The little eunuch gl of the demon queen

"Then let the Queen Mother choose someone she likes." Emperor Ming Cheng also said with a smile.He had just seen that Yao Xi had returned to serve the Empress Dowager at some point, and he was worried that the Empress Dowager thought he was unnecessary.

Wan Yu squinted at Yao Xi, then snorted coldly and said, "Where is one enough? Ai's family is all."

"Your Majesty..." Yao Xi panicked, she nervously grabbed the corner of the Empress Dowager's clothes and said coquettishly, "I know I was wrong."

She knew that the empress was deliberately saying this to anger her, but in front of the emperor, some jokes were unacceptable. What if the emperor took it seriously and suddenly issued a decree to put beautiful men in the empress dowager's palace?You are not joking!

"The slave doesn't listen to opera anymore, and I won't listen to it in this life." She was fascinated by listening to it just now, and she was a little excited when she saw Miss Tao, and she really snubbed the empress.

nonsense!Tao Xiaolin has finished singing, isn't it too late for the stinky girl to say no to listening?Wan Yu has been holding back her stomach since she left the house today, of course she has no interest in those men playing music, the reason why she said that is to annoy Yao Xi. "Come on, Tao Xiaolin is taking off her make-up right now, father-in-law likes her so much, why don't you go over and say hello?"

"No. The servant is here to serve the empress." Seeing that the empress dowager was still angry, Yao Xi took the wine glass to the empress's mouth and said, "Please, empress."

Wan Yu pushed away the wine that Yao Xi handed over, and said with a stern expression: "Is it possible for the father-in-law not to listen to what the Ai family has to say now? Just go if you are told, don't wait for someone to leave the palace and blame the Ai family for stopping you from seeing you." .”

Yao Xi was a little embarrassed.Is she going or not?

Go ahead, I'm afraid the empress will be even more angry.Don't go, it's another public protest.In fact, the anti-decree empress would not do anything to her, what Yao Xi was really afraid of was the emperor who was looking at her with displeasure.

Emperor Ming Cheng's complexion is not very good.He felt that the Empress Dowager had spoiled Yao Xi. As an eunuch, the master ordered to follow without saying anything, and dared to talk back in public over and over again. "Just do what the queen mother says. No one taught you the rules when you entered the palace?"

Yao Xi stood up with complicated emotions and said to the queen mother: "Mother, has that servant gone? Really gone?" She hesitated, walking two steps and stopping two steps just to let the queen mother understand, it's not because she couldn't figure it out and ignored her mother. It's really hard to disobey the imperial decree!

Wan Yu gave Emperor Ming Cheng a hard look: "People who mourn the family will discipline themselves, don't bother the emperor!" She didn't really want Yao Xi to meet Tao Xiaolin at all, but she wanted to try Yao Xi's attitude. If Xi can persist for a while longer, the anger in her heart will probably disappear.But Feng Qian, the unlucky kid, meddled in his own business... God damn it!

Looking up again, Wan Yu saw that Yao Xi had already crossed the arch bridge and walked into the crowd of theatrical troupe.

"Queen Mother, Yao Xi is indeed too unruly. It's good to change it. However, if you want it...is it a bit too much?" Emperor Ming Cheng was thinking about the problem very seriously. One or two is fine. Want every man?Wan Yu is too greedy.

Hearing Emperor Ming Cheng say that Yao Xi had no rules, Wan Yu's face became even uglier.Even if she was angry with Yao Xi, she couldn't hear others saying that Yao Xi was not good at all.What did Emperor Ming Cheng say again? Wan Yu didn't want to listen anymore, and she was not in the mood to eat. Once Yao Xi left, her heart and her eyes followed, but the pavilion on the other side of the lake was crowded with people from the troupe. Can't see anything.

Yao Xi was also absent-minded along the way, apart from the joy of meeting Miss Tao face to face, he was more concerned about how to coax the Queen Mother after a while.

Niangniang is actually the kind of person who seems to have a bad temper, but is actually the best person to get along with.Because the empress is smart and can see through people's minds at a glance, Yao Xi asked herself that she didn't have any wrong thoughts, and she believed that the empress would not misunderstand her.

Yao Xi entered the pavilion restlessly, and everyone in the troupe stopped what they were doing.There was an arched bridge across the stage from the pavilion where the opera was watched. Although the troupe didn't know Yao Xi, they knew that she sat next to the empress dowager when she was watching the opera.On the right hand side of the empress dowager is the emperor, and on the left hand side is the young master. Can the status be so simple?

It's just that the emperor, the empress dowager and all the masters sat on chairs, and this one sat on a stool. Presumably, it should be some embarrassing father-in-law next to the empress dowager.

The news that the Demon Empress had accepted a male favorite not long ago had already spread outside the palace, and the leader of the class was also a know-it-all, so he naturally knew about it.He approached courteously and said: "Eunuch, do you have any orders from the Empress Dowager?"

"That's not true. I just admire Miss Tao for a long time, and I want to see her. I wonder if Miss Tao is convenient?" Yao Xi glanced at the people around him. There were men and women, old and young, without exception, they were all born. Face, but there is no Mu Guiying.

The class leader hurriedly apologized and said with a smile: "It's convenient. It's her blessing that the father-in-law has a good eye for Xiaolin." He ordered everyone to retreat, led Yao Xi to a screen, and said, "She's changing clothes here. Father-in-law, please." The class leader knocked on the screen, and said to Tao Xiaolin in a somewhat rough tone: "Your guest is here. Hurry up and tidy up!"

Yao Xi saw that the class leader had different faces towards her and Miss Tao, and his expression turned cold instantly.The troupe leader is such a person, thinking that Miss Tao's life in the troupe is not easy on weekdays.Yao Xi was worrying, when the screen was pushed away a little, revealing a delicate but haggard face.

Tao Xiaolin was still wearing the costume he had just untied, and only wiped off the paint on his face.When she was inside, she heard the head of the class call the young man his father-in-law, so she also greeted him: "Please, father-in-law." The chair invites Yao Xi to sit down.

Yao Xi had never seen Miss Tao without her make-up removed. The only place where she could see Miss Tao before was on the stage in the tea garden.Miss Tao always dressed up as a female general or a heroine when she sang swords and horses. She watched a lot. The impression of Miss Tao in her heart was that she was riding a horse with a knife on the stage, and she was handsome and unrestrained.

But Miss Tao in front of her was weak and haggard, not at all as majestic as she was on the stage.Yao Xi wasn't disappointed, but just distressed.After she broke into the screen, it was as if the gorgeous curtain was lifted, revealing the abscess of reality.

"Before entering the palace, I often went to the tea garden to listen to the girl's play. I have admired it for a long time, and I never thought I would see the girl in the palace." Yao Xi said somewhat cautiously.

"That's really fate." Tao Xiaolin smiled politely, she felt sorry for the father-in-law in front of her.When this father-in-law listened to her play, he should still be a man, right?

The two fell silent again.

Tao Xiaolin was tired, Yao Xi was excited and embarrassed.

"Fortunately, the girl has become a famous actress." Yao Xi sighed with a silly smile, she was so nervous that she didn't even dare to look into Tao Xiaolin's eyes.

Tao Xiaolin smiled wryly and said, "What's the difference if you don't have any? Life is still the same..." It's still bitter.She stopped in the middle of her speech, because she felt that it would be useless to talk too much with this stranger in front of her.

Yao Xi seemed to have something hard to say in Miss Tao's words, and asked with concern: "Isn't life easier, Miss?" She also remembered the class leader's unceremonious attitude towards Miss Tao.Shouldn't the famous actors who are like cash cows in the theater troupe be careful about their offerings?

Before Tao Xiaolin could speak, the hostess scolded people again from outside the screen: "The masters in the palace may still be listening to the play after lunch, so hurry up and dress me up, and if you dare to make a mistake, don't eat at night." Already!"

"The little girl still needs to change her costume. What if the father-in-law is okay?" Tao Xiaolin politely issued the order to evict the guest, and reached out to take down an indigo shirt hanging on the shelf.

The chaos outside was like a war, and Yao Xi also knew that the actors in the troupe had to hurry up and dress up for the next scene while the masters were listening to music and eating.And if she stays with Miss Tao for too long, the Empress Dowager will be overwhelmed, so she wants to get up and leave.

Tao Xiaolin shook the sleeves of the costume and made a gesture of invitation to Yao Xi.A small part of her thin white arm was exposed from the costume, and Yao Xi, who was about to leave, stopped in shock. Under the gorgeous costume, Miss Tao's arm was covered with bruises.

The meeting between her and Miss Tao was not a happy one, but it was quite distressing.Miss Tao, who was so majestic on the stage, was just an ordinary woman with a pale, thin and tired face after she took off her saber outfit.

But when she saw Miss Tao's scarred arm, besides being distressed, she was also very angry.

"Girl's hand..." Yao Xi stopped walking away.

Tao Xiaolin hid his hands in his sleeves in embarrassment and said, "It's left over from practicing. Who in our line of work is not lucky?"

Yao Xi watched Miss Tao avoiding her eyes when she spoke, and didn't dare to look at her, and became suspicious: "Is it the class leader..."

"no!"

Yao Xi was interrupted by Tao Xiaolin before he finished speaking.

"Please just pretend you didn't see it!" Tao Xiaolin lowered his head and shed two tears. "If this kind of trivial matter gets in front of the masters and causes trouble for the master, my life will not be easy after I leave the palace."

The class master was her master when she was studying opera. In this profession, it is only natural for a master to beat an apprentice.But what can be done?She couldn't live without this troupe, and no other troupe dared to offend her master.But not every theater troupe has the opportunity to enter the palace every year to perform in front of the master.

"He beat him? Why didn't the girl leave?" Yao Xi only felt worried: "Don't you think that if you succeed in this career, you will be considered a top performer? Or can you use the money you saved to make a living? Why bother to suffer like this. "

"The rewards from the masters will not reach us." Tao Xiaolin smiled wryly: "Eunuch doesn't know. No matter how famous a character is, he can only endure the harsh treatment, because he has to live according to the troupe. A troupe is not There are only such professions as Sheng Dan Jing Mo Chou, as well as drums playing silk and bamboo. If one person wants to build a whole theater troupe, he needs a lot of money and someone to support him. Otherwise, famous actors cannot be hired, and the scene is booming. I can't get in." She has nothing but those skills on the stage.

Tao Xiaolin had never talked to anyone before, and Tao Xiaolin said a lot without knowing it. She clutched her injured arm and said, "Since the father-in-law has a predestined relationship with the little girl, please let the father-in-law do it. Don't say anything about it. The little girl will sing the play for the masters." , I have to live in this team when I go out of the palace."

"Although I don't have the right to be the master for the girl, I can do my best." Yao Xi felt that the reason why Miss Tao was in a difficult situation was ultimately a matter of money.Most of the difficult things in the world can be solved with money.As for what cannot be solved with money, that is really difficult.With the money, it is easy for Miss Tao to form a theater troupe by herself, or to find another way to make a living.

She unbuttoned her shirt and was going to give Miss Tao one of the three 1000 taels of silver bills she carried with her.She was afraid of losing the bank notes, so she hid them tightly in a specially sewn pocket on the inside of her inner robe.

1000 taels is not a small sum, and it would be a lie to say that Yao Xi would not blink when he gave it away.

But the importance of 1000 taels to her is completely different from that to Miss Tao.She served the empress in the palace with food, drink, and accommodation, and she had nothing to spend money on, except for keeping 1000 taels of personal money, and everyone else planned to save enough 1 taels to spend on the empress dowager.

However, these 1000 taels can change Miss Tao's life.

Yao Xi paid for the money out of good intentions, but in Tao Xiaolin's eyes, it was a different scene.

The father-in-law first said that he wanted to help her, and then he untied his clothes?No one would come in the compartment surrounded by the screen, so what else would it be to give her some silver taels to be frivolous?She is an actress, not a whore.What is sold is ability, not body.

She has met too many such wretched people, but this is the first one who is so bright and bold.This person has been castrated as a eunuch, yet he is still lustful?So many people outside the screen don't say anything, and the masters of the palace are not far away, how dare they mess around?