Denghuaxiao

Chapter 199 Truth and lies

 When Lu Zhen entered the room, the atmosphere in the room was a little strange.

Pei Yunying and Ji Xun stood on opposite sides of the bamboo table. They didn't know what they had just said, and there seemed to be a subtle stalemate in their expressions.

Hearing the movement, the two of them looked towards her.

 Lu Zhen entered the room, and Ji Xun raised his hand to her: "Medical Officer Lu, I have something to tell you."

 Lu Huo nodded: "Okay."

Ji Xun looked at Pei Yunying again and asked, "Can Mr. Pei please stay away temporarily?"

Pei Yunying looked at Lu Huo.

Lu Zhuo then said: "Master Pei, please go out first."

Pei Yunying frowned and stared at her for a moment, then laughed as if he was angry, and left the door without saying a word, closing the door behind him, looking a little unhappy.

Lu Zhen was looking at his back when he heard Ji Xun behind him: "Medical Officer Lu, sit down and talk."

"good."

 The two of them sat down in front of the bamboo table.

The house was quiet, and the breeze coming through the window dissipated some of the summer dryness. Lu Yan looked at Ji Xun.

She didn't know what Ji Xun wanted to say to her, but she could probably guess some of his intentions.

Sure enough, she picked up the teacup and the teapot and was about to pour tea when she heard Ji Xun in front of her say: "Is there any hidden reason behind your suspension?"

Lu Zong's action of pouring tea paused for a moment, then quickly continued pouring tea: "Medical Officer Ji should have heard about it."

"It is indeed against the rules to look at the medicine list at will, but the real reason for your suspension should be to accuse Yuanshi Cui of plagiarizing medicine prescriptions."

 “Accusation?”

Lu Xu pushed the tea cup in front of Ji Xun: "Isn't it a false accusation?"

Ji Xun took the teacup, was silent for a moment, and said, "I have read your prescription."

"What?"

“After the spring examination of the Imperial Medical Bureau, I have read the test papers of all the students on the red list. All ten of your prescriptions have shortcomings, but they are also subtle. If they are improved, they may not be life-saving prescriptions.”

Ji Xun said: "It was only after I returned to the Medical Officer's Hospital that I learned about your suspension. Zhuling asked the medical officer at that time and added more medicinal materials according to what you later said. I have read the prescription and it is indeed effective in treating epilepsy."

Lu Zhen blinked, and an unbelievable thought came to his mind.

"Does Medical Officer Ji think that I have been wronged? Do you believe what I said that the hospital envoy plagiarized my prescription?"

Lu Zhen was very surprised.

Ji Xun is a gentleman who distinguishes between public and private affairs, but he is also strict and formal. No one will be biased or misunderstood because of personal relationships. But her lame "report" was full of loopholes. With Ji Xun's past careful verification, he should not have said such a thing.

The woman's eyes were bright, and she looked at him with genuine doubts, which made Ji Xun feel a little uncomfortable for a moment.

After calming down, he said: "Don't talk nonsense about things without evidence. It's really impossible to judge based on your words. The most important thing is that it is not yet known whether Mr. Qi is epileptic. Only the hospital administrator can see Mr. Qi's medical records. arrive."

Lu Zhen nodded: "There are rumors outside that Mr. Qi is just frightened."

Whether Qi Yutai was frightened or crazy, no one in the medical hospital knew except Cui Min. This was also the most important reason why Lu Yu was suspended.

"I didn't understand before, but now I know that it is a hundred times more difficult for an ordinary medical officer to act in the imperial city than I imagined." Ji Xun looked at her, "I came today just to tell you. Mr. Qi's matter may not be possible for the time being. I still want to clear your name, but I will explain to the hospital envoy that you will definitely be allowed to return to the medical hospital after three months."

Lu Zhu was stunned for a moment.

These words are already a bit out of line for Ji Xun, who pursues fairness.

"Back when Su Nan and his party came, I once said that if you came to the Shengjing Imperial Medical Bureau, I would take care of you. But you did not come to the Imperial Medical Bureau, and I still misunderstood you a lot. Now that you have entered the Medical Officials' Hospital, if you encounter injustice I feel wronged and I can’t just sit back and watch.”

Ji Xun sighed, lowered his head again, and took out several exquisite porcelain bottles from the cloth bag.

 Lu Zhen's eyes fell on the porcelain bottle.

"This is…"

"Shenxian Jade Muscle Cream." He said: "When you return to West Street, it is not convenient to get medicine from time to time. I made some new ones for you. There is no need to be frugal. Your injuries should be cared for more carefully to avoid scars in the future. "

Lu Zhen’s fingers froze.

There are five or six porcelain bottles in a row in front of them. This elixir, which is also difficult to find among the nobles in the palace, is now piled up in front of them like cabbage, which actually looks a bit ridiculous.

 It’s a pity that it’s of no use to her...

 After swallowing the complicated feelings in his heart, Lu Yan looked at Ji Xun and said sincerely "Thank you".

"Medical Officer Ji," she said, "I may have been too presumptuous in blaming the hospital envoy and made random accusations without seeking proof. If it is my fault, the hospital envoy should be punished and suspended."

"This matter ends here. Medical Officer Ji has nothing to do with this matter, and there is no need to worry about me in the future. After three months, Lu Chen will accept whatever arrangements the hospital envoy will make."

 She looked at the jade skin creams.

After thinking about it for a while, Lu Zhuo raised his head and said with a slight smile: "As for these plasters, since it is Medical Officer Ji's wish, I will be disrespectful to reject them."

Ji Xun frowned as he listened to her words. When he heard the last sentence, his frown relaxed a little.

"That's fine," he nodded: "After Huang Maogang was injured, you should have taken more time to rest. During these three months, you can recuperate in West Street."

 Lu Zhuo nodded.

Ji Xun stood up.

"It's getting late. I have to go to the palace in the evening. It's inconvenient to stay longer, so I'll take my leave."

He bowed his hands to Lu Zhuo and then stood up to leave. When I was about to go out, I saw a young man sitting against the wall in the shade under the tree. When I saw him coming out, I smiled and nodded slightly to him as a greeting.

Oddly enough, the conductor spoke kindly and smiled brightly, but for some reason, Ji Xun always seemed to be able to see a bit of indifference under the cordial expression.

It seems that he doesn’t like himself very much.

 He paused, then raised his hand to Pei Yunying and left.

 …

 In the room, Lu Zhuo was sitting in front of the bamboo table.

The tea was still warm on the table. She looked at the row of exquisite porcelain bottles on the bamboo table and was lost in thought for a while.

 Leaving the medical hospital went very smoothly. In such a happy situation, who would have thought that Ji Xun would intervene midway.

Ji Xun is upright and honest. If he really investigates Cui Min for her suspension, I'm afraid it will easily cause more trouble.

Lu Zong rubbed his forehead and heart, suddenly feeling a bit of a headache.

 Has it gone too far?

Even Ji Xun felt compassion.

Just as he was thinking about it, Pei Yunying's voice came from behind him.

 “He is quite generous, giving you so many secret medicines.”

 Lu Zhuo turned around.

Pei Yunying walked to the bamboo table and sat down. His eyes passed over the teacup that Ji Xun had used on the table. He snorted lightly, brushed the teacup aside, and took a new teacup for himself.

Lu Zhen looked at his movements and felt that this action seemed familiar. When the tailor shop on West Street raised a large yellow circle, he would also urinate around the grass.

 He noticed Lu Zong's eyes and asked, "What are you looking at me doing?"

Lu Huo shook his head: "The palace commander has something to say to me?"

The celebration banquet at the hospital has ended, and he is still lingering here, mysterious and not knowing what to say.

The person in front of me brought a pot and poured tea, "I have been busy for a few days. As soon as I returned to the Palace Commander's Mansion, I heard the news that you left the Medical Officer's Hospital."

"I was worried that you wouldn't be used to it, but I didn't expect that you adapted very well. Your life is no different from when you were in the Medical Officer's Hospital. You even chased your colleagues to West Street."

After saying that, he glanced at the jade skin ointment on the table.

 Lu Zhen was speechless.

 Just a few moments after entering the room, he had already mentioned Ji Xun twice.

She simply pushed the medicine bottle in front of Pei Yunying and said, "If you want it, Commander-in-Chief, I'll give it to you. Take them all."

He paused, glanced at Lu Chen, and saw that Lu Chen's expression was serious and not a joke, so he said slowly: "They gave it to you, how can I win their love? Besides, this is good for your injury, keep it for yourself." "

 The tone was a little gentler than before.

This man is simply capricious and inexplicable.

 Lu Zhen was full of slander in his heart.

Pei Yunying looked at her: "So, why did you leave the medical hospital?"

 “Leave?” Lu Huo corrected: “Commander, I have been suspended.”

 He said: "Do I look like a fool?"

 Lu Huan: “…”

 Accusing Cui Min of plagiarism in a name full of loopholes, being driven back to West Street is a natural result, and even this result is Cui Min showing mercy.

 He can actually make Lu Zhen never return to the medical hospital.

 “Why do you have to make such a scene?” he asked.

Since there was nothing he could hide from this man, Lu Zhu simply said: "I owe Mr. Miao a favor. I originally said that I should take action as soon as I can enter the medical hospital. It has been delayed for so long, and it is time to pay it back."

Hearing this, Pei Yunying was startled.

He also heard about Miao Liangfang later.

 He thought for a while: "Just for this? I thought you had other plans."

 Lu Yan was silent.

 “Shouldn’t you...”

The young man frowned slightly, "Have you tampered with the recipe?"

 Qingfeng reported that Lu Huo had complained to Cui Min in front of all the medical officials, saying that Cui Min had read the Spring Examination Dafang Pulse Examination Paper and the prescription was at the front, and then asked Lu Huo that the defect in the prescription was at the back.

 However, Qi Yutai's family was suffering from epilepsy, and Lu Yun probably didn't know about it at that time. Why did you write down the prescription during the spring test?

 Lu Zhuo smiled and said nothing.

Pei Yunying was in disbelief: "Did you know that Qi Yutai was crazy early in the morning, so you made arrangements in advance?" Lu Yun shook his head.

It was rare to see the person in front of him look puzzled. Lu Zhuo took a sip of tea and spoke slowly.

"During the Spring Examination, I didn't know that Qi Yutaisu had epilepsy. I only knew that Cui Min was a villain who could steal people's prescriptions."

“Although I wrote ten new prescriptions under each examination paper to lure the other party to take the bait, I also deliberately left flaws.”

Her expression was calm, but her tone was a little sarcastic.

"Cui Min is a villain with no real talent. Even if he gets the prescription, although it is beneficial, it may not be able to make up for the shortcomings. At that time, he will have to seek help from the master who wrote the prescription. In this way, I am very interested in Cui Min. Say, you will never become a waste, and you will always leave a glimmer of hope.”

 Lu Zong put down the tea cup.

"I am not as powerful as the commander in chief, who can predict what will happen in the future. Cui Min would use this method to treat Qi Yutai, which was beyond my expectation. It was God who sent the opportunity to me. I just used it as a plan."

 “Before taking action, leave a backup plan. After all, it is not easy to come up with a recipe.”

 The house is quiet.

Pei Yunying stared at her for a long time, then suddenly lowered his head and couldn't help but laugh.

“If you want to defeat someone, you must support them with force; if you want to win them, you must use force with them.”

The young man looked at Lu Yan with a smile, and his tone was genuine appreciation, "Now think about it, when I offended you, you should have been merciful to me, right?"

With Lu Zhuo's methods, if he wants to deal with someone, it is really difficult to escape.

 “The palace commander praises me greatly.”

“What’s wrong with the prescription? Will he go crazy?”

 “Perhaps.”

Pei Yunying nodded.

"So that's what you had in mind," he leaned back slightly, as if he spoke casually, "originally you were thinking if there was any way I could use my help. But now it seems like there's no place for me to use it."

 He sighed, "Doctor Lu is really awesome."

This man is really good at saying nice things, but I wonder if it’s because he’s drunk.

"Master Pei has helped me a lot, and it is unreasonable to bother the commander-in-chief all the time." She was polite.

 “You are my creditor,” he said.

Lu Zong took a deep breath.

I have never seen anyone rush to pay off their debts.

She said: "The one who holds me is tired, but the one who gives is not tired of giving. Why is it the other way around when I get to the palace commander?"

 “Don’t you appreciate it, Doctor Lu?”

 “I just don’t want the commander-in-chief to work hard.”

 “You are thinking about me so much.”

He nodded, leaning forward slightly, resting his chin on his hand and looking at Lu Yan, his bright eyes full of smiles.

"In that case," he said slowly, "when you used me to stimulate the young master of the Dong family in front of the Palace Commander's Mansion, why didn't you think I was working hard?"

As soon as these words came out, Lu Zhuo was suddenly startled.

 She once made a scene with Pei Yunying at the gate of the Palace Commander's Mansion to make Dong Lin give up.

 But Pei Yunying was very calm at the time and didn't mention it afterward. She thought that Pei Yunying didn't actually see it and just thought she accidentally fell.

　　Unexpectedly, he could see everything?

Lu Zhen looked at him in disbelief: "You know?"

Then he still pretends as if nothing happened!

Pei Yunying raised her eyebrows with a meaningful look in her eyes: "I almost kissed you. You are so disrespectful to me. Shouldn't I know?"

 “My innocent reputation has been ruined by you.”

Lu Zhuo was furious for a moment.

At this moment, it was somewhat clear why Ji Xun disliked Pei Yun.

This person likes to see others being embarrassed.

She held back her anger and said, "That's right. The palace commander has a high reputation, but since he was so guarded, why didn't he push me away at that time?"

 He could obviously just push her away.

He still held his head up, as if he was happy to see her angry, and said unhurriedly: "Do you want to hear the truth or a lie?"

Lu Zhen frowned: "What's the lie?"

"The lie is that the Minister of Taifu Temple gossiped about me before, and I don't like the Dong family. Their young master is sad, and I am happy."

boring.

Lu Zhen asked: "What is the truth?"

 “The truth is…”

His brows and eyes were smiling, and he was staring at Lu Yun. His deep eyes were like a pool of clear lake water, which was gradually rippled by the breeze outside the window.

 Lu Zhen's heart moved.

It seems that there is a light aroma of wine coming together with the orchid musk aroma on his body, and the fragrance makes people feel trance-like for a moment.

Pei Yunying was still staring at her quietly. The late summer afternoon was very quiet, and the chirping of cicadas in front of the window made the greenery in the forest feel dry.

Even my chest and face gradually started to feel warm.

 “You guess,” he said.

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 In the summer afternoon, the cicadas are noisy.

 In the Grand Master's Mansion, in Qi Yutai's room, the man on the couch turned over and sat up from the couch irritably.

 Qi Yutai’s eyebrows were anxious.

 It has been nearly half a month since he recovered from his illness and returned to Si Li's Mansion.

 For the past half month, he got up every morning and went to Si Li's Mansion and returned home at dusk. To outsiders, everything seems to have been restored to its original position.

Qi Yutai knew the suffering.

　　Although his father controlled him in the past, he could still find a moment or two of breathing space when he went to Si Li's Mansion. Not so today.

Since he recovered from his illness and went out, Qi Qing sent his personal servants and guards to guard him. He also went to Si Li's Mansion. On the surface, he told outsiders that he still needed to boil medicine to nourish his body, but in fact Qi Yutai knew full well that his father was clearly spying on him.

Afraid that he would get sick again, that he would become mad again in public and lose the face of the Qi family, so he was followed closely. If there was an accident, he would be taken back to the house immediately to save the face of the Qi family.

 face.

Qi Yutai sneered at himself.

It’s not like he hasn’t heard the rumors outside. His father has always cherished his reputation, but now that he was being treated like a joke in Rouge Alley, his father was understandably angry and disappointed.

When Qi Yutai thought of this, his head hurt, as if something was about to explode from it. The more this happens, the more I miss Fengle Building which was destroyed by a fire.

 He wanted to surrender again.

It's just that his father is looking at him more strictly now. He doesn't even have a chance to go out alone, let alone leave, so he can only give up.

 That’s all, when he gets the chance in the future, let Hua Ying find a way to help him go out to relieve his boredom, he thought so.

Thinking of Qi Huaying, I can't help but think of the female medical officer who was the culprit of making my sister sad.

Just as the servant brought the new medicine to be boiled, Qi Yutai asked, "How is Lu Zhuo lately?"

If it hadn't been for the fire in Fengle Building, he would have already started to deal with that lowly medical woman. The **** who comes from the back streets has no idea how high the sky is and dares to make the apple of the Qi family's heart sad. Even with Pei Yun protecting him, he still has to find a way to make the other party lose his skin.

Unexpectedly, the unexpected delay caused the woman to dance around for a few more days.

 The servant beside him replied: "Back to the young master, Lu Zhuo has left the medical hospital."

 Qi Yutai's hand holding the medicine bowl paused and he raised his head.

"What?"

The servant bowed his head and told all the things that happened in the hospital in the past few days.

After finishing speaking, Qi Yutai murmured: "He actually left."

Lu Zhen was already gone before he started taking action?

This may have been Cui Min's move, but Pei Yunying, as Lu Zhuo's backer, didn't stop him?

　　 No, it should have been stopped. Otherwise, since Lu Huo dared to throw dirty water on Cui Min, he should have been completely kicked out of the Medical Officer's Hospital or slapped with a ban. He would not have been suspended for only three months.

Cui Min is still afraid.

Qi Yutai looked disdainful, but soon became happy again.

fair enough.

When Lu Zhen was in the medical hospital, there were Pei Yunying and Ji Xun in the imperial city keeping an eye on him. There were some things that were difficult to do.

Now living in West Street, West Street is full of ordinary people, a mixed place, it is easy to do something to her, more convenient than in the medical hospital.

Thinking of this, Qi Yutai felt relieved. Even the decoctions that he usually found to be bitter tasted a bit more pleasing to his eyes now.

"Okay." He raised his face, which was pale due to illness, and his slightly black eyes were shining with an inexplicable light at this moment, which was actually a bit scary.

 “That’s good news too.”

As he spoke, he reached out and picked up the medicine bowl on the tray.

The black-brown decoction is thick and viscous. When it is served in a white porcelain medicine bowl, it looks more and more like putrid sludge. As soon as you get closer, a bitter smell suddenly fills your nose.

 Good medicine tastes bitter, but this medicine is even more bitter than poison.

Qi Yutai cursed Cui Min secretly, raised his head, closed his eyes, and drank all the soup in the bowl.