"You are so proud. Eunuch Fuhai personally ordered me to take good care of you."
In a dimly lit room, a eunuch crossed his legs, sipped tea, and said to Derong who was lying on the bed.
From time to time, there was a sound of roaring animals and chirping of birds outside the house.
This is the Royal Beast Garden, where all kinds of rare and exotic animals are carefully raised.
There are both cute and docile cats and dogs, as well as ferocious and huge tigers, not to mention all kinds of birds.
Derong opened his eyes. The autumn day was dry, his lips were chapped and bleeding, and his mouth was full of the taste of blood.
His whole body was covered with wounds, and he was in so much pain that he was unconscious. However, this man spoke slowly and with a clear accent. His voice was not as sharp as that of ordinary eunuchs, but he had a persuasive flavor about him.
This voice was once a nightmare that he couldn't escape, and it was difficult for him to ignore it.
Looking back against the light, I saw that this person was sitting on a chair and put the tea cup on the table.
The celadon tea cup was knocked against the mahogany table, but no sound was heard at all, which shows how skillful this person is in serving tea.
Apart from Fuhai, the only person in the palace who could achieve this level of success was him.
But he is a bit more elegant than Fuhai, and his whole temperament seems to have been infiltrated from aristocratic families.
The eunuch's uniform was ironed without a single wrinkle, and there were two simple bird feathers trailing from the feathered hat on his head.
The eunuchs in the palace are all men who are missing a piece. If there is a missing piece, it must be made up elsewhere.
Therefore, any high-ranking eunuch will find beautiful feathers to put on his hat.
The higher the status, the longer and more beautiful the feathers will be.
There were only two people in the palace who were exceptions to this matter.
One of them is Eunuch Fuhai, who is beside the Holy One. He serves the Holy One every day, and no one knows his identity. There is no need to use this method to show oneself, and the feathers are too long, which will disturb the Holy One's sight, and also affect his ability to serve tea and water.
Another person is the eunuch Hua Jincheng, the leader of the Royal Beast Garden. Although the Royal Beast Garden is not a prosperous place, the feathers in the palace all come from the Bird Department of the Royal Beast Garden, so naturally there are good ones.
He picks first.
But he never cared about this. All the beautiful feathers were left to other eunuchs. He only inserted a few fallen bird feathers into them every day.
Ordinarily, such a skilled and measured person should not be buried in the Royal Beast Garden, but the burns on his left cheek were too horrific, and he could not serve the nobles as it would hinder the view.
I can only stay in this beast garden for decades.
Derong moved his fingers and saw numerous scars on his body, including broken ribs and leg bones. He endured the pain and called out: "Godfather."
The eunuchs in the palace are all people who have no children and grandchildren, but after all, they are transformed from men.
What decent eunuch doesn't have many "sons"?
Hua Jincheng had many "sons", and before he was taken away by the fifth prince, he was the most inconspicuous one.
Hua Jincheng said: "The Royal Beast Garden is not a good place. A grasshopper is more valuable than a slave's life. They are crawling out with their heads sharpened. It's good for you. You managed to crawl out and now you are crawling back."
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Derong said: "My son is useless and he has let down his godfather."
After saying that, he coughed a few times, and blood oozed from his lips, which caused injuries in his body and made him frown in pain.
Hua Jincheng stood up holding the tea he just drank, and walked slowly to his side.
He looked at Derong who was lying on the bed with wounds all over his body, took a big sip of tea, condescendingly spat it on Derong's face, then took out the handkerchief from his waist and wiped the water stains from the corners of his mouth.
Derong's lips were wet. He stretched out his tongue and licked them. His throat, which was so dry that it was burning, felt better.
Suffering this humiliation, he only trembled a few times, and then said: "Thank you Godfather for the reward."
Are servants in the palace considered human beings?
Of course not.
Derong had been with the fifth prince for a long time, and he only remembered how the master bullied the slaves, but he forgot how the slaves bullied the slaves.
He should keep this kind of treatment in mind, now it's just a return to the past.
Hua Jincheng seemed to be pleased by his knowing look, and raised the corners of his scarlet lips and said: "After staying with the fifth prince for several years, you are quite well-behaved."
When the fifth prince was mentioned, Derong's eyes were filled with pain.
Hua Jincheng said: "Tell me, you finally got out, what are you going to do when you come back?"
Derong was afraid that his emotions would be exposed and Hua Jincheng would see the clues, so he closed his eyes and said: "It was my son who was not careful. When he was instigating the relationship between him and the sixth prince, he failed to control the heat and let the fifth prince hit the sixth prince directly.
, my son was driven back.”
He still doesn't know what Hua Jincheng's purpose is, and he must not expose the ulterior hobby between the fifth prince and him.
The most important thing is that as the fifth prince treats him better and better, he becomes more and more afraid.
He was afraid that he would destroy the fifth prince.
In the Royal Beast Garden, it was the fifth prince who fished the frozen man out of the snow.
He was so virtuous and capable, from a little eunuch who could step on anyone, he was picked up by the fifth prince and became the person next to the prince.
He stayed with the fifth prince for several years, and watched helplessly as he was ignored by the Holy Emperor. He watched as his temper became irritable little by little in loneliness.
He was afraid that the fifth prince's bad reputation for abusing the palace people would spread, so every time the fifth prince couldn't control his temper, he would send everyone away, and he silently endured the fifth prince's beatings and scoldings.
Every time the fifth prince calmed down, he would hug him and cry.
So pitiful, so helpless, so panicked, so afraid that he would leave.
Derong has never tasted the feeling of being needed in his life. He has been bullied and trampled on since he was born. Even if he is about to die, he can only get a word of bad luck.
In the world, only the fifth prince would take another look at him.
He stretched out his hand to the fifth prince, and the fifth prince also stretched out his hand to him.
In this impersonal palace, they warmed each other.
How could he bear to watch the fifth prince fall into the abyss with him step by step.
The reason why the sixth prince found him and the fifth prince hugging each other was because he did it on purpose.
He knew that the Sixth Prince would go to the Prince's house at that time, so he deliberately chose that time for the Sixth Prince to see.
The reason why the Sixth Prince wanted to take off his clothes was because he deliberately spilled the tea and soaked his clothes, which made the Sixth Prince want to take the opportunity to support his speculation.
He was determined to die, just to exchange for the fifth prince to go back to the path he should take when there was still room for everything.
All this must not be allowed to be known to the second person, especially the Hua Jincheng in front of us.
Hua Jincheng laughed sinisterly in his throat, and he said with unclear meaning: "You did a good job, my godfather is very pleased."
Derong looked at Hua Jincheng's burnt face, which was full of bumps and bruises, except for the raised lips, which were as scarlet as blood. He seemed to be an evil spirit that specializes in eating human brains in folk anecdotes.
He had suffered so much torture at the hands of this person that when he saw Hua Jincheng's face, he was extremely timid.
Hua Jincheng helped him pull the quilt and said: "Derong, you should cultivate yourself well. Since some people don't want you to die, you should live well."
Derong's limbs were stiff and he said, "Thank you godfather for taking care of me."