Eunuch's Declaration of Loyalty

Chapter 67

After Yang Sushu finished her confinement, Liu Qingtang couldn't escape. One day, she left Qin Shu to look at the Ci'an Palace, and went to Yang's Mansion with her peach leaves to follow what she said before, and confess to Yang Sushu why she knew about the plague in advance. many things.

In the end, Yang Sushu, who had just given birth, sat on the bed and digested for a long time, while Liu Qingtang lay on the side of the cradle calmly and harassed the fat, white boy who was sleeping in the cradle with his hands.

Talking about those things again after almost three years, she seems to be less angry than before, which doesn't mean that she has forgotten, but that she is no longer afraid.

"I didn't believe in ghosts and gods in this world." Yang Sushu blinked and leaned on the bed after a long time.

"Do you believe it now?"

"The only reasonable statement is in front of me, allowing me to say whether I don't believe it? It's just that I have some doubts about what you can still see after you died." Yang Sushu looked calm, but in fact he didn't know what he was talking about. Just subconsciously looking for something to say.After all, she has never been exposed to such strange things, and unlike Liu's father who is determined and fearless of ghosts and gods, she will not be able to react for a while.

Liu Qingtang didn't care, and said casually: "At that time, I didn't know what was going on, I could see some things in a daze, here and there for a while, and I didn't know everything that happened after death, but I knew Those are enough."

Yang Sushu finally woke up, she couldn't bear to look at her friend's distracted eyes who pretended not to care, she said that she saw her father and brother beheaded with her own eyes.Yang Sushu has been with her for so many years, how could she not know how much this friend cares about her family, before Qin Shu, she almost lived for the Liu family's father and brother, to seize power and protect the Liu family from the hands of the former prince Xiao Nanhe, to protect her nephew, For her dead sister's last wish, she entered the harem to be a political queen mother, and she hardly ever thought of herself only for her own happiness.

She once asked her before she entered the palace, and she said at that time that the Liu family gave her too many things and freedom, and it was time for her to start giving back.Unexpectedly, her report has been wasted for so many years.Yang Sushu sighed, just by listening to it, she could imagine how desolate and unwilling her friend was when she died in the previous life, and how sad and painful she was after death. Even the rebirth she talked about, I am afraid it is not so easy to accept, and it will not be really like her When I woke up, everything was back to normal.

It's just that if Qingtang doesn't say anything, she just knows it in her heart, and it's useless to say more.Even if she knew, she couldn't understand Qingtang's feelings, she only knew that it must be extremely uncomfortable, but fortunately it was over, and now she still has Qin Shu.As long as they are all well, Qingtang will let go of these worries one day, Yang Sushu has no doubt.

"Qingtang, does Qin Shu know about this?"

The indifferent expression on Liu Qingtang's face changed, and she tapped on the little baby's nose, which caused him to groan, and then said: "I didn't dare to let him know, it was hard for him to get used to this appearance and me. What if I told him that he mistakenly thought that I was with him only because he tried his best to save me in the previous life, what should I do?

Seeing her talking about Qin Shu, it was finally the same as usual, Yang Sushu smiled and asked deliberately, "Isn't it?"

"There is gratitude, but at first I just thought it was interesting that he was different from the previous life. I never thought about being with him. Later... I don't know what happened. In short, if I don't really like him, just be grateful At most, it's just giving him power and money, and there's no need to give away all of yourself." Liu Qingtang murmured, poking the little baby's face again.

Yang Sushu finally stopped her, "Okay, don't bother me anymore, he's going to cry again when he wakes up, we'll see if you can cure this little devil at that time."

"Yonger? This little guy's nickname?" Liu Qingtang withdrew her hands and sat down.

Yang Sushu smiled, looking at his child with extremely gentle eyes, "Yes, I hope he can live a peaceful life, just being a mediocre person is enough."

Liu Qingtang paused, then suddenly lowered her head and said, "Sorry, Sushu, maybe I will involve Yong'er in the future, I'm afraid this expectation of yours..."

She didn't finish, but Yang Sushu understood, it should be said that she had understood a little earlier when Liu Qingtang said that he would not let the emperor Xiao Huaixu go.

The emperor has no children, and Qingtang can't tolerate him. Irreconcilable conflicts may break out between them in a few years at most.At that time, if the emperor still has no children, and Qingtang has no intention of replacing the Xiao family, then only her child, the Xiao family who can inherit the great rule, will be left.Of course, the premise is that Yonger is not like his father.

Yang Sushu doesn't want her child to be emperor, she wants him to be stable and mediocre.However, she can't refuse the friend's request, and she can't sit back and watch the turmoil that may arise due to the alternation of rights.

"If possible, I will try not to let Yong'er sit in that position. After all, he is also my godson, and I don't want him to suffer. You know, I have almost had enough of that. It's really terrible. Every day I can't finish my work, I can't finish my studies, and I still have to face the quarrels of those ministers, sometimes I really wish I had three heads and six hands." Liu Qingtang suddenly smiled and complained half-truthfully, trying to break the dullness just now atmosphere of.

Yang Sushu reached out and touched his son's head, and then flicked Liu Qingtang's head with his fingers, "I don't want my son to be emperor, so don't think too much about it, do your own thing first, and if you really want to be mediocre in the future Take that seat, I hope he won't disappoint you."

Liu Qingtang's smile brightened instantly, "I will never let myself make a mistake a second time, your words are enough."

"Qingtang, can you tell me how Huai was in the previous life?" Yang Sushu couldn't help asking after all.

Liu Qingtang was silent for a moment, but said truthfully: "He and Concubine Lian died together on the way to Yangzizhou. Many things have changed in this life. I am very glad that Concubine Lian was stopped because of a moment of soft-heartedness." The circumstances of life It's always so strange, people never know whether they think the same as themselves even one day later, whether a small thing they do will become the cause of a big event in the future.

"There is cause and effect in the dark, I believe this sentence. Qingtang, I must say thank you for Huai and you."

Liu Qingtang shook her head, her eyes were far away, "You don't understand, I am the one who is really saved by these changes."

At the full moon banquet, Su Shu's child got the name 'Xiao Le'an', and anyone could understand the expectations of the person who named the child through this name.Don't want to become a dragon and phoenix, but want to be safe.

After another March, those who started to follow Qin Shu to Ling County came back, bringing with them the list of colluding officials hidden by the prefect of Ling County, as well as a pile of paintings that Qin Shu had left there in the first place. , and some small things specially bought for Liu Qingtang.Liu Qingtang didn't care about the list, but excitedly flipped through the ones that Qin Shu bought for her. Of course, she disliked those paintings for a while, but Qin Shu himself was well rewarded by her. Say, can't say...

A lot of officials in Ling County and nearby prefectures and counties were sacked. Without a word, Liu Qingtang transferred his own people who had been prepared long ago. During this period, he didn't even have time to prepare for the placement of the two chief assistants. The queen mother is even more dissatisfied.

The officials of the DPRK and China were also involved. Liu Qingtang who could be dismissed was dismissed, and she did not condone those who could not.If this kind of pest is not caught, I am afraid that the entire Southern Dynasty will be corroded into an empty shell by these people.When the water is clear, there will be no fish. Liu Qingtang also understands this truth. All she needs to do is to maintain a certain degree.The officials in the court were dismissed, and naturally someone else replaced them. On the surface, the two first assistant officials had a lot of contacts, and there were many people who took the opportunity to install them, but only Liu Qingtang knew what happened in the dark.

After she was reborn, she did many things besides love for her children. One of them naturally included using some people and things she knew in her previous life to place people in the camps of the two chief ministers, and to pick them out from her own camp. No matter how calmly the people who put in place are stared at, once the final liquidation is made, this group of people will undoubtedly die.So now among the people they think they are their own, many have already voted for Liu Qingtang, not to mention Feng Shoufu's son, who was also arranged by her early on, which made her a lot more convenient.

After the previous plague, and because of the subsequent purges, the situation in the court gradually changed from before.

After that, there was another period of stability. The Queen Mother's faction and the Shoufu's faction seemed to have reached an agreement, and they were waiting for something together.

In the spring of the eighth year of Yuanning, the Empress Dowager ordered the draft to start.

Most of the innocent civilian women selected by the counties and counties were sent to Yujing years ago as court ladies, and the official women from all over the country participated in this draft together with Yujing's young ladies of the right age in May. into the emperor's harem.

Although it was the draft in May, the newly recruited ladies in the palace still had to go through a series of training, and all of them entered the palace in March, and temporarily lived in the palace of imitation show, waiting for the final draft two months later. , and finally some of them will become the emperor's concubines.

The harem of the Southern Dynasty, which had been silent for many years, suddenly became bright and lively like this spring because of these girls of the same age.The girls who had just entered the palace were a little restrained at first, but after getting acquainted with it, they became lively. In the small garden where they were allowed to watch freely, they were always playing in groups of twos and threes.

The Nixiu Palace is not far from the Ci'an Palace, so sometimes Liu Qingtang can hear the young girls playing through the wall.Liu Qingtang stopped those who wanted to remind those show girls not to disturb the queen mother's peace by making noise. "They're still children. Listening to these voices makes me feel a lot younger. Let them play."

Those women, probably this is the last time they can still maintain their innocence before leaving the cabinet. After that, the ambitious among them will stay in this palace wall forever, for the man who doesn't love them or the power Money, status, family and other reasons, fighting back and forth, at that time no one could still smile so happily like now.

Even though Liu Qingtang herself is only 23 in the eyes of others, no one thinks it is wrong for her tone of treating these beautiful girls as juniors.Qin Shu, on the other hand, always sees her rogue and playful like a child in private, but seeing her serious expression and tone now, he always feels a little... wants to kiss her.

(End of this chapter)