Chapter 240 Holding Hands

The snow in southern Jiangsu has stopped for several days.

After Lu Yun regained consciousness, the medical officers were overjoyed.

What seemed like an incurable disease was destined to be extinguished, but at the last moment it took a turn for the worse.

The medical officers recorded this in their medical records, determined to return to Shengjing when the epidemic relief was over, and summoned all the medical officers from the medical hospital to study the case, which might become a major medical case in the history of Daliang.

Many people come to see her every day, everyone comes to feel her pulse and ask about her condition. Lu Yan has been a doctor for so many years. Being a patient for the first time was a bit novel at first, but then he gradually became unable to cope with it.

Li Wenhu and Cai Fang came here once, but the medical officials did not announce to the public that Lu Zhu had passed away. They did not know that Lu Zhu had been testing medicine for many years. They only thought that Lu Zhu had a recurrence of an old disease. When they came to visit, they told her about the recent epidemic in southern Jiangsu.

"...The epidemic has been controlled, and everything in the hospital has been stable recently." Cai Fang cupped his hands and bowed deeply to Lu Zhu: "Thanks to Medical Officer Lu for going up the mountain to find Huang Jinqin and buying time for the patients. Now the redwood vines in Pingzhou have been When it arrived in southern Jiangsu, Chang Yizheng and Pei Dianshuai immediately ordered the gold to be sent from other places. The most dangerous time was over. "

Lu Zhen breathed a sigh of relief.

Li Wenhu scratched his head and smiled sheepishly: "I'm sorry, Doctor Lu, when I came here first, I looked down on you, thinking that you were just like those who came from Shengjing before, and you were just talking words. Unexpectedly, the doctors from Shengjing I’m so sorry!

Lin Danqing came in from the door holding a bowl of medicine and snorted when he heard this: "No matter how bad the Imperial Medical College is, they will still have to take the nine subjects on the red list in the spring exam... Do you think those nights you stayed up when you entered school were in vain?"

After saying this, he bumped into Li Wenhu with his shoulder, passed the two of them and put the medicine bowl on the small table in front of the bed, and gave them an unhappy look.

Li Wenhu and Cai Fang looked at each other, then exited the room and closed the door.

"What's wrong?" Lu Yan asked.

"I told them not to bother you. We are keeping an eye on the epidemic in Southern Jiangsu. You are not completely cured yet, so you should rest more. These two are good. They come to bother the patient when there is nothing to do. Are you bothered?"

Lin Danqing always greeted people with a smile on weekdays, but Lu Yan rarely saw her looking so rude and couldn't help but smile.

"You don't have to worry about the epidemic." Lin Danqing put the medicine bowl in front of Lu Zhu with a handkerchief, "Everything is going well lately, Sister Lu, you are not the only doctor in the world, there are all genius medical officers here. , at least trust the talents selected by the imperial medical bureau in the spring examination. How can you put other people's shame on them?"

Lu Zhuo took the medicine bowl, lowered his head to drink it, put the empty bowl aside, nodded and said, "It makes sense. After all, my life was saved by the genius medical officers."

As soon as he said this, Lin Danqing became proud.

"Hey," she waved her hand pretending to be humble, "it's all the recipes from our ancestors, and we bumped into each other by mistake."

The "blood transfusion" prescription was very bold in the use of poison, and it was difficult for ordinary people to withstand it. It was originally a way to survive in death. At that time, Lu Zhuo had no breath, and everyone was in despair. Who would have thought that she would turn around after breaking through? .

"However, thanks to the golden tan you brought back." Lin Danqing thought for a while, "If I hadn't seen the golden tan, I wouldn't have thought of my ancestor's recipe."

In the "blood transfusion" prescription, the last medicinal ingredient is Jinqin, which is used to detoxify the body. However, this item of gold is not owned by the Central Plains, and even if it is temporarily searched for in other places, it is too late. The golden Qin brought by Lu Zhu from Luomei Peak was originally intended to replace the redwood vine that was plagued by the epidemic in southern Jiangsu, but it solved an urgent need at this time.

"However," Lin Danqing was puzzled, "Golden Tan likes heat and is afraid of cold. How can Golden Tan grow when there is snow on the mountain?"

Lu Chen smiled faintly.

She also thought that Golden Tan would never grow on Luomei Peak, and that handful of seeds had long since withered in the mud on the mountain. Unexpectedly, the disappointing dream in childhood would re-emerge many years later.

The antidote grows on Luomei Peak.

The antidote ultimately saved herself.

Destiny always leaves a glimmer of hope at the end of the road.

There were two knocks on the door, and Ji Xun's voice came from outside: "Medical Officer Lu, it's time to perform the acupuncture."

Lin Danqing stood up: "I'll go out first and come to talk to you later."

Lu Chen nodded.

Ji Xun walked in carrying a medical box.

This "blood transfusion" surgery was performed by Chang Jin, Lin Danqing and Ji Xun. Lin Danqing was good at gynecology, but Ji Xun was better at acupuncture. After Lu Zhuo woke up, it did not mean that he was fully recovered. It only meant that most of the poisons in his body had been removed. In the future, he would need to continue to cleanse the poisons and take good care of himself.

Lu Yan walked to the table and sat down. Ji Xun put down the medical box and took out the golden needle.

"Medical Officer Lin has changed the medicine for you. Do you feel any pain today?" Ji Xun asked.

Lu Chen shook his head: "No."

Ji Xun took the needle, and Lu Yan lifted up his sleeves. The golden needle slowly penetrated the flesh. Ji Xun's eyes fell on the scar on her arm.

Those scars were crisscrossed and crisscrossed, like ink marks on the thin arms, and when the fingertips passed over them, they were rough and uneven.

Ji Xun suddenly felt a little dazzled.

His subordinates paused for a moment, and then said: "You have a special constitution now, and ordinary wound medicine is useless to you. Even after the blood transfusion, the medicine used is very strong. Continue to nurse yourself back to health, and your body will slowly return to its previous state. By then, the medicine will be If it works for you, I will prepare the scar removal medicine for you again.”

Ji Xun actually took the initiative to tell her this, Lu Yan was a little surprised, and then said: "It doesn't matter, it's not really important."

Ji Xun paused, said nothing, and continued to apply the acupuncture.

Gradually, there were fewer and fewer gold needles on the flannel. When the last gold needle was inserted, he retracted his hand, rolled up the flannel, and was silent for a while. Suddenly, he said, "Doctor Lu, when we first met in Sunan, was the poison you were poisoned by Han Canyu?"

Lu Tong was stunned for a moment before nodding, "Yes."

Ji Xun's heart tightened.

The booklet that Lu Tong recorded the drug test reaction shocked everyone who knew about it.

Ji Xun later flipped through the entire booklet. When he saw the page about Han Canyu, he suddenly felt that the symptoms were familiar, so he suddenly remembered that when he and Lu Tong first met on the Sunan Bridge, he had felt her pulse and found that she was poisoned, so he took her to the inn to detoxify for half a month.

At that time, she should have been a medicine man.

No wonder when he wanted to take Lu Tong to the clinic, Lu Tong refused. Later, when he asked her where her parents lived in the inn, she didn't say a word. But at that time, he was only concerned with curing the disease and had no intention of understanding the other party's past experience. He thought that leaving a piece of white jade to cure her was already considerate and thoughtful.

Now he began to regret it.

He regretted his indifference in his youth and ignored the deeper sadness in her eyes. If he had been more careful at that time and noticed a little clue, he might have discovered the truth about the other party's drug testing and avoided her tragic fate, instead of just a centimeter away and passing by.

"I'm sorry." He said, "If I asked you one more question at that time..."

Lu Tong was a little surprised.

"Doctor Ji has helped me a lot." She said: "If not, the poison I was poisoned with would not have been cured so quickly at that time."

Ji Xun felt more and more uncomfortable.

"When you first entered the Medical Officer's Office, I misunderstood you a lot. I didn't distinguish right from wrong."

He remembered that he reprimanded and admonished Lu Tong because of Jin Xianrong's Hong Fangxu, and later he talked to Lu Tong about the use of medicine and poison in the medicine room many times. He had always disagreed with Lu Tong's overly aggressive and overbearing approach to medicine, but now it seemed that all the answers were clear.

She was different from the students in the Imperial Medical Bureau who were carefully taught by their teachers.

She had no teacher at all.

She was just a scarred medicine man used for drug testing.

A child who was used as a drug testing tool later grew up to be a doctor with outstanding medical skills. The effort she put in was imaginable. Her tenacity and persistence were touching, and her silence was also pitiful.

Pity.

He was shocked as if he realized some of his subtle thoughts afterward.

Lu Tong said, "Doctor Ji, don't blame yourself. It's all in the past. The most urgent task is to deal with the epidemic in southern Jiangsu. Since the epidemic has improved, it should be very busy next."

Ji Xun looked at her.

The woman had clear eyebrows and clear eyes. When she spoke to him, she looked calm, not as calm and indifferent as before.

Lu Tong seemed different from before.

As if she had walked through the gates of hell and let go of many things, she became lighter and softer. When she faced him, she was as comfortable as facing a friend.

He was somewhat relieved. In addition to being relieved, for some reason, a trace of loss flashed through his heart. He didn't know what to say, so he had to remain silent.

Until the end of the acupuncture, he took back the golden needles, and gave Lu Tong a few more instructions, and then he went out with the medical box on his back.

The room became quiet again.

Lu Tong sat at the table.

The night gradually deepened, and the candles on the table flickered. She got up, walked to the window, and opened it.

A cold wind rushed in.

Since she woke up, she was locked in the house every day and was not allowed to go out. Chang Jin was afraid that she would be blown by the wind and snow and frozen. After staying for a long time, her limbs were a little stiff.

Lu Tong thought about it, picked up a lantern from the corner and went out.

After taking two steps, a voice came from behind: "It's so late, what are you doing?"

She turned around and saw a person turning out from under the tree in the yard.

It was late at night, and the lanterns illuminated a small area under their feet. Pei Yunying walked out from the shadows. His beautiful features were particularly soft under the dim light. He walked in front of her, frowned and looked at her for a while, then took off his coat and put it on her.

Lu Tong asked: "Why are you here?"

"I came to find you," he sighed, "I didn't know there was someone in your room, so I was afraid to disturb you to talk, so I waited here."

Talk?

Lu Tong was stunned: "Doctor Ji came to give me acupuncture."

"Oh," he raised his eyebrows, "but when he left, he was in a state of disarray."

Lu Tong: "..."

She didn't know where the "disarray" in this person's mouth came from, Ji Xun was clearly normal.

Pei Yunying glanced at her, lowered his head to fasten her coat, and asked, "So, where are you going?"

"It's too stuffy in the house, I want to go out for a walk."

It was already late, and even if it didn't snow, the winter nights in southern Jiangsu were particularly cold.

She also felt that her suggestion was a bit excessive, and the next moment, a hand suddenly reached out and held her hand.

The hand was slender and warm, with distinct joints, holding her hand. Lu Tong looked sideways, but he seemed not to notice, and only said, "It's a bit stuffy, let's go."

Lu Tong was stunned for a moment, but he had already taken her hand and walked forward.

There were guards on duty at the gate of the courtyard. When they saw the two of them coming out, they bowed their heads and saluted, and their eyes fell on the two people's clasped hands again, with a strange look on their faces.

Lu Tong was a little embarrassed and wanted to pull her hand out, but he held it tightly.

She was silent for a while, gave up struggling, but the corners of her lips moved imperceptibly.

The light from the lanterns fell on the ground, and the snow was illuminated by a layer of warm and glittering light. Looking over, the surroundings were bright. When the shoes stepped on the ground, there was a crisp "rustling" sound. There was a cold wind, and she wrapped in his large coat, feeling very warm.

Lu Tong lowered her eyes.

During the days when she was going up and down the mountain from Luomei Peak, Pei Yunying had been guarding her.

He seemed to be frightened by her illness, and he stayed by her side all the time. Later, when she woke up, Lin Danqing whispered to her in her ear.

"This commander of the Palace Front Department, I used to think he was high and mighty and not afraid of anyone, but I didn't expect that he would be so embarrassed when he panicked. I think if you have any accident, he won't ask the medical officer to be buried with you as written in that outrageous picture book..."

"...He should be willing to be buried with you."

Lu Tong couldn't help but look at him.

The young man walked in the snow, the night was like smoke and fog, soaking his handsome eyebrows, no longer as cold as before, but as gentle as the tear she saw after she woke up.

That warm tear like raindrops.

Noticing her gaze, Pei Yunying lowered his eyebrows and looked over, and Lu Tong turned his head and looked away.

He paused, a smile appeared on the corner of his lips, but his tone was light: "Watch the road."

She lowered her head, deliberately stepped on a small stone, and her body tilted. He held her hand firmly.

Pei Yunying said "tsk", looking at her with amusement: "Did you do it on purpose?"

"No."

He was speechless, not caring about her deliberate mischief, and held her hand tighter.

Lu Tong didn't say anything.

When they reached the end of the road, they were almost at the dilapidated temple where the execution ground was. Now that the plague had moved away, there was only a little light at the door of the dilapidated temple. Looking in the direction, it was the direction of Luomei Peak. The moon shone over the snow, reflecting a layer of glowing light on the snow.

Lu Tong's footsteps stopped.

The thatched house in the dream seemed to be the same as before, but when I looked at it again now, it was not as heavy as before. It seemed to have been unloaded a lot.

"Lu Tong," Pei Yunying's voice came from the side, he said: "There is something I am curious about."

"What is it?"

After a moment of silence, he said: "I saw Mo Ruyun's tombstone on the mountain. When did she die?"

In the wasteland on Luomei Peak, there are 17 shocking graves. She engraved the words "mentor" on the tombstone, but she was clearly a tool for Mo Ruyun to test drugs.

Complicated and confusing.

Lu Tong's heart moved, and he looked up at the person next to him.

He lowered his eyes, reflecting the trance of Su Nan in his eyes. His tone was very soft, but the question was very sharp.

"Two years ago." Lu Tong answered.

"So, you went down the mountain after she died?"

"Yes."

He nodded slightly: "I see." No more questions.

As if deliberately avoiding this question.

The wind was blowing quietly, and Lu Tong looked into the distance. In the night, there were only a lot of tall shadows on Luomei Peak, like a layer of haze that could not be dispelled, covering the sky above Southern Jiangsu.

She always forced herself to forget the things of the old days, but tonight was different. Perhaps it was because his eyes were too gentle, or perhaps it was because the cloak on her shoulders was particularly warm. She was not cold from the wind and snow, so she was relieved and calm.

"You once asked me if I was afraid when I killed Ke Chengxing." Lu Tong suddenly spoke.

Pei Yunying was startled.

That was earlier, he already knew the secret of her revenge, and the temptation he casually asked was avoided by her without a single leak.

"No."

The long-delayed answer made him frown suddenly, and Pei Yunying looked at her: "Lu Tong..."

She raised her eyes and looked into the distant depths of Luomei Peak.

"In fact, the first person I killed was not Ke Chengxing."