usatvline Chapter 315 Human Stool
Chapter 315 Human Stool
They changed shifts and left the palace, returning home to rest.
When they arrived at the palace gate, a luxurious carriage slowly stopped.
The curtain of the carriage was opened, revealing the second princess.
Long Shou remembered that yesterday the second princess came to the prince with her completed homework and asked for permission to go out of the palace for a day of fun.
Go to your classmate's birthday party to make her proud.
His Highness was so annoyed by her that he just rejected her request.
Now that they have finished playing and returned to the palace, the little girls seem to be still unsatisfied.
Long Shou wanted to leave, but just then Bei Yanyu got off the carriage.
A eunuch walked skillfully to the front of the carriage and knelt on the ground.
With his hands on the ground, his whole body huddled together, but his back was straight, forming a human stool.
Bei Yanyu naturally stepped on his back, then followed with her other foot, and jumped out of the carriage, looking innocent and cute.
He never looked at what was beneath his feet.
The clean and tidy cloth on the eunuch's back was pressed into several creases, and two gray shoe prints were imprinted on it, which was particularly eye-catching.
After waiting for a while and making sure that the master had gone down, he stood up.
He brushed the dust off his back and stood up. When he raised his neck, which had been bent for years, he was stunned.
His eyes met Long Shou's, but he didn't say a word and followed the second princess.
This person was Long Shou's childhood friend when he was working in the palace.
He was let off, but he wasn’t let off.
The palace is very big, and he had only been in the East Palace for a short time. The two sides had never met each other, but this was the scene when they met.
After the first meeting, the second time came soon.
They finally found an opportunity to talk.
"Congratulations, Long Shou. You are now a member of the Eastern Palace Guards, which is different from us."
He sighed with regret, "If I had known earlier, I should have given some money to the East Palace when I divided the people."
"They all say that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is the most benevolent master in the entire Taiji Palace and would never hit or scold anyone at will."
"He is also very generous in rewarding his servants."
Long Shou was not surprised by such a good reputation.
The trusted ministers in the Eastern Palace always like to tease Her Highness for being stingy, but in fact, she is not stingy with her own people. She just calculates every penny carefully and makes sure to spend it where it should be spent.
When he was on duty, he also heard the prince instruct the female official, saying: "What is the duty that he should do?"
"There is a huge difference between doing your job well and just doing it perfunctorily."
"Since he has done his job perfectly, he deserves a reward."
Through a door, a girl's clear voice came: "People work for you only for money, fame and fortune. If you don't give them real money, who will work hard for you?"
“Once people’s hearts are scattered, it’s hard to gather them again.”
When childhood friends grow up, their situations are very different.
This is the case for all the palace servants in Taiji Palace. If they meet a good master, they will live a comfortable life.
If you are unlucky enough to meet someone with a bad temper who doesn't treat his slaves as human beings, you will be tortured in all kinds of trivial ways.
Slaves could not be put to death at will, but they could be tortured at will.
A slave's life is worth something, but a palace maid's dignity is worthless.
Directly beating someone to death violates the law, but torturing them to death does not.
Taiji Palace, or the entire Dai Viet, is not something that he can change alone.
He can only help his friends.
"When my foster father returns with His Majesty, I will ask him to transfer you to the East Palace to work."
The young eunuch's eyes lit up, and his whole body seemed to be filled with hope for the future. He even jumped a little with joy.
"Really?! Thank you, thank you, thank you."
He was so excited that Long Shou couldn't bear to keep him waiting, but only Eunuch Jiang could have the say, and he himself didn't have the power.
He tried to calm him down and reminded him, "We have to wait for my godfather to come back first. It won't be that fast."
The young eunuch nodded repeatedly, "Yes, yes, as long as there is hope, thank you so much, I don't know how to repay you."
He took out his purse and stuffed all the money into Long Shou's hands.
"These are all my savings. You can take them."
Long Shou didn't take it and pushed it back: "It was originally an old friend helping each other, but now it's like bribery, and it will implicate me."
When the young eunuch heard this, he hurriedly took back the purse.
As if he saw what Long Shou was thinking, perhaps because of his expectations for the future, he became more lively and said:
"It won't matter if I wait a little longer."
"It's not bad with the Second Princess. The Second Prince is just willful and has a bad temper."
"At least he doesn't have a habit of torturing others, and the share he gets is not bad."
"When I think about going to the East Palace, I think I can still endure it."
After the second meeting, Long Shou would occasionally be distracted and think about this matter.
After entering the Eastern Palace, he made new friends.
Xu Zhao is a cousin of Xu Jialing.
Although Xu Zhao usually acts like a bitch, but when you can really see that he is unhappy, well... he is still like a bitch.
Before it was their turn to change shifts, he came over and asked, "Brother, what's going on?"
"Why have you been so absent-minded recently? If His Highness encounters an assassin again, you can't pounce on him the first time."
Long Shou: ...We can’t get over this matter, right?
He didn't want to talk about this, but since it was a rare opportunity to talk about his troubles, he told them about what happened to him and his childhood playmate a few days ago.
Xu Zhao listened carefully but was confused.
"So, you think he has no dignity, feels wronged, and feels sad for your childhood friend?"
You could say that, but Long Shou corrected him: "It's not just for my childhood friend."
"Yes... I feel that being a slave is somewhat pitiful."
"It's not like a person, it's like an object."
"Even to kill an ox requires a year and a half of imprisonment, but to kill a slave without cause only requires a year of imprisonment."
Xu Zhao frowned and said in confusion: "Huh?"
"What's the big deal? In this world, there are people of high and low status."
"I didn't realize you had a kind heart, hahahaha."
"I can't call you Brother Jiang anymore. I'll call you Brother Shanshan. Hahahaha."