Chapter 71

Recently, the hunter's family has been in a gloomy mood, and they haven't been given too much attention to the newly picked up girl.

The head of the family's worry is their seventh child. This little boy is impotent. He has a weak body since childhood. So he can’t inherit his father's career when he grows up. He has no strength and can't have children. He doesn't know what to make him live in the future. At the same time, someone in the village works as a eunuch in the palace. When he is old, he goes back to his hometown. The old eunuch saved some money, married a widow, and passed on a son, and so did the days. The hunter and his wife moved their minds, took a silver fox they had beaten, and led their son to visit the old eunuch.

The old eunuch was kind-hearted and knew the intention of the other side. He didn't accept the silver fox but told them the general process of becoming a eunuch. The eunuch is not a noble profession. If you want to enter the industry, you don't need to do anything, just go to the capital to register. The hunter knew that the old eunuch should have a good status and had old friends in the palace, so he still wanted to ask the old eunuch to take care of him. But the old eunuch waved and said, "he and Chen Wuyong, the most popular Eunuch in the palace is enemy. If Chen Wuyong knows that he is the one who instructs him, he is afraid of even worse.".

Then the hunter asked someone to sign up in the capital city. When he finished, he asked someone to clean his son's body. The eunuch's clean body is not done by the official. Because some of the masters in charge of swords stole the limelight among the people. Later, the official officials asked the reserve eunuchs to find someone to clean themselves. They only checked them, and after they passed the examination, they were eunuchs.

It's not easy to find a skilled person in a remote area. The master who was found by the hunter was a novice. After two sabers, he has done. When he got home, the boy had a high fever and couldn't wake up. So the hunter asked a local doctor to come and see him. He said he couldn't stand it for a few days. When the mother watched the son cry, she dizzies several times.

When the Hunter saw the little girl by the road, it was when he sent the doctor home. He thought that it was probably because he killed too many animals in his life and made great evils to his son. Seeing the homeless girl, the hunter moved his heart and brought her back. If the children don't find a place to warm up soon, she will surely freeze to death in the wild. He asked the little girl's name, and the little girl answered in a low voice, "my name is Ah Zhao. "She doesn’t look at him in the eyes and little defensive.

It's understandable that the little girl will feel defensive with a strange man like him. The Hunter didn't care. He took Ah Zhao back home.

The next day, Ah Zhao thanked the hunter and left, she went back to the temple. She can't let her family die without a burial.

The temple is quiet. The blood on the ground has already solidified. The bloody air has been blown away by the north wind all night. There were several bodies lying in the temple, but none of them belonged to her parents or brothers.

She went through the inside and outside of the temple, and really couldn't see her family.

She really hoped that they just got hurt and then fled the place. This wish is so beautiful that she almost believes it.

But the fact is, where the parents and younger brother fell last night, the blood has been cleaned up.

If they want to run away with injuries, they can't be distracted to clean up the blood. The only reason could be that someone cleaned up the bloodstain with ulterior motives.

Why?

Cleaning up the bloodstain can erase the traces of their injuries. At least from the present scene, they are more like killing the guard and running away

It turned out that the other side not only wanted to kill her family but also let them bear such charges, which could never be declared.

This vicious plan made Ah Zhao cold all over. Just as she did not know what to do, she suddenly heard a voice outside. She hurriedly climbed behind the Buddha statue and hid. She raised her ears and listened to the movement inside.

In came the palace guard. They heard a complaint this morning that a lot of bodies had been found somewhere. Several captains came at once and found four bodies. They were still wearing uniforms.

The captains removed the body. Therefore, it is desolate and sparsely populated, so he not too worried about someone coming to destroy the site, and no one is left to guard the temple.

Ah Zhao comes out from behind the Buddha statue and looks at the empty Buddha Hall. She doesn't know where to go.

Anyway, first find the body of her family.

She looked for two days near the broken temple. During the day, when she is hungry, she eats some dry food from the hunter. At night, she stayed in the temple. The hunter family gave her a lot of thick clothes, and there was also some dry straw in the temple, which could keep out of the cold.

The next morning, when Ah Zhao woke up, he heard another movement outside the temple. She thought it was the guard who went back, so she hid behind the Buddha statue.

But what she heard this time was not the conversation of the captains, but a sigh of old and choking. Ah Zhao is curious. She looks out from behind the Buddha statue. She sees an old man with gray hair and no beard.

The old man also saw her. Although he was old, his eyesight was good. "Are you the child of Ji? "

Ah Zhao was shocked, but she didn't dare to answer. She just asked, "who are you? There's a homicide here. Aren't you afraid of being implicated?"

The old man raised his sleeve and wiped the corner of his eyes, saying, "You don’t need to be so defensive at a young age, girl, you have suffered.  But don’t worry. I won't hurt you. I know that you are the daughter of Lord Ji Qingyun. Last night, the guard came to search for four members of your family. I only learned when I saw the picture. They said that Lord Ji fled after killing the guard. When I heard this, I guessed that Lord Ji might have been in trouble. So I want to come to worship the dead today. But I see you here, so is Mr. Ji still alive? "

Hearing this, Tian Qi couldn't help crying. She told the old man the truth, and the old man also burst into tears.

After one old and one small cry, the old man said, "I was the one who served the Empress Dowager. I watched the prince grow up. In this way, your father and I were together. I just hate that I'm being suppressed by Chen Wuyong now, and I can't help you. You're homeless now. Why don't you go back with me first, and then try something else? "

Ah Zhao hesitates a little. She is afraid to be captured by the officials.

The old man comforted her again and said, "don't worry, those people left yesterday, they should not come again. I happened to be there when they were interrogating at the hunter's house, so I'll help you get over it, no one said. "

Ah Zhao followed the old eunuch back to his home. On the way, the old eunuch asked ah Zhao, but he knew who the murderer was. Looking back at his father's words that night, ah Zhao replied, "probably Chen Wuyong. "

The old eunuch nodded, "I think it's probably him. Mr. Ji seems to have no other enemies. Even if there is some discord with him, he is unlikely to have the courage and ability to mobilize so many killers to kill him. "

Ah Zhao nodded, more sure that the killer was Chen Wuyong. She wants revenge, but now she is a child under eleven years old. She is still caught, let alone killed. She has no chance to connect with Chen Wuyong.

When the old eunuch brought Ah Zhao back home, he heard something that the youngest son of Hunter Tian has died.

Ah Zhao has some sympathy and gloom. It's her benefactor's child. She followed the old eunuch to visit the hunter. Although the hunter knew that the little girl was being seized by the government, he would not say anything since the old eunuch stopped her.

After returning from the hunter's home, Ah Zhao kept thinking about one thing. Finally, she asked the old eunuch, "do you think I can go into the palace and become a eunuch? "

The old eunuch almost dropped his chin.

Ah Zhao said again, "Chen Wuyong is also a eunuch. If I become a eunuch, I will have many opportunities to get close to him, and then I can personally avenge my parents and brothers. "

"But you are a girl. Even if you enter the palace, you can only be a maid. No, it's easy for Chen Wuyong to recognize you. Then… "

"So I'd better be a eunuch. When I am a eunuch, no one will doubt whose daughter I am. Isn't that right? Even if Chen Wuyong goes to the ends of the earth, he can't imagine that I am under his nose. "

The old eunuch stayed, "but you are a girl, how can you be a eunuch? "

Ah Zhao asked, "this is exactly what I want to ask you. Can a girl be a eunuch? "

The old eunuch was speechless.

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The selection and registration of eunuchs are in the 13th Institute.

Selection is generally to check if the body already clean or not, check whether the origin is good. It will be recorded after passing. It doesn't matter whether you come or not. Just register after you come. After the completion of the physical examination, 13 people passed the physical examination and became a formal eunuch.

On the third day of every month, it's time for a new batch of eunuchs to check up.

An older eunuch led a group of newly inspected eunuchs out of the room to the registration hall on the other side.

The long line is like a centipede. The new eunuchs have different expressions. They all hang their heads and dare not look. They closely follow the steps of the previous one.

A man flashed out from behind the moon gate and adjusted her pace to keep up with the team. In her early teens, she was dressed in an ordinary blue cloth shirt and Turquoise headscarf. She described being thin, with her head down, and her big eyes looking around.

This is no one else. It's Ah Zhao. Now it's Tian Qi. The way to sneak into Shisanhuo and the eunuch team is naturally taught by the old eunuch. In addition, the old eunuch also took out a lot of belongings and bought the hunter family, so that she could come to the capital safely under the identity of Tian Qi.

The eunuchs were led into a hall, asked one by one about their surnames, the date of entering the book, and then pressed their fingerprints in another book. If the fingerprints were correct, they would have gone through the entry formalities.

When it was his turn to count down the second person, he suddenly found that there was another person behind him. He looked at Tian Qi with a tongue-tied, thinking that he had hallucinations.

Tian Qi looks calm.

The man thought that he had made a mistake and went through the formalities honestly. It was Tian Qi's turn.

Tian Qi reported his name and the time of entering the book. The eunuch who went through the formalities took a new book and asked her to press the fingerprint. After that, he compared it with the fingerprint left by the previous man when he entered the book.

Conclusion: qualified.

Tian Qi is relieved. She picked up her finger and almost rubbed a thin skin on her thumb. This thin skin is carved by the old eunuch with human skin. It can be pasted on the belly of the finger to forge fingerprints.

All these eunuchs are qualified and recorded. They were led to their new house, and then they distributed their clothes and learned the rules.

Tian Qi holds a pile of clothes and listens to the leading eunuch's nagging.

So she became a eunuch.