The maid's road to success

The atmosphere in Kyoto suddenly became tense. Many guards who were originally stationed outside entered Kyoto, and the patrol officers were also very busy. An Wenniang received more and more news today, and she was already very busy. Fortunately, Master Yuxi and Master Yuxi have become An Zizhong's right-hand men and helped to share a lot of the work. Because the two of them still cannot see people, they rarely go out and only live near An Zizhong's house. After An Wenniang initially screened the useless news, she would send the rest to Master Yuxi.

Bai Mei helped sort the letters while looking at the steady and gentle An Wen Niang. In the past two years in Kyoto, An Wen Niang has become calmer than before. Sometimes when encountering urgent things, she would feel less impatient when seeing her.

"Miss, didn't Eunuch Cheng suggest that we should not get rid of Eunuch Wang from the Imperial Kitchen yet? Why did you give the medicine to the two brothers Xiao Liangzi?"

An Wen Niang didn't expect Bai Mei to ask this. Seeing that Hong Mei and Su Niang were also curious, she sighed. At that time, An Zi Zhong was not very convenient, so he asked her to solve it. She originally thought that Eunuch Cheng was right. It would be better for Eunuch Wang in the Imperial Kitchen not to die first, so that more news could be conveyed from the Imperial Kitchen, and Xiao Liangzi and the others could use the Imperial Kitchen as a transit point to better convey the message that Eunuch Cheng wanted to convey.

After all, Xiao Liangzi and the other two were able to get more information in the imperial kitchen because they were favored by Eunuch Wang, and few people would suspect that the two were actually Eunuch Cheng's men. However, when An Wenniang learned about their experience, she was unable to consider so much.

"The two brothers Xiao Liangzi and Xiao Chunzi have lived a very lonely life since they were young, so they wanted to enter the palace to become eunuchs. After all, entering the palace would give them a lot of money. Xiao Liangzi originally planned to enter the palace by himself and give the money he earned to his younger brother Xiao Chunzi to keep for food and to find a wife. However, they were seen by the eunuchs around Eunuch Wang, who designed to make both of them eunuchs. Xiao Chunzi originally did not plan to separate from his brother, and he did not object to this matter. However, Eunuch Wang had a special fetish and liked fair and beautiful young eunuchs the most. When he saw the two brothers, he directly asked them to be by his side. On the surface, he said that he was taking them as apprentices, but in fact, he treated the two brothers as playthings and tortured them a lot. In addition to the wounds on their faces and exposed skin, there were also wounds under their clothes."

An Wenniang now felt frightened when she thought about the situation described to her by the spy in the palace.

"The eunuchs in the palace are cruel and use all kinds of methods, such as burning with fire, cutting flesh with blunt knives, stabbing with needles, burning with fire, and whipping, but they just don't let people die. If it weren't for Eunuch Cheng who accidentally discovered it and taught them some ways to save their lives, and asked them to share some of Eunuch Wang's energy with others, these two would have been unrecognizable. Such young children, only sixteen or seventeen years old, have suffered so much. I don't want to risk their safety. Besides, Eunuch Wang is not our man. We use the two brothers Xiao Liangzi to pass on information in the imperial kitchen. Without Eunuch Wang, they will help us more wholeheartedly, but they will not be able to obtain more confidential information."

Bai Mei nodded. In order to help the two brothers Xiao Liangzi, An Wenniang even found a method from An Qing that could make people appear to have a heart attack and die. An Wenniang was forced to participate in revenge, but she always found it difficult to be cruel to the poor people. If Eunuch Wang had not tortured to death seven or eight half-grown children, making An Wenniang completely disgusted with him, she would not have made up her mind to let Xiao Liangzi take action to deal with Eunuch Wang.

Xiao Liangzi and Xiao Chunzi were locked in the house. At first, someone gave them two bowls of clean meals, but on the second day, there were only a few dry and hard cakes. If there were not two pots of water in the room, they would not have been able to swallow them.

On the third and fourth days, no one brought them food. Xiao Liangzi and Xiao Chunzi were so hungry that they were dizzy. They had eaten all the dried fruits they had hidden, but the people outside seemed to have forgotten about them and did not even bring them any water. Xiao Liangzi struggled to stand up with the help of the wall, moved to the door, and kept knocking on it. They could go without food for five or six days, but they could not live without water. Xiao Chunzi was already very weak. Seeing that his brother was still shouting, he wanted him to save some energy, but the door was suddenly opened.

Xiao Liangzi fell to the ground without warning. It turned out to be one of the imperial guards. The man with a long sword grabbed Xiao Liangzi and was about to drag him away. Xiao Chunzi hurried forward to save his brother, but he had not had any food for two days and he had no strength left. He fell to the ground. The guards who came in dragged him away and threw him in the courtyard.

At that time, countless thoughts flashed through Xiao Liangzi and Xiao Chunzi's minds. The first thing they suspected was whether their poisoning of Eunuch Wang had been discovered, and the imperial guards had been alarmed to come and demand it. They even suspected that the medicine in their hands was fake and Eunuch Wang was not dead, or that the two of them had done something at the steaming point that day had been discovered. Xiao Liangzi stopped the impulsive Xiao Chunzi with his eyes and asked him to lie on the ground and see what happened before making a decision. He quietly reached into his arms, where he had hidden a bag of chili powder. If someone really discovered anything, the two brothers would bang their heads against the wall and die rather than be tortured by those people.

But as one eunuch after another was roughly pulled out and thrown on the ground, Xiao Liangzi realized that it was not what the two brothers had done that was exposed, but something really happened. Otherwise, why were so many eunuchs pulled out, and even the third-rank eunuchs were not treated as they deserved.

"What's going on with these two people?"

Although the captured eunuchs were dragged here by force, they all got up quickly, either kneeling or standing. Only these two remained lying on the ground as if they were dead.

"Your Excellency, these two did something wrong a few days ago and were locked up in the house to reflect on their actions."

A guard received instructions and went up to check on the two men. They had chapped lips and shriveled stomachs, and it was obvious that they were very hungry. He stared at the eunuch in charge with a bad look, asking if he was actually using private punishment in the palace. The palace had its own rules. The eunuch in charge had the right to punish the eunuch if he made a mistake. If he made a serious mistake, he would be sent to the Ministry of Punishment to serve. It was not allowed to lock them up without food and water like this. Moreover, the two men had a lot of red spots on their bodies, and they looked like they had been beaten. Although the guards did not like eunuchs, they did not like someone torturing others either.

The eunuch in charge was also shocked when he saw the situation of the two brothers, but he did not order their food to be deprived.

"No, they were fighting with other eunuchs. They were allergic to peaches and got a lot of them during the fight. The red spots on their bodies were caused by allergies. I saw that they were already in a very bad state, so I didn't punish them. I asked them to reflect on their actions for five days and never had anyone deduct their food."

The eunuch in charge looked around and asked a few simple questions, only to find out that it was the man who had fought with Xiao Liangzi that day who had bribed the eunuch who delivered food. The eunuch had not delivered food for three days, so he immediately grabbed the man and asked him to stand up.

"It's him. He likes to get close to Eunuch Wang on weekdays. Xiao Liangzi and his brother are Eunuch Wang's most trusted disciples and they often serve by his side. This man often fights with the two brothers. Four days ago, he and Xiao Liangzi also fought. I locked Xiao Liangzi and the other two up for reflection, but Eunuch Wang was not feeling well after returning and needed someone to take care of him. Although he was injured, it was not serious. He took the initiative to ask to take care of Eunuch Wang, and I agreed. I didn't expect that he would secretly cut off the food for the two of them."

When the guards heard this, they looked at the eunuch who was being pulled out with contempt and suspicion. His skin was very white and tender, his face was powdered, and he was wearing a pink purse. They couldn't help but feel a little disgusted.

"What's his name? Did you kill Eunuch Wang?"

Captain Wang Jiang of the imperial guards looked at the somewhat charming eunuch and asked directly, if it weren't for the fact that someone had tampered with the emperor's meals a few days ago, although it was not something dangerous, after all, someone had tampered with it in the imperial kitchen, which meant that there were spies in the imperial kitchen, so he warned Eunuch Wang and several others and kept an eye on the movements in the imperial kitchen.

Unexpectedly, after only four or five days, Eunuch Wang died. The imperial physician said that he had palpitations, but the emperor felt that Eunuch Wang's death was strange. A few days ago, someone used the imperial meal to spread the news that Cheng En Gong was hoarding weapons. He had not found any concrete evidence, and the chief eunuch of the imperial kitchen died. It was too coincidental, so he asked the imperial guards to send a team to check the situation.

After a round of interrogation, the Xiao Liangzi brothers were locked up after Eunuch Wang came back. Since everyone could testify, they did not receive much attention. Instead, the fair-skinned eunuch Xiao Zhouzi became the key suspect. He was pressed on a long bench and beaten by two guards. The two brothers huddled in a corner, wolfing down a steamed bun. The eunuch in charge felt guilty when he saw them. He had never thought of asking a single question and really let the two men starve to this state.

"Eat slowly and don't choke."

He also took a kettle from the side and gave them. Xiao Liangzi gave the kettle to his younger brother first and waited for him to drink most of it before he took a few big gulps. Finally, he regained some strength. The guards on the side saw this and their suspicion of the two people was immediately dispelled. What else can they do in this state? Besides, when they went to look for them just now, there was a big lock hanging outside the door. The two people were dragged in without even the strength to struggle. No one could believe that such a person would be so capable of killing people.

Everyone's attention was still focused on the people who had been entering and leaving Eunuch Wang's room recently. Xiao Liangzi and Xiao Chunzi hid in another crowd, looking at Xiao Zhouzi who was beaten half to death. They were very excited and their legs were shaking. Eunuch Wang was finally dead, he was finally dead.

Xiao Liangzi held Xiao Chunzi's hand tightly with tears in his eyes, his nails digging into his skin. On the one hand he was excited, and on the other hand he wanted to prevent his brother from being too happy and revealing his true colors. Fortunately, everyone just thought that the two of them had suffered a lot in the past two days, and that they were sad because of the death of their master, and no one noticed the joy in Xiao Liangzi's eyes.

When they were forced by the guards and locked up in their respective rooms, Xiao Chunzi excitedly waved his hands in the room, wantonly venting his emotions, but still did not dare to make too much noise. Xiao Liangzi also slid down to sit on the ground leaning against the door. The burning wound on the inside of his thigh stimulated his thoughts. He finally killed the devil and escaped from the control of the pervert alive.

"Brother, what about the medicine?"

Most of the contacts with Eunuch Cheng were made by Xiao Liangzi, so Xiao Chunzi didn't know the details of the medicine that was requested. Everything that could be brought into the palace was carefully inspected. The fact that the medicine could be brought in after being inspected was unexpected. Xiao Chunzi didn't think the medicine was that powerful. He thought that at most it would make Eunuch Wang weaker and unable to attack the two brothers. He didn't expect it to be so powerful.

Xiao Liangzi stopped his brother from talking, turned his head and leaned over the crack of the door to look outside. Seeing that no one was watching and the door was locked, he felt relieved and pulled his brother to the room inside.

"That medicine is not poison, so nothing can be found on the bead. The people at the palace gate always use silver needles to test, which is useless. The medicine on the bead needs to be paired with a special food, deer blood, as a seal. The hot deer blood will stimulate the stability of the medicine itself and continue to stimulate the blood until the heart aches. This is when the person is completely poisoned and will die in just two hours."

Xiao Chunzi couldn't help but admire his master's power, for he actually had such a powerful and undetectable medicine. When Xiao Liangzi heard Eunuch Cheng's description, he knew that this was a medicine that could really help him. At that time, Eunuch Cheng told him to make sure that Eunuch Wang took enough deer blood, deer meat and other foods within two days after taking the medicine. Xiao Liangzi did not tell him that Eunuch Wang would take deer blood regularly.

Even if Eunuch Wang didn't say it himself, the eunuchs under him would present him a cup of deer blood and red date tea every three days. Originally, Eunuch Wang was used to taking deer blood, just to ensure that he had enough energy to torture the two brothers. Xiao Liangzi couldn't help but thank his master for his attentiveness, who even thought about the inspection of things entering the palace and how to protect himself after drugging him. The hard days of these years are finally over. Following the new master in the future, things will only get better and better.

"Chunsheng, now that Eunuch Wang is dead, I'm not sure if we can stay in the imperial kitchen in the future. But no matter where we go, we must remember that our master is the one who pulled us out of this sea of ​​suffering. As long as our master needs me, I will go through fire and water without hesitation. But you, I want you to find a safe place to work, so that at least one of us can live safely."

Xiao Chunzi shook her head. Her brother had been protecting her all his life. He had wanted to enter the palace in exchange for his own survival, but for some strange reason, both brothers could not escape. Because of Eunuch Wang's special hobby, the two brothers had no idea how much torture they had suffered. It was always her brother who stood in front of them, and when they could not bear it anymore, they would become the next target of abuse by Eunuch Wang. Many times they wanted to just die, but they were always unwilling to do so. Such a cruel and perverted person could enjoy flattery and live a rich life, while the two brothers were tortured so badly that they could only die tragically.

Fortunately, Eunuch Cheng gave them hope, and they held on until now, and finally killed the evil man.

"Brother, don't try to persuade me. If it weren't for the master, I would have killed myself a year ago. The life I have now is all given to me by the master. As long as the master needs me, I will always help the master. We are brothers together, and we are not afraid of anyone when we have a companion."

At this moment, Xiao Liangzi felt that his younger brother had really grown up. He touched his hair with satisfaction. The two of them leaned against each other and snuggled up to each other. From now on, every day was worth looking forward to.