Chapter Eighty-Nine: Self-Determination
After burning the remaining remains of Yin Nineteen, Shang Yinghai put the beating heart of Yin Nineteen into the bowl containing the eating spell, held the bowl in both hands, swaggered past the guards who searched him, and left the forbidden palace.
Then, according to Yin Nineteen's instructions, he swallowed the residual blood in the blue heart into his throat, dried the heart, and carefully hid it.
And since that day, every time Shang Yinghai served Lafayette, he always felt that Cixi's eyes were a little different when he looked at him, there was a lot less comfort and trust in that kind of eyes, and a little more cold and hideous, and every once in a while, the Empress Dowager would find trouble with this little Yingzi for no reason, and once, even to the point of making trouble with the court staff.
was beaten with a wrench, Shang Yinghai's body naturally opened his flesh, and even bled from his seven orifices, although he was not killed because of this wrench, but he only had a few breaths of life left.
At this time, Shang Yinghai's last luck was shattered, and the Empress Dowager Xi's series of atrocities against her made Shang Yinghai even more firm in her judgment of Yin Nineteen.
So, on a stormy night, Shang Yinghai asked someone to carry him to find the chief manager, and begged the chief manager to open up for himself in front of Lafayette and spare him a dog's life.
Li Lianying attaches great importance to Shang Yinghai's door-to-door plea, but what he brings to Shang Yinghai is not sympathy and comfort, but a cold "education".
Manager Li told Shang Yinghai, who was in the realm of death: "Xiao Yingzi, let me tell you the truth, this wrench was originally meant to kill you, but you didn't die, this can only say that your body is hard, some things, you understand better than me, this Lafayette is going to die, no matter how hard his body is, it is useless, even if it is steel and iron bones, it will be pulled out and smelted into molten iron!"
Li Lianying's education made Shang Yinghai see his future thoroughly.
The cunning rabbit is dead, the lackeys are cooking, the birds are exhausted, and the good bow is hidden!
When the last hope was shattered, Shang Yinghai felt a strong unwillingness in his heart, and at the same time, he had to activate the "strategy" that Yin Nineteen had told him and that he had repeatedly muttered countless times in his heart.
Shang Yinghai, who was half-dead, raised his fist at Chief Manager Li, and then said: "Chief Administrator, the master let the slave die, and the slave naturally has no complaints, but I have served the master for so long, even if it is dead...... I also want to die decently. ”
"Monkey cub, you are conscious!" Li Lianying squinted her eyes, patted his forehead, and then waved her hand: "Although you are not of a high grade in the palace, you are also a slave with some status, so you go back and judge yourself! I will plead with Lafayette and allow you twelve hours to take care of the aftermath." ”
Listening to Li Lianying's words, Shang Yinghai was happy in his heart, but he pretended to have a frightened expression, thanked him a thousand times, and left the chief manager's accommodation crying.
Because he had been prepared for today's situation, after returning to his residence, Shang Yinghai arranged his future affairs in an orderly manner, he first scattered the spare money that had not been transferred to his good brothers, begging them to send him to a suitable piece of feng shui treasure tomb after he committed suicide, and then took a piece of white silk and hanged himself with the heart of Yin Nineteen.
After that, Li Lianying sent someone to conduct an autopsy, because the dead could no longer be penetrated, so the chief manager was very satisfied, so he allowed Shang Yinghai to "die" and be buried in the feng shui treasure of his own choice.
In this way, Shang Yinghai was hidden by the scenery, and the eunuch relied on Yin Nineteen's arrangement and lay quietly in the coffin until three days later, he miraculously regained his breathing.
Yin Nineteen didn't lie to him, with the blood in his heart, Shang Yinghai really came back from the dead.
Next, if there is no accident, Shang Yinghai can rely on the light blue heart left on Yin Nineteen's body to "make" a Yin Nineteen according to a certain method that Yin Nineteen said, but unfortunately, there was a little mistake in this process.
It turned out that Shang Yinghai's grave was stolen and dug up the day after he was buried.
Who stole Shang Yinghai's grave, he couldn't know, Shang Yinghai woke up and saw that he was naked, naked, his court clothes, underwear and even shoes and socks were taken off, and the heart of Yin Nineteen, which he had carried with him after drying, was gone.
The loss of Yin Nineteen's heart stumped Shang Yinghai all of a sudden, and made him lose the motivation and goal to continue to survive, and in the face of the unknown identity and world, Xiao Yingzi, who left the court, was at a loss.
In this way, Shang Yinghai wandered under the roots of the imperial city for a long time, although he hid 100,000 taels of gold belongings, and also had a proper place to live that had been prepared long ago, but he was still wearing tattered clothes, mingling between Huazi and helpers, wandering on the underside of the imperial city roots and Tianjin Wei, lost his soul.
For a long time, Shang Yinghai was scared, almost never had a good night's sleep, as soon as he closed his eyes, he could always see the gloomy faces of the Empress Dowager Xi and Li Lianying, and dreamed that he couldn't breathe when he hanged himself.
Many times he wanted to escape with gold and silver treasures, but he was reluctant to leave the imperial city, and he was reluctant to leave this place where eunuchs gathered.
He thinks that he is just a eunuch, an incompetent eunuch, and no matter how much money he has, no one can afford him.
Rather than that, it's better to stay in a familiar place and watch this little bit of rotten world.
Shang Yinghai lived for several years like this, and it was not until Cixi died and the guns of the Xinhai Revolution rang out that he was slightly freed from that shadow.
Although he is still a eunuch, Shang Yinghai at least doesn't have to worry about being wanted all over the world, so he breathed a sigh of relief.
At this time, Shang Yinghai, who was also very old, was relieved from the horrors of the Qing Palace, and was ready to take the money and go to his hometown in Shandong to think about Qingfu.
As a eunuch, Shang Yinghai suffered for many years, and after the revolution, the burden in his heart was gone, and the suppressed desire completely exploded, and with the explosion of desire, what Shang Yinghai did became more and more vicious.
First of all, Shang Yinghai felt that he had enough of being a slave and was going to turn over and become a master, so he changed his name and made his subordinates have to call themselves "Eagle Master", and he walked around in the prince's clothes every day, eating and drinking, all of which were the pomp of the prince in the Manchu Dynasty.
Secondly, Shang Yinghai felt that he should hire someone to help him take care of some things that he would show up, and it was best to replace his reputation and show his face, which was easy to control.
So, he personally found a "stand-in" for himself. ”