Roselle Peony

After Lu Shangqiu drank the medicine, sweat broke out on his forehead.Yang Shu helped Xiaoqiu to lie down again, and went to the backyard to chop firewood and boil water by himself.

The conditions here in Yang's Mansion are not as good as those in Lu's Mansion, his monthly salary is only enough for him to hire two maidservants to wash and cook.But anyway, he is very strong, and he doesn't need any house slaves to live alone. If there is any need for help, Xiao and his sergeant should let him know, and a group of warm-hearted brothers will come to help immediately.

There was a regular sound of "dong dong" chopping firewood from the backyard. Lu Shangqiu listened to it with peace of mind, and soon fell asleep due to exhaustion.

When he woke up again, it was already time to light the lamp, and the maidservant was bringing hot water to wipe his whole body.He vaguely heard the voice of Yang Shu practicing martial arts in the yard.Originally, both of them were men, and they had met each other before, but Yang Shu somehow felt that he should avoid them.

After a while the maidservant finished serving and stepped back, Yang Shu sheathed the knife and opened the door to come in.

"Does Xiaoqiu feel better?" Seeing Lu Shangqiu struggling to get up, he sat on the edge of the bed and helped him up.

"Well, it's much better than before." Lu Shangqiu nodded.

In a few months, Yang Shu's hair grew to half long, not enough to be tied into a bun, so he imitated Hu people's hairstyle and shaved it into a semicircle, like a coconut shell buckled on his head.Lu Shangqiu found it very interesting and couldn't help reaching out to touch it.

A blush appeared on Yang Shu's face, but he still resisted sitting still, letting a pair of slender hands run through his hair.

"Brother Yuan, how have you been doing in the past ten years?" Lu Shangqiu's vermilion lips parted lightly.

Perhaps because of knowing about the relationship between Xiaoqiu and the man, Yang Shu always felt that Xiaoqiu's every move was extraordinarily charming, and that slightly hoarse soft voice actually made him inexplicably excited.He shook his head to dispel the strange thoughts in his head, patted his chest and said: "I left Bingzhou and went south, and then I hid in Shaolin Temple, worshiping Abbot Xuanming whom we met before as master. Master took good care of me Well, promote me to be a Shaolin stick monk, teach me stick skills every day, give me martial arts cheats, let me practice internal skills, and now I have practiced the abbot's special skill 'One-Finger Zen'." He recalled the past in Shaolin Temple The days were very exciting, and there was such a trace of melancholy in my heart, so I talked a lot.

"No wonder Brother Yuan is so strong and good at martial arts." Lu Shangqiu heard that Brother Yuan was doing well, and while he was happy for him, he was also a little envious.

"Hehe, Brother Huiyuan said that I can grow so strong without eating meat. When I become a high-ranking official and eat meat all the time, I will still be tall." Yang Shu smiled embarrassedly, "But since I became a Inspector, I ride a horse every day, and I don’t grow taller, but my waist is fat as long as I can.”

Lu Shangqiu happily listened to Yang Shu's recounting of his experience in Shaolin Temple and those happy days with his seniors, and before he knew it, it was bedtime.

Yang Shu helped Lu Shangqiu to lie down and rest.Lu Shangqiu suddenly remembered something and asked, "I occupy your bed, brother Yuan, where do you sleep?"

Yang Shu waved his hand and said, "I'm making the floor."

"How can this be done? It's very cold on the ground."

"I'm fine. I'm used to sleeping on the floor bunk in the monastery. The couch is too soft. I don't feel comfortable sleeping on it."

***

The sound of Yang Shu's sleeping snort came from outside, and Lu Shangqiu was lying on the couch, staring at the ceiling in a daze.

For ten years, he seemed to have experienced a nightmare, which made him unable to believe what happened today, and felt as if he was still in a dream.

jinjiang

jinjiang

Yang Shu was awakened by the voice from inside, opened the curtain and saw this scene: Xiaoqiu's clothes are half faded, his face is flushed, his upper body is straight, his willow eyebrows are furrowed, his mouth is biting the bedding, but he is still chattering intermittently.

"What's wrong with you? Xiao Qiu, Xiao Qiu!" He immediately stepped forward to hold Xiao Qiu down.

Lu Shangqiu shouted with the remaining strength: "Don't touch me!"

"But you are sick." Yang Shu said anxiously.

"Quick, knock me unconscious." He couldn't help it anymore, maybe it would be better if he fainted.

Yang Shu didn't understand why, but he still listened to his words, and slashed the back of his neck with a hand knife.

Lu Shangqiu passed out as he wished.

But he underestimated the effect of Ouchi's forbidden medicine.After a while, he woke up again. At this time, Jin Jiang's whole body is no longer hot and dry like before, but like countless ice needles piercing his pores, making him unable to live or die.

He kept rolling and trembling on the couch, Yang Shu had no choice but to wake up the maidservant and hold him down with all his strength.

"I can't do it anymore." Lu Shangqiu begged through his teeth.He felt that he was about to die, the general had said that this kind of forbidden drug jinjiang, otherwise there may be a lifelong disability.He once thought that he would rather end up being disabled there, and it would be a one hundred and one thing, but the process was difficult, and his injured body could not bear it.

The older maidservant was experienced, and she understood Lu Shangqiu's symptoms at a glance, and hurriedly told Inspector Yang: "The official is a symptom of the onset of banned drugs, and it needs to be resolved quickly, otherwise I may be in danger of life."

"Do you know how to save someone? Please save him!" Yang Shu said urgently.

The maid obeyed and removed the clothes for the person who was struggling on the bed.This is the second time for Yang Shu to see Lu Shangqiu's body, but the difference this time is that Xiaoqiu's whole body is as red as boiled shrimp, jinjiang.

The young maidservant was flushed with shame and did not dare to raise her head.

The older maidservant put her hands on the jinjiang.

"It hurts—ah! Stop it!" There was a pinprick-like pain from the front end, Lu Shangqiu clenched his teeth, frowned, and sweat kept oozing out, soaking the bed sheet.

Seeing that he was in such pain, the maid stopped her hands puzzledly.

The effect of banned jinjiang drugs made Lu Shangqiu's life worse than death. At this time, there is no need to care about face, jinjiang

The maid understood what he meant, but she was a daughter, so she had no choice but to look to Inspector Yang and ask him for help.

Inspector Yang quickly waved his hands and said, "I can't, you should think of other ways." After speaking, he immediately turned his head away, not daring to look directly at Lu Shangqiu again.

The maid had no choice but to take the candlestick and put it on the table.

Lu Shangqiu's expression finally eased, jinjiang.

The maids leave.

Yang Shu looked at Lu Shangqiu who fell asleep with a gloomy expression.

He had seen Xiao Qiu's picture of the Spring Palace, which had already shocked him quite a bit.The contents of the palace map of Chunjinjiang just now were vividly staged in front of his eyes, which made him extremely surprised and angry. Why did Xiaoqiu's body become like this!The person in front of him just turned into a jinjiang, not at all the water-like Xiaoqiu he had known before.

On the other hand, he was also angry with himself, because he also had a reaction when he saw Xiaoqiu's jinjiang appearance just now, so he had to recite Namo Amitabha Buddha silently for more than 100 times in his heart to restrain the jinjiang impulse.He even regretted letting the maid touch Xiaoqiu.

Xiao Qiu fell asleep peacefully, her red lips parted slightly, and her cheeks still had a deep blush.

Yang Shu lowered his head in a strange way, biting those red lips gently.

Memories of my childhood flooded back.Maybe Xiaoqiu has changed so much that he hardly recognizes her; but these lips are just like the ones left in his memory ten years ago, warm and soft, making him linger on.

***

The effect of the medicine faded completely the next day, and Lu Shangqiu couldn't remember what happened last night at all, thinking that he survived by himself.It's just that Inspector Yang was very strange today. He had a red face all day long, and he looked away when he saw him.If it wasn't for his weird hairstyle, he would have been on a par with Guan Yunchang in the Three Kingdoms Opera.

Lu Shangqiu saw that he was avoiding him, and Xindao Yuandi still despised him, so he couldn't help but feel uncomfortable.

It's not a problem that he always lives in Yang's mansion, the Taixue has been absent for many days because of General Yu's affairs, if he doesn't go back, all his salary for this month will be deducted.Although the officials who kept him coaxed him with countless gold, silver and jewels, the value of which far exceeded his meager salary, but to him, only this official salary was earned by him with his own hard work. Only then will my heart not respond.

On this day, he bid farewell to brother Yuan and returned to Lu's mansion.

Not long after he lay down to rest, the family servant came to send a message: "Officer Liu heard that the master is returning to the mansion, and hereby presents a golden unicorn with a silver ticket of one thousand taels. Please come to the mansion tonight for a talk."

Lu Shangqiu waved his hand and said, "I don't see anyone now, so just decline for me."

He used to jinjiang with the person who invited him every night, but he couldn't bear to be alone, the night was lonely, and the quilt was cold, but the jinjiang transaction that developed into this kind of jinjiang transaction made him indistinguishable from jinjiang .At this moment, his thoughts are filled with the meeting with Brother Yuan, and he doesn't want to see any of those lewd officials who dote on him or bully him on weekdays.

Falling asleep at night, Lu Shangqiu had a dream.

In the dream, Brother Yuan hugged him, and the two rode a steed together, holding hands, enjoying the sunset together.He leaned against Brother Yuan's broad chest, very sweet.Suddenly, General Yu appeared from nowhere, rushed towards them with a long knife in his hand, and shouted: "Little beauty, let this general treat you well!" He hurriedly pulled the rein and turned to run away. People, he took a closer look, and it turned out to be King Liang, who was shooting his bow and arrows at them, and said with a sinister smile, "Don't you want to die, I will let you do it!" Then he let go of the string in his hand.Feather arrows made a "Zheng" sound, attacking them like a bamboo piercing through the air, and he quickly blocked in front of Brother Yuan.

He woke up suddenly.

It was pitch black outside the window, but the feeling of the arrow in his heart was so real.