When the news of the fall of Nanjing reached Beijing, the Empress Dowager Bumubutai was wearing a cloak and was walking around in the palace with the help of Su Malagu. After a while, she thought of her two good grandsons, so she asked Su Ma to accompany her to see how Fuquan and Xuanye were doing their homework.

Fuquan was seven years old and Xuanye was six years old. Before Shunzhi left Beijing and went south, he specially taught Chen Tingjing as a lecturer in daily life, a lecturer in the Hanlin Academy, and was served in the Hongde Hall to preach. Xiong Cilu was appointed as a Shujishi of the Hanlin Academy, and the two taught for the two princes. Because of the study, Xuanye no longer lived outside the palace, but lived in the palace with Fuquan.

Bumubutai came to the study outside the prince’s study. He looked at it for a while, and smiled on his face and said to Su Malagu: “The two little guys are quite hard today.”

Su Ma smiled and said, "Empress Dowager, the two princes are good at it. When I came to see you a few times, they learned it with great interest."

"That's fine, that's fine."

When Bumubutai was speaking, he thought that his son was not studying when he was a child, so he couldn't even understand the memorial after taking office. He couldn't help feeling guilty.

"My minister Chen Tingjing meets with the Queen Mother!"

Chen Tingjing, a Shanxi native who was teaching, saw that the empress dowager had arrived, and hurriedly knelt down to salute. Fuquan and Xuanye were very happy when they saw the emperor's grandmother, but they did not dare to get up to greet their grandmother. Instead, they looked at Chen Tingjing with a beacon. Until the teacher nodded, the two children rushed to their grandmother excitedly.

Bumu Butai did not feel unhappy about this, but nodded slightly. He was very satisfied with Chen Tingjing. Only by being strict instructors can one become a high disciple.

Bumubutai was pulling his two grandchildren to ask them about their knowledge, and occasionally asked Chen Tingjing, who answered very appropriately, which made Bumubutai even more like him.

The eunuch Wu Liangfu also arrived, but he brought a few palace maids to measure the ruler and make clothes for the princes. The day gradually became colder and the princes had to prepare winter clothes early. Wu Liangfu was worried about others and took care of the princes himself. When the emperor left the capital, he gave his companion many times to take good care of the princes.

"I will meet the Queen Mother!"

Seeing that the empress dowager was also there, Wu Liangfu hurriedly brought the palace maids to salute. He was wearing gray-blue clothes. The palace had strict regulations on the wear of eunuchs, and they had to change their clothes on time according to the four seasons. In spring, the eunuchs at the bottom would change into gray-blue clothes. When they looked far away in the palace, they would know where there were eunuchs. In summer, they would have to change into tea-camel clothes. No matter how hot they were, they could not wear vests, and they had to wear linen jackets outside. As long as the eunuchs were in the palace, even in their own house, they had to dress neatly, with linen clothes and pants close to their sweaty bodies, cloth socks on their feet, and a pair of forged boots.

Over time, the old eunuchs have practiced the skill of sweating, and the new eunuchs who entered the palace have suffered. The limbs and arms and abdominal crutches are covered with prickly heat and poisonous sores, which are painful and itchy, and not to mention itching. In autumn and winter, they will change into gray-blue robes. On the master's birthday, the eunuchs must wear crimson purple robes to add joy, and on the death day, they must wear blue-purple clothes to express condolences. If someone is dizzy and wears the wrong clothes, then the mistake will be great.

In the first few years after Wu Liangfu entered the palace, he could only serve the master day and night as an apprentice, brewing tea and water, and serving meals for three meals a day. He even had to pour the shit and urine jars to wash. However, after learning about the difficult days of the small eunuch at the bottom of the palace, Wu Liangfu gradually became familiar with the affairs of the palace. Finally one day he became one of the eunuchs in the hall of the Silijian. Just when Wu Liangfu thought that it was about to be running, suddenly, overnight, the Ming Empire collapsed like a mountain. Many palace servants panicked and fled the Forbidden City with their savings for many years, but Wu Liangfu stayed. If he didn't make a fortune, where could he go? How could this weak body bear the bitter wind and rain outside the palace wall?

With a thousand-year foundation, only one family can enjoy it. No matter who is the owner of the Forbidden City, the harem still needs a castration like Wu Liangfu. Sure enough, although the Forbidden City has changed three owners within a year, a large number of eunuchs and palace maids are still in the palace, eating imperial grain with ease. When Master Juexin was just a young child who was not familiar with the world, Wu Liangfu knew that his opportunity had come. The emperor paid off. Now, he is the eunuch in the palace and the most useful person around the emperor.

Bumu Butai had no good feelings for Wu Liangfu, a eunuch, and could not say bad feelings. He raised his hand to signal him to get up and wait. Wu Liangfu dared not say too much, so he lowered his head and led the palace maids to the side to stand. Chen Tingjing seemed a little disgusted with Wu Liangfu and was unwilling to look at him with his face. Su Malagu always looked at Fuquan and Xuanye with a smile, without any reaction to Wu Liangfu's arrival.

"Grandmother, grandson tells you a secret!"

Suddenly, the second son of the emperor, Fuquan, stood on tiptoe, suddenly pressed his mouth against his grandmother's ear, and whispered: "Since the emperor left the capital, my grandson felt so relaxed and comfortable. Grandma, you don't know, when the emperor was there, my grandson was very scared!"

Fuquan's words made Bumubutai laugh, and she was also feeling a little. She said to her son many times and had time to spend more time with the children, but the son didn't listen. He only loved the seriously ill woman and threw the other concubines and sons aside. She said it a few times but it was useless, so he could only go there. Now, she, the grandmother, can only care for her grandsons for her son.

Fuquan is fatter than Xuanye, with a chubby face, which makes him pleasing to look at. Bumubutai smiled and bent down to pick Fuquan up, but then he heard Fuquan say again: "Grandmother, this time the Emperor Ama goes to the south to quell the rioters. My grandson really wants him to never come back."

Upon hearing this, Su Malagu was stunned. When he looked at the empress dowager again, his face had already sunk. He thought he was very unhappy with Fuquan's words. Su Ma wanted to say that the childish words were Wuji, but Fuquan was unintentional, but Xuanye shook his head and said, "Brother is wrong. I hope Ama will beat the gang of thieves in the south so that he can win the victory as soon as possible!"

Xuanye's words calmed down Bumubutai's face. Seeing this, Su Ma breathed a sigh of relief. Chen Tingjing and Wu Liangfu also let out a secret breath. The second prince's words just now were really taboo. If someone had any intention to pass this to the emperor, the second prince would probably not be the crown prince in the future.

"You Ama will definitely return triumphantly. At that time, my grandmother will take you to welcome you Ama back to the palace in person."

Bumubutai held Fuquan with one hand and Xuanye with the other, trying to take her two children to her Kunning Palace to eat some specialty fruits sent by Shengjing. After walking a few steps, Suksaha and Ebilong, the Ministers of the Interior who stayed in the capital to preside over the court, rushed over.

"Empress Dowager, Nanjing is lost!"
Chapter completed!