Chapter 3 Peppermint
Back to Bailu Branch, it's past the hour. Lu Jiu entered the room, hung up the knife and lowered the waist card, stripped and untied his hair, and several actions were done in one go, and he often did this at first glance.
She turned a small white silk screen, and unexpectedly saw the wooden barrel she was thinking about, full of a bucket of water, with the cold fragrance of mint in the air, and the clouds and mountains covered her face.
Lu Jiuqiang resisted the urge to jump in, and first looked sideways at the windowsill. A man in white sits on a windowsill with his back against the lattice, one foot on the window frame, and the other leg swings lazily outside.
In the background, the cold night outside. The uninvited guest looked back at Lu Jiu, and a strand of hair wrapped around him floated across his cheeks.
The man raised a finger to brush the hair off his face, his peach eyes raised, and the corners of his mouth smiled.
"Finally back, tell me to wait." In the middle of the night, lonely men and widows, one looks unrestrained, the other is half-dressed, and in the middle is a bath bucket that looks ambiguous.
For any other woman, seeing this situation and this scene, most of them will be red-faced. However, it is a pity that Lu Jiu is not
"Other Women". She was barefoot, with her hair scattered, wearing a middle coat, and her eyes looked coldly and frankly at the person sitting on the windowsill, as if she did not notice anything wrong with this strange scene.
Poor Su Xiaonian is full of freehand romance in his bones, and he is here in Lujiu, for example, he voted for a cow with a famous flower in the country, or a blind cow.
But he seemed to be very accustomed to the girl's cold reaction, and not only did he not feel discouraged, but he also took pleasure in teasing her.
I saw Su Xiaonian laughing, flipped down from the windowsill, stretched out a hand very chicly, and shook it in front of Lu Jiu like a butterfly: "I'm here to collect debts, I'll leave after I finish asking, and I won't delay your bath." Lu Jiu nodded, raised his hand and touched his face.
Even though Su Xiaonian's eyes were quick, when he caught Lu Jiu's hand, the mask had been violently dismantled by this girl.
"Tut-tut......" Su Xiaonian almost picked up his teeth regardless of the image, he quickly threw away Lu Jiu's hand, one finger smeared some kind of colorless transparent ointment along the torn crack, and the other hand moved lightly and quickly, uncovering the remaining human skin mask.
"Miss Lu Jiu, although I respect you as a man," Su Xiaonian frowned and glanced at the skin near Lu Jiu's chin—her complexion was already fine and white, and she was extremely sensitive.
"But don't you be so rough, don't you even want your face?" Lu Jiuhou blinked as if he realized it, lowered his eyes and touched his chin.
From Su Xiaonian's point of view, he could see that her eyelashes had a layer of fluffy shadows on her face, showing a hint of hazy charm in the dim light and the water vapor in the room.
He squinted and turned his gaze slightly, but his hands kept moving. He tucked the human skin mask into his sleeve, and lined up a pile of bottles and cans on a low dowry table next to the tub.
"The old man has explained, the dragon core grass boils water - well, this white bottle on the side can clear the blood, dissolve the stasis, detoxify and clear the wind, three times a day."
"The yellow jar in the middle, the same as before, is applied to the face after washing, once in the morning and once in the evening...... Your whole body looks more valuable with this face, and you have to take care of it, but you can't be rough...... Oh, and there are also cyan ones, which are also old rules, remember to eat. Lu Jiu listened to Su Xiaonian's string of words silently, nodded, and only felt that he would be cold if he didn't enter the barrel again, so he glanced at the long-winded man in white with some urgency, and tilted his head to the windowsill without any intention of chasing customers.
Su Xiaonian laughed angrily, a pair of peach blossom eyes seemed to contain water vapor, and glanced at the silent Lu Jiu with disgust: "Yes, I'll go." In the middle of the night, I was taking bathwater and delivering medicine, and Baba didn't know who it was for! I can't even get a word of thanks! Lu Jiu's half foot was already about to step into the bathtub, she turned her face to stare at Su Xiaonian in the independent posture of the golden rooster, was silent for a moment, and leaned over him.
Looking at her movements, Su Xiaonian guessed that it should be a perfunctory bow, which can be regarded as a thank you. But before he could laugh at the girl—what a ridiculous act of holding a stupid big tub and bowing to a man when one foot was raised, almost like a chicken that wanted to stretch out her neck and pounce on a worm while running—he saw that, with Lu Jiu's movements, her already fluttering middle coat slipped down her right shoulder, and her black hair was like a cunning snake, scheming around the almost dazzling white of her neck and shoulder, and falling down thoughtfully, as if to hide some secret, It's more like luring his eyes and looking deeper.
Su Xiaonian forgot what he wanted to say in an instant. He opened his mouth slightly, and his throat moved up and down. There was only a moment of silence, and he turned his eyes out the window, his eyes deep, but the corners of his mouth pulled into his usual amorous smile—though he knew she couldn't see at all.
"There have been a lot of things in the sect recently, Lord Jiang is not here, you - stop a little, tomorrow after seeing the Holy Monarch answer, just stay in the ministry and move less." The sound of water sounded behind him, and the cold fragrance of mint seemed to be alive, lingering on the tip of his nose and sticking.
"Remember to take your medicine." hurriedly put down the last sentence, Su Xiaonian didn't reply, and flew off the windowsill with his hand, and the figure was gone.
There was the sound of the whirring wind in his ears, blowing in his face as if he was going to tear off the layer of the husk that adhered to his body, and he seemed to hear Lu Jiu answer him in a trance, it was a hazy vapor
The word "um", vague and soft in the night, like moonlight, hooked him coldly, silently provoked him, and made him almost give birth to an unknown irritation.
It's not hot tonight at all, and the pure spirit at the end of September has begun to brew cold in the bones. However, Su Xiaonian stepped on the wind in silence and returned, but felt a strange dryness.