After having sex with a fake eunuch, I became the queen

During the few days Qiao Wan'er was in the death row, she experienced the peace she had never known in her life. She ate well and slept soundly. The jailer knew that she would not live for many days, so he was very caring and often asked about her health, as if he was afraid that she would freeze to death or starve to death before the execution and that he would not be able to complete his mission.

After eating and drinking and sleeping until he woke up naturally, he began to review his unremarkable life when he had nothing to do in prison.

She was born in the countryside of Suning Prefecture and had never seen her father since she could remember. When she was two years old, her father accidentally fell off a cliff while picking Ganoderma lucidum in the mountains. When his co-workers found him, he was already dead.

When her mother gave birth to her, she fell ill during the confinement period and has been weak and sickly ever since. After her husband passed away, she had to work odd jobs to support the family. Within a few years, she was exhausted and eventually passed away when Qiao Wan'er was six years old.

Her uncle had no choice but to adopt her, but her aunt was a person who could not tolerate any "sand" in her eyes, and always disliked her for being a jinx who would bring bad luck to her parents.

Even though she was very young, she was sensible and well-behaved. At her uncle's house, she didn't dare to eat more than one bite of food, and she was always very considerate and eager to do all the dirty and tiring work.

She still couldn't change her aunt's impression of her as "a disaster from heaven" and she was always looking for opportunities to kick her out of the house.

When Qiao Wan'er was nine years old, there was a famine in Suning Prefecture. Her aunt was disgusted with the extra mouth to feed in the family. By chance, she heard that there were official human traffickers in the government office who hired girls to be sent to the palace as private prostitutes, so she resolutely sold her niece for six taels of silver.

The so-called "being a private servant" means being a maid of the palace maids. The status of a private servant is lower than that of the lowest palace maid, and it is not even a palace maid at all. But no matter what the status is, at least she goes to a place where food and clothing are provided, and after entering the palace, there are people to teach her how to read and write. She thinks this place is not bad.

After the Taiping Gate Rebellion, most of the palace maids were reduced as Empress Dowager Xiao eliminated dissidents. Some were killed, and some were driven away. Therefore, the palace needed a large number of replenished palace maids. The surviving nobles were still frightened and most of them were unwilling to send their daughters to the palace to be maids, so they tried every means to avoid the palace selection.

That is why many private girls of commoner origin were sold into the palace and had the opportunity to become palace maids.

After Qiao Wan'er entered the palace, she was efficient, careful and cautious in her work and never made any mistakes, so she became a formal palace maid at the age of sixteen.

Of course, the palace maids who were born privately were not as good as those who were selected to enter the palace. Due to their background, most of them could only be low-ranking palace maids. So she had been in the palace for fifteen years, which was considered to be quite old, but she was still a palace maid of the ninth rank.

In the eyes of many people, a woman like Qiao Wan'er, who has never dared to say the word "no" since childhood, should be the kind of taciturn person who would not dare to fight back even if she was beaten to death.

But this taciturn person actually stabbed the chief eunuch to death silently and premeditatedly, which really shocked many people who knew her.

In fact, Qiao Wan'er herself didn't quite understand why she had the courage to do such a retrograde thing.

She thought that it might be because she had stayed in the palace for too long and was a little tired of living. Even if she could continue to endure humiliation and live for another fifteen years, or another fifteen years after fifteen years, she could imagine how she would die in the future - if she was lucky, she would be like those old palace maids, who worked hard all their lives, their legs and feet were broken, and finally waited for their last breath in pain on the bed. If she was unlucky, she might anger some master and be beaten to death.

So, sometimes she would suddenly have a strange idea - she thought it would be really boring to die like this!
That day, when she saw Li Shuxiu's body, she thought of the scene when her mother died, and she couldn't help feeling resentful in her heart - this world is really unfair. There are not many people who can treat you sincerely, and yet they all died in such a hurry. They are like a speck of dust, taking away the grievances and injustices imposed on them by fate, without leaving too many traces in this world they have come to.

Although she would only think of them occasionally, she felt that just thinking of them was not enough. In the end, with such emotion, Qiao Wan'er had the idea of ​​seeking justice for Li Shuxiu and other people who died unjustly at the hands of Xu Shixin, and she really did it - maybe what she really wanted was such a shocking death; maybe her rebellious nature was there all along, but it had never been revealed and had been buried deep until she encountered such an incident, and it was triggered.

Qiao Wan'er originally planned to kill herself when she tried to assassinate Xu Shixin. Whether she succeeded or not, for her, it was just a matter of dying sooner or later.

But among all the things she had anticipated that might happen, she did not expect that "Fuzhi" would suddenly appear and help her kill Xu Shixin.

Fuzhi is her fellow villager, and they have known each other since childhood. Fuzhi's previous name was Chen Erniu, and he was the youngest son of a landlord where her mother had worked as a helper before her death.

After entering the palace, some eunuchs and maids would keep their original names, while others would be asked to change their names. The reasons for the name change varied, but most of them were because their original names were not nice, or were not presentable, or violated some taboo. The name Chen Erniu was probably chosen because his original name was not presentable.

Therefore, a large number of eunuchs in the palace whose names contain the word "Fu" were all renamed by the chief eunuch or the chief eunuch for the sake of auspiciousness.

Fuzhi entered the palace five years ago, and was already seventeen years old when she entered. In the early spring of last year, Qiao Wan'er wanted to draw a plum blossom for embroidery, and remembered that there were several plum blossom trees in the garden of the Shangyi Bureau, so she ran excitedly to see the plum blossoms, but she found that the plum blossoms had all withered, and a eunuch was pruning the plum blossoms.

The eunuch had a handsome face and a delicate face. When he saw Qiao Wan'er, he stared at her for a long time without blinking, making her feel a little embarrassed.

"Are you from Qiaojiang Village in Suning Prefecture?" After staring at him for a long time, the eunuch finally spoke, deliberately using a strong Suning accent.

When Qiao Wan'er heard the familiar accent, she was stunned at first, then nodded in affirmation.

"So your name is Qiao Wan'er?" The eunuch saw her nod and showed excitement.

When Qiao Wan'er was called by name by the stranger in front of her, she immediately looked confused: "How did the father-in-law know?"

"Sister Wan'er, don't you remember me? I'm Chen Erniu from next door!" The eunuch took two steps forward excitedly, as if he had met a long-lost relative.

Qiao Wan'er, who had never met each other as children, finally remembered her "childhood sweetheart" after Chen Erniu's various reminders...It is said that girls change a lot when they grow up, and boys also change a lot when they grow up. The boy who looked like a little chick when he was young, has grown into such a decent man after not seeing him for many years.

After that, the two of them recognized each other as fellow villagers.

Fuzhi told Qiao Waner that his father was addicted to gambling and eventually lost all the family land in gambling and owed a lot of foreign debts. Their family fell into poverty and became worse than ordinary farmers. In order to make a living, he entered the palace to become a eunuch.

Qiao Wan'er was very sad after hearing this. Even the landlord's son had fallen into such a state of poverty, and was on par with an orphan like her who had no parents. It seemed that she was still lucky.

Later, Fuzhi would find various opportunities to see her every now and then. When they met, he would chat with her about family matters. Since she worked in the Horticulture Bureau, he would take advantage of his proximity and often bring her some newly opened seasonal flowers.

Qiao Wan'er was a flower lover and she accepted the flowers with pleasure every time.

In Suning Prefecture, the dialect is different every 100 miles, and people who speak the same hometown dialect are all close to each other, not to mention that the two of them are neighbors who have known each other since childhood. It is rare to meet such an old acquaintance from many years ago in such a closed and suffocating palace.

Qiao Wan'er naturally cherished such a fate. She could vaguely feel that Fuzhi must have some kind of feelings for her... the kind of feelings between men and women.

But after meeting Fuzhi, she only felt a sense of intimacy as if she had met an old friend in a foreign place. In her eyes, he was an absolute brother next door, just like his two cousins ​​from his uncle's family. No matter how naughty they were, as their cousin, she would give in to them and protect them.

Therefore, in the matter of Li Shuxiu, even if Fuzhi broke his promise and was too timid to meet her, in Qiao Wan'er's heart, all of these can be forgiven - Fuzhi is just a younger brother after all, and young people need protection from older people, so if he did something wrong, he should naturally be forgiven.

What's more, there is no need to forgive what happened later. Instead, she should be extremely grateful to him - Fuzhi finally overcame her cowardly nature and risked her life to help at the critical moment. This may be because he really loved her and was worried about letting her do such a dangerous thing alone... If it weren't for him, she would not have been able to spend her time in prison so peacefully and contentedly, and it would be even more impossible for her to die calmly without any regrets.

Whenever Qiao Wan'er thought of this, she would recall the day when Fuzhi stabbed Xu Shixin to death with a pair of scissors... That move was so clean and neat, without any delay, just like a heroic general decisively giving the enemy a fatal blow in front of the two armies. She was astonished.

She suddenly felt that Fuzhi was a little bit unlike her brother... and like the Lanling King that she had heard from the storyteller when she was a child, the black cloth covering his face was like Lanling King's mask. He was a handsome man who would often appear in her dreams.

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"What did you say? The little emperor went to the scene to watch the execution, but he started crying and making a fuss before the execution and wanted to stop the execution?" Ji Yin's face was filled with astonishment, as if he couldn't believe what Lu Yi said.

"The specific reason is being investigated by Ximen, and the news has not been delivered yet. After I learned about the withdrawal of the execution, I hurried here to report to the Lord... Brother Fuzhi!" Lu Yi reached out and wiped away the tears of joy that flowed from his eyes.

(End of this chapter)