With a sip, the boredom in my heart will scatter like the blue smoke.

"I have never seen a cowardly man like you! I can't make a lot of money even if I see the old man with no eggs. I don't even dare to fart when I see the old man without eggs! The house is about to lose his money, and I know that the copper plates that are dozens of times larger every day can be taken out, and I can't handle it! Even if there are mountains of gold and silver at home, I can't help but take it like this! I'll let you sell your wife and children another day! You're a coward! You're going to live with the old man without eggs!"

The woman scolded her louder and louder. She picked up the bucket from the kitchen and poured half of the bucket into the copper basin, which spilled more than half of it.

"Get water! You lazy donkey is useless!" The woman threw the bucket on the ground angrily.

The man sucked two heavy puffs of cigarettes, inserted the cigarette pole into the hole in front of the threshold, patted his butt and walked in. He picked up the wooden barrel on the ground in a quiet voice, first checked if there was any broken place, and then whispered: "I used to treat my mother and get burial to her, and everyone paid for it."

"Bad!" the woman roared: "It's all this! He gave you a few dollars while he was spending so much money at that time? The dogs he raised had to eat several taels of silver! You mother and son were not even as good as other people's dogs! They even thought he was a kind person to offer, so I'm a good person! Bah!" The woman was puzzled and spat out a heavy mouthful of thick phlegm and fell on the man.

The man glared at the woman and happened to face each other.

In an instant, the winner was decided.

"Why don't you go!" the woman cursed loudly.

The man hunched his neck and walked towards the public well with a bucket.

After walking a few steps out of the door, the man's legs suddenly felt like they were filled with lead and could not move.

Under the shadow of the neighborhood archway, a thin old man curled up, looking at the man expressionlessly.

"Uncle..." The man felt his throat was sore, it must be because of the anger of smoking just now.

The thin old man pulled his mouth and forced a smile: "Uncle has made you embarrassed."

"Uncle, you say this." The man wanted to say something tough, but he knew that this cousin must have heard the abuse of his wife. From his heart, the family was not well-off, and it was already very hard to eat more. But this man also had a hobby of bathhouses. He had to go there every few days, and he went there all day, and he had to spend more than a dozen children a day, which made the porridge at home really thin.

But when his family was at its worst, this cousin gave him ten taels of silver so that he could treat my mother to doctor Qiao. When he left, he also gave me a good coffin board and a shroud that cured his body. If this kindness is not repaid, is that still a personal one?

"Woman is ignorant, don't be surprised." The man squirmed his lips, feeling guilty. The uncle's dogs were eating better than him, and the woman did not make up for it. However, he always thought that no matter how rich people were, they shouldn't be with you. Even if a grain of rice was leaked from his fingers, it was a kindness.

The old man who was thin and adult nodded: "Today, I met an acquaintance in the former palace in the bathhouse. I heard that the prince has left the palace. I have asked him to help me with an errand."

"Tell someone..." The man's Adam's apple rolled away, "How much money do you have?"

"As long as you can get in, I will definitely be able to stand out!" The thin old man said confidently: "Now there are not many old people in the palace who understand the allusions than your uncle, and there will be no talented people on the prince's side."

"Uncle said," the man felt his tongue tied up and asked again: "How much money do you have?"

"Not much," the old man said confidently, "It's only fifty taels."

"Fifty taels!" the man shouted in disbelief.

"It's okay if the family doesn't match it for the time being," said the old man. "Everyone is together. When I go back to the palace, I can give them a hundred times more."

The man tightened the wooden barrel in his hand and thought to himself: What is this place? Even if the neighbors are encouraged to sell the house, they may not be able to get a total of fifty taels!

"It's not going to be done right away," said the old man, "It's okay to give you ten taels and twenty taels to show your sincerity first."

The man lowered his head, his eyes fell on the bluestone, and said, "I'll go back and ask."

"Yes." The old man responded long: "Now the Eastern Palace is stable. As long as you can survive until the prince reaches the top, you will definitely be able to follow the dragon. Think about it, your uncle was just a eunuch in the past, and he earned such a big family business. If it is in the future..." The thin old man said halfway and bit the following half of the sentence in his mouth.

He saw a middle-aged man wearing silk and white face and beardless running towards here. From the man's running posture, the old man recognized the man as a castrator at a glance.

The middle-aged eunuch quickly walked through the gate and soon saw the old man and his cousin. His eyes quickly fell on the old man, sweeping over and over the old man's eyes, eyebrows, nose, and mouth... Finally, he shouted in a trembling voice: "Eunuch Liu?"

The old man looked at the middle-aged eunuch whom he didn't know with calmness.

"Eunuch Liu? You can't recognize me anymore? I am Wang Ping under the name of Eunuch Cao!" the eunuch shouted.

The Eunuch Liu finally said "Oh" and bowed to his hands: "Forgive me for forgiveness. I am old and have a bad memory." He asked again: "Eunuch Wang is here..."

"I came to find you, Eunuch Liu." Wang Ping did not give in and smiled, "Eunuch Liu is so lucky, I really want to congratulate you."

"Eunuch Wang was joking," said Liu Laogong, "After the old slave came out of prison, he had no luck, and no blessing."

"It is the difficulty in front of you that you are even more blessed." Wang Ping smiled and said, "I am here to find you, Eunuch Liu, who is back." He paused and said, "I heard that the Eastern Palace met your "Zhuo Zhongzhi" and asked you to go there."

This Eunuch Liu was Liu Ruoyu whom Zhu Cilang sent Tian Cunshan to find.

After personally experiencing the inner palace of Wanli, Longqing, Tianqi and Chongzhen, the old eunuch's nerves had already made the old eunuch's nerves as if cast by copper and iron. He did not immediately smile, but instead made a embarrassed look and said, "Since I saw the light of day again, I have completely faded about fame and fortune. Now, although I am living with my nephew, I have become more miserable, but I have had some leisure time."

Wang Ping's smile remained unabated, and he cursed in his heart: You old guy play hard with me? If you are so willing to be sad, why are you running into the bathhouse every day?

There are two ways for ordinary eunuchs to take a bath. One is to make hot water in the palace and clean it in the palace. The other is to go to temples of all sizes in the capital. There are moist soups in those temples, and there are Wuming Bai bathing people. Just like the theme bars in later generations, those who go to that place are all eunuchs. If you take off your clothes, everyone will be the same and will not be embarrassed.

Liu Ruoyu went to the temple to take a bath all day, not just to be clean and seek enjoyment, but to be able to meet one or two old people in the palace and find a way to return to the center of power. To put it bluntly, he is no different from those Wuming Bai who scrubs and seeks rewards for others.
Chapter completed!