The young eunuch continued to stare at the well wheels as though he did not realize there was an extra person beside him.
An old man in cotton-padded clothes stepped out of a carriage that stopped at the end of the street. He looked into the distance, and then his footsteps became faster and faster. When the old man with blurred vision could vaguely make out the young eunuch's face, he actually started running. The old man who was close to seventy years old obviously did not run often, and his body was also very old. When he approached the well, he fell hard on his face, splashing up a cloud of dust. The old man with snow-white hair and eyebrows as white as frost did not get up, but crawled on the ground. When he raised his head to confirm the young eunuch's identity, he immediately burst into tears and kowtowed with all his might, choking and sobbing, "Father." The young eunuch only glanced down at the pitiful old man. He frowned as though he was trying to remember who the old man was. When he remembered, his brows slowly relaxed, but he did not speak in the end.
After he frowned, and before his brows relaxed.
The young eunuch standing casually by the well gave Fan Xiaochai and Mi Fengjie, who were standing far away, an invisible pressure that made their souls tremble uncontrollably. Their faces were pale, and it was difficult for them to hold on. As the young eunuch's brows relaxed, the two seemed to be bathed in the spring breeze, as though a heavy burden had been lifted from their shoulders. The two grandmasters of the Whispering Room, who had always thought of the young eunuch as an ordinary palace expert, finally saw through the secrets of the heavens. The young eunuch who acted as Great Peace City's driver for Chen Shaobao was definitely a first-rate person in the world, and very likely to be among the immortals of the land. Otherwise, he would not have returned to his natural state, and his physical body was one with the world.
The old man kneeling on the ground had an extraordinary identity. He was the chief eunuch of the capital who had escorted Gao Shulu to Guangling Road to deal with Cao Changqing. Zhao Sicu, a remnant of Dongyue. He had once been a pawn Zhao Changling had placed in Liyang. After the important hidden pawn became a pawn that no one cared about, Zhao Sicu focused on climbing up the ranks of the twenty-four bureaus of the Great Peace City imperial palace. He had never done anything wrong in his life and was favored by the Zhao family. He had been in charge of the Directorate of Credentials and the Directorate of Treasures. He was good friends with the master of the current Directorate of Ceremonies, Song Tanglu. After Song Tanglu became the leading eunuch in the world, he did not care for his master, and only treated Zhao Sicu with respect. Zhao Sicu had been in charge of the Directorate of Credentials for eight years. In his decades of service, he had never made a mistake. Therefore, he was deeply trusted by the three generations of Zhao emperors. Otherwise, Liyang would not have given him full authority to take over Gao Shulu, who had a celestial body but had been "sealed in the mountains" for four hundred years. The martial divisions of the jianghu in the past four hundred years, especially the four realms, were all Gao Shulu's handiwork.
If the chief eunuch responsible for delivering the edict to Liyang, Eunuch Liu, had encountered Zhao Sicu, who was of high seniority in the palace, he would have had to retreat to the wall and stand with his hands tied. But at this moment, Zhao Sicu was kneeling on the ground and kowtowing desperately to a young eunuch who looked old enough to be his grandson. He kept calling out the words "father". After eunuchs cut off their descendants and entered the palace, the first thing they would do was to recognize a senior as their adoptive father or master. Their respect was far greater than that of their biological father. This eunuch who eventually became the head eunuch of Zhao Diao Temple was no exception. However, Zhao Sicu had recognized two masters in his life. The second master worked in the Imperial Horse Directorate and did not have a high position. He was a familiar face in the imperial palace in the capital and had died in the Talisman of Eternal Peace. It could be said that he was extremely honored to have such a promising disciple like Zhao Sicu. However, Zhao Sicu's first master had long been forgotten. Zhao Sicu himself had never mentioned a word to anyone.
The reason Hsu Fengnian came to Youzhou this time was that Zhao Sicu, who had been enjoying his retirement in the Green Deer Cave Academy, suddenly came down the mountain and said that he had a great secret to tell him, the young vassal king.
After Zhao Sicu hurried to Mount Qingliang, he told Hsu Fengnian about his "father", a strange eunuch whom he had inexplicably kowtowed to when he first entered the palace. That eunuch did not seem very old at the time. At the time, Zhao Sicu only thought that it was because he was a native of Liyang and had entered the palace early. At that time, the eunuch whom Zhao Sicu respectfully addressed as "father" was already very strange. It seemed that there was not a single place in the palace where "father" could not wander. Zhao Sicu had once followed this young master to purchase blankets and beds for the imperial family, to sweep and add lamp oil to the Imperial Ancestral Temple, to put up yellow plaques for the Shenwu Gate in the north during the Double Ninth Festival, and to go to the treasury of the Minister of Treasures to wipe the seals of various generals. Five years later, after the annexation of the Central Plains, Liyang's rightful position began to stabilize. Zhao Sicu's master began to fade out of sight. Even Zhao Sicu, who had gradually risen to a high position, could not find any trace of him. There was not a single record of his master in the archives of the Imperial Household. His surname, hometown, when he entered the palace, and his work history were all absent. It was as if this person had never appeared in the imperial palace of Great 'an City.
The last time Zhao Sicu saw "father" was the night before he left the palace, when he returned to his residence from the forbidden grounds of the palace where Gao Shulu's body was sealed. In the moonlight, he saw a blurry figure flash by. But the Old Marten Temple was incomparably certain that this figure was his first master, the true guide of the Imperial Palace of Great 'an City, a eunuch whose surname he did not even know.
But Zhao Sicu only had the simplest of feelings for this father of his, this master who he could not find any clues about even after painstakingly flipping through the secret archives of the Imperial Palace of Great 'an City. That was to repay the kindness of a drop of water with a gushing spring.
Perhaps in the eyes of the "young eunuch", the white-haired Zhao Sicu was just an insignificant passerby in his gloomy and heavy life. But Zhao Sicu's howls as he lay on the ground were sincere and genuine.
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