Denghuaxiao

Chapter 93 Breaking the Dangui

 The night is getting darker.

On the streets of Qinghe in the south of the city, BMWs and cars competed in the streets. Xiaogu, drums and music played all night long in the red buildings of the city. On the night of the 15th, tens of thousands of households had dinner parties. There were two full moons above and below the Luoyue Bridge, and one in the sky. , a round of water illuminates the prosperous capital city in all its splendor and glory.

The city was full of singing and drinking, but a certain courtyard of Prince Wenjun's Mansion was particularly deserted and quiet.

 The silver lamp in the room was dimly lit by fire, the bed had been replaced with clean bedding, and the Yunluo gauze tent that had been cut by the blade had been replaced with a clean green gauze tent. The tent was soft and soft, gently wrapping the person and the breath of the person on the bed.

Pei Yunshu was very weak after giving birth and fell asleep from exhaustion. The newborn girl had been fed a little milk by the wet nurse. Her little face was wrinkled like a delicate newborn monkey. She huddled in her swaddling clothes and clung to her mother.

 Her "childhood worry" has not been completely resolved, but inducing labor before the toxicity was fully spread finally gave this little girl a glimmer of life. Yun Niang said that the child's sorrow has no solution. It is a child who is deeply poisoned and has no solution. Fortunately, it is not too late.

 But she is still too young to use strong medicine. She can only take good care of her and slowly remove the remaining poison from her body.

Pei Yunshu and her daughter are in no danger for the time being. The people in the palace are hurriedly cleaning up the mess in the house. Lu Zhuo is sitting at the corner table, holding a pen and paper and thinking about the antidote.

The room was quiet, and from time to time a maid would whisper to Lu Zhuo about the contraindications of decoction. Yin Zheng had already returned to the hospital first, and Pei Yunying's men sent her back. Things happened suddenly today, and no one told Du Changqing what happened. It wouldn't be good if he couldn't turn his head around, couldn't bear to part with the banquet he ordered at a high price at Renhe store, and waited with Acheng in the store until late at night, waiting for something to happen. .

The lights were dim, Lu Zhu picked up his pen and wrote a few words on the paper, then frowned slightly and crossed out what he had just written. The original scrawled handwriting was smeared, and the blurred ink marks gradually faded away, like stars in the night outside the window.

 Tonight is the Mid-Autumn Festival night, she suddenly remembered.

The ink characters in front of her eyes became more hazy, and they seemed to suddenly come to life, making some laughter and noises. Those voices circled and whispered in her ears, slowly outlining the dark paths of Changwu County.

The debris at the entrance of the alley had been cleared and paved with stone slabs. The gaps were covered with green moss. A dim yellow light came from the wooden window at the end of the alley and fell on her, reflecting on the bluestone floor. A long, old shadow.

She stood still in front of the door. The laughter of the whole family could be faintly heard from inside. Lu Zhen hesitated, opened the door and walked in.

Her mother was preparing incense for the moon at the door. The voices of Lu Rou and Lu Qian came from the yard. She walked along the corridor and saw a coarse cloth spread on the stone table in the courtyard. The coarse cloth was covered with honey fried rice and wool bought at the night market. Lu Rou was placing fresh fruits on the stone table, while Lu Qian was placing a large porcelain plate containing various moon balls.

“Milk butter pine nut stuffing, butter jujube stuffing, sesame oil fruit stuffing, butter butter sand filling...” Lu Qian raised his head and sighed, “They are all so sweet, so I don’t have to make moon dumplings according to my little sister’s taste.”

Lu Rou pursed her lips and smiled: "You can just eat the skin and leave the filling for me."

“You’re still feeding her stuffing,” the boy rolled his eyes. “If she eats more candy, she won’t even be able to fit into the newly made skirt.”

The father walked out of the house, stretched out his sleeves and stroked his beard and said: "Tonight is the fifteenth day. My father got a picture of "Moonlight and Autumn Sound" from the academy. It just happens to be a test for you. The three of you will each write a poem. When the moon festival is over, Write it down, and those who cannot write it down will be punished.”

As soon as he finished speaking, a dissatisfied voice came from the side: "Dad, why do you still need to compose poems at the age of fifteen? I won't do it. I want to go to the temple entrance to watch the river lanterns!"

This voice was clear and arrogant, with a hint of childishness, but it made Lu Zhuo startled.

A little girl of five or six years old ran out of the house. She was wearing a thin, green and yellow jacket, with a plain skirt underneath, and a butterfly cut from black gold paper on each hairpin of her hair. She also looked like a fresh butterfly, and in the blink of an eye she Flying into the yard, a round face like a Lantern Festival was flushed with anger, causing two yellow butterflies on the temples to flap tremblingly.

 “Lu San!” His father blushed with anger, “This girl’s family is running around in chaos all the time, how unbecoming it is!”

"Today is fifteen, I don't care." The little girl turned around and flew behind her mother, "I want to go to the temple entrance to see the river lanterns."

"no!"

The little girl stamped her feet: "I want it!"

Lu Zong stared at the confident girl hiding behind her mother for a long time. The smile on her fresh little face was so lively and lively that she felt a little dazed for a moment.

　That was her old self, and it was so strange that she felt like another person.

Five or six-year-old Lu Chen ran past her, like a wisp of wind that could not be caught. She subconsciously looked along the girl's running shadow, but saw the little girl standing behind her, looking at her with a look of surprise. : "Who is you?"

 “Who am I?” she repeated in a murmur.

The moonlight was gradually obscured by clouds and was no longer bright. Her former family members stood together, looking at her with complex and suspicious eyes, like looking at a dangerous stranger who suddenly broke in.

Lu Rou hugged little Lu Shun tightly in her arms. Lu Qian looked at her and shouted in surprise: "Blood!"

 So Lu Zhu lowered his head.

Her hands were soaked with blood at some point, and the sticky and fishy blood dripped from her fingertips drop by drop, seemingly endlessly, forming a small pool of blood on the ground.

 She looked in front of her blankly.

 By the way, she has killed people, and her hands are stained with blood.

 She is no longer the protected, carefree third girl of the Lu family, and is no longer the beloved darling of her family. From the moment she committed the murder, there was no going back.

 Her name was called in a gentle and loving tone.

 “Little Seventeen.”

She turned around suddenly, and Yun Niang was standing behind her. She wore a pink coat with bright origami flowers carved on the base of the persimmon pattern. She was holding a bowl of brown soup in her hand and waved to her with a smile.

"come over."

 The cold wind blew through the window, and the candle on the table flickered a few times.

Lu Zong shuddered and suddenly woke up from his dream.

There is no courtyard of the Lu family in Changwu County, no moon worship in the fifteen courtyards, no parents, brothers and sisters, and no Yun Niang.

In the distance are hanging green curtains, and the house is lively and warm. This is not Changwu County, but the bedroom of Princess Pei Yunshu of Wenjun County.

 Just a dream…

 The dim candle color was like a light-colored gauze, draped softly on her body. She sat blankly and heard someone beside her calling her: "Doctor Lu."

Lu Zhen raised his eyes blankly.

At the table, Pei Yunying saw her expression and was slightly startled.

It was already late at night, and Pei Yunshu and her daughter were temporarily out of danger. The servants in the yard were busy. Pei Yunying planned to ask Lu Zhuo about Pei Yunshu. As soon as he entered the house, he saw Lu Zhuo sitting at the table in the corner of the room, lowering his head. Take a nap.

She came to Prince Wenjun's Mansion early in the morning and heard that she was just delivering medicinal tea to Meng Xiyan, but she left her there by mistake. She had been busy all day, and she must have been extremely tired, so she fell asleep sitting down.

He walked around the kitchenette, intending to put a thin blanket on Lu Huan, but at a glance he saw Lu Huan's brows were frowning tightly. Before he could react, as if he sensed someone approaching, Lu Huan opened his eyes.

Probably because she had just woken up from a dream and was still not quite awake, her eyes were not as calm and guarded as before. They looked scattered and dazed, as if a porcelain vase full of cracks would suddenly break in the next moment.

Pei Yun’s eyes moved slightly.

 After a pause, he said, "Are you okay?"

Hearing this, the dazed look in Lu Zhuo's eyes quickly faded, and his expression became clear again. He looked at him and shook his head.

"Sister is asleep." Pei Yunying glanced at the direction of the bed, lowered her voice and said to Lu Zhuo: "Want to eat something outside?"

He reminded him that Lu Yishi felt that he was empty in his belly and never used meals for a day. Then he packed the paper and pen on the table and walked out of the door with Pei Yunying.

It is the end of Haishi, and the moonlight is flowing in the courtyard. Under the sweet-scented osmanthus tree in the small courtyard, some fruits are placed on the stone table. The garden of the Prince's Mansion is always full of flowers, including golden osmanthus, silver osmanthus, red osmanthus... When a gust of wind blows, the flowers rustle down, and the garden is full of flowers.

 In the fragrance of cinnamon branches, Lu Zhuo sat down.

Pei Yunying sat down opposite her. There was a red lacquered begonia flower tea tray on the table, which contained six small moon balls. A jar of sweet-scented osmanthus candy, a plate of sweet-scented osmanthus steamed new chestnut flour cake, and several bowls of Yuanxiao, served in small blue and white bowls with lotus patterns.

He picked up the porcelain pot and poured tea, and said: "It's too late, the tea is scrawled, Doctor Lu will make it up."

Lu Zhen said "Thank you", stretched out his hand to bring a small bowl of Yuanxiao to himself, and put the silver spoon into his mouth.

Yuanxiao is cooked soft and glutinous with osmanthus and walnuts in it. It is fragrant and sweet. When eaten hot, the body will warm up.

Seeing that Lu Zhen was eating deliciously, he smiled and pushed the blue and white tea cup towards Lu Zhen.

Lu Zong glanced at the cup.

Pei Yunying said: "It's not wine, it's just osmanthus tea dew."

Lu Zong had never drunk it before, so he took a sip after hearing this. There was a faint sweetness and tea aroma in his mouth.

The moon was bright, the wind was clear, the candlelight was dim, and there was no one else in the courtyard. Only the music and harps came from far away from the wall. The music floated through the brightly lit brothel painting pavilion, through Luo Qi's fragrant Tianjie Garden, and through the quiet In the alleys, I drifted past the red walls of the deep houses, and gradually drifted into the shade of osmanthus flowers under the moon.

Lu Zhen listened intently for a while, only to feel the sob and desolate sound of the piano. In this reunion festival, the bright moon is difficult to round, and the most painful feeling in life is gathering and separation.

She frowned slightly, raised her eyes, and met Pei Yunying's thoughtful gaze.

Seeing her look at him, he smiled and said, "This is the section "Breaking the Red Osmanthus" in "Guanghan Travel"."

 Lu Zhu said nothing.

There are many books at home, but no piano. A good piano is very expensive. Lu Rou likes to play the piano, so her parents saved some money and bought her an old piano.

Lu Rouqin played the piano well and was beautiful. There were always some teenagers who had a crush on beauties and squatted on the street outside Lu's house in the middle of the night to listen to the beauties playing the piano. The guy selling melon seeds next door was often frightened by the crowd of teenagers who gathered around him when closing his stall at night. Later that The piano was sold - the neighbors were very angry.

"I heard that Doctor Lu is from southern Jiangsu?" The voice interrupted her memory, and Pei Yunying looked at her with a smile: "How did Doctor Lu celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival in the past?"

She retracted her thoughts and answered coldly: "It used to be the Mid-Autumn Festival."

This is not a lie. At least in the years of Luomeifeng, the moon on August 15th was no different from the moon on every day.

Hearing her perfunctory answer, Pei Yunying sighed and looked at her with a look that was half sincere and half teasing, "Doctor Lu doesn't have to be so defensive about me. At least tonight, we shouldn't be enemies."

  She had just saved his sister and niece, and he would definitely not turn against her in a short period of time.

Lu Zong calmly raised his eyes and stared at the person in front of him.

The night wind was quiet, and the moonlight in the courtyard coated the young man's crimson uniform with a layer of silver frost, making his face with heroic brows even more handsome.

His voice is clear and his smile is bright. At first glance, it seems that he is well-educated and very measured. He is also polite and kind to others. Even when he initially suspected that he was murderous and aggressive, he still smiled, as if he was heartless.

But Lu Huan remembered the silver long knife he had unsheathed through the gap in the cloud tent in front of Pei Yunshu's bed not long ago. That was the first time she saw such a cold side of Pei Yunying.

 All along, he has been aloof and confident, like a problem with no flaws lying in front of people, making it impossible for them to start. However, at that moment, she glimpsed the flaw, or weakness, hidden deep in this problem.

Pei Yunshu is his weakness.     His weakness is his family.

Seeing that she remained silent, Pei Yunying looked at her and asked, "Why don't you speak?"

 Lu said calmly: "What do you want to say, Mr. Pei?"

Pei Yunying thought for a while, put down the cup in his hand, and looked at her.

Under the shade of the sweet-scented osmanthus, the lamp on the stone table was dim. He looked at her dark eyes reflecting the bright moonlight, without temptation and arrogance, showing a bit of calmness that he did not usually have.

 He said: "Thank you very much."

 The tone is solemn.

Lu Zhen was slightly startled.

Although she didn’t have much time dealing with Pei Yunying, she thought she knew a little bit about him. For noble young masters like them from a well-connected family, kindness is just a mask to show their upbringing. The so-called politeness is alienation, and politeness is arrogance.

At this moment, his thanks seemed somewhat sincere, perhaps because Pei Yunshu and his daughter were indeed very important to him.

 Those with weak points can always be dealt with.

With this in mind, she heard Pei Yunying say: "Thank you for saving me today. To be honest," he looked down at the cup in front of him and smiled, "I thought you wouldn't be able to save me."

 Lu Zhen felt lighthearted.

In Pei Yunying's eyes, she killed people, framed people, framed her, and had ulterior motives and vicious methods. It was really difficult for him to believe that she was a living Bodhisattva who could cure diseases and save people.

She used a silver spoon to stir the yuanxiao in the small bowl in front of her and replied, "I didn't plan to save it originally."

Pei Yunying raised his eyebrows: "Then why did you change your mind?"

Lu Zhen smiled slightly, raised his head and looked directly into his eyes.

“Because, if we don’t save him, there will be no chance for Mr. Pei to owe me a favor.”

As soon as these words came out, Pei Yunying was stunned.

A gust of wind blows, and the laurel leaves on the trees are rustling. The night wind is mixed with the rain of golden flowers falling down one after another, covering everyone's body with fragrance.

It seems that it was also one afternoon on Qinghe Street. In front of the **** shop, the young conductor paid the female doctor who was in trouble for her money a hairpin and stood in front of her with an unclear smile.

“Because, if I say it, there will be no chance for Doctor Lu to owe me a favor.”

Within a few months, she returned the original words. I don’t know whether it was a coincidence or a grudge.

The young man clicked his tongue and reminded: "You can't say that. Counting the time at Baoxiang Tower, I have saved you twice."

"Oh?" Lu Yan was not grateful: "But I was in danger today because I saved the princess. Besides, I am an ordinary person. The lives of the princess and her daughter are not as valuable. After all, you owe me more favors. .”

　　When she talked about the value of life, although her tone was calm, there was a trace of disgust in her eyes.

Pei Yun raised his eyebrows and joked with a smile: "Who said that, Doctor Lu is a doctor, so why does he regard life as high or low?"

"Blessed people serve others, and unlucky people serve others. The princess and princess are served by others, and I serve others. This is the difference between noble and humble."

His smile faded a little: "Is it so tacky?"

 “Poor people are always vulgar.”

 He nodded, leaned forward a little, his dark eyes fixed on Lu Huan, and he curled his lips.

“It’s always been the bad guys pretending to be good guys, why does Dr. Lu do the opposite?”

 Lu Zhen's heart skipped a beat.

His bright black eyes seemed to be able to see through everything in her heart. The dimples at the corners of his lips were looming under the moonlight. As the moonlight passed by, it was extremely moving.

 Lu Xu lowered his eyes.

He is really good-looking, but it is useless. Good-looking medicine can be used to make poison. Good-looking men...are just good-looking.

Pei Yunying was also looking at Lu Huo.

Late at night, the flowers are sleeping, the bright moon is lovely, the woman is sitting in the glow of the melting lamp, she is born beautiful, more like the delicacy of the Jiangnan beauty than the beauty of the Shengjing woman, her figure is thin and light, as weak as if a gust of wind can blow it away .

The half-worn blue cloth dress with embroidered algae pattern on her body was stained with some blood, which was from the delivery just now, and the cuffs had signs of wear. Her hair is braided diagonally - probably for the convenience of medicine. It is a bit unkempt at the moment. The blue velvet flower on her temples is still the one she wore when they first met at Baoxiang Tower. The velvet flower has been dipped in blood and washed. Not very clean. But it was so blurred under the moonlight that she couldn't see clearly, but it looked like she was sitting alone, particularly lonely.

Pei Yun’s eyes moved slightly.

 She looked very frugal. Although he and Duan Xiaoyan had told her that the cost of Lu Yan's clothes had increased a lot, he had to admit that most of the time, she wore old clothes. She never wears any jewelry, and she doesn’t look like a 17 or 18-year-old girl.

However, Renxin Medical Center has clearly made a lot of money in the past six months.

The moonlight fell on the stone table through the jagged shadows of the trees. The night was long and the dawn was still early.

 He took a sip of tea and said with a smile: "Okay, how much money does Doctor Lu want?"

 Lu Zhen said nothing.

Pei Yunying looked at her leisurely.

 After a while, Lu Zhuo spoke.

She said: "Master Pei, why don't we make a deal."

 “What deal?”

"I saved the lives of the princess and her daughter. One of them is to repay you Baoxiang downstairs for saving her life. The other is to pretend that what happened at Wangchun Mountain never happened. The previous misunderstanding has been wiped out." Lu Yan looked calm.

 In the short term, she doesn’t want to have too many entanglements with the front secretary. This person is really difficult to deal with, and getting rid of him will inevitably arouse suspicion. However, seeing that he cares so much about Pei Yunshu, at least in the matter of Pei Yunshu, he always owes her a favor.

As if he didn't expect that Lu Zhuo's condition would be this, Pei Yunying was startled for a moment, then chuckled, staring at her with a subtle look: "Why don't you mention Mr. Ke? Dr. Lu, do you want to get away with it?"

Lu Zhen's heart moved, and he had guessed it.

 She smiled faintly: "Do you have any evidence?"

 The young man sighed: "No."

He shook his head and smiled: "Deal, I don't care what personal grudges you have with him. I won't get involved in this matter again, but next time, I won't protect you."

Lu Zhen was a little surprised. She thought he would test it out, but she didn't expect him to agree so readily. It seemed that she was a bit mean-spirited.

She picked up a piece of moon dumpling from the plate and ate it. The moon dumpling was her favorite stuffing with butter and pine nuts. It was so sweet that it was a little cloying. She ate slowly. Pei Yunying from across the street looked at her and suddenly asked, "Doctor Lu, who do you study under?"

　　　 Lu Tong.

Pei Yunying lowered her head and looked at the remaining moon **** in the red lacquered crabapple tea tray on the table, "You said that the poison my niece was poisoned is difficult to resolve at the moment. If the respected master takes action..."

Pei Yunshu also asked her about this, and Lu Hu said: "The master of the family has passed away."

Pei Yunying swallowed the rest of his words.

Lu Zhen thought for a while, "I will try my best to detoxify the little miss, Mr. Pei can rest assured for the time being."

These words sounded like a serious promise, different from her usual habit of telling lies easily.

Pei Yunying smiled.

 In fact, despite his overthinking, there were so many medical officers coming and going in the Medical Officer's Hospital, but Lu Zhu was the only one who discovered the truth about Pei Yunshu's poisoning. At least in Shengjing, her medical skills should not be underestimated.

Unconsciously, it is late, and there are endless music and songs outside the wall. In the sad flute music, the autumn dew is like beads, the autumn moon is like GUI, and in the long shadow of the whirling osmanthus trees, the flowing light shines on the woman like Chang'e in the Moon Palace, who does not eat the fireworks of the world.

Chang'e does not eat fireworks in the world, but she only likes sweets.

Pei Yunying saw Lu Xu pick up another piece of sweet-scented osmanthus and steamed chestnut flour cake, and he couldn't help but laugh. The wind blew, which made Lu Xu's hair flutter. His eyes paused and suddenly froze.

On the woman's fair face, there was a very shallow bloodstain under her ear. It must have been injured by the sword wind during the fight in the house just now. It was like a sudden crack in the jade-white porcelain bottle, which was very dazzling. The hair that had been covered by her ears was revealed now.

 He hesitated: "Your injury..."

Lu Zhen touched it casually and said, "It's okay, just go back and take medicine."

When she said this, Pei Yunying remembered the first time they met downstairs in Baoxiang. At that time, she was held hostage and her neck was injured and bleeding. He was kind enough to give her a bottle of scar-removing medicine, but she left it at the rouge shop. Not even a glance.

 Very indifferent.

Thinking like this, his eyes fell on the blue velvet flower on Lu's temple.

The three silver needles behind the blue velvet flower are sharper than ordinary hidden weapons. He then thought about the corpse of the guard he saw in Pei Yunshu's dormitory in the afternoon when he saw it. The vases around him were shattered on the floor. Later, when Fangzi told him about the situation, her tone was in disbelief, as if she had been brutally killed by this weak female doctor. The shock was severe.

Pei Yunying thought casually that even if he hadn't arrived at that time, Lu Yun might not have suffered a loss. Her velvet needles were really sharp, and she was never one to sit back and wait for death.

The sound of the piano stopped at some point, and the moonlight and cinnamon incense in the courtyard fell all over him. Lu Zhuo raised his eyes and met Pei Yunying's thoughtful gaze. His eyes were dark and shiny under the lamp, and the scarlet uniform made him look less serious and more elegant, making him extraordinarily handsome.

The long sky is like water, such a beautiful night, cold cinnamon, light tea, music of piano, lights and candles, the two people drinking in the courtyard under the moonlight, the young man in black clothes is in high spirits, and the young medical woman Liu Ruohua is charming, they look like a pair An old friend whom I have known for a long time.

Lu Huan said: "The poison that the princess was poisoned was caused by long-term accumulation. The poison is hidden, and the person who poisoned it must be hidden in the house. Is this the way, sir?"

His eyes moved slightly, then he raised his eyebrows and said with a smile, "Do you have any advice, Doctor Lu?"

Lu Zhen picked up the porcelain pot on the table, poured himself a cup of tea, and raised the cup to Pei Yunying in front of his eyes.

She said calmly: "Master, let me give you a gift."

Let me wish you all a happy Mid-Autumn Festival eight months in advance!

 (End of this chapter)