Chapter 90 The Eighth Grandpa

Author: I have a pot

Chapter 90 The Eighth Grandpa

The sudden death of Eunuch Chang shocked the court and the people. Everyone knew that the emperor had lost a confidant eunuch and was in a bad mood. At this time, whoever got close to him was in trouble. So everyone felt nervous during the morning court, for fear that he would cause him to say something wrong.

The emperor was angry. He ran away without a trace as soon as he was about to go to court.

Xiang Daying got the news and went to Mrs. Xiang’s East Crossing Courtyard and sat silently for a long time.

The tea brought by Madam Su had not moved yet, Mrs. Xiang rubbed the red beans on the plate and hung her head, and her silver hair became denser.

When he returned from Dongqianyuan, Xiang Daying had no appetite. He had never tasted the salted duck, spicy fried rabbit meat, and steamed beef in the kitchen. After a meal, he only drank half a bowl of rice and red date soup.

Tang Xiaoniang tore up a salted duck leg and ate it, and ate half a plate of rabbit meat, about ten pieces of steamed beef, and another half a plate of vinegar and pickled sour radish, and two bowls of rice soup. It seems that she has a lot of appetite.

"Eunuch Chang was also powerful at the time, and he couldn't use all the money in his hand. Unfortunately, he was rich but not lucky. He died so soon." Tang Xiaoniang took the water handed over by her maid and rinsed her mouth, spit it back.

In the copper cup, he wiped the corner of his mouth with a white towel, threw the white towel back into the copper plate, and took a sip of tea: "The master is with him, don't you go to see him off for the last journey?"

"Don't go."

"In the past two years, the relationship between the master and Eunuch Chang seems to have eased. I often hear the master say that Eunuch Chang is helping you. Eunuch Chang is gone, so the master really won't go?"

"Don't go."

"It's better if he doesn't go. After all, he is a eunuch. Even if he is a face-to-face with the emperor, he is still a eunuch. How could he say that the second-rank dynasty would give a eunuch a farewell? It's nothing but laughing at. We are the family inheritance of poetry and books.

With integrity.”

The Prime Minister's Mansion is not going to go to Changfu to pay tribute.

Xiang Suining had to go alone.

Changfu.

The Ministry of Rites has begun to build a spiritual platform.

Entering the alley where Eunuch Chang’s mansion is located, white silk has been tied to the short trees on both sides. A thousand-layer white flower is hung on the plaque of the Chang’s mansion. The wooden doors on both sides are also wrapped in white cloth. Several of them were raised at home during their lifetime.

The half-old child slaves were all wearing white clothes and white hats, and their shoes were covered with white cloth.

The rain is heavy, the east wind is facing the face, and the east wind is wrapped with rain and sprinkles on the pedestrians, and their bodies are wet.

The green tiles in Changfu were washed by the rain. Several people from the Ministry of Rites took books to direct a few eunuchs to work, asking for a tent to set up a few white flowers there, or wrap a white cloth for the lanterns and the eaves.

Hanging a white belt, several slaves stood at the door silently, lowering their heads, unable to see their faces clearly. Two rows of guards were on duty at the door of Changfu, wearing black clothes and holding scabbards in their hands, majestic and solemn.

There were not many officials who came to Changfu yesterday.

After all, when people leave, tea is cold, and they are not the relatives of the dynasty or wealthy families that have been replaced by generations. After death, they still have descendants to reuse. After Eunuch Chang is a eunuch. Even if he is the leader of a eunuch, he will be defeated after death.

He didn't even have a legitimate heir, so what's the point of seeing him? Naturally, no one will do anything useless.

But those who were favored by the old man Gonggong came to take a look, such as Tong Zheng, went in and sighed, "I entered the seventh rank of the court, and the official introduction was humble, and they didn't even set a place for me to sit.

, I stood there and felt embarrassed. At least Eunuch Chang moved a brocade stool for me and served me a cup of tea."

Another fifth-rank official nodded and said, "Who said no? That year, outside the hall, a general made me ugly in public and was about to attack me. Eunuch Chang said that he had some private words to me and took me away.

There, I have saved my last bit of dignity.”

Seven or eight more officials came that day. They just stood in the inner hall and ran out, saying that there was something wrong with the mansion, and they gave the money and got the account book and ran away like a mouse.

Later, Xiang Suining learned that these officials did not want to come, but the emperor heard that there were not many people going to pay tribute to Eunuch Chang, so people were indirectly criticized. These people had a delicate mind. The emperor just wanted Eunuch Chang's funeral to be more beautiful, so they came to decorate the storefront.

That's it. So I came to charge the numbers, so naturally it came and went quickly.

Xiang Suining climbed up the steps and was stopped at the gate of Changfu.

"What are you doing?" An imperial guard pulled his sword and stopped her.

Most of the people who pay homage to Eunuch Chang were bureaucrats. A girl like Xiang Suining came slowly without applying makeup, with a loose bun, and a long willow green skirt with a white curtain and a flowing and stretching. This is the outfit of an ordinary woman, not a palace dress.

The Imperial Guards did not understand what the intersection of her, a weak woman, had with Eunuch Chang, and just thought she was a crowd of people watching the fun. After all, many people passed by here in the past few days, or were looking for children, or

The tofu seller, when he walked to the gate of Changfu, he stretched his neck and looked in, but he wanted to see what the eunuch whom the emperor liked did after he died. Anyway, he was idle.

"We are from the Xiang family, this is our second girl." Mingzhu stood in front of Xiang Suining: "Good you, let us second girl go in."

"It turns out that he is the daughter of the Grandpa Xiang family, and he is often offended." The Imperial Guard retracted the knife back into the sheath: "But come to pay tribute to Eunuch Chang, so it's better to come to Master Xiang. You are a woman who suddenly comes to visit, afraid that it's not appropriate."

The words of the Imperial Guards also have some truths. The reason is that Xiang Daying should come from. Xiang Daying refused, and Xiang Suining could not force his head without drinking water.

Besides, she really wants to send Eunuch Chang to her own way.

"Let her come in. She is an old acquaintance of her father-in-law." Eunuch Baxi did not wear eunuch uniforms, but an ordinary white robe and a white hat. She walked out from behind the tent table and personally welcomed Xiang Suining.

Next to the account book, a gentleman was registering, and it could be vaguely seen that it said: Tong Zhengtong, 50 taels, Fan Xiufan, 100 taels, and the son-in-law, etc.

Baxi welcomed Suining, and the Imperial Guards were happy to let go.

When he reached the account book, Xiang Suining followed Tong Zheng and others' example and silently gave up fifty taels of silver.

"The father-in-law is very happy that the girl can come, and it won't cost the girl." Baxi returned the money to Xiang Suining: "The funeral expenses in the future, ranging from coffins to small pieces of white silk, are all expenses in the palace. The palace is recorded.

The account I have not spent much money, so the girl should take the money back.”

"This is my wish, please accept it." Xiang Suining silently handed over the silver.

Baxi did not refuse anymore. The accountant took a pen to prepare to record it, but he didn't know what to remember. He raised his head and asked Xiang Suining: "Is it the girl's name written?"

The accountant is a little familiar.

Xiang Suining told him: "Just write about the old lady of the Prime Minister's Mansion."

Xiang Daying refused to come to pay tribute. Although Xiang Lao Lady did not express her objection, she still took 100 taels of her dowry and asked Xiang Suining to express her feelings. Generally, officials gave fifty taels, so Xiang Suining was not easy to overturn, so she was also

As she was given fifty taels, she was just a child, and she seemed more formal in writing about the old lady of the prime minister's family.

Eight joys are in front, and mutual success is in back.

Bypassing the screen wall, the courtyard suddenly became clear, with flowers and plants flourishing, and the pruning was meticulous, and several pots of green plants stretched out their branches as if stretching their waists.

The stone table and benches are clean. There is a well next to the stone table. The wheels on the well are still wrapped with thick ropes. When nothing happens, Eunuch Chang still sits at the stone table and personally makes a bucket of water to make tea. It is the hottest in summer.

When you make a bucket of water to soak the watermelon, the watermelon will surely be cool. Eating a piece will make you feel very comfortable and your sweat will fall. Sometimes you make another bucket of water to drink for the parrots under the eaves.

Then wash the parrot's cage. The flowers and plants around the well are also very pleasant to grow because they are wet.

The corridor is deep, with carved gallery and painted buildings. The corridor covered with gray blankets turns a few turns. As soon as it enters the backyard, there are several smaller bedrooms there, and a few and a half of the slaves are kept there.

There is also a small kitchen mixed with it, and there is another warehouse and a horse house.

Now the corridor is covered with white cloth, and Chang's mansion is simple and lonely. Only the starling under the corridor calls out from time to time, "How hot is the tea? Do you remember?" or the tone of Eunuch Chang.

Apart from the white silk and white flowers, everything seemed to have not changed. Close your eyes, you can also imagine that Eunuch Chang was tilted on the lounge chair and humming a small song, while the starling under the corridor flapped his wings and drank water.

Inner Hall.

The inner hall is a little dark.

In the past, many paintings were hung in the inner hall. Eunuch Chang had never read any books and did not like art. However, the emperor was happy to appreciate one or two paintings. To express his kindness, he framed them and hung them, and sometimes he went.

There are some shopping on the market, and it is very lively. After all, he and a few small slaves in the mansion. You can see more things when you look up, so you won’t feel empty.

Now there is no painting on the wall, all cleared, except for a large black white flower with white characters. All other places that can be seen are covered with white silk.

Baxi explained: "The paintings are put away, and the Ministry of Rites wants to keep the mourning hall."

Xiang Suining nodded.

There is a brass incense burner on the long table. The incense burner is filled with incense ash. Three delicate incense burning lingeringly. It seems to be sandalwood, with a faint smell of sandalwood. There is a thick wrist-shaped one on both sides of the incense burner.

white wax.

Under the long table were two sloppy white porcelain bottles with a half-person height, with a tall incense thicker than a man's arms inserted into the porcelain bottle, and a few white flowers covered with their heads.

The porcelain bottle is facing forward, and there is a sandalwood square table.

There are various offerings on the square table, including chicken, meat, fruit, oranges, and apples.

Under the square table is a copper basin. A thick stack of yellow paper is placed on one side of the copper basin. There are already a lot of ashes in the copper basin. It seems that it was burned by the person who came to pay tribute to the front. The wind blows from the threshold and blows.

The copper basin was "whimpering" sound, and the paper ash in the copper basin was flying in circles, hovering in the inner hall, flying to the beams, and falling down again, ashes all over the room, and offerings on the square table

It was also stained with dust.

The best pineapple wood coffin is also the best paint, which is bright and dense. It is said that there is a kind of lacquer tree outside Qingcheng. The paint on the top is cut and applied to the coffin can ensure that it will not be damaged for a hundred years, will not fade, and will not be afraid of rain.

The insect bites, but the yield of sapphire trees is small, and cutting paint is troublesome, so it is expensive and comparable to gold.

The pineapple wooden coffin is already very valuable, and the lacquer made of this lacquer tree is used to package kings, princes, generals and ministers, which is not a grievance.

There are very few families in Qingcheng who can afford such a coffin.

Xiang Suining bowed down and knelt down and burned incense himself.

Baxi knelt in front of the copper basin and cried, kissed two pieces of yellow paper and threw them into the copper basin, then wiped the tears and held the coffin of the yellow limu and said, "This coffin is appreciated by the emperor, and it is the best for Qingcheng.

The coffin shop was made overnight. I also inquired about it. Since the founding of Xuanguo, no emperor has ever bought a coffin for eunuchs. He also asked the head of the Ministry of Rites that my master has a spirit in heaven and can rest in peace."

The pineapple wooden coffin was opened with a crack, and it was not covered tightly.
To be continued...