scapegoat

"Drip—" the sharp doorbell rang.

The person on the bed turned over, pulled the quilt over his head, and continued to sleep.

"Drip-drip-"

The stubborn voice finally woke up Xiao Yang, and he got up without opening his eyes.

He was wondering why no one opened the door, and then he remembered that this morning Lang Zhongming took his younger brother to see some kind of sculpture exhibition. Butler Gong's son and daughter-in-law came to City C, and he was going to pick him up at the airport, and Xiaofeng was probably going out right now played.

The doorbell rang twice again, Xiao Yang could only reluctantly put on his coat, and kicked on his slippers to open the door.

Outside the door was an old acquaintance: Dr. Lou.

The two looked at each other and smiled, with emotion hidden in their eyes.

Dr. Lou is older than Ling Quan, and he was the private doctor of the Ling family a long time ago.

Before the accident, Xiao Yang knew him very well.

The so-called "doctor's benevolence", Dr. Lou has always taken good care of him as an orphan, and has always expressed his disapproval of Xiao Yang's taking the blame for Lang Zhongming after the accident.

However, he is just an irrelevant person, who has neither position nor right to speak.

Reunited after many years, the old man has changed a lot.The silver hair intertwined on the top of the head and the slightly fat body are the proof that a middle-aged man is beginning to age.

"You really lost a lot of weight..." Dr. Lou sighed.

Xiao Yang in his impression stayed ten years ago. Although his body was not muscular, he still had muscles.Unlike now, it was like a thin layer of skin wrapped around the bones.

Xiao Yang invited people in.

Yesterday Lang Zhongming told him that he had called a doctor, and he wondered if it was Dr. Lou.Fortunately, all these years, the Ling family has never changed their family doctor.He will not be able to adapt to a stranger.

It happened that there was no one at home, and Dr. Lou was an old acquaintance. Xiao Yang had nothing to hide, so he explained his stomach situation.

Dr. Lou is a Chinese medicine student. He has always been good at treating stomach problems. After careful examination, he prescribed a prescription and asked Xiao Yang to give it to Lang Zhongming.

Dr. Lou explained: "He said that he would go to the medical clinic to find someone to cook it for you. You just need to give him the list. Oh, by the way, is Zhong Jin's dehumidification medicine running out soon?"

Xiao Yang shook his head: "I don't know, he puts all the medicines in his room, and we don't usually see them."

Dr. Lou thought for a while: "I'll go and have a look. Normally no one cares about him. I don't even know if the child has taken the medicine as required."

Lang Zhongjin's room door was never locked, and he didn't mind others entering. This doctor Lou had been taking care of his physique since he was a child, and he always entered and exited his room casually.

When Doctor Lou entered Lang Zhongjin's bedroom, Xiao Yang was waiting outside.

After a while, the doctor came out of the room with a puzzled expression on his face.

Xiao Yang asked, "What's wrong?"

Dr. Lou said: "It's nothing. He's almost finished drinking the medicine. I'll bring some more later. I'm just wondering about the tube of ointment he put on the side. It says it's for removing scars. Do you know what that is?" ?”

Xiao Yang was taken aback: "He gave me a tube, I don't know if you are talking about the same one..."

Dr. Lou was puzzled: "Last time he fell and had a piece of skin on his chin. I gave him a whole bottle of scar-removing potion. Could it be that the potion didn't work well, and he went to someone else to make it again?"

Xiao Yang smiled, feeling that the doctor in this building felt uncomfortable when he saw the medicine prescribed by someone else: "Probably he used up the medicine you prescribed, and he doesn't want you to make another trip."

Dr. Lou still felt strange: "But I just saw that tube of ointment and I don't think he's used it much... Is the tube he gave you still there? If you don't need it, take it back to me and study it."

Xiao Yang was helpless, anyway, he didn't want to keep the tube of ointment, so as not to recall some bad memories, he simply gave it to Dr. Lou.

When Lang Zhongming and the others came back, Dr. Lou was about to leave.

Seeing Lang Zhongjin, Dr. Lou didn't mention the medicine for scar removal, but only said to bring him some medicine for removing dampness later.

It was only then that Xiao Yang realized that Doctor Lou's expression was a bit weird just now... Could there be something wrong with the medicine?

Lang Zhongming asked for the prescription prescribed by the doctor to Xiao Yang, and was going to take it to the medical clinic when he was going out tomorrow.

Seeing that there was nothing else to do with him, Xiao Yang went back to his bedroom.

Doctor Lou's appearance just now made him uneasy.

It's true that the ointment didn't do much to remove the scars.Although the gash on his face was deep at that time, it wouldn't be like later, the scars would become more and more obvious, right?

If there is something wrong with this medicine, then who wants to harm Lang Zhongjin?

But since Dr. Lou chose not to mention it for the time being, Xiao Yang could only wait and see what happened instead of asking directly.

The next day, Dr. Lou came again.

Xiao Yang wanted to ask him about the tube of ointment yesterday, but he couldn't find a chance to chat alone.

Even Xiao Yang felt that Dr. Lou was avoiding him deliberately, in case he would ask about it.

Xiao Yang has always been self-aware, since people don't want him to know, then he just doesn't care.

He went back to his room and stayed.It didn't take long to see Housekeeper Gong escorting the doctor out of the building. The two stood at the door with solemn expressions, as if they were talking about something important.

Xiao Yang quietly opened his window a crack. The house built by the Ying family is not high in height, and the conversations on the first floor can easily float into Xiao Yang's room on the second floor.

Butler Gong's tone was urgent, and he couldn't believe it: "How is it possible? The second young master won't..."

Doctor Lou sighed: "I can't believe it either, but the medicine in the tube does contain heavy pigmentation and tonic ingredients, and the amount of the tonic is no different from that of spring medicine... He gave it to Xiao Yang Isn't the purpose obvious?"

Xiao Yang was stunned.

No wonder... During that time, his body was very strange, so it wasn't because he was cheap...

Butler Gong defended his little master: "It might have been given by someone else..."

Dr. Lou shook his head: "Impossible. I looked at the ingredients yesterday and found that this thing is actually adding some ingredients to the medicine I gave him before, but the texture changed and it became a paste. This is impossible. It was given by someone else, it can only be that he used the medicine I gave him to do something..."

Xiao Yang's heart beat violently, and he couldn't believe what Dr. Lou said.

Butler Gong asked the doubts in his heart for him: "But... why did the young master do such a thing? He and Xiao Yang have no hatred..."

Dr. Lou said, "It might be because of his brother...or maybe there is some reason we don't know about."

Steward Gong clapped his hands suddenly: "I think of something when you say that! Didn't the young master have a fever a while ago?"

Doctor Lou nodded: "Yes, I'm still surprised. Zhong Ming has been in good health since he was a child. Is this the first time he has a fever?"

Butler Gong looked around and made sure that the door was closed, before he said cautiously: "At that time, the master thought it was the responsibility of Master Xiao Yang...Actually, I saw the young master enter the room of the eldest master at night, right at Xiao Yang's door. Not long after the young master left."

Doctor Lou was surprised: "Huh?"

Steward Gong continued: "And the young master always closes the window when he sleeps, but the next day I saw the window in his room was open, and I didn't think much about it at the time. Now... you said, could it be the young master who opened the window?" ?”

Dr. Lou was silent for a while, and said: "But he can't do it, the two brothers have such a good relationship, could it be that they want to make his brother catch a cold on purpose? He and Xiao Yang don't have any grievances, could it be that we are thinking too much?"

Steward Gong sighed heavily: "Oh... I hope... In fact, when the master was sick before, I felt that the master was particularly worried about the young master... Forget it, this is not something we can manage."

Xiao Yang took a deep breath and closed the window tightly.

Lang Zhongjin...how could it be?

He didn't care about other things, but he really didn't want to believe that Lang Zhongjin gave him the ointment for ulterior motives.

The second-in-command of the Lang family has always been unrestrained, playing games with his life, in line with the characteristics of all dudes, but he is not bad-hearted, even more like a good person than his brother.

Thinking about her usual performance, Xiao Yang felt it was impossible.

It's just that whether these speculations are their misunderstandings or there are some hidden secrets, Xiao Yang only hopes that Lang Zhongjin will not come to make things difficult for him.

After all, in this family, Lang Zhongjin was the only one who treated him kindly from the very beginning.

At this time, Lang Zhongming's voice calling Xiao Yang to go downstairs came from outside.

Xiao Yang paused, put his face together, opened the door, and went downstairs.

Lang Zhongming was tying a scarf, and asked, "I just want to go to the company, so I brought Dr. Lou's prescription over there, and fried it after grabbing the medicine. Do you have anything for me to bring?"

Xiao Yang shook his head.

Lang Zhongming said: "Zhong Jin wants me to bring back some Chuanbei, do you want it? If you are prone to colds, it is better to prepare some."

Xiao Yang said "no" in a low voice, trying not to look at Lang Zhongjin who was standing beside him.

Butler Gong came back from the door: "You want to go out?"

Lang Zhongming smiled: "Yes, go back to the company and go to the Chinese Medicine Center by the way, do you want me to bring anything?"

Butler Gong declined respectfully and sent him out of the gate, showing no apparent concern.

Xiao Yang watched Lang Zhongming get in the car and leave, feeling a little puzzled.

I don't know when I will have weight to make Lang Zhongming think about it. The subtle care like just now has never stopped in the past few days.

In the past, I only felt that the aura on Lang Zhongming's body was too oppressive, and it made him uncomfortable every time he saw it, not to mention those vicious methods, which drove him to death.

But recently, I really don't know if I have become more courageous or what, but I am not so afraid, and sometimes I even feel evil, wanting to punch that hateful face a few times.

It's funny to think about it, but now everything seems to be reversed.

He is no longer afraid of Lang Zhongming, but he dare not look directly at Lang Zhongjin.The young man who always thought humans and animals were harmless didn't look so innocent under his psychological influence.

Lang Zhongjin was standing obliquely in front of him at this moment, watching in the direction Lang Zhongming left.

There was a trace of disdain in his eyes.

But when he turned his head to face Xiao Yang, he restrained all his malicious intentions and gave a beautiful big smile: "Brother Xiao Yang, why are you so dazed? Are you so reluctant to let my brother go out?"

Xiao Yang lowered his eyes, stopped looking at him, and went back upstairs on his own.

At that moment just now, he figured something out: If Lang Zhongjin was dissatisfied with his brother, or with the entire Lang family, it really had nothing to do with him.

He just pretended he didn't know anything and just waited and watched.