Chapter 26: Eunuchs
From the funny scene of Mrs. Zhou holding her breath until her face turned purple, to the stupid look of the second master Cui Jun who looked down on eunuchs,
Then there was Cui Jun's earth-shattering words: "lowly eunuch slave", "dog slave", "rootless filthy thing"... and the chaos in Yanshou Hall and the embarrassment of the Second Master being "invited" out by the Marquis...
Xiao Shunzi has excellent eloquence and his imitation is very lifelike.
Especially the word "eunuch slave", a rootless thing, he even imitated Cui Jun's violent and vulgar tone, shouting it particularly clearly and loudly!
Fuan was originally holding a cup of tea, but as he listened, the smile on his face gradually disappeared.
When he heard the word "eunuch", his hand holding the teacup suddenly stopped, and a few drops of scalding tea splashed onto the back of his hand, but he was completely unaware.
That round face that always wore a warm smile suddenly became so gloomy that it looked like water could drip out of it! A cold light flashed in the turbid old eyes!
"What a great... what a great second master of the Weiyuan Marquisate!"
Fuan's voice was low and hoarse, with a kind of heart-pounding coldness.
"Really... such great majesty! Such courage!"
Xiao Shunzi stood with his hands hanging down, saying nothing more.
He knew that he had done what he should do.
The two hundred taels of silver were the bribe the Marquis's wife received, and more importantly, they were hush money to keep his mouth shut—also a cut-off fee to cut off something that was disadvantageous to the Marquis's eldest wife.
As for the second wife and the one from Yanshou Hall? Madam didn't say we couldn't "report the truth."
What happened next was like a stone thrown into a deep pool, causing ripples to spread rapidly.
Xiao Shunzi accidentally leaked the Second Master's shocking "eunuch" statement to a few eunuchs he knew well and who held some respect in the palace. One person spread the word, ten spread the word, and ten spread the word a hundred...
In less than half a day, the entire palace, from the eunuch in charge of the Imperial Household Department to the lowest-ranking fireman, knew about the "heroic act" of Cui Jun, the second master of Weiyuan Marquis's Mansion!
"Dog slave?"
"Dirty thing?!"
"Rootless stuff"
These words, like the most vicious curse, severely hurt the most sensitive, most inferior, and most untouchable parts of the eunuchs' hearts!
They might have groveled before their masters, and perhaps been secretly despised outside the palace, but had they ever been pointed at and insulted so openly and viciously? And in front of the palace eunuchs!
An invisible, icy anger swept through the entire group of eunuchs in the palace like a cold wave.
Regardless of their faction, regardless of any conflicts, at this moment, all the eunuchs had only one common enemy in their hearts—the Second Branch of the Weiyuan Marquisate! Cui Jun!
"Mr. Cui, what a daredevil you are!"
"Humph, Weiyuan Marquis Mansion? Second branch? Very good! We will remember it!"
"A useless loser who relies on his ancestors' protection and has no real ability of his own dares to insult us?!"
"Just wait and see! One day he'll have to beg us for help!"
These discussions, like cold poisonous snakes, quietly lurked in the shadows of the palace.
Gazes filled with resentment and calculation were silently cast towards the magnificent yet decaying Weiyuan Marquis Mansion outside the palace.
In Yanshou Hall, Old Madam Zhou was still groaning and cursing in pain on her sickbed.
Meanwhile, her second son, Cui Jun, who was as dumb as a pig and didn't know the disaster was coming, was currently confined to the second room's courtyard. He was still throwing things in anger, cursing his eldest brother for being "partial" and Xiao Shunzi for "taking advantage of his superiors"...
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