Lao Li was thinking very simply that he was used to holding silver in the hands of eunuch Wang.

The next day, Lao Li came to the door to find eunuch Wang and asked about the children's homeland.

Seeing that the Eunuch Wang could not hide it anymore, he said, "Let's go home." Lao Li was asking about the names and origins of the children, and Eunuch Wang wrote a list and handed it to him.

It just so happened that two families in the village had recently given birth to children, and babies often died prematurely. The villagers' habits are that the children have to wait three months before they can be considered "sitting". In addition, the wives of two families are about to give birth. Lao Li was just thinking that after the children of these four families "sitting" and they will be sent to the county government for registration procedures together with Eunuch Wang's godsons.

Unexpectedly, something happened to Eunuch Wang's house during this delay, and the list was left in Lao Li's forehand.

Lao Li is a mature man, and he quietly went to inquire about the whereabouts of the children. One day Lao Li was coming back from outside and said to his son, who is now the person, now: "What happened. The yashi named Liu Erniang in the county town was trampled to death by Jingma. Alas, Wang Dabao was the one who sold the children to Liu Erniang. I also heard that Liu Erniang had sent the children to Bai Qiu. Not long ago, the palace bought eunuchs in Bai Qiu and Zhang County. I saw Wang's godson, and maybe it was sold to the palace."

A few years ago, whenever the river was flooded, these two places were the worst affected, and they were everywhere selling children and daughters. When Taizu established the dynasty, half of the eunuchs in the palace were from Baiqiu and Zhang County. Because there were the most eunuchs in these two places, there were gradually unwritten rules. When the palace bought eunuchs, they must go to these two counties first.

The eunuch Wei Ming’s ancestral home is Bai Qiu.

After ascending the throne, he sifted the people from the palace and the palace several times before he cleared the Wei Ming party. After that, when the Ministry of Internal Affairs purchased the eunuch, he never went to Baiqiu and Zhang County again.

But twenty years ago, Bai Qiu and Zhang County were still the main places for the palace to purchase eunuchs. Therefore, in these two counties, many industries that live in eunuchs were born, which were called "husband travel" by the people.

Most of the people who run husband business have connections with the yamen. They bought the boys who were either kidnapped, bought at a low price, or cheated out of the charity halls in other places under the guise of adoption. They were raised as adopted sons at home. The yamen registered their household registration. When the boys were eight or nine years old, they were in their teens. They were sold to the waiter's house. The strong body was sent to the palace to be eunuchs.

When eunuchs in the palace arrived in Baiqiu and Zhangxian, they didn’t even have to go out of the door, so there would be a “husband” to deliver the children to their doors and give them as much as they were required. These children were specially raised as eunuchs, and the quantity and quality were guaranteed. The eunuchs still had bonuses to get.

And these people who are engaged in "husband travel" have long-term cooperative relationships with Renyazi.

Liu Erniang is one of them.

Lao Li was just learning that Liu Erniang died suddenly, and he was very scared and did not dare to leave the village for a whole month.

After a few more days, Lao Li didn't hear any movement. It happened that a cousin married a grandson in the backstage village. Lao Li went to have a wedding banquet and never came back.

Yan Xuehuai asked, "Where is the piece of paper with the name and hometown given by Eunuch Wang? Is it still there?"

Li Zheng shook his head: "My father said it was unlucky. After Mr. Wang died, my father burned the paper."

Yan Xuehuai looked at him with a pair of beautiful eyes coldly: "You were not young at that time, twenty or thirty? You are also literate. I don't think you have a bad memory. What was written on that piece of paper? Memorize it to me."

She was trembling inside. Isn’t this little lady a maid? Why did the maid dare to interrupt? And that young man didn’t scold her?

Seeing his eyes flashing, Chai Yan lowered his face: "Don't remember or don't want to say it?"

"I don't remember, no, I remember, no, I don't want to say..." Li was incoherent. He was not a fool. His father's death must have something to do with Eunuch Wang, and that piece of paper was what Eunuch Wang gave to his father the day before his death.

Yan Xuehuai was right. He was already an adult back then. Lao Li didn't hide the matter from his son. He had seen that piece of paper and saw Lao Li throwing the piece of paper into the brazier with his own eyes.

Although it was twenty years later, he still remembered the words on the paper, which were very memorable, with only five names and one place name.

"The five children are of the same hometown. My father said that it must have been written randomly by Mr. Wang, and the names may not be true. They all have surnames Wang. Following Mr. Wang's surname, it was obvious that they were given by Mr. Wang. The fake name must be fake."

He was gasping heavily inside. He didn't know who the rich young master in front of him was, but he must be the one he couldn't afford to offend, and the county magistrate couldn't afford to offend him.

"Wang Zhi, Wang Zhong, Wang Pei, Wang Huai, Wang Gang, all of his hometown are Qingyuan."

These five names are all very ordinary, so ordinary that when you shout on the street, several people will agree at the same time.

Chai Yan and Yan Xuehuai left Qiantai Village and walked on the road. Yan Xuehuai was still silently chanting these five names. Suddenly, she was stunned and smiled at Chai Yan: "Why am I confused? I just call this name myself."

Chai Yan was also stunned, but soon understood what Yan Xuehuai was saying: "Are you talking about Wang Huai?"

Yan Xuehuai said, "Do you still remember what Cui Liangzi said? He said the bad word that Lao He said twice before he died. Do you think Lao He said it was not bad, but Huai?"

Lao He was vague before his death. Cui Liangzi was illiterate and could really mistakenly regard "embrace" as "bad".

Yan Xuehuai said: "If the word Huai mentioned before his death is a name for a person, it must be related to life and death, and it is the most important thing for him. Among the godsons of eunuch Wang, there happened to be one with the word Huai in his name."

Chai Yan narrowed his eyes slightly. By chance, among the people he knew, in addition to Yan Xuehuai, there was also a name with the word "Huai".

"Do you still remember that I told you that the Chu Huai Chu General in Tartar, he is also a Han person."

"Well, aren't you saying that their Chu family is well-documented? Why, do you suspect that Chu Huai is Wang Huai now?" Yan Xuehuai asked.

Chai Yan pondered, the matter of the Chu family was indeed true, and the Chu family's hatred for the Great Wei royal family was also well documented, but there was no way to tell whether the Chu family had Chu Huai.

"Lao Li was killed, but the Li Zheng family was not silenced, which means that the person who killed him probably did not know the existence of the note. Or, the man thought that even if the eunuch Wang gave Lao Li Zheng a note, the name on the note would not be true, so the man did not take this note to heart. The reason why he killed Lao Li Zheng was probably because of Liu Erniang."

Yan Xuehuai continued, "Li Zheng said that Lao Li was secretly investigating. He found out that Liu Erniang had sent the child to Bai Qiu. The people in the palace happened to be in those two counties at that time. He also suspected that the godson of eunuch Wang was sent to Bai Qiu by Liu Erniang. All this was definitely not what he thought of, but what he went to investigate. As long as he went to investigate, he would leave traces. He checked Liu Erniang, and others also found that he was investigating Liu Erniang, so Liu Erniang was silenced and he died of a bad life."

Chai Yan suddenly realized, pulled Yan Xuehuai and kissed her, and said with a smile: "My princess is so smart!"

When Chai Shu was crazy, she once said that the child was sent to the palace by her, but she had been cut and failed to survive, and she had already died.

"Bai Qiu and Zhang County are both eunuchs who stayed in the capital. When they were in the residence before, were there eunuchs from these two places?" Yan Xuehuai asked.

Chai Yan really doesn't know this, but someone must know it.

Chai Yan called Liuli, and Liuli really knew.

"There are eunuchs from these two places in Qiandi, but there are only three, Bai Qiu and Zhangxian. They are old men from the Tian family when they were in the vassal state. Before the Empress enters Beijing, they want to release their household registration. They do not want to return to their hometown, so they stay in Qiandi to support themselves. Except for the three of them, there are no other eunuchs from these two places."

Chai Yan nodded and said to Yan Xuehuai: "This is the case in our mansion, and it is the same for the Prince Qing Mansion and the Prince Fu Mansion. The eunuchs in these two places have too many involvement in the palace. If the prince’s mansion can be kept, they will not be kept. I think these three people in our mansion were left after repeated considerations."

After Chai Yan said that, he thought of something and said to Liuli. "You send an urgent letter to the capital immediately and ask them to check twenty years ago. Well, among the three years, among the eunuchs who cleaned themselves, who came from Bai Qiu and Zhang County, what were their specific names? Where did they go on duty later? By the way, after cleansing themselves, those who didn't survive and died, must report them, the more detailed the better."

Yan Xuehuai and Chai Yan did not live in Guanyi, but chose an inn in Huangxian and stayed there.

This area is the most prosperous place in Huang County. In the afternoon, Chai Yan took Yan Xuehuai out shopping. No one on the street wore Mili, and Yan Xuehuai didn't wear it. Her face was clean and she had not applied any powder. She looked younger than her actual age. Zhou Saochen and Dill followed behind, while the guards were scattered in the crowds around her.

Yan Xuehuai was very interested in local specialties, but it would take a long time for them to return to Beijing. They couldn't send someone to a trip for something. She picked a few small ornaments carved from bamboo, Chai Yan picked two fans woven from bamboo silk, and gave the crane to his father and the peony to his mother.

"They must have never seen such a fan, and they will definitely like it." Chai Yan was full of confidence.

Yan Xuehuai thought about it, as she saw too many good things from her parents-in-law, and maybe she would really like this kind of thing.

The two of them walked around for a while, bought some snacks, and then went back to the inn.

The next day, they did not go out, Yan Xuehuai wanted to translate the book, and Chai Yan sent Amber to investigate Liu Erniang's affairs.

In the evening, Amber came back from outside and dressed like a man who came to the city from the countryside. He changed his clothes to see Chai Yan and Yan Xuehuai. Yan Xuehuai was reading the notes of Zhihong. When Amber came back, she put down her notes and sat down.

Amber said, "When Liu Erniang was a dentist, she sold her niece. Because of this, all her relatives did not interact with her. Her husband was missing. It is said that she could not come with her and took her son to another place. She had not come back for more than ten years. After she was trampled to death by the horse, her house was locked. After seven or eight years, one day, the neighbor found that the lock was smashed open. When she asked, she found out that it was his man and his son who had returned. They had not lived for long after they came back. They sold the house and left again. Now the one who lives in that house is his man's cousin, and the house was sold to him."

Amber took a sip of water and continued, "That cousin is Bai Qiu. Because he married a wife from Huangxian, he happened to sell the house, so he bought it. His name is Zhu Hongwen, and he has lived in this house for more than ten years.

The young man gave him ten taels of silver, and he said everything he knew.

Maybe it was because of the fragrance and smell of the distance. Liu Erniang was hated by her relatives in Huang County, but in the eyes of Bai Qiu's relatives, she thought she was not bad, at least she was generous.

Every time Liu Erniang comes to Bai Qiu, she lives at Zhu Hongwen’s mother’s house. The children she brought with her also live there with her.

Every time she gives Mrs. Zhu two taels of silver, she doesn't care about anything and lets her live.

The last time Liu Erniang went to the Zhu family was twenty years ago. I calculated the life, almost after something happened to eunuch Wang’s house.

Because it was the last time, Zhu Hongwen remembered it very clearly that Liu Erniang brought four children that time, all of whom were boys, and they were all ten years old.

Zhu Hongwen remembered that on the first day Liu Erniang lived, someone came to buy the child. It must have been negotiated long ago. The man had a Jiangyin accent and took one of the children away.

Old Mrs. Zhu was very curious and said that Liu Erniang's business was getting bigger and bigger, and she had all gone to Jiangyin.

Liu Erniang said that it wasn't that she had done her business to Jiangyin, but she happened to have Jiangyin who wanted to buy a child as her son. She was worried that the child would go back to find his biological parents, so she thought of buying it from a distance. After placing Jiangyin's teeth, she found her here.

After the child was taken away, two days later, the person who came from her husband's trip came. Liu Erniang had always had a relationship with them. He said that the people from the palace had arrived. Liu Erniang said that she would send them together. The people who came from her husband's trip disagreed at first, but later they couldn't persuade her, so she said that only this time, and said that everyone from the palace was eunuchs, and told her not to stare at them after she went in.

After Liu Erniang came back, Old Mrs. Zhu asked her if she saw the eunuchs and what the eunuchs were like. Liu Erniang said angrily that she didn't even go in. The people dragged the three children in and closed the door.

Zhu Hongwen was there at that time, and he heard these words with his own ears.

Zhu Hongwen didn't know their names for the three children who were sent to the palace, but he remembered one of them deeply because the child looked at people with a scary look. Zhu Hongwen said that after twenty years, he still remembered that look. The child's eyes were full of resentment, and he should have hated Liu Erniang very much."

Yan Xuehuai asked, "Is Old Mrs. Zhu still alive?"

Amber said: "Short after Liu Erniang died, Old Mrs. Zhu got up at night and fell down. She got a wind storm and half of her body was paralyzed. She couldn't speak clearly. After a few months of persistence, she disappeared."

"Does Bai Qiu still have people who do business with her husband?" Yan Xuehuai asked curiously.
Chapter completed!