Truth revealed

Anzi's fear leaped higher and higher after listening to qinwang. Never had he thought that old fox to have another book with all the information. Past years he bribed him a lot than one can imagine to shut his mouth yet it was for nothing.

He knew unless he has the truth revealed he won't even have death. He believed Pei Jin and Yusheng's threat as he had known all about them. Yusheng having a noble beheaded in banquet and Pei Jin already wide known for his cruelty.

With his family under qinwangs grip he feared their life was the same as him, hanging by a thread and unless he talks will remain so. He couldn't believe after seven years the secret would be revealed this way.

He looks on the ground his family's happy faces flashing through his eyes and solemnly says "this servant will tell everything, just a wish to have my family leave in peace either death or alive"

Pei Jin brought another chair and sat beside Yusheng and nods for him to continue, before pressing some accupoints in his jaw to avoid him biting his tongue to suicide.

"This servant had ones father lost from landslide while going for procuring wood, from then as the eldest I had to bear the responsibilities. The life was getting more harsher with so many mouths to feed and body to be clothed.

Hence ten years ago left the village to earn money. Reaching to baidu city somehow managed to work in a tea house learning the art of tea making. Though earning not a coin was left for me as I had to send it to my family.

At the second year of the second month of that year a man came to our tea house, he seemed to be a traveler worn out from his journey. It was me who served him and after asked upon introduced him to a lodge to spend the night.

From then he would often come to our tea house and became one of the regulars. He told that he was a herb merchant and came in search of quality herbs. He spent entire 4 month in the same area.

In that time we would often meet both inside and outside the tea house. He seemed a very good man who once like me came from poor and humble background. At first he offered me to travel with him but for my family I had rejected the offer.

Knowing my harsh situation taking pity on me he advised me to try to enter the palace as I had nimble hands to make tea. First I was against the idea as one had to be castrated. But he assured me that he has a powder that will give an illusion to the person who examines that I have been castrated.

Soon with him explaining how if clever one can have luxurious life once entering and stabling a good position inside the palace. So for greed and for one family decide to enter the palace.

He taught me the ways of talking, bribing and assessing the situation to ones advantage for the next six months. By then I had left the work at tea house but still practiced day and night his teachings along with tea making.

During that time he was generous to give me money food and clothes. After six month he said that he had to leave for work and wished me luck on my success along with lots of gold and bank notes to use inside the palace and send some to my family.

He said he will come to visit me when he has settled his work and left. After that I too left for my village to meet my family to give them money and spend some time before I enter the palace.

After two weeks I travelled towards the capital reaching at the end month of that year. I came to learn that on the beginning of the year new servants will be taken by the palace. So I went around to find the person who noted the names of the applicants. Bribing with a silver and my sad story had the person written my name on the very top.

When the selection started, I showed my skill of tea making and was passed very easily. When taken for the physical examination and then

castrated.

I used the powder given by that man and indeed with ease the person who examined me wrote of me being clean of any illness and already a castrated man.

Thus with ease I entered the palace without being castrated in the department of tea section.