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

Cui Lingjing sat in the warm pavilion in the east, waiting for people to come up.Speaking of which, he hadn't seen that poor rabbit for more than half a year, so he didn't know what it was like now.

Just as he was thinking, the cotton curtain was lifted and someone came in.

Cui Lingjing raised his head slowly when he heard the boy's salute, but just as he raised his head, he paused.

The boy kneeling on the ground was wearing a thin eunuch uniform, and the skin exposed outside the clothes looked a little pale. He knelt on the ground thin and small, motionless.

Cui Lingjing couldn't help but think of Xue Ya's saluting, but every time she did not do it up to standard, she liked to touch her clothes twice when she knelt down, thinking that her clothes were wrinkled while kneeling, and her body wobbled after kneeling for a long time.

Cui Lingjing wasn't very happy about his bad habit, but he scolded him, pinched his face, and next time he would still touch his clothes and shake it.

Cui Lingjing stared at the boy for a while, then put down the teacup in his hand, "Get up and talk."

"Thank you, Your Majesty." The boy's voice was thin and weak.

Cui Lingjing inexplicably felt uncomfortable, he frowned, and mentioned the belt, "Did you wash the belt?"

Xueya remembered what Xiao Fanzi said when she pulled him before she came in——

"Your Majesty has a kind heart and will definitely not punish you severely. You took the blame this time, and I will tell Eunuch Liu later that it was you who saved the laundry bureau. Look at you, you look so good-looking, it's a pity to wash clothes every day." Ah, Eunuch Liu is thinking of you, maybe he will transfer you to other palaces to do some easy work."

"Why don't you speak? Is it you?" Cui Lingjing's voice interrupted Xueya's thoughts.

Xue Ya's red and swollen hands began to itch again at this moment, he pursed his lips, and said in a low voice: "It's not a slave, the slave has never touched His Majesty's belt."

"It's not you? Then why do they all say that you washed it?" Cui Lingjing's voice sounded slightly, "What crime are you deceiving the king?"

Cui Lingjing thought she would see Xueya trembling with these words, but unexpectedly the other party raised her face and stared at him, "They wronged me, I didn't do it in the first place."

The face is also thinner, but it really grows.

The original Xueya was five points similar to He Xulan, but now there are only three points left. His little fox eyes grew more and more charming, coupled with that slap-sized face, he was as delicate as a dummy, except that there was no face on his face. Bloody, you can tell at a glance that you're having a bad day.

Cui Lingjing's frowning brows slowly loosened, and he rubbed his fingertips against the wall of the cup next to him, "You're so brave, what did you tell me that I didn't wash enough clothes?"

"I won't wash it anymore, just kill me!" Xue Ya turned away after speaking, staring at the vase in the distance, as if there was someone he hated standing there.

Cui Lingjing was really a little surprised by Xueya's current appearance. He had seen Xueya's pitiful appearance just now, and thought that this poor rabbit had finally put away his coquettishness.

"There are many ways to die. You contradict me, do you think you will fall into a dead body?" Cui Lingjing just finished speaking in a cold voice, when she saw Xueya rushing towards the pillar, her heart beat fast for a moment, and she hurriedly yelled, "Stop! How dare you! If you dare to bump into that pillar today, as long as you are not dead, I will cut your body apart! If you die, you will be thrown into a mass grave for the wild dogs to eat."

The scolding finally made Xue Ya stop in her tracks.

How painful should it be to divide the body into pieces?

Seeing Xueya stop, Cui Lingjing's face was still ugly, he let out a breath, "Come here." Seeing that no one was moving after speaking, his tone was a bit more serious, "Do you want me to invite you here in person?"

When these words fell to the ground, he saw Xue Ya slowly moving towards him.

Cui Lingjing couldn't help feeling angry, he hadn't punished the Poor Rabbit for being disrespectful, and the Poor Rabbit was still looking for death and life.

Get used to him!

There is no meat on the face, so another punishment.

Cui Lingjing glanced at Xue Ya and found that Xue Ya was hiding her hands in her sleeves, so she picked up the book on the table and rolled it into a tube, "Put out your hand."

Xue Ya hid her hands back when she heard Cui Lingjing's words.

"Do you want me to ask someone to come in and drag you down to beat the board?" Cui Lingjing became even more angry.

After he finished speaking, he was really angry when he found that Xue Ya was still motionless.He stretched out his hand and pulled Xue Ya's hand directly, but just as he pulled it, he heard the other party groan.

Cui Lingjing was slightly startled, he looked at the hand still hidden in the sleeve, and suddenly rolled up Xueya's sleeve.

The sleeves were rolled up, so there was nowhere to hide the hands inside.Each finger is red and swollen, like a radish, without any aesthetic feeling.

When Cui Lingjing saw her hands, Xueya blushed suddenly. He wanted to put down his sleeves again, but Cui Lingjing stopped him.

Cui Lingjing rolled up Xueya's sleeves on both sides, both hands were the same, red and swollen and ugly, not worthy of its owner at all.

"Hand...how did it become like this?" Cui Lingjing asked softly.

Xueya couldn't hide her hands, but she calmed down now. He let the other party look at his ugly hands, "For laundry, the slaves have to wash at least five buckets of clothes every day. If they can't finish washing, they can't eat or sleep."

Cui Lingjing looked up at Xue Ya's eyes, "Where did your cleverness go? Didn't you know you came to find me?"

Xue Ya blinked slightly, "It was His Majesty who demoted the slave to go there, and His Majesty even slapped the slave."

Cui Lingjing's expression became a little complicated, he let go of Xueya's hand, and turned his face slightly, "I didn't kill you, it was already an extra favor to you."

"That's why I dare not look for Your Majesty. If I did, His Majesty might be annoyed and kill the servant. Just like what Your Majesty said just now, the slave will be divided into five horses, and the slave's body will be eaten by wild dogs." Xue Ya hid her hand behind her back. , said in a muffled voice.

Cui Lingjing frowned, turned to look at Xue Ya again, and wanted to say something, but when she saw Xue Ya's thin chin, she retracted those words.

That's it.

He said to himself in his heart.

"Come back and serve." Cui Lingjing got up and left after leaving this sentence, leaving Xueya alone in the Nuan Pavilion.At first, Xue Ya wondered if he had heard it wrong, but after a while, someone asked him to take a bath and change clothes, and then he realized that he had heard correctly.

Cui Lingjing left him in Fengrui Palace.

As soon as Xue Ya put on thick clothes, the imperial doctor arrived to see him. Among them, when the imperial doctor saw his hand, he asked, "Did you apply any medicine in private?"

Xue Ya gave the imperial physician the ointment she brought with her, "This, I've been applying this all the time recently."

The imperial doctor opened it and sniffed it, then took some out and put it in his hands. After a long while, he nodded, "It's a good medicine, but your hands have been touching cold water, so this medicine can't keep your hands. Before this winter is over, Don’t dip your hands in cold water anymore. I’ll give you some medicine to soak your hands and feet, you soak it twice a day, just throw the medicinal materials into the boiling water.”

The imperial physician handed the medicine to Xueya, "You can continue to rub this medicine."

When the imperial physician left, Xue Ya was still in a daze, but not long after, she suddenly heard someone screaming outside.He hurriedly got up and went to the window, secretly opened the window to look out, and found that the screaming person was the Aunt Xiu whom he had just met.

Aunt Xiu was dragged forward by two people, her hair was disheveled, her buttocks were all red, as if she had been hit by a board.She kept shouting in her mouth, "Your Majesty, this servant is obsessed with ghosts for a while, Your Majesty, please forgive this servant."

She was gagged before shouting a few times.

When Xue Ya saw the person dragged out behind her, she couldn't help closing the window.

It was Xiao Fanzi and the others, who seemed to be dead, being dragged forward without moving their feet.

Xue Ya turned around and sat on the chair, trembling slightly all over her body. After a while, he whispered: "They hurt me, not me, and it has nothing to do with me. Isn't it like this in the palace? No When others die, you die yourself."

Xueya stayed in Fengrui Palace, he returned to the house where he lived before, and changed his clothes from the eunuch uniform to the skirt again.He doesn't need to do anything, except for soaking his hands and feet every day, he just waits for Cui Lingjing to call.

Cui Lingjing is not free to summon him every day, after all, it is the end of the year, and there are a lot of backlogs.At noon this day, Xueya was called over to have dinner.

He is not qualified to eat with Cui Lingjing, and he wants to eat after Cui Lingjing finishes eating, but fortunately, the emperor's meal is rich enough, and Cui Lingjing has been busy these days, and his appetite is not very good, so most of the dishes have not been moved much.

Xue Ya was eating with her head down, when she suddenly heard footsteps coming from inside, before she could raise her head, she was hit on the head.

"Haven't finished eating yet?" Cui Lingjing held a memorial, his face was not very good-looking.

Xue Ya looked up at him and shook her head.

Cui Lingjing looked at Xue Ya's face that hadn't grown much flesh in the past few days, silently took back the harsh words, and turned back to the inner hall.

After about a cup of tea, his voice came from inside.

"Not finished yet?"

Xue Ya put down her chopsticks and replied, "It's over, Your Majesty."

He rinsed his mouth and hands, got up and entered the inner hall.

Cui Lingjing sat on the couch, her legs were covered with a thick quilt, and there was Mrs. Tang in the quilt and in her hand, and beside her was a small table full of memorials.

When he saw Xueya coming in, he beckoned to him, in a gesture of beckoning cats and dogs.Xue Ya walked over with her expression unchanged, and when Cui Lingjing told him to sit up, she took off her boots and crawled under the blanket.

After Xue Ya sat under the quilt, she touched Pozi Tang in the other party's hand with her hand.Cui Lingjing noticed it, so he simply gave Xue Ya the Tang Pozi in his hand. He stared at Xue Ya for a while, and suddenly said, "When is your birthday?"

Xue Ya lowered her head and hugged Tang Pozi, "There are still two more days."

"Two days? Isn't that Xiaoye?" Cui Lingjing was a little surprised, "You were born on Xiaoye?"

Xueya nodded.

Because it was a young year's Eve, when his mother gave birth to him, she couldn't find a steady wife, and gave birth to him by herself.

"I'll be eighteen after New Year's Eve. Is there anything you want?" Cui Lingjing asked.

Xueya stuck her feet under the quilt, Tang Pozi, when he heard Cui Lingjing's words, he thought of someone.

He Xulan also asked him this question when he was at the station.

At that time, he was hugging He Xulan, although he was tired, but he was faintly excited. When he heard that He Xulan was going to give him a birthday present, he said he wanted gold without even thinking about it.

"The servant wants His Majesty to play a song for the servant." Xueya raised her face and looked at Cui Lingjing, "After the palace banquet is over, I can play it in the Nuan Pavilion of the Shuixi Palace, is that okay? Your Majesty."

Cui Lingjing frowned, and the memorial covered Xueya's face, "No, what do you think I am?"

Xue Ya took down the memorial and changed her words: "Then can the slave sing a song for His Majesty at the palace banquet? It's just a short piece. The slave hasn't sung for a long time."

"Can't we sing in private?" Cui Lingjing said.

Xue Ya frowned slightly, and abruptly shoved Mrs. Tang back into Cui Lingjing's hands, "Singing in private is meaningless. Only when I sing at a palace banquet, will I feel that everyone is here to celebrate my birthday." He lowered his voice , "No one has ever celebrated my birthday. Everyone is very busy on New Year's Eve, and so is Auntie. She has guests, and every time she wants to celebrate for me, it is already past time."

Not long after the words fell, Tang Pozi returned to Xue Ya's arms, and he heard Cui Lingjing's gnashing of teeth in his ears.

"Just pretend to be pitiful. When your health recovers, I will punish you."

Although he said so, he called court musicians to accompany Xue Ya that afternoon.