Eunuch's Declaration of Loyalty

Chapter 48

Xiao Huaixu's past life episode

"Huai Xu, look, the small place over there is your natal Liu's mansion, where your mother grew up."

Xiao Huaixu looked along the place pointed by his mother, and found the place she said in one piece after another of small squares.Looking down from the highest floor of the Wansui Pavilion, everything always looks very small, as if even the whole Yujing is under your feet.The Liu Mansion that mother mentioned was actually not clear, it was vague.But when Xiao Huaixu saw his mother's eyes focused on a certain place, he suddenly felt that his mother was not looking at Liu's mansion, she was just thinking about the people there.

His mother is the eldest daughter of the Duke of Zhen's Liu family. She is gentle, reliable, well-educated, and has an exquisite mind.It is said that since his father welcomed her into the palace, he has never been lucky enough to have another concubine.Everyone in the palace said that the queen was very lucky, but Xiao Huaixu felt that his mother was very pitiful.

What she does most often is to come to the Pavilion of Ending Years, as if looking forward to something, looking at the invisible Liu Mansion from afar.She often said that it was she who insisted on entering the palace regardless of obstacles, which broke the hearts of her family members, so they were unwilling to see her again.She is lonely in the palace, apart from her father, she has many things that she can only tell him.

"I have a younger sister, um, who is only eight years older than Huai Xu. If you can meet her, you will definitely like her. Qingtang is lively and cute, especially likes to go out to play secretly, and often makes her father so angry that she pats the table .”

Xiao Huaixu actually doesn't like to hear his mother say these things. He hates his mother's obsession with those people he has never met before, and always feels guilty towards them. What he hates the most is the younger sister that his mother often mentions. He should be called aunt .Because when mother talked about her, her tone was like talking about her beloved child, obviously he was her only child, wasn't he?

It's just that Xiao Huaixu likes to be hugged and sat on the lap by his mother like this, and she likes her gentle chatter, so he pretends to be interested and listens to her, and asks a few funny words from time to time.

"Qingtang will definitely like this little nephew Huai Xu, mother's Huai Xu is so obedient and obedient." Xiao Huai Xu had a big smile on his face, but he didn't think so in his heart.Why did he want that stranger to like him? It was enough for him to have a mother.

"It's just that I broke Qingtang's heart when I entered the palace. She probably doesn't like me as a sister anymore, and she refuses to come to the palace to see me even after being summoned several times."

Seeing the sad and worried look on his mother's face, Xiao Huaixu's heart sank.He knows many things, much more than his mother who was hidden in a cage by his father.He knew that it wasn't the younger sister of the Liu family who didn't want to come to see her, but that the emperor blocked those summons and then told his mother that the people from the Liu family didn't want to come.

"Mother is sorry for them, Huai Xu. If you become the emperor in the future, can you take good care of my mother's family? Although they are angry with mother, they will definitely treat Huai Xu well, because Huai Xu also loves us. The blood of the Liu family, your grandfather, uncle and aunt are all very good people."

With these words again, Xiao Huaixu sneered in his heart, but nodded his head heavily on his face, without any haze in his smile. "Mother, I will!"

"Qing He, why did you bring Huai Xu to the Pavilion of Ending Years to see the scenery again?" A man still wearing a dragon robe walked in from the door. He was his father. his queen.This is a very scary man, Xiao Huaixu couldn't help trembling when he saw him, slipped off his mother's lap, and sat watching them talking.

"Qinghe, I invited my father to see you today, but... I was rejected, I'm sorry, if it wasn't for me, you wouldn't..." Xiao Huaixu looked coldly at the man whom he called his father, and put on his face. He looked at his mother with a guilty expression and said.Xiao Huaixu guessed that the matter that the father said was impossible to happen. He tried every means to prevent his mother from contacting anyone in the Liu family, so how could he do such a thing.

And his mother really never realized that this man was lying to her, although she was sad when she heard this, she just shook her head to comfort him: "You don't need to ask any more, father doesn't want to see me, so don't embarrass them. Don't feel sorry, I do it willingly."

Xiao Huaixu lowered his eyes and didn't want to look any more. He listened to similar conversations like this every time.

After the father sent his mother back to rest, the smile on his face disappeared immediately, and he said to him in a cold voice: "Who made you sit on your mother's lap."

Xiao Huaixu didn't panic, and knelt down as usual, "Father, my son is wrong." He felt that his father was almost a lunatic, he would not see anyone approaching his mother, and all the servants in the palace would be better off if his mother treated him a little better. He definitely won't live long, even his son, this man doesn't like him getting too close to his mother.But in front of his mother, he was gentle and talkative.

"Your mother told you about the Liu family again? Let you take care of the Liu family in the future."

"Yes."

"I don't need to repeat what I told you once."

"Yes, Father."

Xiao Huaixu lowered his head, his expression was so indifferent that he didn't look like a child, and his voice was hard.What his father said to him was exactly the opposite of what his mother said. He asked him to forget what his mother said, and he told him that sooner or later the Liu family would fall.His parents loved each other but had different minds, and he grew up in such a strange environment.

When he was younger, he was still ignorant, and overheard his father talking about how to destroy the Liu family.In order not to let him talk nonsense in front of his mother, his father locked him up.Telling his mother to send him to practice martial arts, he was actually locked up in a place where no one was around for two full months, which made him deeply remember what should be said in front of mother and what should not be said. Say.He seemed to have grown up suddenly from an ignorant child at that time, even though he was only six years old at that time.

Things have been kept hidden for a long time, and there is always a fire that cannot be covered with paper.One day, my father's thoughts will be known by my mother.

That was the first time Xiao Huaixu saw his mother, who was always gentle and never spoke loudly, so hysterical.She couldn't accept that the man she loved had lied to her for so long, and she couldn't accept that he wanted to kill the family she loved as well.She grabbed her father's clothes, from the initial excitement and anger to pleading.

It was also the first time that the father did not speak softly to his mother. Although there was embarrassment and shame in his eyes, he did not change his mind at all.He said: "I am the emperor of the Southern Dynasty, but my people only know General Liu Shaodi. They support him, and almost all the soldiers and horses of the Southern Dynasty are in his hands. As long as I think of this, I can't sleep peacefully."

"But father absolutely has no intention of treason!"

"That doesn't mean there won't be any in the future."

"How can you let your father go, if he gives up his military power and gives up everything?"

Father did not speak, but Xiao Huaixu knew very well that no matter what, father would not let the Liu family go.The war has been pacified for almost ten years, and the Southern Dynasty is settled, so there is no need for such a man who is called the God of War.Not only was the father unwilling to let the Liu family go, but he wanted to use crimes to discredit the Liu family. How good the Liu family was in the eyes of the people of the Southern Dynasty, the father wanted to make them more guilty.

His mother finally understood, and from that day on, she never wanted to see this man or speak a word to him.And the father also revealed the cruel side he had hidden for a long time, imprisoning his mother in the deep palace, not letting her spread any news outside, and not letting the palace people get close to her.Xiao Huaixu was the only one who could see her, so he watched helplessly as his mother lost weight day by day, like a withered flower in just a few months.

Xiao Huaixu looked at his mother haggard and sick, his father worried and anxious, and they tortured each other, suddenly felt absurd but breathed a sigh of relief.This should be the case, why bother to put on a layer of skin and act disgusting like before.

His father often went to see his mother, but she didn't want to see him, as long as she saw him, she became sicker. After a few times, Xiao Huaixu saw the man who made him afraid, so he was afraid and cautious, so he only dared to sleep with his mother in the middle of the night. Only when she was asleep did she dare to look at her a few times.Xiao Huaixu found it funny and relieved his anger. It was also at that time that Xiao Huaixu felt that he might also be a little lunatic.That's right, his father is a lunatic, and he is his child, so naturally he is also a lunatic.

He watched his beloved mother become seriously ill day by day, miraculously, he didn't feel any sadness in his heart.Maybe her mother's death was a relief for her.

"Huai Xu, Huai Xu, mother's Huai Xu, you promise mother that if you become emperor in the future, you must not hurt the members of the Liu family, you promise mother."

Xiao Huaixu lay on the edge of the bed, grabbed his mother's skinny hand and smiled and promised her: "Okay, mother." Even if he agreed, so what, can a person see what happens after death?If he couldn't see it, why did he do what she wanted? If he could... Then if he didn't do it, would his mother be so angry that he would come back to see him?Ha, maybe that would be nice too.

One day, when Xiao Huaixu went there, he saw his mother sitting on the bed with her hair loosely pulled into a bun.She hadn't had the energy to sit up for a long time, and she couldn't even speak.But now, she was sitting there, turned around and saw him coming, with a smile on her face and said: "Huai Xu, you are here. Go and ask your father to come and see me for the last time."

His father was going to court, when he heard this, the expression on his face was blank for a moment, and then Xiao Huaixu saw that he was crazy, and ran all the way to Huifeng Hall where his mother was, without any appearance.

Xiao Huaixu didn't go in, but stood at a place separated by a screen, listening to them with a blank expression.

The mother's tone was very calm, she said: "If you have ever loved me sincerely, even if only a little, I beg you, at least save the life of my relatives."

His father was silent for a long time before saying: "Okay, I won't touch them."

"Yuncheng, don't lie to me." When my mother was very happy, she would always call Father Yuncheng softly, every time Father would be happy when he heard it, only then Xiao Huaiyu felt that his smile was particularly sincere.And this sound of "Yuncheng" was very light, and the misty wind blew it away.

"This time, I won't lie to you."

After that, there was a long period of silence, and the air seemed to freeze.Xiao Huaixu looked down at his feet, feeling a little numb after standing for a long time.

The sudden hoarse crying made Xiao Huaixu move.He raised his hand and touched the position of his heart, thinking that his mother must have passed away.In this palace, the only person who truly loved him left forever.He came out from behind the screen and saw his father hugging his mother's corpse tightly, crying heartbreakingly, and started laughing while crying, and then vomited blood, staining the bright yellow dragon robe on his body , very scary.

Later, when the mother was buried, the father seemed to have become the cruel emperor again, but his face became pale, and the strong smell of medicine remained on his body.

His body is also getting worse day by day. Once Xiao Huaixu saw him carrying a box and picking up a few flower notes inside, he was stupefied and murmured for a long time: "I thought I didn't like you that much. It turns out that I didn't intend to like you...why is that."

Those days were like a dream.Xiao Huaixu became more and more silent, until his father, who was immersed in grief, finally remembered him and called him to the hospital bed.There were still two people standing there, who seemed to be the ones who had discussed with Father Huang how to get rid of the Liu family.

His father seemed unwilling to see him, turned his head to one side, and said coldly: "In the name of your mother, I will let the little lady of the Liu family enter the palace to succeed the queen. Behind her are the Liu family and the Su family, who can be your queen." To help protect your throne. When I die, you will be embraced by their Liu family to sit on the throne."

Xiao Huaixu could also tell that this man would not live long, so he asked him to tell his last words.

His father pointed to the two people with low eyebrows and pleasing eyes next to him: "I will let Wang Shuhui and Feng Wei be the first assistants, and then I will assist you with the Liu family. Xiao Huaixu, remember, the only thing you can really believe is this Two people, the Liu family is just your tool, once you secure the throne, you will get rid of them one by one without leaving any future troubles."

Xiao Huaixu suddenly wanted to laugh, his father really did what his mother promised her before he died, he would not harm the Liu family, because the executioner can still let his son do it.

He seemed to have forgotten that his son was only a seven-year-old child, and after saying this indifferently, he never saw him again.

The new queen—the young lady of the Liu family, on the day his aunt entered the palace, the white sails and white lanterns hung in the palace because of his mother's death disappeared, and everyone was beaming everywhere, as if everyone had forgotten that not long ago, the palace The mistress of the house died.

Xiao Huaixu stood alone in the Fengxian Hall where his mother's tablet was enshrined, in hemp and filial piety, staring at the cold tablet above in a daze.In the name of his mother, the emperor summoned the woman from the Liu family into the palace. It was said that the woman was only 15 years old. If she entered the palace at such an age, she was destined to be a widow for the rest of her life.

His father is worthy of being a qualified emperor, and he did not forget to plant a thorn between him and the Liu family at this time.Xiao Huaixu recalled how her mother sat on the end-of-life pavilion and looked at the Liu family talking about her younger sister before she was alive. If she was really hated by that woman, her mother might be sad again if she knew it.But, what does it matter to him, people are dead anyway.

"Hey, boy, are you my nephew?"

When Xiao Huaixu was thinking wildly, when he heard this voice, he turned his head slowly.

That was the first time he saw that person named Liu Qingtang.

She was also wearing a bright red wedding dress, representing the queen's court dress.There was not a servant following behind, just such a person walked in carelessly.Xiao Huaixu didn't have the annoyance and fear that Xiao Huaixu guessed earlier on her face that was too young. She wasn't even nervous at all, as if after asking him a casual question, she lit incense for his mother on her own.

Seeing her sad expression after seeing the memorial tablet, Xiao Huaixu seemed to be about to cry, but when she was quiet for a while and turned to look at him, she was already smiling.She patted his head and said: "Since my sister entrusted you to me, I will take good care of you in the future."

Your sister didn't entrust me to you, it was just a trick of the emperor.Xiao Huaixu thought ironically in his heart, he slapped her hand away and prepared to go out.

"Hey, boy, why don't you still call me aunt, so arrogant?" Then he was pressed to the ground from behind, and was tickled by this 'aunt'.

Xiao Huaixu was lying on the ground with all five bodies cast down and couldn't get up. He was so stupid that he forgot to struggle.It was the first time for him to be treated like this, and he felt that this aunt was really a strange person, how could any woman be like this, shouldn't everyone be as gentle and dignified as his mother?Even if his mother said that this younger sister is lively, is this just lively?He is not a boy like her!
"let me go!"

(End of this chapter)