When Shen An entered the palace, he was wearing clothes of the dead. His mother died, and the Yaren sold him to the prince to replace a young man named Xiao Shunzi.
His ears were so good that he could hear the knife hidden in the leggings and the sound of horse hooves approaching. The prince said, "The bird I want is yellow." He didn't understand - there were only gray magpies in the palace, how could there be oriole?
Poria knows. She gave him a pair of shoes with three marks on the soles: the toe pointed to the left, a way to survive; to the right, a way to die. She received twenty canes for him, her fingernails were broken and blood seeped out, and she remained silent. She said: "If you establish a firm foothold in the East Palace, I will have a chance to walk out of this palace alive."
But Shen An is not an ordinary little yellow man. He is complete. Poria discovered this secret while changing his dressing and when his Adam's apple rolled. Her heart tightened. She knew the rules of the palace very well - if someone found out, she would die. She guarded it for him, always keeping the toe of her shoe pointed to the left, and keeping the secret rotten in her belly.
Hongyao also knows a little bit. She accompanied him to the border and changed his medicine. The ointment on her fingertips was slightly cold. Poria saw it outside the window. She didn't hold the soup bowl firmly and the soup spilled on her feet. She turned around and walked away. Three people, three secrets, not intersecting with each other.
The prince has a book that records everyone's background. Turning to the last page, it said Shen An, and the bottom was blank. The blank space is not forgiveness, but a blank space - the prince is waiting for him to fill it in.
Shen An put on a deep crimson brocade robe and a golden cicada crown, and became a regular attendant in the East Palace. He is afraid. Only by being afraid can you wake up and survive. But what he was even more afraid of was that Poria began to call him "Master" and said that he had "sullied the reputation of Master"; when Hong Yao gave him the medicine, he retracted his hand as if it was burned by charcoal; Xiao Dezi got up in the middle of the night to straighten his crown, and the tips of his ears turned red.
It turns out that the wings are hardened and the cage is ready.
Purpose: People who listen will live longer. Shen An survived by relying on his ears. Hear the code words, hear the conspiracy, hear the enemy, hear the reinforcements. He guarded Poria, guarded the prince, and guarded the border. His father taught him the voice, which he used for twenty years. Not every voice should be heard, but every voice is useful.