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

After being tired in He Xulan's arms for a while, Xue Ya was finally hungry.Just as he was about to ask He Xulan to take him to dinner, the voice of Eunuch Huang's apprentice came from outside.

"Queen Mother, Your Majesty's Luan has come to Ningfu Palace."

When Xue Ya heard Cui Lingjing was coming, she couldn't help pinching He Xulan's clothes tightly in fear.He Xulan noticed it, patted Xueya on the back soothingly, and said to the outside: "Is the palace gate locked?"

"It has been locked according to the Queen Mother's order."

"Then keep locking it. If Your Majesty comes, tell me that I'm unwell and have rested." He Xulan said coldly.

Xue Ya was stunned for a moment, and when Eunuch Huang's apprentice left, he hurriedly asked, "Brother, will Your Majesty be angry?"

"Probably, let's not talk about him, are you hungry? I seem to hear your stomach growling, go get something to eat." He Xulan put the topic aside and took Xue Ya to eat.

With He Xulan by her side, Xueya felt much more at ease.Before in Ningfu Palace, he was always afraid that someone would break in, arrest him, do something like praying for rain, or that Yin Qingxuan would suddenly appear in front of him and bully him again.But now it seems that there is no need to be afraid. With He Xulan here, He Xulan will take care of everything.

Thinking of this, Xue Ya got off the bed again, and ran to He Xulan who was sitting at the desk, "Brother."

He Xulan took a look at Xue Ya, then hugged her on his lap, "Why don't you sleep?"

"Maybe I slept too much during the day, and now I can't sleep." Xue Ya leaned against He Xulan, and he looked at what He Xulan had drawn halfway, "Brother, what are you drawing?"

"The deployment map of Shangjing."

Xue Ya was puzzled, "What's the deployment map?"

He Xulan's slender fingers tapped somewhere on the map, "This is the south gate of Shangjing. The guards rotate every four hours. The route for changing guards is from here to here."

Xue Ya followed He Xulan's fingers.

"This is the East City Gate. Because it is the closest to the imperial palace, the guards rotate every two hours. This is how the guards change."

After listening to a bunch of routes for changing the guard, Xueya blinked, then turned her head to look at He Xulan, "Why did brother draw this?"

He Xulan looked at Xue Ya's bewildered expression, and straightened her body. He hugged Xue Ya from behind, with his chin still on Xue Ya's shoulder, "What do Xue Ya want to do in the future?"

Hearing this, Xue Ya hardly thought about it, "Be a master."

He didn't want to live a life of being bullied again, and it didn't feel good to be in the hands of others for his life and death.In fact, Xue Ya wanted to ask He Xulan when he would rebel, but he didn't dare to ask, because if he asked, he would reveal his dream.

"Master Ren..." He Xulan repeated what Xue Ya said softly, staring thoughtfully at the half-drawn map in front of him for a while, then picked up the pen again.Xueya was guarding He Xulan's painting at first, but before he knew it, he began to feel sleepy. When he woke up, he found that he was already lying on the bed, and the sky was bright outside.

He Xulan was not on the bed, Xue Ya put on her coat to look for someone, she was surprised to find that He Xulan was still sitting at the desk just like last night.As soon as he approached, he found that He Xulan hadn't slept all night.

He Xulan's eyes were bloodshot, and he was staring at the two paintings on the table. Compared with last night when Xue Ya was awake, there was one more painting on the table.It wasn't until Xue Ya walked up to him that he seemed to have recovered and pulled him over, "Xue Ya, can you memorize these two pictures?"

Xue Ya looked at the densely drawn pictures, then at He Xulan, bit his lower lip, and asked pitifully, "Are you really going to recite it?"

"Yeah." He Xulan picked up the top one, "Especially this one, you must remember the patrol route of the Imperial Forest Army every hour in the palace."

When Xue Ya heard it, his head grew big, but He Xulan asked him to recite it, so he had to try to recite it, but there were too many contents to recite, and it was easy to get confused.After breakfast, he was carrying it on his back when a notification came from outside that Cui Lingjing had come again.

He Xulan asked Xueya to continue to recite the picture, and went to see Cui Lingjing by herself.

Cui Lingjing had just left the morning court without changing his dragon robe, so when he saw He Xulan, he called out "Yafu".

"Your Majesty still calls me Yafu? I thought Your Majesty didn't recognize me as Yafu anymore." He Xulan's expression was indifferent.

Cui Lingjing squeezed out a smile, "Yafu was joking, how could I not recognize Yafu? Yafu returned to the palace in a hurry yesterday, and I have time to organize a cleansing banquet in the future. I have asked the Ministry of Rites to prepare for it. Tomorrow night, I will cleanse my father." Turning to mention another matter, "Yafu returned to Beijing in such a hurry this time, but what happened on the way?"

Yi Yefeng was against Lei Qiurong, and He Xulan was against Lei Qiurong's lieutenant general. Cui Lingjing received the news that He Xulan's battle had ended more than 20 days ago.He hasn't returned to the palace for a long time, and still has a lot of soldiers in his hands. Even if Cui Lingjing likes He Xulan, he can't help being suspicious of him.

These days, the idea of ​​whether He Xulan will turn against him has been lingering in his mind. This is also the reason why Cui Lingjing allowed Yin Qingxuan to investigate Ningfu Palace, but after checking these days, Yin Qingxuan did not find anything strange. No evidence of He Xulan colluding with foreign ministers was found.

After Cui Lingjing finished asking, she stared at He Xulan, but at this moment there was a voice from outside.

"Your Majesty, Empress Dowager, the imperial physician has arrived."

Cui Lingjing was taken aback when he heard the imperial physician coming, "Is Yafu sick?"

He Xulan shook his head, "It's not a disease, it's an injury that hasn't healed yet. The imperial physician came to change my medicine. Your Majesty, sit down for a while, and I'll come back after changing the medicine."

"Yafu can change here." Cui Lingjing said suddenly.

He Xulan stopped in his tracks. He glanced at Cui Lingjing and said calmly, "Okay."

After the imperial physician came in to salute, he began to change He Xulan's dressing.He Xulan did not avoid Cui Lingjing, and took off his shirt in front of the other party, and as soon as he took it off, Cui Lingjing saw the injury on He Xulan's back.

Although the wound had almost healed, Cui Lingjing could still see the severity of the injury, from the shoulder blade to the lower back, it was almost a knife wound that would split a person in half.

Seeing the injury, the imperial doctor frowned, and after changing the medicine, said specially: "The Queen Mother must avoid food these days and not do strenuous exercise. I will come back in the afternoon to change the medicine for the Queen Mother."

"Thank you, Imperial Physician Li." He Xulan put on his outer robe, and ordered the imperial physician to be sent out.

When only he and Cui Lingjing were left in the hall, Cui Lingjing almost couldn't wait to say: "Yafu is because of this injury..."

He didn't finish.

"Your Majesty, don't worry, I'm almost recovered. At that time, I was only in a coma for a few days, but those two servants sent by Prime Minister Yin died to protect me. If it weren't for them, I'm afraid I would have died under the sword." He Xulan sighed lightly.

Cui Lingjing pursed her lips, and said after a long while: "I will reward them, Yafu will have a good rest, and I will come back tomorrow."

Back in Fengrui Palace, Cui Lingjing summoned the imperial physician who had given medicine to He Xulan earlier, "Emperor Chen, can you tell when the queen mother suffered the back injury?"

"In my humble opinion, it may take about twenty days or a month." The imperial physician replied.

The timing is right.

Cui Ling thought about it for a while, then waved the imperial doctor back.After the imperial doctor went down, the chief eunuch brought tea, he saw Cui Lingjing frowned, thought for a moment, and said softly: "Your Majesty, would you like to invite Prime Minister Yin into the palace?"

"Didn't Prime Minister Yin ask for leave? He's also very busy these days, so it's good to let him rest for a while. By the way, what's wrong with him?" Cui Lingjing asked.

"It is said that the evil wind entered the body." The chief eunuch paused, "but the young eunuch who sent Prime Minister Yin said that there was blood on Prime Minister Yin's lapel yesterday, and his footsteps were flimsy. Before that, the queen mother summoned Prime Minister Yin alone."

"Huh?" Cui Lingjing frowned even tighter.

Seeing this, the chief eunuch said, "Your Majesty might as well send an imperial physician to visit Prime Minister Yin, so that he can know whether Prime Minister Yin is seriously ill."

While arranging for the imperial physician here, that side Xueya was burying her head in the picture.He memorized it all day from morning to night, but he could barely remember a part of it, and when He Xulan tested his part, he misremembered it again.

Unable to remember, unable to recite, Xue Ya tried to act coquettishly and get away with it, but He Xulan seemed to have become the strict teacher who taught him how to write, and there was no room for negotiation on this matter.

"Brother, I really can't remember." Xue Ya's head hurts when she saw the densely packed pictures now.

He Xulan heard the words and asked someone to fetch a few pieces of gold from the warehouse.He picked up one piece of gold, "If this piece of gold is placed in Shuixi Temple, when you want to get it, when and which way should you go to get it? Remember, you can't be seen by the Imperial Forest Army. See this piece of gold. The gold is theirs."

When Xue Ya heard this, she immediately sat up straight.

After several days of continuous training, Xueya finally collected all the gold, and Eunuch Huang recovered and returned to He Xulan's side to serve him.A few days later, Yi Yefeng brought Lei Qiurong back to the court.

Cui Lingjing was overjoyed to learn that Yi Yefeng had captured Lei Qiurong alive, and immediately organized a cleansing banquet for Yi Yefeng.After Xue Ya found out that Yi Yefeng's dust-cleaning feast was much larger than He Xulan's, she was very indignant.

They are all going out to fight, so why treat them differently?

So, when he saw Yi Yefeng at the dust-cleaning banquet, taking advantage of the large number of people toasting Yi Yefeng, he also got in among them and stomped on Yi Yefeng secretly.

But Xueya didn't expect his kick to be seen by many people.

Cui Lingjing sat at the top, most of the toasts to Yi Yefeng were military generals, Xueya was dressed colorfully, and was the petite among them, it was too obvious to mix with the toasters, he saw it at a glance.

"What is he doing?" Cui Lingjing was a little puzzled.

The eunuch saw clearly what Xue Ya had just done, "Return to Your Majesty, Xue Ya just stepped on General Yi."

"What did he do with General Yi?"

"This, the servant doesn't know."

Cui Lingjing was curious, but he still remembered that Xueya didn't want to go to the Beauty Pavilion last time, so he didn't want to show off to call Xueya over, so he called Yi Yefeng over.

"Do you know Xueya? He just stepped on your foot."

Yi Yefeng's expression was a little confused for a moment, he looked down at his boots, "Is someone stepping on the minister?"