Dressed as a palace cat butler

After a few more days, although Cao Ji'an still refused to bite him, Zhang has already made up his mind.

She went door-to-door to sit with her relatives, and then told them about her plan to send the child to the palace, and finally borrowed some money.

Then she used the borrowed money to buy a few catties of mutton and two boxes of cakes, and took Fang Tishuang and Cao Silang to Yang Laowu's family.

Yang Lao Wu took the things with a smile, then reached out and rubbed the top of Fang Tishuang's hair. Fang Tishuang wanted to hide, but when he looked up and saw his aunt's eyes, he obediently stood where he was.

"This young gentleman looks handsome, and that old man Cao Jing didn't scare me this time." Yang Laowu first smiled, and then asked, "What's your name?"

Fang Tishuang timidly replied: "Fang Tishuang."

Yang Laowu asked again: "Why did you choose such a name?"

"Because I was born in the early morning of Shuangjiang, Grandpa said that I cried loudly, so he took the word 'Crying Shuang'."

Yang Laowu nodded in satisfaction, and then praised Zhang: "Although he is young, he is clever."

"This child, Shuang'er, has indeed been liked since he was a child," Zhang immediately pushed Cao Silang forward, "This is my family's Silang, what do you think?"

Yang Laowu carefully looked at the boy in front of him who was half a head taller than Fang Tishuang, and then said: "Well... the body is strong, the appearance is slightly inferior, but he is still handsome-why, Mrs. Zhang plans to send two people at once. go in?"

"That's what I really thought about. Shuang'er was young and inexperienced, and her mind was clean. She was raised at home and was not willing to let him do any heavy work," Zhang said sincerely, "I'm not afraid of you laughing, I think If I think about it, I'm always afraid that he will be bullied in the palace, although Shiro in my family is only a young man, but he is a little precocious and stable, I only hope that the two of them can help each other in the palace."

Yang Laowu pondered for a while, and then slowly said: "It's good for the two brothers to be together, but this..."

Mrs. Zhang is also a well-informed person. Before he finished speaking, Mrs. Zhang untied the purse at his waist, and put the silver that was just borrowed and not warmed up in Yang Lao Wu's palm.

Yang Laowu weighed the purse in his hand, and immediately smiled: "It's easy to say, the lady is at ease, and takes the two gentlemen back, so that they can settle down, and they will be sent to the palace five days later. It's done."

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The atmosphere at home has been particularly gloomy these past few days. Although Mrs. Zhang didn't say anything about Fang Tishuang and Cao Silang, the children in the family can guess a little bit.

Mrs. Zhang is also very kind to Fang Tishuang and Cao Silang recently, and she borrowed a piece of cloth from someone, stayed up for several nights, and made a lotus blue jacket for each of them.

Five days later, in the early morning, Mrs. Zhang changed the two children into new clothes, boiled water, and told them to wash their faces carefully.

Then Mrs. Zhang held up Fang Tishuang's cheeks, and took a closer look. Fang Tishuang, like her poor sister-in-law, had a pair of watery willow eyebrows and almond eyes, which corresponded to the words in the words of the storyteller in the city. Sentence: "The eyes are as clean as autumn water, and the skin is as white as jade."

Then she muttered to herself again: "You are also unlucky. If you were born in the family of Zhongming Dingshi, and you were a rich young master, you should be a person like gold and jade..."

Mrs. Zhang was afraid that if it was later, her husband and children would wake up, so she took a child by the hand and hurried to the door.

When she was about to go around the alley, Fang Tishuang turned her head as if feeling something in her heart, and saw two people lying beside the gate of their house, one was Second Sister Cao and the other was Cao Dalang.

He felt a little blocked, and before he had time to wave goodbye to the two of them, the three of them turned into the alley.

The shadow of his family became hazy in a trance, only the reluctant and complicated gazes of his brother and sister seemed to be firmly engraved on his heart.

"Silang," Mrs. Zhang said while leading the two of them forward, "I will take good care of your little brother in the palace from now on, you know?"

Cao Silang vaguely knew the destination of their trip, he bit his lips lightly: "Well, my son understands——Aniang, will Shuang'er and I not be able to come back in the future?"

A layer of mist suddenly floated in front of Zhang's eyes, but she still smiled with the corners of her mouth pulled, and comforted in a slow voice: "As long as you are obedient, you can go home when you grow up."

After she finished speaking, she paused, and then said to Fang Tishuang on the other side: "Shuang'er, you have to listen to your elder brother and be careful in the palace. If you are wronged...you must hold back, Don't shed tears in front of nobles, you know?"

Fang Tishuang nodded with tears in her eyes.

He suppressed the desire to cry, and his nasal voice was particularly strong when he spoke: "Will Uncle and Aunt come into the palace to see me and brother?"

The tip of Zhang's nose was sore, she nodded slightly: "Well, as long as Shuang'er and Shiro are obedient, Auntie and your uncle will come to the palace to visit you if they get the chance."

Although the three of them didn't rest much along the way, but because Fang Tishuang and Cao Silang had short legs and couldn't walk fast, they walked for several hours from Yongyang Fang in Chang'an City Wai Guo to the imperial city.

When passing by the West Market, Mrs. Zhang bought a bag of glutinous rice cakes for the two of them for the first time.

Fang Tishuang was tired and hungry at the moment, and when he saw something delicious, he forgot all the sorrows of parting just now, but he hesitated for a moment, and handed the first piece of rice cake to Mrs. : "Aunt, you eat."

Mrs. Zhang rubbed the top of his fluffy hair: "Auntie is not hungry, Shuang'er and brother eat."

"Aunt eats too."

"Aunt doesn't like this."

Fang Tishuang carefully took the first bite. Ever since Cao Ji'an had an accident, there was always not enough food at home. Sometimes he and his brothers and sisters were so hungry that they could only drink water all the time.

He has not eaten such delicious pastries for a long, long time.

"Is it delicious?" Mrs. Zhang lowered her head and asked him.

Fang Tishuang shook his head and jumped up and down, he smiled happily: "It's delicious, very sweet!"

Mrs. Zhang smiled: "Then let Shuang'er eat more."

When approaching the gate of the palace, Mrs. Zhang obviously slowed down, and Fang Tishuang could feel her hand tightening again.

But no matter how slow they walked, they finally stood at the side entrance of the palace. Mrs. Zhang presented the voucher to the gate guards. After the guards checked, they gave way to a small path.

Mrs. Zhang was about to bring the two children forward, but was stopped by the guards: "It's good to send the lady here."

"Let me give them a ride," the Zhang family suddenly felt even more reluctant when they arrived here, and she pleaded, "Please be accommodating..."

"The palace is important, there is no such thing as accommodating," the chief guard was considered to be a good-natured person, and seeing that the visitor was a woman, his tone was not very bad, but he just advised, "Young lady, please go back."

Mrs. Zhang touched the heads of the two children again. Her heart was wet, but her eye sockets were dry. A loving smile appeared on her face: "From now on, be good and be obedient."

Then she gave them a gentle push: "Go in."

Reluctantly, the two passed through the path given up by the guards, and when they turned around again, they were already blocked by guards wearing military uniforms and carrying horizontal knives. The two tried to pass through their cover, and took another look. The woman outside.

But the two were pushed in by the guards.

At this moment, Fang Tishuang suddenly felt an indescribable sadness, and in it was an unlucky premonition——

He felt that he might... never go back to that home again, and never see those relatives again.

"Those two boys, come to me quickly," a man with the appearance of an eunuch greeted them with a shrill voice, "follow the one in front, and wait here, don't run around."

Cao Silang, who had been taciturn all this time, suddenly grabbed Fang Tishuang's hand, and pulled him who was still looking back to the place the eunuch said, and caught him behind a group of people.

There were tall and short people in that group, most of them looked a little older than Fang Tishuang, some were more lively, and they had already chatted with people around.

"Hey, are you afraid?"

"Of course I'm afraid. Didn't Grandpa tell you before going out? If you want to enter the palace, you'll have to cut off the place where we pee..."

"You know you're still here?"

"Who wants to come? Not long ago, my younger brother died of starvation, and my elder sister died of illness. There are only six of the eight brothers and sisters in the family, and there is still not enough food. My mother said that I can at least have enough to eat when I come here." , I don’t want to be starved to death.”

The eunuch stepped forward and yelled: "Shut your mouths tightly, this is the imperial city, at the foot of the emperor, is this the place where you should knock your teeth and fart?"

"If there are any loud noises, according to the palace rules, they will be dragged down first and hit with a few boards."

The team in front immediately fell silent, Fang Tishuang and Cao Silang at the back looked at each other, Cao Silang said to him softly: "Don't be afraid, follow brother."

Fang Tishuang nodded.

People were carried out of the small hut at the team's destination one after another and moved to other rooms. At a glance, the people who were carried out were either fainted or awake, but without exception, their faces were pale, and even their lips were pale. There is no blood in the slightest.

Fang Tishuang was both afraid and curious, when the people in front were talking just now, he also listened to it, and only heard that they were going to cut some place, so that they could have enough food.

He really wanted to ask Cao Silang, but just now the old eunuch stood beside him and looked at him, with a meaningful smile on his face from time to time.

Fang Tishuang had no choice but to look down at the toes of his shoes. This pair of shoes was newly given to him by Second Sister Cao. The toe was embroidered with a small sparrow. None of the other brothers and sisters in the family had shoes on them. It was the elder sister who sewed them for him alone. of.

In a blink of an eye they had already arrived at the house, Cao Silang said goodbye to him, and went in first, Fang Tishuang's ears were sharp, and she vaguely heard several low whimpers coming from inside.

He couldn't help but sneaked half of his eyes into the curtain, only to see that on the bed facing him, a man covered with a hood raised a knife in his hand, blood splashed on his hood and collar immediately, and then He picked up a bloody object from between the boy's legs.

When Fang Tishuang saw clearly what it was, she suddenly took a few steps back unconsciously, and then her eyes turned white, and she fell to the ground.

Immediately afterwards, a white cat that was nestling on the glazed tiles suddenly let out a cry, and immediately jumped down from the roof, stabbing Fang Tishuang's heart firmly with its hind legs.

The old eunuch next to him was originally sent here to find a newcomer. He saw Fang Tishuang's outstanding appearance, so he didn't stop him from poking into the room. It's frightening.

The people behind were in a mess very quickly, the old eunuch hurriedly stepped forward to check Fang Tishuang's breath, just touched Fang Tishuang's breath for a while, his complexion suddenly changed, and he said sharply: "Ah, I'm out of breath! "

The white cat that caused the accident also passed out for some reason. This cat has an unusual status, with a small gold medal tied around its neck. It is the late emperor's pet cat. Its life is much more valuable than the boys who were sold into the palace. .

So the other eunuchs who heard the sound were only concerned with saving the cat, and no one cared about the eight-year-old child who died next to him.