Chapter 211 Attracting Romance
The next day dawned.
Lu Tong got up early in the morning, washed and dressed, changed into a lilac-colored narrow-sleeved cotton skirt, and sat at the table to comb her hair.
There were all kinds of silk flowers in the wooden box at the corner of the table. She had no other jewelry, except her sister's hibiscus hairpin, which was all.
However, today, there was a peony-patterned wooden comb in the wooden box.
The comb she won in the "Lan Ye Dou Qiao" was much smaller than the one she usually used. It was not convenient to comb her hair, but it was just right to insert it into her hair as a comb.
Lu Tong's eyes fell on the comb in the wooden box for a long time, and then she reached out and picked it up.
The woman in the mirror had not put on makeup and looked at her hesitantly.
She hesitated for a moment, and finally inserted the comb into her bun.
…
"Pop——"
The porcelain pot in the room was smashed to pieces.
Qi Yutai was stopped by the guards just as she walked to the door.
"Master, the master ordered that you can't go out these few days."
Qi Yutai slapped him and said, "Who do you think you are? How dare you stop me!"
The guard didn't dare to talk to him, but he didn't move away from the door.
Qi Yutai looked anxious.
For several days, he was locked in the house and couldn't go out.
This was more tormenting for him than being in prison.
The longer he stayed at home, the more addicted he became. It seemed that there was a fire in his heart that couldn't be relieved. He just wanted to run out of the house immediately and take a pack of Hanshi Powder to stop.
Now Hanshi Powder is hard to find in Beijing, but a few days ago, he learned from Lu Tong that there was another substitute for Hanshi Powder. Qi Yutai was skeptical. He originally wanted to send someone to prepare the prescription according to Lu Tong's instructions and find someone to try it. But now there are his father's spies in the courtyard and outside the courtyard, and he can't use his father's people at all.
He wanted to go out by himself, but for some reason, the supervision of him in the mansion has become more severe in the past few days, and now he can't even go out of the yard.
Qi Yutai felt like a cat scratching.
In a corner of the table, Lingxi incense burned quietly. The originally fragrant agarwood could not calm him down, but made him more irritable. Qi Yutai grabbed the incense burner and smashed it against the door. With a "bang", the incense ash in the burner was scattered all over the floor.
One foot stopped in front of the incense burner.
Qi Qing stood at the door, his eyes swept across the mess on the ground, and spoke calmly.
"What are you doing?"
Qi Yutai was stunned: "Father?"
Qi Qing is here.
Qi Qing took a step, walked around the broken porcelain pieces and incense ash on the floor, entered the house, and stood in front of the house: "What are you doing again?"
His father's tone was flat, and Qi Yutai shuddered.
But soon, anxiety overcame fear, and he said, "Dad, I want to go out."
"No."
"Why not?" Qi Yutai tried his best to explain, "Dad, you see, I've been fine these days, nothing went wrong... I haven't been out for a long time, I just went out for a walk, nothing else."
"The palace festival is coming soon, you are not fully recovered, it's best to rest in the mansion..."
"I'm not sick at all!"
Suddenly, Qi Yutai interrupted him.
Qi Qing paused.
Qi Yutai scratched his head, his expression full of anxiety.
"I'm not sick at all." He repeated: "The surname Lu and Cui Min both said that I was just a wind evil invading my body and was temporarily frightened. Why don't you always believe it?"
Lu Tong and Cui Min both told him that he was just temporarily frightened, not really epileptic.
Qi Qing looked at him, his tone still unquestionable: "No."
No, no, no, no, no, the word his father said to him the most was no.
The incense in the room fell to the ground, and the fragrance became stronger. Qi Yutai felt a surge of anger in his chest.
"Your injury has not yet fully healed, so you must not disturb it at will, so as not to be frightened again."
"Stop making excuses!"
Qi Yutai could no longer bear it and yelled: "You keep saying that you are thinking about me. You don't let me go out, not because you are worried about my health, but because you are worried that I will get sick in the middle of the trip and lose the face of the Tai Shi Mansion. You are afraid that I will become a stain on the Tai Shi Mansion, and you can't wait to hide me!"
The room was dead silent.
The guards and maids stood at the door with their heads down, not daring to look over here.
Qi Qing still looked at him quietly, with no emotion in his gray eyes, cold, disappointed, and indifferent.
Qi Yutai suddenly felt a sense of resentment in his heart.
It's always like this.
His father is always like this.
No matter what he said or did, no matter how big the trouble he made, his father would never get angry or scold him, but would only calmly accuse him, and then look at him calmly with that disappointed look.
It seemed that all his actions could not arouse any emotional fluctuations in the other party, and were just a dispensable decoration.
Obviously, he never treated Qi Huaying like this.
He took two steps back and suddenly laughed bitterly.
Lu Tong said that she had been naughty since she was a child, but her father was strict with her, but would praise her to others.
The old man surnamed Yang in Mangming Township had a fool son, and his father was still proud of him when talking to others.
Their casual conversation sounded particularly harsh in his ears.
He wanted it, and he was jealous because of it.
"Have you thought I was a lunatic since you were a child?" Qi Yutai suddenly spoke.
Without waiting for Qi Qing to speak, he said again: "You have felt so since I was five years old."
In fact, he did not start to get sick five years ago.
It was earlier.
Qi Yutai vaguely remembered that his father used to be very good to him, but he changed after that. Qi Qing treated him lukewarmly, like a failed item that could not be destroyed but he did not want to acknowledge it, so he could only put it in the mansion as an insignificant decoration.
Not being emotionally involved and watching indifferently to cover up your dislike.
The servants in the mansion were very secretive about what happened many years ago, but after all, he was the only legitimate son of the Taishi Mansion, so if he wanted to know, he could eventually get some information.
"I said Huamei can kill people, but you don't believe it. I said someone in Fengle Tower wants to harm me, but you don't care."
"Dad, do you really think that I am a lunatic? What I say is all crazy!"
Qi Qing lowered his eyes: "You are too excited and need to calm down."
"I told you I'm not sick!"
Qi Yutai shouted: "If you dislike me, kill me, just like my mother did. If you die, you won't bring shame to the Taishi Mansion——"
"Snapped--"
There was a crisp sound in the house.
Qi Yutai covered his face and looked at the person in front of him in disbelief.
The old man's gray eyes stared at him, and the calm water always made waves. The anger made those eyes look cold and sinister, which frightened Qi Yutai's furious heart for a moment before he gradually calmed down.
Qi Qing looked at him gloomily, and Qi Yutai didn't dare to speak for a while.
After a moment, Qi Qing turned around and said coldly: "I'm recovering at home, and I'm not allowed to leave the yard even a step."
He turned and walked out of the house.
After leaving the yard, the housekeeper who had been standing at the door followed him and said in a low voice: "Young Master was in a hurry today and said what he said. Please don't take it seriously."
"He mentioned Shuhui..."
Qi Qing closed his eyes.
"evil creature."
…
The maids in the room bent down and picked up the broken porcelain pieces on the floor, and then cleaned the incense ashes on the blanket.
Qi Yutai sat at the table, his eyebrows gloomy.
There was burning pain on the face that had been slapped. Qi Qing used all his strength in that slap.
He touched his face, and there were vague marks gradually swelling.
Someone came in from outside the door, Qi Yutai raised his eyelids, Lu Zhu entered the room, put the medical box on the table, and paused when his eyes fell on his face.
The swelling and scars on his face were still there, and anyone could tell that he had been slapped. It was easy to imagine who would dare to attack him in the entire Grand Master's residence.
Lu Yun lowered his head and opened the medical box. She didn't ask anything, which made Qi Yutai feel even more humiliated. He was sure that the doctor who was pretending to be calm was laughing at him from the bottom of her heart.
"Has Mr. Qi taken the medicine?" she asked.
"Falled."
He was always like this. He threw away the medicine that Lu Zhu had cooked, and she had to cook another bowl again. It was hot in summer, and waiting in front of the medicine stove was a chore.
Qi Yutai likes to use this kind of trivial things to grind her down.
Lu Chen nodded without any trace of impatience, "I'll fry another one."
The pleasure of torturing people disappeared in the other person's calmness.
Qi Yutai cursed secretly.
No matter what, Lu Zhen could at least go in and out of the Grand Master's Mansion every day, but he had to be imprisoned here, and even a lowly ordinary person had more freedom than him.
Qi Yutai suddenly felt something in his heart when he saw Lu Zhu bend down and take out the silver jar from the medical box.
He held Lu Zong's arm.
Lu Chen looked at him.
"You told me last time that you could find a substitute for Han Shi Powder?"
"yes."
"You go and do it, bring it to me when you're done."
Lu Zhuo looked at him in surprise and said, "Master Qi, you have just recovered from a serious illness. It is not appropriate to take other medicines."
"Cut the nonsense!"
Qi Yutai grabbed her hand hard. His action was so brutal that Lu Chen frowned slightly.
This uncomfortable look actually made him feel relieved for a moment.
"Medical Officer Lu, I'm not afraid to tell you," he said coldly, "It's not easy to get out after entering the Grand Master's Mansion. Even if you cure me, you will still die as long as I am unhappy."
"Don't think that if you please my father, you will be safe. Cui Min was also my father's dog at the beginning, and now he has met a miserable end."
He came closer to Lu Yan and said in a scornful tone, "Instead of trying to please my father, it's better to please me. If you serve me to your satisfaction, maybe I will be soft-hearted and won't make things difficult for you anymore. Otherwise..."
"I have plenty of ways to keep you in the Qi family for the rest of your life, and you can't live but die!"
The last sentence suddenly sounded sinister.
Lu Yan remained silent.
Qi Yutai stared at her.
After a while, Lu Zhuo spoke.
"If the Grand Master knew about this, I would die."
Qi Yutai looked relieved: "I won't let him know."
"Although this substance is not as toxic as Hanshi Powder, it can only be taken in small amounts. If it is overdosed, there will still be endless consequences."
"I know it well."
The room fell silent.
The guard and the maid glanced over and saw Qi Yutai holding Lu Zhu's arm, as if to threaten him, and then turned their faces in unison, pretending not to notice.
Qi Yutai let go of his hand: "Have you thought about it?"
On the table, the rekindled Lingxi incense was fragrant. In the thin green smoke, Lu Zhu lowered his eyes.
"I'll try," she said.
…
The martial arts field was busy all morning during the day, and when the meal was being served in the small kitchen at noon, the guards were all running particularly diligently.
When Pei Yunying returned from the martial arts field, Xiao Zhufeng had just moved two large baskets of feather arrows into the yard.
"Didn't you go into the palace?" Pei Yunying asked, "Why are you back again?"
Xiao Zhufeng dusted off his hands and entered the house without saying a word.
Seeing him like this, Pei Yunying looked slightly calm. She followed him back to the house and asked, "What happened?"
Xiao Zhufeng said: "The prince is under house arrest."
Pei Yun was stunned.
"Someone was tampering with food and drink in Concubine Chen's palace, and drugged the maid. The maid identified him as someone from the Queen's Palace."
"House arrest is what the emperor wants."
Pei Yunying sat down on the chair, thought for a while, and chuckled.
"Huang Maogang and his party, the crown prince and the third prince were attacked at the same time. Now only the crown prince is punished. They are also his sons. The emperor's intentions are really biased."
Xiao Zhufeng said: "That was because something happened in the Grand Master's Mansion before, which made the emperor move faster." At this point, he looked at Pei Yunying and said, "Now for everything, I have to thank your medical officer Lu."
The ridicule could no longer stir up trouble in the other party. Pei Yunying shrugged and said nonchalantly: "The time is just right, Qishui is about to leave."
There was a rebellion in Qishui, and Emperor Liang Ming ordered a cruel man like General Zhenwei to put down the rebellion. Maybe he really wanted to put an end to the chaos, or maybe he was about to have a storm in Shengjing, and he wanted to drive away all the variables that might arise, so as to clear the way for and protect the son that the emperor truly loved.
What a loving father.
"I think there will be some action in the palace after the ceremony at the latest." Xiao Zhufeng nodded, "The Qi family will be useless by then. You can use the Qi family as a favor and give it to your savior."
"That's not possible," Pei Yunying said, "It's not like you don't know. It's more satisfying to take revenge yourself."
Xiao Zhufeng sneered: "Pretentious."
Just as he was talking, Duan Xiaoyan walked in from the door, holding a porcelain vase and a handful of pink roses in his arms.
He placed the vase on the cabinet in the corner of the room, filled the pot with half a bottle of water, and filled the vase with roses. Then he took two steps back, looked at it for a moment, and said with satisfaction: "Very good!"
Pei Yunying and Xiao Zhufeng looked at him and frowned at the same time: "What are you doing?"
"Invite peach blossoms!"
Duan Xiaoyan explained cheerfully, "I went to West Street to get medicine, and I met the fortune teller He Xiazizi, who said that our front office has too many men, too much yang energy, and the feng shui is not good for marriage."
"He taught me a trick: place a vase of flowers in the southeast corner of the house and change them frequently every day. Within March, the peach blossoms are bound to come and Hong Luan's heart will flutter. It's very effective!"
Pei Yunying was speechless and asked him: "How much did you spend?"
"One tael of silver." Duan Xiaoyan said anxiously: "Brother, believe me, he is definitely not a liar. He is a very good deal. He even gave me a consecration bracelet. Hey, Brother Yun Ying, I think you should go and see it too. , I heard that he still has a red charm. If you wear it after making it, your love will go smoothly, and the person you love will definitely fall in love with you. Don’t you covet the position of Medical Officer Lu’s fiancé? “Why don’t you get one too?”
"I just asked for all the brothers, and Blind He said that the more you buy, the cheaper it will be. If you like it, can I buy one for you?"
Pei Yunying said expressionlessly: "Don't do that kind of thing."
"Can……"
"You should buy one." Xiao Zhufeng said seriously: "At present, it seems that your love life is quite bumpy."
"You should say this to yourself."
Pei Yunying looked at him with a smile: "After all, you didn't even find the road."
"..."
…
In the evening, Lu Zhuo came out of Taishi's Mansion and went back to West Street.
Yin Zheng was sweeping the fallen leaves under the plum tree at the door. When he saw her coming back, he put down his broom and shouted inside with a smile: "The girl is back."
Miao Liangfang was lying in front of the medicine cabinet counting the newly collected medicinal materials. Seeing this, he stretched his neck and asked Lu Zhu: "Xiao Lu is back? You came back early today. There are meals left in the kitchen, including your favorite red date cake."
Lu Yan agreed before entering the room. Yin Zheng looked at her, his eyes fell on her hair, and he said in surprise as if he had discovered something: "Why did the girl change her jewelry today?"
Miao Liangfang was stunned, and Acheng also looked up after hearing this.
Lu Tong only had one hairpin in total. He usually used silk flowers made of silver zither, but now there was an engraved comb inserted in the bun. Although it was not gorgeous, compared with before, it was already very eye-catching.
Everyone tutted in praise.
Lu Zhen touched the comb, feeling a flash of discomfort in his heart.
Miao Liangfang's eyes were full of love, and he smiled and said: "Yes, the little girl should dress up more. When she is dressed like this, she will look energetic, just like the fairies in the paintings in the temple."
"Hey," Yin Zheng came closer to take a closer look, "it's strange, when did the girl buy this comb? Why haven't you seen it before?"
Lu Yan has never been interested in decoration, and she would not take the initiative to buy jewelry and hairpins on weekdays. It is rare to see her wearing a new pattern, which inevitably arouses curiosity.
Lu Zhen paused and said, "This is a gift from Lin Danqing." He then changed his subject and said, "Why don't you see Shopkeeper Du?"
"He is not feeling well and will go back in the afternoon." Acheng said.
Lu Tong nodded and asked again: "Shopkeeper Du seems to have left very early these days."
Although Du Changqing was not keen on staying at the medical clinic in the past, he would always wait until the sun had completely set before leaving. However, I don't know what he has been busy with in the past few days. Whenever Lu Zhuo comes back from the Grand Master's Mansion, Du Changqing is nowhere to be seen in the medical clinic.
Even Acheng left later than Du Changqing.
It's really abnormal.
Lu Yan asked: "Are you sick?"
"Shopkeeper Du is such a big man, and he is not a child. He can get sick so easily. The girl should take care of herself first."
Yin Zheng smiled and opened the felt curtain, "I'll go to the kitchen to heat up the food. Remember to come in and eat after the girl has rested."
Lu Zhen hummed, and felt that Yin Zheng's attitude was a bit strange today, so he looked at the two people in the shop.
"What happened?"
Miao Liangfang shook his head and sighed. Acheng pulled Lu Huan to the corner and said mysteriously: "Doctor Lu, don't you know? My boss has been hurt by love. He has been recuperating in the house recently and doesn't want to go out to meet people. "
"Emotional injury?"
Lu Tong was stunned.
These days, she was busy with the affairs of the Grand Tutor's Mansion and had no time to pay attention to the people in the clinic. She didn't know when she missed such a big secret.
Du Changqing was a man with no ambitions, but he was at ease. Since Lu Tong met him, Du Changqing's love and hate came and went quickly. He was even locked in the mansion because of emotional injury, which showed that the other party hurt him deeply.
Lu Tong asked: "Who hurt him?"
The young man looked behind the felt curtain.
Lu Tong was surprised: "Yin Zheng?"
When did Yin Zheng get involved with Du Changqing again?
"Just a few days after the Qixi Festival, Xiao Du expressed his feelings to Yin Zheng."
Miao Liangfang showed sympathy in his eyes, and said, "What good two children, why didn't Yin Zheng like Xiao Du?"
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