Eunuch's Declaration of Loyalty

Chapter 52

After the summer solstice, the weather is getting hotter and hotter, and the people in the hot weather can't lift their spirits, only the cicadas on the trees are chattering non-stop.

In order not to let the sound of cicadas disturb the master's rest, a young eunuch had already climbed a tree in the yard with a net to catch cicadas.When Qin Shu walked into the empress dowager's study room with the heat all over her body, she saw her lying on the desk without a straight face, holding a brush in her hand and teasing a few cicadas in a small cage on the table in front of her.

At this time, if she didn't go out, in Ci'an Palace, she would only wear a clear and thin dress, with a loose bun, and read and write leisurely and lazily.Compared with Qin Shu who is busy with many things almost every day, Qin Shu does all the trivial and complicated things for her, and she can do the simple and important things by herself in just a while. The decision is over.After being so free, she really looks like an old queen who shares her happiness.

Probably because he was extremely bored. When he woke up from a nap and saw the little eunuch catching cicadas, he suddenly remembered that he caught cicadas when he was a child and felt nostalgic. On a whim, someone brought the cicadas he caught.The servant below found an exquisite small cage, and five or six cicadas with black shells were locked in it.

In June, officials from the Department of Bing took ice from the ice cellar and transported it to the masters to cool off the summer heat. Naturally, there was no shortage of Ci'an Palace.A pile of ice was placed in the square tripod in the corner of the hall, and there was a little maid beside him fanning her face.Probably because it was too cold in the hall, the cicadas in the cage didn't like to call very much. Liu Qingtang held her chin and teased them with a brush to hear one or two weak cicadas.

Qin Shu entered the hall, Xianfu leaned down to salute her, and said, "Greetings to the Empress Dowager."

Hearing this, Liu Qingtang threw down the writing brush, waved to the two fanning maids to let them go down first, and then walked briskly.

Qin Shu had already changed his clothes when he came here. He was afraid that his mother would be smelled after being sweated outside. Now when she saw her coming up with a smile, he unconsciously looked at her, as if he couldn't get enough of it. have to.I didn't dare to look at it before, but now that I can, I stare at it all day long.Liu Qingtang was also annoyed by him looking straight at him like this, so she kicked him when she saw him like this.But that strength, rather than kicking, would be more appropriate to call it acting like a baby.

"Qin Shu, Wei Zheng is going to get married in a few days, it must be very lively, shall we go and see?"

Qin Shu nodded without thinking about it, and didn't think about stopping the empress dowager's behavior that was not in line with her status.Liu Qingtang, who was waiting to see his reaction, felt distressed again seeing him so straightforward.If he indulged in everything he agreed to, if she didn't hold on to one of them in the future, she would really be pampered and lawless.

Since she was a child, she had a temperament that no one would control her. Although her father and elder brother doted on her, they often stopped her from doing certain things, or told her sternly or gently to do what was wrong and what was wrong.But Qin Shu is different, he never seems to know how to refuse.Liu Qingtang felt that after her rebirth, she had a tendency to do whatever she wanted more and more, and with Qin Shu added, he would definitely make her get used to her more and more casualness.

With this kind of sweet distress, Liu Qingtang pulled Qin Shu and told him: "Qin Shu, you should reject me at this time. You see, how can I personally go to congratulate a foreign minister in person? Talking nonsense, although I pretend I can’t hear it most of the time, but it’s not about something that must be insisted on. I still have to listen to their suggestions. After all, this identity is there. From now on, I will leave it to you to supervise me Now, next time if I tell you something you shouldn't do, you have to learn to reject me, understand?"

"Yes." Liu Qingtang said seriously, and Qin Shu also answered cautiously.

Liu Qingtang patted him on the shoulder in satisfaction, smiled again, rolled his eyes and said, "Then, let's go see Wei Zheng marrying his wife in a few days!"

Qin Shu once again answered without hesitation - "Okay."

"Will the one who just promised me refuse?" Liu Qingtang held Qin Shu's face in both hands, making him look serious at her.

Qin Shu seemed to be stunned by what she said, and looked at her for a long time without making a sound, as if he was thinking about what he should say.Liu Qingtang was wicked and waited for his answer with a serious expression on purpose.

"Master will never make a mistake no matter what decision he makes." In the end, only Qin Shu's words came.It doesn't matter if it's done right or wrong, as long as she wants to, he won't say no.

Seeing that the game couldn't go on, Liu Qingtang gave up first. "Okay, okay, you're right." Instead of letting Qin Shu restrain her, it's better for her to restrain herself.The beam in Qin Shu's name is probably only used to restrain himself.

"Actually... I've been prepared a long time ago. When the time comes, I will say that I have a headache and rest. Let Taoye and you go out of the palace to congratulate and give gifts to Wei Zheng's mansion, and then I will follow you quietly. We will walk from Chongwumen, the guards there Most of them are the soldiers and guards brought out by my father before, and now Wei Zheng is in charge, and no news will be leaked from there."

So Liu Qingtang, who had already decided to embarrass Qin Shu, was just flirting in her best way.But Qin Shu didn't know, but even if he didn't understand, he didn't feel wrong when faced with such capricious and contradictory behavior of the Queen Mother.

July [-]th, the eve of Qixi Festival, is suitable for marriage.

Liu Qingtang took Tao Ye and left the palace with Qin Shu from Chongwumen in a low-key way.At this time, there was still a while before the wedding ceremony, so Liu Qingtang sent people to Yang's mansion directly.

Although it is believed, it is more or less reassuring to see it with your own eyes.Moreover, she said that she was worried that now Xiao Huai was alone in the Yang family, and she had put off going to the palace for a routine pulse diagnosis for her this month. As soon as the silly prince took her home, she, the matchmaker and good friend, was forgotten.

When Liu Qingtang half-jokingly complained to Taoye in the carriage that Yang Sushu was a heartless person and had forgotten her so quickly, Qin Shu looked up at her and pursed his lips.

Seeing his eyes, Liu Qingtang immediately stopped talking, and talked about other things as if nothing had happened.Qin Shu is jealous even though he knows that Su Shu is a woman.But what to do, she herself quite likes to see people jealous.

The men in Yang's mansion have been the imperial physicians of the imperial hospital for generations. As soon as they entered the door, they saw that the flower gardens of his family were different from those of other houses. They grew all kinds of flowers and plants that could be used as medicine.The housekeeper, Liao Bo, also knew Liu Qingtang, but he had never seen her since she entered the palace at the age of 15. Now that he saw it clearly, his face was full of surprise, and he was about to greet her when he remembered that this is now the Queen Mother, so he quickly prepared to kneel down Down.

Liu Qingtang stepped forward to support the old man, and asked his arm as affectionately as he did many years ago: "Uncle Liao, just treat me as Qingtang's girl, don't be so formal. The Yang Mansion has become my other home, but it has caused you a lot of trouble."

Hearing this, Uncle Liao couldn't help but raised his sleeves and wiped the moisture in his eyes, and said repeatedly: "Hey, girl, I haven't seen you for several years, you look so big in a blink of an eye, you're a big girl, how can you Okay." After speaking, he shook his head and laughed, "How can it be bad, the old man is stupid."

Liu Qingtang didn't comment on this sentence, but just nodded with a smile and said, "I'm still worried. By the way, where is Su Shu? Let me come and see her."

"Where can that child be? She spends all day packing medicinal materials in Danggui Courtyard, and even the pure prince sits there with her all day long. I don't know how to do interesting things when I bring her back, but I just know how to fiddle with it." Those medicinal materials." Liao Bo shook his head, he seemed to have a good feeling towards Xiao Huaiyu.

Liu Qingtang smiled, refused Liao Bo's busy eating, and took Qin Shu and Taoye to the Danggui courtyard by themselves.

This courtyard is the place where all the doctors and idiots in Yang's mansion organize and store medicinal materials, and it is also the place where Liu Qingtang stayed most when he came to Yang's mansion when he was a child.Sushu... At that time, she was still called Yang Sujin, and she followed her brother Sushu all day like a little tail. When she couldn't read the words clearly, she learned to look at the medicinal materials guide, pointing to the flowers, plants, roots and leaves on it, and said crisply what is this what is that.

Liu Qingtang vaguely remembered that when Su Shu was a child, he liked to cling to his elder brother. Su Shu's elder brother was also a very gentle person. He was only a little older than Su Shu next year, but he was very sensible. He would rub the heads of two little girls who messed up the medicinal materials. Without saying a word of blame, I rearranged the messed up medicinal materials by myself.

Later, Su Shu's elder brother passed away, and the strict father of the two brothers and sisters also passed away, leaving Su Jin alone.At that time, in order not to be seen by others, Su Jin stayed in the Yang Mansion for more than a year without going out, and she was the one who had the most contact with Liao Bo.Su Jin made herself more and more like her older brother Su Shu, supported the Yang family in his name, and entered the Tai Hospital.And after she also entered the palace, Sujin was the only one guarding the Danggui courtyard.

The yard is still the same as it was back then, with many bamboo plaques drying in the sun, and the smell of medicinal herbs fills the nose as soon as you enter it.There is an old locust tree in the corner of the yard. In the past, every May, when the locust tree bloomed, she would come to eat locust cake.But in this season, she will take a nap with Sujin under the shade of the old locust tree, accompanied by the sound of cicadas, until her brother finds her and takes her home, who is crazy about playing.

Looking back on the childhood time many years later, there is a kind of nostalgia that makes people want to smile and a little sour sigh.Liu Qingtang stood at the door, holding on to the courtyard door and not entering.Her eyes stayed on the locust tree for a while, and then turned to the friend who was buried in the shade of the tree sorting the medicinal materials.

She tied up her sleeves with a piece of fine white silk, sat on the bench, and from time to time took a few pieces of medicinal materials from the bamboo plaque, put them in the medicine mortar, and pounded them into powder with a pestle, looking serious and focused.Although she is wearing a man's bun, looking at it this way, the side face with a few strands of sideburns is very beautiful. If it weren't for the firmness between the eyebrows and the masculinity imitated over the years, everyone would know that she is a big girl.

As for the Chun Wang who was brought back to the Yang family by Su Shu directly, he sat quietly on a small bench next to her.Holding half a watermelon in his arms and a spoon in his hand, he slowly picked out a mouthful of red flesh.It seemed that he was going to deliver it to his mouth, but Su Shu seemed to have already calculated that it was time for him to pick it up. He raised his buried head and leaned over to eat the spoonful of watermelon in one bite, then continued to bow his head again. Pounding medicine.I don't know if it was Liu Qingtang's delusion, but she felt that this Sushu book was more powerful than before.

Xiao Huaiyu moved a little slowly, watching the watermelon in his spoon being eaten, it took a while to react, and his eyes moved from his hand to Su Shu's face chewing the watermelon indifferently, and he didn't know where he was. Think about something.

Seeing this scene, Liu Qingtang really couldn't hold back, leaning on Qin Shu's shoulder and laughing muffled.She really didn't expect that after so many years, she could still see this rare rascal side of her friend.

Yang Sushu was startled by this movement, and seeing Liu Qingtang smiling like that at the door, she immediately knew that her actions just now had been seen, and her face flushed with embarrassment.

(End of this chapter)