The shadows of the trees are cool and the breeze is rustling for joy.
When a person walked out of it, he first saw a face with a bad smile, and even the two thick eyebrows were arched, like the bright first quarter moon in the night sky.
The fair skin is lined with light peach-pink lips, and the facial features are clear and elegant, still carrying the last bit of the childishness that belongs to a young man before he transforms into an adult man.
The expression is flamboyant and the whole body is relaxed, adding a hint of unruliness to the originally handsome and sunny look.
"You are usually quiet and cool, but you talk behind your back?" The young man raised the corners of his mouth without concealing it, and spoke with a chuckle.
Chun Miao blushed: "How could the third young master eavesdrop on someone else's conversation!"
"Eavesdropping?" The young man curled his lips: "I'm standing here, and your words insist on falling into my ears. You can blame me for that."
Facing the young rogue look, Chun Miao stamped her feet, but she couldn't do anything.
Lu Anran took a serious look at the young man and suddenly said: "Xue Xue."
The boy's face suddenly turned dark.
He is the legitimate son of the third wife, the daughter of the Qian family, and the third among the Lu family's sons. His name is Lu Xueqing.
Just because he was born prematurely and was born with a weak constitution, he asked the master to give him a nickname that he could bear, so he picked a character from his big name and the homonym became "Xue Xue".
"You have a black heart and a black liver. No wonder all the places in Jixia Palace were taken away by Lu Jianyu." Lu Xueqing snorted and sneered: "You deserve it!"
Lu Anran raised his eyebrows: "That's all? I'll leave if it's okay."
"Hey!" Lu Xueqing saw that Lu Anran stepped forward without saying a word, and said angrily: "You were not like this when you needed me yesterday!"
Lu Anran paused, and when he turned around, he threw something at the same time.
Lu Xueqing took it, and it was a small porcelain vase. His eyes suddenly looked astonished: "How did you know I asked you for this?"
"You have the smell of blood on you." Lu Anran raised his chin and said, "The reward you gave me for delivering the book last night."
Lu Xueqing didn't show any pretense. He stuffed the small porcelain bottle into his sleeve pocket. Before he could speak, he saw Lu Anran took out another green bottle and raised an eyebrow: "It's just a few books. Are you so polite?"
"Five hundred taels." Obviously he didn't intend to give it away for free.
Lu Xueqing laughed angrily: "You think it's made of gold."
“Although the previous hemostatic cream could stop the bleeding, it was not effective in removing swelling and occasionally caused a burning and stinging sensation.”
Lu Xueqing gritted his teeth: "You did it on purpose!"
"Medical medicine and pharmaceutical preparation always require a step-by-step process through repeated attempts." Lu Anran said calmly: "I haven't said the best effect yet, it can remove scars."
Lu Xueqing shook his head: "If you don't have money, there is no need to remove the scar."
Lu Anran shook his sleeve with his fingertips: "Xuexue, you will lose a good doctor in me."
Sure enough, Lu Xueqing's expression changed slightly.
Lu Anran didn't know and wouldn't ask about Lu Xueqing's secret, but if he could go to the medicine hall to see the doctor openly, there would be no need to look for ointment from her.
It can be said that Lu Anran's rapid progress in treating trauma was entirely due to Lu Xueqing, the guinea pig.
Lu Xueqing gritted her teeth tightly, and her eyes were about to burst into flames, "I'll give you some silver tomorrow night!"
After Lu Anran's unilateral and pleasant transaction, Lu Xueqing deliberately stabbed her: "Hey, you really don't want to go to Jixia Palace?"
Lu Anran frowned lightly and said, "I think so."
Jixia Palace has gone through hundreds of years, and one can imagine how rich it has been. Not to mention that it contains all kinds of learned people from the Ning Dynasty, making it a place where people all over the world dream of studying.
The same goes for Lu Anran.
In more than two years, she seemed to have learned a lot through the transaction with the old man, but the old man never taught her and only provided her with what she wanted, so everything she learned was general and messy.
Only by going to Jixia Palace and Zaliuzhen can she strive for excellence and truly enter the field of medical skills.
There is another reason...
Complex emotions flashed in Lu Anran's eyes, and disappeared in an instant, so fast that it was almost invisible.
Lu Xueqing was silent for a moment and didn't ask any more questions. He took the things and left. The question just now seemed to be asked casually and he didn't care what Lu Anran thought in his heart.
He didn't ask why Lu Anran suddenly sent a letter yesterday asking him to send a few books to the ancestral hall, just like Lu Anran didn't ask why he was injured from time to time.
The relationship between these siblings is completely different from anyone else's.
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No matter what method Lu Xueqing used, five hundred taels of silver notes were indeed delivered at night the next day.
After that, Lu Anran asked Chunmiao to pawn her a pair of jewelry, which she had never used and was a congratulatory gift from a certain wife on the day she got her hair.
Chun Miao babbled a few words, but seeing that Lu Anran was focused on the "Qianjin Pharmacopoeia", she had no choice but to bear the pain and go do things for her young lady.
For the past two days, the Lu Mansion was calm. I occasionally heard Chun Miao talking about the preparations in the second room for Lu Jianyu to go to the royal capital. Various things were delivered to the house every day. From time to time, Mrs. Lu would invite Lu Jianyu to listen to some teachings.
Lu Anran wrote down the unclear parts of the book in a blank book at hand so that he could read them from time to time. In just two days, he had written seven or eight pages.
"Miss, someone has sent you a greeting card." When Chunmiao came back, she also took a card from the concierge.
Lu Anran stopped writing and first washed his hands in the basin next to him. After drying them, he opened the post and was quite surprised to see the name on it.
After lunch, Lu Anran went to Lu Xun's yard alone.
Before he could get closer, he heard a sarcastic sneer coming from inside: "Looking at the entire Meng Realm, Governor Lu doesn't even look down on me, the direct young master of the Yin family. Could it be that when choosing a son-in-law, he wants to choose the young master Yun Shang of Prince Yun's Mansion?"
Young Master Yunqi is the only son of a king with a different surname among the seven counties in Mengzhou.
Due to the relationship between the king with a different surname and the previous dynasty, although the current emperor retained the Yun family in Shengle County due to circumstances, he only left the name of Prince Yun's Palace empty.
Everyone in the Ning Dynasty knew that there were Yunqi and Nangong Mochen in the south and north, and the world called them the twin sons.
But unlike the young Marquis of Ningdu, who was the most talented in Beijing, Yun Qi was famous for his beauty and luxury, and also because he spent huge sums of money to build the Yunshang Palace.
The Yunshang Palace is built like a fairyland on earth, housing countless beauties. Accompanied by fine wine and delicacies every day, it has become a wonderland of fun, drunkenness and dreams.
Lu Anran was stunned, and the study door was pushed open with great force. She stepped back and hid her body behind a tree. She looked up and saw a middle-aged man walking away quickly with his head held high and a dark face.
Lu Anran thought for a while, then came to the study and saw Lu Xun standing in front of the window. His gentle face was half obscured by the shadow of the trees outside the window, making him look a bit obscure.
Hearing the footsteps, Lu Xun turned his head and saw that it was Lu Anran. He exhaled from his chest: "You're here."
"Were you from the Yin family just now?" Although he asked, his tone was affirmative.
Lu Xun nodded, but didn't plan to say anything more, "You are here because you want to ask your father why he chose Jian Yu."
After resisting asking for two days, Lu Xun felt that her daughter was indeed qualified to study medicine based on her character.
"Will father tell me?" Lu Anran asked.
Lu Xun looked deeply at Lu Anran, as if he wanted to see through her soul, and as if he was clearly looking at another person through her, his eyes gradually became complicated, "That's why I said that that day."
Lu Anran lowered his eyes: "I understand."
Compromising so quickly made Lu Xun stunned for a moment, thinking that Lu Anran came over to question him.
"Father always does it for my own good, I understand."
Lu Xun's dark eyes gradually became stormy, but then quickly calmed down. He walked over and raised his hand to touch the girl's head, but when his fingertips touched the soft black hair, his fingers curled up, and then slowly lay down.
"I came here to tell my father that I want to go out once in the afternoon." Lu Anran explained the purpose of his visit.
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Lu Anran did not delay. After leaving Lu Xun's courtyard, he did not take the spring seedlings with him as before, nor did he ask the concierge to set up the carriage, and went straight out of the house.
The sky is sunny today, the wind has subsided, the light is quite warm, and there is no dusty sand, so there are more pedestrians walking on the street.
Lu Anran walked slowly and slowly, and first went to the county government office.
It happened that the gatekeeper was still the government servant. When he saw Lu Anran, he felt as if he had seen a ghost. He couldn't help but touch his butt. It hurt!
"The magistrate, the magistrate, is out of the city." The yamen servant's mouth trembled, and he was a little trembling when he spoke, fearing that Lu Anran would do something wrong again.
Sooner or later, he will lose this job!
Lu Anran looked at him: "Why do you stutter when you speak?"
The yamen servant said in his heart that he was not scared by you, "Ahem, the wind, the wind blew."
Lu Anran came to ask Hong Gu for her home address. The greeting card in her sleeve pocket was delivered to Lu Mansion by Hong Gu, but she did not reply and instead planned to come to the door herself.
Because Lu Anran still wanted to visit the old man, so as to save Hong Gu from running away again.
There is a shortcut from the county government office to the old man's residence. After passing through a row of shops, there are several coffin shops in the last row. The alley there is narrow and dark, because no one passes through it all year round, and there are many coffin shops. Less waste.
Lu Anran stepped in, and the soles of the white sheepskin boots were stained with a layer of ashes. Some people came to pay homage to the deceased in the alley. When the people left, the ashes stayed here.
The alley is so narrow that it is difficult for two people to walk side by side. The draft blows in, causing a whistling sound, like a ghost crying and wolf howling. Combined with the white flags hanging on the coffin pavement that can be seen in front of the alley, it is full of spooky atmosphere.
It was clearly afternoon, but almost no one passed by. It was obvious that everyone was very taboo about this alley.
Suddenly, the wind direction changed, carrying a strong smell of blood, and even the air was dyed with a biting evil spirit.
Lu Anran stopped suddenly.
A black shadow hit the ground heavily, just five steps away from Lu Anran.
Immediately afterwards, something flashed before Lu Anran's eyes, and something was pressed against her neck. She didn't need to lower her head to feel the cold sharp weapon. As long as the other party moved, she would be killed instantly.
Looking back, Lu Anran's entire face turned pale, her heart beat violently, and her fingers began to feel cold. Although she tried her best to calm down, her fear instinct made her body tremble uncontrollably.
Although this alley is not long, there is a small hole drilled in the middle near the end of the coffin shop. Inside is placed Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, which was worshiped by the shopkeepers of several coffin shops together to do this kind of business in the underworld. It is more comprehensive than others.
Therefore, this also prevented Lu Anran from immediately discovering that there was someone hiding there, let alone knowing that he would face a sudden assassination.
"I didn't see anything." Lu Anran suppressed his chattering teeth and said very quickly and wisely.
She felt that the people around her were getting closer. Suddenly, her eyes dimmed and then brightened, the wind hit her face, and her curtain hat was thrown aside.
"Are you blind? Or am I stupid?" the man said, with a smile in his tone, but his eyes were extremely cold.
Lu Anran's heart suddenly sank as if a stone had fallen.
