I'm the substitute and I'm with the real master

The only rationality left in Xue Ya's mind prevented him from rushing forward to hit He Xulan. He gritted his teeth and stared at the other party, the anger in his heart expanding infinitely.

Why is he not worthy of liking?

What's wrong with him?

He's not worthy of liking, why did He Xulan kiss him and touch him?

Suddenly, Xue Ya saw that He Xulan turned around to leave, and rushed up to block the door with her arms outstretched, "You are not allowed to leave, you tell me clearly!"

He Xulan's expression became colder, "Did I not speak clearly enough?"

Xue Ya was trembling with anger, "You lied to me, you lied to me! Then... you are not afraid that I will tell the truth of the matter?"

As soon as these words came out, Xue Ya actually heard He Xulan's chuckle.He couldn't help being startled, watching the other party reach out and pinch his chin.

"You can try to say it, what do you think will happen to you?" He Xulan's tone was so gentle, as if he had become that cute and amiable elder brother again.

It was only at this time that Xue Ya realized that he had been completely deceived, and he couldn't tell it at all.If he said it, no one would believe it, even if others believed it, he would be the one who died, not He Xulan.

He Xulan had known for a long time that he could not tell about their affairs, so he dared to bully him again and again, play him like a monkey, and even use him as a trick.

He hates He Xulan!

He Xulan said that she would save Xueya's life.

Xue Ya was demoted to the laundry bureau, those nobles were far away from him, and the only thing he stayed with was the endless laundry every day.All his things were taken away, whether it was the gold jewelry he hid, or the jade pendant that Cui Lingjing gave him, even the beautiful skirts in the closet were gone.

He changed into the clothes worn by the lowest eunuchs, and did rough work for more than half a year.

In winter, Xueya's hands couldn't bear the cold water.The hot water here is not even enough for bathing, let alone for washing clothes. Xue Ya couldn't help crying every time she wiped her body with cold water, but now he can only hide and cry, not daring to cry For a long time, afraid that people would find him crying.

Eunuch Liu, who manages the laundry bureau, hates palace people crying the most, and beats him with a board when he sees it.

The days were getting colder, and Xue Ya was rubbing her clothes with her swollen hands when she suddenly heard someone calling him.

"Xue Ya, someone is looking for you."

When Xueya heard what Eunuch Liu said, she froze for a moment, then took her hand out of the water, wiped it on her clothes, and asked cautiously, "Eunuch Liu, who is looking for me?"

"You'll know when you go out, go quickly." Eunuch Liu showed a rare smile.

Xue Ya left the dressing room anxiously, and saw a person she hadn't seen for a long time.When Liang Mu saw him, he smiled and strode over, "Xue Ya, do you remember me?"

Xue Ya stared at Liang Mu for a while before nodding.

The smile on Liang Mu's face was even bigger, "I'm taking a rest today, so I'm free to come here, you... have you eaten? I brought some pastries from outside the palace, I don't know if you will eat them or not."

He took out the things in his arms. Because he was afraid of the cold, he asked the boss to wrap them several times.

"It's glutinous rice flower cake, try some." Liang Mu said, looking around, he felt that this is not a good place to talk, and asked, "How about going to your room to eat?"

Xue Ya took it out from the bag of glutinous rice cake, and her eyes fell on it. Hearing Liang Miao's last words, he shook his head, "Ten people slept in the room, and now someone is resting in it."

Liang Mu frowned when he heard this, "Ten people? Then how do you rest normally?" He paused, "Is someone bullying you here?"

"It's like this here, every room sleeps ten people, no one is special." Xue Ya lowered her eyes.

Liang Mu was silent for a while, and then said: "There is an ear room where the Imperial Forest Army rests nearby, but it's not very clean, why don't you go with me there?"

Xue Ya didn't object, but just looked at the laundry bureau behind her.Liang Mu had insight into his thoughts, "Don't worry, I've made an agreement with Eunuch Liu, and I'll take half an hour off for you."

Xue Ya then followed Liang Mu to the side room where the Yulin army rested. Indeed, as Liang Mu said, the side room was a bit messy, but it was already much better than the room where Xue Ya slept.

Liang Mu was busy tidying up as soon as he came in, and washed the cups on the table many times before pouring water for Xue Ya, "The water is not very hot. If you want hot water, I'll boil it."

"No need." Xue Ya took the water cup in Liang Mu's hand, and when she took it, Liang Mu naturally saw Xue Ya's swollen hand, and immediately froze in place.

Xue Ya didn't seem to notice that Liang Mu was staring at his hand, drinking water on his own.Go down with a cup of hot water to warm up your body.He glanced at Liang Mu and asked in a low voice, "Can I have another drink?"

"Of course." Liang Mu hastily poured another glass of water for Xue Ya.

"Thank you." Xue Ya drank more slowly this time, while drinking water, he looked at the greased paper bag on the table.Liang Mu noticed Xue Ya's gaze, and immediately opened the glutinous rice cake wrapped in oil paper.

But Xueya didn't eat it directly, but looked at her hands, "I just washed my hands and they are not clean."

"I'll get you a basin of hot water to wash your hands, you wait." Liang Mu went out after speaking, and after a while, he came back with a basin of hot water, with a towel beside the basin.

When Xue Ya dipped her hands into the hot water, she couldn't help but take a breath.He hadn't soaked his hands in hot water for a long time. The hot water made his hands sore and comfortable, so he couldn't help soaking them for a while.Liang Mu watched from the side, thought for a while, and said: "Xueya, eat first, and I'll make you a pot of hot water later, okay?"

Xue Ya thought it made sense, so she took out her hand.As soon as he took out his hands, Liang Mu picked up the towel next to the sink, as if he was going to help him wipe his hands.

Xue Ya watched Liang Mu's movements, but did not move.Liang Mu stared at Shang Xueya, paused, and then handed the towel to Xueya.Xue Ya said thank you again, wiped her hands clean, and went to eat the glutinous rice cake on the table.

Liang Mu guarded Xue Ya to eat, and he said softly after everyone finished eating, "Xue Ya, if you want to cry, you can cry, don't hold back."

As soon as the words fell, he saw the young man in front of him shed tears.

Xue Ya blinked quickly, and said in a muffled voice, "I don't want to cry."

The head was lightly rubbed twice.

"There is no one else here, so I won't tell. I will come to see you often in the future, and you can tell me what you want to eat." Liang Mu said.

Xue Ya looked at Liang Mu slowly after hearing the words. The young man in front of her seemed to be no different from half a year ago, still full of vigor, "Really? You are not lying to me?"

Liang Mu nodded with a serious expression, "I'm not lying to you, as long as I can come to see you, I will come. What do you want to eat next time?"

"As long as you come to see me." Xue Ya smiled at Liang Mu.

Liang Mu seemed to be taken aback for a moment, then turned his face away slightly, "I will come."

Liang Mu didn't lie to Xueya, he often came to look for Xueya, and every time he came, he would bring Xueya something, from food to useful things.

He also brought Xueya medicine for frostbite.

Among them, the most precious thing Liang Mu brought was a piece of warm jade.

"If you wear this on your body, your body will be much warmer," Liang Mu said.

Xue Ya looked at the warm jade in her palm, touched it with her fingertips for a while, then handed the warm jade back, "I can't take it, it's too expensive."

Liang Mu shook his head, "It's not expensive. When the guards on duty are cold in winter, almost everyone has one. My family has a few extra dollars, so I'll give you one. Don't worry, it's not expensive at all. You can buy it anywhere in the market." .”

Xueya felt that Liang Mu was lying to him, but he was indeed afraid of the cold, and when he hesitated, Liang Mu took the warm jade in his hand and put it on for him.

When Liang Mu's fingertips touched his neck, Xue Ya couldn't help shrinking back.He hid for a while, then controlled himself, stood up straight and asked the other party to put the warm jade on him.

That piece of jade was really warm, and when it was put in the clothes, that piece seemed to be much warmer.Xue Ya touched the piece of warm jade through her clothes, and couldn't help but smile.

Seeing that Xueya liked it, Liang Mu also smiled, "Okay, let's eat, and you can soak your feet after eating today. I will help you and Eunuch Liu take an hour off."

Xue Ya paused when she touched Nuan Yu's hand, and he raised his eyes to look at Liang Mu.Liang Mu looked at Shang Xueya, and smiled for no reason, "Huh? What's the matter?"

Xue Ya slowly moved closer to Liang Mu, and when she was about to kiss the side of his face, Liang Mu avoided it.Liang Mu looked a little embarrassed, and his voice was different from before, "I...I didn't mean that, Xueya...you don't have to do this."

Xue Ya's face turned red, and he sat up straight without making a sound.

Liang Mu thought he was angry, and quickly explained, "I don't dislike you, it's... well, I don't know what to say, but I really didn't want you to do these things to come to see you."

"I see." Xue Ya lowered her head, "I won't be like this in the future."

Liang Mu opened his mouth to say something, but finally closed it.

Another half month passed, and it was almost New Year's Eve.

Eunuch Liu accepted Liang Mu's benefits, and his attitude towards Xueya became better day by day.This day, he didn't let Xueya do the laundry and sent another job.

"You have been working here for more than half a year, and you haven't made any major mistakes. Today, you went to deliver clothes with Xiao Fanzi and the others."

When Xue Ya heard that she could send clothes, her eyes lit up a lot.

There are four people who deliver clothes every day. These four people usually don't need to wash clothes very much, they just need to deliver clothes.Xueya didn't expect that such an errand would fall on him, and it was better to walk more than to wash clothes in cold water in winter.

The first palace they sent was Fengrui Palace, Xue Ya was not qualified to enter, so she could only stand outside the palace, Xiao Fanzi and another person carried clothes in.Just as he was waiting, Xiao Fanzi came out and pulled Xue Ya, "Come with me."

Xue Ya was dragged into it in a daze, and didn't know that something had happened until she heard the curse.

"How do you do things in the laundry bureau? You even washed His Majesty's belt to pieces, and you too. Why did you send His Majesty's belt to the laundry bureau? Where is that? Can you wash His Majesty's clothes?"

Xue Ya heard someone crying.

"I didn't do it on purpose, and I don't know how His Majesty's belt got caught in it. I really only sent our clothes."

"You're still sophistrying, you'll be beaten to death today."

It sounded like the sound of the board hitting the flesh, Xue Ya couldn't help but want to back away, but Xiao Fanzi held him tightly.

"Aunt Xiu, we used to send clothes here, and there was never any mistake, you know that. I don't know what happened today, but a person who has never done this job sent clothes with us, and this kind of thing happened. He was the one who carried this box of clothes just now."

Hearing Xiao Fanzi's voice, Xueya raised her head in disbelief. He had never touched the box all the way just now, "I haven't."

"Could it be that I wronged you?" Xiao Fanzi looked at the eunuch who carried the clothes in with him, "Do you think he carried them?"

The eunuch's eyes flickered, but he also said, "It's him."

The court lady known as Aunt Xiu glanced at Xue Ya, then looked at Xiao Fanzi, "Your entire laundry department can't get away with this matter."

Xiao Fanzi squeezed out a smile, "Aunt Xiu, why do you have to go to such a lengths? What he does is what he does. If His Majesty wants to blame, naturally he is the only one to blame, because he broke it."

"You speak lightly." Aunt Xiu frowned.

While speaking, there was an announcement from outside.

It was Cui Lingjing who came down early.

Cui Lingjing went back to the palace to change into casual clothes, but frowned when she saw the belt brought by the maid, "Change one."

Cui Lingjing was dissatisfied even after changing a few, and finally asked directly: "I remember that I have a plum pattern."

Just now on the way back to the palace, when he saw plum blossoms, he thought of wearing a belt with plum pattern patterns, but that belt happened to be the one that had been washed to pieces.When Aunt Xiu turned pale and said that the belt had been washed to pieces, Cui Lingjing's expression sank.

Aunt Xiu immediately knelt on the ground, anxious, and said: "It was a palace servant named Xiao Xuezi from the laundry bureau who washed it badly. It was his clumsiness that made such a big mistake."

Aunt Xiu didn't serve in Fengrui Palace before, she used to serve in Dowager Concubine Min's place, and Aunt Xiu was temporarily transferred here because the maids in Fengrui Palace were released from the palace when they reached their age.

When Cui Lingjing heard the word "Xiaoxuezi", her eyebrows raised slightly, "Xiaoxuezi?"

"Yes." Aunt Xiu's heart was beating very fast at this time, and she tried her best to calm down and said, "But the main reason for this is that Shuangli accidentally caught His Majesty's belt in the palace servant's clothes, and this slave has already punished Shuangli." , Also contact the Garment Bureau, let the people from the Garment Bureau rush to make a new belt for His Majesty as soon as possible."

Cui Lingjing turned around and looked at Aunt Xiu who was kneeling on the ground, "Where is the little Xuezi you mentioned?"