Eunuch's Declaration of Loyalty

Chapter 10

"Zuiyi, go and find something for Ai's family." Liu Qingtang lay on the bed and tossed a bit, then suddenly turned her head and said to the sewing worker next to her.

"Master, you are still sick. Although today's mental state looks better than yesterday, it's better if you don't take care of the root cause of the disease. Reading books is too energy-consuming. And master, don't you always think that those love affairs are frivolous? Why? Suddenly thought of seeing these?" Zhui Yi turned over the sleeves he was working on, and looked at the empress dowager on the bed inquiringly.

"It's not all because of Qin Shu's troubles yesterday. That person refused to talk to Aijia properly. Aijia had no choice but to learn from the storybook. You know about Zhuiyi, Aijia has never had such experience."

Listening to his master's words, Zhuiyi suddenly felt both worried and relieved.It's been a long time since she heard her master speak so freely. Over the years, she has become more and more like a qualified empress dowager, even with less expression.Now that she is like this, she can vaguely see how she was in the boudoir back then, and she dares to joke with her.

However, refuse to talk to the master properly?I'm afraid it's more than that. Seeing that the empress dowager's condition was repeated yesterday and she stayed alone in the room with Qin Shu for so long... Maybe the empress dowager wanted to do that kind of thing and Qin Shu didn't follow her, that's why she said this now.It seems that she needs to mention it to Qin Shu to let him understand his duty as a slave.The empress dowager asked him to serve him because it was a blessing in his previous life. Since the empress dowager chose him, he had to serve her well.Zhuiyi thought too much by accident, and secretly made a bad decision.

"Ziyi? What are you thinking?"

"Returning to the master, the servant is thinking about what kind of pattern should be made on this sleeve." Zhui Yi replied with a smile.

Liu Qingtang reached out and took a sleeve, touched it, and said with a smile: "This year, Zhuiyi also made sleeves for Ai's family. In previous years, those were brand new, just take them out and use them, and it will save you from having to work again." This time."

"The master loves us, but we can't just get carried away. It's been a practice for so many years to make sleeves for the master every winter, and it's also a little bit of our mind as slaves."

"It's already winter..." Liu Qingtang fell silent suddenly.She died in the late autumn of the 15th year of Yuanning, and she never saw the first winter snow at the age of 30.

From that day when I opened my eyes back to ten years ago, a month has passed before I knew it.After only being in a trance for a while, Liu Qingtang came back to her senses.

"It's almost the end of the year, and there are a lot of things to do at this time of year. Have you already started preparing for the affairs of Ci'an Palace? The emperor can't slack off either. Be careful with charcoal fire, clothing, food, and everything." Liu Qingtang subconsciously began to worry, and only found out after speaking. What he said, he couldn't help but shook his head and smiled.

"I'm used to doing this in the past. Taoye is busy with these things. There won't be any mistakes. Don't worry, master." She also reported some matters at the end of the year to Liu Qingtang. After she indicated that she could do it, Suiyi suddenly thought of something and said : "Taoye is so busy with these things that her feet don't touch the ground. When she came back at night, she told me that she wanted me to leave the work of embroidering the sleeve sleeves to her, otherwise I would have trouble with my servants."

Liu Qingtang glanced at her with a half-smile and joked, "I know that you and Sister Taoye are both thinking of Aijia wholeheartedly, so you don't need to come to Aijia specifically to say, and I will send you an extra red envelope at the end of the year."

"Then Zhuiyi is here to thank Master on behalf of Taoye." Zhuiyi stood up and blessed her, "This servant girl will go down and get food for Master."

"En." Liu Qingtang responded, and when she heard the whistling wind outside the window, she called out to Zhuiyi again, "Is it very windy outside?"

"No, the cold wind is blowing hard today, and it will probably be another cold winter this year."

"Then you go to Qin Shu's place for Ai's family first." Liu Qingtang thought about it and ordered, and Suiyi smiled and then backed out.

After leaving the inner hall, the cold wind blows in the face.Zhuiyi put on the cloak, and asked the maids in the outer hall to pay attention to whether the master had ordered them, and took the two little maids to the side hall.

The slaves living in the side hall are also divided into ranks. The servants with more face can live in better rooms, and the poor ones can only live in one room.Ever since Qin Shu got his master's favor, he moved from the room where two or three people shared one room to the present one.

Zhuiyi entered the door and saw Qin Shu gesticulating with his fingers on the table.There was a red tracing notebook next to him, but he didn't write on it. Instead, he looked at the red tracing notebook stained with water and wrote on it, cherishing the appearance of that tracing red notebook very much.

Zhui Yi thought back to the fact that the master specially wrote a thick copybook a few days ago, and realized that the tracing red book was probably the master's handwriting.The master really cares about Qin Shu, and compares them to the slaves who have served them since childhood.Zhuiyi sighed, and became more and more dissatisfied with what the master said about Qin Shu's refusal to serve her.

Qin Shu sensed someone coming in immediately, closed the book of tracing and looked up.Seeing that it was a dress, he hurriedly stood up.Realizing that he was a little impatient, he asked slowly: "Auntie Xiuyi, but the master has something to call the slave?"

He was actually looking forward to it. The words spoken by the Empress Dowager herself yesterday kept him in a state of emptiness.Later, after he came back, he lay on the bed alone and thought for a long time. He was half excited and half unbelievable, and he didn't fall asleep all night.

He was looking forward to seeing the empress dowager again today, as long as he could see her, he would feel at ease.It didn't matter whether it was teasing him to embarrass him or asking him to do something coercive, he was very eager to see the Queen Mother.

But even though he is a Bingbi eunuch, if the queen mother didn't call, he couldn't go to see her by himself.No matter how much he wanted to see him, he could only sit here quietly and wait for her to think of him.

Just practicing handwriting all morning, Qin Shu even ignored the cold wind and opened the door to see if anyone came outside to pass him to the front, and finally waited for Suiyi at this time.

But soon, Qin Shu knew that Zhui Yi was not here to pass him on.Because she looked at him up and down for a while, and said to him with a serious expression on her face: "Qin Shu, the empress dowager thinks more and more of you these days, and I think there are some things you should understand."

How could Qin Shu, who had lived in the palace for several years longer than Zhuiyi, not know what she meant, and immediately put on a humble gesture knowingly: "Yes, please teach me, auntie."

After all, Zhuiyi is also a girl who has not left the court. There are some things that are hard to say, so I can only say vaguely: "As slaves, the first thing we do is to obey the master's orders, and we must not violate the master's wishes. The empress dowager... …Elected you, you have to recognize your responsibilities.”

He felt the same way, and has always done so.Qin Shu was confused, although he didn't quite understand what she meant, but he still answered yes softly.

This is an old man next to the empress dowager, so there must be other intentions, Qin Shu couldn't help but think a little more.

And Zhuiyi was organizing his words so that what he was going to say next would be more subtle.She glanced at Qin Shu still unable to see the gloomy expression of joy and anger, cleared her throat and said, "I think the empress dowager didn't make it clear to you, but as a slave, you can't wait for the master to explain everything clearly, you have to do it yourself." First figure out what the master means. It is your blessing that the empress dowager wants you to be by her side so that you can get close to her. You must serve her well. You can’t refuse what the empress asks you to do, you can only obey her.”

Even if the empress wants to do that kind of thing with you, you can only take the initiative to satisfy the empress.Zhuiyi swirled this sentence in her mouth and swallowed it back. She covered her lips and coughed, and said with a more serious face: "The Empress Dowager has a noble status, so naturally the Empress Dowager cannot understand that matter personally. But if the Empress Dowager wants you to serve, As a person of the empress, you must know how to serve the empress."

Unlike Liu Qingtang, who has been busy with government affairs since entering the palace, as a court lady, Suiyi has more contact with the court ladies and eunuchs below, and knows a little about various things, including this kind of eunuchs and court ladies. Know more.

Of course, she couldn't let her master take the initiative to learn such things. If the master wanted to, she would naturally have to wait to be served by Qin Shu.

Zhuiyi said with a serious face of course: "I don't think you know what to do. I will give you some story books and picture albums later. You should prepare well and make sure the Queen Mother is satisfied."

What Zhui said was so clear, if Qin Shu didn't know what she was referring to, it would be Yumu's head.His heart was beating wildly, and he asked cautiously: "Is this... the empress dowager's meaning?"

Zhui Yi was surprised and asked back: "Didn't the empress say that she wants you to be her person?"

"...I said it." The empress did say that she wanted to be with him, but he only thought that the empress dowager meant to let him be sincere to her.Even if the empress pulls him close to him, she probably just finds his embarrassment funny, and doesn't really want to get close to him.

He... He couldn't imagine that his broken body could do that kind of thing with his empress.Even imagining, I feel that I have defiled the empress dowager.

However, Aunt Zhuiyi should not have misunderstood what the Empress Dowager meant, after all it was said that she had served the Empress Dowager since she was a child.So does the empress really mean that?Is it because he himself didn't understand what the empress really meant?But how could the empress want such an eunuch like him to touch her.After thinking about it, Qin Shu felt that his mind was in chaos.

Zhui Yi showed such an expression as expected. "That's it. I can't let the empress dowager say it clearly. To be a slave is to know the truth." Zhui Yi felt that he had done a good job on this point.

"The servant knows." Qin Shu didn't know what to do at the moment, so he could only reply in a daze.

Zhui Yi was quite satisfied with his attitude, and finally said with a smile on his face: "I have one more thing to do here, which is to deliver something to you under the order of the Empress Dowager. The empress said, you practice calligraphy diligently, hold the pen The eunuch's allotment of paper and ink is too little, and in the future there will be more paper and ink allocated to you separately every month, and you can use it as you like."

Qin Shu didn't expect that the Empress Dowager would even consider such a trivial matter for him, and suddenly his heart was filled with unexpected joy, and even the panic he had just had was diluted a lot.

"Also, the empress dowager said, you worked hard yesterday, take a good rest today, and go to the front to serve tomorrow." After conveying the empress dowager's meaning, Zhui Yi added: "I just took advantage of today to see me. Those albums I told you about."

Then, that night, Qin Shu, who was flipping through those erotic albums and scripts describing certain things with trembling hands, felt indescribable.

(End of this chapter)