The night was silent.

It was not early, the lights in the dormitories in the medical officer hospital had already been turned off, and there were only a few scattered microstars in the thick ink-like sky, but the sunny moon in the middle was exceptionally bright, shining a layer of cold and bright color on the willows in the small courtyard in front of the medical officer's hospital.

Lin Danqing poured water, Lu Yu had already freshened up, walked to the long table in the room and sat down.

The dormitory of the Medical Officer's Hospital is much better than that of the South Pharmacy, although the furnishings are not rich and exquisite, but they are also clean and tidy. There is no shortage of bookcases, couches, wooden cupboards, and bedding.

Lu Yu and Lin Danqing live in one room, one lives in the inner room, and the other lives in the outer house. This is what Lin Danqing specially asked Chang Jin to ask for.

Lu Yu bent down and carried the medical box to the table, opened the medical box, but did not touch the herbs inside, only opened the small grid, and the small grid bounced out, revealing the things inside.

It was a silver ring and a white jade pendant.

The ring has become a little black and old because of the passage of time, but the jade pendant is as warm and bright as new, and the brilliance is flowing under the light color.

She picked up the jade pendant, and wrapped her fingertips around the red rope on the jade, but the falling round jade was aimed at the bright moon outside the window, gradually reflecting the texture carved on the jade.

It is a picture of Coats stroking the piano.

The pattern is carved very exquisitely and meticulously, after many years, it is still lifelike, taking advantage of the moonlight, as if the pianist on the picture is about to walk down from the white jade, visit friends with the piano, and chant in the mountain stream.

Lu Yu looked at it and lost his mind slightly.

Lin Danqing came in from outside with a basin of hot water, and saw Lu Yu sitting at the table with her back to the door in a daze, thinking that she was worried about seeing Ji Xun today, so she put down the basin and comforted her: "Sister Lu, although Ji Xun has a strange and noble temperament, and occasionally has some problems, there is no flaw in his character. ”

"Don't worry, he's not going to trouble you for no reason."

"Good people......" Lu Yu muttered.

Of course she knew that Ji Xun was a good person.

It has always been that way.

The gray shadow pulled out by the round jade in his hand under the light color was like a bleak past, and it fell heavily in his heart.

Lu Yu lowered his eyelashes.

She had met Ji Xun.

Not in front of the stone steps of the courtyard tonight, not in the queer street paved by Liu Ji, but earlier.

In southern Jiangsu.

……

That was about four years ago, the thirty-sixth year of Yongchang.

She has followed Yun Niang to identify the pharmacology of the poison meridian, and occasionally she will see the patients who go up the mountain to ask Yun Niang for treatment - the patients Yun Niang does not want to consult often throw to her in order to save her worry.

However, after the treatment of the disease, the drug trial must continue.

Xu is because her body has tried the drug many times, the effect of ordinary poisons has been minimal, Yun Niang's newly developed poison has become more and more violent, in the past, after the drug test, only need to recuperate for two or three days, now try the medicine once, sometimes the time is long, it takes more than a whole month to turn around.

Lu Yu still remembers that it was a spring day in March.

Another test of medicine, Yun Niang developed a new poison, after taking it, the whole body was chilled, even if the summer was hot, I couldn't feel a trace of warmth.

"Silkworms are afraid of rain and cold seedlings, and they are afraid of fire." Yun Niang thought about it for a long time before she came up with a satisfactory name, "It's called Cold Silkworm Rain." ”

Lu Yu locked herself in the thatched hut of Luomei Peak, wrapped in layers of quilts, and still felt as if she was thrown naked into the ice cellar of nine cold days, her teeth were so cold that she gurgled, for seven days and seven nights, she was like a corpse that had not yet been completely cold, and it was like a spring silkworm that was being drenched by the cold rain, and the rain also carried a corrosive meaning, little by little, she was all over her body, inside and out, from the internal organs to pieces.

After the seventh day, the chill gradually subsided, and she began to feel warm and cold, and she could move her body.

Yun Niang is very satisfied with the new poison, but she still needs to improve the "Cold Silkworm Rain" and let her find a few fresh corpses.

Lu Yu went down the mountain, planning to go to the execution ground.

Sunan Street is bustling with people and cars. It was spring, and the people in the city often came out to go out.

Xu is body is cold poison has not cleared, even though the top of his head is the March sun, Lu Yu still can't feel a trace of warmth, as if the frozen body is just stretching and toddler, and even his steps are a little vain.

She just walked onto the small bridge not far from the inn, and suddenly heard an exclamation accompanied by the sound of horses' hooves, and vaguely heard someone behind her shouting: "Hey, what are the people in front of you doing, get out of the way-"

She looked back blankly and saw a carriage on the bridge coming towards her.

Frightened, Lu Yu subconsciously turned sideways and wanted to hide, but the residual poison of the "cold silkworm rain" had not yet cleared, and she had just carried it on the mountain for seven days and seven nights, her body was not flexible enough, and the galloping carriage grazed her body and ran dangerously, but Lu Yu was taken to a stumble and hit the stone beam on the bridge.

"Phew—"

The coachman in front shouted, and the carriage stopped at the bridge.

The coachman didn't get out of the car, just sat on the horse, turned his head to look at Lu Yu, and shouted, "Are you okay?" ”

The ankle bone was broken, Lu Yu didn't feel very pain, and sometimes, her perception of "pain" would be a little more sluggish than ordinary people.

She got up from the ground, quickly put on the fallen gown, bent down to pick up the medical box on the ground and turned to leave, not wanting to entangle with others.

I had only taken two steps when I suddenly heard a voice.

"Wait—"

Lu Yu turned his face numbly to look, and saw that the curtain of the carriage was lifted, and a person stepped down from the carriage.

It was a good spring day.

Green poplars and fragrant grass, the east wind dyes willows, and the whole southern Jiangsu is bathed in the joy of the new year. The people and women on the embankment laughed together, it rained again last night, and the poplar flowers floated all over the lake on and off the bridge.

The green-robed young man walked from this piece of turbulent spring, walked to Lu Yu's side and stopped, he looked down at Lu Yu, his good-looking eyebrows frowned slightly, and asked, "How are you?" ”

The boy's voice was flat, not quite in line with his slightly concerned expression.

Lu Yu suddenly came back to his senses, lowered his head and was about to leave without saying a word.

A green shadow stood in front of her.

Lu Yu raised his head, and the young man in Tsing Yi pursed his lips and gestured towards her knees.

There, the rubble grazed his clothes as he wrestled, gradually oozing a secret red.

"You're bleeding." He said.

Next, no matter how Lu Yu explained that she didn't need the other party to be responsible, and there were more important things, the young man still insisted on sending her to the nearest medical center.

In the end, even the coachman couldn't look at it, and then persuaded him: "Girl, just listen to our young master." My young master is stubborn and will not give up, if you don't go to the hospital today, he can spend a day here with you! ”

Lu Yu was speechless.

She still has to go to the execution ground to find Yun Niang's body, spring is not worse than winter, after a long time, the corpse will rot and fester, she can't delay too long.

I had no choice but to respond.

The boy and his coachman took Lu Yu to a nearby hospital.

He doesn't talk much, he looks a little silent, and Lu Yu won't take the initiative to talk to him. When she arrived at the medical center, the coachman helped her sit down, and the doctor of the medical center saw the abrasions on her legs, did not prescribe medicine, and only gave her a bottle of Jinchuang medicine.

Lu Yu took the medicine and was about to leave, but when he got together, he suddenly felt dizzy and almost fell to the ground.

A hand reached over and held her.

She said, "Thank you." ”

The hand that held her was warm, falling from elbow to her wrist and not letting go for a long time.

Lu Yu sensed that something was wrong, and suddenly shook off his hand, but met the young man's slightly surprised gaze.

He said, "You're poisoned." ”

Lu Yu's complexion changed slightly.

There is no antidote to the "cold silkworm rain".

Most of the poisons made by Yun Niang have no antidote, but in order to prevent her from dying immediately, the amount of poison and toxicity are controlled just right, just at the edge of the position. It can not only make her feel the pain of the poison, but also keep her from dying in this boundless pain.

If you can survive this suffering, you will live, otherwise, you will die.

She has survived seven days and seven nights, and when the "cold silkworm rain" was the most ferocious, the residual poison did not make her worry about her life, but it was still hidden in her body, and she had to wait for the torture of the cold rain to gradually integrate into her flesh and blood.

She didn't know that the other party knew how to heal, and she could detect something wrong with just a little pulse.

Lu Yu held the Jinchuang medicine in his hand tightly and said in a low voice: "There is nothing to do." "Turn around and want to leave.

but was held by a hand.

The young man frowned and stared at her, and slowly repeated: "You are poisoned." ”

The voice is steadfast.

The place where she was grabbed by the other party suddenly became hot, as if the most embarrassing part she had been trying to hide was revealed, and she wanted to break free, but the residual poison of the "cold silkworm rain" still made her very weak, and even resisting seemed a little powerless.

The doctor in the medical hall was asked by the young man to check Lu Yu's pulse, and after looking at it for a long time, his face was embarrassed: "This ...... Forgive the old man for his incompetence, I really can't see where this girl has poisoning. ”

The two were stunned at the same time.

Yun Niang is clever with poison, if she wants to hide, it is difficult for the world's wise doctors to detect the clues, and the same is true of "cold silkworm rain".

Lu Yu was surprised that the old doctor in the medical hall could not see the poisoning disease, and this young man looked only seventeen or eighteen years old, but he could see through it at a glance, and I am afraid that his understanding of medical classics and pharmacology is already the best in the world.

She said in a deep voice: "In this case, it should be the son's mistake." "I'm leaving.

The young man stopped her again, and this time his tone was already a little reproachful: "Why do you always want to leave?" He said coldly: "As a doctor, there is no reason to let the sick leave." ”

"Since he can't cure it, I'll come."

Lu Yu was stunned.

In fact, in those years, she was polished by Yun Niang file on the mountain and lost her temperament, and everything was difficult to make her waves. However, there was a rare trace of panic in front of the young man in Tsing Yi, she tried her best to explain to the other party that she was not poisoned, and that there were more important things to do, but the other party was determined to do this bodhisattva to the end, and she had to cure her with medicine.

"If I don't return, my father and mother will be worried." Lu Yu said.

The boy nodded, "That's true." The next moment, he looked at Lu Yu: "Where is your home, I will explain it to Ling Zun Lingtang personally." ”

Lu Yu: "......"

Naturally, she couldn't take the other party back, otherwise Yun Niang would see him, and maybe she would treat him as the next medicine man.

Seeing that Lu Yu was silent, he took Lu Yu to a nearby inn.

"If you want to send a message to your family, tell me that they can come here with you."

Lu Yu pursed his lips: "No need." ”

She thought that this man might just be a whim, unable to put her overflowing kindness, and that it would not be too late for her to sneak away at night, when they were all asleep.

Lu Yu thought so, but she didn't expect that the other party's persistence was far better than she imagined. The coachman who followed the young man seemed to have kung fu and a pair of ears that were extremely sensitive, and she only opened the door a crack in the night, and was chased out by the other party.

It was just deliberately looking at her.

Lu Yu had never seen such a person, she thought, the other party didn't want to kidnap her, in the flower building in southern Sunan City, many girls were abducted by abductors when they were children before falling into the dust, and the mass graves in Luomei Peak often had the corpses of Qingqi who were infected and discarded, and she had buried many of them.

But if you want to take her captive, why bother? and shut her up in an inn, and waste her money in vain.

didn't think of a result, Lu Yu simply didn't want to. Thinking of waiting and seeing, if these two people really have bad intentions, she will poison them with the poison in the medical box.

But the two of them were really treating her.

The coachman bought all kinds of medicinal herbs according to what the young man in Tsing Yi wrote, and the young man studied the recipe in the house, and fed her to drink the medicine every day.

Lu Yu didn't care if this medicine was poisonous or not, and ordinary poison couldn't poison her.

She just felt a little bit of novelty about the taste, she had taken poison more days than she had taken medicine, and poison was no different from an ordinary meal to her, and it was the first time in these years that someone had done so hard to detoxify her.

The young man's coachman pulled the young man out of the door, and Lu Yu overheard their conversation. The coachman lowered his voice: "Young master, we have been staying in Sunan for half a month, and the master has written to urge us, it's time to go back." ”

"Her poison is not completely cured, wait."

"But...... When you came out, you didn't have much money, and the journey back was enough, but the medicinal materials you bought every day were precious, and the person sent by the lord to deliver the silver tickets had not yet arrived...... If this continues, we won't have enough money to go back. ”

There was a long silence outside.

After a while, the young man's voice rang out: "Take this and bet it on them." ”

"Young Master, that's your jade pendant!"

Lu Yu was stunned.

The man's tone was still flat, and he urged, "Go and come back quickly." ”

Lu Yu sat back in front of the window a moment before the door was pushed open, pretending to be indifferent. The young man frowned and looked at her: "Did you hear it all?" ”

After being silent for a while, Lu Yu spoke: "Why did you save me?" ”

Lu Yu couldn't understand this person.

From the occasional conversation between the coachman and him, she probably knew that the other party was a young master from Shengjing, and he was just passing by on the way back to Beijing. He should have a wealthy family, and although the robes he wore were simple in style, the brocade embroidery was luxurious and meticulous that no first-class ready-to-wear shop in southern Jiangsu could do.

He is also very polite, and his gestures are all the elegance of the children of the family, like a green crane flying from the clouds, standing in the flock of chickens, there is always a kind of lonely height that does not fit.

He didn't speak, and Lu Yu said again: "You and I are just passers-by in Pingshui, I am not poisoned, and it has nothing to do with you, why do you want to save me?" ”

Lu Yu didn't understand, if it was the pity of the children of the nobility on a whim, but half a month had passed, and the interest was enough to subside, this "uneven road" drama must have been tired of it, why was he still so persistent?

"It is only natural for a healer to cure a disease." He glanced lightly at the medical box that Lu Yu put in the corner, and said, "You are also a doctor, don't you know?" ”

Lu Yu's heart tightened.

She never opened the medical box in front of the other party, and she never said who she was.

"I've seen you take your own pulse." As if seeing her confusion, the boy took the initiative to explain.

Lu Yu didn't know what to say, so he could only respond dryly.

He carefully sorted the new medicinal materials sent by the coachman, and said, "You live here for half a month, I don't know your name yet, what is your name?" ”

Clusters of medicinal herbs scattered, and dust flew in the golden sunlight. Probably because most of the cold poison on his body was relieved, Lu Yu actually felt that the cold sunlight was a little warmer.

She lowered her head, and the tip of her nose covered by her veil was soaked with a layer of fine sweat from the warmth, and said softly, "Seventeen." ”

Seventeen, this name is not a real name when I hear it, but the other party was only slightly stunned, and did not ask much, and said, "My name is Ji Xun." ”

Ji Xun......

Lu Yu silently read the name twice in his heart.

Ji Xun is a strange person.

He never asked about Lu Yu.

Lu Yu lived in the inn for more than ten days, no one came to look for her, and she didn't go home, ordinary people had long been curious about her origin, but Ji Xun never mentioned it.

He didn't ask where Lu Yu came from, he didn't ask why Lu Yu was poisoned, and he wasn't even half interested in Lu Yu's face under his clothes, and he seemed indifferent to everything around him.

But he was also very considerate.

He borrowed a stove from the inn every day to decoct the medicine seriously, stared at Lu Yu after taking it, and checked her pulse to see if it was improving.

He even asked the coachman to buy a skirt for Lu Yu.

Lu Yu's old clothes were scratched by gravel when he fell, and his knees were broken, which looked strange and indecent. Ji Xun asked the coachman to buy a new dress, which was a beautiful embroidered makeup dress, the color was the color of spring willow leaves, which was a very fresh and vibrant color.

Lu Yu took off his mask when he was asleep at night, put on the skirt, and looked at the strange girl in the mirror in a daze.

There was no mud on the picking herbs, no rags wrapped in layers due to ill-fitting, no rotting smell from the corpses picked up in the mass graves......

She looked like an ordinary thirteen or fourteen-year-old girl.

If she hadn't left her father and mother, if she was still with her brother and sister, the third girl in Changwu County would be like this.

Early the next morning, Lu Yu got up and someone knocked on the door.

She opened the door, and Ji Xun and the coachman stood outside the door.

The coachman stared at the skirt on Lu Yu's body in surprise, as if he was surprised that Lu Yu today was different from the past.

Lu Yu was a little uncomfortable, but Ji Xun walked past her as if he hadn't noticed, went straight to the house, took out the stove and medicine jar, and began to decoct the medicine.

The coachman went out, and Lu Yu silently walked to the long table in front of the window and sat down.

Ji Xun doesn't have a sense of male and female defense, perhaps because she is just a mediocre person in southern Sunan, not a daughter of a rich family, and she doesn't have so many rules to follow.

Or maybe it's because Ji Xun is a doctor, and doctors are always taboo against men and women.

Lu Yu looked out the window.

The arch bridge at the entrance of the inn is planted with new willows, gaze at the past from a high place, the lake embankment is a new green, and then in the distance is the peak shadow of Luomei Peak hidden in the clouds, the spring mountain is green, and the spring water is rippling.

Lu Yu was watching intently, and suddenly heard Ji Xun's voice in his ears.

He asked, "How long have you been studying medicine?" ”