Chapter 18.2
The days of one life is only this flat* to live by.1
Many people in the city did not know that he was a eunuch, for he had changed into the clothes of an ordinary soldier since the first two days of his arrival at Yanmen Pass. Considering that the fourth prince needs someone to serve on him as he accompanies the army, it's always inconvenient to have a eunuch with the Captain Cavalryman. Huangfu Jie took the initiative to ask Zhang Ping to change out of his eunuch costume, and Great General Liu Bai naturally didn't say much.
The winter in northern border* is quite long.1
Huang Fu Jie took along Zhang Ping all day long to army training and drills
In three years, he already had a team loyal to him. Not many people though, only 2,000. But these 2,000 men were the most powerful archers in the entire army, and the other abilities they possessed were unknown.
Of course, even fewer people knew that he had secretly sent out some of the men who had sworn allegiance to him, and then replaced them with others who had come in. To and fro, his team had remained at two thousand, but he had secretly transferred no less than a hundred men. And that, even Zhang Ping wasn't very clear.
In three years, he secretly weaved a net and spread it; in the past three years, he used actual combat to correspond to Great General Liu 's strategy and tested his ideas. Sometimes he thought his ideas were better, sometimes he was surprised by Great General Liu's tactics.
He knows he is still young and lacks experience. He is not arrogant nor hot-tempered, does not compete for merit and does not complain, buying people's hearts and minds while following the plan step by step.
Sometimes he'd be anxious, and sometimes in the middle of the night when he would dream back, sinking in his childhood nightmare and struggling to wake up, he would hate, hating it so much that he couldn't control his killing intent.
That's when he would go looking for Zhang Ping. The wonderful thing was that Zhang Ping, who usually made some excuses to refuse*, was always stunned for a while when he saw this, and then silently lay down on the bed and let him toss him around.1
He didn't control himself last night. He remembered that Zhang Ping seemed to be hurt by him. But when he woke up in the morning, he found that the person on his bedside* had long gone.1
Picking up a hair from the pillow, Huangfu Jie's face was gloomy. He didn't like the fact that Zhang Ping ran off without telling him anything. Yet this happened many times. He thought that maybe he should mention it to Zhang Ping again and let him know where he was going and what he was doing from now on.
Zhang Ping was now sitting in a breakfast stall in front of the city wall's drinking porridge and eating fried dough sticks*.1
Got to say, Porridge and fried dough sticks are the perfect matches for breakfast. If there was an additional salted duck egg, there is nothing more to say. Unfortunately, the stall owner doesn't serve salted duck eggs*, He serves soy egg*.2
"Hey, madman, did you fall into the ditch last night? Why is it so smelly? "Zhang Ping, holding the stick in his mouth, beckoned the stall owner to serve a bowl of porridge to the man lying on the table.
The man who was called a madman by Zhang Ping raised his head and chuckled twice. He sniffed the porridge smell when he sniffed his nose. He grabbed the porridge bowl from the stall owner's hand, didn't use chopsticks, and just pour it down his mouth.
The stall owner was startled and scolded: "Damn madman, don't break the bowl!"
The madman ignored him, and after drinking the porridge, went to grab the soy egg in Zhang Ping's dish.
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"Hey, don't rob me all the time, will you? Obviously you are richer than me, but you always come to take advantage of me." Zhang Ping knows that he can't do martial arts, and he's too embarrassed to rob him, so he has to ask the stall owner to bring him two more soy eggs.
"Yo, isn't this Zhang Gonggong? Come here early in the morning for breakfast."
Zhang Ping raised his eyes, he knew the person, one of the guards by the Third Prince's side. He doesn't know what grudge this man had against the eunuch, but in the past three years, whenever he ran into him, he would be ridiculed by this man.
Some time ago he was glad that the third prince finally went back, but just after the New Year, he came back. This time his official position became a military inspector.
Hearing that the third prince had returned as a military inspector, Huang Fu Jie was in a bad mood. This means that either the third prince has become more powerful in the court, or their father wants several capable princes to keep each other in check.
As soon as the third prince came back, he summoned Huang Fu Jie, but did not let him follow, he didn't know what was said to his poor Captain Prince. Huang Fu Jie held back for two days after he came back, and finally caught him to vent last night.
His ass is still hurting, and the root cause was this man's boss. Zhang Ping was too lazy to even look at him, he took the soy egg and bite hard.
" He he, Zhang Gonggong, It wasn't me who said this, but you can't grow an egg even if you eat all the eggs in this pot. Haha!" The few officers and soldiers who came out for breakfast with this guard laughed loudly.
Several of the breakfast people were looking at Zhang Ping overtly and covertly, is this man a eunuch? They couldn't really see it in an ordinary soldier uniform.He didn't have an ambiguous aesthetic of a eunuch.
The stall owner was even more surprised. This ordinary soldier named Zhang Ping didn't know how long he had been coming here to eat breakfast. He never knew that he was actually a eunuch.
But if you take a closer look, the man in front of you seems to be in his early twenties, and his body is quite strong, but there is not even a single beard on his face, especially on his chin. He didn't think anything of it before, but now that he looks at it this way, it's a bit strange.
Zhang Ping's expression became quite indifferent, slowly lowering his head to eat his breakfast. No matter what those people said, he seemed not to hear.
"Old man, give me a bowl of porridge and more fried dough sticks and eggs." The guard saw no response from him and simply greeted the crowd and sat down together.
"Guard Wu, you don't need the soy eggs, do you? People say what they eat is good for their health, so we don't need to rob people, right?" The speaker looked like he belonged to the infantry battalion by his clothing and was a famous colonel.
"Colonel Wang, didn't I just say that no one can make up for it even if they die. What's more, even if he comes back, his wangye will only cut him again. "
"Gosh, it's so sad about the eunuch. He doesn't have a penis, so do he usually pee standing up or squatting down? Besides, I heard that eunuchs and maids could also......how did they be played with*?" The colonel surnamed Wang said the latter sentence in a low voice, just as their table could hear.1
Guard Wu let out a strange laugh and deliberately lowered his voice : "I don't know what to do with eunuchs and maids. But I've heard that our Fourth Prince is a master of both watery and dry roads. Well, ask Zhang Gonggong if you don't believe me."1
"What did you say? Could it be... "
"Don't you think about it, His Highness the Fourth Prince has been in the army for 3 years, have you seen him with a prostitute? Zhang Gonggong, we work hard during the day and it's not easy at night either. Ha ha ha! "
"Are you serious ? Is this eunuch really doing that with the King of Ning?"
"Is there any need to fake this. It spread throughout the capital. The eunuchs, they weren't even considered men, When there were no women wouldn't he make do with him."
"Pooh! This damned castrated thing, really have no shame! "
Zhang Ping stood up and paid the money early, along with the madman's share.
The colonel surnamed Wang stretched out his foot secretly under contempt, and Zhang Ping could only let himself fall on it.
There was a burst of laughter from the breakfast stand, and Guard Wu called : "Oops, Zhang Gonggong, watch your pants!"
Zhang Ping dusted off the dust and stood up, bowing his head and walked away quickly.
Seeing that Zhang Ping's small plate still had a soy egg uneaten, Colonel Wang shouted even more happily : "Zhang Gonggong, your egg! How did you forget to take your eggs with you. Hahaha!"
The people who ate breakfast in addition to this table are some ordinary people, When they see these army ruffians' arrogance, they feel sympathy for eunuch Zhang, there are also those people who together with ridicule.
The man who was called madman by Zhang Ping had been staring at the bowl of porridge in front of him and laughing since those people had opened their mouths to mock Zhang Ping. Seeing Zhang Ping leave, he didn't care.
He had long known that eunuchs are looked down upon, Before when he was in the palace, he didn't think much of it., but after he got out of the palace, the ridicule in front of and behind him has never been less.
If he were an castrated slave with backing it'd be just as well, it's just that unfortunately their family master can't show his talent*, and sometimes he has to act even more lame than the servant slave he has.1
They a master and a servant, who are clearly capable of learning but can only pretend to be a tortoise and son. Not to mention, Huang Fu Jie with his status as a prince, even he sometimes feels suffocated.1
Huang Fu Jie can't help but do two things: kill people and sleep with him
He can't hold back and do two things: practice martial arts and eavesdropping on people
Zhang Ping himself couldn't figure out when he had started to enjoy prying into other people's privacy, and then enjoyed the feeling of leaking secrets when he secretly told Huangfu Jie.
Anyway, no matter when it started, his master clearly liked his hobby. At first he was a little worried about him being found out or something, but after a while, when he got bored, he'd even ask him : What did General Liu eat last night?"
Now he doesn't know what The Great General Liu ate last night, but he knows that there may be changes in the army.
Zhang Ping is sitting in the secret room, listening to the voice coming from behind the wooden partition, and thinks that this is the best place in the world to hide a person
Why is it that the more heavily guarded a place is on the outside, the more lax the guard is "on the inside"? No guard or patrolling soldier would come to check the secret room or the darkroom. This place is known only to the landlord and his very few henchmen, and they apparently make little use of it.
He stared for two days before he found out that the emperor's envoy lived here.
As for why there is a secret room in the room of the envoy that connects with other rooms, then only ask the landlord.
It's the end of Chensi and the vast majority of people should have finished their breakfast and begun their day's work. Of course this only means the vast majority of people, some of whom are still tangled up in bed at this point. Like the one a wooden partition away from him.
"My Lord"
After about half an hour, a call came from the opposite side.。
"Um ... what's the matter?" A slightly squeaky, weird voice sounded.
"My Lord, An Wangye and Liu Yun Daren are here. "
"What are they doing here? Send someone in to serve."
"Yes"
The door rang and two people came into the room.
"Speak "
"Governor Daren took An Wangye and Liu Daren to the inner hall for a secret discussion. This humble servant has not heard anything yet."1
"Search again "
"Yes. "
"Wait!" The water from the hand towel is strung into the basin. "Who else knows about our visit, other than Governor Daren?"
"The four soldiers who opened the east gate the night before and a Colonel guarding the city* "1
"Kill them."
"Yes." Someone stepped down.
After a rustle, the shrill emissary said to his confidant, "let's go to the garden with me"
"Yes."
The door opens and closes again. The other side became silent
Zhang Ping stretched his legs and stood up, felt the switch to open the secret room door and slipped out. He had to thank Yang Momo for teaching him a lot of practical tricks for his convenience to steal what she wanted for her. For example: to look for a dark room.
There was another person in the room, with a steady and faint breath, presumably still asleep.
Zhang Ping frowned, since just now he was wondering who would sleep in the same bed as a eunuch? Or a middle-aged eunuch nearly half a century old?
Whoever it was, he'd have to make him sleep a little more deeply.
Zhang Ping lifted the hanging curtain.
A girl, about 15 or 6 years old, with long hair and bare face, lies on the inside of the bed. The weather is still very cold. Even if there is a stove burning in the house, nothing will be covered in this way. People who are not ill can freeze out of illness.
Besides, the girl was covered with all kinds of scars.
Those scars are all still fresh. Some scars are even fatal.+
No wonder the sound of breathing is getting fainter.
Zhang Ping is standing in front of the bed. Save her or not.
To save, even if it's just to cover the girl with a blanket, later on that wily old fox, Hu Rong would find something unusual, and then know that his whereabouts had been exposed.1
Not to save, it is equal to let her die.
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