On the first day after Chinese New Year's Eve, after letting go of firecrackers, Renxin Medical Center continued to open.

Other shops on West Street are closed, but the hospital cannot. In the first month, if there is a headache and brain fever in everyone's house, you have to come to the hospital to see the disease and get medicine. It's just that there are far fewer patients than usual, and the shop is idle.

Yinzheng woke up early the morning of the second day after getting drunk on Chinese New Year's Eve, and when he entered Lu Yu's house, he found that the white-clothed Guanyin placed in the small Buddha cabinet was missing.

"For no reason, the statue of Guanyin on Chinese New Year's Eve is broken, and the omen is not good, maybe it is blocking some disaster. When I turned around, the girl and I went to the temple to burn a few pillars of incense and invite a statue of Guanyin back. ”

When Du Changqing heard Yinzheng's words, he immediately picked up the chair and turned his head to look at Lu Yu: "Yes, go and worship Wen Changjun again, and let Wen Changjun release you in the spring test next month." ”

"What god to worship?" Miao Liangfang was very disdainful, "I didn't worship any Buddha back then, but I still made a splash, and I passed the exam for those waste young masters of the Taiyi Bureau." ”

"Isn't it, that's why you're kicked out."

“……”

"Lao Miao, people still have to be in awe." Du Changqing is kind and persuasive.

Ah Cheng muttered: "It's like stealing raw fish to roast and eat it is not the owner......"

"Shut up."

Lu Yu listened to them laughing while flipping through the medical books that Miao Liangfang had compiled for her. The spring exam is imminent, and there are no patients in the hospital these days, and I study harder every day than before.

Yinzheng took the washed handkerchief to the yard to dry, and after a while, he opened the felt curtain and came in, and asked Lu Yu: "Girl, it seems that I have never seen this handkerchief before?" ”

Lu Yu raised his eyes and couldn't help but be slightly stunned.

The silver kite held Fang Yue's white silk handkerchief in his hand, and the eagle pattern embroidered on it was gorgeous and majestic, but it was not completely washed because it had been stained with blood before, leaving a little bit of pink.

It was the handkerchief that Pei Yunyao gave her on the night of Chinese New Year's Eve.

Yin Zheng looked at the handkerchief in his hand: "The material is quite good to the touch, but ...... Why don't you remember buying it before? ”

The clothes and handkerchiefs in the house were all purchased by Yinzheng, Lu Yu secretly thought in her heart, after that day, she washed the handkerchief, and originally wanted to find a chance to return it to Pei Yunyi. But then Pei Yunyi didn't appear again, and she forgot to hide the handkerchief, but was turned out by the silver kite and washed it.

Du Changqing's eyes were sharp, and he glanced at him suspiciously: "Why does it look like a men's style?" ”

This kind of sharp and cold pattern has always been used more by men.

Lu Yu took a sip of the tea cup on the table, and said without changing his face: "It was a thank you gift from Miss Pei before." ”

"Oh." The silver kite suddenly realized.

Lu Yu had to prepare medicine for Baozhu every once in a while, and when Pei Yunshu's subordinates came to get the medicine, in addition to the diagnosis silver, they would also send some other thank-you gifts. It's not too expensive, a few bright fabrics, a few boxes of delicate snacks and the like.

"It's a pity." Yinzheng touched the handkerchief, a little regretful, "The material is good, and the color is elegant, but the embroidery is too cold and hard, and it is stained, otherwise it is just right to embroider it into silk flowers for the girl." ”

Lu Yu almost choked on the tea.

If you really want to make Pei Yunyao's handkerchief into a silk flower and wear sideburns, if you are seen by this person, you don't know how to slander her in your heart.

Hearing this, Du Changqing glanced at Lu Yu: "Speaking of which, Doctor Lu, I will send you monthly silver on time every month, and you will also buy yourself some jewelry." Don't put the worthless flowers and grass on your head, you are still so plain after the New Year, dressed in linen and filial piety, and those who don't know think that our hospital is dead. ”

"In the past few days, the Shangyuan Lantern Festival has not been closed until the evening of the 18th, and moths and snow willows are sold everywhere, so you can also buy some plugs. To tell you the truth, I'm tired of seeing the flowers on your head. ”

Lu Yu didn't take his words at ease, but he paused when he heard the word "moth".

Moth......

In the box in the drawer of her bedroom, there was also a pair of golden moths.

Lu Yu still can't figure out what Pei Yunyi meant by turning back halfway that night and giving her a pair of golden moths, which is called a "birthday gift". Of course, she would not be so sentimental as to think that Pei Yunyao specially bought it for her, thinking that it was probably a girl he bought to give it to, but she temporarily changed her mind and borrowed flowers to offer Buddha to her.

Perhaps it was the pity of seeing her that inspired a little bit of meaningless pity for this powerful child.

Lu Yu was thinking about it, when Ah Cheng's excited shout came from his ears: "Why don't we go to the Lantern Festival together tonight!" Dr. Lu came to Beijing last spring, when the lantern festival had already ended. This year is just in time, let's go and see the excitement! ”

As soon as he said this, Yinzheng also had a little anticipation in his eyes, and quietly touched Miao Liangfang's arm.

"Uh...... That's right," Miao Liangfang immediately understood, "Xiao Lu works hard in the medical hall every day, so he should go out to breathe and relax." This is said sincerely, Miao Liangfang himself has also passed the spring test, and he did not work hard to prepare for the spring test back then, but compared with Lu Yu now, he still feels small. Every day when he went home, Lu Yu was studying hard, and when he came to the hospital early in the morning, Lu Yu was still working hard, Yinzheng secretly told him that Lu Yu would not sleep until he read every night, and Miao Liangfang himself was also worried that Lu Yu would stay up like this, don't wait for the spring exam, his body will collapse first.

It's still about saving your life.

"Lao Miao is right," Du Changqing thought deeply, "Wu Xiucai of the fresh fish shop also brought someone to you before, teaching you not to shut yourself up at home all day long and study, come, today the owner is in charge, let's go to Jingdemen to watch the lights together!" ”

Having said that, Du Changqing silently observed Lu Yu's face, and the other people in the room also secretly glanced at Lu Yu.

Lu Yu rubbed the page in front of him.

It is true that she has not been out of the hospital since the first day.

She wasn't really interested in the lights, but ......

Not far away, Ah Cheng was lying on the table, revealing half of his head wearing a tiger head hat, and a pair of eyes looked at her eagerly.

Lu Yu retracted his gaze, closed the book, and said, "I'll go." ”

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On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, every house lights up.

The Liang Dynasty has always had the custom of "three-element lantern viewing".

Three-yuan lantern viewing, that is, the fifteenth day of the first month, the fifteenth day of July, and the fifteenth day of October, there are lantern festivals. In addition to watching the lanterns, the people also have to eat the Lantern Festival, guess the lantern riddles, set off fireworks, and sacrifice to the door to celebrate the festival.

Zhaoning Mansion is also lively tonight.

The man sitting above the hall was dressed in a green round-necked gown, although he was middle-aged, he was handsome and chic, and his eyebrows and eyes were elegant and graceful, which made people feel good at a glance.

This man is Pei Di, the Duke of Zhaoning.

The woman sitting beside him was beautiful and gentle-looking, holding a boy of three or four years old in her hand, smiling and talking to the man in the seat.

"Master, tonight's Jingdemen Lantern Festival, let's hold Rui'er and watch the lights later, okay?"

It was Jiang Wan, the Duchess of Zhaoning, who spoke.

In addition to his wife, Zhaoning Gong Pei Di has a total of three concubines. Among the three-room concubines, only one of the concubines, Aunt Mei, gave birth to a concubine for him, and it was Pei Yunxiao, who was one year younger than Pei Yunyao.

Pei Yunyao, the son of Zhaoning Gong, and his sister Pei Yunshu were born to Pei Di's first wife, after the death of the first wife, Pei Di married Jiang Wan, and Jiang Wan later gave birth to her sister-in-law Pei Yunrui, who is only four years old this year.

Without waiting for Pei Di to answer, Pei Yunrui in Jiang Wan's arms shouted first: "Call Big Brother!" Tell the big brother to come with us! ”

Jiang Wan was startled, and quickly pinched the young son in her arms, but Aunt Mei on the side laughed when she heard the words.

"Third young master, the prince is very busy every day, how can he have time to watch the lights? Your second brother is idle, so you might as well ask him to go with him. ”

Aunt Mei is delicate and beautiful, she is the beauty given to Zhaoning Gong by her colleagues at the beginning, because of this, Aunt Mei is respected in the house, and because of the birth of Pei Yunxiao, her status is much higher than that of the other two concubines.

Pei Yunxiao is twenty this year, and he was born Qingjun, most of his appearance inherited Pei Di's Qingjun, and his temperament is also very gentle and elegant, and he is often praised by others.

Under the same roof, sons of the same age and equally excellent are always inevitably compared.

Especially when one of them also has a delicate relationship with the family.

Pei Yunxiao didn't seem to hear Aunt Mei's words, and still ate vegetables. Pei Yunshu, who was sitting beside Jiang Wan, frowned when she heard this, and looked at Aunt Mei with a little anger.

Everyone knows that there is a lot of contradiction between Pei Yunyao and Pei Di's father and son. In the first month, the ancestors need to be worshiped and incense is needed, and Pei Yunyi has to go back to the Pei family ancestral hall to incense his mother, which is a rare trip back to the Pei family. But most of the time he was on duty in the palace, except for offering incense to his mother, he never took the initiative to set foot in the Pei family.

Pei Yunshu didn't want to come back, so she tried to stay with Baozhu in the courtyard where she lived when she was not out of the pavilion. If it weren't for Pei Di to have dinner together on the fifteenth night tonight, she wouldn't have come here to see the bad picture of harmony and friendship in this family.

Pei Di didn't speak, only glanced at Aunt Mei lightly, Aunt Mei was stunned, then silenced, bowed her head and didn't dare to say anything more.

Pei Yunshu felt bored for no reason, and hastily used some food and said, "I'll go and take a look at the treasure bead." "Leave the feast.

When he left the hall, the cold wind outside the corridor blew on his face, and it seemed to blow away the suffocation on the banquet just now.

"Madam," Fang Zi said softly, "there is really no need to eat with them in the future if it is not necessary." ”

Even the maidservants around her can see that the Pei family has ghosts, not to mention others.

Sighing, Pei Yunshu said, "It's okay, I'm going to leave in a few days." ”

She is a married daughter, not to mention that before she got married, from the time Jiang Wan entered the door, the Pei family had no place for her. Now she has not returned home after leaving Wang Wenjun, but lives in the house bought by Pei Yunyao.

He Li did not go back to her parents' house but opened another house, which was also the first time in Shengjing. However, it is not bad if there are many things out of the ordinary, and the house where she lives is adjacent to Pei Yunyao, which is also convenient for her to see Pei Yunyao.

If it weren't for the incense for her mother, she wouldn't have come back.

Just thinking about it, Fangzi looked ahead and shouted, "Shizi! ”

Pei Yunshu raised her eyes and saw Pei Yunshu walking over from the other end of the corridor.

"How did you come back?" Pei Yunshu was surprised and delighted, "Didn't you say that you were on duty today?" ”

"On duty at night, I'm fine, come back and put incense on my mother."

Pei Yunshu laughed, "That's right, I'll go with you." ”

The ancestral hall is the last room at the end of the corridor. Outside the door, there are new stickers and peach charms, and the incense candles inside are brilliant, enshrined in the portraits of the ancestors of the Pei family.

Pei Yunshu and Pei Yunyao walked into the ancestral hall, there was no one inside, Pei Yunshu took incense and planned to pay tribute one by one from the right, and when he turned his head, he saw Pei Yunshu spontaneously burning incense and walked to his mother's tablet.

He didn't intend to pay tribute to anyone but his mother.

Pei Yunshu's lips moved slightly, she wanted to say something, but in the end she didn't say anything.

Pei Yunyao stood in front of his mother's tablet and bowed to the incense. He looked calm, didn't say any honorifics, silently inserted the incense candle in front of his mother's incense shrine, and took two steps back, looking at the hazy tablet blurred by the green smoke, revealing a normal smile.

"Mother," he said with a smile, "a happy new year." ”

Pei Yunshu watched his movements, couldn't help but feel sour, hurriedly turned his back, and after calming down, he and Pei Yunyao made incense together.

The brocade curtain in the main hall was hung high, and after standing for a while, the two sisters and brothers slowly walked out.

Pei Yunyi asked, "How long do you plan to take the treasure bead to live here?" ”

"I'll be gone in two days."

Pei Yunyi was silent.

She smiled: "Don't worry, I stay in my yard with Baozhu on weekdays, no one bothers me, and it's clean." It's you, don't come back if you're not happy. Mother's ......," she glanced back at the ancestral hall, "I'll do it for you." ”

After saying this, another person came to him. It was already evening, the sky was getting dark, the man stopped in front of Pei Yunshu and the others, his long robe was elegant, his expression was gentle, and the lantern hanging under the wall of the corridor illuminated half of his shadow, so the originally handsome face was also a little cold.

Pei Yunshu hurriedly said, "Father." ”

Pei Di nodded slightly, and his eyes fell on Pei Yunyi beside her.

"Why don't you say anything when you go home?"

The tone was natural and soft, as if a loving father was reproaching his son who had returned late, and his words were full of concern.

Pei Yunyao didn't speak.

"Ahh Pei Yunshu was extremely nervous.

Pei Di, the Duke of Zhaoning, and Pei Yunyao, the son of the world, did not have a harmonious relationship with their father and son, and the entire Sheng Kyoto knew about it. Outsiders only say that Pei Yunyao was young and rebellious, so he repeatedly disobeyed his biological father, but Zhaoning Gong was a gentle and tolerant son, and his eldest son Hu Lai.

Only Pei Yunshu knows that this is not the case.

"Sister," Pei Yunyi said to her with a smile, "Baozhu is still waiting for you in the house, go back quickly." ”

"You"

She was still a little worried, but Pei Yunhui's gaze was very persistent, and after a stalemate for a moment, Pei Yunshu was defeated, so she had to suppress her uneasiness in her heart, and only after casting an admonishing look at Pei Yunhui did she leave worriedly.

The hibiscus color spike lantern hanging under the eaves is delicate and rich, and the colorful light is cast on the people under the eaves, the young people are like young eagles and upright, and the middle-aged people are like wolves and tigers.

The distinction is clear.

Gradually, the wind rose, Pei Di spoke, his voice as gentle as ever: "I heard that the Qi family has found you." ”

The young man laughed silently.

"The Qi family is the prince's people."

Pei Yunyi let out an "oh" and said with a smile: "But I don't plan to get on the boat." ”

Pei Di didn't speak, and looked at the person in front of him silently. The young man was tall, a head taller than him when he stood up, and when he laughed there was a small pear vortex on his lips, which was with his mother. And his gaze was very cold, like the silver long knife at his waist glowing with coldness.

It seems that unconsciously, perhaps it was an unaware overnight, the boy who followed his father's footsteps to watch the lights grew up in a blink of an eye.

Pei Di stared at him for a long time before he spoke: "The Pei family is the one who stands on the prince's side. ”

"So?" The young man smiled lightly: "What I have done is detrimental to the interests of the Pei family, what is Master Pei going to do?" ”

Pei Di didn't say anything.

"Maybe the righteousness of killing relatives poisoned me......"

He stepped forward, bent down slightly, and lowered his voice in the man's ear: "Just like the horse that poisoned me in the first place." ”

Pei Di's eyes moved slightly, and Pei Yunyi had straightened up.

He looked at Pei Di, his eyes were unfamiliar as if he was looking at a stranger, and his tone was very calm.

"If there's something else, I won't disturb the adults to enjoy the family."

With that, he turned sideways past the person in front of him and walked away.

The palace lantern is swayed by the night wind, and the colorful spikes dotted under the lamp are like colorful flowers.

Pei Yunyao bypassed the corridor, and Qiong Ying, who was ordered by Pei Yunshu to come and ask, asked, "Where are you going, my lord?" ”

The young man paused slightly, glanced at the brightly colored spikes under the lanterns under the eaves, and smiled indifferently.

"Today is the fifteenth, and the lights are lively."

"I suddenly want to go to Jingdemen to see the lights."

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