Li Lianying was the most favored eunuch in Cixi's side, he was powerful at that time, he was the most trusted big red man around Lafayette, although he was only a eunuch, he could be rewarded by the empress dowager with two pins and was extremely favored. After Cixi was buried, Li Lianying kept filial piety for a hundred days and then resigned and returned to her hometown, and two years later the grand master died silently.
There are many opinions about the cause of Li Lianying's death, and his stepdaughter once said that she died of a serious illness. However, there have always been many folk theories about the cause of his death, the most widely circulated of which is that he was killed, of which there are two theories, one was killed by bandits, one was killed by the enemy, but this is all speculation, and no one has real evidence.
Li Lianying was buried in the cemetery of Enjizhuang, which was given to him by Empress Longyu, in order to thank him for his service and dedication, the cemetery rewarded to him was of very high specifications, and he built a stone archway on his cemetery, but in 1966, Li Lianying's cemetery was opened, and the scene inside was shocking.
Li Lianying's grave was opened by several school teachers, the inside is very luxurious, Li Lianying's coffin was placed on the white jade bed, after opening the coffin found that there are many precious funerary products, but Li Lianying's body looked very strange, after a teacher touched it with his hand, he found that Li Lianying's body was made of rotten cotton wool, only one head was real, when the experts heard the news and came to sigh: The original folk legend is true.