"Ahh

Qi Yutai sat up abruptly from the low couch, his face dripping with cold sweat.

The room was silent, and the air seemed to be filled with the lingering scent of rhino incense.

A concerned voice came from my ear: "Are you okay, my lord?" ”

When he looked up, he saw a strange woman standing not far from the couch, and when he saw him awake, she reached out to his wrist as she spoke.

"Get out of here—"

Qi Yutai pushed away the person in front of him, and said in a fierce voice: "Who are you?" ”

Under the extreme shock, he forgot for a moment that he was in the Sili Mansion, his tone was fierce and irritable, the other party looked at him in amazement, seemed to be a little aggrieved, pursed his lips and did not speak, and silently took a few steps back.

Jin Xianrong, who was standing behind the woman, walked out, coughed lightly, and took the initiative to say: "Yutai, this is the Lu medical officer of the Hanlin Medical Academy, I told you not to wake up just now, I asked her to come and see if you are sick." ”

Medical officer?

Qi Yutai was stunned for a moment.

The voice of the person in the dream seemed to be still lingering in his ears, he couldn't remember the voice clearly, it was vaguely a woman, she reminded and asked in his ear, exploring the facts of the murder that night in Fengle Lou, like a gloomy female ghost who came for revenge.

It's chilling down the spine.

He looked at the strange woman at the door, looking a little suspicious: "What happened just now?" Why are you here? What about the person who spoke in my ear just now? ”

"The one who spoke?" Jin Xianrong looked left and right, "No, you were alone in this house just now." ”

"I'm alone?"

"Yes, Doctor Lu is busy administering needles and medicine to me, I wanted to ask you if you need Doctor Lu to take a look at how your wind chill is doing. As soon as I entered the room, you couldn't wake up when you lay on the table, which scared me, and I thought something had happened to you. ”

Jin Xianrong looked at Qi Yutai's face: "Yutai, did you just dream?" Is it that the wind and cold are not all good, and the spirit is not very good? If you want me to say, there is nothing wrong with the household department, if you are still sick, just rest in the house for a few more days, otherwise something will happen, and the master will blame him, and I will not be able to explain my brother......"

He said to himself, Qi Yutai was still in a trance.

Just now...... Is it a dream?

But the man's voice was so clear that it seemed to be whispering close to his ear.

He looked up and then at the young woman standing by the door, and then noticed that she was wearing the blue robe of the new medical officer.

Indeed, the medical officer is not false.

After a moment's hesitation, he asked the female doctor, "You haven't entered this room just now?" ”

The woman shook her head: "Xia Guan has been making medicine for Lord Jin in the hall just now. ”

Jin Xianrong nodded: "Medical Officer Lu is busy making medicine and has to go back to the medical hospital." He glanced at Qi Yutai up and down again, and suddenly smiled: "What kind of good dream did Yutai have?" ”

The other party said so surely, Jin Xianrong didn't need to lie to him, Qi Yutai was a little unsure, maybe it was really a dream he had.

It's just that this dream is too real.

Jin Xianrong took two steps forward, and saw that the cold sweat on his forehead had soaked his clothes, and he couldn't help but persuade: "Yutai, your face is not very good-looking, it is better to let Medical Officer Lu check your pulse for you, if the wind and cold are not good, you can simply go back to the house to raise one." ”

Without waiting for Qi Yutai to speak, Jin Xianrong turned back to the woman and said, "Doctor Lu, please take a look at Gongzi Qi." ”

The woman said yes.

Qi Yutai sat on the low couch, and it was at this moment that he suddenly reacted that Jin Xianrong's attitude towards this woman was too polite. This person has always been lustful, but whenever he sees a woman with two points of beauty, he has to go up and flirt a few times, and Qi Yutai has long been surprised. This woman was born beautiful, but Kim Hyunrong treated her with no disrespect in her words, and the rules seemed to be a different person.

Jin Xianrong's dog can't change to eat, could it be that this woman has another identity?

He was thinking that the woman had walked up to him, her fingertips on his pulse.

Qi Yutai shuddered suddenly.

The female medicien's fingers were cold, as cold as ice, and the places she touched were as if they were frozen by ice, stiffening a little bit, exuding a dead silence like dry water.

The opposite of that is her countenance.

She was born very beautiful, with a moth head and eyebrows, and she was clear and beautiful. The ears hidden in the cloud temples are as white as jade, and the face is more and more beautiful.

The beauty lowered her head, her fingertips on his pulse, and when she concentrated on checking his pulse, her long eyelashes drooped like butterfly wings, making him a person who was accustomed to seeing beautiful colors, and he couldn't help but have a ripple in his heart.

When did such a beauty come to the medical hospital?

He was about to move, but the medicine woman suddenly withdrew her hand and stood up.

"Doctor Lu, how is it?" Kim Hyun Young asked.

The woman's brows furrowed slightly, and her expression was a little strange.

Seeing her like this, Qi Yutai's heart froze, and his reverie vanished, and he asked anxiously, "But is there a disease?" ”

The woman shook her head: "Qi Gongzi's body is fine, it's just ......"

"Just what?"

"It's just that the blood is so hot that the mood is out of balance."

She looked at Qi Yutai and said slowly: "Qi Gongzi's pulse is rapid and powerful, his tongue is red and dry, and he also has fever and thirst. It is caused by excessive blood fever, and it is good to prescribe a few pairs of blood-clearing and detoxification prescriptions. As for emotional dysfunction......"

She got up, walked to the bookcase behind the screen, picked up the gilded double moth pattern incense burner on the bookcase, and opened the lid of the incense burner.

The incense burner was empty, and a burner of incense had been burned, so she poured out the ashes, walked to the window, and threw it into the muddy water of the flowers and trees under the window.

"Medical officer, what are you ......" Qi Yutai was puzzled.

"Lord Qi, is this Lingxi incense?"

"Yes." Qi Yutai replied. They have used this kind of incense pill in their family since they were young, this incense is valuable, and the fragrance is rich, and they can't buy it if they want to buy it anywhere else.

The female medical officer smiled slightly: "Lingxi incense calms the mind and calms the air, which can alleviate insomnia and sleeplessness, but using this incense for a long time will inevitably form dependence." After a long period of use, it is counterproductive. ”

"Lord Qi may also try to use less of this incense sometimes, so as not to hurt his body by addiction."

Qi Yutai was stunned.

Addiction......

He has used this incense since he was a child, and he has never used other incense in the house, just because it was arranged by his father. Over the years, it is indeed easy to become addicted.

His father was afraid that he would be addicted to cold food and hurt his body, but the funny thing is that Lingxi Xiang is the same.

When the female doctor had finished speaking, she owed him both of them and withdrew from the house. Jin Xianrong hurriedly followed, not knowing what to ask.

Qi Yutai leaned on the pillow on the low couch, only to feel that his whole body was soaked, it was really unfortunate to have such a nightmare in the blue sky and day, he wiped the sweat on his forehead, and when his fingertips stroked his sideburns, he felt like an ant crawling over.

Itching and pain like a pins and needles.

……

After performing today's needles for Jin Xianrong and leaving the dressing, Lu Yu returned to the medical hospital with the medical box on his back.

I came back early today, and there were few people in the medical hospital, and Lin Danqing was not there in the house.

She placed the medical box on the table and reached for the window.

The bluestone slabs in the courtyard were washed clean by the rain last night, and the fresh grass and trees mixed with the muddy smell after the rain washed away the tranquility of the Lingxi incense.

The wind in April should not be cold, but when it blew softly, Lu Yu shivered suddenly, feeling a little cold.

She sat down at the window.

A locust branch grew luxuriantly, reaching in from the window, Lu Yu's eyes fell on the flower branch, stretched out his fingertips and stroked it gently, the small branches and leaves trembled slightly, reminiscent of the goosebumps that suddenly rose on the skin when the silver needle was against the warm blood, as if it could touch the bubbling blood inside, just a slight prick, it would gush everywhere.

It's a pity that it was interrupted.

She withdrew her hand, looking a little regretful.

She mixed red fragrance into the rhino incense, making Qi Yutai unable to distinguish between dream and reality, and made Jin Xianrong fall asleep when he applied needles, making Jin Xianrong think that he had never left the front hall of the medicine from beginning to end.

The household department already has very few personnel, Qi Yutai doesn't like others to follow, and Jin Xianrong is even more afraid that one more person will know that he is weak and weak, and the empty Sili Mansion is just cheap for her to act.

Qi Yutai confided everything in her dream, when her silver needle had been against the other party's temporal part, and at that time she really wanted to kill him.

It was only close to killing him.

It's a pity that Kim Hyun-young's little guy came back with the medicine.

Lu Yu lowered his eyes indifferently.

If she had killed Qi Yutai at that time, she would naturally have died. It's not a pity for her to die, and she didn't plan to keep it, but she cares more about the other two words that came out of Qi Yutai's mouth than this.

Disperse.

“…… I just don't want my father to know I'm serving......"

At that time, Qi Yutai said so.

Lu Tong slowly sat down at the table.

During the lifetime of the first emperor, there was a popular atmosphere among the nobles of the Liang Dynasty to take cold food and disperse, and later issued a decree prohibiting it, and violating it was a serious crime, and this decree continues to this day.

If Qi Yutai supported the people in order to prevent Qi Qing from knowing that he was dispersing privately, it could also explain why Lu Rou did not meet the Qi family's guards to stop him and bumped into Qi Yutai in Fengle Building that day.

Lu Rou may have bumped into this incident and wanted to inform Lu Qian of the matter, but was murdered by the Ke family, but the letter left behind that recorded Qi Yutai's taking medicine became ironclad evidence that Lu Qian chose to sue the official.

Actually, the two of them were not wrong.

With the case of Lu Rou being tainted alone, it may be difficult to bring down the Taishi Mansion - the innocence of an ordinary woman is too insignificant.

What's more, there are also ghosts of the Ke family who are hindering it.

However, it is different when it is used to take a pill.

It is a felony to take cold food in private, and once you poke it out, it will be difficult for the Taishi Mansion to be good. As long as you seize the opportunity, you can also achieve the goal.

It's just that Lu Qian didn't expect that the Qingtian Lord was not incorruptible, and his cousin Liu Kun's family would use him as a weight in exchange for wealth and make a blood-stained transaction with Fan Zhenglian.

All the disasters of the Lu family were caused by Qi Yutai stealing medicine and scattering, and even more, the reason why Qi Yutai ordered Fan Zhenglian to kill the Lu family was just because he was afraid that Qi Qing would find out and punish him for taking cold food and powder.

I see.

It turns out that the truth is so ridiculously simple.

The green and fluffy spring in front of the window reflected the woman's sad and joyless face, for a long time, Lu Yu stretched out his hand, took the paper and pen on the table, and wrote the word "Qi" on the white paper.

She stared at the word "Qi" for a long time.

Qi Qingtong has only one son and one daughter, and everyone in the world says that the Taishi is simple and thrifty, but the clothes used by Qi Yutai are gorgeous and extravagant. It can be seen that Qi Qing "loves the heart of his son".

At the beginning, although the matter of the Lu family started from Qi Yutai, it finally destroyed the corpse and wiped out the traces, and took care of Qi Yutai's whole story, not necessarily without the hands of Qi Qing and Taishi's Mansion.

Kill Qi Yutai, Taishi Mansion will never give up.

And now she is just a small medical officer, and she can't even compare to the imperial doctor. Once today's day passes, Qi Yutai will only be more vigilant, and opportunities like the day are even rarer, and it is difficult to find another opportunity to do it.

Lu Yu lowered his head, picked up the pen and drew a few strokes on the word "Qi" on the white paper, as soon as the black ink swept across the paper, the square word was smeared into a thick black shadow, like a colorless bloodstain, dripping a whole sheet.

I can't make out the traces anymore.

She put her pen down.

The Taishi is prosperous, the medical official is humble, and he is a fool who dreams of one person.

But......

The straight accumulate in the curve, and the strong accumulate in the weak. What the future holds is unknown.

Qi Qing wanted to protect it, and even Qi Qing got rid of it.

The bird will strike, and the wings will be lowly flown and folded.

One by one, there will always be an opportunity.

It's just a matter of time.

There were footsteps behind him, Lin Danqing came in from outside the house, and saw Lu Yu stunned: "Hey, you came back early today." ”

I saw Lu Yu spread out on the table, and it was painted on a black white paper: "What is this written?" ”

Lu Yu casually tore off the ink paper, threw it into the waste paper basket in a ball, and said, "Practice calligraphy casually." ”

Lin Danqing didn't care, put a large bag of oiled paper wrapped things in his arms on the table, and said with a smile: "You came back just in time, I asked someone to buy the pith cake from outside, it's still hot, you can taste it." ”

The food in the medical officer's hospital is light, Lin Danqing is spicy, he always doesn't like to eat, and often secretly asks people to go to the market to buy and steal mouths. The medical officials were not allowed to secretly eat in the dormitory, so Lin Danqing had to hide in his arms and sneak in with Changjin behind his back.

She opened the oiled paper bag, took the oiled paper and padd the bottom, and divided a piece for Lu Yu.

The soaring aroma suddenly filled the room.

The pith cake is a cake made of fat paste made from the bone marrow of cattle and sheep. "With marrow fat, honey and flour, four or five minutes thick, six or seven inches wide, in the oven of the cake, so that it is ripe, and the cake is fat."

"Taste it," Lin Danqing urged her: "The food in the Medical Officer's Hospital is not as good as the food of Wan'en Temple, and after eating for so many months, I feel that I am about to become a Buddha." But you don't pick. ”

Lu Yu has never been particular about eating, as if it doesn't matter what he eats or drinks, as long as he can stay alive.

Lu Yu lowered his head and took a bite of the cake, the filling was very fragrant, hot, and the empty stomach seemed to gradually become warm and full because of this benefit in the world.

She ate slowly, ate a few bites, and suddenly said, "I met Master Qi in the Sili Mansion today. ”

"Lord Qi, which Lord Qi?"

"The son of the Taishi Mansion, Qi Yutai."

Lin Danqing bit the cake and paused: "He? What happened to him? ”

Lu Yu shook his head: "He's a little strange." ”

"What's strange?"

"I went to see Lord Jin for a consultation, Qi Gongzi fell asleep after entering the house, and later Lord Jin woke up Qi Gongzi and wanted me to take his pulse, who knew that when he saw me, he was like seeing a snake and scorpion, saying some nonsense, and his mind was not very clear." Lu Yu's tone hesitated, and he hesitated for a moment before saying: "I took his pulse, and I saw that his pulse was rapid and powerful, and his blood and heat were different from ordinary people...... Like ...... It's like ......"

After a long time, she stared at Lin Danqing and said in a low voice: "It seems to be caused by taking cold food powder for a long time." ”

There was a moment of silence in the room.

Lin Danqing swallowed the pith cake in his mouth in twos and threes, turned his head to look out the window, and raised his hand to close the window.

"Sister Lu," she lifted the teapot on the table and poured a cup of ginger honey water for Lu Yu, and whispered to her, "You can say this in front of me, but you can't say it outside." ”

Lu Yu stared at her.

Lin Danqing waved his hand: "The emperor has an order, once the officials of the DPRK and China find that someone is taking cold food powder, they will be severely punished." I know that some noble children will secretly take it behind people's backs, but isn't he a master? You must know that you have to make trouble when you talk outside. ”

Lu Yu nodded thoughtfully: "The prince is very difficult to mess with?" ”

"It's not that it's hard to mess with, how can I say it," Lin Danqing took a sip of ginger honey water, and considered the sentence, "I grew up in Shengjing City, and I have heard countless troubles about the children of noble families since I was a child. Don't look at their personal appearance, I have seen all kinds of unsightly things in private, only this Qi Gongzi is different......"

Lin Danqing held his chin in his hand and thought about it before saying, "I haven't heard anything bad about him." ”

"When the elders in Shengjing mentioned this person, they all said that he was well-behaved and sensible, the rules were taught very well, he never made a wrong step, and he was gentle and polite, so he should be an example among the younger generations."

Lin Danqing shook his head: "I don't like him." ”

Lu Yu asked, "Why don't you like it?" ”

Lin Danqing's eyes widened: "Sister Lu, a person has no other strengths, only the word 'rules' is widely known, isn't it a terrible thing?" ”

"Like a puppet in a puppet show, you don't know what he likes and hates, he is led by people in every move, but others still want to ask you to learn from him to be well-behaved and sensible, and you get bored when you think about it. Tell you secretly," Lin Danqing leaned closer to Lu Yu and whispered, "I know that those official children in Shengjing are talking about him behind his back, saying that he is a 'dummy'." ”

Dummy?

Lu Yu's heart sank, this was mean but true.

You must know that when she first saw Qi Yutai's true face today, it was difficult for her to imagine that the person who looked gentle and ordinary, and even a little cowardly, was the murderer who killed her Lu family.

"So," Lin Danqing lit the table and said to Lu Yu, "Don't be kind enough to say anything, stay away from him." ”

Lu Yu nodded, lowered his head and took a sip of ginger honey water.

The honey water is sweet, and the ginger is boiled to ward off the cold, so that the weather is the most ironing to drink. Lu Yu drank the honey in the cup, put down the teacup in his hand, and said: "But I want to give Jin Shilang a consultation, and I will often go to the Sili Mansion in the future, so as not to meet Qi Gongzi." She looked at Lin Danqing, "Do you know what other taboos Qi Gongzi has, can you explain them to me together, lest I bump into him without knowing anything." ”

When Lin Danqing heard this, he pinched the pith cake and thought about it, "To be honest, I don't know him very well, and I have heard a lot of things from others. However, I have never heard of Qi Yutai bullying others before, and it is forbidden to say ......"

She racked her brains and thought for a long time, and suddenly said: "I only know that this person hates thrushes, and you don't want to be in front of him." ”

Lu Yu's heart moved: "Thrush? ”

"Yes, it's strange to say," Lin Danqing said: "Taishi Qi loves to raise birds, I remember that in the past, every year when Taishi was born, there were many officials who searched for famous birds and sent them to Taishi's Mansion, that is, a few years ago, Taishi's Mansion suddenly released all the birds and birds in the mansion, saying that it was because Qi Gongzi hated birds. ”

Lu Yu asked, "Why does he hate birds?" ”

Lin Danqing shrugged: "I don't know." ”

Lu Yu's expression was slightly restrained.

It was Lin Danqing, who finally reacted at this time, and said suspiciously: "Anyway, why have you kept asking me about Qi Yutai today, this is not your character." ”

Lu Yu is usually in the medical hospital, except for reading books and pharmaceuticals, he is indifferent to other things, and it is the first time that he asks so many questions about things that have nothing to do with making medicine.

Lin Danqing leaned closer, stared at her eyes and slowly spoke: "Could it be that you ......?"

Lu Yu's fingertips moved slightly.

“…… Interested in him? ”

Lu Yu: "......"

"That's not going to work!" Lin Danqing was shocked and shook her shoulders, "No matter what his character is, he looks really mediocre, where is he worthy of you, Sister Lu, you must be sober!" ”

Lu Yu was dizzy by her, so he had to say, "I don't have ......"

"I don't believe it, you swear!"

"I swear ......"

Lin Danqing was as sad as if she saw the stumbling girl who was about to jump into the fire pit, and she didn't stop until Lu Yu and her repeatedly promised that they would never think about Qi Yutai.

She sat back in her place, picked up the leftover pith cake and stuffed it into her mouth, pinched an orchid finger with her right hand, and said: "Anyway, I'll pinch my fingers, Sister Lu, your fate is not here, then Qi Yutai is not a good person, so it's better to break your thoughts as soon as possible." ”

Lu Yu: "......"

She was a little funny, but after being interrupted by Lin Danqing like this, her depressed mood was gone.

Lu Yu lowered his head and looked at the white paper on the table, a hint of discoloration flashed in his eyes.

Cold food powder, rhino incense, thrush......

Qi Yutai's secret seems to be even stranger than others imagined.

……

Because he came back early during the day, there was nothing to do in the medical hospital, and Lu Yu went to bed earlier than usual on this day.

At night, Lin Danqing read the medical book with her for a while, and went to sleep on the bed by herself, and the dormitory was quiet.

The moonlight shone in from the window, illuminating the missing carving on the table, Lu Yu sat up from the couch, put on a coat casually, picked up the lamp next to the couch and lit it, and walked out of the dormitory door in the dark.

It was pitch black outside, the night frost condensed into dew, the miserable white moon was swallowed up by the wandering dark clouds, the heavens and the earth seemed to become an endless abyss, and only the lonely flame in his hand became the only bright color.

The bright color was also miserable, as if it was going to be extinguished in the thick ink in the next moment.

Bypassing the verandah, walking through a row of pharmacies in the woods, when people walked by, the little beam of light also shuttled with the people in the night, and the woods of the medical hospital seemed to have become a mass grave of Luomei Peak, and there were always some ghosts and ghosts.

Lu Yu stopped in front of a door.

She pushed the door open and walked in.

As soon as I entered the house, there was a smell of old fog from the tip of my nose, accompanied by a strong scent of ink. She turned around and closed the door, and walked inside with the oil lamp.

The house was lit up by a faint glow of fire.

On all sides are wooden beams of bookshelves, on which thick books are stacked, and at a glance, they are densely packed.

This is the medical depot where the medical records of each patient are stored in the medical office.

From the harem concubines and emperor's relatives to the officials of all sizes, after being treated by the medical hospital, they will all be recorded in the book and stored in the medical library of the medical hospital.

The same is true of Qi Yutai's medical case.

Lu Yu walked to a wooden cabinet and took out the key to open the wooden cabinet door.

The wooden cabinet door opened, and a stack of volumes was neatly stacked inside.

Lu Yu's eyes swept over the cover of the medical case, and after a moment, he stopped in one place, reached out and pulled the medical case out of the bookshelf vigorously.

Under the faint light, you can clearly see three vague small characters under the cover of the medical case: Qi Yutai.

Qi Yutai is an official of the household department, and his medical case cannot be checked at will, but fortunately, Lu Yu is now treating Jin Xianrong, Jin Xianrong is also a household official, and the cabinet key of the household official's medical case is in her hand, which just makes her act cheaper.

This is Qi Yutai's medical case.

During the day, she saw that Qi Yutai's pulse was strange, and compared to the hyperthermia caused by cold food and dispersion, it seemed that there was also the effect of long-term use of concentrating and calming drugs. After thinking about it, I felt that this matter was different, but the medical officer could not arbitrarily look at the medical cases that were not the subject of the consultation, so he could only come here at night to rummage through Qi Yutai's medical cases when no one was around.

Lu Yu took the booklet, and as soon as he closed the cabinet door, he heard a "squeak-" sound.

There was a soft knock at the door.

Someone's coming!

In the midst of the lightning, she blew out the oil lamp and quietly hid herself behind the bookshelves.

It was late at night, there was a dead silence in the courtyard, and the clouds in the sky gradually dispersed, revealing a faint white moon or two, and the moonlight stretched the figures on the ground, and then dissipated again with the closed door.

The man entered the house quietly, and came to the heavy bookshelves with a familiar car.

Lu Yu held his breath, held the medicine case tightly in his hand, and stood quietly as one of the several book beams in this room.

"Da, da, da—"

The footsteps were unhurried, and Lu Yu felt that the other party was walking towards him step by step, and he couldn't help but feel the silver needle in his sleeve.

"Da, da, da—"

The sound was getting closer and deeper, and when I took another step, I could see Lu Yu hiding behind the bookshelf.

She clenched the silver needle.

The other party suddenly stopped.

Immediately afterward, there was a rustling sound, as if it was the sound of a lock unlocking the key, followed by a rummag.

Lu Yu cautiously stuck to the bookshelf, one by one, listening to the dark movement of the man in the house.

After a while, the other party seemed to have found what he was looking for and closed the cabinet door.

Lu Yu heard the sound of footsteps gradually moving away, and with the closing of the door of the medical library, there was no movement around him, only the darkness was bottomless.

…… Is it leaving?

She stood in the darkness for a few more moments, making sure she didn't hear any more noises before she was completely relieved.

It should be gone.

Secretly relieved, she took the lamp and the oil case and walked out of the bookshelf.

She took a step forward, and a cold sharp edge pressed against her throat.

Lu Yu's eyebrows jumped.

In the dark room, there was only a little light in the window, and it was silently cast on the heavy bookshelves, illuminating the two people behind the bookshelves like shadows in a shadow puppet show.

Someone stood behind her, and I don't know how long she had been waiting here.

The familiar aroma of blue musk came from behind him, accompanied by the calm voice of the other party.

He spoke, in a tone that was very different from his usual indifference.

"It's so calm."

Lu Yu was stunned.

Hearing this voice, she relaxed.

The silver needle quenched with poison in his sleeve was put away, and Lu Yu let the other party hold him hostage and no longer resisted.

She said, "Master Pei, it's me." ”

(End of chapter)