The daily routine of the ancient imperial examination

Dr. Xu who was behind heard the commotion, got out of the car and came to Lu Xiuyuan's side. Seeing Mrs. Zhang fainted, he squatted down and stretched out his hand to check his pulse.

After feeling it carefully for a while, seeing his apprentice's nervous face, he comforted him: "It's okay, it's just that I'm a little tired and overthinking, just go back and prescribe some prescriptions to replenish qi and blood."

Dr. Xu turned his head to look around, and saw that Lu Xiuwu and the others had big and small bags, which was inconvenient, so he gave up the carriage.

"Put your mother on the carriage and go to the Peace Hall to have a rest before going home."

"Okay," Lu Xiuyuan replied and wanted to turn around and carry Zhang Shi on his back, but then his movement was interrupted by Lu Xiuwu.

"Erlang, let me do it." His elder brother rushed to pick up Mrs. Zhang, carefully picked her up horizontally, took two steps and gently placed him on the carriage behind.

Afterwards, the group came to Ping'an Hall. Although Dr. Xu hadn't opened the door for a long time, the shop was cleaned and there was not as much dust as expected.

The other party first checked the cleanliness and found that it was not dirty or messy. He nodded in satisfaction, and then ordered Shishi to call shopkeeper Li to come and open the door for business.

Mrs. Zhang was also arranged on the bed inside. After she settled down, Lu Xiuyuan walked out of the room and went to the medicine cabinet to grab medicine.

Seeing this, Dr. Xu patted him on the shoulder, "It's better not to decoct the medicine, your medicine is not ready yet, and you will probably wake up." The other party handed over a small piece of ginseng, "It's better to add this to replenish vitality, and you can have more Rest for a while, and tell her to chew and swallow after waking up."

"Thank you, master." Lu Xiuyuan took it without wasting any more time, and hurried back to his room to make arrangements for Mrs. Zhang.

Ginseng is a good ginseng, which produces body fluid when taken in, and the effect appears immediately.

He helped Mrs. Zhang adjust her posture, let the body fluid full of medicinal effects slowly swallow, and then sat on the bench beside the bed, quietly accompanying her.

Seeing this, his elder brother couldn't help asking: "Didn't Erlang tell you that you were sick? What's going on? Is it serious? Why did you come back so late?"

Hearing the other party mention this, Lu Xiuyuan took a deep breath, and asked: "Brother, who told you that I was sick? What made you go to the border to find me?"

Lu Xiuwu directly confessed to Ding and Ding, "The two brothers came to thank our mother, but they accidentally mentioned your illness, and then mother knew that you went to the border and were seriously ill, so..."

It turned out to be those two villagers from Longmenguan!

Lu Xiuyuan couldn't help grinding his teeth, these two guys really have enough time to spare.

"Erlang, you can't blame that person. If it weren't for that person, we would still be kept in the dark by you." His elder brother frowned and disapproved, "You are a scholar who has no strength to restrain a chicken, you can do it next time." Don't be so risky and impulsive, it's too dangerous."

"Okay, I got it." Lu Xiuyuan nodded perfunctorily. If it wasn't for the troubles between those two people, why would Mrs. Zhang be frightened by this?

He looked at Mrs. Zhang on the bed, and couldn't help stretching out his hand to shave the broken hair on her forehead behind her ears.

It's just that they haven't seen each other for two months, and the other party has become so haggard visible to the naked eye. He holds Zhang's hand and rubs it gently with distress.

Xiulan has seen Zhang's hard work in the past two days. She is concerned about the safety of her youngest son. She can't eat well and sleep well. The elder son is going to find the younger son, and Zhang is making dry food overnight. It's the same. Worrying.

This kind of pain and sorrow of being a mother, Xiulan can quite empathize with it.

Now that she finally saw her brother-in-law who had returned safely, she hesitated for a moment, and couldn't help but say, "Mother hasn't closed her eyes for the past two days, she hasn't been able to eat or sleep well, and if she loses her temper when she wakes up later, brother-in-law Don't be annoyed, coax your mother well and pass."

After hearing this, Lu Xiuyuan reluctantly twitched the corners of his mouth, "Don't worry, sister-in-law, I understand everything."

After speaking, seeing his elder brother and sister-in-law waiting here is not good, so he said: "Brother, why don't you go back first? It would be good if I am here alone."

His elder brother wanted to wait for Mrs. Zhang to wake up and go back together. Seeing what Lu Xiuyuan said, he reflexively wanted to refuse, "Let's go back together when Mother wakes up..."

Immediately, Lu Xiuwu's waist was pinched heavily.

His sister-in-law said with a smile: "Then mother, please, wake up and go home early, and my sister-in-law will cook a meal for you when she goes home." After finishing speaking, she pulled the husband next to her and left.

The room returned to silence.

Lu Xiuyuan sat back on the bench next to the bed, staring at Mrs. Zhang quietly.

The wrinkles at the corners of the other party's eyes were deeper than before, and a pair of brows were tightly furrowed even in sleep, and he reached out to help her gently smooth the brows.

Sighing, Lu Xiuyuan found that Zhang's former black hair was now mixed with a lot of white hair.

His heart felt as if he had knocked over a five-flavored bottle. In addition to his heartache, he decided to prescribe some medicinal food for the woman at home to replenish Qi and blood when he had time.

Thinking of some kinds of medicinal materials that nourish qi and blood in his mind, Lu Xiuyuan's consciousness is also slowly sinking. He has been tired and traveled for ten days, and he himself has not had a good rest. Now sitting next to Mrs. Zhang, his heart has calmed down, and his head I couldn't help drooping bit by bit, and finally fell asleep on the bed.

This time, Mrs. Zhang slept for a long time, a full two hours, and when she regained consciousness, it was already noon.

Feeling the weight on her hands, she glanced sideways, just in time to see Lu Xiuyuan's peaceful sleeping face.

Seeing Erlang laying peacefully in front of him now.

His face became thinner and darker, and he must have suffered a lot during this time.

Mrs. Zhang couldn't help having a sore nose, tears almost fell down.

After worrying about her for so long, her family Erlang finally came back safely. This kid is so courageous that he went to such a dangerous place without telling his family. No matter what, he should tell his family.

Thinking of this, Mrs. Zhang couldn't help stretching out her right hand, wanting to stroke the other person's head.

Lu Xiuyuan felt the movement of the person on the bed in his sleep, and woke up suddenly.

When he saw that Mrs. Zhang was awake, he said pleasantly, "Mom, you finally woke up, did you get better quickly?"

After feeling that the exhaustion in her body was gone, Mrs. Zhang nodded, "It's much better."

As soon as she opened her mouth to speak, she realized that there was a foreign body sensation in her mouth.

"Mother, what you have in your mouth is ginseng slices, just chew it until it loses its taste and swallow it." Lu Xiuyuan helped explain.

After swallowing it, Mrs. Zhang also regained her spirits. Seeing Erlang's tense face, she was terrified again.

"Erlang, you shouldn't have kept it a secret from your family when you went to the border this time. Do you know how nervous your family was when they heard the news of your illness from Brother Ding?"

Lu Xiuyuan pursed his lips and did not speak.

Mrs. Zhang couldn't help but patted his hand on the edge of the bed, "You can tell your family if you have any thoughts. It's not that we don't understand that you sneaked away by yourself like this. There is no way to know, what do you want us to do?"

He didn't dare to refute anything, so he could only bow his head and listen obediently.

Seeing Lu Xiuyuan like this, Mrs. Zhang couldn't continue, she sighed and asked, "Erlang, do you have anything to explain?"

After hearing this, thousands of excuses flashed through his mind, but when Lu Xiuyuan raised his head and met Zhang's eyes, those reasons were all blocked in his throat for some reason, and he couldn't say a single one.

He himself can speak eloquently, but in front of Mrs. Zhang, his excuses that he opened his mouth didn't work at all, and he could only stand there dryly and stupidly.

Seeing Lu Xiuyuan's appearance, Zhang couldn't laugh or cry, she stretched out her hand and poked him on the head lightly.

"Aren't you the best at talking to make your mother happy? Why don't you say it now?"

Lu Xiuyuan's eyes swayed from side to side in embarrassment, and with his hand hanging by the bed, he couldn't help picking at the straw mattress on the bed.

In the situation at the border at that time, if Mrs. Zhang and the others knew that he was going to help, they might respect his choice in the end and let him go to the border.

But this trip lasted for two months, and there were snowstorms and plagues outside, and the city was under siege. The family members must be worried every day. Wouldn't that be a bigger sin?

Then it would be better to hide it from such a comparison, he was originally out of good intentions, and he could only blame those two fellow villagers, who had nothing to do to join in the fun, which caused his plan to go wrong and accidentally overturned the car.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help feeling a little irritable in his heart, and couldn't help but increase his strength with his fingers. The thick straw mat made of wheat straw was accidentally pierced by him just like that.

When Mrs. Zhang heard the movement, she lifted the cushion above and took a look, just in time to see Lu Xiuyuan's index finger and middle finger stuck in the middle of the straw cushion.

When the other party saw this picture, he didn't know what expression to put on for a while.

Without laughing or laughing, Mrs. Zhang hurriedly moved back, then stretched out her hand and pulled the straw out, "Take your finger out slowly, be careful not to cut it."

This kind of coarse-fiber wheat straw is the most serious thorn, which can make people feel painful and itchy. If a finger accidentally gets a thin thorn in it, it will be even more painful.

Lu Xiuyuan quickly withdrew his hand, seeing the gap that Zhang opened.

From the corner of his eye, he observed that Zhang's complexion was turning cloudy, so he couldn't help but raised his finger and whispered to the other party: "Mother, my finger hurts."

Seeing Lu Xiuyuan's appearance, Zhang's heart softened. He quickly took his hand and blew on the scratch.

"It won't hurt anymore if you blow it, mother."

The cool wind blew through his fingertips, as if it had blown into his heart, blowing away the Four Books and Five Classics, and the chaos on the border. Staring at Zhang's gentle face, Lu Xiuyuan's heart was rarely calmed down.

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