Eunuch's Declaration of Loyalty

Chapter 39

As soon as Taoye came in, she heard her master ordering Qin Shu to deliver longevity noodles, and she couldn't help laughing: "Master, you are here thinking of getting someone to deliver something to Qin Shu, and Qin Shu was outside just now, and asked me to deliver some for him too." It's a coincidence that something is given to you..."

"Well, Qin Shu is outside?" Liu Qingtang asked, stepping up and preparing to go outside.

Tao Ye quickly smiled and waved her hands, "Hey master, you can't see Qin Shu when you go out now, he left after handing over the things to me. But it seemed that he wandered outside for a long time before, when I saw him he Still staring at the door."

After Taoye finished her clothes, she said again: "Actually... If the master wants to see Qin Shu, he can just go and call him. The little maids are not allowed to serve in the inner room, only Taoye and I, no matter what the master wants to do. Can."

Compared with Taoye, Zhuiyi has always been calm and gentle, but for this kind of thing... Liu Qingtang couldn't think of how to describe it.I could only look at her amusedly, "I don't know whether to say whether you are sticking to your duty or being bold, you can say such things casually."

"It's always good for slaves to do their duty, but the master can be more arbitrary." They have been around her for so many years, and it is rare to see her fall in love with someone, so naturally they have to work hard to match them up.To be disrespectful, they all almost treat her as a younger sister. Compared with her wishes, this palace rule is not worth mentioning.

"Yeah, my sister is right. This person lives in this world just to get what he wants. Sometimes, he just can't think too much, and it's best to do as he pleases." He took out a small box, "Here, this is what Qin Shu asked me to give to Master."

Liu Qingtang stepped forward, took the box, held it in her hand, looked around, and then said: "I'm always full of great truths, so I won't talk to you." She took the box and walked into the inner room.

"Master, what about dinner?"

"Wait a minute."

Seeing that the master hid and opened the presents alone, Taoye Zhuiyi and Taoye Zhuiyi looked at each other for a while and then laughed silently.The master has been like this since he was a child. When he gets a gift, he likes to find a place where no one is around to open it, and then he is obviously very happy to show it to others or hang it on his body, but he even hates it.She often said that her father was duplicity, so why not.

The two waited for a while, and sure enough, Liu Qingtang came out with a smile on his face.Taoye had sharp eyes, saw a silver hairpin on her head that she had never seen before, and immediately asked curiously: "Qin Shu gave master a hairpin?"

Liu Qingtang hummed, touched the silver hairpin on her head with a flower and a flower bone on the top, and complained with disgust: "Qin Shu has really bad eyesight, it doesn't look good at all when he gave you such a hairpin." And today It's obviously his birthday, why did he give her a gift instead.

"It doesn't look good, master can't wait to put it on..." Taoye quickly finished speaking, and the sister next to her pulled her clothes off.

Liu Qingtang's face turned red with embarrassment, and she glanced at Taoye, who was teasing her, and said, "Taoye, in half a month, I will hold a spring banquet and invite the wives of each mansion and the ladies who are twelve years old Ladies and gentlemen, you will be solely responsible for this matter.”

Tao Ye made a bitter face when she heard the words, "Master, the servant has just been free, and she said that now she can spend more time with the master. This is another hard job for me."

Liu Qingtang pretended not to hear, and walked out on her own.Taoye turned to her sister pitifully again, followed Liu Qingtang's steps in Zhuiyi, saw her sister's wrinkled face and said with a smile: "Yes, you can't control your mouth."

"I can't get rid of this problem forever, sister, don't talk about me."

Liu Qingtang listened to the movement behind her, but her mind didn't know where it was.Seeing a flower blooming just right in the courtyard, subconsciously wanted to raise his hand to touch the hairpin on his head, but then realized that there were many court ladies and eunuchs watching around him, so he moved his hand and put it down.It's just that when I suddenly think of Qin Shu, I always want to know what he is doing now, and my heart itch.

Qin Shu was writing at the moment, carefully tracing the copybook that Liu Qingtang had written for him stroke by stroke.The copybook was spread out carefully by him, without any wrinkles or creases at the corners, it seemed that it was carefully preserved.He looked at the flowing handwriting, but found that he couldn't learn the charm inside.

The Empress Dowager once said that writing can calm the mind.When he was watching from the side, he discovered that when the empress was writing, her whole body was integrated into the pen in her hand, she was not saddened by foreign things, she was indifferent and chic, very attractive to the eyes.But he couldn't do it, because when he wrote according to the handwriting that was almost engraved in his bones, his mind couldn't be empty at all. On the contrary, it was full of empress dowagers.

What was she thinking when she wrote this word?What does she like to write when she is happy, and what does she like to write when she is unhappy?Every horizontal, vertical, every fold, every time he started and finished his pen, Qin Shu was carefully recalling the movements of the Empress Dowager, imitating her unconsciously.

And every time he finished writing a copybook, Qin Shu would think about the difference between him and the empress dowager, and then continue writing in silence.The Empress Dowager likes painting and writing, because she likes her to be the best at it, but he doesn't have anything he likes to do, whether it's writing or something, all he works hard for is to please the Empress Dowager.

He wanted to do all the things the Empress Dowager liked, to see the scenery she liked, to like the things she liked.If so, then one day, he can have similar or even the same emotions as hers, and can understand her mood after every smile and frown.

After writing the last piece, Qin Shu stopped writing, first smoothed the copybook and put it aside, then cleaned up the pen, ink and paper on the table, then got up and put the copybook in a wooden box.

There is also a piece of creased paper inside the wooden box.It should have been kneaded into a ball, and then unfolded carefully, and the folds were flattened one by one.The paper is a little yellowed, and there is still a trace of water stains on the edge. There is only one word "quiet" written on it, and the last stroke is a little trembling. Maybe the owner who wrote this word will be dissatisfied. It was crumpled up and discarded.

Qin Shu got this when he first came to Ci'an Palace to serve. He was only 15 years old at that time, and he was a little eunuch helping out in the kitchen.One day, when delivering meals to the palace servants in the front hall, I saw an eunuch holding a pile of papers to be burned.He knew that it was the handwriting of the master, because the handwriting of the masters could not be thrown away casually if they were no longer used, and had to be burned in the hands of others, so as not to imitate the handwriting or pass on the flawed handwriting. go out.And in the entire Ci'an Palace, there is only one master, and that is the person he hides in his heart.

It happened that the eunuch had something to do and left for a while, Qin Shu covered his beating heart, took the opportunity to take a ball of paper and hid it in his arms.He didn't dare to take more, for fear of being seen out. He felt that the light paper ball in his arms was heavier than a gold brick, and he was both excited and uneasy.After delivering the meal, he left in a hurry, endured anxiety and finished all the sundries under the kitchen, then hid, took out the paper ball that had been carried for a long time and opened it.

Being careful not to tear it a bit, when he finally unfolded the paper, Qin Shu couldn't help but wipe the sweat from his forehead.At that time, he didn't know how to read, and he always read the paper upside down.

Although I don't know what the word above is, but as long as I think that it was written by that person, I feel that it is a thousand times more beautiful than flowers.I read it over and over again with excitement, and smoothed out the creases little by little with my frozen purple hands. I felt at ease only when I put the paper on my body, but I was afraid that I would make a move when I put it on my body. If it is not done well, the paper will be crumpled and torn, so I will take it out from time to time and smooth it out.

Qin Shu recalled the mood at that time, and still felt a sense of satisfaction filling his heart.He always thought that he had never asked for anything from the empress dowager, but now he realized that he actually wanted a lot.Probably because of her connivance, the greed in his heart can no longer be taken back, and it can only grow bigger and bigger.

Next to the box is a wooden box containing the picture of the Lantern Festival.Qin Shu touched the lid of the box and did not open it. In fact, just looking at the wooden box like this, the scene in the painting appeared in front of his eyes, and there was no need to open it to look at it.Those colorful lanterns, music, singing and dancing, all imprinted in his mind along with a person's figure.

After Qin Shu packed everything, he suddenly heard a knock on the door. It was a little eunuch standing at the door with a bowl of noodles and two dishes of side dishes.

"Qin Bingbi, this was sent by the Queen Mother." The little eunuch said with envy on his face.They all said in private that this Eunuch Qin was very lucky, somehow he got into the eyes of the Empress Dowager and was raised as a confidant. It's a pity that they don't have the means of this blessing, so they can only be a little eunuch with peace of mind.

Qin Shu took it and thanked him with his usual attitude.In the food box, it seemed that the noodles were from the hands of the chef in the palace, which was much better than the bowl of noodles he ate last night, but when Qin Shu looked at it, he missed the tasteless bowl of noodles last night.

Picking up the bowl, Qin Shu realized that there was a piece of paper under the bowl.Picking up the piece of paper and opening it, he saw the word "Shang Ke" written in the familiar handwriting on the paper.

"Hairpin, doesn't the Empress Dowager like it?" Qin Shu immediately understood that the Empress Dowager was referring to the hairpin as a gift from him, and felt a little uncontrollably frustrated holding the small note.

Because the empress was angry at the Lantern Festival last night, and he received precious gifts one after another, so after thinking about it, he took leave early in the morning and went out of the Liu Mansion to choose a hairpin, which he wanted to give to the empress.

After waiting for a whole day, I didn't see the figure of the empress, so I had to entrust Taoye to send it, but the empress dowager really didn't like it?That's right... It's really not prudent enough, and he knows it well.

It's just that other than these insignificant gadgets, what else can he give her? He doesn't have anything precious enough to make the empress like it.

(End of this chapter)