How big is the ostentation and extravagance for Li to bury his mother? The villagers ate and drank for 35 days without asking how much to take home.
But which tube is such a humble occupation, but it happened that someone made a piece of heaven and earth through their unremitting efforts, just like Zhao Gao of the Qin Dynasty, who was able to achieve the position of prime minister. Although Li of the last Qing Dynasty was not good-looking, he won the favor of Empress Dowager Cixi with one, and also achieved the position of eunuch manager. At that time, the scenery was infinite!
The year Li's mother died, he held a very grand funeral for her. He even catered for 35 days in a row. The villagers also ate and drank for 35 days, and even took them home without asking. The scene is spectacular, but why does Li, who was born in poverty, have such a rich family?
1848, Li was born in an ordinary peasant family in Dacheng County. There are four brothers in the family, and he is the second. Although the family is not rich at first, it can still solve the problem of food and clothing. However, as the four brothers grew up and ate more and more, the family income did not improve, and the food at home became less and less enough. Li's parents were very worried.
Just when the whole family didn't know what to do, Li stood up and offered to find a job in the palace. However, how could no one in the imperial court have entered the palace at that time? Unless, Li goes to be a eunuch, his father strongly opposes: "Why do you want to be a eunuch when you are a good person?" Of course, as long as you can live, no one wants to be a eunuch!
Li replied, "We four brothers don't even have enough to eat now, and we will get married and have children in the future, but we can't live!" Someone has to step forward and look for a job. Eldest brother is the eldest son, and he has to get married and have children. The third brother and the fourth brother are still young, so I can only go out and look for a job! " Li's father heard that Li, who was only seven years old, was so sensible that he was distressed and helpless and had to promise him.
So, under the gaze of his family, Li embarked on a new life journey. At the age of thirteen, Li experienced a painful cleaning and was sent to the palace as a eunuch. At first, he was assigned to play in the office and Ren Jing Palace. Two years later, by chance, Li was transferred to serve Empress Dowager Cixi.
For Li Lai, this is a great opportunity to change his life and family life. It is said that serving Empress Dowager Cixi is the most difficult job in this palace. If anything goes wrong, he will be punished or even beheaded. But at this time, in order to improve the conditions at home, Li is also able to break through, so he is not so worried!
Li, who has just arrived at Empress Dowager Cixi, is always cautious, for fear of upsetting Empress Dowager Cixi, losing her mind and affecting her family. But gradually, Li found that if she wanted to be famous, she had to be on the cutting edge. Blindly cautious can't succeed at all, so she racked her brains to let the queen mother see him among many eunuchs.
Li is very clever. In order to gain the appreciation of Empress Dowager Cixi, when Li learned that Empress Dowager Cixi was troubled by her hairstyle, she personally went to the brothel to learn about the most popular hairstyle at that time. After mastering it, she was successfully moved by the introduction of eunuch Shen! Li also has a good mouth and a glib tongue, which makes Empress Dowager Cixi very happy, so she won the favor of Empress Dowager Cixi!
On one occasion, Empress Dowager Cixi wanted to give a word "Fu" to Yang Xiaolou, a Peking Opera singer. But because I haven't written for a long time, I accidentally wrote "Xiu" next to the "Clothes" department. At one time, the scene was so embarrassing that people were afraid to remind the Empress Dowager, for fear that the Empress Dowager would blame her, and for fear of losing face and wanting to rewrite it. At this time, the atmosphere instantly solidified!
Therefore, Li quickly explained that "the words given by the Queen Mother are just different, and the blessings are a little more than others. We absolutely dare not receive them! " The Queen Mother was very happy after hearing this. She found her way downstairs and naturally wrote another song for Yang Xiaolou. Li's wit resolved the embarrassment of Empress Dowager Cixi, and Empress Dowager Cixi loved him even more!
Since then, Li Yue has become more and more trusting and often takes him to wait on him. In fact, many times, Empress Dowager Cixi did not treat him as a servant, but like a close friend, she drank tea together, teased birds, talked about interesting things outside the palace, and sometimes made Empress Dowager Cixi laugh, which made the life of Empress Dowager Cixi, who had lived in the deep palace for a long time, no longer boring, but more interesting!
One year, my mother Li died of illness. Li was very sad after hearing the news, so he asked the queen mother for leave and planned to go out to deal with his mother's affairs. Because of Li's work in the palace, he was basically unable to go home to take care of his parents and visit his younger brother, so he left many regrets.
The queen mother also knew that Li was a filial man, so she let Li go out of the palace and gave him hundreds of thousands of taels of silver to handle the funeral. After returning home, Li and his brothers discussed how to deal with the funeral, but the thrifty brothers didn't want to do anything big, but Li didn't agree. Now he is the eunuch in charge of the second grade, so he must let his mother go in style!
Finally, I decided to spend all the rewards of the Queen Mother, so I set up a running water mat and hundreds of tables in the long street in front of my house for 35 days. From morning till night, all kinds of delicacies, except neighbors, are mixed by strangers, and some even pack them and take them home to eat, but Li doesn't care!
To say how grand the banquet is, in addition to hundreds of tables and running water seats, Li also placed several deep tanks at home, filled with meat and mountains of steamed buns. Li Hua paid a lot of money to find a piece of geomantic treasure for his mother to bury, and then found someone to design a mausoleum for his mother, which looked noble and atmospheric.
During the 35-day banquet, although Li squandered the reward of Empress Dowager Cixi, she also lost her good reputation of shining the lintel. Li is very satisfied, and many people think it is unnecessary. But in a sense, Li also came to soothe her regret that she couldn't take care of her mother and make her feel better.
Li spent 552,000 taels of silver on his mother's funeral, 52,000 taels more than Emperor Guangxu. In that era when eating was a problem, the money might not be earned by ordinary people all their lives, which was enough to prove how much Empress Dowager Cixi took a fancy to Li.
Li was not lucky enough to soar in his career, but through his unremitting efforts, he achieved such a high status at that time. So you know, no matter whether his career is high or low, as long as we are conscientious and diligent, it will definitely pay off!