At the end of the Qing Dynasty, although the whole society had shown a trend of decay and decline, the apparent etiquette and shame still had to be talked about. Although this Sun Laohu has power in the village, and he covets Widow Su, he is limited to face, and he does not dare to blatantly rob women, so he can only take advantage of Widow Su in secret. Sun Laohu's occupation of Su's widow was annoyed after Su Chongyang broke it, he was a big man in the village that everyone feared, and he was slapped in the mouth by a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy in the Su family, and he really couldn't swallow this breath. Sun Laohu thought that since Su Yizu was dead, it was better to kill his son, first, to cut the grass and eradicate the roots, so as to avoid future troubles; The second is to achieve the goal of completely occupying the widow of Su.

After Sun Laohu had this idea, he pondered the idea of getting rid of Su Chongyang all day long, he suddenly remembered that when his son, who was in charge of the Qing army, came home, he had talked to himself about the eunuchs in the palace, and his son said that many of the eunuchs in the palace were from Hebei, and sending eunuchs to the palace was still a job that could make money, thinking of this, he couldn't help but laugh viciously.

One day, Su Chongyang wanted to go to the field to see the growth of the crops, and he told his mother to go to the field alone after going to the door. When Su Chongyang just walked out of the entrance of the village, a carriage came behind him, Su Chongyang didn't care, just walked forward. When the carriage passed by Su Chongyang, the groom who drove the carriage picked up a wooden stick and hit him on the back of the head, and Su Chongyang lost consciousness after being hit on the head and fell to the ground at once. Then the carriage stopped, and two men jumped out of the carriage and threw him into the carport, and the coachman waved his whip, and the horse pulling the carriage galloped wildly.

In the carriage, Su Chongyang was tied up with five flowers, with a cloth stuffed in his mouth and his eyes covered. He woke up struggling but couldn't move, and he couldn't remember anything about it because of the blow to his head. He didn't know what was going on, he was nervous and scared and worried about his mother, and he felt that the carriage had been going for a long time in a bumpy way, and had stopped in one place for a long time, and then he fell asleep in a daze.

The carriage came from Hebei to the capital, and the carriage came to an alley in front of the drum tower and stopped in front of a vermilion gate. The coachman jumped out of the car and walked to the door and knocked lightly. After a while, the door was opened, and the person who came out was Sun Laohu's son, he walked to the carriage and went to the carport to take a look, then pointed to the courtyard and said, "Quickly carry him in!" At this time, Su Chongyang had already woken up, and when he heard someone talking, he struggled desperately, and a strong man took Su Chongyang out of the car and carried it on his shoulders and walked into the courtyard.

Su Chongyang couldn't shout, he didn't want to see it, he didn't know if it was day or night, he only felt that he was tied to a bench, his pants were taken off, and the thing in his crotch was grabbed by someone, and then there was a heart-piercing pain, and he fainted immediately after the pain. When he woke up, the cloth in his mouth and the cloth on his eyes had been removed, and he found himself lying on a broken bed in a small room, and he looked at the base of his aching leg, and saw that his stall was covered by a blood-soaked cloth, and when he lifted it, he panicked, and the thing that had grown in his crotch was gone. He didn't know what was going on, so he began to cry. After a while, an elderly man walked in, and he said to Su Chongyang without smiling: "Boy, from now on you will be the father-in-law of the emperor's side, if you gain power in the future, don't forget a few of us!" He smeared some medicine on Su Chongyang's crotch and left.

Without much to say, not long after Su Chongyang was cleaned, he was sent to the palace as a eunuch.

Soon after Su Chongyang became a eunuch, the Qing Emperor Guangxu and the Empress Dowager Cixi died one after another, and the little emperor Xuantong succeeded to the throne. At this time, the Qing Dynasty was in decline, and the Qing Dynasty was also unstable and disorderly. This old eunuch followed by Su Chongyang is his fellow villager in Hebei, and all the people in this old eunuch's old family are gone, he recognizes Su Chongyang as his godson and takes great care of him. The old eunuch has been in the Qing palace for decades, and he is extremely shrewd and sleek, he once enlightened Su Chongyang and said: "The qi of the Qing Dynasty is going to be exhausted, we are eunuchs who are eunuchs, and we will be looked down upon after leaving the palace in the future, and there is no survival technology, now while the master in the palace is panicking, we can make some fish, and we must plan for our future." Otherwise, people like us won't be able to live out of the Forbidden City! "Su Chongyang is a smart man who has studied, he understands what the old eunuch means, so he takes advantage of the convenience of being in the **, and will steal the things in the palace when he sees the opportunity, from pearls, jade, gold and silver ornaments, calligraphy and paintings, to porcelain and bronze table clocks, everything that can be moved will not be let go, looking for various opportunities to smuggle them out of the palace and put them in the old eunuch's house outside the palace.

The Qing Emperor of the Xinhai Revolution abdicated, and Su Chongyang and the old eunuch left the Forbidden City. Su Chongyang wanted to go home to see his mother, and he also wanted to go to Sun Laohu for revenge, but he was now a eunuch and had no face to go back, so he lived in the capital with his eunuch godfather. A few years later, the old eunuch died, and before he died, he told Su Chongyang that he had a secret cellar where he had hidden treasures in his home, which contained the gold and silver treasures he had accumulated all his life. After the old eunuch died, Su Chongyang opened the cellar and found that there were a lot of treasures hidden inside, and the silver dollars alone were enough to fill a few pockets, and these things, plus the valuable items he stole from the palace, were enough for him to spend several lifetimes. Su Chongyang later sold his godfather's house and bought a good courtyard house, and he bought some furniture items from the palace in the market, and since then he has lived a rich life like a big man.

Although he has money and lives an enviable life, Su Chongyang still feels very inferior because he is a eunuch, and he feels very cold when he guards a big house alone, and later he saw that many rich eunuchs have found wives, and he also has the idea of marrying a wife, his idea is that marrying a wife can be a companion for himself to relieve loneliness, and he can also make a façade for himself, a eunuch. Where to find a woman who is willing to marry him? Su Chongyang thought about it and thought of a palace maid named Taohong he once knew when he was in the palace, this palace maid was the same age as him, not very beautiful but very happy, and the two often chatted a few words when they met in the palace, and they had a good impression of each other; When she left the Forbidden City, Peach gave him a handkerchief as a souvenir. Su Chongyang remembered that he had said to Taohong that if he was not a eunuch, he would definitely marry Taohong as his wife, and Taohong was in tears when he said it.

Su Chongyang inquired about Taohong's news through a friend who had worked with him in the palace, and it didn't take long for him to find out that Taohong was working as a maid in a rich man's house. He found Taohong, and the two old friends felt very affectionate when they met, Su Chongyang wanted to invite Taohong to his home to be a housekeeper, and Taohong was naturally very willing. Su Chongyang knew that Taohong's family was poor, her parents were old and sick, and she had three brothers who had reached the prime of life and could not marry a daughter-in-law, so he asked Taohong: "If I pay for your parents' treatment, build a few green brick houses for your family, buy dozens of acres of land and a few livestock, and give you a few brothers to marry a daughter-in-law, are you willing to marry me, a wasted person!" ”

Taohong is a good woman who is filial to her family, and she told Su Chongyang that as long as she can make her parents and family live a good life, she is willing to marry Su Chongyang!

Su Chongyang saw that Taohong was willing to be his wife, so he took Taohong to Tongzhou to buy a large piece of land and a few livestock, built several large tile houses, placed Taohong's whole family there, and gave her a sum of money when he came. Taohong's family thinks that Su Chongyang is a great benefactor who frees their family from the sea of suffering, and they feel that Taohong marrying a eunuch is to repay her kindness, which is nothing wrong! In this way, Su Chongyang obediently married Taohong as his wife. Although Su Chongyang is a eunuch, he can also make his wife sexually satisfied with the lewd skills he heard from the old eunuch in the palace, and the two of them live a loving life like a normal couple. Su Chongyang had learned some knowledge of traditional Chinese medicine with his eunuch godfather, he felt that he was bored to live like that after eating and drinking all day long, he wanted to find something to do, after careful consideration, he opened several pharmacies in the capital, he and Taohong are both calculating shrewd people, the business of the pharmacy is doing very well, and making a lot of money. Su Chongyang is a filial son, he has a comfortable life, he remembered his mother, and he asked someone to go to his hometown to inquire about his mother's whereabouts.

After Su Chongyang was kidnapped and taken to Beijing, the helpless widow Su was married into the house by Sun Laohu and became his fourth wife. Although Widow Su is beautiful, she is not a very young woman, the successive widowhood and loss of children hit her too hard, she washed her face with tears all day long, and she was old and decrepit within a few years after entering the Sun family, Sun Laohu, who likes the new and hates the old, has no interest in her, and Widow Su's status in Sun Laohu's family is like calling a girl. After Su Chongyang knew the real situation of his mother, he bought off the local officials with a lot of silver, and ransomed his mother from Sun Laohu's house to live in the capital. Although this widow Su has a good life, her past bitter heart knot has not been untied, especially her beloved son has become a waste, which is simply a kind of mental destruction for her, and Widow Su has not enjoyed a few years of happiness in her son's house and left with her eyes closed. When Widow Su was dying, the most worrying thing was that she couldn't cut off the incense of the Su family, she asked her son to adopt a child, so that the current family business could be passed on, Su Chongyang tearfully agreed. In order to continue the incense, Su Chongyang and his wife also took great pains in adopting their stepson, in order to ensure that the rich family property does not fall into the hands of people with ulterior motives, and also to prevent the children from recognizing their ancestors when they grow up; They don't want children with parents, children who are already sensible, older children, bad looks, bad tempers, and those in the capital; In the end, they asked someone to bring back a qualified boy from the northeast, but they did not expect that when the child was raised to the age of five or six, the child was sick and died. Su Chongyang, who was helpless, once asked Taohong to go outside to find a wild man to borrow a seed, Taohong felt that her personality had been greatly insulted, and she and Su Chongyang almost fell out! From then on, Su Chongyang and his wife no longer wanted to pass on the ancestry. It wasn't until one day that they rescued the pregnant Chunxiu, and the Su family couple had the idea of having a stepchild to pass on the ancestry. After getting along for a period of time, they recognized Chunxiu's character very much, and saw that Chunxiu was born a boy, so Su Chongyang accepted the helpless Chunxiu as his second wife, and by the way, he had a son. After Chunxiu took her son into the Su family, Chunxiu was simple and capable, Yonghe was smart and cute, and the Su family and his wife thought that this was a very good practice; But they never expected that the appearance of Cui Fengming a few years later would break the apparent harmony of the Su family.