Denghuaxiao Chapter 111

Chapter 111 Snow Guest

Lu Zhen put the oil lamp on the table and said calmly: "They haven't gone far yet. Do you need me to call them back?"

 He smiled noncommittally, glanced at the white jade Guanyin in front of the small Buddha cabinet, and pointedly said: "Are you always such a deceiver, a Bodhisattva in front of others and a Rakshasa in the back?"

Lu Zhen replied: "I am a close guard of the emperor in front of me, but a fugitive in the harem. Lord Pei and I are only half a pound of each other."

She has not forgotten that what Shen Fengying said just now is that an assassin escaped from the palace.

Lu Zhen could smell the faint scent of blood on Pei Yunying's body, and it was not difficult to guess some clues.

Pei Yunying was startled for a moment, then smiled, walked to the table under the window and sat down, sighing: "If I had known that Dr. Lu was so powerful, I wouldn't have offended you before."

 Lu Zhen said nothing.

When Shen Fengying came to search the medical clinic, because Pei Yunying came out in a hurry, she had no choice but to let him hide behind the yellow pear wood cabinet filled with clothes in the dormitory.

Yin Zheng and another empty room were searched carefully by the soldiers, but Shen Fengying did not search Lu Zhuo's boudoir roughly because of the previous incident.

In order to cover up the smell of blood on Pei Yunying's body, she and Yin Zheng deliberately pushed out several large porcelain jars to attract Shen Fengying's attention. The poison in the porcelain vat startled Shen Fengying, and for a moment, Shen Fengying decided that he would no longer doubt Renxin Medical Center because of his overthinking.

Admittedly, Pei Yunying's ability to successfully muddle through was also due to the fact that Pei Yunying hid himself secretly.

Seeing that there was tea and a clean empty cup on the table, he reached out to lift the pot and pour the tea. However, his movements were slightly slower than before. This change was very small, but Lu Zhen noticed it immediately.

Lu Zhen raised his eyes and looked at him: "Are you injured?"

Pei Yunying paused while pouring the tea, but did not deny it: "Is there any medicine?"

Lu Zong turned around and left: "Sold out."

She has no interest in being a living Bodhisattva, especially when it comes to the fugitive assassin who shows up uninvited late at night. Tonight is really dangerous. If she is not careful, she will be implicated by Pei Yunying, and her future plans will be ruined.

It's really hard not to be angry.

"Doctor Lu." Pei Yunying sat at the table and called her with a smile, "Didn't I mean that when you treat diseases and save people, you are just a doctor."

“At this moment, you should still be a doctor, right?”

 Lu Zong paused in his steps.

This is what she said when she delivered Pei Yunshu's baby at Prince Wenjun's Mansion.

The struggle and expectation of Pei Yunshu, who was still giving birth at that time, reminded her of Lu Rou, so she softened her heart a little bit. This softness also affected Pei Yunying. In order to calm his anxiety a little, she said this.

I didn't expect that Pei Yunying would mention it at this time.

After a moment of silence, Lu Zhuo walked to the cabinet in the room, found the medical box, took out a medicine bottle, walked over to follow Pei Yunying and went to the table to have a meal.

 “Fifty taels of silver.”

Pei Yunying: “…”

  He raised his head and said, "You are just raising the price on the ground, Doctor Lu."

 “Seek medical attention and ask for medicine, clearly marked with a price.”

"I thought you were asking for a favor from me." Pei Yunying shook his head and smiled, then took out a banknote from his pocket and put it on the table in a good-tempered manner.

Lu Zhen took the banknote, which was a hundred taels of silver. This man was quite generous.

She took a copper scale from the box, weighed a handful of scattered silver taels, gathered up fifty taels and gave it back to Pei Yunying. Her tone was calm: "The favor of the palace commander is not worth much, and it is not as valuable as silver."

Pei Yunying looked at the handful of broken silver on the table, was silent for a moment, and commented: "Doctor Lu is very pragmatic."

Lu Chen stood in front of the table, frowning at him, and reminded him again: "The people outside have left. When will the palace commander leave?"

Pei Yunying hissed and said seriously: "Right now, you and I are accomplices in their eyes. If we go out and bump into someone, Doctor Lu won't be able to escape. It's better to wait."

His tone was casual, as if he had a deep friendship with Lu Zhen. He didn't show any offence, but it made Lu Zhen feel a little angry.

Because what she did was hidden, Lu Zhen never wanted to be too involved with others. When Xia Rongrong lived in the small courtyard, she tried every means to get Xia Rongrong to move out.

Pei Yunying has now entered her bedroom, and she doesn't know how long she will stay.

This person is obviously very scheming, but he always finds the most innocent excuses, and his righteous and stern speech makes people angry just by looking at him.

Lu Zong suppressed the coldness in his heart and walked to the other side of the couch to sit down on a chair.

It was a cold snowy night in the courtyard, but the house was as warm as spring. The north wind carried heavy snow and passed by the window. Broken jade and flying flowers could be faintly seen in the sky, but the people in the house cast warm shadows on the flower windows, cutting candles and pouring tea.

 Quiet and gentle.

 Lu Zhen looked at him.

He was sitting in front of the window, lowering his head to drink tea. When he wasn't smiling, he had an indifference that would make people thousands of miles away. He was dressed neatly in a jet-black arrow suit, faintly showing traces of moisture under the light.

As if aware of Lu Zhuo's gaze, he turned his head and smiled slightly, and then the indifference just now disappeared quickly, as if it was just an illusion.

 He asked: "Why are you looking at me like this?"

Lu Tong was quiet for a moment, then reminded indifferently: "Aren't you going to give me medicine?"

Pei Yunying was dressed in black, and the injuries on her body could not be seen clearly. But Lu Yan could smell the **** smell on his body getting stronger and stronger, which meant that the wounds on his body were constantly oozing blood.

She didn't have the habit of burning incense in the house. If Shen Fengying suddenly led his soldiers to fight back, there would be no need to hunt him down. The **** smell in the house would betray Pei Yunying's whereabouts.

If Pei Yunying died here, she would have to be responsible for disposing of the body, which would be very troublesome.

It's best not to die, and even if you die, don't die here.

Pei Yunying didn't know what Lu Zhu was thinking, so he just picked up the medicine bottle on the table. The medicine bottle was not big and had a delicate body. He pulled out the stopper, hesitated, and sprinkled it on his shoulder.

 Lu Huan: “…”

She frowned: "You apply medicine through your clothes?"

Over the years of practicing medicine, Lu Zhen has never seen anyone applying medicine like this. Pei Yunying's covert appearance might make someone think he was poisoning.

Pei Yunying paused and said, "Your house is too small."

“So what? The palace commander still has to run to apply the medicine?”

Pei Yunying choked.

After a while, he looked at Lu Huan and reminded: "I take off my clothes and apply medicine in your dormitory. Doctor Lu, aren't you afraid of damaging your reputation?"

 “Don't forget, you still have a fiancé.”

 He deliberately emphasized the word "fiancé".

Lu Zong frowned and looked at him.

She didn't expect Pei Yunying to think so trivially. She suddenly remembered that when she was in Yuxian Tower, she took the initiative to hug Pei Yunying tightly to avoid Qi Yutai's suspicion. Pei Yunying's slightly stiff body and the distance he deliberately opened.

Thinking of this, there was a hint of sarcasm in Lu Zhuo's tone: "Master Pei is too worried."

“In my eyes, there is no difference between you and the half piece of pork buried under the tree.”

Pei Yunying: “…”

He looked calmly at Lu Chen, whose expression was so cold that it was difficult to tell whether she was serious or joking.

Under the dim light, the two looked at each other for a long time.

After a while, Pei Yunying lowered her head, looked at the tea cup in front of her, and said calmly: "What you say is so unpleasant."

 Lu Zhen sneered in his heart.

The prince Zhaoning was being hunted all over the city in the middle of the night. With this person's methods, he might not be able to find a way to escape, so he broke into Renxin Medical Center to avoid the pursuers. It's hard not to suspect that he did it on purpose.

Pei Yunying deliberately dragged her into the water, maybe because he had some bad taste.

Since they have seen through each other's hypocrisy and pretense, there is no need to pretend to be polite and polite on the surface. She couldn't do anything to Pei Yunying now. It might make him feel a little unhappy, but it would be better than doing nothing. Lu Yan was too lazy to hide his indifference and impatience.

Perhaps it was because of Lu Zhen's sarcastic comment comparing him to pork that any further hesitation made him feel coy. Pei Yunying stopped hesitating and reached out to tear open the material on his shoulder that had been cut open by a sharp weapon.

The moment the clothes were torn apart, Pei Yunying frowned.

 Lu Zhuo raised his eyes and looked.

Wherever he looked, blood dripped from his right shoulder to the lower half of his back, like an arrow wound. There was no arrow hook, only the turned-up flesh, which was shocking to see.

Lu Zhen secretly thought that with such a wound, this person could still talk and laugh. Pei Yunying's tolerance was stronger than imagined.

He picked up the medicine bottle on the table as if to sprinkle it on, but suddenly felt that it seemed too sloppy, so he asked Lu Zhuo: "Do you have water and a veil?"

 Lu Zhen nodded: "Yes."

As if he didn't expect her to be so talkative this time, Pei Yunying was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said: "Thank you..."

 The next moment, Lu Zhuo interrupted his thanks.

 “Just add more silver.”

Pei Yunying: “…”

 Lu Zong got up, found the silver kettle, found the wooden basin on the flower stand, and poured some hot water into it. He found a clean handkerchief and soaked it in it. He walked up to Pei Yunying with hot water and put the wooden basin on the table.

Pei Yunying looked at the hot water in front of her, thought for a moment, and pushed the fifty taels of silver that Lu Huo had just returned to him in front of Lu Huan.

"enough?"

Lu Zhen collected the silver and put it back in the box: "Reluctantly."

He shook his head and smiled. He didn't care about Lu Zhuo sitting on the ground and raising his price. He reached out and picked up the handkerchief in the basin and squeezed off the excess water.

The handkerchief is a woman's style, a light blue handkerchief with hibiscus branches embroidered on it. Women's handkerchiefs are often sprinkled with scented powder or incense, but this handkerchief only has a faint herbal scent, which is exactly the same as the bitter medicinal scent on Lu Yun's body. .

Pei Yunying held the handkerchief and wiped the scars on his shoulder with his backhand.

 The blood stains were wiped away bit by bit, revealing hideous scars. Lu Zhen could see clearly that the arrow wound was from the diagonal direction, so he should have been hit by an arrow in the back.

After wiping the wound, Pei Yunying put down the handkerchief, picked up the medicine bottle and sprinkled powder on his shoulder. He had difficulty with one hand, so half of the powder spilled on the wound and half on the ground.

Lu Zhen leaned on the edge of the table, watching his movements with cold eyes, and suddenly said: "What a waste of natural resources."

Pei Yunying: “…”

He was angry and funny, and said: "Doctor Lu, although you and I are not friends, at least we are acquaintances."

 “This is not good for an injured person.”

The wind and snow outside the window are getting thicker, and the low wind blows the windows wider, and a layer of white frost gradually accumulates on the eaves and tiles. Through the faint dim light of the lantern, heavy snow can be seen dancing all over the courtyard.

 Under the flickering lights in the house, there are dim figures under the windows. A snowflake floated into the inner room along the window gap, landed on the top of the person's tied hair, and quickly disappeared.

Lu Zhu stood up, walked behind Pei Yunying, and took the medicine bottle from his hand.

Pei Yunying was startled.

Lu Yan said calmly: "The wound medicine is very expensive. If you waste it, you will have to pay another fifty taels for another bottle."

Pei Yunying's injuries held in their hands, although the raw materials are not expensive, they are full of trouble.

 She has always been reluctant to see others squandering medicines.

Hearing this, Pei Yunying didn't say anything this time. He just turned his head and smiled: "Thank you, Doctor Lu."

Lu Yan stood behind Pei Yunying. He had broad shoulders and an arrow jacket on his body, which outlined his beautiful figure. The skin where he looked was not like those of those white, thin and frail young men. Perhaps it was due to years of martial arts training that the texture was well-proportioned and contained strength.

Lu Zong put a hand on his shoulder.

Pei Yunying's body stiffened slightly.

The next moment, Lu Zhu raised his hand and said "tear-", and the black clothes that were already torn in front of him were torn off in large pieces, along with the skin and flesh that were stuck together with blood.

Pei Yunying took a breath of cold air.

"It's a small injury." Lu Zhu picked up the medicine bottle and sprinkled it evenly on his wound. "Why should the commander make such a fuss?"

Pei Yunying turned around and looked at Lu Shu with a frown: "Doctor Lu, is this a public revenge?"

"How could it be?" Lu Zhuo plugged the bottle stopper, put the medicine bottle in Pei Yunying's palm, and said with a slight smile: "There will always be some pain when applying medicine. Mr. Pei must not hide the disease and avoid medical treatment."

Pei Yunying stared at her for a long time, and after a while, he nodded self-deprecatingly: "Okay, Doctor Lu has the final say."

Lu Zhen's eyes moved slightly.

She deliberately hit Pei Yunying hard to cause pain, but this man could still talk to her in a pleasant manner, and his Qi-nurturing skills were top-notch.

The wound had to be bandaged after applying medicine. Lu Zhu cut the white cloth for bandaging from the medical box and walked behind Pei Yunying to bandage him.

Pei Yunying seemed to resist being in too close contact with others, and intentionally or unintentionally kept a slight distance from him. However, Lu Zhu was not worried about this. He stretched out his hand around Pei Yunying's shoulders and wrapped him skillfully from behind.

 Speaking of which, the wound on Pei Yunying's shoulder was not too deep, but there was a ferocious knife mark from his shoulder to his lower back, which should be an old wound. It should be difficult to endure the combination of new and old injuries, but from beginning to end tonight, Pei Yunying did not show the slightest sign of pain.

Maybe it's because this injury is nothing to him, or maybe it's just that he can bear it.

Lu Zhen cut off the edge of the bandaged white silk and asked casually: "Are there any old wounds here?"

Pei Yunying paused and said, "Yes."

Lu Zhuo glanced at the old knife mark. The knife mark was very deep. Someone had sewn the wound. However, the stitches were messy, just like the beauty of her childhood, with a hammer here and a stick here and there, crookedly. The mark was on Pei Yunying's back like a funny dark red ink mark.

She said: "It's like your enemy sewed it for you."

 Being able to sew a person's wounds into such a shape seems to be intentional.

Hearing this, Pei Yunying seemed to have remembered something, and the pear dimples at the corners of her lips became more and more obvious, "That's right. The doctor is a little girl. She has just started practicing medicine. Her medical skills are not as good as yours, but her desire for revenge is as strong as yours."

The oil lamp on the table was about to burn out. Lu Zhu stood up and took out another lamp from the cabinet. While pouring in the lamp oil, he said, "What did you do that she wants to take revenge on you?"

Pei Yunying thought for a while: "It's nothing. A few years ago, I was chased and injured in southern Jiangsu. I hid in the pile of dead people behind the execution ground. There, I met a thief who stole corpses."

 “She saved me and treated my injuries, but reluctantly.”

Lu Tong was startled. He poured the lamp oil into his hand, but forgot to light it with a flint.

In a flash of lightning, the past breaks through the heavy snow curtain and rushes towards the face. A distant scene appears in front of the eyes, reflecting the color of the snow.

Pei Yunying didn't notice it and raised her eyes to look out the window.

It was a windy and snowy night in Shengjing. A weak light in front of the window illuminated the falling snow outside. The eaves and ground were made of pink and silver, and the sky and earth were vast, giving rise to a feeling of loneliness and coolness.

His voice was as quiet as snow.

“Speaking of which, it also snowed on the day I met her.”

As if to reflect what he said, the snow particles in the courtyard flew along the window gap to the table, and the white frost fell into the lanterns, creating a little ripple of air-conditioning.

 He turned to Lu Huan, smiled and spoke.

“That was a heavy snowfall that is rare in southern Jiangsu for ten years.”

 Lu Zhen suddenly raised his eyes.

In an instant, snowflakes covered the wick, and the last glimmer of light flickered.

 The candle went out.

　　Happy Valentine's Day, babies!

 (End of this chapter)

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