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

Xue Ya was so frightened that she immediately withdrew her hands and sat up, with tears still streaming down her face, she nervously looked at He Xulan's wound.

"Is it bleeding from my pressure? I'll call the imperial doctor!" He said as he was about to run under the bed, but was held back by a hand behind him.

"No bleeding, just a little pain just now." He Xulan first grabbed Xue Ya's arm, and then slowly held the other's hand.

The soft palms pressed together gave Xue Ya an inexplicable feeling of being peeled off by the other party, obviously they didn't even know how many times they had done the most intimate things in the world.

He looked down at the two clasped hands, and He Xulan was crossing his fingers with him.

He Xulan's hands were beautiful, slender, fair and well-defined.Xue Ya stared at it for a while, then quietly squeezed the opponent's hand.

Later, he lay next to He Xulan again, this time he didn't dare to hug He Xulan's neck again, and only carefully put his hand on He Xulan's arm.

This was the most peaceful sleep Xue Ya had in the past few days, and when he was woken up in the morning, he was very ashamed.Eunuch Huang was standing by the bed at some point, Xueya met Eunuch Huang's eyes and immediately sat up awkwardly.He came here to guard He Xulan, but ended up sleeping on someone else's bed.

He opened his mouth, ready to use the good news to wash away the embarrassment, "Eunuch Huang, brother is awake."

"I saw it." Eunuch Huang smiled.

Xue Ya froze for a moment, then turned her head to look at the side of the bed, and found that He Xulan was looking at them with her eyes open.

Did He Xulan wake up early?How could he sleep longer than the patient?

Xue Ya's face turned red in an instant, and she was embarrassed to sit on the bed, so she hurriedly got out of bed and put on her shoes.After putting on his shoes, he looked back and found that two people were staring at him. He was even more embarrassed, and said falteringly, "I...I'll go...to wash up."

"Go." He Xulan said.

Xue Ya heard this and hurried out.He returned to his room, found the mirror for the first time, and stared at his face carefully.The peeling situation has almost improved, but the skin tone is uneven, and the peeled area is particularly white.He was looking at it, and suddenly found an unknown secretion in the corner of his eye.

Taking a closer look, Xue Ya found out that it was eye feces, and shamelessly covered her face.

Did He Xulan not see it?

Bless you don't see it!

But when he was sleeping, it seemed that his face was always facing He Xulan. It was hard for He Xulan not to see it, right?

He was actually seen by He Xulan in such an ugly way, it was too embarrassing.

When Xue Ya was moaning because of the shit, Cui Lingjing on the other end knew that He Xulan had woken up, so she rushed over in the morning.

"Father Ya!" Cui Lingjing rushed to He Xulan's bed, and was obviously relieved to see that he could already sit up.Eunuch Huang, who was next to him, quickly moved a stool for Cui Lingjing. Cui Lingjing sat down and asked the imperial physician standing beside him, "The queen mother is awake now, will there be no serious problems in the future?"

"The Empress Dowager is blessed by the heavens. The location of the dagger wound is just a little away from the heart, so there is no danger of life." The head of the Imperial Hospital replied.

Cui Lingjing asked again: "Then when will it be better?"

This sentence is more urgent than the previous one.

The head of the imperial hospital thought it over, and then said cautiously: "It can't be cured in the short term, and it will take at least three to five months."

"Three or five months? This is too long." Cui Lingjing murmured, and soon, he asked again, "Does it have to be so long?"

"If you use precious medicinal materials such as century-old ginseng and add them to your daily medicinal soup, you will recover faster, but you should not act too hastily." The head of the Taiyuan Hospital said.

Cui Lingjing was silent for a moment, and waved the rest of the people down, leaving only him and He Xulan in the hall.

"Yafu, Lei's family has escaped." When he said this, his eyes were full of tiredness.

General Lei was the biggest general in the Li Dynasty, with countless soldiers under him. The opponent escaped from the capital in just a few hours, probably premeditated.Premeditation is no longer the most important issue now, Cui Lingjing is worried that General Lei will rebel.

Although the news of the other party's rebellion has not yet spread, he feels that it is not far away.

In the past two or three days, he hardly slept. He convened a meeting of the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Households and other ministers, and asked them to calculate how many soldiers they had left besides the soldiers taken away by General Lei, and how much money was left in the treasury.

Because of the snowstorm, this year's tax was reduced by one layer. Now that the drought has hit, the new round of taxes will not be collected in a short time, and it is even very likely that the national treasury will be opened for disaster relief.If there is a war at this time, the money in the treasury may not be able to support the war at all.

"Has Your Majesty summoned the generals?" He Xulan asked calmly.

Cui Lingjing pinched the bridge of his nose irritably, "There are only a few generals in the court who can fight, and most of them were brought out by Lei Qiurong. I can't discuss with them, I can only send the Imperial Forest Army to watch their mansions first, so as to prevent them from having trouble. There are two more. They haven't won a battle in the past few years. They are all useless. The only ones that can be used are Yi Yefeng and Ning Can. Ning Can is too young and impulsive, and his chances of winning against Lei Qiurong are not high. "

He Xulan heard Cui Lingjing's words, thought for a while, and said: "Your Majesty, let's hold a palace banquet. In the name of praying for rain, invite all the officials and their families to have a vegetarian meal and taste the suffering of the people."

Cui Lingjing was annoyed by General Lei's affairs, so he was in no mood to hold a palace banquet. He was about to refuse when he suddenly caught a certain word in He Xulan's words——

"family".

"Yafu means..." Cui Lingjing swallowed nervously, "shut up their families... No, please stay in the palace for a while?"

Compared to Cui Lingjing, He Xulan's expression at this time was too calm, he didn't even embellish this passage a little bit, "Although their families are locked in the palace, even if those generals go to fight, they may not be able to win against General Lei After all, they were brought out by General Lei, and General Lei probably knows their marching style very well, so His Majesty should take the soldiers of those generals and distribute them to General Yi and General Ning."

Cui Lingjing was thoughtful, and after a while, he asked another question, "The money for the war?"

"What solution did Prime Minister Yin give?" He Xulan didn't answer immediately, but asked a question first.

Cui Lingjing said: "He wants rich businessmen who have cooperated with the DPRK and China to donate money in the past, and there are many famous families in Shangjing. Their families are rich and solid, so they should be able to contribute. Yafu thinks this method is feasible?"

He Xulan looked at the young emperor who was eager to get an answer from him, and nodded slowly.Seeing this, Cui Lingjing seemed to have lost a piece of stone in his heart.He could no longer accompany He Xulan, he wanted to go back and call a meeting of several ministers to discuss the palace banquet.

The sooner you can get this soldier, the better.

As soon as Cui Lingjing left, Eunuch Huang walked in. Seeing that He Xulan's face was paler than before, he quickly asked: "Is the queen mother's wound hurting badly? The head of the hospital is in the side hall, and the servant is going to invite them."

"No hurry." He Xulan's face is not only white, but also his lips are white, his whole face is full of color, like ink on clean rice paper, "you go and send a letter to Yi Yefeng, let him fight this battle. win."

When Eunuch Huang heard this, he quickly lowered his voice, "Master, how can we win?"

"He has to win, because Ning Can will lose." After He Xulan finished speaking, her face turned even paler.Eunuch Huang didn't bother to ask why Ning Can lost, so he hurried to invite the imperial physician over.

The imperial physicians came to diagnose and treat He Xulan, and found that the wound was bleeding again, so they quickly reapplied the medicine and changed the bandage.While changing the bandage, He Xulan asked feebly: "Head of the hospital, when can I get out of bed?"

The head of the hospital originally thought that he would be able to leave the bed in the next two days, but when he saw that He Xulan was bleeding again, he said: "It is better for the Queen Mother to rest on the bed, so as not to involve the wound."

"Really? I'm sorry to bother the head of the hospital." He Xulan said softly, and when the several imperial physicians turned around to discuss the prescription again, his eyes darkened.

Xue Ya couldn't go to He Xulan's bedroom during the day, and had to wait until late at night.When Eunuch Huang finally came to pick him up, he checked his clothes and face carefully before opening the door.

The "Xue Ya" in Huang Gonggong's mouth was missing the last word when he saw Xue Ya. He looked at Xue Ya in surprise, and when he found Xue Ya's eyes dodging, he couldn't help but smile, "Queen Mother I slept for a few hours before, and now I am awake, I haven't eaten yet, there is millet porridge in the small kitchen, I should have been here to serve, but I have been too busy recently, my hands are shaking while carrying the bowl, Xueya went to feed the Queen Mother Let's have porridge."

When Xueya heard that he was going to feed He Xulan porridge, the little fox's eyes lit up suddenly, and she agreed immediately, "Okay."

Because He Xulan woke up, the imperial physician did not need to sleep on the couch in the outer hall today, but went to rest in the side hall, so Xue Ya could get along with He Xulan without fear of being overheard.As soon as Eunuch Huang pushed open the door of the palace, he first swept into He Xulan's bedroom like the wind.

Eunuch Huang watched Xue Ya's movements from behind, and was afraid that someone would fall. When he heard Xue Ya's voice calling He Xulan from inside, he thought for a while, retracted one foot that stepped into the bedroom, and closed the door.

"Brother." Xue Ya stopped by the bed, staring straight at He Xulan.

He Xulan was sitting and reading a book, when he heard Xue Ya's voice, he turned his head.

He saw Xue Ya's dress at this time.

It was clearly late at night, and Xue Ya was dressed as if she was going to a palace banquet. She had a red skirt with wide sleeves, and a wide belt cinched her waist into a thin section, as if she could hold it with both hands.A layer of shark silk was added to the gauze around the neck to conceal it.

That face was obviously well-groomed, not only the hair was tied with gold hairpins, but even makeup was put on.

Xue Ya's own lips are pinkish, he painted his lips red today, and with those little fox eyes, the vixen on his body is so strong that even a three-year-old child can see the tricks.

He Xulan nodded as usual as if she hadn't noticed Xue Ya's little thoughts.

Xue Ya smiled obediently, took the stool, and took out the porridge from the food box, "Brother, I'll feed you porridge."

When He Xulan heard this sentence, he thought of a folk tale inappropriately.He couldn't help but raised his hand to cover his lips, and coughed lightly.

This sound scared Xue Ya to look at He Xulan's chest with concern, "Brother, your wound hurts again?"

"No, didn't you want to feed me porridge?" How could He Xulan tell Xueya what she thought of.

As soon as Xue Ya was reminded by He Xulan, she quickly picked up a spoonful of porridge with a porcelain spoon and handed it to He Xulan's lips. He Xulan looked at the steaming porridge, then glanced at Xue Ya who was staring at him expectantly, and hesitated. Still opened his mouth and drank.

Seeing that He Xulan had drunk it, Xueya quickly took the second spoonful.He had never fed anyone before, and seeing He Xulan obediently drinking the porridge he fed him gave him a sense of accomplishment.After the porridge was finished, he looked He Xulan up and down, and suddenly asked: "Brother, let me give you a bath."

He Xulan refused almost without thinking, "No, I've already showered."

Xue Ya was greatly disappointed, and visibly became depressed, like a cabbage beaten by frost.Seeing him like this, He Xulan pursed her lower lip, and said, "I seem to have sweated a little just now, why don't you wipe it off."

With just one word, Xue Ya's limbs froze again in an instant, and he rushed to the gate of the palace immediately to ask Eunuch Huang to prepare water.When Eunuch Huang heard that He Xulan wanted to wipe his body, doubts flashed in his eyes. He had just bathed before drinking the porridge, so why did he need to wipe himself again?

But he didn't ask, he just asked people to prepare water and bring it in.

Xue Ya rolled up his sleeves, wet the towel, and when he walked to the bed, he frowned.

Where should I wipe it first?

It should be the face.

Thinking about it, he wiped He Xulan's cheek with a towel.He Xulan was prepared to have a layer of skin rubbed off, but found that Xue Ya's force was gentle, and secretly heaved a sigh of relief, but he soon realized that the relief was too early.

Seeing that Xue Ya was about to wipe his lower body, he couldn't help but grabbed the other's hand, his eyebrows twitched, "Are you going to wipe my whole body with a handkerchief?"

"Ah? Do you still want to change the towel?" Xue Ya asked in surprise.

He Xulan didn't say much, just dropped a few words, "Change, and change the water."

So complicated.

Xue Ya couldn't help complaining in his heart, he suddenly remembered He Xulan's bath, the water seemed to be running water.

Is He Xulan so particular?

Because He Xulan insisted on changing it, Xueya had no choice but to call Eunuch Huang again, who knew that he only opened the door, and Eunuch Huang asked someone to bring water in.

After changing the water three times, the shower was finally finished, which made Xue Ya very tired.He sat on the edge of the bed and let out a few breaths, and after a while, he looked at He Xulan who had just finished wiping and was only wearing unlined clothing.

The porridge is fed, the bath is wiped off, what else can I do?

Ah, sleep.

Yes, he can coax He Xulan to sleep.

Thinking of this, Xue Ya carefully climbed onto the bed, sat down next to He Xulan, met the other's eyes, slowly stretched out his arms to wrap his arms around the other's shoulders, and patted awkwardly, "It's time to sleep."

He Xulan looked at Xueya silently.

Xue Ya frowned, thinking that this posture might be wrong, so he asked He Xulan to lie down, and then lay down by himself.Afraid of pressing the opponent's wound with his hand, he patted He Xulan's shoulder near his side, "Good boy, sleep."

He patted it lightly, and after a while hummed a Jiangnan ditty, trying to put He Xulan to sleep, but before he knew it, his own eyelids closed first.

Xue Ya woke up suddenly when someone bit her lip suddenly.

Seeing He Xulan's still energetic face, he couldn't control his emotions for a moment, and sighed.He sighed so loudly that He Xulan couldn't ignore it.

He Xulan slowly turned her face away, her voice was much weaker than before, "Forget it, it's enough that I can't sleep alone."

He lowered his eyes, his long eyelashes trembled occasionally, coupled with his pale face, he was so weak that Xue Ya felt that she should protect the other party, not to mention that Xue Ya was responsible for his injury.

The guilt in Xue Ya's heart deepened, and she quickly propped up her upper body, "Brother, I won't sleep anymore, I will continue to sing for you."

"But I can't fall asleep listening to the music." He Xulan frowned slightly, her eyes filled with worry.

Xue Ya only knew that the child couldn't fall asleep, and the mother sang ditties, so what else could be done to coax the child to sleep?He racked his brains and suddenly blushed.

No, although he wears a skirt, he is not a real woman.