The days passed calmly like flowing water, and this little accident at the entrance of the medical hall was not taken to heart by Lu Tong.

In the blink of an eye, it is the beginning of autumn.

Lu Tong is still very busy every day, and in autumn, there are many fewer people who come to buy "Slender Fiber", but there are more people who buy "Zhegui Order".

"Zhegui Ling" is a new medicinal tea made by Lu Tong.

Not long after, the first day of August was the autumn of the Liang Dynasty, and Confucianism was inevitably nervous before leaving the department, so some people went to the hospital to buy some medicinal tea with clear eyes and clear hearts to boost their spirits. Lu Tong took advantage of the situation to make a new medicinal tea, called "Zhegui Ling", taking the auspicious omen of "Toad Palace Zhegui".

Although the new medicinal tea is not as amazing as "Chun Shuisheng" and "Xian Xian", there are still a lot of people who come to buy this name - at this time of year, the Buddha hall on Wan'en Temple is about to be crowded, and when the big event comes, there are many more people who believe in auspicious signs than those who do not.

Lu Tong handed over two packets of red paper wrapped laurel orders to Yinzheng: "This one will be sent to Wu Youcai's house in the fresh fish shop." ”

Wu Youcai of the fresh fish shop fell again and again, and Lu Tong guessed that he would also participate in this year's autumn test, so he specially left a few bags for him.

Yinzheng responded, took the medicinal tea and was about to go out, but was chased by Ah Cheng and stopped: "Yinzheng girl, wait." ”

"What's wrong?"

"I'm afraid it's not the right time to go see Brother Wu now."

Lu Tong paused and looked at Ah Cheng: "But what happened?" ”

"Don't you know yet?" The young man scratched his head, "Brother Wu's mother...... Gone the night before. ”

……

The weather was much cooler at night.

After the beginning of autumn, there are often bursts of light rain, and after nightfall, there is a cool breeze that blows on people, giving birth to a bit of cold, as if it will be cold overnight.

The courtyard is as quiet as water, and the light of the lanterns under the eaves is hazy, sprinkled on the faces of the people in the courtyard.

The young girl sat at the stone table, pounding the silver jar in front of her, and the autumn breeze brushed the ends of her hair, reflecting her face with a softness and whiteness.

Yin Zheng sat on the pestle, folding the silk in his hand while looking at Lu Tong who was pounding medicine.

During the day, Ah Cheng talked about the funeral news of Wu Xiucai's mother, and Yinzheng thought that Lu Tong would go to take a look at Wu Xiucai, after all, these days, Lu Tong asked Yinzheng to send Wu Xiucai some warm medicinal materials every few days, and seemed to be quite concerned about Wu Xiucai's mother's condition.

Although he didn't understand why Lu Tong treated a poor Confucian student differently, Yinzheng could see clearly that Lu Tong was genuinely concerned about the situation in Wu Xiucai's family. However, until now, Lu Tong has never mentioned that he wants to visit Wu Xiucai, and he has not even sent money - even Du Changqing has sent two silk silks.

Shouldn't it be, is it something else?

Thinking so crankily in his heart, the movements of Yinzheng's hand gradually slowed down, and the yarn fell to the ground without noticing.

Lu Tong glanced at her and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Yinzheng came back to his senses, hurriedly picked up the gauze on the ground, swallowed back the three words "Wu Xiucai" to his mouth, thought about it, and stretched out his hand to point to a cluster of fireflies under the eaves: "I was just thinking, the fireflies in the capital are really beautiful." ”

Lu Tong glanced under the eaves, where a cloud of blue fireflies lit up in the night.

This is a firefly caught by Ah Cheng.

The child is naughty, the central silver zither sewed a four-corner bag with fine yarn, the four corners are decorated with fine wind chimes, put all the fireflies caught into it, hang in the corner of the eaves, and at night, it is shining, it is really a bit of the feeling of the summer moon set fireflies reflecting the snow in the "Book of Jin".

It's a pity that there are no readers here.

Yinzheng smiled and asked Lu Tong: "Is there a firefly in the girl's hometown?" ”

Lu Tong shook his head.

Changwu County is poor, and she only saw fireflies in books when she was a child.

However, there are many fireflies on Luomei Peak.

Perhaps because it is on the mountain, the terrain is high and cool, and after the summer, the rotten grass is a firefly, and the whole mountain is blue.

When she was looking for the corpse of the death row prisoner who tested the medicine for Yun Niang in the grave, she often saw a large cloud of blurry cold light in the chaotic grass, like a ghost fire.

At that time, she didn't think of anything like poetic romance, but she felt weird, and she wanted to close her eyes and run away.

I didn't expect to look at this firefly sac hanging under the eaves now, and there would be a feeling of being in a different world.

Yin Zheng folded the last silk handkerchief, didn't get up, and simply held his cheek to watch Lu Tong pound the medicine. Lu Tong's small medicine hammer landed on the silver medicine jar, making a "clanging" sound, which was very clear in the silent night.

Lu Tong has two medicine jars, more when using wooden medicine jars, and less when using silver medicine jars. Today she uses a silver medicine jar, which is engraved with intricate patterns, and when the moonlight falls, the silver light flashes, and the treasure color is brilliant.

Lu Tong dropped the last hammer and left the medicine hammer in the jar, and Yinzheng knew that she was done.

Lu Tong got up with the jar, but did not leave immediately, but walked around the courtyard, and finally his eyes fell on the half-human-high bamboo basket in the corner.

She walked over, opened the basket, and pulled out a white rabbit with black eyes from the basket.

The rabbit was bought by Du Changqing a few days ago, saying that he saw a girl selling rabbits in the butcher shop in Guanxiang, the girl was beautiful and had a miserable background, Du Changqing took pity on him, so he bought all the rabbits back.

After buying back, these rabbits don't know what to do, the silver kite and vanilla can't make rabbit meat, so they simply keep it in the yard, and Xia Rongrong and vanilla will come to feed these rabbits every day.

Lu Tong stared at the rabbit in her hand, the rabbit's two ears were carried by her, and her legs were kicking in the air, she looked at it, and went to the kitchen with the rabbit and the medicine jar.

On weekdays, Lu Tong is making medicine in the yard, and when she uses the kitchen to make medicine, she doesn't allow Yinzheng to follow. Yin Zheng rubbed his knees, stacked the freshly sewn silk handkerchiefs together, and went into the house to pack them in a box.

It was late at night, it was very quiet outside, and the cold wind of the autumn night fell on the window, blowing the window slightly, and the whole Shengjing was enveloped in a cloud of inky black.

In the kitchen, Lu Tong grabbed the rabbit and lowered his eyes and didn't know what he was thinking.

The silver medicine jar was placed next to the board, and the herbs in it were smashed to pieces, and the black mass covered the wall of the jar, slowly flowing down, leaving only filthy shadows in it, which was inexplicably weird.

Lu Tong looked at the rabbit with low eyebrows for a while, then suddenly reached into the can, took out a large handful of jet-black slime, and stuffed it into the rabbit's mouth.

The rabbit's mouth was suddenly stuffed with a large cloud of inexplicable dirt, and she struggled violently, Lu Tong grabbed the rabbit's ears tightly until the black slime was almost chewed, she let go, the rabbit escaped from her hand, and as soon as she landed free, she immediately ran around the kitchen.

She looked at the rabbit quietly.

One moment, two moments, three moments.

The rabbit's sniffing movement slowed down, and he no longer ran forward, and staggered as if drunk, and then, with his body tilted to the side, he was half-lying on the ground, as if trying to get up, and his legs pushed hard, but gradually stopped moving.

A trace of black slowly overflowed from the corner of the rabbit's mouth, and a pair of wide, blood-red eyes were particularly terrifying.

He's dead.

The rabbit, which had just been alive and kicking, died.

The night was bleak, the lights in the small kitchen were dim, and a woman and a dead rabbit looked at each other so quietly, sad and strange.

At this moment, an exclamation suddenly came from behind him: "Ahhh

Lu Tong's eyes were cold, and he turned around suddenly, at the door of the kitchen, Xia Rongrong was standing with a lamp in her hand, looking at her in fear.

At this time on weekdays, Xia Rongrong has already slept - Xia Rongrong cherishes her face, firmly believes that going to bed early can make a woman radiant, and never sleeps before the hour. And now the time has passed.

Lu Tong frowned: "What are you doing here?" ”

Xia Rongrong seemed to be frightened, her face turned pale, and she subconsciously replied: "Vanilla fell, I'll come to the kitchen to find some water." She quickly glanced at the rabbit on the ground, as if she didn't dare to look closely, she quickly looked away, and asked Lu Tong in a trembling voice: "...... this rabbit?"

"This rabbit accidentally ate poisonous herbs, so he died."

"Is this so?" Xia Rongrong said, her gaze quickly swept over Lu Tong's hand, and Lu Tong's left hand was soaked in black color by the herbs in the silver jar.

Lu Tong looked at her: "Aren't you looking for water?" ”

"Oh...... Be. Xia Rongrong hurriedly responded, just remembered what she was going to do, and hurriedly took the basin to scoop water, and when it was full of water, Xia Rongrong went out with the basin, and when she passed by Lu Tong's side, her hands trembled so much that she almost knocked over the basin.

Lu Tong watched coldly as she went out with a basin of water, until she entered her own room in the courtyard, the light behind the door was closed, and the outside fell into darkness again.

She was silent for a moment, then got up and walked over to the dead rabbit and lifted it up.

……

"It's horrible, you don't know what I just saw!"

As soon as she entered the house, Xia Rongrong threw the basin of water aside, and her legs collapsed to the ground.

Vanilla was startled, ignoring the abrasions left by the fall on her knees, she quickly got up and helped Xia Rongrong to sit down in front of the bed: "What happened?" ”

Xia Rongrong had a white face, her eyes were full of fear, "I just saw Dr. Lu in the kitchen. She, she ......" Xia Rongrong grabbed Vanilla's hand, "She poisoned a rabbit!" ”

Vanilla was stunned.

"It's true!" Xia Rongrong was afraid that the maid would not believe it, so her tone was even more hurried, and she told what she had just seen and revealed, "When I went in, the poison in her hand had not yet been washed away, so she stood in front of the dead rabbit, staring at the corpse, like a monster."

Vanilla was also shocked by her description, but still maintained a trace of sanity, "Maybe Dr. Lu is just testing medicine?" ”

"Impossible! What medicine can poison a person to death, and besides, you didn't see her before she looked at me......"

Xia Rongrong remembered that when she accidentally alarmed Lu Tong just now, Lu Tong turned around to look at her. Different from the usual gentleness and calmness, the woman hid in the darkness of the lamplight, her eyes were silent and indifferent, and her gaze was like looking at a corpse, without any emotion.

She shuddered.

"No, you can't stay here!" Xia Rongrong stood up all of a sudden, and was about to pack her clothes hurriedly, "Let's quickly pack our luggage and leave." ”

"Miss," Vanilla pulled her, "calm down, let's go now, what should I do with Young Master Cousin?" ”

Du Changqing?

Xia Rongrong suddenly remembered her cousin, and she muttered, "Yes, my cousin doesn't know yet, I have to tell my cousin about it." ”

Vanilla said: "Now the medical hall is all relying on the medicinal tea made by Dr. Lu, and I heard Ah Cheng say that Dr. Lu and Young Master Li Hong are divided in half." These days, living in the medical hall, the slave maid sees that the young master has a lot of trust in Dr. Lu, even if the young lady says it, the young master may not believe it. Even if he believed it, Young Master Cousin might not drive Dr. Lu out. ”

Lu Tong is the cash cow of Renxin Medical Center, who is willing to drive the cash cow out of the door?

When Xia Rongrong heard this, she suddenly lost her six gods: "Then what should I do?" ”

She didn't have any opinions in the past few days, and this time she came to Shengjing to enter the door of the Du family, but who knew that she had miscalculated Du Changqing's current family property. In addition, Du Changqing didn't seem to mean that to her, so she couldn't get up or down. Now that she encounters this kind of thing, Xia Rongrong doesn't know what to do.

"Miss, why don't you ask the white shopkeeper of Xinglin Hall?" Vanilla suddenly spoke.

Xia Rongrong was stunned for a moment, Bai Shouyi?

Speaking of which, a few days ago, the Wen You beside Bai Shouyi came to look for her.

Xinglintang had a feud with Renxin Medical Hall because of the previous Chunshui Sheng, and Xia Rongrong also heard Ah Cheng say about it. Bai Shouyi suffered a big loss, but he counted the account on Lu Tong's head.

However, after so long, Bai Shouyi was stunned and didn't find any tricks for Lu Tong, so he asked Wenyou next to him to come to Xia Rongrong, and wanted to "cooperate" with Xia Rongrong.

Wen You stood in front of Xia Rongrong and said, "Miss Xia, my shopkeeper said that you don't want Dr. Lu to stay in the hospital, it just so happens that my shopkeeper also wants to expel Dr. Lu from the capital, so it's better to cooperate and get what you need." ”

Xia Rongrong frowned: "Cooperation? ”

Bai Shouyi's cooperation method is very simple, let Xia Rongrong do some tricks and feet in the medicinal materials that Lu Tong makes on weekdays.

This was immediately rejected by Xia Rongrong.

If Lu Tong's medicine really goes wrong, it will be the Renxin Medical Hall that will be damaged, and even Du Changqing will suffer. What's more, Xia Rongrong can see clearly that Lu Tong doesn't let others handle matters such as concocting medicinal materials and sorting out new drugs in the medical hall, and her maid Yinzheng feels extremely sensitive, and she can't find a chance to do it at all.

Wen You didn't give up, stuffed a silver ticket into Xia Rongrong's hand, and said, "Miss Xia doesn't have to answer now, when you figure it out, find someone to go to my shop and talk to the shopkeeper." ”

Xia Rongrong accepted the silver, she was still a little apprehensive before, and after a few days, she gradually forgot about it, but she didn't expect to be picked up by vanilla today.

She looked at Vanilla with some hesitation: "Is this good?" ”

After all, Lu Tong is a person from the Renxin Medical Center, and it is inevitable that he will be a little unkind to tell outsiders about the Renxin Medical Center.

Vanilla sighed: "Miss, although what you saw today was unexpected, it doesn't prove that Dr. Lu is doing poison that harms people." Young Master Cousin obeyed Dr. Lu's words, and he must be on her side, as soon as you said it, it alarmed Doctor Lu, and also hurt the harmony between Master Cousin. ”

"But the white shopkeeper is different, Dr. Lu made a fool of Xinglintang before, and the white shopkeeper has a grudge against Dr. Lu, if there is really something wrong with Dr. Lu, the white shopkeeper will definitely not let her go, and besides——"

"Besides, didn't you take fifty taels of silver from the white shopkeeper before, and you have a short hand, if they come to ask for it, the young master will definitely be angry."

Thinking of the fifty taels of silver, Xia Rongrong couldn't help blushing.

The silver had already been spent by her to buy hairpin ring jewelry, and if Bai Shouyi came to ask for it, she really didn't know how to deal with it.

Seeing her move, Vanilla quietly lowered her head and hid a smile on her lips.

Vanilla has been Xia Rongrong's personal maid for many years, and this time when she entered Beijing, the Xia family's parents specially told her that they must achieve the relationship between Xia Rongrong and Du Changqing.

Although Du Changqing's family property is not as good as before, he has a shop and a house in Shengjing, which is better than many other people, and this family business is feasible.

However, staying in the hospital these days, the vanilla can be seen clearly, and Du Changqing has no other intentions for Xia Rongrong, but is very close to that Doctor Lu.

Vanilla came here to marry Du Changqing, if this matter is not done well, not only Xia Rongrong will be disappointed, but the Xia family's parents will also be difficult to deal with. She suspected that Lu Tong and Du Changqing had a private relationship, although there was no evidence, but Lu Tong was in the hospital, faintly having the posture of a hostess, and Ah Cheng and Du Changqing were the only ones who obeyed her.

Vanilla wanted to drive Lu Tong out of the hospital, but she couldn't find a way, but she didn't know that Xia Rongrong bumped into a scene in the kitchen tonight.

This is an opportunity that God has given to you.

Vanilla didn't care about the abrasions on her legs, got up from the bed with a bone, and went to get a pen and paper for Xia Rongrong.

"Miss, what are you waiting for? Now the only one who can help is the white shopkeeper, write a letter to the white shopkeeper quickly, if there is a real problem, it is good to save it in time. ”

The lights in the house were faint, reflecting the water stains on the ground, Xia Rongrong looked at the water stains for a long time, bit her lip, and finally stood up with determination.

"Got it."

"I'll just write it."