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

On the palace road beside Tingchao Lake, there were twenty or thirty palace servants gathered, standing in small groups of three or four in a very disorderly arrangement, but all of them were looking in one direction: not far away, two young eunuchs, under the command of a big eunuch, were moving something onto a wooden sedan - it was a corpse wrapped in white cloth that had just been salvaged from the lake.

Most of the onlookers were palace maids and eunuchs who were running errands and passing by. After seeing this scene by chance, they stopped to watch, and some of them were whispering to each other.

"I heard that the person who committed suicide by jumping into the lake was a palace maid from the inner class."

"Ah? Could it be someone from that Eunuch Xu's side again?"

"Oh, you actually guessed it right! It's the pretty girl next to the old eunuch. I heard that when she was fished out, her neck was covered with marks... What a sin!"

"How pitiful! Fortunately, I am ugly, so I am not afraid of being spotted by that old pervert."

"This old man has harmed so many people! Didn't the man who hanged himself three years ago leave a blood letter to expose him? It is said that the general manager was also alerted and said he would punish him. Why did he let it go later?"

"I heard that it was the old queen who wanted to protect him. This Xu, who is in charge of the inner class, is a servant of the master. If you serve the master well, even the biggest crime can be reduced to a small one. Besides, the old woman is busy helping her grandson manage the government all day long, and has no time to care about the lives of a few minions in the backyard."

"So, that old pervert didn't get any punishment, but just kept quiet for two years. Now he can't help but start doing bad things again, right?"

"Isn't it? Relying on his status as a powerful eunuch, he deceives his superiors and bullies his subordinates in the palace, and does whatever he wants without restraint!"

"Tsk, tsk, tsk, you did such a wicked thing, aren't you afraid that the wronged souls will turn into evil spirits and come to seek revenge?"

"Ah! If there really is karma, this old man would have died countless times!"

After the corpse was loaded onto the wooden sedan chair, two young eunuchs drove the sedan chairs one after the other onto the palace road under the command of the eunuch in charge. The eunuch in charge was slightly fat and lame, and he walked with a limp, leaning on a wooden cane that made a "click-click" sound when it touched the ground. He seemed to be afraid of being infected with some plague, and he always walked two meters in front of the sedan chair.

When the fat eunuch saw the people standing in groups of two or three, his originally flabby face immediately tightened into a ferocious expression: "What are you all looking at? What's so good about it? Hurry back to work. If you delay the work at hand, you'll be in big trouble!"

While shouting and yelling, he swung the cane in his hand like a golden hoop. As expected, a few timid ones were frightened and walked away, looking back every step. The braver ones pretended not to hear what he said and stayed where they were to continue watching the fun.

Suddenly, from the other side of the palace road, a woman dressed as a palace maid ran towards the wooden sedan chair carrying the corpse. It was Qiao Wan'er, who had just heard the news of Shuxiu's death.

"Shuxiu!" Qiao Wan'er rushed to the corpse carriage and grabbed the side railing of the carriage, which forced the two eunuchs driving the carriage to stop. Then, she lifted the white cloth covering the corpse with one trembling hand, and when she saw the pale and bloodless face, she finally couldn't control her emotions and burst into tears.

In grief, she grabbed one of the corpse's hands and shook it vigorously, and kept calling Shuxiu's name, but the "person" she was called did not respond at all, like a wooden statue made of clay... The girl's eyes were closed peacefully, and her face was calm, as if she had escaped from some suffering. "Hey, which bureau are you from? Do you know the rules? Get out of the way quickly and don't get in the way here!" The eunuch in charge turned around and shouted at the scene.

As a lowly maid in the palace, Qiao Wan'er would usually obey orders from anyone, but at this moment, she did not obey, but remained frozen in her original position, suppressing her crying and turning it into low sobs. The experience at this moment brought back a memory from her childhood: when her mother's body was carried away, she held her mother's hand tightly and refused to let go.

"Get out of the way quickly, do you hear me? You don't want to live anymore? Be careful or I'll punish you!" The fat eunuch saw that the woman who tried to stop the car did not respond at all, and a look of annoyance appeared on his face. His voice became a few notches higher, and he waved the crutch in his hand as if to drive her away.

After shouting at the woman, he shouted at the two eunuchs driving the carriage, "You two, why did you stop? Hurry up and take it away! Eunuch Xu has ordered that this kind of corpse is too unlucky and cannot be kept in the palace any longer. It must be sent out quickly!"

When Qiao Wan'er heard the man mention Eunuch Xu, her body trembled slightly, but she still did not let go, but instead held it even tighter.

Perhaps because he gave orders in public but received no response, the fat supervisor felt a little embarrassed. He did not care whether the corpse was unlucky or not. He took two steps forward in anger and used the crutch in his hand as a whip to "whip" the woman's stubborn hand.

The cane hit the flesh, making a crisp "pa" sound, followed by a groan of "ouch" from the person who was hit - however, that was a man's voice.

It turned out that the cane didn't hit Qiao Wan'er, but the eunuch who was pushing the sedan chair from behind. The eunuch seemed to want to push the hand of the person who was blocking the carriage away so that he could continue to push the carriage forward, but he ended up being hit by the stick instead. After being hit, he screamed in pain and quickly retracted his hand.

Seeing that she had implicated others, Qiao Wan'er hurriedly let go of her hand and looked apologetically at the man who took the beating for her - when she saw the man's face clearly, she was shocked: it was the eunuch Fuzhi whom she knew, no wonder she felt the voice was familiar.

The fat eunuch realized that he had hit the wrong person, so he blurted out and yelled at the person who had "randomly" stretched out his hand: "You idiot! Why are you stretching out your hand!"

As he spoke, a piece of flesh on his cheek twitched slightly, and then he quickly stepped back as if avoiding the plague god - I don't know if he was trying to stay away from the "bad luck" or the injustice of the corpse. Although he was still cursing and waving the cane in his hand, it was too far away to reach.

After Qiao Wan'er let go of her hand, she didn't dare to have any communication with "Fuzhi", and didn't even dare to look at her more than once.

The wooden carriage was driven forward again, leaving the woman standing there in tears behind.

While pushing the cart, "Fuzhi" briefly freed one hand and gently lifted the white cloth on the body, covering the body completely again... The white cloth without a trace of color gave people a sense of solemnity for no reason, and after covering the woman's body, it also gave her the last dignity of her life.

(End of this chapter)