After my voice was eavesdropped, I became the favorite of the imperial court

“Ahhh——”

“Why is my hair gone?”

“My beard is gone, which bastard shaved it?”

“My hair and skin are given by my parents, I dare not damage them, who is so wicked to shave my hair?”

In the capital, screams and curses rang out one after another.

At the same time, the emperor stood up and prepared to go to court. The guards guarding the palace gate came to report: "Your Majesty, there is an urgent matter to report."

Eunuch Yuan, who was helping the emperor wash and change clothes, asked: "What is it?"

The guards said: "All civil and military officials have asked for leave."

"Leave?" The emperor was puzzled: "Did you say why you asked for leave?"

"They all said they were sick."

"Sick leave?" The emperor frowned and looked at Eunuch Yuan: "Did you say why you were sick?"

"No."

Eunuch Yuan guessed: "Could it be because everyone stayed up late to wait for the news from the Duke of Guo, causing their bodies to be unable to bear it and get sick?"

"If only the civil officials asked for leave, it would make sense, but even the military officials who stayed up late all year round got sick, which is unreasonable."

The emperor said to Eunuch Yuan: "Go visit them for me."

"Yes."

The emperor thought for a while and said: "Take the imperial doctors."

"Yes."

Half an hour later, Eunuch Yuan left the palace with two imperial doctors.

What surprised him was that there were fewer pedestrians on the road today than in the past, and among these people, there were more girls and women, and other men covered the upper part of their necks with their sleeves like thieves.

Although Eunuch Yuan was puzzled, he did not stop his horse to ask more questions.

When he arrived at the Zuo Xiang Mansion, he saw the six guards guarding the gate of the Zuo Xiang Mansion wrapped their heads with cloths of various colors, and there was no hair on their temples, which looked like bald monks wrapped in cloth towels, which was very strange.

The guards saw that it was Eunuch Yuan who came, and hurried to report.

The Zuo Xiang, who originally did not want to see guests, learned that Eunuch Yuan was sent by the emperor to visit him, so he had to respond to the scalp and come out to receive him.

Eunuch Yuan saw that the left prime minister also had a cloth wrapped around his head, and what shocked him even more was that the left prime minister's beard was gone: "Left prime minister, did you shave your beard?"

The left prime minister mentioned this matter with a concealed anger: "I didn't shave my beard."

"Then your beard..."

"It was shaved off by the thieves, and..." The left prime minister pulled off his turban in anger: "The thieves shaved my hair too."

"This, this, this..." Eunuch Yuan pointed at his head in surprise, and then pointed at the servants who were also wearing turbans: "Will their hair also be shaved?"

The left prime minister suppressed his anger and said: "For some reason last night, everyone in the left prime minister's mansion became bald overnight. No, it should be said that all the hair on their bodies was shaved."

"All the hair on their bodies was shaved?" Eunuch Yuan subconsciously looked down at his crotch.

The left prime minister quickly clamped his legs together: "Except here."

Eunuch Yuan quickly retracted his gaze and asked: "Do you know who did it?"

The left prime minister blushed and cursed: "If I knew who it was, I would have caught him and punished him with a hundred lashes."

Eunuch Yuan: "..."

The imperial physician who came with him said: "Eunuch Yuan, it is more important to check the pulse of the left prime minister."

"Yes, yes." Eunuch Yuan remembered the purpose of this: "Left prime minister, where are you feeling uncomfortable? Tell the imperial physician quickly."

The left prime minister exhaled: "I am not feeling uncomfortable anywhere."

Eunuch Yuan said again: "But why did you take sick leave and not attend court today?"

"I am not taking sick leave because I have no hair or beard and am ashamed to see people."

The left prime minister pointed to his bald head: "Look at my appearance, how can I go to court and meet people?"

"This..." Eunuch Yuan hesitated and asked: "Are you going to wait until your hair and beard grow out before going to court?"

It will take at least a year to grow the beard and hair, so you can't stay at home for more than a year and not go to court, right?

The left prime minister also knew that it was impossible to do so. He sat down and said, "Go back and tell the emperor to let me wait for a few days. I will definitely go to court after accepting this matter. Before that, I will work at home."

Eunuch Yuan said, "Since the left prime minister is fine, I will take my leave and go to the right prime minister's residence to see him."

The left prime minister was stunned: "Go to see the right prime minister? What's wrong with the right prime minister?"

"The right prime minister also took sick leave and did not go to court today."

"The right prime minister did not go to court either? Is he sick?"

"I don't know. I have to take the imperial physician to see the situation."

The left prime minister was worried about the right prime minister: "Then you should go and see him quickly, don't delay."

"I will take my leave."

Eunuch Yuan took the two imperial physicians and left the left prime minister's residence and came to the right prime minister's residence. He was stunned to see that the guards of the right prime minister's residence also wrapped their heads with cloth towels.

He asked, "You didn't get your heads shaved too?"

The guards looked at each other and replied, "To answer your question, we did get our heads shaved."

Eunuch Yuan asked again, "Wasn't the Right Prime Minister also shaved?"

"Not only did the Right Prime Minister get his head shaved, his beard was also shaved."

"It should be said that all the hair on his body was shaved."

After hearing what he said, Eunuch Yuan probably guessed that the reason why the Right Prime Minister and the Left Prime Minister took sick leave was the same.

However, he still wanted to go in and take a look.

Sure enough, after seeing the Right Prime Minister, his words were similar to those of the Left Prime Minister.

Eunuch Yuan finally left with a relieved heart when he saw that the Right Prime Minister was not really sick.

Then he went to see the six ministers.

The situation of the six ministers was the same as that of the Left and Right Prime Ministers.

After that, Eunuch Yuan went around the residences of other officials and returned to the palace to report after confirming that all officials were not really sick.

The emperor was stunned when he learned the reason: "You said they asked for leave and didn't come to court because their hair was shaved off?"

Eunuch Yuan added: "There is one place that was not shaved."

The emperor coughed lightly: "Don't explain it."

Eunuch Yuan: "..."

The emperor asked again: "So many officials didn't catch the thief?"

"They all said that they didn't catch the thief, and they didn't even see the thief's appearance."

"It must be more than one thief who shaved the hair of civil and military officials and their servants overnight."

Eunuch Yuan thought for a while and said: "Your Majesty, not only the officials are in trouble, but even the hair of the people has been shaved off, and only men are targeted."

The emperor frowned: "I thought someone was targeting officials, but I didn't expect to target the people. This matter must be investigated strictly to see who did it."

"Yes."

Then, the emperor sighed: "Let the officials rest for a few days and come to court when they are calm."

"Yes."

Eunuch Yuan withdrew.

Then, Eunuch Sun, who was in charge of cleaning the emperor's bedroom, came over and whispered, "Eunuch Yuan, I found a lot of tiny hairs when I was cleaning the emperor's dragon bed."

Since it was about the emperor, they didn't dare to tell the emperor directly, so they could only wait for Eunuch Yuan to come back and deal with it.

Eunuch Yuan frowned: "Tiny hairs? What tiny hairs?"

Eunuch Sun opened the silk in his hand, which contained a lot of short and black hairs: "It looks like leg hair, I don't know if it's the emperor's or someone else's."

If it's someone else's, it's okay, but if it's the emperor's leg hair, it's too much.

They were worried that the emperor was ill.

Eunuch Yuan took the silk and returned to the palace.

Not long after, the emperor's furious voice came from the palace: "How dare you, you thief, shave my leg hair!?" (End of this chapter)