The shadow puppet troupe, which originally planned to perform a few more performances and complete the orders in hand, suddenly announced that it would not perform. This surprised all the audience and the people in the troupe. And the mystery is estimated to be best known only to the class owner, the "old drunkard".

The "old drunkard" master pretended to be the class leader while secretly observing Qin Tai and Zhan Xiaoxiao, and he found that Zhan Xiaoxiao and Qin Tai had some small changes. Although these changes are very small, they have already made the "old drunkard" master very happy. The first is Zhan Xiaoxiao, who was originally arrogant, and paid more and more attention to his words and deeds. Especially when Qin Tai was there, Zhan Xiaoxiao tried to be gentle and polite as much as possible. The "old drunkard" master can also figure out the mystery with his toes, and he hopes to give Qin Tai a good influence. Qin Tai also had a change, and this change began when he discovered Zhanxiao's unique singing skills. Qin Tai is a fan of shadow puppetry, and his love for shadow puppetry has gone beyond the ordinary. "Will Reconcile" is the most familiar repertoire to him, and Qin Tai is very familiar with every detail in it. But Zhan Xiaoxiao's performance made Qin Tai have a new understanding of Zhan Xiaoxiao's understanding of this scene. Qin Tai has already begun to appreciate Zhan Xiaoxiao, and humbly wants to Zhan Xiaoxiao's drama. But after Zhan Xiaoxiao was injured, Qin Tai and Zhan Xiaoxiao were talking, and Qin Tai began to avoid Zhan Xiaoxiao a little. The "old drunkard" master was a little strange, but he figured it out immediately. Qin Tai didn't care about Zhan Xiaoxiao anymore, but deliberately avoided Zhan Xiaoxiao. Qin Tai is a rational official, and he has certain principles in his conduct and work. According to the "old drunkard" master's understanding of Qin Tai, Qin Tai is very painful now. Qin Tai has unconsciously fallen in love with Zhan Xiaoxiao, and is very concerned about Zhan Xiaoxiao's words and deeds. But reason is ahead of Qin Tai, Zhan Xiaoxiao is not only a boy, but also his Qin Tai's good brother, he must not like Zhan Xiaoxiao. If you like to show off your little words, you will not only be sorry for your parents, but also cause a relationship between Zhan Xiaoxiao and yourself. Qin Tai lives in torture every day, wanting to see Zhan Xiaoxiao, but he doesn't dare to face Zhan Xiaoxiao.

The "old drunkard" master knew that Qin Tai was already interested in Zhanxiao, and now tell Qin Tai Zhan a little thing, Qin Tai will breathe a sigh of relief, but things will not be easy to control in the future. In order to show a small future, he had to make Qin Tai suffer for a while. Only if Qin Tai is more painful now, can he be more reluctant to leave Xiaoxiao in the future.

But things are always developing much faster than the original plan, although Qin Tai tries to avoid Zhan Xiaoxiao, but Zhan Xiaoxiao is very concerned about the small things. When he saw a large group of young ladies pestering Zhan Xiaoxiao, and saw a few sons trying to use their power to get close to Zhan Xiaoxiao, a sour taste that he had never felt before came to his heart. Qin Tai was very, very uncomfortable, he couldn't eat or sleep that day. After thinking about it for a day, Qin Tai decided to end the troupe.

At the beginning, the opera troupe was established to cover up his identity, and then there was to earn a little living expenses. Qin Tai and his entourage of five people were already living in poverty, plus more than 30 soldiers, of course, the injured silver taels were not enough. Qin Tai rejected local filial piety again, and life has become a big problem. This shadow puppet troupe earned them enough money to live for a while. So Qin Tai decided to end the troupe immediately.

For the first time, he overbearingly decided on a directive, which surprised everyone. But it is also what the "old drunkard" master can predict, if a man can see the person he likes being surrounded like this, and is indifferent, he is not a real man. Although Qin Tai is a humble gentleman, he is an authentic northern man in his bones. He would never let it go unchecked, and he would never want to see this happen again. Therefore, sooner or later, Qin Tai will order the end of the troupe, and only in this way can this kind of thing happen.

Li Li and the soldiers who had gone out to investigate had returned, and they had not made any major discoveries. However, Qin Tai, who asked questions to the masses while acting, asked some clues. I heard a local gentry say that Fengyang also has a fairy nest. The so-called "fairy nest" is not inhabited by any immortals, but some eunuchs waiting to die. At that time, there were more than 80,000 active eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty, plus those who no longer held positions, and some eunuchs who committed crimes, so there were more than 100,000. Only a very small number of these eunuchs were able to return to their hometowns, and they had already arranged for their families to buy a large amount of land in their hometowns, hoping that they would have something to rely on in the future. And most of the eunuchs had to live in the fairy nest because they didn't have much money, or because they didn't have any reliable relatives in their hometown. Of course, the eunuchs who can wait for death in the fairy nest are not ordinary eunuchs, first of all, if you are a high-grade eunuch, you can live in the fairy nest with status. Second, you have to prepare a large amount of money for the fairy nest in advance, which is regarded as your filial piety for staying in the fairy nest. In the fairy nest, the eunuchs who paid for it had some small eunuchs or subordinates who served, and lived a life that was not too miserable. When these eunuchs died, their affairs would be buried in the graveyard behind the fairy me along with their treasures, that is, the severed liferoots. They hope that they will no longer be eunuchs in the next life, and they don't want to be a lonely ghost.

It is said that there are three fairy nests in the whole Ming Dynasty, and there is one in Beijing City, which is called Long Live Temple. There are the most eunuchs living in it, and they are all people who have been great eunuchs and have not been punished by the emperor. Eunuchs who want to enter the Banzai Temple for retirement must each hand over at least 3,000 taels of silver before they can retire in the Banzai Temple. Nanjing is also the ancient capital, and there is also a fairy nest, called Wan Wan Nian. It is a Taoist temple that was renovated, and most of the people living in it are some great eunuchs who used to be beautiful. These eunuchs who committed crimes were sent to Nanjing, and as long as they had savings, they could live in it for thousands of years. According to the amount of silver produced in 10,000,000 years, it is divided into the upper room, the middle room and the lower room. Only eunuchs who have money and have not been dealt with by the imperial court and ** can move in. No matter how rich the eunuch who committed the crime is, no matter how beautiful it is, he can't move in. The middle room and the lower room will be moved in separately according to the amount of donated silver. Many of the great eunuchs who have been beautiful in the past ended their lives in ten thousand years. Fengyang also has a fairy nest, but this fairy nest is relatively unknown to outsiders. A relative of the gentry was a steward in the Fengyang Immortal's Nest, and he knew a little bit. Qin Tai learned about the Immortal Nest from him.

Fengyang's fairy nest is called Qianqiu Pavilion, which was originally a real estate bought by the founding father general Tang Hejia. Tang He and Taizu Hongwu Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang are not only young, but also sworn brothers who grew up together. When Zhu Yuanzhang first entered the barracks, Tang He was already an officer. But Tang He respected Zhu Yuanzhang and gave his position to Zhu Yuanzhang, and he was willing to be Zhu Yuanzhang's subordinate. When Zhu Yuanzhang took eighteen brothers to fight the world, Tang He was one of them. Although there were generals Xu Da, Chang Yuchun and so on later, Tang He will always be Zhu Yuanzhang's best brother in life and death. But this brother of life and death, Zhu Yuanzhang, who is the emperor, always thinks about suppressing heroes. In order to be afraid that something would happen to the master, Zhu Yuanzhang attacked his brother. is the best brother of Zhu Yuanzhang, Tang He is of course the first to bear the brunt. Because Tang He has an older sister in his hometown, he bought a piece of land for his sister to retire. Zhu Yuanzhang made a big fuss about this, and insulted him many times in the court for not giving soup and saving face. Tang He is an older young man, in his forties and has no wife, in order to find a wife, in order to have a child of his own, Tang He robbed a girl. But only the girl herself did not agree, and the girl's parents had already accepted the soup and the dowry. At that time, there was nothing wrong with parents deciding on the marriage of their children. However, Zhu Yuanzhang made a big fuss about this matter, forcing Tang He to kneel down and admit his mistake, and "court staff" forty on the spot, beating the soup and skin open. Tang He had lost all confidence and hope in this brother, left Nanjing with his injuries, and was about to return to his hometown, but Zhu Yuanzhang arrested Tang He and went back on the pretext that Tang He wanted to contact his old subordinates to rebel. In the end, Tang He died in Nanjing, and all the family's land and property were confiscated. This Qianqiu Pavilion is the Wangqin Pavilion built by Tang He's sister in order to miss her younger brother who was far away in Nanjing.

Qianqiu Pavilion is the largest of the three immortal nests in the Ming Dynasty, and it is said that it is larger than the Wannian Temple in Beijing and the Wannian Temple outside Nanjing combined. There is not only a small room inside, but also a large hall. There are not only old eunuchs waiting to die, but also some little eunuchs who are about to enter the palace, and some big families send little girls. These little eunuchs and little palace maids who are about to be sent to the palace, after a period of training and teaching here, when they are sent to the palace again, are of course smarter than the little eunuchs and little palace maids who have not learned. This is a kind of political capital, and this is the basis for becoming a great nobleman in the future.

I heard the gentry say that there is a rule in the Qianqiu Pavilion that an old eunuch can only accept a small eunuch as his apprentice. After accepting this apprentice, there was an old eunuch who taught alone. The little palace maid is a large group of eunuchs to teach together. It is said that more than a hundred old eunuchs in the Qianqiu Pavilion were taken away by the apprentices he had handed over. These eunuchs who took away their masters have all become great eunuchs with a certain status. Taking away their own masters is not only to provide for their masters, but also to let these treacherous and cunning old eunuchs give advice to themselves.

After Qin Tai found out, he was thinking about a question, was this Qianqiu Pavilion related to the black army that had appeared recently? There is no possibility, this fake black army is hidden in the Qianqiu Pavilion.

Now that there is news and Zhan Xiaoxiao is free from being entangled, the troupe will end immediately. The "old drunkard" master and "Ma Sandao" took a few soldiers to do the finishing work, and the others were personally led by Qin Tai to the Qianqiu Pavilion.