Eunuch's Declaration of Loyalty

Chapter 15

After she lost her temper and dealt with Feng Shoufu's son that day, Liu Qingtang never went to the early court to disturb the ministers who were frightened by her sudden attack, but asked Eunuch Ning to tell the emperor that she would go there every seven days from now on. morning.

Eunuch Ning also seemed to have noticed that she was no longer conniving and giving in to the emperor as before, so he gave her a hesitant look before accepting his order.Liu Qingtang was very happy to see his doubtful eyes. The old guy probably didn't believe that she would have such a sudden change.

Because he belonged to her sister, and her sister knew her very well and knew that she valued her relatives very much.She will take care of the emperor's nephew because of her elder sister who died early, and will take up her own responsibilities to guard the country for the little emperor.Yes, her sister guessed right, she did go on as she thought in her previous life.

The luxurious palaces inside this palace wall imprisoned them, making them all look different.Her elder sister who took care of her like a mother since she was a child and combed her hair with a gentle smile has changed, and she has changed now, and will change more in the future.

The hall was quiet, Liu Qingtang looked at her young face in the bronze mirror and was a little lost in thought.

"Empress Dowager, Concubine Lian is here, waiting for you in the palace." A little palace maid walked in and Fu Fu leaned forward and said in a low voice.

"Well, treat me well." Liu Qingtang ordered casually, sitting in front of the bronze mirror, and Ren Xiuyi gave her a bun.Flipping through several jewelry boxes on the dressing table with one hand, while thinking about what Concubine Lian is here for.

There were not many concubines in the late emperor's harem, and few gave birth to heirs, and those children did not live to be more than one year old. In the end, only her sister's son Xiao Huaixu and the concubine's son Xiao Huai and Pingan grew up to this day.

Although he was saving his life, Xiao Huaiyu was an idiot. It was said that he just sat there in a daze every day, unable to even speak.Even the concubine didn't like to compete for favor when the late emperor was still there, and she just brought her stupid son to live in the corner of this huge palace, almost like a cold palace, but she looked contented .

All the childless women in the late emperor's harem went to guard the imperial mausoleum, and the young emperor hadn't started drafting at a young age. Apart from her, the empress dowager, the only thing left in the entire harem was this insignificant Concubine Lian.

Back then when Liu Qingtang entered the palace, he happened to pass by Concubine Lian's Qinghuai Palace, and saw that there was only a little maid waiting there, and none of the servants who were princes and concubines could be seen.Later, she brought it up with the chief manager, Eunuch Ning, and punished those maids and eunuchs. After hearing that the lives of the concubine and the idiot prince were getting better, she never paid attention to them again. After all, they have nothing to do. relation.

In the previous life, even the concubine took the initiative to find her once, but that should be at the annual banquet a month later.At that time, she came to ask for an order, because she was seriously ill and worried that no one would take care of her son after she died, so she wanted to take Xiao Huai and back to her natal Yangzizhou, so that her brother could take care of Xiao Huai and him.

This matter is not difficult, as long as that small piece of land is assigned to Xiao Huaiyu as a fief, it is reasonable for him to go there.Even a fool is still a prince after all, and Liu Qingtang promised Concubine Lian to let them go to Yangzizhou in her previous life.

But when Concubine Lian brought Xiao Huai and her back to Yangzizhou, they met some bad guys, and both of them and the team of maids and guards were killed.At that time, Liu Qingtang felt regretful for a while.

Seeing Concubine Lian in front of her again, Liu Qingtang suddenly felt sympathetic.

Concubine Lian was a great beauty when she was young. Although she looked particularly haggard due to years of illness, she could still see her demeanor back then.Concubine Lian, who was almost old enough to be her mother, sat on the stool with only a little bit of dirt on it, and when she saw her appear, she immediately stood up and saluted.

Seeing her pale face, Liu Qingtang didn't want to leave her alone, so she directly asked her why she came.

"Empress Dowager, the second prince is getting old now, even if he has...some problems with his brain, it is not suitable to live in the palace anymore. This time I came here to ask for a favor from the empress, so that the second prince can go to Yangzi Prefecture with my concubine... " Concubine Lian secretly observed the face of the Empress Dowager while she was talking, and when she saw her frowning, she immediately stopped talking and looked at her nervously.

Liu Qingtang had this guess from the beginning, and it is not surprising to see that she really said the same thing as her previous life.She wanted to avoid their tragedy, so she didn't agree like she did in her previous life, but said: "It's better for the second prince and Concubine Lian to stay in Yujing. I will allocate a mansion for you outside the palace."

Seeing the anxious look on Concubine Lian's face, Liu Qingtang said again: "Just take good care of yourself."

Concubine Lian seemed reluctant, but she didn't dare to refute the Empress Dowager's intentions, so she could only keep silent.Liu Qingtang and her had only met a few times in total, and had nothing to say, so after a moment of silence, he waved her off.

Sitting on the chair and thinking about it for a while, Liu Qingtang said to Zhuiyi again: "Go and get the Aijia brand, and ask Taoye to go to the Imperial Hospital to invite Imperial Physician Yang over, and just say that Aijia has a headache as usual."

Qin Shu was walking to the door when he heard the words of the empress dowager, and stopped involuntarily.

Doctor Yang, he knows this person.Physician Yang was born in the Yang family of the Xinglin family and is the only descendant of the Yang family.Before the empress dowager suddenly noticed him, he guessed that the empress dowager might... like that person.Because Imperial Physician Yang came back to Ci'an Palace every two months to check the empress dowager's pulse, sometimes the empress dowager would say that it was a headache and let people invite imperial physician Yang to come over.

He has seen that doctor Yang several times.He is about the same age as the empress dowager, and his handsome face always has a warm smile, which is completely different from his always gloomy face like Qin Shu's; He is different from other eunuchs; he still has a good birth, and should have lived a life of luxury and wealth just like the queen mother, unlike him who has been bullied in and out of the palace since he was a child... He has no one It can be compared with that doctor Yang.

In the past, he couldn't touch a finger of the Empress Dowager, but even then, every time he saw Imperial Physician Yang come to Ci'an Palace and enter the inner hall, he would go crazy with jealousy.But so what, he could only hide in the dark and watch, unable to do anything.

Even now, he still can't and can't do anything.Yes, the empress dowager has been very kind to him recently, and he can feel that the empress dowager cares about him a little, but he dare not bet on the position of that doctor Yang in the empress dowager's heart.

He can't show the slightest wrong, and can't let anyone see his jealousy.Now he can only stand beside the empress dowager with nothing to do until the arrival of the imperial doctor Yang, and then leave space for them like a qualified servant, and he can't show any emotions that would make the empress dowager feel unhappy.

Although he thought a lot, Qin Shu just paused when he entered the door. He saluted as usual, and then stood silently behind Liu Qingtang.

Liu Qingtang glanced at him, and was about to say something when she saw Tao Ye walking in from the door.Liu Qingtang directly said to Taoye: "It's just in time, go and call Doctor Yang, Ai's dizziness."

Taoye rolled her eyes and suddenly said with a smile: "Master misses Doctor Yang again..."

Before Liu Qingtang said anything, Zhuiyi frowned and said, "Taoye, don't say such things that will damage the reputation of the master. If someone hears it, it will be the master's trick. Why are you always so careless? !"

Taoye first looked at the expression on Liu Qingtang's face, saw that she was not angry, but looked at her funny, immediately relaxed and waved her hands and answered her serious sister indifferently: "Master doesn't like too many people serving, those little palace ladies I sent them away from far away, no one could hear, sister, you are too nervous, the master didn't train me yet, you did it first."

Sui Yi was taken aback and quickly pleaded guilty to Liu Qingtang: "The servant overstepped."

"It's nothing, I've told you many times not to be so rigid, but you don't listen to embroidered clothes." Liu Qingtang knocked on the table and urged: "Go quickly, or it will be late."

"Yes, master, I won't make you wait... Imperial Physician Yang must have rushed over as soon as he heard your summons..." Taoye smiled and walked out with Zhuiyi, while Liu Qingtang stood up and looked to the side Qin Shu, "Go to the study first, and I'll see how your handwriting is doing."

"Yes." Qin Shu said calmly, but only he himself knew how tormented he was.What Taoye said just now made him feel like he had fallen into an ice cave, and he couldn't help shivering from the cold.When the Empress Dowager heard them talking about Imperial Physician Yang, she kept smiling and did not refute.

Empress, she acquiesced, she and Imperial Physician Yang did have a close relationship.Qin Shu felt a big emptiness in his heart for a moment, and he kept telling himself that the empress dowager would never like an eunuch like him, and those words were just for fun, but he still took it seriously, and immersed himself in that kind of dream. Ken wakes up.

It was all his wishful thinking, so now the facts gave him a blow.Don't expect extravagant things that shouldn't be yours, otherwise you will only sink into a deeper region than before.If he hadn't received the smile, words and touch of the empress dowager, how could he have such a feeling that all hopes were suddenly destroyed.

He has no position to hate Imperial Physician Yang, let alone blame the Empress Dowager, because it is her, so it doesn't matter if he does anything to him.

It was the first time for Qin Shu to thank his gloomy complexion, no matter how uncomfortable it was, it looked normal, nothing unusual, it couldn't be better.

"I practiced this character well, but Qin Shu, you are not paying attention, what are you thinking?"

"Damn the slave, I was in a trance for a while."

"You are also in the clothes, one or two are so quick to plead guilty and damned, it seems that I am mean. The three of you are the most important people I trust in this palace, do you understand?" Liu Qingtang didn't look at Qin. Shu, just took the pen in his hand, dipped it on the inkstone, and re-wrote next to the words Qin Shu just wrote.

Qin Shu watched the empress dowager add a sentence next to his words in a smooth manner, and suddenly felt a little powerless.His heart, which had just sunk into the ground just now, was beating violently as if he had come to life when he heard a word from the empress dowager.No matter who the Empress Dowager likes, she said she values ​​and trusts him, so that's all.He will stay by the empress dowager's side until she relies more and more on him.

As for the sudden sour feeling that the Empress Dowager would smile at Doctor Yang or even take the initiative to touch him, I probably just got used to it.Qin Shu clenched his pen tightly, forcing himself to calm down and write again.

Here, Taoye and Zhuiyi are walking on the way to Tai Hospital.Seeing that there was no one around, Zhui Yi whispered to Tao Ye disapprovingly: "How could you say that in front of the master just now, we can talk in private, how can you make that kind of joke with the master."

"Sister, you didn't say it yourself. Qin Shu and Master haven't made any progress. At this time, we should help." Tao Ye glanced at the palace behind him and smiled very meaningfully.

Zhui Yi only thought about it for a while and understood what her sister meant, but she seemed even more disapproving and said, "Qin Shu must have felt so uncomfortable hearing you say that, how can master guess his mind for that kind of person who holds everything back?" , don’t help but add to the chaos instead.”

"That's not necessarily true, our master is very smart..."

After all, they were outside, and the two sisters only said a few words and did not continue.

When Imperial Physician Yang was invited to Ci'an Palace, Liu Qingtang had already finished the examination of Qin Shu's handwriting and was asking him to read a book.

"The Empress Dowager, Jin An."

Qingrun's gentle and soft voice sounded, Qin Shu immediately stopped studying, and lowered his head not to look at the man who walked in.

"But let me wait so long, why are you so slow." Liu Qingtang stood up and complained, but there was no intention of blaming her in her tone, but rather coquettish.

Yang Sushu smiled, and replied unhurriedly: "Because the empress dowager ordered the minister to prepare the medicine last time, it took some time."

The relationship between the two is as natural as it should be.Qin Shu felt so uncomfortable that he was almost out of breath, and took advantage of the gap between the conversation between the two of them and said, "Madam, should the slave get out of here..."

"What are you going out for, just stay here." Liu Qingtang gave him a strange look, and felt that something was wrong with him, but she couldn't say it for a while, so she put it aside for the time being, and started to talk about business with Yang Sushu.

"Su Shu, Concubine Lian will take the Second Prince Xiao Huai and live outside the palace after a while, then you can go and see Concubine Lian for me and prescribe some medicine for her."

Yang Sushu was a little surprised, "Why did you start caring about those two?" She shook her head and said, "That's all, I won't ask, just do as you said, and it doesn't take much effort. It's just that you have made some changes recently , really made me a little curious."

"It's just that I realized something, you don't need to worry about it." Liu Qingtang's rare expression softened, and she would only show some vivid appearance in front of people she cared about.

She and Yang Sushu... Maybe she should be called Yang Sujin, they are close friends who grew up together, and Sujin is a year older than her.When she was ten years old, the real Yang Sushu, that is, Yang Sujin's twin brother, died for some reason. Later, because of the obsession of Yang's father, she became Yang Sushu, from a girl to a man. many years.

Now she doesn't want to restore the identity of her daughter's family, she just stays in the imperial hospital in front of Yang Sushu with peace of mind to fulfill the last wish of the Yang family's father before his death.Every time Liu Qingtang thinks of her friend's appearance as a man with perfect speech and behavior, Liu Qingtang feels like sighing, but she herself is very appreciative, and she has to comfort her every time.

"Qin Shu, come here and let Su Shu take a look."

Qin Shu was still listening to the intimate conversation between the two with his head down and his face complicated, when suddenly he heard his name from the mouth of the empress dowager, raised his pale face and walked in front of Yang Sushu as he said.

Liu Qingtang didn't pay attention to his expression, but said directly to Yang Sushu: "Look at his hands, he didn't pay attention to frostbite in the early years, and now it happens every year. The ointment you used last time didn't seem to help."

Yang Sushu blinked with a smile, and suddenly said: "So the ointment you asked me to make last time was made for him?"

The ointment he used these days, was the empress dowager personally ordered Physician Yang to make it for him?As soon as Qin Shu heard the news, he immediately felt elated, but when he thought of the close relationship between the Empress Dowager and Doctor Yang, he became bitter again, and his heart fluctuated up and down, which was very annoying.

Yang Sushu checked the seemingly silent but stunned Qin Shu, drew up a prescription, and modified a few medicines in the previous ointment.After finishing all this, she said gently: "Seeing how you are now, I am relieved at last."

Liu Qingtang said that seeing her friend in her boudoir, who was obviously a woman, but seemed to be a gentle man, she felt very headache, and she saw off the guest after a few pleasantries.

"I will arrange for Concubine Lian to move them out of the palace as soon as possible, and then you can go and show her. As for the ointment, I will ask Qin Shu to get it when it is ready."

Yang Sushu nodded with a smile and left, looking at her back, she really looked like a pruning bamboo.

Liu Qingtang looked back at Qin Shu, "Next, Qin Shu, tell me, what have you been awkward about since just now?"

(End of this chapter)