Eunuch's Declaration of Loyalty

Chapter 36

If it is said that in her previous life, she did not understand why Wei Zheng, who was always strong and self-reliant, fell into a slump because of Miss Wu's death; she did not understand why the unsmiling father softened his expression when talking about his mother, so stable as a mountain, but every Lantern Festival mother's eyes Even on the anniversary of her death, she couldn't bear to shut herself up in the study, so now because of Qin Shu, she understood.

If one day, Qin Shu dies, I'm afraid she...

Liu Qingtang's heart softened after thinking about it, and when she felt that she was getting angry and making trouble for no reason, she suddenly heard Qin Shu say: "Miss, that painting is so good, why don't you take it back and frame it and hang it in the study?"

Why Qin Shu was still thinking about that painting, Liu Qingtang felt that the fire that had just been extinguished was burning again.She was here, why Qin Shu was so patronizing and thinking about the broken painting, coaxed her, did she want any paintings, but this person couldn't even tell that she was still angry.

Liu Qingtang made up her mind to make trouble for no reason.Holding his callused hand, he walked aggressively towards the Lantern Street in front of various businesses.At the first house, Liu Qingtang stopped and said to Qin Shu:

"Qin Shu, come and guess the lantern riddles."

Qin Shu could only let go of his thoughts about the painting regretfully, stepped forward to look at the lantern riddle, thought for a while, and was just about to tell the answer when he heard the empress dowager next to him open his mouth and say: "The answer to the riddle is 'water'. "

"This girl guessed it right." The boss looked at the paper with the answer written in his hand, nodded and said, "Do you still want to guess?"

Liu Qingtang squeezed Qin Shu's hand, "Qin Shu, keep guessing."

Could it be that the Empress Dowager felt that he guessed too slowly just now, so she gave the answer herself?Qin Shu wanted to see the second lantern riddle, but just as he opened his mouth to say the answer, the Empress Dowager said before him: "The answer to the riddle is the word 'Xin'." So what he was about to say choked in his throat inside.

"This girl is so smart, she guessed it right again. A store can guess three times, but the girl wants to guess again?" The boss rang the bell twice with a smile on his face.

Liu Qingtang smiled, and cast a slanted glance at Qin Shu, "Guess."

Qin Shu reached out and picked up the third piece of paper with lantern riddles written on it. This time the lantern riddles were more difficult, and he thought for a while.While thinking about him, she sneaked a look at the empress dowager next to her. She seemed to be focusing on the lantern without looking at him.When Qin Shu finally thought of the answer to the riddle, he opened his mouth and heard the Empress Dowager spit out a sentence: "The answer to the riddle is 'Peony'."

"Congratulations girl, you got the answer right again..." The boss rang the bell again, took down three lanterns and handed them to Liu Qingtang.

Qin Shu closed his mouth, took the lantern, and looked at Liu Qingtang hesitantly.

Liu Qingtang just pretended she couldn't see, and walked to the next house.Then in this family, the same thing was repeated.

"Qin Shu, let you guess the lantern riddles and see what I do." Liu Qingtang said, carelessly moving the tassels under the lantern with her fingers.

Qin Shu had no choice but to turn his eyes to look at the lantern riddle, and after looking at it for a while, he said, "The answer to the riddle..."

"It's 'bamboo'."

He was clearly asked to guess, but every time he just opened his mouth or just said the answer to the riddle, the Empress Dowager herself gave the answer first, forcing him to swallow the words.After so many times, Qin Shu finally understood what was going on, and asked cautiously, "Miss, are you angry?"

It all came to the third house, and she gave the answer to the riddle nine times first, and now Qin Shu was sure that she was not teasing him but angry.Liu Qingtang withdrew her hand from playing with the lantern and gave him a look: "What do you think?"

Qin Shu was dumbfounded, the empress dowager was angry with him for some reason, what should he do?
The boss at the back of the stall looked at this and that, and finally couldn't help but interjected to Qin Shu: "Young man, this is your fault. How can you make your sweetheart angry in this kind of life? You see, I have a girl who sells her daughter here. I bought flowers, hairpins and bracelets for my sweetheart to coax her so that she won’t be angry. Hey, girl, don’t go, boy, wait, the uncle is from here, he is very familiar with coaxing girls, so give me some gadgets That's it, if you don't want to buy jewelry, I still have all kinds of rouge here, take a look and don't rush away..."

Liu Qingtang ignored the enthusiastic boss, pulled Qin Shu to the next house with a sullen face, and continued to guess lantern riddles.

After thinking for a long time, Qin Shu didn't know how to make the empress dowager not angry, so he followed her wishes and asked her to give the answer first.As a result, after Liu Qingtang thought she answered two questions first, she found out Qin Shu's little thoughts, and immediately felt even more uncomfortable.She originally wanted to take advantage of this to vent her anger, but now she felt even more angry.

If she wanted to say why she was angry, she couldn't answer it herself, but she just felt uncomfortable with something stuck in her heart.This person, just can't think too much, and if he thinks too much, he will inevitably disturb himself.

The difference between her and Qin Shu is not two years or ten years, but the difference between the past life and the present life.She missed him for many years, and she once let him down. When she didn't love him, she could confidently say that it was Qin Shu who was willing to do things for her and die for her, but when she fell in love with this person, her heart was filled with guilt Love it.

That kind of discomfort was like owning a piece of beautiful jade once, but she didn't know that it was fine to throw it in the yard like an ordinary stone, and she still had to step on it twice.Then one day the jade was smashed, and she realized it was a piece of beautiful jade. After sticking the pieces back, she didn't dare to touch it with force.Regret and joy at the same time, mixed together and messed up, and then pulled apart, a hundred kinds of feelings are in my heart.

And... more or less I will feel that I am an old cow eating young grass.After all, age is the last thing any girl over eighteen wants to mention. Two years younger is two years younger. Qin Shu even deliberately brought it up to mention it, which is simply stubborn.

Obviously, in the previous life, whether it was dealing with people or doing things, it seemed that he had a few more hearts than others, and those hearts were so many that they would soon become a sieve.Flattering people makes people flattered, and even a few harsh words when teaching people can make people want to get into the ground.But when facing her, he was like a stuffy gourd, unable to say anything, and standing there with his head down could stand as a background board.With his indifference to cover up his attitude, isn't it normal for her to misunderstand him.

Although Qin Shu in the previous life was a little bored in front of her, it was still half a roundworm in her stomach. He didn't say he knew everything about her mood.What now?In front of her, he was stunned and stupid.In the past, Liu Qingtang didn't believe that liking someone would make her stupid, but now she believes that Qin Shu is a living example.

How stupid he was, how stupid!She admitted that she was angry, and he was still there in a daze, not knowing what to do. Don't worry about why she was angry at a time like this, wouldn't he say good things?She has been angry for so long, at least give her a step down, but she just followed her to guess the lantern riddles without saying a word.

The empress dowager, who had not talked about love for decades in the past and present, finally realized the feeling of worrying about gains and losses, changing moods and anger after having the mood of liking.Thinking about how uneasy and cautious Qin Shu was in front of her a few days ago, Liu Qingtang suddenly felt a vicissitudes of life.

Qin Shu was also anxious. After thinking for a long time, he probably guessed that the crux of the empress dowager's anger was what he said at the beginning, that she was two years younger than the empress dowager.But even though he thought of this, he didn't know how to calm down the empress dowager.

"Actually, miss looks like a 16-year-old girl today." Seeing her angry like this, Qin Shu thought anxiously, holding back for a long time before uttering this sentence.After finishing speaking, he hurriedly looked at the person, fearing that what he said wrong would make her even more angry.Originally, the empress was still very happy today, but if he lost her interest because he couldn't speak, Qin Shu would want to slap himself twice.

"It took me a long time to think about this sentence. Do you think I'll calm down so easily?" Although Liu Qingtang said so, there was already an uncontrollable smile on her face, which was very wrong.She also noticed this herself, and quickly turned her head to pretend to look at the lanterns around her.

After a while, she turned around again, and she seemed to have returned to her usual appearance. She waved her hand and said to Qin Shu, "Forget it, I won't get angry with you, let's go."

"Miss, don't you want to continue guessing lantern riddles?" Qin Shu saw her walking out of the lantern market, and asked behind her with a lot of lanterns.

"If you keep guessing, can you still get it?" Liu Qingtang stretched out his hand to him, "Give me a few."

Qin Shu didn't listen to her, and only asked her to carry the most exquisite and beautiful lantern, and held the other ten lanterns by himself, and five lanterns in one hand looked like a moving lantern stand.To ensure that the lights inside would not go out, and to prevent the lanterns on the side from burning the outer layer of paper, Qin Shu had to be careful. Liu Qingtang regretted that he had guessed so many lanterns.But she refused to help Qin Shu, saying it was too heavy.

A few lanterns are too heavy, Liu Qingtang thought so, but she was defeated by Qin Shu's persistent gaze, sometimes she was really no match for Qin Shu's stubbornness.But walking by and seeing him so earnestly protecting the lantern she got, Liu Qingtang felt that her heart was tight again.So many people regard her as the omnipotent empress dowager, but only in Qin Shu's eyes, she is fragile and can't even mention a few lanterns.

Liu Qingtang suddenly felt that it was meaningless to be angry about his age just now, so let's be two years younger.Her sister is ten years older than her, her brother is five years older than her, Zhui Yi and Wei Zheng are three years older than her, Su Shu and Tao Ye are also one year older than her. Thinking about it this way, there seems to be a Qin Shu who is two years younger than her. That's right, besides being careful of her sweetheart, she can also be raised as a younger brother, and she can also try what it's like to be an older sister.

Liu Qingtang, who had convinced herself, asked Qin Shu casually, "You are eighteen now, how many months are left before your 19th birthday?"

After just now, Qin Shu really didn't know whether he should answer the Queen Mother's question.

"Why don't you speak?"

Qin Shu would never lie to his mother, so he struggled for a while and said truthfully: "Tomorrow..."

"Tomorrow? Is your birthday the sixteenth day of the first lunar month?" Liu Qingtang thought for a while and smiled, "If you turn nineteen tomorrow, you will actually be only one year younger than me."

"It's eighteen tomorrow."

Not long ago, Liu Qingtang, who thought that she didn't need to care about her age, couldn't help feeling another block in her heart, turned around and hit her chest twice.

Then she breathed a sigh of relief, looked at Qin Shu who was nervously staring at her, and at the lanterns in his hands, and smiled helplessly and softly: "I'm going back to the palace tomorrow, I'm afraid I'm going to be in a hurry, today... I'll see you off first." A little gift."

(End of this chapter)