Lonely spring court, cold moon into frost.

The wind blew the corners of the young man's crimson robe, and he stood in the shadow of the evacuated trees, his brow illuminated by a trace of the moon through the branches.

Lu Yu frowned slightly, why is Pei Yunyao here?

Pei Yunyi walked up to Lu Yu and said, "Doctor Lu." ”

He paused again, stared at her and smiled, "No, I should call Doctor Lu now." ”

The word "medical officer" sounded like an unintentional mockery in her ears when she was embarrassed at the South Pharmacy.

Lu Yu looked left and right, and when he saw that there was no one around, he suddenly reached out and grabbed Pei Yunyi's sleeve wrist, and walked quickly to the other end.

Pei Yunyao was slightly stunned, her eyes fell on her tugging on her sleeve, she didn't speak, and let Lu Yu take her into an old pharmacy not far away.

The pharmacy was not large, and it was full of some old and infrequently used medicinal herbs, and as soon as I opened the door, I brought up fine dust. Lu Yu pushed Pei Yunyao into the room, closed the door with his backhand, and when he turned around, he saw this person leaning against the window, looking around at the furnishings in the house, and when he saw her closing the door, he pretended to be surprised and said: "What does Doctor Lu mean by this?" ”

Lu Yu turned around and walked towards him: "Why did Master Pei come to the South Pharmacy?" ”

"Passing by."

"Passing by?"

He looked down at Lu Yu, and his tone was a little strange: "Doctor Lu won't think that I came to see you on purpose?" ”

Lu Yu choked and said, "I'm not so self-conscious." ”

Of course, she wouldn't think that Pei Yunyi came to see her, but appearing at the South Pharmacy at night inevitably made people think too much. This person is acting mysteriously and secretly, and Lu Yu has not forgotten the fact that Shen Fengying led people to search for the assassins in the palace at night, but now that he has just arrived, he naturally does not want to have more rights and wrongs.

Pei Yunyi smiled and looked at her with his back against the window: "So, what are you pulling me here for?" ”

Lu Yu collected his thoughts, raised his head and said, "I thought that Lord Pei didn't want others to know that you and I knew each other, so I deliberately avoided others, so as not to cause trouble to adults." ”

She said sarcastically, but Pei Yunyi was slightly stunned, and after thinking for a while, she spoke uncertainly: "You sound like you're saying this, as if you're blaming me for not greeting you that day?" ”

On the day Lu Yu entered the medical hospital, he met the guards of the palace and Pei Yunyi on the way to register with the new medical officer, and passed by Pei Yunyao.

"How so?" Lu Yu showed a hypocritical smile, "There are many rules in the palace, and Master Pei is different from me, and this self-knowledge, Xiaomin still has it." ”

Lu Qian once said that she is sometimes strange in the matter of yin and yang, but now it seems that this talent has not been buried.

Pei Yunyao stared at her for a while, as if she was carefully distinguishing her mood when she said this, and Lu Yu looked at him calmly.

After a while, he sighed, but instead of dwelling on the issue, he said, "So you brought me to this dark room?" ”

"Not bad."

Pei Yun snorted and nodded, "That makes sense." Then the conversation changed: "But the black light is blind, lonely men and widows, I don't know, I still think that you and I are fornicating here." ”

The pear vortex at the corner of his lips loomed in the faint light, and there was a kind of malicious teasing, but his tone was slow, half serious, reminding: "If this is seen, there is nothing." ”

Lu Yu was speechless.

is obviously a talented and arrogant silver sword palace marshal. But every time like this, his indecent appearance always makes people in a trance, and it was another person who was obedient and indifferent to the blood-spattered gauze tent in the county king's mansion.

Accustomed to acting.

Thinking like this in his heart, Lu Yu's gaze fell on a bamboo food basket beside him.

The food basket is very familiar, Lu Yu remembers that when he went to Pei Yunshu's house for a visit, Pei Yunshu often asked someone to send some snacks to Pei Yunshu, and the basket used was like this, and there was a pair of red magpies with cocked tails on the handle of the bamboo basket, which was vivid and festive.

At this time, Lu Yu believed that Pei Yunyi was indeed passing by the South Pharmacy, and when no one was going to do a big thing, he still carried a food basket with him.

As if noticing Lu Yu's gaze, Pei Yunyao followed her gaze and asked casually, "Have you eaten?" ”

"Nope."

He smiled: "Taste? He motioned for Lu Yu to take the food basket on his side.

Lu Yu wanted to refuse, but his stomach trembled slightly. She came back from the kitchen empty-handed, she had only eaten a piece of the medicine cake given by Ah Xiu during the day, and she was destined to be hungry tonight.

It's not like she can't go hungry.

But......

Of course, it's best to be full.

Lu Yu walked over and lifted the lid of the food basket.

Pei Yunyi raised his eyebrows slightly.

There are pastries in the bamboo food basket, and a cloisonné enamel yellow background saffron plate holds several delicate lotus cakes, one piece is only half the size of a palm, and nothing else.

Lu Yu was a little disappointed in his heart, and maliciously thought that Pei Yunyao, a tall man, was really a bit disobedient to eat such a delicate snack.

Pei Yunyi didn't know what she was slandering in her heart, and when she saw that she didn't move, she asked, "Don't like it?" ”

"Nope." Lu Yu picked up a piece of lotus cake and put it in his mouth.

Pei Yunyi was stunned, as if he didn't expect her to be so simple, and paused for a moment before he smiled and said, "Aren't you afraid that I will poison it?" ”

"Don't be afraid," Lu Yu said: "I am invincible." ”

She was really a little hungry, and her appetite was not very good before, but in the Renxin Medical Center before, when she was sitting in the hall, Yinzheng and Du Changqing always fed her some fresh melons and fruits, and after a long time, she almost forgot the taste of being hungry.

Pei Yunshu probably took into account Pei Yunyi's taste, the cakes were not too sweet, and he felt a little dull when he ate it in Lu Yu's mouth.

She ate very calmly, as if she was just to fill her stomach, and she didn't care about how the food tasted, there was no wave, Pei Yunyi looked at it for a while, as if she couldn't stand it, and said, "Be careful of choking, do you want to drink some water?" ”

"No, you don't."

The people of the South Pharmacy swept away the leftovers in the kitchen, which was nothing more than a deliberate embarrassment, and if it caused trouble by alarming others right now, it was better to make do here.

Thinking about it like this, the days when he and Lu Rou and Lu Qian were in the kitchen late at night, roasting sweet potatoes with their father and mother on their backs, suddenly came to mind.

How similar it is now.

The movements in his hands slowed down unconsciously, until Pei Yunyi's voice came from his ears: "Your hairpin ......"

Lu Yu was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously reached out to stroke the silver hibiscus hairpin in his hair.

The silver hibiscus hairpin and her sister's hairpin were worn on her head. From the day she entered the palace, she wore it in her hair, reminding herself what she was going to do and why she came.

Pei Yunyao leaned against the window, as if inadvertently asking, "The hairpin belongs to your sister?" ”

Lu Yu said: "Yes." ”

He nodded: "No wonder you spent a lot of money to redeem it at that time." ”

At that time, the Luyuan pawnshop on Qinghe Street, she wanted to cover Mizhang and accept a lot of old jewelry, but in fact, it was just for this hibiscus hairpin.

Pei Yunyi's gaze fell on her hair and said, "It's very suitable for you." ”

Fit?

The cake in his mouth suddenly became difficult to swallow, Lu Yu lowered his hand and was silent for a while before speaking: "Master Pei, do you know that hibiscus is a lowly flower. ”

Pei Yunyi was stunned.

Her hair was a little loose, and her robe was not neat after a day's work, but such an embarrassed posture did not damage her beautiful face at all, and even the silver hairpin was slightly crooked, which made her more and more like a flower that had been destroyed by wind and rain.

And her voice was very cold.

"This flower blooms and falls, and only a moment of glory is also righteous. Grows only on the shore of the hedge. The courtyard forest garden of the rich and noble people does not look down on this kind of flower. ”

People often say that hibiscus is the cheapest of flowers, perhaps in the eyes of those noble and wealthy families, sister, she or the Lu family, are like this lowly flower, only exist for one day, live or die, not in the eyes of people, obscure.

Pei Yunyao looked at her, as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't say it.

Lu Yu lowered his head and continued to eat the unfinished pastry, as if he didn't take what he just said to heart.

Until she ate up the plate of shortbread, she put the empty plate back into the basket, covered the basket, and said to Pei Yunyi: "Thank you Master Pei for the snacks." ”

He looked at her by the window and smiled, "I'm not here to bring you food. ”

Lu Yu thought about it, took out the purse that the silver kite stuffed into her from her arms, poured out a handful of broken silver from it, thought about it, took out the smallest one from it and handed it to Pei Yunyi.

Pei Yunyao looked at the broken silver for a while, his eyes moved from the silver to her face, and sighed, "Doctor Lu is also a little too stingy. ”

"When I first entered the palace, there were many places where I needed silver. Wait until I get the money and then make up for Master Pei. Lu Yu replied seriously.

Hearing this, his smile faded: "Do you think you can go back to the Medical Academy?" ”

"Of course."

Pei Yunyi was silent, the moon scars shone on his face through the window, and those dark eyes looked at her quietly, like mist and mist, indescribable.

Like the commonplace encounter of indifference, it seems to pity her for her predestined end.

After a while, he asked, "Didn't you plan for the future?" ”

Later?

Lu Yu was stunned for a moment, and then almost lost his laughter.

Maybe this Master Pei was moved by compassion for her at this moment, so he kindly reminded her not to take revenge without knowing the sky. But she never thought about turning back from the beginning of her entry into the palace.

Lu Yu raised his head and looked into Pei Yunyi's eyes: "No." ”

"Master Pei," she said, "the lowly flower that blooms in the morning and falls in the twilight will not have a future at all." ”

……

Since he met Pei Yunyi at the door of the South Pharmacy that night, Lu Yu has not seen him again.

Of course, the Imperial City is not as vast as the outside of the Imperial City, but it is not impossible for two people with different identities not to meet in a lifetime.

After picking the red flocculent for a few days, these herbs had to be cleaned and sorted out separately and sent to the Imperial Medicine Institute, and the burden naturally fell on Lu Yu and He Xiu.

He Xiu led Lu Yu to the warehouse where the medicinal materials were organized, and a large pile of red fragrant flocculent was stacked in the corner of the courtyard, covered with a coarse cloth to prevent the tidbits from flying, even so, the air was still filled with the unique fragrance of red fragrant flocculents.

Ah Xiu handed Lu Yu a handful of pestles, and sat down in front of the silver basin, which was piled up with a lot of red flocculents, and asked to pick them out one by one, pick out the broken branches, and leave tidbits and complete stems and leaves.

It's not an easy task, and the toxic aroma alone is enough to make people dizzy. A few days ago, Hongfangyuan just picked tidbits, and there were already a lot more red spots on He Xiu's face.

Lu Yu glanced at He Xiu, He Xiu was rubbing her eyes, even if she was wearing a scarf, the aroma of red fragrance still made her dizzy when she approached.

Lu Yu brought the silver basin in front of her to herself, "I'll come." ”

He Xiu was stunned for a moment, hurriedly took back the silver basin, and said, "How can this work, you have already helped me a lot!" ”

In the past few days, Lu Yu has done most of the work of picking red flocculents. She is not affected by the aroma, and there are no red spots on her face, and she picks it quickly. He Xiu was also very grateful.

"I also have a lot of money, so I can't do nothing." He Xiu smiled crampedly, "Speaking of which, in a few days, it will be the day of the silver." took the silver, and made two new clothes for his younger brothers and sisters in the spring, the children grew up fast, and last year's clothes were afraid to be small. ”

Lu Yu lowered his head and picked up the flower branches: "Do you have younger brothers and sisters?" How old is it? ”

"One is seven, the other is nine." Speaking of her younger siblings, the smile on He Xiu's face was much more real, "My family is ordinary, and when I was able to enter the hospital, my father and mother also traveled a lot. Nowadays, although the South Pharmacy is not as good as other places, the monthly silver is still paid on time. It's just that the medical officer of the South Pharmacy can't leave the Imperial City, and I haven't seen my family for three years......" Her voice lowered again.

Lu Yu didn't speak.

After a pause, He Xiu hurriedly smiled again: "But Doctor Lu is really fast, originally I cleaned up these flower branches, and it took more than half a day to clean a pot, you only picked half a pillar of incense, I looked, and when I sent it to the Imperial Medicine Institute, this year's Yimeng Pill should always be enough." ”

Lu Yu's heart moved: "A dream pill? ”

"It's an elixir made by the Imperial Medicine Institute, which specializes in treating difficulties in sleeping." He Xiu said: "The Rou Concubine of Danyang Hall is always easy to wake up and sleepless every spring. The medical officer of the medical officer of the hospital prescribed many prescriptions but did not get better, or the people from the imperial medicine hospital got the prescription, used red fang into the medicine, and made a dream pill, and the concubine Rou Niangniang only got better after taking it. ”

"Later, every March, the Imperial Pharmacy had to take fresh red flocculent from the South Pharmacy to make medicine, but the red flocculent was already poisonous, and it was not easy to make medicine, like the ones we picked a few days ago, and there were not a few bottles of pills in the end."

"This year, because of Doctor Lu, there are many more red flocculents picked than in previous years, and the Imperial Pharmacy should always be satisfied this time, and will not argue that there are not enough medicinal materials."

After He Xiu finished speaking, he saw Lu Yu's expression different, and couldn't help asking, "What's wrong?" ”

Lu Yu pondered: "Is this batch of red flocculent in the palace only used for a dream pill?" ”

He Xiu nodded: "Yes, after all, Hongfangfu is poisonous, and there are very few medicines that can be used. ”

Lu Yu lowered his head and looked at the flower branch in his hand.

The bright red branches were plucked, and some floating tidbits were scattered on the ground, as if covered with a layer of blood-colored light velvet. The fragrance comes from the branches of the flower and wafts into the tip of the nose.

He Xiu was startled, snatched the red fang from Lu Yu's hand, and said in a panic: "Although Doctor Lu is not affected by the fragrance of flowers, don't get too close, it is poison after all." ”

Lu Yu let her snatch the flower branches, didn't speak for a while, only looked sideways at the courtyard, a large number of crimson flower branches stacked in the corner, just looking at it also felt gorgeous and catchy.

She looked at it for a while and said, "Ah Xiu." ”

"What's wrong. Doctor Lu? ”

"Leave it to me."

Lu Yu lowered his head and picked up a flower branch.

"I'll sort out the flowers."

……

After March, spring rain began to fall.

The peach tree at the gate of the Imperial Medicine Courtyard was destroyed by the rain overnight, and the flower branches were scattered all over the ground.

Just a few steps away from the peach tree, the Yizheng stone iris was standing on the steps, directing the medical workers to pile up the red floc sent by the medical hospital into the warehouse.

The two young medical workers didn't hold it steadily, and a small bundle of red fragrant catkins rolled down from the car, and the stone iris hurriedly stretched out her sleeves to cover her mouth and nose, and reprimanded: "Be careful, this thing is poisonous!" ”

The medical workers hurriedly wrapped the red floc scattered on the ground with coarse cloth and hurried into the warehouse.

The stone iris looked back, and then spread her hand in the air on her face a few times, until she could no longer smell the fragrant fragrance of the flower, and then she let out a sigh of relief.

Red flocculent is a medicinal herb sent by the South Pharmacy.

The Imperial Medicine Institute is subordinate to the Inner Ministry. Palm press the secret recipe and secret elixir for the needs of His Majesty and the court. Among them, some of the materials used in the concoction of medicinal materials come from the medicine garden of the South Pharmacy.

Red flocculation is one of them.

The name of this flower is gorgeous, but the toxicity is not shallow, just smelling it, it is inevitable to be contaminated with toxicity. However, Concubine Rou Niangniang needs to cure the symptoms of sleeplessness, and the most important medicinal material is red flocculent. Therefore, no matter how afraid you are, every March after the New Year, the Imperial Pharmacy still has to honestly take over this batch of red flocculent from the South Pharmacy and take the risk of concocting pills.

It's really not a good job.

When the red floc grows in the garden, the medicinal properties are the strongest, and after picking, the medicinal properties gradually fade. Every time a bottle of Yimeng Pill consumes a lot of red flocculents, Concubine Rou Niangniang is arrogant and domineering, and she is always not very satisfied with the Yimeng Pill they do, and in the end, it is they who are scolded by the people of the Imperial Medicine Academy.

Shi Iris sighed, and as soon as she turned around, the two medical workers who had just delivered the red floc had come out of the warehouse.

"Master Yizheng doesn't have to worry," the young medical worker saw him frowning, thinking that he was worried that the medicinal materials were not enough, so he took the initiative to curry favor: "This year's delivery of red fangfu is more than last year's, piled up in a small warehouse, and the materials of Yimengdan are enough." ”

"Oh?" Stone Iris was surprised, "So much?" ”

Red flocculent is too toxic and difficult to pick, and most of the people who pick it will suffer from flower poison. There are only a few people in the South Pharmacy, and no one is willing to risk their lives to pick poisonous flowers. Although there are not many red flocculents sent each time, the stone iris is also blind to one eye.

After all, Concubine Rou Niangniang just couldn't sleep well for a few days at night, and the medical workers who picked red flocculents lost a good and healthy body!

They are all slaves, so why bother with each other.

Shi Iris's thought so, but she didn't expect that the amount of red floc sent this year would suddenly increase.

Another medical worker scratched his head and said, "I heard that there are new recruits in the Medical Officer's Hospital, and someone has gone to the South Pharmacy. It may have increased the number of people to pick flowers, so there are a lot more medicinal herbs. ”

"Newcomer?"

Shi Irisa was stunned for a moment, and then sighed a little. The new medical officer made it difficult to go, so he went to the South Pharmacy and sent him to pick red floc...... I don't know who I offended, and I won't be able to get out of it for the rest of my life.

It's not good to be a slave, life and death, it's all up to the head of the person, and you can't help yourself.

He took his hand, walked slowly towards the warehouse, and sighed: "Let's go to the pharmaceutical, I hope this year's Yimengdan, Niangniang can be satisfied." ”