I picked up a ghost and took it home

Mrs. Ye lost her husband in her early years, and raised Ye Fan alone, supporting the Ye family.Although her appearance is weak, her temperament is extremely strong. She was very calm when she learned that the famous "His Royal Highness Law King" was coming to stay at home.Even His Royal Highness Lu was unhappy about the rough food and was too lazy to lift the chopsticks, Madam Ye was very calm——

Like to eat or not, let him go.

At this moment, Mrs. Ye is full of her son's marriage, looking forward to the stars and the moon, finally looking forward to her son's return to Beijing to report on his work, finally hearing that his son is willing to stay in Chang'an, and finally hearing his son say that he wants to get married—

Her young son is finally going to marry a wife!

Mrs. Ye didn't even take a few bites. Seeing Ye Fan put down her chopsticks, she hurriedly dragged Ye Fan into the room, took out a scroll, and slowly unfolded it.Mrs. Ye smiled and said, "Fan'er, although our family is poor and cannot afford to marry the daughter of a famous and noble family in Chang'an City, mother will not let you marry an ugly daughter-in-law you don't like. This is what Mrs. Wei sent today. Here's the portrait of her cousin, although not as beautiful as Madam Wei, but she is delicate and gentle, and looks like jade, what do you think?"

Ye Fan was full of worries at the moment that "His Royal Highness Lu is a broken sleeve, His Highness Lu Wang will stay by his side for half a year, and he may be mistaken for a broken sleeve, so that he will not be able to marry a wife and disappoint his mother", How could he be in the mood to care about the appearance of his future daughter-in-law, so he only glanced at it briefly, and said absently, "Mother agrees, that's fine, son has no objection."

Madam Ye felt relieved, and sighed again, "His Royal Highness Lu Wang has a good appearance, but it's a pity that he is a man. But, even if he is a daughter, our Ye family can't afford it."

Ye Fan's face turned pale when he heard that, "Mother, hurry up, stop talking."

It started to rain in the middle of the night, rumbling thunder blasted on the roof, and the heavy rain crackled between the sky and the earth.Ye Fan blew on the lamp, but tossed and turned, unable to fall asleep, and was restless when he heard an urgent knock on the door.He sat up abruptly, "Who?"

Little Shitou shouted from outside the door: "General, come and see our Highness, you are frightened."

The Ye family is not big, and there are fewer courtyards that can accommodate people, so Mrs. Ye arranged for His Royal Highness Li Xuan and Ye Fan to live in the same courtyard. At that moment, Ye Fan put on his clothes and hurried to the East Hall, and saw the door of the hall was wide open. , Li Xuan sat on the ground with long hair hanging loose, his face was gloomy under the light of the fluttering candlelight.

"Your Highness, what is this—" Ye Fan hurriedly ran and asked in surprise.

Li Xuan grabbed Ye Fan's sleeve with a flustered expression, "There is a ghost, a ghost touches my face."

"..." Ye Fan looked at Li Xuan's face, which was wet, but it didn't look like he was crying from fright. He checked the bed again, and found a drop of cold rainwater falling from the roof with a "click".He reached out to catch it, and the rain dripped on his hand.He stretched out his hand in front of Li Xuan, and comforted, "Your Highness, it's not a ghost, it's the rain."

"...?!" Li Xuan didn't feel comforted at all, his eyes turned from panic to anger.

Little Shitou jumped up and said loudly, "General, what do you mean by letting His Highness sleep in a leaky room, and frightening him so that he can't sleep in the middle of the night!"

"I, I know I'm wrong." Ye busy hurriedly admitted his mistake.

Li Xuan stood up, although his legs were still weak, but Xiao Shitou quickly supported him, and he smiled angrily, "General Ye Fan, you are so brave, you dare to deliberately tease Your Highness! "

"I don't dare!" Ye Fan has never seen such a delicate person, who would be furious if the rain leaked, and said quickly, "Your Highness, let me change rooms. The room of the minister does not leak, and the minister sleeps here."

So after a lot of trouble, Li Xuan came to Ye Fan's room.Although Ye Fan's room did not leak, the bed was thin and hard, and the quilt was extremely rough. Li Xuan just lay down, sat up again, lifted the quilt and jumped off the ground.Ye Fan was about to close the door and go out when he was taken aback immediately, "Your Highness, what's wrong with you?"

"It's too hard, it's too hard..." Li Xuan pointed at Ye Fan's bed with trembling fingers, and asked in disbelief, "How do you sleep here?"

Ye Fan was embarrassed for a while, "The best quilt in the house was spread in the room where you sleep just now, but it was soaked by the rain, so you can't sleep, you just have to spend the night—"

Li Xuan looked at Ye Fan coldly and didn't speak.

Ye Fan was stunned in embarrassment, wishing that the sky would soon dawn and throw this incomparably noble His Royal Highness Lu Wang back to Daming Palace.At this time, the candles exploded, and amidst the sound of pouring rain, there were several people's footsteps.But Mrs. Ye, with the support of the girl, came over in the rain.

Ye Fan looked at Mrs. Ye's clothes which were wet by the rain, and said anxiously, "Mother, why are you here?"

"It's raining a bit heavily, so I don't feel relieved to come and have a look." Madam Ye smiled softly, "The quilt in your room is too hard, it's better to change the bed for Your Highness."

Ye Fan was puzzled: "But the quilt at home—"

Mrs. Ye said, "Huan'er, go to Nuanxiang Pavilion and bring over the two newly made quilts."

Huan'er said in surprise, "Ma'am, that's a quilt prepared for the young master's wedding—"

"Take it here first, and put it to His Highness to sleep in. I'll make a new one later." Madam Ye said calmly.Huan'er didn't dare to talk any more, and hurried away.

Ye Fan didn't think there was anything special about Xi Bei, he just wanted to settle His Highness Prince Lu quickly, and hurriedly said, "Mother, I don't mind having to redo the Xi Bei."

"Silly boy, you don't mind, but the bride does." Mrs. Ye took out a handkerchief, wiped the rain from Ye Fan's hair, and looked at Li Xuan gently, "Your Highness, it's cold on the ground. Put on your shoes and wait."

Little Shitou hurriedly took the shoes over, and Li Xuan put them on without saying a word.

Ye Fan said, "Mother, it's getting late, my son will take you back to the house to rest." Mrs. Ye nodded, saluted Li Xuan, and went back to the house under the protection of Ye Fan.

Not long after, Ye Fan returned to the courtyard, saw Xiao Shitou waiting outside the hall, and heard that the hall was quiet, it must have settled down, so he asked softly, "Is Your Highness asleep?"

"Lying down." Little Stone said vaguely.

"Eunuch Shi also rested earlier." Ye Fan wanted to go to the East Hall.Xiao Shitou called him back again, "General, Your Highness let you in."

Ye Fan didn't dare to hesitate, strode into the hall, and saw Li Xuan in warm jade-colored pajamas sitting cross-legged on Dahong's bed, staring at the door resentfully.

——Too red, bright red brocade satin, bright and eye-catching flowers blooming in the center, embroidered with loving mandarin ducks crossing their necks and playing in the water.

"...Your Highness, what are your orders?" Ye Fan choked for a moment, lowered his head, and asked in a low voice.It was also the first time he knew that Xibei was so popular.It was so red that it was a little breathless.

Li Xuan pointed to the floor beside the bed, and said forcefully, "You sleep here."

"Ah?!" Ye Fan raised his head in shock. This is not acceptable. He absolutely cannot sleep here. Leaving His Royal Highness Lu Wang at home for the night, he is already restless. If he is in the same room again, he will jump Even after entering the Yellow River, he couldn't wash it away, so he quickly said, "No need, I'm going to the East Hall."

Li Xuan raised his eyebrows, "What if the ghost comes?"

"There are no ghosts." Ye Fan comforted, "There are no ghosts in the world, and even if there were ghosts, they would not be here."

"Where is that?"

"I think, if there are ghosts, they should be on the battlefield. There must be no ghosts in my house." Ye Fan said, and went out again, "His Royal Highness, please rest earlier."

But the door of the palace "squeaked" and closed from the outside.

Xiao Shitou said outside the door, "Your Highness, General, you should rest earlier."

"..." Ye Fan looked at Li Xuan who was sitting on the quilt without a word. This was the first time since today that he had looked directly at Li Xuan so boldly—there were differences between monarchs and ministers, and there was an orderly hierarchy. He was never around. Chang An, who doesn't know much about the court rules, always speaks carefully every time he returns to Beijing to report his duties, hoping not to do something wrong, and hoping not to be caught by others. If his mother hadn't begged him to stay this time, he must have quickly Went back to the barracks—however, it was not as satisfactory.

He didn't understand what the nobles in Chang'an were thinking.

The rain soaked half of his body, dripping coldly from his hair and clothes.

The sound of wind and rain outside is getting louder.

Li Xuan couldn't help turning his eyes away from Ye Fan's open eyes, and said awkwardly, "East Hall, it's raining, why are you sleeping?"

Ye Fan was slightly taken aback, is His Royal Highness Lu Wang actually caring about him?

Li Xuan stared at the quilt under her body again, and said angrily, "It's too red!"

"...Yes, it's too red." Ye Fan came back to his senses, walked to the bed, and asked softly, "Can I sleep?"

"Hmm." Li Xuan said awkwardly.

"Your Highness will be staying for one night. I will put down the tent for you." Ye Fan put down the blue-gray curtain beside the bed, noticed that Li Xuan was slowly lying down under the quilt, and turned back to blow on the lamp.

When the hall was dark, it suddenly became quiet, only the sound of wind and rain outside could be heard.

Ye Fan took off his wet clothes, brushed his hair carelessly, and lay down on the floor.A day in Chang'an City seemed to be much more exhausting than him running around on the battlefield for many days.Of course, I can't sleep.

Li Xuan didn't move on the bed, wondering if he was asleep.

Hearing a "grunt", I don't know whose stomach let out a hungry whine.

There was the sound of rustling clothes on the bed, and Li Xuan seemed to have turned over.

"Gollum."

Ye Fan recalled that in the evening, because the food was not to his taste, His Royal Highness Lvwang seemed to not eat a few mouthfuls.He sat up, picked up the wet clothes and put them on again, got up, and said softly, "Your Highness, what do you want to eat, I will cook for you."

"It's so late, there's nothing to eat." Li Xuan's muffled voice came from the tent.

"When I was a child, I was always hungry in the middle of the night, so my mother set up a small kitchen in the yard to cook supper for me. When I came back this time, my mother had someone clean it up again. There should be some vegetables and meat in it."

The bed curtain was opened a crack from the inside, Li Xuan poked his head out, looked at Ye Fan beside the bed in the dark, and said nothing.

"What would Your Highness want to eat?" Ye Fan asked, and added, "I don't know how to cook dishes that are too complicated. Simple ones are fine."

"I'll go with you." Li Xuan opened the curtain and said while sitting beside the bed.

"The wind and rain are too strong, you wait in the hall." Ye Fan persuaded.

"...It's too red, I can't sleep." Li Xuan complained in a muffled voice.

"..." Ye Fan turned around and lit the lamp again, waited for Li Xuan to put on his shoes, picked up the clothes on the side for Li Xuan to put on, then walked over and patted on the door of the palace, "Grandpa Shi, please open the door."

"General, you should go to sleep quickly, don't worry about it." Xiao Shitou said bitterly.

"Open the door, it's me!" Li Xuan said angrily.

The yard was pitch black, the wind was blowing torrential rain, beating the night, and there were crackling sounds everywhere.Ye Fan held the flickering lantern in one hand and Li Xuan's wrist in the other, walked through the rain-soaked corridor, pushed open the door of the small kitchen, lit the lamp, and the candle flame flickered slightly.

He pulled out the chair and asked Li Xuan to sit down at the plain table.

Ye Fan skillfully lit a fire, washed the vegetables, beat the eggs, looked at the noodles in the dustpan, and asked, "Can I eat noodles?"

Li Xuan was looking at the dilapidated small kitchen curiously. Hearing the question, he answered casually: "Yes."

The fire in the hearth looked warm and bright.

Li Xuan asked aloud, "General, do you still cook with your own hands?"

Ye Fan put finely chopped green onions in the oil pan, stir-fried for a while, put eggs in it, and said flatly, "Although there are cooks in the barracks, the situation is changeable, so everyone must be able to cook."

"'Great General' also cooks himself?" Li Xuan didn't believe it.

"It was only in the last two years that he was called the 'General'. At first he was an ordinary soldier, no different from others." Ye Fansheng's golden scrambled eggs came out of the pan, and the aroma permeated the small kitchen.

"I heard that you entered the barracks when General Ye was alive, so you are not just an ordinary soldier?" Li Xuan asked again, still not convinced.

"Father is a very strict person. Before he passed away, I was only a lieutenant general." Ye Fan put vegetables in the oil pan and continued to stir fry them, his voice was still very flat when he spoke.

Li Xuan was silent for a while, then Fang asked again: "How old is the general to join the army?"

"sixteen."

"Eight years. The general is 24 this year?" Li Xuan asked.

"Yes, I am four out of twenty this year." Ye Fan put the vegetables out of the pot.

"It's the same age as the emperor's brother." Li Xuan sighed while looking at the weeds bent by the rain outside the window.

"Your minister is overstepping." Ye Fan ladled clear water into the pot and put the lid on.The kitchen was quiet, and the fire in the stove "snapped" from time to time, making some movement.

The water boiled, and Ye Fan got down there.

Li Xuancai said again: "Old General Ye died for the country, and you are the only child under his knees, Madam Ye really has the heart to send you to the battlefield."

In the boiling pot, the white and thin noodles rolled up and down, and the scorching steam rushed over, filling Ye Fan's eyes with fog.He turned over a handful of noodles with chopsticks, and said plainly, "Mother said that under the nest, there will be dead eggs. If no one is willing to go to the battlefield, the country will be ruined, and it will not only be the Ye family who will suffer."