latelenovela Chapter 251 Advancement
Chapter 251 Advancement
As a young master, I entered the palace when I was seven years old.
I can’t remember where my home is or what it’s called.
I fled to the capital city. I can hardly remember how long I fled or where I fled from and to where I ended up.
As far as I can remember, I have been living a life of escape.
I just remember that day was a good day, the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month.
It was a festival day, and there were many dignitaries and officials on the street, and they also gave instructions to us beggars early on.
You are not allowed to beg on the street today. If you are discovered, you will be beaten to death and no one will care.
This is definitely not an exaggeration. I still remember that during the Double Ninth Festival, there was a guy who was disobedient and ran into the crowd to beg for food.
The last time I saw him, he had been kicked in the heart and had vomited more blood than the rice water he had consumed that day. There was no hope.
A poor man, there is no hope for him.
The only thing I remember is that the coachman who kicked him to death got off a carriage marked with Fucha.
Fucha clan, I don’t know which Fucha clan it is.
"You don't even know the Fucha family, they are a famous and prestigious family, look at the little girl sitting in the carriage."
An old beggar who was standing in front of me pointed at the carriage in the distance.
A corner of the carriage was revealed in the breeze, and a middle-aged woman and a little girl could be seen in the carriage.
"That's the daughter-in-law that the Imperial Concubine Xi in the palace has long chosen to marry the Fourth Prince.
Concubine Xi and the Nianhulu clan are not as noble as the Fucha clan.
The ancestors of the Fucha family were extraordinary.”
"This girl is lucky. She will never have to worry about food and clothing. She has parents who love her at home. Once she enters the palace, she will enjoy endless wealth and splendor.
You never know, the position of Queen will definitely be hers."
I don't know anything about the Niuhulu clan or the Fucha clan, but I have heard of them.
I am a Han Chinese. Before I came to Beijing, the most powerful person in our village was the village chief.
I don't remember his name, but it's not a noble one.
It’s different in the Forbidden City. The people here are all from wealthy families and have all kinds of surnames. The more complicated-sounding the surname is, the more status one seems to have.
The carriage drove away. I remained there for a long time.
I just remembered what the old beggar said, that once I entered the palace, I would enjoy endless wealth and glory.
Anyway, it's much better than the kick I got in the face.
When I was competing with Fu Cha's servants to pull back my friend who was vomiting blood, I was kicked in the heart by the groom.
I think it's time for me to take a look at that high position.
I found a nice place for my friend at the mass grave outside the city and sent him away.
He found a half-rotten apple among the dead bodies and started eating it.
There is nothing we can do.
The city is under martial law, and I haven't begged for the past few days. My friend's younger brother is starving to death, and we couldn't risk asking the dignitaries for food.
He said, "The woman in the carriage looks very kind. I'll go get her some food and come back to share half with you."
My silly brother, that woman is most vicious.
I heard with my own ears that she was the one who ordered the coachman to get off the carriage and kick you.
She said, "What kind of filthy creature dares to come near our carriage? Send it away.
Don't delay me while I go to Baoguo Temple to pray for a marriage for the girl.
That auspicious moment must not be missed.”
I was really scared, but I was also reluctant that I didn't enter the palace that time.
What is there for a beggar like me to be reluctant about?
I really can't bear to part with such a lovely little girl.
A pink ball that was born not long ago.
That pink ball father was a man with no ability. When I was begging that day and passed by his house, I heard his wife scolding him for being lazy and unable to give her a good life.
The funniest thing is that the woman actually scolded the man, saying that he was incompetent and gave birth to a daughter who made everyone laugh at her.
This is the first time I have heard of this. A woman actually dares to blame a man for not being able to give birth to a son.
The woman had just given birth and was very angry. The more she talked, the more the man ignored her. The woman was so angry that she threw the little girl at the door.
"You are such a heartless person. I gave birth to a child for you, but you didn't even bother to comfort me. I simply don't want this child anymore."
The woman was so angry that she threw the dough at the door. I happened to pass by here.
I was on my way to the palace at that time and had just seen the tragic death of a servant. I felt so sorry for this little girl that I hugged her.
"If Madam and Master really don't want this child, I can take him away."
The lady and the master were just quarreling, they had no idea that someone would squat at the door to pick up their child.
The master was so frightened that he took the child from my arms and gave me a piece of snack that he had picked up from his side.
I exchanged the rice dumplings for snacks.
There was a moment when I was reluctant to leave. But there was no other way, I had to go to the palace. I had no way out, so I didn't want to delay the pink dumpling.
I walked a long way away with the cakes, feeling reluctant to leave. I was afraid that the woman would make a fuss again, and what would they do if they really lost the child?
I kept wandering at the gate of the mansion until the twenty-eighth day of the twelfth lunar month.
New Year's Eve is coming soon, and I have to go to the palace. If I don't go now, I will have to wait until after the New Year. The months after the New Year are very long, and I'm afraid I might freeze to death and no one would know.
I still missed that pink dumpling in my heart, so I went to the pink dumpling's mansion one last time.
This time I also brought along an old beggar who could read and write.
"Look at what this word is?"
I pointed at the plaque of the mansion. I couldn't read yet, so I didn't know what the girl's name would be in the future, but I had to know her surname.
"Wei Mansion."
After saying this, the old beggar walked away without even looking up, and took from me a piece of cake that I had promised to give him.
It was given by Master Wei.
"guard."
I traced the word in the sky. After learning it once or twice, I memorized it.
I really hope that the little pink dumpling will have a smooth life.
"You saw me when you were so young. I dare to ask you, did you set your eyes on me the first time you saw me?"
The woman next to me heard me talking and asked me with a coquettish look on her face.
"How can that be possible?"
How could she see what I was thinking? She was similar to her childhood and different from her childhood. When I first saw her, it took me a while to recognize her.
But I could not forget the bright red mole on her ankle.
I have not forgotten seeing her at the gate of Wei Mansion that year, and I have also not forgotten asking someone to change her clothes, shoes and socks when she fainted in the heavy rain.
"Hey, you didn't miss me, but I missed you a long time ago."
I was confused by what she said, but she always said this to me.
When did it start? Probably after she and I came out of the palace.
She always told me to be nicer to me, and to make up for the past.
"Queen Mother, oh no, Madam. The Emperor has sent another letter."
She was in my arms enjoying the grapes I peeled for her. Another letter arrived from the palace.
I took the letter from Chunchan's hand.
"Master, you and your wife have been apart from the palace for a few years now, and it's like you grew up together. How can you not get tired of each other?
So are Zhao Jiuxiao and Lan Cui.
You guys are not bored, it's really boring to be alone with Wang Chan all day long."
"Go, go, go, play with Wang Chan."
It seems that Chunchan is born with less romantic thoughts than other people, and she does not understand these love things.
"What did Yongyan write to me again?"
Yan Wan took the letter from my arms. Yan Wan was really annoyed with Yong Yan.
Yanwan faked her death and left the palace shortly after Yongyan ascended the throne.
At that time, the empress dowager was already old, and the emperor was old but tired. The emperor was unwilling to support the government, so he abdicated and became the emperor emeritus.
Yan Wan also retired after completing her mission. She took the fake death drug and left the palace.
In fact, the day I left the palace was still very dangerous.
The old man, the retired emperor, didn't believe that Yan Wan was dead. He insisted on making Yan Wan cry. It was the Empress Dowager who took charge of burying Yan Wan. Only then did she carry away a coffin containing someone else's body.
As soon as Empress Dowager Yan Wan died, all of us servants retired and returned home.
This is all decided by the Empress Dowager.
Yanwan said that she still didn't understand the Empress Dowager. It seemed that the Empress Dowager had intentionally or unintentionally allowed Yanwan and I to be together, and even condoned the not-so-simple relationship between us.
Perhaps in the eyes of the Empress Dowager, there is nothing I, a eunuch, can do.
Yanwan is dead, and I have changed my name to Wei Yan.
Now we live in a small town in the Jiangnan water town that no one cares about, and there lives a wealthy tycoon.
I have never met so many open-minded people in my first half of life.
I met them all in the second half of my life.
Yanwan's children didn't seem to care about Yanwan and me. Even the emperor asked me to take good care of Yanwan in his letters.
This is not Yanwan muttering:
"Yongyan is such a jerk. I've been out of the palace for a few years, but he's still worried about whether I have enough money. He also keeps asking me if I've bullied him.
I don’t know if I am his mother or he is my mother.”
Yan Wan threw the letter aside. I could sense that someone was watching us secretly. Maybe he heard what Yan Wan said.
But I don’t care, and I think Yan Wan doesn’t care either.
No matter whether those people belong to the Empress Dowager or Yongyan, they have been watching us for many years. If they wanted to take action, they would have done it long ago.
Anyway, we don’t care. As people who have faked their death once, we are naturally not afraid of anything really happening.
"Jinzhong, I want to eat the wontons from the West Street restaurant for lunch."
"I'm hungry."
"Let's go eat."
Yanwan is sometimes like a child. She says she is hungry, then gets up and stands in front of me, looking at me coquettishly.
What can I do? I'll just spoil her.
"Okay, let's go eat wontons."
"It's a really nice day."
The sigh came from Yan Wan's mouth. Yan Wan and Jin Zhong got on the carriage together. The two chattered in the carriage, and soon the carriage stopped.
The place where Yan Wan lived was not a big place. Although it was small, it was rich in resources. Most of the edible things in the world were available here.
The most important thing is that no one pays attention to Yanwan.
After the carriage stopped, Yanwan lifted the curtain and prepared to get off.
As soon as the car curtain was lifted, Yan Wan was stunned.
Yanwan was in a street full of flowers.
There were flowers in every corner of this street. Hydrangeas were placed on both sides of the road, and the walls behind were covered with trumpet creepers, roses, clematis, and all kinds of flowers that Yanwan had seen and had not seen before.
The whole street is like a huge greenhouse.
"No wonder you always say it's warm outside these days and the flowers haven't bloomed yet, and you don't allow me to go out. So this is why."
Yanwan could guess with her toes that it must be a surprise prepared by Jinzhong for her.
"Madam, today is the day you and the master met. The master has been preparing this surprise for you since the anniversary last year."
Yanwan listened to Chunchan's words and thought carefully. She had not been to this alley for a long time.
Yanwan raised her hand.
"I'm still wearing the bracelet you specially asked someone to give me last year, and now you've given me another surprise like this."
Although Yanwan and Jinzhong left the palace, they still saved a lot of money.
Yan Wan brought a lot of money from the palace, but she didn't expect that Jin Zhong had already secretly found someone to do business far away from the capital.
Now, the family fortune accumulated by Jinzhong is enough to support Yanwan for several lifetimes.
To commemorate their acquaintance last year, Jinzhong specially found a master craftsman who had not made a bracelet for many years to make a bracelet for Yanwan.
"This bracelet is no longer worthy of you."
Jinzhong said this and put a bigger and more exquisite bracelet on Yanwan.
"Wear this one. I always think that giving anything as a gift is better than giving real money."
At the same time that Jinzhong handed Yanwan the bracelet, Chunchan handed Yanwan a thick account book.
"Madam, this is the master's annual revenue this year. The master said that all of it should be added to the private treasury for you."
Yanwan grabbed the account book.
Now Yanwan has a new hobby, which is calculating her assets. The more she calculates, the happier she becomes.
Yan Wan really likes it and feels like she can never spend all the money.
"Madam, there is also this. The young master sent it to you."
Chunchan handed Yanwan a large purse. Although it was called a purse, it was actually no different from a large backpack.
Yanwan opened it and took a look.
Silver notes, all of them are silver notes.
"Good son. It wasn't in vain that I raised her."
"Mother, you didn't raise my brother in vain, but did you raise us in vain?"
Yanwan turned back in fright.
"Yun'er, Yun'er. And my little grandchildren. Why are you here?"
It was Jingxuan and Jingyun. They brought their children to see Yanwan.
"It's mother's anniversary, but my brothers can't celebrate, so the daughters are here to accompany mother."
Yanwan excitedly threw all the good things back to Chunchan and rushed to hug the children.
Unexpectedly, a few meat balls avoided Yanwan and went towards Jinzhong.
"We need grandpa, who loves us the most."
Yanwan became jealous.
Jingyun quickly added:
"Mother, it's not the children's fault that they favor grandpa. It's really that grandpa spent a lot of money on them."
Jinzhong not only made enough money to become rich over the years, but also contributed a lot to the emperor's treasury. Yanwan didn't know how much business he had done.
All I know is that the gold delivered to the princess's mansion is delivered in boxes every year.
"Mother, I miss you so much. I really envy you for marrying a good man like Jinzhong."
Jingxuan coaxed Yanwan, and pulled Yanwan tightly back to the mansion.
Yan Wan was much happier now and touched Jing Xuan's forehead.
"After all, it's only when you get married that you know what a good man looks like. The husbands that mother picked for you and Jingyun are not bad."
Jingyun also came over and took Yanwan's other hand.
"Yes. I envy you and Jinzhong the most."
Jinzhong walked behind the others, holding a few little kids, feeling extremely satisfied.
Jinzhong lowered his head and said to the little kids:
"Catch up with your grandmother, and I'll give each of you a box of gold."
The little kids didn’t know what gold was, they just wanted to chase their grandmother, so they all ran over.
By the time Yan Wan reacted, she was already surrounded by the little dumplings.
When I looked back, Yanwan and Jinzhong were facing each other from a distance.
This scene seemed to have happened thousands of times.
One glance for thousands of years.