For ten days in a row, Lu Tong lived in the palace of Wenjun Wang.

Although the poison in the body of the newborn baby girl has not been completely expelled, because it is separated from the mother's body, the toxicity will no longer spread, and it may not be cured if it is raised with a little medicine in the future.

Pei Yunshu also gradually got better.

I don't know what Pei Yunshu did, in the past ten days, no one else came in Pei Yunshu's courtyard, and even King Wenjun couldn't enter.

After the mother and daughter were not in danger for the time being, Lu Tong went back to West Street.

Du Changqing has not seen Lu Tong since the Mid-Autumn Festival, although he heard Yinzheng talk about the situation that day, he was still worried, and when he saw Lu Tong come back safe and sound, the big stone in his heart landed.

Lu Tong changed into a clean plain white Luo skirt, refreshed it, and when she lifted the curtain, she was greeted by Du Changqing's long face.

The proprietor circled around the shop and counted: "I already knew that the surname Pei was unlucky, but I didn't expect him to be so unlucky." You said that you are good to deliver medicine to the door, and you can also encounter this kind of thing. You are young and ignorant, don't look at them as a person in a high-door compound, in fact, there are a lot of bad things. He sighed with a sad face, "Don't get into trouble if you don't get a single benefit at that time." ”

Lu Tong interrupted him, "What happened when I was not in the hospital?" ”

Du Changqing was stunned for a moment, and patted his head: "By the way, I almost forgot ......"

Before he finished speaking, someone called out "Doctor Lu" at the door of the Leng Buding Medical Hall.

Lu Tong looked up and saw a man wearing an old cloth straight jacket and a cyan square scarf standing at the door, holding a few herring fish in his hand, looking at her with a smile.

It's actually Wu Youcai.

Du Changqing leaned into Lu Tong's ear and whispered: "After this Wu Xiucai came back from the dead, he came to the medical hall to look for you several times. The first few times you weren't there, and I was about to talk to you about this, but he was just in time. ”

Wu Xiucai walked into the back shop and was a little embarrassed to mention the herring fish in his hand, "Before the Mid-Autumn Festival, I wanted to send two fish to Dr. Lu, but I heard Ah Cheng say that Dr. Lu went out to see a doctor, and he only came back today." ”

Yinzheng hurriedly lifted the herring, and did not forget to pull Du Changqing and Ah Cheng into the small courtyard after entering the door, and only said to Lu Tong: "Girl, the medicinal materials dried in the courtyard have not been sorted yet, let's go and sort them first, and then you will come to help after you talk to Brother Wu." ”

Du Changqing turned his head and glanced at Lu Tong suspiciously, but in the end he didn't say anything, and followed Yinzheng into the small courtyard.

The felt curtain fell, and only Lu Tong and Wu Youcai were left in the bunk.

Lu Tong stood in front of the table and looked at the person in front of him.

Wu Youcai still looks like a humble scholar, his clothes are shabby but neat, as poor as when he first met, but he also has to take out broken silver from his purse that has been sewn many times.

The scholar is down, but he is still neither humble nor arrogant, and maintains the dignity he deserves.

Wu Youcai also looked at Lu Tong.

Today is fine, the sunlight is obliquely shining from the side of the street, illuminating a small piece in front of the dim shop, the young medicine girl is bathed in a small piece of gold, warm, less cold and indifferent on weekdays, like a ray of light that suddenly appears in the dark, a bodhisattva of compassion and gentleness.

Her eyebrows were calm, and she looked at her gaze without any panic - it was clear that he should be a "dead man" at this time.

"Did Dr. Lu know that I would come back from the dead?" After a long time, Wu Youcai asked softly.

She saw him, so calm, completely different from the horror of others, as if she had known that this scene would be in front of her.

Lu Tong didn't answer his words, only asked, "Are you unwell?" ”

Wu Youcai shook his head.

Ten days ago, he woke up from the black coffin, almost frightening the people who came to watch his soul in the mourning hall in the madhouse. Hu Yuanwai went straight over, and the black coffin prepared for him was about to be replaced.

After everyone cried wolf, they invited the blind man He who came to West Street to come to catch ghosts and subdue demons, and the blind man looked at him from a distance, and after drawing and reciting words with a peach sword in his hand, he shook his head and sighed, saying that the good family of the Wu family accumulated yin virtue, and the yang longevity was not exhausted, so the king of Hades opened the net, so that the yin ghost quickly brought him back to the world.

The people in the poetry society headed by Father Xun were sincerely happy for him, He Blind took the money and gave him a few charms to dispel bad luck, Wu Youcai stood between the people beating gongs and drums, only to feel confused and absurd.

He was clearly dead, and he remembered the moment he swallowed the poison in the house, and the sharp pain spread from his heart little by little, like a drowning man who could not grasp the last piece of driftwood, and could only watch him sink into the darkness inch by inch, and boundless fear rushed from all directions, roaring to pull him deeper into purgatory.

At that moment, he had the fear of death and the desire for life.

He regretted it in that moment.

However, the arrow has been opened, how can I turn back? His last memory before dying was that he was crying and struggling on the ground of the Gongyuan like a madman, and the dignity of a scholar was gone, and he was watched as naked as he was dying.

Who knew that when he woke up, his eyes were full of white flags and yellow paper, and there was the familiar panicked scream of Hu Yuanwai outside, and the people of the poetry club shouted in horror, and he stood in the black coffin, dressed in a new robe, looking blankly at the golden early sun above his head, like a new life.

He came back to life.

Wu Youcai looked at Lu Tong.

The woman stood in the pharmacy, bowing her head to sort out the scattered medical books, when the storm was coming, she appeared in her mother's mourning hall, her voice was bewitching, her tone was cold, like a bad bride ghost. And now under such a warm sun, the small pharmacy is quiet and clean, and she stands here with warm eyebrows and eyes, and she has a sense of quiet years.

Wu Youcai said softly: "Why did Doctor Lu give me a pair of fake death medicine...... Is it because you guessed that I would use it on myself? ”

At that time, she handed the poison to Wu Youcai, suggesting that he could poison the chief examiner of the tribute, but in the end Wu Youcai backed down. In the end, he didn't want to kill people, so he used the medicine on himself, with the tragic feeling of burning jade.

But he didn't die.

He Blind Man's nonsense Wu Youcai didn't pay attention to it at all, the only thing he could think of was Lu Tong.

Lu Tong moved his hands and feet in the medicine.

But why did she do that? Could it be that she had already guessed that she was going to kill herself? How is this possible, after all, the decision to commit suicide was not even expected by himself at the beginning.

Lu Tong flipped through the medical book in his hand casually, and said lightly: "Didn't I say it?" If it were me, I would have killed him. ”

"But you're not me."

Wu Youcai was stunned.

Lu Tong looked up at him and smiled slightly: "But you are not me." ”

Wu Youcai is not her.

This scholar is loyal and honest, like most poor people in the world, he gritted his teeth and swallowed blood in his stomach. He is not like himself, he is cold and vicious, a person who reads the books of sages, a poor and destitute, but refuses to take more from a poor old woman a fish seller, asking him to kill people who are ignorant of life, isn't it too cruel?

She didn't think that Wu Youcai would kill himself, but she just felt that if Wu Youcai really killed someone, and didn't mention what the government would do in the future, this boundless guilt and moral pain alone would be enough to make this honest man unable to live.

She took advantage of him, but she didn't want to kill him.

Lu Tong asked, "What about you, do you still want to die now?" What are your plans for the future? ”

Wu Youcai was silent for a moment.

Xu is emotions of death before were too profound, and after Wu Youcai was "resurrected", he lay on the bed and thought a lot.

He thought of his parents' expectations for him when he was a child, thought of these years of hard study, and fell year after year, and thought of He Blind Man saying to him, "The son will definitely be an official in the future", he thought a lot, and finally, he saw through the window the embers of the colorful spikes in the yard, and remembered what Father Xun later mentioned to him, on the night of the wake, the people of the poetry club specially ordered a play for him "Lao Xiucai is the champion at the age of eighty".

It was a comedy with a happy ending, and he obviously got what he wanted, but he heard Daddy Xun cry.

Fame is just a golden shadow floating in the air, looking glamorous, but I don't know how many people will take a lifetime.

Wu Youcai retracted his thoughts and looked at the woman in front of him.

"I'm not going to play again," he said. ”

"Why?"

Wu Youcai smiled: "Actually, I came today to say goodbye to Dr. Lu." ”

Lu Tong was stunned.

"There is a shopkeeper outside the city, who wants to hire a west seat for his six-year-old daughter, and Mr. Tuohu is looking for someone. Mr. Hu gave him my name. After that, I went to his house to teach. About ten taels of silver a year, enough for me to live. ”

When he talked about these things, his eyebrows and eyes stretched a lot, as if he had figured out many things overnight, and he no longer had a layer of gloomy color as when he first saw him, and he became free and easy.

Lu Tong was silent for a long time before he said, "It's okay." ”

The Ministry of Rites has been shaken up and down by this incident, and Wu Youcai, as an insignificant little person, is the source of all this. Although the people concerned are already in prison, no one will seek revenge on him. But in the future, Wu Youcai will inevitably be taken out to talk about things.

This place is very sad for him.

Wu Youcai looked at Lu Tong: "What about Doctor Lu?" ”

Lu Tong was stunned.

Wu Youcai looked at the person in front of him.

In fact, it has come to this point, and it doesn't matter what Lu Tong's purpose is for using himself. In any case, she fulfilled his last wish.

Now that the fraud has been exposed, all the magnates who oppressed the scholars have been punished. After he was resurrected from the dead, he was carefully examined by several servants of the Criminal Department, and found nothing wrong, all of them were amazed. So he followed the set of sayings that He Blind said to him, "the king of Hades released people", and didn't want to cause trouble for Lu Tong again.

He was grateful to her, grateful to her for cruelly tearing the truth to him in this muddy world, and grateful to her for finding a way to survive for himself. I am even more grateful for the fake death pill, which made him feel attached to life at the moment of life and death, and there was a chance to turn back.

Get back on your feet.

Maybe Wu Xiucai, who is famous in the West Street Fresh Fish Shop, is dead, and the one who survives is the real Wu Youcai he wants to do.

There was a long silence in the bunk.

In the middle of the night, Wu Youcai's voice sounded.

"No matter what Dr. Lu wants to do, if you are talented, you only wish Dr. Lu everything goes well and his wish is fulfilled."

The words are heartfelt and sincere.

Everyone in this world has their own way, everyone has their own suffering, there is no need to explore, there is no need to inquire, he just needs to know that Lu Tong is the hand stretched out to him in a desperate situation, and he is a female bodhisattva who saves suffering, so it is enough.

"Thanks to Childe's good words."

Lu Tong raised his head and looked at him with a smile: "I also wish Gongzi, there will be no hardships in the future, know all the good people in the world, read all the good books in the world, and see all the good landscapes in the world." ”

When she said this to him, although she smiled, her eyes were faintly melancholy, as if she was looking at someone else's shadow through him, and there was always a little sadness.

Wu Youcai was stunned for a moment, and then laughed, he has always been gentle and introverted, and it is rare to laugh so sincerely, so he put away his smile again, and made a long gesture to Lu Tong's solemn matter.

"Thank you, Dr. Lu."

He said goodbye, his back was not as humble and slightly hunched as usual, but sparse and chic, the corners of his washed white robe flew in the autumn wind, and it was dazzling in the golden sun, and he actually looked a little young and crazy.

Lu Tong stared at his back for a long time, until the gap in the sun under the plum tree in front of the door no longer floated, until the corners of her eyes were sour, and Du Changqing's voice came out from behind.

His tone was strange, "Why are you so reluctant?" I don't know, I think it's your brother. ”

Lu Tong retracted his thoughts, but he didn't relent, "You saw Wu Xiucai come back from the dead today, you weren't surprised at all, didn't you know it early in the morning?" ”

"Well, I heard about it in the county king's mansion."

Du Changqing sneered: "Just heard? Didn't you do it when he came back from the dead? ”

Lu Tong was unmoved: "Didn't he say it himself, Yang Shou is not over, Hades doesn't accept good people, I don't have that ability." ”

"Whose Hades is so open? This is more sensible than the officials in the mortal world, then there was a kidnapping woman on West Street who specialized in abducting girls, and she still lived to ninety-eight, why didn't she be dragged down? ”

He was rarely shrewd, and followed Lu Tong closely, "Don't fool Young Master Ben, what secrets do you two have that I, the owner, can't hear?" I want to know now! ”

Lu Tong was annoyed, Yinzheng and Ah Cheng came out of the courtyard, put down the dustpan for drying medicine, and grabbed Du Changqing's sleeve: "Boss, didn't you say that when the girl comes back, you will go to the banquet of Renhe Shop?" When is it scheduled. ”

Hearing this, Du Changqing's body was shocked: "Yes, I almost forgot about business!" ”

On the fifteenth, he agreed to order a banquet in Renhe Shop, but as soon as Lu Tong went to Wenjun Wangfu, it was ten days, so he could only temporarily remove the banquet, but the money for the reservation was not returned, and the shopkeeper Du grinded the other party for a long time, and the shopkeeper finally promised to wait for him to come back after he was free, and all the seats were arranged.

Now that Lu Tong is back, this hard-won meal can finally be eaten.

He said, "Everyone is all together, hurry up, pick a time to eat the table." How about tomorrow? ”

Lu Tong lifted the felt curtain: "Wait a few more days." ”

"Wait?" Du Changqing was speechless, and said angrily, "Love is not going to go!" ”

Lu Tong ignored his nagging and went back to the small courtyard.

The small courtyard is still as clean as before leaving, the silver kite loves to be clean, and it has to be cleaned every day, Lu Tong entered the house, walked to the small Buddha cupboard, and took out a few sticks of incense from the side and lit them.

In the smoke, the Bodhisattva statue lowered his eyebrows and looked compassionate.

She spoke softly, not knowing whether to say it to herself or to others.

"It's almost ......"

"Wait a few more days."

Know all the good people in the world, read all the good books in the world, and see all the good landscapes in the world - "The Story of the Small Window"