Imperial City, Zijin Mountain, Thousand Feet Pavilion.

At the beginning of the heavy rain, the raindrops could not stop dripping down along the glazed tiles of the corner eaves of the thousand-foot pavilion, and smashed on the green bricks laid on the ground, splashing countless splashes.

Every three or four steps outside the pavilion, there was a eunuch standing. These eunuchs formed a four-layer circle with the thousand-foot pavilion as the center. The outermost eunuchs were all dressed in green clothes and black gauze hats, and they stood with their heads bowed one by one. The eunuchs on the second floor wore a cyan plate-collared shirt and a black gauze hat on their heads, but two small wings hung behind the gauze hat. The third eunuch wears a green robe embroidered with yellow ornaments, and a black wingless black gauze hat. There were only five or six eunuchs in the circle closest to the thousand-foot pavilion, but these people were dressed in big red python clothes, embroidered with dragons, red sun, and sea water patterns, and wore black high crowns. Unlike the other eunuchs, these five or six people did not stand with their hands down, but walked slowly around the Thousand Feet Pavilion.

On the stone table in the thousand-foot pavilion, there are four-colored snacks and four plates of fruits, and there is also a gold wine jug inlaid with jade on the side of the table, and a coiled dragon carved in gold surrounds the wine jug, and the dragon head sticks out from the body of the pot, which happens to become the spout. On the east and west sides of the table is a wine glass made of white jade, which is crystal clear and extremely delicate. There are small half-glasses of wine in both glasses, and from time to time there are a few hints of rich aroma.

At this time, there were two people standing in the pavilion, looking at the Forbidden City under Zijin Mountain.

The man on the left wears a black gauze hat and a black gown, with a snow-white collar at the neckline. I saw that he had gray hair, and two white eyebrows hung down from the corners of his eyes, quite a bit of fairy wind bones. He had no beard under his chin and a ruddy complexion, like a baby. A pair of fine eyes seem to be open and closed, as if they don't pay attention to everything around them. The man on the right is in his forties, with a square face, quite majestic and majestic. He was dressed in a big red python robe, the same as the five or six eunuchs on the edge of the pavilion. It's just that this person is wearing a black gauze hat on his head, and two long wings hang behind the hat, which is no different from the official hat of a first-class official in the imperial court.

The old man looked at the Forbidden City under the mountain, and said softly: "This mountain was called Qingshan in the previous dynasty, and Chengzu built the Forbidden City, and once piled up coal and stone here, so he called this mountain a coal mountain. After Chengzu sat firmly on the country and the Forbidden City was completed, the soil excavated when digging the moat was piled up here, making the mountain more tall, and Chengzu named it Long Live Mountain. This mountain is located in the north of the Forbidden City, in the imperial city, forming a barrier, and it is also called Zhenshan in the palace. When the first emperor was in Japan, when the white dragon fish was served, he often went to this long live mountain to drink and have fun. At that time, Father-in-law Zhang was with him, and our family was fortunate to accompany him a few times. ”

The man on the right bowed down and said: "Gonggong Yang is the minister of the first emperor, and he is reused by the first emperor, and his subordinates admire him. ”

The old man laughed sharply, shook his head, and said, "Minister, Father-in-law Lan, you are killing our family!"

Father-in-law Nalan was startled, lifted his robe with both hands, knelt down on his knees, and said in a trembling voice: "Father-in-law Yang, my subordinates don't dare to ......"

Gonggong Yang smiled slightly and said, "Gonggong Lan, what are you doing here?" Although you were brought into the palace by me back then. It's just that now you have achieved the leader of the Imperial Horse Eunuch, and you can rank in the top five among the chief eunuchs of the twenty-four yamen. Our family is now just an old eunuch on an errand in the Huanyi Bureau, and he can't even enter the Forbidden City, so he can only live in the west of Desheng Gate, surviving for a long time, how can he receive such a great gift? If Gonggong Li remembers our family one day, maybe he will reward a cup of Heding Red and take our family's life. The one who will come to read the holy decree at that time may be your father-in-law Lan......"

Before he finished speaking, Father-in-law Nalan kowtowed like pounding garlic, and said in a loud voice: "My subordinates don't dare! My subordinates don't dare!"

The five or six eunuchs dressed in big red python clothes outside the pavilion saw Gonggong Lan groveling like this, their faces changed immediately, and they no longer dared to look at the pavilion, so they all turned around and turned their backs towards the Thousand Feet Pavilion.

Father-in-law Yang smiled slightly, and said: "Father-in-law Lan, please get up quickly, aren't you killing our family? If these killers outside the pavilion report this matter secretly, I am afraid that our family's life will not be taken by Gonggong Li if it doesn't pass tonight." ”

Father-in-law Nalan knelt on the ground, straightened up, and said to Father-in-law Yang: "Father-in-law Yang can rest assured, these are all his subordinates' henchmen, all of them are reliable people, if anyone dares to go outside and talk nonsense, his subordinates will take his head!"

That Gonggong Yang glanced at several eunuchs outside the pavilion, his long eyebrows moved slightly, and then he said to Gong Lan: "You stand up and speak." ”

Grandpa Lan agreed, got up from the ground, and carefully stood aside with his hands down. I only heard that Yang Gonggong said: "Although our family brought you into the palace that day, it was Gonggong Zhang who promoted and reused you. Going deeper, even if our family and Gonggong Zhang want to use you, the first emperor will not nod, but I am afraid that you will be the same as our family today, degraded to do hard labor in the Huanyi Bureau, and after his death, a broken one swept out, threw it to the grave of the Zhongguan, and was bitten by wild dogs. ”

Every time he said a word, Father-in-law Nalan's body shook, and when he arrived, he was already shaking like chaff, showing that he was extremely frightened in his heart.

Seeing his appearance, Gonggong Yang seemed quite satisfied and continued: "You must know that it was the first emperor Zhengde who promoted your Gonggong Lan. You are a little eunuch, and within a few years, you have become a eunuch in the War Bureau, and this fat difference is not something ordinary people can get. In the next few years, Gonggong Lan will be promoted every year, and on the day of the death of the first emperor, you are already a big celebrity of the celebrant eunuch, and it will not be difficult to become the chief eunuch of the ceremonial eunuch in the future. Our family remembers that you were only in your thirties at that time, and it is unprecedented for you to achieve this high position at such an age since the founding of the Ming Dynasty. ”

Every time he said a word, Grandpa Lan replied yes. After Gonggong Yang finished speaking, Gonggong Nalan knelt on his knees again and said respectfully: "The great kindness of Gonggong Yang and Gonggong Zhang, the subordinates will not forget!"

Father-in-law Yang smiled and said, "But after the death of the first emperor and his accession to the throne today, Gonggong Lan was kicked out of the ceremonial supervisor and sent to Kangling as a eunuch guarding the tomb." Our family knows that you spent 60,000 taels of silver to walk everywhere, and finally got the help of Zhang Cong's concubine Zhang before returning to the capital and working as an errand in the direct palace. Grandpa Lan, am I right?"

Grandpa Lan couldn't imagine that everything he did was in the hands of this old eunuch, so he was shocked, hurriedly kowtowed, and said in a trembling voice: "Grandpa Yang is really like a torch, and his subordinates only have admiration." ”

Gonggong Yang sighed and said: "Gonggong Lan, at the end of last year, you stood out from the crowd of eunuchs, first returned to the War Bureau, in charge of weapon building, and in less than a month, you were promoted to Shangyi Prison and became the number one eunuch under the eunuch of Shangyi Supervisor. Two months later, the palace made a decree again, and directly promoted Gonggong Lan to the chief eunuch of the Imperial Horse Prison, this kindness can be said to be unprecedented, no wonder Gonggong Lan was grateful, and swore to be loyal to Lord Lu and Lord Yang, and after arriving at the Imperial Horse Eunuch, he killed six eunuchs with a cane without moving. Grandpa Lan, you did a good job, you did a good job!"

At this point, he let out a few sneers. The laughter was shrill and thin, full of resentment. Several eunuchs guarding outside the pavilion heard this laughter, and their hearts were all shocked.

Father-in-law Lan slammed his head on the ground, he was so frightened that he didn't dare to raise his head at this time, he lay on the ground with a face, and said in a trembling voice: "Father-in-law Yang, it was Lord Lu's idea to kill those eunuchs, and his subordinates were just following orders......"

"Acting as ordered?" Yang Gonggong snorted and said, "Father-in-law Fan, Gonggong Guo, Gonggong Xu, and Gonggong Jin are indeed the four people that Lord Lu wants to kill, but Duan's father-in-law and Gong-gong Xie are the ones you want to kill?!"

Father-in-law Lan's body shook and kowtowed a few times in succession. These heads were knocked hard, and the official hat on his head rolled to the side, and he didn't dare to pick it up.

Gonggong Yang slowly walked to the stone table, sat on the stone bench, picked up the wine glass, took a sip, and said, "Gonggong Lan, you can now say that you are proud of the spring breeze." It's just that you don't have to forget that more than ten years ago, the case of destroying more than 200 members of the Fang family in Fujian was handled by your father-in-law Lan. ”

As he spoke, he took out an inch-long piece of white paper from his arms, held it in his hand and played with it for a moment, and laughed sharply: "Gonggong Lan, don't forget, although this warrant is just a small piece of paper, it can ask for the head of the eunuch, the head of the chief eunuch of the Imperial Horse Prison in the twenty divisions of the palace!"

Outside the Shajiabao of Hutou Rock, a cave in the valley.

Mrs. Sha said: "When Yiming spoke, Uncle Hou had already unbuttoned Yiming's shirt, but he saw a black palm print on Yiming's left chest. When Uncle Hou saw the palm print, he immediately exclaimed: 'Poisonous sand palm?!' When I heard these three words, I was also startled, stopped crying, and said to Uncle Hou: 'Poisonous sand palm, is this martial art very powerful?' Uncle Hou told an aunt to go to the Bao Chinese medicine pharmacy to get the wound medicine, and said to me: "I want to teach the eldest and young grandmother to know, so according to legend, this poisonous sand palm is the unique martial art of the Lingnan Hundred Poison Sect." When practicing this martial art, poisonous snakes, centipedes, poisonous scorpions and other poisons are taken, and the poisonous juice is squeezed out and mixed with iron sand to make poisonous sand. Every day, a pair of fleshy palms are struck and inserted into the poisonous sand, and the venom in the sand is sucked by internal force. After this kung fu is practiced, when you fight with people, there is poison in your palm. If you hit this poisonous palm, you will be killed on the spot, and at worst, you will be severely poisoned and your martial arts will be lost......

Before Uncle Hou finished speaking, I was terrified, and I cried again. Yilu said to Uncle Hou on the side: "Since Yan Wuji knows such a powerful martial arts, why didn't he use it to deal with the eldest brother in the first place?" When the master of practicing the poisonous sand palm is against the enemy, if the opponent is a person with deep internal strength, the poison on the palm will be counterattacked by the opponent's internal force, and it will invade his own heart, just like his own body poisoned sand palm, either death or injury. Although Yan Wuji was arrogant, he only saw the eldest young master, but he didn't dare to hold it up. He didn't know the details of the eldest young master's martial arts, so he didn't dare to use this kung fu as soon as he made a move. After that, the two exchanged hundreds of moves, and he noticed that the eldest young master had deep internal strength, and he didn't dare to use the poisonous sand palm. It's just that in the end, he was stabbed by the eldest young master's sword, and when he was in danger of life and death, he took out the poisonous sand palm regardless of it, which could hurt the eldest young master. ’”

(End of chapter)