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On the day when Dabai was three months old, it was the Shangsi Festival on March [-]rd. The emperor and his concubines went out of the palace to sacrifice to the Yellow Emperor. Qi Yu also went with the emperor. Zhou Shuhe had nothing to do, so he made up for Dabai A belated cat gift.

Zhang Huan, the eunuch who took care of the cattery, refused for a long time, and finally had no choice but to take the sugar and tea from Jiyue, and handed over a cat-receiving deed with the pawprint of the big white lady. After thinking twice, he carefully reminded her: "Yuan Cairen, the cats in the palace don't need to be saluted anymore."

Outside the palace, people have to sign a contract when buying or selling livestock. The contract for buying a cat alone is called a letter of engagement. It is the same as a man taking a concubine.

Etiquette is also very particular. If the cat you bring in is born from someone else’s cat, you have to give wedding candy and tea to the owner of the cat; if you bring in a wild cat, you have to offer a bunch of dried fish to the cheap mother-in-law. *

But this rule cannot be counted in the palace. Is there any king in the world? The cat is naturally the cat of His Majesty, but if the gift is given to the emperor, let alone how ridiculous it is, this subordinate alone Relationships are also messed up.

After all, isn't it the king's land in the whole world, isn't the person who accepts the cat also belongs to His Majesty?

Zhou Shuhe wanted to give his beloved Dabai an enviable gift, so he didn't care about it, so he boiled sugar and honey to make wedding candy, and took the emperor's new tribute tea and dried fish that he made himself, baba Came to the cattery.

At this time, she was squatting on the ground, holding small dried fish to feed Dabai's mother and her brothers and sisters, and ignored Chen Huan when she heard the words, and kept talking to Dabai.

"Dabai, Dabai, don't listen to the nonsense of the person next to him. We must also get the gifts that the kitten next to him has. Not only do we have to have it, but we also have more ostentation than the kitten next to him. I just love Dabai the only cat." She shook the kitten's paw while talking, "Isn't it, Dabai."

Zhang Huan didn't know whether to laugh or cry, so he had to step back and wait. After a long while, he said suddenly: "You really said the same thing as Qi Zhangyin."

Zhou Shuhe was slightly taken aback, raised his eyebrows and asked with great interest, "What did he say about me?"

"He said that you are a very good master, and he treats us slaves as human beings from the bottom of our hearts."

Zhou Shuhe paused for a moment, but did not respond. He lowered his head and shook out all the cat food on his body for Dabai Niang, and got up with Dabai in his arms.

"Let's go, 'return to the door' in two days, and I will bring some milk to see you."

Zhang Huan let out a muffled laugh, saluted and sent Yuan Cairen away.

Halfway through the journey, Jiyue looked at her several times, and said tentatively, "Miss, are you unhappy again?"

Zhou Shuhe curled his lips: "Are you a roundworm in someone else's stomach?"

Jiyue was happy, and he smiled: "You are really upset when you say that, but why, didn't Guanshi Zhang say that Qi Bingbi said something nice about you? What's there to be angry about?"

Zhou Shuhe thought for a while, and organized his words: "I only realized now that I thought it was no big deal before, but it turned out to be much more cautious than I imagined."

For example, such a person who seems to be humble, but actually has no dignity to the point of arrogance, only curls up in front of her, really puts himself in the position of a servant, thinking that being treated by her as a human is already "very good" "Are.

But Zhou Shuhe understood that Qi Yu's humbleness definitely did not come from the self-condemnation caused by the world's contempt for eunuchs, and it was not even all due to the inferiority complex brought about by the difference in status with her.More, it was to create a clear and clear chasm for her and himself.

And the reason why he did this had already been entrusted to him on the day of their reunion in the palace.

——"It's not good for the lady to get close to the servant girl."

At first, she thought that this "not good" referred to Qi Yu's sensitive identity, which made him walk on thin ice in the palace, and made it easy for people close to him to be jealous of the emperor.

But in fact, even Wan Min, who grew up with the emperor, may not be able to guess the emperor's heart as accurately as he does, and his sensitive identity can even become a reason for him to be trusted. This kind of "badness" is actually very easy It can be digested by him.

So the real "badness" is that "getting closer" itself is not good for her.

The spring was bright and the shadows of the trees were mottled. Zhou Shuhe pulled out the bushes on both sides of the path as he walked, thinking about something in his heart, feeling bored.

She thought very clearly and understood that the two of them were getting closer. If she still wanted to love him, she would suffer, which was not good for her; not good.

The more you understand Qi Yu now, the more you know what he thinks, the more you can truly feel how seriously he loves her.

Zhou Shuhe didn't even dare to think of the word "love" before, but now she can be much more peaceful. Perhaps it was the distance Qi Yu gave her that allowed her to have love, to endure, to be ashamed, and to be peaceful.

The cat in her arms was snoring, she lowered her head and lightly pinched the pink meat ball on her paw, in the soft and bouncy touch, she suddenly felt that it was okay.

When the sun was rising, Zhou Shuhe just returned to Lanfang Pavilion, put down the sleeping Dabai, took Jiyue with him, and went to the small kitchen of Yihe Palace.

The small kitchen of Yihe Palace is different from other palaces, because Zhou Shuhe often likes to cook some food by himself, and also sends it to the emperor from time to time. After a few months, the emperor remembered her hobby and sent someone to expand the small kitchen several times.Although it is still called the kitchen, it has become a small hall near the stove, which is perfect for drinking and gathering on weekdays.

Today is Chen Qingming's 20th birthday, so he invited Zhou Shuhe and Chen Xiaoxiao to have lunch together in the small kitchen.

In fact, she didn't want to go, but she couldn't resist Chen Xiaoxiao's kind invitation, and she was worried that such an attitude would arouse suspicion for no reason, so she finally agreed.

As soon as she stepped into the threshold of the small kitchen, she saw Chen Xiaoxiao rushing out of the small kitchen with a panicked expression on her skirt, and Zhou Shuhe quickly grabbed her.

"what happened?"

"Shuhe," she grabbed her hand, like a drowning person grabbing driftwood, "Qingming is gone, I went to Wangyunxuan, and people in her palace said that she brought two maids to the small kitchen , but not in the small kitchen, not on the road, as if it suddenly disappeared out of thin air."

how come.

Zhou Shuhe was slightly taken aback, her mind was spinning rapidly. She still remembered that the place where Chen Qingming first received the reward from the emperor was on the day she accepted the favor, which was the 22nd day of the twelfth lunar month last year. Today is the third day of March. In the prescription that the emperor firmly believes, it is best for her to be soaked by Na Guiyun for 81 days, that is to say...

"How could it be! This should be ten days later, not to mention that His Majesty and Liu Jieyu are not in the palace today, who will take Hui Baolin to take medicine?"

Zhou Shuhe turned his head abruptly, looking at Jiyue who was speaking.

The latter was both panicked and puzzled. Looking at Zhou Shuhe and Chen Xiaoxiao who was facing him, it took him a long time to slowly come to his senses, and finally realized what he had missed just now.

Her complexion turned pale, and she quickly knelt down: "Please make amends, the talented lady, the servant just drank wine and talked nonsense, it can't be true."

After she finished speaking, she kowtowed her head again and again, her flesh hitting the hard stone slab on the ground, making a dull thumping sound.

But Chen Xiaoxiao already knew.

"So it turns out that the mastermind is His Majesty, no wonder you dare not say it." She smiled abruptly, and clasped Zhou Shuhe with her backhand, like a predator catching its prey.

With a soft "squeak", Chen Xiaoxiao's personal maid closed the door of the small kitchen, walked back behind her with a white face, with hands and feet.

The sun was shining brightly outside the house, and the sunlight was shut out by the closed doors and windows. Chen Xiaoxiao let go of Zhou Shuhe, and looked back at Xia Shi.

"Don't be nervous, what's the big deal, you're not even afraid when you read books."

"Even if I knew those secrets and was about to drag this person who tried so hard to protect himself down the quagmire, she wasn't afraid at all."

The author says:

*Refer to the online article "The Ceremony of Lustling Cats by the Ancients is More Complicated Than Concubinage!" "