Chapter Eighty-Six: Cixi
The beginning of the story of the Eagle Master is similar to what I know, and he was originally a very rich person, and he was going to go to Black Tiger Street to enjoy Qingfu with the money.
But before the beginning of this story, there is another beginning, but we don't know.
And what we don't know is that in the identity of the Eagle Master, there is another content that we are surprised and even surprised by.
He was a eunuch, his real name was Shang Yinghai, and he was called Xiaoyingzi in the Qing Palace.
"Are you...... Eunuch!" Zhao Haipeng and I were stunned at the same time.
"Eunuch!" Lord Eagle nodded self-deprecatingly, and continued: "I was born in the first year of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty, and my ancestors were tenants of Dengzhou Mansion in Shandong, and I was originally a banner person, but then my family was in decline, so I took the risk and went to the palace to be a eunuch, and entered the palace at the age of seven, first as a fireman, then as a celebrity, and then poured a urinal for Lafayette......
Later, it may be that Xiaoyingzi was comfortable serving Cixi back then, so Cixi let him manage some side things in addition to taking charge of his own work.
Among them, among the people he managed, there were three cooks, and these three cooks were all from the Five Organs Temple, and they were the only "imperial chefs" in the forbidden land of the Qing Palace who mastered the curse of harmful food.
These imperial chefs basically do not cook, but help Cixi take care of some very "vicious" political activities and assassination activities, and provide some necessary "technical support" for those things.
Xiao Yingzi had no right to ask about the skills, origins and even real names of those three people back then. The only thing he could do was to "pass the poison" from the hands of the three imperial chefs and give it to the victims to eat.
Although he didn't know anything about the truth of these three people, he had also vaguely heard that there were so many murders in the hands of these three people, and even the death of the Empress Dowager Dong and the miscarriage of the Tongzhi Empress Alut were inextricably linked to these three.
Of course, the matter of the palace, the slave can only know that he is chasing the wind and catching the shadows, but with a "poison piercing", Xiaoyingzi was forced to be involved in a palace forbidden matter.
And it was in that incident that the fate of the minion's life took a turn for the worse.
I remember that one year, when Cixi celebrated her birthday, the chief manager Li Lianying suddenly found Shang Yinghai in a hurry, and then issued an edict from Lafayette that Shang Yinghai should find the three imperial chefs, and then take the "food curse" to "pass poison" to the three foreigners.
Spreading poison to foreigners, such a thing is unheard of by Xiaoyingzi, and many Chinese people at that time were broken by foreigners, and they had a kind of awe and fear of Uncle Yang.
Therefore, Xiao Yingzi, who only knew how to carry out the execution on weekdays, opened her mouth and asked Chief Manager Li: "What should I do if something happens to the foreigners?
If it were normal, Shang Yinghai's series of questions were enough to make Li Lianying beat his mouth into a blur, but I don't know why, the chief manager Li at that time was so worried that he had already forgotten the rules in the forbidden belly.
He didn't hit Shang Yinghai, but he frowned, and replied thoughtfully: "Those foreigners saw something they shouldn't have seen! I have to let them die, but they are from the consulate, so they can't take fast medicine, they have to use food curses! Let them die of illness after a year and a half!"
"Foreigners can do wrong things?!" Shang Yinghai was surprised.
"Hehe!" Li Lianying snorted, and then answered: "They...... I watched a show that I shouldn't have seen!"
The silk show is also a puppet show, Shang Yinghai connected with the various facts of the birthday celebration for Cixi that day, and soon made up that it may be that these foreigners made some transgression in the process of watching the play and offended the master, which made Cixi move to kill.
With his own brain supplement, Shang Yinghai, who is very good at doing things, knows what to do, this guy specially made a few hundred taels of gold in order to let the three foreigners who watched the silk show eat the poison, and then made a big cat as a test drug "Liezheng", and then found the three reckless foreigners, grinding hard bubbles, and tricking those foreigners into eating the poison that pierced the stomach.
After that, because Xiaoyingzi did a beautiful job, she was praised by Cixi, and after the praise, Li Lianying passed another order to Xiaoyingzi's ears.
The chief manager told Shang Yinghai that if what happened that day was to be completely resolved, one more person must be killed, and this person was the one who angered the Empress Dowager Xi.
Li Lianying did not describe that person's actions and anger this time, but only told Xiaoyingzi that this person was the female actor who performed the silk play, and to kill this person, it was necessary to let the three "great abbots" use the most poisonous "eating curse", and after he died, he must be burned with fierce fire and kerosene.
For these arrangements, Xiao Yingzi didn't understand what they meant, and even felt that they were making a big fuss, but being a slave was born with a kind of submissive execution, so he followed Li Lianying's instructions and ran to the residence of the three imperial chefs, and asked for the poison of the most insidious "eating spell" overnight.
That kind of poison, Shang Yinghai still remembers, the three imperial chefs once swore that this kind of thing is called the three corpse insects, and after people eat it, it will quickly rot from the five internal organs. In the end, it will really rot so much that there is not even scum left.
It's so rotten that there is not even any scum left, but you have to burn it with kerosene, and this kind of punishment is really unheard of cruel.
Because of this cruelty, a series of irrepressible curiosity rose in Xiao Yingzi's heart, he was eager to see what this person who angered Cixi because of singing silk plays looked like, and what kind of actions did he make Cixi hate to such an extent?!
With this series of questions, Xiao Yingzi took a bowl of sesame paste from the three imperial chefs, and there were some white grains of rice floating around, and hurriedly left, and soon arrived at the place where the "habitual offender" was held.
Summer Palace, Xiangyun Palace.
In fact, when she learned that this prisoner was being held in the Xiangyun Palace, Xiao Yingzi was very surprised.
Xiangyun Hall is the main hall of the Summer Palace, but only the emperor and Lafayette live on weekdays, the place of celebration, the specifications are incomparable, such a place...... Is it used to imprison prisoners?
In this regard, Xiao Yingzi noticed a trace of abnormality.
You must know that in ancient times, prisoners were also divided into three, six, nine and so on, and the general officials and prisoners would be imprisoned in the heavenly prison, if they were favorite concubines and queens, they would be sent to the cold palace, and the princes of higher rank and even the abolished emperor would be imprisoned in the palace and go to bed.
This kind of treatment will not change through the ages, and even the down-and-out emperors and nobles will be treated like this.
And a small puppet show was locked up in the Xiangyun Palace, where only the emperor and Lafayette could stay...... This is the first time I have heard of such treatment.
Instinctively, Xiaoyingzi realized that this prisoner was by no means simple.