Eunuch's Declaration of Loyalty

Chapter 62

In the seventh year of Yuanning, just before the beginning of spring, Liu Qingtang heard the news that Wei Zheng's wife was pregnant. It was rare to see Wu Shangshu, the father-in-law, gave Wei Zheng a good face when he went to court, and finally recovered the original black-faced and respectful Wei Zheng. He started to behave like when he was just married back then, with a silly smile that people don't want to see.Fortunately, everyone is used to it. When they go to court, they hardly look at Wei Zheng, who is ecstatic, so as not to make himself unhappy. Even Liu Qingtang doesn't bother to look at him.

This news was nothing, what shocked Liu Qingtang was that after returning to Ci'an Palace, Qin Shu told her that Princess Pure Yang Sujin was also pregnant.

In other words, her friend Yang Sushu who disguised herself as a man was pregnant.When Liu Qingtang first heard the news, before she could react, she glanced at Qin Shu and asked, "Pregnant? Su Shu?"

"That's what the news over there said." Qin Shu nodded, very calm, and didn't think the news was unexpected at all.Of course, this had a lot to do with the fact that he only cared about Liu Qingtang's affairs, and he was not interested in anything else.

He was not interested, but Liu Qingtang was very interested. He stood up and turned around a few times, and then said: "Let's go and read the plain books! Speaking of which, we may not have been out of the palace for a long time, the kind of jujube paste you bought for me last time." The cake tastes good, let's go eat it after reading the vegetarian book?"

Qin Shu would never refute her request, so he nodded immediately, arranged in Ci'an Palace, and after giving orders, he quietly led Liu Qingtang out of the palace.

It is not the first time that they have quietly left the palace like this. As Qin Shu, the chief executive, has become more and more efficient and capable, many things have been managed properly. The barrel is average.Originally, they could only sleep separately after returning from Yushui Villa last year, but now, Qin Shu would also sleep in Liu Qingtang's bedroom from time to time.He would only go back to his bedroom, except sometimes when he was late to deal with official business and was afraid of disturbing her rest.

Qin Shu wanted to do almost everything about Liu Qingtang by himself. If Liu Qingtang didn't think that he would be tired doing so many things by himself and ordered him not to do it himself, I'm afraid he would have taken over all the things Taoye Zhuiyi did. .But even so, Qin Shu would often collect some things and send them to Liu Qingtang, food, drink, and play, and when he saw something he thought she would like, he would bring it to her.

People say that a couple who are like glue will gradually calm down after a few months, but Liu Qingtang and Qin Shu are getting better and better. After so long, they still wish they could be together all day long.Both of them are the same, one of them hurried to the other after finishing their work, as if they didn't do anything, just talking can kill a whole day.Sometimes Taoye Zhuiyi and the two looked at each other and felt that the topics they were talking about were really boring, and they didn't know how they could talk for so long.

Liu Qingtang was accompanied by Qin Shu. In this way, Taoye Zhuiyi and the two had more free time. Except for accompanying Liu Qingtang when Qin Shu was not around, the rest of the time they took a group of little maids from Ci'an Palace with them. Tinkering with the Ci'an Palace, planting flowers today and moving trees tomorrow, putting up idyllic grape trellises, and even opening a corner for the melons and beans grown in ordinary people's vegetable fields.There will be no shortage of natural flowers of various colors.

Perhaps it was a change in mentality. Liu Qingtang liked and disliked the solemn and solemn pattern and well-groomed plants of the previous Ci'an Palace, and fell in love with the delicate and beautiful flowers that bloomed wantonly.Qin Shu then found countless flower seedlings for her, which happened to be planted by Taoye Zhuiyi, who had a lot of free time every day, with the flower slaves and palace people.

Day by day, Ci'an Palace has become a garden of prosperity and prosperity.Tao Ye also joked that there was a golden house in history where the beauty could be hidden, but their manager Qin wanted to hide the beauty in the flower house.Liu Qingtang just smiled without saying a word, and led Qin Shu around the garden-like Ci'an Palace, and watered the vegetable garden in the corner several times.

Liu Qingtang herself was living happily and happily, and of course she also hoped that her friend would also live well, but she never thought that her friend would be pregnant anyway.The thing that would make people pregnant, King Chun... would he?Or is it actually my friend who took the initiative?In a sense, Liu Qingtang's curiosity to watch the show almost overwhelmed her worries about her friends.

Excitedly went to Yang's mansion, Liao Bo greeted them with a smile all over his face, the creases were all squeezed together.Of course he would not be so happy because of their arrival, it could only be because of Su Shu.

Liu Qingtang reconfirmed that she couldn't wait to meet her friends and satisfy her curiosity.

"Su Shu... I heard that you... huh?" Liu Qingtang said meaningfully while staring at her insignificant belly.

As soon as Yang Sushu saw her coming, she knew what she was thinking, and nodded helplessly, "It's true." After she finished speaking, she seemed to vent her anger and tapped Xiao Huai and Xiao Huai on the head who were beside her who were cutting medicine.Xiao Huai cut the medicine slowly and carefully. If you look carefully, almost every medicine is the same size.At this moment, he was suddenly knocked angrily, and slowly looked up at Yang Sushu in a daze. Yang Sushu could only sigh, and rubbed his head again to let him cut the medicine.

"Hey...Sushu, tell me, did you force the... overlord?" Liu Qingtang wanted to bump into her friend's shoulder, but remembered that she was pregnant now, so she couldn't be touched, she didn't If he dared to touch her, he only leaned close to her and asked in a low voice from a distance away.

"No, it's... alas." Yang Sushu said angrily, then stopped, blushing and buried her head in reading medical books, ignoring Liu Qingtang.Liu Qingtang had just listened to the beginning, and she refused to follow her when she stopped talking.But no matter how hard she tried to talk, Yang Sushu didn't say a word, Liu Qingtang could only stop talking about it, and said instead: "The child is a few months old, so you can tell me."

When Liu Qingtang asked this question, she smiled on her face, but sighed in her heart. After she was happy for her, she remembered something.This year is the seventh year of Yuanning, that is, the year of the plague in Yujing. It is now March, and the plague broke out in July, and there are still four months to go.She still doesn't know why the plague came, and she doesn't know how to prevent it.The most annoying thing is that she didn't even remember the pharmacy. The prescription was developed by Su Shu, and she needs to develop it this time, but now she is pregnant, and that time is when the moon is old. It's okay if something goes wrong.

Even if you are reborn, you won't be able to calculate everything.Now she only hopes that Su Shu's pregnancy month will be shorter, and it must not catch up with eight months. As the saying goes, a woman gives birth to a child, seven births and eight deaths, that is to say, a child can be safe at seven months, but it is not good to give birth at eight months .Liu Qingtang had no experience and didn't know, but since it was handed down there must be a reason, she had to believe it.

"It's only been over a month. I didn't feel right until I got my pulse."

Hearing what Yang Sushu said, Liu Qingtang calculated that it would be about six months until July, so it should be fine.She breathed a sigh of relief, grabbed Yang Sushu's hand seriously and said: "Sushu, no matter what, you must protect yourself these few months. You are a doctor and you should know more than me. Anyway, no matter what , You must take good care of your health. I will order you to go down at the Imperial Hospital, saying that you will accompany Chunwang and his sister to raise the fetus, and you will not let those innocent people come to disturb you."

"You are more nervous than Uncle Liao." Yang Sushu shook her head funny, shook her hand and said with a smile, "I will. When the child comes out, let him recognize you as a godmother."

"Then Qin Shu is godfather!" Liu Qingtang immediately added with a smile.

"Of course I won't forget him. I just want my godson to honor your godfather and mother in the future." Yang Sushu lowered his head and touched his stomach, then glanced at Xiao Huaiyu, who was meticulous in taking medicine beside him, with a gentle expression.

When he finally left, Liu Qingtang couldn't help asking again, "Su Shu, if this child is like Xiao Huai..."

"Parents can't change how a child is born, but no matter what, I will not deprive him of the right to be born because of this possibility. Besides, even if he is like this, with his godfather and mother, he can live a life without worries Let's go." Yang Sushu said, and made a joke.

"Okay! It turns out that you had this idea, but for the sake of our many years of friendship, I don't care about it with you. Then let's make a deal, give me a healthy godson and daughter, and in the future We protect him."

After leaving the Yang Mansion, Liu Qingtang became unhappy again in the carriage, "I still haven't been able to know what's going on with Su Shu and Xiao Huaiyu."

"I asked Uncle Liao, and it was because of the medicine he took that made this happen." Qin Shu stretched out his hand to smooth her hair, and said calmly.

Liu Qingtang suddenly sat up with surprise on her face, "I said what did you do just now, so you are asking about this, come and tell me in detail!" Sure enough, Qin Shu is getting more and more understanding of her thoughts and is becoming more and more caring up.

Liu Qingtang got acquainted with Qin Shu, which greatly satisfied her curiosity, and finally touched her chin and sighed, "Sure enough, Jiang is still old and spicy. There is a young master in Liao Bopan's house who has been looking forward to it for so many years, so he will do this." It's not surprising, but Sushu is pitiful, he can't lose his temper with Uncle Liao who is regarded as his father, and he can't lose his temper with Xiao Huaiyu either.

I don't know whether it was gloating or sighing sympathetically, Liu Qingtang planned to go to eat pastries in a teahouse with Qin Shu as she said before.It's a pity that Liu Qingrong, the elder brother of the Liu family, intercepted him halfway.

He wouldn't come to her specially if it wasn't something important, Liu Qingtang knew, and immediately guessed what it was, her father should be in good health, so could it be that the woman in Zhuangzi who was going to be sent to the palace came out? What's the matter?

Liu Qingtang guessed and guessed, but she didn't guess that her brother took up the time when she and Qin Shu were alone, dragged her here to frown for a long time, and even told her that he fell in love with a man? !

"What did you say?! Tell me again if you feel like it!" Liu Qingtang dropped the glass.Qin Shu, who was so noisy and took the initiative to avoid the outside room, came in and took a look.Liu Qingtang suppressed her anger, and said to her sad-faced and stupid brother: "What's going on, tell me in detail."

Then Liu Qingtang listened to her brother's voice that was sometimes sweet and sometimes distressed, and told her about how he liked Shang Xilan.

If it weren't for the fact that he is so old and talented, Liu Qingtang really wanted to throw the teapot on his face.It's fine for him to like men, but he also harmed Xi Lan. Xi Lan saved her father, so no matter what, she is the benefactor of the Liu family. There is absolutely no such thing as a scourge in the Liu family, cutting off their sons and grandchildren and avenging revenge.

To be honest, if her brother really likes a man, it would be fine for her to be angry for a while, and she wouldn't object much. After all, she knows what it's like to like someone, and the most important thing in this world is love.However, if he likes Xi Lan, she will not agree, and Xi Lan obviously doesn't like him, so she won't let her brother pester him in this situation.

"We practice martial arts together. In our free time, we will ride horses and go to the suburbs to see the scenery and visit the night market together. We will enjoy flowers in spring, visit lakes in summer, climb mountains in autumn and look for plums in winter. I thought he liked me too. I finally made up my mind three days ago. Determined to make it clear to him, I said that I fell in love with a man, but after hearing my hint, he turned ugly and walked away. He has been hiding from me for three days and doesn't want to see me. Sister, what do you think I should do? manage."

Liu Qingtang patiently listened to him lamenting a bunch of useful and useless things, and now he sneered and said: "Xi Lan understood your hint but avoided you, which shows that he doesn't like you. Since it's useless to insist so much, you Let's give up." After she finished speaking, she still struggled and added: "If you really like men, you can find other men, and I agree, just don't pester Xi Lan, it's useless for you to make yourself more uncomfortable. .”

"I actually don't know if I like men or not, and I don't have such thoughts for other men. I just like Xi Lan, and he alone. If he doesn't want to be with me, I don't want other people either." Liu Qingrong sang Saying this with a straight eye, the sadness on her face made Liu Qingtang feel uncomfortable. This was the first time she saw her brother feel so uncomfortable.

"You... Otherwise, you can talk to your father and ask him to ask Xi Lan what he thinks. Maybe you will be wrong. If not, it will teach you to give up. I will not force you to marry a wife from now on. " Liu Qingtang sighed, stepped forward and hugged him like he did when he was a child. "You are my uncle of the Southern Dynasty, with a distinguished status, and you are also the number one scholar, with a literary and martial arts strategy. It is good for people to see this appearance."

Liu Qingrong hugged her sister back, but before she said anything, she saw Qin Shu looking over quietly at the door, and immediately grinned.He is so uncomfortable and he is not allowed to hug his own sister, what is going on with this guy Qin Shu's gloomy eyes!Uncle Guo, who felt stimulated again, felt even more uncomfortable, and finally went back to Liu's mansion wearily.

He decided to listen to his sister and talk to his father first, even though he could already foresee that his father would pull out the sword in his study and give him a good repair.

However, the development of things is far from what he imagined.

"Xi Lan is a woman, she didn't tell you?" Mr. Liu Guo said calmly after listening to his son's words patiently.

Liu Qingrong: "...Huh?"

When Liu Qingtang found out about this, her first reaction was why there was another woman disguised as a man. Originally, she thought that Su Shu was the only one, but she didn't expect that there was another one.The second reaction is to feel that it is very stupid for me to be sad with my brother, and to worry about him silently for him for so long.Thinking about it this way, the equally happy and radiant faces of my brother and that guy Wei Zheng make people extremely sad no matter how they look.Liu Qingtang flicked his sleeves and decided to ignore his nonsense, how Xi Lan could marry her smoothly by disguised as a man, let's solve it by himself.

In June, Liu Qingtang's anxiety began to be unbearable.One month later, the plague will break out. In their previous life, they were all fine, but in this life, she was terrified of what might happen.Father and brother Qin Shusushu Wei Zheng Taoye Zhuiyi and others, she didn't want any accidents to happen to anyone.

She also thought about leaving Yujing temporarily to avoid the plague spreading in Yujing and its surroundings, but she abandoned this thought only for a moment.She is the Empress Dowager, holding the government in her hands, and the people all over the world are watching. At this time, she wants to sit in Yujing even more. There is no reason to take refuge by herself. Even if the country is destroyed, she will have to die here.Besides, she still has things to do that have been arranged long ago.

She couldn't leave, and she couldn't use an unfounded guess to let the tens of thousands of people in the capital of the Southern Dynasty who had stood in this place for thousands of years leave.Furthermore, without knowing why the plague occurred, if these people were allowed to leave, wouldn't the situation be even worse if it was carried on the human body and spread to the states and counties.

Plague is a word that scares people when they hear it, even Liu Qingtang is no exception.If you want to ask if you are afraid, how can you not be afraid, but you have to be the same as before, no matter how afraid you are, you have to grit your teeth and persevere, pretending to be calm.

She knew this a long time ago, but she couldn't stop it, she could only watch it happen, how painful it was.

At the end of June, Qin Shu suddenly fell ill.

(End of this chapter)