Beauty Jianghu

Chapter 54 The Eunuch’s Wife

But he said that Yang Shucheng was hugged by this woman and could not escape.

There was a change outside, and Cao Fengying was heard saying in a sharp voice: "Huang Zhonglin has some conscience, and I cultivated him in vain. But he lost his troops and territory outside the customs, and the people are resentful. It's not easy to handle."

Huang Zhonglin said: "This is all because of the obstruction of certain ministers in the court, preventing my brother from fully displaying his talents. In fact, when it comes to losing teachers and losing land, it is even more nonsense. If you want to add guilt, let's talk about these treacherous ministers in the court. They only know How can you know how to lead troops to fight if you just sit and talk."

Cao Fengying said: "What you said makes sense. These people pretend to be incorruptible. They talk all day long and form cliques. They cannot go deep into the actual situation on the front line. They are really ruining the country with empty talk. The emperor also hates these people deeply."

Huang Chenglin said: "Come on, Eunuch Cao should understand that my brother is the true loyal minister for the country and the people. It is a shame to be harmed by these traitorous ministers. I need to ask Eunuch Cao to be considerate about this matter."

"Well, I'm thinking about what to do to silence these traitorous ministers. Chenglin, please go home and wait for news from me."

Huang Chenglin stood up and said, "It's all our fault, Eunuch Cao."

Cao Fengying served tea to see off the guests. Huang Chenglin bowed and walked out.

It turned out that Huang Zhonglin got a large wooden box of treasure from King Li Chuang. After returning to his hometown, he would not be able to use up the treasure in several lifetimes. However, he had been at home for half a year, very quiet and restless, and wanted to go out and walk around the world again.

However, the imperial court had explicitly convicted him and would not allow him to come back, so he took out the treasure in the box and followed the path of Cao Fengying, the emperor's favored eunuch. Cao Fengying spoke greedily in front of the emperor, saying that the failure of the encirclement and suppression of King Li Chuang that day was due to the treacherous officials in the court who secretly caused trouble and failed. Huang Zhonglin was a loyal minister and a rare general.

Emperor Chongzhen believed him and wanted to appoint Huang Zhonglin.

However, the number of generals leading the troops in the DPRK was exceeded, and there was no shortage of posts. Huang Zhonglin couldn't wait any longer, so he negotiated with Cao Fengying and deliberately defaulted on paying Song Chao's father, so that Song's father suffered a defeat outside the customs and was arrested and brought back to the capital for questioning.

Song's father returned to the capital and got hold of the evidence of Cao Fengying's crime of collaborating with the enemy. He wrote a memorial and presented it to the emperor. Unexpectedly, the memorial fell into Cao Fengying's hands.

Cao Fengying was so angry that she would not stop doing anything. She sent the Dongchang school captain to beat Song Chao's father to death, and then obtained an imperial edict to kill the entire Song family.

Fortunately, "Iron Mantis" Jiang Chang was being hunted by his enemies at that time and hid in the Song family as a guardian. When he found out that Cao Fengying wanted to kill the entire Song family, he fled the capital with Song Chao.

Cao Fengying sent Dongchang masters one after another to hunt down and kill Song Chao. First, to eradicate the root cause, and secondly, to find evidence of Cao Fengying's crime of collaborating with the enemy.

There was a shortage of personnel outside the pass, so Huang Zhonglin was naturally sent to lead troops to fight outside the pass. However, Huang Zhonglin was not very capable. He was defeated repeatedly and lost troops and territory. The court was in an uproar, and memorials were filed one after another to impeach Huang Zhonglin. Emperor Long Yan was furious and wanted to take him to Beijing for questioning.

Huang Zhonglin had no choice but to collect treasures outside the customs, and sent his younger brother Huang Chenglin to Beijing day and night to find Cao Fengying to find a way to survive the disaster.

After Huang Chenglin left, Cao Fengying sat on the chair, holding the gift list, and felt very embarrassed. Leave him alone. Huang Zhonglin was the candidate recommended by him. When the time came, he would not be able to escape his involvement. If not, he was outside the customs. It was a mess, everyone knew it.

Cao Fengying took the gift list, looked at it again and again, and thought, especially that Meng Zhengxiang, who united a group of officials and kept giving memorials, even I was a little annoyed by him. Even if I don't care about Huang Zhonglin or Meng Zhengxiang, I won't let him go.

Cao Fengying couldn't sit still anymore. He stood up and walked back and forth in the main room.

He frowned, searching his guts, thinking of bad ideas, how to kill Meng Zhengxiang legitimately, and rescue Huang Zhonglin at the same time. There was a terrible silence in the room.

The room next door was also affected by this terrible atmosphere, and the woman did not dare to move even while holding Yang Shucheng. The two hugged each other, cheek to cheek, nervously listening to what was going on outside.

After a long period of burning incense, the housekeeper came in to announce that someone was visiting. Cao Fengying asked:

"who is it?"

The housekeeper took a step forward and whispered in Cao Fengying's ear. Cao Fengying said:

"Please!"

After a while, I saw a man walking in with his head lowered. He was tall and wearing a turban, hiding his true face.

Cao Fengying stood up and said, "Please sit down."

The man sat down unceremoniously and took off his turban. He did not look like a Central Plains person.

Cao Fengying was very polite to him and said, "What a great sponsor!"

The man said: "Very good."

The two chatted for a few words and got back to the topic. Cao Fengying asked him where he came from?

The man said: "I heard that the previous court wanted to replace Huang Zhonglin, the commander-in-chief outside the customs?"

"Exactly, he suffered a series of defeats outside the Pass, and the officials in the court sent letters one after another to arrest him and bring him to Beijing for questioning."

"This must not be done. If we arrest him in the capital and change him to a more powerful person, it will not be good for our country."

Cao Fengying said: "It's hard for me to handle it too. He lost the battle, but everyone knows it. It's like fire can't be contained in paper. This time, I can't do anything."

The man said: "The king also knows that Eunuch Cao is in trouble, but this time he must ask the father-in-law to mediate. Everything should be done with the overall situation in mind and the country as the most important thing. The king, please do this. My king will not treat Cao badly. Father-in-law."

After that, he stood up, took out the gift list from his body, bowed and handed it to Cao Fengying. Cao Fengying took the gift list, looked at it, put it aside, and said:

"This matter is difficult to handle. Let me think about it. This matter cannot be rushed. There are a few treacherous ministers in the court, like Meng Zhengxiang, who have united a group of people to work against me and keep an eye on me. It is also difficult for me to handle. ah."

The man clasped his fists and said: "Our Lord hopes that Eunuch Cao will work hard to handle this matter. Huang Zhonglin is a defeated general for your country, but for our country, he is a lucky general. Our country is counting on him to defeat your country." The country must not let him withdraw."

Cao Fengying was silent for a while, and then said: "It's not easy for you to come to the capital. I'll ask the housekeeper to accompany you and go around the city and let me think of a way." After that, he picked up the tea cup.

The man understood and bowed to leave.

Cao Fengying was pacing in the house.

The sound of pacing could be heard in this room, like the beat of a drum, beating into my heart, for fear that it would step into the back room.

Cao Fengying just paced back and forth and didn't even take a step inside. As a result, the woman became more and more bold, and her hands wandered around Yang Shucheng's body like two snakes. Wherever I go, I get a piece of shortbread itch.

In the outer room, Cao Fengying's frown gradually relaxed. A bad idea had formed in his mind, and he couldn't help but laugh sinisterly.

Yang Shucheng did not expect that the emperor's favored eunuch would have connections with foreign countries and harm loyal ministers, causing a big surprise. I wish I could rush out immediately and eliminate this scourge for the world.

But this ball of cotton and vegetables on his body was tightly entangled, and he couldn't get away, and he couldn't speak, so he asked her what she wanted.

Fortunately, soon, Cao Fengying in the next room made up her mind, closed the door and left. Everyone in the house has left.

Everything is calm.

The beautiful woman in his arms became even more enthusiastic and bold, and her movements became fiercer, and she was about to throw Yang Shucheng to the ground.

Yang Shucheng finally got tough and asked, "Who are you? What are you doing?"

The beautiful woman said: "I am that man's wife. As you know, he is a eunuch."

Yang Shucheng asked: "Eunuchs still have wives?"

The beautiful woman said: "He is not an ordinary eunuch. The emperor loves him very much and gave him such a big house that he can't even walk through it in a day. He also has a lot of gold and silver treasures that can't be spent or used up. Marry him. What’s so strange about a wife! He has more than a dozen wives.”

Yang Shucheng couldn't help but laugh and said: "What's the use of a eunuch marrying a wife!"

"Isn't that right?" said the beautiful woman, "The eunuch has no abilities but only tortures people. Look at me."

Yang Shucheng saw dots of nail marks appearing on her snow-white skin, and couldn't help but feel sympathy for this woman.

Seeing her hugging her tighter, Yang Shucheng asked, "What do you want to do?"

The beautiful woman scraped Yang Shucheng's face with her slender fingers, and said with a sweet smile: "Young pretty face, why are you pretending to be stupid! An old eunuch, a dozen wives, we are just golden birds in a cage, others are watching We wear silks and satins, eat delicacies from the mountains and seas, and enjoy the happiness of the world, but who knows the suffering in our hearts!"

The beautiful woman looked at Yang Shucheng with hot eyes and said, "My dear, what else do you think I can do?"