Eunuch's Declaration of Loyalty

Chapter 53

"Why are you here at this time?" Su Shu asked, got up and poured each of Liu Qingtang a cup of herbal tea cooled under the tree.

Liu Qingtang took a sip, and without answering her question, she nodded first and said, "This tea still tastes the same, and it tastes good to drink now."

The redness on Yang Sushu's face finally subsided, and a nostalgic smile appeared on Wen Yanjunxiu's face, "You didn't like to drink summer tea with some herbs, but every time I drank it, you would frown in distaste. One day I can still hear you saying yes."

She is grateful to be able to get what she has lost again, whether it is good or bad, sweet or bitter, and naturally feels good.Liu Qingtang just laughed, took a few more sips of bitter tea and said, "Seeing that you are so dedicated to living your life behind closed doors, you seem to be living in seclusion in the bustling city, are you planning to go to Wei Zheng's mansion to join in the fun?"

Yang Sushu turned a blind eye to the teasing look on Liu Qingtang's face, nodded calmly and said: "The congratulatory gift has been delivered yesterday, so I won't join in the fun today. Besides, I don't worry about being alone with Huai."

He was basically alone before, are you raising a son?I haven't seen you for a few days, and now His Royal Highness Chun Wang has changed into Huai Yu. His hands and feet are so fast, Liu Qingtang muttered in his heart, but at least he held back and didn't say anything.Glancing at Xiao Huaihe who seemed to never see the three of them at all, Liu Qingtang grumbled at Yang Sushu, "Hey, what is your lord doing?"

Yang Sushu turned her head, but saw Xiao Huaiyu holding a spoon with a spoonful of watermelon in it, staring at her for an unknown amount of time.

"Eh? Sushu, did he mean to let you eat it?" Liu Qingtang became interested, and asked enthusiastically, "You said I ate it now, will he be angry?" She said, eager to try I'm really ready to eat.

Before Yang Sushu could speak, Qin Shu stood up first, without showing any other expression, he just said respectfully: "Master, this servant is going to cut watermelon for you."

Liu Qingtang sat back resentfully, pulled Qin Shu back to sit back, and said repeatedly: "I was just joking, I don't want to eat watermelon now." After speaking, he sent a big smiling face, which made Taoye and Yang Sushu couldn't help laughing, They all turned their heads.

Yang Sushu laughed for a while, seeing that Xiao Huaiyu was still turning a blind eye to the movement around him, only holding up the spoonful of watermelon, and said to him: "I won't eat it, you can eat it yourself."

Xiao Huaiyu didn't respond, and Yang Sushu didn't bother, so he repeated it again.This time Xiao Huaiyu finally had a reaction, he slowly put down the spoon and didn't eat the watermelon, and lowered his eyes not to look at Yang Sushu.

Yang Sushu shook his head with a helpless smile, raised his hand in compromise and put the spoonful of watermelon into his mouth.Xiao Huai and Zacai looked up again and stared at her cheeks chewing watermelon.

Liu Qingtang rested her chin and watched the interaction between the two, and suddenly felt that there was no need to ask the question she was about to ask.So she stood up with a smile and said, "We won't bother you to cultivate your relationship, and we have to see that stupid Wei Zheng get married."

"Huh? Leaving so soon?" Yang Sushu also stood up, but at this time Xiao Huaiyu dug another spoonful of watermelon and handed it over.

Seeing this, Liu Qingtang pushed her back, "Just sit and look after your lord. You don't need to see him off. I'll go back to the palace after watching Wei Zheng get married."

"Well, Qingtang doesn't have to worry about me."

"I know, Su Shu doesn't have to worry about me."

The two looked at each other and smiled, vaguely seeing the time when they were young.

When walking out of the Yang Mansion, Liu Qingtang glanced at Tao Ye.The clever ghost immediately raised his hand and said: "Your servant knows, master, you don't understand yet, this servant is the tightest..." She had already guessed that this Sushu was Miss Sujin who was very close to Miss back then, after all they Such a person who took care of the young lady since she was a child can easily see the clues if she pays attention, and only her seemingly shrewd but stupid sister who is dying can't see it.

"I can't tell that your mouth is tight, but I can tell that you have the most tricks, and you always picked me up when you were young..."

"Oh master, it's getting late, let's go to Wu Shangshu's house, maybe we can see Wu Shangshu embarrassing General Wei, it must be very interesting, it would be a pity to miss it!" Taoye hurriedly said seriously, looking for her Thinking expression.Only then did Liu Qingtang let her go and got into the carriage.

When I arrived at the Wu Mansion, I really saw Wu Shangshu embarrassing Wei Zheng.Wei Zheng is a military general, he is good at martial arts, even if he can read and write, he reads the most books on the art of war. He can arrange troops and go to battle to kill the enemy, but he can't do anything if he is made to drop his book bag like those civil servants.

Wu Shangshu swaggered and sat in the yard drinking tea leisurely, and asked Wei Zheng a question, but he was not allowed to pick up his daughter if he couldn't answer it.Countless civil servants and students who joined in the fun were all thinking hard, and Wei Zheng was even more unable to answer, staring at Wu Shangshu and Wu Shangshu dumbfounded.

In the end, it was Xi Niang who came to Wu Shangshu and whispered something, Wu Shangshu reluctantly stepped aside and asked someone to pick up his daughter.Liu Qingtang guessed that Xi Niang probably said that it was going to be late.No matter how reluctant Wu Shangshu was, he also gave in to his daughter's lifelong event.

When Ms. Wu bid farewell to her parents and followed Wei Zheng into the bridal sedan chair, a group of people went to Wei's mansion to have a drink with noisiness and excitement.

Liu Qingtang walked behind, saw Wu Shangshu sitting in the yard, picked up the cup of tea that he hadn't drunk for a long time, looked at the Xiulou where his daughter used to live, and sighed with relief and a little loneliness: "Daughter grows up!" When you grow up, you have to leave home."

For some reason, that figure overlapped with the figure of her father standing at the door to send her into the palace.Most of the fathers in the world are like this, their love for their children is no less than that of their mothers, but they never show it easily, only at this time can they see his reluctance and loneliness.

Liu Qingtang didn't look any further, and went to Wei's mansion together with others, but on the way, she still couldn't help but pulled Qin Shu and said to him: "Look, now that you know how easy my father is to talk, you know about the two of us, It didn't bother you at all."

In fact, her father is not easy to use in their situation. If Qin Shu can marry her in a fair and honest way like Wei Zheng, he will definitely be called by his father to have a hundred guards to gather for more than a dozen hurdles, one by one. It is impossible to beat him half to life.Of course, Qin Shu couldn't be told about this.

Qin Shu nodded approvingly, "The Duke is indeed very good." At most, he just stared at him a few more times. Occasionally, when he met him to pick up his wife when he went down to court, he would threaten him with his eyes, "If my daughter is not happy, you can wait." Let's go."However, even if he was beaten half to death, it would be very good if he could agree with someone like him to be with the empress.Although the two of them didn't say anything, they happened to meet.

All the way to the Wei Mansion in a bustling way, seeing the festive red decorations hanging everywhere, and seeing the smiles of sincere blessings on the faces of a group of people, Liu Qingtang couldn't help but sighed, "I'm so envious. "

When she entered the palace at that time, the emperor was already sick and unable to get up. At the wedding, she herself wore the bright red queen's court dress to accept the worship of all the officials, and worshiped the heaven and the earth and ancestors by herself.Although the scene was far more grand than what is coming now, she envied Wei Zheng's wedding even more. Some people blessed it, and the guests were all happy for them. It was extremely humane.Liu Qingtang even always felt that her wedding was just a joke. The one she married in that overly gorgeous dress was not the dead emperor, but the Southern Dynasty, the lonely deep palace.

"It would be great if I could marry you, Qin Shu." Liu Qingtang's voice was very soft, but it sounded like thunder in Qin Shu's ears, shaking him so much that he didn't know what to do.After a burst of indescribable ecstasy, there was even deeper helplessness. He couldn't give what the empress wanted.He could give this person everything he had, but no matter how hard he tried, there were some things he couldn't give.

Qin Shu opened his mouth, but he didn't know what to say, so he could only silently grab Liu Qingtang's hand.

"It's just a sudden feeling, don't worry about it." Liu Qingtang smiled and shook Qin Shu back.Then she let go of her hands, and asked Qin Shu and Tao Ye to present congratulatory gifts to the "Empress Dowager who is still in the palace".

Didn't see the end, when Qin Shu and Tao Ye came back after delivering the congratulatory gifts, Liu Qingtang went straight back to the palace.

After that, Liu Qingtang didn't feel the slightest difference, as if that sentence was really just a talk and didn't take it to heart.But Qin Shu couldn't forget it. In the dead of night, he would always suddenly think of the faint envy on the Empress Dowager's face when she said these words.With such an expression, the scorching Qin Shu tossed and turned and couldn't fall asleep.

A few days later, the weather became hotter. One evening, when Qin Shu was about to pay his respects to the Empress Dowager, he was dragged into a room in the side hall by Tao Ye and Zhui Yi.

The empress dowager has always valued them very much, so Qin Shu also treated them differently, even after becoming the chief executive, he took care of them very much.It would depend on the secretiveness of the two of them, apparently there was something important, so they sat there cooperatively and listened to what they had to say.

"Master's birthday is coming soon, Qin Shu, do you know?" Zhui Yi said first with a serious face.

Qin Shu nodded. Although the queen mother's birthday was not as good as the emperor's, and the empress herself didn't like to hold any banquets, it was a big day after all, and the servants would naturally remember it.Recently, he was also thinking about what to give her to celebrate her birthday, but he thought of countless answers and was rejected by himself one by one.No matter what you give, in terms of value, it can't compare to the painting that the empress gave him at that time, and in terms of heart, it can't compare to the countless words of happy birthday in exchange for lanterns, he doesn't know what to do anymore.

In the past, on the Empress Dowager's birthday, he could only kneel in the courtyard with a group of servants and say a few auspicious words, and he was not even qualified to give her anything, but now that he could give it, he actually felt that there was nothing to give her.

"Qin Shu, our sisters thought about it for a few days, and decided to give you a big gift to the master." Taoye said very seriously, no longer the innocence and liveliness of the past.

The three of them talked like this for a while, and when they left the room, Qin Shu still had a dazed look on his face.Is it really like what they said, will the empress be happy?Empress...would you be willing?
Liu Qingtang didn't know that the three of them were going to give her an unexpected birthday gift without telling her, but it was a bit strange to hear Taoye Zhuiyi and the two of them suddenly talk about asking her to go to Yushui Mountain Villa to escape the summer heat.

"Why are you talking about this all of a sudden?" Liu Qingtang lazily wrote a note on the notebook and asked casually.

Zhuiyi gave Taoye a wink, and Taoye stood up and said with a smile: "Master, we are thinking that there is nothing important to do recently, and it is just right to go to Yushui Villa to escape the summer. Follow along to enjoy it. Besides, didn't the master tell the slaves a while ago that Qin Shu was busy all day and looked clearer? It just so happens that he will go with him, so the master can get along with him well A while." At the end, Taoye showed a meaningful smile.

Get along with Qin Shu undisturbed for a while?Liu Qingtang put down her pen, a smile as meaningful as Tao Ye's appeared on her face, and she gave her a look of approval: "It's very much in line with Aijia's wishes. Let's make some preparations, and we'll go there in two days."

So two days later, the Empress Dowager took a group of people to the royal summer residence, Yushui Villa.

(End of this chapter)