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

Xue Ya had heard about praying for rain. There was a severe drought in his hometown one year, and there was no rain for more than two months. A famous local old man went to pray for rain.Xue Ya couldn't go to see it in the building, but he heard from the boy doing rough work in the building that praying for rain was very lively, and there were huge crowds of people.

He was very envious when he heard it, thinking that it would be great if he had the opportunity to go to the scene to see it once, but he didn't expect that one day he would be able to pray for rain.

Watching the ceremony of praying for rain is one thing, but praying for rain by oneself is another matter. Not to mention anything else, Xueya finds it very difficult just to succeed.Shangjing didn't know how long it had been without rain, how could he succeed?

Besides, He Xulan had already promised that he would help him and his mother get rid of their low status, and he didn't need to do anything.

"Your Majesty, this servant has never prayed for rain, and I have never seen anyone pray for rain. Your Majesty should find someone else." Xue Ya shook her head.

Xue Ya's refusal made the smile on Cui Lingjing's face fade a little, the corners of his lips were slightly pursed, and the majesty of the superior naturally flowed out.

The matter of praying for rain can no longer be delayed. If it doesn't rain, people's livelihood will be difficult, and the battle between him and Lei Qiurong will not be able to be fought.Lei Qiurong, an old man, deliberately spread the word that the drought in the world was because of him, the emperor.He has no children, and the officials have long had disputes. If it does not rain, even the hearts of the former officials may not be at ease.

So, even if Xue Ya didn't want to, he had to force the other party to do it.

Cui Lingjing glanced behind her, and the two eunuchs behind her immediately stepped forward, standing next to Xueya, one on the left and one on the right.Xue Ya was stunned for a moment, and the next moment, he was dragged forward.

The two eunuchs seemed to be doing rough work, and they were so strong that Xue Ya couldn't break free no matter how hard she struggled.He didn't understand why Cui Lingjing insisted on asking him to pray for rain. He wanted to ask for help, but the emperor was the biggest in the palace, so it seemed useless for him to find anyone.

If he called Huang Gonggong at this time, he would only implicate Huang Gonggong.

"Your Majesty, the slave really can't do it, Your Majesty, you can change someone else!"

No matter how Xueya shouted from behind, Cui Lingjing didn't seem to hear it.He walked forward quickly, and the sunlight of the setting sun shone on him, pulling out a long black shadow.

Xue Ya was taken to Fengrui Palace, where he met several strangers.One of them, a middle-aged man with a long beard who looked quite immortal, told him what he needed to do to pray for rain.

When Xue Ya knew that she could only drink porridge tomorrow and would kneel on the altar until it rained, she immediately wanted to rush out of the room.

But those people stopped him and didn't let him go out.

Xue Ya tried to calm herself down, "I can't pray for rain, it's useless if you let me go up, I... I will die on it!" Seeing that those people didn't care about his words at all, he could only raise his voice and call out to Cui Lingjing , "Your Majesty! Your Majesty! Let the slave out, the slave doesn't want to die! Your Majesty..."

It was quiet outside, no one answered.The people in the house asked Xueya to pray for rain every day behind her back.Xueya wanted to throw away the densely packed tributes.But this is not Ningfu Palace, and these people are not He Xulan, no one is spoiling him.

Xue Ya was tied to a chair by a thick rope, and was forced to listen to those eulogies that he could not understand a word.He couldn't understand, let alone memorize, the person who taught him seemed to lose patience, his complexion became worse and worse, and finally he said angrily: "Rotten wood!"

The eulogy could not be taught, and Xueya was dragged to another place.There, his whole body's skin was almost torn off, and the eunuchs brushed his body vigorously with brushes, as if he was a dirty thing, or something so dirty that it couldn't be dirtier.

Even the unspeakable parts, he was forced to wash himself several times with a hose.

When Xue Ya was washing, she couldn't help a tear from the corner of her eye.After finally washing, the eunuchs put him in a pure white wide-sleeved dress without any pattern.Since Xueya entered the Red Moon Tower, most of the clothes she wore were gorgeous, he had never worn such plain clothes.

This dress suppressed the beauty of Xue Ya's face, so when Cui Lingjing entered the room and saw it, she couldn't help being stunned.

Cui Lingjing saw Xueya's face in the mirror, and Xueya also saw Cui Lingjing.

Xue Ya turned her head instantly, with the last expectation in her heart.He looked up at Cui Lingjing, the little fox's eyes were still a little red, this dress made him less gorgeous and flamboyant, but also made him weaker.

"Your Majesty, don't let me go, okay? Your Majesty sees that I have served His Majesty, take pity on me, don't let me go."

Cui Lingjing put her hands on Xueya's shoulders, forcing her to twist her body to face the mirror.

"I asked someone to set up a platform in the Beauty Pavilion, surrounded by lakes, but I haven't decided what kind of tree to plant by the lake, you can tell me when you come back, what kind of tree do you like."

Xue Ya clenched her teeth, her body and jaw were shaking.

The day after tomorrow will arrive in a blink of an eye.

The day before, Xue Ya was only allowed to drink some porridge.It was daylight, and he was stuffed into a soft sedan chair.The soft sedan creaked and moved forward.Xue Ya tilted her body and leaned against the car wall, her face was pale, and her usually lively eyes were covered with gray.

The altar is a high round platform with lotus flowers engraved on the floor tiles. In the middle is a white lotus with nine petals. There are nine water tanks on the edge, each with a lotus flower in it.Xue Ya was pulled to the center of the white lotus and knelt down, wearing white clothes and plain hair, without shoes or socks.The middle-aged man who gave Xue Ya the eulogy the day before yesterday reappeared, and Xue Ya already knew that the other party was the supervisor of Qin Tianjian.

Qin Tianjian was holding a white porcelain, dipped lotus petals in the water, and sprinkled it on Xueya's head, face, and body.As he sprinkled it, he muttered something quickly in a low voice.

Xue Ya didn't hear clearly, only heard a few words——

"Disaster", "plague", "forgiveness" and so on.

He raised his head, and couldn't help squinting his eyes because of the falling water, "My lord, is it because I'm lucky that you asked me to pray for rain?"

Xue Ya said softly to Qin Tianjian.

Qin Tianjian just ignored him and continued to read the words in his mouth.Xue Ya slowly lowered her head, closed her mouth and did not speak again.Just before Qin Tianjian left, he finally condescended to speak to him, a piece of rotten wood.

"No, it's because you are a disaster star that there is a severe drought in the world. Today you go to the altar to ask God to forgive you for all your sins."

Xue Ya immediately raised her head, "I'm not a disaster star! I'm not guilty!"

But Qin Tianjian didn't even look at him when he was looking at him, and turned and left directly.Xueya got even more angry, and grabbed her clothes with her hands.

The palace people temporarily built a sunshade shed beside the altar, Qin Tianjian and others were sitting under the shed, Cui Lingjing was also there, but Cui Lingjing only looked at it for a while, and then left.

After Cui Lingjing left, the sun became more and more fierce, Xue Ya was still kneeling at first, but her body couldn't hold on behind.He supported the lotus flower on the floor tiles with his palms to barely stabilize his body, and sweat poured down his chin, tick-tock-tock-tick-tock on the lotus flower.

Jinwu climbed up little by little, Xueya couldn't kneel at all, changed from kneeling to sitting, double images began to appear in front of his eyes, purple and black changed back and forth in front of his eyes.He opened his eyes wide in a daze, then his body went limp and he fell onto the altar.

Xue Ya felt that she had passed out, but it didn't seem like she had.Because when he heard someone asking him to get up, he reached out and pulled him, trying to make him kneel down.But he really couldn't kneel anymore, he was so sleepy, he had never been so sleepy before.

When his consciousness was blurred, he saw He Xulan.As if seeing the hope of life, he used his last strength to grab He Xulan's sleeve.

"Brother...brother, save...help me, I feel so bad." He murmured aggrievedly, "They all bully... bully me."

A series of tears unconsciously slipped from the corners of the eyes and sank into the black hair.

Xue Ya firmly grasped He Xulan's sleeve, and said again what she said to rebut Qin Tianjian Jianzheng before——

"I'm not... a catastrophe... I'm... not guilty..."

said again.

"Brother, help me."