At night, the lights in Diqiu were extinguished one by one, and the entire county was in silence. A crescent moon appeared in the sky, appearing and disappearing among the rising and falling clouds.
Lu Anran changed the medicine for her injured foot, and Qiu Chan went out with water. She took a book and leaned against the window to flip through a few pages. When she was about to doze off, she heard voices coming from outside.
"Steward Zhou remembered Zhu Afu and said that he sneaked into the Zhou Mansion and stole a lot of jewelry, so he was taken back by the Zhou Mansion's servants and beat him up." Guan Yue was talking, "But he didn't kill him. Later, Zhu Afu went back to the village to lie down. After a few days, when I went out again, the person suddenly disappeared."
Lu Anran opened the window, and under the lamplight opposite, Guan Yuezheng and Yunqi reported, "As for Hu Tian and Hu Lai, Butler Zhou is not very impressed. The original account books are nowhere to be found. Things outside the Zhou Mansion are not under his control, so we can't Sure."
Yun Qi half-smiled, "Butler Zhou is already very capable. There are so many account books, and it's clear what's missing."
Lu Anran said: "Did Lu Taotao notice anything unusual while following Butler Zhou?"
Yun Qi tsked lightly and walked towards her, "You're the only one to worry about staying up so late."
Lu Anran was actually not sleepy. The wound was numb and burning after using the medicine, but there was no need to take it out and say, "Read a book for a while."
Guanyue's body remained motionless, with a serious look on his face, but his eyes that kept glancing back and forth betrayed his thoughts, "Lu Taotao said that Butler Zhou may have a brain problem. He huddles in the dark ancestral hall all day long, often muttering something, some unusual."
Yun Qi leaned against the window sill and sneered: "She has the nerve to say that other people's brains are abnormal."
Before Guanyue was about to leave, he remembered something, "By the way, Xunqing asked his subordinate how the investigation of the Yaksha case was going. If the dojo was over and the investigation could not be found, he would leave it alone. He said that Butler Zhou was very concerned about the progress of the case and asked him privately. several times."
Lu Anran closed the book, covered it with his palm, raised his eyes and said, "If you are so concerned, why don't you go to the government to ask."
Yunqi's dark eyes were deep, and he raised his lips and smiled, "What is the difference between children and adults?"
Guan Yue hesitated and said: "If you are not on guard, is it easier to make excuses?"
Yunqi tapped two fingers on the window sill a few times and thought: "In this case, you can give Lu Taotao a few words and ask her to find an opportunity to inform Butler Zhou."
Guanyue wrote them down one by one and left the other courtyard under the cover of night.
Lu Anran looked at Yun Qi, "Are you planning to trick Butler Zhou?"
Yun Qi raised his lips and smiled, and under the faint light of the night moon, there was a trace of evil charm, "Then he must have evil intentions for my strategy to work."
Lu Anran thought that this was indeed the case. As of now, Butler Zhou's suspicion is quite high.
"The smell of medicine is so strong." Yunqi glanced down, "Is your foot injury better?"
Lu Anran nodded: "The trauma doesn't matter."
Yun Qi leaned over and said, "I've always had a question. Obviously you don't have good medical skills, so why are you so experienced in trauma? For example, you're very good at treating wounds."
Lu Anran followed his gaze to the porcelain bottle on the table, picked it up and put it in his hand, saying: "I didn't have much contact with it at first, but then Xuexue was often injured, and she felt that she had some talent in medicine, so it was natural that she should practice medicine. "
Lu Anran never said these words to anyone, but on such a hazy moonlit night, she said softly: "Actually, whether I want to be a doctor or not is not my obsession. Maybe you don't know, my mother used to be a doctor. A healer who doesn’t heal himself.”
A strand of ink hair floated out from inside. Yun Qi held it in his hand and lowered his eyes and said, "Is it because you want to inherit your late mother's legacy?"
"No." Lu Anran looked up, his dark eyes as clear as snow in the dim light, "In order to find out what kind of person my mother is."
Yunqi let go of his hand, and the black hair slipped from his palm. He raised his hand and pushed the hair away from her face to behind her ears. His fingers followed the ferocious lines of her right face, his eyes calm and calm, " Do you want me to help you?"
Lu Anran avoided his gaze and said, "No, it's not something important."
Yun Qi took back his hand and gently rubbed his fingers, "Who is Xuexue?"
"Lu Xueqing."
"Lu You's legitimate son?"
Lu Anran was not surprised. It was normal to know this from Yunqi's source.
The initial discomfort of the ointment disappeared, followed by a clear feeling, as if that area had been frozen, it could be described as a world of ice and fire.
Yunqi's index finger swam under his nose, his brows furrowed, "You used Thousand Hammer Cream."
Just like the name of this plaster, it is perfect after thousands of times of hard work.
It has a very good effect on wounds and the healing speed is several times faster than ordinary plasters.
But as the saying goes, if you don’t have enough, you will lose. When anything reaches the extreme, it will inevitably be accompanied by a corresponding backlash. Once you apply the Thousand Hammer Cream, it will alternate between hot and cold at first. After half an hour, it will be like an ant on the tarsus, gnawing away from the texture. It will cause pain. Very patient.
Lu Anran already felt that the coldness was slowly fading, followed by a dense needle-like pain. However, this level was not unbearable for Lu Anran, and his expression did not even change at all.
"Recover faster." She just said lightly.
Yun Qi sighed: "I thought you were cruel to corpses."
I still remember picking up the internal organs from the corpse without even blinking with the knife in hand. Yun Qi is still deeply impressed to this day.
"Have you ever heard this sentence, Your Majesty?" Lu Anran put the medicine bottle in his hand on the table, met his gaze and said, "The doctor's hands must not shake."
Yun Qi chuckled: "It's a pity that you are a gangster."
"It does not heal the living, but it heals the dead."
Yun Qi straightened up, put one hand behind his back, looked at the pitch-black sky, and spoke softly and slowly, "Lu Anran, there is one thing between the two of us. Neither of us is willing to trust someone easily, but , are you willing to entrust your trust to me from now on?"
Looking back, my eyes are burning, better than the peach blossoms in spring——
"I will give you compassion, kindness, and the elegance of all things; I will give you the beginning of childhood and the end of sincerity, unswervingly."
Lu Anran suddenly felt that the pain on her leg was unbearable, as if something was drilling in, not only invading her skin, but also attacking her heart.
She had always been calm, calm, and calm, but at this moment, she realized that it was not that she had lost her mortal emotions, but that she had developed fear, fear, and even low self-esteem due to never having been in contact with him.
That kind of inferiority suppressed in the long river of life in the past, the neglected place, when it was illuminated by the light, it all came out in an instant, making her feel suffocated.
The sun is too bright, and the areas that are not illuminated appear darker.
She asked herself whether people who were given up since birth and encountered countless rejections while growing up were qualified to hold the sunshine.
Yun Qi didn't let go of the changing expression on her face. He pinched her chin with his hand forcefully, and with a slight force, she raised her head. Their eyes met, and the moonlight fell into their eyes at the same time, flowing. There is an indescribable light.
"What are you thinking about?"
Lu Anran's eyes were half-opened, and his face seemed to be illuminated by night dew, with a sense of clarity, "Your Majesty, are you not afraid of being laughed at by everyone in the world?"
"What's the joke?" Yunqi's deep, watery eyes flickered, and the tail of his peach blossom eyes evoked uninhibited frivolity, "The most beautiful man in Daning Dynasty found the ugliest woman in the world?"
He chuckled, his expression full of arrogance, "Is this prince participating in a beauty pageant? Then why not look at yourself in the mirror."
Lu Anran pushed his hand away and turned sideways, confused and clueless, but the effect of Qianzhui Ointment finally took effect. The skin meridians on half of the legs seemed to be pulled back and forth, and thousands of ants kept gnawing in them. Bite, the pain is more intense than imagined.
Almost instantly, beads of sweat oozed from Lu Anran's temples, and she pressed her fists against the table to bear this wave of pain.
"Has the medicine taken effect?" Yun Qi immediately saw something was wrong.
A drop of sweat flowed into Lu Anran's eyes when he raised his head, moistening his pupils and making them particularly clear. Compared with the past, he had a slightly more invisible softness.
She took a breath and said, "A stick of incense."
As long as you endure a stick of incense, the pain will be over.
Yunqi put his hand on the window sill and pushed himself in, reaching out to help her up. The other hand went around the bend of her knee. The next moment, Lu Anran felt like she was flying into the air.
The feeling of weightlessness made her subconsciously bump into Yun Qi's arms, and her nose was filled with the cold fragrance of bamboo.
A low smile came from Yun Qi above his head, "I am a good person and do good deeds, so please don't take the opportunity to eat my tofu."
From what Lu Anran had seen in his life, there was definitely no person more shameless than Yun Qi.
This night's dream was full of chaos. Before each dream ended, Lu Anran vaguely heard the slightly deep voice, which seemed to be whispering in her ear——
"Does Miss Lu really not accept the beautiful man in front of her?"
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When Lu Anran woke up the next day, her head hurt. She didn't know whether it was the words that had been pestering her all night, or simply the pain caused by the ointment.
The conversation last night was still in her ears, mixed with chuckles and murmurs, and she thought with some sadness about how much genuineness there was in it.
Qiu Chan helped Lu Anran wash up and looked over her frequently while serving breakfast.
Lu Anran swallowed the golden caramel cake in his mouth, "If you have anything to say, just say it."
Qiu Chan pursed her lips and said with a bit of displeasure on her pretty face: "A girl came to see the Crown Prince early in the morning. Guard Mo said she belonged to the Crown Prince..."
Lu Anran's hand holding the bowl of porridge froze, not for anything else, but when he suddenly mentioned Yunqi, he couldn't help but think of what happened last night.
Qiu Chan hesitated before saying three words: "...Good old friend."
There is a saying that it is difficult for her to arrange as a slave, and she is very dissatisfied - isn't the prince married to Miss Lu? Why is he still messing around with women outside? This kind of behavior is wrong.
She secretly glanced at Lu Anran and couldn't help but sigh. It seems that men still value appearance after all. Miss Lu is such a good person, so pitiful.
Lu Anran, who was secretly pityed by Qiu Chan, didn't realize it and asked: "Where did this girl come from, but from the county office?"
Hearing that he was not a student from Jixia Palace, he said, "He is carrying a bamboo basket and his face is not bad, but his dress is a bit rustic."
Lu Anran realized that it was probably the Hehe girl.
Just as he was thinking this, Mo Yan poked his head out of the window and said, "My surname is Lu, the prince wants you to come over."
Qiu Chan pursed her lips. The prince was so unreasonable that he actually asked Miss Lu to meet his new love!
