"Okay!" Li Yuan could only nod in agreement when he saw Lu Chen. Although he always felt that it was not reliable for Lu Chen, the two cleansing masters in the cleansing room, to castrate pigs, but Li Yuan did not refuse Lu Chen. He nodded, "Chang Bao, go to the cleansing room to find two good men later, and follow Mr. Lu to Lujiazhuang!"
"Yes!" Chang Bao bowed in response.
"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Lu Chen saluted Li Yuan, then turned to Chang Bao and cupped his hands one by one, "Thank you, Governor Chang!"
After asking for a purifier from Li Yuan, Lu Chen left Nuange. Li Yuan also had no intention of staying in Nuange to read the memorials and went directly to Shanguanglu Temple. Lu Chen sent two baskets of green vegetables. Want something to eat?
Lu Chen followed Chang Bao out of the palace and saw Liu Jing and Feng Huai waiting at the palace gate.
"Master, shall we go back?" Seeing Lu Chen walking out of the palace gate, Liu Jing hurriedly greeted him and asked.
"Wait a moment, there are two people who want to go back with us!" Lu Chen waved his hand, and at this time Chang Bao also walked out of the palace gate.
"Mr. Lu, let's go!" Chang Bao looked at Lu Chen and said.
"This purification room is not in the palace?" Lu Chen looked at Chang Bao in surprise and asked.
"How is it possible! How can there be such a place in this palace!" Chang Bao glanced at Lu Chen and said. In fact, Chang Bao's mood was not very good at this time. It was obvious that he wanted to lead Lu Chen to the ablution room. It brought up his bad memories.
Seeing that Chang Bao was a little depressed, Lu Chen didn't know how to comfort Chang Bao. After all, his lifeblood was lost in that place. If Li Yuan hadn't asked Chang Bao to take Lu Chen to the cleansing room, Chang Bao would have been in trouble for the rest of his life. He doesn't want to set foot in that place again, it will be a lifetime of pain for him!
"Um..." Lu Chen touched his nose helplessly, "Governor Chang, I hope you'll accept this!" Lu Chen dug around in his arms for a long time, took out a glass ball, and put it in Chang Bao's hand. The glass ball fell out of the deerskin pocket last time. Lu Chen found it last night when he was changing clothes and went to bed. He just kept it in his arms, but he didn't expect it to come in handy here.
It is said that all eunuchs like power and wealth. After all, they are castrated men. If they don't have any hobbies, wouldn't they be dead? Of course, there were no Dongchang and Xichang at this time, but Dongchang and Xichang were places that directly aroused the distorted psychology of the eunuchs. Chang Bao didn't seem to have any psychological distortions, but he probably still had a love for money, so Lu Chen directly Give the glass ball to Chang Bao.
Chang Bao didn't know what Lu Chen was going to give him at first. When he felt something like a ball being stuffed into his hand, and the surface was extremely smooth, Chang Bao subconsciously opened his palm and took a look. Upon seeing it, Chang Bao was surprised and happy. After all, only Li Yuan and Du Fuwei had this glass ball now. He didn't expect that Lu Chen actually gave one to him.
"How can this happen!" Chang Bao looked at the glass ball in his hand with eager eyes, and quickly made a gesture to return the glass ball to Lu Chen.
"Hey! Governor Chang, I also know that the cleansing room is the place where the governor is sad. I don't know how to comfort the governor. I can only express my feelings with this thing!" Lu Chen pretended to empathize with him, Looking at Chang Bao, he said, "We are all men. Thinking about this feeling makes me scared, but Governor Chang is so determined to serve His Majesty. I really admire him!" At this point, Lu Chen pushed Chang Bao's hand back and looked at Chang Bao with admiration.
"In this case, it would be disrespectful for our family to refuse!" Chang Bao was so happy at Lu Chen's words. Even though Chang Bao was the governor of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, he was also a fourth-rank official. Although the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty On the surface, they were respectful to Chang Bao, but that was not because of Chang Bao himself, but because Chang Bao was Li Yuan's personal servant. In fact, in the hearts of these people, they looked down on these eunuchs. Now Lu Chen said Hearing these words made Chang Bao feel extremely comfortable, "No one in the civil and military circles of the entire dynasty looked squarely at an emasculated person like us, but for County Duke Lu to be able to say these words, it really made our family feel sad. Quite emotional!" Chang Bao said with twinkling eyes as he looked at Lu Chen.
"If you have nothing to do in the future, Governor Chang, how about you go to Lujiazhuang more often to relax and unwind?" Lu Chen looked at Chang Bao and invited him with sincere eyes. There is a saying that "there are people in the court who are good at becoming officials", but Chang Bao has always If the people around Li Yuan could establish a good relationship with Chang Bao, it would be much easier to obtain information.
"Mr. Lu County, without His Majesty's will, how could people like us dare to leave the palace privately! That would be a sin of losing one's head!" Chang Bao looked at Lu Chen and said with a smile, and at the same time, he gave Lu Chen the precious gift that Lu Chen gave him with his backhand. The glass beads were put into my arms.
While the two were talking, they had already passed the palace wall, passed through Buzhengfang, and came to Liquanfang. Liquanfang was named after the seven springs. There is a courtyard in the southwest corner of Liquanfang. At the entrance of the courtyard, Chang Bao and Lu Chen stopped.
"This is the cleansing room!" Chang Bao said quietly as he looked at the gate of the courtyard.
There is no plaque hanging in the yard, but you can faintly smell the smell of blood and lime. The gate is a vermillion-lacquered gate. On both sides of the gate stand two cypress trees as thick as one person can hug each other. Only the branches are left shaking in the wind.
Chang Bao walked over and knocked on the door knocker. As the knocker knocked, the side door was opened. An old man in his fifties poked his head out. When he saw Chang Bao, he was slightly startled.
The old man stepped out and bowed to Chang Bao, "Chang Bao, what are you doing here?" The old man asked directly when he saw Chang Bao.
"Master, our family came here with an order to dispatch two purification masters to listen to the demolition of Lu County!" Chang Bao looked at the old man respectfully and said.
When the old man heard Chang Bao's words, he turned to look at Lu Chen who was standing aside with confusion.
"This is the Duke of Chang'an County!" Chang Bao continued.
"Little old man, please give me a gift to the county magistrate!" Upon hearing this, the old man rushed to Lu Chen to salute.
"There is no need to be polite, old man!" Lu Chen waved his hand and said.
"Thank you, Lord County Duke!" The old man straightened up after saluting again.
"What is this old man's name?" Lu Chen looked at the old man and asked.
"How dare this little old man say anything about his noble surname, Luo's humble surname, and Yuan's single surname?" Luo Yuan replied respectfully.
"My master can be said to be the most skilled purifier in the purification room. Back then, our treasure was removed by the master himself!" Chang Bao said with some regret.
"This..." Upon hearing the past mentioned by Chang Bao, Lu Chen didn't know what to say. Someone has taken away this precious thing from him, and he still has to become his teacher? Do you want to learn the "Evil Sword Manual"? Lu Chen really couldn't understand the relationship between Chang Bao and Luo Yuan.
"Can I go in and have a look?" Lu Chen looked at Luo Yuan and asked.
"This..." Luo Yuan looked at Lu Chen and then at Chang Bao, showing a hint of embarrassment, "As the saying goes, noble people should never tread on lowly soil. As Mr. Lu and Governor Chang, he entered this place. I'm afraid there's something wrong with the cleansing room, right?" Luo Yuan looked at Chang Bao and Lu Chen and said.
"It's okay! I haven't seen what a cleansing room looks like yet! I want to go in and have a better experience!" Lu Chen said with a smile.
"Since Duke Lu said so, let's go in and have a look!" Chang Bao looked at Luo Yuan and ordered.
"Okay!" Seeing that he couldn't dissuade Lu Chen, Luo Yuan could only take Chang Bao and Lu Chen into the cleansing room. As for Liu Jing and Feng Huai, they asked Lu Chen to stay outside. After all, although Lu Chen had never entered There was a clean room, but I also felt that it would be better not to let the two children see the things in it.
After entering the side door, you will see a small courtyard in front of you. There are two wing rooms on both sides of the small courtyard. There is a moon door next to the wing room on the right. Behind the moon door, there should be a cross-courtyard.
Lu Chen took a curious look at the courtyard, and Luo Yuan quickly introduced it to Lu Chen: "Mr. Lu, let's not go to that courtyard. It's a silkworm room, a place for purification!" Luo Yuan's words were full of prevention. means.
Entering the front hall, you will see an offering table in front of you. There is an incense burner and an offering statue on the offering table. This statue is neither a Taoist Sanqing nor a Buddhist Bodhisattva or Buddha, but a white-faced man wearing Hanfu without beard. The statue, holding a pen in one hand and a scroll in the other, looks out of place in a place like a cleansing room.
"Old Luo, who is this?" Lu Chen curiously looked at the statue and asked Luo Yuan who was standing next to him, while Chang Bao stood respectfully behind Luo Yuan.
"This is Sima Qian, the ancestor of our purifiers and purifiers!" Luo Yuan explained to Lu Chen.
"What the hell?" Lu Chen was stunned when he heard the word "Sima Qian". Sima Qian was a great historian, and his book "Historical Records" was known as: "The historian's swan song, the rhymeless Li Sao" , such a great man is actually the founder of purification masters? This really subverted Lu Chen's understanding.
I don’t know if Sima Qian and other old men would feel devastated if he knew that he would become the ancestor of these purification masters after his death.
However, after Lu Chen thought about it, this was not too surprising. After all, Sima Qian was also a person who had been "castrated". It was not an exaggeration to be respected as the ancestor by these purifiers and purifiers. Those eunuchs worshiped Sima Qian in a sentimental way. Ke Yuan, but why did this purification master worship Sima Qian? Is it because we don’t know who the purifier was who executed Sima Qian? So they all worshiped Sima Qian?
"Oh!" Lu Chen nodded. Although he felt a little unfair to Sima Qian, a great historian, Lu Chen couldn't say anything more. To put it bluntly, these people may be seeking psychological comfort from paying homage to Sima Qian!
"Are you the only one here?" Lu Chen looked around and found that no one else had appeared until now. Lu Chen asked curiously.
