The little eunuch gl of the demon queen

After Yao Xi trotted out to deliver the message, he stopped by the water room to fetch water to tidy himself up.

After she finished her work, she went back to the bedroom to have a look, the maids and sisters were still helping the Empress Dowager to wash up, Yao Xi quietly stood aside and waited, wanting to wait for the Empress Dowager to tidy up and have breakfast together in the dining hall.

After standing for a while, she suddenly thought of something when she saw the hairpin on the Empress Dowager's head, and said excitedly: "My Lady, the slave will be back soon after going out for a while."

"Stop!" Wan Yu didn't turn around, looked at Yao Xi in the mirror and said, "Where are you going? What are you going to do? How long will it take?" She was really scared, as soon as Yao Xi was not around.

"It's summer, and the flowers in the garden behind are blooming just right, and the servant wants to pick some..." She wanted to pick some flowers, and after listening to the play later, she wanted to give the flowers to the love who was singing and singing on the stage. Bean Tao girl.

People usually give money, jewelry, and clothes when they listen to operas, but where did she get the jewelry as a eunuch?Miss Tao only entered the palace for one day, and she didn't have time to find a tailor to make her outfit.

As for giving money... She only has three 1000 taels of silver notes, it's not that she is reluctant to give them, it's just that she is a little eunuch, and she will never give more money to Miss Tao than the rewards from her masters.In ancient times, the status of actors was extremely low. No matter how happy the masters were, it was impossible to reward them with a thousand taels of silver, or even a hundred taels of silver.

Wan Yu was relieved when she heard Yao Xi say that she was only going to the back garden and not going far away. She looked at Yao Xi's little hands that were slightly red after being burned yesterday in the glasses and said, "Ask the two maids to go with you. Those that cannot be touched with heavy hands, and those flowers with thorns should be more careful."

"Yes." Yao Xi replied with a smile: "What kind of flowers does the empress like? The servant can pick more flowers and put them in the hall."

"Just pick what you like." Wan Yu smiled faintly at Yao Xi in the mirror.She didn't like flowers that much, but seeing Yao Xi so happy about picking flowers, her mood improved unknowingly.

Yao Xi didn't follow the Empress Dowager's order to ask the palace lady to accompany her.The back garden is just behind the well yard, and it's only a few steps away. She doesn't like to bother people, let alone such trivial things as picking flowers.

She went to the utility room by herself, found a small rattan bamboo basket, and asked the little eunuch in the utility room for flower scissors for pruning. When she was ready, she went to the back garden alone.In early summer, all kinds of flowers are in full bloom. Yao Xi looked at the various flowers in the garden, and at the small bamboo basket in his hand. He already had the embryonic form of the flower basket in his mind.

She first picked a lot of purple-pink peonies and dark red dragon boat flowers from the corner of the courtyard near the wall, and then picked many white ginger flowers to surround the peonies and dragon boat flowers, and occasionally inserted a few tall hollyhocks.Peonies, dragon boat flowers, and hollyhocks are all red. Yao Xi saw that the colors in the basket were too monotonous, so he squatted on the ground and picked some blue bellflowers, and sprinkled them in the basket as decoration.

Looking left and right, it still didn't look good enough, so Yao Xi pulled a few vines around the handle of the basket, cut a few green branches to decorate the flower clusters, and then felt better.The small baskets were filled to the brim and scattered in perfect order.

Yao Xi bounced back to the hall with the carefully prepared small flower basket.

Wan Yu had just washed up and was ordering someone to pass the meals when she saw Yao Xi coming in with a flower basket.Then he laughed and said, "I didn't expect my father-in-law to be ingenious. This flower basket is really beautiful."

"Thank you for your compliment." Yao Xi said happily.

"Don't just play, wash your hands and come over to eat!" Wan Yu smiled and shook her head.She felt that Yao Xi was still a child at heart, and a small flower basket could have such fun.

After Yao Xi washed his hands, he went into the dining hall and sat down next to the empress dowager.She courteously spread dishes for the empress: "Eat more, empress."

Wan Yu felt that Yao Xi's hospitality was a bit abnormal, this girl had always been silent when serving her dishes, and showed her courtesy for nothing--I'm afraid she must be asked for something! "Go ahead. What's the matter?"

"The matter of money..." Yao Xi was a little embarrassed.The empress dowager is really smart, every time she is a little bit careful, the empress dowager can immediately notice it.

"Didn't the Ai family give you the money for kissing you in the morning?" Wan Yu said casually while drinking the porridge.She deliberately gave Yao Xi very generous silver. Yao Xi had only been back for two days, and she had already given 3000 taels.She said that she only gave 1000 taels for serving the bed, but she gave the money to Yao Xi without needing to serve the bed.

She wanted to know if Yao Xi would be eager to spend it on her after he had 1 taels, so she had to let Yao Xi have 1 taels first.

Yao Xi lowered his head and said with a shy expression: "The slave wants to ask the empress for some scattered silver, and I will go to the theater later, and the slave also wants to join in the fun, sprinkle some silver for the favorite characters..."

"Didn't the Ai family say it? You can take the broken silver from the copper money jar in the hall. As for the reward silver for listening to the opera, Aunt Liufang has already prepared it. You can sprinkle the silver as much as you like."

"Aunt Liufang is back?" Yao Xi was a little surprised.Aunt Liufang left one step earlier than her, why did she come back so late?The shortcut Miss Biao took her is really very close!

"Yeah." Wan Yu tasted a piece of pastry and found it delicious, naturally handed the remaining half to Yao Xi's mouth and said, "Little Yao, try this, it's not bad."

Yao Xi hesitated for a moment.About 0.00005 seconds?

She doesn't like to eat what other people have eaten.It's really not that you dislike the empress dowager, how can you dislike the empress dowager even after receiving the kiss?She just has a natural repulsion to things that other people have bitten.But it was given by the empress dowager, if you don’t eat it, you will end up miserable. The desire to survive drove Yao Xi to open his mouth after a struggle.

But it was too late.

The empress dowager's face has changed.

The moment Yao Xi opened his mouth, Wan Yu withdrew his hand unhappily, and put the rest of the pastry into his mouth.That damned girl Yao Xi actually dislikes her?Wan Yu chewed and bit the pastry in her mouth, as if the pastry was Yao Xi.

"Didn't the empress want to give the servant a taste?" Guiltyly stretched out his chopsticks, Yao Xi picked up a new one and put it in his mouth, then praised with a thumbs up: "Wow! It's really delicious."

"Eunuch, what were you hesitating just now?" Wan Yu's heart was full of holes.It's fine that Yao Xi painted her so ghostly, but she actually disliked the food she had eaten. When she fed the pastry to Yao Xi's mouth, she really saw the flashing smile on the girl's face. Shocked and disgusted.

Eunuch Yao has been with the empress dowager these days, and he has seen some scenes.She explained with a smile: "Just now, the servant was thinking about how to eat the pastry that the empress gave me without touching the chopsticks of the empress. The servant is afraid that the empress will dislike it..." Yao Xi shamelessly beat him to save his life.

"When did Ai's family dislike you?" Wan Yu took Yao Xi's half-drinked porridge, ate the rest of the porridge in the bowl with Yao Xi's used spoon as if nothing had happened, and then drank half of it for herself Pushing the porridge in front of Yao Xi, he said, "Elder-in-law?"

Yao Xi overcame the psychological discomfort and took a mouthful of the porridge in front of him, then wiped his mouth and said, "The porridge that my mother drank is really more delicious!"

Wan Yu was amused by Yao Xi's words.Some words are obviously not true, but they sound pleasing to the ear and pleasing to the heart.

"Your Majesty, where are you going to listen to the opera?" Yao Xi's mood was a little turbulent. When she was in the tea garden, she could only huddle in a corner. I think Miss Tao's flower gun is really good.This time, it must be the best position to accompany the empress dowager to listen to the opera. She is very curious about what it is like to listen to the opera up close.

"Over there in the Qinghe Garden." Seeing Yao Xi happily inquiring about the opera, Wan Yu was so excited that she was a hundred times more excited than when she went back to the palace yesterday, so she felt a little distressed.This child must have been suffocated in entering the palace. She was originally a lazy person, and she could go out of the palace from time to time as an errand in the Siyuan Bureau.

"Xiao Yaozi, do you want to go shopping? Ai's family will take you there." Wan Yu asked with a smile.

Yao Xi nodded quickly, thought for a while, then shook his head quickly.

Wan Yu frowned: "Do you want it or not?"

Thinking, she misses the smoke and fire in the market, the palace is really deserted like the world.

But the empress is so unpopular, it's really too dangerous to go shopping in the palace, if she leaves the empress to go out to play alone, it will be boring.So he quickly shook his head and said: "So many people want to assassinate the empress, it's really too dangerous outside the palace."

Wan Yu understood.It's not that the girl doesn't want to go shopping with her, but she's just worried that it will be dangerous for her to leave the palace.As long as you want to go, there is nothing she can't solve.

Yao Xi thought for a while and wondered if listening to an opera would be dangerous?Will there be assassins pretending to be actors and sneaking into the troupe to wait for an opportunity to hurt the empress? "Your Majesty, this servant thinks it's dangerous to listen to an opera, what if there are assassins in the troupe?"

"That's great! There's another big show." Wan Yu said indifferently, "We can't even have a hard time because of an assassin, right?" She lightly scratched Yao Xi's nose and stood up Said: "Besides, with our father-in-law here, Ai's family is not afraid of anything."

Yao Xi looked up at the empress dowager, hesitant to speak.But she is afraid!

***

Long Yi and Yao Shuanglan were having breakfast when they saw Sun Yan coming back angrily.

"Why haven't you left yet?" Longyi ordered the maid to add another pair of bowls and chopsticks, and said to Sun Yan, "That's fine. Eat something before leaving."

"I can't go anymore. Your imperial brother is such a rascal!" Sun Yan said everything about the palace gate, and said indignantly: "Does he think that the goal of all women in the world is to enter the palace and be him?" Cousin, you didn’t see how condescending he was when he said he wanted to marry me! I almost couldn’t hold it back at the time, thinking that we should go all out and let the whole country go into mourning.”

"Let's eat something! I'm going to Qinghe Garden to listen to an opera later, I'll tell Brother Huang." Longyi served Sun Yan a bowl of soup and said: "He is the emperor, and people all over the world are flattering him, countless The minister wanted to send his daughter into the palace, and after a long time, he also developed the bad habit of being self-centered. But his nature is good, and it makes sense."

Yao Shuanglan also said from the side: "Sister Dali, don't be afraid, the emperor has never forced me to do anything during the years I have been in the palace, and he will not really forbid you to leave the palace."

Sun Yan had no appetite, so she pushed away the soup bowl in front of her and said to her cousin Long Yi: "If my cousin can't make sense with him, don't make trouble with me because of me. You can't force this kind of thing, so what if he is the emperor? At worst, I'll stay with you and Sister Yao in the palace for a while."

"Okay." Longyi pushed the bowl back in front of Sun Yan: "Eat as much as you want."