Chapter 148: jade pendant

Chapter 148: jade pendant

Chapter 148 Jade Pendant

 “How long have you been studying medicine?”

Lu Tong was startled and looked back.

The young man sat in front of the small table in the room, fanning his cattail leaf vigorously. The medicine jar made a boiling sound, and white hot mist evaporated, making his expression blurry and unclear.

 He always prepared medicine for Lu Zhuo himself.

Ji Xun's coachman once offered to do it for him, but Ji Xun refused. He only said that the heat and time for boiling the medicine were wrong and the effect of the medicine was not right, so he insisted on cooking it himself.

Lu Zhen didn't understand him. A seemingly pampered young man prepared the medicine himself, but it was for a random passerby.

Ji Xun is either a fool with too many good intentions.

 She was silent and said, "I'm not a doctor."

"When you opened the medical box before, there was mulberry white leather thread inside." Ji Xun opened the lid of the medicine jar, took a look at the concoction, and pushed the lid back on the medicine jar without adding any more fire.

Lu Zhen couldn't guess what he wanted to say, so he could only say: "I learned a little bit from others randomly, but I can't be considered a medical expert."

Hearing this, Ji Xun paused lightly.

After a while, he shook his head: "There is an Imperial Medical Bureau in Shengjing. If you really want to learn medical classics and pharmacology, you can go to the Imperial Medical Bureau to study."

  Imperial Medical Bureau?

Lu Xu frowned.

This was the first time she heard this name and she didn't know where it was, but she could vaguely guess it from the other person's words.

Lu Zhen only felt ridiculous.

“Young Master Ji is joking,” Lu said, “I am an ordinary person, how can I go to the place you mentioned?”

She thought that this young master with a privileged background had probably never experienced the life of an ordinary person. He didn't know that the invisible threshold between ordinary people and nobles was enough to separate them.

"It doesn't matter," he said quietly, still sitting in front of the medicine stove: "If you come to Shengjing in the future, you can come to Ji's house in Changlefang to find me."

 He said it very seriously, not as a joke.

Lu Zhen was stunned for a moment.

A fallen leaf floated from nowhere outside the window and fell on the desk. She lowered her head to pick up the fallen leaf and twirled it absentmindedly. She felt that her heart was as messy as the willow leaf.

 After a while, she whispered: "I will not go to Shengjing."

Of course she will not go to Shengjing. She has the poison planted by Yun Niang herself.

 In fact, there was a moment when Lu Chen wanted to ask this young man from Shengjing for help, tell everything about himself, and beg him to take him out of the swamp.

 But not in the end.

Ji Xun was able to discover the "cold silkworm rain", but he did not discover the earlier poison that Yun Niang had planted on her body. If she doesn't detoxify, she will be controlled by Yun Niang.

Yun Niang's temperament means that unless she takes the initiative, she will never be forced to detoxify her.

If she wants to return to Changwu County alive, she can only stay in Luomeifeng and continue to look for another opportunity.

The willow leaf in his hand was so crumpled that it was hard to see its original shape. Lu Zhu stretched his hand out of the window and spread his hand. The willow leaf fell precariously and gradually disappeared from sight.

Ji Xun’s medicine seems to be very effective.

The cold poison on Lu Zhen's body became weaker and weaker day by day.

 Slowly, she no longer needs to wrap herself in a heavy blanket, and she doesn’t feel cold even in single clothes. Sometimes the sun outside the window is so bright that she still feels a little hot.

 “Your poison has been cured.” Ji Xun said to her.

Lu Zhen said: "Thank you very much." Then he pursed his lips and said: "I don't have any money to pay you."

 “Without silver.”

 He handed a piece of paper to Lu Huan, along with several packages of picked medicinal materials.

"This is the prescription. I have never seen the poison you were poisoned before. Just in case, I have prepared a few more medicines. It may be better if you decoct and take it for a few days."

Lu Zhen asked him: "Are you leaving?"

Ji Xun nodded: "I've been staying here for too long." He added, "I paid for five more days of rent, so you can rest here for a few more days."

 Lu Zhen said nothing.

He walked to Lu Zong, and there was a large expanse of green outside the window. The young man had a graceful figure, and the shadows were like willows in the spring moon. His eyes looking at her were like the spring sun on the Sunan Bridge, warm and warm.

He said: "Girl Seventeen, if you are injured in the future, you need to be treated in time. You are a doctor, so you should understand this truth."

“After I leave, don’t hide your illness or avoid medical treatment.”

Lu Zong was silent for a long time, then softly said "hmm".

 Early in the morning of the second day, Lu Zhuo got up, but did not wait for Ji Xun to knock on the door as usual.

After thinking about it, Lu Yan opened the door and immediately saw that the door of the next door was wide open. When he walked in, there was no sign of Ji Xun and the coachman. Even the luggage and their own cups piled up in the room were gone.

Ji Xun left.

Without saying hello to her or informing anyone, on this spring morning, perhaps before dawn, while she was still asleep, the two of them left quietly.

Standing in the empty room, Lu Zhen suddenly felt a sense of loss for no reason.

It was strange that when Ji Xun brought her here, she was reluctant and watched the two men tossing with cold eyes. However, half a month later, Ji Xun decoctioned her medicine and checked her pulse every day, and cared about her condition. He did it out of a doctor's concern for the patient, but his patience and gentleness made Lu Zhuo see Lu Rou in a trance.

 Lu Rou took care of her in this way when she was sick in Changwu County.

His coldness, alienation, eccentricity and silence are obviously completely different from Lu Rou's.

 Perhaps it’s because she has been alone in Luomei Peak for too long. Apart from Yun Niang, she has never been so close to anyone in these years. There was no Yunniang in this half month, and no medicine was tested. She was cared for, just like a piece of wheat candy she accidentally tasted while sitting under the flower vines in the spring afternoon. This candy was filled with a bitter medicinal fragrance, but it was not The past seems heavy, but it still has a touch of sweetness.

Lu Tong thought that she must have not been separated for too long, so she felt reluctant to leave at this time.

 “Girl, girl!”

The shopkeeper downstairs hurriedly came up, saw Lu Huan, and breathed a sigh of relief: "Fortunately, you are here."

 He pushed the round white jade he was holding into Lu Zhen's hand.

"Last night, the young man who was traveling with you paid enough for the rent he owed. I left the jade pendant at home. I wanted to give it to him this morning, but everyone left early this morning."

"Since you know him, this jade is the same for you. Please return this jade belt to that young master. Our inn is not a black shop that takes advantage of people and property without saying a word."

 Lu Zhen subconsciously lowered his head and looked down.

 The white jade in the palm of the hand is warm and cold, just like the eyes of a young man, which always makes people feel out of reach. She picked up the red string of the jade pendant and looked at it. She could clearly see the picture of a nobleman playing the piano engraved on it.

 It is particularly suitable for that person.

Lu Zhen clenched the white jade pendant tightly and said to the shopkeeper, "I understand."

Before Ji Xun left, he paid five days more for the room at the inn. Lu Xu waited at the inn for five more days, waiting for the two men to remember the jade pendant and return and return the things to them.

 But Ji Xun never came back.

She thought maybe Ji Xun had forgotten it, or maybe he had remembered it but was too lazy to come back and get it. He is a young master from a high-ranking family in Shengjing, and a jade pendant is nothing to him. Just like this encounter with Sunan, it is just an unimportant part in the other person's complicated life.

 The scenery of the wild land while driving on the road, once seen, is forgotten.

She took off the new willow-leaf-colored dress that Ji Xun bought her, carefully folded it and put it into the medical box, along with the white jade pendant.

That beautiful dress is suitable for enjoying the spring on the river bank, for the garden in front of the house, for restaurants, for the streets...

 Only the mass graves at Luomei Peak and the execution ground full of blood and severed limbs are not suitable.

 It doesn't suit her.

 At the end of the last day, she went to the execution ground, and then returned to Luomeifeng carrying the medical box. I thought Yun Niang would be unhappy, but when she saw her coming back, Yun Niang just looked at her with interest, then lowered her head and fiddled with the medicinal materials in her silver jar.

 “That’s interesting. I heard that you were rescued?”

 Lu Zhen was startled.

Yunniang has lived in southern Jiangsu for many years. When and how she knew it, Lu Zhen had no idea.

 “I thought you would go with him.”

 Lu Huan: "I..."

Yun Niang interrupted her: "He is the son of the Ji family in Shengjing."

"What a pity. If you take him back to Luo Mei Feng, maybe you two can still be companions on the mountain."

Yun Niang smiled, her tone a little regretful.

Lu Zong's scalp was numb.

 A slight chill instantly ran down my spine, followed by the joy of surviving the disaster. She was glad that she didn't involve Ji Xun in this muddy water.

Yun Niang stroked her hair and went into the hut to make new medicine.

Lu Zhen hugged the medical box tightly, feeling that the box, which used to be light, suddenly became heavy.

 Later...  She kept the jade pendant, thinking that maybe one day she could go down the mountain and return to Changwu County, and everything would return to its original path. The road would be long in the future, and there might not be a chance of going to Shengjing, even if the chance was slim.

 At that time, she can go and see what Ji Xun said about Taiyin Hospital. If she has a chance to see him again, she can personally return the round jade pendant to him...

"Sister Lu," Lin Danqing's urging voice came from behind: "It's not early, go to bed and rest quickly, we have to get up early tomorrow."

 The lights in the house flicker, and the warmth of spring in southern Jiangsu dissipates, leaving only the long cold night.

Lu Yan took the white jade back into the medical box and put it away.

 “Just come.”

 …

The moon fell on the pond in front of the window, like a piece of cold jade.

In the room, the medicine boy said in surprise: "She is the bully doctor whom the young master met at the medicine shop before?"

Ji Xun nodded.

 He ​​thought about it, and the reason why Lu Zhuo's face felt so familiar was not because of the previous chance encounter on Queer Street, but because of it earlier.

　　They had already met once when they were at the medicine shop in Shengjing.

At that time, when he went to deliver the medicine book to the herbal store, a woman came in aggressively with the guards beside Mrs. Taifu Siqing. Behind the screen, he heard Lu Zhuo talking to the medicinal materials inspector Lou Si.

Although the tone is gentle, there is a needle hidden in the cotton, and every word is relying on the power of Taifu Temple Minister to suppress people.

 Lou Si was afraid of the power of the Dong family and finally took advantage of it.

 He felt unhappy.

As a doctor, if his heart is not right and he only knows how to rely on power, his medical ethics will be damaged.

But he didn’t pay much attention to it at that time. These matters at Shengjing Medical Center were handled by the medical firm itself. No matter how powerful the Taifu Temple Minister is, he cannot do anything too outrageous.

The second time he heard Lu Zhuo's name was from a medicinal tea that Shengjing always called "Xianxian".

This herbal tea is very popular among the noble ladies of Shengjing. She has been obsessed with medicine all year round and has turned a blind eye to external affairs. After hearing this, she was also curious.

Ji Xun asked someone to buy back the two medicinal teas for testing. They were indeed amazing prescriptions, but the medicine was a little overbearing and aggressive.

The next time I heard Lu Zhuo's name was during the Spring Examination of the Imperial Medical Bureau. He personally asked the questions. The students' answers to the questions in the Examination Section were miserable, but only one test paper was perfect.

That person is the first on this year's imperial medical bureau's spring examination red list, an ordinary medical officer.

In the past two months, Ji Xun was busy treating the elders of the Yushi Mansion, so he didn't get to see what Dr. Lu looked like. It wasn't until he met tonight that he realized that this new female medical officer was the one he was working in at the Medical Clinic. I met the doctor who was bullying others.

The medicine boy remembered something and reminded: "Speaking of which, young master, you met Mrs. Dong two days ago, and Mrs. Dong had something to say to the young master. This time when you returned to the medical hospital, there were rumors everywhere that you praised the medical woman. Even the envoy Cui said so... Could it be that she said it herself so that she could have a relationship with the young master?"

Mrs. Dong, the Minister of Taifu Temple, had no contact with Ji Xun in the past. This time they met by chance on the road. For the first time, she stopped the carriage and said a few words to him. In his words, he secretly wanted Lu Zhuo to be the first on the red list. It was rare to see him appreciate someone so much.

Ji Xun couldn't quite understand what he was saying.

When he returned to the medical hospital, there were rumors everywhere that he admired Lu Huo very much.

 But he had never even met Lu Huan.

In the past, there were indeed such medical officers in Hanlin Medical College who were so pretentious that they used others to show off their power. If these words were spread by Lu Zhen himself, he would be thinking a little deeply.

 “Be careful what you say.”

Ji Xun scolded: "You cannot slander other people's words and deeds without evidence."

 The drug boy quickly fell silent.

Ji Xun shook his head.

No matter whether these words came from Lu Zhuo's mouth, he would stay away from Lu Zhuo. He has always disliked power disputes. Lu Chen had already caused so many disputes when he first entered the Medical Officer's Hospital. Naturally, he got a lot of talk when he got closer to her.

 He doesn't want to get involved in other people's troubles.

In the pond, a red carp floated secretly. With a slight swing of its tail tip, the cold moon in the water suddenly shattered.

Ji Xun frowned.

 He is not interested in Lu Zong's past.

 He was just confused.

Just now I saw two people collecting medicinal materials in front of the medicine warehouse. In the medicine basket in Lu Zhuo's hand, there was a corner of the medicinal branches and leaves exposed.

That is…

Hongfangxu?

 …

　　After a few spring rains, the weather became warmer and warmer day by day.

In the early morning, children began to fly paper kites on the long embankment near the river in Shengjing. On the willow trees on both sides of the bank, swallow kites often hung with strings wrapped around them.

Outside the courtyard of Jin Xianrong's residence, a beautifully dressed woman twisted her handkerchief and was about to rush into the courtyard, but was stopped by Jin Xianrong's servant.

“Aunt Yao, you can’t go in—”

"Why can't you go in?" Aunt Yao stamped her feet and poked her head in angrily, "The master has not been to my yard since he fell ill. This half month has been even better, and no one has even disappeared."

The boy wiped his sweat and said: "Master is really sick, and the medical officer in the room is treating him..."

"What kind of medical officer!" Aunt Yao sneered, "All the maids in my house have seen her, she is obviously a young beauty!"

"The master carried people into the house. It has been less than three months and I am tired of it. Oh, why is my life so miserable..." Aunt Yao started to cry and cursed: "Where did you come from? Although there are many people in this mansion, I can stay in my room for a month and a night. It’s better that this one is here. It’s been more than half a month, so I won’t even let anyone out..."

 “Who is a good person who looks so ugly when eating, and he is not afraid of being overwhelmed!”

　　　…”

The noise at the courtyard door floated far into the ears of the people inside through the door.

 A few steps back, Jin Xianrong was sitting upright, with a big drop of sweat slowly dripping from his forehead.

This Aunt Yao was originally a troupe hired by the government to sing for his mother to relieve her boredom. While singing, she was attracted by Jin Xianrong.

Aunt Yao didn't want to suffer hardship in the theater troupe, and Jin Xianrong was greedy for the other's beauty. After going back and forth, the two hooked up.

 It was only God who had no eyesight, so he took Aunt Yao into her home less than a month before she fell ill. This neglect left her in the cold for a long time, and she naturally became suspicious.

Aunt Yao used to be a martial arts singer in the troupe. She had a loud and high-pitched voice. Now she started crying at the door. It was difficult for people to pretend not to hear her.

Jin Xianrong looked at the people in the room anxiously again.

At the table, Lu Zhuo was holding the silver jar and carefully pounding the medicine.

The beauty has lowered eyes and picturesque eyebrows. The light aqua blue dress makes her as charming as an orchid in an empty valley. Just looking at her makes her feel uneasy. That hand was as tender as a white onion, holding a small silver medicine hammer, delicate and cute.

The next moment, the beauty raised her eyes, expressionlessly took out a large handful of pig lungs or something **** from the clay pot, and threw them into the silver pot.

 “dangdangdang—”

The silver hammer fell, and the splash of blood made Jin Xianrong feel a chill in his lower abdomen.

 He felt as if some of his belongings had been chopped into pieces by this silver hammer.

The reverie he had just disappeared immediately. Jin Xianrong grasped his knees tightly and sat upright and obediently.

 It has been seven days since this medical officer Lu came to the house for treatment for the first time.

 In the past seven days, Lu Zhuo came here several times.

Her posture is cold and her expression is calm. She has no other expressions every time she comes for treatment.

At first, Jin Xianrong was lucky because of her beautiful appearance, and always wanted to tease her a few times, but every time he teased her, it was as if he was playing tricks on a cow, whether it was malicious or obscure, the medical woman didn't even react at all. . Neither panicked nor shy, as indifferent as a piece of wood.

 Jin Xianrong was frightened by this woman's words several times.

She said: "It is easy for things to go wrong when administering acupuncture and medicine. Master Jin had better cooperate. Otherwise, if you make a wrong step, the medicine will not be effective in the future."

 This is a threat...This is clearly a threat!

 But Jin Xianrong took her threats very seriously.

Especially the pig kidneys, beef kidneys, and sheep kidneys that Lu Zhu found from nowhere. He put them in clay pots. In front of him, he cut the kidney sacs one by one as thin as cicada wings, then threw them into the medicine jar and pounded them heavily. It's hard not to think that she is killing a chicken to scare the monkeys...killing the bag to show respect to others.

With such behavior, no matter how beautiful the first sight is, it will be stained with a bit of blood.

  Disgusting.

 The sound of the medicine hammer hitting the jar stopped.

Lu Zong put the **** mass in the jar into a porcelain bowl, covered it with a lid, and looked at Jin Xianrong.

"Master Jin, today's dressing is ready." After a pause, Lu Zhuo looked at him: "Do you want me to give you the medicine?"

"Need not!"

Jin Xianrong flatly refused, and seemed to realize that he had deliberately refused too quickly. He hurriedly added with a smile: "Why bother Medical Officer Lu? I will do it for you."