Chapter 150: rainstorm
Chapter 150 Heavy Rain
The day passed quickly, and the night gradually deepened.
All the medical officers in the hospital have gone to bed. Lin Danqing followed the doctor into the palace in the afternoon to check the nobleman's pulse. He was exhausted after a long day and went to bed early to rest.
Lu Zhen couldn't sleep, so he simply went to the medicine store to collect prescriptions.
After putting away the prescriptions, I still felt sleepy, so I looked for a medical book I had never read on the medical bookshelf, and laid out a pen and paper in front of the table to copy the medical book.
The night was very quiet, with only low-pitched insects chirping outside the courtyard. Behind the shelves of medicine in the medicine warehouse, Lu Zhuo sat in front of a low table, copying books by the light.
“Ophiopogon japonicus, peony, sedum, commelderm, and main fever…”
“Tingli, I’m going crazy, take white dog blood pills…”
"dog…"
The pen tip paused, and she looked at the word "dog", slightly lost in thought.
During the day, the four puppies in the boy's arms were like fluffy dumplings. She could feel the warmth of their fur on the back of her hand. When they ignorantly reached out to lick her hand, it always reminded her of another pair of eyes in her memory, Chengming. , timidly, like two shiny black pearls.
She told Duan Xiaoyan that "I don't like dogs" was a lie.
She also had a small black dog, many years ago.
She called it "dark cloud".
It was probably the third year after Lu Meng ascended and lowered Meifeng, maybe earlier, and she couldn’t remember it clearly.
There have been many days of testing the medicine, and Lu Yan has gradually adapted to the life on Luomei Peak. He learned to store food, learned to shut himself in a thatched hut after drinking the soup given by Yun Niang, and learned to spend the night with a solitary lamp when Yun Niang was not around.
It’s just that such days are boring.
So when he wasn't testing medicine, Lu Zhen secretly read the books in Yun Niang's room.
She was literate and her father taught her to read. She used to hate reading the most. However, at that time, she began to feel lucky that there were so many books in this place for her to pass the time, which made the boring and dull days less difficult. .
Yunniang's books are mostly about medicine and pharmacology, and occasionally about history and economics. She compared the herbs she picked one by one, and gradually learned to identify some of them.
Yun Niang found her secretly reading the medical book, but she didn't stop her and let her read it with great interest.
Later, he got to know almost all the medicinal herbs, and Lu Zhuo started to know some simple recipes. After Yun Niang finished testing the medicine for her, Lu Chen would also use herbs found in the mountains to detoxify himself and recuperate his body.
At that time, she was very happy. She always felt that her days in the mountains were not in vain, and she gradually developed the illusion that she might become a female doctor in the future.
Later, Lu Huan often went to pick up some animals from the thatched house.
There are often injured animals in the mountains, wild cats caught in traps, rabbits whose legs were bitten off by foxes, baby birds accidentally falling from their nests...
When they met them on the road, they took them back, treated them with medicinal herbs, and then put them back in the mountains.
Slowly getting busy, I no longer feel lonely. The thatched house has become a bustling medical hospital. She is the doctor who sits in the hospital with a pot to help the world. Those little animals that were accidentally rescued become patients who come for treatment.
Join joy in the midst of suffering, and bitterness becomes sweetness.
One day, she picked up a wild dog in a mass grave. It must have been just born and its eyes had not yet opened. Perhaps too weak, the female dog took away the other puppies, leaving only this one.
Lu Zong took the puppy back to the thatched house.
The puppy was black in color and had smooth fur. Lu Zhu bit his pen and thought for a long time and named it "Wuyun".
“The cow’s tail is covered with dark clouds and thick ink is splashed, and the cow’s head is flying on the axle of the car in the wind and rain…”
feeling feeling
She touched Wu Yun's head and whispered: "You are lucky to have met me. It can be regarded as a 'rain suddenly clears up'!"
The dark clouds grew quickly.
The puppy is alert and lively, and often stays by her side. When she goes down the mountain to pick herbs, she will help Lu Zhu hold the bamboo basket for collecting herbs. During the day, Lu Zhu will share his food with Wu Yun to eat together. At night, Lu Zhu sits While she was reading medical books under the lamp, dark clouds lay vigil at her feet.
It is Lu Xun's only companion in the mountains. Sometimes when Lu Xun sees the puppy playing in the sun, he feels like he is back in Changwu County, chasing butterflies on the embankment near the river.
Yun Niang was sitting at a small table under the tree making medicine, looking at her thoughtfully.
“You like this puppy very much.”
Lu Zong hugged Wu Yun's neck and said "hmm" in a low voice.
She likes this puppy very much.
It is like a gift from God to her.
One morning, Lu Zhuo woke up and saw no shadow of dark clouds. At this time on weekdays, the puppy has already come to bite her quilt.
She felt suddenly uneasy and rushed out of the house in a hurry. Finally, she saw dark clouds in the corner of the yard.
The dark cloud was lying on the ground. When he saw it, he struggled to open his eyes and let out a whimper.
Lu Zhen rushed to it, helpless and wanted to pick it up.
“Don’t worry, I asked him to try a new medicine for me.”
Yun Niang came out from under the tree, holding an empty bowl in her hand, looking at Lu Shun on the ground with a smile and said: "I haven't given a name yet, but the ingredients are selaginella, nv. lucidum, wolfsbane, iris, arsenic..." she said A lot.
Lu Zhen stared at her blankly, and finally couldn't help but tremble.
Arsenic is poisonous.
Puppies cannot take arsenic, not to mention that Wuyun is less than half a year old.
Yunniang said: "Seven days."
…“…What seven days?”
“Haven’t you learned some medical skills now? If you can detoxify it within seven days, it can survive.”
The woman smiled gently, with a bit of curiosity and concern: "I have told you all the poisonous materials, Xiao Qi, don't let me down."
Lu Zong hugged his partner tightly, his face pale.
That was a very short but very long seven days.
Every moment was like suffering. She barely ate or slept. She forgot about the time and read all the medical books. She only hated why she couldn't read more about pharmacology and why her medical skills couldn't be more sophisticated. She seemed to have become a waste, and her previously proud dream of thinking she could be a female doctor was suddenly shattered.
Ridiculously stupid.
By the seventh day, the dark clouds had festered all over their bodies.
The puppy was not dead yet and could no longer make a sound. Its bright eyes stared at her with infinite nostalgia. Lu Zhuo's tears fell on the back of his hand, and the puppy stretched out its tongue with great effort and licked its hand tenderly.
She couldn't make an antidote, and she couldn't save her friends at all.
Lu Jun knelt down in front of Yun Niang, choking and begging: "Yun Niang... Yun Niang... please save it..."
Yun Niang leaned over, gently pulled away her hand that was holding the hem of her skirt, sighed and shook her head.
“Xiao Qi, you can’t place all your hopes on others.”
"Besides," she smiled slightly, "you have not paid my consultation fee now."
Back then, Lu Zhen asked Yun Niang to save the Lu family on his own terms.
But now, she is not even her own, and is no longer qualified to make a deal with Yun Niang.
It was cloudy outside, and the dark clouds died in her arms.
She watched helplessly as it died.
That warm, furry body gradually became cold and stiff. It would no longer be the first to rush up and lick her hand after each test. The pair of dark, shining eyes gradually became lax and turned into The two solidified, dim dead beads will no longer reflect Lu Yan's figure.
She was so distraught that she walked to the pine forest on the top of the mountain, holding the dead clouds in her arms.
The mountains were filled with evergreen pines and cypresses. Lu Zhu found a beautiful little pine tree and dug a hole under the tree, hoping to bury the dark clouds under the tree. Halfway through the excavation, there was a sudden rumble of thunder and a sudden heavy rain.
Lu Zhen hurriedly hugged Wu Yun, fearing that the heavy rain would wet Wu Yun's fur. The puppy's cold body was close to him. She finally couldn't hold it back and cried loudly while holding Wu Yun's body.
The heavy rain was like water bursting from a dike, and the howling wind wrapped up her cries.
She just sat like this, her pupils reflecting the unexpected rainstorm on the summer mountain. Until the dark clouds dissipate and the rain gradually stops, the summer mountain rain comes and goes as quickly as it comes. A rainbow glows after sunrise.
If it’s like what the poem says, I hurriedly crossed the stream in the rain...The rain suddenly fell and the mountains became green again.
The heavy rain stopped.
But the heavy rain didn’t stop.
It hangs above people's heads and may fall down at any time. The dark clouds are gone, but the heavy rain is still there. It can't stop forever. You don't know when it will fall, like the waves of a rising tide, dragging people to the bottom of the water.
That was the first lesson Yun Niang taught her.
One cannot prevent the rain from falling, just as one cannot prevent the death of life.
“Crack—” sound.
I was lost in thought, my pen was unsteady in my hand, and when it fell on the paper, it left a dazzling ink mark.
The waning moon outside the window is hazy, the lights are flowing all over the room, and the ink marks on the paper are like dark scars, which suddenly hurt people's eyes.
Lu Yan suddenly felt a little bored.
She grabbed the paper in front of her, crumpled it into a ball, and threw it away in a vent.
The paper ball rolled gurglingly, and by the light of the lamp, it rolled to a pair of boots.
Someone bent down and picked up the waste paper on the ground, smiled and said, "Did it offend you?"
Lu Zhuo stiffened.
She raised her eyes and saw Pei Yunying walking in from the door.
The night is getting deeper, and the lights are shining brightly. The young man takes off the crimson official uniform he wore during the day, and puts on a jade brocade spring shirt with moon white dark flowers and cloud patterns. Under the candles, it is like climbing up a jade mountain, and the light shines on people. Lu Zong calmed down and said, "Why are you here?"
This man entered the medical hospital and it was almost like no one else was there, and Lu Zhen was no longer surprised. If someone finds out, it won't be him who suffers. Just let him go.
Pei Yunying walked to the table opposite her and sat down. He took out a piece of paper from his arms and said, "You came to the palace during the day and left a prescription. I brought it to you specially."
Lu Tong was startled, and saw that the piece of paper was indeed lost by him. He probably lost it while checking his pulse with the guards while he was stuck in the medical book.
“Thank you.” She put away the paper.
Pei Yunying nodded and continued: "By the way, I want to ask you for the food pill in the bottle."
Lu Zhuo was startled for a moment, then frowned: "Have you finished the bottle you gave me last time?"
Last time, Pei Yunying came and said that the Si Quan in the Palace Commander's Mansion had a bad spleen and stomach, and asked Lu Zhuo for a bottle of food pills. There was a lot of food pills in that bottle, and it didn't take long now.
She reminded: “Dogs should not eat too much Xia Shi Dan.”
Pei Yunying smiled: "It's for Duan Xiaoyan."
…”
She said no more, got up and went to the medicine cabinet to find some food pills for Pei Yunying.
Pei Yunying leaned on the chair and stared at her back standing in front of the medicine cabinet for a while, then suddenly said: "Why are you afraid of dogs?"
His fingertips trembled, Lu Zhu lowered his head, continued to open the medicine drawer, and said, "I'm not afraid of dogs."
“Then why did you reject Duan Xiaoyan’s proposal?”
“Master Pei, I made it very clear that I hate dogs, so I refuse.”
"Hate it?" Pei Yunying raised her lips, "But you look pale with fright."
Lu Huan: “…”
She took out the food pill from the medicine drawer, closed the cabinet, and walked to Pei Yunying.
The spring night is melting, the window is half open, and in the distance there is the soft sound of frightened birds taking off in the forest, and the fragrance of pear flowers is pushed into the small courtyard through the pond water by the wind, and the sleeves are also stained with the fragrance.
On the corner of the table in the room, in the bronze camel lamp, a silver candle burned quietly, and the soft light filled the whole room, casting a slightly swaying shadow on the ground.
The young man's eyes were like a cool spring night in Shengjing. They seemed gentle, but they were filled with a deeper coldness, looking at her with unclear meaning.
Lu Zong was silent.
This person, this person is not as bright as he seems on the outside. He seems to be able to see through all the disguises of people at a glance and understand the secrets of people's hearts.
So, there is no need to pretend.
“Well, I’m afraid of dogs.”
Lu Zhen put the bottle of Shi Dan in front of Pei Yunying, sat back at the table, and then said calmly: "Because I was bitten by a dog when I was a child."
“That dog is very annoying, like a piece of dog-skin plaster, it is chasing after me and I can’t get rid of it no matter what.”
Pei Yunying was startled.
After a while, he chuckled and sighed: "Why are you carrying a gun and a stick? It seems that Doctor Lu is in a bad mood today."
Not wanting to continue this conversation with him, Lu Chen glanced at the medicine bottle on the table: "The food pill has been given to Master Pei."
Pei Yunying picked up the porcelain bottle filled with medicine, but did not leave immediately. He only said, "I heard that you stood up for me today?"
These words were said in a confused manner, and Lu Zhu was puzzled: "What?"
He lowered his head and smiled, and said in a calm tone: "When we were at Jin Xianrong's house during the day, didn't you give him a few more injections for me?"
Lu Zong was stunned at first, and then suddenly understood.
During the day, Jin Xianrong made some rude remarks to Pei Yunying, and she did hurt him a few times.
But that was a matter at Jin Xianrong's house.
At that time, apart from himself, there were only Jin Xianrong and his servants in the house...
Dian Shuai Mansion…
Methods really reach the sky.
For a moment, a chill arose in my heart.
She raised her eyes and looked at the person opposite. The young man's facial features were handsome and soft under the light of the lamp. The moon-white brocade robe made him noble and gentle, but if she looked closely, her outline was delicate and sharp.
Weapons are good at hurting people.
A sharp knife, no matter how gorgeous it looks, cannot hide the dangerous fact.
Pei Yunying didn't seem to notice Lu Zhuo's sudden vigilance. With a smile on his face, he asked nonchalantly: "Why did Doctor Lu stand up for me?"
Lu Yan was silent.
Logically speaking, she and Pei Yunying are neither relatives nor friends. Even though Pei Yunying does not intend to stop her revenge for the time being, Lu Zhen always treats him with a subtle distance. This person had a very high status, and she didn't know what she was doing secretly. She couldn't cope with her own affairs, and she really didn't have the energy or the inclination to be a good Samaritan who saw injustice in the road.
She is not nosy at all.
It was a cold spring night, the moon was shy, and a gust of evening wind blew from the window, giving the figures shrouded in lights a faint chill.
Lu Zhen tightened his clothes, and after a long time, he said, "Meal money."
“Meal money?”
Lu Zhen nodded and looked the other person in the eye: "When I first entered the medical hospital, I ate Mr. Pei's lotus cake, and Mr. Pei confiscated the money."
“This is worth the cost of cooking.”
She spoke seriously, as if she was discussing a business deal worth ten million taels, but Pei Yunying was slightly stunned.
That night, not long after Lu Chen was assigned to Nanjing Pharmacy, the cold pots and stoves in the small kitchen bumped into Pei Yunying who was passing by.
She ate Pei Yunying's lotus cake, but Pei Yunying confiscated her money and left like that.
Pei Yunying nodded: "I see." Then he looked at her and said with a smile: "It's just a basket of cakes. Why does Doctor Lu know so much?"
It seems that she always divides these debts clearly, plasters, snacks, life-saving feelings...
Afraid of owing others, or being owed by others.
Lu Yan said calmly: "The palace commander doesn't know something. Any grudges must be repaid, and every kindness must be repaid. This is the rule of our Lu family."
Pei Yunying looked at her thoughtfully.
The woman sat under the lamp, flipping through medical books. The dim yellow light was hazy. Her long hair was untied and spread over her shoulders like satin. She was lined with an aqua blue dress like a flower in the night in the mountains, quietly and calmly. in full bloom.
He paused his hand playing with the medicine bottle, thought for a moment, and then asked, "Why don't you ask about my family?"
Lu Zong was startled and couldn't help but look up.
The young man held his chin up and looked at her with a faint smile. His tone was careless, but his eyes were as quiet as deep water, hiding some ripples that she couldn't understand.
There is a very light blue musk scent in the air, or maybe the newly bloomed pear flowers outside the yard are too fragrant, which is difficult to ignore.
Lu Zhen withdrew his gaze and said calmly: "I'm not interested in other people's family affairs."
Hearing this, Pei Yunying was startled and looked at her with a somewhat complicated expression.
The densely packed small characters in the medical books in front of him seemed blurry under the light. Lu Huo suddenly lost interest in continuing to read. He was silent for a while and asked, "Master Pei, why didn't you ask Jin Xianrong why he said this?"
Jin Xianrong was extremely insulting to the Pei family both inside and outside his words. Judging from Pei Yunying's previous methods of dealing with Prince Wen, this commander is ruthless and will retaliate, and he does not seem to have the temperament to let things go in vain. What's more, since he had inserted someone into Jin Xianrong's house, he was extremely bold. Lu Chen thought he would come back with revenge, but he didn't expect that he didn't seem to care much.
It seems that he doesn’t care about Duke Zhaoning’s mansion or the reputation of Duke Zhaoning at all.
Pei Yunying blinked and sighed softly, "Who in Shengjing doesn't know about my family's affairs?"
“Isn’t the commander angry?”
He shrugged: "That's true."
Lu Zhen stopped talking. She couldn't understand Pei Yunying.
A gust of wind blew, and the camel lamp on the table trembled twice. Pei Yunying reached out and flicked the wick, and the light became brighter. He said: "Baozhu's medicine is almost finished. My sister asked me to ask you, when will the new prescription be replaced?"
Originally, Lu Zhen was at Renxin Medical Center, and would go to Pei Yunshu's house every few days to consult Pei Yunshu and his daughter, and by the way, he would change the prescription according to the condition of the treasure. Since I called Hanlin Medical Hospital, I have been so busy every day that I forgot that the day of changing to a new prescription is just around the corner.
"The medical hospital has two days off every month," Lu Huan said, "I didn't leave last month. I will go back to the hospital this month. I will see the orb in person before changing the dressing."
Pei Yunying nodded: "That's fine."
There was another moment of silence.
He picked up the medicine bottle on the table and stood up. When he walked to the door, he stopped again: "Doctor Lu."
Lu Huo: “What?”
The young man stood with his back to her. After a while, he smiled and said, "Thank you very much."
He left without saying anything more.
The room became quiet again. Lu Zhu put down the medical book in his hand and looked forward.
The moon broke through the light clouds, and the shadows of the flowers faded. The cool moon flowed over the ground, reflecting the white frost.
His shadow has disappeared outside the door.
“The virtue of a meal must be repaid, and the resentment of Yaizhen must be repaid.” - "Historical Records"