[Emperor Chapter 1] Godfather

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"Godfather, please don't, I'm up now!"

Chu Jiao jumped off the bed and smiled at the person who came.

In front of her stood a middle-aged man dressed as a eunuch. No, to be exact, he should not be called a man, but a eunuch.

The eunuch had a white face and no beard, and a pair of squinting eyes on his round face, which looked a bit funny.

Chu Jiao inherited the memory of the original owner, and was not afraid of him. Instead, she smiled and approached him and hammered him on the back.

Her friendly look obviously pleased the visitor. The eunuch picked up an orchid and pointed at her forehead, admonishing, "You are so frivolous all day long. Be careful not to break the rules in front of the nobles. I can't save you!"

"I know, godfather, let's go. Which noble are you delivering food to today?"

Although Chu Jiao is still a girl, she is dressed as a little eunuch. The eunuch in front of her is named Zhang Shun, and he is the original owner's uncle.

The original owner was a small person at the foot of the imperial city. During the famine, the original owner's grandparents could not survive, so they had to sell their daughter with great pain, and sent their son to the palace to sell for money. Unexpectedly, Zhang Shun worked hard in the palace for more than ten years, and instead of dying, he became the head of the Shangshenjian.

One time, Zhang Shun was rewarded by a nobleman to leave the palace to look for his relatives, but he found that all his family members were gone, except for a sister who was already married.

The sister married a small vendor of steamed buns and gave birth to a lovely daughter. Zhang Shun recognized his sister as his relative, and he felt both concerned and hopeful. He could not have descendants in this life, so he could only place the hope of continuing the family line on his little niece, the original owner.

However, the good times did not last long.

When the original owner grew up to the age of eleven or twelve, she had grown into a beautiful and lovely girl, like a flower bud. The original owner often helped her parents sell buns in the shop, but she was unexpectedly spotted by the uneducated little tyrant Yun Cong, the son of Marquis Weiyuan.

Yun Cong was only fifteen or sixteen years old, but he had lived in a world of flowers. It happened that during that time, he fell in love with the simple little girl like the original owner, and said that he wanted to take her into the Marquis Weiyuan's mansion as his personal maid, and planned to exchange her for twenty taels of silver.

Although the original owner's parents were poor, they had great ambitions. The original owner's mother hated this act of selling children because of her own fate. Although twenty taels of silver was enough for the family to live for several years, she still politely refused.

However, Yun Cong had grown up smoothly since childhood, so he could not stand being rejected. After a few days, the shop of the original owner was smashed by someone, saying that he had a stomachache, and the original owner's parents were also beaten and seriously injured.

When Zhang Shun rushed out of the palace, he saw the original owner collecting the bodies of his parents alone.

Although Zhang Shun was a person who had a say among the eunuchs, he was still a servant and could not afford to offend the Weiyuan Marquis Mansion. Although he hated Yun Cong in his heart, he could only take his niece to avoid disaster. After thinking about it, only the palace was the safest. If he left his niece in the capital to fend for herself, she would definitely not escape the clutches of Yun Cong. However, even if she entered the palace, since the current Concubine Hui is the sister of Marquis Weiyuan, Marquis Weiyuan's children often go in and out of the palace. If the niece becomes a palace maid, she can be taken away at any time, which is not safe.

Before being promoted to Shangshenjian, Zhang Shun was the manager of Jingshifang, and the current manager is his subordinate. After thinking it over, Zhang Shun still thinks it is safest to keep his niece under his nose.

In the previous dynasty, there was a "civet cat replacing the prince". Zhang Shun came up with a daring idea, which is to erase the niece as a person and turn her into a "eunuch" who entered the palace because of poverty! Children grow up quickly, and no one will recognize her after a few years when her appearance has grown up. And the prince was also a person who liked new things and hated old things. As long as he knew that "Chu Jiao" was dead, he would definitely not associate them together again.

The original owner entered the palace in this way and became a little eunuch in the Shangshenjian, and also recognized Zhang Shun as her "godfather".

She looked well-behaved, and was very likable even when she was dressed as a man. Zhang Shun naturally took her to his side to teach her and became her godfather and master. When the palace maids and eunuchs saw this, they could only sigh that the original owner was born with a good appearance and recognized a good godfather.

"Today we are going to Empress Rong's Qiuxi Palace, you kid, be more careful!"

"!" Chu Jiao took the food box from Zhang Shun with a shy face, and followed him towards the direction of the East Six Palaces.