That's not special!

Feng Leting, who used to serve Pu Jie's grandmother and old lady in Beifu, didn't save any money in the chaos, and finally arrived at Xinglong Temple and was still the master of poverty.

His old friend Liu Xingqiao was too "generous" in hand, blindly smoking flowers, and had no savings in his hands, so he had to paste some cardboard boxes in the temple every day to barely survive.

Although, living a poor life in Xinglong Temple, they never starved to death, so they often laughed at each other when they met. After getting up, the first thing I said when I met was always: "Old man, have you eaten early?" It can be seen that eating became the top priority at that time.

Make friends in times of trouble. He and Sun Shangxian became a pair of "Mo Reverse". Grandpa is a native of Nanpi County, and the eunuchs often tease him: "You are a fellow villager of Zhang Zhidong." ”

He joked quite honestly: "I haven't seen Zhang Zhidong at all, what does it look like." ”

The tide rises and falls. Shi Junfeng, the former eunuch of the imperial palace, although he was famous in the palace at the end of the Qing Dynasty, served Cixi and the Empress Dowager Longyu, and also followed the "Emperor Xuantong", and he had a golden voice, playing the "old dan" in Beijing opera, and he was actually as famous as the famous Ergong Yunfu in the Beijing City.

But the 3,000 yuan he got from selling the house, but he tossed a clean light in a few years, and only got Xinglong Temple, looking for "Luo'er".

When he couldn't make it anymore, he planned to return to his hometown. Before leaving, he couldn't even afford the train ticket, and the imperial eunuch nicknamed "Stone Blind" was almost blind in a hurry, so he had to let everyone scrape together two dollars, and caught up with a fellow who was doing business and sent him half of the coil, and then got on the train, and finally died of poverty and illness in his hometown. This is not the worst among the eunuchs. Penniless, there are countless people who have died in other places.

"Old Master Kou is leaving" A fellow came to the village and met Sun Yaoting.

Hearing this, he understood that Kou Zizhen had died: "What's the matter? I'll be fine when I go back! ”

"Sensei," the visitor sighed, and said, "Ahem, Old Master Kou is gone, so he sold the five north rooms and the east and west wings for 800 yuan, and pressed four rooms at the edge of the village. This is not? As soon as the flood came, the house was washed away, and he had to borrow the house of his neighbor Xiao's family, which was originally built by him! Even angry, he died of illness! The matter is not over, his coffin material Xiao family did not let him go to the front gate, saying that his husband rushed his family's feng shui after leaving the main gate, and he was stunned to tear down half of the wall and transport it out from the back of the house."

"What? Can you do that? Sun Yaoting was indignant.

"Is that still fake? This matter, in our West Shuangtang Village, I don't know who made it up: the Kou family is prominent, the family is wealthy, the flowers are flowing, the defeat is really fast, the back wall is picked, and the coffin is lifted"

After sending away the villagers, his heart was depressed for a long time, and he often sighed secretly: "When you are a eunuch, even the villagers look down on you."

"Eight horses, five heads"

The night is quieter, and Xinglong Temple still often hears the drunken and hoarse shouts of drinking and punching.

Who doesn't know about Old Bei Beijing? Xinglong Temple, has become a lively place for the eunuchs of Jingyuan City to go out of the palace, even if the eunuchs who live outside the temple, they often come here to visit the door, chat, and some have no rut, go here to eat for two days and then talk about something else. Here, it has really become an inn for the eunuchs to be sent to. There are also eunuchs, who only have two money, so they go to the temple to open a gambling game for a few days, kill him in the dark, lose all his ass and leave.

Zhang Xiude, an old eunuch who was trembling when he walked, was also a frequent visitor to the gambling game. Although he lived in the dilapidated temple of "Jade Emperor Gao" on Xixie Street, he only used it as a shelter from the wind and rain, and sneaked to Xinglong Temple at two ends in three days to play money day and night. As soon as he entered the door, he met Sun Yaoting.

"Shou'er, where are you going?"

"It's okay, go for a walk outside, you're old." Sun Yaoting threw his hand at him: "Master Zhang, why are you here today?" ”

"Shou'er, it's really yours, ask knowingly." Zhang Xiude patted him on the shoulder, "Ahem, nothing else, I still have that little hobby, play cards with your master for a while!" ”

"Well, you're busy. See you later. Sun Yaoting is not unwilling to deal with Zhang Ye, he knows that others are not bad, neither quarrel nor fight, he is a strange temper, he is red-eyed when he gambles, and playing money has become his excitement. …,

But Sun Yaoting was different, as soon as he saw the gambling money, he turned around and left. He has seen those who have won money in gambling and won their eyes, and he has also seen those who have lost their houses and lost their houses and lost their fortunes in gambling. Therefore, he didn't dare to take this road, and he didn't want to take it, so he simply stayed away, even if he had nothing to do to go for a walk outside

Just as he was stepping on the threshold, Liu Xingqiao walked in. "Hey, I haven't seen you these days, where have you been?" Sun Yaoting tugged at his arm and asked questions passionately.

"Isn't it? Just came back from home. Our one, originally lived in Xinglong Temple with me, a few years ago, I don't know what to do, I have to go back to my hometown, look, this is just half a year, just one step ahead. After speaking, he made up again, "I'm going to her grave!" ”

"I say, when she was alive, you knelt on the washboard. Now that you're on the grave, didn't you kneel there and knock one? "After many years of old friendship, Sun Yaoting has been teasing him. Liu Xingqiao didn't speak, just smiled bitterly.

Before leaving the palace, he was the apprentice brother of Puyi's second chief eunuch Feng Junchen, and was successively promoted to be the personal eunuch of Puyi and Concubine Shu. At night, when he was "sitting on the watch" with a foreign attendant named Xiao Xi'er, Pu Yi suddenly became happy, walked out in the middle of the night, and saw that he was not sleeping, so he casually gave him a wad of money: "Take it"

He counted it, and it was worth two thousand dollars! Happy to turn upside down, sleepless all night.

After that, he never mentioned it to anyone, for fear that money would cause trouble. It wasn't until the eunuchs lived in Xinglong Temple that he showed his mouth, and on his daughter-in-law, two thousand yuan had been almost spent.

"The regent of the Northern Mansion has come to Xin'er, and asked me to go up there and follow him. I'm going to go after picking it up."

Liu Xingqiao entered the house, Sun Yaoting looked at his back and said, "The eunuch has a daughter-in-law, and he is alive!" Either the eunuch won't live long, or the daughter-in-law won't live long."

"What do you mean? Mr. Ren also came to our temple to take a look. At noon, holding the rice bowl, Ma Deqing arrived at Sun Yaoting's house.

"I know that. Brother Ren is serious to me in the palace. Sun Yaoting said, "Let's go to his house and have a look, what's going on?" ”

"Yes, listen to you." Ma Deqing listened happily. "I heard that his daughter-in-law is good, I have to take a look"

After dinner, Sun Yaoting went with him to visit Ren Futian's house. Ren Lao Ye went out of the palace, but he still had a bottom, and he was not really poor like some little eunuchs. When he was in the palace, he bought three north rooms on Jingshan East Street, and after leaving the palace, he was idle and lived in a simple place, even if he was compared with all the eunuchs, he was also an honest and kind person.

"Brother Ren, how are you?"

"Ahem, it's so-so."

As she spoke, a middle-aged woman came out of the back room. "It's an insider." Ren Futian introduced Sun Yaoting and the two.

"Say hello to my sister-in-law." Sun Yaoting stood up. Looking closely, this middle-aged woman has a good face, and she must have been a handsome girl when she was young. She shyly agreed a few words and walked into the room.

"You brother, it's really a golden house!" Ma Deqing said jokingly.

"Your brother doesn't know yet? I'm a halfway monk eunuch, it's not that I don't have the heart of Sifan."

"Hey, you're kidding"

"Make tea." Ren Ye's call interrupted his words.

This Ren Ye, at first, served Prince Lao Yu in the Regent's Mansion, and later served the Prince Regent Zaifeng, and only then did he enter the palace on an errand at the end. He was like the eunuchs of the older generation, with little culture. In the eunuch pile, he is most famous for being laughed at when he went to the toilet outside the palace, "Look at his plays?" ”

He lifted his pants and left. In a fit of rage, he made a vow to buy a house outside the palace and build a toilet for himself!

Sometimes, Sun Yaoting is a rather humorous person. He took a sip of tea and talked casually, "I said, Master Ren, where is your old toilet?" ”

As soon as he spoke, he made up another sentence: "Where is the toilet you used for your own time?" ”

"Boy, hey, let you see." Master Ren pointed it to him, "Get out of the house and turn left." ”

He went in to take a look, and said something else, that is, the faint smell of smoke in the toilet, which was enough to prove that Mr. Ren had put in a lot of effort. …,

"Hey, well deserved the name!" Sun Yaoting gave a thumbs up.

"What?" Master Ren asked him incomprehensibly.

"Who doesn't know from the outside? Ren Ye's toilet, hey, didn't say it! ”

Hearing this, Mr. Ren also smiled. In fact, this is also the result of the eunuch's so-called psychology of arguing.

At the time of parting, Ren Laoye's wife walked out of the back room again: "Walk slowly, there is time to come, you"

It is not uncommon for eunuchs to marry wives. As early as the Ming Dynasty, this has become an open secret in the palace. "Food" even became a fashionable thing inside and outside the court in the late Qing Dynasty. If a eunuch has money, he will easily become an object of amusement if he does not marry a wife or play with a woman.

This, often for a number of reasons. Some are food and clothing and lust, such as Xiao Dezhang, who married a few wives in Tianjin after leaving the palace, and the picture is a kind of desire to vent his desires. Although he has no reproductive organs, he does not necessarily have no sexual desire, even a eunuch who is late in his twilight years will also have normal desires, sometimes even stronger than ordinary people of the same age. This is not a fantasy. The extreme circle of things must be reversed, maybe that's the reason.

Of course, possessiveness was also an important factor in the life of a eunuch. The more you can't get it, the more you want to get it, and if you lose it, it will produce a stronger rebellious mentality. Legend has it that Xiao Dezhang buried his aunt's wife, who had committed adultery with others, in the ground, probably out of this kind of sexual revenge. This kind of situation happens among eunuchs, after all, it is very rare.

More eunuchs are pursuing a stable and well-off way. They longed for monogamy and lived an "idyllic" life, comforting the various humiliations they had suffered in the palace.

The eunuchs in the palace, as long as they have money, one is to buy a house outside the palace, the other is to secretly marry a wife and concubine outside the palace, and the third is to have a son to inherit the incense once they live a little richer, like Zhao Rongsheng.

"There are three unfilial pieties, and no queen is great", which is still the stubborn creed of eunuchs! (Lying on the bear_ provided by no beginning)