"This kind of sneaky thief, even if he dies, he won't admit that his hands and feet are not clean." The Fifth Prince said to Xue Yao, "There is no need to nag at him, if he can jump up a ten foot high wall, he must have kung fu, last month the instructors praised Seventh Brother for his amazing insight into moves and footwork, Seventh Brother will never accuse him wrongly."
The sixth prince stared at the eunuch with a wary look, whispered: "This thief is so good, do not go to the examination of martial arts, to fight for the position of generals, but also do not go to the conscription of the imperial guards, preferring to enter the palace as a slave, which must be fishy."
Xue Yao whispered, "Your Highness, it is because I suspect that there is something fishy behind this person that I want to ask him a few words alone."
Because he had personally seen Xue Yao's boldness and determination in collecting grain in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, the Sixth Prince trusted Xue Yao very much in his heart.
Since Xue Yao insisted on making such a request, he must have his reasons, the Sixth Prince turned around and whispered to the Fifth Prince, turning back to fulfill Xue Yao's request.
Xue Yao hurriedly stepped forward and made a gesture of invitation to that eunuch.
The two of them walked to the corner of the veranda where no one was around, and Xue Yao asked him directly and in a low voice, "You need money urgently?"
The eunuch immediately bowed his head and denied, "The slave girl is unjustly accused!"
Xue Yao couldn't keep the princes waiting for too long, and put on a stern face: "Listen, this is the Crown Prince's Palace, and you stole and escaped, causing the Fifth Prince to fall and injure himself, do you know how big a crime this is? With you biting no theft, it is impossible to get away with it, take a board can not be a matter of fact, involving the royal suspects, will be sent directly to the Northern Township Division awaiting trial, need I tell you what is that place?"
"I beg Your Excellency to spare the slave girl's lowly life, the slave girl will never dare to do so again." That eunuch's face turned even redder, but there was still no fear in his eyes.
Xue Yao looked at him sternly, "Not only can I beg the princes to spare your life, but I can also lend you money to tide you over, all I ask is that you tell me why you need this money, why you ambushed the crown prince, and who sent you?"
The eunuch raised his eyes, the dark gaze of the murderous spirit revealed, whispered to beg for mercy, but his voice was permeated with a brutal threatening hostility: "Your Excellency, where do you start? Your money bag is slave girl stole, slave girl can confess. All of us are just going to the palace to make a living, how can we talk about ambushing the crown prince? The slave girl can't take the blame."
Xue Yao grabbed his arm and frowned sharply, "I'm trying to help you, there's no point in you sophistry with me, will the torturers of the Northern Zhenfu Division listen to what you have to say? They have ten thousand ways to get you to voluntarily confess, at that time, I'm afraid that your good legs are already ruined."
The eunuch stared at Xue Yao for a while, slowly straightening his waist, his stature surprisingly half a head taller than Xue Yao's, completely losing the cowering demeanor from a moment ago.
"Why does the eunuch want to help me?" The eunuch asked him.
Xue Yao's afterglow glanced at the impatient Fifth Prince waiting in the distance, and turned back to answer anxiously, "I have always liked to make friends with Jianghu warriors, just now I saw you leap, as light as a swallow, effortlessly over the high wall, so that I admire in my heart, you're such a good stance, why don't you get a martial arts degree? Into the palace as a slave is really some pity."
That eunuch stared expressionlessly at Xue Yao for a moment before replying in a low voice, "A jianghu warrior who robbed a house, is the eunuch also willing to befriend?"
Xue Yao froze.
The eunuch snorted coldly and said, "This cheap life of mine should have been accounted for in the prison long ago, there is nothing to be sorry for, that money bag of yours, I will bury it under that plum tree in the west courtyard, and I am sorry for any other doubts, I have no comment to make."
Xue Yao: "......"
This mysterious man is really hard to communicate with, no wonder there is no mention of his background in the whole book.
Listen to his words, as if he had been a bandit in the past, there is no qualification to take the right path of martial arts, even if this is really the case, there is no need to enter the palace as a eunuch ah?
"I'll help you round up in a moment." Xue Yao gave up pursuing the matter and calmly said to the eunuch, "You told His Highness that you had just knocked down my purse, and after picking it up, you wanted to return it, but you became greedy because of the twenty taels of silver tickets, and it was not a premeditated theft."
The eunuch looked shocked for a long time before he spoke, "Why do you want to help me? You want me to do things for you?"
"No need." Xue Yao said, "You've been reduced to this state, so don't suspect me of coveting anything from you, I just admire your martial arts and am giving you a chance to change your ways, and the next time won't be the last. I'll still leave that sentence here - if you're in dire need of silver, I can lend it to you, as long as you inform me of the proper use for it, and why you've entered the palace as a slave."
That eunuch looked puzzled, but he didn't answer Xue Yao either.
"Ah Yao!" The Fifth Prince under the veranda just couldn't wait any longer and shouted at Xue Yao, "Don't nag at him! Bring him here!"
Having no choice but to greet the eunuch, Xue Yao could only say, "Go over there first and do as I say."
*
"Picked up?" The Fifth Prince huffed, "Didn't you just say that the purse was taken by him?"
The Sixth Prince said anxiously, "Don't listen to this thief's rhetoric, picking up property for yourself and stealing are two completely different things!"
The Seventh Prince also gave his own meticulous judgment on that eunuch, "Liar!"
"Moreover, how could he, a sweeping eunuch, have such lightness?" The Fifth Prince said aloud, "It must be pursued to the end!"
The Sixth Prince agreed, "Ah Yao, there is no need to show mercy to those who commit theft."
That eunuch seemed to have expected that he would be in trouble, his face was no longer in a state of fear, and he even raised his eyes expressionlessly to look at the three emperors.
Deadly gaze, no emotions were visible.
The Fifth Prince was startled by the eunuch's internalized hostility.
The Sixth Prince stared back at the eunuch with a candid gaze.
The Seventh Prince expressionlessly locked eyes with the eunuch and suddenly turned around, his bun face burying itself towards Xue Yao's left shoulder, "Your Highness is so scared."
Xue Yao calmly raised her hand and smoothed down the little fat cub's head hair, "It's fine, it's fine, I won't let him get close to your highness."
It couldn't be helped that his family's fake Dragon Pride had never been so matter-of-fact and didn't care about dignity when they felt tangible danger.
Three years old and not forgotten.
"What are you looking at!" The Fifth Prince walked up to the eunuch with his chin raised, his eyes fiercely locking with his: "You dare to show off in front of me just because you know a little bit of kung fu? I'll let you see what real kung fu is today!"
"Your Highness?" Xue Yao was startled, fearing that the Fifth Prince would have to go through with the mysterious eunuch.
It's not looking for a fight!
In case he couldn't beat them, the relationship would be even worse, and he was expecting the mysterious expert to point out the Fifth Prince's kung fu!
"Men, go to the office room and invite Guard Zhao over! Hurry up!" The Fifth Prince was also afraid of losing face, so he didn't intend to go on by himself.
Ordered to bring in a second-ranked inner guard to have a couple of moves with that thieving eunuch.
As soon as the guards arrived, the Fifth Prince announced a martial arts cut.
The guards and eunuchs walked to the open space in the center of the side yard, and the royal prince and attendants retreated to the porch to watch the battle.
At the order of the Fifth Prince, the match began, and the guards made a forward charge, swept their flying legs across the ground, and kicked the eunuch into the flowerbed.
The eunuch's hat was kicked off and his hair fell in a few loose strands.
The eunuch struggled to raise his head in the flower bushes, and saw that there were finally a few relieved smiles on the Fifth Prince's face, which led him to pick up his own three mountain hats, and crawled out of the flower beds on his knees, with a look of dying weakness.
"I knew that this thief is only good at some legwork." The Fifth Prince said disdainfully, "If he could take three moves from the guards, I would have believed that he had some skills and wouldn't be able to steal property. Now that he can't even dodge a kick, it seems that he can only escape over the wall."
When that eunuch heard this, his face changed, and he suddenly touched the ground with his head and said, "Please, Your Highness, give the slave girl another chance!"
The great inner guard gave the eunuch a sideways glance and looked away from him with a snort.
The prince is really incomprehensible, hurriedly called him to the Prince's Palace, actually let him with a eunuch match, spread out all called people laugh.
The Fifth Prince turned his head to the guard and said, "One more match, Guard Zhao, say hello before you strike, lest he be unconvinced."
"Yes, Your Highness." The guards led the order aloud.
The second round of the bout began, and the crowd didn't bother to back away, waiting with disdain for the great inner guards to kick the thieving eunuch's ass once again.
The eunuch's hat had just been kicked and lost, his hair falling in strands, the side of his face caked with mud and sand from a gravel-scuffed wound, and a look of utter despondency, but his eyes had changed.
His gaze stared steadily at the guards, the cold wind of early winter skimming over his disheveled hair, and in those weathered eyes, he gradually released the killing aura that had been suppressed for many years.
The guard was a little bit furious by the eunuch's stare, and his mood became buoyant, just wanting a quick fight, so he bellowed and swung his fist at the eunuch-
The eunuch's feet do not move, head side, the tip of the nose and the guard's fists can be wiped, and then a line of clouds and water turn, the eunuch even instantly turned to the side of the guard, lifting his foot violently stepped on the guard's knee nest!
There was a muffled "plop" sound, and the guard dropped to one knee, turning his head in a panic to retaliate, only to see an iron fist of sandbag proportions already slamming into his face!
The fist suddenly withdrew its force and stopped at the tip of his nose, not landing on his face.
With just the wind of that punch, the guard could already imagine what would happen if that punch came down with a bang.
The watching squires were quiet for a moment.
The expressions on the faces of the three young emperors were also stunned.
There was silence in the side yard, only the sound of fluttering wings of flying birds.
"I lost." Guard Zhao uttered these words with a wooden expression.
*
"Why is there such a powerful eunuch beside big brother?" The Fifth Prince sat in the flower hall, staring with a depressed expression at the "expert eunuch" kneeling by the threshold.
"You can even beat a second grade guard, why don't you take the martial arts section?" The Sixth Prince's little bit of anger had been worn away, and only curiosity remained in his heart.
"Slave servant of lowly origin, my father committed a crime in the countryside, I am therefore not qualified to participate in the countryside examination ground." The eunuch knelt on the ground and replied nonchalantly.
Xue Yao was not happy.
This "mysterious high man" is also too snobbish, he just asked when the eunuch blindly fooled, the prince asked so seriously to find excuses!
Surely that must be an excuse.
The mysterious eunuch had this ability, and even if he couldn't take the martial arts course, he could still enlist in the army and make a name for himself under the tent of a famous general.
No matter what, it's not possible to enter the palace as a slave with a clean slate.
He must be up to something else when he enters the palace.
Soon after, in the west courtyard of the Crown Prince's Palace, the little eunuch who had just served tea to a few emperors quickly slipped behind the wigwam.
Seeing that the old eunuch-in-chief was waiting there, the young eunuch immediately bowed his head and reported, "Eunuch Zheng exonerated himself by picking up the purse without mentioning your old man."
The old eunuch nodded and waved him away.
The young eunuch standing behind the old eunuch was also relieved and smiled at the old eunuch, "Godfather don't need to worry, that fool won't give us up, even if he does, my son will also take the blame for Godfather!"
The old eunuch snorted coldly: "When the Crown Prince comes back, report the charges heavily, and don't beat this fool for thirty large boards without relieving his hatred!"
The young eunuch nodded his head and said, ''This time, he must not be lightly spared! He dared to lay his hands on the red man beside the Seventh Prince, and nearly implicated Godfather! We might as well hurry up and transfer him to Princess Hui's side to save him from causing trouble again."
"There's no rush." The old eunuch laughed strangely in a shrill voice, "Let him raise an additional fifty taels of silver before saying anything."