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

"Ahhh-"

"Why is my hair gone?"

"My beard is gone. What bastard shaved my beard?"

"My body, hair and skin were given to me by my parents and I dare not damage them. Who on earth was so wicked as to shave my hair?"

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

At the same time, the emperor got up and prepared to go to court. The guard guarding the palace gate came to report: "Your Majesty, there is something urgent to report."

Eunuch Yuan, who was waiting for the emperor to wash and change clothes, asked, "What's the matter?"

The guard said: "All the civil and military officials have taken leave."

"Ask for leave?" The emperor wondered: "Can you tell me why you asked for leave?"

"They say I'm on sick leave."

"Sick leave?" The emperor frowned and looked at Eunuch Yuan: "Can you tell me why you are sick?"

"I didn't say it."

Eunuch Yuan speculated: "Could it be that everyone went to bed late waiting for news from the Duke, causing the body to be overwhelmed and getting sick?"

"If it makes sense that only civilian officials take leave, it doesn't make sense if even military attachés who stay up all night are sick."

The emperor said to Eunuch Yuan: "You go visit them on my behalf."

"Yes."

The emperor thought for a moment and said, "Bring the imperial doctor with you."

"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 them there were actually more girls and women. The other men covered the upper part of their necks with their sleeves as if they were thieves.

Although Eunuch Yuan was confused, he did not stop and ask more questions.

When I arrived at Zuo Xiang's Mansion, I saw the six guards guarding the gate of Zuo Xiang's Mansion wrapping their heads with cloths of various colors, and there was no hair on their temples. It looked like a bald monk wearing a turban, which was very strange.

When the guard saw that it was Eunuch Yuan who was coming, he quickly informed him.

Zuo Xiang, who originally didn't want to see a guest, learned that Eunuch Yuan was sent by the emperor to visit him, so he had no choice but to come out to receive him.

Eunuch Yuan saw that Prime Minister Zuo also had his head wrapped in a cloth. What shocked him even more was that Prime Minister Zuo's beard was gone: "Prime Minister Zuo, have you shaved your beard?"

When Zuo Xiang mentioned this, he concealed his anger: "I didn't shave my beard."

"Then your beard..."

"It was shaved off by the thief, and..." Zuo Xiang pulled off his turban angrily: "The thief also shaved off my hair."

"This, this, this..." Eunuch Yuan pointed to his head in surprise, and then pointed to the servants who were also wearing headscarves: "Won't their hair also be shaved?"

The Zuo Prime Minister suppressed his anger and said: "For some reason last night, everyone in the Zuo Prime Minister's house became bald overnight. No, it should be said that all the hair on the body was shaved."

"Has your whole body been shaved?" Eunuch Yuan subconsciously looked down at him.

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

Eunuch Yuan quickly looked away and asked, "Do you know who did it?"

Zuo Xiang blushed and cursed: "If I knew who it was, I would have caught him long ago and rewarded him with a hundred big boards."

Eunuch Yuan: "..."

The imperial doctor who came with him said, "Eunuch Yuan, it's more important to check Prime Minister Zuo's pulse and check his health."

"That's right." Eunuch Yuan remembered the purpose of coming here: "Prime Minister Zuo, what's wrong with you? Please tell the doctor quickly."

Zuo Xiang exhaled: "I don't feel uncomfortable at all."

Eunuch Yuan asked again: "But why did you take sick leave and not go to court today?"

"I'm not asking for sick leave because I don't have hair, beard and face."

Prime Minister Zuo pointed to his bald head: "Look at my appearance. How do I go to court and meet people?"

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

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

The Prime Minister Zuo also knew that it was impossible to do this. He sat down and said, "Go back and tell the emperor to let me wait for a few days. When you accept this matter, I will go to court. Before that, I will work at home." Yuan Gong Justice said: "Since the Left Prime Minister is fine, I will leave first and go to the Right Prime Minister's Mansion to have a look at the Right Prime Minister."

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

"Today the Right Prime Minister also took sick leave and did not attend court."

"The right prime minister didn't go to court either? Is he sick?"

"I don't know. I have to bring the imperial doctor over to have a look to find out the situation."

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

"The slave retire."

Eunuch Yuan and the two imperial doctors left the Left Prime Minister's Mansion and came to the Right Prime Minister's Mansion. He was stunned when he saw that the guards of the Right Prime Minister's Mansion also had their heads wrapped in cloth.

He asked: "You won't have your heads shaved too, right?"

The guards looked at each other and replied: "Returning to father-in-law, we have indeed been shaved."

Eunuch Yuan asked again: "Will the right prime minister also have his head shaved?"

"The right prime minister not only had his head shaved, but his beard was also shaved."

"It should be said that all the hair on the body has been shaved."

After listening to what he said, Eunuch Yuan probably guessed that the right prime minister took sick leave for the same reason as the left prime minister took sick leave.

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

Sure enough, after meeting the right prime minister, his rhetoric was similar to that of the left prime minister.

When Eunuch Yuan saw that the Prime Minister was not really ill, he finally felt relieved and left.

Then, he went to read six ministerial books.

The situation of the six ministers is the same as that of the left prime minister and the right prime minister.

After that, Eunuch Yuan went around the residences of other officials to make sure that all the officials were not really sick before returning to the palace.

The emperor was stunned when he learned the reason: "You said they took leave and refused to come to court because they had their whole bodies shaved?"

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

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

Eunuch Yuan: "..."

The emperor asked again: "So many officials have not caught the thief?"

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

"To be able to shave all the hair of civil and military officials and their servants overnight, it must be more than just a thief."

Eunuch Yuan thought for a while and then said: "Your Majesty, not only the officials were in trouble, but also the hair of the common people was shaved off, and only men were targeted."

The emperor frowned: "I thought someone only did this to officials, but I didn't expect that they would also target the common people. This matter must be investigated carefully to find out who did it."

"Yes."

Afterwards, the emperor sighed loudly: "Let all the officials have a good rest for a few days, and then come to court when they feel calmer."

"Yes."

Eunuch Yuan left.

Then, Eunuch Sun, who was responsible for cleaning the emperor's palace, came over and whispered: "Eunuch Yuan, I found a lot of tiny hairs when I was cleaning the emperor's bed."

They did not dare to speak directly to the emperor about matters related to the emperor, so they could only wait for Eunuch Yuan to come back to deal with it.

Eunuch Yuan's face darkened: "Tiny hairs? What tiny hairs?"

Eunuch Sun opened the silk in his hand and found a lot of short, black hair inside: "It looks like leg hair. I don't know whether it belongs to the emperor or someone else."

It would be fine if it were someone else's, but if it were the emperor's leg hair, it would have lost too much hair.

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 bold are you, the traitor, how dare you shave my legs!?" (End of this chapter)