Eunuch's Declaration of Loyalty

Chapter 26

In the room, Qin Shu was taking off the shoes for the empress dowager.He squatted down and put those feet on his knees, and put the shoes aside. When he looked up and saw the empress dowager was rubbing her forehead, he looked very tired, so he asked, "May the servant squeeze your feet for the empress?"

"Need not."

"What kind of food do you want to eat, my lady? The slaves are going to ask for it."

"Don't be too busy, you can come up too and rest for a while." Liu Qingtang pushed the small table on the couch away, put her feet on it and straightened it, and hammered the hammer casually.

"Slave..."

"I didn't discuss it. Look how obvious the blue color is under your eyes, and you deliberately make me look uncomfortable?" Liu Qingtang raised his eyebrows, and Qin Shu shut up and sat down on the couch.

"Take off your shoes, put your feet up like me, what are you doing sitting there?"

Qin Shu took off his shoes obediently, and put his feet in white footwear on the couch.It's just that the movement was so light that Liu Qingtang felt that the couch would break if he stepped on it with a little force.

Look at what he said was on the couch, but almost half of his body was suspended in the air, leaving such a large space for her.

Liu Qingtang propped her chin against the small table beside her, and looked at Qin Shu without blinking.Qin Shu felt extremely uncomfortable, and then realized that his actions made the empress dowager feel dissatisfied, and quickly moved his body towards her.

The empress dowager still looked at him without speaking, and Qin Shu leaned closer to her again.Almost leaning against her, Liu Qingtang blinked her eyes and sighed quietly. "If you take the initiative to lean over and lie down, we won't be able to rest today."

After she finished speaking, she pulled Qin Shu down and let him rest his head on her lap.She shook off the blanket again, covering his body and her legs together.

Everything happened in just a few breaths. When Qin Shu came back to his senses, he found himself lying on the empress dowager's soft lap, close to her, and covered with a warm blanket.

Qin Shu dragged the blanket on his body for a while, then tentatively pulled it away and asked, "Madam, don't you want to rest for a while? It's not easy to rest by sitting like this, why don't I get up and give it to you..."

"Go to sleep well, I don't want to sleep yet." Liu Qingtang directly tucked the blanket back for him, then withdrew her hand and said while reaching out to open the window next to her a little, so that the night wind could blow in and blow on her face.

The chilly wind lifted her spirits, and her mind suddenly became much clearer.She did feel very tired, but her thoughts were complicated, and it was even more uncomfortable when she closed her eyes. It would be better to sit like this for a while to be more comfortable.

Through the gap in the window, Liu Qingtang quietly looked at the bright lights in the distance, and unconsciously patted Qin Shu's arm through the quilt.

Qin Shu rested on her lap and couldn't relax at all. Looking at her side face that looked more and more hazy under the lamp, he couldn't help thinking, if the empress dowager didn't want to sleep, why did she agree to come here to rest?Could it be because of... him?As soon as this outrageous idea appeared in his mind, Qin Shu quickly dispelled it.

"What? Can't sleep?" Liu Qingtang noticed Qin Shu's gaze, turned her head, and touched his cheek with one hand. "I've seen the bruises in front of you a long time ago, and you look listless when you stand there. Don't you want to rest?"

"Okay, don't force yourself to sleep. Go to sleep." Liu Qingtang said, gently covering Qin Shu's eyes with her hands.

Qin Shu closed his eyes and sank into a soft and warm darkness. Feeling the temperature covering his eyelids, he suddenly felt that the whole world became quiet.

In this silence, he could only hear the soft and smiling voice of the empress dowager: "You fell asleep when I counted to thirty, you know." She said so irresistibly, Then start counting.

"One... two... three..." She counted very slowly, her voice was soft and soft, and the long trailing sound was like a small brush, which tickled his heart sorely, which was very strange.

Qin Shu felt that the empress dowager's voice seemed to carry a strange force, which made him gradually relax.Listening quietly to the voice in my ear, it gradually overlapped with my own heartbeat, from intense to peaceful, from clear to distant and vague.

"29...thirty..." After Liu Qingtang finished counting, she waited quietly for a while before letting go of her hand.After letting go, she found that Qin Shu had closed his eyes and fell asleep with shallow breathing.

Looking at his sleeping face, Liu Qingtang couldn't help but bend her eyes, touched his cheek with her fingers, and said with a low smile, "I really fell asleep, why are you so stupid..."

She looked at him with her face up, and found that he slept very well and didn't move for a long time.She herself is different. She always turns over when she sleeps, turning her side to the left every now and then to the right again, and she turns over unconsciously in her sleep.

Liu Qingtang looked at the scenery outside and at Qin Shu's sleeping face, and couldn't help tapping his nose, brushing his eyelashes or poking his cheek from time to time.When he felt itchy and rubbed against the blanket, he withdrew his hand and secretly covered his mouth with a smile.

When Qin Shu woke up in a daze, before he could open his eyes, he heard the voice of the Empress Dowager next to her ear, she said: "Open your mouth." Something was stuffed in.After habitually chewing it twice, Qin Shu realized what was going on now.

He was still resting on the empress dowager's lap, covered with the same blanket as the empress dowager, and the empress dowager was looking down at him with a piece of pastry missing a corner in her hand.

Qin Shu held the chewed pastry in his mouth, neither did he swallow it, nor did he not swallow it.He actually fell asleep on the empress dowager's body, and he didn't know how long he slept like this.

"Okay, stop being so stiff, get up and rub my legs, it's numb from your pillow." Liu Qingtang patted his cheek and said.

Qin Shu heard Huo's sitting up, and stretched out his hand to pinch her leg.Liu Qingtang's numb leg was pinched, and he hissed in pain. Qin Shu's eyes immediately showed self-blame, and he said without thinking: "Damn the slave, slave..."

Before he could finish speaking, Liu Qingtang stuffed the piece of pastry with a missing corner into his mouth quickly, "If you're hungry, here's a plate of pastries to fill your stomach."

Qin Shu was blocked by a word and couldn't continue, so he could only pinch her legs silently and chew snacks silently.

Liu Qingtang saw that he couldn't free his hand to take the pastry in his mouth, so she kindly held it for him, brought it to his mouth to feed him, and fed him three pieces in a row before stopping.

"Master, are you awake? There is going to be a banquet up there." Zhui Yi asked outside the door.

"It will be fine soon." Liu Qingtang replied, telling Qin Shu not to pinch, and bent his legs and sat on the edge of the couch.

Qin Shu quickly put on his shoes, then squatted down to put them on for her.But when he wanted to stand up after putting on the shoes for her, his shoulders were held down. Although he didn't know what the empress dowager wanted to do, he continued to squat according to her wishes.

Liu Qingtang approached him, brushed his shoulders with her wide sleeves, and then helped him to support the hat on his head.Only then did Qin Shu realize that his hat was crooked, and just now he had been pinching the empress dowager's legs while wearing such a crooked hat.

He obviously wanted to face the empress dowager with his most appropriate appearance, but he didn't know why it would be like this every time.When he followed the empress dowager all the way back to the top floor of the Longevity Pavilion to attend the family banquet, Qin Shu still felt depressed, although his expression couldn't tell at all.

This family banquet was much quieter than the previous two. At that time, Mei Yan even asked the female gentleman to tell a book and told a few interesting stories; Even if there are few people watching, it can be lively and lively.

But the family banquet didn't have those, and there were only a few people sitting around the table, and few people talked, so the scene was a bit cold.

The three princesses only answered a few questions when asked about them; even the concubine was nervous about her son from the beginning to the end, fearing that he would do something strange; Xiao Huai and the expressionless side who had been looking at the void In a daze, being pulled by the concubine did not move.

Then only Liu Qingtang and the little emperor Xiao Huaixu were left, and they talked occasionally, but they couldn't talk all the time, and they often fell silent suddenly.

Liu Qingtang thought for a while, and just like in previous years, asked the female musicians in the band to perform a few movies.It's the kind of play that is performed by being illuminated by light behind a special screen and casting shadows. I don't know when it began to be spread among the people, and the people in Lefang also learned to perform it.At first I thought it was quite interesting, but every year it’s nothing new.No matter how interesting something is, after so many years of watching it, Liu Qingtang feels that she can fall asleep watching it now, but even if she doesn't like it, it's better than such an embarrassing scene of looking at each other silently.

Ding ding dong dong sang three movies, and finally it was almost midnight.When the big bronze bell on the upper floor was rang, the sky burst into bright fireworks, which were set off by the eunuchs who had prepared in front of the square a long time ago. There were 99 big fireworks and fireworks. 99 small fireworks rose from the ground one after another and exploded in the sky.There are also the words "Fushou" and fireworks of various colors, which make the sky bright and colorful for a while.

Liu Qingtang and the little emperor were standing by the window on the highest floor of the Longevity Pavilion, and the fireworks seemed to explode around them, allowing them to see very clearly.

Except for the palace, all the mansions outside the palace and people in the street market set off fireworks at the same time. There were not as many patterns as the fireworks in the palace, but the crackling and crackling in the sky was very lively.

There are also firecrackers, almost every house has set off firecrackers at this time, and the movement is much louder than fireworks.On the Ming Sui Pavilion, which is separated from the market by more than half of the palace, the sound of the rumbling firecrackers in the street can be heard clearly.

The sound of firecrackers went on for a long time without stopping. In the bustling excitement, they ushered in the fifth year of Yuanning.Ushering in this five years of Yuanning, which is completely different from the previous life, is special to her and Qin Shu.

(End of this chapter)