Eunuch's Declaration of Loyalty

Chapter 6

Liu Qingtang only felt that she was cold all over, and her eyelids were so heavy that she couldn't lift them.

She seemed to be trapped in a nightmare, and the words that the eunuch who sent her on the road in the previous life kept ringing in her ears: "Send the empress dowager to heaven."

That shrill voice echoed layer upon layer in the clear and cold Ci'an Palace, as if it would never stop.The cool breeze in the hall brought the vague sound of whimpering and crying in the outer hall, which was desolate and heavy.

The window coffin was slammed by the autumn wind, and the eunuch holding the dove wine told her some words of the emperor's mercy, asking her to honor Bintian with the queen mother.She numbly picked up the cold dove wine and drank it, then her stomach began to colic, and her throat was also burning with the smell of iron rust.She had never suffered any physical pain in her life, but she suffered this crime at the end.

There seemed to be endless pain, and my stomach was twisted into a ball.In the end, my mind was fuzzy, and I didn't know where the pain was. I just felt that my whole body could not help but twitch.Slipped from the chair, fell to the ground and no one helped, the biting cold spread from the ground to the body...

Qin Shu knelt and sat by the bed, anxiously looking at the unconscious empress dowager on the bed, not knowing what to do.If possible, he really hoped to bear this pain on her behalf.

Seeing that the Empress Dowager was not only talking nonsense, she even trembled, and a large bead of sweat rolled down her forehead.Qin Shu also became more and more flustered. He took a warm handkerchief beside her and wiped the sweat from her forehead, while calling softly, "The empress dowager, the empress..."

Liu Qingtang heard Youdao's familiar voice calling her loudly, and suddenly woke up from the nightmare.Her mind was dizzy, and the scene in front of her was also blurred. Liu Qingtang stared at the person in front of her for a while before calling out weakly: "Qin Shu?"

"Your Majesty, you are awake. The servant is Qin Shu, and the servant is here." Seeing that she finally woke up, Qin Shu couldn't help being overjoyed, and the gloomy look on his face disappeared a little.

"You're fine." Liu Qingtang said in a low voice, Qin Shu didn't hear this sentence clearly, so he leaned forward and asked: "Is there something you want to tell the servant?"

Liu Qingtang didn't answer, she reached out from the brocade quilt and grabbed Qin Shu's hand that wiped her forehead, holding it tightly.She felt that she was hot and cold for a while, but Qin Shu's hand was always at that temperature, which was very comfortable.He was grabbed by her obediently, he didn't dare to move, and he didn't think about struggling at all.

No matter in this life or in the previous life, Qin Shu always treats her like this, never rejecting her.In the previous life, she gave him many tasks that were beyond the scope of his duties, and he never succumbed to the ambiguity and pushed back, never once told him about the difficulties he had in doing those things, but just silently went to do them well for her.In this life, he felt uneasy and puzzled by her sudden closeness, but he never intended to disobey her.

The longer she spends with Qin Shu, the more Liu Qingtang feels that she is being properly and solemnly collected by him. This feeling is very strange and makes people unable to extricate themselves.

Because of her sudden movement, Qin Shu dropped the towel in her hand by the pillow, and quickly picked it up and put it in the basin beside her.He tried his best to ignore the hand being grabbed by the empress dowager, but he still couldn't concentrate and his eyes wandered.

The Empress Dowager was a little confused because of her illness, so she suddenly grabbed his hand.He told himself this in his heart, thinking that it would be great if the empress dowager could hold him all the time if she was so sick.As soon as he finished thinking about it, Qin Shu slapped himself in the heart. He couldn't bear the empress dowager's sickness and suffering at all. How could someone like her be willing to let her suffer a little bit? He was just obsessed.

Even though it was only the hand that was grabbed, Qin Shu felt that his entire arm was as stiff as a stone.But when he wanted to move forward a little bit so that the empress dowager could hold his hand more easily, he realized that not only his arms, but his whole body was frozen.

His other hand was already wet with sweat on his knees, and even his back was sweating.Why can't he control his body every time the empress dowager touches him? If the empress dowager finds out about such an embarrassing situation, what should he do?

After a while without hearing anything, Qin Shu peeked at the Empress Dowager and found that she had fallen asleep holding his hand again.This time she didn't talk nonsense or tremble. Although she was still frowning, she looked better than before.Qin Shu let go of his high-spirited heart, waited for a while, and tentatively used a little strength to return the Empress Dowager's hand.

Only when she fell asleep and passed out, he dared to do these small movements, even such a small movement was enough to make him feel satisfied.Moving forward again quietly, Qin Shu leaned against the bed so as to be closer to the empress dowager.

Liu Qingtang was not actually asleep, she was just holding Qin Shu's hand and closing her eyes to rest.With a splitting headache, dizziness, chest tightness and nausea, she couldn't sleep at all.

So Liu Qingtang felt Qin Shu's hand being held by her, and squeezed her back with a little strength, and could still feel that he was staring at her all the time.This cognition made the drowsy Liu Qingtang inexplicably amused. Seeing that Qin Shu had been sticking to his duty all these days and did not dare to overdo it, she couldn't help wondering whether she had misunderstood his feelings for her.Only now did she realize that this person was just being cautious all the time and didn't dare to express his feelings at all.

That's right, he wasn't like this in his previous life, he didn't want anyone to see his feelings.He is a very self-knowledgeable person, never out of line or gaffe, and in every way appropriate, so even if he likes her, he definitely doesn't dare to show it a little bit.

Liu Qingtang is very smart, as long as she is willing to care, she can fully understand his thoughts and feelings.For example, at this moment, she saw his inferiority complex and his careful cherishing of her in his subtle movements.He probably felt that if she knew his feelings, she would be furious and punish him.

If it was her previous life, she probably would have, but now, she couldn't bear it anymore.It was not the first time that Liu Qingtang felt that she had gone too far after being reborn. Ever since she classified Qin Shu as someone she cared about, she felt more and more indebted to him.

The sound of approaching footsteps broke the strange atmosphere between the two in the inner room.Zhui Yi came in and was about to say something, when she saw the Empress Dowager holding Qin Shu's hand, she couldn't help but choked up, and then she asked softly, "Is your empress awake?"

Liu Qingtang opened her eyes, let go of Qin Shu's hand and pressed her forehead, and said flatly, "Just let the imperial doctor come in."

Zhuiyi agreed, and put down the gauze on both sides of the bed, and then asked Taoye to call in the imperial physician who was waiting outside.Qin Shu stood up and took a few steps back silently, quickly glanced at the Empress Dowager through the light veil, then lowered her head, concentrating on acting like a slave.But only he knew the loss in his heart at the moment.

Seeing that no one was paying attention to him, Qin Shu wrapped his other hand in his sleeve around the hand that was just held by the empress dowager.Just rubbing gently like this, as if touching her soft hand.His lowered and half-closed eyes were full of lingering affection, and he was still a little helpless, because recently he has become less and less sure how to cover up this kind of too hot emotion.

The imperial physician retreated to prescribe the prescription after the diagnosis and treatment through the curtain. The carefree Tao Ye followed the imperial physician to get the medicine in person, completely unaware of the somewhat tangled expression of her sister, Zhui Yi.

"Qin Shu also go down to rest." Liu Qingtang said suddenly.

Qin Shu didn't want to leave in his heart, but he couldn't say no and couldn't refuse, so he could only agree, and then backed out.

Seeing Qin Shu's back disappear through the curtain, Liu Qingtang sighed and showed a distressed expression.Zhui Yi hung up the veils on both sides again, and asked beside the bed with a worried face: "Master, do you feel better now?"

Liu Qingtang snorted, and noticed that something was wrong with her face, so she asked, "What's wrong?"

Zhuiyi hurriedly laughed and said, "It's nothing, master, this servant is just worried about your condition."

"Zuiyi will also lie to your lady?"

After hearing Liu Qingtang's self-proclaimed in her boudoir, Zhui Yi smiled.Not as reserved as before, but still hesitant, and finally seeing Liu Qingtang's pale face, he said cruelly: "Master, I have served you for so many years, how lucky I am for you from the Liu family to this palace, the slave and Tao Ye are all watching!" In the eyes. The servant girl is very happy that the master has... someone he likes, but Qin Shu is... an eunuch, why did the master fall in love with him."

"The servant doesn't think the master is wrong, but the servant is worried about the master. The Qin Shu servant always sees him as gloomy and difficult to get along with. When looking at people, he has a pair of cold eyes and doesn't talk much. If the master really wants to Being with him is really too uncomfortable. The servant is really worried that the master will miss it... The servant knows that this is overstepping, but he feels very uncomfortable if he doesn't say it."

Even if the sisters felt that the master was not worth being a widow for the former emperor who hadn't met a few times, they couldn't choose such a eunuch.Even if there are so many maids and eunuchs in the palace, there is no way. They want to find a support in the palace, or they can't leave the palace and want to find a companion in their later years.How could such a noble status as the master get along well with the eunuch.Zhuiyi didn't say these words, and stopped talking in embarrassment.

In fact, Liu Qingtang was a little touched by Sui Yi's words at this moment.She didn't know why Zhuiyi felt that she had that kind of affection for Qin Shu, but what Zhuiyi said gave her another thought.

Liu Qingtang was sure that her feelings for Qin Shu were different from Qin Shu's feelings for her.But there is one thing she is sure of, that is, she wants Qin Shu to stay by her side and wants him to have a good life.

She had been thinking about whether Qin Shu wanted fame or wealth the most, but now she suddenly remembered that Qin Shu died for her in his previous life and obviously loved her very much, so maybe what he wants most is... her?

Liu Qingtang thought about the sentence "If the master and Qin Shu are together" that Zhuiyi said again, and found that she didn't have any repulsion towards this sentence.In this case, maybe she can try?
Thinking of Qin Shu's stiff body in response to her approaching actions, Liu Qingtang suddenly narrowed her eyes and showed a look of eagerness, and said to the still anxious Taiyi next to her: "When the medicine is ready, let Qin Shu take care of the medicine. "

Seeing that the master didn't listen to her at all, and acquiesced to her previous guess, Xiuyi could only sigh helplessly in his heart.No matter what, if the master insists on being with Qin Shu, she must help the master to guard the Ci'an Palace, so as not to spread any bad rumors about the master.

Worrying about how to clean up his master's troubles, Sui Yi didn't know, it was his kind advice that made his master suddenly enlightened.

(End of this chapter)