Since ancient times, Annan has produced top agarwood. This precious handicraft in later generations was not used to play with, but to burn directly in ancient times.

Manshun felt really distressed. Just an egg-sized piece of Annan Shuishen spent 350 taels of silver. This was the cost price he bought from his master. If it was sold at the market price less than 600 taels, the seller would probably not let you take a look.

When did Ermao become a bandit? He could find out all the private work he had hidden, but at this moment, he couldn't say that he would not burn it in front of the emperor Manshun. He had to endure the bleeding with pain.

The authentic Xuande furnace, plus three large spoons of agarwood powder, was piled up like a hill. The tribute silver silk charcoal was burned red and then threw it into the agarwood powder. Soon a strange fragrance began to spread.

When the agarwood powder was burned to one-third, the firepower was gradually increasing. The agarwood with a market price of 600 taels was placed on it. In an instant, a fragrance like orchid began to spread in the bathroom. The English maids had never smelled such a strange fragrance, and they were all drunk for a moment.

Agarwood has the effect of calming the spirit. In fact, the original incense in China was created to cooperate with the practice of ancient Chinese. Whether it is Confucian self-cultivation, Taoism, or Buddhist meditation, a good fragrance can naturally calm people's restless minds.

Emperor Tongzhi, who had just experienced a killing, needed this kind of treasure to calm the mind. It seems that the doctor of psychology never thought that in the far east, there was a psychological placebo without any side effects. If this kind of smoky smoke cooperated with a good psychologist, it would definitely be twice the result with half the effort.

But the prerequisite is that the patient must have money and burn 600 taels of silver agarwood at a time, which is not something that ordinary people can bear.

Zaichun's expression gradually relaxed. Ermao found himself a clean bath towel and spread it beside the bath pool. He was just half lying beside Zaichun.

At this moment, Zaichun's body was floating in the pool water, his head and shoulders leaned on the marble platform, closing his eyes to enjoy the heat brought by the hot spring and the unique smell of agarwood.

Ermao was in the opposite direction of his, lying on a bath towel, and his arms were on the steps of the bath pool, sitting side by side with Emperor Tongzhi. Both of them didn't speak and just stayed quietly.

Big Si Xi and Xiao Si Xi were so jealous that they were going crazy. Ermao was obviously a traitor, and he was clearly a spy sent by Xiao Letian to the Forbidden City. Why did His Majesty still tolerate him so much?

"Ye Sui is definitely doing a show, that's right. Ye Sui is unwilling to arouse the suspicion of Xiao Thief. Master is really wise!"

Several eunuchs can only use this kind of rhetoric to comfort themselves.

After being silent in the bathroom for more than twenty minutes, Ermao suddenly said, "Drink some wine?"

Zaichun slowly opened a slit of his eyes, "Okay, let's drink some. Remember the last time I took a hot spring in Fusang, the milky white wine tasted very good..."

"No problem, I've been ready!"

Ermao snapped his fingers, and soon a maid outside brought a huge wooden plate with a pot of Japanese wine and two cups on it.

The wooden plate was placed directly on the water surface. The rippling pool water moved on the water surface with the wooden plate, and the smell of rice wine suddenly appeared in the steam.

A sip of turbid wine entered his throat, and the strong aroma of rice and wine filled his mouth. Zaichun breathed comfortably for a short time, "Not thick, you can have a cup..." As he spoke, Emperor Tongzhi actually poured Ermao a cup.

After three cups and two cups, their cheeks gradually became rosy. Ermao found an opportunity and asked, "How do you feel when you kill someone for the first time?"

The people around him were shocked and almost fell out of breath. He thought to himself, Ermao, are you crazy? Everyone is avoiding this question, why do you still mention it on your own initiative?

But I never expected that Emperor Tongzhi was not angry, but said lightly, "I'm a little... a little panicked, I started... I was a little scared at the beginning... the rest is the atmosphere!"

The closed heart door finally allowed Ermao to pry a gap open. It seems that Zaichun subconsciously regarded Ermao as his friend, because he was the first real friend in his life after all.

In the dark sky of the Forbidden City, there are either a pack of wolves eyeing or a group of mighty slaves. Only Ermao treats himself as a person, a person with all human emotions, not the emperor.

This feeling was something that Emperor Tongzhi had never experienced before, and it was this unique experience that made him extremely close to Ermao.

Since the conversation has been opened, it will be difficult to close again. Emperor Tongzhi whispered, "Everyone except Ermao, go out!"

"Your Majesty..." Xiao Sixi and the others were shocked to speak, but saw the emperor wavering his hands firmly.

No one dared to disobey the emperor's will, especially Emperor Tongzhi, who has shocked the hearts of all his subordinates through the killing today. This is a powerful monarch. Any servant who has seen the bloody scene has developed a strong fear of Emperor Tongzhi in this life.

Sometimes killing is also an effective means to ensure loyalty among his subordinates. Except for Ermao, no one dared to betray all the followers of Emperor Tongzhi who visited Europa this time.

The beautiful maids walked out of the bathtub in a wet towel, and soon the only ones left in the bathtub were the Emperor and Ermao.

"Do you still remember the past? I was naughty and ran to the roof of the Qianqing Palace. Or was it the ladder you secretly found... You and I lay side by side on the glazed tiles, looking at the stars in the sky, and there were so many countless numbers!"

"Yes, at that time, His Majesty kept asking me what the outside world looked like. I said that the outside world was dark and terrible, but you don't believe it..."

"Haha... I believe it now. In the past few years, I finally understand what you said. The sky outside is dark, the ground is dark, and people's hearts are dark..."

Ermao poured Zaichun a glass of wine, "Do you regret it? If you didn't ask me to contact Xiao Letian back then and didn't let us find a way to take you out of the Forbidden City, then you are still the emperor who is clean in your heart, and you will enjoy honor!"

"Repent?" Zai Chun sat upright in the water. "Haha... I will never regret it. If I didn't leave the prison in Sifang, I would probably never know what power is like in my life, nor how he operated it!"

"It's really a skill to come out! Otherwise, if I brainwash those ignorant people for a few more years, I will be really washed into a fool!"

"What a bullshit saint who ruled the world, what a bullshit monarch of kindness! It's all nonsense. No matter how great my morality is, no one will listen to me if I don't listen to me!"
Chapter completed!