After the valley rain, Shengjing ushered in the beginning of summer.

There are a lot of peony hydrangeas in the courtyard in front of the Sili Mansion, red, purple, and yingxia, and the already gorgeous mansion has more than a hundred lanterns, and the treasure color is brilliant.

As soon as the rainy season begins, the ground in Shengjing looks like it hasn't been dry. Kim Hsien Young took off his slightly heavy spring shirt, changed into a light and cool single coat, walked to the front of the house, took out an incense pill from the silver jar, carefully lit it, and moved it to the incense burner.

The lid of the incense burner was closed, and a thin bunch of green smoke came out of the ox's head, accompanied by a fragrant fragrance.

Jin Xianrong lowered his body, took a big sniff, closed his eyes in satisfaction, and savored the taste.

There were not many mouthfuls of talent, and someone came in behind him.

The person who came was dressed in a gorgeous robe, with a slightly tired face, Jin Xianrong turned his head, said "yo", and said with a smile: "Yutai is back." ”

The person who came was Qi Yutai.

A few days ago, Qi Yutai was unwell and went home on leave.

He has been on leave every now and then in the past year, and Kim Hyunrong has long been accustomed to it. When he first learned that Qi Yutai was coming to the household department, Jin Xianrong was quite surprised, thinking that with the momentum of the Qi family, Qi Taishi should never arrange such a vacant position for his son. Now it seems that Jin Xianrong has to admire this old lady for being quite prescient.

As for Qi Yutai's sick body, if he really arranges any busy errands, wouldn't it be very fatal?

Thanks to the fact that the household department is now like a decoration, whether there is Qi Yutai or not, there is not much difference.

No wonder people can be too masters, and their vision is really longer than others.

But thinking like this in his heart, there is still no shortage of flattery and concern in his mouth, Jin Xianrong smiled: "...... Is this time all right? Look at the fact that he is still a little tired, Yutai, don't be too anxious, the elder brother of the household department is still busy...... The top priority is to heal your body, if you have a headache and brain fever here, how can I explain it to Master Taishi......"

Every time he was so flattering, Qi Yutai coped perfunctorily, went back to his room, and sat at the table.

The closed door of the house isolated Jin Xianrong's flattery and Qi Yutai's disdain.

After being locked up in the house for a few days, he was already irritable, and when he returned to the Sili Mansion, Jin Xianrong opened his mouth and closed his mouth and was still "Master Taishi", which always annoyed people. If it weren't for his father's close attention to him during this time, he should have gone to Fengle Building to "relax and relax".

Qi Yutai became irritable for no reason.

The nameless fire was hard to suppress, he sat up straight, reached for the jar on the table, and as soon as the lid of the silver jar was opened, he couldn't help but be stunned.

The jar was full of spirit rhino incense pills, stacked on top of each other, piled up like a hill.

Qi Yutai couldn't help but look at the door.

In those days, whenever he came home from leave, and when he came back in a few days, the incense pills in the silver jar must have been cleaned. Jin Xianrong loves to be greedy and cheap, and Lingxi incense is expensive, so he always steals a few while he is not paying attention, along with the precious tea sent by the Qi family.

Even if you look up and don't look down, although Qi Yutai despised him for such behavior, he didn't say it explicitly, and still acquiesced. In the end, there is no shortage of silver to buy incense in the Taishi Mansion, and he uses small favors to buy Jin Xianrong, so that Jin Xianrong can sometimes be more convenient in the household department, and it is a business that makes sure that he does not lose money.

He was ready to face the empty jar, and even before he came back, he had brought a new jar of spiritual rhino incense, but he never thought that Jin Xianrong had changed his temper, and this jar of incense pills did not move, and it was still resting on his desk.

Qi Yutai felt strange, couldn't help but get up and open the door, and walked to the hall outside.

Jin Xianrong was lying on the mahogany recliner in the main room, leaning back, with a household book on his knees, listening to the sound of rain outside the window with half-closed eyes, looking very comfortable.

In front of him, there was a copper incense burner on the bookcase, the green ox flicked its tail, and the cow's head spit out fine green smoke, which was different from the usual gloomy aroma, revealing a fragrant and sweet.

This is not the aroma of Lingxi.

Qi Yutai was a little stunned.

Jin Xianrong, who was lying on the chair, noticed that there was someone beside him, and as soon as he raised his eyes, he saw Qi Yutai standing in front of him suddenly, he was startled, and almost fell off the chair, and said, "Yutai, what are you doing?" ”

Qi Yutai came back to his senses and pointed to the incense burner on the table: "Squire, have you changed the incense?" ”

"Huh?" Jin Xianrong didn't expect him to say this, he was stunned, and then said, "It's a change...... Yutai, doesn't this fragrance smell good? ”

Qi Yutai approached and sniffed carefully.

Lingxi incense is expensive and rich, but after smelling it for many years, no matter how amazing the aroma is, it has become mediocre. Jin Xianrong's flavor and fragrance should be ordinary, at first glance it smells a little cheesy and cheap, but when you taste it carefully, you suddenly feel beautiful and sweet, like a ripe fruit in summer, which is full and dripping, and it looks particularly fresh in this rainy season.

Even the irritability of the other side dispelled two points.

“…… Smells. Qi Yutai nodded and said disapprerovingly: "Where did the squire buy it?" ”

This incense is inevitably not as valuable as Lingxi incense, and Jin Xianrong may also have bought cheaper incense pills at the incense pharmacy on a whim to change the taste.

Hearing this, Kim Hyunrong showed a mysterious smile.

He coughed lightly and lowered his voice: "This incense is called 'Pond Spring Grass Dream'." ”

"'Pond Spring Grass Dream'?"

"Young people are easy to learn from old people, and every inch of time is indispensable. I didn't feel the spring grass dream of the pond, and the sycamore leaves in front of the steps have autumn sounds. He shook his head and chanted a few words, and his smile was a little obscene, "This is the incense pill specially prepared for me by Doctor Lu, and there are several medicinal herbs in it." The man smells too much of this incense, which replenishes qi and blood, and is good for that. ”

"Yutai," he patted Qi Yutai on the shoulder, and persuaded bitterly: "You are young now, you don't understand, but you are young and easy to get old, so you should cherish it." ”

His words were vague, but Qi Yutai understood.

A few days ago, I heard that Jin Xianrong had a kidney capsule carbuncle, and the medical officers of the medical hospital came several times, and it seems that this new incense pill was prepared by the female medical officer for Jin Xianrong's kidney capsule carbuncle.

Cheap ordinary incense pills, he should have scoffed, but the ghost made the gods, Qi Yutai inexplicably remembered what the female medical officer said when he saw the other party last time.

"Lingxi incense calms the mind and calms the air, which can alleviate insomnia, but long-term use of this incense 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."

From childhood to adulthood, what he ate, what he used, and what he did were all arranged by his father.

From the small servants around him to the incense used in the house, they are all chosen by the father, and there is no room for his own choice.

This is nothing, such as people of noble birth like them, with the best, the most expensive, has always been a matter of course.

However, at this moment, Jin Xianrong was holding his pot of cheap incense, overjoyed, like a treasure, but he didn't feel good in his heart.

Is this incense really that good?

Better than Lingxi?

Qi Yutai didn't know, because since he was a child, he had only used Lingxi incense.

Not having a choice and not being willing to choose are two different things.

Inexplicably, he began to get bored again, like some nasty mouse running in his head, his thin claws tickling people's hearts, and then deeper irritability.

He took two steps, suddenly turned around again, hesitated, and said to Jin Xianrong: "Squire." ”

Jin Xianrong's smile was still not put away: "What's wrong?" ”

Qi Yutai stretched out his hand.

"Give me a few too."

After a pause, he narrowed his eyes: "I want to try it too." ”

……

After the beginning of summer, as soon as the day passed, the night rain began to fall.

There was a faint sound of drums outside the medical officer's hospital, intermittently.

A figure ran through the corridor outside the door in the rain, stopped in front of the door of a room in the dormitory, and knocked lightly.

Lu Yu opened the door, and Lin Danqing, who was wearing a raincoat, flashed in from outside the door.

"What do you do?" Lu Yu was slightly stunned.

"Shhhh

Lin Danqing made a silent gesture to her, closed the door and said in a low voice: "Doctor Chang is sleeping, let's be quiet, don't be caught by him." He walked into the house quickly, took off his raincoat, walked to the window and closed the window, put the things in his hand on the long table in front of the window, and beckoned Lu Yu: "Look-"

Lu Yu walked over.

Under the dim light of the table, there was a bamboo basket the size of a dustpan, and I don't know how Lin Danqing moved it, and it was full of hot cooked food.

Rao is Lu Yu was also stunned for a moment.

The food in the medical officer's hospital is light, Lin Danqing is picky, and often likes to secretly buy some supper from outside to eat, but for fear of being discovered by Chang Jin, it is also a small thing such as a pith cake and a snack.

Lin Danqing didn't pay attention to Lu Yu's expression, and happily reached out and took out stacks of cooked food from the bamboo basket, what cooked beef, spicy feet, pork jelly, hemp curd chicken skin, salted peanuts...... It was all appetizers, and at the end, he took out two small jars of red paper pasted with them.

She held a small jar in her hand and held it high for Lu Yu to see: "The green plum wine of Shengxing Liquor Workshop!" I deliberately found someone to queue for an hour to buy it, and it cost half a penny just to run errands! It's precious, you and I have one altar tonight! ”

Lu Yu: "......"

The green plum boiled wine bucket is new, and May is the time when the green plum is ripe, and the green plum wine in Shengxing Distillery is in short supply, but I didn't expect that there are two cans in front of me.

Lin Danqing stuffed a jar of green plum wine into Lu Yu's arms, and looked a little domineering: "This is yours." ”

Then he nodded to the altar in front of him: "This is mine!" ”

Lu Yu looked at the wine jar in his arms, then at Lin Danqing, and asked puzzledly, "What's wrong?" ”

"What's the matter?"

"Why do you drink all of a sudden?"

Lin Danqing blinked: "No why!" ”

She sat down at the table, gave Lu Yu a pair of chopsticks, pulled out the wine stopper at the mouth of the altar forcefully, and said with a smile: "We are tired and tired in the medical hospital during the day, and we have to eat the tasteless food of the medical hospital, which is too hard." Naturally, be kind to yourself. ”

"I'm in a good mood today, I invite you."

Lu Yu sat down at the table, looked at Lin Danqing's radiant appearance, thought for a while, and said, "Have you made the antidote to 'shooting eyes'?" ”

"Ahem, ahem—"

Lin Danqing put a plum bean into his mouth, and was almost choked by Lu Yu's words, so he hurriedly poured a sip of green plum wine to suppress the itch in his throat. After a while, he looked at Lu Yu in amazement: "Sister Lu, you have mind reading skills, right?" How do you know everything? ”

Lu Yu was also a little surprised.

These days, Lin Danqing goes out early and returns late, except for duty, most of the time he stays in Houlin's pharmacy. Lu Yu saw that the medicinal materials she made were no longer all antidote herbs, and had changed to some slightly poisonous things, thinking that what she said last time had played a role, Lin Danqing was trying to use the method of poison to make the antidote to "shoot the eyes".

I didn't expect her to do it so quickly.

"It's not an antidote, though." Lin Danqing smiled embarrassedly, "I just changed a few of the herbs, because I am not very familiar with poisons, so the herbs I changed are more conservative, who knows-" Her eyes moved, "The newly made medicine really has some effects, although it can't completely detoxify, but compared to the past, it has already improved a little." ”

"Sister Lu," she grabbed Lu Yu's hand, her joy overflowing, "You're right, fighting poison with poison is really useful!" ”

She looked excited.

"Originally, I was too obsessed with the medical theory of the Taiyi Bureau, and my courage was a little less after all. However, through your reminder this time, I probably also understand the direction of detoxification. Now I have a number in my heart, but I still lack a few hard-to-find medicinal herbs. After all those medicinal materials are found, I will write the prescription, Sister Lu, you can help me see if there are any mistakes or omissions. Lin Danqing said with a smile.

Lu Yu nodded: "Okay." ”

She knows that Lin Danqing has always been smart, in fact, if it weren't for the spring examination of the Taiyi Bureau, she had a chance to discuss in the 'test' section and took the lead, and the first place on the red list of the spring examination of the Taiyi Bureau should actually be Lin Danqing.

Lin Danqing looks very aggressive on the surface, loves to play and make trouble, but in fact, he is extremely excellent in medical science, otherwise he would not have figured out the key in just a few days and found out the antidote to "shooting eyes".

It's raining, the drizzle knocks on the window, and I feel the chill of the rainy night through the window. Lu Yu pulled out the wine stopper in front of him, and the fragrance of green plum wine suddenly filled the tip of his nose.

She thought for a moment and said, "But who exactly did you make this antidote for?" ”

Lin Danqing's action of picking up vegetables was stunned.

Lu Yu looked at her quietly.

So urgent, so serious, with all his efforts and methods, it is difficult to do so if it were not for the fact that the poisoned person has a great relationship with him.

The person for whom Lin Danqing detoxified must be very important to her.

The lights were dim, the girl who was only wearing a middle coat was crooked on the low couch, did not speak, and silently drank a sip of the plum wine in front of her, the plum wine seemed to be too sour, so sour that her eyes narrowed, and it took a while to recall, and she said: "It's not good, it's mediocre, and you dare to charge me so much silver, it's not as sweet as the sweet syrup of three paulownia boards on the street!" ”

Lu Yu was silent.

She picked up a piece of pork jelly and stuffed it in her mouth, and said nonchalantly: "It's my aunt who was poisoned." ”

Aunt?

Lu Yu was slightly surprised.

Lin Danqing smiled and sighed: "I didn't expect it, I'm the concubine of the family." ”

Lu Yu moved his lips, but in the end he didn't say anything.

Lin Danqing is enthusiastic and hearty, generous and bright, she can cry when she wants to cry and laugh if she wants to, and everyone in the medical hospital treats her well, Lu Yu has always thought that Lin Danqing is because her father, who used to be a medical officer, makes everyone love, and only such a family that does not lack love can raise such a bright daughter like the sun.

But I didn't expect Lin Danqing to be a concubine.

"My aunt is a dancing girl given to my father. My mother is a young lady from an official family, and I have two older brothers on my head, and I am the youngest daughter in the family. Lin Danqing stretched out his chopsticks, poked a slice of cooked beef, and stared at the piece of beef for a long time.

"My dad was a good man and a good father, but not a good husband." She thought for a moment and shook her head again: "No, he should be considered a good husband, but he is only the husband of my 'mother'." In his eyes, my aunt was a low-status concubine, a 'gift' that a friend accepted with great kindness. ”

"My aunt was born poor, was sold by my maternal grandfather to the tooth man and sent to the Central Plains, and because of her good birth, she was finally bought by a rich family, carefully raised, and given to my father as a gift of favor."

Lu Yu was silent.

In the mansions of high-ranking eunuchs, there are often beauties to each other to express their hearts.

"When my aunt was sold, she was afraid that the tooth man had accidentally ingested the poison of 'eye-shooting', and there were no signs at first, until a few years after giving birth to me, she gradually developed symptoms. My father tried to detoxify her, but there are many kinds of poisons in southern Xinjiang, and my father's medical skills can only be regarded as mediocre in the medical hospital, and there is no solution for many years. ”

Lu Yu asked: "So you studied medicine to relieve your aunt's poison?" ”

Lin Danqing laughed "poof".

She said, "Sister Lu, have you ever heard a curse from a healer? ”

"What curse?"

Lin Danqing said softly: "A person who studies medicine will never be able to save the person he wants to save." ”

Lu Yu's heart trembled.

Lin Danqing raised his head and took a sip of wine, his eyes a little misty in the night.

"At first, I did study medicine because I wanted to detoxify my aunt."

"I thought, since my dad can't cure it, then I'll cure it myself. Anyway, I was literate in the school, and there was no shortage of medical books at home, so there was no harm in learning. ”

"My father and mother never cared about me."

The green plum wine was too sour, so sour that it was bitter in the mouth, Lin Danqing reached out and brushed the wine stains on the corner of his lips with the back of his hand.

The Lin family is different from other high-ranking families.

Although she is a concubine, she has never been treated harshly. There is no intrigue between the mother and the aunt, and there is no end. Others said that their mother and daughter were blessed with 120,000 points to meet such a kind family.

But Lin Danqing doesn't think so.

Rather than being kind and tolerant, she thinks it's more of a kind of ignorance.

Ignoring unimportant personnel such as pet cats and dogs.

Although her mother and brother did not treat her harshly, they were not kind to her, like a faint diaphragm.

This is understandable, and anyone who separates the favor of her husband and father will probably not be able to do nothing.

But her father also treated her lightly.

He would ask Lin Danqing how she had been eating and dressing recently, and if she needed money, he would not accompany her for as long as he accompanied her two brothers. It's like he will tell his subordinates to take good care of his sick aunt, but he is unwilling to bother to develop an antidote to 'eye-shooting' for his aunt - obviously he is a doctor himself.

Man's love is probably obvious, and he loves whoever he cares about.

Fathers don't love their mothers and daughters.

"Before I arrived, I heard that my father intended to set a family business for me."

"The other party's character and family background are innocent, and everyone who knows the inside story says that it is a good family matter, but I feel scared."

After being silent for a long time, Lin Danqing spoke.

"I'm afraid that if I leave, my aunt will be left alone."